Brothers

Writer: tomer3392
Editor: xsomeguyx
Proofreader: rhinotaz

Luna galloped as fast as she could while Rafael was lying unconscious on her back, bleeding.

‘I need to get him to a hospital fast. If not, he will perish,' Luna thought to herself as the three fillies galloped quietly behind her.

"Girls! I need you to do something important for me. Go to Twilight’s library and get her to the hospital as fast as you can. Do you understand?" Luna asked the girls, knowing that there was a big chance that Twilight would lose a friend.

"O-ok, will he be all right?" the girls asked Luna, fearing that Rafael died because of their actions.

"I don't know girls, I can't say. But you need to go get Twilight! This is the least that you can do," Luna told them.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders quickly began their run to Golden Oaks, leaving Luna to take Rafael the rest of the way on her own.

--------------Golden oaks-------------

Twilight and Spike started to clean the library in preparation for the visit of the Princess of the Night.

"Where is he? The sun has already set, he was supposed to be here by now," Twilight mumbled in frustration to herself.

"Maybe he lost track of time. I mean, it happens to all of us once in a while," Spike tried to help Twilight calm down, but he know that when she starts, there is no stopping that train.

"Spike! I need you to get me ‘Telepathy 101’ from my room. I will try to contact him and bring him home," Twilight ordered her dragon assistant and he had no say in the matter.

"Ok, ok! No need to be so bossy about it!" Spike said and left to look for the book in her room.

"Oh Rafael, you never disappointed me! Please don't start now!" Twilight said to herself. As she got back to cleaning the library, she heard loud knocks on her door.

"I don't know what you want in this hour, but the library is closed," Twilight started opening the door to turn the visitor away.

As she opened the door, three distress fillies barged in, all trying to deliver an important message to the confused princess.

"One at a time, girls I won’t be able to understand what you’re saying if you keep screaming and crying together," Twilight told them.

A moment later, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle dropped to the floor and started repeating, “We’re sorry! We’re sorry!"

"Twilight, Mr. Monster is in the hospital!" screamed Scootaloo as fresh tears began to fall to the floor, remembering what she had done to him, from making Rainbow beat him up to seeing the Timberwolves tear him apart in front of her eyes. She fell to the floor, weeping, joining her friends in the pile of crying fillies.

'Mr. Monster?' Twilight thought to herself, not knowing that the “monster” the fillies were crying about was in fact her friend Rafael until she put two and two together. It dawned on her that Rafael was in mortal danger.

"No," that was the only word she could let out as she felt her throat tighten and tears starting to come out.

Twilight wanted to call Spike. She knew that he and Rafael became friends, and he had the right to see him.

"Spike come down fast!" Twilight screamed.

"I'm coming, Twilight. You don’t need to yell I-" Spike didn't finish that statement as Twilight teleported them both to the entrance of the hospital.

"Have the book," Spike looked at his surroundings and give a stare that asked: ‘Why are we in front of the hospital?’

"No time to explain Spike, follow me!" Twilight and Spike entered the hospital, on their way to find out what had happened to Rafael.

----------Rafael's dream------------

Rafael woke up in the Everfree Forest, but unlike the previous times, he was in his own body. As he ventured, he heard that same scream that had haunted him. Rafael had had enough, he wanted to face the creature. Now that he was in his own body, he knew that fighting back would be easier. He started to search for a weapon, a stick, a big rock or something, until he found a big, sharp stick.

"Come, you ugly fucker! I have a present for you!" Rafael screamed as he got closer and closer to the creature. What started as a fast walk turned into a jog and from a jog to full on sprinting. As the minutes flew by, the screams became quieter and quieter until they stopped completely.

Soon, he couldn't run anymore. He stopped and screamed to the heavens. Leaning against an old, dead tree to catch his breath, the ground beneath him suddenly turned into a hole. He started to fall for what felt like hours. He eventually hit the ground and only darkness surrounded him.

"Shit! What now?" Rafael asked himself, trying to find a way out of the hole until suddenly a blinding light caused him to close his eyes.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a huge, beautiful, ivory colored castle. It looked like something from a child’s picture book.

Rafael began hearing sniffling and sobbing coming from inside the castle and he chose to follow it. Oddly enough, the sniffling voice sounded familiar, but he just couldn’t recall from where he heard it.

When he entered the castle, he found that it was hollow. Nothing was inside, only a large spiral staircase that was connected to hundreds of room. He heard the strange sound coming from the last room at the top. So he went up the staircase and began noticing that in every room there was a mirror placed on the wall and every mirror had a unique shape and color.

