Pov Feel

Present time in a dream

After taking a short break with Night, I started telling her what had happened to me

"When I woke up, they told me a little story about their kind, then they fed me not delicious food, and then me to the arena, where I absorbed anti-magical matter" I told briefly "What happened to you? I ask her, but she doesn't seem to have noticed this question"

"Are you seriously saying that you were able to absorb anti-magic matter?" Night asks again "Well, quickly show your magic core" she orders me

Obeying her command, I close my eyes and try to concentrate on my core. Night waited patiently while I tried to project her into the outside

After a couple of minutes, I manage to reproduce my light outside of myself (fortunately, being in a dream, it is not difficult), we no longer saw a small light, but a whole flame that shimmers with red-blue colors

Night was clearly looking at my flame, walking around her and peering, she tried to find a gap in it, but soon she heard a grunt from her, showing that she had finished

"It's just amazing" she says "You have increased your magic reserve at times and look" she shows with her hoof "These blue outlines of the flame indicate the presence of my magic and there is little of it here, and these red ones, in comparison with the last time, have increased their size by 3 times and now at the moment, your the stock dominates mine"

I nod "There was still a moment that when I absorbed it" I point with my finger "The green color of fire appeared here, but then the red absorbed it"

"I see, you know what it means" I shake my head, indicating that I don't know "This is the red flame, this is the magic of changeling, but because of a strange mutation it is red"

"Wow, now I began to understand what was going on there at all," I said, rubbing my chin

"At the moment, I don't like one situation" she frowns

"And what is it?" I ask her

"Here it is" pointing with a hoof at the blue flame "My source is almost empty! For unknown reasons, we have one blue mana tank and unfortunately, your red one, I can't use it in any way, but you can mine"

"Really, your source is empty because of this?" I point to the pedestal with my hand

Looking where I'm pointing, she nods "Yes, you're right. When you woke up, I was fighting that thing to the fullest, and in the end, after he left, he left us this"

I became very curious and I got up to look at it up close

"Stop" she stops me "What do you want to do"

I wave my hand "Nothing, just looking"

Coming closer, I saw a big black ball with a white dot inside, walking around it, I noticed that the white dot is constantly looking in my direction "Hey Night, this white dot seems to be looking at me" I call her and point my finger at the dot

Suddenly, the black ball starts to sparkle and my hand falls under its pressure on it. At that moment, I was seized by a terrifying pain, starting from my hand and passing right into my head

"Feel!" Night shouts and quickly comes to my aid "Quickly let go of this thing" she tells me

I answer her through pain "I can't, it keeps me"

Night takes hold of my clothes and pulls me in the opposite direction

While she was trying to peel me off from this sphere, strange scenes of people I don't know begin to appear in my head and it seems they are fighting

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"* noise* when you take hold of your head" a woman shouts

"Then when, you stop demanding the impossible from me" the boy shouts

"Children of your age already know what they want to achieve, and you continue to sit at this damn monitor" she shouts

"You don't understand anything, if I could, I have achieved the same and even more"

"If you wanted to, you would start acting, and stay in one place too long"

"When, you leave me alone" crying is heard "I already get it at school, I didn't have enough to hear complaints at home"

"That's it, young man, you are punished for today and you lose your computer" there is a rumble and the sound of the door closing

"Well, that's great!" a sarcastic answer is heard "I don't need anything from you" then a quiet crying followed "Nothing is needed" the boy said in a low voice

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At this point, an excerpt of this scene breaks off, music and scenes of drawn nightmares begin to seep into my head, which is not clear to me

Soon, the balloon releases me and I fall sweating on my back, the Night and looks worriedly into my eyes

"Are you all right?" she asks

"I don't know," I answer, putting my hand to my forehead "I saw a strange scene of a quarrel, and then strange things began to penetrate into my head," I start looking at my hands "And now, my hands are itching a lot"

Unknowingly, my hands light up with a red flame, a strange thing appears in my hands, and there were string steel on it

"How did you do that? And why would you do that?" she asks me

"I don't understand what the hell is happening to me," I tell her in a panic "I don't even know what it is" and throw this thing aside

This object disappears in the same fire as it appeared and then it reappears from the flame in my hands

"A-A-A-A-A" I shout "what is it"

"Calm down," she says "It's just a guitar"

"Guitar? And why is it needed me? And why are you calm?"

