The Guardian Chronicles

The nightmare started off the same, I was charging a heavy metal door past several dead bodies. I pounded the door just like last time until it burst open. Inside was the creature from before. This time I focused more on him more than anything. He wore a sit of different colors and contained a horn on one side of his head and an antler on the other. He looked like some kind of Frankenstein experiment. His yellow eyes met with mine and a smile crept across his face.

He finally spoke in a voice that made chills roll down my spine. "Last time I saw you I was driving a sword through your pathetic body. It was absolutely, CHAOTIC" he said.

"Wha-what do you mean?" I replied.

He laughed and said, "you'll find out soon enough".

"Why are you doing this to me. What the hell are you!"

He snapped his fingers and something began to materialize. It molded into several colors and shapes to form the body of the cyan mare I cared about. My eyes grew wide as he raised his claw and said, "what am I? I... Am chaos."

With that he dug his claws into rainbow's neck.

I woke up sweating and panting. I felt a hot tear roll down my cheek as I looked over to check on rainbow. She was still there, still breathing.

I got up from my pillow shakily, my side still hurting. But I worked through the pain and climbed up to rainbow's pillow. I still had tears in my eyes from the nightmare. "I am chaos" he had said. What did that mean? How did he know me?

I reached out and began to stroke rainbow's mane lightly as another thought crossed my mind: "can I protect her?". That creature. Only seemed to want me. Did it mean I'm protecting rainbow from myself? I shook the idea from my head as I stopped stroking rainbow, her breathing was steady and soothed me because it showed me she was alive and safe.

I approached her face and kissed her cheek.

"I promised I would protect you" I whispered.

"And that's a promise I intend to keep"

With that I turned and went back to my pillow. I laid there thinking until my eyes grew heavy and I fell back asleep.