Author's Note

sorry this chapter took so long for those waiting for it, i tried to make it a collection of the dreams i could remember after posting the last Chapter. hopefully it's good enough folks, i maybe bias because i made the chapter.

Plan Put Into Action

It was once again night time, and once again in the dream realm, princess Luna, her sister, and the element bearers stood in the ethereal plain. Standing right in front of the black door that bared Anon’s name & dream mark. But unlike the first time where the ponies were eager to enter the dream world of Anon, the eight ponies were cautious this time and were mentally preparing themselves. If Anon really is mentally tortured as they believe he is, then the ponies need to tread lightly, for a pony with a tormented mind can cause severe problems for not only the dreamer, but those surveying the dream as well.

“Is everypony ready?” Luna asked the seven ponies behind her, who nodded with resolve in their eyes. Ready to set out on their mission to help their wayward friend from his mental torture. “Alright then. Here we go!”

Luna used her magic to slowly open the door, and just like before, the ponies were enveloped in total darkness, not a spec of light to be seen. The only sources of light in this pitch-black void was the light coming from Luna’s, Celestia’s, Twilight’s and Rarity’s horns. The ponies used their limited source of light to maneuver through the darkness, but it seems that no matter which way they went, they couldn’t find anything. And the eerie haunting silence of the void didn’t help matters.

“I don’t like this ya’ll. It’s to…quite.” A shiver ran down Applejack’s spine as she and the others continued on their trudge through the darkness, the silence only being slightly broken by the groups hooves clip clopping against the floor.

“Stay on your hooves ponies, we mustn’t lose focus.” Celestia said as she tries to raise the morale of the group.

“Hey look over there!” Pinkie pointed out into the distance off to their right.

The group turned to look where Pinkie Pie pointed, and was now walking towards. The group followed behind the pink mare, towards the single column of narrow light that they just, spawned in the darkness. As the mares reached the narrow column of light, they found a small little bell, with two notes on each of sides. Ring Me was read on the left, and for some reason on the right it read…Eat Me? the ponies were very hesitant of even touch the bell, as they all collectively thought that it might triggered something, but maybe if they don’t do something then the ponies might not be able to proceed forward.

With great caution, Twilight used her magic to grab the bell, and to hers, and the others surprise, nothing happened. Giving out a premature sigh of relief the purple alicorn gave the bell a single ring…which made it quack like a duck?

“…what?” Rainbow deadpanned as she and the others just looked at the bell. Twilight brought the bell in for a closer look, a look of confusion on her face, before ringing the bell again. And this time making it sound like a pony yodeling.

“Well, at least it’s not something like a horrid monster or anything.” Rarity remarked as Twilight rang the bell a few more times, causing to sound like a laughing baby, tap shoe dancing, and even somepony blowing a few notes on a harmonica.

“Maybe it’s a, dud?” Fluttershy guessed as Twilight gave one last ring, and getting a really loud raspy achoo.

“Maybe Fluttershy’s right.” Twilight agreed before preparing to ring the bell one last time. “But why would Anon’s dream have an off-sounding bell?”

Before any pony else could remark on Twilight’s question, the bell gave out this horrifying shrilling scream, which caused the Twilight to drop the bell while the others jumped back. The bell then shattered like glass when it hit the floor, but when it did the void the ponies stood was instantly turned into what looked like a massive room, with toppled over chairs and tables all over the place, with shattered plates, bowls, and silverware cluttering the floor.

“Where are we?” Fluttershy asked as she and the others started to cautiously stroll through the destroyed room.

“Kind of reminds me of the Cloudsdale cafeteria after that one big food fight in 5th grade.” Rainbow commented as she hovered over the group, scanning over the toppled tables, where she saw something rush through a nearby door, causing some shattered plates to clatter.

“What was that?” Applejack asked wearily.

“Something rushed into a door, over here!” Rainbow guided her friends to said door, where they all rushed through, and saw the briefest glimpse of a shadow go off to the right.

“Anon!”

Pinkie squealed as she all but ran down the hall, her friends and the princesses following close behind her. but when they reached the end of the hall, they didn’t find Anon, instead they found a big gaping hole that leads to what looked to be a forest. The ponies hesitantly leave the building, and as the last of them left the opened hallway, it just vanished, like it was never there. but aside from the hallway just vanishing into thin air, the ponies then watched as the normal looking forest gradually changes, to what looked like a very flourishing jungle, with exotic floral now surrounding them. the denser atmosphere of the jungle has made the dream land darker, but various forms of bio-luminescent lights from mushrooms, flowers and some other plants, and small insects. All in all, this jungle light show was, mesmerizing.

