Joat's nightmare

"WAKE UP!" *Smack*

Jolting awake I look up to find my vision filled with black chitin. "Kyrstal?" I questioned the changeling without wings.

"C.n't br..th." She gasped. Quickly removing my hand from Krystals throat " Sorry, you startled me" I apologized.

"It's okay, looked as if you were having a bad dream. Want to talk about it?" she inquired as she caught her breath.

"No" I replied while standing up from my resting spot on a tree. Taking in my surroundings I saw we are still in a open patch in the forest. scooping up my belongings I made a mental check list. Bag, check.. Jacket, already on.. Boots gloves crazed love driven mare.. wait. "umm.. why are you all up in my SHIT?"

Backing away she replies " I have yet to see you without your eye patch, why is your eye" That's all I heard as my hand found its way to my face. " were is it" I thought "they can see me without it" I searched the ground for my patch when I found it were I first awoke. "Must have fallen off when I slept." Quickly strapping it back to my head I turned to face the sound of an irritated Changeling.

"Are you even listening to me Joat?"

" huh what?" I replied "Never mind that, do you hear something?" " Like what the sound of your brain going AWAL." I perked my ears up to try to pinpoint the sounds location. I found it, it was coming from a clearing in the dense foliage. "wait here" I told my companion.

" For what?" Krystal replied as I started towards the sound. Making it to the tree line I could make out the sound now. someone very small was crying. Continuing on through the trees the crying grew, along with a flare of pain in my left eye. "This can't be good." I told myself and started sprinting towards the crying. Coming out into another clearing reviled a small blue Pegasus. Stepping out of the foliage reviled something else. "shit." I grunted as a red tendril made contact with my gut. " soo hungryyy." said a cloud of red to my left. "You loook goood" It rasped out.

"Trust me, you wont like the flavor of 6 days of unshowered wolf" I wheezed crumpled over from the blow.

"...." It just stared at me as it brought one of its long red tentacles down just missing me by inches from my role. Its other tentacle slashed at me and made contact with my thigh. " I should start wearing pants" I made a mental note as I looked over the now gash on my leg. dodging another slash combo I took an opening and lunged at the mist... to pass right through it and slam face first into a tree. "That wasn't there a second ago" I lied to myself. "okay so you want to play that game, I can play it too." I shouted at the cloud as I removed my eye patch and forced myself into the Abyss. As soon as I was there I pivoted and uppercut the now material red being. "I see you too asshat." I regret taunting it as it earned me a blow to the muzzle.

Face down on the ground I brought my hand up to my nose, pulling back reviled blood. "Tasty, Tasty" said a voice above me. Rolling to my right I barley missed getting impaled by two tentacles.

Looking back it had gotten himself stuck in the ground. Slowly I made my way over to him stopping right in front of him. "sucks to be you right now" I replied pulling my fist back. "What is tasty's name?" bringing my spectral charged fist into his midsection and out the other side I replied "Joat"

letting it fall to the floor it started to turn into dust but not before saying "master cannot be stopped." Shocked I looked back to him to find him no more. "that's the first I have heard a shade talk about anything other than itself" I muttered. Looking up I saw the little pegasus shuddering on the ground. " Hey its okay young one, I'm not going to hurt.." Then I stopped cold. Frozen to where I was standing.

I hadn't left the Abyss yet.....