Was in car with Khara, thanking her for bailing me out ( I had been in jail?), she said it was nothing – she was going to borrow it from a friend who was a vender but she didn’t have it at the time, she’d had nothing, so Khara had to do a bail bond. I told her I’d pay for it and she didn’t respond, just smiled. We pulled in for gas, it was dark. Got gas and then was driving, daylight. Stopped and did something, back in car, Khara in back seat –asked if she wanted front, she was comfortable, noticed ants in front, figured it was best she be in back. Got in car, friends showed up – not close ones, but acquaintances and they piled in car without asking.
We drove down a badly paved street – country outskirts of town, right on another to a stop light and train tracks, then left. Then left down a road I was usually knew, but it was unfamiliar today, they were doing road work, the asphalt was deep and sticky, car wouldn’t go through it, I had to put foot out and push.
Road went into a building sort of thing, the chambers were separated by flaps. Weird since it wasn’t that way when on this road before.
We ended up in a room, lost the car somehow, maybe we just got out of it
Instead of going straight went kinda to the side, there was grass
And there were some pixies, all green they were asking for something in high pitched voices
“please give me some ___ just some ____ please”
We went past them – we ended up on a school ground – at first I thought it was San Joaquin Memorial High School, looked like Spanish style catholic school. We were walking through the school grounds’ I was trying to figure out what street it would let off on. The walls were covered in spray painted looking versions of the mascot and school name. We ran into two men, one a janitor. He asked what we were doing there, I said we were trying to get home. He and his coworker tried to give us directions. They said to go out there the ally was – the bus would come by, one guys was freaked though saying something like the “Chula” were out there – or they would be, it was their ally. The other guys said, no not during daylight, it was 2pm we’d be fine.
They walked us out. The guy asked us where we were going; I told him I was trying to get back to Clovis
He looked at me funny – there was no Clovis anymore. I said yes there was – I lived on Bullard and Villa. He looked kinda haunted, no there was no Clovis, he picked up a nearby phone, here try to call any Clovis number. I just asked what direction is it, he waved his hand out before us and to the left. He said it’s there sometime but you’d have to crocodile to it and it was getting dark. I noticed he was right. There were kids playing basket ball next to us, the ally had the side of the school one side, a fence then chain link fence on the other there were strange tagging everywhere. Chula he said, he walked with us to the end of the ally and pointed to a street running left
Street lights were on – in the road was a strange creature with a flat sort of head, it was huge – a clam head with tons of teeth, what the hell was that? The guy with us took of his jacket, “I’m not a as young as I was, but I’m still a warrior” and he attacks it, kicking its face and punching it, it flips over. He starts talking about them, these things that have invaded and things haven’t been the same since, how he use to be one of the ones who fought them. He beat another, we followed – with others sneaking behind us
He said to get into a house up ahead – I think he knew the lady he was fighting another- blue looked like a short worm with a huge head and mouth, or maybe a fish. We were trying to keep back some others, when I looked back the fish had swallowed the guy, he was screaming
A friend and I tried to grab the fish and pull its mouth open, but it had turned into a fuzzy toy version of itself.
I grabbed it by the tail and smacked it against the wall, we could still hear him as if a long ways away, but it was just a toy now, small even. He was not were inside it, only thing inside it that was stuffing was a ball thing that squeaked when you squeezed it, and it sometimes talked, saying ‘touch me again’ in its weird monster voice. We ran for the house he mentioned.
The door was open we went in and closed it.
There was another beastie in the hallway – two, we took one down, the other hid. Khara had stepped back into the bathroom while we were fighting the beast – I talked to her. Should we try to stay here tonight? And hold down the house till morning, or go back to the school and trace our steps. She wanted to do that, she didn’t want to stay here. So we all went back outside, ready to fight. One of the clam heads was blocking our way, I kicked it and punched it ineffectively. Then one of us hit it on a soft spot on its head and it squealed and went away – it jumped on the back of another clam shell, a black bodied one – the one we just hit was yellow and red.
Some of other times of creatures were barring our way – but there were children in the ally – one girl stood side by side with the monsters facing us. She turned to the monster – ‘so you are going to invade OUR turf?” The monsters backed down, we walked down the ally – lots of kids/preteens about. We started up to the window, they were all laughing and giggling and going about their business. There were tons of them. And there wasn’t anything right about them – some were talking to us, but I ignored them, deciding we just needed to focus on getting back, nothing else mattered. As I went to climb the steps through a glass door, the girl who was following us talking was near behind me, and there was a mirror to the right on the wall, I looked in it, and it reflected me, and all the kids who were alone the windows to my left, in groups, and they were all monsters – brightly colored blob like almost florescent and slightly transparent creatures. They were taking our bodies as hosts
She and I were talking as I went - was distracted – in response to something she said I asked, so you pick the opposite gender usually? She says sometimes, sometimes the same, but sometimes they are asexual. I make it through the room, some of the children are grabbing my arms and smelling me, my friends too. They are all trying to follow me
A boy latches himself to me, the girl says he will go with me and show me the way. I don’t trust that but I’d just go the way I wanted anyways
Went ahead of me, pulling me along, fingers biting into my hand, he kept looking back and me and smiling, had light brown hair and lanky build. I made a right and pulled him with me since he wouldn’t let go of my hand. Down some stairs, he was smelling my neck, and it felt like he bit my shoulder lightly. Down another hallway past some adults, they weren’t right either, and looked confused as to what do about us. I made a left into a large near-empty room, I remembered this room. There was a stage or raised part at the end – went on to that and through another door – my friends each had a ‘child’ with them, but now I didn’t see them – just the ‘children’ who were with them. That can’t be good – went down again into a close room with miniature store fronts, the second one or so was a tea shop and there was light coming from inside, I remembered it – and that down the way was a wood toy shop – it might have been that one… no it was this with the bright light, I went into the set, pushing past the table and through the back doors to the kitchen, it was all small sized.
My ‘child’ tried to pull back on me but I kept going – I didn’t care if I brought him into my world, we’d kill him. I pushed through a door with a bright light under it and through the cracks, and I was in the last chamber of the road construction – where we had made a left to go see the green pixies, I thought I’d be going into the road but instead I had to go through ha chamber of the pixies, and then some other color pixies, and some bright white butterflies, all calling out to me, and somehow I now remembered them – that we had gone through them to get there but I had forgotten. Then I got to the doors right before the sticky asphalt, and through there - where the workers all looked at me, and back through till I found the road and my world.
I remember getting back to a familiar place, and telling them what happened, and apparently my friends were all there in a coma, they were found – and I had been missing. I told them what happened and they figured out it was a parasite disease or something, and they were able to get it out of my friends, who all woke. So we’d never been there - it had been a parasite hallucination? But something (I don’t remember what – my close? Marks on my arm? Made me think it was real.)
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