//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: Ending of New Beginnings // by TopHat Demon //------------------------------// The Stairway down was longer than before. Pixel had too stop every now and then just to make sure he doesn’t fall down the stairs and break his neck. By the time he reached the bottom of the staricase, followed by Petal cord and Sunset Cloud, they saw that they were in another bedroom. The walls were painted with a Pink tint and some posters covered the walls, they too were also blurry and hard to see. Pixel reached for his handgun again looking at the closet. “This is My Room!” Petal cord yelled pacing around the room seeing if anything has changed. Sunset Cloud, which the entire time walking down the stairs had a blank face, seemed to get curious. “Pixel can you please kill the demon in my closet before hell breaks loose like last chapt - I mean- Time.” “What do you think I’m doing??” Hissed Pixel opening the door. Nothing was inside. “Huh... look at that, nothings here!” “So there is no demon?..” Sunset Cloud said weakly, getting a nod of approval from Pixel. Together they searched the room for anything they need. Sunset Cloud stopped in front of the desk in the corner of the room. “Well... when I think about it. Back in my room Upstairs, as a filly I kind-of had nightmares of a monster in my closet. Does that have anything do do with it?” “Maybe... Hey Petal Cord, since this is your room. Did you ever had nightmares of a monster with you?” Pixel asked looking at Petal Cord “Not really... well I did have nightmares at a filly but not one that scared me awake, except this one nightmare that scared me awake without anything happening to me.” “What was it about?” Pixel asked once more looking at the window in the wall. “I was just in the darkness, no one around. I didn’t even hear anything out of the ordinary. But I had this sensation that somepony was watching me. It scared me half to death that I woke up.” Petal Cord explained pulling at the bed sheets making the bed a bit neater. “When I wake up, I get the sensation that somepony is still watching me.” Pixel nodded a bit and checked underneath the bed and then the closet once more. “The normal fillies nightmares always use monsters inside of either a closet, underneath a bed, or sometimes out a window.” Pixel commented walking over to the window, he held up his handgun and opened the window. Sunset Cloud screamed loudly and jumped back, Pixel jumped and aimed at the creature in the window. The creature was not like the last one, all it was, was just an eye. The eye had a red iris and looked bloodshot, but worst of all it was just staring straight at the three pony’s. Pixel lowered his gun as Petal Cord walked up to the eye. “So your the one who gave me night terrors since the first Night! Now that I had found out what you are...” she was yelling now, “...you are going to experience what I have felt for the longest time!!” And with that Petal Cord grabbed the handgun from Pixel and fired. The creature screeched loudly and closed its eyes in pain, Petal Cord shot another bullet into the eye the eye screeched louder with each shot. Pixel ordered Petal Cord to stop but it was no use, Petal Cord was getting her revenge. And liking it. Pixel had no choice but to hit the gun out of her hoof, with a mighty hit he knocked Petal Cord to the ground, the gun sliding to the side. Sunset Cloud stayed In the corner of the room, frozen in fear. Pixel pinned the Earthpony to the ground, Petal cord tried to wiggle out of Pixel’s grasp but he held firm. Sunset Cloud ran over to the window where the eye, which was still screeching, and shut the window with a bang. Petal Cord went limp in Pixel’s grasp, Pixel removed his hoof in a panic. “Oh Shit! Petal Cord are you okay?” Pixel gasped leaning his head close to her heart, good the heart was still beating. “Oh thank Celestia!” “What the hell happened!?” Sunset Cloud asked loudly running over to Petal cord. Pixel shrugged and answered with a grim sigh. “I don’t know what type of magic that eye was useing, but all I know is that... it can make ponies insane... Wait!... Of Course!” Pixel replied a huge smile on his face. “The creatures are from our nightmares, that is correct! But we’re missing an important detail here! The monsters are from nightmares, as in dreams. In dreams you can do what ever you want! What if we are ina reality that the nightmares control the pony as in the nightmare creatures are having the dream!” Pixel was getting excited now. Sunset Cloud put a hoof on her chin and replied to Pixel’s theory. “But, the creature in my closet didn’t have an effect on me.” “That’s exactly what I’m about to say. The creature - demon - what ever you want to call it, was young. How long ago did you have this nightmare?” “Now that I think about it... about a few months ago for some reason.” “Aha! I knew it. The creature in Petal cords dream was just the feeling of being watched, by the eye. I reconize the fact that only night terrors happen at a young age, when your imagination is all over the place...” Pixel spoke fast as he paced around the room, “Petal Cord didn’t have the same dream for a while. Like four to five years, during that time to creature started to get stronger so that when she dreams this nightmare, the creature can minipulate the term of events that makes even when their not awake they feel the same things in there dream.” “P-Pixel slow down! I can barely hear a word your saying!” “And THAT is how you figure out what makes ponies in-SANE!” Pixel laughed grabbing his bag, he levitated the sleeping petal cord up and trotted to the door. “Wait... where are you going?!” Sunset Cloud said flying towards the door. Pixel looked at her with satisfaction in his eyes. “Probably another bedroom.” He replied running down the stairs.