//------------------------------// // Chapter Five // Story: My Little Pony - Equestria Boy III - Threat at the Crystal Empire // by OliverSparkle //------------------------------// Inside Oliver’s room, Oliver was sleeping in his bed while Constantine was sitting at his desk, that’s next to the window, working on something that probably has something to do with capturing Cold Wind. As he was sleeping, his eyes begin to twitch for five seconds before his eyes shot open as he raised from the bed, placed his hooves on his head, closed his eyes and began to breath heavily as he just woken up from having a bad dream. “Oliver, you okay?” Asked Constantine as he got near the bed worried about him. Oliver placed his hooves down on the bed covers as he finally stopped breathing heavily. “Yeah,” he answered, “Just a bad dream. And a weird one too.” “Did it have something to do with Lightning?” Asked John in confusion. Oliver nodded for a yes. “Only a little bit. It’s like its trying to tell me something. Something that’s gonna happen. But I’m not sure what or why.” Just then, they heard a loud knock on Oliver’s bedroom door as it moved a bit like somepony was trying to get into his room. “Just what I needed at this time of night,” said Oliver as he rubbed his forehead, “Who’s there?” They then heard the sound of a baby whimpering as it knocked on the door again, that’s when Oliver recognise that baby sound. “Flurry Heart?” Oliver got out of his bed and walked towards the door as he then opened it to reveal Flurry Heart, in scared mode with tears in her eyes, as she soon flew towards him making him fall backwards to the ground while hugging his chest. “Flurry Heart, what’s the matter?” Flurry Heart continue to whimper as she pointed towards the bedroom window as Oliver looked towards it and saw the heavy rain outside before turning back to Flurry Heart. “The thunder storm outside woke you up and scared you, didn’t it?” Flurry Heart nodded her head in response as she went back to hugging her brother’s chest. Oliver wrapped a hoof round her as he got up and held Flurry Heart to his chest as she doesn’t want to move away from her brother. Just then, a new thunder struck as Flurry Heart then began to bury her face in her brother’s chest and shook in fear. “Alright alright,” cooed Oliver as he nuzzled his little sister’s cheek, “How about we go get you some milk to help you feel better before we put you back to bed?” Flurry Heart gave her brother a small smile before nodding slowly for a yes as Oliver placed Flurry on his back with his magic. “I’ll go with you mate,” Constantine said before Oliver was about to leave the room, “I could go for a cup of tea right now.” Oliver nodded for a okay as they both walked out of the room and towards the kitchen. In one of the guest rooms, Fluttershy and Capper were both sleeping together in bed as they were hugging each other with Capper’s head on top of Fluttershy’s head. Fluttershy then began to sweat in her sleep as she was having nightmare as well, then after a few seconds, she opened her eyes while saying, “Lightning!” She began to breath heavily as Capper opened his eyes to see that Fluttershy has woken up but badly wrong as he gently stroked her mane with his paw. “What’s wrong, Fluttershy?” Capper asked worriedly. “I’ve just had a nightmare about Lightning,” she answered as she looked at Capper with tears in her eyes, “In the nightmare, Cold Wind foalnapped Lightning, even beaten him up with a stick, I tried to save him, but Cold Wind just disappeared into the darkness with Lightning, and I couldn’t find him.” She then buried her face into Capper’s chest fur as her tears soak into it. “Oh if only he hadn’t escaped, then I wouldn’t be so worried about Lightning!” Capper began to gently stroked Fluttershy’s back in comfort as he then gave her a kiss on the forehead. “I know the feeling, Fluttershy. I’m worried about him too, but we’ll make sure he doesn’t foalnap him and hurt him again. We’re gonna capture him and lock him up for good.” Capper gently brushed the tears in Fluttershy’s eyes as she then looked at him with a sad smile on her face. “Come on,” He said to her, “Let’s go get you a drink or something. Maybe that’ll help you calm down and remove your worries.” Fluttershy nodded as they both out of bed, Capper putted his trench coat on as he opened the bedroom door, let Fluttershy out first as he walked out last closing the door behind him. Meanwhile in the kitchen, Flurry Heart was sitting in her high chair chewing on Oliver’s tail going “nom nom nom nom” as Oliver was fixing her up some milk while Constantine was making himself some tea. Just then, Capper and Fluttershy came into the kitchen and saw the three. “My,” began Fluttershy, “You three are up early at this time of night.” Oliver smiled at Fluttershy before saying, “The thunder storm outside woke Flurry Heart up and scared her, so I’m giving her some milk to make her feel better.” He poured the warm milk into Flurry Heart’s bottle as he then gave it to her with his magic. “Here you go, little sis.” Flurry Heart took the bottle with her tiny hooves and began to drink her milk. “So why are you two up early as well?” Oliver asked kindly to the love birds. “Fluttershy had a bad dream about Lightning so we decided to get a drink or something to help her calm down from the nightmare,” explained Capper. “Was a pretty bad dream I’ll tell you all that,” said Fluttershy. “Ah they often are, love.” Constantine placed his teaspoon next to his cup. “Tea?” “Yes please,” answered Capper politely as Constantine opened the cabinet, took two cups out, closed the cabinet door and gave Capper the two cups, one for him and one for Fluttershy as Capper began to make tea for him and Fluttershy. “Aww, you’re so adorable Flurry Heart,” cooed Fluttershy as she began tickled Flurry Heart’s belly as she giggled. Oliver smiled at sight thinking that it was so cute seeing Flurry Heart getting tickled, but it didn’t last long as his smile suddenly turned into a sad look. Fluttershy noticed it as she then asked, “What’s wrong, Oliver?” “Oh it’s just that, I’m still worried about Lightning when he sees me as Ink Bendy,” answered Oliver, “I still don’t want him to get scared if he sees my other half