The Endless Nightmare- First Thousand Words For You To Read. SPOILERS!!! · 2:56pm Aug 26th, 2013
Celestia's Chronicle is being a bitch to write at the minute, so I'm turning my attention onto Cadance and Alex instead.
Here is a little sneaky snippet for you to read, enjoy :)
The Endless Nightmare
“Get...somepony...Princess!”
“Alex…can…hear…”
“Honey…open….eyes!”
“Who…this...LITTLE COLT!”
“Quick…weak pulse…stretcher!”
“Not breathing…defibrillator…”
“ALEX!”
I opened my eyes to find myself lying in the middle of an alleyway. Looking up I noticed that the sun was in the sky, confusing me somewhat.
“The sun? Wasn't it around nine at night a few moments ago?”
I quickly clambered onto my feet and made my way out of the alleyway sluggishly, noticing just how woozy I felt as I did so.
“Ugh…I feel like I just hoof bumped a wall with my face…”
As I made my way out of the alleyway, I quickly realized that I wasn’t in Canterlot anymore. In fact as I looked around I quickly summarized that I was actually in some sort of town.
But there was one problem…
The town was completely abandoned.
In fact as I wandered through the ghost town I noticed that many of the buildings were barely standing. Many were covered in moss, mold and dirt. And the ones that weren't were half destroyed or falling apart.
All of a sudden I heard a large number of screams ahead of me. But before I could do anything, a purple Unicorn mare with an eye patch teleported not a few feet in front of me.
She looked…familiar…couldn't have been much older than her early twenties at most.
The Unicorn noticed me immediately, her eyes widening in shock as she stared at me.
“Alex?” she stammered, her voice caught between surprise and…sadness?
“Uhh yeah, I’m Alex,” I replied cautiously.
Her eyes widened even further at this, but before she could say anything else a spear landed a mere inch away from her stomach. She leapt up into the air in a panic and quickly ran over to me, hiding behind my legs and shivering in fear.
There was that familiar feeling again…
Before I could focus any further on that, five stallions wearing blue armour came charging around the corner, their spears raised to throw…until they noticed me that is.
Upon noticing me, all of them dropped their spears in shock, their mouths open and their eyes wide. A Pegasi within the group quickly blanched and flew as fast as he could in the opposite direction.
“Impossible…” one of them whispered. “You’re dead…I was there when…impossible…”
He seemed to snap out of his shock when he noticed the quivering mare behind me. As if on cue, each of them raised their spears once again and aimed them right at me.
“S-Sir, King A-Alexander Sir, please s-step aside,” stammered the obvious leader of the group. “I-I don’t w-want t-to hurt you, b-but the Queen has d-demanded Sparkles death. W-We can take y-you to the Queen a-afterwards…”
“KING ALEXANDER?!”
All of them were quite obviously terrified for some reason. I could tell that they weren’t afraid of me in particular…but rather something else…perhaps this Queen.
“Queen? Queen who?” I asked, trying my utmost not to panic as they raised their spears a little higher.
“Q-Queen Cadance your Highness,” he replied with difficulty.
Queen…Cadance? Why would my lover be the Queen?
“Cadance? What about Celestia?” I asked, a little more fiercely this time. It seemed that for whatever reason, these stallions were too afraid to actually harm me.
“And what did they mean by calling me a King?”
All of them looked at each other warily before turning their attention back to me.
“P-Princess Celestia has been removed from power and imprisoned within the Crystal Catacombs for well over seven years.”
“What…?”
“What about Princess Luna?” I asked, the fear of revealing my future knowledge vanishing momentarily.
“She was imprisoned along with Princess Celestia,” the stallion answered awkwardly, his eyes looking in every direction but my own.
“She…what is going on?!”
The stallion suddenly shook his head rapidly and aimed the spear back at me once again.
“Your Highness I’m g-going to have to ask you t-to move!” he half demanded, half stammered.
I grimaced at the spears and momentarily considered making a break for it…but one look at the shaking mare behind me was enough to quell that cowardly thought.
