So this dream started off with me being at school. Apparently I had a Lazer pointer that rather than pointing a little dot at things cast mage hand. Like I point it, press the button to make it grab wherever the light would be, andas long as it was pointing I was golden.

My teachers very much did NOT like this. Like they kept stopping class to try and figure out who was being disruptive. I did not care and continued to fuck around with the laser pointer until lunch. Once lunchtime rolled around I began noticing something odd.

It started with a video talking about how there might be a chao garden style glitch in real life. How you can grab the little animals and chaos drives and use them basically infinitely if you hold them right. I wanted to train my skills in magic so I decided during lunch I would find some of the little animals and start training myself in these skills.

So suddenly the school turns into what's basically a level of Spyro with me running around and collecting animals and gemstones. Every time I encounter either I do exactly what you do in sonic adventure two to infinitely reuse them. I could feel my magic getting stronger as I did this. Like, actually stronger. My Lazer pointer could pull more heavy things and I could run faster and had a vague ability to fly (at this point it was just jumping really high)

I did this for a long time before noticing one of the animals had been following me. An eel looking thing that could also slither on land like a snake. Once I noticed this a ran back inside the school and returned to class until the bell rang to go home. The eel continued to follow me throughout the day.

When I get home I'm greeted by my Alzheimer's grandma who I was told to keep inside the house. My grandpa was also there and seemingly did not notice or care about her Alzheimer's. They told me they were going to church and they had a motorcycle they were going to ride there. I was like "hell no" because my grandparents had never even touched a motorcycle and my grandma is so far gone she can't even remember our names. How the hell is she going to ride a motorcycle??

So like... I spend at least an hour trying to convince them not to get on the motorcycle before finally saying "fuck it" and just letting them do what they want. I spesifically remember watching them up until the point they were both on it and once it started up I looked away to not see whatever carnage might occur. I have no idea if they made it to church or not.

As I went back inside Meridian was suddenly there sitting at the kitchen counter. He told me he was surprised I'd do something so wreckless in the set timeline. I said I didn't care anymore and next time I'd cut the breaks just to see what happens. He laughs at this and tells me there won't be a next time because, duh, unlike him I'm not in a time loop. But that got me thinking. Why was he suddenly showing himself to me NOW? Meridian doesn't show himself to anyone! Something was off here.

Eventually I decide to walk home from my grandparents house because for some reason I get the feeling mom won't pick me up. So I walk home and the rest of the day plays out as normal until I wake up the next morning. Oddly enough I am back at the school with the Lazer pointer watching that video of the Chao garden glitch again. That's when it hits me. I am in the loop with Meridian.

Naturally, I use this to my advantage. See, rather than my skills resetting like they usually do during a loop they persisted. I had all the magic I did the day before. So.... Abusing the glitch again i began training my skills in the arcane even more. And I continued to do this as the loop went on. Every repeat of the day I abused this glitch and every loop I got stronger.

But then I noticed something strange. As my power grew that eel following me also grew. Once it was big enough (size of a car almost. Or... Length? Idk) it began to attack me. I'd run away from it and it turned into a game for me. Because I was in the loop there was no real danger, right? Well, it's all fun and games until you literally get ripped in half. See, as this continued the eel not only got larger, but faster, stronger, and more aggressive. One loop ended early for me because I was quite literally ripped in half. One moment I'm fucking around tainting this thing and the next I'm waking up back at the school screaming in pain and terror.

That's when I realized this wasn't a game. I was in actual danger. So using the power of the time loop I spent the next few go around a gathering information on this eel. Apparently it was the pet/familiar of a magic bounty hunter. Their goal, naturally, is to capture people who have cast amounts of magic and steal it for themselves. They were like reverse warlocks in a way. Rather than a powerful being making a deal and granting them magic they hunted down the powerful beings and forced them to make a deal. They wanted my magic because it had been growing with each loop. Hence why the eel didn't stay the same every time. Apparently the larger the eel is the more magic it senses and it uses that to better hunt skilled mages.

