_______*Golden Oaks library 3:41 PM*_______
Derpy sat in one of the chairs in the main room of the library, she was currently holding the latest Daring Do book and was staring intently at it.
Twilight was researching a way to bring Dash back home, she looked over at Derpy and gave her a worried look, most would not be staring at a book for so long unless they were reading it, but it had been four minutes already.
She walked over to Derpy and pulled the book down from her face.
Derpy shook her head rapidly and looked at Twilight. "Sorry Twilight I was just, it's just that me and Dash would always read these together, I don't think that will happen this time." She replied sadly.
Twilight smiled softly as she heard a familiar burp from Spike, she heard footsteps and she turned around to see Spike running towards her.
Spike skidded to a halt in front of Twilight and looked up, he was holding a scroll in his hand.
"Twilight you have a letter from the Princess." He said before opening the scroll.
Twilight and Derpy looked at him. "Ok Spike, go ahead." Twilight said.
Spike nodded and cleared his throat. "Dear Twilight Sparkle I am pleased to inform you that I have discovered a way to bring Rainbow Dash back home, she will be home in three days if things go correctly and the portal will be on the hill near the Everfree Forest, I hope this news will be helpful and I hope to see you then, Princess Luna." Spike read.
Twilight was overjoyed at this and started bouncing.
Derpy was giving off tears of joy and joined Twilight in her bouncing.
Spike rolled his eyes and walked away.
______*home of Derpy Hooves 5:18 PM*_______
Derpy was sitting down in her chair as Sparkler and Dinky played a game called Snakes and Ladders.
She was 'VERY' happy that Dash would be returning but Twilight had asked her to keep this quiet, she had to tell her daughters that Dash was on a business trip to Las Pegasus.
Derpy was not happy with lying to her daughters but knew it was better then them being miserable.
She smiled and stood up, she walked over to the stairs and walked up them.
When she reached the top of the stairs she felt something cold run down her spine, he looked around but saw nothing and passed it off as a draft.
Derpy walked up to her bedroom door and walked inside, she walked over to her bedside table and picked up her picture frame, she smiled at the picture, it was her, Dash, and her daughters standing in the picture, Dinky was on top of Derpy's head, Sparkler was on Dash's head with a mischievous smile.
"Come home soon Dashie, we're all waiting for you." She thought.
Even though Derpy was happy that Dash was coming back she couldn't shake this feeling that something was going to happen.
Another chill went through Derpy's spine and she turned around to see a faint gold figure that vanished.
Derpy's eyes widened and she rushed out of the room, she ran to the stairs and glided down them.
She looked and saw that her daughters were still playing Snakes and Ladders.
Derpy let out a sigh of relief and walked back over to her chair.
She closed her eyes and saw that same faded gold figure but it was slouched, she opened her eyes and shivered, for some odd reason she felt unnaturally cold, she decided that it was best not to say anything.
Derpy leaned back in the chair and pondered this, she began going over a mental list, she felt fine two days ago and the same yesterday, she felt fine today up until that first chill at the top of the stair.
She knew it had something to do with this golden figure that she saw when she closed her eyes, she tested her theory by closing her eyes and saw that same figure, this time however the top of it which Derpy assumed was the head was looking at her.
Derpy kept her eyes closed. "What are you?" She asked herself.
"That is not important right now." A voice replied.
Derpy's eyes flew open and she frantically looked around. "Don't bother only you can hear me, and as for introductions my name is Golden Freddy, and yes I am the image in your mind." It said.
She closed her eyes and saw that the figure now had an appearance, it was a golden bear with black eyes and small white orbs for iris's.
"Why and how are you in my head?" She asked.
Derpy heard chuckling in her mind. "I am here to warn you about the consequences of your friends return." Golden Freddy replied calmly.
"What do you mean Freddy?" She asked him.
There was a moment of silence until she heard metallic breathing. "When your friend returns she will not be alone, she will bring two others with her, beware the wolf, I will remain here for a time, but when your friend returns I will follow." He replied.
Derpy shivered again as she opened her eyes. "Fine just don't get used to being in my head Freddy" She told him.
She heard more chuckling. "Very well but before I go for now there is something I'm going to do." He replied.
Derpy walked towards the door and opened it. "I'm going out for a little bit ok?" She asked her daughters.
Sparkler and Dinky nodded and pulled out a game called Sorry.
