Thursday, September 29, 2011

Augmented (27th September 2011)

It started with me working in a mine, futuristic ones with sophisticated technologies and gadgets. There were around 20 or so other miners working around me, some are pushing the cart while others mining some stones and blowing stuffs up. I realize that my right hand is not of flesh but of metal and steel all the way to my arm. My right arm is noticably stronger than of my original arm. Even some of the miners have a bionic arm too.

It seems that I've been long saving money to buy a new house just around the corner and today is the day that I'll be buying the house. I gladly move in my new house, unpacked and crashed on my sofa. After awhile, I let out a loud sigh and went outside to get my dinner.

I opened the door to the diner, it was crowded. Almost all the booth has been taken and I can hear chattering all over the place. Looking around, I see an old friend of mine at a booth around the corner with a few of his mates. I go by and greet him. He is filled with rage and smacked at the table wanted to fight me the moment he saw my face. I'm puzzled and asked why is he so mad at me. His friend says "You killed all of his family members with that metal arm of yours and left him so wounded he had to get a heart transplant. And you still have the guts to show up here."

I'm greatly shocked by the news I slip away quietly. I remembered that his home was on the top of a hill just around the corner. I decided to stop by his home and hopefully to pick up some clues on what happened. The house is ruined, it is dark and thrashed. Thunders then begin to growl and it starts pouring shortly afterwards. I rushed inside the ruined house in my attempt to not get myself wey.

Rain water can be seen flowing down leaks on the roof and there are broken furniture all around the living room. As I look around, my memory of how I slaughtered his family and left him gravely wounded began coming back to me. In a moment, I can't believe I did all of these when suddenly I hear a loud bang from the top floor. I rushed upstairs only to find out a friend of mine, Mr.C clearing out stuffs for rebuilding purposes... in the dark. Unlike other people I met, he's of 100% flesh without a single hint of metal on his body. Reluctantly, he says "Oh, it's you. Told ya to get rid that cursed arm of yours. See what it did to you and all these shit." as soon as he realize that I'm there.

Then... I can't remember what happened...

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Archer (14th September 2011)

In the dream, I was Chinese empire archer. It started with me standing with a bunch of people facing a huge gate and a battle is upon us. It's night, it is pitch black and is lit only with lanterns and torch. Sounds of battle, commanders yelling and screams of misery can be heard outside of the huge gate. Standing on my left side is a girl about the height of my shoulder and she too is a fellow archer and it felt like I have known her for some time. Why are there a girl in a Chinese empire army, I've no idea. She noticed something from my uniform is loose and helped me to tie it and lastly give me a pat on my back. I got a hunch that I will never come back alive and I know that I love this girl (in the dream). I give her a big hug just moments before the gates open and flares can be seen shooting up in the sky to luminate the battlefields.

I charge into the battlefield. After a while the girl is nowhere to be found, the battlefield is too chaotic. It is dark, dusty and the only time I can see clearly is when someone shot a flare up giving light for about 5 minutes and even it's that, the light flashes like a burned out light bulub. I figure I have no time for this as there is a battle to be fought now, so I keep shooting. Not before long, I ran out of arrows. I'd start salvaging arrows from corpses but the enemies seem endless, so I pulled out my short pike and start fighting. I'm slashed from the back in a blink of an eye into the fight. As I die, stuffs from memory I didn't live through flashes in my eyes.

I saw myself in a shooting range, learning to shoot an arrow straight with a few dudes and lasses beside me. I blacked out and wake up in another scene, where I was walking with a few army friends of mine on a roofed bridge beside a waterfall. We were going there since one of the fat guy said that he found out that the gals have been to the waterfall to take a bath, so we perverts rushed there with our uniforms on. So, we scared the gals away and there's only left us dudes, the waterfall and the bridge. Some of the dudes jumped in the waterfall since the gals were gone. While a few groups of us, including me and a few of my friends stayed on the bridge and chat.

We started with some small talks, a friend of mine said "Why are we even fighting this war anyways? We are obviously losing the war." where another replied him "Well, you can just run away." "To where? The whole China is in war!" "That'll be impossible... Getting out of this country now is like staying alive in the battlefield." and there was a pause in the chit chatting, other groups muffled voice and laughter can be heard from the background together with the sound of splashing water from the waterfall. "I broke the silence with, well you can just hide away from the real battle and shoots arrow now and then. I know I did, that's why I'm still breathing and talking to you guys now!" The others laughed and the scene faded out.

Then, another scene came in. It was just after a battle, I can see soldiers salvaging and piling the dead for a mass cremation in a nearby city. It happened that I ended up with only one arrow in my quiver. I searched for arrows from the corpses and I found none but a short pike I decided to keep. Then someone tap my shoulder from the back and hand me over some arrows. It was that gal (that one from the start), she gave me half of her arrows to me. I took the arrows delightly and said thanks. We took a stroll in the city and chatted for a bit. Civilians were donating arrows to us archers and she excused herself since I was short on arrows. I bid farewell and ran ahead collecting arrows from civilians and then it all fades to black again.

Then one short scene appears before me, it seems that my sister who is working as a transport and export manager or some sort is going to send or get some supplies from nearby countries. She points to an island in the map and said that she could smuggle me to a country called Singapore to hide while the war ends since she knows that I don't want to fight the war no more. I blacked out not long while after she said that and I guess I died.

As to why I never went along with the shipment to Singapore, I don't know.