"CALM DOWN!" she shouts at me and I calm down "It's just a musical instrument and honestly, I expected more terrible things from this balls"

"A musical instrument?" she nods "And how to play it?"

"I won't help you here, if you haven't noticed" he points to his hoof "I don't have hands and therefore, I don't know how people play. Try it simply, swipe the strings with your fingers"

Not knowing how to do it, I started running my fingers over the strings with my eyes closed and didn't notice how my hands started doing everything on their own

After finishing the melody, the guitar evaporates in a red flame and the two of us sat in shock from what was happening

"How did you do that?" she asks with her jaw hanging open

"I-I-I don't know how I did it myself" I stuttered "But somehow I felt calmer in my soul"

"I don't know how you did it, but it's very relaxing"

After sitting in silence for a while, Night decided to change the subject

"I don't understand how the guitar and what you saw in the ball are connected, but let's deal with my problem now"

"I'm all for it!" I exclaim "So, what are your suggestions?"

She stands on all four hooves and says in a serious voice "We are going into someone else's dreams"

I looked at her with my jaw open, trying to figure out if she was joking or not, but she didn't even raise an eyebrow, she was serious

"Are you serious now?" I ask her

"I'm absolutely serious" she answers me "The workouts that I told you last time, at the moment, are very slow and we don't know when that guy from the door will return, and therefore, I decided to go in a more humane, but effective way"

"Y-yes," I scratch my head "And how are other people's dreams connected with another method?"

"Let me explain everything to you in more detail" she sits down in front of me, clears her throat and continues "As you know, I can control your sleep. But, I am subject not only to yours, but to all living beings in Equestria, unfortunately, due to some circumstances, I cannot leave your dream. And I thought, if you and I are so tightly connected, then why don't we try to go to the land of dreams together. I will be" pointing at myself with a hoof "an adapter between dreams, and you" pointing at me "the instigator of all dreams"

"I understand your idea, but what will I do there?"

"There's nothing complicated here" she begins to smile "you just go into someone else's dream and make a nightmare out of it"

"Wait, wait, do you want Me to create nightmares? Why would I make other people have nightmares?" I ask her

"How should I tell you, my main source of magic is nightmares. The stronger the pony, or rather the person is afraid of a nightmare, the stronger I become"

I shrank into myself and I felt awkward "And how is it, uh, to do a nightmare?"

"It's simple" she has a predatory smile that her fangs have become visible "You look at what the victim dreams about and do everything the other way around and worse"

"Just the opposite?"

"Yes, on the contrary. For example, if the victim dreams of money, then change the money for insects. If she craves attention, then make him a freak and so on" she licks her lips "I also recommend adding scary objects or monsters, complete success is considered if the victim wakes up from fear" she finishes talking, and the smile does not disappear from her face

I watched her and realized that she was enjoying this moment and was created for this

I didn't like the idea of spoiling someone's sleep, and therefore, I decided to change the subject

"Let's still try to figure out my magic, huh?" I suggest to her

Her expression immediately changes from a happy one to a more gloomy and serious one "Do you even understand what situation we are in?" she begins to speak in raised tones "I'm here, I fought for life and death, do you understand that?" She goes on shouting "IT COULD HAVE KILLED ME! YOU UNDERSTAND ME!" after shouting a little, she continued to speak softly "Oh, I'm very weak now, my magic is almost at zero and only you can help me"

She looked at me, and I looked at her, trying to convince each other of something, but soon, her azure-blue eyes defeated me and I nod in defeat

She smiled joyfully and said to me "It's necessary right away, now let's hurry up, the night is not eternal" on this word she sighs

I exhale wearily and approach her, waiting for further action

At Night, the horn lights up and in front of us, a white door with black dots appears "This is your dream door, when you enter it, a number of doors will appear in front of you, these will be doors to other people's dreams, choose the one that you like and boldly enter it. Do what you want in it, but you have to make it a nightmare. Do you understand?"

