When I woke up for the first time, I remember seeing a glass of water and falling back asleep.536Please respect copyright.PENANA0shkn1arum
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I dreamed of the day my dad died.536Please respect copyright.PENANAEUpCqI8iYk
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We drove to the beach that morning. I was eight years old and dad said that he wanted to take me out to do something fun and I had happily said the beach.536Please respect copyright.PENANAlN8ibSbfuB
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"Hey Daddy?" I asked while we were getting out of the car.536Please respect copyright.PENANAKj3GzHk2zd
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"What is it?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAWFDm4r22yb
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"Do you think you can swim really far out with me? I wanna see what it feels like not to be able to touch the ground! Please!?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAePZw8ABlV0
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"I guess but you have to promise to be careful. Okay?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAkAweaE1vd8
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"Yay! Thank you! Thank you sooo much Daddy!"536Please respect copyright.PENANA9oY1bB7027
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We parked the car and hoped out. There wasn't a lot of people at the beach that day. Just a few families.536Please respect copyright.PENANA9EaMlKEBHY
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"Come on Daddy! Let's go!" I yelled pulling him into the water.536Please respect copyright.PENANA26hWxbaWW3
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He dropped our stuff and walked into the water with me. We swam for a while and I decided I was ready to go deeper. He swam next to me until we got to a point where he couldn't touch.536Please respect copyright.PENANAkycupjkUQ8
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"Is this far enough, Ai?" He asked me.536Please respect copyright.PENANA2ih8Cit9Vn
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I nodded. I felt so awesome to be the same height as him. I felt so tall! Suddenly, something latched onto my foot. It felt really sharp and painful latch itself onto my foot. I started to scream but was cut off by being pulled under the water. I looked down and saw what I thought at the time was the worlds biggest fish biting my ankle. I tried to swim away and saw Dad swimming down towards me.536Please respect copyright.PENANAuH5fneuuau
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I was starting to run out of breath. Dad pried the fishes mouth open and pushed me towards the surface. Unfortunately the fish had found new prey, his hand. Dad was pulled deeper and deeper into the water. That was the last I ever saw of dad and the reason I'm terrified of water.536Please respect copyright.PENANAFVsTBjYXAZ
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I woke up, back to reality. I was string up at what looked like a whit roof, but after what I've been through it could've been Heaven. Too bad it was just a hospital. I looked around and saw that I was hooked to some machines. I looked to my left and saw flowers.536Please respect copyright.PENANAzhqitWrg7z
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A woman walked into the room and looked at me for a second.536Please respect copyright.PENANAyce4oHOlbM
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"Good morning, Ai," she said walking over to the machines. She checked the machines and then looked back at me. "It looks like your doing well. Do you have any questions?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAWmM3aaT49q
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"Only three," I said. "Where am I, what happened, and how long was I out for?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAHAE0u10RTD
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"You are in a hospital that was nearby your house. You've been out for a week." She have me a sympathetic look. "And as for what happened. I don't think your ready for that." She switched on the TV. "Just press this button if you need anything okay?" She pointed to a small button on the counter next to me.536Please respect copyright.PENANAWZOWCJ6PtP
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"...there was said to be one survivor," the TV said. "After running into her house in an attempt to save her family, Ai Hope was said to be the only survivor of the fire."536Please respect copyright.PENANACTH5NV1fxI
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Every memory came back to me. I looked up to the TV and saw a video of the fire playing on the screen. My heart started to beat faster. I ripped the iv out of my arm and ran into the bathroom. I pulled the hospital gown off and saw all the burn marks on my body. The fire had also singed the tips of my hair. The only place that wasn't touched by the fire was my face. I looked on my right shoulder and saw the handprint mark that my mom had left on me.536Please respect copyright.PENANAmCKo8Tqa3s
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I pulled the hospital gown back on and walked slowly to the bed I had been asleep on for the past week. I laid down and felt a year fall down my cheek. All of the burn marks on my body started to burn. Something also stung that hadn't bothered me in a while. The scar from being bitten from that big fish all those years ago. Now I had two great fears that were completely the opposite of one another. I was terrified of both fire and water.536Please respect copyright.PENANAfALNt9urEv
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Over the next few day, people came on and out of the room. I didn't really care what they did. I just looked out the window at the sky. I didn't eat much, didn't drink much, didn't do much. Four days passed by without me noticing.536Please respect copyright.PENANAX0FIHeTVFj
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I fell asleep that last night.536Please respect copyright.PENANAkaE8gpCqfa
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"Hello there," said a voice I didn't know.536Please respect copyright.PENANAkipJlYBJAe
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I opened my eyes and saw that I was in the middle of a fire. I screamed louder than I'd ever screamed before.536Please respect copyright.PENANAF3fPta2rn6
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"Help! Help! Please make it stop!"536Please respect copyright.PENANAEgjxxjwhU9
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Suddenly I was sinking in water. I tried to scream for help but when I opened my mouth it filled with water. I struggled and tried to swim. For some reason, I couldn't swim. I could only go down.536Please respect copyright.PENANARnjC6h8K0L
