Chapter: 2
Cadence POV:
As I stand outside Owen's door to get him for breakfast. I couldn't help but think about the memories I got from him yesterday. He may not have shown it, but I can tell he's hurting emotionally. No one can adapt that fast to leaving an entire family, an entire life behind. Then there is his blood oath. To an immortal of all beings. I'm still trying to understand why he did that, but I suppose it was his decision to swear himself to auntie. He was right about me now technically being his big sister as I had seen basically his entire life as if I had been there. I had always wanted a sibling but it never ended up happening or ever will. So I may have gotten ahead of myself with wanting him to call me his sister. I was pulled out of my pondering by aunt Luna coming in my direction. She looked rather bothered about something
"Auntie Luna what wrong?" I ask a bit concerned. She passed me to open Owen's door
"He is having a nightmare," she said rather hurriedly as she opened the door. I instantly go in after her. A nightmare? What could he be having a nightmare about? my train of thought stops when I see him tossing and turning in the bed muttering something. Luna quickly goes to one side of the bed while I go to the other. I start to shake him
"Owen. Owen! Wake up!" I say trying to wake him up. He suddenly sits straight up tears going down his face. He then curls his knees to his chest while mumbling 'I didn't want to, I didn't want to.' Luna looks over to me with a sad look in her eye. She motions her head toward him. I nod. "Owen," I say softly while putting a hoof on his shoulder. He jumps and looks to me
"Cadence?" He seems to say as if to assure himself. I nod. He proceeds to hug me. I hug him back
Luna's POV:
As Cadence calms Owen down I can't help but think of the nightmare that put him in that state. To carry a fear like that. Then to have his nightmares bring that fear to life. I can only think how often he has had that specific nightmare.I notice he has calmed down considerably as he looks over to me. I sensed some underlying mental trauma but that will have to wait.
Owen's POV:
As I look over to Luna after my slight breakdown because of that nightmare. Normally that nightmare wouldn't have bothered me but, this time it just felt so… real. It felt like I was actually there. That I was… was… no, I don't want to even think about it. Unfortunately, it's all I can think about. If you wondering what I'm freaking out about it's the fact that I just had a nightmare about killing. no. slaughtering my entire family with no control over my actions. Yeah, that's my normal nightmare. Sometimes they're worse, but most of the time I don't dream. I wipe the rest of the tears from my face.
"I'm fine now," I say reassuringly, to them or to myself I don't know. They both seem to accept that for now. "*Ahem* I don't mean to sound indifferent to what just happened but Luna I can understand, but what did you come for Cadence?" I ask her.
"I came to get you for breakfast that's when auntie came hurrying down the hall saying that you were having a nightmare." She explained. I turn to Luna
"Did you see what was in my nightmare?" I asked wanting to know if she had seen that horror. She nodded
"It was horrible to see you slaughtering your own ki-" Luna starts
"Family. that was my family," I cut in softly. Rubbing the last vestiges of sleep from my eyes. "I had no control of my actions as always, but this time it felt… it felt. Real. like I was actually there doing that" I continue. When I say that Luna gains this look of sympathy
"I too know what it's like attacking family without being in control," Luna admits. I know she is referring to when she was Nightmare Moon.
"Hey, wanna hear a joke?" I say trying to lighten the mood of the rather depressed room.
"Umm, sure?" She says a bit confused
"What do you call a bear with no teeth." I begin
"I don't know. What?"
"A gummy bear." I finish. They groaned then laughed at that "don't worry I have more"
I told a few more bad jokes. I got them laughing pretty hard at some of them. Apparently, we had taken so long that Celestia had started wondering where we were because she had also joined us in the room as I said "What did the skeleton tile their roof with? " I ask not expecting a response as they are still laughing so I continue "SHIN-gles." I couldn't help but laugh with them. But I hear a new laugh this time. I look over and see Celestia is standing in the doorway laughing at my horrible pun/joke.
"Owen I don't know where you got some of those but they are bad, but very funny," Cadence says through her laughs
"Thank you I try, but we have someone else with us," I say motioning towards Celestia. They both look over
"I was simply wondering what was taking you so long." She says walking further into the room
"It's nothing to worry about. Let's go get food shall we?" I say getting out of bed dressed in my clothes from last night which is some black sweatpants and a comfortable white t-shirt. I feel some weight in my pockets. I feel around. I can feel my phone, a container of sword oil, a whetstone, a cotton cloth, my switchblade, my wallet, a mechanical pencil, and my keys, not that I need my keys anymore. "Actually. You three go on ahead I'll be there shortly."
