Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Old Dreams and Demon Babies

I was standing in line with a bunch of people at some indoor fun-park type thing. We were in a dark enclosed area, with several lines waiting to get into these doors that led to the next part of the ride we wanted to get on. The closer you'd get to the doors, the more the floors would shake and wobble. We were expecting there to be something really grand on the other side...

When the doors opened, only one person at a time could go through... and it was a water slide type ride. Everyone, as soon as they saw this, got annoyed because nobody had any intention of getting wet. However in order to continue on the ride and get out, we had to get on our butts in our normal street clothes and slide down this gradual water slide that led into a large dark area, filled with Disney-esque animatronic characters and brightly lit scenes.

I started down the slide, but was able to divert myself somehow off of the main path and into a "back area" of the ride. I was dropped into a very familiar area, where you were almost participating in a live videogame. I was now on an innertube, sliding quickly through the hallways covered in bones and skulls, heading towards what appeared to be a dead end.

I knew I had been there before, because I wasn't worried about the dead end... I knew at the end of the hallway that there was a secret opening to the left, where a giant demon monster would be waiting to attack me and stop my progress. My only weapon was a motion activated gun, which would shoot bullets for the first 9 shots, and then a huge burst of energy on every 10th shot.

I reached the end of the hallway, and my innertube was not cut up by all of the bones and teeth and piece on the floors. And as I expected, the demon crashed through the wall to the left of me and I began shooting. The gun was huge... you had to hold it by handles on both sides, and to shoot it you had to lunge it forward and then back, repeatedly. I knew that a couple of "10th shot" blasts would kill him, and it did... he fell to the ground.

I decided not to go into the secret area, because I could see more giant demons walking around in there, so I turned and headed back up the hallway from which I came. At this point it turned into a hallway from my elementary school. As I began heading back towards an exit, lots of little demon children and babies started trying to attack me.

I still had the gun, but I wasn't shooting at them. Instead, I was swinging the gun around wildly, smashing the demon kids in the heads, knocking them to the ground and then continuing on. At the very end of the hallway, right by the exit, there was a child-sized ride-on train that would also demonized, driving around in circles, blocking my escape.

The train actually had a front which was the head of Beetlejuice, with its mouth full of sharp teeth, angrily biting at anyone that tried to get past it. I took a few swings with my gun, and despite hitting it, it didn't fall down as easily as the demon kids. I hit it in the side a few times, but couldn't knock it over, so eventually I smashed it in the face as hard as I could and then ran through the exit.