The alicorn of time

Chapters

The threads of time (Edit)
Fears and nightmares
Celestia
Nightmares and a Castle
Don't disrespect a god
A sweet caretaker
Revelations and a doctor
The spirit realm

The threads of time (Edit)

Time is such a funny thing, one moment you are born and the next thing you know you are already sleeping in your grave.

Why do so many fear death? If you fear death then you should also fear birth, since they are both the same thing. Once your thread shatters, from its ashes a new life will rise.

Who am I?

I’m the past, the present and the future. Or perhaps I’m only a guardian, who can tell the difference?

A being so powerful. That even the most powerful of unicorns would be petrified by my mere presence.

I fear nothing in this world, yet I fear myself, why I cannot answer.

Why would I fear myself, perhaps it is a defence mechanism. But why would such a thing exist in the first place?

The mortals call me God, I guess that is a sufficient name. Ever since time came into existence I have watched over it, why I do not know.

There are so many questions without answers, that I constantly ask myself in vain. I know that I will never be able to answer these questions of mine. But I will never stop asking, this is my fate I will alway stumble in the dark.

I Am Tempus Custos The Alicorn of time.

I live only to fulfill my duty.

My duty is to watch over the threads of time, which together form what the mortals call a timeline.

This dark cave is my only sanctuary, was it not for the light created by the millions of golden threads I would truly stumble in the dark.

Every single one of these threads is bound to a living being in this world know as Equestria, whether it is a pony, a minotaur, a griffin or some other mortal beast. Which resides within the realm of the living.

There are a few exceptions though. there exists a few thicker threads among the masses, they either belong to beings of great power, such as an ancient dragon who slumbers somewhere in this world. Or a demigod such as the likes of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

How they manage to get ahold of such divine powers is beyond me.Whenever I try to find the answer my visions is faded and my head starts to hurt.

Perhaps somethings are better left in the dark, I can see both the present and the past. But sometimes my vision is blurred, I can’t explain why.

It is yet another question with no answer.

The entrance to my cave is hidden to the naked eye, only the most powerful or luckiest mortals have ever made it inside.

Once inside I welcome them and I tell them that they are free to stay as long as they wish. I don't mind the company, my duty is a long and lonely one. Despite their pathetic life spans I don't have to worry about one of them dying once they are inside my sanctuary.

Because once inside, time will lose all its meaning to that one mortal, hundreds of years can pass in the blink of an eye. Once inside that mortal will not age, nor will they feel the need to sleep and they will not require food.

Once inside the mortal ones time is stopped, they will exit my sanctuary they same way they entered it.

Often the shock of reality shatters the mortals mind and they simply throw themselves of the mountain only to end their misery. It cannot handle the loss of someone important, It is unable to comprehend just how much time have passed since it entered.

I do not pity these pathetic mortals, if they are unable to comprehend such trivial things. they simple don’t deserve to live.

Some of them even believe that there current rulers are immortal. such a laughable thing to believe, a demigod is not an immortal being. A demigod is a filthy crossbreed between a mortal and a god, the mere thought sickens me. But I’m the only god, could i possible be the one who created these things?

My mind is too clouded, I cannot see how they were created nor who their parents were. My own weakness disgust me, why can’t I see what they truly are.

My train of thought is interrupted by a tiny drop of water that hits a larger puddle on the cave floor.

I gaze down into the puddle, my own reflection is a mockery upon myself.

A tiny foal with gray lifeless mane and tail, a faded gray coat, a short stub of a horn, a pair of undeveloped wings and a pair of small ocean blue eyes.

Since the dawn of time I have not aged a single second.

Someponies would call my immortality a blessing, I would disagree.

This undeveloped body of mine is so useless I can neither walk nor talk. I don’t consider gurgling like a foal a solid tongue, If I for some reason need to communicate with something, I simply connect my mind to theirs and communicate telepathically.

Was it not for my divine powers I would have ended my own existence a long time ago.

I don’t need to move but it feels nice to look at another part of the walls inside my sanctuary once in awhile.

For movement I either levitate myself or skip through time, a skip through time is similar to a teleportation spell. The only difference is that its instant.

A thread only shatters once the life of the mortal which it is connected to comes to an end. whether it is a natural death or a accidental death.

That said thread then crumbles into a dust like substance, which I then gather and deposits into a hourglass with the name of the recently deceased's name written on top of it.

Once the hourglass is filled I shatter the barriers between the worlds of the living and the void, I then deposits the hourglass in one of my never ending shelves located inside the void.

Once the hourglass is in place, I reaper the crack just as easy as I created it.

Some mortals say that my existence is sad, perhaps they are right. I know that my life won’t end until the end of time.

Will I be released from this cursed life once the timeline crumbles? Sadly I doubt it.

I could easily look into the future to see what truly will happen.

But then what?

Do I really want to spoil the ending of my hard work by simply looking at it?

No I will never look into the future, no matter what might happen.

My name Is Tempus Custos, the alicorn of time.

My duty consists of watching over the timeline and caring for the thread of time.

A god never interfere with the mortal realm.

I will forever continue this quest, may my sanity remain.

My only fear is that my loneliness might be my downfall.

Only time will tell.

Fears and nightmares

Chapter 2

I hear the sound of hooves against the mountain floor. I wonder who it might be; I slowly turn myself around in order to gaze upon the opening of my domain. The noise is getting louder, a whole lot louder.

I hear an intimidating hissing noise with I ’am not familiar with. I instinctively levitate backwards in order to make some distance. I raise my tiny hoof up in the air and gather the light from the threads in order to conceal myself in the darkness. As the light fades I feel a shiver run down my spine and I slowly sink myself to the floor, what is this feeling? I don't recognize this feeling.

I see two massive yellow eyes enter through the opening and I once again I hear the hissing noise, and in less than a second the creature is next to me. I try to turn my head to get a good look at this creature but I get swallowed and suddenly I'm racing down its throat. This feeling is FEAR! I ‘am currently being consumed by it and I can’t do anything my magic isn't listening to me. I start to cry worthy of this body of a foal with I currently possess. I can see a bright light at the end of the creature’s throat.

As I open my eyes I am breathing heavily and my heart is racing. I'm still in my cave; I can’t see the creature anywhere in sight and in the pure essence of panic. I look all over the place after anything that might be the creature.
I come to the conclusion that it must have been a dream, but that doesn't make any sense. I'm not supposed to sleep yet. Ever since I was born I usually only sleep once every 5000 years but this time, barely 1200 years have passed since the last time I slept.

I cannot fathom why it would suddenly change. Nonetheless, I'll have to look into that, perhaps I simply misjudged the flow of time, but I highly doubt it. I call upon the threads of time and I utilize them to see how long I've been sleeping. 12 threads gather before my face six for every eyeball, as they penetrate my eyes and clings to my vision nerves my eyes starts to glow with a golden light as I slowly merge with the threads. I look into the past in order to put my mind at ease.

I see a dark shadow. I cannot tell who or what it is but whatever it was, it was strong enough to put me to sleep. I'm baffled. There's no entity in the entire world that should be capable of that. Seeing as I was unable to react in time. Whatever did this must be capable of controlling time at the same level as I ‘am.

Whatever did this to me will not escape my all seeing eyes. I call upon the rest of the threads they enter my body from every possible angle they're covering me and I feel myself growing stronger no longer was there a weak little foal but instead a full-grown alicorn with a glorious golden coat and a beautiful long white mane and tail, my eyes darker than the void itself and a set of perfect white fangs protruding from my upper and lower jaw, these fangs would even make nightmare moon tremble in fear before me.

Once my transformation ends my irises return golden and magnificent. Now utilizing my full control of time I enter the void and start searching from the very beginning of time to the current day in order to find out who might possibly have been powerful enough that put me to sleep.

I see before me a unicorn a rather bland looking one at that, his name is Cinnamon Swirl and he is the son of a baker. I set the time to 1 hour from before I was put sleep and I merge my vision with Cinnamon Swirl. I now see everything he saw. I see him climbing up my mountain and making his way closer to my entrance. He seems to know exactly where it is, this intrigues me, seeing as he should have no idea where it is.

Is this yet another dream? I ask myself, but that can’t be possible since I highly doubt I would be able to achieve this form unless I was fully awake, nonetheless I continue to watch through his eyes. I see him enter my domain. I see myself through his eyes and in less than a nanosecond. He touches me with his horn and I see myself instantly fall to the floor sleeping like a foal, this cannot be possible. I am at loss for what I just witnessed since it can't be possible. Someone or something must be playing a game with my mind.

I call upon the thread of cinnamon swirl and I slurp it down like a piece of spaghetti, thus erasing him from existence and making sure he was never born thus preventing this whole ordeal form even happening. I bring up the hourglass that was supposedly going to be his and I shatter it. Then I start hearing strange noises from inside my chamber I exit the void and see myself but in my foal form but that can't be possible ether.

It's impossible for me to create a paradox with myself, whatever that entity is it can’t be me. I make my way towards the entity that must be copying my appearance, I move through time, so I'm right beside it and then I devour it. I then recall my dream was the creature that ate me myself in my adult form?

But that doesn’t make any sense ether this whole mess doesn't make any sense and since when do I need to merge with the threads of time in order to gain complete control over it? In a fit of rage and confusion I slam my hoof straight into the floor. The floor cracks and the entire mountain crumble beneath my hooves. I fall into darkness and while I ‘am falling the feeling of fear overcomes me once again I cannot shake it from me. I fall into a pool of water; at least I believe it is water.
Its pitch black wherever I ‘am and I can't see anything. I call upon the threads of time in order to gain some light but nothing happens. I try it once more and once again, nothing happens. I try to cast a basic illumination spell but yet again nothing. I ‘am starting to get frustrated.

I fly out of the water and in pure frustration and confusion I scream at the top of my lungs. I then notice a light far away and I instinctively fly towards it as fast as my majestic wings can carry me, but as I'm getting closer to the light. I can feel myself starting to aging at a rapid pace.

I try to stop, but I can't. My body is not listening to me, as I get closer I feel myself starting to crumble into dust. I panic and I try everything in my power to stop myself but it's too late. I'm already dead; I ‘am nothing more than dust.

I open my eyes, my heart is racing and I ‘am breathing heavily and I have been crying I got tears running down my cheeks. I have never been so scared in my entire existence. It’s in times like this I wish I had a mother whose wings I could simple crawl under so I could fell her body heat while pressing my tiny body against her, someone who would nuzzle me and hold me tightly against her chest while I would listen to her soothing heartbeat all while feeling completely safe and protected.

