Well, here is the next part in the saga! Chapter 8: The Recovery. Enjoy!

I was in a dimly lit room...
There was only one other pony here...
it was a stallion...
He slowly approached me...
He trotted around to my backside...
My tail was lifted up...
My head was pushed down...
Cold, hard hooves were on my back...
His hot breath on my neck...
He pushed himself inside me...
I tried to scream, but no sounds made it out of my mouth...
He began to move back and forth...
Tears flowed down my cheeks...
I was helpless...
I looked back at the stallion...
I gasped in my head at what I saw...
I saw...
Celestia
This Dream..This...
Nightmare.
It kept coming back. Every night I had the same nightmare. It replayed over and over again. I could tell what was happening with my eyes closed in the nightmare. It was burned into my memory. I would never forget it. I couldn't ever forget it.
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Ponyville Hospital. 5 days after Manehattan incident.

"Do you think he will be alright?" I heard a familiar voice.
Fluttershy.
My eyelids fluttered, and I opened them slightly. I saw a white hospital room. All my friends were there, even some ponies who I didn't know where my friends. There was Bass, Shadow, Big Mac, and The Mane six. Then there was Celestia and Luna, who weren't crying but did have somewhat sad faces. Fluttershy was crying, but she was also talking to a doctor. He was a red earth pony with a white/red mane.
"I-I don't know, Fluttershy. He may only be in a coma, or he may have went into shock and had a heart attack which leads to..." She looked at him, then back to me. She started sobbing harder than ever. Shadow went to comfort her.
"Don't worry Fluttershy," He said through sobs, "I'm-I'm sure he'll be alright." He patted her back. She hugged him and cried into his shoulder. He was sad, but he smiled.

I smiled back on the inside and closed my eyes again.

I was chained, hanging up on a wall.
I looked around. This time, it was pitch black.
I heard maniacal laughter.
Bright lights suddenly turned on.
I blinked a few times and saw Pinkie Pie standing right in front of me.
"Oh, you're finally awake?" She asked. Then she chuckled.
"Good, now the fun can begin!" She bounced away from me to a dish platter.
I looked around again to find that I was in Pinkie's room.
I tried to talk, but no sounds were made.
Pinkie hopped back to me with a platter of cupcakes in hand.
"Here, try one! It's my new recipe!" She said as she stuffed it into my mouth.
It had a Rainbow of flavors.
The next one Sparkled in my mouth.
A yellow one without much flavor.
An orange one that tasted like Apples.
The last one had a.. Marshmallow-like taste and texture.
"Did you like them? I really hope you did. I took a LONG time making those!" She smiled.
The it hit me.
I spat everything out AND threw up.
"Aww, you don't like them." Her ears flopped down. The they perked up, and she smiled evilly.

"I guess that I just have to make a Blue-Rasberry cupcake." Then she picked up a knife.

