Nightmare Night

Images fluttered around the edges of Nyx’s consciousness, a hell hound pouncing at him, a girl with flaming hair tossing him a switch blade, and … leaving to equestria.

I… remember … something… a blurred an none distinctive image appeared, blurred objects flew around and then … everything was gone, and yet everything was there. He was being sucked into a vortex backwards; rainbow colored lights flew past at … some fast speed.

  He didn't know what was happening but he felt scared he wanted to curl up and cry except he couldn't. Literally, he was zooming, flying, or whatever backwards way to fast. He couldn't feel his forelegs … or anything.

He felt phantom pains where his arms and legs should be, he couldn't actually feel the limbs that were hurting though, when it had happened he couldn’t explain it in words at all but now …

I feel numb … but I also feel pain … That’s basically what he thought, basically, but not entirely true.

And then, all his senses returned in a flash. A flash of pain, smell, sight, noise, and light. Pain shot through his body, his ear drums throbbed his eyes stung, his lungs burned and his limbs convulsed with indescribable pain.His lungs burned, he gasped for air the light was blinding, his eyes stung with tears. I’m dying …I’m dying now, but I’m alive, what going on? And with that last thought the world zoomed out of focus, and he slipped into a death-like cold darkness.

Blue Moons shot up into a sitting position, breathing heavily sweat soaked his fur as it might have soaked his shirt if he in the human world … his home. He looked up expecting to be in Twilight house/library, but instead of finding the walls stocked with books he was in a room painted almost entirely white except for a large spot on the wall that had a large red plus sign on it.

"What the-?!" Blue Moon’s question was answered by the obviousness of where he was. A hospital? How did I get into a freaking-oh … Once again his question was answered, except this time it was answered by his memory instead of …you know … obviousness.

Blue Moon looked out the window to see a hazy pink sky as the sun rose and light streaked across the dark blue/ dark purple sky. Well, I'm leaving, he thought, I am not, spending another second in this god forsaken place. He slipped out of bed and on to his face.

"Shit!" Blue Moon growled sitting up and rubbing his nose, he was dizzy and exhausted and strangely deprived of energy, as if he had run a relay race. Damn, that really took it out of me! He thought, referring to his, outburst.  He crawled back into bed and dozed off, into a dreamless sleep.

  "Is he awake?"

"Ah don't know sugar cube,"

"Ooh, I really want to give him our gifts!"

"Oh no, princess Luna is going to be so angry!"

"Seriously? That's what your worried about?"

"No, I'm also worried he'll be seriously injured, or chased out of town by an unruly mob or-"

"We get the idea, sugar cube."

"I still don't get why you can't tell us darling."

"Don't call me darling, and how many times do I have to explain it? It's not my tale to tell, Blue Moon will tell you when he wakes up!"

"What if he never wakes up?"

“... You really are a ray of sunshine and daises Mic Beat ..." There was a slamming sound as some one left the hospital.

"Why are you calling him, a ray of sunshine and daises if he's -"

  "It's a metaphor."

   "Oh ..."

   "Um, shouldn't we be glad he's knocked out? I mean, he is Night Mare Moons kid and-"

   "Spike! That was a long time ago, and he didn't have anything to do with it! Besides, Princess Luna's changed now; she wouldn't teach her son anything like that … would she?" No one spoke,

Wow, what a pep talk! I 'm feeling so inspired! Blue Moon thought sarcastically, but Twilight (he could tell from the sound of the voice who's it was.) and her friends weren't done yet.

"Yes, but ..." some pony mumbled, she had a southern accent-Apple Jack!  Blue Moon thought.

"But what?” Twilight asked.

  "Well, he was born just before Luna turned into Night Mare Moon for the first time right?" Apple Jack asked in what seemed to be a cautious tone, Blue Moon could imagine her (because his eyes were closed shut)

"Well … yes, why, what’s so important about that?” Twilight asked in a suspicious tone, Apple Jack voice came later than usual,

“Well … you see sugar cube … well ah think that maybe he affected by transformation?”

“ … I don’t see where you’re going with this Applejack.” Twilight responded sounding a bit irritated,

“Well, um, yah see ah think the transformation may have … affected him mentally in ah negative way.”

“Are you saying he’s crazy?!” Twilight demanded shrilly, sounding worried panicky, and disbelieving.

“ … It’s a possibility, sugar cube …” Anger boiled inside of Blue Moon; I don’t need to hear this crap! He thought angrily, I better calm down before I snap and do something crazy … maybe I should perform a sleeping spell on myself! Blue Moon slowly opened his eyes by a fraction to make sure neither was watching, the he concentrated hard and … fell asleep before the spell was finished.

  Images flew by at light speed, at first Blue Moon thought they were flash backs and left it at that but they weren’t like any flash-back he had ever experienced before! Instead of focusing on one memory he was seeing random flashes of his past and hearing his thoughts instead of thinking them.

  Another thing, he was aware that he was having a flash-back. Normally he found that out after waking up, but this time he was aware of it while he was sleeping. A memory raced by, Blue Moon and his friends entering the Lunar Republic for the first time, his classes at Princess Luna’s school for aspiring young Ponies . He was in a large dark coliseum-like class room with ponies sitting everywhere and watching Princess Luna with rapt attention

“Now class,” Princess Luna began in a strict, cool voice. “Today we will begin our Mind skimming lesson, can anyone tell me what mind skimming is?” She turned to Blue Moon, who was scribbling notes on his note book. “Nyx, tell me what mind skimming is.”

Blue Moon gave start when he heard his old name, he looked up from his notes to see every-pony looking at him, Figures, he thought angrily, out of two hundred students why did she have to pick me? Blue Moon cleared his throat,

“I’m not sure what mind skimming is,” he began coolly, “but I think I have a pretty good idea. Mind skimming is when you skim the surface of ones thoughts, enter someone’s consciousness-” Then the present Blue Moon realized what was happening, someone’s freaking reading my mind! Who could – TWILIGHT! You wanna play this game? Well, then let’s go!

Suddenly Twilight's thoughts and memories instead of his were racing past him he saw her with an older white stallion, her brother. He saw Twilight and her friends fighting nightmare moon and some strange chimera, Discord, Blue Moon thought, isn't that his name? He saw her emotions her thoughts, pretty much everything until he decided to stop.

Blue Moons eyes shot open he pushed himself into a sitting position, gasping heavily he turned to glare at Twilight who was on the floor staring at him in shock,

“You-you just-” She began stuttering, Blue Moon cut her off,

  “Ever heard of personal space?!” He demanded growling, Twilight blushed,

“I- I’m really, really sorry,” she told him nervously, “ but I had to find out what-” A loud roar cut her off, followed by screams and shouting.