Man with no Heart

"Justin, what is this?" Zeal questioned as he looks at entrance of the house seeing the two beds behind me near the hole of the gravity lift, the reason why he asked me this question because how late I was. Ten o'clock near nighttime, I had to finish training with Zecora at four then at nine I had to carry one bed at a time to the mountain where Zeal and I live and find the entrance of the place. Turns out Zeal built this gravity lift in a cave that lifts you up to the actual house entrance to home, basically the gravity lift is like an elevator except it's a reverse gravity. It was a decent add on to avoid having curious travelers to invade our home and the good part about it is that the gravity lift only lifts up a demon or ones that has a mark of one.

"Well they're beds for us to lay on or fall asleep on," I said and spread my wings before picking one of the beds by its wooden frames and lifted it in the air." The other bed is yours so you can pick or drag it to your room and place it where ever you want it to be." I continued carrying the bed in the air towards my room, the entire entrance room looks like a mansion's entrance with two stairs leading upstairs and three doors one on each side, there's one in the far side of the entrance room, another on the right side, and another one on the left side. Four stone pillars two separate near the stairs and two others near the entrance of this place, I wasn't sure if Zeal was still continuing on building, but from the mansion like inside this mountain says he is. I reached my room, that had my name on the door, and set down the bed before opening the door and carry the bed in. It was a problem to fit the bed through the doorframe, but after a few attempts I managed to get the bed inside the room. My room was like the one in Zeal's cave back in hell two drawers by where the bed is going to be, one closet at the far top right of the corner of the room facing the door, one nightstand again where the bed is going to be, and a glowing white crystal above on the ceiling in the center of the room.

After a few minutes of setting my bed in my room I laid down on it and started to unbutton my cloak then tossed it in a corner, the cloak would just keep me up because of its material, but it's one of the only clothing I have. The crystal in the ceiling dimmed its white light and started to change to a dim glowing blue light, the change of light made me sleepy even more as the scenery of the room light creating an illusion that the moon soft blue glow was lighting the entire room. My vision turned dark now after closing me eyes to sleep in my bed and in my own room for the night.

Dream

I stared at a painting of an old man with his picture melting off its portrait, my dreams usually are random every time i fall asleep, but most of my dreams I create like a horror maze, an island filled with flowers in nighttime, and ways to give me a scare. A loud roar of lighting flashed outside and illuminated the halls through the window before returning back into darkness with only candles lighting the halls. The picture of the old man turned crimson red before falling off its portrait, it didn't scare me, but it made me paranoid of what caused it. I looked to my right to see a hallway with light candles only lighting up the halls a little, another look at the opposite direction it was the same, sometimes they flicker from an unknown reason. I looked back at the right hall and walked to the right. Each step I took made a creaking sound from the wooden floor as I continued looking around to see if there were any monsters chasing after me.

"I just need to find the door to my escape, but with five other reverse doors makes it challenging to find the correct door," I spoke to myself as I came to a three way hall with the same texture and closets, tables, and windows. This usually made me flip a coin to see which hall I take, but an howling screech made that all change and forced me to continue straight in a run. A roar of lighting flashed through the window as every candle flames blew out causing the darkness to consume everything in shadows, with the lights out I reached into my pocket and pulled out a torch (flashlight) and turned it on. The beam of light banished any shadows in its way and showed the floor of the hallway, I began to walk again with the only light source in my left hand.

After spending half an hour of walking around the halls I found a door that could lead to my escape, but can also bring me back where I started at. I pulled out a charcoal and mark the door to know that I went through this door. After I marked the door with the charcoal I putted it back in my pants and opened the door, there was nothing on the other side of the door, but ignoring the the dark abyss I entered in. The ground underneath me disappeared and reappeared with the same hallway where I started from.

"Fuck!" The door I entered was one of the five that teleported me back at the beginning where I had started this dream. It wasn't a lost though since I did marked the door with a charcoal before I entered in, but now I have to find another door. Another screeching howl filled the atmosphere then groans came around the corner of the hallway I was in. I searched quickly for a closet or a something to use as a hiding place, the groans grew louder around the corner as three tip crimson claws slowly grabbed the corner, I found a closet and entered in only having a small opening to peek through and turned off my torch. The groans started to get closer to the closet, I was in, until it was stopped with another screeching howl.