I woke up with a start again. It was now sunset. I checked and saw that now Fluttershy, Bass, Shadow, Raven, Sophie, and Dylan were here. They weren't crying this time, but instead just looking at me. I blinked and Bass stood up. He walked over to my hopsital bed and stared at me intentivley. I looked back at him.
"Faint. Get up." He said. I just stared at him with a 'WTF?' face.
"I said, get up." Now everypony else looked at him like he was crazy. I chuckled and slowly got up.What happened next scared the crap out of me. Now, everybody knows that Fluttershy is a very calm and shy pony right? Well, that didn't stop her from pouncing onto me while I tried to get up.
"OMYGOSH!OMYGOSH!OMYGOSH!OMYGOSH!OMYGOSH!OMYGOSH! You're alive!" Then she hugged me. Yet, it was one of those suffocating hugs.
"Fluttershy...Can't...Breathe...." I said.
"Oh, sorry." She blushed and got off of me.
"Thanks for caring, but, damn. That was just a tad too much affection." I smiled at her.
"Sorry..." She whispered. I sighed.
"Don't worry about it. Anyway, I need to get out of here. I'm hungry as hell." I said getting up again. Bass helped me get steadied as Flutter went to go rejoin Shadow.
"Wait, wait, wait. What's goin' on between you two?" I leaned in closer. "Are you two together now?" Shadow rolled his eyes.
"Yes, Faint. It did happen while you were asleep. Now, just to let you know. Princess Celestia said that she had a house in Canterlot for you, but if you didn't want to live there, you could live in Ponyville at your other house. Bass know where that both are, since he will be living with you and he has been shown them already. Now, me and Flutter have to go. See you guys later!" He called over his back as he left.
I looked at Bass, who shrugged.
"You know, it's harder than it looks," He said.
"What?" I was confused.
"Shrugging, as a pony. Tell ya later though. Right now, we gotta get to...which house?" I thought for a second.
"Ponyville one. I will be moving into the Canterlot one tomorrow. You can come, if you so wish." I told him. No sooner had I finished than we walked out the door of the hospital. We started trotting down a path. After about ten minutes or so of slow moving, we made it. He pulled the keys out of his pocket (How the hell do you do that without clothes? Whatever, I'll continue.) and opened the door.
The inside smelled like... Well, i couldn't put my hoof on it. It had really modern furniture. I didn't care though, seeing how I was hungry and tired. My stomach growled at me.
"Well, I'll go grab you something to eat. Your room is upstairs to the left, second door. Can't miss it." He left towards the kitchen, I guess. I headed towards where he said my room was,and went inside. It was a plain dark blue room, with stairs and a moon painted on the ceiling. I walked myself over to my bed, which had a night sky with stars all over. I chuckled and took my room in more.
There was a nightstand next to the bed, with two drawers and a lamp. A blue lamp. That was actually about it, except for the closet and even darker blue rug. Then, Bass walked in with a plate with a blue-rose and jam sandwich.

"That's the best I could do for cooking," He said with a smirk. I took the plate, gave a quite thanks, and sat down on my bed. I starting eating, but finished just as fast as I had started. I set the plate down, and fell asleep.

(Shadow Breeze's POV)
I walked up to Flutter's cottage and opened the door for her. She thanked me as she passed. I yawned and closed the door behind me.
"I'm going straight to bed," I told her as I went up the stairs to her room. I heard her yawn too, right behind me.
"I will be right up, I just have to turn off the lights." She said to me.
I hopped into the covers. Fluttershy came in, turned off the light, and slipped quietly under the blanket.
"G'night, Flutter." I said.
"Good night Shadow," She murmured. I heard her quite breaths, and closed my eyes. It was so hard not to just 'Squee' everywhere right now. I mean,

I AM SLEEPING NEXT TO FLUTTERSHY! IT'S A DREAM COME TRUE! I fist pumped in my head and went to sleep.

(Faint's Nightmare)
"Hey there, Faint. What'cha doin'?" Rainbow Dash asked as she hovered above me.
"Nothin' just trying to exercise really." I replied.
She looked at me, but instead of saying something she just wing-shrugged and took off.
I stared for a second, then headed toward her house.
I needed something to do today anyway.
I landed right outside of her house.
"Hey Rainbow, you home?" I called.
No answer, so I just trotted in.
"I'm inside right now," I called again.
Again, nothing.
I walked around, just taking it all in, when I heard a voice right behind me.
"Hey there big boy."
I turned around. She was right there.
"Mamma needs some lovin'," She said.
"Wha?" She pounced at me.
I couldn't move again.
Why is this a re-accruing thing?
The first thing she did was go straight for my...my stallionhood.
"Don't worry, I don't bite. Unless you want me to,"
She used me.
Rainbow Dash used me for her own...fun.

WHY ME?! I screamed.

