What You Wish For 2: The Book of Unicorn

Author’s apology:
Hey guys it’s me, Dark-Castle (no shit), I’m just going to give you guys a quick message before the story begins and say I’m sorry about the last couple of chapters and how disappointing they were. The reason they were confusing and sloppy was because of multiple reasons, the first one being my grandmother got lung cancer a while back so I began to concentrate on a memoir for her and now the cancer has spread so I’m stressing out about getting it done before it’s too late. The second reason is because I’m also writing a book I’m actually going to publish (so excited). The third and final reason why these chapters were sloppy is because I just wasn’t all that into those couple of chapters, I really much prefer when the group is together and so this next chapter is going to get my 110% attention. Not only that but since the holidays are over I can feel less stress about the Christmas and Hanukah rush. Alright is everypony ready (no) Okay! Let’s go!

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Alex’s eyes shot open and realized he had returned to the dark void they had begun in, empty and as creepy as ever. As Alex got up he looked around to see that his group was still with him, and they were getting up as well. Alex helped Lauren up as he said, “Well I’m glad that’s over.”

Twilight got to her hooves as she said while looking around, “Well this isn’t much better than before. We’re still separated from everypony else.”

Almost as though she said the magic password, a voice in the distance shouted, “Alex? Twilight? Is that you?”

Alex immediately recognized the voice and began to run for it, the rest of his group behind him as they ran. As Alex approached the source of the voice he could see who it was, and it made him so happy to see them alright that he nearly teared up when he tackled her and said, “Oh god Fluttershy I was so worried about you, are you okay?”

Fluttershy struggled for a few seconds before returning the hug as she said in her soothing and timid voice, “Yes Alex, thankfully this dream will be over soon.”

Alex released Fluttershy to embrace the other three ponies as he said, “Wait what?”

Fluttershy tilted her head as she said, “You didn’t know this was a”

Before she could finish a pink Pony landed on her with a loud thump and a lot of giggling as the pink poof said with a smile, “Guess who?”

Fluttershy giggled as she said sarcastically, “I wonder who it is?” Behind Pinkie was Celestia, Lyra, and Luna all of them looking relieved to see the rest of the group.

Alex walked up and brought in as many ponies as he could for a hug, their soft bodies and silky smooth manes nearly giving him a heart attack as he said, “Thank god this is almost over.”

Happiness was not to last though, for creeping from the darkness like a snake, a hissing voice whispered through the wind, “I am so… glad you understand that this isn’t over.”

Oscar immediately let go of chewing on Pinkie’s mane (it tastes of cotton candy) and stood up as he shouted, “Shut up Slenderman! We get it we have another challenge okay?”

The voice laughed as it attempted to scare the reunited group, but to no avail. The voice continued to hiss and strike fear into their hearts only to receive disapproving looks from all of them. After a couple more seconds Alex stepped forward as he said, “I’m not scared of you anymore.”

Oscar stepped up beside Alex as he said through his black luchadore mask, “We learned about teamwork and how as a group we can overcome anything and that we no longer need to fear anything.”

Lauren stood up and approached Alex’s other side as Fluttershy stood up and said in a serious voice, “I learned that believing is the key to achieving, thanks to believing I am no longer afraid of you.”

As Fluttershy’s group stood up, Celestia and her sister stood up and said, “We learned about trust and how it is key to winning together. As a group we trust each other and we no longer need to worry about failure.”

Slenderman hissed as he said, “Very well… in that case the next challenge will be”

Alex interrupted him as he said in an angry voice, “No! All that shit you put us through makes it deserving that we chose what happens next.”

Slenderman laughed as he said in his hissing voice, “Unfortunately you are not in control. Besides the next game involves all of you together and will require you work together in order to win.”

Oscar shifted the swords on his back as he said with a laugh, “Hey captain Dipshit, can we move on to the next game?”

Alex looked over at Oscar and was suddenly distracted by his new Luchadore mask which made him say, “Nice mask.”

Oscar whispered back, “Thanks… I feel manly in it.”

