I'm currently sleeping, I've delved deep into my sub-conscious, and now I see nothing but blackness, something horrifying is gonna happen, but I'm sure of it. A light flickered on and off above my head, leaving me standing in a circle of light, but the darkness was still surrounding me. I then saw dark blue smoke wrap around my neck, I knew who it was already,
I sighed, "Come on, Princess. Don't do this just now. I'm not in the mood"
The darkness surrounding me now abruptly flashed into a bright white room, I wasn't sure where the room ended as it was completely white. Then, completely out of nowhere, a big flash of darkness erupted and then a slender, dark mare appeared before me, the Princess of the Night, Luna,
"Caramel" Her loud Canterlot voice beamed, "You have fears you need to conqu..."
"Cut to the chase, Your Highness" I interrupted the Princess, which is pretty ballsy of me, "I'm really not in the mood for this"
"You interrupted me. None of my subjects have done that. I can have you executed just for doing that" She told me.
"No, you can't, not anymore, that form of punishment was abolished over 200 years ago" I explained, "You've been free from your lunar prison for....seven years now, and still you don't know the modern laws?"
"You're not any fun, you know that?" She asked me.
"You enjoy doing this?" I asked back.
"No, I have to, it's my job as Princess of the Night" She told me.
"Well, Your Highness, it's only half past five in the afternoon" I replied.
"Well, get ready for hell, Caramel" She changed the subject.
"Yea..." I almost said as I just realized the phrase she said, "Wait, what?"
Luna vanished into a puff of black smoke, and then behind me, the ground sucked into itself, much like a whirlpool or a black hole, and I ran away from the disaster that was happening inside my mind, with Luna's evil cackle in the background,
"Fuck you, Princess!" I cursed at her.
I then smashed myself into an invisible wall, I now can't escape from the floor sucking into itself, and in about thirty seconds, I'll be sucked into it as well,
"I've conquered my fears, Luna! Get me out of here! PLEASE!" I pleaded.
I only got an ongoing laugh from the former Nightmare Moon, as if she was sickly enjoying this,
"Please, I'm sorry for cursing at you and interrupting you!" I cried in fear.
The hole stop sinking into itself as soon as it came to my hooves. I let out a huge breath of air,
"Thanks, Your Highness" I gasped as I slid down the invisible wall to sit down.
"Oh, it's not over yet, my subject" Her voice echoed.
I sighed in disbelief, "Aw, come on!"
"You've only been asleep for forty seconds" She told me.
"THIS HAS ONLY BEEN FORTY SECONDS!?!?" I raged.
"Yep, your mind functions slower when you're asleep" She replied, "You know what, remember the spiders from that Nightmare Night a few years ago?"
"No. Please no. No fucking way, please" I pleaded.
Luna started to laugh evilly again. then hairy, black spiders about the width of my hoof, with blood red eyes came out of the walls and crawled their way down there to try and get me. God dammit, I hate them spiders, and I guess there's only to do before they're able to get me. I'm gonna have to jump into the hole,
"I hate nightmares and Luna Krueger haunting me in them" I said myself, "OK, phew....here goes nothing"
I leaped off the edge and dived down into the hole, away from the hairy little hellspawn above me, I saw the white light above me quickly get smaller and melted away into darkness. I didn't scream on my way down, but my heart was racing, I was terrified.
I stopped falling, I fell on something soft, after I bounced on it slightly, it became a little more solid. The lights came on, and I was in a room that I remember from years ago, I was in my childhood bedroom.
I stood up on my hooves and walked around my old bedroom, I looked around and saw my bed, my bedside table, my drawers, my closet, everything how it was.
Out of nowhere, Luna, again, abruptly appeared from a flash of dark smoke,
"OK, is this a going to be a regular occurrence with you?" I asked her in an annoyed tone.
"Maybe, Caramel" Luna replied, "Do you remember this place?"
I nodded, "Yes, I do. It's my old bedroom from when I was a kid"
"Do you remember what happened at this moment of time?" She asked.
"No, I don't. So far, nothing has happened" I replied.
"This is the moment of your life when you hid from your abusive father in your room, let's watch" She said.
