The night was more than beautiful. Certainly, the stars in the sky were playing around, like dancing in a happy party, or at least, was what the doctor saw while he has some hallucinations. Why the stallion is hallucinating? That’s easy to answer, he couldn’t sleep. He was trying to concentrate all his energy to guard the camp. Scarlet was there, resting. After walking too much and the poor Scarlet, having her wounds just being healed few weeks ago. The dreams of her weren’t but at all, if you manage to look at her face, the mare was moving around, like a child, n hyperactive one. What’s at her head? It could be something really normal for a soldier, remembering an epic battle in the battlefield, or in another duty that does a soldier. But, why we don’t look at her dreams?
“I wanna know why mama always tried to stop me to go to the knight’s school? I always dreamed to be a great pegasus, just like my grandmother, a great mare, full of temperament. She was full of fame… nopony tried to oppose her. She even was blessed by our princess. So, why did she try to stop me if her mama was so cool? Grandpa always told me that both always give their love to her… well, this is freaking me out with so many questions I am making right now. I should only enjoy this, I will do my best, and I will be the great knight of Princess Sonne’s!” those were the words in the head of the mare, well, pony at this age. Of course, I am talking about our great pony, Scarlet Night. She was talking about the great pegasus and right hoof of Princess Sonne’s after no more than fifty years, Golden Wing. And now that Sonne was making the preparatives of her future right hoof, young’s ponies full of dreams were trying to do the best they can do.
Her first days weren’t like the other ponies. They do not have the same training as Scarlet-well, being the granddaughter of a great knight and she had training with her granddaughter… that old mare was not easy…-but, of course, things changes while the pony was in that school. The first thing is her hate against unicorns. Not a racist way of it, only talking about their magic, she hates magic. She always believed that unicorns always cheat while they are fighting. That’s what she thinks about that, until she manages to know one great soldier at the school. An unicorn full of laziness, I don’t even know how the fuck he got at his title, being that lazy, skipping sometimes training, that pony really show her some tricks and even tech her some advices.
“Why I shouldn’t hate unicorns? They are cheaters, they always using their magic to take avatange” Scarlet said.
“If that’s the case, you are a cheater, too.” Alexander said after hearing the words of the pony.
“Pardon?”
“You are a pegasus; earth ponies can’t even fly or even use magic like pegasus or unicorns. The three species can be as good as anyone at physical level. A pegasus can be better physically than an earth pony or an unicorn, and those two can be better than the others… well, you got it. If you keep talking like that, you will be saying that earth ponies are weaker than us, pegasus and unicorns.”
“Don’t fuck me with that! I didn’t say that shit!” yelled the angry pegasus.
“Maybe you didn’t said with your words, but, that is what ponies think after hearing that. You should know the limits my friend. Unicorns have that. We need to concentrate to use our magic, if we don’t concentrate, we will do shit. And don’t come at me with the excuse of telekinesis, it’s hard as you don’t know trying to control something that’s moving around so fast. Even the most powerful and magic ponies of Evelestria needs a great training to control many objects at the same time, and don’t talk about their weight.”
“And? Telekinesis is not their only power!”
“You’re right. We have more powers, but, unicorns need more than knowledge to dominate their power, all around between two things: their special talent-that’s an easy one, you only need to take a look at their flanks-and the other thing…. Is hard to get, and that’s natural talent. We don’t have the luck of you, pegasus and earth ponies, you can train a lot to be the best you can do, but we, we need luck at the moment we born to be the best in our race. If you’re happy to hear this, I hate fuckers that think they are the best without taking the hard way… and a lazy pony as me is telling that, so, that’s worse” those were the words of Alexander, being serious but, of course having his easy going nature, talking about that without problems.
Scarlet was amassed; she never knew that unicorns have that problem. She always believed that unicorns were overpowerd, but hearing that, few of them will be taked as they deserve… that’s kind of sad “I didn’t know that… I am sorry”
“Why you are sorry? Are you sorry about that shit? Don’t make me laugh, that’s nothing important, well, not like me. I didn’t get mad when they told me I was a mediocre pony. I always believed that the best motivator of are the worse notice of all. Look, you born health, ponies didn’t believe that somepony like me with ADHD get where I am, my mother was always giving the best that she can do to make me a good pony that didn’t lose studies or walk in the bad road. Anyway, like I told you, even if I don’t have the second thing to be the best, I can be specialized in my special talent. And that things it’s what really counts”
Scarlet heard the words of Alexander. She looked at her flank, watching that shinning lance and shield around feathers. Her special talent… being a great knight in combat, the only problem with her was of course that her nature didn’t let her being a strategist “… Do you want to train for a while? asked Scarlet, trying to be nice with the unicorn.
“I thought hate unicorns and their magic?”
