Chapter Ten: Dream or Memories
Luna's POV
Let's see what's been done so far. I summoned a clipboard that kept track of every dream I've been through tonight. AppleJack's dream was walking on a well light path through a forest of abstract images of Apples. Twilight's dream was learning new spells with Starswirl the Bearded. Pinkie's dream was her dancing on the moon made of ice cream with all of ponyville. RainbowDash's dream was her fighting alongside with DaringDo against the evil Ahuizotl. Rarity's dream was gaining inspiration by actually hopping into painting. And Fluttershy's dream was taking care of Penguins and Seals along with other animals in the Antarctica. Now to move on to another dream.
I returned to the cosmic hall of dreams were I could enter other dreams, when I suddenly stumbled upon a large birch tree that had a seemingly secret door. This door was very new to me. Perhaps it belongs to a new born filly. I stepped inside and found myself on top of an island's grassy mountain with the mainland not far ahead. I looked up to the sky and saw the moon approaching. Then the Moon let out a green beam of energy on to the Mainland. That's when the world started to collapse. The ground was rising and expanding rapidly destroying everything in its path. 'This is no dream of a filly'.
With quick thinking I placed myself into the planets orbit. What had destroyed everything was some sort of command post the size of the moon. Observing the space around me, the solar system consisted of several planets similar to the other orbiting around each other as of gears on a clock and meteors traveling at high speeds.
A few of the planets unexpectedly changed, one had turned into an egg, a few where covered in snow and another turned into a planet of fire and lava with its chunks floating in its orbit forming a ring.
There are so many planets, but which one has the dreamer. Perhaps he is having a nightmare inside the scorching planet. Casting a spell, I made myself as fast as a speeding comet hurling towards its ground.
I landed in a corn field where the air is filled with smoke and ashes. Walking through the field, I heard groans and blood curdling screeches coming from all around me. Then monstrous creatures rose from the ground with their glowing blue eyes and rotting bodies running directly towards me screaming. My magic spells were able to vaporize most of them, but they kept coming in greater numbers. For reason I couldn't understand, I had less power here than in any other dream… or is this even a dream.
I attempted to leave this place which to no avail. I'm afraid that I' am trapped here until I can find the exit.
Heading back into another planet, I was caught in the crossfire between two factions of starships. By the time I had made it out of the battlefield, one of the factions had left the other in ruins leaving only two of the eight vessels to survive.
Approaching a fortress built on an island, six hooded humans were fighting against others in red coats. I only recall Twilight seeing humans before. Whoever's dream this is may have seen as much as she has.
The hooded ones wore colors of Red, Black, Blue, Green, White and one with both colors Red and Blue. I attempted to communicate with each of them, but I was unable to effect their actions. This surly isn't the place I'm looking for.
I check every planet I came across, a kingdom taken over by a massive Ink monster, cities stormed by demons, and knights wielding bloody swords furiously cutting their enemies in half.
Jumping from planet to planet is getting me nowhere; there must be a better way to find the dream. I went back to space and carefully observed the rotations of each system. Then it came to my attention that the meteors aren't traveling randomly, there trying to connect the systems. So I proceeded to link all the meteors to every system using a levitation spell, and with each link parts of the meteors would glow a different color, Red, Gray, Blue, Green, and the combination of Red and Blue. The last link had flashed a blinding light that turned space into a frozen wasteland with nothing but a wall, a few trees and a small pond.
Walking towards the pond I could feel my magic returning to its original strength. The dreamer must be inside. After a quick dive and a bit of falling I ended up inside a hallway with the top part of the walls were white and the bottom were of a yellow square pattern and its edges were made of wood. I stopped by a sliding door and took a peek inside the room. Twelve humans were sitting around a wooden table drinking tea eight of them young and four of them old. I transformed myself into a vase in the corner of the room to get a closer look of the family. I took notice that six of the eight young adults wore the same colors as the hooded back at the island, but the other two wore purple and brown.
The room was silent until the white one took a reliving sigh and spoke, "I'm glad that we can still have a moment of peace from time to time."
"I have to agree with you Zane," said the long bearded one, "We spend so much time fighting the forces of evil that we hardly get to sit down and breathe for a moment."
"I honestly can't remember being this relaxed," said the Blue one.
The human I assume named Zane turned to the inventor to his left, "father I've been meaning to ask you. Why didn't you ever tell me that you built Echo?"
"Well my son, since I had been imprisoned all those years ago I had missed you so much and I was very alone. When Samukai did not return I began to build Echo so that I didn't have to be by myself anymore, and who would be a better person to spend the rest of my days than with my own son. That is why I made him look like you. And now look at you; you have wonderful friends, you're a savior of the world, and you have a beautiful future wife. My I ask, how did you two meet each other?"
"Zane may I tell him?" asked the purple one, "Of course, meanwhile I'll make us some more tea," Zane responded and exited the room. I then followed him into the kitchen where he poured water into the tea pot. Then suddenly a blood curdling scream came out of the other room. Zane jumped from fright and broke into the dining room that was covered in blood. He spotted his friends being dragged out of the room and he yelled, "I'M COMING BROTHERS!" chasing after them.
This is getting out of hoof I must do something before it gets worse. I had attempted to change the dream only to be interrupted by someone I could not see. Whatever it was had kept me from moving and whispered in my ear, "the dream must be finished."
So I watched him running down a hall of blood until the trail had stopped in a dark room. A light shinned over the corpses of everyone in the house. Zane was shocked and paralyzed, all he could say was, "No, NO not My Family!" his eyes were tearing. At the center of was the purple one clinging on to dear life. Zane ran to her and held on to her. "PIXAL, PIXAL STAY WITH ME." She had stayed silent and passed away. "No…NO…NOOOOOOOO!"
No One's POV
Zane jumped up, breathing heavily awaked by the horrible nightmare. He quickly faces the balcony, seeing the rising sun. "It was all a dream? ...oh…mostly." He stood up and walked outside on the balcony. "I must get back to them, to see if they're okay. I can't let them end up like her. I can't lose them. Everything must go according to plan." He takes another look at the sky, "Time is running low. I can only see the clouds above my monastery; the other ones are either small or non-existent."
Guidance swoops down and lands on the side railing. He squawks a few times at Zane. "Fluttershy? I had forgotten that she was coming along. None the less I cannot let her be spotted assisting me in my actions. Her position on this mission will be on lookout. She will least likely to be a suspect if she is far from the crime scene." Zane then puts on his newly cleaned uniform and glides himself to Fluttershy's cottage.