Nodding in agreement, I reach for the door handle to open it, but stop and turn to Night to ask a question

"And how will I get out of someone else's dream" I asked, waiting for an answer

"Yes, about this, I usually worked alone, but you need to come up with a team" she sat down and started thinking

After waiting for a couple of minutes, I decided to offer my own version "Tell me, you will hear me" after a sign of agreement, I continued "Come on, I'll clap my hands three times" show you how "And this will be a sign to get me out of someone else's dream"

"As you want" she waves it off "Go already, time is not rubber"

I nod and reach for the door again to open it. When I opened it, I was blinded by a bright light and only, after a while, my vision returned

When my vision returned, the first thing I saw was the night sky sprinkled with stars and it was everywhere, floor and sky, it was like I was flying through the sky, but I was standing still "A strange feeling" I thought

Next, what caught my eye was a long two rows of doors that go to the very edge of the horizon and in the horizon itself, a large and blue moon was visible, with a strange pattern in the form of a unicorn

"Yes, it's quite a beautiful sight" I make a verdict

After standing and watching this picture, I immediately hear the voice of Night

"What has become a woodpecker, act faster, I won't be able to hold you for a long time" she chastises me

"Okay, okay" I say into the void "I'm here for the first time, let me enjoy this beautiful picture"

The answer came not immediately and with notes of joy "Okay, look, but not for long"

I stood with my head thrown back and looked at the sky "Yeah, I look strange from the side," I thought and went to look at the doors

Without thinking for a long time, I approach the first door that was on my way, because they were all one black color and no different. Stretching out my hand to the handle and about to open it, the door immediately sucks in to me as soon as I touched it

♦Be careful, then there are scenes of blood and violence♦

From the rapid change of scenery, I began to feel sick. After holding out so that I didn't throw up, I began to look around at what was around me

I was standing in the same arena where my trial took place, only now, I was standing in the spectator's place and watching me? I looked at myself and saw a different scenario of what was happening

There was a real massacre or a real beating in the arena, where I was in the main roles and some changeling that I didn't know was beating me

Words of support were heard from the stands, but not in my address

"BEAT, BEAT, BEAT" the synchronous hum of the stands sounded

And together with him, they shouted the name of the man who beat me, his name was Risk

He mocked me in every possible way, beat me, broke my bones, and even at such a moment, I did not hear myself

At the moment when he broke my legs, he stopped and stood over my body, which was still breathing

"Because of you, I have problems" he says and turns towards the stands "Well, brothers and sisters" he shouts "What do you want?"

"FINISH HIM, FINISH HIM, FINISH HIM" the tribune shouts

I stood in complete shock and could not believe my ears, I wanted to stop it, but my body was completely numb, looking at my hands and feet, I noticed blue smoke that enveloped me and I heard a familiar voice Night

"Wait and see" she says to me "You have to feel it"

I struggled with her fetters, but I could not move, having measured my defeat, I just had to watch

Suddenly, a long kitchen knife enters the arena and Risk, seeing such a weapon, smiles in all his teeth and goes to pick it up

"I heard the desire of the audience" he says "But what does our dear mother want" he turns to her

Looking to the side where Chrysalis was, I saw her showing her fist with her thumb down

Risk saw the answer and started laughing wildly "Your desire is the law for me"

He began to approach my body, which was still breathing, but could not move. Standing at me, he takes my head by the hair and raises it to the level of his head, he turned his face to the viewing stands so that we would be the first to see the murder scene

He slowly brings the knife to his throat, showing that he is fully ready for action

I stood and trembled, my muscles no longer listened to me and only thanks to Night I was still standing

Risk, enjoyed the moment and did not want to interrupt it, so he began to do everything slowly, the knife enters my throat at a slow pace, blood streamed down the knife and through my body, I saw my double's eyes roll to his forehead from pain and only a quiet gurgle from his mouth reaches the stands

