This has started happening to me far more often as of late and I figure that since you're all my friends and generally clever people who enjoy writing, maybe you can help me. The issue is this. I had a dream and, as I'm sure you have all experienced, I woke up before I hit a satisfactory ending. The trouble with dreams is that they are so hard to remember, but I can be pretty good at remembering things by following a single thread of narrative. It is my brain telling me a story after all. Here's the point, I would love some help ending the narrative, finishing the dream you might say, only while awake. The story needs closure and it would be nice to end a dream for once in case I have it again. Always helps to go into a situation with forewarning. Enough blathering, dream time.



There is a horrific demon with dark powers(isn't there always) who is planning to do something evil. In this instance, two girls are fighting him using their own holy angelic powers in the hopes of defeating him. The other girls were not caught in the ambush/trap. So this fight is going on in a snowy car park and is not going well which is about what you'd expect. Finally, one has distracted evil guy long enough for the other girl to gather enough energy to open a portal of escape back home. So they start escaping, however don't think of the portal as like a teleport, though it basically is. Use instead the metaphor of a highway tunnel. You go one way at a high speed and then get off at your exit. Of course this tunnel goes anywhere. Despite that, it's still a tunnel which is still a narrow kind of thing that doesn't allow for dodging.

So big evil charges up a blast of energy to fire from his belly which was this weird magma like sigil thing, really neat, and that's going to kill them and only charred corpse will come through the portal. Distraction girl charges back up the tunnel towards evil demon and tries to slam him with her own energy blast, hoping to distract/divert the attack. It almost works except he fires right before hers hits. And this isn't her firing a blast like something from DBZ, this is like a blast she fired from a couple yards at most. So the force of the blasts send her sliding back down the tunnel.

However, instead of getting of at the right exit, the energy sends her to a far side of the tunnel. She hits this strange goo at her destination and looks up to see horrific dead eyes of a lich god thing. Then she shoots back like a rubber band and ends up home proper. No goo or ectoplasm is there, no sign that the lich thing happened and she doesn't mention it to anyone.

Over the next few days, she starts acting differently, a bit strangely. She becomes a bit lecherous, hitting on the other girls in the school almost without realizing it. It isn't subtle, it isn't smooth, it's almost predatory. She realizes that this can't go on but she can't stop it when it starts. So she leaves the school and goes back to her family. In this case, her uncle who owns an orchard. She helps him with the harvest and discovers that one of the trees is being attacked by a pest bug of some kind that can ruin an orchard. Then another tree, then another. She wants to help but her powers aren't working properly and she confesses about the lich to her uncle. Being a priest, he's got holy powers as well and uses his to allow him to look at her in a holy light or something. She strips and presents herself to him as a temptation into an unholy act, which is not unlike what was happening at the school. Priest resists and discovers that there is a strange build up of dark slimy crystal over her eyes and the sides of her face.

Recognizing this, he goes to the dungeon dimension and finds the lich, chained up and mostly unresponsive. Then two 'good' angelic creatures show up and explain that she has been tainted and chosen as the next sacrifice to keep the lich from escaping and rising to power again. Her life energy will feed the powers that bind the lich and the current boy who is being used has nearly expired. Priest has to make a decision, does he fight the lich, free the lich, try to deal with somebody, trade his life for hers? None of this will cure the taint for sure even if he did.

So right about this point in the dream, I put down the manga because my dad was telling me to do the dishes and the rest of the dream was menial chores with my sister until I woke up. I didn't finish the book and I need an ending to this conundrum at the very least. So I beg your help.

Thinking more of it now, the acts of corruption are almost assuredly to strip her of the holy powers she has and narratively I would say that it's because holy power can't be used to keep the lich chained, also that might explain why the angelic things don't do it, if their so good and noble, jerks. Anyway, please and thank you for your help.