Joat's nightmare

*Sigh*

I was board, so extremely Stupendously board..

"What are we gonna do Shadow?" I asked my cloudy friend leaning in the corner of my room. Which at this point was devoid of toys and all things fun. "I don't know. play rock, paper, scissors, maybe you will beat me this time." He taunted. "Well I might win some if you didn't cheat all the time!" I said with a glare. "Me, cheat? wouldn't dream of it." I would have argued the point further if it wasn't for my dad Rex yelling "Your supposed to be grounded young one!"  a dark chuckle came from the opposite side of the room. "shut up." I whispered "You're the reason I'm in this mess in the first place."

"You know.. you could show them I exist." shadow said. "nah, I remember the last time you said that. mom still looks at me weird for that." shadow drifted over to were I was sitting on my bed. "This time it is different." "take my hand, and wish me to exist."

My only response was a rumbling that came from my stomach. He looked serious, but I didn't want to get into anymore trouble. Rolling over in my bed snuggling into my covers I silently contemplated whether or not I should believe him this time. "I.. I'll think about it." I responded after a couple of minutes of silence. What is the worst that could happen, they extend my groundation?

Some time later that felt like hours, but was only like 27 minutes. Mom walks into the room she was wearing a purple gown that covers her blue coat. "Dinner is ready Joat. Come get some before your sister and father eat it all." "Okay mom I will be right there" As mom leaves my room she yells back " Don't forget to wash your paws!"

As I walked down the hall from the bathroom to the dinning room Shadow reminds me he is still there. "Have you made a decision yet?" "What decision?" I asked him. "about you making me able to be seen by your parents." he deadpans. "oh... um I guess so."

"Good, all you need to do is take my hand and wish me real." " that's it?" I questioned him. "yes." was his reply back. Stopping and turning towards him he held what I would only assume was his hands towards me. As I grabbed his cloudy stumps I closed my eyes and concentrated. "Almost there." Shadow says as I start to feel a burning sensation in my left eye that is slowly spreading down my left arm. "It hurts Shadow" "Just a little longer." I start to feel fur in my hands where his 'Hands' are. All of a sudden I get startled by a "FINALY!" letting go and taking a step back I see my friend for the first time. He was tall with pitch black coat that waved in a non-existent breeze. It reminded me of the one time the ruler of the pony nation paid a visit . He had a scar going from his right cheek, over the bridge of his nose and across his left eye. Wearing no cloths he stood there and just studied me for a moment. "you know." Shadow said in a voice that reminded me of when two people say the same thing at the same time, just deeper and a little scary. "I thought you would be taller." He chuckled.

"What's taking so long Joat?!" My father called from down the hallway in the dinning room.

"Lets go meet your parents Shall we." "right this way" I squeak out, still a little afraid of how he sounds. As we continue on down the hall past my sisters room, I thought I heard Shadow mumble something behind me. "What?" I ask him. "I didn't say anything." he mutters out. Passing by mom and dad room I swear I hear him talking but I pursue it no farther.

I enter the dinning room first and yell out "I told you Shadow was real!" everyone at the table turns towards me and my father said "I have had just about enough of this Joat. Your imaginary friend.. doesn't...exist?" He finishes while standing up from the table. "Hello" Shadow says from behind me. "My name is Shadow Blitz, and none of you are leaving this place alive."

"I told you he was.. Wait what!?" I stammer out as the front door slams shut and windows lock by themselves. "Not you Joat. You're my friend" shadow says as I spin around to see him sporting a grin that should have ripped his head in two. I don't even have a second to process what he just said before he is standing at my where my father used to be. Spinning around again to see him kneeling over my father with something red dripping off of his hands. "wake" Shadow turns around to reveal it as my fathers heart. "Dad?..." I sob out looking at where his chest used to be but is now caved in showing his fractured ribs and mutilated intestines. "up" My mother runs to the front door trying to break it open. Before lone Shadow is upon her laughing as he grabs her tail and swiftly, but it may as well have taken a thousand years, rips her spine out. "Mommy!!" my sister yells still sitting at the table to scared to do anything but cry. Shadow slowly stalks over to her kneeling down to eye level grabbing the sides of her head. " Leave her ALONE!!" I Plead but it fell upon deft ears. "You know what they say. The younger the melon the more spectacular the splat." "NO!"

"WAKE-UP!" *slap*