12 dragon balls

The dream begins that I am a kid and my parents are dragging me along shopping. We are in a Costco-type place. And for the first bit of the dream i'm just running around the isles. Then i find the book section of the store and am enamored by the large collection of fairy tales. a little gnome approaches me from under the stacks and stacks of books where he makes his home. Pssst, he says. i come closer, but overcome by an extreme tiredness, so i lay myself down on a bunch of books on a table. My hands rest cupped to receive over my belly. and the gnome drops 12 small glowing marbles into my hands. they are big enough tho, that not all will fit. they spill over and roll onto the floor. as i try to catch them, more fall to the ground. i count the remaining in my hand: 8. then i search for the other four. Unless i have all twelve, i do not have the magic power that the gnome has endowed to me. he shows me that by rubbing the balls into the carpet causes static electricity and this attracts other balls that are near by. sure enough i collect two balls this way, as they slide across the carpet. he also warns me that someone could just as easily collect my balls if they did this with one of the remaining balls. i search really hard for the other two, but can not find them. the gnome gets one more for me, but tells me that the twelfth has been stolen. He says before he can have me do the original task he intended, i must first retrieve this last ball. I get the sneaking sensation that this is all a test.

Thus my adventure begins. I am now my current age and i enter was must be a funeral home, but is not indicated as such. To the West of the building is a cemetery which i later find out is full of zombies. to the North is a courtyard and to the East is a forest which has an open path through it. to the South is nothing. it's like the barrier to a video game. there appears to be a background and ppl can appear from it, but none shall pass.

while in the building there is a waiting area and a kitchenette. i am with two ppl i only know mildly. one is a volunteer, now staff member for FP with fluffy blond hair, and the other is a friend of my good friend that she knows from work. Why i'm with these ppl in particular is not clear. but we are waiting for my family. instead of waiting in the waiting room tho, we are waiting in the kitchenette and i am telling them about my beloved grandmother. i am telling them the wonderful things about her and things she does that are way cute, all the while suspecting that when my family does come, my grandmother won't even be with them. they stair back at me with a polite smile not knowing what to say. some ppl arrive. i think it is my parents and they say they will be right back and exit via the court. then there is banging from the same door and we think oh this must be the fam, but it's actually zombies trying to knock down the door and eat our brains. we run. we leave by the south exit, but cannot go any further, as zombies come around the east side of the house we run into the forest. there are zombies clearly walking along the open path so we stick to the dense trees. the zombies are approaching faster with branches whipping past them. i decide that zombies can't climb trees, so i begin to climb one and the gurl is climbing with me, but the boy is out of sight at the moment. then when we reach the top, i can now see him and he is further along on the open path, he runs back to me, and i tell him to climb to safety. he says he cant climb, that we must help him up. i infer he must be a zombie, because zombies cant climb trees, but then he says, no, it's just this tree. so i tell him to climb another, which he does -enough to prove that he is not a zombie.

once the zombies die down we continue in the dense forest until we suddenly come to a clearing. we can see the open path which leads to a bridge that crosses some boiling slime and disappears into a cave of a sudden vertical wall of a cliff of unknown heights. as we approach it gets much darker (than it already was) making it hard to see. A man pops out from behind a tree and says, i am trying to get into the cave too. Be careful tho, because there are two traps, and i am on the second. do not cross the bridge directly, he says. i cautiously approach to try and see through the blackness, but must trip a wire as a black wolf is unleashed and cases us (me) i run to the souther borders which is lined by a fence and jump up and run along the top of the fence, but the wolf pursues me yet. finally, with the wolf on my heals, i approach the forest and jump into a tree, with a tree house attached. i sit on the roof, and the wolf gives up and pursues the other two to the court. i feel it might be certain doom for them, but hear them calling my name only moments later. i run along the open path, and find that the court is covered in a green slime. they tell me that when the wolf stepped on it, he disappeared into a puff of smoke. we decide to collect some in a fancy vile. the boy has a magenta one and i have a green one. and we collect as much as we can, but it quickly dries as we do so. i only have a small precious amount when the slime has caked to the court yard surface. and zombies are now willing to cross it again! so we usher ourself back to the cave opening with slime in hand. when we arrive the man has already gone. i begin to wonder if he has my twelfth dragon ball.