______*Outside the Everfree Forest ten minutes later 5:30 PM*______
Derpy sat down at the top of a nearby hill and looked up at the sky.
She sighed as she remembered a fond memory of hers, she was flying at a brisk pace with Dash by her side, Dash was helping her with her flying so she wouldn't ram into so many boxes, trees and buildings, she wasn't doing so good at it though but every time she messed up Dash helped her recover, Derpy smiled and closed her eyes and saw Golden Freddy was standing up looking at her.
"Aw its so cute." He said mockingly.
Derpy sighed in annoyance. "Are you going to do that every time or something?" She asked.
Golden Freddy laughed. "Its not like I have anything else to do in here." He replied.
Derpy shook her head and soon felt a burning sensation in her eyes, she screamed in pain.
"Oops, I may have forgotten to tell you about that." He replied sarcastically.
Derpy continued screaming until she fell unconscious.
"Oh well we will talk in a minute." He said.
After a few moments Derpy opened her eyes and saw that she was inside a place that was like an abyss, she looked around and saw Golden Freddy sitting in a long chair, he looked at her and waved.
"Freddy what did you do to me?" She asked accusingly.
Golden Freddy raised his arms in defeat. "Hey I was just helping you out, I would like to see the world in a more focused vision anyway." He replied.
Derpy raised an eyebrow in confusion but shook her head. "How do I get out of here?" She asked.
Golden Freddy smiled and shrugged. "I guess when you wake up." He replied.
Derpy sighed and faded away.
Golden Freddy chuckled and faded away as well.
____*two minutes later*____
Derpy groaned and opened her eyes and saw that she was still on the hill, she looked around and was shocked at something, her vision was focused now, she looked around and saw Twlilight and Fluttershy running towards her.
Twilight stopped and was breathing heavily. "Derpy are you alright?" She asked.
Derpy looked at her and smiled. "Why are you so nosey?" She said with a deep voice and put her hoof to her mouth in shock,
Twilight was shocked at Derpy's choice of words. "Derpy I heard you screaming." She asked with worry.
Derpy was confused. "Freddy was that you?" She asked accusingly.
"Yes but that was supposed to stay in here not come out through your mouth." He replied with confusion.
Derpy removed the hoof from her mouth and looked at the ground.
"Sorry Twilight, that was Freddy and he is sorry, aren't you Freddy?" She said angrily.
Derpy felt Freddy move through her mind.
"Yea I'm sorry now shut up Derpy." She said out loud with a deep voice.
Twilight and Fluttershy were now deeply concerned for their friends health.
"Derpy are you alright you seem, off." Twilight asked with concern.
Derpy looked at Twilight who gasped, she turned her head in confusion.
"What's wrong?" She asked with her normal voice.
Twilight gulped and pointed at Derpy's right eye.
Derpy was confused and scratched her head.
"I don't get what my right eye has to do with anything." She said.
Twilight sighed and motioned Derpy to follow her while Fluttershy stayed a few feet behind.
After a few more minutes the group was inside the library.
Twilight walked up the stairs and came down with a small mirror, she put it up to Derpy's face and held it there.
Derpy's jaw dropped, her right eye was now identical to Golden Freddy's and she quickly closed it.
"Now listen i have question for you Derpy, why did you say Freddy earlier?" Twilight asked.
Derpy snapped out of her trance and looked at Twilight but opened her right eye.
"Because 'I' decided to take up residence inside this mind." Derpy said in her deep voice.
Twilight finally got it, her eyes widened and she went to charge a spell but realized that if she hurt Golden Freddy aka the deep voice she would hurt Derpy.
"So your Freddy huh?" She asked.
Derpy shook her head. "No, I am Golden Freddy, so 'Twilight why don't you tell me why your making such a big deal about one pegasus?" She said with a deep voice.
Twilight bit her lip. "Why should I?" She asked defensively.
Derpy chuckled darkly. "Because I would like to be able to control my own body at some point and your friend is how I will do so." She replied deeply.
Twilight realized that Golden Freddy was using Dash's return as a way to return to his own body, and was using Derpy's body as an anchor.
Fluttershy rushed up to Derpy and stared harshly into her eyes. "Now listen here you big JERK!, you get out of out friend RIGHT NOW!" She demanded.
Derpy chuckled. "Is that what you call a psychic attack?" She replied snidely.