There was complete silence and it lasted until my head was cut off. When he completely cut off the head, the body fell loudly to the ground and only a happy Risk raises my head as a trophy

The tribunes began to rejoice and praise his victory

Night has stopped holding my body and I fall to my knees, holding my vomit from this sight

She sighs and speaks softly in my ear "I rarely apologize to anyone, but you forgive me" stroking my head "What you saw shows what is hidden inside everyone, you can't trust everything and everyone" slowly, a blue fog begins to envelop me, as if she is hugging me "Fortunately for you, you have me, who will always be there" the blue fog begins to dissolve "And therefore, show what a Nightmare is, show that in a quiet pool, there are hydra" she finished

When she finished speaking, that fire wakes up in me that I don't like, but the one I needed right now "Rage"

I get up and watch how Risk rejoices in his victory and kicks my head like a ball, I wanted to take revenge on him and snap my fingers that were shrouded in blue and red fire

The light around us completely disappears and one spotlight is lit, which illuminates only one Risk

"What's going on?" he wonders

Then, a loud crunch of bones is heard behind his back, he turns around at the sound and at this moment, the second spotlight turns on, which began to illuminate the place of my double

The double, in turn, stood all broken on his crooked legs, in places, open bones were visible, arms bent in abnormal directions, stood without a head

Risk, stood still and did not understand what was happening here, not knowing fear, he boldly approaches my standing corpse at point-blank range, with a grin on his face

"It looks like someone wanted more," he says, flexing his hands to continue "And I don't mind repeating it" and swings for a blow

Unexpectedly for him, the corpse with a characteristic crunch catches his blow and stops his pressure

"It wasn't in the plans" says Risk and begins to worry a little

The corpse held him with one hand and did not want to let him go, so Risk decides to hit his stomach with the other hand. The blow was successful, as he thought, a new row of crunching ribs was heard

"Well, I got it" shouts Risk "And now let me go"

But unexpectedly for him, the chest of my corpse began to slowly suck it into itself

"Hey, stop," he shouts in a panic and tries to kick the corpse "Who am I telling, stop"

The corpse had already swallowed half of his arm and was not going to stop there, and Risk was screaming in panic and calling for help. Looking at this picture, I understood one thing "I like it" and I did not notice that my eyes were burning with a bright red light and the smile was getting wider

Suddenly, the corpse stopped sucking Risk into itself and they froze in the same position. As soon as he thought that he had been carried away, quietly under his feet, the sound of something crawling was heard. When he looked in the direction of the sound, he was completely stunned, the head of the corpse approached with quiet steps, which had spider legs

"AAAAA" he shouted in hysterics "Don't come, get out" he shouted

But no one listened to him, the head began to climb on his body and stopped at the level of his eyes

Risk started to shake a little from this sight and he was ready to wake up at any moment

The corpse's head with white pupils approached his head and slowly began to expand its mouth, showing dozens of rows of razor-sharp teeth. He was crying and screaming in fear, begging for it all to stop

Deciding to end the performance on this, I abruptly appear behind his back and with a sharp movement, turn him towards me and hit him in the face

After that, I am immediately thrown out of his dream and I see his door evaporating

I was sitting in space, surrounded by a bunch of doors, but I didn't want to do anything anymore

Suddenly, Night comes up to me, sits down next to me, in a quiet and calm voice tells me "I'm proud of you"

I didn't answer anything, only in my hand from the red fire, a guitar already familiar to me appears and I don't consciously start playing a song to calm down

To be continued…….

Author's Note

Hey, it's been less than a week, and I'm already here with a new chapter

A heavy burden fell on the shoulders of our main character, especially at his age. Write if you want me to skip such "nightmares", or write what you want to read, what he will have to work with

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Do you like music? I really like it, and even more - to dream in them. So, when it comes to Nightmare Moon, the first song that comes to my mind (excluding fan songs) is Disturbed - The Night. Listening to this, I am filled with the whole essence of the night. What do you think?
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