My Terrible Nightmare

I open my eyes…

I think my eyes are open..

Are they?

I feel like I can here a type of ambiance but, at the same time, I can’t.

Suddenly, I see a bright light get brighter below me, and I see something fly up and stop in front, eventually fading to where it looked like I’m standing on the ground in an alley way.

It’s all blurry as hell, but I see 2 figures, looks to be ponies, one of them looks to be holding something, and the other one looks to be holding something small, and moving a bit.

Something sharp.

I see their faces look towards me, my vision slowly beginning to tower over them, my gaze moving towards the one with the smaller object, and their eyes fading to black instead of white, and looks to be crying ink.

I see a gust of what looks to be a maroon color, fly out of that one pony and float towards me, eventually the pony turning a dark grey color and collapsing.

I look over to the pony holding the small moving object, which I heard noises and it sounded like it was dying.

My perspective then became small and my eyesight was in line with theirs. The cries started to get louder, and it was a baby crying? I started to see the face of the pony holding it and it looked like she was screaming in terror from what just happened.

Wh-whats going on? What.. what did I do? Why is it getting louder? Make it stop.. make it stop! MAKE. IT. STOP.

”AHHHHHHHHH!!!”

My head shot up, the only noise I heard after my scream is my heart beating fast. I sit there in a cold sweat, panting hard. I’ve never had a dream that intense before.. and I usually don’t scream awake.

I sit there stumped, eventually thinks if Twilight and Spike heard me. Hopefully not since I believe their upstairs and I’m downstairs. I still sit there, putting a hoof up to my chest. I think back to the nightmare I just had.

Did I just kill someone? Is that why it looked like I took their soul and they just slumped over? I guess it was a baby they were holding in their arms. Was that girl getting robbed?

I felt a headache and my hoof moved up towards the spot, clenching my teeth and shutting my eyes. After a minute of the pain it stopped, me dropping my hoof to my side and staring at the bed sheets. I then look over to the small clock on the nightstand, and it said 5:24. I didn’t see a pm or am, so I just figured it was 5 in the morning.

Hopefully it wasn’t 5 in the afternoon, never would have slept through the entire day and missed meeting up with Shadow and the others at Rarity’s boutique. I climb out of bed and walk to the door, opening it and cracking it a bit. It was dark. I close the door and walk back to the bed, climbing in and shuffling myself underneath the blankets. I shut my eyes, still feeling tired, so it won’t be long til’ I fall back asleep.

I wake up again. No dream this time. Just darkness. I look over at the clock again.

1 pm. 1... 1?!

I sit up, rubbing my eyes and rushing to the bathroom. I look alright I guess. I turned on the water and put my hooves underneath it, getting them wet. I then pulled them back and shook them a bit, then dragged them across my hair, since my hair is really poofy, I usually damp it with some water to hopefully seize the frizziness for a bit. I turn off the water and then run back into the bedroom, grabbing the hoodie from the bed and shoved it on me, eventually getting one of my feet.. Fuck. I mean hooves.. through the arm hole.

I dart through the door and close it behind me with the back of my hoof, and I start running. It feels weird running on all fours, but it does give me more speed than two. I see the entrance, or exit in this case, to the castle. I slid to a hairy in front of it and open the door, pulling it with some difficulty, but opening it enough for me to squeeze through the crack and then close it. I carefully go down the stairs and I suppose gallop towards the boutique. I just realized I don’t really know where it is so I just looked around while I was galloping.

Then I hear it. A baby cry. I slid to a hault again, but since I was running on dirt, I tripped over a pile of dirt and fell on my side. I got up quickly, and heard another cry. I freeze.

Is that.. No.. is it?

I asked myself. I then heard screams of not a baby, but a woman, and sounds like a dude yelling?

Wait. Was my dream a vision?!

”NO PLEASE!! I DON’T HAVE ANY BITS! PLEASE JUST LEAVE ME AND MY BABY ALONE!

My mind gets the better of me and walk over to the screaming and I peek around the corner, seeing a pastel pink pony with a pastel magenta baby, the guy trying to rob her was a maroon color. She sees me peering around. Her eyes were filled with terror, her pupils pin pricks. I believe the dude saw her dart her gaze towards me and turn around, glaring at me.

”Stand back horn head! If any magic happens, I’ll slice this mare apart!”

He stands in front of her. She peeked around, her eyes beginning to leak out tears, her baby continuing to cry.

The only magic I know is that explosion, and of course that’ll hurt the lady. They both are earth ponies after all.

Don’t tell him you don’t know magic or you are also in danger.. unless you run.

,’Don’t Run’,

That… wasn’t my thought..

,’I guess it’s time for me to come out and play..~’,

I begin to feel faint, I think losing conscious for a second, getting a massive headache and my vision starts to become… purple? The last thing I see before things start to become more purple, blurry and muffled, I see the muggers face turn almost white, him looking like a giant meteor was lunging right at him. My vision fully turns purple, and all I hear is what I believe is muffled screams.

Did I… hurt them?

,’Everything is fine.’,

My vision comes back to me and I see the maroon pony collapse on the ground, the pink pony’s mouth agape, the baby still crying. I stumble a bit and shake my head, staring down at the ground. I slowly look up at the mare.

The front of my face feels tingly, but I shove that aside as I back away from her, then run off. I start to run, wanting to look back to see if she was following me. Why would she follow me? I then see something big and white in the corner of my eye. It’s Rarity’s place. I make a quick right turn and dash for the building.

