//------------------------------// // A Night To Remember: Fluttershy & Pyramid Head's Lilly // Story: A Nightmare in Equestria // by Imperium Bedlam //------------------------------// “And here you go, Mr Squirrel.” I smiled as he took the grains and ate them. I was still worrying over Twilight since the… incident, but she looked like she was doing well now and I couldn’t get in her way. Especially not with all of my animals to take care of. I beamed as I looked over the assortment of animals crowded in my small cottage, each and every one had a name and a story behind them. I moved over to a cupboard and pulled out some rabbit treats for Angel, one of the first animals I had taken care of. After pouring them into a bowl however, he just kicked them away. It isn’t like he hadn’t done this before though so I just let out a sigh as I filled it back up again. “Now Angel bunny, you’ve got to eat your food. How else are you going to get all your vitamins.” He squeaked at me angrily before turning away but I knew how to get him to eat. “Not even for a carrot?” He didn’t budge. “Two carrots?” Still he didn’t move. “Oh, my. Th-three carrots?” That got his attention slightly. How did he expect to eat all these carrots? “Wh-what about four carrots then?” He looked at me a while before nodding and digging into the pellets. I yelped and curled up slightly as the lights went out for a moment. ’That’s odd’ I’d thought to myself, It’s the middle of the day and the curtains are open...’ My thoughts didn’t have time to dwell on it though as I heard a growling from my loungeroom. ’My animals!’ I rushed in there as fast as I could before grinding to a halt. My eyes opened wide as I saw some of the animals fighting, food spilled across the room. Angel came rushing up behind beside me and gaped as well. ’What is going on?’ When I saw Mr Bear swipe at one of the beavers I leapt into action. “Now you stop right this instant!” I was holding onto one of his paws but he just threw me right off before turning to me, snarling as he turned to me. I started to cower away before stopping myself and standing back up. “You give me no choice Mr Bear!” I opened my eyes wide and gave him the Stare. He slowly began to lower himself to the ground, though his snarl never left. I just kept staring at him, until I was blindsided by Ms Raccoon. She clawed at my eyes before being kicked away by Angel bunny. I was crying as I couldn’t open my left eye. “W-what is go-going on?” Angel squeaked something at me and pointed behind me to the door. I began running towards it which attracted the attention of the animals. They all ran towards me as I fled my cottage, blood down one side of my face and tears down the other. Poor little Angel bunny managed to knock out some of them before Mr Otter landed on top of him. I would’ve ran to help him but I was too busy running from the animals that had gotten past him. So I kept running as fast as my hooves could take me. I ran through the empty streets of Ponyville as the animals kept getting closer. Mr Bear took a swipe at my hind fetlocks which caused me to yelp and speed up slightly. “Why are you doing this Mr Bear?!” I yelled back weakly, he just responded with an unintelligible growl as he kept chase. Eventually I spotted Sweet Apple Acres and I ran faster, ’Surely Applejack could help!’ I almost stopped at the gates though as I saw Applejack, fear, pain and worry in her eyes as she screamed for help. Her hind hooves were inside an evil-looking tree that had blades for teeth! Everything seemed to slow down as she saw me, our eyes locking onto each other for a moment. All sound seemed to leave as her lips moved in a final ‘Help!’, and she was gone. No explanation or anything, she was just gone. My worry escalated because I tripped over a root, sound returning as everything sped up again. There were no trees nearby, besides the one with bladed teeth that looked to be smiling at me. I stared at it in horror for a few moments before turning back to the animals. They’d pounced and were mere inches away from me. ~Five, Six, Grab your torches and picks~ I squealed and hid my head behind my hooves in some vain hope that I would be safe, that if I couldn’t see them they would just disappear. After a few moments of nothing I thought they had. I slowly moved my hooves away, seeing my room bathed in the morning light. I let out a sigh of relief before turning to Angel’s bed and screaming slightly. He was battered and bruised, legs twisted in awful directions and a paw completely torn off, groaning in pain