“I don’t hate you; I hate idiots that think they always are the best” Alexander laughed after hearing the answer of Scarlet “You aren’t one of those unicorns full of proud and shit! And that’s why you like me; anyway, not anypony can train with the great granddaughter of Golden Wings” Alexander start to laugh.
“Ok, ok. You win hahaha”
“What’s so funny?”
“Nothing, haha. It’s nothing, hahahaha!”
The dream ends there. Scarlet woke up, was still at night. The crickets were like always, making their sounds “What time is it?” asked Scarlet, Gas didn’t answer her “Hey!” was useless; the stallion didn’t answer the calls “Is he asleep?” Scarlet didn’t think twice and trying to don’t make any sound, she moves nearly to the stallion, trying to touch his mask.
“Was the dream nice?” asked Gas when she was close enough at him.
“Agh!” yelled Scarlet, jumping backwards “Agh…” yelled again, but this time in pain.
“You shouldn’t be jumping like that, I know I am sexy and my voice was so sexy that you yelled of happiness.”
“… Why aren’t you slepping?”
“I don’t want to sleep. Right now is not the best decision, though.”
“Why?”
“B’cause my lady; fist, I like the hallucinations I am watching right now in the sky, thanks for the days I haven’t sleep. Second, around of us are beasts that will kill us if we both sleep.”
“What?” Scarlet asked surprised.
“You’re a pegasus, you were always flying in the sky or sleeping at the clouds if you were in a place that you don’t know very well, or at least is what common sense says. I know this place better than anypony else-well, if there were anypony else- this place is nearly unexplored-but that’s not a problem right now.”
“What do you mean, what is this place? I sure I know every place in Evelestria.”
“This is the Phantom Forest.” Gas answered.
“The Phantom what?” yelled in fear “Why the hell we are in one of the most dangerous places around Evelestria? This place is full of beast that could kill us in instants!”
“You are right; they can kill us in instants. But, I got good news for you, I know this place, was a great place I lived before living in that cave. This road is the road of the Dream’s Eaters, well, in few words, we are in their territory. If we both get asleep in the night, they will come and kills us in our nightmares. So, try to sleep for now.”
“The hell I will sleep with fuckers that can kill me without any hesitate, I will stay up until morning!”
“Good luck with that, the night in this place have more hours than the real world.”
“What do you mean?”
“In the real world, we have 24 hours. Normaly, we have 12 hours of daylight-completely depends of the season-and the others 12 hour have darkness-depends-but, in this place, we have 24 hours of darkness and the next “day” only has 8 hours.”
“… You got to be kidding me.”
“I wish. The worse thing is that if we lose the fire, we’re dead.”
“Why the fuck-“ Scarlet couldn’t end her curse sentence.
“If we run, they kill us, if the fire is death, they kill us and if we sleep, they kill us. Try to think about it. But, you can choose stay here or try to escape, if you try the second, the only way you manage to escape Is making the famous and legendary Rainboom, and girl, there is only one pony in this generation that can do it and that’s not you, and if you were that pony, you condition would send to dead. So, please, calm down and sleep. “ Scarlet couldn’t say anything after hearing the words of Gas. She was scared.
“Now now. 6 hours left, and now my hallucinations are making me watch the first four movies of the Italian Stallion, Rocky… I wish I had some popcorn right now.”
“… How can you be so calm in this situation?”
“Being calm, that’s easy. Just try to avoid and don’t think about the problems… well, that’s easy for ponies like me.”
“Doctors have that talent to ignore their patients fear?”
“No, ponies that born with some attention problems.” Scarlet couldn’t say anything, she was surprised after hearing the words of Gas, her eyes were opened thanks for her shock “Now, please, sleep and let me watch how Rocky manage to get the girl.”
Well, Scarlet didn’t get asleep after 3 hours, but having that condition, she felt asleep with great difference of time. When she woke up, she wasn’t at the forest “Where are we?” asked Scarlet, amused that they were far away of the forest.
“Nearly to the Valhalla, why are you asking that?”
“How the hell we get out of that hell?”
“Walking. You were really asleep that I couldn’t get you ready, so, I carried you.”
“How long?”
“Fifteen ours.”
“How the hell we get so far with that time? My squadron need eight days to get at that battlefield at full and we manage to came so early, how?”
“That forest have a lot of short cuts to anyplace of this nation. The problem is managed to survive and watch how the old refrain: Easy way is not always the correct or beast one… wait a sec… that wasn’t an easy way… o well, forget it.”
“Wait a fucking second, how the hell do you know something like that if our most intelligent ponies didn’t know that?”
“Who says they didn’t know that? They know that better than me, the problem is surviving that hell. They are so many things that you really need to study, like two hundred years ago, one mare get the knowledge of every shortcut in the forest, Sonne used that for few years until they knew how dangerous was that place. And that’s why the better road is the long one. Well, let’s stop talking, we are in your home.” said Gas.
