—————————-Jason POV—————————-
Everything is black for me right now. I can’t hear anything. I can’t see anything either.
It’s all black.
“Jason wake up” echoed a voice.
“Night, give me some rest” I replied to the voice.
“Jason get up!” I heard the voice shout.
“I said let me sleep!” I yelled once more.
“Jason you have to go to school!” I heard the voice say.
“Wait, what?” I questioned the voice, opening my eyes.
As I opened my eyes, I started to feel around, this wasn’t my bed, no, this is more comfortable...
This is my bedroom.
On Earth.
I opened the blinds to my window that was right next to me and looked through the glass. The ocean, the horizon, cars driving past, tankers going out to sea, the old lighthouse on the hill just in the distance.
I was back in Wollongong.
I began to shout with excitement.
“Jason, come on, get up!” I heard the voice say.
I shot right up and was out of bed instantly. I was more focused and saw a female figure around my height. I knew the voice instantly.
It was my mother.
“...Mum? MUM?!?” I started to scream and panic with excitement due to being back on Earth and the fact that I had not seen her in ages.
“Honey you have to get up and go to sch-“ she was cut off by me running up to her and cuddling her.
“MUM I MISSED YOU SO MUCH, DO YOU REALISE WHERE I HAVE BEEN?!” I screamed as I squeezed her tight.
“Honey why are you so excited? Have a shower, you need to get dressed as well.” My mother replied back.
She acted as if nothing had happened.
“Mum... it’s been 3 years...” I said.
My mother gave me a strange look.
“What are you talking about Jason?” She asked me.
“Mum, I should be preparing for my HSC soon. I disappeared for 3 years. How do you not know that I was missing?!?”
My mother was about to reply, she opened her mouth and said “Jason... it’s time to wake up Jason.”
“What?” I asked in confusion.
“You have to get up and face reality now.” She said.
“What the fuck do you mean?” I asked.
Suddenly her face became the face of a mare that I had known for a long time.
Her eyes were that of a pony and her face was blue.
“OH FUCK NO! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME, QUIT HAUNTING MY FUCKING DREAMS!” I screamed at her. This pony had haunted my dreams for the longest of times, ever since I arrived here. The all-familiar nightly torture.
It was Princess Luna, the younger sister to the leader of Equestria.
Suddenly I opened my eyes, and the sensation of a hoof on my leg sent me upright in a jolt of fear.
I was back in my cell, it was nighttime still.
I fucking hated the feeling of the cell bed.
“Please get up and finish the story, Jason.” Night said.
I had let out a yelp of fear while I had been woken up, the nightmare was still very vivid and going through my mind. They had been getting pretty bad at this point.
“Jason? JASON? Are you alright?” Night asked me with a genuine face of concern.
“Oh, fuck... yes I’m fine,” I replied.
“Why were you screaming?” He asked me with worry on his face, but intrigue in his voice.
“Long story... speaking of which!”
“Oh yes! Please tell me more about what happened in whitetail woods!” He excitedly insisted.
“Ok ok I’ll tell you. Just sit down now.” I said.
The Story
I ran as fast as I could into the woods. Eventually, I came to a halt and found myself a nice place away from the nearest footpath.
I raked the leaves up and put them in a pile, I drew out my machete and cut the branches off of a nearby tree and formed a tipi formation of smaller branches I had shattered into pieces from the branch I cut off the tree.
I rubbed sticks together with weeds until the weeds ignited and threw the weeds into the leaves.
The campfire was burning.
I got rocks and surrounded the campfire so it wouldn’t light any more trees on fire, causing unwanted attention.
I had enough spare time to think to myself and try to regain my memories from how I got into that shithole of a place.
Ok, so I woke up near a pond or river... ok, think... water, pond, river... I thought to myself.
“Fuck try to remember...” I mumbled.
Water, pond, river...
Water...
Pond...
Ri-
Suddenly, whilst focusing, a very faded, yet distinguishable memory emerged.
“HOLY SHIT!” I cried.
I was screaming for help, then I was falling, I hit my head. There was a beach of some sort, and the ocean was there.
“What the fuck?” I asked myself after having the faded and mysterious memory. This memory didn't help me much with how I had gotten there, it was quite unhelpful.
“You know what? I fucking give up! Fuck you brain!” I yelled.