But sadly to my knowledge I don't have one, I start to calm myself down I conjure two tissues one for wiping the tears out of my eyes and one for blowing my nose as I look around myself, I see that everything is normal and that it was just a very creative nightmare. I lower my head to the floor and sights.

I really dislike sleeping. I always fall the victim to nightmares as I enter the world of dreams. I slowly make my way to the center of my cave. I look upon the threads of time and I smile. They are the only reason I exist yet they haunt my dreams how ironic. As I once again look upon the threads I notice three new ones they are very short at the moment but I can't stop smiling as I look upon the three newborns through the eyes of their parents. I share their happiness and I wish the little ones long life’s full of happiness and joy.

But in the midst of my happiness I see a thread starting to crumble. I call upon the hourglass of whom the thread is linked with and I collect the dust carefully. I gaze upon the name on the hourglass Starswirl Evening-Star, also known as Starswirl the bearded I got to admit he was a very interesting unicorn I have often looked through his eyes. He lived for an impressive 185 years, which is almost three times the life span of a normal unicorn. He did a lot for Equestria but not even he could escape the clutches of time.

I ripped open the void which contains my never-ending shelves and I gently place the hourglass on one of the shelf. Then I bring my hoofs together and seal the void until I have need of it again. I try to remember the nightmare I had but most of it has already fled my mind. I can only remember that I ate one of the threads of time like it was a perfectly cooked piece of spaghetti. If only it was that delicious to remove someone from the time-line then again is almost better that it isn’t if I want to prevent someone from being born I need to focus all of my power on the entity’s thread and then gently remove it so its owner won’t feel any pain and then selected entity Is gone forever.

I have only done it once, poor Smooze but he almost managed to destroy Equestria four times and such actions deserve only the harshest punishment possible in this world, but I will admit that he was a pretty interesting creature. But I guess a time will come where I will have to do it again.

While I linger in memories of the past I get blinded by a very bright light emanating from a newly formed thread it shines brighter than any of the other newly created threads. I have not seen that happen in a very long time, interesting I call upon the hourglass witch the thread is linked with as the light starts to dim I look on the name on top of the hourglass and read the owner’s name. “Twilight Sparkle” I believe that this little one will play a meaningful part in the future of Equestria but I guess only time will tell; I will however keep my eyes on this one.

I hear the sound of hooves against the mountain floor. I recognized these noises and unless I have lost my mind completely, I believe that Princess Celestia is coming to visit me and it seems she's not alone. This might be a more interesting visit than normaly but only time will tell.

Celestia

Based on the sounds of heavy hooves against the cave floor I assume Celestia was making her way inside. I dislike Celestia for some reason but I can’t put my hoof on why I dislike her.

In the eyes of her little ponies she is a very kind and loving princess that cares for everypony and would stop at nothing in order to make sure everypony is safe within her borders.

But in reality she is a rather cruel ruler and she won’t stop at anything in order to save the ones close to her.

There was that one time when she allowed the flames of the sun to devour a entire griffin capital in a firestorm, burning everything to the ground and killing exactly 10457 griffins. she did all this only because they had foal-napped Luna. But then again Luna is her sister but I’m certain that they could have settled that little incident in a less life wasting way. But ever since that faithful day no nations have ever dared to cross Celestias path, except for the dragons but that is a tale for another day.

“Greetings my old friend” Celestia says as she lay eye on me.

“I wave a hoof in the direction of her voice direction thus showing her that I have acknowledged her presence.”

Being the nice godlike entity that I ‘am, I conjure a table, two pillows and of course a goblet filled just below the rim with dragon scale tea. If I recall correctly that is Celestias favorite tea.

“I motion with my hoof the she is free to take a seat.”

“Always giving me the silent treatment” Celestia chuckle while taking a seat on the pillows.

“I levitate myself on top of the table so that we can communicate face to face.”

Celestia is sipping the tea and she looks pleased with it, she then looks me straight in my eyes and says.

“Don’t you ever get lonely in here?”
“I shake my head”
“I have been thinking about you lately and I believe that some time outside this cave would do you good, so won’t you come to Canterlot caste and live there together with me and my sister for a while?”

(Hmm how do I answer this in a good way…? Oh I know.)

“ZRBTT! I stick my tongue out and blow a small raspberry at her.” I swear Celestias jaw is almost touching the floor, fascinating It looks like her eyes are about to fall out of her sockets.

“Excuse me?”

(Hmm I guess age must have taken a tool on both her ears and her eyes. I guess I’ll just repeat myself.)

“ZRBTT! Once again I stick my tongue out and blow a raspberry at her.”

(I swear that I can hear the gears in Celestias head coming to a complete standstill. That was not my intention though I promise. ¨)

“Ok enough with your little games, can you please talk to me as you used to?” Celestia said.

“Well fine, if you consider me talking to you telepathically is better than my visual form of communicating you could have simple told me so.”

“Good now that we are on the same page I’ll ask you again, would you like to come and live with me and Luna for a while?”

“Really…? My raspberry was not a good enough answer?”

“For your information a raspberry can mean a lot of things”

(…. I won’t even dignify that with a comment. Sometimes it’s easy to believe that Celestia have gone cuckoo for coco puffs or something.)

“Why do you want me to come and stay in Canterlot with you?”

“I simply want you to experience some things in the outside world. You have been in here as long as I can remember and I believe its time for you to leave this place for your own good. Besides I can promise you that all your needs will be satisfied once we are in the castle.”

(Hmm should I blow another raspberry at her? Nah I better not although if she reacted the same way she did last time it would be hilarious.)

“Celestia my dear child, you do know that I can experience anything I want through the eyes of others right? Besides I feel content here. My mind is always at ease and there is nothing that might distract me from my duty here.”

(With the exceptions of my horrible nightmares but that is nothing Celestia needs to know about and I only sleep once every five thousand years or so.)

“That is exactly the thing I mean, you can experience anything through the eyes of others but you miss out on the smells, the fell and the sounds. You only satisfy one of your many senses and I think you have experienced close to nothing inside this cave. I don’t even think you have ever felt the warmth of a hug or the felling of being nuzzled by someone who cares for you.”

I stay silent for a moment and ponder what Celestia just said.

(It is true that I have never actually experienced anything physically. I have only experienced things in my mind, but I really don’t feel the need to experience things any other way)

As I sit in deep thought Celestia wraps her arms around me and pulls me in for a close hug.

(This feeling is amassing I can feel her body heat, I can hear her heartbeat. This is something I have never experienced before I can’t put this felling into words as it is beyond my ability to comprehend. It’s simply divine.)

Celestia have only hugged me for a short moment, I yawn and I can barely keep my eyes open. Celestia notices this and cradles me in her arms while smiling her usual motherly smile at me, she kisses my forehead and with that I’m gone. I have drifted off to sleep despite it being way too early for my scheduled sleeping time.

Celestia smiles and levitate me onto her back and she is carefully making her way back to the chariot that is waiting outside.

The Pegasus guard opens the door for her and bows his head.

“Please take us back to Canterlot as smoothly as possible” Celestia tells the armored stallion.

“As you wish princess” the guard says with a salute.

The chariot takes of and I'm deep asleep beneath Celestias wings. She nuzzle me gently and watches as the sun sets.

But Sadly even in this moment of pure bliss and happiness I can't escape my nightmares.

Nightmares and a Castle

As I walk across the charred remains of Equestria I see nothing but death there is no life to be seen.
This world have fallen into everlasting darkness and I wander the lands alone it fells somewhat nostalgic.
I'm just as alone as I was when time came into existence and I was born, all my precious threads are gone and I can't sense anything, divine nor mortal.

Could this perhaps be the end of time? Will my duty finally come to an end? What will become of me? What is the next step for this world? Will everything be broken down to the very base of existence?

I have so many questions yet there is no one here to answer them.

As I ponder my own thoughts, a being with a presence worthy of something far greater than gods stands before me.

The being is shapeless due to my own inability to comprehend it.

It starts to talk but I can't understand it.

The mere words coming from this deity are powerful enough to shatter the very fabric of this universe.

I leave my fragile infant form behind me and ascend to my true godhood and form.

The divine deity takes on my shape the only difference is that it's coat and mane looks like a mockery of my own.

Before me stands an alicorn with a dark coat and a mane/tail that looks like its made out of fog but it dances with the essence of the living I can sense the essence of everything that have ever existed in this world. It's eyes are white and bottomless I fear that if I stare into them I will fall and never return.

“You have questions I assume” the being says in a voice that is beyond anything I have ever heard, it fells like I'm talking directly to the base of existence.

I can't say anything although I have so many questions but I can't shape the words reacquired to ask my questions.

As I'm finally about to ask this deity a question I start felling massive pain all over my body. I can sense my own life-force fading and I'm getting dragged into a pit of everlasting darkness by the very thread of time that I have spent my entire existence caring for.

“IS THIS THE END OF TIME!” I cry in desperation as my very existence is snuffed out and there is nothing but darkness left.

I awake in the chariot hyperventilating and sweating beads of ice all over my body.

(What do these nightmares mean? Why do they torture me?)
Once again I got so many questions and no one who can answer them.

Celestia looks over me with a worried expression and ask

“are you alright? You were squirming a lot and I tried to wake you but it was impossible”

“I'm fine it was only a nightmare and now I'm fine.”

“Well alright then if you say so” Celestia says as she nuzzle the back of my head.

(I really wish she would stop with all the physical contact it's starting to get on my nerves. But I would lie if I said that I did not enjoy it, whenever she does it a shiver goes through my entire body and it fells good in some strange way.)

“Oh that's right I got something for you,” Celestia says with a smile.

“Well that was....”

before I can finish my sentence I'm enveloped in a yellow aura and I'm bathed in a flash of light.

“You look absolutely adorable” Celestia said with the hint of squee in her voice.

I don't know what she did to me but I fell a lot fussier that usual and also a lot warmer.

I link myself with Celestias eyes in order to get a look at the new adorable me.
It seems that I'm wearing a light blue bodysuit decorated with smiling flowers and something I think are supposed to be bumblebees.

“Do you like it?” Celestia ask.

I levitate myself back up on the seat next to Celestia and lay down. Every time I move around I fell a soft sensation it's like I'm being stroked with a pegasus feather every time I move. It fells amassing the softness of this suit is beyond anything I have ever felt before.

“It's very pleasant and I like the color, what Is this?”