“No,” I denied, spreading my arms wide.
The stallions all looked at each other and nodded once, before turning their attention back to me and raising their spears once more.
“Then we’re sorry sir…but we have our orders…”
Just as they were about to throw the spears, a large blast of magical energy smashed into the ground behind them, causing each and every one of them to fly in random directions. Three of them hit a crumbling home, causing it to collapse on them and silence their screams, smoke filling the air rapidly. The last one however was rolling on the ground in pain as he tried to get up.
I took the momentary distraction to gesture at the mare to run, only to get a fierce look in return.
“I’m not leaving you Alex!” she growled determinedly.
I merely stared at her for but a moment…before kneeling down and embracing the Unicorn warmly.
“Yes you are Sparky,” I replied affectionately, smiling slightly as the mare gasped in surprise.
“How did you know?” she stammered in shock.
I released her from my arms and pushed her away, speaking softly yet rapidly as I did so.
“You’re my little Sister, of course I’d recognize you…Now go!”
The mare…Twilight looked at me, her lip trembling and hooves shaking…but one nod from me was enough to get her running.
Running from whatever had so callously attacked those stallions from behind, deserved or no.
And so I turned to face said attacker. My hands were shaking ever so slightly as I saw the silhouette of a Pony walking towards me, their horn aglow and their…wings flared?
The smoke suddenly cleared as their horn glowed a little brighter...revealing my apparent savior to me.
“Beloved…is…is it really you?” she asked, tears in her eyes as she gracefully prowled over to me.
She looked different from what I could remember…Darker, even more beautiful and yet obviously much more dangerous.
The Alicorn snapped me out of my thoughts as she pressed the tip of her wing to my cheek, stroking it ever so softly…smiling as I returned her affection automatically, my fingers brushing against her face gently as I stared at her, unsure what to do.
“It is you…” she whispered, disbelief and hurt obvious in her expression as her lips trembled uncontrollably. “You died in my hooves and yet…it’s you, you’re really here!”
Before I could so much as ASK why everypony thought I was dead, she pushed me down onto the ground and leapt on top of me, burying her muzzle into my neck as she wept joyous tears.
“It’s you, it’s you, it’s you!” she repeated, happiness laced within her voice.
She moved her muzzle from my neck and pressed it against my lips before I could do anything. To my surprise I actually found myself returning the gesture, my arms wrapping themselves around her and tightening, much to her delight.
It was only once I regained my senses that I pushed her off of me and tried my best to back away.
“But those stallions said-“
“Exactly what I told them to say, should this situation ever occur,” she interrupted, a smile adorning her muzzle as she prowled towards me…much like a tiger would its prey.
“Where is she?” I demanded, glaring at her as best I could…only for said glare to disappear as my back hit a wall and she reached me, trailing her left hoof up my leg slowly whilst gazing at me affectionately.
“Imprisoned within the catacombs alongside Celestia,” she answered simply. “Just as she should be for taking what is not hers.”
“Not hers?” I repeated, confusion filling me up as I contemplated her statement.
“Don’t you remember?” she asked, tilting her head cutely as she gazed at me lovingly.
“Remember what?”
She blinked at my question before shaking her head and grinning at me playfully.
“That I’m yours…and you…you are mine Xander,”…said Princess Luna.
DUN DUN DUNNNN
Why is Alex returning her affection I hear you ask...Well wait and see XD
Note that this is a rough draft, not the final piece that I intend to upload :)
God i can wait on celestia i want this NAO!!!!
Is this related/in the universe to those diarys you did months back?(now I got to make another cover.)
Yeah. Because killing the lover of your queen who has miraculously come back to life, after he already died once, directly causing this whole chain of events where you're now working for an obviously evil, crazy alicorn, is going to go so well for you. We're actually looking for go getters like you. Kid, I think you're going to go far with CrazyLoveCo.
Finally, Video kinda related.
1309615
Did you read the last sentence?
