Hey There, Cthulhu

by Count Rodrigo de Vasquez


The Gateway of The Crawling Chaos

"Okay, I'm completely lost..." Cthulhu sighed and sat down on a small hill. They have been walking in circles for hours, and still haven't found a way out of the large cave. Vinyl was already half asleep on his shoulder when Cthulhu gently shook her.
"Huh? Ugh? Oh, sorry..." Vinyl stammered as she leaped back into consciousness.
"I swear, this place changes every time..." Cthulhu said, scratching his head. He stood back up and started pacing, Vinyl still in his shoulders.
"Isn't there another way outta' here?" Vinyl said, tilting her head a little to the right.
"Oh there is, but I don't personally like going through it..."
"Oh come on, it can't be that bad?"
"Trust me Vinyl, it is." Cthulhu said; his face was blank, not that it ever showed clear emotion, but Vinyl got the idea that it was blank.
His huge red eyes stared at the distance, as if he was experiencing a flashback.

"So, what is it?" Vinyl finally broke the silence.
"Oh, The Gateway of The Crawling Chaos...Place gives me the creeps, that's where Shoggoths usually hang out."
"Shoggoths?"
"Oh a mortal like you shouldn't see one, their hideously ugly ya'know, you can't even tell if your looking at one's ass or face...yeek.." Cthulhu shivered.

"Well, whatever! We're getting outta' this place, shoggoth or no shoggoth! Cthulhu, lead the way!"
"It's right around the corner..."
Cthulhu made a left to a Cyclopean Temple with hundreds of terrifyingly ugly statues of things inconceivable to the mortal eye.
There the dim green light faded, and soon a red light encompassed a large hall where a swirling portal of daemonic energy was located right at the middle.

"Here we are, The Gateway of The Crawling Chaos, pretty corny name I know. I wonder how this got here in R'lyeh anyway.."
"Well, let's go!" Vinyl cheered enthusiastically, pointing her hooves to the direction of the portal.
"Here we go, hold on to my shoulders Vinyl!" Cthulhu ran in the swirling pool of energy, and in a bright flash of light, they were inside the realm of Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos.

Vinyl's eyes gazed at the chaotic wonders of this whole new world. Everywhere things were unproportional, she couldn't describe what she's seeing. Black shadows darted here and there, and Vinyl couldn't help but notice everything.
"Woooaaaahh, it's like I'm on weeeed.." Vinyl said hazily, hypnotized by the chaos.
"Well be careful, anything could happen here you know."

Cthulhu walked towards the plain of dry red dust, the red sun shined brightly beside the blue moon, the sky was orange and stars where brightly burning, a swirling wind of water was hovering through a field of fire in the distant east of where Cthulhu was standing. He headed north, while Vinyl, still sitting on his shoulders, continuously stared at everything she can stare at. "Hey Cthulhu, I can't help but notice, why is the sun and the moon up at the same time? I mean wouldn't Celestia and Luna be in control of those things?"
"Celetisa and Lun- oh man, you don't get it do you? Nothing here is in control, only chaos."
"So you're saying this is Discord's world?"
""Discord? No, this is the Crawling Chaos himself...The very ground we walk on is pure chaos."
"Eh? I don't get it.."
"Well, Vinyl, you're not supposed to..."
"Oh...well, are we close yet?"
"We've only been here for 5 minutes, we have about a week's walk from here, and then we have to cross the Ancient's Desert for a month...And so on...."
"What the hay!?! That long!?! How large is this place anyway?"
"NEVER MENTION MEASUREMENT IN THE REALM OF THE GODS!" Cthulhu snapped his head towards Vinyl, his eyes glowing cosmic red, "It's just not right." He finally calmed down...
Vinyl was still at his shoulder frozen in shock, She just saw the most terrifying thing ever conceivable to any living being's eyes and was enough to turn Celestia inside out. She thought she'd go crazy but for some strange reason, she didn't.

"Dude, NEVER do that again..." Vinyl said unflinching, eyes wide opened.
"Oh, sorry about that. It's just...you just touched a sensitive matter is all. I didn't mean to scare you."
"That's okay man...let's just...go..." Vinyl said, still wide-eyed and frozen. Cthulhu walked on the chaotic realm while the red sun gleamed on the horizon.