“It's a hoffie-pajamas. It's very popular right now and I thought you might enjoy one.”

“Give me five!” I say while raising one of my hooves.

Celestia looks very confused but she gently tapes her hoof against mine.

After a few moments of silence Celestia says.

“So what was that about?"

“What? Is that not the common way to thank somepony when they do something for you?” I say while tilting my head to the side.

“Well I can't say for sure but a simple thank you would have sufficed.”

(I need to get with the times.) giggles.

“Princess we are going in for the landing!” one of the pegasus guards shouts.

(Well stupid jokes aside It seems we have reach our destination.)

The landing is smooth as butter If I did not know better I could easily believe that we were still flying. A earthpony guard opens the door and Celestia levitates me onto her back and we exit the chariot. A unicorn with an eye-patch bows his head as Celestia makes her way towards Canterlot castle.

(Wow I have seen Canterlot through the eyes of others more times than I can count. Ok that was a bit of an exaggeration I have seen Canterlot through the eyes of others approximately 85000000000 times during my existence but seeing it with my own blue eyes is simply breathtaking. There is so much going on and all the smells are mind-blowing it fells like I might break something inside my brain due to overloading my senses. But to put it simply Canterlot is beyond anything I could ever imagine.)

I continue to look at everything around me like a madpony, my head is more or less a blur as I turn it constantly as I try to look at all the ponies doing different things.

“It seems like somepony is enjoying himself” Celestia say with a smile on her lips.

I snap out of what I'm doing and I almost manage to fall of Celestias back. Almost being that I fell of but when I was a few centimeters above the ground I reversed time back to the moment just before Celestia had startled me.

“It seems like somepony is enjoying himself”

“Why yes I do, coming to here with you really was a good idea I fell more alive than I ever have”

“Well that is wonderful just you wait until we get to the castle I will make sure you have a wonderful time here” Celestia say with a happy tone to her voice.

(WOW so this is Canterlot Castle. It is a lot bigger from my current perspective.)

“Well here we are, let's go to your chamber then shall we?”

Don't disrespect a god

Celestia opens one of the doors inside the upper level of Canterlot castle; she looks back at me still enjoying a very comfortable royal ride on her back.
“This is your chamber I hope you will find it suitable during your stay here.”

I levitate myself of her back and float myself to the center of the room in order to get a better look at what it has to offer. There are a lot of bookshelves filled with all kinds of different books; sadly I have already read every book in existence thought the eyes of the authors the moment they were written so I doubt I will get much entertainment out of them.

The entirety of the floor is engulfed by a rug, a very soft rug I must add It’s unnecessary fluffy though but I would lie if I said that I did not enjoy it. There is a white crib in the corner of the room close to a window, once I noticed the crib I’m starting to realize that this whole room is a nursery created for the proper caring of foals. How ironic, I don’t know what Celestia has planned for me but if she thinks I’m going to be her new toy she will be in for the surprise of her lifetime.

Celestia walks in front of me and crouches down so low that her chin is literally on the floor, she is obviously doing this because she wants to be able to look me in the eyes as she speaks to me. That is respectful and I appreciate the extra effort, she could simple have levitate me to her eye-level but she is a well-mannered young mare who respects her elders “So do you like it?”

I focus and my eyes start to glow as I link our minds together so we can communicate telepathically. “Considering the circumstances I must say that it is a pleasant room and I do like the incredible fluffy rug. But don’t think that I somehow missed out on the fact that this is a nursery, I hope that you’re not planning any funny business. But I assume that it’s simple a way of keeping up appearance since I look like a foal.”

“Oh that reminds me I’m going to bring your caretaker in here to meet you.” Celestia said walking towards the door.

“Caretaker? That fells a little bit overkill. But I guess she doesn’t want anything unnecessary to happen. If everypony in the castle knew my true identity rumors would most likely start spreading, so I guess this is the easier way around this whole ordeal.” I think to myself.

We are then interrupted by a knocking on the door and Princess Luna is poking her head inside the room.“Sister, it was to our understanding that thy left the castle in order to bring the god of time to the castle. So please do explain to us, why you are inside this old nursery when we have so much to prepare?”

“Luna great timing I would like you to meet the God of ti…….” Celestia stops herself mid-sentence and looks down at me and gives me a blank stare.
I tilt my head slightly to the left and give her a similar stare. “Judging by your confused look I assume that you have a question. Just spit it out, I assure you that there is no question you could possible ask that would make me feel insulted.”
“What is your name? I doubt that you want us to call you by title the entirety of you stay.”

I sever our telepathic link for a brief moment “A name…. Hmm I have been called many things during my existence. But I have never really had a real name now that I think about it.” My eyes once again light up as I repair our telepathic connection. “I don’t have an official name so feel free to make something up dear.”

Celestia quickly looks around the room and her eyes stop on the old clock in the corner. “As I was saying Luna I would like you to meet Clockwork, the Alicorn of time.”

“I focus my magic and my eyes start to glow and I slowly bring my hooves together.”
“Time Stop” 13:28.18

I levitate myself to eye-level with the frozen Celestia and stares into her lifeless eyes and sighs. “Clockwork…. Really Celestia…. Sigh. But I guess I did bring this upon myself. Anyway how hard can it be to come up with a more decent name?” Well since literally I have all the time in the world at the moment, I might as well try to figure out a name for myself.
Cronos… No that is too generic, Timelord perhaps…. Nope, Dawnstar…. Decent but It got no relation whatsoever to what I do or who I ‘am, Father Time….I don’t think I can pull that name of due to obvious reasons, Time Turner…. Damn it! There is a common pony with that name and I refuse to share names with a mortal.Wow this is a lot trickier than I first anticipated. Perhaps I should use the first name the mortals ever bestowed upon me. Tempus Custos…. It sounds a little old fashioned I guess. But anything is better than freaking; Clockwork that name is “raspberry sound.”

Once back on the ground I reverse time slightly before I slowly bring my hooves together.

“Time reverse and play” 13:27.03

“Luna great timing I would like you to meet the God of ti…….” Celestia stops herself midsentence and looks down at me and gives me a blank stare.
I tilt my head slightly to the left and give her a similar stare. Judging by your confused look I assume that you have a question. Just spit it out, I assure you that there is no question you could possible ask that would make me feel insulted.”

“What is your name? I doubt that you want us to call you by title the entire time.”

“My name is Tempus Custos I’m surprised that you never asked it of me earlier.” Celestia blushes slightly due to the embarrassment of not knowing my name.

Luna looks at us a little confused I guess I would have the same look on my face if I saw my sister asking a foal about its name. But that could never happen to me since I don’t have a sister.
“Sister what are you doing? Why is there a foal here? Could you please explain this to me?”

“Sigh as I was saying, Luna I would like you to meet the Alicorn of time, Tempus Custos” Celestia smiles and points a hoof at me. I cook my head to the left and wave my hoof lazily towards her general direction.

Luna slowly walks up to me, she then crouches down to my level and stares at me for a good 23:07 seconds. After that little stare contest Luna gets back up and walks towards her sister she then looks her in the eyes with a mix of disappointment and annoyance.

“Sister we were not born yesterday, we are not so gullible that we will fall for such a pathetic attempt to fool us. There is no way this obviously ill foal can be a god! The poor thing looks so weak and powerless that a baby bunny could probably best it in combat and to top it all of judging by its appearance the poor thing is deadly ill. Its color drained coat, lifeless mane, obvious sings of undernourishment and its eyes look so faded and dull that it makes it hard to believe that the poor thing can even think straight! We are surprised that you would bring such a fragile child here only in an attempt to fool us when the poor thing is in need of some serious medical treatment.” Luna suddenly felt very cold so cold that she was unable to keep her eyes open; she fell lifeless to the floor and passed out.

Once she awoken she felt warm and comfortable but to such an extent that she was unable to remember the last time she felt this relaxed. Every passing second she heard a strange beating noise Luna was curios to what the noise could be so she tried opening her eyes but to no effect she could not feel her eyelids, for that matter she could not fell anything not her legs, wings or anything else that she could normally control. Luna was starting to panic she wanted to scream but she were unable to produce a single sound she was unable to move even a single muscle and the betting noise was getting louder and more frequent. “Felling weak and helpless?” a voice unfamiliar to Luna said. She was scared she had never felt so powerless before she had never felt like this in her entire life her mind was shutting down and she lost consciousness.

Luna regained her consciousness only to witness Ponyville in flames. She was standing in the middle of the town surrounded by flames; the sound of ponies running for their lives was so loud that it was drowning out the sounds of the roaring flames. A young mare running for her life bumped into Luna, The young mare bounced of Luna and landed hard on her behind. Luna wanted to run and help the mare escape the flames but she was once again unable to control her body. She walked slowly over to the mare and started choking the mare with her magic. The mare was gasping for air and squirming like a worm impaled on a fishing hook. Luna slowly brought the mare to her eyelevel she flashed a wicked smile
“Dos thou love the night?” Luna said with a voice so cold that even the flames of Tartarus would have died out. The mare was unable to say anything she only cried. Luna then snapped the mare’s neck she threw the body into the fire and watched in glee as the body was burned to a crisp. Luna took a deep breath and licked her lips savoring the smell; it’s not every day a mare is burned in front of you. She walked to the center of Ponyville she laughed out pure joy and delight she was enjoying the slaughter around her, she raised her hooves high into the air and slammed them hard into the ground. Everything around her was enveloped in a gray matter which oozed from beneath her hooves.

Luna was screaming at the top of her lungs crying and begging for this nightmare to end but anything she tried had no effect she was powerless to watch and experience everything whatever her five senses could pick up, The smell of burning corpses, the sound of ponies screaming in pure terror, the felling of snapping that mare’s neck, the taste of smoke and brimstone and the sight of the once beautiful village which was now burning to the ground.

A bright light descended from skies and the flames were put out, Celestia had arrived in Ponyville and she was pissed.
"SISTER HOW COULD YOU DO THIS? YOU WERE FINALLY FREED FROM THIS CORRUPTION WHY WOULD YOU EMBRACE IT ONCE MORE!?!” The heat escaping Celestia’s mouth was equal to the sun which could only mean one thing. Celestia was now in complete sync with the sun thus making her more powerful than ever. She had only done it once before and that was during her battle against Doomsday in the second war between dragons and ponies, she had sworn never to do it again since it damaged the very planet itself.

“Sister thank the heavens you arrived I can’t control my body please help me!” Luna screamed in pure desperation. That what Luna wanted to say, but the words that escaped her mouth was anything except a call for help.