"FAINT!" Bass yelled, shaking me.
"WHAT?!" I yelled back.
"Dude! You just screamed, 'Why me?!" Loud enough for all of Equestria to hear! I thought something was wrong!"
"Oh." That's all I could say, was 'Oh.' (Weird Al Yankovich quote right there. A cookie to anypony who knows where it's from!)
"Yea. You ok?"
"Y-yeah... I guess..."He backed up and opened my (of course,) blue curtains. The early sun rays spilled into my room.
"Well, I guess it's moving time for me." I stated to nobody in particular.
"Alright. Your room in Canterlot is pretty much the same as here, only WAY bigger. Also, no furniture because you have, oh I don't know, about a million bits from the princesses to spend on anything you need."
" NO WAY!" I said, jumping into the air, " Wait, what about you?" I asked, facing him.
"Oh, I got the same. So did the other bronies."
"So they didn't get in any trouble?"
"Of course not." He said and left. I sighed and went downstairs. I headed straight out the door, towards the 'Ponyville Express'. On my way there though, I was stopped by Pinkie Pie.
"Hey! Faint, right? Well, I never got to throw you a party, so it's today! Right now! Come on!" I rolled my eyes as she grabbed my tail with her mouth and sped off towards Sugar Cube Corner. We were there in a matter of seconds.
"Alright, you wait here until I tell you to come in, okay?" She said as she dropped me off in the backyard.
"Okay." I replied. After what seemed like hours, (it was only 20 minutes,) Pinkie told me to come in through the front. I cautiously went inside.
"SURPRISE!" About ten or twenty ponies yelled at the same time. I jumped back a bit, but sighed again. ALL of my friends were here, even the princesses. Then Bass walked up to me laughing.
"Dude, you almost pissed yourself! Your face was PRICELESS!" He doubled over laughing. I kicked him and went over to the punch, refusing to eat any cupcakes. It was a apple-like flavor, but tasted kinda like liquor. I arched one eyebrow at it when Luna came up behind me.
"So..um..how is everything going?" She asked.
It's almost kinda like she was shy around me. I thought.
"Fine. I was about to move into my Canterlot house and decorate it." I winked at her. She blushed.
D'AWWWWW!
"Well, that sounds great." She said as she got some punch.
Actually, I don't think this is punch...
"Hey Pinkie!"
"Yes?" She was right behind me.
"Ah! Oh. What is this?" I pointed to the bowl of 'Punch'.
"Oh, it's something AJ made. You should ask her!" Then she left and started dancing. I shook my head and trotted over to AppleJack, who was standing near Twilight.
"Hey Applejack. What is this stuff?" I mentioned at my cup.
"That's my uncle's recipe. He calls it, 'AppleJack Daniel's. He named it after me, and put his son's name in there too."
"Well then. Anyway, it tastes awesome."
We partied hard for the next two hours. Turns out, the 'AppleJack Daniel's' was a liquor. It just made us be way more crazy, even Celestia! When the party had died out, everypony left. The princesses were about to leave, but Luna came over to me.
"Do you want an escort? To your house in Canterlot?" She asked, turning her head ever-so slightly away from me.
"Sure!" She led me to her Night Carriage and we got in. The fly to Canterlot wasn't long, and I was dropped off right in front of my house.
"Bye Luna!" I called back to her. She blushed, (again!) and took off. I still had another five hours before sunset, so I set off to buy things for my new house. Well, I did look around first. It was almost exactly the same as the one in Ponyville, just three times as big.

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4 Hours later, Faint;s Canterlot House.

It was done! Finally done! I had stocked the kitchen and filled the house with furniture! Most of it was either black or blue. There were rugs, couches, loveseats, paintings, and more! It was so worth it. I won't go into detail, because right now, I was exhausted from running around. I did eat, so now, I'm going to go to bed. I smiled. I went up to my room, flopped on my bed, and went right to sleep.

