Living Under the Equestrian Sun

Living Under the Equestrian Sun

Chapter: 2

“That’s not just a problem.”

Show Time frame: Day of Season 1 Episode 2 [end]

Celestia was deep in thought, pacing back and forward. The shadow on the wall in the back of the room stood upon it’s podium, waiting.

The shadows shifted. “Celestia.”

She stopped her pacing and looked towards the shadow. “What is it?”

“You don’t have a large sum of time before they awake. You know what you have to do.”

Celestia looked towards the floor. “I know.”

“Just remember one thing.” Celestia looked up and faced the shadow once more. The shadow leaned forward. “The Nightmare is NOTgoing to give up easily.” The shadow shifted back into its comfortable position. “Now, you should go now, so if you will.” It gestured to itself.

Celestia nodded once more and proceeded to place her magic on the figure in the shadows, shifting it back into a statue. She looked into the statues eyes. “When I have finished, I will return.”

Inside the house sat a lone princess of the night with the two creatures. Twilight and her friends had left some time ago, leaving her with the creatures and her thoughts. She studied the creatures, hoping they would wake up soon, because their face contorted with pain.

In a flash of light, Celestia was in the room, Luna’s attention swapped to her sister. “Does thou know what we must do?”

“Yes, I know what we must do sister, we have to go into their dreams. The Nightmare is trying to break them.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, I am positive that we need to do this. We will go together into each of their dreams.”

Luna nodded. Together they charged their magic and focused on one of the creatures, the one wearing the black jacket. “Tia, there is something wrong...”

“I noticed it too.”

“Their dreams are... Connected?”

“That might make it easier for us then. Let’s get this over with.”

Luna nodded and once more they charged their magic. Soon the connection was made and they slowly drifted into their dream realm.

Shawn and Andrew were walking through a hallway, the stone brick walls at their sides, and the red carpet at their feet. They looked down the hall to see some doors coming up, and the hallway ending.

Andrew shook his head in disappointment. “Great another dead end.”

Shawn looked to Andrew. “Well if you think about it, we got 3 doors to go through, perhaps one of them go somewhere.”

“Yeah yeah yeah... I call the left door!”

“I guess I’ll grab the right door then. We can go together on the front.”

Andrew walked into the left room to reveal some desks, one was flipped onto its side and the drawers ripped out of it. After scanning the room for all of twenty seconds, he finished. “Nothing on this side!”

On Shawns side, a fireplace was burning away at a log, a desk, and on top of the desk sat two pocket knifes, buried into the wood of the desk.

“I got something over here!”

Andrew walked into the room to have Shawn pass the metallic item to him. He studied it over, it was just a simple silver pocket knife.

“Well it’s better than nothing.”

“Let’s go, I didn’t see anything else in this room.” Shawn gestured the room behind him.

They entered the hall once more but something was different. The part of the hallway they came from was covered in a darkness that was leeching forward, slowly, but it was heading their way.

Shawn stepped forward, looking at the material. “This doesn’t look good...”

“Thanks for pointing that out! I would have never guessed!”

Shawn turned towards Andrew. “Don’t be such a smartass. I mean, look at the stuff. It is actually moving towards us!”

Before Andrew could make a retort, the last room they haven’t checked yet flashed with light, the light exited the door into the hallway. Both of them turned around to face the door, it was closed.

“What the...” Shawn turned around to face not just the shadows, but something removing itself from said shadows. “Uhhh.... Andrew! We got a problem!”

“What could be so...” Andrew had fully turned around to see the shadows ripping themselves from the walls. “Ok, you’re wrong Shawn. That’s not just a problem, that’s a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM!”

“Run to the door! Might not stop them but its at least going to slow them down!” Shawn shouted while turning around. Together they burst open the door and closed it behind them fast, what was in the room stopped them for a moment.

Two humans stood there, both female, one was wearing a white shirt with a sun printed onto the back of it while the other wore a dark blue shirt, the symbol of the moon on the back. Both of them wore normal blue pants and black shoes.

Shawn was leaning against the door holding it shut. “Who are you two? Andrew, go search the room for another way out!”

The one wearing the white shirt stood forward. “I am Princess Celestia.”

Then the one with the blue shirt stepped forward. “And I am Princess Luna.”

Shawn was still leaning against the door. “I would walk over there and shake your hands but-” The door was hit, hard, Shawn held his ground against it though. “As you can see we are in a little bit of major trouble.”

The Princesses seemed shaken for a second. “What was that?” Luna asked.

“That-” Again he was cut off from the shadows slamming themselves against the door. “Is something, I don’t know what, but lets just say they might be something of living shadows. My name is Shawn, the other guy is Andrew.”

Shawn looked behind them. “Andrew! Any form of escape from here?”

“I think I might have one way, but you are not going to like it!”

“Why is that?”

“Do you enjoy jumping from window to window?”

Shawn stared at Andrew for a moment. “You know we can’t do that. I am too fat to even try that and you... Well, you might be able to. Still though I don’t think our new friends here might enjoy that idea.”

Shawn began to scan the room, spotting a desk, with locks holding it’s compartments shut, a open window and a door. “Why haven’t you tried the door?”

Andrew scratched the back of his head. “Well it was a bit locked.”

“Alright.. Tell you what, hand me that chair by the desk.”

