Dreamer Adventures

As the children were lead to a rather close by dining area, several camp hands or hooves in this case, had started to clean up and cart away the mess and finished products from the tables. Thankfully, everyone had a chance to write their names on their work to differentiate from the unused waste.

Surprisingly, several buffalo and ponies had gathered around Sleet, the small filly talking at length about her father’s military career. Soon, lunch had been passed out, everyone’s meal consisting of a piece of whole grain bread and several flower buds and veggies, while Chara’s consisted of glazed baby carrots, three slabs of what looked like turkey, a small bowl of green grapes, a generic juice box, and a cookie shaped to look like Asriel. No note was attached.

“Eugh, how can you eat that?” Diamond asked, disgusted at the meat on Chara’s plate.

“Because if I don't I'll die slowly after getting really sick.” Chara said not really bothered about the dying part just the slow part.

“Morbid much?” Silver added as she popped a daisy into her mouth.

“Yeah I can see how you think that but death isn't scary, but permadeath now that is scary.” Chara said offhandedly as she adjusted her graphs and diagrams that she had put up around the two Souls depicting the difference between a human soul and a monster soul.

The girls looked upon the diagrams with tilted heads, Fog actually poking through one of the screens.

“I know this looks complicated and it is, mostly because it's the source of power for any and all humans and “monsters”.” Chara says as she points to the diagrams the diagram had 8 different hearts, 7 hearts that were brightly colored and right side up and a white heart that was upside down.

Over the seven colored Hearts was the words “Soul trait” The light blue one had patience written under it ,the dark blue had integrity under it, the purple one had perseverance under it, the orange one had bravery, green had kindness, yellow had justice and finally red had determination,As the lone upside down White Heart had magic written above it.

“So which one's yours?” Fog asked, Chara immediately pointed to the red one as she continued to make sure she got the diagram set up perfectly.

“Then how can you use magic?” Tiara chimed in.

“It's not magic it's my soul energy and because I have an infinite amount it never runs out.” Chara replied before continuing with. “also the red Soul trait can be converted into any other type of Soul trait but the other Soul traits cannot be converted into it do to how powerful the red Soul trait is seeing as the red sole trait can affect the entire universe if the soul is strong enough.”

“What happens when a soul isn't strong enough, or is too strong?” Silver added.

“When the soul is too strong you get someone who can't die by unnatural causes for example me, but when a soul is too weak you get someone who doesn't want to live…” Chara said with a somber voice.

Before any could address the darkened mood, Slate of all ponies had dropped in, two buffalo twins flanking her. “Hey! Overheard your rambling! What's that white one do?” She asked rather happily, pointing at the upside down heart.

“That is a monster Soul. it is upside down to better access the magic that makes them up. you see each monster type has a special branch of magic that they use. Case in point asriel and his family use fire magic, also they are not monsters like you would think of as they show more compassion than most species as they took in a child of the species that entrap them underground.” Chara spoke in a teacher like voice.

Slate begun tapping her chin, much to the amusement of the twins with her. “Asriel, Asriel… why do I know that name…” She thusly hovered in the air while making several hoof gestures, “Bout, this tall? Got a sword as tall as he is?” She then leaned in close to Chara, eyes a flutter, “Best looking thing on the planet?” She teased.

“Yes that is my boyfriend.” chara says as her eyes glowed with the power and with a voice that said back off.

Slate and her entourage only giggled, “Military girl like me’s the last pony you should be worried about,” She replied with a toothy grin as she flew behind Tiara and clasped the girl’s shoulders, much to Tiara’s surprise and annoyance, “Gold digger’s like her are who you should be worried about!”

Growling, Diamond Tiara started to bat a forhoof at Slate who was now laughing like a mad man, “I am nothing like my mother!” Tiara shouted angrily.

“It's okay diamond I know you're not a gold digger.” Chara said giving her a quick hug before looking at slate with a menacing glare and saying with a deathly calm voice, “I'm not a good person to those who hurt my friends and those I care about, so you're going to say sorry to Diamond or I'm going to show you why it took an absolute God to beat me.”

