Of Alien attacks and death.

The setting is a small "village" near the ocean. There is a large, single story metallic bunker in the center, a courtyard between it and the ocean. On the left side (facing out towards the ocean) of the bunker is all the small huts and hovels built crudely by people. Made of old street signs, straw, and brick. On the right side of the bunker is a makeshift marketplace where people trade goods. It is the last settlement on earth, and it really isn't that big. Sian and I are sitting on a log in the courtyard, just under a little porch of the bunker. Ben and Matt are to our left, in the courtyard in fold out chairs, talking about something. We hear the rumbling of engines and look up to see thousands of alien ships menacingly moving across the sky. They fade in and out thru the clouds, but they keep coming. They are purple and sleek, and you can see the engines on the back of them spinning. They leave a light blue trail behind them, but it is softly noticed due to the sheer number of them. It's like a constant blanket of ships, streaking from the right (of mine and her position on the log) to the left of the sky. I grab her hand with both of mine and we continue looking up. There is a sense of dread, like we know this is the end, we are fucked, but really there is nothing to do. Everyone in the encampment is silent as this goes on for a while. Just watching the sky being filled with these ships. Behind us, on the back end of the bunker, way off in the distance we hear a shudder, then a soft "kakoooom". The ground shakes slightly, and people begin murmuring. From the direction the noise came in, dark clouds start covering the sky, slowly rolling in the same path as the ships. Eventually there is no more blue, just dark soot colored blankets of clouds. You can still sort of see the ships. They are far less visible, but you know they are there, still constantly streaking the sky. Then blue beams of light start coming down all around us in the courtyard, like lazer pens, thin and precise, just shooting strait down from the sky. The points where the lights make contact, there are little dog tags on the ground. All over the courtyard are these blue, glowing dog-tags beaming light up to the sky. People in the settlement start rushing to collect them for some reason, and a crowd of people bumps into Sian and I, and we lose our grip on eachother. In the confusion, I lose track of where sian, ben and matt got off to. Then I hear the screams, and dust starts getting kicked up. Suddenly large 8 foot tall beasts come charging into camp. They are hulking things, kind of like short furred apes, standing on two legs, decked out in samurai-like armor. The armor is a dark, green metal, like a forest green, but it had a kind of shine too it. It didn't really shine...but it almost looked liquid like? They would snarl and grunt as they went around killing everyone with large hammers. Some of them were riding lizard-like-horses. The horses were also wearing the same kind of armor, and moved swiftly for something so large. Even more frightening, some of the lizardhorses seemed to have been modified into motorcycles, part machine but still breathing. Large wheels, grunting and pumping out steam. The modified motorcycle things could seat two of the aliens. One would be driving, the other held large plasma canons. They looked like those "air bazookas" but would charge up and launch a green, pulsating liquid that would melt whatever it came into contact with. I watch as they roar thru the encampment, destroying huts and the marketplace, people being brutally bludgeoned or melted or trampled. I look around for them more, avoiding being run over by a motorcycle barely. I turn around and stab the passenger, pull myself into his seat while pushing him off, then stab the driver in the neck through a slit in his armor and take control of the machine beast. I start driving it as fast as I can, realizing that everyone is doomed, I drive off a cliff expecting to die. But I land safely and keep going through this large valley. Everything is darkening cuz the grey clouds still cover the sky. I keep driving into this endless grassy, hilly field, occasionally turning the machine beast back a little to see a shit ton of them following me. I eventually give up, stop the bike, get off and lay down. I see them approach me, close my eyes, and feel my head get stomped into mush in one swift thunk.

I wake up for a moment, then fall right back asleep.


