//------------------------------// // Foal sitter and nightmares. uh, day nightmares // Story: Seigmund's early life (A test for a new story, contains my other side of character) // by Chernoboy //------------------------------// I opened my eyes slowly as a knock on the door woke me up. I got up and walked towards it, preparing myself, I opened the door to find out, nothing. That is, until i looked down. I have never seen anything cuter until that moment, a pink pony. Just like Celestia, she is a mix of both Unicorn and Pegasus. And apparently, she's not afraid of me, and not just that, she's also smiling? "Hey there mister..." She started. "Just call me Simon," I said. "Simon? I would like to know where Twilight is," She said, smiling. "Oh, and why would you want to see her?" I asked. "Um, I'm her foalsitter," She replied. 'Well, what was that. Foalsitter? ' I thought as I raise a brow. She was about to reply to my confusion but it finally hit me and I said, "Ohh." "So, you're her caretaker?" I stated. "Yes!" "Well, come on then." I step out from my temporary room and towards the spiral staircase with her following behind me. I slid down because I was still tired and she had to run to keep up with me, poor thing. As soon as I reached the bottom I scooped her up from the fourth step. When I got her, she was panting heavily, and that was when I frowned sadly. "Sorry for making you run like that, I was just tired and didn't want to walk heh," I smiled apologetically. "It's okay, I'm supposed to apologize for waking you up," She replied while still panting and smiled. I frowned. Even more. I knocked on the door of Twilight's dorm room but had no response whatsoever. I looked at the young pink pony and shrugged, she just furrowed her brows a little. We walked out of the dorm and looked around, wondering where could one such pony be. Before I could think more, I realized something that I haven't done as of yet. Ask the pink pony her name. "Say, little one, may I ask what your name is?" I asked her while I knelt down. Not surprisingly, she gasped and smacked her forehead. "Of course! How could I have forgotten to introduce myself?!" She said and answered, "My name is Cadance, I am also Celestia's niece." I reacted by raising a brow while smiling. "I'm actually, adopted." I frowned even more than last time. Which, caused me to pull her close and hug her while small amounts of tears stream down my face. I pulled my face closer to her and started sobbing. Obviously due to the fact that she's adopted. I pulled myself away after some time and place her at the base of my neck as if I am giving her a piggy back. I glanced up and saw her shift from a confused expression to a happy smiling one. We looked for Twilight for quite some time now. And still no signs of her yet, Cadance is still happy though. Eventually I heard a small, faint voice. Which I recognized and grateful for. I ran towards the voice's location cautiously as to not let Cadance bounce off and hit the ground. I reached Twilight's location with a 'boo' which of course made little Twilight scream in terror and ran behind Celestia, who is smiling. Cadance saw her and smiled wider than she already had, she safely hops from my back and ran up to her. "Aunt Celestia!" She shouted happily. "I see you've met my niece," Celestia said. "Yah, I gotta admit, she's too cute," I stated. She chuckled lightly and patted on Cadance's head. Then, Twilight came towards us. "yay! Cadance's here!" She cheerfully shouted. They then proceed to do what seem to be their "special hoof shakes" whilst canting out, "Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake! Clap your hooves and do a little shake!" Which ended with them, shaking their flanks. And, left me with a raised eyebrow. I shook my head to snap out of it and take a look at them. "Say, would you like to provide additional supervision on Twilight? I'm pretty sure you would be a perfect caretaker," Celestia suggested. "I would but, how about those who haven't seen me yet?" "Most have seen you but, you will need to ease your actions around them alright?" She advised. "Sure, it's what I always do," I said. "Are you sure?" She asked skeptically. "Absolutely," I assured. Celestia only frowned, still skeptical about my statement. I tried keeping a peaceful and calm smile as I walked down the streets filled with horrified ponies. I heard some of them silently whispering to each other about me, which made me a little uncomfortable because of my enhanced hearing. After walking past more and more, and hearing more and more, I finally got uncomfortable. I sighed and kept walking behind the two young mares I'm taking care of. "Heesh, not more than two days and the princess has already let this creature out unannounced?" A mare whispered to another. Which, I heard. "But then again, It's not like we want it out anyway," The latter said as the former nodded in agreement. After overhearing that, I glanced to my right side and heard the same thing. I shut my eyes and let Cadance and Twilight's hoofsteps lead me. I almost shed a tear when I heard the third one, "Wow, he's much worse than I imagined. I hope he'll be back into the wild soon enough." 'Did they not see that I reacted to their reactions?!' I shouted mentally. I ran towards and picked up the two happy hoppers and far from earshot. I placed them down gently under a nearby tree that I found to be fitting to play. I panted heavily when I placed them. They both looked at me confusedly and walked up to me. "Is there, anything wrong?" Twilight asked me first. "Just a little," I answered and kept panting. "What's bothering you?" Cadance continued what Twilight left. "The citizens, to be honest." "Why?" She continued. "Because I can't stand being under pressure anymore! Do they really do that to an unknown creature?! Despise them even before knowing what they feel?" "They, said all that?" Twilight chimed in. "Yes," I leaned against the tree and sat down, "At least, they don't have to put up with what I've faced before." "What have you faced?" The foalsitter continued to ask me. "You're still young for that." "Hey! Just because I'm young and all doesn't mean I'm not mature. Not unlike my brother." "Your, brother?" I asked her because of her statement. And needless to say, I'm shocked, "You never told me you have a brother." "Ah ah ah, I never told you, I didn't," She said which, made perfect sense. "I guess you have a lot of introducing to do." "I guess I do." The two of them walked off a little further from the tree and started playing. I let myself slowly drift into a sleep and hope to dream a little better now." Guess today can't get any worse. But then, I woke up to find myself in the barren wasteland of a familiar city. "No, please don't be," I prayed. My prayers could not be answered as the dream was something inevitable. I started walking around the remains of my home. I tried picking up my family portrait but it just went through me. 