Nightmare Road

by FlawlessFlaw

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Tragedy, Sad
Length: 1390

Everypony has a nightmare,don't they?

Twilight Sparkle,Celestia's most faithful student,has been an alicorn these days…
If a nightmare isn't real to you nor her,a disgusting,or any bad experience will do the job in giving you the creeps in your dreams…
As Twilight walks the long road,she'll notice some things,things that she feared most of…
Not just a failure to a princess,but a sudden death of someone that you love are also your fears…

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-02-26 10:30:04 UTC

Dead End

The nightmare begins...

         The library became darker itself,Twilight woke up,she looked at the window.And everything was gone...Another thing that she noticed,Spike from his bed was gone,so was Ponyville,everything remained pitch,dark blackness.No stars in sight,it looks like a dream,but it could not be a dream...

The mare sparked a magic of light,once she struck it near towards Spike's bed,the blanket was stained with harsh blood,Twilight felt paranoid at first sight...

"Spike..." Twilight sighed. "Where is that dragon...?" She took a jump,getting off bed.She trotted down the stairs,and she still saw the stripes of blood.She feared that Spike was murdered...

She walked farther down the library,and the library got more darker,Twilight burst her aura more so she would have a chance to see everything more.When she stopped,looked around,she saw some writings on the floor and walls.But the most terrifying would be this message,looking like it was made from chalk,but it wasn't...

Don't look back,don't look up,don't turn around...

No matter what you do,no matter where you go...

He'll always get you...

This pushed the alicorn's nerves,she accidentally turned her light off,the surroundings are all dark,Twilight screamed at the first moment.A few seconds,the light switched back on,and the mare gasped in dismay...

"A dead...end?" Twilight read the note,it was a "DEAD END".But the previous note kept Twilight from looking back,she can't turn left nor right,and the back is the only way to get out of the corner.

Stubbornly behaviors of herself,Twilight can't stand anymore so she decided to do what should not be done,to turn back.As she turned back,she saw the most disgusting scenery of he whole life,a scene that looked almost fake,or was it just all from a dream?

Twilight screamed for the second time,she saw dead bodies of Spike,handing a knife.Her remaining five friends had terrible pictures and poses neither,Applejack's head cut off with oozing blood from it,Rarity's organs cut ferociously and sewed into dresses with a large stain of blood,Fluttershy became the rotten raw food from the undead animals,and the beast fed on her too.

"Guys...?" The purple mare approached one of the dead bodies,Rainbow Dash's.The rainbow-colored mane and tail was cut off,drained their following colors.Rainbow's eyes and her organs were spread out of her body,spraying blood until there will be all none. "Pinkie...?" Pinkie's body was next,her cutiemark was completely cut off,her rib cages and skeletons are cut off,even her flesh was consumed already.

There was a sign of unease,the room turned dark,and somehow Twilight couldn't use her magic.Any thing she'd done,she can't make a single spark,she remember the second stanza of the note:

No matter what you do,no matter where you go...

She turned her head back a few degrees,she saw the light,the light leading to freedom,or,won't it not? "I'm sure it's safe..." Twilight sighed,looking back to her friends,she thus,abandoned them,and went to the light,it was the floor farther down the library...

"Goodness,good thing it wasn't true..." Twilight panted.But no,it wasn't the end of it,once she opened her eyes,she screamed for the third time,eight haunting dead bodies,which belonged to Princess Celestia,Princess Luna,Shining Armor,Princess Cadence,her mother,her father,and her "own" alicorn self.

It was a terrifying sight,the wall had a writing with another dead end.The eight bodies were exactly tied with iron shackles  tightly.The sun goddess' horn was cut off,her wings were gone,making her body bleed,her bones were gone too,and her flesh is being consumed by beasts.Luna was on the same situation too,her eyeballs were plopped out,causing bleeding.Cadence's body spread alot of blood,her heart was pumped out,and crushed.Shining's hooves and head was cut off together,and all was left was his body,drooling like blood.Her mom and dad was nothing left but all bones...

"Twilight Sparkle" A voice shouted.There appeared to be the same pony she had met,but a corrupted face he had,and he was stained all over by blood,he even handled a large scythe in his back.

