Sombra’s Door
I stood in front of Sombra’s door now finally ready to face my own worst fears and nightmares too since I already knew what it did since I have heard many tales, myths, and rumors of this thing, and all that I knew for certain was that it was a very powerful object indeed. I took a very deep breath in, okay, you can do this thing now then, and if you do then you’ll finally prove your worth to every pony else.
And if I failed then I wouldn’t earn the respect or praise of any pony else, including my whole entire family too as well. I took a very deep breath and entered it, but when I did I saw nothing, literally. There wasn’t even any colors, no black, no white, no anything at all, just endless nothingness forever.
“Hello? Is any pony else here? Is this the right door? Because I thought and have heard that this is Sombra’s door.” “It is, you have heard and thought right,”
“Wait, who are you exactly?” I said very nervously now with great fear.
“My name, well it doesn’t really matter, but I think that you already know it,” the shadowy figure said slowly approaching him and when he finally got close enough he saw who it was. “King Sombra? But you’re dead…” I said then now.
“Am I though? Or do you just think that instead? Can something ever really truly die if they leave part of themselves behind as I have? The answer is no, I still live on even though I may not have a mortal body yet, and I will always live to forever because not even princess Celestia can ever possibly stop me now.
“How is it that you are even here and talking to me like this? Surely you’re not my greatest fear or nightmare?” I said then now. “No, I am not, but I just wanted and wished to make an appearance before my next victim which just so happens to be you, and that’s because I wanted to tell you something first.”
“And what would that be exactly?” I said very nervously now then and very slowly started backing away from him in great fear as he got closer to me now then.
“Do you have any idea just how long I have been stuck in here? Centuries, and do you know what I could do during that whole entire time? Nothing. It was very boring, quite so indeed that one day I thought that I wasn’t myself anymore.
Anyhow I’m not angry at the time spent for me being bored since I occupied myself with revenge against the one who imprisoned me here so very long ago.
“You mean the princesses?” I said then now. “Well yes and no, they are partially responsible for me of course, but no, I meant some pony else of course.”
“And who would that pony be exactly?” I said very nervously now then. He looked at me and smiled very slowly now then, “Don’t you remember, it’s you.” And then he suddenly attacked me as I woke up from my dream suddenly enough.
Oh thank goodness, it was just a dream, nothing more, and with that thought in my mind I got up, went to the bathroom, opened the mirror to get my toothpaste, but then when I closed it I saw the face of Sombra staring back at me now then.
“Well hello there beautiful, care to play a game with me?” he said still sliming now then. I started to scream out loud once I saw his face, no, this was impossible, I couldn’t be him, I just couldn’t ever possibly be him, right?”
Maybe, maybe not, this still could be another dream, yes, that’s it, I was just in another dream and now that I knew that I could escape from it now then.
With that thought in my mind I quickly grabbed a razor and cut myself thus effectively killing me and thus woke up from my very real dream now then.
I gasped as I woke up and then quickly looked in a mirror, good, I was myself, but how could I be sure that this wasn’t a dream, how could I be sure that I was really awake? Quickly I grabbed my token and tested it and saw that I was indeed in a dream, and that was confirmed when I saw Sombra there again.
“Why do you still haunt me?” I said now then. “Because I will always be a part of you no matter what you try do now or how hard you try to escape from me.”
“Well stop!!! Please stop!!!” I screamed out loud now then.
“Never, this is your punishment for time and all eternity.”
And with that said I screamed as pieces of glass from a mirror started to fly at me and cut my out my scream of agony and pain. I was then drowned by a flood of water and then burned with fire and it repeated until I was no more.
And then I woke up again and quickly looked in the mirror again.
I was myself, no, I was Celestia now, then Luna, then Twilight, then Rarity too as well, then Fluttershy, then Applejack, then Rainbow Dash, then Pinkie Pie, then I was Apple Bloom, then Sweetie Belle, then Scootaloo, and then I was finally Nightmare Moon. “Who am I?” I said then now. “Oh, don’t you remember anymore, or had your torture made you finally lose your identity too as well.”
“Tell me who I am and why I am here exactly!!!” I shouted very loudly now then as I saw my face turn into Star Swirl. “Oh, don’t you remember, you’re just a shadow, a product of the mind and imagination, but after we’re finally done with you you’ll finally be no more, and therefore not a threat or danger anymore either as well too,” Sombra said smiling now then, “I hope that you enjoy your torture.”
And with that said I screamed as it started again. And then that was when I woke up to see that Luna was in my room. “Am I still dreaming?” I said then now. “Honestly even I do not know, it only matters what you think,” she said then now, “Do you believe that this is real life or is it still just a dream?”
“I really honestly don’t know; how can I ever know for certain?”
“You can’t, and that’s why you have me here, a projection of your own thoughts and ideas, but unless you figure out who you are you will never be able to escape this place,” she said smiling now then. “Wait, I think that I’m starting to remember, yes, I do, I did all those things to those poor other ponies?”
“Yes, you did, but you can your pain right now if you so wish it to be so.”
“I do, I know that I can never pay for what I did fully, but I wish to die now.”
“Your request is granted,” Luna said smiling now then.
And with that said I died, or did I?
Was this still just a dream, or was this death instead now?
And who was I anymore too as well?
And that was when I saw Sombra again.
“Welcome to the afterlife,” he said smiling now then, “Or your eternal pain and strife,” and with that said I screamed as my memories suddenly returned and then that was when I really truly did die, yet somehow I still lived too.
Yet eventually I did manage to die by fading away into nothingness.
“He is no more,” the jailer said to death, “My job here is done.”
“Thank you, Anubis, you have done very well, you may leave me now.”
And with that said he did so, and then death took off his hood and looked into his mirror and saw many faces on himself, and one of them was Sombra of course. “The real question here is who am I, and who was the prisoner,” he said smiling to himself as he turned to the screen, sat down and put his hood back on. And thus he left the mystery of the afterlife and the door unsolved forever more as he slowly rubbed his hands together in anticipation for his next guest.