"Alright, we will see you in the dining hall," Luna says as they leave and shut the door. I take out my phone and start to listen to my music
(Play State Of My Head - Shinedown)
As I start quietly singing along. I set my phone on the nightstand and grab my sword unsheathing it to see if I need to oil it. I don't, so I resheath it. I empty my pockets on the desk. I put my switchblade and my wallet back in my pocket. I start getting dressed back in my armor. I had just put my sword on my waist when I hear the door open and Cadence walked in "Yes?" I asked. wondering why she was back. I go and turn off the music.
"I forgot that you might not know your way to the dining room so I came to see if you did." She said. Good thing she did I totally forgot my way to the dining room
"Yeah, I forgot about that. Thanks otherwise I might have gotten lost." I chuckle rubbing the back of my neck. I tie my helmet to my waist. "Well onward to breakfast I guess." I grab my phone and work it into my pocket. As we are walking to breakfast
"What was that small black box that was playing music?" Cadence asks. me I pull out my phone and show her. that's right they don't have phones here I forgot about that
"This is my phone. It can do multiple things I mostly just use it to play music." I explain to her and show her some of the features. She nods wanting to ask more but we arrive at the dining room for breakfast. I open the door and allow Cadence to go in first. I see Luna and Celestia seated at the table already. "Sorry, that took awhile." I apologized sheepishly rubbing the back of my head.
"It's quite alright." Is Celestia's response
"Well, what's for breakfast?" I ask sitting down next to her and Cadence sits down on my right
"We were waiting for you to get started actually," Celestia tells me. I didn't expect them to wait for me.
"You didn't have to wait for me," I say. After that, we settle into comfortable chatter for the remainder of breakfast. nothing really interesting happened except for that night. I'm walking to my room after I already had said goodnight to everyone. As I'm about to open the door to my room I hear what sounds like scraping behind it I peek inside and see a cloaked figure. I put my helmet on, place my left hand on my sword sheath, and place my right on the handle itself. I burst into the room the cloaked figure turns and throws some knives at me. They bound harmlessly off of my chest armor. They take a dagger and go for my head. I duck then draw and slash with my sword. They back up enough to where my sword only catches their cloak. The cloak tears away revealing a dark-colored griffin. They start for the balcony window. I was closer so I slam it shut. They claw at my face with their talons. They claw my right cheek leaving three long red valleys across it. The force causes my helmet to tumble off because I didn't secure the straps. I go for an upwards vertical swing then I step forward and do a downward diagonal slash. They push away on the upward but the downward catches their wing and almost cuts the wing in half. They screech in pain and tackle me to the ground holding my arms down. I go for a hope that my opponent is male and knee between the hind legs. I lucked out as they fall to the side in agonizing pain. I stand up quickly and hold my sword to their throat.
"Don't move!" I say threateningly. They go still but I don't drop my guard. The door slams open. That distracts me for a split second. They shove my blade aside and go for the door. I see Cadence in the doorway. I don't think I just act. In one swift motion I cut their back left leg off with a right sideways slice and finish with a downward slice with the sound of cutting flesh, I decapitate the griffin. There is a deafening silence as the head falls to the floor with a wet thump. I flick the blood off of my sword and sheath it
"I'm sorry you had to see that," I say blankly trying to wrap my head around what just happened. Cadence is standing there in shock staring at the headless body as the red blood seeps across the floor. I usher her out into the hallway. She looks like she's about to say something but turns green and vomits. I kneel down and hold her mane out of the way and rub circles on her back comfortingly. When she stops she turns to me. her eyes widen as she looks at my right side. I look and see the dagger wedged deep in a gap in my armor. Then I register the pain as the adrenaline wears off. I fall to my side
"Owen!" she shouts crouching down next to me as I pull out the dagger
"I'm fine. It's just a little pain" I say through gritted teeth as I go up on one knee holding the wound with one hand as blood flows out. My vision goes to black as I lose consciousness due to the shock from the wound.
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