one day. He’s been scared long enough, even with thunder storms.” Fluttershy frowned. She remembered her son didn’t see him as Ink Bendy when they rescued him from Cold Wind at the Grand Galloping Gala. But she turned that frown back into a smile as she looked at him. “Oh don’t worry about it,” she said softly to him, “I’m sure he won’t get scared if he does see you as your other half one day.” “You really think so?” “Of course she does,” Capper said, “I think so too, so does your other friends and family. You’re good at taking care of your little sister and making sure your nephew stays safe that I doubt he’ll get scared of your inky demon form. And besides look, Flurry Heart wants to give her big brother a hug.” Oliver looked at Flurry Heart as she finished drinking her milk and was now reaching her tiny hooves out to Oliver while smiling and then let out a “bah!” to him. Oliver’s smile began to grow back on his face. “Thanks you three.” He picked Flurry Heart up from her high chair, brought her to his chest and let her head rest on his shoulder as she placed her tiny hooves onto his chest and closed her eyes while cooing. Constantine placed his right hand on Oliver’s back as he looked at him and saw he was smiling at him. “I’m proud of you, mate.” Oliver smiled at him as he then said, “Thanks, John.” Oliver continued to hug Flurry Heart as John picked up his cup to start drinking his tea while Capper finished up his and Fluttershy’s tea. But unknown to them, they weren’t the only ones in the kitchen as a small, strange, looking, little creature was running in different directions as it then made a knock on the bin that was next to the way out of the kitchen. That made John stop to begin drinking his tea, Capper from making his and Fluttershy’s tea and Flurry’s hug with Oliver as they all looked at the bin to see what made that knock on it. There they saw two glowing red eyes looking from behind the bin as Flurry Heart began to feel scared again and started to whimper. “Flurry Heart,” Oliver whispered into his sister’s ear, “Get on my back.” Flurry did what he said as she quickly flew onto her brother’s back and hid behind his head. Just then, the creature moved a bit away from the bin to show that it was dark grey with Capper’s trench coat on and had a blue fluff on its head. Then another dark grey creature entered, this one had the same clothing as Constantine wore and has blond hair. This made Oliver, John, Capper and Fluttershy move back a bit as another dark grey creature, with a pink mane like Fluttershy’s, popped up from Capper’s cup of tea as Capper looked at it before the creature jumped from the cup and onto Capper’s face as it began to attack. “Capper!” Exclaimed Fluttershy scared and shocked as another one attack her before two more attacked Oliver and John making Flurry even more scared than ever. “What’s going on?!” Oliver exclaimed trying to get the dark grey creature, with two heads, one with a red mane and one with Flurry Heart’s mane, off of him. Constantine managed to get the creature off his face and grabbed the one attack Oliver as he raised it in the air before saying, “We must be still dreaming!” Constantine then threw the creature onto the floor where there were three more creatures, looking like Capper, as they watched the creature splatted onto the ground after being thrown before looking up and saw John raising his right foot and stepped on two of them. More strange creatures, looking like the three, came towards them and attacked as they crawled on the floor and on the walls. Oliver and John continued to throw the creatures off of them before two of them bit them on the ear making them yell in pain. Constantine grabbed the creature off of him and said, “Nope, we're definitely not dreaming.” Constantine then threw the creature away as Capper grabbed the Fluttershy looking creature off of Fluttershy before looking at it and said, “What are you?!” The Fluttershy looking creature then spoke in the same voice as Fluttershy’s but in a creepy way, “We're you, Capper.” “Like Tartarus you are!” Oliver said as Constantine then squished the Constantine looking creature in his hand as it then splatted. They all looked around and saw more of them coming towards as Flurry whimpered more still hiding behind Oliver’s head, they then looked down and saw them form a group before three of them spoke as the same voices as Oliver, Capper and Constantine but in a creepy way. “Materialised psychisms, Jung called us,” said the Capper creature. “Projections from the bad sleep,” said the Constantine creature. “Your own inner demons,” the Oliver+Flurry creature finished, “Given physical form.” “Oh that’s not good,” said Constantine, “And the only way we’re gonna stop you nasty lot, is to take, you back!” The inner demons then jumped towards them, but before they could land on them and attack them, Constantine placed his hands near together as he began to say a magic spell in a different language as a dark golden grasp sphere in between his hands. He said the magic spell in a different language again as the dark golden grasp appeared on him, Oliver, Flurry, Capper and Fluttershy and making the inner demons unable to attack them when they landed on them. After saying it one last time as he pulled his hands away from each other, the inner demons started to melt into wet sand as it then sucked itself back into the five before they fainted on the floor, staying there for ten seconds before getting theirselves back up again. “What was that all about?” Oliver asked before picking Flurry Heart up and holding her in his left hoof. John scratches the back of his head before saying, “Something must have opened the door between our dreams and nightmares. But that’s never happened before.” Before they could say or do anything else, they heard hoofsteps walking towards the kitchen. They turned towards the door and saw Shining Armor walking in as he then saw the human, the love birds and his children in such a mess. “Maybe it’s best I shouldn’t ask,” said Shining. The five looked at him in annoyance before John said, “It’s never good to ask when something like this happens, mate.” John then began to drink his tea since he wasn’t able to drink it before the demons showed up.