I then heard the sound of a loud balling come from outside the door, then burst a little colt with a yellow coat of fur and a brown mane. The young pony then slammed his door in fear, then pushed his drawers in front of the door. The young pony was crying and was scared, that young colt, was me when I was younger. The event then paused and Luna continued with her explanation on what this was,
"This moment of you life happened exactly twenty years ago, when you were seven years old, hiding from your drug-addled father" Luna explained, "Do you remember this moment now?"
My eyes went misty, "Yes, I do remember this moment now. I accidentally spilled milk on the carpet, and dad was high off of cocaine at the time and he just lost his shit" A tear escaped it's duct and fell down my cheek, "It was one of the scariest moments in my life"
"Let's continue to watch" Luna told me.
The images then began to move again, the younger me backed up at the very end of my old room, opposite the door my dad was trying to break through, my younger self was crying, and dreading the fact that my dad could break in at any second, however, considering I know what happens, he will not break down my door,
"CARAMEL! YOU LITTLE SHIT!" My Dad shouted as he banged on the door repeatedly, "OPEN THIS FUCKING DOOR!"
"No, Dad!" The younger me replied, "You're going to hurt me again"
"DAMN RIGHT I WILL!!" My dad balled out, "GET OUT OF THERE NOW!"
Me and Luna both watched my younger cower into the corner of the room, with my dad still thumping his hoof off my door. Once again, Luna paused the sequence,
"Do you know what happens from here?" Luna asked me.
"Yeah, my Mom tries to help my dad get me out of my room, he doesn't like that. Not. One. Bit" I replied, "My Dad, usually wants to deal with problems by himself, when Mom started to help him, he....he..."
"...Just let it out, Caramel" Her Royal Highness said to me.
"He beat her. He just beat her to a pulp. I didn't see it, but I heard it, all of it, it was horrible" I sighed.
"Do you want to continue watching this or do you want to go to the next memory?" Luna asked.
"Next memory, please" I replied.
Luna nodded and then a blue magical light beamed from her horn and she transformed my bedroom into a new location from my memories, this time the location was close to my Manehattan neighborhood's street, There was four apartment buildings, two on opposite sides, beside the buildings were a few houses, a mini-market and a rubbish looking coffee-shop. The street looked gloomy and wet, due to this memory taking place on a rainy day,
"Here we are, another nasty memory of yours" Luna told me.
"Just un-pause it please" I said.
"Fine" Luna replied.
The scenario un-paused, I felt the rain on my fur and the wind in my mane, it was cold, but knowing this is a dream, I'm probably not cold on my bed. I then saw another younger version of myself, however this version was older than the previous one. Also, walking beside the younger version of me, was Lucky. Me and Lucky were talking about girls, school and the gangs that were in separate turfs of Manehattan.
Now at the time, there was over fifty gangs operating around Manehattan, with the only places being gang free being the coast and the borders leading in and out of Manehattan. I'm not sure if many of the gangs still exist today, but from what I heard, they've all been disbanding quickly. I used to be able to remember almost all the gangs by heart, but now, I've only been able to remember the three of them. First was my turf's main gang, The Lunar Runners, a bunch of hard-hitting bad-asses who you could pay for protection. Next, was The Wingers, a rival gang which mostly consisted of Pegasi, though there was some Unicorns and Earth Ponies in the gang, the Wingers are a violent bunch, often causing raids in other gangs' turfs all over Manehattan. And finally, the next rival gang near Lunar's turf were The Discords, a bunch anarchists who commit a lot of terrorist acts in the name of the famed chaotic Draconequus, their the gang that the whole of Manehattan fear, fuck with them then you're already labeled dead, nopony would save you.
I saw the young me and Lucky walking down the street in the rain, from the spraypaint on the wall beside me and him, I saw which turf we were in, The Wingers turf. A bad thing was going to happen,
"...so yeah, Caramel. Duke almost got wasted by some of the Highers" Lucky was saying to the younger me.
"How many Highers were there?" The teenage me asked.
"Around about eighteen" He replied, "Duke was parleying through, he even made a truce with the Highers. But they broke it and just went balls deep around him"
"Shit, man" I uttered.
"Shit indeed, bro" Lucky replied.
Luna and I saw the young Lucky and me continue to walk down the sidewalk until we were greeted by a Pegasus I haven't seen in years, Blitz, the second-in-command of the Wingers. Blitz was a white Pegasus with a brown mane, he's a bit a crazy pony, though he remains calm and calculative most of the time, and his *Trottish accent gave him an intimidating demeanor. Blitz walked out of an alleyway and confronted both me and Lucky,
"Hey Colt brothers!" He sarcastically greeted us.