as he turned towards me. He gave me a weak smile before his eyes closed. I was crying as I got out of bed, before falling to the floor. I couldn’t seem to move my hooves right, my perception seemed off and I realised one of my eyes were closed. I tried to open it to no avail. Slowly, fearfully, I reached my hoof to it. I winced in pain as it made contact and yanked my hoof away. Tears and blood streamed down my face as I looked to the bloodsoaked hoof. I found myself crying loudly a few moments, slowly crawling towards Angels bed to see him, to make sure he was okay, to help in in any way I could. I shivered as I heard the door open. My eyes turned to pinpricks as I saw Mr Bear with a worried expression on his face. I screamed at him to go away as he tried to help me. He seemed sad as he turned and left in a hurry, headed to get help probably. I shivered in fear as some f the other animals peeked their heads inside and screamed at them to go away, to leave me alone. They backed off as I panted and cried beside Angels bed. I let out a final whimper, a last plea to the animals by my bedroom door. ”Please don’t hurt me….” I was laughing as I stepped out of the tree, yanking my hands out of the wood and stretching my bladed fingers. It’d been a while since I wore two gloves, due to how annoying they are to grab things with, but I’d felt the need to wear them anyway. One my right hand was the black glove with protosteel blades, on my right a white one with blades made from the teeth of the same dragon the right one was made of. I was walking towards a barn, a blue light occasionally flickering in the huge entrance. I could have simply folded the dream, made it so the entrance was right in front of me, but I’d decided I could use the walk to clear my head a bit. That blasted song was still reverberating around my skull but only at a quiet murmur, just enough to remind me of what I would not become. Sure I was pretty evil now, some would even say insane, and they were right 100%. I could never really refute any arguments that people put forth. But I was okay with that. I was my own person. Freddy, the one who the song wanted me to become, was a fool who only targeted children. I had far greater goals in mind. I never limited myself to any age or species, always going after those who’d committed a horrible crime. Back in those days evidence was hard to come by, unless you had seen the crime yourself. Sure my power was fueled by fear, but my motives were those of… what’s a good word for it? Oh I know, change. Every time I entered somethings dream I did so with the hope of changing them, that was my business, that was my pleasure. Even the mighty Tirek became an upstanding member of society after a year or so of nightmares. Constant dreams of how the power would corrupt him, of how terrifying he himself could be. I half expected him to be more ambitious if anything, but thanks to his brother he decided to instead help those he could and take power from those who didn’t need it. Sort of like Robin Hood. If they could not be changed, then they would be killed, as simple as that. I was already full on fear from two hundred and thirty five days of constant hunting before they captured me. Only because I wanted a little holiday. ”Maybe,” I’d said to the empty dreamscape, thoughts moving through my head in an orderly fashion, ”maybe I should help out others in their dimensions.” I smiled, the flaming hay bale coming into view. Yes I was mad, but you had to be when you wanted to change things. ”Yes,” The blue flame rippled slightly and spread along the wall, a whole new dreamhub revealing itself in front of me, ”I think I’ll give them some help, the beings here will all be changed when they see what I’ve done and remember who I am. But the ones in the other dimensions hardly know me yet.” I was laughing as I passed through the flame, my presence already beginning to taint the dreams of all those I knew. But these were different, they had not met me yet and were not changed at all. Some of them seemed to be though, considering the multitude of black frames. Still, I would at least have my fun with the rest. So I picked one at random and walked right through. “Celestia what is happening?!” I screamed and ran through the house. “Roseluck?! Daisy?! Where are you?!” I couldn’t help but be frantic, my lilies began to peel away the doorframe before wilting, then opening up as new ones grew out of them. I scrambled up the stairs and towards the bedrooms. “Roseluck?!” I opened her door. Empty. “Daisy?!” Empty. In a