Now For Rarity
Alex was doing better and better with his nightmares. As he conquered each one, He found that they didn’t come back to trouble his nights rest. As always, Luna was always there guiding him as the ethereal dream voice of Sarah.
Tonight was going to be Raritys turn.
As Alex drifted off to sleep, he once again found himself in the dream realm, Luna ready to guide him. Once again, he found himself chained to the ground in a freezing rain but this time the rain wasn’t falling on him. He looked around and found that the rain was landing on something invisible. The rain was landing on a sort of dome and running down its sides, The individual droplets forming the shape of the dome he was in. He stood up and found that also the chain that had originally held him to the ground was doing so no longer and he was completely warm and dry.
It was very late in the night. It looked like the party was winding down since it was getting quieter in the mansion. Suddenly the door to the back yard opened and out stumbled Rarity. Apparently, by the way she was staggering and stumbling, she had had one too many cocktails. She stumbled over to Alex and with her magic and a little extra effort on her part, picked up his “leash” and proceeded to head for her home. Alex quietly and obediently followed and in some instances has to lean on her to guide her wobbly form in the right direction.
Rarity was so inebriated that she didn’t even notice that the invisible dome was following them to her home.
“I hope shyou learnd your lesshen for yer mis-misbehhhhhhaaavior.” She slurred.
“Oh yes Miss Rarity Ah be a good stallion, yes mam miss Rarity Ah be good from now on!” Alex spoke in a sarcastic, very bad, mock, Appaloosa type accent.
Once they got home, Alex opened the door to the boutique and guided her in. Once inside and closing the door behind him, Alex suddenly felt the collar around his neck carefully fall away but noticed that there was a faint blue glow around it as it fell to the floor. He also noticed that Rarities horn wasn’t glowing either.
“Sarah? Was that you?” he whispered in the dark.
“Yes. I am here my young friend.” A voice whispered back.
“Thank you.”
“You are most welcome.”
Alex helped Rarity stagger up the stairs and to her bed. Once she was in bed and sound asleep, Alex suddenly had an idea. Alex had a terrible, evil, awful idea! The smile on his face told Luna so and she shuddered to think of what sort of mischief he was up to.
“Aaaleeex? What are you thinking? Luna queried.
“Oh you’ll see!” Alex giggled (insert evil laugh here, patent pending) he thought.
He went down stairs and rummaged around her sewing station pulling out drawers until he found what he was looking for. Grabbing what he needed he went back upstairs to Raritys room. He crept in very quietly so as not to wake her and walked over to the side of her bed.
“Rarity. Rarity? He whispered and poked her in the side gently. She didn’t even move. She was out cold from her over imbibing at the party.
Alex smiled evilly and immediately got to work.
The permanent markers did their work as designed, and in the hands of a skilled master, what a work of art it was!
Once he was done, he then went to work with the scissors he had found!
“Oh Alex! You are so evil!” Luna giggled.
“No. I am not evil. Not yet anyways.”
Once he was finished, He quietly called out into the darkness. “Sarah? Are you still there?”
“I have a favor to ask.”
“What is it?” Luna asked.
“You said you had the power to go into other peoples dreams right?”
“Yyyyeeeessss?”
“Can you send this dream to that stuck up white snob please?”
“Oh Alex I couldn’t! I just couldn’t! It would be so cruel! I protect ponies from nightmares, not give them ones. Have you no mercy?”
“She was cruel to me in my dreams. Justice cannot rob mercy. It’s too bad I can’t do this for real so I guess this will have to do.”
“Alex? Are you sure about this?” Luna asked.
“DO IT!”
“Okay, NOW I am evil! HEEHEEHEEHEE! He said gleefully.
“Oh also Sarah? I want you to take me to her dreams. I gotta see this through. Its just too good to pass up!”
“Okay Alex.” Luna sighed and asking one last time…”Are you sure I can't talk you out of this?”
The reply came without hesitation. “No. Do it.”
“Very well.”
Luna closed her eyes and wove her spell. A glowing portal opened and in it was Rarity, in her bed fast asleep. Luna kept them both invisible as Alex gleefully watched the events unfold.
As the sun came up Rarity awoke and with bleary eyes not yet focused, stumbled to her bathroom. Her head was pounding from the hangover she had rightfully earned from the party from the night before.
After she was done doing her business, she staggered to her vanity and began to look herself over.
……. The scream could be heard all across Ponyville, Canterlot, Equestria, and even possibly in orbit! The ground even shook at the sonic blast of her shriek and even a temporary breeze was felt as well!
Alex had to bite down on his dream hand as the happenings continued. “Sarah can you do a silence spell or something so she doesn’t hear us?”
“Already done.” Was her reply.
Upon hearing this Alex totally lost it! He let out a peal of laughter the likes of which he had never before done since he first arrived in Equestria.
Raritys mane and tail were all but gone. Hacked off almost to their bases. And on her beautiful white coat were large multi-colored poka dots. On her muzzle was a elaborate mustache and on her right eye was drawn a monocle and chain that ran down her cheek and neck. And her horn! Oh her lovely horn was colored to look like an old fashion barber pole with a red candy stripe going around in a spiral all the way to the tip. Funnier still was the dots were only on her left side since she had been sleeping on her right. Her right side had remained untouched.
Alex had even altered her Cutie Mark on the same side as the rest, adding a few extra lines and dots in black permanent ink to make it look like a Ferris Wheel!
As Alex laughed his flank (might as well use the correct term) off at Raritys reaction, the world suddenly shuddered and Alex found himself back at the dream version of his current home. For the briefest of moments he thought he saw the silhouette of a unicorn pony with a long mane and tail but he dismissed it as naught, thinking it might have been Rarity in her before state.
“Sarah? What happened? He asked not understanding why he was suddenly in his current dreaming location.
“Simple Alex. She woke up.”
“Dang!” He said. “Wish I could have stayed around a little longer.”
Luna shook her head. “Ok prankster, time for you to get some sleep. The dawn approached soon.” She said in a soft motherly tone.
“Okay okay.” He said in return and tucked himself into his dream plane bed.
Soon he was asleep and Luna came back to the waking world.
“Whew! That was close!” she thought. ”He almost spotted me. He is a clever one. I’ll give him that!”
Then another rather disturbing thought occurred to her. “There are only two more elements left and then it will be my sister and myself. I am feeling a little worried as to what he might have in store for myself and Celestia.”
There would be time enough to consider this thought later. It was time to get home. As per her usual routine, she made sure all was well in the ancient throne room and that Alex was safe and warm. She then spread her wings looking back one last time at Alexs sleeping form and took to the night sky through the gaping hole in the rooms roof.