Me and Lucky just walked on, ignoring him, he's clearly been taking narcotics, so he seems extremely cranky,
"Hey, you two!" Blitz tried to get our attention once again.
We still ignored him, and Blitz got annoyed. And getting Blitz annoyed is a bad thing. So whilst me and Lucky were walking down the sidewalk, Blitz leaped and flew over us and landed swiftly in front of us,
"Young brothers, I just want to ask you two a question" Blitz told us.
"Yeah....sure" I wasn't sure.
"Ask away" Lucky said.
"Well, what are you little shites doing in our turf without parley?" Blitz asked us.
"How do you know we don't live here?" Lucky asked back in a smartass tone.
"Don't get smart with me, boyo" Blitz said, "Or they'll be a problem"
"When a Pegasus with a fucking sing-song voice tells my friend not to get smart with him, then there will be a problem" I stood up for my friend.
"That's the reason why I called you two over, you're both not Pegasi. And I know all the Unicorns and Earth Ponies who live around these parts. So what the hell are you two doing in my turf?" He asked intimidatingly.
"We're just trotting home from school" I replied.
"Yeah, man. Just give us five minutes and we'll be out of your turf" Lucky added.
"Wait, I recognize you two" Blitz realized, "You cunts are from Lunar's turf, ain't ya?"
Lucky nodded,
"I know you" He pointed at me, "You're the son o' those fucking psychos in Wesson Towers?"
I gave him a cold stare, "Yes" I gritted my teeth
"And you..." He turned to look at Lucky, "You're that punk from the orphanage, I remember you sprayed a tag for the Lunar Runner's on the side of my Apartment's wall, I didn't get to catch the first, but now there's no escape, you wee cunt" He exclaimed.
I stood in front of Lucky, fending for him,
"Hey, back the fuck up, man! Or I'll beat the living shit out of you!" I shouted at Blitz.
"Oh yeah....." He replied.
He loudly whistled, so much so, that it almost burst my eardrums. After the loud whistle, eighteen other Pegasi came out of the alleyways in the neighborhood, it was safe to say that me and Lucky at the time were shitting ourselves in fear,
".....You and what homo parade?" He finished.
"Em..." I couldn't find the words.
"Dude, run! Fucking leg it!" Lucky shouted.
Both me and him started to run away from the Wingers. But Blitz had other plans in mind for me and Lucky,
"Fanty, Mingo!" He called for his soldiers, "Take your groups up to the sky, boys. Me and my group won't be far behind"
And before we knew it, me and Lucky were being chased down by grounded and flying Pegasi, in the pissing rain and the battering wind.
Me and Luna were still watching this, But when the dreamed images of young Lucky and me started moving, I thought I had to start running along with the images in order to keep up with the action, but no. Instead, Luna created this floating, white and moving platform for us to stand on and it would follow the images and keep up with what's happening.
I saw me and Lucky panting for air as the Pegasi gang were closing in on us, and I remember what me and Lucky did, what happened was that lighting was striking near us, so me and Lucky slipped under their radar by turning into a dark alleyway, it was the smartest thing me and Lucky done, during this incident, the rest of the incident, not so much,
I gasped for air, "You're alright, Luck?" I asked.
"Yeah, man. I'm fine" He breathed heavily, "Thanks for sticking up for me back there, 'Mel"
"Don't sweat it, man" I replied, "You think we can make it out of here?"
"I don't know, man. They're still patrolling out on the streets, we probably will be able to make it out, just with one broken bone or more" He explained.
"Fucking hell. Fanty and Mingo are out in the skies as well. God DAMMIT!" I shouted.
"Ssh, dude. Keep your voice, Caramel" whispered Lucky.
"Sorry, Lucky" I apologized in a quieter voice, "You got a plan?"
"Yeah, I've got one. Since they past us we can just make a break for Lunar Runner's turf..."
"That it? It doesn't that bad" I said.
"It's not, 'Mel." He added "Our real problem is Fanty and Mingo. You see, those two have the eyes of fucking eagles, man. Even if we stay hidden, they'll still think there's something wrong. Hell, if it weren't for the lightning, then we probably wouldn't have been able to hide"
I sighed, "How did this get so wrong?" I spoke to myself.