Slenderman hissed angrily as he said, “On with the game.” Suddenly the black void they were in brightened up, all of their visions were filled with light for a few seconds as they floated in weightlessness. Before long the weightlessness left and they were in a rusted locker room together.

Applejack looked around as she said, “Ah might not be the clean freak pony of the town, Rarity, but even ah think this place could use some TLC.”

Rarity squealed as she attempted to avoid getting dirty while saying, “Ew this is punishment enough for me without having to participate in another game.” Rarity then climbed up onto Alex’s back where she planned to stay there the entire time.”

Celestia took a quick look around before realizing something, “Wait, my wound… it’s gone.”

Luna lit up her horn and pointed it towards her sister’s leg to see that the bite marks and the bandages were gone. Fluttershy slowly approached the two as she said, “I’ve been trying to tell you something.”

Before Fluttershy could go on the doors opened up with a jerk as Oscar said, “Well… here goes.”

As Oscar stepped out of the locker room with Alex and the rest of the group following, they noticed they were in some sort of battle arena. The place was a mixture of a gladiator arena and a UFC octagon; there were thousands of empty leather seats that circled around a stone octagon. A tall and slender man in a black suit was the only one in the audience; he sat there looking intently as shadows were covering his face. Fluttershy approached the center of the group as she said a little less patiently, “There’s something really important I need to tell you.”

Alex motioned for her to calm down as he said, “Tell us later.” Alex looked up to the only man watching as he shouted, “Alright Slenderman, if you think that getting us to fight each other will work well then you’re wrong.”

Slenderman slowly stood up as he said with a sinister laugh, “I don’t plan on having you fight each other, you already have a strong connection and wouldn’t dare hurt your friends. I plan on having a bit more fun by watching each of you to fight yourselves.”

Oscar began to walk towards the entrance of the octagon as he said, “I’ll go first.”

Fluttershy grabbed his leg as she said with a bit less patience than before, “You can’t go in before I tell you something really important.”

Oscar ignored her as he stepped into the ring, only the sound of his breathing could be heard before Slenderman said in his satanic voice, “The moment I have been waiting for. Oscar… meet your inner insanity.”

Oscar prepared for the worst as he grabbed one of his swords when a hole in the ground on the opposite side of the octagon appeared. As the smoke poured out a lone figure emerged, it looked down at its toes like a robot that was shut off. As the smoke cleared the stadium Oscar looked at his enemy to realize it was an exact copy of him. The only difference being that instead of the thick black cloak Oscar wears this copy was wearing a tank top and jeans. Oscar drew one of his swords as he said, “What’s going on here?”

Slenderman laughed as he said in a booming voice, “Oscar… meet your inner Zalgo!”

Oscar began to back up as the clone in front of him jerked his head upright and shouted, “ZALGO APPROACHES!” Oscar watched in horror and disgust as the mask he wore fell off to reveal his face, only this time his face looked like it was being torn apart. He watched as his clone’s jaw snapped wide open and dark green tentacles came pouring out of his mouth. His eyes expanded until they popped to let out dark bloody horns in place of his eyes. Oscar charged the creature with his sword drawn but watched as his clone simply stuck out its arm and its skin began to peel like a banana. Once the muscles were revealed they were torn open and large tentacles and a single claw came emerging from his arm as blood sprayed out. Oscar quickly ducked as Zalgo swiped its long tentacle arms towards him. As Oscar approached his clones legs while sliding, he got onto one leg and hopped into the air and landed on his clone’s shoulders. Oscar brought his sword high into the air and got ready to stab when the back of his clone’s head burst open and another tentacle grabbed him and threw him across the room. Oscar smashed into the stone wall opposite of his Zalgo and fell onto the ground. As he struggled to get back up he watched as the monster charged at him ready to strike. Oscar quickly ducked and his rib cage began to feel like it was on fire which was a clear sign he had probably broken one. Oscar quickly stood up and dodged another swipe of the tentacle arm but this time he spun and swiped at the legs of the beast cutting them both off. The beast fell flat on its face as the open wounds all over its body sprayed blood. Oscar was ready to strike when the tank top on the beast ripped open to reveal it torn skin and bones, pulsating like a disgusting blob as blood squirted out of it. The spinal cord split in half and a long tendril burst out of the back, covered in blood, and grabbed Oscar and threw him out of the stadium. Fluttershy ran to a corner and nearly vomited at the sight of all the blood as did Pinkie, Rarity and Twilight. Applejack and Dash watched in horror as Oscar fell in front of them, limp. Celestia and Luna began to panic as they picked him up and helped Alex drag him back into the locker room.

