Alex Rider: Antelope
You know you're not really over your cold yet when you get home from work at 8, crash into bed and sleep until 7, and wake up still knackered. However, your brain may be warped by medication (or your current fandom) when you have a dream like *this*...
Alex Rider and his housekeeper/guardian Jack are turned into antelopes (neh, keine Okapis, aber dicht dran!) by an African sorceress who wants them to investigate a gang of illegal hunters of protected animals.
There's a lot of cantering across the savannah (and Alex makes for a very cute young antelope, all coltish legs and big ears), with a lot of adolescent hormones and antelopish behaviour interfering with their brains. I vividly recall the image of antelope!Alex being chased around by Jack who's out to kick him after he sticks his nose where it's not supposed to be... *giggles*.
I remember them worrying about lions while drinking at a river...
And then they faced down the baddies, with some awesome hoof action against cars and hunters with guns... which was when my clock woke me :(.
Though Alex being Alex, I'm sure they won a spectacular victory and they got turned back all right (or lived happily ever after as antelopes).
I've had my share of bizarre dreams (let's not mention the time I ran Darth Vader over in a landspeeder) but that was among the weirdest yet :). And now I have this mad craving to see this written as fic ;).
Alex Rider and his housekeeper/guardian Jack are turned into antelopes (neh, keine Okapis, aber dicht dran!) by an African sorceress who wants them to investigate a gang of illegal hunters of protected animals.
There's a lot of cantering across the savannah (and Alex makes for a very cute young antelope, all coltish legs and big ears), with a lot of adolescent hormones and antelopish behaviour interfering with their brains. I vividly recall the image of antelope!Alex being chased around by Jack who's out to kick him after he sticks his nose where it's not supposed to be... *giggles*.
I remember them worrying about lions while drinking at a river...
And then they faced down the baddies, with some awesome hoof action against cars and hunters with guns... which was when my clock woke me :(.
Though Alex being Alex, I'm sure they won a spectacular victory and they got turned back all right (or lived happily ever after as antelopes).
I've had my share of bizarre dreams (let's not mention the time I ran Darth Vader over in a landspeeder) but that was among the weirdest yet :). And now I have this mad craving to see this written as fic ;).