"It's my fault, man. Tell you what, if the both of us get injured, I'll pay for the damage" He told me.
I chuckled slightly, "Huh, fifteen years old and already making enemies, I'm proud of you"
"It's nothing to be proud of" Lucky replied, "OK, if we got cornered, we stand our ground and soldier, got it?"
The younger me nodded,
"OK, lets get ready, Caramel" Lucky commanded.
We both stood beside each and made our way at the end of the alley and we both got ready to run,
"OK, so on three, we'll go, and we both sprint it like there's no fucking tomorrow" Lucky made sure.
I nodded, "Got it, man"
"OK. Here we go" He nervously gasped, "One..."
I got myself ready,
"Two..."
I got set,
"Three!"
I ran. Never I had I ran so fast in my life, the wind and rain made me go faster. I didn't hear anything, not even the thunder, the rain patter or the battering wind. All I heard was the beating in my heart, the adrenaline rush, the blood rushing through my veins as I ran for my life. I was snapped out of my trance once I turned my head to look back, I saw the eighteen Pegasi flying into the air and instantly targeted us, it made me hear everything, I heard the panicking from Lucky and the war cries of Wingers, I looked back ahead of me and saw that my turf was just over the bridge that separated mine from the Wingers, we've almost made it back. Just twenty yards away. And meand Lucky were almost home free. If it weren't for possibly the worst thing that happened to me during this entire scenario, Blitz darted into me, full force, right into my back, the worst pain I ever felt in my entire life, it felt like a spear piercing through my bone. Whilst I was pushed to the middle of the bridge by the 150 lb charging Pegasus, I saw Lucky get tackled to the ground beside me by Mingo. And from that point on, we were beat up, I got trampled on by eight Pegasi and Lucky was getting the shit beat out of him by the other ten. I coughed out blood, I was bruised and cut all over and my back was broken, the pain over took my body so much, that I almost didn't feel a thing after the 80 kicks I took,
Luna paused the images once again, and was curious about something,
"All of this was caused by Lucky using spray paint on their wall?"
"Yeah, he actually told me the whole story while me and him were in hospital, odd of me to remember that. But anyways he was getting told by the Lunar Runner's gang leader at the time, Ajax, to go a tag the Winger's wall, he said he'd pay him 200 bits for doing it, ultimately, Lucky didn't pass off the offer" I replied.
"Can we skip this part, I don't like violent confrontation" Luna told me.
I laughed, "Says the pony who served in a war that lasted 20 years and even killed the Changeling king"
"You know your history, impressive" Luna complimented, "How did I kill Masai?"
"Shot his neck and that swiped his head clean off" I replied.
Luna nodded, "Very good. But really, can I skip it?"
"You seem to have more power in my subconscious than I do so yeah, go ahead" I replied.
She then let magic beam from her horn and the images moved faster than they usually did, she un-paused at the point where the Pegasi stopped beating me and Lucky up and were taunting us,
"Little pricks!"
"You fucking cunts!"
"Get up and fight you little faggots!"
We both struggled to try and get up, but it was too much for me and Lucky, as soon as I even tried to push myself up on my hooves, I would collapse back onto the ground in a pool of my blood, that's been mixed with rainwater. But then I looked far ahead into my turf whilst I was lying on the cold, wet ground. We almost made it there, me and Lucky almost made it to our sanctuary, our home, our turf, our little piece of turf, but instead here me and him were bleeding badly on our bridge. My eyes were swollen so I didn't see well, but I saw what looked like figures coming from the distance, around twenty-five, but I couldn't tell. The figures came closer and looked more like actual ponies, with dark blue jackets, and before I knew it, the Lunar Runner's were here, much to the Wingers surprise,
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the mighty Ajax, finally showing is fucking face" Blitz said as the Lunar's came on to the bridge, "Long time, no see, boyo"
"Shut the fuck up, Braveheart" Ajax cursed, "I'm gonna give you only one chance to walk yourself and your fucking mutt soldiers back to where you came from"
"These wee bastards came onto our turf without parley" Blitz explained to the Lunar Runner's leader.
"We were just walking home from school, you jackass!" Lucky shouted out in a slurred voice.
"Shut the fuck up" Blitz said to Lucky as he kicked Lucky in the stomach.
