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// ~Wandering Around The Dream Realm, The Dream Realm, The Dream Realm. Wandering Around The Dream Realm All Night Long.~ 
// Story: Over-Powered Shapeshifter. "At Least I'm Not A Mary Sue." 
// by Taken-By-Insanity 
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When I awoke from my faint of VERY delayed shock I found myself in an endless corridor made of stars with various doors on each side. The doors all had a metal sign on it with a name on it, under the name was a cutie mark for most of them with some not having one.

I must have put myself in the dream realm by accident during the dreamless sleep I was having. I sighed and looked for any dark green or blue/black tinted doors to see if I can solve a bad dream and maybe see if I can do what the real Tantabus was able to do, absorb guilt and possibly sadness or fear from others to empower me.

I saw doors filled with mostly a bright yellow or the same look as the walls, likely meaning it’s a dreamless sleep the person is experiencing or a happy dream is what they’re having.





I finally find a door with a more grey color, one not so happy like and giving off this aura that I feel drawn to. Before I opened the door I changed myself into Luna but with a light blue mane and tail instead of her night sky one, like in the first episode of my little pony but anthro and wearing a red shirt and some pants.

When I entered the door I saw a white room with padding everywhere, I’m possibly in an asylum. I saw a little filly of all things crying and looking at a clip of some kind.

The clip showed the filly with her family of five, her being the youngest, and they were taking a walk through a park inside Manehattan. Though there was a glow in the shadows of a nearby tree before the filly pulled a knife out of her mane and killed her mom, dad, and siblings with a large smile. She suddenly collapsed in the clip, looking panicked and sad, crying her eyes out.

The clip then faded before it restarted from the beginning again. ”I didn't want to! I regret it, now stop!” the filly said, her voice hoarse from all the crying she was doing. There was a mist of grey and blue coming off of her and it went into me, somehow making me feel more powerful.

I walked up behind the filly before dismissing the clip and putting her in an apartment from her memories with her family having dinner and generally a good time before leaving it. She was shocked and confused at first but then she saw me with a smile before I left the dream and back into the dream realm.

Unfortunately, when I left the dream I ended up muzzle to muzzle with Princess Luna and boy did she look mad. I teleported behind her before starting to fly away. ”Come back here, you imposter!” Luna yelled with rage before chasing after me.

I replied with ”Sorry but your current target it unavailable, please come back at another time.” Yeah, I was wondering why I said that as well. Unless you aren't wondering. Anyways, I kept flying away as fast as I could until I got hit by a spell from her and crashed into a nightmare.

But Shade, how is it a nightmare? It's a nightmare since there are tons of giant spiders chasing a full-grown stallion. Probably has arachnophobia. I absorbed his fear and changed the dream into him on a beach, relaxing and having some mares he thinks are pretty after him before leaving the dream and going to the Canterlot dreams.

I can tell they're Canterlot dreams because of how the doors are made, some kind of fancy design that I don't know the name of. After entering the area I noticed that my dream self is slightly fading, probably signaling my awakening, so I just kept flying while dodging spell after spell.





Jeez, I wake up slowly! I've been dodging spells for the past ten minutes now and I'm STILL waking up. I got rid of my disguise on the first minute, where you went through a time skip, and kept the Tantabus look. Which at first made Luna surprised but then she got p#####.

She started firing spells twice the amount of time she was already doing and everything. If my calculations are correct with how slowly I'm fading I say I have a minimum of one to two minutes until I fully wake up. Speaking of waking up, all the doors in the dream realm have been fading as well, one by one, meaning they've woken up as well.

I hid behind a solid door and took a breather, being chased is annoyingly difficult. I looked at myself through a conjured mirror and smiled, I about to wake up! Then I saw Luna with a sword swinging at me before I woke and sat up with a gasp.

After taking deep breaths and calmed down I looked around the room. The room’s wallpaper was a dull grey with the roof being black. The bed I was currently on had purple sheets and a red blanket over it with a blue nightstand next to it, holding a lamp and a small note.

I stood up and got out of the bed before looking at the rest of the room. An oak bookshelf was at a corner to my right, currently empty. To the right of the bookshelf was a balcony with full glass doors and curtains that were currently open. Straight on the other side of the room from me was a small desk with a chair that had a closed pot of ink and a quill lying next to it. There was a yellow door to my left, likely the exit, with the light switch next to it.

I turned to the nightstand and picked up the letter before breading it.



Heys Shade, it's your mom.

I'm guessing that faint was from the stress of leaving your world and it only just fully processed through your brain. Anyways, we brought you over to your new room since reality changes to have you fit in and it added a room to the house as well as some memories for all of us to look back on.
What your usual disguise is is also decided by this and your usually just you without stars or holes. You may want to look at your hands to, they changed while you were sleeping.

Love your mother ;)



’Well then. Kinda was thinking as that being my disguise anyways. Now, what’s this about my hands?’ I looked at my hand currently holding the note and noticed that the purple was green instead. I looked at the other and found the same results, they still had the sparkling stars but they were green instead. ’Strange,’ I thought.

I put the note down and looked at a mirror I didn't notice before at the corner to the left of my bed. I walked up to it and changed from my true form to my disguise. I made a mask and put it on my face and after the smoke faded I was just missing the holes and stars and I had fur in place of chitin.

After checking everything over and nodding in approval I went through the yellow door and entered a black-walled hallway with five other doors and a staircase straight to my left. I heard noise downstairs and went down and ended up in the dining room/kitchen only to see everyone else milling about and getting ready for something. ’Likely a job they all have,’ I thought. Mother noticed me and called me over.

”You’re awake! Come over and have some breakfast. You're gonna need the energy when you're at work,” she said while handing me a plate of pancakes with syrup and a fork with it. ”You are lucky to not need to go to work as early as us. Now, I gotta go shower and get dressed. Bye dear!” she gave me a kiss on my cheek before hurrying upstairs.