“So beautiful.” Was all Twilight could say, as the lights of this dreamworld jungle bedazzled her, and her fellow mares agreed as they could only nod.

As the lights of the jungle and insects continue to wonder the ponies, eyes slowly start to emerge from the bark of the trees that the ponies. They’re distorted irises gleefully looked at the ponies, as they continue to be bewitched by the luminescent light show, roots and vines slowly inching towards the eight mares, where they were snatched up like mice being caught by a snake. The ponies immediately started struggle to get out of the vines, but the vines continued to coil and tighten around them, even the ponies that could use magic couldn’t escape the vines and roots.

“What’s going on?!” Rainbow shouted as she tries to push the vines off her, but they just got tighter.

“The dream world…it’s actually reacting to us, this time!” Luna said as she tries to use her magic to force the vines and roots off herself. But her actions were stopped when she, and the others, heard what sounded like childish laughter and giggles. “Whose there!” Luna barked as she scanned the forest for the owner/s of the laughter.

The ponies then watched as the trees of the jungle began to swirl and spiral around them, the eyes on the trees becoming more prominent as they peered down at the ponies, the luminescent glow of the foliage now becoming more ominous and ill-tiding, than bewitchingly alluring. Then from the meshed together tree tops the ponies saw the image of a pure black snake appear, its scales shimmering from the light of the foliage, causing it to gain a night sky aesthetic, while its eyes looked like swirling stars in an aurora. The ponies felt that the longer they stared into the large reptiles eyes, the felt as if they were being swallowed up in the spiraling galaxy of stars in those shimmering orbs…but in reality, they were being swallowed up. the bodies of the ponies looked they were being twisted and warped, like length of laffy taffy being put through the machine as its being stretched, and folded.

The void of the endless black seas stretched on as far as any could see, the blacken tides rise and fall, crashing into one another as white and blue thunder and lightning strike from the clouds. The ponies could only drift among the ebony sea as drift wood, their eyes in a dazed state as they are berated by crashing waves, the light that flashed in the sky high above them, as their eyes danced with light.

Celestia blinked as she was now staring up at a clear blue sky. she then noticed that she was laying on something extremely soft and plush, turning her head to the side, the aged alicorn found herself on a large white bed, with pillows that are stitched with golden threads. Looking back up the mare continued to look at the crisp blue sky, before watching it rapidly go from early morning, midday, late afternoon to midnight, and back to early morning again.

“Enjoying your sleep Celestia?” the alicorn bolted up right as she heard Anon’s voice. But as she sat up, she found herself back in the same empty void that she and the others started out in, and found her fellow dream walkers scattered about.

“Is everypony alright?” Celestia asked her companions as she slowly rose to her hooves, getting various murmurs of affirmation.

“Yeah, but wow, was that strange.” Twilight said as she rubbed her head. “I was just in this large cavernous room, with all these things that looked like books floating around, but when they opened up these shiny discs things came zipping out, and whenever one touched me I…I don’t know what happened, but it was like I saw different worlds.”

“I didn’t like where I was.” Fluttershy said as she shivered. “It looked Manehatten, but it was all destroyed and frozen in ice and snow.”

Each of the ponies told about the weird things they each either saw, witnessed, or experienced, but as they all began going into details of happened to each of them they heard clapping coming from behind them. slowly turning to look behind then, the ponies were anxious at what they may find, but when they fully tuned to look behind them they found Anon, in a stylish black and midnight blue suit clapping his hands. The ponies rushed off towards the human but the moment they embraced him, the human just turned to smoke, and the ponies once again found themselves in the wrecked cafeteria.

“Okay what is going on!” Rarity screamed, disregarding all of her lady-like manners. Now just thoroughly over with this crazy dream.

“Princess Luna, can’t you just make Anon appear whenever you want?” Pinkie questioned.

“This is my dream.” The ponies jumped as Anon’s voiced echoed in their heads. “And I am the master here.”