"Woah, these dudes aren't wearing any colors on them!" A Lunar Runner shouted.
"He's right, these guys aren't wearing jackets representing us. They're civilians, hell, if you're boss were still alive he'd be disappointed in you, in all of you stupid fucks" Ajax told them.
"Hey, boyo, don't you dare mention that Cloud would be disappointed in us!" Blitz said, "We have an excuse for kicking these two. One of them tagged our walls"
"One of them tagged your walls so you beat up two of them?" Ajax questioned, "That's fucking stupid, Blitz. First of all, I payed Lucky here to do it, so if you have anypony to blame, it's me. And secondly, if Cloud was still around he wouldn't beat the shit out of two fifteen-year-olds" Ajax sounded like he knew more about the Winger's former leader than the Winger's did themselves.
"Well....Cloud isn't here, I'm taking the reigns of this gang now, Ajax" Blitz lied.
"The fuck you are, I know you're still not leader of your little gang. You're still second-in-command. Who's really taking over the Wingers?" Ajax confronted.
Blitz sighed, "It's Conchie"
"Conchie?!" Ajax was surprised, "The member of the Discords? How the fuck did you end up with him, didn't he kill Cloud?"
"Aye, he did, he was actually sent by the Discords themselves, he threatened that if we didn't hire him, then he would send the Discords to kill all us, and if we killed him, then we would be fucked before the Discords could even reach our turf" Blitz seemed scared know, as if Conchie might be listening to him.
The Discords, as I mentioned before, are a bunch of evil ponies, they represent chaos, much like the being the gang named themselves after. The Discords main leader, Cracker, is an intense pony, if you make deals with him, don't screw him over, or he'll personally kill you himself. But Conchie, though he might not be the leader, he is the most feared of the Discords. He single hoofedly took out an entire gang, AN ENTIRE GANG, and now he owns a gang,
"Damn, Blitz, does your gang abide the rules anymore?" Ajax asked him.
"No, boyo, Discords don't abide by the rules, you should know that now after what they did to Keisha" Blitz replied.
"Don't mention her name" Ajax told him, "Now fuck off to your boss like the loyal dog you are"
Blitz walked off and was followed by his group. Ajax looked down at me and Lucky in pain, he looked over at his gang and said,
"Rico, help me get this dude up" Ajax referred to me, "Chatterbox. Virgil. Help Lucky"
Out came from the crowd of Lunar Runners were three ponies. A pale green Unicorn with dark blue mane and two Earth ponies, one brown with a Mohawk-like mane and one yellow with a dark blue mane as well. The pony with with the Mohawk mane came over to Ajax to help me up, so he must be Rico. Ajax put my left arm around him and Rico put my right arm around him,
"OK, Rico. We'll pick him up on three" Ajax told his soldier.
"Got it, Boss" Rico replied.
"OK. One. Two. Three" Ajax counted down.
At three, both Ajax and Rico lifted me up,
"...And up you go" Ajax said, "You got a name, Pal?"
"Ye-yeah, I'm Ca-C-Caramel" I stuttered in pain.
"You a friend of Lucky?" Ajax asked.
"Yeah" I replied.
"Cool. Any friend of Lucky is a friend of mine" He said, "Me and the Runners are going to take you and Lucky to a hospital, OK Buddy?"
"Th-thanks man" I thanked him.
"Not a problem" Ajax replied.
After that, I passed out and Rico and Ajax continued to pull me over to the hospital. Once the dreamed-up me passed out, the buildings and other images erased and turned back in to the white room that I started at, as the memory was over.
Luna came over to me and said,
"Now do you know what fears you need to conquer?"
"To be frank, no" I replied, "I didn't see what the point of this was, it's like you couldn't find somepony who has fears so you instead had to torture me with these two awful memories"
"Would you rather go to a happier memory?" Luna asked me.
"No, Your Highness. I'd rather wake up from this hell" I replied calmly and annoyed at the same time, "Maybe I could go to a happy memory later, but I can't deal with that right now, I want to wake up and see my wife and daughter, please"
"Fine, I'll send you back" Luna replied, "But I have one thing to say"
"What's that?" I asked.
"There's a spider on your back" She uttered and disappeared.
I turned my head and saw one of those big hairy spiders from Nightmare Night crawling on my back and this how I was woken up. By getting scared shitless by a spider.