The Nightmare Verse

1. Gredvan

The earth trembled
The sky fled
The oceans boiled before us
The moon continued to watch

Not a single one of us were spared the panic of his first breaths. Gredvan burst forth from Tartarus, and the sky was as blood, red and terrible, and our minds were as fire, burning and shriveling at the new emotions that now captivated us!

From the first moment we knew! Oh we knew! If only we had more time, perhaps we could have fought.

No. We were as nothing. We were below even his breath.

And now, as an aid to any who may read this, although I highly doubt that time will ever come, I will, to the best of my ability, describe to you the living nightmare that erupted from the frozen north.

None spoke his name, but all heard it within themselves.

"Gredvan."

In our naivete, we did not at first feel fear, but first curiosity.

No, I would not call what we felt curiosity, it was more a compulsion. We were being called, and some were able to resist at first, but many hundreds ran to the source, and were devoured by the heat of his glory.

I, as much as it pains me to say, was one of the only survivors that was present at ground zero. Oh she told me! She begged of me! "Please! Please! See reason!" she begged, but even Celestia herself was unable to break the dark embrace that had taken me!

I, however, was late, and was spared his first outburst of death, and was able to see the horror of his arrival, and I shielded myself, and thus I am one of very few who is able to tell of his appearance!

The frozen north was no longer frozen, and the sudden deluge of water took the Crystal Empire from us! Oh how I wept for them! For all those I would never see again! For my friends and family suddenly taken by this beast!

The air itself turned to fire and ash, and this, my dear readers, however few you may be, is when I saw his glorious horror for the first time!

A mountain of flesh and blood, the creature never moved from its spot. It struggled to breath, and bubbling flesh poured from it, mingling with the new ocean he had created! Thus the frozen north became a thick swamp of water, flesh, and blood!

his eyes! Oh lord his eyes! 14 yellow eyes, fixed directly on me!

i ran! I removed myself from his gaze, and was once again standing in my home, and I wept. I wept for everyone who had been lost. I wept for the horror I had witnessed. I wept an hour for each eye that had dug itself into my mind!

And as I was crying myself to sleep, I found myself transported again to the north! The beast was not satisfied, and would have my life!

I screamed! I screamed like none have ever screamed! I screamed the scream of someone faced with Armageddon itself!

And she arrived! Celestia, in her beauty and glory snatched me away from the beast! And I could see the blood in her mane, and the burns on her face! Just being this near to the monster had caused her great pain!

I watched the mountain of gore as it opened it's mouth full of thorns, and it let out a bellowing scream!

"NEGLORIK!" it announced, and all the world heard its painful wail! And a flash of light overtook me, and suddenly the beast was gone, and a large hole was left in space itself, and it glowed, and stars and planets could be seen within, and the new swamp began to bubble, and a large tentacle protruded from the hole!

Tears filled my eyes, and I said the name. I had not known the name, but I feel that many others spoke at that same moment!

"Gorpondret."

And the earth began to shake!

The second was coming, and the sky turned to gold, and the clouds fell from the sky and turned to great tornadoes, and the Pegisi who tried to stop them were reduced to nothing!

Her body came through the great hole, and we prepared for the second great death to grip our world!