The ponies looked frantically everywhere to see if they can find Anon, but the landscape around them just continued to change into various locations, from what looked like a hotel lobby. To a large nature landscape. The ponies eyes could track everything that everything that was flying past them, as the world around just continued to change.

Back in the real world, Discord sat on a large theater chair, 3-D glasses perched on his muzzle, a large bucket of buttered and hot sauce popcorn, and large water gallon soda sitting beside him. As he watched on a flat TV screen floating in front of him, watching the ponies once again entranced by the dancing lights of the jungle. Taking a large paw full of popcorn, Discord munched away noisily on the popcorn, before washing it down with a few big gulps of his soda.

“I don’t think I could have such wonderfully chaotically sporadic dreams like this even if I tried!”

Discord quickly applaud before again taking a big paw full of popcorn, and shoving it into his mouth, as the ponies were now being chased by strange otherworldly creatures with bizarre armor and weapons, before they were sucked through a portal…and were now in a strange looking laboratory, with two oddly shaped robots with singular eyes.

“I have a feeling that this Anon fella, and I would actually be the best of friends.” Discord mused as he snapped his talons, and summoned a big fat hot dog with ketchup, mustard, chocolate sauce and sprinkles. “Maybe after this whole dream thing, I should pop in on Anon and see where we go from there.”

As Discord went back to solely focusing on what was happening on screen, the ponies were in what looked like a drowned city, with screaming and rambling twisted looking Anon’s chasing them. the spirit of chaos could only just grin at what he was watching, as he ate his dog and popcorn slowly as he just, enjoyed what the humans unusual mind just throw, whatever it was dreaming up at the ponies. All of which were either crying, screaming in fright, or just begging for the whole thing to just end.

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It was a bright and sunny morning in Equestria, and in his chambers Anon was sleeping away peacefully, but his sleep soon came to a close as his body decided he’s had enough sleep, and forced the young man to wake up. slowly sitting up in his bed, the groggy eyes of Anon slowly blink the sleep crud that accumulated in his lids, before stretching out his body as he let out a loud yawn. Emerging from his bed Anon made his way over to his rooms bathroom, where he answered the call of nature, giving out a pleasant sigh of relief as his body visibly relaxed. Once his duty to the oval office was over with, Anon quickly hopped into the shower of his room, and started to scrub himself clean. Despite all of the small annoyances that the ponies give him, Anon does appreciate some of the little normal things they do.

“I wonder what I should have for breakfast today.” Anon grumbled as he rinsed the shampoo out of his hair. Perhaps he could try to make something that had a more, savory meat taste to it, course for that to happen he’s going to need some choice ingredients.

“Guess I’m stuck with just my usual breakfast, until I figure out how to get substitutes for what I need.”

Anon exited the shower and began drying himself off, before heading into his room to put on fresh clothes. But as he was getting dressed, Anon noticed how dark it was. Looking out a window, Anon saw that it was still night out, even when it was ten in the morning, scratching his head Anon thought back to the idea he had the other day before going to sleep.

“…I guess whatever I ended up dreaming up, may have been a little to much.” Anon said to himself.

“That would be an understatement.” A sudden voice said which caused Anon to jerk back, and flail while giving a sharp gasp. Turning to see who else was in the room, Anon found Discord just laying down in mid-air.

“Discord? What are you doing here?”

“Oh nothing really, I just came to say bravo my boy, bravo!” Discord cheered as he clapped his paw and eagles talon, while Anon just looked confusedly at the chaos spirit.

“What are you talking about?”

“I talking about that jumbled chaotic mess of a dream you had last night my boy!” Discord said as he stood up straight. “I don’t even I could come up with something so jumbled and mixed up, not to mention simply…abstract.”

“Ah!” Anon said with understanding. “Guess I did go overboard huh?”

“Mhhh. Just a tad.” Discord said as he patted the young mans head. “But don’t worry, I’ve already awaken Luna and Celestia. Things should be going back to normal pretty soon.”

And in a split second, both Anon and Discord saw the moon be replaced by the sun. Anon then looked away from the celestial spectacle, and looked squarely at Discord, who smiled back before snapping his lions paw…where a plate of meat deluxe pizza was pipping hot. Which got Anon to drool as he smelled the cooked meat of the pizza.

“Why don’t you and I try to get to know each other over some comfort food?” Discord said with a grin, while Anon just whipped the drooling saliva away before nodding.