//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: The Midnight-Nightmare // by Ripply //------------------------------// Martin could not believe what was in front of his eyes, it couldn´t be him, 'this has to be a nightmare, it can't be real ' he thought, so he slapped himself in the face to verify, "ouch", but his fears were confirmed when heard a feminine voice coming out of his mouth. At this point, Martin was terrified, not only he had been swapped places with a winged girl, his life, his friends, his family, had been taken away from him, because of some random mutant wing girl that took everything he loved in his life and was thrown for nothing!!!!!! He was so filled with anger and sadness that he didn't notice all the items near him suddenly starting levitating. When he calmed himself, he took notice of this and stared with wide-open eyes at what was happening around him. All the objects that were in the room he was standing were floating in the air! the books, papers, pens, even the library! covered in what looked like a bright purple glow. Then he looked down at his now feminine hands, they were covered with the same purple glow. 'Did I do that, he thought to himself. Martin looked down at his hands, then looked up at the objects; he closed his eyes and focused, hearing the silence in the room, breathing quietly, thinking of something relaxing and picturing it in his mind, he had done this exercise to calm himself in moments when he felt angry or sad, seeing that his previous outrage cause everything in the room to levitate into thin air, he saw that the only solution was to calm himself, which he was doing right now; as he cleared his mind, he was feeling more relax and calm, knowing that his technique worked. Suddenly, the purple glow that covered the items disappeared, making everything fall to the floor. Hearing sounds of objects falling into the ground, he opened his eyes to see everything that was floating in the air, dispersed all over the room, creating a complete mess. All the books, pencils, papers were everywhere, the massive bowl pulled over the side-splitting the weird green glowing liquid spreading itself slowly through the floor and, fortunately, the mirror and the library, which had some books, were intact. Martin then put his hands on his head and kneel in frustration "Urghhhh, this is messed up, my life is upside down!! I'm somehow transformed into a girl with wings and a horn, why am I so unlucky", he said. But his face went from frustrated to a surprised face as he looked into the mirror, he was wearing something so… revealing, it made him look so sexy, even his face was beautiful; he turned away from the mirror and cleared his mind, focusing on the situation in which he was. 'What am I supposed to do now?' he thought to himself, as he looked around in the room, he spotted the big library that covered the entire wall, filled with the rest of the books that survived, plus the books that were spread around the room. “Guess I have to start somewhere,” he said -------------------------------- “Nothing in this one” Martin said as he finished reading the book he was holding in his hands, as he threw it into the pile of books that he already read. He looked at the library, still stacked with a larger number of books than the ones he had read, he growled in frustration as he found nothing about how to get back his body or how to get back home. “This is getting nowhere, and there are still so many books, I know there's something useful in here, but where?” he said, struggling to think about something, as he got frustrated, he then kicked the nearest bookshelf, causing a book to fall out of its spot, landing into ground and opening in a random page. Martin then walked to the book to pick it up, taking a glance at the page in which it was opened. He took interest in the information that contained, as he kept reading, he cheered up, as he finally found something indeed, the information was describing some sort of “inner-space-dimension travelling”, which he was certain that could help him get back home. It was some sort of ritual that he had to perform. Reading a bit further he found he needed two things: an artefact, specifically a small wooden statue resembling an owl with sapphire eyes perform the spell Which was the hard part as he never performed a spell in his life, which at the same time is not an everyday activity. But, with the knowledge he had of fictional movies about magic, it said that to perform a spell you have to say some strange words over some strange ruins or circles, ‘ that should work, I mean it´s pretty logical to me, I think ’ he thought, reading the page. “Ok, I 've got to be organized so I can get this right, first things first, the small owl statue” he said looking around the strange messy room, which he already knew was his fault, there were a lot of things spread around it. As