I had a really intense dream last night.
I was sitting on the dock of a cabin in the middle of a huge body of water. I could only see water no matter which direction I looked. There were tons of people though. The cabin was huge and acommodated maybe a few hundred people. There were kids swimming and people relaxing on the dock and in front of the cabin. I could hear happy noises only. Laughing and splashing and talking. It was a sunny day. I decided to walk on the dock and go to the backside of the cabin. People only hung out in the front for some reason and I wanted some peace and quiet. I was barefoot and wearing jean shorts and a t-shirt. My hair was half up/half down. When I got to the back of the cabin on the dock I almost fell into the water. Before I could sit down where it was nice and quiet I heard bubbles. It was all quiet except for the bubbling noises I heard. I looked down in the water and saw a little raptor. It was really small. It looked like a baby. And I couldn't believe that it was swimming. It was so weird. It was the size of a soccer ball.
I put my hand down to try and pet it and it snapped at me. I quickly pulled my hand away and decided to not touch it. Its teeth looked razor sharp. I sat down on the dock to get a closer look. I let my legs hand from the dock, thinking that it would not be able to reach. The second I sat down, the raptor jumped from the water and scratched my leg. The cuts were deep and blood immediately began to pour out of the cuts. I remember it hurting really really badly. I could barely stand up without feeling the searing pain. Then I heard screaming from the front side of the cabin. There must have been some raptor injuries in the front too. Tears started pouring down my face as I tried to wobble back to the cabin to get some help for my leg. I heard more weird bubbling and I saw that there were maybe 50 small raptors swimming to the edge of the cabin. I started screaming and I tried to walk as fast as I could to the front of the cabin. People were running everywhere and screaming. I saw injured people on the dock and dead bloody people in the water, the raptors tearing at their flesh in hunger. I started screaming my sister's name trying to look for her. I screamed my brother's name too. I was terrified that they had gotten injured.
Then I saw them in the midst of all the chaos. Catie looked like she was looking for me and she had dominic on her back. He was passed out and had blood on his head. I screamed her name as loud as I could and tried to get to her as fast as possible. She saw me running towards her and started coming in my direction too. It was so hard to get through all of the people running around and screaming or scrambling to find an escape from this massacre. And then my foot caught on something and I hit my head hard on something else and blacked out.
I woke up what felt like days later, maybe weeks. I was in my house in Dominic's bed. There was a bandage on the side of my head covering half of my left eye. My head really really hurt. I looked around and didn't see anyone. Then I heard catie from the other room. She was whispering.
"No Dominic, don't do that.." she said.
I got up from my bed. It was light in my house so I knew that it was day time. It looked like maybe 1 in the afternoon. Catie must have heard my foot steps because then she came in.
"Lie down Nena, lie down" she said.
"What's going on Catie?" i asked her.
"You need to stay low and very quiet." she said.
"Why whats wrong?"
"If you're too loud or if you get seen, they'll find us and they will take us away." She said in a really serious tone.
"Who?", I asked her.
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They will find us.
Them" she said.
"What? Who are they?"
"They are not from here. The invaded the day the raptors took killed so many people at the cabin." she said.
I knew that she meant something creepy. I knew that she meant something that was from really far away. It was weird to think aliens because they looked exactly like us since they inhibited human bodies. Over days, she taught me the new secret life we had to resort too. They didn't come out at night, so it was then that we could cook food or make any noise at all. It was at night that we could talk in normal voices and take showers.
During the day they would walk around in the streets looking for people who were hiding, like us. But for some reason they did not come into the house. They only walked around it. It was really creepy and unnerving. Catie, Dominic, and I would have to sit or lie down most of the day so that they wouldn't see us through windows. We couldn't block the windows, catie said. Because if we closed all of the windows and kept all of the doors closed, then they would know for sure that there were people hiding here inside of our house. So we had to be extra careful.
One day we slipped. One day we weren't careful enough. Usually they would only walk around the right side of our house. We never saw them on the left side because of the big wooden wall. We should have been more careful though. Catie was standing in sight of a window on the left side of our house reading something. I saw one of
them standing looking away from our house.
"CATIE! GET DOWN!" I fiercely whispered to her. She looked behind her and then ducked down but I did not move in time and it saw me. She had curly brown hair. She looked like she was maybe 17 or so. We made eye contact and then she ran. I knew where she was going. I knew that she was going to go tell more so that they could come in and take us. And change us into one of them. We would no longer have our souls anymore. They would tear them away from our bodies and use our bodies to inhibit.
The girl had seen Catie and I but she had not seen Dominic and I would not let them take him. I ran into the other room where dominic was sitting in reading a book.
"GET UP DOMINIC! GET UP!" I fiercely whispered again. I picked him up by his arm and dragged him into Catie's room. I shoved him into the corner of the closet and immediately started covering him with clothes and blankets.
"Whats going on???" he asked.
"They saw us Dominc. They saw Catie and I and they are coming for us. I'm hiding you." I told him. My voice started to crack because I was sure to start sobbing uncontrollably soon. I tried to suck it up until Dominic could not see me anymore. This was my goodbye to him until I escaped and came back for him. If I escaped. He started crying.
"Let me go with you... please let me go with you.." he pled.
"No Dominic, no...You need to stay here. They can't find you." I told him.
"Please please," he was sobbing, "Let me go with you."
Then I yelled at him, "NO! You are staying here! Do you understand me? I will come back for you." I promised him. "I love you." I said and I kissed his forehead. Tears began to run down my face. Catie came in crying already and kissed Dominic and told him she loved him too. Then we hid him completely under things and blankets and went into the front room.
They still weren't there so we started grabbing pictures.
"You get one's of dominic and I'll get ones for us." I told her. She started removing all of the visible pictures of dominic and began tearing them to shreds. I was going to grab pictures of our family so that catie and I had something to hold onto. I had no idea if we would make it back here and if we had the chance, it would be a long journey back. My hands were shaking but I found some of all five of us and individual ones. Just as I had folded them and put them into my bra, they came bursting in. I was sobbing and hoping to God that they would not find Dominic. They handcuffed us and put us in the car. I was in the front seat and Catie was in the back seat.
As we drove into the city, I saw all of the changes that they made. Everything was perfectly clean and extremely shiny. The side walks were spotless and the buildings were purple and round. It was so strange. As we were waiting at the stop light, the driver was looking away and I tried to find something that would un-handcuff me. I opened the glove box and found a remote control. I started pressing buttons hoping that it would do something. I press the power button and the alien that was in the body of a blonde woman, went completely limp. The power button had turned her off. I was shocked but I had to act fast. I pushed her out of the car and took her place.
"Catie! Find something that will un hand cuff us!" She found something and we were un cuffed.
It went blurry after this.
On my journey back home, we got lost. We ended up in the middle of the dessert. I remember bits and pieces of trying to avoid
them or stealing food to survive. I remember trying to blend in like we were one of them to get things we needed. terrifying. I remember breaking down because I thought we would never find Dominic.
Strange Dream. Pretty intense.