Andrew did as he said, when Shawn received the chair he placed it in front of the door, holding it shut. “It won’t last long, we need to move that desk over here.”

With a combined effort Shawn and Andrew began to move the desk, slowly.

Shawn turned towards the Princesses. “I don’t mean to ask a favor so soon, and from a princess at that, but... Could you give us a hand? That chair won’t hold them off long enough to get this desk there.” To support him, the chair began to slide from the strain of the door being pushed.

Luna quickly stepped over to their side. “Tis no problem! We must make haste, less those creatures get in!”

Celestia nodded and followed her sister and all of them began to push the desk faster. “Andrew, get ready to get that chair out of the way.” Andrew nodded, standing near the door with the chair in hand.

“Now!”

With quick movement they shoved the desk in the way blocking the door from opening. “God, I wonder how much that desk even weighed...” Shawn said, out of breath.

Andrew looked to the locked door. “Well what now?”

Shawn had his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath. “Give me a minute.”

Celestia and Luna on the other hand were in the other corner of the room.

“Tia, why do we have their form? Why not our normal bodies?”

“Well, it is their minds. If they have never seen us they wouldn’t be able to make the form of us, so their mind made us into this form to match us, how do you think they would react to us if we were still in our normal body?”

Luna placed a hand on her jaw in thought. “True, that would be a problem.”

Celestia opened her mouth to speak but a loud crack was heard as Shawn slammed his foot on the lock of the desk, breaking it.

“Now that this is open, I wonder what was locked in here...” Shawn said aloud.

He shuffled through the desk, looking for something useful.

“Would you look at that!” He yelled out loud, pulling out a rectangle device, Black with a orange ring around it. Then he pulled out three more. “I wonder...” He pressed a button in the center of the item. It began to glow, and on the screen held a message from the mother of the one who owned the phone.

Mom:

Where are you? Come home as soon as possible, It’s getting dark.

When he finished reading the message, the room went dark. He looked outside and noticed, It’s now midnight. Celestia and Luna seemed a bit panicked. Shawn removed his sunglasses and began to fiddle with the device in his hands. “Hold on...”

He hit a button and a Light began to shine out of the back of it. He repeated the process with the others and handed everyone one.

“Now I don’t think the phone has enough power to constantly stay on for more than an hour or so. So we need to hurry. Point the light at the door.”

Everyone complied and pointed their lights at the door. “Shawn, what are yo-”

Celestia was cut off when Shawn slammed into the door, busting it open. A light shined into the room the others were in. Shawn could be heard from the other room. “Oooohhh. That is gonna hurt in the morning...”

Luna walked through the doorway. “Is thou alright Shawn?”

He rolled his shoulder. “Yeah, I just have a feeling I am going to feel that later...”

The room was lit by a candle, surprisingly it let off a strong light. Shawn looked at his phone. “Alright everyone, hit the button on the center of your phone, turn off the light we don’t need it right now.”

Upon studying the room  he noticed it lead into another hallway, short but it was still a hallway. Only one door was there, at the end.

“Well... At least we don’t have a ton of choices.”

Shawn was walking ahead of the group, he placed his hand on the door and slowly pushed it open. What was ahead of him, he didn’t know, it was pitch black.

Shawn groaned in disappointment. “Really? Well the light was short lived.”

He clicked on his phone and held it in his right hand, taking out the pocket knife with his left. “I don’t trust this place.”

Andrew looked into the room. “A dark room, yeah sure, I mean, what could possibly go wrong in a dark room with no windows or lights at all!”

Shawn stopped dead in his tracks. “You had to say that didn’t you?”

When he finished his sentence a screech resounded from the room. Luna jumped a foot into the air. “What in the name of the moon was that?!”

Shawn shined his light into the room to reveal another human, chained and bloodied, It noticed the light and immediately took off towards them. It reached them within seconds, it reached its arm back to swing but Shawn responded faster throwing a punch. The punch collided with nothing as the creature vanished in smoke.

“Oh god, damn poofers!”

Celestia stared at where the creature was before. “How did it do that? I didn’t even see it charge its magic...”

Andrew and Shawn both turned to Celestia. “What do you mean magic?”

Celestia’s hands began to glow with a golden aura. “You know... This.”

Andrew was staring at her hands. “How... Are you even doing that!?”

“Can you not do magic?”

Shawn looked to his hand. “No, but it would be neat to be able to.”

The room began to slowly get brighter as a door on the other end of the room began to get brighter and brighter.

Andrew slowly walked up to the door. “What’s on the other side of this door?”

Shawn faced Andrew. “You expect me to know man? We lost the map ages ago.”

Celestia and Luna were in the back of the room talking to each other.

“What is that Tia?”

Celestia looked to the door and back to her sister. “I think its the end, that creature, I could feel the Nightmares print on it. It was going to kill them.”

“Then why didn’t it?”

“I think it is because we were in quite a big group. It was only one thing.”

Before Luna could possibly answer a flash of light blinded both of them.

Celestia and Luna opened their eyes, they were back in the house and the creatures were still asleep. Celestia checked what the time was, it had only been half an hour.

Luna was looking at the creatures. “Why haven't they awoken yet?”

Celestia turned her attention towards Andrew and Shawn. “They should wake up soon.”

“Sooner than you think Celestia.”