Reality of dream (2001, September)
Mystery and fantasy. When we were children, we dreamed of our favorite made-up characters become real. What if someone can make our dreams come true? What would happen if mystical, strange and weird characters flood into Kong Studios?
"Highlights from Cats" is a CD, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Prologue:
Wind blew about old gray curtains and flew into the dilapidated house. Dark figure stooped over green, lazily gurgling liquid and stroked his white long beard with evil grin. When bubbles became large and ominous black smoke filled the room, he started counting, gazing at bubbles on the surface of the liquid and snickering unnaturally.
"One... two.. heh-heh, come on, come on, dear! Three, yeah, yeah, yeah, do it! Four, five, six, seven! Oh yeah! Little more! Just a little! Eight, nine... nine, nine! YES! Don't stop, don't stop! I was waiting for it so long! One more time!"
The liquid was silent.
"Noooooooooooooo!" The figure screamed, grabbing his white long beard and wringing his hands with despair. "One more year lost! Lost! After such a successful experiment!"
He leaned his forehead against the dirty wall and wailed. Wolves answered him immediately, and there was another sound - loud gurgle. The figure startled and turned his head to see last bubble disappearing.
"Ten! TEN! Yes! YES!" he jumped in the air, grabbing the test-tube with green potion and ran upstairs.
"My babies!" he said tenderly, taking CD "Highlights from Cats" from the special shelf and caressing it carefully.
"All my babies!" he bawled and grabbed the whole sheaf of DVDs and comics, threw this stuff to the cauldron and laughed evilly again.
"Burn, baby, burn!" he screamed, casting a burning match to it and dancing around the small fire. "I'll set you free, I'll give you all life, and you will live like you have never been before! Be alive and live! Join your friends!"
He gasped in delight and toppled his test-tube over to the cauldron. Flames shot up and dark figure burst out hysterical laughing.
"Yes, yes, yes!"
He ran downstairs, screaming and laughing, leaving burning cauldron on the loft. Flames were snapping up new inflammable things in the pan slowly. By the light of fire some strange pictures hung on the walls became available to see.
The first was large poster of "Gorillaz" with some calculations made in sprawling handwriting on it. Second was photo of four Gorillaz: cartoon characters, sitting on the dirty floor of the loft and gazing at the camera in much surprise. The third was large strip of newspapers' articles with such stunning headings as "Virtual life becomes reality!" and "They are real!" and "Cartoons are coming!" with photos of the same characters, dark building of Kong Studios and Damon Albarn with Jamie Hewlett. The whole wall was crossed with red inscription ?SUCCESS!?
The cauldron was still burning, but flames disappeared all of a sudden. It was very silent for few seconds, then the pan shuddered and fell down, capsizing. Silence established again. And then strange sound appeared. It came from the cauldron, small and uncertain.
"Meow?"
	Not finished, as you see