Dinky lay fast asleep in her bed tossing and turning to find a spot in her bed that would keep her comfortable, something in the back of her mind lingered of the day that passed by. Various images of the Rumsville Park and the wooden fences that kept the horses in the shack, but most certainly the images of the horses that she met earlier today were the most interesting images that managed to stick themselves into her precious little head.

Scootaloo, the tiny baby horse that worn a jagged purple mane wrapped in orange fur was the one that managed to stick the most into Dinky’s head. It was a small image, but it was an image that would stay in her head for the rest of time. The baby bottle filled with milk that was used to calm down the baby horse was the moment that stuck out in her head, she wished to see that exact baby horse one more time no matter the cost of what, and she wanted to see that baby horse again.

In the middle of her mind, the epicentre of her beautiful imagination. Filled to the brim with space battles, dinosaurs, monsters and aliens there was a small purple flash within it all, stars and gems that floated around in the aura of space turned to a violent flash of the colour purple. This flash was like a wave of energy, it blasted itself through the ideas of space battles and dinosaurs and wiped them out completely from her mind, the flash was expanding. It started to hurt her from the inside, it felt like she was being jabbed in the head with a sharp butcher knife. She tossed and turned more and more, she couldn’t lay to rest with these strange images and the bright flashes of bright purple. It was like the strange glows of energy were keeping her eyes closed.

Was this a dream? Was it a nightmare? Dinky couldn’t explain or even unfold of what the power of this energy was doing, whatever the purple energy touched within her mind. It faded away into the depths of purgatory. After the beam of purple energy had destroyed all of her thoughts it started building a world around her that she had never seen before, it looked amazing. Forest’s, Mountains, Lakes, Villages, Clouds, Deserts, Canyons, Castles, Cities, Space, The whole universe was forming around her in this imaginary world of her choice and design.

The looked down to see that she was standing above a forest like a giant; she overlooked everything that this world had to offer.

“Where am I?” Dinky spoke to herself, her voice echoed though the sky like a mighty roar of a dragon. In-between her feet she felt something soft, very soft. She slowly looked down to see that she was standing on something white and fluffy. The object she was standing on was floating miles above the surface of the world, Dinky felt her vertigo taking place and she quickly got to her knees to grab onto the strange object to keep her from falling off.

“What is going on?!” Dinky screamed; she couldn’t apprehend the realism of this world. Her dreams consisted of her worlds being tasteless, no smell, no sound, and no life. This world was the opposite; she could breathe in the cold air around her and even feel the objects in her dream. This was magic.

Dinky looked around feeling her tears take her over, she couldn’t believe that her dream was starting to feel so weird and yet to real at the same time. The cloud, the oxygen and the world around it felt all so real. It was like she was on a different planet let alone another dream.

“MOMMY!” Dinky burst into tears, she couldn’t hold the pain no longer, and she wanted her mother. She was miles high in the sky with no possible way of climbing down to the surface, all the tears coming from her fell onto the surface of the soft cushion of a cloud. The clouds pearly white colour started to transform into a dark black colour. Just like any real cloud.

“MOMMY WHERE ARE YOU?!” Dinky screamed out, her voice continued to rage and escalate into the mighty roar of a giant monster; it could be heard from a mile away. Her voice constantly echoed further and further sounding like it would never falter.

Dinky lifted her head to see the world around her and it was still forming, it was like a special being had created a world for her and the world was being constructed around her like a video game. She saw in front of her was a massive castle, only the kind that would be seen in a fairy tale that her mother would read to her to make her fall asleep, it was as tall as the sky and it was surrounded by a massive city that was sitting itself on the side of a giant mountain. Golden towers that reached the top of the clouds with a small city being surrounded by a massive wall made out of bricks. It was a magnificent sight to look at.

“WHERE ARE YOU MOMMY?!” Dinky roared out once again with a scream that would match the roar of a giant dragon, feeling the wave of energy that came out of her she quickly threw herself to the ground. Within her dream she was tired of her own imagination, she didn’t want to scream. She was lost in a world that felt too real to be a dream. She understood that a dream isn’t supposed to feel real, but in this dream it felt too real. She couldn’t understand why.

Breathing in and out slowly but surely she regained her energy to figure out on how to reach the surface without hurting herself. But there was something else, a cold chill made its way through her spine. She didn’t like it, every dream she had resulted in the dead air that followed her from scenario after scenario.

The bright blue sky started to change, from its radiant oceanic blue to slowly churn into a strange gray colour with a constellation of clouds that slowly followed her far from the surface. They all formed to make a gigantic cloud on the other side of the world that she was looking at. She didn’t understand the sudden change in colours for the clouds and sky. The cold air started to turn from calm and warm to a violent chill, the wind started pushing little Dinky around like a ragdoll. She held on tightly to the cloud for her dearest life.