Slate, still smiling somehow, waved a hoof at the two. “Sorry, sorry~” She said in a teasing tone, “Don't exactly know how to shut up, but hey, no hard feelings yeah?” Still hovering, the pegasu held out a hoof, a small crowd practically surrounding the scene.

“no, you're still on my shit list.” Chara said turning back and giving Diamond another hug. Diamond however looked morbidly pale, incredibly shocked by the contact.

Giggling, Slate waved at the group and turned around to leave, her groupies singing out a goodbye as they followed Slate.

“Do… we know who her father is?” Silver asked.

“Probably,” Diamond answered, now softly batting at Chara’s head, “Can you let go now? I have a reputation to keep.”

“Sure and if anyone asks just say the war hero gave you the hug.” Chara said as she let go of diamond before continuing with, “ besides you're my friend and I don't like seeing my friends upset.”

Tiara scoffed, but it was quite evident her heart wasn't in it. “Whatever… just forget about what I said and we’re golden…”

“You know if you ever need help I have a bunch of friends in high places that can help out even if I can't myself…” Chara says already knowing what she's was wrong she was already going to have Celestia look into diamonds mother.

A small glint shined in Diamond's eye for a fraction of a second before she flinched at the sound of a loud horn. Soon, the children were all being lead back to the amphitheatre, several of the camp goers forming a line next to the stage, their crafts in hoof.

“Well, I hope we all had fun with each other,” Mrs. Shy said, her smooth and soft voice being carried by a microphone, “It was a rocky start, but I can see that everyone came together in the end.” Several cheers and hoof stomps began to fill the air as Strong Heart took the stage.

“I cannot express my gratitude enough, even now I can see the seeds of friendship sown between our two cultures,” The ambassador stated happily, “Of course, there is one among you who helped kick start our hopes and dreams…” A floodlight flipped on and was immediately moved to shine over Chara, Foghorn, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon before it focused in on Chara.

“For your strength and willingness to see past our differences, I wish to not only thank you, but I would like you and your group to start off today’s show and tell.” Applause quite literally exploded around the four. If someone look close they would see Chara was blushing but thanks to the circles on her cheeks it was really hard to tell, Chara made her way up to the stage with her friends who were more visibly blushing as they followed close behind Chara.

As soon as Chara made her way to the stage she took her charts out along with her Hearts she had made. Foghorn had taken out her self caricature, Silver had a small castle tower, and Diamond was begrudgingly holding her paper puppet.

“Okay I guess I'll start us off I created to souls that are the source of human and monster powers, the right side up ones are humans and each color has a different trait powering them mine is a red one which stands for determination.” Chara said before materializing her soul.

One of the campers raised a hoof. “What does a personality trait have to do with all that cool stuff you can do?” Everyone looked at the Buffalo in question, who bore an eerie similarity to Foghorn. “What? My sister told me about it! She can make things explode, that’s amazing!”

“Well that was me using Justice and Bravery and mixing the two Justice for the beam effect and bravery for the exploding effect, you see each Soul trait has the ability to do something the orange Soul trait has the ability to make small explosives appear around them the yellow Soul trait lets you fire energy beams the green Soul trait of kindness makes Shields and can be used to heal someone where the purple Soul trait of perseverance is used to negate the attacks of other people sent towards you the light blue is able to create strings that can grab literally anything but also can be used to slice through people as I did with the horn-” Chara says before she was interrupted.

“You broke someone's horn?!” Someone whispered to her “Oh… the instrument, I thought you...heh…”

Foghorn’s sister huffed. “I doubt she’d talk openly about practically crippling and lobotomizing a pony at once.”

“Oh I did that to that changeling queen that invaded after all she did hurt the ones I care about especially my new mom.”

Silence reigned before Foghorn looked to her sister. “She’s actually really nice, just… she has more protective instincts than most ponies.” Diamond tiara and Silver Spoon nod as DT was lost in thought. Foghorn then smiled. “Thunderhoof, she offered to trim my hair for me! She was super nice!”