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Then I was in a whit room. Not the hospital room. I wasn't sure if it was even a room. White just went on and on for what looked like miles.536Please respect copyright.PENANAiDGqo25tuo
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"So you're afraid of both fire and water? Weird. Normally people who are afraid of water find comfort in the warmth of fire. And people who are afraid of fire find comfort in the coolness of water. You will be a powerful one," The voice I didn't know said again.536Please respect copyright.PENANA2xTpqMyLLd
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I looked around but saw nothing.536Please respect copyright.PENANAm9qEOgLJOl
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"Uh, down here."536Please respect copyright.PENANASMUBJQh4kq
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I looked down and saw a small white snake sitting in front of me.536Please respect copyright.PENANAIqk0DeBQtn
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"This is a dream right?" I asked the snake.536Please respect copyright.PENANAZ8WILG2SBz
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"No, no, no, my friend. This is real. It is made from a dream but it's all real."536Please respect copyright.PENANASwhAZWHmsW
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"Okay. That doesn't make sense."536Please respect copyright.PENANA8yMU1RrwT8
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"It will in time. But first I would like to ask you a question. Do you want to live a new life? A life in a world where you can conquer your fears? Where everything you thought was fake is made real?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAlb9rbi5gAH
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"That would be great and all, but..."536Please respect copyright.PENANAR4Cn3wsxUO
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"Good!" The snake interrupted. "Then let's get going."536Please respect copyright.PENANAoBrnvGyKG6
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"Going? To where?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAm0Mk9FeEdH
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"To Dreamland of course!"536Please respect copyright.PENANAalz1IklryL
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A door appeared in the middle of the "room". I followed the little white snake through the door. We were standing on air.536Please respect copyright.PENANAwPvU9Mhfsh
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"This is Dreamland. Here you can live a new life and conquer your fears. I'm going to give you a tour of Dreamland, but after that your on your own. Our first stop is the guild. This is where I will drop you off and where you can start your new life in Dreamland."536Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8zuNN4WpT
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I looked down at a large colorful building. It looked like something you'd see in a fairy tale. It had bubbles coming in and out of the chimney. Some of them had people riding on rope of them. At one point, I think I saw lightning strike the building.536Please respect copyright.PENANAWJ11dBDkRE
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"You will also be able to master your powers here."536Please respect copyright.PENANATJKYqxQ0pD
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"Powers?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAPJw7HKjMfs
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"Yes. Each person who enters Dreamland is given powers based on their fears. Your powers will be fire and water. Almost nobody in Dreamland has two powers. Actually there are only a few. The only reason you have two is because you fear fire and water both equally. Not many people have fears as great as yours."536Please respect copyright.PENANA4YfLXTF3qu
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Controlling fire and water? This was an amazing yet terrifying dream. The very thought of being near fire or water made me shudder.536Please respect copyright.PENANAj6X6OahL8A
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"This is no dream," the snake said suddenly interrupting my thoughts.536Please respect copyright.PENANAAMLdGPRe00
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"Can you read my mind?"536Please respect copyright.PENANA2Vw9gdF7iR
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"Yes. And I have proof that this is no dream." The snake suddenly bit onto my leg. I felt a stinging pain in my leg.536Please respect copyright.PENANAPtH6tIyqvd
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"Okay! Okay! You've proved your point! This isn't a dream! I get that!"536Please respect copyright.PENANAtkw0YaowxH
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He let go. I looked at my leg and saw a small line of blood drip down my leg. This really wasn't a dream.536Please respect copyright.PENANA8YJ4zAEX7x
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"Good. Now let's continue with our tour."536Please respect copyright.PENANAXytluWXxvI
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He took me around the entire world of Dreamland. I saw things I thought would never exist. I saw mythical animals, people who weren't human, and what I was most amazed by was how backwards thing were here. Waterfalls that fell up, grass that grew upside down, and things like that.536Please respect copyright.PENANAR9aWGGlqZN
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"Are you ready to go live your new life? After this you can never go back to your life on earth. Are you sure you don't want me to take you back now?" The snake asked.536Please respect copyright.PENANAYXtGKyyMaU
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"Positive!"536Please respect copyright.PENANAueyWHxe5RD
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"Good. And my name isn't the snake, by the way, it's Fie. It was nice meeting you Miss Hope. Have a good life in Dreamland!"536Please respect copyright.PENANA8iwZPPBRGv
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I started to fall but landed on one of the giant bubbles I saw earlier. It slowly carried me down to the guild."536Please respect copyright.PENANAJonU1mQgLg
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"And Ai!" Fie yelled. "I forgot to tell you one thing!"536Please respect copyright.PENANALyILBeX1N7
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"What!?"536Please respect copyright.PENANAJbhqF96YSc
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"Live!"536Please respect copyright.PENANAXJkREVbDRZ
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