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!