As they rested Oscar on one of the benches they removed Oscar’s mask to reveal a terribly disfigured face, his jaw bone was severely broken and cartilage from his nose was poking through his skin as blood drizzled down his face. Alex began to kneel down at his side as he said, “Please don’t die man. Please stay with us.”

Fluttershy approached Alex and with a violent shove she said loudly, “For goodness sake, we’re in a dream.”

Alex and the rest of the group, aside from Applejack, Dash, and Rarity, looked at Fluttershy with looks of confusion. Fluttershy pointed at Celestia’s hooves as she said frantically, “Remember she said her wound was gone? That’s because this is a dream and things change from one dream to the next. Notice how none of us felt pain during our dreams? That’s because our brains don’t process pain when we are asleep.”

Alex pointed down to Oscar’s broken face as he said, “What about this? He feels pain.”

Oscar’s hand quickly grabbed Alex’s as he said with a smile, “I thought that it was adrenaline that kept me immune to pain, now that I know this is a dream we can have fun.”

Alex shook his unmasked friend as he said, “You dumba… wait… you’re right.” A smile quickly formed on Alex’s face as he said, “Hey girls, you don’t have to worry about doing any dirty work I’ve got this all under control.”

Oscar quickly snapped his jaw back into place and watched as his nose reformed. Oscar wiped his hand across his face to clean off all the blood as he said, “Let them have fun… that is if they want to.”

Fluttershy was the first to pipe up as she said, “I don’t want to go out there. I’m going to stay right here.”

Dash and Applejack approached Alex as Dash said with a smirk, “We feel like showing this Slenderman who’s boss.”

Lyra also approached as she said with a laugh, “I’m bored, why not join the fun.”

Twilight stayed behind as she said, “I’ll keep the rest of them company.”

Alex turned towards the doors as he said, “Aw yeah…” The new group began to walk towards the exit in a dramatic style as they turned their swag dial to the max.

As they exited the locker room towards the stadium, Oscar looked at Alex as he said with a smirk, “How about some music?” Oscar raised his hand to reveal a remote with a large button in the center. As he pressed it a very kick ass song began to play from the walls as though there were invisible speakers.

Slenderman began to wonder what was going on as the lights dimmed down and the music turned up. Strobe lights flashed into existence as confetti rained down from the ceiling as Oscar, Alex, Applejack, and Dash emerged onto the stage. Slenderman laughed as he spoke over the music, “So you have finally figured it out haven’t you? Well no matter, if you take too much damage your brain will shut down and to make matters worse you can’t tell how badly hurt you are.”

Alex listened to the music and felt the rejuvenating feeling of his magic coursing through his nervous system once again. He looked down at his arms and watched as the orange electricity patterns spread over his arms, his fingertips lighting up with energy. Alex looked up at Slenderman as he said, “Too bad my magic can’t help me find a smart comeback. Let’s get this over with.” Alex watched as Slenderman snapped his bony fingers, the click loud enough to hear over the music as his along with Dash’s and Applejack’s clones emerging from the ground to attack. Their skin was already torn everywhere with tentacles cramming the openings and horns poking through their eyes. Alex, Oscar, and Dash ran for cover as one of the Zalgos picked up a large chunk of stone and threw it towards them. Alex looked up to see Applejack still standing there as the rock collided with her leaving a giant cloud of dust, and a still standing Applejack that had remained unharmed. Alex jumped onto Dash’s back as he said loudly, “Oscar, you and Applejack take care of your Zalgo’s, me and Dash are going to take it to the air.”