Eventually the eel becomes too much for me. I keep dying and dying HURTS so I want to make it stop. So I decide one loop to let myself get captured and I'm dragged to this house full of.... Lilo and stitch type experiments? Like, the guy who ran the operators looked like Hamsterveel or however you spell his name. He game me this schpiel about how magic as powerful as mind couldn't be trusted in average hands and that I needed to give it up to keep people safe. I'm all "hell no, you've killed me 284693 times trying to get my magic, fuck you I'm not dangerous". He did not take kindly to this and said if I was not willing to give my magic to him he would take it.

So like... Until now all I had ever used has been mage hand. But this guy and his lackeys are chasing me. They are too fast for me. I need to get away so I channel all the magic I can muster and turn into Halcyon! But not just halcyon. Halcyon the first. The real great dragon. Once in that form I actually take on his personality and memories but still have enough of my own to change back at any time. I then begin flying away from these people who, unsurprisingly, give chase.

At one point as Halcyon I run into Altair who begins going on an excited nerd rant about being in the presence of a god. I remember being very short with him because at that point I was in a literal construction zone trying to fly away from magic bounty hunters. Altair talked about how dragons getting on the purity scale basically paved the way for Sinvian and I'm all "I hate sinvian, I hate Kodin, they killed my son, leave me alone" which... Is not accurate? Because halcyon the second doesn't die? Not in the comic, anyway. Reguardless, I remember flying over streets and going through a tunnel before ending back up at home and turning back to normal.

When I get home Meridian is there. Once again sitting at my kitchen counter which leads me to believe he has no sense of comfort because why the hell would he pick a hard barstool over my couch? Either way, he comments on my magic and I go off boasting about how great it is. He then hits me with "yeah it's great and all, but have you amounted to anything?" Like, having it is one thing. Using it is another. Actually putting it to good use is entirely different. I tell him I think so because I don't fucking know and he just hmms and haas and scribbles it into his journal before saying he has to get going. He leaves and eventually the day resets again and I'm back at the school

Loops continue. My magic continues to grow and the eel chasing me does as well. Every day at this point starts with me running and ends with me running. It's exhausting and even with my ability to shape shift into my characters I still only barely get away each time. Halcyon the first isy preferred form because he can fly and I remember several times literally jumping off a cliff to fly away from these bounty hunters. Also, every loop I become halcyon Altair shows up and I have to basically babysit him like an NPC escort mission in a video game. It's exhausting and I just want to find a way to stop these bounty hunters. Mainly because if they target Meridian we're all fucked. If he dies in the set timeline reality ceases to exist. Not a good thing.

During one loop while being chased I land in the enemy's basement. Meridian is there and is surprised to see me. He asks how I am and I say I'm "ready to kick ass". He then laughs and we talk for a bit before he yells upstairs to alert everyone I'm there. I'm like "dude, what the hell" and he mentions that it'll be fine. He's in a loop. This is one of many loops. I will not die because when the day resets for him I do as well. Clearly he had not caught on to the fact I was also in the loop. Not like I would expect him to. I didn't start mine the normal way.

Meridian leaves and I'm left cornered because I'm literally in a basement with like 12 big scary experiments coming to hunt me down. So I do the only thing I can think of. I turn into feral dog sonie in an attempt to squeeze past them. It... Does not work. They catch me and drag me upstairs and sit me at the kitchen counter (seriously, why not a couch? Why the counter? It's so uncomfortable). They then shove two papers and two pens my way and explain their ultimatum. Either I sign over my magic to them and live, then they switch targets to Meridian (who they called a "more powerful source" and not his name) or I sign over his and spare him, but I remain their target. Apparently the two different pens mattered so while they weren't looking I swapped them and signed the wrong contract with the wrong pen making it null and void. This PISSED THEM OFF but gave me enough time to once again turn into feral dog sonie and begin running.

I'm running. I'm a dog. These people are chasing me trying to get me to sign this contract. They apparently have a Tesla or other electric car and hop in and start chasing me down in the car. I only narrowly escape each time as I desperately try to turn into Halcyon again. For some reason it isn't working and I'm starting to panic. So I continue to run. The dream ends with me as feral dog sonie running away from these people towards another cliff while they chase me in their car. My plan was to jump off the cliff and HOPEFULLY turn into Halcyon in time to save myself while they just drove off to their deaths but uhhh... I woke up before that happened