I was in Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress.
I was running through the forest with Princess Yuki, who's name in the dream was Suzuki --which is pretty good when you think about it. I had to look up the name this morning because I couldn't remember and, well at least it rhymes. The dream was also in black and white --I never dream in black and white, as far as I can tell, this is the first time.
So Princess Suzuki and I were running for our lives. I know that the general had been killed by these powerful ninjas. There were still out there trying to find and kill us. We fled into the mountains but they kept coming.
Finally, we were at a the bottom of a cliffside. There was a small, waterfall and reeds growing all around the basin and riverbanks. There she barked at me to climb and we started up the rock face next to the waterfall. Suddenly the ninjas were all around the basin. They just came out of the forest like they had always been there.
Suzuki dropped from the rocks and landed on her feet in a combat crouch. This was a quite a drop too, about 15 feet. I started climbing back down to protect her (ha!) because that was my job. As I did, a single ninja wearing a straw hat came forward. She though the hat away and revealed herself to be the Queen Ninja.
Suzuki and the Queen barked at each other a few times, while circling each other. I really can't recall what they were saying. Part of me thinks it was in Japanese and I wasn't supposed to understand.
Now I was at the bottom, but they had moved down the riverbank and I watched as they started fighting. It was very Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Actually it was more like the Matrix. The scene in the building lobby where Keanu does this cartwheel, picking up the machine gun? Yeah, Suzuki did pretty much the same thing, except she cart-wheeled over the riverbank, using the reeds to balance herself.
There was a mass of flying kicks and punches, as they came at each other and one would go down and then flip back onto her feet.
For some reason, I couldn't move. The other ninjas had disappeared, but I still couldn't leave the waterfall. Yet Suzuki and the Ninja Queen were getting farther and farther away from me. They were becoming obscured by bushes and trees. I would only see one of them come flying out of a bush or someone leaping from a tree.
Then, I could see them both. They were standing together on a flat rock in the center of the river. Suddenly Suzuki had a thick, crossbow bolt in her hand. She swung it around to stab the Ninja Queen, but the Queen blocked it easily, knocking the bolt from Suzuki's hand.
The Queen laughed as the bolt tumbled into the air and she reached up to grab it. As she did, Suzuki warbled a bit. And I knew, the way you do in a dream, that she had covered the bolt in poison. That she had tricked the Queen into knocking it out and grabbing it, but at the same time had sacrificed herself.
The Queen Ninja screamed in anger. Suzuki collapsed and feel into the river and a moment later so did the Queen.
I could move again and I raced down the river side to where they had been.
Frantically, I dove into the water to find Suzuki. But she was gone. I dove under again and looked, but there was nothing. Now I was getting upset. Again and again, I was under the water searching for her, but there was nothing but river bed and rocks. I kept having to come up for air because I was staying down too long. I started feeling like I was drowning.
Then the dream sort of shifted. I wasn't there anymore, but I could see Suzuki, as an observer. She was standing on the riverbank, surrounded by other people.
She said, very matter of factly, "I'm dead."
And the people there, the looked like a group of teens, laughed.
She looked at them perplexed, but they didn't elaborate.
Then they started giving her these small, fuzzy flowers. They had short, black stems and looked a bit like wispy fur. She held them up to her chest.
Then, very slowly, starting from those flower, the dream bled into color.
And then I was awoken by the non-stop chattering of birds outside my window.
posted by Evil Wayne @ 10:29 AM
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