Somewhere in the world of nightmares, sits a mansion constantly under a darken sky. The brewing of a storm casts an ominous glow as two beings sitting in the dark converse over pressing matters known only to them.

“Are you sure you want to do this, sire?” Spoke a voice in the darkness.

“Yes despite how much this bends the rules placed on my being I wish to go through with this.” responded a second voice.

“You are aware I can’t cover up your schemes forever.” The sound of thunder was heard along with a flash of lightning which cause the conversation to cease momentarily before continuing again.

“I’m well aware of that but it must be done. Besides I’ve done my fair share of research on the chosen subjects and their world. As a result I thought this plan through and through, so there is no way that ‘they’ would find out.”

“What about your mental health? I been told that your mental condition is failing and you're slowly losing control of your powers because of it.”

A sigh was heard from the second voice, “My brothers must have told you huh? Well I will not lie, the scars in my mind are opening again, threatening to become grotesque’s wounds, and we both know what would happen once I go insane.” Silence befell the first voice which in turn allowed the second to continue, “Which is the reason why I must do this. I’m not far from stepping down as your lord and checking into an asylum. This is my last chance before the darkness within me finally rips me apart.”

The owner of the first voice relented having nothing else to say, “Alright as long as you are aware of the risks. Then there is no reason to stop you, but please make sure to keep your brothers in check I’m still trying to clean up the last mess they made.”

The second voice made a snicker before responding, “I’ll make sure to keep them on a leash so they don’t cause too much damage alright?”

The first voice sighed as the rain outside of the estate grew more intense along with the flashes of lighting and the roaring thunder close by, “That’s what you said last time…” With this said, the first voice left.

The owner of the second voice was now left alone and was left to play with his thoughts, “Heh heh heh…I supposed I did… but that aside oh I wonder how my chosen subjects will react once I present them with a word of warning. Last time I checked they have experience dealing with beings such as I. This should be interesting…” A flash of lighting suddenly shined bright in the room where the voices conversed only to momentarily show a figure getting up from a chair and walking away.

/
Ponyville, the epicenter of many strange and nigh disastrous events is home to many hoofed and non-hoofed creatures who decided to take residence. As the name implies the main population is made of ponies of three types; Unicorn, Pegasus, and Earth ponies. However, recently, one of the resident's just became a princess and by extension an Alicorn. This mare is the owner of the Golden Oaks Library and none other than Twilight Sparkle herself. The mare was seen not too far from her home and was making her way to the literal tree house, but Twilight was exhausted when she reached the door of her home. Trudging along she opened the door to her house as she recalled the events that happened not too long ago that led to her current exhaustion.

“Come on Twilight! Give yourself more lift! You’re going to get well acquainted with the ground if you don’t put more force in those flaps!” Rainbow Dash yelled to a struggling Twilight Sparkle. Twilight needed help learning how to fly ever since she became an Alicorn and sought the help from her friend Rainbow Dash. Unfortunately she never knew what Rainbow had in store for her.

“I’m trying! It looked easy in the books, so why am I having trouble now?” Twilight said as beads of sweat cascade down her face.

“Well you just earned your wings Twilight. Besides I don’t think that book covers ponies that never had wings before.” said Rainbow Dash as she flew a bit closer to the ground.

Twilight sighed, the wind seemed bent on throwing her off balance, “Can we take a…break? I’m already…p..putting too much strain on my wings already.” The purple mare said rather tiredly.

Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and shook her head, “Not a chance Twilight. We just started… but I’ll cut you a break for now, so rest for a while and drink some water but once break time is over we’re going to work on your wing strength alright?” Twilight utter a thank you and landed on her hoofs so she can find a place to rest. But she dreaded what Rainbow Dash has in store for her.

Twi..light…

Twilight….

TWILIGHT!!!

“Huhh?!” Twilight was snapped out of her flashback by a voice. The owner of said voice is none other than her number one assistant Spike.

“So uh… are you going to come inside or not?” Spike asked confused when he found Twilight at the door zoned out.

“Oh! Yes…sorry Spike I was just remembering what happened with Rainbow Dash during flight training.” Twilight explained slightly embarrassed that she was just standing there the whole time.

“Ah she must have given you quite a workout if it caused you to zone out in front of your own home” Spike said while quietly chuckling to himself.

“So Spike, did you do everything on the list I gave you while I was gone?” Twilight asked changing the subject.

“Yeah I did”

The mare gave him a disbelieving look, “Did you double check?”

“Yes I did Twilight…”

Twilight gave a small smirk before deciding to push it a little further on her assistant, “…Did you triple check?”

Spike was now really annoyed, and gave a small scowl before responding, “Really Twilight?” The mare’s smirk grew into a smile before she started laughing, “Hey! No fair I actually thought you were serious about that!”

“Sorry, just wanted to mess with you a bit.” Twilight said who just recovered from her laughing fit, “You can go ahead and relax now Spike. I won’t be doing much for the rest of the day.”

The baby dragon let out a yawn signifying that he needed some rest, “And not a moment too soon, if you need me I’ll be in bed.” Spike then went upstairs leaving Twilight by herself.

“Alright I have the rest of the afternoon to myself which means I have plenty of time to do some reading.” The mare said to herself as she started to look through the shelves of her library. A few minutes later Twilight stumbled upon a book that looked off from the rest. Using her magic she took the book off the shelf and examined the cover. It was simple in appearance and could easily pass as one of her books at a glance, but the big word on the front cover saying journal destroyed any confusion.