he was searching through the spread books and papers, as he found nothing, he then moved to the desk, still intact, except all the stuff that on it; looking around the desk, he spotted something bright red in the left corner, reaching out to grabbed it, he found a small wooden statue, of an owl by the looks of it, with sapphire eyes, certainly what was he looking for. Lastly, the only thing he needed now, is a circular ruin in which he could perform the spell, but as he thought about it, he didn’t know how to draw one and there wasn't a picture of one on the page he found. Looking in defeat down at the floor, he noticed some weird drawings on it, he kneels to see more, as he did, he realized that it was a part of some kind of drawing, a big one apparently, he then cleaned up everything that was on the floor to take a better look at it. Finally, when he finished up, he noticed that it was some sort of ritual, “maybe it is the ruin that I need for the spell, I think it could work” he said, proceeding to the final stage. He then put the statue in the centre of the ruin. After that, he sat in front of it, with the book in his hands. “Please, make this work” he said, nervously looking at the book, with every hope he had on his heart. Reading out loud the weird words that the page contained, everything in the room started to crumble, as the ruins began to light up in a bright purple colour; seconds later, a vortex opened up above Martin and pulled him up, sucking him and transporting him into the unknown, hoping to bring him back to where he belonged, his home. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Somewhere, in a beautiful city, seven peculiar girls were walking on the streets, relaxing from a stressful day of school. Three of the seven girls were discussing things about their school day, one had light orange skin, green eyes and blond hair, wearing a cowboy hat, a white t-shirt with green sleeves with an apple on the centre, a long trouser skirt and brown boots, next to her was a highly energetic girl with light pink skin, curly pink hair, wearing a white t-shirt with no sleeves, a pink skirt with white leggings and high heel pink shoes, talking to a girl with white skin, with blue eyes and stylish purple hair, wearing a blue shirt with a top bow and a purple skirt under it, wearing high heel shoes. As the three of them were chatting, the two girls next to them were watching a documentary about rabbits, the girl holding the phone had light yellow skin, with blue eyes and light pink hair, she was wearing a light blue dress with light pink stripes around, wearing pink high heel shoes, the other girl watching the documentary had light blue skin, pink eyes and long rainbow hair, wearing a white t-shirt with a red lightning logo on it, with a short blue hoodie and long black sports trousers with rainbow stripes on the sides, wearing blue shoes; next to them, was a girl with yellow skin, blue eyes and red hair with yellow stripes, wearing a purple shirt with a sun logo on it, a black jacket with no sleeves and a black skirt, wearing high heel black boots; and the last girl of the group, had Lavander skin, with purple eyes and purple hair, with a pink stripe, tied in a horsetail, she was wearing a blue t-shirt with white stripes and sleeve bows, with a purple skirt that had a purple star on each side, wearing black shoes, and also glases. As all the girls were chatting with each other, the girl wearing glasses, suddenly had a headache and fell to the ground, there were sudden flashes of a certain girl with a resemblance to her, this took the attention of the other girls. "Twilight, are you ok?" said the red hair girl next to her, with a worried tone. "Yeah, I am ok, Sunset, just sudden headache, nothing more" Twilight replied to her friend, looking up to her, as she stands up. "Are you sure?". " I'm fine, now let´s get moving if we don´t want to miss the movie" They all nodded and kept walking. As the girls continue walking down the streets and chatting, Twilight was thinking about the flashing visions that she suddenly had, they were showing her evil ego, Midnight Sparkle, she already had nightmares with her in the past, and with the help of her friends, she defeated her, stoping them, but, with these sudden visions about her, what if she wasn´t gone, what if she wasn´t defeated, what if she gains control of her body again and hurt her friends, destroys the fabric of reality itself, just to get all the magic knowledge of Equestria in the process, twilight thought about all of this, she sounded crazy, that this was just a figment of her imagination with all of the stress she had because of the exams, but with everything that she lived, it couldn´t be crazy, ' I have to to the bottom of this, but better not tell the girls, yet, until I figure out what s clearly going on' she thought to herself, as she rejoins her friends.