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// Prologue 
// Story: Dreams Can Be Real 
// by Flutterpoof 
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   “Hello?” I shouted into the darkness. No answer. I called out again. Still, I received no answer. I growled out of frustration and kicked the air. I felt my foot contact with something and I winced in pain.
“Son of a-“ I was cut off by footsteps coming from… Well, all around me.
“Hello, strange one,” a familiar voice called out from all directions. “I think it’s time you came.”
I had absolutely no clue what the voice was talking about. “Uh… What?” I questioned.
“I think you heard me loud and clear,” the voice, now realizing it was one of a girls, spoke. “I said it’s time you came.”
“Where?”
“I think you know” I couldn’t see the source of the voice, but I could tell she was giving a smile.


I was walking through the back alley near my friends’ house on the way home. I had to have had the most fun in my entire life. Don’t get any wrong ideas, people with their mind in the gutters. We just finished a 24 hour gaming session of Counter-Strike Global Offensive, after each getting 2 keys by Valve. We both flipped out when we realized we both got keys, and we got installing and planning right away. I shivered. It was colder than I thought it would be the next morning, and I hadn’t brought along a jacket, only a light sweater. I was taking the back alleys to be in less open areas to be less cold, and also to get home quicker. It was still dark, and I sort of have a phobia of being in a dark place alone. Laugh at me if you must, it’s just out of experience when I was younger. But that’s for another time.

Right now, I think I should give you a little information about myself. My name is Jeff, and I am a 15 year old guy. I love gaming, weather it be PC, Xbox 360, or PS3. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I LOVE My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. That show is my absolute favorite show in the world, and without it, I think I would probably not be able to function correctly. After Season 2 ended the other week, my Saturday’s got boring. I was extremely happy to have the gaming session on a Saturday, so I could keep my mind away from ponies for the day. I’ve told my friends about my liking of the pony show, and they all laughed at me and told me it was a girls’ show. I just shrugged them off, and didn’t mention it very much around them.

I was never much of a person to go around in public and yell that I loved the show, so I kept it to myself, the internet, and my friends. I was a pretty hardcore fan of the show, watching each episode more than 10 times, reading (and in fact, attempting to write) fan fictions, and watching custom made PMV’s, pony music by authors such as The Living Tombstone, Mic The Mic, Jackleapp, Glaze, PinkiePieSwear- Well, if I kept on going, the list would be exceedingly long, so I’d much rather NOT. I really loved the community based on and around Friendship is Magic, that I was pulled in during the middle of Season 1, and am not regretting it one bit. The ponies are invading my life, and I can find them anywhere in any situation. I even dream about them, although my dreams are kind of farfetched. They usually consist of me finding some sort of portal where I can see Canterlot through it, but when I’m about to enter it, I always wake up. It saddens me that the dream ends there, and it never continues.

I just realized I’m running through the back alleys now, trying to get home as quick as possible. I guess the darkness was getting to me, or was it my excitement to get home and continue my internet/pony life? I don’t really know. Before I know it, I can see my front door, and I stop running with a sigh of relieve. I am panting now, apparently from running so far. I open my door with my keys, enter, and re-lock it from the inside. I turn on my light and hang up my sweater. I immediately enter my room and click on my computer. It loads up to reveal my desktop of the Mane 6. I open up my internet and check my hotmail. To my luck, 8 of the 22 fan fictions I’ve followed, have updated with new chapters. I clap my hands together in excitement, and type FIMfiction.net into my web browser.

The same dream, like always. This time I’m walking through a Minecraft-y type cave. I end up in a cavern with a portal. I can see Canterlot castle from inside the portal. I reach out my hand to touch it, and unlike my other dreams, I actually fall through it. I feel a falling sensation, and it seems like an eternity before I slam on the ground. I stand up, only able to see myself, and the rest is darkness. I start shaking, my phobia getting to me.
“Hello?” I shouted into the darkness. No answer. I called out again. Still, I received no answer. I growled out of frustration and kicked the air. I felt my foot contact with something and I winced in pain.
“Son of a-“ I was cut off by footsteps coming from… Well, all around me.
“Hello, strange one,” a familiar voice called out from all directions. “I think it’s time you came.”
I had absolutely no clue what the voice was talking about. “Uh… What?” I questioned.
“I think you heard me loud and clear,” the voice, now realizing it was one of a girls, spoke. “I said it’s time you came.”
“Where?”
“I think you know” I couldn’t see the source of the voice, but I could tell she was giving a smile.
“I… does it have to do with-“ I try to reason until she cuts me off.
“Yes, it has to do with what you saw in the portal” the voice, getting more familiar and familiar by the minute. I whirl around again and again to see the source of the voice, never finding it, until I feel a burning sensation in my stomach. I yell out in pain and fall to my knees. I scrunch up my arms and place them around my stomach still yelling in pain. I look up yelling and see the source of the voice finally, after so long. I now know where I’ve heard that voice from, and mentally facepalm in not realizing it sooner. I gasp out loud in seeing her, and she smiles at me knowingly, like she’s been my friend all my life. Even in my dream, or real life in this matter, she still had the cartoony look to her that comforted me in the darkness somehow.
It was Ce- Excuse me, it was Princess Celestia.