//------------------------------// // Grin in your dream // Story: Grin // by Dradavar //------------------------------// Grin By Dradavar --- My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic © Hasbro --- --- I do not own the intellectual properties this fan-fiction is based on --- Chapter III: Grin in your dream I open my eyes, again, only to instantly close them again. It was bright, far too bright. 'Ohhhh, dammit, who let the curtains open?' sitting up, stretching my back I notice some things that are off. First off all... "Ow!" I yell, "What the?" looking at my hurting side I see the bandages around my barrel. I try to remember where I got that wound, but my brain refuses to tell me, I'm still to tired to think. Second, I'm not at my place. Looking around, I'm in a big, fluffy bed, the sheets made of silk or something similar. I turn my head, searching for a clue that tells me where I am, and I find it. The room isn't that big, well still bigger than my living room, and it's elegantly furnished. Furniture made of cherrywood and other expensive woods. The walls are white, made of marble. On the floor is a great, fluffy rug in red. 'Looks like I'm in Canterlot' I think. I still turn my head, still searching for a clue but the search for where I am comes to a sudden stop. There to my left is the big, wooden door, and right in front of it is Shield, he looks down at me, his glare is hard and cold, not the friendly face that I'm used to see. "Finally awake?" he asks in a monotone way, "traitor" he adds. 'Traitor?' I wreck my brain looking for the missing piece why he would call me that, when suddenly I remember last night. "Oh" I let my head hang down, "so you know." "I know" he nodds, "but I can't believe it. My best friend, a damn cultist, up to destroy the land that I love" his voice hard and scolding. "What?" I look up to him, confused "Destroy this land? Are you retarded? I love this land, and everything about it! I would never even dream about destroying it!" "Maybe you won't" he says coldly, "but the pony you try to bring back will do so" his face shows disappointment and something like pain. "Just let me ask you, why do you want to bring her back? What happened to you that you follow a mad pony like her" 'What happened?' I think about that question, only for a moment, I think about the why. "What happened to me that I follow a mad pony?" my voice turns down, into an icy whispering. "Nothing happened, nothing besides that I was born." I grin, his expression turns from calm and confident to shaken, almost scared. "Why are you grinning?" he asks, his voice now reflecting his emotional distress. "All ponies do it" I say, slipping out of the sheets and walking up to him, looking deep into his eyes, and willingly changing my eye colour from blue to the icy turquoise tone for that Nightmare Moons eyes were known. "But why are YOU?" he asks, his voice now weak compared to his confident and scolding tone from before but he is still standing tall. "At some point in their life they grin" I go on, "maybe it's a small mischievous grin, maybe one of pure happiness, maybe it's just a habit, but they all do." "WHY ARE YOU!?" he cries, he trembles now, falling down to his haunches. I chuckle at first, no, it's a giggle, a small giggle that quickly raises into the laugh of a pony with an unbreakable will and the determination to fulfill it's dream. I stop laughing and look down on him, as he tries to get as small as possible. "I grin because I know better" I conclude, and for the first time, in 4 years of friendship, Shield sees my true self, and he can't comprehend it. His eyes turn inside, his eyelids close. He faints, falling to his side. Before his head can land on the hard marble floor I catch it with my left hoof, letting it softly down, ensuring he doesn't get hurt. My eyes return to their normal colour. "I'm sorry Shield" I whisper, "but you wouldn't understand the 'Why'." I walk over him, ensuring to not step on him, and open the door. It was time. Time to wake mother. ~~~~~~~~ Luna looks down on the sleeping pony before her, seeing him grinning and mumbling. And at the same time she could feel it, his magical aura. More than a little bit confused she looks down at the earth pony before her. Her thoughts whirling, she gathers her magic, closing her eyes she tapps his forehead with her horn. It was time to find out what he was dreaming. And why he was grinning like a wolf. ~~~~~~~~ Canterlot at night had a beautiful touch. It was quiet and desolate, the two attributes I love the most. Wandering