I continued to read the technique book but was forced to stop when there was a knock on the door as Eclipse walked in. "are you feeling alright Benjamin?" she asked approaching the bed.

"I'm feeling alright now. I'm honestly surprised I had a fever."

"oh?" she asked in surprise.

"my powers somehow made it so I never could get sick. It was honestly the first time I ever got sick, to be honest."

"intriguing. But not unexpected. The human before you was the same way." I remembered the event that took place while I was unconscious. The human killing the griffon smith with the same blade he had forged which is now in my possession. "he had suddenly come down with a sickness a month into his stay here. The pony version of the common cold. You did tell me your powers potency depends on your emotions correct?" I nodded. "his powers stayed potent as he trained them. He was already well trained when he came to Equestria. He even said the same thing after he had gotten better from the cold. He had never gotten sick before."

"interesting." I simply said as she nodded. "how long was I out?" I asked her.

"about 3 hours... both my sister and I have been coming to check up on you every half hour. Your fever had reached as high as 130 degrees but thankfully it started to go down an hour ago. A doctor even said he was surprised it didn't last longer with how you were."

"well, it was the common cold," I said.

"it may have been the common cold... but here in this realm even the common cold has a small chance to kill." I froze. "there was a chance you could die but it was one-tenth of what the normal common cold was from what the doctor said."

"well at least I'm alright now. Whats going to happen now then? About Nightmare?"

"I have no idea, Benjamin. Because by telling you about her she will start coming back and you will be the only one she has access to for sustenance. She will use your own fears against you. Your mental defenses matter now more than ever so they must be trained as best as possible."

"could you test a defense of mine I wish to try out then?" she looked at me with a raised eyebrow. "I've been improving my mental defenses when I'm on my off time. I haven't used the idea I had yet to protect my mind against your sister but I ask you to at least see if it works." she remained silent as she contemplated what I asked.

"I will not hold back Benjamin. There would be a risk as I could potentially scar your very mind. Are you willing to take that chance then? The nightmare may be weak but her only weakness was to kill the host of her current feeding and she was as strong as I was way back then." I gave her a nod.

"yes." she nodded as her horn lit up with her magic before we appeared in a black void. She looked left and right as I gave a small smile.

"may I ask what your defense is?" she then asked looking at me as I smiled.

"that's for you yourself to find out..." I sat down as he narrowed her eyes and simply began to walk around. After what felt like an hour she landed near me with a look of interest. "give up?"

"I wouldn't be here if I didn't... I must say I can't even find the entrance to your mindscape." I snapped my fingers as white lines appeared in a large box formation... before the black walls began to fall backward showing a large white void. Eclipse looked around in surprise as the remains of the large black block flowed behind me creating the black pulsing cube of smaller cubes. "how can you find the entrance to my mindscape... if you're already inside of it."

"I must say that is impressive. But it has been done before and those who know about it would easily be able to break out of your 'illusion'." I nodded at her good logic. Knowing that there are spells that affect the mind no doubt many have come up with ideas to keep out intruders. Now then I am impressed you had come up with this idea so quickly. It usually took those who had originally come up with at least a year before they had the idea and tried it out. Now then let us leave this place as I wish to allow you to further improve on your Material Creation." I nodded as her horn lit up and I blinked my eyes to find us back in the real world. I had a small headache but it quickly went away as a bucket was floated overfilled with dirt. She took a few steps back and sat down on a small cushion as I placed the bucket between my feet and took a few deep breath... before instantly the dirt burst from the bucket and formed a cube floating in the air. "so it appears my assumption was correct as well?" I looked at her in confusion and with a raised eyebrow. "after the human before you recovered from his sickness his powers had returned in full only stronger."

"so does this mean I would now have to be extremely careful with what I do?" she nodded as I looked back at the compact cube of dirt before I began to form it into something else. It turned into an orb of dirt before I changed it into a pyramid. This is coming to easily done now. " I believe we should see how far your powers have developed the day after tomorrow."

"that sounds like the best option at the moment," I answered as I turned the dirt into a staff. Before I jumped as it suddenly exploded all over me. I heard giggling as I slowly opened my eyes and slowly turned my head at Eclipse who was now trying her best to quell her unending giggles. "so you think this is funny do you?" I gave a small smile as I lifted all the dirt off of me as her eyes widened.

"no... Benjamin doesn't do it..." I gave a maniacal smile. " I order you to not do it, Benjamin..." I snapped my fingers as it created a thin wall in front of me that I could see through. "Benjamin!" I pointed at her as it rushed her and covered her in the dirt as I started to chuckle. She got so I I could smell burning as the cushion she was sitting on caught on fire. I gave a sheepish chuckle before I snapped my fingers causing the dirt on her to flow off of her and straight into the bucket. She then proceeded to get up and leave the room as I sighed. One moment she acts like a true empress and the next she acts like a teenager empress. First time I've seen her act like that though. But then again we are almost never alone together... she does have a nice figure...

am I falling for a horse? I believe I am. Don't know whether I should be disgusted or not, to be honest. I should just lock away the memory of this...

what was happening again? I began to smell burning as I looked towards the pillow and saw it caught on fire. Immediately I thrust my arms at the pillow without thinking as the dirt covered the pillow. Putting out the fire I gave a small sigh as I put all the dirt back into the bucket already having an excuse if Eclipse returned to the room.

She was an enigma to me at the moment. Rushes things, goes too far about certain subjects, then just now changed into something completely different. Why is everything so random?

Because I want it to be! Authors Note to the readers that I am a improve writer! I plan only one percent of my writing and that's only fight scenes or large events! I am also horrible at writing normal chapters. Back to the story.

Eclipse walked back in and spotted the no longer burning pillow before she looked at me. " I apologize for my actions Benjamin. They were not like me at all."

"it's alright. Kind of aa good thing to see a small change at least." she gave a small smile as she sat back down onto the burned pillow. "so what was all that about anyway?"

"I just thought I should start adding a little bit of excitement into my every nightlife. Something my sister suggested I start doing." I gave her a nod of understanding as we began to talk. The ones who use the elements would be coming on the same day she wishes to test and see how much more powerful I became after the fever I had. She also wanted them to get to know me for some reason. She wouldn't explain fully but I did have a small idea as to why but I didn't want to voice it for fear of offending her.

She also told me I would learn the basics tomorrow with my sword from her own captain. Apparently, Captain Blood is Nightmare Moon's guard captain. Her guard captain was good with a sword unlike the rest of her guards. Although he is better with a spear like the rest of the guards I couldn't wait to at least learn a little bit about using the sword. Hopefully, I could unlock its secrets before deciding to tell Eclipse of what I saw.

Soon she left the room as I felt slightly tired. I grabbed the pocket watch from under the bed and flicked it open to find it was now somehow 9 pm... time went by fast while talking to Eclipse. Not only did we talk about what was going to be happening the next couple of days we also talked about likes and dislikes. I closed the watch but before I could put it away... my vision went white after I noticed the symbols on my arms glowed.

Help you

betray me?

True power

kill her?

Know of us.

Agreed

I opened my eyes in time for the symbols glow to fade as I looked at the pocket watch in my hands. This was the key to what I was looking for. "Eclipse was right..." I clenched the pocket watch in my right hand as I looked out the window.

"something else was at stake here... and now I truly think that they know why he turned against them. Not just because of Nightmare..." I clenched my left hand hard enough blood came out. "they lied to me... again..."