I'm on a ski trip, but there is also a DH mountain biker tagging along. We are having lots of fun coming down from the top of the mountain. We stopped at the top of a really tight steep section. Somebody is complaining because a couple of the party members didn't try the last steep section. The ytahen start saying it's not that hard you can do it no problem.
I start off first and it's not difficult. Part way down I turn from a snowboarder to a fell runner (still in my snowboard boots) because of a change in conditions, its no longer snow covered, its sandy and dry. There is a ridge to my left (I'm running in a water erroded channel) and the biker is on it. The path soon opens up into the floor of a small valley. I carry on walking in the general direction we had been travelling and I turn and say to everybody I hope you all realise that I have no idea where we are going, they laugh and say we are heading for teh extinct volcano.
When we start walking again we are surrounded by fog but you can make out masats to our left with a break water behind, it's a harbour.
We group up under some trees in a court yard. Someone pulls out a map and the biker is doing really good rolling endos around the court yard. This really annoys me because I can't. You can see that at the edge of the court yard the volcano starts.
Someone says its famous becaus eit is where 'the Eagle has landed' was filmed (!) and if we like, we can go on the Eagle has landed fihing trip to see the wreck. I say I don't really want to so we set off.
I'm now atching third person as we walk off up the hill. We are no longer human though we have turned nto six legged insectoids (very similar to the ones from starship troppers). One of the party looks different, Its back is covered in hair. The ground conditions are a lot flatter and a lot like the ground on the bug planet (from the same film). I'm still watching third person and its cut together like a long trek montage from a film. In the second scene the group is rounding a big rock, everybody looks like the bugs are more grown up. The one that had the hair has lost the hair but the skins now of a camo print, while everybody else justhas plain coloured skin. We are swarmed by lots of other creatures but we just wade trough them.
We carry on round the rock a little futher and the swarm has vannished. We see in the distance, through an arch of rock something is glinting in the sun. This is what we have been looking for. Most of the group runs for it but two of us stay behind. The other guy who stayed here with me, doesn't want to stay, so he runs after them. He doesn't get very far because the ground starts rising up beneath his feat. I am now staring, first person at a rock wall.
A big wave comes crashing over me. (By the way this is the only nightmare i've ever had and I had it twice when I was very young)
Someone, possibly me has just changed the channel and its is an advert for the Day after Tomorrow, when the statue of liberty is hit by the wave. I'm in the water and I'm arnie and i'm sinking.
It cuts to a woman on the surface, she is shouting at me. It cuts back to me and the camera is fixed looking down on me from the top (classic sinking person camera angle) I rip open my arm and break an air tube which is running down my arm. I continue to sink but then I rise up to the surface. As I surface I grab onto a part of a demolished building, its part of the statue of liberty. There is the woman next to me, thats when I woke up...
Friday, July 21, 2006
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