You Don't Need to be in Bed To Dream

I was at the school house in Ponyville learning about other equestrian cultures. I was asked a question about the rituals that the zebras use to join a tribe. I was of course asleep in the middle of the lesson, so I wasn't able to answer it.

I sat in my seat silently as my face was becoming a brighter shade of red than a cherry. Ms. Cheerily told me to pay attention in a frustrated voice. I slouched in my seat out of embarrassment as the class looked at me giggling.

The bell rang and the lesson was over, it was great because we didn't have any homework that day. The biggest bullies of the school then trotted up to me, I was worried because I was a blank flank.

"That was quite the answer you had in cultural studies Lightning" said Diamond Tiara. I galloped away in shame with my books under my left wing.

I busted through the front door as if Discord was resurrected again. My foal sitter tried to ask me what was wrong but I just rushed past her. I ran up to my room with tears running down my face as I slammed the door shut behind me.

I laid in my bed with my hoofs curled up against me. I was beginning to cry myself to sleep when I finally shut my eyes.

I was dreaming about earlier today only I didn't trot away like I did before. Instead I used that bullying to my advantage and started to beat them senseless. I was still hitting her out of rage and fury.

I don't know why but it felt good. It felt good to finally get revenge on somepony who bullied just about everypony in the school. I was still hitting her until I noticed she wasn't kicking anymore. I got up in triumph as everypony looked at me in horror. I was breathing heavily, sweating, and was wiping all of the blood off my hoofs.

I was able to eventually slow down my breathing. I slowly walked up to her and checked for a pulse to make sure she was at least a little bit okay but I din't feel anything. I began to get worried that I had just killed another pony.

I then got low to the bottom of her snout to feel if any air was coming out. But there was nothing. No pulse, no air flow; no life. I in fact had killed another pony. I didn't know what to do so I just sat down in shame waiting for some other pony to come up with Princess Celestia. But no one came up.

I then woke up in a cold sweat, hands shaking, and breathing heavily. I trotted over to my parents room. I knocked on their closed door. They opened it while their faces said that they were disappointed. I asked what happened and they just pointed at the TV.

It was on the news channel. It said that a little foal had just been murdered by a brown pegasus with red and black streaks in his hair. I didn't realize it at first but it was me. I had murdered a foal in my sleep.

It wasn't a dream; it was reality. It was me but also not me. It wasn't me who had intentionally killed a foal. It was something or someone else that was inside me. I would never take another's life for my own liking. But I guess something else inside me would. I mean, who would kill another pony because of an insult. It normally takes a lot for me to even get angry enough to even think about doing that.

It was official though, I was now considered a murderer. I was known as a criminal. I then ran back up to my room and jumped out the window. The window wasn't high enough to hurt me. When I landed in a bush on the other side if my window I quickly tried to get out of it. When I escaped the bush I ran to the Everfree Forest to go into hiding.

It was a good thing that news didn't travel very fast in Equestria. So I galloped to Zecora's hut. I slowly opened the door to see if she was in there. She was in the middle of the room staring deeply into her cauldron. She then noticed me and looked at me in disgust and horror. "You killed a foal as it said on the news, so you better scram before you get hanged by a noose." I quickly galloped out of her hut and went as far away as possible.

I found a decent sized cave to take shelter in. Those wildlife survival classes really payed off today. I quickly gather a shelter and made a small fire. I was terrified to go back to sleep because I didn't know if I would kill another pony. I didn't want to be executed by the princess. I just didn't want to die. So I tried to stay up as long as I could but I fell asleep and began to dream. I began to dream about being back in Ponyvile. I had just woken up from a long nights slumber. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth when I heard a loud tap on the window. I saw somepony throwing pebbles at my window.

I then got fueled with the flames of rage for some odd reason. That kind of thing shouldn't make someone get furious. But I went down my stairs and and grabbed a knife.

I couldn't control my own body. I was trying to resist the urge to kill but something took over my body. It was something demonic, something that had a massive blood lust for other ponies.

I went outside and confronted Snips and Snails and told them to stop throwing rocks at my window. "And what are you gonna do about it huh Lightning?" they said not knowing that I had a knife behind my back. I lunged at them with full force and the knife in the air preparing to consume yet another ponies life.

I couldn't try to stop it anymore, it hurt badly as I was trying to stop it. It was almost as if I was the one being stabbed to death. I suddenly came to a stop.

Looking down i noticed the two ponies that lie there on the ground with multiple stab wounds in their chest and blood pouring out of every hole that I made.

I then regained control of my body and ran back to my small shelter out in an Everfree cave. I laid down on my bed made out of leafs and fell asleep again only to wake up as soon as I closed my eyes.