Shadow of a Nightmare

Shadow of a Nightmare

CHAPTER 1- Awakening

{Rated M for Language and Mature content}

I turned to see the watch. [2:15] a smile appeared on my face. It was almost time- 21-6… This number was my down fall… February-First-2006 was the day I lost my life… That is why I am in my death bed, to begin with.

Sadly to say I was in a car accident. I was not the one driving however. My escort, John, was driving me to see my father. At the time, he was the head of the “East Coast Mafia”, and I was going to replace him. Now my brother is top dog now, because of this… I was only fifteen at the time, and didn’t have a care in the world. Little did my driver know; there was a 21 year old kid, running from the police. It was going to be his sixed arrest, so he decided to run. There’s that number… 21-6.  Said driver slammed into the back side of the car. The impact shatteren one of my legs, and crippled my spine.

Now it’s been six years, and I have recovered slightly. Sadly, I am no longer able to train like I use to. Kickboxing and Karate… My dad drilled me in both, and that was one of the reasons I was going to replace him. Respect, focus, reading you target. The memories and body motions still lingered in my mind. Sadly my time was at an end.

For the last six or so years… I have been in this hospital, in this nightmare, in this hell… [2:16] It was time. I could die happy, only it I died at- [2:16] I reached over to machine that was keeping me alive, and yanked the plug. It started to beep, and I started to fade. A group of doctors ran into the room.

“He’s crashing!” One of them yelled.

“I need a shot of adrenalin, and a defibulator! We need to start his heart!” Another one yelled.

“Sir, look at his face!” The first voice said, in shock. I started to smile. It was my time, and I was not going to give it up, or let them take it away from me.

I flat-lined and all the doctors froze. For them, it was hard letting someone die, me on the other hand… I only cried over my mother’s death. Still, many people will cry over mine. My brother mostly…

“Time of death- [2:16] April 21, 2012]… I will call his brother.”

Equestria

I slowly opened my eyes, to see a grassy field. “The Fuck! Wow… for a secant there I thought I was going to hell.” I looked around to see a forest. I glanced down at my watch, but froze at the sight of my arm. It was… Blue, but more importantly, it was a hoof. “YES!”

“GET THE FUCK DOWN!” Something slammed into my side, and tackled me to the ground. A burst of fire, incinerated the ground that I was standing on, moments before.

“What the?!” I asked, but a hoof went over my mouth.

“You will stay down, and shut up! I lost a Stallion fighting this Cyclops, and I am not going to add a stupid pony to the list!” The mare whispered, before jumping out of cover.

Cyclops! The fuck was she talking about!?

I peeked out of cover to see, non other then, the Cyclops. But that was not the thing I was looking for. The mare that tackled me, along with one other pony, was fighting with this Cyclops… And from the look of it, they were getting there ass kicked.

“Move Shadow!” The stallion yelled, suddenly the Cyclops raised his sword up. I knew this mare was going to die and she did save my life; so I did what I had to do. I dashed forward and shoved her out of the way.

I turned to the Cyclops as the sword swung downward. Time started to slow, as it inched towards me. I stared at the sword, once more. Then something big attracted my attention. It was Luna’s Moon. It looked so… so… my heart stopped.

I died, and now I am in Equestria… I’m not going to die again, and I’ll be dammed it I was killed by a One eyed jackass.

I swerved to the right avoiding the sword, then dashed foreword and jabbed the Cyclops in its eye. It winced and screamed in pain. This was my chance; I turned to my side and using only my back legs. I bucked the one-eyed jackass in the side of the knee. It shattered, and the Cyclops fell to the ground.

Don’t ever mess with someone from the “Torment” family!

“You!” I turned to see the mare from before. “I didn’t need your help!”  She was a gray pony, with a faded purple mane. Her armor on the other hand was dark purple, but her wings… her wings where bat wings… “Now, what training do you have?! How did you do that!?”

I continued to stare at her, not answering. This time however; I was staring at her eyes. They were yellow. Then I noticed my reflection, and smiled. I was a cobalt blue pony with, blue faded eyes. My mane on the other hand was short and gray. “My name is…” Thinking for a moment, I decided to call myself something new. “My name is Nightmare, and when I was young, my father drilled me in both Karate and kick Boxing.”

“Bull shit! There is no way you could have done that, with only that kind of training!” Shadow yelled.

She is somewhat like my… mother?!

Suddenly, a memory started to play in my mind. I was only eleven at the time, but I knew exactly was she was saying. Curse after curse, she yelled at my caretaker. At the time I fell off of the swing, but it was very fun. My mother on the other hand… Think of it this way, she could kill the hulk with her words…

“You better not be Fucking with me!” She finished.

“You’re name is Shadow, right?” I asked.

“How the fuck do you know?!” She asked.

“He said it before.” I pointed out, as I pointed at the other Stallion in the clearing.

“Was this your first battle… and kill?” The unknown stallion asked.

“Move!” I yelled. Pushing Shadow out of the way once more.

“The Fuck?” She asked. Sadly as she watched me in her confusion, the Cyclops sword slid down my left side, leaving a large gash. From my eye to my lower chest, blood started to squirt out. Shadow looked away at the site. This told me, she was not one for the sight of blood. “Not… another one…” she said.

“How the buck is this thing alive!” The unknown stallion asked, as he jumped away from the Cyclops.

Ha… Ha… Ha… - Ha… Ha… Ha…

As I started to laugh, my past started to show. Ever since I was thirteen, I was the top hit-man. Believe it or not, killing was my sixed since, until the accident. I turned to the crippled Cyclops, and smiled. Stepping forward, I placed my hoof on the Cyclops’s hand, and then smashed it downward. It screeched in pain, but I didn’t care. Leaning forward, I grabbed the sword with my mouth and swung forward. The large blade, slid thru the one-eyed monster like butter. Its blood splattered me, and the ground all around me. I raised my back legs up and bucked the corps. However my blood lust was not over. I leaped in the direction, the Cyclops body flew. Only to find a battlefield…. a battlefield of Ponies and Cyclops. The adrenalin that flowed in my blood, kicked back into action.

Running fast, I intercepted the closest Cyclops, and then began to gut it like a fish. It scratched in pain, attracting the rest of the flock. In a matter of moments, they were all over me. One by one, they fell to my blade. Never before did I feel so… driven and I didn’t even know what was driving me! Then a large hammer slammed into me.

I impacted a tree, not ten feet away, felting broken as the pain started. Looking up, I realized what I have done. Four dead Cyclopes and the only one remaining was the Alfa. Looking down at myself, I felt happy. For the last five years, I have been crippled and broken, but now that I can move… I am a pony, and am I kicking ass… But now my adrenalin boost is gone, and I am all out of juice. Still, I was never one to give up.

“Bring it on mother fucker!” I yelled. The Alpha growled at me, and then fell to its knees. I was puzzled at this, and then a stallion walked around the fallen Cyclopes. He was very large, had a gray mane, and looked like a male-older version of Shadow.

“Soldier, what you did was no easy task-” However what he said next was unknown to me, as I fell out of unconscious.

In and out I went, not knowing of my surrounding. One moment there was a blinding light, and the next three ponies where standing over me. But the only voice I heard was… Shadow’s.

“He saved me twice, better return the favorer.”

Authors Note-

I need someone to look over my story and edit it. Other than that, I thank you for reading and hope you read more chapters when that are published.