I sat down in frustration. It was getting dark.
“Fuck” I said.
I then heard footsteps run behind me.
“Fuck it’s probably one of those fucking horse things! HIDE!” My thoughts begged for me to do.
Obeying these thoughts, I ran to a nearby boulder and hid as the creature ran through the orange and green trees.
The creature ran to my campfire and sped off quickly.
When I ran back to the site, my gun was missing.
The creature took my fucking gun.
I needed that gun for emergencies. I barely had any ammunition left in it as well.
“COME BACK HERE YOU MOTHERFUCKER!” I screamed at the figure.
When no reply was heard, I figured it was not a pony, as it would have returned with more of those horse creatures.
No one returned.
It was around 12am judging by the placement of the moon. Around the center of the sky.
“Hah, it looks like a unicorn is on that fucking thing. It’s like that rabbit on the moon.” I said.
Then I realized there was never a unicorn-shaped figure on the moon on Earth.
That was when I realized I wasn’t on my planet.
I then began to cry out of fear as I realized that mane I was stuck on this planet forever, living as an outcast.
“Wait a minute...” I started talking to myself.
“That creature... why did it take my fucking gun, why did it have to take the most important fucking thing I have?” I thought.
“This is fucked.” I said, giving up my final cares for the day, as I welcomed the tiredness in.
I layed down and drifted to sleep.
I started dreaming of being on a hillside. Blue skies, people walking around. But then suddenly the sky turned red and people were running away, screaming. The humans all vanished over the horizon of the hills. I then saw a body of not a human, but of the horse-like creature I once killed by accident.
There were other bodies like the deer, rabbits, and other animals I had hunted lying beside the dead horse.
It was like a slaughterhouse.
I was horrified.
As soon as the bodies all appeared, I heard a loud and wicked female voice.
“YOU ARE AN EVIL CREATURE!” The woman’s voice shouted.
“SHOW YOURSELF!” I shouted in fear but determination.
The figure revealed themself. It was a horse creature like the others, but had different eyes, blue fur, and was wearing armour.
“...What the hell are you?!”
Then, an eruption of loud gusty wind went over me and almost knocked me over.
“I AM YOUR NEW LEADER, NIGHTMARE MOON! ON THIS NIGHT, I SHALL BRING AN ENDLESS NIGHT THAT WILL LAST FOREVER! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” She wickedly shouted.
“Holy shit!” I shouted.
I was then woken up by a scream in the distance.
I got scared for a second. Then there was a bright light above me. The moon was there, and the stars came closer into the moon and the horse figure disappeared from the moon.
“What the fuck.” I said, I went back to sleep.
But when I woke up it was still night time.
“What the fuck?” I asked. I decided to temporarily leave the forest to see why it was still night time and why the moon was still high in the sky.
As I left the forest and came near those houses and the town, I noticed 6 ponies walking into the other forest I first woke up in.
“What the hell are they doing?” I asked.
I decided to follow them out of curiosity.
“We shouldn’t enter, it’s really dangerous.”
“Come on girls, we have to go to the castle of the 2 sisters!”
“But it’s the Everfree Forest!”
I ran away from them and through the trees of the “Everfree Forest” I was in to hide from the and see what they were doing.
When I lost sight of them, I heard a loud roar. I turned towards the noise and saw a lion with wings.
“A FUCKING MANTICORE?!” I screamed.
It grabbed me and through me to the ground. It scraped my back with its claws. I pinched its arm, then tried punching it, no use.
It threw me into the bushes and off the road we were on.
I decided to throw something at it. I grabbed a rock next to me and threw it at the lion hybrid.
No use, it started running towards me.
I grabbed some thorns and threw the onto the road in front of me. The manticore darted towards me and ran over one of the thorns and started roaring so loudly. It fell to the ground. It was pissed off.
I ran off into the bushes in fear and came to a pause as I saw what was in front of me.
There was a river that was calm and flowing gently.
“I think I remember how to swim.” I said to myself.
I jumped into the water. It was so cold. I then remembered that I could do breaststroke, so I started to swim across to the other side.
“Thank god” I thought to myself.
“MY MOUSTACHE!!” I heard a feminine like man scream.