"Y-You..." The mare glared at him. "How could you..do this?!"  She tried of launching towards him,but she felt something cold and bloody against her back and hooves,it was the eight ponies hooves,dragging Twilight.

"You see my dear," The dark stallion grinned. "You have good occupations of being a princess,but there's something I disapprove you of.."

"What...what is it?!" The mare shouted infront of him,while still getting drawn near and consumed by the undead of her loved. "If you don't like something of me,I don't care!"

"Don't try to use your magic,you'll be dead" He replied. "I just don't like how you act with those puny elements,they just teach basic friendship to little kiddies"

"No it wasn't!" Twilight groaned,her last bit of magic was her last chance,as she charged it,she thought she was able to get out of the nightmare,but teleported in the place where her friend's bodies were kept. "Oh no,the doors locked and the windows are sealed!" She tried to open the door,but it flickered.

"Don't run away my dear" The stallion chuckled. "Don't worry,this won't hurt for awhile..."

The corpses of her friends and royal family covered her way,they launched at each other and grabbed Twilight.The mare can't do anything but to helplessly feel the pain from herself and from them.And for a few minutes,the princess screamed at the top of her lungs and became unconscious,after that,the beasts and the dead feasted on her,consuming all of her organs and body...

Why,do we everypony,have to feel this pain?

Does this mean we deserve punishment?

Was it just because of our behaviors?

I don't know either,life is both a struggle and a mystery...

"Spike!" Twilight gasped,waking out of her dream. "Spike,are you awake?" She said,removing the blanket from the bed.

"Chill down Twilight..." Spike woke up,stretched his arms and scratched his back. "But..what was that for?" He said,and went down to his bed. "Did you have a dream?"

"A nightmare..." Twilight sighed. "It was...a violence dream..."

Spike heard what she said as he walked down the stairs,he chuckled and answered. "That's okay Twi,forget about all of it,and you'll be perfectly fine today..."

"You're right Spike" Twilight nodded,and followed him. "Nightmares aren't really real..."

Twilight and Spike had a peaceful breakfast,their day was good as yet,nothing happened else in Twilight's life after Spike comforted her...

"And then there were none..."

Nightmares don't "exist"

Nightmares...

                       It was a starry night at Ponyville,and Twilight became a princess a few days ago,after the coronation at Canterlot.And she'd thought everything was a dream,but it was reality.But,something happened in the garden when Twilight was walking about and taking a break walking around.

Somepony strange that she'd ever met...

That night,at Twilight's big library in Ponyville...

"Twilight,since when do you eager to become a princess,actually?" Spike asked,looking at all the books scattered on the floor."You know what,if you could just take a rest and read these kind of books next day?"

"Spike,I have no time for you!" Twilight moaned,reading a pile of books about a princess' duties and what she could do,infact,a lot of books are scattered. "When I'm done reading,help me clean this mess"

"But Twilight" Spike complained. "I've been cleaning alot just like yesterday! Don't just always depend me on the cleaning here!"

Twilight sighed,she knew she always disappoints her loyal servant because she always orders him to clean her mess and "his" own mess without stopping.She decided to stop reading,and deal with it.

"Spike," Twilight sighed and turned towards him. "I'm sorry,I know how you feel...So,instead,should I clean this all by myself?" She asked,levitating the books one by one.

"Aw shucks Twilight..." Spike blushed,and got the other remaining books. "Of course I forgive you,I know how you feel too about how hard you are about the studies you are having" He then placed the books on the correct shelves in order.

"That's my Spike!" Twilight smirked,she levitated a wooden stair for Spike to sort the books with all her effort and help for him,after that,they all sighed and went to their respective beds.

"Night Twily!" Spike smiled. "Have a good dream!"

"Good dream too,my servant" Twilight smiled back. "Be sure to get the blanket on to not catch a..." But before the purple mare ever finish her sentence,Spike was already asleep,Twilight giggled,and placed the blanket on the dragon by magic...

"Dreams..." Twilight spoke to herself as she looked at the stars after the windows. "Always just dreams to everypony,there are no such things as nightmares..." She faced towards the sleeping dragon.

"Am I right,spike?"