Chapter 1:
I groan as I lay in my little basket, still trying to get every ounce of peace and rest as best as I can despite it being a Monday.
"Get Up!' I jump a bit as I hear a voice in my head say that.
"Five more minutes" I groan internally.
The voice in my head grows louder as it entices me to get up out of bed, leaving the warmth of my blankets to the cold wind.
Growls a bit and slowly begins to take the covers off of my scaley body. "Alright I'm getting up..." I grunt and slowly stretch which begins to release all the tension in my spine.
Sighs in relief as the pops and cracks of my back makes me feel a bit better and more relaxed, considering I'm barely getting any sleep from all the restless nights from my issues.
Slowly begins to sit up after that nice stretch and lifts myself up from the dead weight, making it feel like lifting a five-hundred pound statue from how exhausted I still am and not getting enough sleep.
"I know that Twilight has been concerned for me, I know that she can see the bags underneath my eyes and my eyes turn emotionless most of the time. But I just give her a fake smile and tell her that I'm alright and that there is nothing going on."
I get up with some hope that today wont be too tough for me like it normally is but I already know that its not going to change.
Slowly trudges my way out my door and into the small bathroom, which has a large-oval vanity for the mirror over the sink that was recently cleaned.
Walks over to the mirror and looks at myself, noticing all the things that are normal to me now but wasn't normal before.
Leans in a bit closer and notices that my eyes are visibly bloodshot and my spines are jagged and rugged.
Looks down at my claws and notices that they are untrimmed and sharper than a razor.
"guess ill trim them sometime soon" mumbles miserably.
Once im done looking at my miserable, depressed dragon self. I trace my hand over the toothbrush and pick it up.
"If im going to do something to improve myself at the moment then ill at least brush my teeth..."
Grabs the toothpaste tube and puts some on the toothbrush.
Slowly begins to brush my teeth as I try to ignore the heavy migraine growing more and more by the second.
Winces a bit everytime I get sharper pains in my head.
Once im done with the brushing, I rinse my mouth out with some mouthwash and water.
Hisses through my teeth loudly as I clutch my head and scream internally.
"This migraine is unbearable! oh please make it stop!"
"Spiiiiiike" The dark voice says again
"Stop it! oh celestia this is the worst migraine so far."
"I can make it stop spiiiike~ as long as you obey my orders, and my order is that you kill that unicorn twilight sparkle!" The voice says
"You obey and you don't get hurt" it says
Looks at the vanity again and begins to search through it for some asprin.
My eyes widen a bit as I see some headache tablets that should hold off a migraine for at least 12 hours.
Grabs the headache tablets and shakes out a few, then shoves them in my mouth and swallows without the water or anything.
"No! go away! you are not going to make me kill my best friend for anything whatever you are! and I don't care what pain I get put through. You will not make me give in to that!"
After a few moments of silence I hear a slight chuckle In my head, "We shall see, they all fail anyway but we shall see."
As the voice said that, it went away and the headache went away just as fast.
I sigh in relief and look into the mirror one more time before walking out the bathroom.
I slowly go downstairs and arrive into the kitchen to make some breakfast for twilight and I.
At that time Twilight comes downstairs with a brush and slowly begins to brush her bedhair into her normal mane style cut.
After a long yawn, Twilight looks at spike and gives a small smile then says. "Hello spike, good morning my number one assistant"
I give a fake smile as I look at her with breakfast being made. " Good morning twilight, how did you sleep?'
I see Twilight sit down at the kitchen table as she gives me a direct look into my eyes
Wow... its either I really didn't notice by chance or couldn't think straight but I can see bags underneath her eyes. Most likely from overnight studying.
"I slept alright I guess spike" Yawns, "I just stayed up late studying a spell about transfiguration into actual ponies with the voice and all"
"It really took a lot out of me spike but I feel like I can give it a better shot now."
I look over at Twilight and give a true genuine smile
"You can do it twilight, if anypony can do it then its you."
Twilights cheek reach a slight shade of pink that you can see even behind her purple fur.
"Aww thanks spike" Twilight trots over to the door
"Twilight! your cutie mark!" Spike points towards her flank as soon as he notices her cutie mark flashing in a series of purple stars
"Oh! im called for another friendship mission! ill see you when I get back spike. Make sure to do the choirs my number one assistant!"
Twilight runs out the kitchen
"I will twilight!" Spike shouts out as he sees Twilight's figure grow smaller and smaller until she disappears.
"sighs" I walk back into the kitchen and sit at the table all alone and I cant help but think of one thing
"Why is this happening to me?"
"Am I going crazy?"