Dash immediately knew what to do and took off into the sky at supersonic speeds with Alex on her back. Dash’s Zalgo immediately took off after the two as it sprouted bat like wings with multiple holes in them, it’s teeth now visible and quite sharp now that the tentacles had retreated. Alex was surprized by the transformation it was going through as it approached them, once barely looking like a pony it now looked like a cross between a dragon and… shit no one there could really tell what it resembled aside from a messed up dragon with fur. As Dash pierced the clouds she said loudly, “I can’t go much further… you’re too heavy for me.”

Alex took a deep breath as he slowly got up from Dash’s back; he was wobbling and doing his best to keep his balance at the angle they were at. The wind was blowing in his hair as he looked down at the creature flying after them; it was about a fifty foot drop. Alex took a deep breath as he said to Dash, “Just keep flying, I’ll try to do this as fast as possible.”

Dash looked over her shoulder with a confused look as she said loudly in a panicking voice, “Don’t do it!”

Alex jumped off her back as he yelled at her with a smile, “Too late!” Alex spun himself around to face the target he was going for as he fell, the feeling of weightlessness gave him severe butterflies in his stomach and to him it felt like birds in his stomach instead. Alex zipped by the head of the creature and marveled at its immense size as it was almost thirty times its original size. Alex landed on its snout and rolled off the top of its head before continuing to fall until he caught the tail. Alex gripped hard and held on for dear life as he slowly climbed up its smooth hairless back. As Alex reached the base of the tail the creature leveled out and allowed him to stand up again. As he slowly regained his balance he watched as a very handsome person jumped in front of him. Alex looked up to see his clone looking down at him with dead eyes, wearing only a tank top and jeans. Alex stood up and with a jerk of his arms, orange electricity began to course through his arms and casted a bright glow around his arms. He looked towards his clone and watched as its back began to sprout bloody needles that tore through the skin and pulled chunks of flesh with it. He watched in disgust as his arm began to swell up until a blade tore through his arm spraying blood everywhere, its other arm creating a very long jabbing needle. As it transformed it became more and more disfigured until it barely looked like its original copy. Alex looked at it and with a laugh he said, “Hell I’d still hit it, you handsome devil.” Alex charged it and as he approached it he teleported behind it and sent a strong electrical charge through it. He watched as it had a spasm before swinging its arm around to slice him in half only for him to duck it and throw a really good sucker punch, using his levitating ability to add extra oomph to his punches. The beast fell to its knees as Alex stood up and kicked it in the face as hard as he could, causing the beast to loose most of its razor sharp teeth. Alex picked it up and threw it to its feet for one last blow. Adrenaline was rushing through him as he watched the beast pull a heavy duty chain out of its back as though it were its spinal cord. The beast swung it around and smiled as Alex began to have a hard time dodging it until he messed up and got tangled in it. The beast laughed a very eerie shriek as it pulled Alex close, once in front of its face its tongue began to take the shape of a very sharp object. Alex panicked as it slowly approached his face until he somehow sent a jolt of electricity through the chain and into its body. The creature began to shake all over and Alex broke free, once free he grabbed the sharp tongue and somehow snapped it off. He held it tightly in his hands as he shoved it right between the eyes of the monster. The creature shrieked for a couple of seconds before it fell silent and limp. Alex let it stand for a couple more seconds before kicking it over the edge of the dragon thing. After watching it fall through the clouds and disappearing Alex shouted, “Dash! Catch me!” Alex then jumped over the edge of the creature and sky dived and watched as the cyan Pegasus made a sharp turn towards him. After a couple of seconds of weightlessness he was soon back on her back as he said, “Now to take your beast out.”

Dash shouted over the sound of the wind, “I thought that’s what you were trying to do.”

Alex got close to her as to make them more aerodynamic as he said, “There were complications. Now fly towards its stupid face for the kill.”

