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Chapter 5 - The Dream World

I walked down the hallway to my room, as I walked in, I saw the beautiful moonlight shining through my window. I walked closer to admire it's dashing beauty. I could see my eyes sparkling through the reflection of the glass window. I clasped my hands together to say a prayer, "Dear god, I want to thank you for the gift of life, and for blessing me with such a beautiful and loving family. Please forgive me for my sins and shortcomings, in the name of your son christ Jesus, Amen." I felt good after saying a prayer, then I looked back up at the window to see a glowing light in the reflection, it was on my forehead. I thought maybe I was delusional because I was sleepy, then I yawned. I knew it was really time to go to sleep so, I climbed into bed and gently closed my eyes. I slowly drifted off to sleep. I believe I was in a dream, my dream. I saw a bright light coming closer and closer, and a high pitched noise getting louder and louder, until everything went black.

"What's happening?, I asked myself with my eyes closed tightly.

Nobody answered, it was silent, so I began to slowly open my eyes. I was shocked to see what I saw. I was standing on a large platform, and I turned around to see what was behind me, and it was this portal type thing. I did not know where I was, or why I dreamed this, but It was kind of amusing. I walked off of the platform and onto the bright green grass. It was very warm and toasty. I walked further, when I realized I was standing on a hill. When I look down the hill, I saw what seemed to be a town, then at the end was a tall castle like structure. I wanted to get a closer look, so I slid down the hill, and safely made it to the bottom. I also realized that I had no shoes, I am barefoot! As I looked up from my bare feet, I saw that the roads were made out of stones. Then, I came to a pause and thought, "Isn't this my dream, shouldn't I be able to make what I want out of it?" But then again I thought, "How?" I closed my eyes and thought of sandals, and I felt something touch my feet. I looked down to see that the sandals that I thought of were on my feet! I was very intrigued. Then I walked onto the stone road and straightdown. I stopped at what appeared to be a shop of some sort. I entered the shop and paused in complete shock. It was a human with wings!

"Hi, welcome to my shop, how may I help you today miss?", the boy said with charisma.

"U-um, I wanted to know where I am, like what is this place?", I said while trying to ignore the fact that this dude could not have been human.

"Well, you are in the land of pixies, it is a kingdom ruled by none other than the Queen and King of the Dream World.", he said with a confused face.

He probably thought I was crazy. Although, after seeing all of this, I kind of feel crazy.

"So, do you have a map or something that I can have of this world?", I said.

"Actually I do, but I don't take real money, it is a trading shop, so y ntou would have to trade me something. By the way, it is worth 10 Gems."

"But, I don't have any money, or anything worth 10 Gems.", I said.

"What about that?", he said while pointing to my head.

It was my flower pin that grandma gave me, there is no way I would give this a way.

"Sorry, this is not for sale.", I said.

"Okay, well there is one thing that I could do to help you.", He said with a smirk.

"What is it?", I said impatiently.

"If you can clean my shop, I will be glad to give the map to you."

"Really, thank you so much!"

I grabbed a bucket that I saw on the counter, and filled it with warm water and soap. There were cobwebs and dust everywhere. I began to carefully wipe all of the shelves and walls until they were shiny, I also took a broom and brushed out all of the cobwebs. Then I poured out the dirty water and put everything back in it's place.

"I'm finished!", I said to the boy.

"Wow, you did great, here you go.", he said as he happily gave me the map.

"I better get going, it was nice meeting you-um, what's your name?"

"Oh, my name is Samuel Maplewood, and you?"

"My name is Miracle, Miracle Sinclair."

"I guess I'll see you around Ms. Sinclair!", he said while waving goodbye.

"Likewise Samuel!", I said while waving and leaving out the door.

I opened the map and looked at it. It showed the hill that I was on. It was called the "North Dream Hill", and I saw the shop too. I wanted to see the castle. I wonder what the King and Queen are like. I followed the map down the stone road and to the front gates of the castle. It looked even bigger than it did from a far away view. It was not only big, but beautiful too. I pushed open the gates to see two more people with wings, well I mean pixies...but anyway, they stopped me and told me to state my name and purpose for coming.

"I am Miracle Sinclair, and I would like to speak with the King or Queen, both would be best.", I said with a nervous laugh.

"Sinclair? Why do you have the Sinclair name?", the guard said with a surprised expression.

"Uhm, I don't know, maybe because it's my last name.", I said kind of annoyed.

I saw the other guard whisper into the first guards ear, then one walked away to the castle.

"Wait a bit.", the remaining guard said.

"Okay.", I said a bit confused.

It was about 5 minutes until the other guard came back, he whispered to the female guard, then they both turned back to me.

"You may enter Miss Sinclair, follow us please.", they both said.

"Alright.", I said.

I walked up the stairs and followed them down a few halls and around a couple corners until we reached a stop, their were two large golden doors with designs imprinted on them. Both guards pushed the doors open together, and pointed inside the room signalling me that it was okay to enter. I was shocked to see how beautiful the castle was, and I looked up and saw two fancy seats, they were thrones, and two people sat on the thrones, it was both the King and Queen!