As all the residents in the tent started to settle down and sleep for the night, the eight friends decided that they should probably rest with these local nomads just so they can be ready in the morning and not wake up in an uncomfortable place.

"I still love the taste of that Fennec Fox meat in those food trays", said Spike, strangely not asleep yet, "And man, were all those Desert Locusts on sticks tasty"

"Will you PLEASE go to sleep already, Spike?", growled Rainbow Dash, Trying to hold her temper.

But as they all drifted off to sleep, little did any of them realize that the Mosquito-like Demon, Tsarog, was hovering over head of the tent. She whistled and Chop and Digger walked over the dune towards her and the tent, all sleep-eyed.

"Tsarog", moaned Chop, "Can we please get this attack over with, I'm in need for nappies"

"Nappies?", questioned Digger with a tired voice, "How immature can you get? Yet you do have a point there. Tsarog, do you have any idea what time it is?"

Tsarog explained to the two of them that once her nightmare-inducing plan was complete, the two genetically-mutated Ponies could go back to sleep.

"Time to inject some horrifying nightmares", snickered Tsarog, "That'll totally keep the 8 represenatives of the Elements of Harmony's spirits down and fail to complete their quest. Now wait here Chop, you too Digger"

The she-Demon did her evil laugh and quickly took the form of a small gray cloud to seemingly fit in to the enviroment.

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Tsarog warped into the tent, every living thing was asleep. She decided to make Spike her first target. She immediately warped into his mind to give him nightmares.

Deep inside Spike's mind as he slept, he was having a "happy" dream that he was in a meadow and he was rushing with happiness towards Rarity, who was also running towards him. Suddenly, the beautiful meadow became a tall mountain with boiling lava leaking from its sides. Spike attempted to rush to Rarity and save her life, but he was suddenly stopped by an enormous, terrifying-looking version of Griffy that landed right in between the two. Griffy was enormous, the size of an adult Mountain Dragon, and had glowing yellow eyes.

"YOOOOUUUU SHALL NOT!", bellowed the gigantic Griffy as he held up an enormous sword high in the air, "PAAAAAAAASSSS!"

And he then impaled the sword into the ground, causing a massive explosion of lava to take place.

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Tsarog then exited Spike's mind and went into Griffy's mind as he slept also.

Griffy was dreaming about hanging out back in the Ponyville park with his seven friends, gossiping and joking. It was very happy until his friends then glared at him angrily.

"What's going on?", asked Griffy, worried.

"We just realized the EverFree Forest is cursed!", snapped Spike.

"And so are you!", hissed Rainbow Dash.

"No!", weaped Griffy, tears of a broken heart begining to shed.

All of a sudden, all the residents of Ponyville (Ponies and non-Ponies) all gathered around Griffy, telling him to leave forever because of his origins in the EverFree Forest.

"GE OUT!", shouted the mayor, "AND NEVER COME BACK! YOU CURSED EVERFREE FOREST MONSTER!"

Griffy attempted to fly away, but ultimately stopped by Fluttershy, looking very aggitated.

"Leave forever", she snarled.

Griffy heart began to sink and break at the sight of his closest female friend being rude to him.

"You don't belong anywhere!", shouted Twilight.

"Who needs something from the EverFree Forest anyways!", snapped Pinkie.

Griffy fell to the ground, crying his poor heart out.

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Tsarog then exited Griffy's mind and decided to get the Ponies next time, from causing nightmares is extremely hard work for a Demon. She warped out of the tent and took her huge, green, Mosquito-like form again.

"Chop! Digger!", shouted Tsarog, startling the two Ponies to wake up whil starting to doze off, "We can cause more havoc later, I need to replenish my power of nightmare-inducing"

Chop and Digger just walked away over the dunes, still sleepy, and collapsed from being tired. Tsarog just wapred away, but she'd be back.

Back inside the tent, Griffy woke up in a sweat while Spike woke up in a pant.

"What a heart-breaking nightmare", said Griffy, releaved that it was only a bad dream.

"You're not a monster Griffin trying to seperate me from Rarity!", said Spike.

"I'm not a Monster, kid", said Griffy, "But I do try and seperate you from Rarity, now let's go back to sleep"

To Be Continued