desperate attempt to find somepony, anypony, I opened my door. Neither of my sisters were there, but something else was. It was tall, and skinny, and terrifying. I shrieked and ran towards the stairs. I ran for what felt like hours but the stairs never got closer. Then I heard its footsteps, oh Celestia its footsteps, and I ran faster, screaming like a madmare. Slowly, so very slowly, they got closer. I noticed my lilies climbing up my hooves, somehow they’d grown teeth and were biting into my limbs, holding me still. I desperately tried to move away, to flee, to run, but I didn’t move. The lilies hurt so much as they slowly sank into my legs, my screams becoming soundless as they moved under my skin. I heard a chuckling behind me but I could not move my head, the roots of the flowers had spread up through my neck and kept it facing towards the stairs. Then they began turning around, leaves wrapping around my oesophagus and spine as my head tortuously moved to face whatever had been in my room. My head shouldn’t have been able to turn that far, but the plants in my body kept my neck from breaking. He, I assumed it was a he, leant down to face me. A smile painted across his face as he placed a claw on my head. I tried to say something but I was far too afraid, whoever this was he was almost as bad as that other monster that had been spotted around Ponyville occasionally. As soon as I thought that he snarled, his claw tightening around my skull and cutting into the skin. I shivered as the roots dug into my eyeballs, keeping them still, keeping them open. I was forced to stare at the creature as he moved closer, his eyes locking onto mine. Then I heard a snap, and everything went dark. ...I thought I was dead until I heard the sound of a siren in the distance. The creature looked around confused before a rhythmic thumping and something heavy being dragged across the cobblestone. I didn’t know what it was until it let out a massive roar and called out a name. “KRUEGER!!” The creature, Krueger I assume, looked surprised at first, then chuckled before clicking his claws together. ”Oop, times up… Hehehehe…” A loud bang echoed through the landscape before I caught a glimpse of a larger creature with a large metal pyramid for a head… I was smiling towards the asshole who’d interrupted my nightmare. Somehow he’d managed to pull me out of the dreamscape and put me… here. Wherever here was. On the inside I was yelling at this bastard but since he was in control I felt the need to be compliant for now. ”That’s not my fucking name!” I yelled at him, growling slightly while clenching my claws. ”Who the FUCK do you think you are, mister building block?! To rip me out of MY nightmare while I’m having MY fun?!” “My name, is Pyramid Head. Guardian of Silent Hill, Father and Protector to Alessa, and personal protector of Equestria’s citizens. If you come here again with unruly purposes, I will personally drag you to Silent Hill myself, now…” I saw a power grow in his hand, he threw it out and a portal appeared behind me. “BEGONE!” ”Fucking bastard…” I grumbled, placing the tip of one of my claws onto Lilly’s head ”You’re a lucky whorse.” She didn’t reply though as she seemed to be in shock. I slowly moved towards the portal before an idea popped to mind. ”I take it you’re going to be on Auric’s side?” “For the foreseeable future… And I assume you, on Teridax’s?” I grumbled a bit more. ”For now at least, tell me, do you think you can give something to the golden boy for me?” I held a hand out, focusing on my palm as the bleeding, wooden pony toy I’d made burnt into being on it. “A toy? You expect to scare Auric with a toy?” ”Fear, fear, fear, it’s all about fear with you people isn’t it? No, it’s as you say, just a toy.” I kept calm on the outside, hiding my smirk under my hat. I had been looking for a chance to deliver this particular thing to Auric since he’d made me remember that damn song. He stared at the toy for a minute before he took it in his large hands. He looked at it closely, looking at the details before putting it in the pocket of his apron. He could use some pants. He nodded as he pointed back to the portal. “Now, begone with you, lest you feel my wrath…” I really couldn’t stop the laughter from escaping me then. After a while I stepped through the portal with a final ”Aye, aye, Moses.” I was still laughing as the portal burned for an instant, it wouldn’t do to be thrown through again, and I stepped out the other side. ”You fucking assh-” was all I managed to get through as the portal closed again.