The wave of fresh scent of baking breads, pies, and other assorted pastries and sweets hit the five mares first, nearly sending them on a hunt for the delicious aroma. Once they got the scent to a near natural smell to their nostrils, the five they took in the surrounding area, which was a delicious looking paradise of sweets. Taffy lakes. Peppermint Trees. Cotton Candy Clouds, which some Pegasus rested, or snacked on. Gumdrop Rocks, and far off in the distance was a Marzipan Fortress, with Ice Cream Cone Turrets, Delicious Battlements, and Delectable Parapets. Not forgetting the Cola Hot Springs, or Ginger Bread Houses with Candied Ponies walking around, casting odd glances at the newcomers.
Rainbow came to first, heading straight for a candied cloud to take in the delectable whipped sugar. When she was about to succumb to her primordial sweet-tooth, a voice popped up inside of her head.
I wouldn't do that if I were you." Said the voice, "These sweet aren't so sweet"
"Is that Discord?" Asked the flying mare, mainly to herself.
"Yes you nilly, what other Gods of Chaos that can go into other ponies' minds?" Asked Discord.
"Okay," answered Dash "But why can't I eat them?" Sending a mental image of the ponies of this place eating the landscape.
"Okay, have you ever eating another countries food and had terrible stomach problems?" The mare mentally nodded in response. "That's because your body's not used to the spices, or the ingredients inside the food. Only, this type of 'pain' is much, much, worse. Bodily functions shut down worse, please send this message to your other four legged friends, don't want to lose our best friends do we?" Discord said, leaving the mind of the Rainbowed Mare.
The mare shook her head, and went down to her friends, who were finally getting out of their trances. "Guys! Don't eat the sweets on the ground! Or on the Trees, or in the Lakes, or anywhere!" The Mare huffed.
"But why?" Asked the Apple of the group, picking a candied apple from a nearby tree, examining it, "they look perfectly fine to me."
"Discord says so, and he is the inventor of this plain, just not in this form," explained Rainbow, half pulling the 'facts' out of her arse, "Would he lie to his five new-found friends?"
There were a few mmhmms, and "Oh"'s form her four friends, and they dropped the candied foods they had in hooves and magic and kicked aside, some with saddened "Ah"'s. Then they hoofed it to the castle, thinking that is where their Party Pony friend is. While they walked to the Marzipan Masterpiece on the Horizon, the group got solid glares form the Candied Inhabitants of the Dream.
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They were on their way, when they saw a weird beast strutting through the forest, and the dark, melancholy feel of the thing didn't fit right with its surroundings. The ponies quickly hid behind bushes, or in trees, wondering what the hay was this thing.
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Discord gave a worried sigh. What if he lost his newest, and only, friends? What if They never make it out. What if he never saw Fluttershy --- "Okay, that is not going to happen" the distraught God thought, he was not going to lose the one pony he cared for since... the other one. Though he can't bend rules, even if it was his domain (where he spent most of his time, in stone and of dreams), nor if he was a God. Rules were Rules. In Domains were the mortal and conscious could not tread, he couldn't do horseapples.
Dreamstate had no Gods, even the one who came up with the current state it was in. Nightmares were dreams, and, even if they were locked tight in a strong box of their worst fears, could not be kept securely in a land of Dreams themselves. They roamed free, which brought the fear that a nightmare could harm the five of the mane six.
He needed to communicate to the five, but, after his whole thought process, and already communicating with the unconscious Rainbow "Sonic Boom" Dash, he was wasted of energy and was nearing treading into the open arms of sleep and his own Dreamscape, were everything wasn't as he wanted, and filled with his own thoughts, haunting his ancient mind. So he needed one thing, Caffeine. Conjuring his favorite spot from Fluttershy's house, and a cup of a potent energy drink, his own recipe, he began to relax and drink his liquid escape of the escapade of sleep.
Though the Cup of caffeine was able to delay the lull of sleep, the able hooves of the Sandmare was able to bring him to his own Dreamscape. The one name going through his head as he drifted to the land of the unconscious... Sunny Meadows