I woke up again when the sun was shining into my room.
Celestia, do you do this to torture me? I chuckled at my own stupid joke.
Today's Agenda:
1).....Whatever, I'll just go with the flow! I jumped up out of bed and stretched my wings and legs. I then strecthed out my back by leaning close to the floor. I heard a POP and sighed.
"Ah, that feels good." I popped my neck and went downstairs.
I'm gonna yell.
"I HAVE MY OWN FUCKING HOUSE! HELL YEA!" I pelvic thrusted a few times, then went into the kitchen. I made myself a simple breakfast, Flower and jam sandwich, plus some 'Sweet Apple Acres Apple Juice'. After gulping my food down, I left. I also made sure to lock the door behind me, and put my keys away. I did a double-take.
How in the HELL did I just do that? I pulled my keys out of my..my... body pockets? I didn't have any clothes on, but whatever. I wing-shrugged and took off into the air. I barely felt a wind that went into my ear.

You Want to do something evil.... I was high above Canterlot when I heard this whisper. It was powerful, yet quite.
Say what now? I looked around, dumbfounded.
You know that you want to cause some chaos...
Hey there, whoever you are, I'm not a bad guy. Now, who the hell are you? I thought, now annoyed.
A pony of your caliber can cause real damage...
Now you listen to me! I don't even care who you are anymore, just GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
.......
I felt something leave me... It was a weird feeling.
That was weird, but thank Celestia it left. Then I felt that same presence come back. This time though, it hurt. My wings locked up, and I started falling down back to the ground. At very high speeds.
Agree to what I say, or you will perish! I regained control of my wings just before impact and landed.
Never! I won't do anything evil!
As you wish. Be warned: I am coming for you... I once again felt the presence leave.
"Whew," I sighed. Suddenly, it became very cold. I looked around. I was in the forest near Canterlot, in a small clearing. Then it got dark.
"Alright, what's going on? Is this some kind of prank?" I asked. No answer.
"I shall unlock your true potential!" I heard that same voice, but it was screaming. I truned around to see.. it was a cloud of darkness, heading straight for me.
The Nightmare.
"HOLY SHIIII-" I was cut off as The Nightmare cloud-thing penetrated into my head. The whole cloud was soon sucked into my body, and I couldn't do anyhing to stop it. The pain I felt was intense, as though I broke all my bones. (Again.) I screamed and writhed on the ground in pain. My eyes watered. Then all the pain went away instantly.
My mane, tale, and hooves were suddenly set on fire. I brought my fore hooves up to my face to examine them. They had a grey fiery aura. My mane and tale were now black and grey flames. Panic took over me, and I jumped up and started to gallop. I stopped at a nearby lake not five minutes later. I bent down to look at my reflection. I-I looked evil. I was taller, my wings were bigger, and instead of my usual blue/black coat, mane, and tail, everything had changed to be black and grey.
My eyes were now grey and black too, but they also resembled dragon eyes.

