From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
           Since this newsgroup has just about been abandoned -- another   
   fanfict story. This one is mostly about Gabrielle ---   
      
      
      
                           Just a Little Dream   
                                       aka   
                           Gabrielle's First Dream   
      
      
   "Gabrielle! Gabrielle! Wake up! You're dreaming again. You're going to wake   
   up everyone the way you're shouting."   
      
   "What? Who?  Oh. It's you, Lila. I was shouting? Really? What did I say?"   
      
   "The same as you always do, you keep trying to warn someone named Xena to   
   watch out, like they're in some kind of danger."   
      
   "I can't believe I keep having the same dream. And it's so REAL!"   
      
   "Well, are you EVER going to tell me what it's about? Who is Xena? And what   
   kind of danger is it?"   
      
   "No, I really don't want to. You'll just think it's stupid."   
      
   "Well so what? Dreams are supposed to be stupid. Come on, Gabrielle, you can   
   tell me. I tell you MY dreams. I know yours can't be any more stupid than   
   the ones I have!"   
      
   "Okay. But you have to promise that you won't tell anyone, and I mean NO   
   ONE!"   
      
   "I promise. Honest, I won't tell a soul."   
      
   "Well, all right. First of all Xena is a tall, beautiful, dark-haired   
   warrior woman...."   
      
   "A warrior WOMAN?! Who ever heard of a woman being a warrior?" Lila said   
   laughing out loud.   
      
   "Never mind! Just forget I ever said anything."   
      
   "Come on, Gabrielle, I'm sorry. I won't laugh again. Tell me, please?"   
      
   "As I was saying, before you so rudely interrupted me, Xena is a tall,   
   beautiful, dark-haired warrior with deep blue eyes. And she carries this   
   really sharp sword in a scabbard strapped to her back so all she has to do   
   is reach over her shoulder to get it. And she has this knife hidden down   
   between her breasts. But her best weapon is her Chakram...."   
      
   "A what? A Shock ran? I never heard of one of those."   
      
   "No. It a Chak RAM. It's a metal ring about the size of a dinner plate, but   
   it's made of a secret metal so hard that it never gets dull and it can cut   
   through any other metal - iron, bronze, silver -- ANY metal, even through   
   stone."   
      
   "How did you ever dream up something like that? Your dream isn't stupid,   
   it's just plain weird!"   
      
   "Do you want to hear the rest of it or not?"   
      
   "I'm sorry, go on."   
      
   "Anyway, Xena has a beautiful golden horse named Argo...."   
      
   "Does she have a dog?"   
      
   "NO! No dog! Now will you let me finish?"   
      
   "Sorry."   
      
   "Now you made me forget what I was going to say!"   
      
   "You said she had a horse named Hargo."   
      
   "Argo. Her horse's name is Argo. And Xena rides all over Greece helping   
   people out by fighting the bandits and warlords."   
      
   "Did she ever come to Poteidaia?"   
      
   "Lila, it's only a dream, remember?"   
      
   "That's what I meant -- did you ever dream that she came here?"   
      
   "Every dream I have. But the best part is that she takes me with her...."   
      
   "Now I know what's going on! You're starting to have second thoughts about   
   marrying Perdicus."   
      
   "Second and third and fourth thoughts. But that doesn't have anything to do   
   with my dreams."   
      
   "It doesn't? It sure sounds like it does to me. You don't want to get   
   married so you keep dreaming about this strong woman coming to save you from   
   Perdicus. Don't you see? Xena is really YOU! She is the kind of woman YOU   
   want to be - strong and powerful and not needing a man around."   
      
   "But what about the part where I save her life?"   
      
   "Okay. Tell me about that."   
      
   "Well, Xena had this really dark past. I mean she was really bad news! But   
   she had this change of heart, and was trying to make up for all the killing   
   and destruction she and her army caused...."   
      
   "So now you, I mean, SHE has an army."   
      
   "Not in my dreams, that was before. So she comes to Poteidaia, but no one   
   wants her here even though she saves all of us from slavers."   
      
   Putting up her had to  stop the interruption, Gabrielle said, "Let me   
   finish. Everyone seems to know her reputation except me. So everyone wants   
   her to leave except me. I ask her to let me go with her, but she won't.  She   
   says she travels alone. And she rides off...."   
      
   "I thought you said she takes you with her."   
      
   "That's later, now shush, and let me finish.  So Xena rides off. And that   
   night after everyone is asleep I try to sneak away, but you wake up. And   
   when I tell you that I want to be a warrior like Xena you say that even you   
   can beat me up...."   
      
   "Well, I can!"   
      
   "But I go anyway. And I run into this blind Cyclops. But he's so stupid I   
   trick him into believing that I'm going to kill Xena and bring her back so   
   he can eat her."   
      
   "Oh, Gabrielle! That's disgusting!"   
      
   "I can't help it. That's what Cyclopses do - they eat people."   
      
   "How do you know? When did you even SEE a Cyclops?"   
      
   "In my dreams!" Gabrielle said smugly. "Anyway, I follow her to another   
   village. But the people in this one just don't want her to leave, they want   
   to kill her."   
      
   "What's the name of the village?"   
      
   "I'm not really sure. It seems like it was Anphilipees, or Amphlipsis,   
   or...."   
      
   "Do you mean Amphipolis?"   
      
   "YES! How did you know?"   
      
   "If you had been studying like you should have been instead of dreaming   
   about leaving, you'd know that Amphipolis is in Thrace, near the sea coast."   
      
   "Well, wherever it was, I had to save Xena."   
      
   "And just how did you do that? Talk everyone to sleep so she could get   
   away?"   
      
   "You know, you're really funny - ha ha. As a matter of fact, I just gave   
   them the facts about how Xena had changed from bad to good, and that they   
   were mistaken about her army burning their fields...."   
      
   "I thought you said she didn't have an army any more."   
      
   "That's just it! It wasn't her army. It belonged to an evil warlord who was   
   trying to get the townspeople to get rid of Xena so he and his men could   
   sack the town without having to fight Xena."   
      
   "And you saved her."   
      
   "That I did. And she was so grateful she took me with her!"   
      
   "So what were you yelling about that she had to watch out for?"   
      
   "Oh. She was just about to squat down in some stinging nettles."   
      
   "Why was she doing that?"   
      
   "Because she had to GO! Why else would you squat down in the woods?"   
      
   "I was wrong, Gabrielle, and you were right. Your dream isn't weird, it IS   
   stupid!"   
      
                               The End   
      
   David   
      
      
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