Am I nobody? Have I really lost my way?

The Nightmare Realm

"Nightmare moon? You make it sound like I actually know who you are! Look, if I am asleep and dreaming that means that it is now a lucid dream with which I could actually just make you disappear." He closed his eyes about to do just that before her voice came out in the Royal Canterlot Voice, "WAIT!"

He flew back hoisted up into the air and knocked onto his butt before his eyes were forced open and surrounding him was an ancient ruins and she stood in the center with the moon illuminated behind her. "I can help you, it would be more ideal to your situation if you allow me a chance to aid you, although it will come at a price." She licked her lips at that looking him dead in the eyes with a serpent like gaze causing him to shiver.

"What exactly am I going to be doing then? Why should I trust you? At least Big Macintosh decided to give me some rest after all that happened in the Everfree." He smirked confidently only for her to get an evil grin, "Oh really? Is that what you think? I guess gaining your trust is easier then I thought seeing as your so called Big Macintosh carried you all the way to canterlot to be put into the care of the royal canterlot archives in the insane asylum. You cannot escape where you are confined unless someone from the inside is sent, and I may have given such an order in secret prior to my arrival in your dream.~"

He had a look of defeat on his face before he looked up at her, "For now... I will accept your proposal, only because I don't know if you are lying or not and I would rather not let an opportunity to escape go should I wake up and find you are right." He sighs as he stands up patting himself down.

"All you have to do is to live and allow me to remain inside of your body like that of a retainer until I can gather the energy I need from others to regain my form. Once that has been done you will be allowed within the ranks of my army as my second in command for allowing me the chance to get my own revenge against those forsaken ponies!"

He shakes his head before he walks up to her looking up at her, "What exactly did they do to you! Obviously you are one who has alot of power if you already got contact to someone else to get me out of there, combined with the fact that you are promising me a second in command? Your telling me you plan to overthrow the current ruler or rulers?"

She corrected him, "Rulers, Princess Luna, the goddess of the night and Princess Celestia, the goddess of the sun. They raise and set them everyday for their lovely ponies and all of equestria so that life can be retained on the planet. However, its not just them we have the mane 6 to worry about as well! Pinkie Pie, the element of laughter. Fluttershy, the element of kindness. Rainbow Dash, the element of loyalty. Rarity, The element of generosity. AppleJack, the element of Honesty. Lastly the despised Twilight Sparkle who cast has the element of Magic on her side... The magic of friendship." She spat in disgust to the side before she looked down at him. "Its not going to be an easy adventure, but while I rest in your body I am sure you can think of what to do on your own! You have no magic within you, so it would be easy to keep me within you and no one would be any wiser as they won't be able to sense my presence."

He contemplated for a moment, thinking about what she had to offer and who they were supposedly going to go up against. However, he had this gut feeling and usually he was one to follow it no matter the trouble it gave him. So he decided right then and there as he stepped forward with renewed confidence. "I will not allow you to remain in my body, and I will not allow you the opportunity to destroy this world I appeared in! Just because I was mistreated once doesn't mean it may happen again! It may just be because from what Big Macintosh was saying but it seems that humans have never been known in this world! If that is the case then I understand what they did and would only see it done the same on my own world! So with that out of the way, I will not aid you in your venture for revenge!" She went wide eyed before she spoke up, "No... Wait a minute I ca-" She was cut off as he shouted out, "NO! GET OUT!" Tears streaming down his cheek from the pain of this decision and with that she disappeared from his mind leaving him in his own darkness of his dream world once more.

"I am not alone.... I have the bonds from home to remind me there is something to live for.... If I can find a way home then everything will have been worth it in the end..." He had the darkness open up to show his old life, He was living with his brother, and a few room mates. At times he felt like they didn't care about him, since they often times had plenty of food and he starved off ramen but he was happy to see them all happy. He knew the struggle of finances all too well and since he didn't have a job he understood that he couldn't complain for as much as he tried to find a job noone would hire him... They just kept getting taken up, and this only caused his stomache to rumble and tears continued to stream down his cheeks. "So long as I remember you guys then I can move on no matter the struggle...." He had images of his times on various social medias with his closest friends and he woke up with his eyes covered in tears. He looked around and saw he was in a padded room, with the only doorway seeming to be covered as well with a slot that opened up.

