falling cranes

- woman from another realm was prophesied to become the first Peladia the First, a kind of symbol for the kingdom, or priestess. Her name was Sinda, and she was but a girl when she was dragged into this other dimension by the king's wizards.
- some years later, when Sinda has grown into a young adult, the king is assassinated while Sinda was visiting the king. The prince arrives, but too late.
- that night, the prince rapes Sinda, effectively making her his new Queen, and "Peladia the First", but there is no ceremony for her yet. She's never recognized as the Queen, and the prince refuses to be crowned king just yet.
- He screamed and in that scream Sinda ran over to him and wrapped her arms around his shivering frame. He cried and wailed and beat upon his dead father's body. Sinda could not find the right words to say for she had never faced such a great loss, and her heart, too, was grieving. The prince was shouting words of pain, cries of loss, damning the assassin who had gotten away. Then, as if something inside him had snapped, the prince stopped crying and sent all the guards and onlookers away. It was just him and Sinda left in the room, with his father's corpse. "Prince?" she whispered before he pushed her down on the bed, next to where the dead king lay. "What are you doing?" "Be quiet," he shot back as he began to undress her. He raped her and when he were done, she fell asleep while staring into dead, distant eyes.
- in the meantime, Sinda serves her duty as Peladia the First, vanquishing the now oncoming evil demons, with large magical guns made of black metal and a glowing, orange organic power source.
- the prince (and the entire royal family) have a gold/silver/blue theme. Sinda is purple/black/orange.
- Sinda and the prince are in love, they've loved each other since they were children and it was always assumed the prince would marry "Peladia the First" anyway. However, something changed in the prince when his father was murdered. He was easier to enrage, quick to cast judgement, and his overall temperament fluctuated frequently. The only one who could calm him was Sinda, which she often did, fearing his wrath upon the people around them.
- the role of "Peladia the First" was to destroy the oncoming demon armies, which only began after the late king had died. It is only someone with the blood of another dimension that can kill these monsters, and also not be harmed or tainted by their magic.
- it was like this for a few years, when another hunter arrived in the kingdom. He was a tall, strong man who looked rough and was clearly not of refined tastes. He came from the same realm as Sinda, and they bonded over the vague memories of their previous world. He was not welcome at first, as he did not blend in with the kingdom, but once it was found out he had the power of "Peladia the First" he was sent to the castle to meet her and the prince.
- the prince grew jealous towards the hunter. He trusted his beloved Sinda, but he did trust the hunter, and locked him up. Sinda did her best to quell the prince's anger, and he bent his knee to her.
- "Who is to say whether a kingdom should fall or not?" said the hunter. She could hear him spit on the stone floor and his shackles jingle slightly. "I did my best to serve my kingdom, to protect my lady, but it was yet not enough. She was corrupted by those foul creatures and I was forced to slaughter them all as, very quickly, the entire kingdom fell to the taint." Sinda inhaled and was about to speak but paused, hesitant for a moment. "You do not have to comment on my history. I do not wish to hear pity, especially from your lips." "I would not pity you." Without a second to pass the hunter replied, "Then what would you say? Would you berate my folly? I already lump all my mistakes into one and direct my anger and regret into defeating the oncoming threat." "You already understand the mistakes you've made and the regret bites deep into you, hurting you. Yet it is also this regret which fuels your desire for battle. It's not my place to condemn nor praise your efforts; I was not there. I only care about my own kingdom, and whether or not you can fight for it with as much, if not more, valour and determination than your one previous." It was silent for a long time, and then came the jingle of shackles and chains. The hunter emerged from the darkness and stood at the jail cell door. [Sinda is sitting on the floor with her back against the wall beside the hunter's jail cell] "You want me to forsake my old kingdom?" "No," she replied and stood up to face the hunter, only iron bars and chained shackles separating the two, "I'm asking you to fight for your old kingdom, while protecting this one. With me." "That... I can do that."
- though even with united efforts, the prince becomes corrupted. Though the taint only spreads in the castle and the common folk are safe, thanks to the help of the hunter. On the night before storming the castle to free it from corruption, the hunter and Sinda make love as they realize just how much they mean to each other, even if they both love their royal other.
- the following morning before the sun could rise, they enter the castle and cleanse it of impurities. When they reach the prince, Sinda could not make the final blow, and so it befalls to the hunter. Each take a mortal blow.

