My Mind; A Strange Place
by
Leigh G.
copyright 03-03-2007 Contest Winner
Age Rating: 10 to 127
I've been told my mind is a strange and interesting place. I daydream the best before I go to sleep, the house is silent, and I'm alone with my thoughts. The second best time I daydream is during math class when I gaze outside the window and think, "I wish I was out there in the sun...doing just about anything but long division of improper fractions and repeating decimals, it's simple stuff, but I still hate it..." Anyway, I was nodding off when I daydreamed this, so it's quite insane...
As I doodled ninja squirrels on my notebook where I wrote out all the steps of long division with improper decimals, suddenly I was sucked into my notebook! I found myself in the half-destroyed city of Midgar from Final Fantasy VII, surrounded by ninja squirrels with katanas and Deepground members from FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus! The soldiers, in their black and blue attire started firing at me openly with their machine guns as the ninja squirrels charged.
I sprang into action, ducking behind the ruins of a stone wall and jogging down a dark hallway with flickering lights up a staircase not far away. I looked down at myself, and recognized the blue armor and white skirt to be that of Lenneth Valkyrie from Valkyrie Profile 1. I'd been working on a Lenneth costume, but this was the real thing not my material version.
I drew my double-edged sword and turned around, waiting for the squirrels to approach so I could dispose of them. As I guessed, they came charging forward and but when they reached me, they dashed right threw me! I turned around, as everything went white and I found myself dressed as the main character of my book Flights of Fantasy, Akhy. I wore her black army boots, jeans, white button-up shirt and gun belt with two katanas. One was conventional, the other a divine relic.
When things regained solidity, I was stood in a warrior's stance, the divine katana in my hand. I looked around, dumbfounded to see myself standing on my bed, and after blinking stupidly a few second things went white again, and I ended up inside my right snow boot. I wrinkled my nose cursing myself for not spraying them with Lysol.
I looked up and saw my room's ceiling above my stinky prison, and the glow-in-the-dark stars glowing their best. I turned around when I heard movement in the toe of my boot, and instantly was ambushed by the ninja squirrels in their little black assassin outfits. I executed them easily with my divine katana, but as soon as I was done the scene changed once again.
This time, I was standing at the end of a boat dock. I was still in Akhy's attire, and I turned around quickly to face a transparent image of Sailor Saturn, who was holding a plushie of herself with a butcher knife.
I laughed in a sarcastic way as she disappeared, and I blinked, but when I opened my eyes I was underwater. I looked up to see the sun setting, and smiled as I heard somebody call out,
"Get your damn homophones right!" and returned to my desk. I blinked a second, and looked down at my notebook page and saw I scribbled a doodle in my semi-conscious time of myself with a katana, a girl younger than me with a pistol, and a guy older and tall than us both in full knight's armor with a katana standing with our weapons ready with a giant ninja squirrel before us.
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Most amusing, Leigh. It seems that we may influence one another more than either of us realizes. How did I miss reading this amusing tale? It must have been the approach of Finals Week and two or three projects clinging onto my calendar... but anyway, I am about to dive into this maelstrom of oddity and mayhem. Here goes!
Not to offend, but there seems to be little rhyme or reason to the organization behind this. However, this may have been done in the stream of consciousness style (where the story is told as the narrator thinks of things), so no big deal. Besides, my daydreams are somewhat disorganized as well... I like the level of detail you used in writing this. Most daydreams are fragments of thought haphazardly smashed together that have no real detail, but you seem to have vivid ones. Grammar and whatnot is par for the course, meaning that it is nearly perfect, but not quite.
An example in the beginning is after "I daydream the best before I go to sleep..." After that it should read "... when the house is silent and I'm alone with my thoughts." As for the rest of it, it is fairly good... maybe I should pick up some of the more recent Final Fantasy games if I can put down Starcraft! Overall, you did a good job with describing a seemingly exciting daydream. Keep up the good work!
I really like the story! My mind is a strange place too. I sometimes stare at one thing for hours because my Train of thought is taking me to new places and planets. Anyway...its a good story!
:D "Get your damn homophones right!" I assume that was none other than your esteemed editor, aka moi, eh?
I LOVED it! Daydreams are the stuff of legend! I applaud this one in particular. It had all a true daydream requires: a distorted link to reality, a certainly large degree of insanity, and at least one ninja squirrel! Plus, I like the addition of Akhy. And of course, can't forget about the Saturn plushie with a butcher knife!!
My, my. Our insane late night chats certainly do have an influence on all of us, eh?
Insanity is a virtue! Ahem. Moving on...
I love math, especially algebra. But I also absolutely detest fractions!!! Fractions drive me INSANE!
You have glow in the dark stars in your room, too!! Huzzah! I put mine up in the constellations of Leo and Leo Minor. They glow best at exactly 12:06, and I have the statistics to prove it! Weird, eh? Especially since, to be precise, that time is basically the first 6 minutes of the new day. And 6 is my favorite number!! :D
Yay! We're all facing an insanely large and evil ninja squirrel at the end! Only, I'm a gunslinger now? :P Aw, shucks! I was hoping for an unimaginably long, slightly curved sword! Just like Zhou Tai in DW4, but eh, that's beside the point!
You know what I was daydreaming about just an hour ago? A crazy scene in which I was, strangely, Zaven. I was facing Cea, who was jumping down *my* throat for misspelling Cerberus as Care Bears in front of the Supreme Court of the US (The Chief Justice, by the way, was Sephiroth, and the gavel was shaped as Cloud... Sephiroth, for *some* reason, seemed to like pounding the guts out of that poor gavel...) which lost me the chance of not having to kill her. And she got so annoying that I called forth the Three Furies to slit her throat just to shut her up. And then Anima appeared, and for some reason, she looked like you, and told me that I should bow down before her or suffer death at the hands of, and I quote here, "My teapot". I knew who that meant, and I knew I didn't want to mess with all those squirrel sidekicks, so I bowed. Next thing I knew, I was being knighted, but instead of a holy sword or something, you used a circus peanut!!!! And then we went to Greece, climbed Mount Olympus, and just as I was asking Hades how to spell Cerberus, I was snapped rudely to attention by my calendar, which told me that it was Thursday today, and not Wednesday as I thought. And so I rushed off to read FoF, and the near-romance scenes have just shot up to some ungodly number. Well, not that much. I just forgot the last count.
My daydream, of course, was ridiculous in the extreme. There is NO WAY I would ever, EVER, misspell "Cerberus" and "Care Bears", even if I was Zaven. I think I can differentiate between a three-headed behemoth and cute, cuddly bears who make caring their name. >.<
Well, this comment is getting too long, and most of it is just random rambling. :D I enjoyed reading your story. T'was very original, creative, and most of all, hilarious! And never forget: Insanity is a virtue!
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