"She doesn't need me." I mumble to myself.

I walk over to the lake and look back at my reflection. A discoloured version of myself looks back at me. The right half of face is a pure black, including the eye and that half of my lips.

"She's better without me. Everyone is." I choke as a tear streaks down my face.

My body feels heavy. My knees collapse and I fall backwards. A thump can be heard as I land against the floor, as my head hits the ground a black shockwave is sent out across the forest. The trees are blown backwards, a few even collapse in the strength of the shockwave.

"No one needs me."

I feel a tugging sensation in my chest, I tilt my head to look down only to see a black aura leaking from my chest. I raise my hand up to touch the black wisps that are now raising into the air.

"Why does it hurt so much?" I mumble as my mouth fills with the salty taste of my tears.

Around me walls of black start to grow upwards. I can then hear the sounds of concrete scraping against concrete as a roof of black grows over me. I drag myself onto my feet. A door way is opened in front of me. I stumble towards it only to walk into a huge hall with black walls with long pulsing veins of red. I rest my hand against the wall to keep my balance as I stumble towards the exit. The veins of red pulse constantly, as if this building had a beating heart in it. I take my hand off of the wall and sprint towards the exit.

I come to a stop at the doorway and rest my hand on the frame. In front of me is a bedroom. With black walls with blood red furniture that emits a light glow to the same beat of the veins in the halls.

"What the fuck?" I mumble as I walk towards a desk and brush my hand against the surface of it.

It feels like wood. Damp, Mouldy wood. I lift my hand off of it and look towards the bed. The bed has a glowing red frame with a black bedsheet and pillows, both with a trimming of glowing red. I walk towards the bed taking a second to look at the weird pulsing veins on the walls. I arrive at the bed and take a second to stare at the blackness of the covers. The blackness makes me want to climb into it and sleep. I decide to listen to it and start to get undressed. First I took off of my shoes and socks then took off my shirt and jeans. I then lift the covers up and climb into the bed. I pull the covers over myself and start to close my eyes. As my eyes close a blackness creeps over what's over my eyes before I completely close them. I completely close my eyes and let sleep take me.

I'm cold. So cold. As if I'm sleeping on a rock outside. Something inside me tells me to stay asleep. I listen and decide to stay asleep in the bed. I shudder under the covers but force myself to stay asleep.

"Good boy." A deep voice says in a happy tone.

I try to wake up, but I can't.

"You're too late. You've already welcomed the darkness into your heart." The voice chuckles.

I wake up panting and sweating. I look around and I'm still inside the black and red room. I see a balcony near the corner of the room. I run towards it and look outside. I'm high above the ground in the forest. I run back into the room, then down the long hallway, down a set of black stairs with red glowing, pulsing trims, and through a huge black hall with red veins and glowing trims. I see an entrance way and sprint towards it. I burst out of the dark hall and into the light of the sun. I have to shield my eyes from the sun. I turn around to look at where I came from. I nearly fall backwards in surprise. It's a tall black castle with red pulsing trims. I fall onto my backside and crawl backwards away from the castle. But as I try to run I immediately feel an urge to return to the castle. The urge is so strong I can't help but start to crawl back the castle. My heart starts to race in fear. As my heart rate increases the pulsing of the red trim speeds up as well. I look behind me and see a grey version of Scootaloo with red pulsing hair.

"NATHAN!" She shouts as she runs towards me.

"Scootaloo?" I ask with a worried look.

"Of course it's me! Who else would it be?" She says with a smirk.

"That's true...." I mumble as I try to grab a clump of my hair only to grab the weird gooey feeling moving mess.

"Come here." Scootaloo says as she holds her forelegs out.

I lower onto one knee and pull her into a hug.

"I'm sorry Scootaloo. I love you and I should never have told you to find someone else!" I sob into her.

"It's okay Nathan. I'd never find somepony else." Scootaloo says as she holds me tighter.

"Scootaloo?" I ask.

"Yes Nathan?"

"Let's go home." I say with a smile as I pick her up and walk back into the castle.

"Yeah, let's go home." Scootaloo says with a happy smile.

I walk into the hall and sit at the bottom of the staircase just holding Scootaloo in my arms.

"Nathan?" Scootaloo asks with a happy voice.

"Hmm?" I question.

"Can I bring my friends? I'm sure they'll wanna see our home." She answers as she rubs her head against my chest.

"Of course. Why don't you go get them while I wait here?" I say as I lower her to the ground.

"Okay! I'll be back in a short while!" Scootaloo says as she happily skips out of the castle.

"I'm so glad she came back." I say with a happy sigh.

Author's Note

Well then..... What do you think? Got questions? Feel free to discuss in the comments what you think is happening to Nathan. Thanks for reading and I'll see you next chapter!