As he reached the last room, he was surprised to find the same colt that he was walking as every time in his dreams, sitting on the ground, crying his eyes out. Behind him was a black mirror.

Rafael didn't know what to think at that moment. He knew he was in his dream world, but it still didn't change the fact he was standing in front of the pony that he was controlling in his dreams.

Suddenly, the colt raised his head and looked at Rafael with his piercing, cold, blue eyes. Rafael never saw the colt’s eyes before, he felt like screaming as he looked into them, seeing every sinful action or thought he could possibly imagine. The colt suddenly rose up and started to run to Rafael’s direction and locked him in a hug.

"Daddy, I was so scared, don't ever leave me again," the colt started to cry in Rafael's arm.

'Did he just call me ‘daddy’?’ Rafael thought as he heard the creator's scream again.

No, this was a different scream. It sounded more human than that creature. Coming from the bottom floor, Rafael remembered what he was doing before he found the castle.

"Please don't go! He is waiting for you down there!" the colt screamed.

"Who is there?" Rafael saw the colt hesitating.

The colt stopped and looked Rafael straight in the eyes, saying something that froze Rafael in the very spot he stood: "Death.”

-------------Hospital room---------------

Rainbow Dash found herself in her usual room after she collided with the wall of Rarity's boutique and her confrontation with Rafael. Rarity, on the other Hoof, still was fuming after her fight with Rafael and poor Rainbow had to sit through it and listen for the hundredth time why he was a dick.

"Oh and then he had the nerve to say my precious boutique was an old dump! Can you believe that? Honestly, Rainbow, a stallion his age should already start a herd and learn how to speak to a lady…"

Rainbow lost her will to argue with her after the 58th time she explained what had happened. If somepony would have walked into the room, he or she would think that she was suffering from brain damage at that point. Both suddenly heard a voice that resembles Twilight in distress from across the hall. Rainbow quickly jumped from her bed.

When Rainbow looked across the hall, she found her friend Twilight trying, with all her might, to break Princess Luna's magic field.

Spike was curled up in a ball crying and muttering, “It's not fair...”

"Spike, what's happening with Twilight and why did Princess Luna put up a magic field around that room?" Rainbow asked the weeping drake, only to see him cry harder and louder like one expect from a small child.

“Luna, let me in right now!" screamed Twilight at the locked door. She had had enough and began casting a counter-spell that would make the field allow ponies in but not out.

“Twilight, what’s happening and what happened to Princess Luna that she won't let you check in on her?" Rainbow walked in front of Twilight, not moving from the spot until she would spill the beans.

"Rainbow, I don’t have time for that! Right now, Rafael is fighting for his life in the operation room!" Twilight shouted at Rainbow Dash and moved her with a levitation spell. Rarity heard everything and walked to Spike, nuzzling him so he would calm down.

When Twilight came inside the room, she saw the Princess having an argument with a doctor while the other doctors tried to repair Rafael's body and save his life.

"And I told you I don’t care that you are the Princess of the Night! The poor stallion needs us, the ponies that can really help heal his body and after that, his mind!" the doctor shouted at Luna.

"And we told you that there is a dark entity in his mind and if we don't do something, his mind will be forever lost!" Luna shouted back.

Twilight approached them and joined the argument until, suddenly, the rest of the doctors all started to scream and panic. Rafael’s body began spasming and foam came out of his mouth while tears of blood came out of his eyes. Luna quickly came to Rafael and started chanting an old forbidden spell.

"Whatever you're doing, get away from him! I told you we…" the doctor was silenced by Twilight with a stern look.

When Luna finished with the spell, she turned into mist and entered Rafael through his ears.

-------------------- Rafael's dream--------------------

"What did you say?" Rafael asked the small colt, looking at him like he just kicked a puppy.

"Please dad, don't go there. There’s still a way, just please don't…" and before the colt could finish a scaly hand came out of the mirror, caught the colt and dragged him inside.

"Hey, wait!" Rafael screamed.

But it was pointless,the colt had already passed through the mirror. When Rafael tried to follow him, he found that he was denied access.

“Looks like I need to get back down," Rafael said.

However, as he came out of the room, he noticed that all the rooms were gone and were replace by the mirrors that were in them. When he looked back, he saw that the room he was in became a window that showed that day had suddenly turned to night. As Rafael looked down the staircase, he saw that the lobby's floor was replaced with a huge mouth. The tongue was the staircase.

From the mouth, Rafael could hear a dark, bone-chilling voice that reminded him the siren that took control of his body, "Come over here..."

'Damn it, stop,' Rafael lost the ability to speak and could only mentally scream.

