Nauseous Nightmare

A dream.

I hadn't had one in quite a long time.

I'd like it If it stayed that way.

I was laying on a stone floor, it wasn't that difficult to tell. I leaned up and rubbed my eyes.

"What happened?"

I opened my eyes to find myself in a small stone room with no entrance or exit.

"Aw shit, am I in magic prison? Is this a magic prison?!"

I looked around the room for a bit hoping for some hidden lever or a magic shank. I didn't find anything that would help me get an idea of where I was.

I sat down in defeat and put my back against the wall.

Then I heard something.

Like a quite thumping, almost not noticeable.

Once I heard the mysterious sound, the wall I had my back on opened or disappeared. This caused me to donk the back of my head. I got up and rubbed my head while looked around.

The small room was now connected to a very narrow hallway.

"Well, it's Nerf or nothing."

With that said, I started walking down the shadowy hallway only lit by a red pulsing light. I felt like I was walking forever there was no door or anything it just seemingly went on forever.

I looked behind me, more hallway.

I looked in front of me, even more hallway.

"Oh, this is some magic BS isn't it?"

I let out a sigh.

I stopped walking and listened for the sound I heard previously.

It was behind me.

I heard it.

No, it's in front of me.

I heard it again.

No, wait, it's above me.

I looked up to see a hallway going into the ceiling.

I put my right foot on the wall and then my left foot. I was walking vertically, It felt like I was walking normal though. Before I started walking into the new hallway I hear something.

"D-...Conti..uo...ill..die."

A silhouette stood from the hallway I came from. It's shadowy and distorted voice made me run away. I'll admit it, I'm a coward.

The walls of the stone hallways were beginning to change as I continued farther in. There were these glowing red tendrils that slithered in between the cracks in the stone, connecting to something, something ominous. This hallway was endless as well, there wasn't any sound this time though. The sound may not have been present, but I could feel the ground subtly pulse with the same rhythm.

"Hey Peter, long time no see huh?"

I knew something was wrong. I knew that voice too, I hadn't heard it in a long time.

I looked to the wall to my left, and on the wall was a picture frame. One that showed a man and a boy hugging. The man's simple features became sharp and alive.

"What? Don't remember your pops? Of course you wouldn't."

"W-what is this? No, this isn't right."

It's better if I just ignore it.

I clapped my hands against my face and continued walking down the hallway. The red light that had followed me through the hallways stayed with the picture frame. Which meant for me that I would be walking in pitch-black darkness.

After I walked for some time I stopped and looked around, it was just darkness.

"What am I doing here?"

I heard some flickering and the red light returned. It swung slightly from right to left over another picture frame. This picture was of a girl and a boy. The girl's face morphed and changed, her features becoming sharp and realistic.

"That's a good question, Pete."

"W-what is going on?"

"What are you doing there? You should be here."

I tried to turn away but came face to face with another picture frame. This picture was that of a man, a woman with her face scribbled out and two children. The border of the frame pulsing red.

I turned away preemptively to avoid the words and when I did it went completely silent. The light dissipated and everything was still.

Then I heard it.

It started off quietly, like a small thump in the night. Then it grew steadily louder to that of raging drums in ears. I looked around while covering my ears.

Then once again everything changed.

I was falling. I fell for a long time. It gave me time to think. I noticed it was hard to think if that makes sense. As I fell the thumping only grew louder and more intimidating.

I hit something eventually and blacked out. I woke up to something...terrifying.

A room made of...flesh? It was odd definitely, but that wasn't that terrifying thing.

In the middle of the room was a giant beating heart, and every time it moved the room vibrated. I got up off the ground, something was pulling me towards it. The red pulsing light of the heart felt welcoming but looked nothing of the sort.

In the middle of the gigantic heart was the glowing red light and as I neared closer I discovered something else. That red light was that ring. I reached out to grasp it, I felt like it would help me solve everything. As my hand was mere inches away from it something happened.

A shadowy figure with not exactly a comprehendible shape ripped open the flesh of the wall, which then turned back to stone.

"Sto-...reak...ou...ake up!"

The figure brought out a beautiful silver sword and with one fell cleave split the heart in twain. Like the moon breaking through the sky on a cloudy night a silver light pierced every aspect of my being.

Now I lay on a giant white ocean continuing forever into the horizon. I laid on the ocean and stared at the stars, which were those of my home. I felt something. I don't know how to describe it really, maybe longing?

"I guess Ignoring those feelings aren't going to do me any good."

I heard something walking up to me.

"Thou art saved subject, you hath happened upon a heinous object haven't thou?"

I turned my head slightly to the left to see a large blue mare. With a horn and a pair of wings, just like the ring design.

"You remind me of my sister. She always was into the 'thees and thous' of life."

"Answer mine question subject. Did yo-"

I started slowly sinking into the ocean. It felt pretty good.

I bolted up, sweat covering my brow. I let out several quick breaths and looked around.

I was in a hospital room, with my arms bandaged and my hands semi-restrained.

Ah, can't a guy catch a break.

Author's Note

Dream interlude time

Nightmares are weird.

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