Cadance NEVER defeated her Aunts. Luna planned ahead and made sure that the Stallions/Guards gave Alex mis-information.
The whole thing is confusing, but makes sense in the end :)
1309625
Yeah I realized that after I read through the last two thirds of the story again, which is why I deleted most of that comment. Though the guards wearing blue probably should have been a massive hint in the first place. And actually, ruling from the shadows while everyone else thinks that Cadence is being an evil grieving queen locked away is quite brilliant on Luna's part.
1309630
Heh, welp get your but ready.
I'ma get working on the TWO SHOT (I promise this time XD) now
I'll say this, you make better twists than M. Night Shamalan. Now is this 100% Luna or is there abit of Nightmare Moon in her?
1309644
Re-read her appearance and guess
'Nuff said.
1309645
Can't tell. if this is somewhat related to those diarys, Alex met Luna in her season 1 look, after reading the description it could be her current or nightmare look.
1309654
He hasn't met that Luna yet, in fact this is the first time he has seen her at all.
When he was describing her, he was talking about her appearance in the show, second season. But in this moment she is darker, slightly taller and as he said, more dangerous and beautiful then ever
1309465
My thoughts exactly.
1309658
He didn't say anything about her height, so that makes things easier to figure out. But now I'm confused, here he's having a dream(I think) then later in another story he's goes back in time which the events that happened there lead up to the dream story?
1309669
This happens before he goes back in time.
As for it being a dream?
No, no it's not.
1309672
0_0 it's not a dream?!(what another twist?) then when Alex goes back in time will he change it with the knowledge he gained from this adventure?(why are all these things happening to Alex anyway?)
1309695
Because...because he's more then what he appears to be
and I shit my pants.
Oh,
Oh...
...So does she actually think that Alexander is Xander?
Is Alexander actually Xander? Did I miss something?
1309927
Wait and see
IM SO NERVICITED YAY TEAM ALEX
WATTTT!!!!!
Alex is Xander!!!
so Candance is in prision?
You give a heart attack in this teraser
Ok, so she...
but he......no she was.....
Well, my mind is raped.
Megatron Out.
1310180
OK wait... My first comment I didn't understand what happened now after some research is Alex, xander? And what's cadance just a spell so she's actually Luna? That makes sense see originally Xander disappeared and Luna went nuts nightmare moon and then he reappeared as Alex he dies again? And he only gets transported 7 years later so now he kinda has a 2 lives sorta deal he lived his Luna romance and his cadance romance only to be replaced with Luna now taking over and capturing her long lost love. I cracked your little code buddy now make your move
princesses...crystal...cadance...bad...Twi...sis...Alex...Xander... WHAT?!!
1310821
WRONG!
Man, these Alicorns just need the D or something.
1311333 how so? xander and alex are the same person its just he forgot his last life and he was "reborn" in equestria and all he remebered was alex? and a few bits from his human life. But now as luna returned she took over as cadance......................Waitim thinking...so luna is dressed up like cadance too woo the second human alex? so he isnt xander? just cadances lover so its either way
make your move sir
1311382
Wrong again, wait and see :)
Fuck it man xander/alex is lunas lost lover as mentioned but it doesnt matter its not tied to the story so its not that big deal thanks for mind raping me while in school i expect the chapter up tonighy ive been waiting about 2 or more weeks and all we get are previews?
yah sorry that last comment was a little rude but ive been waiting weeks for like one of my favorite authors to make these "great" stories so hurry up
and dont be gay
so update
and be cool
I FUCKING KNEW IT FUCK YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1311408 sooooooo I was right in thinking Alex and xander are the same person right.
thats how im taking it. there the same person but different? the other xander was probably older and fell in love with luna then when celestia or i forgot who sent them to do it took care of the "problem" luna becomes night mare moon 1000 years yada yada yada alex dcomes back as a kid.... yada yada dies then comes back the same age person? his personality could be xanders or alexs? beacuse technically he would then have 2 seperate lives so yah.. waiting on this guy to update.... Riot games everyone :L