'I guess I can't take something from the past,' I thought. I kept walking around the city until I found the beach where the allied team had breached through. I chuckled at the site and returned to my saddened expression as I saw the bodies of the dead soldiers. There was silence for a long time until the sound of distress calls alerted me, my eyes widened from the calls. 'He's quick, there are also multiple squadrons backing him up,' I thought once again. Remembering the cause of it, I ran towards the location of the distress call. I knew who 'he' was and was sure enough to confirm his identity. And sure enough, when I got there, I saw my past self killing my own country's soldiers while being backed by the allied soldiers. I remembered exactly what caused me to kill that much, I shook my head to drop it off. I kept looking at myself, I ran on the buildings while one of the German soldier who was trying to shoot me shouted out "Die Sie Dämon !" Which shook me as I was not in control of myself. I kept watching the massacre until the end, as the end approached I was beginning to feel a little nauseous and fell down. And the last thing I saw was a shining edge of a sword. [thirdperson] "Try and catch me if you can!" Twilight happily shouted. "Oh I can and I will!" The pink pony ran after her. Their fun came to a stop when Cadance saw their human "guest" shift uncomfortably. She also heard him mumble random things. She ran up to him and poked him which caused him to shout, but stayed asleep. Cadance switched glances with Twilight who followed her when they stopped playing and shouted for him to wake up with Cadance shaking him. Groups of passerby's saw them and shook their heads and kept on walking. Twilight then ran towards one of them begging for help but instead of helping they ran away. Twilight continued begging and pleading for their help as Seigmund's condition was worsening as he began twitching by now. She was on the verge of tears until a masculine shout was heard not far from her current location. She turned to see what it was and saw Cadance smiling with tears of joy. She looked at Seigmund who had woken up and ran towards him, still crying. Seigmund was about to regain composure until he was tackled with a bear hug, from two happy fillies, while leaned against a tree. Which made him dizzy and realized that he was awake and alive, to which he is grateful for. He waved off the feeling he got when he just woke up and hugged the two fillies back. And for the second time, he shed a tear. [firstperson, prior to the last scene] I finally woke up and it's dark, and I'm now scared. I tried to walk around but it proved to be useless as my legs felt numb, which is annoying. I became frustrated and even more scared. I could not move my arms too, nor any parts of my body, save for my head and face. I really wished this dream ends soon, I screamed at the top of my lungs and everything becomes clear. There was a single source of light that appeared in front of me, approximately 100 meters, dream scale. which means, it'll be impossible for me to get there on time. Taking a deep breath, I started running towards it. Soon, a mass of blob-like thing appeared behind me, which I am oblivious to. I almost reached the light source until it grabbed me with its' reddish black appendages, that was when I started to become subconsciously angry and tried my best to reach the light source and win this nightmarish battle between my nightmares. As I got closer, the appendages became stronger, making me harder to run or even walk, it pulled me down and I had to inch closer to it. Another thing I realized was, whenever I manage to get closer by that time, the light broke off my nightmare's appendages. And because of that, hope returned to me. And as every appendages broke off, I got up and walked closer, soon, I was running. My nightmare tried going beyond the barrier and got another hold of me on the left arm, fortunately my right arm was already stretched out to grab the light and use it against my own nightmares. "Just...A little...Bit...MORE!!" I shouted in a strained state and got a hold of the light and it revealed itself to be my self-crafted sword which I made just in case something bad actually happens. I used it and cut off the tentacle that held my left arm. I grabbed the other one and gets in a battle stance. My sword began lighting up once more and I rushed towards 'nightmare'. With one jump, I was high up in the air, lighting the whole sky up, which miraculously turned into the beautiful blue sky. With one mighty swing and shout, I managed to strike on 'nightmare's' top. Which resulted in lighting up the whole place. I woke up with a scream, which had surprised Cadance, who was seemingly worried about me. I was still staring off into the empty space while Twilight was running towards me, and as soon as she got closer, she jumped and that, is how the deadly filly bear hug happened to me that snapped me from my blank staring. I stopped thinking about that dream for a while and looked over the horizon to see that the sun is setting. I decided to take them back so that I could think about the dream and do an investigation about it. After another escorting, I got Twilight back to her dorm and Cadance at the castle. We went in and Celestia was already waiting for us, she greeted us in a calm manner. I skipped dinner to go to the balcony and watched the moon making its' course towards the night sky. Then, thoughts about my sword came back to me. I started thinking about it for a while before a silver light flashed and streaked through the night sky. I was intrigued by it, and so I decided to come out at midnight to check it out. But first, a well earned rest could do. I slumped down on 'my bed' and slowly drift into a short but peaceful slumber.