True Fear

Chapter three

Nightmares

"Nightmare?" Bright questioned the princess of the night.

"..."

"Yes, actually I keep getting the same nightmare though. Is it important?"

"We don't know ... we have been getting them too."

"What?! But I thought you controled dreams?!"

"Yes, other's dreams or nightmares but not my own. That is the problem with control... you lose your own in place of another's."

"What is it about?"

"What?"

"Your nightmare, what is it about?"

"..."

"Princess?"

"We... I... can't talk about it, sorry it is just too much..."

"Yes mam."

"What about your's Bright?"

"Mine? Well it is personal... it is that night again and again... their faces. If... if only I was me back then... then maybe they could've... maybe they would be... sorry princess it is just too much for me."

"Your's is a horrible memory and our's is horrible as well. Could this be a link...?"

"Princess?"

"Yes, Bright?"

"Why did you ask me when you could have looked for yourself?"

"Respecting personal wall went help is not needed."

"Princess! Princess Luna!" a lunar guard gallops up to the two he looks like the typical lunar guard but that could just me the transformation, it sometimes covers differences in ponys. His mark is also covered by the armor he wore.

"Yes?"

"There is something coming this way!"

The trio rushed to the observation tower room.

"What?! Where is Crusher?!"

"Oh Crusher can't come at this moment please come later or you can play with me to pass the time."

A shadowy mist accumulated in front of the trio. In the mist was but slightly dimmed lights two infact. Those small blobs of light moved up and down. It seemed as if scanning the group.

"What art thow?"

"you...You don't remember me......again...then I would be glad if you would join in my little game."

The mist quickly flew over the trio and encompassed them. They all coughed and gasped for air in the dark mist the last one to fall was Luna but before she fell she whispered, "Why?".

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Bright Night awoke in a chamber it seemed with only one torch and it was to her left. She struggled up to all four of her hooves and gazed into the darkness. With the help of the transformation spell she could see better in the dark but not completely. She saw three hallways stretching from the center in which she stood. She was already facing one of the hallways so she ventured off into the darkness.

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Luna struggled up slightly feeling dazed from the lack of oxygen. She tried to focus her vision. When it returned though she saw a lantern with a single burning candles placed inside. She picks it up in her jaw, trying not to use her magic in her shaken state. After another gaze around the small room she was in she found a hallway branched out from the room. She pressed on having no where else to go but the hallway. After walking for a while she found some paintings on the wall. But the way it looked to be done was like a child's book. There was word's at the bottom but they looked old, ancient in fact. These words hadn't been spoken or written in over fourteen hundred years. Luna trotted closer to examine it better.

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"Wake up, Striker. Come on, wake up!"

"Huh!" the colt swayed then bounced up to a standing position.

"Who said that?"

He stood there waiting for an answer but received non, he let his head down in disappointment.

"Striker you lazy bum. Get over here!"

"Rose! I'm coming!!"

The night guard stallion fought and pulled against his own body and its fatigue as he dashed form the square room, with two light sources a lantern and a torch on either side, to the darkened hallway and into complete darkness not allowing his eyes to adjust or even stopping for anything of any matter.

"Rose, I wouldn't let you go again!!!"

"Come on Striker you lazy bum."

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"One by one the three come from the same place but chosen different paths, how did these beings ever hold power over us!"

"The truth is they never did, but they haven't found it out yet."