When he reached the mouth and passed through it, the mouth closed and sealed Rafael within. At first. Rafael couldn't see what was in front of him. He started walking in a straight line, going deeper and deeper towards the darkness while the same voice called to him.

As Rafael's sense of time went and his fear started to take over, he became paranoid. He started to see things in the darkness, to hear other voices. He suddenly stop and for the first time in what seemed like ages, he saw light from above.

At first, he had to cover his eyes from the blinding light. but as time went on, his eyes adjusted to the light. He could see what stood in the middle of it and what he saw surprised him. Above him, wearing a golden dress, was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She descended to the floor and reached out towards Rafael. He could feel his heart begin to beat faster and faster as he looked at her enchanting brown eyes, her silky smooth brown hair and her perfect curves.

"Come over here," she said with a gentle voice, making Rafael forget the colt's warning.

As she and him came closer to each other, he instinctively brought his lips to hers, not noticing as the lights began going dim. As their lips came to only an inch away, a blue beam separated them. Luna suddenly emerged from the darkness.

"Stay away from him, foul creature!" Luna screamed, shooting a blue beam from her horn at the girl, revealing her true self.

Rafael saw as the girl’s silky smooth skin started to decay. Her hair began falling off. Her beautiful brown eyes replaced with empty blood oozing sockets. Finally, her golden dress turned into shredded white dress with blood stains. In her hands, a bloody ax emerged. The once beautiful girl was now a demon and began swinging her ax at Rafael.

In a deep voice, she shouted, "HIS TIME HAS COME! DON’T INTERFERE!"

Seeing the creatures true form shocked Rafael back to his senses, regaining control of himself and dodging her swing in the last moment.

"What happened? What happened to me?!" Rafael panicked while Luna started charging another spell.

The demon knew what Luna was trying to do and began focusing on her.

"YOU WILL NOT CHEAT DEATH!" the demon shouted as Luna teleported herself and Rafael out of the castle.

"Why didn't you get us out of here?" Rafael asked Luna.

"It does only take one touch for her to get us."

"What do you mean us?"

"Here we are linked. If one of us meets their end, the other suffer for that. Usually we can go into dreams and come out with no problem, but when the one dreaming is fighting Death, the caster of the dream spell becomes linked," Luna explained as the demon emerged from the castle.

Suddenly the moon started to glow crimson and the dark skies became blood red.

"I WILL NOT ALLOW SUCH INSOLENCE!" the demon said as she flew through the sky, her ax now replaced by a staff.

As she pointed the staff at Rafael and Luna, it started to glow a dark color as green lightning bolts ran through it.

"SCATTER!" the demon shouted and from the clouds dozens upon dozens of spears rained down upon them.

"Stallion, don’t move!" Luna screamed as she put on a shield around them that incinerated every spear that came close.

"Listen young one, if you want to see the moon another day, you have to slay the demon" Luna said to Rafael.

"Why me? You have magic!"

"Because only the dreamer can beat Death!" Luna screamed as she teleported away before Death could touch them.

"So how exactly do I do that? it's not like I can shoot magic beams like you! I don't have any experience in fighting like that!"

The demon found them and ran towards them, shouting, "YOU CANNOT ESCAPE DEATH!"

"I have an idea! You will use your magic to take most of the heat, while I start to try to stab her with one of those spears! What do you think?"

"Sounds fine to me," Luna said as she used a fireball spell at the demon only to cast it aside with the back of its hand.

"YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONGER THAN DEATH?!" the demon began going after Luna, bringing back the ax and swinging at her only to be countered with an earth shield that came from the ground.

The demon then made a tornado that sucked most of the spears and directed it at Luna. Luna couldn't move. She had put herself under a gravity spell so she wouldn't get sucked into the tornado.

"NO FORCE IN THE WORLD IS STRONGER THAN DEATH! JUST GIVE IN!" the demon laughed at Luna, not noticing the spear that flew at her, piercing her heart.

"You’re right. There is no force stronger than Death," Rafael said as the demon spat black blood on the ground and collapsed.

-------------Operation room week 2 day 4----------

Twilight and Spike couldn't believe it. After 3 days of fighting for his life, he finally started to awaken.

"W-where am I?" Rafael asked as the purple dragon jumped to his lap and hugged him and the pony princess.

"You are in Ponyville’s hospital" Twilight told him and just began sobbing into his chest as he resisted giving an adorable moan.

-----------------Ever free forest------------

"So death failed me," a sinister voice said from the shadows.
"Well, no matter. The boy will be mine, right, my pets?" six Timberwolves cried in pain as their bodies began to deform and a dark, sinister laughter echoed through the woods.