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// Home Nightmare Home 
// Story: A World in Chaos 
// by Mocha Star 
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	Rainbow tossed a book over her shoulder and lowered herself another shelf down.  The fun was gone and she was almost done with the books.  She growled lowly from the back of her throat and took a book to her face, pressing it firmly against herself.  The book smelled old and musty, more than it should have given the enchantments the books were under and there was an odd feeling around her.  The air was cooler and the magic felt different around her wings as she hovered.  Lowering the book she whinnied and spun around dropping the book and looking around twice before her wings shut tight to her body causing her to fall a body length to the floor on all fours.  

She backed up to a solid wooden wall behind her as she looked around and began to tremble.  She was in a huge tree furnished like hers when she was younger only much larger.  The broken couch was there, her pillow laid in its old spot like she had left to go collect mushrooms at the edge of the forest.  The broken clock was on the wall, the small hand was pointing left and the right was missing.  A small door on the top was broken and hanging off a hinge.  Fluttershy had purchased a new one that had a bird that came out of it every hour, Rainbow had loved that new clock and would wait for the little bird she had named Butters, because it slipped out like butter and went back in.  Also it was yellow, one of her favorite colors.

The air was dusty and musky with particulates floating in the air flickering in the one beam of sunlight that shone through a boarded window above the door, sometimes at certain times of the year it would cross her flank while she was on the couch, just barely between her tail and hip the light would warm her slightly in the otherwise cold shadows.  She shuddered as she glanced around the room and took in the things she remembered.  Chills ran down her spine as she felt another presence in the room she lived in and knew intimately.  Rainbow glanced back to the couch and stared at it with terror in her eyes, she could feel her heart pounding in her chest as she began to cower.

Discord slowly stood from behind her couch and slithered over it laying in her spot like she used to, his head laid on the pillow and he smiled wickedly at her.  Without a word he pointed around the room and circled his clawed hand twice in a circle, fist closed as he sat up.  He stood tall and stomped toward the terrified and cowering Rainbow Dash stopping in the center of the room.  He pointed his bear paw to the stairs and then gestured up twice.  Down Twice.  Left.  Right.  Left.  Right.  Up.  Down.  Then back to the couch smiling, with a soundless laugh he vanished in a flash of light leaving Rainbow alone in the room.

Shivering she slowly laid on the floor and coughed lightly as the old dirt debris filled her lungs from the floor.  The dirty and cluttered floor she said she'd never see again, that she had personally helped Fluttershy and her restoration crew sweep, mop, polish, and write her name in the corner of the room.

She sat up quickly and flew to the corner tossing a small end table away that she always ignored in the past since it wasn't on the way to the couch and with it being covered with dust, blended too well into the dark background to be noticeable.  Breathing in she coughed heavily as the dust covered the area filling her entire respitory system with it's chocking concoction of microscopic debris.  Flapping heavily she maintained her position in the room and tried  to clear the corner foolishly.  

She was blinded by a tornado of dust filling the room swirling around so heavily she could feel it covering her entire body.  She landed and pulled her mane over her head and into her mouth between coughs and waited for the dust to settle as she tried to filter the air through her hair.

With little effect to filter the air she slowed her breathing and waited, curled into a fetal position on the floor next to her destination.  Fluttershy, I hope you're safe from this monster.  I'll get back to you, I promise.  Just like when I saved you from falling and you saved me from this place.