Date: 13-03-2022 

Introduction:

I remember very little about this dream, other than some incredible flashes of some kind of boss battle between me and an insidious creature. I do not know how I got to him, or any basic detail of what transpired before the moment of our meeting. The battle itself lasted much longer than the flashes I put together to picture it, but it was nonetheless not a long fight.

Shadow Wizard:

I recall the creature as an enormous shadow figure, about 5 or 6 meters tall. Its physical attributes were that of a human; head, 2 arms on a torso and 2 legs. Its arms and legs were a bit out of proportion in their lengths. He looked a little bit like a 3D animated shadow of a straw man. What I knew before hand was that this creatures was an evil wizard, capable of magic, and with malevolent intentions.

The battle took place in a huge dark enclosed space. The shape of it was round, and very high. The space inside was very large, and the distance from ground to ceiling was much greater than from wall to wall. It reminded me a bit of that large vacuum chamber NASA uses to conduct experiments. In fact, I recall that the ceiling was small, so the outside shape of this space must’ve looked like a giant bullet.

Besides me and the creature, there was another entity there. It remained mostly invisible, and he acted like a coach to me in about the same way a couch would cheer on their pupil in a boxing match. But there was no aggression in this coach, only wisdom. He would say things that sparked courage in me to keep fighting and filled me with hope that I could win this fight. Without him, I think I would’ve lost the fight before it began.

I was able to use two kinds of attacks; lightning and a sort of fiery plasma with fire-like properties. I could shoot those from my hands at first. These attacks were very powerful, but the evil wizard countered them with ease. It turns out that one of my kind of attacks could be blocked by the other, so lightning blocks plasma and plasma blocks lighting. And the shadow figure used this against me.

Every time I shot either of those attack, the shadow raised a shield around itself with properties of the other attack. Would I fire lightning the creature raised a plasma wall between me and him. And would I fire plasma, he erected a wall of lightning. My attacks were effectively like shooting blanks. And every time I fired, he blocked it with the shield, but reached over its shield with his long limbs and attempted to knock me to the ground, which he sometimes did. Though sometimes this allowed me to hit him with a smaller attack.

Encouraged by the invisible entity, I discovered that I could not only just shoot lightning and plasma, I could embody them. Either one. My whole body would become made entirely out of either, just by will. When I did, I could even match the evil shadow in size. The tide of the battle turned, but only briefly. The evil shadow quickly found a way to counter this next threat. When I turned into lightning, he erected a shield of plasma in front and behind me, and trapped me in it, forcing me to shift to a plasma state. In that moment I was vulnerable and I was slammed to the ground.

It went on for a while, and my invisible coach was still filling me with hope I could beat the shadow. And at one point I fell to the ground and ended up near one of the shadow’s legs. He had gotten careless in hubris because he seemed to be dominating this fight. I wasted no time and out of nothing in my human form I latched onto his leg with both my arms and I bit him as hard as I could in his calf muscle. The creature did not expect this primitive and mundane attack at all and was taken by total surprise. It yelled and screamed in pain and kicked me across the hall against the wall.

I had dealt some minor damage, and he had a slight limb from then on. It wasn’t a win if it came to the damage dealt but it was the turning moment in the battle. I had humiliated it, and even though I got kicked to the floor, I couldn’t help but laugh hysterically. Of all the incredible things I could do it was this silly attack that made him scream in agony. The tide of the battle turned again, but this time it would stay in my favour. I figured out I could change into the lightning version of myself, but still shoot plasma from my hands.

And so I did. But the shadow wasn’t easily defeated. Trying to trap me between plasma shields would now no longer work, but It kept raising the right kind of shield to block my attacks. When I alternated between my attacks he could match me in the speed of the switch to the right kind of shield. When I changed my body from that of lightning into plasma, so did the shadow change the defence for any punches I would throw at him. But I had him on the defensive. I dominated this part of the fight. All he could do was block.

My coach was now very quiet. But I didn’t think I needed him at this point as I had come up with another strategy. While in lightning form I would spawn a body of plasma from my hands. The wizard would not know which one of the bodies was me and which was just a mirage. It worked! The shadow thought I was the plasma version, and engaged the fake foe. I sneaked around him and totally surprised him when I crabbed him from behind. My lightning arms did more than just immobilise him; they hurt him from all the current he received on his shadowy skin.

He screamed in agony. “AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!” But as I held him, I couldn’t do anything but keep him in place. But all of a sudden, my coach, my mentor, the invisible entity that had supported me, yelled excitingly at me. Where his voice had been calm and soothing this whole time, now he gave it all he got: “KEEP HIM STEADY! KEEP HIM STEADY!! I’M GOING TO HELP!” As I stood there, as a creature of lightning, 5 meters tall, lifting a big black screaming shadow figure off the ground, I stood opposite of the mirage plasma figure I had created, which just stood there inanimately.

And then I experienced the most incredible thing of this whole dream. The invisible entity entered the plasma husk, and took control of it as if it were its own body. This telepathically connected me with my mentor. In that moment, I was everywhere. I could see the battle from every perspective, from any angle, and even from the perception of every individual in that fight. The friendly entity now embodying the plasma husk readied itself in an attack posture. He threw his fist back, ready to punch, but its fist turned into a long pointy plasma spike. Because I was and knew all, I knew what to do.

Seamlessly we worked together in one single motion. He threw the spiky punch while I raised the shadow figure off the ground so it would receive the blow right on the higher end of its torso. With a loud blast the plasma spike pierced through the shadow figure and an enormous explosion erupted from the wound. It woke me up. But I knew we had won.