“MOMMY WHERE ARE YOU?!” Dinky screamed, the wind started to rise and it eventually started to rise until it was unbearable, it picked up Dinky like a leaf and thrown her off the edge of the cloud, she quickly grabbed onto one of the pieces of fluffy cloud that managed to stick out. She looked below her to see that her feet were dangling off the edge and the world beneath her was being bombarded with massive torrents of rain. The trees were being swayed around by the gusts of wind that made their way through the leaves, the oceans and rivers started to rise out of the ground and soon after the land were starting to flood. It was a disaster, the villages and towns were starting to feel the effects of the storm, by the corner of Dinky’s eye she could see that a wave of water was making its way towards the giant castle at great speeds.

“MOMMY!” Dinky screamed; her fingers were drenched in cold water she couldn’t hold on for much further, she didn’t know what to do other than accept her watery fate and drop. Or could she stand on the cloud and wait for the onslaught of rain to stop. Or would the gusts of wind throw her off before she had the chance to get a good grip of the top surface of the cloud.

“I’M GOING TO FALL!” Dinky screamed out for help once more, she didn’t get her reply and she didn’t get any help from anyone.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Dinky let go of the slippery cloud and started to fall, the gravity of this dream did its work and it pulled her to the surface without a delay, as she fell from the sky she could only see that the world around her was starting to fade away and blacken before her very eyes.

The cities and towns were flooded by ocean water because of the tsunamis; the trees were left for dead as the wind stripped their beautiful leaves. The castle that was seen on the side of the mountain with the large city sitting underneath it was starting to feel the effects of the natural disasters.

“NOOO!!!” Dinky screamed out once again, she threw herself away from her bed sheets in total shock. Her body shook itself as if it were being pummelled by a jack hammer. “MOMMY!” Dinky screamed out just like in her dream, calling out for the only person who could comfort her during her time of up most need.

“I’m coming muffin!” A voice was heard on the other side of Dinky’s bedroom door, Derpy burst through the door like an action hero and quickly looked at her child who had her hands covering her face with tears streaming down like a river. Derpy ran over to her child after jumping over the toys that were littered across the ground.

“What happened?!” Derpy whispered to her wailing daughter, immediately wrapping her arms around her child to protect her from the dark.

“I-… I-… DON’T KNOW!” Dinky screamed out, she couldn’t breathe in her current state. It was like the fear within her paralysed her and she wasn’t able to move a muscle at all.

“Ssshh… Ssshh… it’s going to be okay, Mommy’s here, don’t worry.” Derpy whispered to Dinky, she tightened her grip on her daughter and rested Dinky’s little head on her lap.

“What’s going on?” Carrot top walked in through Dinky’s bedroom door, unsure and unclear of what was going on. She was tired and she rubbed her eyes to show. She peeped her head through the door to check on little Dinky and to see if Derpy was in the room with her.

“Dinky had a bad dream…” Derpy said to Carrot top, feeling very worried and unsure about everything that happened.
“Oh my…” Carrot top put her hand on her mouth, she slowly entered Dinky’s bedroom and pushed the door wide open, she looked at the closet and walked over to it. She opened the door to check if there were any monsters hiding themselves in the closet. “There are no monsters in the closet.” Carrot top said as she turned to Dinky and Derpy.

“Muffin? What happened?” Derpy asked her daughter who had closed her eyes trying not to look at her mother or even her care-taker.

“I was on a c-cloud…” Dinky sniffled; she let her tears run down her face. “And I f-fell off the c-cloud and h-hurt myself…” Dinky explained to her mother and care-taker. Derpy looked up at Carrot top with a look telling her to do something for her daughter.

Carrot top sighed at what she was instructed to do and she didn’t really want to do it.

“Dinky… please listen…” Carrot top walked over to Derpy and Dinky and lowered her body so she was on Dinky’s level. She raised her hand and began to stroke her short blonde hair to try and calm her down.

“C-Carrot t-top?” Dinky spoke, unaware of where she was due to her eyes being closed.

“You just had a bad dream, these things happen. If you go back to bed you’ll be alright.” Carrot top whispered to her friend’s daughter. “I know you are scared, but you just need to go back to sleep.” Carrot top said; she wasn’t stern or hard on the advice. She was calm and collective, she looked up at Derpy who looked like she was about to cry along with Dinky. “I will leave you two to talk; I’m going back to my room. It’s only half seven.” Carrot top lifted herself up and left Dinky’s bedroom, slowly closing the door behind her and leaving on the bedroom light for both Derpy and Dinky.

“Are you alright muffin? I’m worried about you.” Derpy whispered to her daughter.

“I h-had a bad d-dream…” Dinky whispered back to her mother, still sniffling with tears running down her face.

“What happened in the dream muffin?” Derpy asked, wondering what was going on inside her dream.

“I w-was on t-this cloud and it g-got really windy and then I f-fell off the cloud and landed on the g-ground…” Dinky whispered to her mother, looking up at her mothers beautiful face.

“Oh muffin… you’re safe. I’ll protect you…” Derpy grabbed her daughter and lifted her up into her arms and hugged her tightly, Dinky felt the security and love that she needed when she was inside the dream crying for her life on top of the cloud in the middle of the storm.