“I see that you finally decided to get serious my dear sister. But you should know I won’t simply imprison you, I will drain your magic until there is nothing left and then I will use your lifeless husk of a body as a doormat in my new castle. But don’t you worry I will make sure that you stay alive for the rest of eternity “Luna’s voice was so cold that it rivaled the vacuum of space.

Luna took off into the sky and called down a shooting star upon the remains of Ponyville successfully destroying the town and killing of the few ponies that lingered there. She then summoned several thunder clouds which formed a shield of electricity around her. She continued to call upon the stars to destroy her sister.

Celestia dodged the first star and took off in to the sky and started to fly as high as she could. She noticed Luna’s cloud shield but it would have no effect on what was coming her way.

Luna looked around but she was unable to lay eye upon her sister. “DO YOU FEAR US SISTER? WE DEMAND THAT YOU FACE US!” She was then blinded by a light stronger than the sun. In her final attempt to stop Luna once and for Celestia had merged herself completely with a solar flare and was aiming straight for Luna’s heart.

In the last microsecond Luna regained control of her body but it was too late the only thing she felt was the searing heat which had penetrated her. Celestia was standing on top of the mountain that once housed a dragon which her faithful student and her friends had managed to banish from. Impaled upon Celestia’s horn was Luna, silvery blood were running down her horn and onto her face and tears were streaming down her cheeks. “Why sister. Why did it have to end like this?”
Luna was slipping in and out of consciousness as death approached. She was coughing up blood and gasping for air. She looked down upon her crying sister and wanted nothing else but to wake from this horrible nightmare, but the pain she felt was too real to be a dream with her last breath she whispered “I love you sister.”

The deed was done from this day forward Equestria would forever only have one ruler and the fallen princess of the night would forever be a tale that parents would tell their little ones before they went to sleep. Forever unchanged and forever seen as a creature of darkness that is the fate that has fallen upon the princess of the night.

“AHHHHHHH!!!!” Luna screamed at the top of her lungs as she shot up from her sleeping position. She was breathing heavily, she was sweating bullets of ice and her heart was racing.

Luna’s bedroom door was slowly opened and Celestia walked in wearing a worried face and I was riding upon her back until we reached the bed. She then placed me gently upon the center of the bed, Luna have a very comfy bed I thought as I laid down.

“Oh sister I’m so happy that you’re awake. I have been worrying sick, you suddenly passed out and we were unable to wake you up, you were shaking and crying in your sleep and I did everything in my power to wake from whatever nightmare you were suffering from.” Celestia said nuzzling her sister.

“So all that happened was just a nightmare, phew I have never been more relieved of anything in my life. That was the worst nightmare I have ever had the pleasure to experience.”

“Well it good that you’re feeling better little sister, but you should lay down and rest for a while, we still don’t know what happened to you.”

Luna managed to calm down and she was starting to relax as she was sliding beneath the cover of her bed sheets again. She looked over at me with a face of questions. “Sister who is that foal and don’t try to tell me that he is the Alicorn of time this time around.”

“But Luna he is the Alicorn of time, why won’t you believe me?”

“Why would a god willingly take upon the appearance of a foal? If that really is the Alicorn of time I don’t know what to believe”

I focus my power as I latch on to Luna’s mind so we can talk in private.

“Fell free to believe whatever you want little Luna, but I would assume you of all ponies would know better than judging a book by its cover.” I levitate back upon Celestia’s back and me we start moving towards the door. Just before we leave Luna’s line of sight I stop time exclusively for me and Luna, my eyes gives of an eerie blue light and I send out waves of pure terror in Luna’s direction. “Oh yes by the way if you ever disrespect me again I will leave you as a fetus with the mind of a young mare and until your second birth you will be suffering from such horrible nightmares that you will wish you were never conceived.”

The door shuts and Luna is scarred for life and is so pale that she and Celestia could easily fool somepony into thinking they were twins.

Celestia makes it back to the nursery and puts me in the crib. “I hope you don’t mind sleeping in a crib.”

“No I don’t since it’s all about the public appearance, besides up until now I have only sleep t on the mountain floor in my cave so I’m not complaining. Besides this crib is very comfortable, but I don’t sleep so it’s kind of excessive a simple pillow would have been enough.”

“Well anyway tomorrow you will get to meet you caretaker, Mrs. Emerald Dream” Celestia then leans down and kisses me on my forehead “sleep tight and have pleasant dreams”. She closes the door but she opens it shortly to turn on a night-light.

Well I did not expect that goodnight kiss at all, but I did not mind it. But I do mind that stupid star shaped night-light. I focus on the night-light and I toss it through the window, sadly the window was closed and a loud crash is heard and tiny pieces of glass fly everywhere. Ops that did not go quite as planned.

Time reverse 21:53:35 – 21:53:02 and play

I proceed to toss the night-light out the now open window. There we go much more preferable I love being able to do that. Hmm although I could simple have erased it from existence but that might have been a little overkill…. Whatever I’m a god I can do whatever I want.

I look upon my precious threads each one of them representing a life in this world. Even If I’m somewhere else I still got my duties and since I don’t need to “yawn” sleep I have all the time in the world. Where is that music coming from? I look up and see a mobile with spinning fishes and it’s playing some kind of lullaby. Strange I’m starting to fell lightheaded and 04:41 seconds later I’m sleeping like a baby.

Author's Note

Well here we go another chapter hope you enjoy it.

as always I would love some critic on it and I'm sorry about the delay.

Quick shout out to my good friend Donald who keep nagging on me to get it done and for giving me the boost I needed to finish it.

The next chapter will hopefully not take forever.

A sweet caretaker

“Yawn”
I wake from a very rare case of sleep, it was both comfortable and pleasant , which surprises me. Since I have been suffering from nightmares and strange visions for a very long time.
Still I can’t fully understand why I all of a sudden need to sleep so often. Normally I only sleep once every 5000 years or so, yet another question with no answer.

But the thing is that I don't really mind sleeping, especially if it’s in a comfy bed such as this crib.

Wait a minute......crib?

I take a look around myself and I realised that I actually slept in a freaking crib. “wow I must be the most pathetic excuse for a god there is, *sigh.* whatever It was the best sleep I have experienced in my entire existence.... so far.

I levitate myself out of the crib and once again I release a mighty yawn. I shake my head in a futile attempt to get rid of the sleepiness that is clutching my mind. My vision is blurry and I can barely walk straight. quite the accomplishment, considering the fact that I can’t walk.

As I look around the room I noticed a small blue box with stars on its sides. The odd box manage to catch my attention and I slowly hover over to it.

“What kind of purpose can such a thing have? I need to investigate this colorful object.”

I use my magic to pick the box up, I slowly rotate it 360 degrees so I can get a good look at it.
“Hmm there is a handle on it.”

I put the box down and I grab the handle with my magic. As I turn the handle the box starts to play music.
“Oh silly me its only a music box, quite a catchy tune though. I think to myself as I continue to turn the handle.”

All of a sudden a white clown jumps out of the box, the clown laughs at me and I get the scare of a lifetime.

“AHHHHH!”

In a pure moment of fear and surprise, I start charging my magic and I blast the evil clownbox with a telekinetic push. The force is so strong that It blew a big hole in the floor. Large chunks of the floor crashes down into the room below and I think I heard a big splash.

“Pant wheeze, in the name of *pant* all that is holy, I almost got a heart attack!
Who would invent such a torture device?. A sick twisted rat who dares to call himself a pony, that is who!” I'm hyperventilating from the shock and I can feel that my heart is racing.

“WHAT IN THE NAME OF TARTARUS JUST HAPPENED?”
“WE ARE UNDER ATTACK PROTECT THE PRINCESSES!”
“SOUND THE ALARM, WE NEED TO COUNTER ATTACK!”

“Ops, It seems I manage to scare the living daylight out of a few guards, with that little incident. *giggles*”

Oh well, even though I find it their over the top reactions amusing, I can’t help but wonder why they would flip their shit over such a trivial thing like an explosion.
I should probably make this whole ordeal undone, besides I don't feel like telling Celestia that I got so scared by that stupid box thing, that I blow it to tartarus along with most of the floor floor.

My eyes light up and I Reverse time to moments before I blasted a hole through the floor. “Sighs a lot less amusing but way more dignified.”

The door to my chamber opens with a loud bang, once again I get scared and I prepare myself for whatever beast might have breached my door. “Oh my I’m sorry little one, I did not mean to scare you.”

A young unicorn mare with a lime green coat and orange mane is slowly walking towards me. She sits down in front of me looks at me with a big smile. I tilt my head to the left with a confused look on my face.

“hmm interesting, she’s got white eyes, that is unusual, judging by her movement and the way she is staring at me I doubt she is blind. Anyway I better do a thread cheek on her to refresh my memory a little.”

Time stops and I grasp the thread which represents the mare in front of me, the thread flies through my head a couple of times thus revealing everything about the mare, it then slips back into the void.

“Here we go. Her name is Emerald Dream, she is a widow from an earlier marriage, she have been working with foals ever since she was 14, her own foal was born dead and she is still grieving. She is 32 years of age, her hobby is to knit and she is currently hired to foalsit me. Well that was quite a mouthful, if I could talk I would give her my condolences and tell her that in time everything will be fine.”

As I continue to go over the information I got from her thread, I somehow manage to miss the fact that time unpaused itself somehow.

“Oh are you not the cutest little foal I have ever seen! Mrs Dream says in a childish tone, she then picks me up and gives me a big hug”. “Oh yes you are yes you are, you are such a little cutiepie.
She is rocking me back and forth I don't know how to feel about the current situation, i'm still concerned about the fact that the time decided to go against my will. Such a thing have never happened before. To top it all of it feels like my head is about to explode.

” Here come the tickle monster!”She leans down and starts blowing raspberries on my exposed tummy.

“childish giggling and laughing. Oh by everything that is holy, I never thought that I would be this ticklish, I can’t breath! If this continues I'm going to wet myself! which would be quite a feat since I can’t wet myself since I'm a god and a god do not need to use the bathroom. AH! when is she going to stop? This is the worst torment I ever had to withstand in my entire existence!”

30 long seconds of torment later.

“you are so cute!”
“Oh please can you say anything else? tell me something I don’t know.”
“Oh my you are very dirty, you need a bath.”
“Wait I need a what now?”

Mrs Dream gently places me on her back and walks slowly towards the bathroom, she is constantly turning her head during the short trip to make sure I'm not about to fall of her back. Once inside she places me on the floor and gives me a rubber ducky.