Then shortly after that, the river became rapid and hard to swim across. I started to go under the water and almost drowned. I managed to survive but began going downstream. I grabbed a root from a tree that was hanging over the edge and into the river and managed to pull myself onto the grass after 15-20 minutes.
“What the fuck?!?” I yelled as I ran down the path further in an exhausted tone.
I kept running down the path until I got to a bridge. There was a castle on the other side. It looked ancient and creepy. But I could barely see it, as there was a lot of mist filling the air.
“How did I not see this when I was here?!” I asked.
I began crossing the bridge. The wooden planks were very wobbly. They were emmiting a creaking sound, as if they were about to break.
Then out of nowhere I heard a strange and indescribable sound from behind me.
I looked back and saw a cloud of smoke that was dark and blue, like the horse figures hair I saw in the dream. And it didn’t look friendly.
“Oh shit. Better cross faster.” I thought to myself, gradually speeding up.
I was about to get to the end of the bridge, only to see the cloud of unknown matter physically untie the ropes at the end of the bridge.
I ran across the creaking planks. But the bridges untied ropes were going over the edge. I was so close to the end. I took a leap of faith...
And successfully grabbed onto the grass.
The bad news was that I was hanging off the edge.
I could hear those horses catching up, and could hear their voices. I didn’t want to yell for help because they would most likely know who I was and what I did to the other pony.
The smokey cloud of something was trying to make me fall off the cliff.
It made me lose grip of my first hand.
“OH FUCK!” I shouted.
Then it removed my second hand.
“AHHH!” I screamed with fear as I fell down as gravity did its work.
Then I felt something bite into my shirt and pull me up and onto the other side. It let go of me as I fell onto the ground safely. It then flew to the other side, grabbed the bridges rope and pulled it back to the side I was on.
The cloud then flew away and towards the direction of that ancient castle.
“Are you alright?” The horse thing said to me with concern.
This horse thing had a mane that was multicolored, had blue fur and had a tattoo of a cloud with rainbow colored lightning striking out of it.
“Um yeah, I’m fine. What are you?” I asked.
“Oh, I’m a pony! the names Rainbow Dash! How do you not know what a pony is?” She asked me.
“Oh I know what a pony is, it’s just I never have seen one uhh... like you.” I replied.
“What do you mean by that?” She asked.
I was about to reply by saying that I had not seen a pony with a tattoo and rainbow hair, let alone blue hair, but she cut me off.
“Do you like me or something?” She asked.
“WHAT? No no no, it’s just that I have never seen a pony with rainbow hair before.” I said.
“Oh! Oh ok, haha...” she said as her speech died down.
I don’t think it was because she was embarrassed. I think she was disappointed.
“But what the heck are you? I have never seen your type of species before. You are like a monkey, but hairless and can talk. And you are wearing clothes.” She asked.
“Oh, I’m a-“ I was cut off by an echoey voice.
“Rainbow...” The voice said.
“Who’s there?!” Rainbow Dash asked with a tough pose and assertive voice.
“Rainbow...” the voice said again.
I decided to stay back from the conversation with Rainbow and the anonymous voice, so I hid behind a tree.
“I AIN’T SCARED OF YOU! SHOW YOURSELF!” she yelled.
The conversation with the voice and her went on and on, even after the voice revealed itself to be three Pony figures that did flying acrobatic shows and shit.
Then she was forced to make a choice between staying with her friends or choosing to leave with these so called “Shadow Bolts”.
I saw the leader of the shadow bolts fill the air with more mist so the other 5 ponies behind us couldn’t see her. But they couldn’t see me anyway as I was further into the mist.
“You...” Rainbow Dash said.
The shadow bolt leader began to grin.
Something about those shawdow bolts was off. And they looked eerie and dangerous and the fact she stopped her other friends from seeing her do anything.
And the fact she made her choose between her friends and then in the first place.
This was a ridiculous choice. And she was going to choose them.
“Rainbow!” I shouted, emerging from behind the tree.
She looked back at me in curiosity.
I ran up to her and the shadow bolts. The 3 of them were all were glaring at me.
“She meant thank you for the offer, but she’s afraid she has to say no.” I said, cutting in.
“Is this true Rainbow?!” The leader asked her, obviously angry.
She looked at me and back at the leader.
“Yes, that’s correct.” She said.