“Thank you mommy!” Dinky smiled, the fear that was in her was being washed away by her mothers love and security.

“Tell you what, let me go down into the kitchen and I will make you some warm milk to make you sleep better.” Derpy insisted.

“Okay.” Dinky nodded slowly.
“You stay in your room and I’ll go into the kitchen and make you some delicious warm milk and mini-muffin bites in the microwave. How about that?” Derpy said to her daughter, watching her sad frown turn into a massive smile. This is what she always loved to see from her daughter.

“Okie-Dokie! I’ll be back in a minute.” Derpy lifted up Dinky and placed her back on her bed, Dinky moved herself and positioned herself onto her pillows and picked up one of the toy spaceships that happened to be on her bed and she started playing with it like any child should.

Derpy slowly got up and looked back at her daughter; she blushed at the innocence and slowly made her way out into the corridor outside.

Dinky had been playing with her toy astronauts for a few minutes, in her left hand she had a NASA space shuttle that was being flung into the air as if it were being launched into space. In her right hand she had an action figure of an astronaut that was on her bed holding a gun.

“You’ll never get me now Mr. Astronaut!” Dinky tried her best to emit an evil alien voice to her little astronaut toy.

“I’ll get you soon!” Dinky lifted the astronaut into the air and made an explosion sound with her mouth to make it look like the astronaut had blown up the spaceship as it were going into orbit.

“AAaaaaaahhhhh……” Dinky mimicked someone shouting and as she went through with it she got quieter until she was silent.

Dinky looked at the spaceship and the astronaut to see that their fun and use had been taken out of them, now with Dinky being bored she wanted to get more toys out of her closet and so it was her mission to find more toys that she hasn’t played with in a very long time.

She walked over to her closet door that Carrot top politely closed a few minutes ago and she reached out for the door knob, she slowly pulled the knob down to open the door when she felt something was wrong, the door wouldn’t budge and it felt like something on the other side was holding it so that poor little Dinky couldn’t open it.

“Mommy is that you?!” Dinky playfully asked, she was wondering if she was on the other side of the door playing a prank.

Dinky pulled on the door one more time to feel a slight budge from the other side, she knew for sure that her mother was hiding in the closet ready to scare her, she could hear toys and boxes being thrown about from side to side in the other room as if she didn’t know where she was going.

“That’s it mommy! I’m going to open the door in… three… two… one…” Dinky counted down.

Dinky grabbed the door handle once again and pulled the door as hard as she could without ripping it off the wooden door, she felt a budge, and another one, and another one. She was surely getting close to her target now. She felt one last pull should fully open the door and release Derpy.

Dinky used all of her strength out of her little pale arms and managed to pull the door as hard as she could without destroying the door, the door swung open all the way and it made a loud bang on impact when it smashed against the wall.

“Aha!” Dinky pointed at the person inside her closet ready to frame them for what they were trying to do. “I got you now Mo- WHAT?!” Dinky screamed; she jumped back in surprise to see who it was in the closet.

“DITZY!?” Dinky screamed out loud, looking at the mess that was inside her closet. All the toy boxes were smashed and thrown on the ground, Ditzy herself with lying on the floor on her back with a cardboard box resting itself on the top of her very head, her wings were spread out and the leash that she wore at the little farm area in the park was present.

Dinky ran into the closet and pulled on Ditzy’s tail lightly to grab her attention.

Ditzy struggled for a minute and rocked her body from side to side to stand up, she managed to get back up on her legs with the cardboard box still lying on the top of her head, she didn’t know where she was going.

Dinky grabbed the leash that was still attached to the horse’s neck and directed her out of the closet and into the bedroom, Dinky reached up for the cardboard box that was on the horse’s neck and knocked it off with a soft punch, thus revealing the blonde haired horse with the strange eyes.

“What are you doing in my room?! My mommy is going to kill me when she finds out you are here!” Dinky explained to the horse, but Ditzy instead walked over to the child and licked her on the cheek.

“Stop that!” Dinky pushed the horse away from her; she climbed up on her bed and sat down in front of the horse.

“How did you get in my room?!” Dinky wanted an answer from an animal that obviously didn’t talk.

Ditzy didn’t reply to her question and she just nodded her head just like how she was told to.

“Who put you in my closet?” Dinky crossed her arms and looked at Ditzy in the eyes.

Ditzy looked from side to side and trotted back into the closet, Dinky got off her bed and soon followed to see that Ditzy was standing in the closet with a large piece of paper in her mouth, Dinky grabbed the paper of the horse and began to unroll the letter to read out what it said.

Dear Dinky.
I have escaped the evil ranch owner to hide in your closet, if you have found me then it's time to go back to the ranch and to free us from the evil ranch man.
P.S: Scootaloo says hello.

“W-what?!” Dinky read through the letter, when she saw the words Scootaloo it meant serious business for her, how could horse’s write letters and how could Ditzy even hide inside her closet when she was put in her pen back at the park?

Familiar Faces

by GlitchyProductions

Chapter Two