It was a drop-jawed dream for me by the end

[sparksol]

I was traveling around the country with some people who I recognized as friends, though I couldn't tell you who they were. Also a few people I recognized as people I didn't get along with. At one particular airport, I'd gotten stuck along with a friend and a not-friend in some sort of maze/arena area. After ten minutes running back and forth and up and down the stairs, I was the only one who could see the exit, for some reason. And even it was locked.

After making our way back to the top, two new people were waiting. (I knew the name of one of them when I started this. The other person didn't have a name so far as I know. The one was the "boss" and the other wasn't. His name was something like Dark Eagle or Black Phoenix or something. Something blackish and a dangerous bird. And he had a Fu Manchu thing going.)

He and the other person were throwing tiny pushpin sized, surprisingly aerodynamic roses at us. They stung nastily, and kept bleeding until we pulled them out like thorns. We soon noticed that regular pushpins were growing on the floors and walls. Which were also surprisingly aerodynamic. While they were in our hands, they expanded to large novelty-sized ones, until we threw them. Each one that hit either of them caused them to be stunned for almost a second if it hit them on skin. Of which not much was showing on either; only their heads at most times. After the stun ceased, the pins were sort of absorbed into the people.

We took turns throwing the pins, so that their attention was distracted so the others could gather more. During one gathering, I noticed a different woman who started talking to me. She called me Alan, which wasn't my name, and I decided she didn't see the same way I did. She thought I was someone who was a friend of a friend from high school. It turns out she called by Alan's name at first because she recognized my...energy pattern? And most people only ever show up there once. Showing up more than once could mean the person is linked to this place, unable to permanently escape. That's when I remembered, I'd fought this black-hawk person before, had dealt the final shot last time I was here. I remembered a sort of tattoo showing up on him, and striking it, and how the black leaked out, and he'd fallen over....

But before, he didn't have that companion - attacker. After a while, he changed form, turning to a big bird-thing with a tail that led to a different place. I got caught in it, and the place started to shrink. I did...something. And I was back in the arena instead of that trapped place. But now I was different, had flippers instead of arms, I was low to the ground, and I couldn't find my legs. I don't think I was human now, but I knew I could still take out that guy, who was back to throwing roses.

I leapt up somehow, and began to strike at the guy with my...flippers, but then I most inconveniently woke up.