gadgets inside like computers and cellphones that had somehow been left behind. So they told the gods and goddesses about it, and they thought it was cool. “Our castle is way out of date!” the gods and goddesses said. “I can’t believe we missed this new era!” They were very interested in all the technology they found inside of the skyscraper. The gods and goddesses moved into the skyscraper, and, using their new technology, they each made a Facebook page for themselves and started a company that made a card game with Japanese god and goddess figurines. Whenever the gods and goddesses sold the card game, they felt like people were making a sacrifice to them. The gods and goddesses lived happily with their new business. The kids asked the magic crystal to take them back to their home, where they learned to speak Japanese and discovered that they liked to eat seaweed salad. Every time they played the god and goddess card game and played the toad spirit card, the toad spirit appeared and helped them win the game.
Collaborative Stories: Omniah, Noah, Ai, & Lanaejah The Never-ending Dream A kid was sleeping and started dreaming about monsters. He realized he was stuck in the dream. He was attached to his dream! He was so deep in his dream that he couldn’t wake up. The real world became his nightmare. He doesn’t like the real world. Although the kid didn’t know it yet, the monsters were in his dream because that’s how he thought about people. He liked the imaginary world because once he noticed his power, he could control it. He could make monsters, and sometimes he could get the monsters to listen to him. The monsters he created were black and had red eyes and a white mouth. The monsters were very big and very tall and they had claws. They were like shadows. Some were strong—they could throw people. Not only were there strong monsters, but there were also other powerless monsters. They couldn’t throw people, but they were able to walk through them. His brother was in the dream, but he was a monster. He thought of his brother as a monster. Whenever he thought of a person as a monster, that person turned into a monster in his dream. His brother was a mean person and loved messy things way too much. Unlike the brother, the kid was always the popular one. There were lots of monsters around, and the kid couldn’t figure out which one was his brother because they couldn’t speak. The scientist began to fight off the monsters one by one, trying to run away until he could get out of the dream. The kid finally managed to get out of the dream, but he wanted to go back. His desire to go back came from realizing that the real world was much worse than his dream. The kid discovered how to go back to the dream, but a monster had broken the invention that allowed the kid to go back into the dream. Now he was fully stuck in the real world! The next day, he went off to school and met the kid scientist. The kid then realized there are some very similar things between both of them. Somebody in the school yelled out, “Books aren’t helpful. Books are weirdos!” The kid scientist screamed loudly. The kid realized that the kid scientist had been in the same dream as him, but he didn’t want to mention it. The kid decided he would spy on the kid scientist. He then decided to trap the kid scientist in a very dark room. The scientist was scared. He began to explain the truth about how he traveled between the real world and the dream.
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