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// Chapter: Five. Nightmare in Dreamland. The Foxman with the familiar Symbol. 
// Story: My Little Pony: Secrets of the Kitsune tribes 
// by OtakuBrony47 
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	Tucked in a ready to dream away, Rocky was ready for a good night’s sleep. But like I said…All good things…Must come to an END.

Inside Rocky’s dreams:

The sun was rising on a small mountain village near a waterfall. The grass was green, and the sun shined its rays down on the happy people. As the butterflies flew by the happy fox children playing in the fields, flying kites and playing ball. The men in town tended their gardens and grew their crops while the women cared for the young. A particular woman, a fox girl dress in red silk robes and wearing what appeared to be a circlet, was out with her baby boy in her arms. Behind her approached the father, a man who was also wearing a circlet. And on his robe was a symbol that looked familiar. Placing his right arm over his wife’s shoulders, he gave a happy smile as the young couple looked at their baby.

The baby giggled, its warm smile brightening up the couples face. And it appeared that this couple were special, because every time they were accompanied by what appeared to be a guard soldier. As they were walking down happily down the village path, they began to notice the sky was getting dark. Looking above, the saw something huge. A giant bird creature was flying over their village. And it was a very odd looking bird, one they had never seen before. At first they thought it was nothing, oh but foolish they were, for that was no bird. It was an aircraft. The aircraft, flew by the city and just when the people least expect it, it dropped an oddly shaped capsule device from beneath itself. The capsule fell down, down, down, down, until suddenly, it made impact with the ground…and then…yes...

The capsule had destroyed almost everything near the bomb radius. Houses, stores, and the fox people. The fox people were scared. Half their home had been destroyed, and those caught in the blast were ripped into shreds. The fox man slowly got, and saw his wife on the ground, with a scare on her head, but luckily her and the child had survived. Unfortunately, their body guard didn’t.

The sky then turned reddish yellow, as the aircraft made another turn, and this time it flew lower. Almost close to the ground, the aircraft slew by the village, spitting flashes of sharp pellets, which tore through the fox people, leaving them into a pile of bloody mush. Panic began to arose, and soldiers came running out with their bows. A nearby soldier saw the man and his wife and pulled him aside. “Your majesty!” he cried, “It’s not safe here! We must go, NOW!” The man clenched his fist and grunted.

“NO! If My city is too fall, then, I SHALL FALL WITH IT!” The fox man cried out. Turning to his wife he grabbed by her shoulder. “Listen to me, Miyu!” he cried out, “It’s not safe here! Take our son and go…NOW!” The wife obeyed her husband wishes, and gave him a kiss on the forehead. She then ran, and never looked back. As soldiers began to evacuate the city, things got worse. Enemy soldiers arrived to take over. But these soldiers were different. They were armored to the teeth, and instead of swords and bows, the carried with them oddly shaped sticks. They were also not foxes. They had the appearance of bunnies and rabbits.

However, the fox soldiers weren’t going to give up without a fight. They took out their swords and charged the enemy. Foolish they were, for the enemy gave a smirk, and ordered his squad, “OPEN FIRE!” Their sticks began to flash, and one by one, they all fell. Their bodies piled the ground, and a river of blood formed, wetting the streets in red. As they advanced through the city, the man wasn't going to let his village fall without a fight. He armed his archers and his swords men. They were going to fight for this city, and die for it. As the enemy advanced through, the man took his squad and charged. The enemy opened fire, but the man and his soldiers were fast. The struck them down one by one. Painting them in red, slashing them apart with their swords. But they enemy had better weapons, which soon overpowered the foxes. For every man the foxes killed the rabbits killed 3. Eventually the man found himself alone, all his troops killed.

Fighting back alone, the man charged, killing several, but taking a heavy amount of damage. Injured, and bloodied, he was finally flanked and captured. The enemy had dragged him through the street of village and tied him to a tree. There the man watched as his village burned down, and enemy soldiers flooded the streets killing children, women, and their animals. The man was outraged. "YOU COWARDS!" he yelled. Just then, he found himself, face-to-face with the leaders of the enemy. One of them was a little girl, a rabbit princess, carrying behind her one of those stick weapons. Next to her was a cloaked figure with fangs. The man's heart sank. "No...It's you. Why? HOW COULD YOU!?" The cloaked figure removed his hood and revealed himself to be a fox man as well. He had a scar on his left-side face, and also wore a circlet with the same engraved symbol on it.

With a devilish smirk the fox man drew his sword and aimed it at the other fox man's neck. As a tear fell down the young fox's face, he looked up to the cloaked figure. "Why bother?"

The man gave a wicked giggled, and as he raised his sword, he spoke to his brother his final words to him. "Long...Live...the Nobuyuki." And with a quick swift, he ended his brother's life, decapitating his dead clean off. The man then lite the tree on fire, and watch his dead brother burn, as the village behind him fell into chaos and was destroyed.

*Chaos. *Screaming. *Wicked Laugh.

“JUNICHI!!!!!!!!”

Rocky awakens:

“AAAAAHH!” Rocky woke up with horror and fear on his face. He was sweaty and hyperventilating rapidly. He then called out to Fluttershy. “MOOOOOM!!” Fluttershy instantly heard the screams, and ran upstairs to aid her child’s screams.

“Rocky!” she yelled, opening the door wide and rushing inside his bedroom. “What is it, are you okay?”

“Mom…I, *SNIFF, I had a bad dream.” Crying softly, Rocky reached out to hug his mother tightly. Patting him gently on the back, Fluttershy tried to calm him down.

“There, there. It’s over now. Calm down, mommy’s here. There, there.”

As the Fluttershy held the crying Rocky in her hooves, out the window poked a familiar face. Princess Luna. Looking through the window she slowly began to shake her head. She slowly walked off and flew into the air. “Hmm, that was no nightmare.” Luna thought to herself, “It was something else…something else…

Luna was right. This was no dream. This was a flashback. Of what? That is for you to figure out…