Lion Creature Dream

Dream

Author's Note: Heyo! Thanks for choosing to read this story first off, I love sharing and talking about dreams! And a dream like this one is important to me so thanks again! Sorry if there are any typos or confusion, you could also ask me for clarification and I might go ahead and edit it and reply on that fix. But I believe this is pretty solid from the fact that I re-wrote it for class not so long ago.

Thanks Again!

When I had this dream, I was in sophomore year of high school. The main setting in this dream was in my high school, or something similar in a way,some things were different and added onto it. (I'll explain as I write this).Also note in said dream I was half-lucid, as I call it, which means I had some control over the dreaming but not fully or to an extent, I could only do so much but I was also able to do a lot from my own will.

The dream also went on with several days passing and several things occurring within the dream (but not all of it was important because I can't really remember most of them, they don't relate much to the main idea of the dream, and it overall felt like many days past rather than I experiencing them in the dream). But I remember well that as these days passed, my friends and I would keep going around a specific area of a class that was near there that we had to attend to.

This specific area is basically in the direction where the two gyms should be in a sense, but instead it was a long (dark) hallway similar to that of going to the music room and into the music room, nothing much there but to rooms at the end of the hall,and the doors of the room facing each other. The rooms here were kind of similar when you walk down to the auditorium, because you have to walk a few steps down, these rooms had two steps you had to walk down into the room. But every time I would go there or even nearby,it felt eerie and it really bothered me. I hated being around here because of the feeling I got. This is probably rooted from this creepy guy in the dream,he was made to be some sort of staff member of the school, I don't know for what (but there is some explanation of his role, that is explained as I go through the dream), but he was important and I had high respects for him, mostly because he's an elder.

The room next to the room I would go to in this hall, I would go to the one on the left, was where his main work and office was in. Some of the days I would talk to him, even a simple hi before class, some of my friends would do the but not really, so nothing serious. But you can we grew fond of seeing each other and I liked him as a friend, but not super close. Eventually my dream stopped making up days and stayed focused on one, this day the man asked me a favor, since he knew me well and thought I'd be capable, I thought so too.

Before going into detail what the request was, it pertained to a room near the lunchroom, next to the boy's entrance where usually a classroom is but instead just a door to an extremely large and somewhat dark room inside, with a reddish tint of light.Inside this room was a lion/leopard-like creature with bug-like wings that floated behind his back that resembled hands and almost worked like them, but what these things did wasn't for flying or grabbing things, it was used as away to store energy within them from outer sources. The school needed him for some reason, although he was very dangerous and one had to be cautious with him when tending to him, I assume the school needed him for his power of energy;the creature could use the energy it stored up with its bug-like hand wings on the school as an energy source.

The man usually took care of him but it was a hard job even for someone who was used to the task, he requested I tended to the creature that day. Since I was younger and stronger than him in health since he's somewhat old, and I was also powerful in that dream especially since I was half-lucid dreaming here. I accepted it because I didn't think it was a big deal or problem, it got me out of class and I knew I could do it. I went over there and the room was so dark, but you could still manage to see just right in the dark red tint of light available. The problem is, taking care of this creature didn't necessarily mean normal feeding and grooming. You had to fuel the bug-like hand wings with energy, doing this was by feeding off of one's energy by sucking it up into it, and the best way to do this was by running around, you had to run around for/from this dangerous creature.

This part of the dream really impacted me as it got terrifying for me. At this point suddenly the dream shifted into some sort of game like display, like an 8-bit kind, and it felt as if I was playing game outside of it, but I was still subconscious of "player" me. Once the creature saw me, and surprised to see a stranger, it got up and started running towards me and from instinct I ran like mad from it. But I felt very confident playing this video game; I even got lazy and didn't pay full attention to the game as it felt easy. That is until the creature started getting closer and I couldn't get faster even if I tried. I began to realize here that since I was stronger and younger than the guy who asked me to do this, was so that I could fuel it much more, I also felt a bit betrayed. At this point the dream stopped being like a game and I got terrified of the creature here, I couldn't handle it.

I was in my actual body here and it was just this creature and I running in circles. It seemed that the creature had one thing on mind; he was able and planning to maul me. I'm so exhausted and I eventually get to a corner near the door and here, he comes and pounces behind me. This is where the dream was most terrifying to me and it was overwhelming. In reaction to the creature pouncing,I jumped when it did and we were just in air, he was so close to touching me but so far but he couldn't do anything because everything slowed down in slow-motion. I was so frightened and I had to make up my mind to save myself or else I would die. I literally felt as if I were to die on the spot, if I continued to be careless.

The only solution I had and that came to mind, was pretty savage,I had to attack it by breaking his legs. Kind of a weird solution, but it was at the spur of the moment and the only thing I could think of and give a quick end to this. But the problem was I worried heavily to whether this was the right choice and if there were other solutions but I didn't know any others. I also wasn't sure which legs to break, which would be more effective in breaking and allowing me to fully escape unharmed. I had unreasonable thinking but, what to choose? One leg? Two? The front legs? No he could still try to move with the back. The back legs? No, his front legs are in front of me and what really would strike me. Right left leg and left back leg or vice versa? No, it didn't seem right at all and I felt he could still attack this way for some reason. This was all again, in mind, as we were stuck in slow-motion in mid air, for the longest time and maybe even the majority of the dream, it really affected me in my dream. Eventually I couldn't deal with it anymore and decided to break his left front and back legs, even though I still didn't think this would suffice. Everything began to speed up and I grabbed his front leg, the closest, and broke it with all my strength. The creature and I dropped and he started to scream in agony and he still seemed to have energy,maybe from what I gave him. As quickly as I could I grabbed his left back leg to finish, but it was difficult because he tried to stop me, but I did it.Somehow he flung himself out the door nearby and into the hall, the red light of the dark room even came out and illuminated the hall, and onto the floor on his left side and he screamed in such pain. I ran out after him and found everyone around him, everyone was in shock. Probably seeing at the creature out of its room and current condition. I quickly explained to them all, what had just happened and why I had to stop him, that I had no choice. The dream repeated here about 3 times in a loop and it ended here.