"So it was true, what she said was true..." He sunk down before looking over as some food on a tray was pushed through a slot at the bottom. "Soups on." He heard before he moved forward beginning to eat without complain, "Best if I just see what I can do for now to make things better..."

He finished his meal, and with that he had heard someone outside whisper into his cell, "Is this the cell of Ravenclaw?" It seemed like a feminine voice, as he whispered through seeing this as an opportunity to escape he figured what good could he do in here and answered. "Yes, it is and who am I speaking to?" The voice responded as the doorway opened up and he looked up in surprise at how tall she was, "The name is Hawk and I am here to rescue you!" He raised a brow remembering what nightmare moon said about having sent for help, was she the one who was sent? But if that were the case then why would she be after someone named Raven Claw?" He simply gave a nod as he reached a hand out, "Raven Claw." He smiled, as she eagerly shook his hand only to look him up and down.

"Your kind of different looking for a Gryphon, a rare breed or one of a kind type of sort?" She asked as she attempted to look behind him, "White attire through and through at least your arms aren't restrained but you won't be hiding very well with white clothes so here take these!" She called out, before he found himself engulfed in clothes thrown at his face. Swiftly getting changed at the side of the door he came back out with black clothes and combat boots with a necklace that had a crescent moon. He looked back at her, "Alright I am ready lets get out of here!" She simply gave a nod as he hopped onto her back and she swiftly jumped out of the window, "Shame you don't have any wings flying is so liberating!"

She called out as they fell, causing him to scream as they fell before her wings opened up. His scream alerted the guard as they all aligned the top of the wall and beams of magic and arrows shot through the sky. "Hold on!" He gripped tightly onto her feathers and fur he couldn't believe that he was riding on a gryphon! This whole thing was something he never could have imagined! As they began to evade various blasts, he shouted out with a cheer, "WOOHOO! This is awesome!" He began to laugh joy replaced his earlier sadness as she flew them off into the night.

After what felt like a few hours, they had landed with her panting softly in the middle of a campground with a couple tents, the fire was going and it looked like there was someone else here but maybe they were off either getting food or... "Junto is off gathering the firewood, he already caught some fish so we have the food which is cooking right now but I don't know when he will be back. "No need to worry about when I will arrive for I just did, anyways so your Raven C-"

He looked Vex up and down before he looked over at Hawk, "Uh Hawk who is this?" She simply looked at him confused before she looked at him, "Hes Raven Claw the one we were sent to get!" She retorted only for him to facehoof and sigh, "No this is not Raven Claw in fact Raven claw was supposed to be on death row and we have this flower that determines if he is alive or not! Right now if he was Raven Claw then he would be causing the flower to shine as bright as the su-" The flower began to shrink then die out as Junto glared at her causing her to give a sheepish smile. "Oops? Uh, but then who is this guy that I got, I did state that it was weird that he didn't have wings or anything!"

Junto simply stared at the individual and sighed scratching the back of his head, "Look I don't know who you picked up here but we have to bring something back! Otherwise we would just be nothing more then common rebels on the land now. We need to get back to the Gryphon ambassador in order to see if we can secure travels back home." During his rambling, Hawk seemed to be zoning out as a bat was passing around above them only for her to look back at Junto. "Uh... I was listening!"

However, Vex as the name he was going by was looking at the two, seeing that they were focused on their own world and as such he took the opportunity to slowly move out of sight. Moving into the bushes, and while he heard Hawk state she was listening he heard that Junto spoke out. "Where did he go!?" Hawk immediately could be heard taking to the skies, and all Vex could do was keep himself low to the ground enshrouded by the foliage.

As he was proud of his achievement in having gotten away, little did he know that Hawk had spotted him from above and unfortunately as he entered into a circle clearing within the forest. There she sat on a stump with a playful grin, "Hiya! Where you going! We playing hide and seek now?!" She jumped back and forth picking him up by his shirt as he struggled, "Hey let me go!" She talked with her mouth full. "Ffrf fikt." As if to say your it and sat him down back and camp with Junto crossing his arms when she lands. "You going to try to escape again?" All Vex could do was shrug, he had been trapped with no way out at the moment and these 2 individuals had some unknown plans for him. What was in store for him with this gryphon ambassador? What would happen when they bring him instead of this Raven Claw, would he cause them grief? A sigh escaped his lips as he just shook his head, "No I have been nothing but caught up in a whirlwind since my arrival might as well continue to go with the flow; after all fighting it got me nowhere."