I could feel the strength flowing inside me. I went to turn back, but I couldn't move. My body changed again, but only minor this time. I was staring at the water, unable to move, the whole time I changed. Now, I looked feminine, but still powerful.
Now, I take over. You have had your fun. It's my turn. Don't try to fight back. I now have full control!
Then I- no, SHE took off.
Wait, if my appearance changed, does that mean...AM I A MARE NOW? NOT AGAIN!
SILENCE! Nightmare snapped. I tried to snap back, but I couldn't talk, even inside my head.
Nightmare hovered over Canterlot, looking down and shaking her head.
"Too bad they never stood a chance!" She stated. She pulled her head up, inhaling deeply, then came back down, letting it all go.
What I now saw shocked and scared the hell out of me. I-She was breathing fire! She was moving her head around to burn everything in sight. Soon, she had to fly around to burn more. It wasn't like she could use it forever. She had to stop and take another breath every so on. I couldn't do anything. I was useless, in my own body!
"Stop right there Faint!" Nightmare stopped with the fire breath and turned to Celestia, who was flying with her guards. Luna was also coming, with her night guards.
"Ha! My dear Celestia, you are too late!" Celestia gasped.
"No! It cannot be! You couldn't have taken over him!" She glared at Nightmare, who just gave a snort of fire.
"Oh, but I did. Now it's time for my revenge!" She lunged at Celestia in a streak of fire, who stood frozen in shock and horror. Nightmare's hoof connected with Celestia's jaw, It was an instant knock-out and left a burn mark. It happened too fast for her guards to do anything. Now, seeing their princess fall, two took off to save her, the other four closing in on Nightmare. She tried to fight them off. A few minutes later, I saw my brony friends.
No! Stay away!
They charged me, apparently knowing or guessing what's going on. Bass was on the ground though. He seemed to be... waiting? Sophie was with him. Near them...there was something else. It was a humanio-dragon-thingy. It took off, straight towards me-Nightmare. In the sky already, was Shadow. In his shadow armor. He tackled Nightmare, who didn't respond quick enough. Then Shadow started to go straight down. The impact was almost as loud at the sonic rainboom. Nightmare was dazed, but got right back up easily. Shadow stumbled, but didn't fall. Nightmare turned to him.
"HOW DARE YOU! YOU INCOMPETENT BEING!" Then she charged him. She was stopped by the human-dragon thing landing right in front of her, dodging to the side and slapping Nightmare on the side. It hurt not only her, but me too! Then she got back up. Again. She shot him a death glare and smirked.
"You think that you can take me on, don't you?" She said, not loud. "Then..LET'S SEE YOU TAKE ON THIS!" Then she shot off at him, like she did with Celestia. She was so fast, it was almost like teleporting. She slammed into him, grabbed him, spun around and launched him with a kick at, now almost here, Sophie and Bass. They dodged and keep running towards us. Nightmare went into the air, only a few feet from the ground and started to fly towards them, inhaling deeply. Shadow was up by now, and took chase.
"Faint! Stop this right now dammit!" He called.
I wish I could. He tackled Nightmare to the ground again, but caught a face full of fire.
I, being pissed off like nobody knows, screamed in anger.
NIGHTMARE! I SWEAR TO CELESTIA I WILL FUCKING DESTROY YOU! Then I concentrated, trying to get my body back. It was a struggle.
You are a pitiful fool! She shrieked as I slowly regained control.
NO! STOP THIS MADNESS! I AM THE NIGHTMARE, MOST FEARED CREATURE IN EQUESTRIA! Bass was now getting closer to us. He was right in front of Nightmare quickly, and seized the chance to grab her. Nightmare, being fully distracted with the fight within, didn't notice.
It seems that I'm just better than you though. I smirked. I knew it wasn't over, seeing as how I had not got control back. She started to get stronger, pushing me back. She now realized that Bass was holding her by one of the wings in his left hoof. He raised his other hoof, but looked at Nightmare and stopped.
"I can't do it! I can not hit a mare!"
"You-You have to! End...End it now!"
Please, Bass looked at Nightmare, who was now weakened.
"Sorry..." He whispered.
Then everything went black for me.
I snapped back into focus and reality when I heard Nightmare screaming.
"NO! Please! No! I can change!"
"Yeah right! Like we should believe you!" Rainbow Dash?
"Yeah! Bye bye, Nightmare!" Pinkie Pie? What?
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I looked through Nightmare's eyes and saw the mane six, using the Elements of Harmony. The rainbow came down, and crashed into us-Me-Nightmare-thing and I felt Nightmare's presence vanish.