Scarlet was indeed amused; she was in home… in her home. The few things that hit her mind were her family. But right now, she needs to go to the palace in Valhalla. Talk with her princess. But the most important thing was… the capital didn’t change. She didn’t see anything involving the war… well, last war, like aches, in other words, the remains of the war “This is so weird… Gas, you know what happened?” asked Scarlet while both were walking to the gates.
“Do you never heard about peace?” asked the doctor “’Cause, ways of peace or ending the war are so many, like killing then all with poison in their water… wait, that only works with rivers, and I think your country or even Equestria have a good control with the water” answered Gas.
“Well… that’s right, but, I don’t know how the hell something like that happened. They started the war!” yelled the mare.
“That does not matter. You should read some history, great kingdom with love and peace, having a good level of economic, now they are doomed with problems, a lot of problems. But now, stop talking about that. Probably Valhalla is full of Equestrians, so, be nice with them.” Scarlet’s face change with rage in the moment when Gas talked about that probability. Gas laughed after watching her face.
Both of them were stopped by two guards protecting the gates, both have the symbol of Canterlot “Stop there!” ordered one of the soldiers of the gates “Identify!”
“We ar...” the mouth of Scarlet was sealed by an apple.
“We are travelers, I am a mere doctor, my name is Sly Cooper, and she is Carmelita, my patient, she was one of my patients and she asked me if we can go to see her family”
“And why you cover your face with such a mask?” asked one of the soldiers.
“Well… where I can start? Oh! I have a terminal diseases, is extremely contagious and make my face like if were the face of one dead, in other words, rotting. The smell is just too insane, I live with that thing all my days and try to not do something wrong. I have to eat alone… I said that my dick’s rotting, too? I wish I see the flank of that dude that do this to me, ‘cause I can’t recognize him. Anyway, if you want, you can look and see if I am lying to you, I need some treatment of course with some friends” Gas touched his gas mask, but was stopped by those guards.
“Wait, don’t do that, please!” yelled both of them “You can go… but please, don’t do that and go to the hospital!”
“Of course my good friend, come on my dear girl, we need to go and tell your family that you’re ok” said Gas with a great smile in his face, well, of course, was hide by the mask. Scarlet didn’t believed what she saw there.
“The hell happened?”
“That’s magic of fear, my dear patient.”
“No… How that happened?”
“Well… I said the words dick and rotting. That’s something that could be the nightmare of anypony… well, male pony. We have luck there.”
“What could happen if they didn’t stop you?”
“My beautiful face, probably with the level of gorgeousness, they would be gay, and then, they could be following us, at back, looking at my flank.” the face of Scarlet was full of confusion, hearing such a bizarre thing. She learns one thing, that doctor is more than a liar, is full of bad humor comedy.
After that, they walked around the capital that looks like before the war, only with the differences of the guards, they didn’t have the guards of Equestria “protecting” their streets. They stopped in the center of the capital, was full of evelestrians and equestrians. They were hearing and looking at a Lavender Unicorn in one tower, her hair was black and violet… well, was a really weird mixing of colors. And the flank, don’t forget the flank, was full of sparks.
“Such an extravagant unicorn, isn’t it?” said Gas.
“I haven’t seen that face around of this fucking place.”
“Well, less talk and more hearing. Probably is an equestrian.” the face of Scarlet was full of anger.
The lavender unicorn was there, with silence. She didn’t say anything. What that heck was she doing? But this changed when somepony appeared. A stallion with white color, spiky black hair, but the most interesting thing of that stallion, was the broken horn in his head, was a unicorn without horn. He was with that lavender unicorn, and started to talk “Hello, everypony of Equestria and Evelestria. We are here to make a speech. I, Alexander Lance, the head of military and right hand of Princess Sonne’s. This young pony is Princess Celestia’s student, the magic of the Elements of Harmony, Twilight Sparkle. She was one of the first ponies to talk about peace and ending this war. Hear very carefully her speech.” with those final words, Twilight start to talk.
“Hello, everypony. I must say, I am glad to be here, in the beautiful capital of Evelestria. The first thing I thought when I heard about a war, was talking with Princess Celestia. After we talked, we decide how could end this war, how much we could lose, both sides, and peace was the best option. After we arrived to this capital, we talked with Princess Sonne. She was really nice with us, and we manage to end the war with only a simple conversation. And now, everypony can go back to their houses, with their children that participated in the war, and we are really sorry about all the ones who lose their lives, fighting for what they believe. For those ones, we will give them a compensation for this pain, so we believe that we will be friends, evelestrians and equestrians. Thanks for hearing this.” After saying that, the pony disappeared with her magic, Alexander was there, and his face was full of happiness with this ending. For Gas, this was something really interesting, one of the Elements of Harmony in Evelestria, the only thing in his mind was, how much powerful could be that unicorn. For Scarlet, her face wasn’t like always, she was kind of sad, but his started when he saw her old friend, Alexander.
“Let’s go to the castle…”
“Ok.”