Gets up from the table and walks back to my room
Sits down on the bed then plops down on my back and watches the ceiling in desperation and misery
"I feel like im losing my mind, if only I knew how to stop the voices inside my head. I don't know but ill just have to try and ignore them for a bit longer until I figure out what to do...."
I feel myself drift off into sleep and arrive in dreamland.
Author's Note
This is the first chapter to my first story guys! I hope you like it. Give me some feedback in the comments to help me with writing. If im doing anything wrong then send a comment and please tell me what I need to do to fix it and make my writing better! Enjoy
Author's Note
Hey guys I'm sorry that I haven't been here for a little while but rest assured this is the next chapter to inner demons. I hope that its satistfactory to you all (although I doubt it) and I will try my best to make It better :) Have a good day to you all and enjoy the chapter.
The dream
Chapter Two:
The Dream
I find myself in a dark and empty room with no shred of light anywhere.
I can feel something all over my hands, I rub both my index finger and thumb together only to feel something wet, warm, and sticky.
Suddenly, I get the urge to smell them.
Slowly, I bring my sharp pointy claws close to my nose and sniffs it.
My stomach churns as I can feel the acid rise up to my throat.
Gulps hard in hopes that I don't throw up my insides. Luckily, my action worked but i'm feeling very nauseous to my stomach.
Sits down in place with my knees up and my head down to the floor with eyes closed, hoping that soon the nauseous feeling will go away. To my dismay I hear a scraping noise.
Slowly peeks my head up and opens my eyes to see nothing but darkness. My hands shaky, knees trembling and breath going into an irregular pattern.
Quickly looks around only to jump at the sound of somepony screaming a blood curling scream.
All I can see is the dark void until I hear something that sounds like a switch being turned on.
The light itself is a midnight blue that surrounds the entire room.
My surroundings hit me like a brick wall, I begin to look around only to see Princess Celestia's throne room and nopony else here besides myself.
I can see the milky white floors with light pink columns that have unique patterns forged into them.
There's a big glass window that shows planets and the sun shining down on Equestria.
"Why am I in Celestia's throne room?" I ask in a confused and somewhat scared manner.
After taking a minutes to look around I hear that every little bit of sound is just gone.
Silence, there's no noise, just silence.
Shakes off the cold shiver to wrecks havoc all over my back and slowly gets to my feet.
"Relax Spike, It's only me" Says the voice with a voice dripping with a dark tone.
Starts looking around only to find the same surroundings and no-one in sight.
This only makes me shiver more.
I hear a chuckle in the darkness that befalls me.
"Aww, can poor Spikey not find me? Why don't you try the door over there" The tone of voice says that sounds like it has a grin plastered on its face.
My eyes widen in panic as fear takes hold of me.
"Who are you?! Where are you?! Why are you here?!" I Scream out and the words bounce off the walls and begin echoing all around me.
The voice then begins laughing in a horrifying manner.
"I am all around you Spike. I am here when you're awake, when you're eating, reading, visiting Rarity's boutique, and i'm here when you're asleep. You can't escape me Spike. I am always here."
The fear that I once had, quickly turns into anger at the mention of her name.
"Hey! You leave Rarity alone! Or i'll... I'll kill you!" Hisses between my teeth with anger and a few flames that used to be green are now turned blood red fly out my mouth.
The light's suddenly go out but the midnight moon begins shining its beautiful rays of light. Filling the room with a dull soft blue with purple hues in it.
On the other side of the room I can see some sort of dark figure forming near what appears to be a bright red door with police tape over it.
My gaze is quickly focused on the figure.
The midnight blue light slowly begins to reveal who it is by the door.
I stare at the figure in shock. When I do he gives a smirk that could chill even the biggest manticore or even King Sombra himself.
"What's the matter Spike? Can't handle your own reflection?"
"How is this even possible?! What are you??" I say, fear suddenly taking over as I look directly at him.
"Poor spike, can't you see?"
Suddenly the small and terrifying figure starts making his way towards me.
My feet start to move as if they have a mind of their own.
Quickly scampers back towards the wall in fear until I find that I can't move anymore backward.
My back hits the wall as I stare at the figure in pure terror.
As he walks towards me I see that he has a knife soaked in a thick red liquid that starts to slowly drip little droplets of blood onto the ground. Doing so results in the blood making a tiny 'splat' sound.
I quickly start looking around only to find that I have nowhere to go.
Gets down on my knees and shuts my eyes tightly with tears threatening to escape the corners of my eyes.
"Stay back!" I exclaim in an scared but shuttering tone.
The other Spike, or should I say. Nightmare, keeps walking towards me with that creepy smile on his face with the blood still dripping from the knife.