The three shadow bolts then dissapeared back into the dark cloud matter and went into the castles direction.
“Thank you so much. I can’t belive a was about to choose to join that cloud thing, and I forgot about my friends. I feel so bad for betraying them like that...” she said looking clearly sad.
“Don’t worry about it, it was just the heat of the situation. I know if you remembered about your friends, you would have said no. It was just a simple mind blank!” I replied with a smile.
“Rainbow?!” I heard a voice on the other side shout to her.
She looked back to the mist at the bridge and looked back at me, with a lit up face.
“You should come with us! We are trying to stop Nightmare Moon from casting an everlasting night over Equestria! It’s really cool! Come on!” She said with excitement.
“I’m sorry Rainbow, I can’t have anybody see me for reasons I can’t say, but listen, when you go back, promise me you won’t tell your other friends about this. Just tell them nothing about what happened just now. Please.” I asked.
She looked at me in confusion and sadness.
“Ok, cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!” She said.
“Haha... ok.” I replied with laughter.
She turned to tie the bridge rope back onto the cliff but then asked one more question.
“Will I ever see you again?” She asked me.
“Maybe, I’ll be in Whitetail Woods.” I said to her.
“Ok, well it was nice meeting you... um...” she said to me, not knowing my name.
“Oh! My name is Jason!” I answered.
“Ok, cya Jason! Oh and... thank you.” She said as she went to the other side of the cliff.
“Bye!” I said.
As I saw her fly away, I realized she looked so beautiful.
Like a dream.
I then heard the creaking planks, they were crossing the bridge.
I immediately ran towards the castle.
I stayed on the outside of the castle, then I heard some ponies walk in.
About half an hour later a burst of light erupted through the windows.
I looked into a window and saw a stream of Rainbow encircling the mare I saw in my dreams.
She was screaming.
I then got scared and immediately ran back towards Whitetail Woods. However I was stopped by a pony on the outskirts of the town that recognised me when I accidentally murdered the innocent pony.
“Hey! It’s you! The murderer!” She yelled.
“Oh fuck!” I yelled.
It was about to yell for other ponies and looked away when I cut it off.
“I’m so sorry.” I said.
“What?” It asked.
It looked back at me right as I punched it in the face.
It fell on the ground immediately.
I leaned over and checked for a pulse on its neck.
There was a pulse. Thank god.
I dragged it to a nearby road and ran in the opposite direction and into Whitetail Woods again.
Then it became day time.
————————-Present Day—————————
————————3rd Person——————————
Night sat there speechless after what he just heard.
“So, you whitnessed the fall of Nightmare Moon...” he said in awe.
“Yes I did.” Jason replied.
“...And you fell in love with one of the elements of harmony... and vise versa?” He asked.
“Yes, and I know it sounds unbelievable, but” Jason replied but cut off by Night.
“No, it’s that I don’t believe you.” Night said.
“...It’s the truth.” Jason said.
“How would I know if it’s the truth or not?” Night asked.
“How would you know if Celestia was telling the fucking truth?” Jason said back.
“BECAUSE... uh... because...” Night has no response.
“See? You can never know. But I know the truth. She trusts me and I trust her, alright? She promised me she wouldn’t tell anyone and she didn’t!” Jason responded.
“....Look Jason, I’m sorry. I was just angry at you for knocking out that pony.” Night replied.
“...So was I.” Jason said.
“Buck, I’m sorry Jason.” Night said.
“...It’s alright, these things happen. Let’s just forget about it all and go to sleep.” Jason said.
“I can’t go to sleep.” Night said.
“Why not?” Jason asked.
“Because I have to guard you.” Night responded.
“What am I gonna do to you that could hurt you? I can’t even escape!” Jason asked.
“Being a guard isn’t about not letting things get out, it’s about not letting things get in to harm the pony you are guarding.” Night said.
“So you would care if I broke out of here?” Jason asked.
“WHAT?! You can’t get out!” Night said.
“Why not?” Jason asked.
“Because Celestia... Celestia said... forget it.” Night answered.
Jason asked “What did she sa-“
“I SAID FORGET IT. Just go to sleep.” Night cut off Jason.
Jason didn’t respond and just went to sleep. And didn’t wake up until the sun rose.
Jason had not had a dream or nightmare that night.