'Don't make a sound!' I ordered myself as the creature making those groans walked by giving me a perfect look on what it looks like, its skin was pale as white with a few blood splatter on its bend back and head, stitches went up its stomach to the head then down the back, its mouth was forced apart with fishhooks connected to strings to its shoulders, its front limbs were like a human arm, but was pale, showing its bones, and only had three claws for fingers, the back limbs were like a back legs of a hellhound, but more human like with pale skin, showing bones, and again three claws though for its toes. The creature looked straight at the closet causing me to freeze up as its eyeless sockets stared at the closet I was in before continuing groaning and patrol the halls.

I opened the closet door widen enough for my body to fit through before shutting it. The creature was nowhere insight as I walked again in the halls and turned on my torch to see where I was going.

POV Luna

The nightmares of foals and ponies alike were gone for the thanks to us of dealing with their fears, our duties were done for the night, but there was an disturbance in a pony dream. We walked trough the aisle of doors until we stopped at a certain unique door. It wasn't like the other subjects door made out of wood, but it was made out of an unknown metal with two pair of wings carved into it, the door handle was the same as the others.

We grasped the knob on the door and twisted the knob to the right only to stop halfway before it could open this door, it was strange to see the door not replying to open like somepony locked it or was holding it behind the door. Another twist to the opposite of the first one the door complied on opening this time, we pulled back to meet a dark hallway with no light. There was something about this dream making it an nightmare, but the scenery wasn't like an ordinary mansion hall, even the storm outside wasn't ordinary.

"What kind of nightmare is this?" We asked ourselves as we used a simple spell to cast an orb of light around us. The orb brought a small amount of light enough to light a good portion of the hall. We looked around to find strange paintings of disfigured creatures on the walls with carved symbols in the wood, this was the first we have ever saw something like this centuries ago. The atmosphere was silent along with creaking wood under our hooves, we took a step further in this nightmare and observed to find what caused this pony to have this in his or her life.

We strolled through the hall for thirty minutes of searching for the pony and thinking about what had caused such a pony to have a horrifying nightmare, no answers had came to us as we continued walking in the hallway. This could be much worst than this in anytime of a pony dreaming. A roar of lighting caused us to jump from the loud sound and quick flash of lightning through the windows, we regretted saying that. Ten minutes after of the lightning incident we found ourselves in an open area full of rows of tables and chairs, we couldn't find the pony that is having this nightmare, but we a spell we might be able to find this pony.

We were about to cast a spell until a screeching howl stopped us from casting the spell, we uncast the orb of light around us and hid behind a corner of the wall to the open area. Our eyes widen as something in the dark started to groan with a sound hoove steps came from the far left of the room, the creature causing these groans stopped as the sound of sicking snaps along with a painful cry. We do not know what the creature was doing in the darkness, but it is not going to be a forgettable memory.

After an minute of staring into the darkness a beam of light shine through the room with the sound of hoove steps. Our eyes adjusted to the light to see a figure behind the beam of light walking in the room where the creature was in, we could have ran out to warn this pony, but when our eyes adjusted fully into the dark room we could not believe what we see.

"Weird? I could have sworn that I felt something entered my dream," The pony that said this was a male because of his voice. The stallion walked further in the room swinging the beam of like to where he was looking at before he looked the opposite direction. We couldn't move our body to have a better look at the stallion because of what the beam of light had revealed in the darkness was that the creature that made those groans was up hanging on the ceiling. We could had yelled the stallion to run away or to look up at the ceiling to see this creature, but we couldn't we were scared of what it was and what harm it can do.

The stallion walked underneath the creature shining the beam of light to every direction around until the creature above it started to drool, its drool caught the stallion attention to look right, but when the creature drooled again the stallion looked up at it. We couldn't tell if his eyes widened on seeing such monstrosity above him, but the most horror happened. The creature body split apart showing multiple of huge teeth that starts from the head small to the body huge, it snapped its body of teeth on the stallion upper body with a sickening crunch. The stallion scream in pain as his legs kicked everywhere until it stopped moving not even a since twitch. To our horror we covered our mouth to prevent ourselves from throwing up our stomach from this gruesome death, we watched as blood flowed down the legs of the stallion and dripped onto the wooden floor creating a puddle of crimson. The creature opened up his body of teeth, causing the stallion to fall to his feet, and closed back up to what it looked like before it even split its body.

"God damn it, I lost again!" The stallion yelled at himself as everything broke apart the reformed into an outside environment with flowers everywhere and two big ones in the center. To our surprise the stallion wasn't an actual one, but a creature with brown patch of fur on its head, small brown eyes, tan skin, white T-shirt, black pants, and weird hoove wear. There were blood stain in his shirt, where he had the teeth of the other creature had bit him. He let out a sigh and looked at our direction like he knew we were here the whole time, but unfortunate for us when the entire place changed there was no place to hide behind.