Dash didn’t question him and instead did a corkscrew in the air before heading straight for the dragons face. As they approached the creature they watched as it slowly opened its mouth to reveal row after row of sharp and somehow spinning teeth. Dash began to panic as she said, “Are you crazy?”

Alex shook his head as he slowly stood up and said, “Yeah I am.” Alex closed his eyes and took in a deep breath, realizing that there was somehow music that was still playing he used it to his advantage to focus as much energy as possible into his arms. Slowly the beast approached the duo and every inch they made towards the beast Alex’s arms would glow a brighter and brighter orange. Soon his hair was beginning to glow an orange pulse as his eyes lit up like headlights. Dash listened in awe at how he was creating so much energy that particles were creating a whistle as they were crammed off the edges of his fingers. Now Alex had streaks of orange light behind him that were signs of him having so many charged magic particles inside him that they were pushed off him. Before long they were inside the beast’s mouth and Alex was a living light bulb, he was bright enough to outshine any man made light source. Alex pulled his arms back and then slammed them together as he released all of his energy in a shockwave; the shockwave was powerful enough to tear the beast to shreds as they flew through the body of it and exploded out the tail. From the ground it looked like a thousand tons of TNT was detonated in the air as Alex and Dash safely flew out the other end of the beast.

Dash turned her head to see the explosion still taking place as the burning corpse of the monster fell to the ground. Dash blinked a couple of times before saying, “That was awesome!”

Alex fell back onto her back as he said, “Yeah but now Oscar and AJ are in danger of falling objects, not like they were safe in the first place but whatever! Take me closer to the corpse.” Dash didn’t say a word as she flew close to the burning body and Alex teleported onto it, he looked to his side to find the chain that came from his clones back and immediately picked it up. He quickly fed the chain through the dragon’s mouth and grabbed the other end as he somehow began to steer it in another direction but still keeping his course for the stadium. Alex shouted towards Rainbow, “Get down there and tell them to move out of the way!” Dash gave him a salute and dashed towards the stadium.

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Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Twilight, Fluttershy, Celestia, Luna, Lyra, and Lauren watched in horror as Oscar and Applejack were fighting their monsters as best as they could, Applejack learned that her tough skin had its limits as she was bleeding a bit from her arms while her clone was nearly bashed up like a Toyota Camry. Oscar was swinging his swords like crazy as he cut his clones tentacles off one by one in the fanciest way possible. As the monster began to corner him he planted his foot against the wall and jumped at the monster, he stuck his foot out to both kick the monster and jump back at the wall before wall jumping again to get behind the dazed monster. Oscar quickly swiped one of his swords between the legs of the monster as he landed and swung his arm as hard as he could towards the ground in front of him. The sword had no resistance as it traveled through the body, for a couple of seconds the masked man wondered if he actually cut him and turned around to check. A smile quickly spread as he watched the creature slowly fall in half but somehow still alive. Oscar quickly slammed his swords onto the two halves of the head and threw them in the air along with the swords. As the heads were in the air he quickly pulled out his pistols and began to fire at the halves with pin point accuracy. He soon emptied his clips and watched as the swords fell perfectly into the ground with the halves of the skulls still on them. For a couple of seconds he felt proud before the Applejack monster grabbed him with one of its tendrils and slammed him against the wall along with Applejack. They both looked at each other before looking towards the mouth of the creature. The mouth was very similar to the dragon’s except had less teeth but were longer and sharper. The two screamed along with the audience as they approached the mouth of the monster when a loud impact drew the attention of the monster away. Standing on the other side of the room was a shirtless Alex on top of a dragon’s skull with a chain though the mouth. Alex’s shirt was burnt from the fire he created in the beast somehow but was otherwise unharmed. Alex watched as everyone else was panicking before saying loudly, “Alright everyone CHILL THE FUCK OUT!” Everyone looked at Alex, including Slenderman as Alex smiled and said, “I’ve got this.” Alex lifted his arms as they somehow held up two rail guns that were made for helicopters yet were modified to be held in someone’s hand. Alex pointed them at the Applejack Zalgo and smiled happily as he opened fire on it with both guns. Shells poured out of each gun and were quickly creating piles on each side of him as the continuous sound of gunfire at a super high rate was heard. Alex somehow managed to fire the guns in a perfect order so that while one wasn’t firing the other one was and was tearing the monster apart. Slenderman began to feel worry as he unleashed all the other clones after Alex only to have them torn apart by both Alex’s guns and Oscar’s swords. Before long there was more led in the monsters than there was body and Alex and the rest celebrated. Alex dropped the guns and went to help Applejack up from under the monsters as he said, “Has anyone seen Dash?”

