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.