I am laying in the same position I left the dream in. I push myself up and look around me. I am still in the endless field, but the aliens are gone. I feel like I am seeing through a filter, everything is dark and muddy. I look up to see a large, 3 story tall hooded grim reaper like figure, sitting on a large dark horse that is also cloaked and floating a good foot above the ground. They seem to be engulfed in a sort of black fire/smoke kind of thing, it waving in an aura around them. He moves so gracefully as he puts a soft finger on my shoulder, turning me gently around facing back the way I had rode the bike. I see a large number of other figures just like him in the distance, guiding other people. I become compelled and begin walking, the reaper figure by my side most of the time. When he leaves me I don't notice, I am like a moth to a flame. I finally reach this area in the open field with three large glass doors. Behind them are sets of stairs. The one on the left is a white set of stairs that lead down, the one in the middle are also white stairs but the lead up. The third door leads to a purple set of stairs that lead up as well. I try to open the white "up" doors in the middle, but they don't budge, which frustrates and scares me a little. I go towards the door to the "down" stairs, and quickly decide fuck that. On the verge of panicking, I look around. To the left I see what kind of looks like a gas station. I head towards it and as soon as I am inside, the darkness filter kind of goes away and the lighting becomes that of like...inside a chuck-e-cheese almost. It had that kind of atmosphere as well. I wander around inside and people keep coming up to me, introducing themselves. One guy with dark skin, a beard that looks like pubic hair glued on, asks me to trade something with him. I think it was "destinies" or something. I say no thanks and walk away, bumping into a person that is kind of shape shifting between faces. Every face he has kind of looks like someone I have seen before, but never completely because it is constantly in the act of changing. His hair stayed the same shape, a short kinda spikey look, but it would fade from blond to light brown to strawberry blond etc. He is asking me if I want to combine destinies with him. He trys to put bowling shoes in my hand and I say no and knock them to the ground. I apologize but he smiles and says it's okay, turns to the next person that walks in and starts talking to them. I get in line to talk to a woman at a counter, and notice i have a red felt tail wrapped around my waist. When I look up from the tail, I am at the counter. the lady at behind the desk tells me essentially i have to choose hell, or the third door, which leads to what the aliens would want our afterlife to be. I begin looking for sian, or ben, or matt, wanting to discuss the repercussions and philosophies of what the alien race would want our after life to be like. I frantically search all around the station (which I am pretty sure can be called limbo. that's what I felt like it was when I was there) but can't find her or anyone I know, people constantly asking me for this or that.

I wake up, dehydrated, sip some water, fall back asleep.

[This was like a flashback to me and ben fighting the "war" with the aliens, before the first part of the dream] Most of humanity doesn't realize that we are being attacked, since the creatures are only sending in essentially special task forces. scene on beach, ben has a large gun, has to shoulder mount to fire. It is blocky, with a long cylinder nozzle that shoots a blue ray that freezes things. On top of the gun was a clear cylinder that, over time, filled up with light aqua colored crystals. He is firing and freezing the beasts as they head towards us from inland while I point out to him where they are coming from. (by the way this is set around dusk, so the sky is kinda dark blue-purple with hints of red and orange from the sunset over the ocean) We fight our way closer inland, near a road that ramps down to the ocean. We get further along the road and the gun stops working very well. Apparently the crystals in the cylinder form from air molecules, but needs pure sea air to work properly. At this point we are in cover behind a small cement barricade in the street, put there to prevent cars from driving down to the ocean. Ben drops the large gun and pulls out a stick of dynamite and a lighter. Igniting the wick, he hands the dynamite to me and says "Throw it!". I look at him like what the hell why couldn't you just throw it, but then realize fuck I am holding a lit stick of dynamite and toss it over the barricade. There are no aliens there, just a large woman in a beat up old car, bitching at us for making ice sculptures and breaking them all over the beach. The explosive lands under her car and goes off, obliterating her. Ben and I look at each other, and he starts running. I follow him.We keep running until we reach an old boat house. Ben is ahead of me, and he runs into the side door, closes it, and locks me out. I knock on the door and tell him to open it up. He opens a small slot, checks to see if its me, then lets me in. I turn around and try to lock the door but for some reason now there is no lock, so I back away from it, hoping for the best. Inside the warehouse/boathouse, it is large and empty. There are piles of straw on the ground in some spots, but mostly it is slightly damp cement. The walls are made of old, almost rotting wood. The roof is pretty high up, and some metal chains hang down from it, draping like vines in a jungle. We go through the boathouse, and see a set of doors that should be the main entrance, but lead out the side. We open them to find ourselves in a small, fenced off grassy spot that follows the side of the boathouse. On the other side of the fence is another small, fenced off area coming out the back of a house. A cow proceeds to come out of a doggy door in the neighboring area, and I feel nervous. We walk along the side of the boathouse and circle around to see we are on a river. We carefully walk across a small ledge along the riverside of the boathouse, jump across some posts sticking out of the water, jump onto a small raft, jump over to a small speedboat, then make a ten foot jump from that boat to the land, which kind of looks like riverstreet where the boats dock up. I say "damn im good" and ben gives me a thumbs up as he struggles to pull himself up, nearly having missed the last jump.