Chapter 19 snippet

Here there dueling fans, F1 here. You'll be happy to know that Chapter 19 is coming along smoothly. I've already finished the first two duels for the second round of the preliminaries so the other chapter should be done soon too. I thought that I'd give you a little snippet of Chapter 19

Early the next morning, Fluttershy tossed and turned in her sleep.
“No...No...” she moaned.
In her dream, she was back in Ponyville. Her and her friends looked as though they had been through a great battle and were recovering from it. As she looked around she saw a familiar draconequus next to a dark violet portal. She could see that Discord was using his magic to keep the portal from closing.
“What's going here?” Fluttershy wondered.
To her shock she saw on the other side if the portal was a battle-scarred Star Driver. As he was walking toward the portal as he was bracing his left shoulder.
“Star!” she cried.
But when she tried to move toward the portal, she was unable to move her body.
What?! Why can't I move? she thought.
As she tried to move, she saw Star had almost reached the portal.
“Come on, Star...”
It was then that she saw a dark shadow emerge from the dark void. It's glowing orange eyes glared at Star Driver as it quickly made it's way toward him.
“STAR, LOOK OUT!” warned Fluttershy.
Before he could notice the shadow had wrapped it's shadow tentacles around Star's body. As Star tried to break free, the shadow shot a spear at Discord. The spear then punctured his claw which caused the portal to slowly closed. The last image Fluttershy saw was Star reaching out to her before the portal closed. Grief struck her heart, as she saw her closest friend was now gone for what seemed forever.
“Star...Star...Star...” she spoke, as the tears streamed down her face. “STAR!”
It was then she awoke from her dream in a cold sweat. Her breathing was slightly heavy, as she looked to see that she was still in her hotel room.
What was that about? she gasped. I've never had a dream like that before.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the knocking at her door. She put on her robe and quickly made her way to the door to answer it.
“Who is it?” she asked.
“It's me, 'Shy,” said Star Driver.
Swiftly she opened the door to see her favorite stallion on the other side. He was dressed in white shirt a blue pajama bottoms.
“'Shy, what's wrong? I heard you-”
Star was cutoff as Fluttershy pulled him into a tight embrace.
“Star! Oh thank Celestia you're okay!” she cried.
“'Shy...what happened?”
“I had a dream that where you trapped by this shadow thingy in another dimension and I couldn't do anything to save you. I was so scared,” she said in between sniffles.
Star then began to gently stroke her to try and calm her down.
“It's okay, 'Shy. I'm right here,” he cooed.
After a few moments, she was finally able to calm herself. She then broke her embrace, and looked up to Star with a gentle smile.
“I'm feeling a little better. Thank you, Star.”
“You're welcome, 'Shy,” he smiled.
“But that dream felt so real-”
She then cut off with a pat on the head.
“It was just a bad dream, 'Shy. I know with all that happened yesterday, you might be scared that I might be taken from you. But trust me, 'Shy. I'm not going anywhere,” he said with a wink.
“But-”
He then booped her nose, which caused her to lightly blushed.
“It was just a dream. So don't worry so much.”
“I guess,” she said after a giggle.
“Come on, you better get ready. You got a duel to get ready for,” he grinned.
There was that infectious grin of his, to where she couldn't help but smile.
“You're right. Thanks Star,” she smiled.
“Anytime, 'Shy.”
He then left to let her get ready for the tournament. After she closed her door, she let out a deep sigh.
I wonder what that dream meant.

Things will be getting interesting in the future chapters. So stay tuned