Fluttershy gasped and backed up as Derpy advanced slowly.
Derpy had a wicked smiled on her face and returned the same glare to the frightened Pegasus, only this stare was much more effective as Fluttershy soon passed out.
Twilight gulped. "OK OK OK, I'll tell you, I'm working so hard on bringing her back because she is my friend, she is also the element of loyalty so she is very important to Equestria." She admitted.
Derpy smiled and nodded. "Thank you Twilight, that's all you had to say, now I'll be in here waiting, see you next time." She said darkly.
Twilight let a tear out at the thought of her friend being in psychological pain. "Derpy, you ok?" She asked.
Derpy shook her head rapidly and looked at Twilight. "Yea I'm fine, but I don't think Fluttershy is ok." She replied.
Twilight and Derpy walked up to the unconscious Pegasus and sighed in relief.
"At least she's not hurt, I didn't think that anything was capable of withstanding the stare from her." She said.
Derpy looked at her. "The reason I could withstand it is because her psychic attack is weak and sloppy, only the weak minded could fall for that wimpy attack." She said darkly.
Twilight jumped but Derpy smacked herself.
"Shut up Freddy!, you already made things worse." She said angrily.
"Fine I'll be quiet but my point stands." He told her.
"Sorry about him Twilight, I guess we are having a territorial dispute for my mind." She said apologetically.
Twilight nodded and looked at Fluttershy who was tossing and turning.
"Help me get her to a couch, at least its better then the floor." She said.
Derpy nodded and picked up Fluttershy while Twilight supported her with magic.
After Fluttershy was on the couch Derpy thought it would be best to go home and calm down, so she bid farewell to Twilight and left the library.
______*Derpy's bedroom 12:31 AM*______
Derpy laid back in the bed and sighed. "Gold Freddy we are going to have to find a solution for this." She said in her mind.
"Fine but I thought you liked being able to see clearly, but if you want to go back to your wall eyed vision don't let me stop you." He replied coldly.
Derpy shook her head. "I wouldn't have a problem with it if didn't look demonic!" She snapped.
She closed her eyes and saw Golden Freddy roll his eyes. "At least you can see clearly." He countered.
Derpy sighed in annoyance and stood up, she walked into the bathroom and stared at her reflection in the mirror, she stared into her new eye which sent shivers down her spine.
"You might want to get used to it, I cant switch it back to normal, so you are either stuck with it until I leave or I get into my body and take it away forcefully." He explained.
Derpy turned on the sink and rinsed her eyes, she looked at the mirror and looked at her right eye, she barely caught it but noticed that the faint image of Golden Freddy was there.
She sighed and closed her eyes to see a smirking Golden Freddy staring at her. "What?, I'm just using it as a clear window to look out of." He said innocently.
Derpy frowned. "Yea right, you know what I'm not in the mood to argue with you, just keep quiet tonight so I can get some sleep alright?" She asked him.
Golden Freddy nodded and faded away. "Just keep it down." He said.
Derpy nodded and opened her eyes, she saw her right eye and smiled, she walked back over to her bed and laid down.
"Maybe this wont be as bad as I thought it would be." She thought silently.
She heard a deep chuckling. "I knew you would come around eventually, I think we are going to have some fun together. " He said.
Derpy ignored him and fell asleep.
______*meanwhile*______
Luna walked through the dream world and sensed an evil presence inside the vast dimension.
She walked towards the source of the evil presence and stopped as she passed a familiar presence, Dash's dream was right there behind her, she continued towards the evil presence and finally saw it, it was a swirling orb of gray and gold in perfect sync, she entered the dream to discover what the source of the evil was.
Inside the dream was an endless abyss, Luna realized that this dream had not yet fully formed, there was a rumbling as the world around her became a simple field with clouds in the sky, she looked around and noticed a gray Pegasus mare with a blond mane, she walked over but stopped as a large golden figure appeared next to her in a slouched position.
The golden figure looked like a large bear, Luna braced herself and walked up to the two, the mare turned her head around and looked at Luna.
"Hey what's up?" She said.
Luna's eyes widened upon seeing the mare's right eye, it was entirely black save for the small white orb.
The bear turned around and Luna noticed that its eyes were the same as the mare's one eye.
"Greetings I am Princess Luna." She stated.