The sudden scream of her voice suggested the worst as Alex turned around to see her in Slenderman’s death grip. Pinkie quickly began to panic as she began to charge the tall and well-dressed monster only to hear him say in his hissing voice, “One more step and she’s gone. You were not supposed to win this!” Everyone could easily tell he was in rage at how they used their badassness (fuck you that’s a word now) to kill all the monsters.

Lauren slowly approached Slenderman as she said, “We will do anything if you let her go safely.”

Slenderman shook his head as he said, “I want you to die! In fact you will all die one by one.” As Slenderman began to consume Dash from the inside only to hear her scream, Alex tapped his shoulder from behind, Slenderman turned his shaded and unseen head to see Alex both behind him and in front of him at the same time. The monster stuttered for a bit before saying in confusion, “How..?”

Alex laughed as he said, “Hyper teleporting, if you move faster than the eye can detect you can either be invisible or appear to be in two places at once, pretty handy for dealing with terrorists.” Alex was reminded of that one time he prevented a terrorist attack back in the year 2074 (that’s another story). Alex quickly punched Slenderman in the jaw and knocked him out cold making him drop the cyan Pegasus safely and unharmed. Alex quickly picked up Dash in his arms and brought him over to the rest of the group as he said, “I think we won this round?”

Twilight scratched her head with her hoof as she said, “You think we will be going back now?”

Oscar shrugged as he said with through yet another new mask, “That’s how it works… it’s like the rule of Hollywood.”

Rarity tilted her head as she said, “But this isn’t Hollywood.”

Alex smirked at Oscar as he said, “Oh really?” Alex let Dash down to mingle with her friends as he approached Lauren and Oscar as he said in a serious tone, “As soon as we wake up we’re heading back to Equestria to find that book of Unicorn before… gosh this entire time I completely forgot about ShadowThunder’s threat to rule the world.”

Oscar shrugged as he placed his swords back in their sheaths and said, “Got caught up with all the action huh?”

Lauren nodded as she said, “So with this book, I will get magical powers?”

Alex shook his head as he said, “I’ll tell you later. I think we have a portal to catch.” Alex pointed towards the bright void of light in front of them that shined brightly. Alex watched as everyone began to walk through the portal until Fluttershy was last, he knew she was scared to go in it and walked up to her while saying in a gentle voice, “Scared?”

Fluttershy nodded as she said, “What if this isn’t the right way to go? What if we’re supposed to wait?”

Alex picked her up in his arms; she was quite light for a pony her size and was soft to the touch. Alex could feel the stress and fear dissipate as she rested in his arms. Alex smiled down at her as he said, “If this isn’t the right way then let’s go the wrong way together.” Alex began to feel warm as he watched her sigh with relief as she snuggled up to him, he immediately received a new challenge to overcome and it was to not have a heart attack. Alex looked into the portal and walked into it with the yellow pony cradled in his arms. As they entered, they felt rejuvenated and filled with energy, they felt like a veil had been lifted from their eyes and could see clearer now. All sorts of warm feelings passed through them as they knew they had made the right choice.

Author's note:

Alright people we have a very serious thing going on, lots of us like shipping, equally as many hate it, and lots more hate human x pony shipping. I need to hear your opinions on both this chapter and if there should be a romance in this story. Only one rule, no Alex x Oscar... seriously (Although it would be a narcissistic's dream come true it wouldn't be mine) thank you for all your support and the surprisingly high ratings for this! Also yes this is the last of the dream games so we can all rest easy.