//------------------------------// // 6: Dreams of a nightmare // Story: Safer in open hooves // by Elemental Fury //------------------------------// //DEL_T-R-O-Y-_S-C-H-I-T-Z-K-I-D |Confirmed //DEL_BIRTHRECORD37372 |Confirmed //DEL_SCHITZKID-2_FAMILY=6 |Confirmed //ADD-LINE_SHITZKID-2_FAMILY=5 |Confirmed ************************************************ | | | WARNING: VARIBALE TROY SHCITZKID WILL BE DELTED | | | | Continue operation? | | ______ _____ | | | YES | | NO | | ************************************************ //VARIABLE_TROY_SHCITZKID=ERROR *** “Done, another one knocked out of the system…I love my job!” I felt a strange nagging feeling wash over me as if something had gone wrong while I had been lying down. It left a sick feeling in my stomach and I knew I couldn’t stay in bed so I rose from the originally inviting sheets and left my room. I closed the door behind, but before I could continue to walk, I noticed something was off. A feeling of dread washed over me as I looked around the castle. Complete silence, not even wind could be heard and nothing living was in sight. Desolate, that’s what it was. Without thinking I started sprinting down the halls, hoping to get to the dining area I had been in with the girls not too long ago. It took a little searching but I finally found. out of breath, I placed my hands on my knees and bent over as I tried to regain my breath but as I raised my head up, I felt a strong force connect with my entire body knocking me down. My eyes had instinctively shut themselves yet when I opened them again, I realised one thing, and that was that reality was being messed with. Everything had been set ablaze in those few seconds. My eyes wondered up and I saw nought but a shadow moving of its own accord. It stared at me and I felt a burning sensation right where scar I had seen in Rarity’s mirror was. “I wouldn’t go in there, burning Alicorn smells horrible!” The shadowy figure said, in the same voice that I had heard before. A sudden laughter came from whatever this abomination before me was but the laugh was all disjointed and was echoing, like a bad recording that had been corrupted. I slowly got to my feet and glared at the ‘thing’, trying my best to look intimidating. He continued to laugh then finally his words hit me. ‘Burning Alicorn’, the words echoed in my head. I slowly walked towards the abomination, who only realised my approach at the last second. Suddenly he fell to the ground with a large crash from the force of the punch I threw. I had thrown a right hook and without thinking immediately rushed into the dining room but there was nopony there, no signs of a struggle. If it hadn’t been for the flames you would have thought I had just been…dreaming. “Ok, ya got me, I’m the little nightmare in your head.” The abomination told me. “Don’t worry about meeting me again, though, I was just here to make sure your little transition from the planet-of-the-apes to this god-forsaken prissy-pink-princess-pony hell didn’t kill you.” “What the hell are you?” I asked, thoroughly confused by everything he was telling me. “Call me what you like. Satan, God, an Angel, a demon, your mother-in-law or Susan, I personally don’t care. Now, if you excuse me, I need out of this world.” He said. bright red lights were on the shadow where the mouth would have been, resembling a terrifying grin. Suddenly the shadow lurched forward, yet before it disappeared, I heard the voice in my ear one more time. “Enjoy your parting gift.” I turned around, looking for the shadow yet there was nothing there. Slowly the flames extinguished themselves and I could finally hear something, rushing wind. The world seemed to distort like it would if I was dizzy. A few moments later, the entire world came back into focus. “TROY!” I heard Luna call, my name. I turned around and saw everyone was in the dining room once again. “Finally decided to come back?” “Yeah, couldn’t stay in there forever.” Don’t ask me why I didn’t tell anyone about the thing, because I don’t have an answer. “So, hopefully, me leaving didn’t cause any problems?” “None at all, my little human. Now if you don’t mind, I need you to go with Princess Luna for a short while to deal with something important and after that’s done you can all discuss what you’re going to do next.” Celestia told me, I looked in Luna’s direction and she nodded her head. "Yes, it should only take 15 minutes at most.” Luna informed me before walking away without warning heading towards the door. I got to experience something amazing as Princess Celestia smashed her face into the table with a groan. “She’s always like that. You had better hurry after her.” Celestia told me, so I turned and ran after Luna, who was waiting at the main doors. “Ah, good. Well then, it is pertinent that we head out immediately!” Luna exclaimed, opening the doors with her magic. “Um, well this is…unexpected!” That was the biggest understatement I had heard so far in this new world. Outside a huge crowd of ponies, many of whom adorned rather fancy clothing, seemed to be doing some form of protest. At the front was a white stallion with a blonde mane and blue eyes. He was shouting something at what I assumed to be what I had heard referred to as ‘The Canterlot Elite’. Some held signs, others were demanding audience Celestia herself. “I have never seen the nobles in such an uproar before, this isn’t the kind of thing they would usually subject themselves to in fear of what it would do to their image!” Luna’s surprise showed within her eyes, which then fell upon the leader of the whole affair. The shock disappeared immediately, replaced by a harsh glare. “Prince Blueblood, of course!” “We cannot let some random creature simply wander these noble streets, a creature of which ponykind has never laid its eyes upon before, a creature that could harbour intentions of death and destruction” Blueblood shouted. I finally understood what the riot was about and even had an inkling of an idea how the nobles found out. “NEPHEW, ELITE! I EXPECT AN IMMEDIATE EXPLANATION OF WHY YOU ARE TRYING TO ATTACK A CREATURE WHICH HAS SHOWN YOU NO HARM!” That was Luna’s response in an insanely loud voice, right beside me making me think I had gone deaf afterwards for a brief moment. “Aunt Luna, you must understand this-“ He didn’t finish what he was going to say upon spotting me, instead he lunged forward towards me and yelled as loudly as he could at me, Though it was no match to Luna’s shouting! “YOU! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO THESE TWO ARE?!” He yelled, pointing towards two ponies glaring at me that I immediately recognised as Jet Set and Upper Crust. “Goon number one and Goon number two, right?” I asked, knowing full well that it would anger Blueblood, yet I found I couldn’t bring myself to care. “HOW DARE YOU, THESE ARE TWO NOBLE PONIES! AND YOU HAD THE AUDACITY TO MAKE THEM CALL YOU NOBLE?!” I smirked at him, wondering if he would realise that I was finding his anger rather amusing. “No, nephew, your aunt Princess Celestia made them call him that.” Luna said, stunning him for but a moment. “So, what noble position do you hold?” I asked, more just to see his reaction than anything else. “HOW DARE YOU NOT KNOW, I AM PRINCE BLUEBLOOD, I AM THE GREATEST ROYAL EQUESTRIA HAS EVER SEEN AND I AM MORE NOBLE THAN SOME HAIRLESS MANKEY MONKEY WILL EVER BE!!!” So I seriously set him off, I will be honest that I had no idea he was a prince. “SO WHY DID YOU DISRESPECT NOBLES, WHY ARE YOU DISRESPECTING ME AND WHY ARE YOU LETTING YOUR EXISTENCE CONTINUE TO DISRESPECT PONYKIND?! DO YOU JUST HATE US?!” Luna looked as though she was ready to pummel Blueblood into the ground now, however he struck a chord with his final question. “No, I don’t hate you, or any other pony, because it’s not worth it to hate anything, except for maybe hate itself.” I told him, before walking away to escape the crowd of nobles who I could not be bothered to deal with. I turned around for a moment, seeing Luna back at my side. I stared at blueblood and though of my departing words. “Just for the record, if anything is insulting to ponykind, it is definitely you.”