The bear chuckled and stood up, the mare stood up. "Well that's so fabulous, maybe if I was of your species I would actually give a crap, well Luna, my name is Golden Freddy." The bear replied.
The mare gave him an evil glare and whacked him on the head. "Sorry about him, he can be, unpleasant at times, then again I have been all day and it got worse when he decided that it would be a 'good idea' to give me this eye as a way to 'fix' it." She said with annoyance.
Luna now knew where the dark presence was coming from, it was emanating from both of them. "So where is the one who created this dream?" She asked.
The mare giggled and pointed at herself. "That would be me." She said.
Luna then noticed the difference in the dark energy between the two and realized that the bear was the source of the dark energy, she also noticed that the mare's right eye was emanating that very same energy, she assumed that her eye was like that because the bear did something to it.
"So why are you snooping around in this mind huh?" Golden Freddy asked.
Luna looked at the bear who had crossed his arms.
The mare broke the silence by giving Golden Freddy a gentle push. "Sorry about that, anyway my name is Derpy Hooves nice to meet you." She said.
Luna nodded. "Nice to meet you Derpy Hooves, now, Golden Freddy, to answer your question I am not snooping I am dream walking." She said.
Golden Freddy chuckled and shook his head. "Their isn't any difference in the two, you can just waltz right into somebody's dream and snoop, so I will ask again, why are you snooping?" He repeated.
Luna sighed and looked at the bear fiercely. "I am here to find the source of an evil presence and destroy it, in that case its you." She said before turning into a cloud of smoke.
Golden Freddy sighed and laid down and put his arms behind his head like he was relaxing.
Derpy facehoofed and shook her head. "Derpy you might want to wake up now, I really don't need you getting a headache through this." Golden Freddy said.
Luna returned from her cloud form and unleashed a volley of magical blasts which Golden Freddy just faded away and appeared in the same spot he was at but was standing up now.
"Can we not do this?" He asked.
Luna replied with another volley.
Golden Freddy sighed. "Guess not." He said with disappointment as he dodged the blasts.
Derpy flew away and landed on a hill, she sat down and concentrated as the world around them changed.
The next thing Luna knew they were inside a labyrinth, she looked up and saw Derpy was pulling a lever, Luna heard a deep laugh and she reacted by turning into a cloud of smoke.
Golden Freddy knew this game well, search the vast hallways and find your prey, and if you were hiding you just keep moving, he laughed as he knew that HE was the hunter.
He began moving at a relatively fast pace searching for Luna.
Luna knew that she couldn't keep her smoke cloud form for long and reappeared from the smoke.
Derpy was pushing buttons and pulling levers making the labyrinth change as she worked, she was trying to force Luna to retreat to the portal she entered from.
Luna however kept moving in the same direction blowing holes in the walls as she progressed.
Golden Freddy heard a loud bang and he ran in that direction.
Luna felt that Golden Freddy was charging in her direction and she prepared a spell.
Derpy went to pull a lever but stopped herself. "What im I doing?" She said before concentrating.
Luna saw Golden Freddy burst through a wall but before she could hit him with the spell she conjured she found herself being pushed, she looked and saw that she was in front of her portal, she tried to teleport away but found that her horn and wings were gone.
Derpy stood on top of the labyrinth. "You had best leave, and don't come back." She warned.
Luna tried to move forward but soon found that the entire area was turned into a lava tunnel with no way to move anywhere but behind her.
Derpy stared as Luna tried to find an escape.
Golden Freddy materialized next to her in a kneel.
"You should listen to the mare." He suggested.
Luna knew there was no way out and sighed in defeat, she walked back through her portal leaving Derpy's dream.
Derpy sighed in relief. "That was close." She said.
Golden Freddy was grinning. "That was fun, we should do it again sometime." He said cheerfully.
Derpy facehoofed. "Whatever." She replied.
_____*Canterlot castle two minutes later*_____
Luna was on the balcony looking down on her kingdom, she felt horrible, she had let Golden Freddy take over Derpy Hooves, no, not 'let, she had no choice, she considered calling a few guards to apprehend the mare before the evil spread but knew it would arouse to much suspicion, she had no choice but to adopt a wait and see approach.
She was aggravated to be sure, how such a creature infiltrated Equestria was a mystery but one she had to uncover if she was to stop it.
Luna kept her watch over the quiet land.
"I will not allow that creature run rampant through this land, this I swear." She said to herself as she continued her watch.