“Dude, what are you talking about?” Mirage put his hoof down on the floor of his room and started collecting the card game they had been playing. The score was in and Mirage won after killing Glow with his 5/5 creature with a direct hit to his health. “I beat you, there’s no need to make up random crap.”
“I’m serious!” Glow said as his yellow fur glinted in the ceiling light. “I’m telling you, I found a way to do it.” The Earth Pony said as he furrowed his eyes toward Mirage. The orange unicorn sat across from him in the middle of the brown carpet. Mirage’s room was a mess already, and their sleepover had just barely even started. They had already played around with their foam dart guns, their rock'em sock'em horses, and two games of Dragon Steed on Glow's game console he brought from his home. Mirage loved the feeling of having a friend sleep over, especially in the beginning hours when you knew that there was so much you could expect. There was still an entire night planned of movies, games, and maybe even getting into Mirage’s Dad’s porn collection once his parents were asleep.
“Look, I’m barely even able to control my magic as it is. I can levitate a spoon full of cereal into my mouth but that takes way too much effort to do to enjoy the cereal. You’re an Earth Pony and I have literally never heard of an Earth Pony having any kind of magic, I mean… no offense or anything.” Mirage shuffled his deck with his hooves as he tilted his head at Glow's odd facial expression.
“Oh, none taken.” Glow rolled his eyes as he looked at his friend with the same furrowed brow. “But you need to take this seriously, because I’ve done it before. You won’t even know it’s happening until it’s too late and you’re there!”
“Bro, I know I told you that we were going to have a wild night, but this is getting crazy. Were we going for another game of Keep Mages or were you just wanting to put on Avenge Pone?” Mirage asked, but Glow’s look persisted. The two of them stared at one another for just a moment before the unicorn rolled his eyes. “Alright, fine. I’ll bite. How does this so-called ‘reality’ happen?”
“I’m telling you, I can’t explain it. You’re just going to have to see for yourself.” Glow said. The tone in which he talked made Mirage a little uneasy. Still, logic suggested that Earth Ponies didn't know magic. No one except for the unicorns practiced magic. Many have tried outside of the unicorns, and while there were some very strange exceptions, none had truly succeeded without some dark magic taking away the horn's power. Mirage couldn't imagine Glow being able to take away a unicorn's power by any means. The more he thought about it, the more it sounded ridiculous. Still, Mirage couldn't help but wince at Glow's confidence.
“Alright, then do it.” Mirage said. That’s when he heard something weird. Like a high frequency noise in the air. Something like when you turned on one of those old television sets and you heard it turn on. He looked around for a second and rubbed his ear with his hoof. He shook his head and turned back to Glow, who just kept staring at him with that furrowed brow. “Well, go on. Show me.”
He kept staring at the unicorn. In fact he was so still, it started to make him a little nervous. That high frequency noise persisted and he rubbed his ear again.
“Glow?” Mirage leaned closer to his colt friend and tilted his head a little bit. The air was still, the room was still, and the lack of any other noise was starting to get to him. “Glow? Hello?”
He tried to tap Glow on the head with his hoof, but his hoof went straight through him. Mirage's face went slack, his mouth hung open and his eyes widened.
Glow no longer had eyes, his sockets were deep, black voids of space as he stared back at Mirage with that deep, deafening lack of sound, lack of movement, lack of anything. Perhaps that was what was so unsettling. There was no actual sound, it was a lack of anything. The high frequency was his own ear trying to compensate for there being nothing. There was literally nothing but vision. Still vision was everything now. What could have possibly existed beyond those lifeless, soulless, empty orbs of nothingness that gazed into him and began to fill his senses with that of dread.
There was nothing there but there was nowhere for it to be anymore. Mirage got up from the floor and looked around.
“Wha-wha-what happened? Why is nothing happening?!” Mirage looked around in a frantic fit of panic. There was no sound, no movement around him. The molecules became so thick that it was getting harder to breathe. His voice didn't even seem to leave his head, it just stayed there as if it were being muffled from within him. It didn't even echo because there was no space. The room was no longer the room! It was something else, or perhaps it could have been nothing!
He stared back at Glow once again to see those dark holes of nothingness in his eyeholes. They were truly holes, holes that went on forever as he gazed at his friend. He didn't dare reach for him for fear that those two eyes would suck him into someplace else!
“Gl-gl-gl-gl-o-o-o-o-o-ow!!” His voice rippled as he called out for his friend to come back to him. He wanted it to end! He wanted it all to end! He wanted it to---
“STOP!!!” Mirage shouted as he finally heard the air conditioner come back to him, the air started in motion again, and he felt life pulsing once more. Still, the memory of that high frequency sound resonated through his head for some reason. He looked back at Glow, who was now grinning at him with a wink.
Glow chuckled a little bit and his smile grew wider. “Told ya.”