(Khyax’s Dream)

“Where am I?” I ask myself, looking around and seeing only darkness. “I can't see anything.”

“You are in your mind,” a voice says. I look around to see a bear wearing a red cape.

“Who are you?”

“I go by many names: Displacer, Leader of the Council of Bears, but you can call me Grizzly, my champion.”

“What do you mean by ‘champion’? And did you say Displacer?”

“Yes, I am a displacer, and you are my champion.”

“So what you mean is, I was displaced by you.”

“Yes and no.”

“What do you mean?”

“I more of hijacked the merchant’s displacement spell and sent you to a better place in a normal Equestria.”

“Where was he going to originally send me to?”

“An anthro Equestria.”

“That doesn’t sound too bad.”

“But you need to know this: I have displaced many and all of them have died except for you and another individual.”

“Really who?”

“That’s not important right now, you need to get out of here.”

“How?”

“You need to go through your mind into the waking realm with this map.” he says before a map of my mind appears in my hands. There are labeled rooms like nightmares and fetishes, also anime –might go check that one out. “I have marked a path for you to follow.” I look at the map again to see a red line leading through the rooms.

“WIll you be with me?”

“Yes, but unfortunately I can’t help you fight. Dream magic isn’t my strong suit.”

“Wait, i'm going to have to fight?”

“Yes, but I have dispatched my best dream fighter.”

“Who?”

“Demi Hollow, but not the one from Bleach.”

“Damn, I thought it was going to be the one from Bleach.”

“Sorry, but he’s all you got in here, so start your journey”

“Alright so we are in the void and we need to move into the hivemind.” I say, looking at the map.

When we get to the hivemind it is a galaxy with only a few stars. I take a step forward to be met with a cold sensation.

“You are not recognized here.”

“What, why?”

“You are in an astral form like these stars when you go through, but in your actual body you are just a intruder,” he explains. “So choose your steps wisely or else you will trigger an alarm, erasing you from here and killing you.”

“Fuck.” I say, seeing the long journey from here to the memory room.

I spend the next hours playing it like mine sweeper. I take a few steps and put down a flag that Grizzly conveniently gave me. I inch through the galaxy until I see a bigger light that I know wasn’t there when I last checked. I try to get to it but the entire hivemind flashes and the stars turn red.

“Quickly, hide!” Grizzly shouts before the red stars charge me and I dive into the giant star.

“Where am I?” I ask myself, looking around seeing a dark cave, water dripping from the ceiling. I hear the faint sound of a someone crying. I move down the cave following the cries as they got louder. Eventually I reach the end and I see a Queen Xenomorph in chains, sobbing. “What the fuck.” It glances up at me and gets startled and jumps up.

“Who are you?” she asks. I knew it may have been a she because she had more of a slimmer chest and I had a broader chest. She also had cuts and bruises on her, particularly near her wrists where she was bound in chains.

“I am Khyax,” I reply. “Who are you?”

“My name?”

“Yes, your name.”

“I… don’t have one.”

“Oh, well, that's unfortunate.”

“Yes it is, are you my replacement?”

“Replacement?”

“Yes, my replacement as the new Queen.”

“I”M NOT A FUCKING QUEEN, I AM A KING, NOW KNEEL BEFORE ME!” I yell before I instinctively will her to kneel.

“Okay, just calm down.” she says, kneeling.

“Why did you kneel?” I say, astonished about doing something I didn’t know I could do.

“Because you ordered me to.”

“So I can forcefully make people do stuff?”

“Only your own kin or species.”

“Why are you trapped here?”

“I don’t know, I thought I died, but when I woke up I was here, chained.”

“Hm, that's pretty strange.” I say, poking the chain for it to disappear in a flash of red light. “Woah, guess i'm stronger here than that bear guy thought.” I managed to say before I get brutally squeezed in whatever this woman calls a hug.

“Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!” she repeats while choking me.

“Air, oxygen, ribs, everything hurts.” I barely managed to say before she lets go.

“Sorry, I don’t know my own strength anymore.”

“It's okay, just never do that ag-” I freeze from her giving me a quick kiss on the cheek and fall over, still as a statue.

“Huh, I thought that was an appropriate action that humans do all the time to show affection,” she says to herself. It took me a couple of seconds to get control of my body again and to stand up.

“Don’t ever do that again”

“Okay, so where's the exit?”

“That way.” I say, pointing to the hole of the ball of light. She decided to sprint the way out. I try to stop her but it's a short distance to the hole. When she reaches it with me behind her tracks she skids to a stop outside of the giant ball of light. I try to stop but was going too fast. I was about to land into the invisible alarms before I get pulled back. I turn to look at the original queen.

“What the hell were you thinking running out there like that.”

“I was excited.”

“Well next time think ahead. I thought you were a queen not a fucking child!” I yell at her.

“I’m sorry... wait, is this the hivemind?”

“...Yes?”

“How? We would have to be in your mind to be in… we’re in your mind aren't we?”

“Yep.”

“Not going to question this.”

“Alright, can we stop this little squabble and focus on the task at hand? We need to get out of here,” Grizzly says.

“Right, where were you?”

“I was out here, I can’t enter the orb.”

“I know how to get out of here,” The Queen says.

“How? There are traps everywhere,” I ask.

“Who do you think placed the traps.”

“So you know how to get out of here.”

“Yep.”

“So show us.”

“Alright, follow my path exactly,” she says before dashing off.

I try my best to follow her and we make good headway. When we get to the end it is the inside of the castle halls, but much longer. The walls were filled with paintings that held memories. When I step inside I revert into my old teenage self. Black mohawk, dark skin, and red eyes unfortunately. I was wearing a plain black hoodie and jeans with black and white shoes.”

“Who are you?” The Queen asked in surprise.

“I am Noah Anderson, or Khyax. This is my actual body.”

“You're a human?” she gasps.

Author's Note

Oh man Khyax is in a doosie now and I'm not going dead so I will continue to write many chapters.