Now that I'm awake, its become a little difficult to recall what order the dream was made in.

The fight probably came first, where the opposing faction were not inherently evil, but rather turned out that way due to certain defects in their test-tube development. Their leader did not care for the defects, so let them do as they pleased.
Now that a new thread has come that we must face together, we join forces. She gives me two attached syringes and calls them a "key", inside the syringes are a kind of serum that takes the user's rage and changes it to strength. I give the key to one of my lieutenants, and the other faction leader comments on how I've chosen her to hold the key, and that I must put a certain amount of trust in her.

Before we head into battle, the dream changes and now we're heading into a cavern. It's a raid in a dungeon. We run across a beam situated just above a pool of lava. We must move at a certain pace or else the overhead lamps will release a black pollen, poisoning us.
At the end of this beam a man stops us, he is the raid boss. He greets us and taunts us before disappearing behind a pair of stone doors.
When we enter past the doors, two tentacle like limbs are flying above us. At the end of each one it seems to be grasping a clear orb. It activates it and electricity starts jumping around within the orbs. We kill the tentacles and pass through another set of stone doors.
We're now situated on a stone balcony overlooking a cavern filled with lava. Three creatures are slowly coming towards us: Horus on the left, an unknown figure in the middle (this is the boss, too tall for us to see his face), and Anubis on the right. There are also some two-meter tall, Anubis-headed minions that drop from above us on the balcony and battle us. Our goal is to defeat all three approaching figures, ideally in the order of Horus, Anubis, and then the boss.

Then the dream changes again.
The first scene that plays in this segment is going down stairs at a subway station. There's been a zombie outbreak, and our team (a group of maybe 7 - 10 people) are clearing a path to our destination: GM place. It's apparently the future of Vancouver and there's been more skytrain and even new subway lines created.
We make it to GM place and start setting up for our race. At around 5pm I make a trip back home for dinner or something. I rush it to the nearest station and am met with vast amounts of people taking the skytrain as opposed to the subway, as it is underground where the zombies have made home. There is a team of five people at the bottom of the staircase set up as guards to make sure no one goes in and no zombies go out.
I want to use the underground, but I'm not allowed. I make a comment on how, just some hours prior I was one of the people who first went through the area cleaning out the zombies. Even so, I'm now in my racing outfit instead of my zombie killing outfit, as well as unarmed except for a trashcan lid.
I take my chances on the skytrain, and end up getting lost among the many stations. I ask many people, "How do I get to GM place?" And then I see an old friend from high school, Ryan. I ask him, and he doesn't really answer me (like how he usually did back in high school). And I follow him into the men's washroom, where I also see a tall blonde woman at the end of the sinks, and another friend from high school, Vicky, sitting below a sink and spraying people with water. I avoid her spray with the trashcan lid. He just stands across from the blonde woman, trying to look cool.
I keep asking Ryan how to get to GM place but finally give up. When I come out of the washroom most of the crowd is gone. I spot a man with a radio headset and a puffy jacket. I ask him how to get to GM place, and he starts talking. He mentions how GM place has been swamped and I shout, "Really?!" And he continues, "Yeah, with that huge recreation area and all. People going there to eat, have dinner. And do all that raiding, too." He says something like that. Before our conversation continues I see Alyssa, another friend from high school, run past and up some stairs and I follow. We're in a large room similar to waterfront station but instead of it having the old architecture, its all modern and high tech. She sits to eat.

And that's about when I wake up. My internal clock told me it was around 8pm-dream time when it ended. I don't know if I ever made it back to the stadium for my race.

I realize I slept for over 12 hours when I woke up! From around 7pm ish to 10am orz