The cave of dreams

Three friends grew up together in Seattle their names were Mike, Steve, and Davonte. As children the boys had an odd friend in the homeless gentleman that lived in there neighborhood. They used to tell their parents they were going to an arcade, and head down to the park instead. There they would give thean some change and he would tell them stories about "The cave of dreams" and it's endless treasure.

When it came time for the boys to venture out into the world they made one last trip to the park to see their old friend. There they discovered his body laying peacefully in the grass. His spirit having left in his sleep. Next to his body was an old decrepit piece of parchment Steve picked it up for examination. It was a map which revealed that the fabled cave of dreams was in right there in Seattle hidden in plain sight. The three wanting to honor their departed friend (and more than a little curious about the treasure) decided to enter the cave.

After making the trek, they dove into a lake bags in tow with which to carry their riches. The enter the cave they had to dive into a lake and swim down a passage in it'so bed. On the other end of the passage they emerged to a dark damp underground cave with three paths. Mike took the path on the left Steve took the middle path and Davonte took the path on the right.

As Mike walked down his path he noticed standing water getting progressively deeper the further he walked and he was amazed by how long the path was he had been walking for nearly half an hour and decided to take a break when he leaned up against the wall and realized there was water running down the wall the entire length of the path. He thought this was odd but continued walking thoughts of endless wealth pushing him forward. When he finally got to the end of the path the water was up to his neck. There was a door and on the door was a sign, it read "Beyond this door lies a vast treasure but any who enter will meet a horrible demise". Never the overly cautious type Mike opened the door and found a room the size of a theater filled with more treasure than you could imagine gold, jewels, ancient artifacts the whole shabang. The water rushed through the doorway but seemed to drain somehow into the floor if the treasure room. Mike stuffed his bag and pocket with as much treasure as he could carry and discovered an exit at the back of the room.

Steve who took the middle path walked down the path and as he got further down he noticed it getting hotter and hotter. Before too long he had to rest and he went to lean up against the wall but immediately yanked his hand back for the wall was hot like a pan just off the stove. By the time he got to the end of the path it was so hot he could hardly breath. There was an identical door to the one Mike came across but Steve too ignored the cryptic message and entered the next room. Relief washed over him as the cool air from the treasure room overpowered the heat. He gathered as much treasure as he could and exited through the back.

Now all that remained was Davonte he noticed that the floor to his path was slippery and he felt strange occasional tremors in the ground but thought nothing of it and continued down the path. Like his friendson Davonte eventually had to rest and went to lean against the wall the wall too was slippery and he realized the tremors he had been experiencing were caused by the surrounding corridor pulsating like it was a living thing. Davonte was scared but the promise of treasure kept him going until he too came to an identical door with the same sign. He passed through it cautiously on the other side was a similar treasure to what his friends found and after gathering all he could he exited through the back, there he found his friends waiting they told each other all about their adventures on the way back into town.

As the years went by the friends branched off and began to live their own lives. Exactly five years later they were all quite successful the treasure was worth more than the had ever imagined each piece being nearly priceless. Mike was out on his yacht with his third supermodel wife when he went inside to use the rest room. After doing his business he turned n the faucet to was his hands but the moment his skin made contact with the water he evaporated, vanished in thin air. It was assumed his wife pushed him over the edge in hopes of obtaining his wealth, and though saddened by news of their friends demise Steve an Davonte failed to make the connection between it and the cave of dreams.

Another five years pass and Steve is close to bankruptcy. He had managed to squander almost all of his wealth living a lifestyle that an emperor could only describe as lavish and overly self-indulgent. Depressed he had turned to drugs and spiraled downwards to more and more dangerous substances. He ran a spoonful of heroin over a flame so that he could inject it into his arm. For just a moment the flame came in contact with his skin and when it did he evaporated into thin air. A search team was formed but Steve was of course never found. Everyone assumed a drug deal had gone bad and that Steve was at the bottom of the ocean somewhere, everyone except Davonte.

While his friends wasted their money partying, Davonte was building an empire. He made the connection that both of his friend died on the same day and then that it was the day they visited the cave. He didn't know what it was but he knew that there was some force at work, and that the sign on the door had been true, most importantly though he knew he had five years and he wasn't going down without a fight.

Using his vast wealth he began construction on a fortress strong enough to withstand any attack and had his living quarters placed in the center with layers of protection on all sides. He bought out private military corporations and built a private army that rivaled many countries in strength. When the day finally arrived he sat nervously in his room his entire army spread throughout. With orders to report any strange activity. Sure enough a strange geometrical shape appeared on the radar traveling towards the fortress at incredible speeds. When it came in contact with the outer wall it broke through without taking a scratch. It slowed down significantly and started creeping through the fortress Davontes soldiers showered it with ammunition an explosives but nothing seemed to affect it it broke through wall after wall until it came to the innermost layer where Steve waited with his 10 best men. The object was dark brown and floated through the air directly toward Davonte unaffected by the soldiers efforts to stop it. Davonte was terrified he ran into the bathroom and slammed the door but of course the object busted right through. Davonte could now clearly see the object was a box or a coffin to be exact if he hadnt been so scared he may have laughed, his own coff in was coming to kI'll hin. He knew then that it was over but still he weakly struggled against it. He ripped the curtain rod off the shower and threw it at the coffin. He started yelling at it and throwing anything he could at it a scented candle, tylenol, soap, shampoo. When it was only feet away and still creeping forward he grabbed the last thing near him a pack of Vick's Cold and Flu and threw it. The coffin stopped. Davonte let out a nervous laugh, he'd done it he'd cheated the prophecy and survived. He built a family and lived a long joy filled life never once taking any of it for granted, knowing how lucky he was to be alive.

That may seem like the moral of the story, love life you never know when it'll end, but it isn't. The actual moral of the story is that VICK'S. WILL. STOP. YOUR. COFFIN.