I don’t know what time it is, but hopefully they’re all there. Even Shadow. I start to slow down, but a rock of course blocked my hoof to where I tripped, and tumbled, my back slamming into the door. I get up quick, wipe my shoulder, and gently knock.

”Oh! ZJ, welcome! We all thought you got lost! Oh my, is your horn alright?

Rarity was the one that opened the door.

”What? My horn? Yeah I’m fine, accidentally ran into the door from such a rush hah! It doesn’t hurt I’m fine!

”Oh! Then did you color it? It does have a nice design.”

I blinked a bit at her and tried looking at my horn. She stepped a side for me to walk in, also giving me the intention to show me a mirror to see what happened to my horn.

Everyone smiled but then had all surprised faces on. Rarity then floated over a mirror and I saw.. maroon color? My horn was a maroon color going down my face and stopped at my muzzle. It looks like i jabbed someone with my horn and the blood dried. I thought about earlier and my mind went racing.

”Wow! That looks nice on you! Did you get it to match your cutie mark?”

Rainbow Dash flew over to talk with me. Everyone else started to gather around, me seeing Ace sitting near the corner. I felt like I had to talk to him about it, but I wasn’t sure.

”Uhhh sure! Haha! Uhm so, did you guys start or?”

Rairity placed the mirror down, walking over to some outfits.

”Nope! We were just talking waiting for you to arrive! But I have some outfits for you guys to choose from as I help out the girls with their dresses! Mostly to add to what theirs were the last gala. I just have to get them from my closet! Come on girls!”

They all started giggling and talking to one another as they headed their way to the closet, me and Ace going over to the rack where some clothes were hanging from, me instantly grabbing an all black suit, while Ace looked at a navy blue suit. The one I picked had a rose in it, which I didn’t mind, but I guess it was proper to have a rose in the front pocket, but I didn’t mind.

I believe 30 minutes passed and the mane 6 came back with their dresses on, seeing if we were done as well. Ace was wearing the navy blue suit having a black bow tie around his neck. I was wearing the black suit with the rose in the front pocket, and the shirt part being white. The shirt part was stitched to the front so it looked like you were wearing a shirt underneath, which I had to wear during school pictures, but I guess that was every school since it was easy to put on an off.

”You guys look amazing! I love the rose!”

I nodded to Twilight’s remark.

”Do they fit right? I can add some things onto it if you want to match your marks if you’d like.

Me and Ace looked at each other.

”Uhm? Sure, but just don’t overdo it please. I wanna be able to uhm. Walk. Heh.”

I chuckled slightly, hopefully the awkward moment would pass, and it did with Rarity laughing it of as well.

”Oh haha! Of course darling! I’ll get to the changes right away to be ready for the gala tomorrow!”

All the girls smiled and began to talk again, me and Ace just smiling at each other.

”You look really good in black.”

Ace told me. I felt the corner of my lips curl, making a slight smile.

”You as well man. Blue is really nice on ya.”

He smiled and nodded.

After a bit we all took the outfits off for Rarity to fix for later, and we all headed out to go to our chores or to just go home and relax. I went to Ace’s place to hang out for a bit, and maybe discuss more cutie marks.

We all walked out and saw what looks like ponies in white clothes? Some unicorns carrying medical kits and a stretcher. Everyone started looked at each other, except me, which probably knows where their going to. The mane 6 starts rushing over, as well as Ace. I made my way as well, but not really in a rush.

When I made it over, my heart stopped. The mugger from earlier was on the ground, his body a pale color than his original, his eyes grey in hue, and a terrified expression frozen on his face. I only looked at the lady earlier, and never really looked at the guy. Speaking of, I saw her in the corner of my eye. I glanced over quickly, hopefully her not looking at me. She was looking at the paramedics surrounding him, what seems to be her husband was next to her, him holding the child.

”BEAR!! BEAR WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO YOU?!”

I shot my gaze over to… oh no. It’s Mud Rock. He shoved some medics aside and was shaking his.. brother… friend, the dude, but the medics and cops brought him aside, eventually a unicorn officer restrained him with his magic, then releasing home once they put the hurt pony in the back of the ambulance. Funny that the ambulances are just painted white carriages that have a cover and a red cross on each side.

I kept watching, but probably shouldn’t have because his eyes darted towards my direction, but then away again, him realizing I was looking at him and he slowly looked in my direction. I haven’t felt more scared in my life other than countless personal problems. I see his eyes turn into pin pricks, and he stared at me, not losing his gaze, seeing his eyebrows furrow, but still keep the shocked angry look.

He muttered something under his breath, which I didn’t really make out, but then he dragged his hoof across his throat and pointed it at me, and kept pointing until I didn’t see him no more. I gulped, looked to my right and jumped a bit, Pinkie’s face right next to me.

”What’s wrong Little Z? You’ve been shaking a little bit. I saw that pony look at you, doesn’t seem really nice. You ok?”

I didn’t answer for a good 5 seconds. I parted my mouth, then slowly closed it, eventually looking at Ace who looked at me.

”Ace. I need to tell you something. Private.”

I said private in a more irritated tone. He slowly nodded, and I started walking away. He looked at the mane 6 and then saw that I was a bit always and he clambered after me.

”So what happened?”

I kept looking in front of me, heading towards his house.

”I’ll tell you when we’re in your house.”

He nodded, and we proceeded.