"You don't have to be afraid of what you saw, but if you are then I am sorry for what had happened," The male creature's was calm and caring like Tia, but was more of a father. He took a step forwards towards us then another until we were face to face to each other. It was surprising to see he was taller than us almost as tall as a minotaur. We couldn't say a word on seeing a creature bigger than us with few muscles and no magic, but the eyes of his made us reconsider of our thoughts.

"What is thou creature?" We asked him concerned about his race.

"My kind is human, but I'm also a demon," we were taken back on what is he is." But do not fear I am not here to harm anyone. Just here to have a new home," The human bowed with an innocent smile, he grasped our right hand with his and kissed the back of it. We couldn't help, but to blush from his action." My name is Justin or Heartless."

"Luna the princess of the night," Heartless' eyes widen, but soon close as he started to laugh to himself." What does thou think is funny?"

"Sorry wasn't expecting a princess to visit my dream of my horror maze, I would have kept my dream like this around us," He gestured to the entire island full of flowers." But some things are sometimes not expected."

"Why does thou have nightmares, but is not fazed by them?"

POV Heartless

Luna and I had some talk about my dream and the reason why I dream of them, most were for the fun while others were for the experience of being chased by a monster or demon like creature. We talked for three full hours in my dream on the island watching the stars shine or dim. I already saw this mare before she even went inside my dream, her clothes were dead giveaway because she wore them at the first day I arrived at Equestria, Canterlot Castle.

After our talk we went through different places inside my dreams from playing with humans of death run to the haunted house of scares, we played for an hour and now I am about to get killed.

"Thou has two minutes and thirty seconds before the blizzard hits!" Luna informed me as her left-hand hovers over the button to a trap in front of me while the other holds a scythe. The trap she was going to activate was a two-inch deep water with unactivated electric wires connected to it.

"You think you can kill me think again!" I leaped into the water and jumped back onto land doing my best to trick Luna on activating the trap, but she was not faze by my trick only giving me a death glare. Time was against on this and tricking Luna on activating it or having luck on surviving would help waste less time. We both stared at each other for one of us to give, but while we were staring I jumped in the middle of the water and was about to jump out only to die in the process by electricity.

"Ah ha! We have finally got thou Heartless! Death wins," Luna cheered as she swirled the scythe staff part in between her fingers. I got up from the ground to my feet and walked towards the cheering Luna, she acts like a kid sometime when she wins, the glass wall she was behind opened up like a close door giving me access to the death trap buttons. Luna was still cheering and didn't notice me in the same place as hers giving me a brilliant plan.

I snuck up on Luna from behind and wrapped my right arm around her waist and slipped my left hand in between an opening in her death robes and start brush the tip of my fingers on her stomach. At first Luna gasped from the touch, but soon fell into laughter as each time I bushed the tip of my finger on her skin or coat. The entire background and the ground itself changed into the peaceful flower island as I continued tinkling Luna until she begs.

"Does the Princess of the Night gives up or does she wish to be tinkled more?" I asked and stopped tickling Luna to give her a break, she panted heavily as she calmed herself down.

"We yield," Luna surrendered with her breathing bad to normal. I placed her down on her hooves and removed my hand and arm from her body and backed away, she turned around and tackled me to the flowers. We both rolled around in the flowers trying to get on top of one another for dominance, I came victorious on dominance of our little fight and pin both her arms down. I stared into Luna's eyes to see her glaring daggers at me before we both laughed.

"We should do this some time again Luna," I said and sat straight up, I notice Luna was blushing madly from the way I was sitting on top of her. A quick look down I noticed why she was blushing, I got off of Luna and offered her a hand." We shouldn't mention this to a single being ever."

Luna nodded agreeing with me and accepted my offer, when she grasped her left hand on mine I pulled her up to her feet and walked away. The dream started to brighten up meaning that it was time to wake up and go to Sweet Apple Acres.

"See ya next time Luna!"

Real world

I opened my eyes to see the crystal glowing bright white like last time. The bed sheets were tossed off to the ground with my cloak, there no explanations for how the sheets were on the floor, but I ignored it. Day was now the time and that my job was going to start in a few minutes. I got out of bed and put on my cloak and headed out to Sweet Apple Acres.