I was being driven home from school by my mom, the road an exaggeration of what it was in real life; raised tens of feet off the horizon-spanning farmland, going on for miles longer than it should have been. Some game on my phone took my attention initially. Zoom out of my body to view the car from a 3rd person perspective, mostly side-on, but slightly downward.

In the distance, a large, T-rex-like monster popped over the horizon, chased by a flying human, heading straight for my old grade school. Mom gave me a warning of some sort, which I ignored and immediately forgot as I unbuckled myself, opened the door, and jumped out. Flying over the car to get to the monster, gained a sword and slashed upward at it, the distance travelled bringing the woods around my house into view.

A couple other monster hunters joined us as the slash had little - though not no - effect, drawing only a bit of blood. One member trapped it in stone while I stabbed into its throat and ripped my sword sideways, decapitating it. A few more minor monsters appeared and we were slowly lead closer to my house, where we saw a skyscraper-sized tree fighting with a few other monsters and hunters, its limbs flailing around and roots popping out of the ground to impale and rip apart its enemies.

We rushed over, but everyone and everything died by the tree's limbs before we made it there. With the proximity to my house, I worried that it might attack my family. So, despite the slaughter it just inflicted on a monster hoard and some hunters, we flew up to the tree. It tried killing us, as well, but we were too fast to be hit. Fire was promptly put out by the sheer speed of the limbs and blocked from getting to the unmoving trunk by said limbs. My sword had no visible effect. Earthen constructs were easily broken through. It was like the tree was unstoppable, even if it never moved from its location.

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After a few minutes of failed fighting, I tried to get past it to see my home and it ignored a gout of flame to block me. It reeled back and tried to smack the fire wielder, but it was blocked by the earth user. "Go check on your family, we'll stop it," one of them said.

So, I did. It tried and tried to stop me, but the others always stopped its attempts as I made it into the woods, oversized as with everything else in this world. The trees attacked me, but they were much weaker than the skyscraper, to the point I was able to just barrel through their moving branches and tripping roots.

As I got closer and closer to the house, the trees got smaller and smaller, as well as less and less animate, until they were completely mundane and normal-sized trees. I made my way through the mundane woods and saw the back of my dad's garage. I immediately had a sense of deja vu and knew this was the same world. Behind me, three riders on horseback came out of the same place I did.

This time, I was supernaturally powerful, I knew I could deal with whoever these riders were.

I woke up.