“Now play with this, while mommy prepares your bath little Tempus.”
“Oh please, how is this....... incredibly delicious looking rubber duck supposed to entertain me?”

“squeak,squeak” Is heard from the rubber duck, as I unconsciously stick it in my mouth and starts to chew at it.

“What the *squeak* am I *squeak* doing? I truly must be the worst *squeak* excuse for a *squeak* god there is. *squeak.*

My train of thought is interrupted as mrs Dream places me in a tub filled with perfectly heated water. I continue to chew on the damn duck, there must be some kind of curse upon this duck. There is no way a rubber duck is supposed to be this tasty too chew on.

“mmm the *squeak* water is perfect and it smells like *squeak* flowers. Oh my lord” I drop the tasty duck into the water, a string of saliva is hanging from my mouth. “Are those bubbles?” I playfully bat every single bubble within my range and every time a bubble pops I giggle.
“This *giggle* is way too much *giggle* fun, I wonder what they taste like” I take a bite out of one of the bubbles and I frown. “Yuck. that was nasty, I will never do that again *Frown.* How could I possibly have thought that it would taste different the second time around? I feel like a dumbdumb.

“Giggles, you are so adorable.”
“Oh bubbles, she have been here the entire time. Thankfully she does not know that I'm a god,.... I hope.”
“Shampoo time, cute little Tempus.”
As she lathers my mane and tail with shampoo I close my eyes, I’m not stupid enough to fall for the old shampoo in the eyes trick. While she is scrubbing my mane I spot the tasty duck and I start to chew at it again.

“Squeak my existence.”
“Well look at that you there was a white little foal with a blue mane hiding under all that dust.”
“Is she joking with me? I know I have been Inside a cave for the past millions of years, but there is no way I would have forgotten my own coat color, besides i'm not a pig I would have noticed if I was getting dusty.”

Mrs Dream picks me out of the tub and dries me with a towel, she then picks me up and puts me down on the sink. I look into the mirror and I can’t believe what I'm looking at.

“Well I'll be damned. I look adorable, my mane is blue with a few different shades here and there. Holy salamander cuttlefish, my coat is actually white, when was the last time I looked in a mirror? I look like Celestia, oh wait correction Celestia looks like me. For some unexplainable reason the fact that Celestia looks like me and not the other way around actually makes me feel better.”

As I continue to gaze upon myself in the mirror, I fail to notice that mrs Dream pick me up with her magic.

“Now let’s get you dressed and ready to attack the day.”

She lays me down on a changing table. she puts a diaper on me. It take me a far too long realise what she just did. Mrs Dream starts carrying me back to the room and places me on the floor. I look down at the diaper and I poke it with one of my tiny hooves. slowly the grinds in my head begins to turn.

“...... I’m wearing a diaper, hmm........ I*M WEARING A DIAPER! I’m going to eliminate everything alive and reset the whole damn world! Ok....ok calm down, deep breaths. *breath* one *inhale* two *small inhale* three. This is all for keeping up appearance remember, this is the best possible solution, there is nothing wrong with a foal wearing a diaper, I still got my pride.”

“You would look adorable in a purple pajama onesie.”

*Snap*”Buck it, I don't care anymore, she can put me in a frilly pink dress if she wants to.”

The whole process of getting me dressed i goes by smoothly since I don’t bother doing anything to make it harder. Once the onesie is on me she places a blue pacifier in my mouth and puts me in a playpen.

“So this is *suck* the great and mighty *suck* god of time in his *suck* true element, I feel like crying for some reason. But i refuse to lower myself to that level I still got my pride. *suck,suck,suck* Damn this pacifier to the dark pits of tartarus! *suck* why is it so tasty? Why is it doing such a great job at calming me down?”

As I sit in the playpen sulking. The door opens and Celestia stick her head inside for a brief moment, she sees me and quickly pulls her head out of vision.

*Meanwhile in the hallway*

“HNNNNGGGGGG! Celestia clamps her chest with one of her hooves. How can anything possibly be that cute? Remember he is still a god even though he is the cutest foal you have ever seen.

Celestia regains her composure and enters the nursery. She walks up behind Mrs Dream and says. “I Believe everything is going smoothly, Emerald Dream”.

Emerald jumps into the air with a small scream due to the fact that Celestia basically sneaked up on her. Once she regains control of herself she gives a quick bow to Celestia and says.

“Of course your highness, everything is going lovely. He is such a little angel, I have never taken care of such a well behaving foal in my entire career as a caretaker. I was just about to take him to the dining hall to get him something to eat before we go see the doctor.”

Celestia walks over to the playpen and leans down to me. “that sounds good, I have complete faith in you Emerald Dream. I guess you won’t cause any twouble for Emewald, wight Tempus? You adowable wittle cutie.” she says in a high pitched tone.

I wave my tiny hoof towards my chest, motioning for her to come closer. Celestia leans closer to my face with a questioning look on her face. I once again motion for her to come closer, she leans closer to me her muzzle is only a few inches away from my face now. With the forces of a million cannons I spit my pacifier in her face.

“Ouch.” Celestia rears back and starts rubbing her eye.

“Tempus that is a bad little foal, you do not spit your pacifier on somepony.” Mrs Dream says in a scolding tone.

*giggles* “ I have put up with enough crap for one day, I don’t have the patience for Celestia going all cuddly over me.”

“Oh, don't worry Emerald I bet he did not do it on purpose, besides he just a foal don’t be too harsh with him.” Celestia Levitates the pacifier back in my mouth. “anyway keep up the great work and I will see you and Tempus later Emerald Dream.

“She is *suck* enjoying this far *suck* too much. Anyway this day can’t possibly get any more annoying. *suck*

My trail of thought is interrupted by Mrs Dream placing me gently in a foal carrier, which is hanging down from her neck. She looks down at me with a smile and starts walking.

“Why is everything that is made for foals so damn comfortable? It feels like i'm laying inside a warm fuzzy cloud.”

Emeralds walks down the castle halls and into a small dining room. Inside the room are several small dining tables and a lot of chairs of different kind. She walks up to one of the tables, she puts me in a highchair and ties a bib around neck.

“Hmm, this might get interesting since I know for a fact that I don’t need to eat. My body is 95% pure magic, thus consuming food would only serve to speed up my natural magical regeneration for a short period of time. But since I have never actually eaten anything in my life, i'm going to be open minded to this, perhaps food actually tastes decent.”

Mrs Dream poured a bottle of foal food on a plate.”Hurk, if she thinks i’m going to eat that orange blob out of my own free will, then she is gravely mistaken.” She levitates a spoon of orange towards me.

“Here comes the dragon. Rawr,rawr he wants to land in the cave.”

“Well that dragon can go fuck itself, this cave is closed.” *I seal my lips tightly.*

“Open up the dragon can’t fly forever, you don’t want him to crash do you?”

“Oh by all the is holy, the smell is awful. I’m not going to eat that, end of story.”

Mrs Dream shoves her free hoof into my side. “Tickle attack!” As I start to laugh she shoves the spoon into my mouth.

“.....Oh, its gooey why is it gooey? *Hurk* I can do this, foals eat this everyday. Oh those poor foals, Oh bubbles.”

With much effort and a lot of positive thinking I manage to swallow this gunk called food. I fell sick and if my face could get any more white it would.

“There we go jummy to the tummy, oh look here comes another dragon.”

Five long minutes later

“such a good boy, now don’t you feel great with all that food in your tummy?”

“Words can’t describe my hatred towards the, sick, twisted, spawn of a back alley tail lifter, who dares to call himself a pony. The one who invented this stuff.” My stomach starts to rumble, “oh I don't feel good.”

Mrs Dream plucks me out of the high chair. She places me over her shoulder, and gently started tapping my back.

“OH NO, Don’t do that! BLARGH! I puke all over Mrs Dreams back and every last bit of food I just ate. Leaves my stomach faster than, Celestia devoured cake during her depressive period 548 years ago.”

Mrs Dream quickly puts me on the floor and starts wiping my mouth, all while she repeats “Oh no the princess won't be happy about this.”

“I can’t stand this taste in my mouth, if i don’t do anything I might puke again.” For a second my eyes flashes and I reverse my own time to moments before I even ate that damn food. “Ah much better.” I smack my lips a few times to enjoy the feeling of the neutral taste in my mouth.”

“Clean up in dining hall number 4 please.” Mrs Dream tells one of the servants. “I hope you're not sick my little cutie pie, anyway I need to take quick shower before we go see the doctor.”

She once again puts me on the playpen, she then enters the bathroom to take a shower.

“Nice going Mr God, puke all over your caretaker that is such a good idea.” I lay down on the floor and I apparently felt like taking a nap. Because the moment my head hit the carpet I fell asleep. I need to get this whole sleep thing figured out.

Author's Note

Here we go another chapter, finally.
I hope you like it and as usual, I have no clue when the next chapter will be made.

This chapter was a pain in the ass to write. My main computer decided to die on me :(
So i was a little sad over that, hopefully I will get it back by the end of next week.

Well Ill see you around, if i ever manage to get my thumb out my ass again.
Anyway Peace out and have nice day,night or whatever.

Revelations and a doctor

Darkness surrounds me, wherever I look there is nothing to behold but a never ending sea of shadows. But suddenly I see a small light in the horizon, but I don’t care enough to move towards it. I feel content shrouded in the dark, I have nothing to worry about, I have not a care in the world and finally I no longer feel alone.

I'm about to shut my eyes for the last time and enter a state of divine sleep. I will awaken once the timeline is shattered and the world has come to an end. may darkness devour me and only awaken me, once I finally have reason to exist again.

As I shut my eyes I feel something.

Something warm.

Something nice.

Something that will keep me safe.

Something I will never fear.

Something that reminds me of who I’am.

I open my eyes and I realise that i’m traveling in a speed beyond light, beyond time.

The light is consuming me, but it feels nice.The light in the end of this tunnel. where will it lead me?Where will It take me?

My train of thought is interrupted by a giant snake like creature which consist of swirling shadows. I’m swallowed by it and it shuts its massive jaw with a loud bang.

.niaga neppah ti tel t'nod ,ecno nekorb neeb ydaerla sah dnim ruoY

!sotsuC supmeT

I quickly open my eyes and start to scan the area.“My sanctuary, how did I get back here?

Strange, I assume the whole ordeal with Celestia bringing me to Canterlot castle was just a dream. Oh well it was an enjoyable dream nonetheless. I might as well get back to my neverending duty of watching over the mortals inhabiting this world.”