The tears don't stop falling down from my face neither do the steps as they get closer with soft thumps with every step.
Less than a foot away from me does the nightmare stop, out of curiosity I delicately remove my hands from my face and raise my head from my knees only to be paralyzed in fear.
"R-Rarity?" I ask with a big stutter
The 'Rarity' in mention has holes in her head instead of the sapphire blue eyes that I have grown to love since I first laid eyes on them. Along with a beaten and bloody mouth that looks like it's been sown up with black thread. Her luscious amethyst curly mane has been changed to a blood red frazzled mess with spots of torn mane. Her soft delicate ivory coat that used to be there is no more, now the only thing on her body is covered with severe burn marks, exactly like somepony who got caught in a fire with no way to escape and therefore burned to death.
Rarity very slowly turns her head and smiles widely in a very creepy way, as she does so her bones crackle and pop in a way that I feel bile rise up in my throat and the threads around her lips stretch them to the point where the skin rips off roughly.
The blood starts pouring down her chin and drips in multiple quantities onto the floor with a shuttering sound.
'drip' "Ooooh Spikey~" 'another drip followed by another one'
Out of pure and unrelenting terror I somehow manage to find my voice.
"S-S-Stay away f-from m-me!" I begin choking on more tears as I try to stand up only to be pushed back down by a burned and fleshy hoof.
"You're not going anywhere Spikey-Wikey" She says in a dark tone that sends more shivers all over my body and not the good kind.
She then begins to lean in close to my ear. "Especially not after what you did to me~" She whispers
Out shock and morbid curiosity I dare to ask her out of fear of what she might do. Trying my best to not break down on the spot my words find me once again.
"R-Rarity, what did I do?" Turns out that wasn't a good idea
All of the sudden she pulls back her smile isn't there. She doesn't say anything for a good few seconds but her eyeless sockets start steaming a black substance.
"You did this to me Spike, darling why?" She states in a soft heartbroken tone
After hearing that I needed to know what happened despite being terrified.
"What do you mean I did this Rarity?" I stare at her while shaking like a leaf in autumn.
A bloodcurdling scream sounds throughout the room and voices start speaking in hushed tones.
"You know that i'm always here for you Spikey Wikey" One of the voices says in a comforting manner.
"Spike, I know something is bothering you darling. Why don't we get some ice cream and we talk about it on the way there?"
"I don't know Rarity, this is something that I can't really talk about right now. But I will tell you I just need some time to think"
"Okay Spikey I understand, just don't take too long please. I want to help"
The voices start to get louder and more concerning.
"Spike, it's been about a month since we had this talk darling. Please tell me whats the matter, I don't know if you have noticed it but whatever is bothering you Spike is getting worse and I want to help you darling." The voice has a hint of irritation in it.
A groan resounds throughout the room not a second after
"Rarity, i told you. I don't want to talk about it! Now leave me alone!" Growled the voice accompanied by the sound of glass breaking.
"Spikey! That was my canterlot dish set!" Cried the voice followed by a laugh from the other voice.
"You think I care about your stupid dish set?! You don't know what I go through every day!" A loud smack could be heard followed by more crying and sobs.
"Talk about it again and you will see what happens! I will talk when i'm ready!" The voice said then the sound of footsets and a door closing is an indication that one of the voices left.
The pony that's sobbing slowly gets up and the sound of broken glass fills the room once more with tinks and dings when the pony starts cleaning up the glass.
After that the voices stopped and I turn my attention back to 'Rarity', when I do she looks at me with an expression that shows murderous intent.
"After that, it just got a whole lot worse. Continued to do so until this happened." She points a hoof to herself.
"You did this Spike!" She leans in with the knife in her hoof and puts it up to my neck.
Choking on fresh tears that soak my face and burn my eyes I just close my eyes in defeat, willing to accept my fate.
The sharp stinging pain of flesh tearing, blood pouring and a voice screaming "I hate you", only lasted for a quick moment until I slowly begin to feel the warmth of the sun on my face.
The pain stopped, and I can breathe! Wait what?
As soon as I think that I quickly wake up with sweat dripping off of me and feeling the damp sheets on my bed only confirms to me that I had a nightmare.
If it wasn't bad enough, when I opened my eyes I see a highly concerned Twilight staring at me with a look that can only be described as seeing a ghost while rubbing my face with a damp blue cloth with a lavender aura around it.
Seeing that I sigh in relief and just lay there trying to cool off.
That was the worst nightmare i've had so far? Why did I have that dream? I'm so confused I don't know whats happening.
And sweet Celestia please don't let the voice talk to me today.
"Hello Spike~"
