You Don't Need to be in Bed To Dream

by Lightning_rider

Rating: mature
Tags: Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Thriller, Original Character, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Diamond Tiara, Princess Celestia, Cheerilee, Drama
Length: 2004

Bullying can lead to murder but Lightning doesn't know that you can murder in your sleep.

Lightning is a nice gentle Pegasus pony until his dreams turn against him. His eyes were closed the whole night, or so he thought. He didn't know he had killed a pony that had bullied him. But he didn't want her dead. Something else inside him did though.

Published 2016-01-16 00:40:03 UTC
Last updated 2016-01-17 07:56:58 UTC

Decent Into Insanity

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.

Chaos

It's been so long since I've slept. I can't think straight and I can't even walk. I haven't left my small safe haven for about two to three weeks, I honestly lost count after about 5 days. I've been living off of berries and other plants. I don't know how many plants I've eaten that are considered a poison to ponies. I really don't even care at this point, I just want the pain to stop. I don't want to hurt anymore Innocent ponies anymore.

I caught myself off guard as I was dosing off. I have tried my best to stay awake for as long as possible but I just can't do it. I know it's bad for my mental health but it's for the sake of all of the ponies in Ponyville. I ended up drifting off to sleep in about three hours. I found myself talking to a gunsmith. "I didn't know who he was or how he got there because we don't even have a gunsmith in Ponyville, the only one I know that exists is in Canterl-" I cut my thought short as I realized that I, no; something wanted to kill an important pony.

Everything around me spun around my body in a blurry haze. I suddenly appeared in Princess Celestia's castle. By then I knew what was going on. I was going to kill the Princess in her sleep. All the Royal Guards including Shining Armor had been slaughtered around me. Blood was splattered along the walls from the bullets swiftly passing through the center of their heads. Some of the guards were completely encased in blood and bullet wounds from my high caliber rifle.

It was surprising how the Princess didn't hear the screams of terror and loud explosions of FMJ rounds constantly breaking the sound barrier. I carried on in killing the Princess. I slowly walked up to her with the gun in my hoof. I put the barrel straight to her head and pulled the trigger until I heard three shots leave the chamber. Blood and fragments of her skull were speckled everywhere. It was a horrific sight but for some reason it was satisfying.

I woke up with blood all over my hoofs and face. I screamed in mentally horrified pain. I walked back to Ponyville to turn myself in to Princess Twilight but I couldn't find her. In fact everything was on fire but I hadn't noticed it until I stopped to see if I could find Twilight. Ponyville had gone into complete chaos overnight without Discord seeing as there was no ruler to keep things in order. I ran back to the now only safe haven for anypony in Ponyville which was my cave. I still had the gun with me so I picked it up and returned to Ponyville.

It was terrifying to see the most friendly place in Equestria turn into a complete war zone. Everypony was trying to kill each other. I didn't know what to do. "Should join in on the fun or stay out and keep myself alive?" I tried to get the voice of the demonic entity out of my. It won't stop talking. Why won't it shut up. I need this to stop now I just can't take it anymore. "If you want me to shut up then give me what I deserve." the demon in my head said as I had the gun up to my head. "How can I trust you! Look what you've done! Look at all of the death you are causing. You made me slaughter the Princess for Celestia's sake! Just shut up and get out of my head!" I screamed with tears running down my face.

I was still trying to repel the demon while my hoof was shaking as the gun was now pushed so hard against my skull I began to get a massive headache. I finally made up my mind. I couldn't let this demon live on in my mind; I couldn't let him take over. "I'm sorry every pony... I'm truly sorry. Please forgive me one day." I said with a small voice of pain and sorrow. Those were my last words before I pulled the trigger in order to kill the demon that haunted my soul.

"Hey Ms. Cheerilee, are you felling alright?" asked Apple Bloom in a concerned voice. Ms. Cheerilee turned around with a psychotic smile with a knife in her hoof. "Oh, I'm fine darling." she said as she cut Apple Blooms throat. Cheerilee woke up in a cold sweat with blood on her hoofs but the blood wasn't hers. She trotted down the stairs after she had washed her hoofs. She turned on her TV to try and get her mind off of the nightmare she had. It just so happened to be on the news channel. It said that a foal had been murdered at 2:00 AM while her Cultural Studies class was in session. They described the murderer to have a light purple coat and a multi-color mane with two different shades of purple.