"TAKE THAT YOU STUPID BITCH!" I heard Shadow yell.
"Suck on those while you're in prison!" Bass, of course. When I was in full control of my body I groaned.
"Argh! You could tell somepony that getting hit by that hurts like hell!" I yelled.
"Faint! You're back! What in Sam hell took you so long?" Bass asked.
"Well, when an evil entity possesses your body, you tend to not be able to control what your doing, so, yeah." I muttered. Then I was surrounded by my friends, who all asked questions. It's a good thing I was back to my normal form now.
"What happened?"
"You were possessed?"
"Ah reckon an explanation is in order!"
"Darling you simply must tell what was going on?"
"Dude, that fire stuff you did was awesome!"
"I wanna throw a party to celebrate!"
"How in the hell did you get to be so damn strong?"
"Dude, she turned you into a chick. If you weren't evil or my best friend, I woulda done you."
"Are you feeling okay?"
"You were hard as hell to take down!"
"Ahem." We all turned to see Celestia and Luna entering.
"Princess! I'm so sorry for what happened. I-" She held up a hoof to silence me.
"Right now, we are going to head to the dining room for lunch," She pointed a hoof to another exit, " Where you will explain everything that you know."
No one spoke, but just trotted to where Celestia had pointed.
I spent the next hour eating and explaining what had happened.
"Well, it seems that you are better now," Twilight said.
"Yea, but even still. I have to get more practice with my powers."
[Well, it seems that you are doing awfully fine after all that.] Said a cool, calm, and undoubtedly smart voice.
{Yeah, you are.} This one was more powerful, aggressive, and uncontrolled.
I have to agree with you both. (Lemme tell you this, Since Nightmare has left Faint's head, this is a new voice!) The last voice was wise, yet dangerous. Like a father, almost.
So, who are you guys, and why are you in my head?
[I am Night.]
{Blaze.}
Rage.
So, more talking voices in my head now? Great! I thought sarcastically.
Yes and no. We are the different parts of your consciousness. You are all of us in one, and we represent a certain part. Blaze is strong, trust me. Yet he is very uncontrolled, violent, and can be dangerous to all. Night is not as strong as Blaze, but he is smarter and calmer. He will try to avoid violence. Lastly, I am very calm, yet I will be dangerous if need be. Technically, we are not in your head, we are just part of it, so you can see us. Turn around.
I made sure everypony was busy with small talk, then turned my head. I saw three very different looking ponies behind me.
A fiery red one with yellow zebra stripes was probably Blaze. He had blood red dragon eyes, and a red/orange mane and tale.
The small blue one, with a lighter shade of blue stripes, was most likely Night. His eyes were calming blue and looked like that of a lizard, while his mane and tale were also light blue/dark blue.
The last one was purple with a lighter shade of purple stripes. His eyes were white, as if he was blind. They were also normal pony eyes. His mane and tale were a- yep, you guessed it. Combination of light purple and dark purple. (See my blog if you want pictures.)
How come they can't see you? I asked, nodding my head towards my friends.
[Because we are a part of your mind, not theirs.]
I think this might help some who are wondering how we are communicating. I am talking to them, but with my mind. They answer me with their mouths. Now, when they are inside my head, they also use their minds to talk. Pretty simple.
So, you guys can appear outside my head whenever you want?
{Yep. It's our choice.}
Alright, I can live with that. One thing. Promise me, when I talk to somepony else you guys either stay quite, or talk to me when you are inside my head. Got it?
[Sure.]
{Okay.}
Understood.
Alright, I'm going to wrap this up, then I'm goin' to sleep.
I focused back to the ponies behind me.
"Listen, guys. I am really tired, and it's getting late." I said as I got up.
"We have an extra bed in Luna's room, if you wish." Celestia said.
"Alright, that's cool. Can you lead the way Luna?" I was already in the door frame, waiting for her.
"Sure. Let us be off then. Good night, everypony." She got up and trotted out the door.
"Good night guys." I called over my shoulder. I heard 'good night's being said as we trotted to Luna's room. Once we reached it, she opened the door. We went in and I went to the bed on the other side of the room from Luna.
"Good night Faint." She said as she went out to the balcony to raise the moon.
"G'night, Luna..." Then I trailed off to sleep after such a long day.

So, what did ya think? I liked it. Please though, really. Go check out my blog for pictures. It does contain small spoilers, but nothing to really ruin it. I am going to sleep now, so, good night to all!