“It's true I'm super protective. But anyway back to the last two Soul traits Integrity the dark blue Soul trait can lengthen and sharpen any weapon but it can also create spinning Buzz saw blades that can be fired off at people and then we finally get to my soul trait determination it can be turned into any other Soul trait along with being able to affect the universe if it's strong enough.”

Thunderhoof raised her hoof again. “Are you that strong? And who is that other human that is with you usually?”

“Yes I am that strong as I have rewritten my fate many times and as for that other human He's My Bodyguard and friend from a past life.” Chara said actually surprised no one has commented to on the White upside down soul.

Slate snickered, having heard about the monster souls before. “So, those white souls are monsters yeah? Is Connor one of those monsters? I mean, he calls out a big freaky metal man.”

“ Connor is not a monster he is a human now the one that that you were saying was so hot earlier is a monster he is a boss monster but he is not a monster as you know them as the Monsters Where I Come From are some of the most compassionate beings I have ever come across seeing as they took in a child of a species that literally killed most of their race and then locked the rest underground by a barrier.” Chara said as an aura of Red Energy floats around her

Thunderhoof raised her hoof again. “Since this is another world than yours, if more of these monsters show up, could we name them something else? Ponies have a monster Hunting squad… I don’t think having citizens named as such would be a good idea.”

“ I would actually approve of that seeing as most monsters from my world are made up mostly of magic so I think we should call the Mana beings.” chara said with a thoughtful look on her face.

Slate frowned. “How can a human summon things like that though? I didn’t see any soul traits that did that…”

“Because he was changed by a void dweller which stuck something called a dream being in his head.” Chara says.

All of the buffalo gasped. “He is a dreamwalker?! Those… those are so dangerous! Not even the dragon invaders could stop a dreamwalker! Rageburn the glorious was the last dreamwalker of the buffalo, and he made the badlands what they are today!”

A pony Chara didn’t recognize raised her hoof. “Are your powers magic?”

“Actually no, they're not.” Chara said with a grin.

One last pony raised their hoof, again not recognizable, where were all these ponies on the bus? “What is your opinion on The changelings? My daddy is a guard captain, and he said that all of the changelings had to listen to their empress, but that Chrysalis was the new empress now!”

“As long as they don't do anything to hurt my friends I have no reason to harm them.” Chara said with a shrug.
At that, the ponies all seemed to look to Foghorn, who had drawn herself quite well. Everything was rather plain until we got to Diamond Tiara, who was trembling and pale as everyone looked at her puppet, a nightmarish looking sock puppet of one Spoiled Rich.

Everyone was looking at it blankly. Until Thunderhoof spoke. “You see your mother like that?”

“Hey if that was my birth mother I would have made it looks like something even Nightmare Moon would fear.” Chara says as her eyes took on a hateful glare.

Thunderhoof nodded slowly before looking to the miss shy. “Miss shy, can I report Diamond tiaras mom for abuse?”

“Don't worry about that I'm going to talk to my mom about that.” Chara said already having a dangerous glint in her eye.

Thunderhoof and foghorn looked to Chara “We are the high chief’s daughters, and we technically count as nobles in equestria on par with you. Our word AND yours will bury that woman for life.”

“ Then please, by all means! Let's teach that woman why you don't mess with my friends.” Chara said barely containing her maniacal laughter.

Diamond Tiara looked to them with tears in her eyes. “Why are you being so nice to me?! I was rude, snobby, and treated you all like dirt... I thought I’d be alone like always...”

“Because I was once like you but unlike you I had an abusive father and mother.” Chara said as she gave Diamond Tiara a hug.

There was a slight tingling of Charas hook charm as she let Diamond Tiara go. As she looked around, she saw no threats. Diamond Tiara, however, was looking down at the floor. “Huh...It feels nice… having more than one friend…”

Silver spoon smirked. “Told ya you should try it!”

Diamond Tiara couldn’t stop crying as Thunderhoof came up and joined Foghorn in hugging Chara and Diamond. They smiled and nuzzled them warmly. “It’s okay, it’s all okay…”