//------------------------------// // The Nightmare // Story: Little Jewels // by Shadowmane PX-41 //------------------------------// As they slept, Diamond and Silver dreamed that they were flying with some oversized wings. They saw many familiar faces in the town below as they were soaring through the clouds. The joyous dreams that foals can have, huh? "Wow. Wook how high we'we fwying." Silver said as they did a sweet barrel roll through clouds and could not stop giggling as they swooped through the softness of the puffy clouds. "I'm sad dat dis dweam is onwy a dweam fow us." Diamond said as they landed on the floor and retracted their wings giggling, "I wish we couwd fwy fow weaw." Once they landed, they ran around in the grass for a while before playing hide-and-seek in the playground nearby. They looked like they were so happy when they found each other. Like they were taking a very realistic trip down memory lane. "Well, well, well. How the mighty have fallen." A voice out of nowhere spoke, interrupting the two foals' dream playtime. "Who's dewe?!" Diamond said as the entire world around them disappeared, leaving nothing but a pitch black darkness. "You know who we are." Another voice said as hoofsteps were heard in the distance, "In fact, you could say. You are who we are." Suddenly, a swarm of black orbs with the lost cutie marks of Diamond and Silver slammed into each other into the middle of the darkness. Once all the orbs were mashed together, it clearly revealed the actual age Diamond and Silver, only these two had darker coats and purple flames for eyes. "Yoo! I mean me." Foal Diamond said as she recognized the two fillies well, "What do yoo possibwy want wid us now?!" "That paradox must have done more damage than i thought." Grown Diamond said in response, "It's turned our vessels into foals again." "Vessew?" Foal Silver asked with a tilted head, "What awe yoo two tawking about?" "Do you know how this happened to you two?" Grown Silver asked as she furled her mane a little, "Allow me to explain-" "It's really quite simple actually." Grown Diamond butted in, "When you two broke up, it secretly created a dimensional fissure that nopony noticed until it struck. When we were consumed by the pillar of light, our souls were separated from our bodies. Leaving nothing but a body with a new soul that remembers the past and feels remorseful for it. As for us, we were left to wander a different dimensional plain, with no chance of salvation whatsoever." "But when we found our new bodies in this world, we initially thought to ourselves; What the hay is going on?!" Grown Silver said. "And now the truth comes out, our bodies are now foal bodies." Grown Diamond said, "This complicates matters." "Why do you stiww want to make wives a wiving heww?" Foal Silver asked to her grown double. "This cutie mark you see, is real this time." Grown Silver said as she revealed her mark with a black spiky background, "The fabled Angel Of Darkness gave it to me during his last mission to destroy Equestria." "In addition, he gave us all-powerful dark magic that we can conjure without the use of a horn." Grown Diamond said as she extended her front right hoof at a spot in the darkness where there was absolutely nothing and suddenly a black hole appeared with some diamond spikes poking out of it every few seconds. "Speaking of which, where's your cutie marks, Bodies of us?" Grown Silver came closer to the two foals' flanks and saw nothing but a diaper with no cutie marks at all. "OMG! The paradox removed the cutie marks of our bodies?" Diamond said with a smirk growing, "Silver. You know what this means..." "Ok on three." Grown Silver motioned, "One, two, three..." "BLANK FLANK!!!" The two grown fillies started chorusing. "Dat's what we used to sound wike when we said dat?" Foal Diamond asked once the taunt went by. "Their not cracking, Diamond." Grown Silver conjured a black flame in her hoof, to which Grown Diamond did the same thing, "Time to go with the heavy artillery!" The two fillies hurled the black flames into the air, and once they hit each other, the flames started showering mini black flames that surrounded Foal Diamond and Foal Silver before materializing into what looked like clones of Grown Diamond and Grown Silver. "Once more, Silver!" Grown Diamond and her clones said in unison, as if they were all one, "This time from the top!" "BLANK FLANK!!!" The clones and the real Grown Diamond and Silver said in an endless loop, causing the two foals to eventually cover their ears. "NOO! MAKE IT STOP!!!" Foal Silver eventually screamed, "YOO CAN'T DO DIS TO US!!!" "MAMA!!! HEWP US!!!" Foal Diamond screamed once the grown fillies got louder and louder with their song of despair and crestfalling, "MAKE DEM AWW GO AWAY!!!!" "You can wake up from this dream, but remember this one thing." Grown Diamond said as the other clones kept saying their taunt, "You and i are exactly the same, nothing will change that." ________________________________________ Both foals screamed at the same time at the top of their voices, they suddenly calmed down once they realized they were back in the nursery again. They took the nightmare to heart and began to cry like the foals that they were. "Babs, they must have had a nightmare." Applebloom said to Babs once the scream had woken up and they now heard the crying foals. "Now's the time to used what i learned in lesson 32; how to comfort your foals when they have a nightmare." She said as Applebloom quickly got out of bed and came closer to the crib, to which Babs quickly followed. "Aww, sounds like somepony had a bad dream last night." Applebloom said as she picked up Diamond in her muzzle and took her over to the bed. "Mama, it was awfuw." Diamond said in a futile attempt to communicate with her in her time of need, "We saw ouwsewvves, onwy they wewe owdew and meanies." "Must have been a really bad dream last night." Babs said as she saw Diamond's tears before they fell out of her eyes again, "How would you like to sleep with your Mamas tonight?" "Yes pwease, Mama." Silver nodded with some tears trapped in her eyes before they started to fade away with her confidence growing again. Babs quickly lifted Silver up in her muzzle and laid her next to Diamond in the middle of the bed. She then pulled out a pillow from underneath the bed and put in the middle of her and Applebloom's pillow and laid Diamond and Silver on it. Once the two mares hugged the two foals with their front hooves, Diamond and Silver fell asleep again. "And never forget, mah little jewels." Applebloom said in a comforting tone, "Mama's always gonna look after ya. As long as me and Babs are here fer ya, nothing will ever harm you two. Not even a bad dream." "Tank yoo, Mama. Tank yoo, Auntie Babs." The two foals said before drifting off into dreamland again. They returned to the nightmare, only this time, Applebloom and Babs charged at the clones, and by simply touching them, the clones and the grown fillies vanished into thin air. After that, the two mares hugged the foals, turning the darkness into a foal's heaven with a rainbow coloured sky.