//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Maybe It's not... // by Fat1thatyoulove //------------------------------// Maybe I could start to understand Maybe It’s not… The cold night hits against your body like little needles you don’t know where you’re going but for some reason you don’t care, you look down to your side and Twilight is beside you. She looks up at you and smiles as you enter a big open room there’s upbeat music playing in the room is bright and seems to be decorated for some kind of party, there's all kinds of ponies in the room. There’s a row of tables along the wall there’s foods of all sorts and there’s punch bowls filled with all kinds of colors. Ponies are around the tables eating and drinking, everyone seems to be having a good time. You walk over to a great stone statue in the middle of the room and stare at the stone work. You notice the music has stopped and it’s really quite, you look around the room and everyone seems to be staring at something you ask what everyone looking at but no one answers. You walk over to what everyone looking at… and there you see it Twilight is lying on the floor in a pool of some red substance. You run over to Twilight you’re breathing is stressed and the room feels as though it’s spinning your holding back tears fearing that the red is blood. As your hand touches her purple coat you get a strange feeling you snap your hand back and watch as it begins to turn black. You shake your hand furiously trying to knock whatever has gotten onto it off, it’s no use. The color change creeps up your arm slowly you watch with your mouth a gasp you have no idea what to do. The color change has started up to your face and down to your legs you again try to fling the color off but this time you get some off only the dark substance is not the only thing that has come off you watch as your right arm hits the ground beside you with a loud thump it flops around still slightly moving the fingers from how you were flailing. You scream in terror as it dissolves into the ground, your screams don’t last long as your left side of your face begins to droops down and feels like its falling off. You hear a faint calling of your name in the distance but its hard to hear with only half a face you, the collapsing of your body has not stopped your left arm breaks off, you start falling to the ground next to Twilight. As you hit the ground you wake up… Your eyes shoot open, you are panting as your eyes madly dart back and forth until they focus on Twilight's face next to your bed. Her big purple eyes slowly calm you down as you stare at her. “Are you ok?” she says You’re still a little shook up from your terrible and a bit creepy nightmare you just awoke from so you just give a nod. “Are you sure because you were screaming in your sleep and I have never heard you or anypony do that.” Her sarcastic voice means she already knows there’s something wrong. You tell her that you had a dream that wasn’t the best kind to have; you of course leave the part about her out of it. “But it’s no big deal” you say. She smiles and brings her hoof to her chest in a proud manner “I have studied dreams in a few books I have read; no big deal ha, dreams are our subconscious selves trying to live out something we do or don’t want to happen.” She looks to you with a motion with her hoof to continue. You shake your head “I’ll tell you some other time Twilight.” “Promise?” she says You nod “Good, now get dressed we're going out.” Going out? It’s at this point you realize she is wearing a blue saddle with a plush white outline and she has bright purple boots on. You have never seen her dressed up before, well other than dogs you never have seen animals dressed up before. She walks out of the room, you wonder to yourself why is she wearing that? You move to the window across the room and look outside your shocked to see snow atop every roof and snow is falling and you can feel the cold air on the window hitting your face. No way it was definitely not cold or snowy yesterday when you went to sleep. Twilight comes back into the room “Are you ready to go?” You look down at the same clothes you have worn since you first arrived here and think to yourself well I won’t die of frostbite that fast will I? You nod your head and say you’re ready as you follow Twilight out into the cold winter wonder land that has formed outside the cozy tree library. O GOD its cold you shiver as the door closes behind you. You’re too cold to talk so you follow close behind Twilight in silence as you start down a dirt road into town. As you walk into town you see ponies of all shapes and sizes you watch as little ponies play in the snow you’re surprised when one throws a snowball at the other. At first you think your brain is playing tricks on you, sure you have known Twilight for a while but you still find it amazing there is a world of ponies that are so similar to humans. Your mind starts to escape you, almost as fast as your ability to stop walking, in your absent mindedness you have walked into a fruit stand. First thought is hey look apple next thought my FOOT! Apples roll off the stand and onto the ground. An orange colored pony runs over yelling in a feminine southern accent “HEY get away from my apples!” Well she’s angry maybe she will let me explain first…NOPE she charges into you and knocks you down. *End of chapter 1