As I proceed with the duty of collecting the sand of crumbled threads and putting them inside the hourglass reserved just for that one special thread. I can’t help but feel like there is something wrong, but I can’t figure out what.

“Quack, Quack.”

I turn around to see a yellow duck walking towards me.“Quack, Quack.” the duck is facing me,

it is only about half a meter away from me, it looks at me with the innocence and stupidity of a normal animal.

“In the name of all that is holy, how did a duck get inside my sanctuary? Then again it’s not impossible for an animal to get inside this cave, but normally an animal would not walk straight into a mountain wall, especially not a duck.

This duck reminds me of the rubber ducky I chewed on inside the castle, it even looks like it’s made out of rubber. But my rubber ducky could not walk, could it?”

I hover down to the ground, I stare blankly at the duck for a moment. “Quack,Quack.” I tilt my head to the left and carefully grab the duck with my magic. *Squeak.*

“By all that is holy this is my rubber ducky. But that means that the events in the castle actually happened, but if it really happened. Then why and how did I get back inside my cave?”

The duck starts to struggle against my magic “QUACK; QUACK!” I release the duck on the ground and it slowly turns towards me. It flaps it’s rubbery wings a few times. “QUACK!” the duck’s eyes starts to glow with a sickly green color. “QUACK!!!!” the duck roars and it starts to grow bigger.The rubber duck is now towering over me with a full set of razor sharp teeth its evil green eyes focused on me.

“*QUACK!* YOU CHEWED ON ME, FOR THAT *QUACK* YOU WILL PAY THE ULTIMATE *QUACKING* PRIZE *QUACK*, I WILL EAT YOU! *QUACK!*”

“I’m sorry the brain you were trying to connect to is currently out of order due to a severe case of what is going on disease”

“oh great my own brain can’t comprehend this insanity. Whatever, Ducky you are going down!”

I charge my horn with enough magical energy to blow the moon of the night sky. My magical blast hits the duck monster spot on and the smell of burnt rubber fills my cave. the yellow gooey remains of the duck is hissing, smoking and suddenly it starts to move towards me.Due to the fact that I got overconfident in my victory, I'm unable to dodge the attack of the slime duck.

“I CAN STILL EAT YOU! gulp”

Surrounded by smelly duck slime, I start to focus my mind in order to reverse time back to when I was charging my magical blast. This time I will charge my horn with enough energy to blast it through the dimensional wall that separates the world of the living and the void. Once it is inside I'll seal the duck away forever inside the void.

My eyes starts to glow, thus indicating that I'm about to alter time in some way.But nothing is happening, I can’t reverse time. I can’t do anything for that matter, the melted remains of the duck is draining all my power.How can this be? I refuse to die by the wings of a rubber duckie.I try again, my eyes starts to glow, but nothing happens.I'm scared, the duck is consuming me.

My end is near, I can feel the cold hooves of death clawing at me.I feel so helpless. I'm crying, the tears escaping my eyes are the tears of a lonely foal who is about to die.

“Somepony, save me.” My final thoughts are as pathetic as me.

My last ounce of strength is gone. My tears will flow forever, I’m a pathetic excuse for a god.

The cold embrace of death, I always thought it would be painful. But to my great surprise it's actually rather nice.

I shut my eyes for the last time. “hopefully in my next life.... I won't be alone.”

Suddenly two bright beams of light penetrate the dark remains of the killer duckie.

“QUACK!” It screams out in pain.

The bright lights grabs ahold of my lifeless body. As they lift me out of the molten remains, I feel my life energy returning to me. my body is getting warmer the closer I get to the source of the light. Im lifted out of the ducks remains, my vision is blurry and I can barely make out the shape of a pony. I'm begin cradled in the hooves of this entity and it slowly brings me closer to its chest.

“Never fear, I'm always here.” an angelic voice says to me.

I slowly open my eyes and gaze upon my savior. This entity got the same aura as the one I saw in one of my other nightmares. But unlike that one, this one feels nice. I enjoy being cradled by it.

Why do I remember this aura? Its very faint, I feel safe. I enjoy these good feelings. I don’t know what this entity is, but its beautiful. A creature of pure light in the shape of a pony. Its power and beauty can only be rivaled by myself, I have so many questions.

“Never fear, I'm always here.” It says with a smile.

since I could hear it’s thoughts I can only assume that we are connected somehow.

“Who or what are you?”

“I Am a friend, someone you forgot a long time ago.”

“I have no memories of you, If I had ever meet you before. I would remember you.”

“A shattered mind holds many questions.”

“Are you the one I should call mother?”

The entities eyes widen at this question.”You.” Its sentence is cut of by a strange colorful light bathing my sanctuary.

I cover my eyes with my hooves in order to protect them from the light. As the light starts to fade I open my eyes.

“YOU ARE WELCOMED TO THE LUNAR CIRCUS!” A clown now holds me up in the air and my entire sanctuary is now a giant circus tent, its filled with all kinds of circus contraptions and classic circus music is playing in the background.

“What the bubble is going on?” Is the only question on my mind at the moment.

The clown pony tosses me high into the air and laughs.“HERE IN THE LUNAR CIRCUS THERE ARE NO FROWNS, THERE ARE ONLY SMILES AND LAUGHTER!”

A spotlight moves to the center and in the light stands princess Luna, dressed in a bright red circus leader outfit. “HUSAH! The lunar circus have arrived to turn your frown upside down. We have arrived to scare the nightmares away and double your nighttime fun!”

I'm still falling through the air, Luna catches me with her forehooves and in a puff of smoke.

I realise that I'm dressed in a clown outfit, complete with makeup and a red nose that honks if you bop it. I can see my reflection in Luna's eyes, I look completely ridiculous.

Luna keeps holding me in her hooves and she smiles like a madpony. “We hope you enjoy the Lunar circus, but then again what foal does not enjoy the circus. HUSAH!”

If you have ever held a pissed off cat, then you know what kind of face i'm making.

I'm so angry that my face is glowing in such a bright shade of red, that the clown makeup is no longer visible. I swear you can probably fry an egg on my forehead.

I send out a massive explosion of arcane power, It sends Luna flying into the wall and it blows the whole circus tent away. I land on the ground snorting steam out of my nostrils.

I begin to unicycle my way towards luna in a menacing way. “Wait a minute, unicycle!” I jump of the damn unicycle and I evaporate it, not a single molecule remains of it.

I get rid of the clown makeup and continue to float towards luna in a menacing way.

“Stupid dream logic!” Dreams make no sense whatsoever sometimes.

I land in front of luna and I slowly look up at her, she is sweating and from the look on her face she is fearing for her very existence.

“IMSORRYPLEASEDONTKILLME,IWASONLYTRYINGTOHELP!” she blurts out faster than Derpy Hooves can find muffins.

I don't think a word to her, I simply materialize a giant colorful cannon into existence. I levitate luna of the ground and reshape her into a black cannonball with an everflowing tail at the end. I place the Lunar cannonball into the cannon while humming a pleasant tone.

“hmmm,hmmm,hhmmm.” I lit the fuse and watch in glee as it burns down.

BOOOOOOM!

“NOW STAY OUT OF MY DREAMS, IF YOU EVER DO THIS AGAIN I PROMISE YOU THAT BEING SHOT OUT OF A CANNON IS THE LEAST OF YOUR WORRIES!”

The lunar cannonball breaks through the barrier between the wake world and the dream world. It disappears in the horizon with a bling and a small star.

“Well this was an interesting dream, I only wish that Luna would not have interrupted it. *sigh* I might as well wake up now, Mrs Dream is probably done in the shower.”

“Will I ever see that entity again? Who knows, this whole ordeal have only raised more questions.”

I open my eyes and let a big yawn escape my mouth. I noticed that I dropped my pacifier in my sleep. I pick it up and stick it in my mouth giving it a few suckles to cheer myself up a little.

“Looks like somepony have finally woken up from his nap.” Mrs dream grabs me and places me carefully on her back. “now we are going to see Dr Stethoscope.”

For some reason I shudder at the mentioning of a Doctor. I have never been to one, so why does it feel like something bad is going to happen?

A short stroll through the castle later, we arrive at a brown door with a golden door hinge and a silver plaque that spells Doctor, Indigo Stethoscope: Foal specialist:.

Mrs Dream opens the door and walks inside. The room inside is anything but bland, all kinds of different colors paint the walls. It almost looks like the foals he treated are the ones that painted this whole room. Other than that it is a basic doctors working place. All the fun things are here,

needles, stethoscopes, bland candy in a jar, some random hoof puppets, charts, a silver examination table and of course a big mutated green spider. “Juck, nasty... oh wait its a stuffed animal, derp.”

“Hello Dr Stethoscope, are you here?” Mrs dream say while scanning the room with her eyes.

BOOM! an explosion is heard from the other room and an indigo colored stallion with a fire scorched coat flies through the air. He slams onto a bookshelf and all the books lands on his head and buries him.

After a few moments of silence the stallion stick his head out from beneath all the books.

“*Cough, cough*. Oh my, that was quite the bang. Hahahaha.” He stands up and starts brushing the black ashes from his lab coat.

I blink my eyes a few times in disbelief.”Is this Stallion really a doctor? He seems more like an escapade patient from an insane asylum.”

The indigo stallion walks up to Mrs Dream. “Why hello there Mrs Dream, it is nice to see you again”. He notices me sitting on her back staring at him. “Oh is this the little guy you mentioned when you booked this appointment?”

“Yes he is”. she takes me of her back and puts me on the examination table. “This little one is Tempus Custos. He needs a complete survey and I could not think of anypony more capable than you.”

Dr Stethoscope looks deep into my eyes and gets uncomfortably close to me. “Hmm, this is a very special child.” He begins to circle the table, similar to how a shark circles around its prey.

to say the least, he creeps me out. I just keep sucking on my pacifier in order to calm myself and to prepare for whatever he has in store for me.

“Mr Dream would you kindly undress him. Its seems he is scared of me, so I think its better if you do it.”

“Scared? I'm not scared, you are creepier than a spider with 63,5 legs.”

Mrs Dream begins undresses me. I'm now sitting on the table in just my diaper, simple seeing the damn thing is pissing me off.

20 Minutes of probing later.

“Well that about does it. He is a healthy alicorn foal, he is five days old. Incredible developed for somepony his age and he seems to have a lot inside his little head. I think we might have the next captain of the guard here.”