through the town, completly ignoring that there are no guards or anypony else on the street. I look up to see a full moon shining down on Equestria. Taking a deep breath of the fresh nightair, I focus my mind and dive into the shadows. Remember how I said, light travels fast but darkness and shadows are faster? Well, that wasn't a lie. I close my eyes, focussing on my target, Everfree. I open them, and here I am, deep into the Everfree Forest at the old castle of the pony sisters. A wide grin appears on my face, sometimes it's pretty awesome to be the- "What do you think you're doing here?" someone whispers from behind me. I jump around, already knowing who is behind me, remembering the voice. "Princess Luna!" I exclaim in surprise, earning a harsh look of her. I shrug, her eyes looked like she was about to eat me alive. "I, was-, well-, I..." I stutter, trying to look into her eyes, I notice something that is off. In her eyes is a moon reflection. I turn my head and look for the moon. "What are you doing?" she asks quizzical as she notices my wild turning and searching. I stop. The moon was gone. It was a clear, but dark night. The only light in the sky were the millions of stars shining down on Equestria. "Ohhh I see" finally realizing what was wrong with the whole ordeal, now that I think about it. It was too easy to get out of Canterlot. I close my eyes and focus my mind. I take a deep breath. CRACK The crack sounded loud enough to shatter every other sound that could be there. And it did. I look over to Luna, seeing her move her mouth, saying something, she stops midsentence, covering her mouth with her hoof she notices that she isn't able to hear her own voice anymore. She looks around with a confused look on her face, she didn't know I was able to manipulate dreams. 'And I can do everything?' I whisper in my head, remembering the last time this happened. Luna steps closer, her horn ignited. I change my focus and slow her movement. 'Whatever you desire' the familiar voice purrs. Luna is almost over me, ready to attack me with whatever magic she was channeling. 'Wake up!' I shout the warning at her dreamrealm, trying my best not to connect mine with hers. Luna gets thrown backwards, but is able to catch her fall and is able to land somehow gracefully. A deep crack appears at the point where she landed. Everything cracks. Everything breaks. The ground explodes into a million pieces, blue turns red, black to white, light to darkness. Ever looked at a dark red and blood red coloured Luna? Not a nice sight. Cracks start to form around my sight, but this time they don't stop, the cracks move, deeper and further over and into my body. Lunas body was also cracking. I close my eyes. The last thing I feel is me falling apart, shattered by the dream. Time to wake up again. ~~~~~~~~ Luna tumbles to the floor, taking deep breaths, gasping for air. This feeling! The feeling of being shattered, of being crushed into a million pieces. She shivered. It was the worst feeling she could think about. It was a terrible and scary feeling. She pulls herself together and sit back up on her haunches, looking at the bed. She freezes in position. Maybe the sudden return into the mortal world has messed up her eyes, there in front of her sitting in the bed was a pony, but she could only see a shadowy figure of it, she couldn't even tell if it was a mare or stallion, earth pony or unicorn. The only thing she saw clearly were the ponys eyes. Bright, turquoise eyes were looking down at her. She remembers those eyes, she had seen them for a few weeks a thousand years ago everytime she had looked into a mirror. This were the eyes of her alter ego, her dark side, her inner demon. These were Nightmare Moons eyes. 'You think you can control my realm?' a dark, purring voice was whispering in her head, 'you might have returned into your world but you are still a whelp. Let me show you how it's done!' Sudden tiredness overcomes Luna, she closes her eyes and falls asleep. 'Show her' the voice could be heard in the room, but she sounded like she was inside a cave or a giant hall, echoing all over the place. "As you wish, mother" Grin answers, jumping off the bed and stepping closer to Luna he leans down and bites into her ear. A small drop of blood escaping the bitemark, ruining her coat with a small path of it, he stretches his tongue and licks every drop off of her coat, his eyes tremble for a second before he closes them, falling asleep right next to Lunas warm belly. His mother called for an audience, and she would get it.