Remembering the Tragedy...
“I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”
- Jonas Salk
“A nightmare is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong negative emotional response from the mind, typically fear or horror, but also despair, anxiety and great sadness. The dream may contain situations of danger, discomfort, psychological or physical terror.”
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A good song to listen whilst reading this story is “My Body is a Cage “by Peter Gabriel (Oxford Temple Version) you can find it on YouTube. But if you don’t like to do so, just enjoy the story:
“I remember…”
I remember the day it all ended…
The place I called home…
Where I met my true friends…
My true destiny…
All gone in a flash…
In my face lies no emotion…
No fear…
No sadness…
Nothing…
A cloud of black smoke appears on the horizon…
My ears hurt. An endless buzzing sound rang throughout them…
I stand up not believing my eyes…
Slowly, my hooves start moving…
Pushing myself towards the destruction…
I feel nothing…
My hooves, filled with bruises and gashes…
My face black from the dirt…
I didn’t care…
Ponies are screaming running to my opposite direction…
“ARE YOU MAD!?” It’s the only thing I can read through their lips as they yell in what if I would be in a movie, slow motion…
Still I didn’t care…
I couldn’t stop staring at the town I lived in for so many years…
Now covered in ashes…
As I walk I smell blood…
Fear…
DEATH…
A tear falls from my eye…
My body couldn’t stand staying there but my mind couldn’t connect the dots between reality…
My body could not respond to any actions, it could just…
Walk…
Ponies jammed inside the very walls of their very own homes…
Organs spilled on the streets that used to be filled with joy and happiness…
Crows picking the eyes and flesh of the dead…
I arrive at my destination…
My home…
The same tree that used to be filled with life…
Filled with memories…
Now, it looked more like a stump…
No windows…
No color…
No life…
The forest green that covered its top now gone…
I step inside…
I begin to climb the stairs ignoring the destroyed bookshelves and their respective burned books…
The smell of burned paper crept up my nostrils…
I simply ignored it...
Reaching the final step I see just my bed…
Where once I dreamed of a life with no worries and friends…
Now a shattered bed. As was my mind…
I drag myself to it…
I lay myself on it, closing my eyes…
Why?
WHY CELESTIA? WHY?
I wish this wasn’t true…
I wish that this fate wouldn’t be cast upon me…
At least not here…
Forcing my eyes to close as hard as I could I wished…
I wished that none of this was real…
Please…
Regretfully, I open them again…
Staring at the sky, I couldn’t see the night stars…
The black smoke beast had engulfed Luna’s precious sky…
Staying in there didn’t matter now…
I walk out of once was called home…
Another tear rushes through my eye…
And another…
They wouldn’t stop…
More seemed like a river almost as the river of blood that now filled Sugarcube Corner…
Cakes…
Chairs…
All kinds of imaginable treats were spread all over the place…
All trashed and blood splattered all over…
Blood and sweetness combined were not something anypony would want to experience…
I keep walking…
I still ignore the bodies lying motionless around me…
Weren’t you supposed to do something Celestia?
WEREN’T YOU SUPPOSED TO PROTECT US?!
Why bother?
She must be sitting on her throne, sipping tea as if nothing must have happened…
I kept walking until I reach the towns limits…
I lose all my strengths…
I fall, hitting the dirt ground…
I look up at the smoke…
With the last bit of my strength I yell at the sky…
My horn flashes its shade of brilliant rose as I release pure energy onto the sky…
I could swear my scream would impose more chills, more fear, more death sounding than the explosion…
But what’s the use…
Yelling won’t bring my friends back…
Nothing will...
My neck falls limp on my shoulders, staring at the ground…
My vision blurs as tear drops begin to wet the rough and dusty floor…
I could just…
Look down on my hooves…
Bruised and gashed…
My head feels light headed…
This is it…
The time has come…
The time for me to join my townsfolk…
My friends...
I fall and pass out…
Darkness swarms me…
I didn’t care…
Everything that I cared was taken away from me…
Nothing was left that I could use as a reason to live…
I just laid in the darkness and waited for my death…
Soon…
Soon it would all be gone…
Both the psychological…
Emotional…
And physical pain would be gone…
“Twi? TWILIGHT!”
I wake up jumping.
I’m in the library again… But it’s… Here… Intact…
I’m lying on my bed trying to figure what just happened.
I turn to my left and I see Spike staring at me with deep concern.
“Are you okay Twilight?” He asked me, stepping closer.
“What?” I was seriously shocked… Was it just a dream?
“You were crying while sleeping. That’s ‘what’.”
I run up to him. Without warning I grab him and squeeze him onto my hooves.
“Gah! Hey, are you alright?” Spike squirmed to get free of my hold. I finally allow him to breathe.
“It was just… A bad dream. That’s all” I sigh. It felt so real…
“Must have been a really bad one...” Spike commented as he walked away.
“Well, don’t fall asleep again. Zecora wants to see you.” Spike said before going down the stairs.
I open the library’s door and gaze onto the sky.
The sun is setting allowing me to see the perfect shade of pink, orange and light blue covered by pink toned clouds on their edges.
I walk through the town. Ponies were chatting, walking together. I waved at every single pony I encountered.
The town was once more alive.
I reach the end of the town and approach the Everfree Forest.
Dodging random tree branches that stood in my way, I arrived at Zecora’s house.
I knock on the door gently to make myself present. Hoofsteps grew louder as the knob began to turn.
“Twilight, how good to see you at this time. Please, make allow yourself inside.” Zecora greeted with me a smile.
Apparently, Zecora wanted to know if there was a book in the library.
The conversation took it’s time, sometimes stopping for a brief moment so that I could understand the Zebra’s language.
“I’ll bring the book for you tomorrow Zecora.” I said as I made my way to the door.
“Thank you for coming Twilight, but can you return home with no sight?” Zecora asked as she pointed towards to sky.
The deep blue blanket of suns sparkled as the shy moon revealed her face to Equestria.
“Thank you Zecora but I’m sure I’ll get home safely.” I reassured walking away from Zecora.
“Thank you Twilight, for the wonderful time today. May Luna’s light show you the way.” Zecora finished waving a hoof at me, which I responded with one of my own.
Half way to the town I felt the devastating felt the need to stop and gaze at the sky.
She stopped near a tree to enjoy Luna’s sky. Why wouldn’t anypony love this? It’s beautiful.
I sighed deeply, smiling.
The dream. No. Nightmare, felt so real. So livid… So… Gruesome…
I simply shrugged it off. It wouldn’t be just a stupid nightm-
*BOOM*
My mind doesn’t have time to respond. I jump on my hooves.
That soul ripping sound echoes once more on my ears followed by the same buzzing.
A bright light blinds me as I bring a hoof to cover my eyes.
I feel rocks hitting my body gouging my coat, staining it with dirt.
I look at the town again. My mind was yelling. My fears were real.
‘IT CAN’T BE!’
In my face lies no emotion…
No fear…
No sadness…
Nothing…
A cloud of black smoke appears on the horizon…
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