“He is only five days old, are you sure?” Mrs Dream say while looking at me. “No wonder he was unable to keep the foal food down. This little cutie needs milk.” She looks over at Dr Stethoscope. “You don't happen to have one of those potions ready to go, do you?”

“Why of course I do, what kind of Doctor do you think I am?” He walks out of the office for a moment and comes back with a small bottle with blue liquid and three syringes. “Here you go Mrs Dream, now try to keep his attention on something, anything besides the syringes. Foals tend to get scared by them.”

Mrs Dream pick up a hoof puppet, she starts moving the doll and making silly noises in order to get my attention. “Boga, boga, bleh, bleh,bleh.” To make a long statement short, her attempts so keep me occupied fails. Its going to take a lot more than that to make me look away from those needles.

“Ok how bad could it possibly be?” Dr Stethoscope jams the first needle in my behind. My eyes shoot up and they start to fill up with tears.

“Ok, so this is what pain is.” My lower lip starts to tremble.

During my existence I have never felt pain, once I foresee something that is capable of harming me. I simple reverse time so that I can dodge it or I erase the danger from the timeline momentarily, so it misses me. But I never considered a needle as something dangerous.

I still don’t, but since I have never taken any kind of damage before. It makes this tiny needle feel like the worst pain ever.

I'm breathing heavily “I'm not going to cry, this is good for me.” I repeat this sentence in my mind, until my train of thought is interrupted by the second needle. Tears are starting to flow down my cheeks and I begin to quiver like a scared puppy .In my mind I begin to chant ancient curses that no mortal should ever hear or read “#%#x”##!!¤”¤(&%/”¤!)(#¤/!”=)¤)!”##/¤”!)¤&!”(¤&)!”(¤&(/=)¤!#¤&!()#.” Im suckeling at my pacifier as hard as I can. “I need to calm myself, I don't want to flip out and hurt anypony.” Then the third needle strikes me.

The pain caused by the third needle is enough to make me snap. I drop my pacifier and I begin to cry loudly. My eyes starts to glow as I focus my mind on Dr Stabby mcstab and I smash him into the castle wall head first. After making sure that he is stuck in the wall I continue to cry. I cry loudly and Mrs Dream rushes to me, she takes me in her hooves and starts rocking me back and forth.

The soft movement is soothing and simple seeing her face is calming me down. My crying dies down to soft sniffles, Mrs Dream pick up my pacifier and sticks it in my mouth. My crying cease and she looks down at me with a warm motherly smile, she kisses my forehead and I shut my eyes and drift of to sleep.

“Excuse me, a helping hoof would be appreciated.” The muffled voice of Dr Stethoscope is heard from the wall.

“Oh my,” she say very quietly. She takes one of the pillows in the room and puts my sleeping body on top of it. She then rushes over to the doctor and start pulling him out of the wall. “Are you ok?”

He shakes the dust from the wall of his head and pats his lab coat a few times. “Well I got a crazy headache, but besides that I'm fine.” He looks at me, sleeping on the pillow. “That was quite the surge, I have never seen anything like it. But I guess I should not expect anything less from the Prince Shining Armors foal.”

“He is not the prince’s foal, at least to my knowledge.”

“Oh comon, its obvious. He looks just like his daddy when he was a foal, same blue mane and coat. also he is a alicorn just like his mommy. If he is not the child between Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Prince Shining Armor. I will eat my lab coat.”

“I believe princess Celestia would have told me that, besides why would they not care for their own foal?”

“Well from what I have heard, they are both quite busy rebuilding the crystal empire. So maybe they don't have the time right now.”

“I don’t want to believe that, but thanks for the examination. We might come back sometime.”

“ Well I hope not, but you are always welcome here.” Mrs Dream picks me up and starts walking back to the nursery.

“Oh yes, that reminds me. The potion you got for your body to start producing milk is a newer one, it will only takes two hours then you will be able to feed him!” He shouts down the hallway.

His shouting woke me up momentarily. I better take it as soon as possible, I don't want Tempus to go hungry. I hope he likes my milk.”

“Milk? What milk? What is she talking about? why would I need milk?.... she can’t possibly mean..... Oh bubbles I think she is. ehhh I'm still sleepy.” I close my eyes and I once again drift to sleep. hoping that I misheard that whole thing.

Author's Note

Here we go again, another chapter.
I suffered a crazy writers block making this chapter.
As usual, I hope you enjoy the chapter and I have no clue when the next one will be done.

The oddly written text in the beginning of the chapter is backwards.
For those who are to lazy to Google something like backwards writing or something.
Here is what it says: Tempus Custos! Your mind has already been broken once, don't let it happen again

The spirit realm

once again i'm inside the nursery, I'm currently inside the crib sleeping. My last sleep was not so pleasant, due to nightmares among other things. This time however Im in deep sleep, i'm splayed out on my back, i'm sucking on my my pacifier subconsciously and i'm probably snoring. But of course something is amiss.

I know that I'm dreaming but i'm aware completely of the fact that this i’m currently asleep. Could this possibly be what mortals call a lucid dream? If that is the case then i'm going to have some fun.

“Oh boy, a lucid dream I can do anything I want. I could....... I could....... ehhhhhhh. I could make the universe go boom..... Ok note to self, having a lucid dream sucks. I can already do anything I want more or less. Bubbles! This is dull ”

“I guess in order to have a fun lucid dream you need to have some imagination” *sighs.* I bring a smoking pipe into existence, I spit out my pacifier and start blowing bubbles with the pipe while I stroke my imaginary thinking beard. I hover in the air pondering the meaning of life and other trivial things.

My dream is lame, to say the least. It’s basically a white space that never ends. “Wow this is boooooooring, I never would have guessed that dreaming could be this dull.” I float down to the ground and prepare to sleep inside my own lucid dream, woopie!. But before i can shut my eyes I hear a voice.

“Tempus, can you hear me?” A faint female voice says.

I’m not sure who it is, but, whoever it is, I can’t possibly get more bored than I already am. So I might as well answer the voice. “Yes this is Tempus, god of time and also the Cutest god alive. Who is this and what are you doing inside my dream?”

“Oh wonderful, I was not certain if I could connect to you. anyway this is Celestia, Would you mind meeting me in the spiritual realm? I need to talk to you.”

“Do I have to? I’m currently sleeping and for once it is a very pleasant sleep.”

“Its important, please would you meet me in the spiritual realm?”

“Fine, i'll be there in a moment. But don't blame me if i'm cranky when I wake up.”

The spiritual realm is a unique place where two separate minds can meet in a neutral place. instead of meeting inside someone's mind, where the owner of that mind will have far more control and power over the current domain. Only those blessed with magic, can enter this realm, simple only unicorns, alicorns and some other creatures, can enter this domain, earth ponies and pegasi can enter if they are tethered together with a powerful unicorn, but the spiritual realm is a very rare thing for a non magical creature to see.

The spiritual realms appearance is a mix between the two minds who are connecting, it is similar to a dream, you need to leave your physical body in order to enter. Inside the realm your appearance is based upon your magical power and your current mindstate, but overall your main features are shaped by your sheer amount of power.

There is one thing that I always wondered about the spiritual realm, inside there is always a tree, a big white tree with blood red leaves, i do believe that it’s function is to guide the two minds who meet, to the center of the realm. No matter who gets there first, the realms appearance will always be a meld of the different minds of everyone inside. You can never be sure about your own appearance once inside, it all depends on the difference in magical power of the ones inside. For example, If Celestia were to meet a normal unicorn inside the spirit realm, she would

most likely appear as herself and the unicorn would most likely be carry the appearance of a young filly or colt. Simple because she is far superior in terms of sheer force of magic, but if Celestia were to be concerned about something and thus being unable to focus properly. They might stand as equals, that is the charm of the realm, even the most powerful of unicorns might be considered a child by the realm itself.

I don’t know if the realm itself is aware of its surroundings, but sometimes it seems that way. I have some faint memories of being there before, but I can’t remember who I meet here or why I was even there to begin with. Yet another question with no answer.

The realm starts to take the shape of a lovely green field with an abundance of flowers and butterflies, it is simply lovely, a place where anypony could enjoy themselves, but even the most perfect of fields have a few imperfections. In the sky a gray moon hung low, it was wearing a unicorn head, it seems Celestia have yet to forgive herself for imprisoning Luna there. A few skeletons of different species were scattered a little everywhere, yet they did not damage the beauty of the field, it’s obvious that Celestia still grieves for everyone she have killed in the past.

as usual a giant white tree with red leaves is standing tall in the center of the field. Suddenly a mighty tornado consisting of fire and sparkles, started making its way towards the tree. Once it reached the desired location it stopped. The tornado slowly begun to die down, revealing a young pink maned filly with a sun for a cutie mark, she was wearing a small silver crown on her head. The filly started to turn her head in different directions, as if she was looking for someone, then something caught her attention.

From the far edge of the world, a might sandstorm was approaching the center of the realm. The realm itself started to change, pillars of cold hard obsidian, begun shooting out of the ground, nearby flowers begun to wilt away, nothing but black husks remaining of the once beautiful flowers. Golden cloud,firing sickly green lightning starts to devour the sky. Reality itself began tearing apart, revealing only the black emptiness of the void. What once was a beautiful meadow, was now a decaying wasteland, with shattered bounds of reality, but despite all this, the butterflies continued to flutter and the flowers continued to bloom.

Just like the tornado, the sandstorm stopped by the white tree and out of the storm, a mighty stallion revealed himself. The sandstorm latched on to the stallions body and formed an everflowing mane,tail and a long beard, his eyes were golden, his coat were nonexistent, he was merely a shadow of a once great alicorn, a pacifier hanged from his neck and a few bubbles were circling him similar to how moons circle around an astral body.

the filly smiled at the stallion in front of her. “It seems our roles have been switched.” she giggled.

“What do you want? I would prefer to leave this place as soon as possible, I don't enjoy staying in a place where my powers mean nothing.” He said, his voice echoing.

The filly was taken back by the force and clear annoyance in his voice. She begun scratching at the ground nervously. “Well, I would like to ask you a few things-”

“And you could not have asked me this in the realm of the living!” He shouted in the fillies face. “This better be some very good questions, otherwise you will suffer for wasting my time, once we leave.”

The filly gulped and lowered her head in fear. “I thought you were the last pony who could possibly have his time wasted.”*giggles* Besides, time does not exist here, we could stay here forever if we wanted to.” she said with a nervous smile.