“Huh? What’s a journal doing here?” Upon closer examination she found the owner’s name on the back of the journal, “Sir Desmond Dreamwalker? I don’t know anypony by that name.” She opened the journal up and turned to the first page finding a couple of entries. They were strange as one entry surrounds the initial pick up of the journal by what she thinks is a young boy as it goes on how his mother found this journal while shopping and decided to give it to him as a gift. Another entry states the meeting of a race of rat people called Nomat's and the befriending of one named Joseph Whittle. While another one is about some games they played together. Moving onto the next page she found something quite striking about Desmond.

Date: 4/28/2000

Today was my mother’s 10th birthday and the first party I ever been to. My mother told me this count’s as my birthday as well which officially makes this my 1st birthday. I don't get why we're celebrating a moment in time until my mother explained to me that it is a celebration of one's birth. I can't remember the day I was born but she told me that my birthday is the same day as her as that is the day she imagined me or so she says. Honestly, in my eyes it would seem to me that getting older means getting taller, but if I'm one year old then why I am not the size of a baby? My mother is obviously smaller than me yet I'm younger according to her. I guess when one is created from another's imagination they will be as old as a new born baby. Well I got to eat cake for the first time so it wasn't so bad, and seeing the eyes of my mother light up when she receive her present was fun to watch as well. Maybe next time my mother's mother can get me a present as well. There is still so much about my mother's world I don't know about so maybe I can convince her to explore more with me? Only time will tell I suppose.

Twilight paused to think about what she just read. So far it didn’t make any sense; first off Desmond is able to write despite being only one year old not to mention that his vocabulary is more advance than a child. Secondly, his mother is only ten years old and is still a child no less, and finally, Desmond said he was created from her imagination which was interesting to Twilight as she never heard of any magic that created a being from purely imagination alone. The mare ponder about this as she continued reading the journal into the night causing her to develop new questions as she read each new entry. One was about the adventures they went on while dressed up as super heroes, another was when they helped a bear for some kind forest dance, but as she got to later pages she quickly noticed that they were blank. With a raised brow, Twilight examined the pages carefully until a certain bird alerted her.

*Hoo!*

“Huh? Oh it’s you Owlicous what do you need?” Twilight asked her assistant of the night.

Owlicous flew to a nearby window and continued to hoo, telling her she should go to sleep, “Alright, alright I’ll go to bed. It’s not like the questions I have now are going to be answered anytime soon. Besides I’m going to need all my energy if I’m going to get through another day with Rainbow Dash. Thanks for reminding me Owlicous.” The owl in question roosted nearby and bowed its head in response.

Before leaving for her bedroom, Twilight placed a bookmark in the journal and placed it back in the shelf where she found it, “Make sure everything is in order before I wake up alright Owlicous?” The owl made a happy hoo showing it knew what do. Twilight smiled at the owl knowing there was nothing to worry about before leaving to her bedroom. It wasn’t long until the house was covered in the darkness of night and the soft glow of the moon.

/
Once the tree house went dark it didn’t take long for three mysterious figures of different sizes to appear outside of Twilight’s home.

“She’s asleep now. I believe it’s time to send the word around,” Said the tall figure in an calm tone.

“Oooo…this is going to be fun!!!” Said the average size one in an excited tone.

“Quiet! You imbecile do you want our presence to be known?” Said the tall one, angrily.

“Heh heh sorry, what about you El Gassy Murete are you excited?” said the average one to the small figure in a teasing tone. The small figure did not reply but instead glared at him with piercing yellow eyes, “Pfft… I see you have game-face on, so Paranoia how are we going to do this?” The figure asked to the tall one now known as Paranoia

“It is simple dear brother there’s six of them and three of us. If you actually use your head even you could figure it out,” said Paranoia in a slight mocking tone.

The average figure took a few seconds before coming with an answer, “Ah! I get yah, each of us send the message to two of them. That’s how we going to do it eh?"

“Exactly, and for getting it right you get to choose your targets first.”

The average figure was elated to the point of bouncing up and down, “Goody! I’ll choose… the shy one and the colorful one,” with this said he disappeared into the night.

“*Sigh,* sometimes he can be a bit too enthusiastic, don't you agree Fear?” Paranoia asked the small figure now known as Fear.

“Pan…ic…..an…noy…ing” Fear responded without a hint of feeling.

Paranoia lightly laughed knowing Fear’s initial dislike of their brother Panic's energy but quickly changed the topic back to normal, “Now back to our current situation, since Panic took two of the six targets that will leave the rest to us. I want you to go after the ones called Applejack and Pinkie Pie while I’ll go after Twilight Sparkle and Rarity agreed?” Fear made no response but instead a silhouette of wings appeared behind him and with a sinister laugh he took to the skies disappearing in the darkness.

Paranoia now left alone split into two and melted into the shadows and reappeared in Twilight’s bedroom a few inches from the side of her bed. “The first alicorn I seen outside the dream realm and I’m about to invade her mind. I wonder what I'll find?”

*Hoo Hoo!*

“Hmh?” Paranoia looked behind him to find Owlicous attempting to wake Twilight up with its natural call, “Oh I almost forgot about you… trying to wake up your master are you? I’m sorry but what you are doing is a complete waste of time.” As he finished his sentence Owlicous was quickly snatched by an unseen force and brought face to face with Paranoia, “So would you kindly go to sleep?”

Those were the last words Owlicous heard before feeling extremely tired and falling onto the ground, sleeping and helpless.

Author's Note

Here you go the first of many chapters. I don't have much to say other than that there will be O.C's and some of the pairings will involve them and the main six or mane six as I like to call them. Anyway read,review, and most importantly enjoy. Edit: Thanks to the advice of a fellow user of this site I'm going to edit the chapters posted so far before posting new ones. You can read ahead to see the unedited chapters if you want but I get the feeling you won't like it as it is. This note will change again once all chapters have been edited for better readability. Anyway I hope you give this story a chance and if you have any advice feel free to tell me about it. Man...I have a long way to go but for you guys it will be worth it.