Suddenly golden threads appeared out of nowhere, they hoisted the filly up in the air and begun to strangle her. “YOU KNOW NOTHING! DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I AM SUFFERING IN HERE!?” Steam escaped the stallions nose and he were breathing heavily. “This....this realm is hell to me! I despise it more than anything. How can such a place where time have no meaning, EVEN EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE!” “RAGH! this place is tearing my mind apart, I can’t stop trying to control its flow of time, but since there is none..... I don’t know what to do, I don't have a purpose anymore.” He fell to the ground, now laying on his side, silver tears were flowing from his eyes, and he begun to fade away.

The filly watched in horror, she begun to struggle against the threads holding her. Escaping them was easy, since they also started to dissolve into nothing. She ran up to the stallions face.

“Tempus, tempus! snap out of it!”

“N...o......pur...pose, no......mean.....ing.” He whispered, quietly as a second hand inside a clock.

The filly was getting desperate, if he faded away in the spirit realm, who know what would happen to him in the realm of the living. There were rare occurrence where a unicorn would simply disappear from the spirit realm, leaving only a lifeless shell in the living world. But he was a god, if he disappeared, maybe time itself would come to a halt.

she was looking all over the place for something that would calm him. That was when it struck her, he had a pacifier around his neck. Out of desperation she showed it in his mouth.

He begun sucking at it, he slowly raised himself of the ground and shook his head a few times.

“Oh my poor head, what happened?” he begun scanning the area. “Where the bubble am I?”

He looked down and saw the pink maned filly, he stared at her in confusion. “Celestia?” he said slowly, still with a confused look on his face.

“Thank the sun that you are alright!” She hugged his leg and pressed her face against it, she sniffled a little. “I thought you were a goner for a moment.”

Once again he scanned the area, he scratched his head and continued to look confused. “What the bubble did I do to the world?” He begun stroking his non imaginary thinking beard, his pacifier transformed into a pipe and he started puffing smoke rings. “Oh well, looks like I got my work cut out for me for a while. Don't worry Celestia I'll turn you back to normal in a jiffy.”

“Wait, don't you remember that we are inside the spirit realm? She qocked her hed to the left.

“OHHHHHHH, that would explain all of this.” *snort* “silly me, ha ha ha. For a moment I thought I went batshit crazy and decided to mold the world, into this madness.” He blew a smoke ring at Celestia, it stuck to her face and transformed into a pink baby bonnet.

“HEY! what are you doing?” She tried to shake it from her head.

“Ops, sorry, but you look adwowable wike that. *snort*” He grinned. “Well anyway, why are we here?”

The filly was trying to untie the bonnet from her head, but with little luck.”I wanted to talk to you about Luna. Ever since you arrived she has been acting a bit strange..er, than usual.” She somehow manage to spin the bonnet 180 degrees, she frowned at this.

“Do you need a hoof with that?”

“Yes, would you kindly help me, this thing is annoying.”

“Children never know when to stop,” *sigh*. He turned it 180 degrees so it was sitting correctly on her head. He then flashed her a goofy smile and chuckled slightly.

She was not amused and continued to frown. “This is not funny! Get this stupid thing of my head now!” she whined in a high pitched voice. She covered her mouth with her forehooves and blushed. “ Has my voice been like this the entire time? Or is this another one of your silly pranks?” She glared at him.

He rolled his eyes nonchalantly and whistled a innocent tone. “maaaaaayyyyybeeeee.” His lips formed into a wicked smile and he stuck his tongue out.

“THIS IS NOT FUNNY! I BROUGHT YOU HERE TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING IMPORTANT, AND YOU'RE ONLY PLAYING AROUND!” She whined.

He flicked his wrist and a pacifier flew into the fillies mouth.“Now calm down! He said in a strict fatherly tone.

The filly was surprised by what happened, she began sucking on the pacifier unconsciously. Once she realised what she was doing, she immediately tried to get the pacifier out of her mouth, but she was unable to get it out. She glared daggers at him, her eyes started to tear up from pure frustration. She crossed her hooves and puffed up her cheeks in a childish manner.

“Awww, It wooks like somepony needs a hug and a wittle nap.” He embraced the filly and gave her a long warm hug. She pushed her tiny hooves against him as hard as she could, but in the end her hooves got tired and she submitted. She did not bother anymore, she was completely in his power and he could do whatever he wanted to her.

“Oh well, I have had my fun.” he put the filly down and made the pacifier and the bonnet fade away. “Consider this payback for everything I have suffered through since I came to the castle.” He manifested a cigar out of the air and begun puffing bubbles at her.

The filly facehoofed then she muttered an ancient curse under her breath. “Are you going to listen now?” Her voice was back to normal as well.

“Yes, I'll listen to what you have to say. So what about Luna?”

The filly cleared her throat. “I wanted to know if you have any idea why Luna is acting like she is about to get killed, she is always on high alert and it looks like shes been unable to sleep for weeks. Which is odd, I’m worried about her. She have been through alot and I want her to feel safe inside the castle, but right now it seems like she is scared of everything.

“Oh, that might be my fault.” The filly’s ears perked up at this.

“What do you mean by that?”

He tugged at his orange turtleneck, which had appeared out of nowhere. *clears throat* “Well I kind of lost my cool when we first met and I gave her one heck of a nightmare, and I sort of threatened her with death, If she ever annoyed me again. He he.” He looked at the sky and smiled sheepishly.

*sigh* “ I hope you have plans on making peace with her, and telling her that you are sorry.

“Well now I do.” He continued to watch the sky. “I promise that I will make it up to her, she is your sister after all and despite being a god, I don't really have any rights to treat anypony that way, I love all lifeforms in this world. But you have to agree that she did not give me a nice welcome.”

“Okay, I'll give you that. But still the-”

“Quiet!” His eyes flashed and he scanned the area. “Did you feel that?”

“feel what?” She begun turning her head looking all around.

“Something just entered this spiritual plane. This is bad, we should leave right now. Hurry reconnect with your body and get out of here!”

The filly closed her eyes and her mane started to flame up, but the fire died out in a sissle. “I can’t, something is preventing me from exiting!” Her voice trembled.

The very plain it self begun to change, everything started to disappear and was replaced with white clouds and various golden objects, such as, fences, gates, trumpets. The entire realm started to look like the most basic rendition of heaven. If it was ripped straight out of a children's book, that is.

Out from the clouds, an entity resembling a armored stallion appeared, It was wearing a full set of golden battle armor. Instead of wings, this entity had long silver tendrils which danced in the non existing wind, it’s face was completely black, with one exception, it had one single line of facial hair, a silver soul patch. The entity produced a fine golden katana out of nowhere. A flash of purple could be seen in the area of it’s eyes, right before the blade struck into thin air and released a huge wave of golden energy.

The wave moved at amazing speed. Tempus grabbed Celestia by the scruff of her neck and leaped out of harms way, mere moments before they were both struck. The wave however did not stop, it simply spun 180 degrees and charged towards them. Tempus materials a purple scythe, its transparent blade were connected to a golden orb, and a small hourglass dangled from the base of the purple shaft. Tempus struck the wave with a upwards swing, thus cutting the one golden wave into two smaller waves. The waves once again turned 180 degrees and continued to charge them.

“This is bad.” Tempus Thought to himself. He looked over at the armored entity and begun galloping towards it. “These waves seem to be targeted at me, but I won't take the risk of dropping Celestia, incase they are aimed for her. This creature can have them back.”

He spread his wings and leaped over the golden entity. With a loud crash the waves slammed into the entity, and a big white smokescreen enveloped the area of impact.

Tempus were breathing heavily through his nose, fighting with a filly in ones mouth was not recommended, but he did not want to take the chance of Celestia getting wounded in her current condition. If you are damage inside a spiritual realm, your physical body won't get a scratch, but your soul will be wounded, damage to ones soul is something that would take decades to heal naturally. Even the smallest wound could cause, severe memory loss, loss of magic, you could even lose control over one of your limbs.

The smoke cleared and the golden entity charged tempus in full speed, There blades meet and the very fabrics of the realm were taking damage, small cracks begun to appear in the air. They were staring at each other, their blades were the only thing separating them from each other. sparks were flying as the blades scratched each other's surfaces. Suddenly the golden entity leaped backwards, it sheathed its blade and stared at Tempus, several minutes passed and the golden entity broke eye contact and faded away.

Once Tempus was certain that it was gone, only then did he begin making his way back to the white tree. Once he arrived he gently put Celestia down and allowed his scythe to fade away.

“What was that thing?” Celestia asked, but her question was ignored. “Hello! Tempus can you hear me? Hello!?” But Tempus was deep in thought, Celestia's questions could wait, he wanted to figure out the answer to his own questions first.

“That entity, I recognise its aura. It was the same entity I meet in my dream, when Celestia and I first left my cave. How could it enter this realm, and why was it suddenly so hostile. Once the spirit realms appearance have taken hold, nothing should be able to alter it. Unless, that entity was allowed to enter, but then I or Celestia would have to know who it was. Then again,

I could easily enter a closed off spirit realm, but I'm a god. That thing can not possibly be a god, I’m the only god, but that thing was so powerful, that I considered it a threat. How can this be? If that thing is after my life, then why, would it attack me in the spiritual realm. It makes no sense, unless it only came to cheek if I were truly inside. Then my physical body could be in danger. But even if my physical body were torn to shreds, I would simply heal any damage done to it, or even prevent the damage from happening at all.” Tempus continued to think about how and why, until Celestia got tired of getting ignored and thus she bit him. “Ouch! What the bubble Celestia!?”

*spit;Spit*” I’m sorry but I don't like getting ignored, especially after an assassination attempt. What was that thing?”

*sigh*”If I knew I would tell you, but even I can’t figure anything out about our mysterious attacker. anyway, we should leave this place and continue talking later.”

“Wery well, we will talk later tonight, stay safe.” Celestia transformed into a roaring fire tornado and disappeared.

“I will.” Tempus said as he faded back into sand.

Questions are something we seek answers to, but sometimes once we get the answer. We simple wish that we never asked to begin with. Not all answers are what we expect them to be. The great question is, would you rather fumble in the dark or be blinded by the light.

Author's Note

What is this, another chapter in barley a week?
What the heck is going on here?
Did the lazy author finally give in to some kind of divine power? Could this be the end of the world?

Nah, I was just on a roll and I had a weekend to spend.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it, and as usual I have no clue when the next chapter will be up. XD
This is Asabrasa aka the lazy Mofo, signing out. Peace!