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Dreams of the Dark; Changelestia's Dream Session
Topic Started: Aug 22 2012, 01:06 AM (473 Views)
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'Carapace' could barely walk, much less walk straight. Though Discord's word had held firm about her living, multiple weeks of no 'food' had taken their told on her false body. Though she had shoved food of all types into her mouth- even deciding to suck it up and type meat like a gryphon or a dragon- nothing so much as had taste, much less sustenance for her. She knew they wouldn't; but some small part of her had hoped, nearly as much as she had for her precious sister's return, that Discord's spell had been in complete. That there was some way she could avoid being the monster that he had turned her into.

But nothing, nothing was working.

Eventually, she did stagger into the dream clinic again, panting and finding herself wishing to pass out again. But her body would have none of it; the pain from her hunger was keeping her conscious. It was maddening; she was so hungry, so very-

She snarled, smashing her head against the wall to drive such thoughts away from her mind. She was not a changeling, she was not one of those monsters! She would not feed, she would not feed! She was just here to get this damned thing over and done with so she could try to find another way to override Discord's spell. Nothing more.

"Dream Reaper." Even her voice sounded desperate, as much as she wished it didn't. It had a strangled quality from her lack of any food for this mortal body since it's creation, and she hated it. The sound alone reminded her of how hungry she truly was.
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Dream Reaper looked down to her, sad. She hugged her and took her into the therapy room. "You should not fight it... I know you are not a changeling, but if you die... If you die... All hopes of Mission Dawn and Equestria itself will die along... I don't know if a energy transfer is possible... So I know not of how to help other than save you from what haunts you... I know you may have heard this several times over, but feed on me if you need, okay?" she caressed the poor changeling's head, while letting her lie on the bed "If sis was still alive... She would have helped you. I know she would... But she died in the last invasion..."
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"Won't die, can't die; want it all to end." She knew such thoughts were selfish beyond belief right now; Luna was in no fit state to rule and her country needed her to present a strong front. But she had them anyway; there was no way of knowing what would happen if a goddess like herself truly died, but she doubted it was as horrible as the suffering she was enduring now.

"Death, kill them; kill them all. Monsters, slavers, insects picking at the corpse of a nation." She couldn't blame anything else for this; while Discord had altered her form, this could all be traced back to the Changeling invasion of Equestria. She didn't know how many they had brainwashed or outright controlled to enable such an easy infiltration, but she would still see them stopped. They obviously had some way to get to Luna, what with her still abiding by the 'treaty' they had set up to stay in power, so that needed to be dealt with. Not to mention, she still needed a better way to discern which ponies were really ponies and not more 'lings pretending.

In her time with Sonic Wings, she felt she had finally learned the truth of his story: Those weren't her guards that had done that, they were more changelings; taking the form of the guard to trick him into confusing wrong and right, then letting him go to have an ally they could always suck life force from when needed. To say nothing of their boldness; walking around in full view on the streets like they owned the country. She would show them; she would show them that they weren't fooling her with this act.

She had see their true colors; the spiteful, evil, hateful colors that they had sported during her niece's wedding and her own capture. The colors that would have them hurt ponies to get what they wanted, even kill if need be. She knew what they were capable of and wouldn't be fooled by them pretending any more.

She would stop them, if it was her last act as Princess.
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"Kill them then what? A new cycle of hatred will begin? The real monsters... Are within everyone. Waiting, for a moment of weakness of ours to come out and bring pain to those we hold dear..." Utopia said, looking worried "Change of topic... Did you get any sleep, even plagued by so many nightmares?". She went through the records she had written from the previous experience. Even with sorrow in her heart... there was a sweet smell of love from her. One so sweet and pure... It was a true temptation. "While we wait for you to fall asleep, let's talk a bit..."
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"Parasites!" She managed to raise herself up, though the act cost her dearly and she slumped back onto the dream couch. "Parasites feeding on our love, our emotion. What right do they have to take something so precious from us? Made of Discord, nothing good left in the; never was anything good in them. Race of liars and thieves, taking what isn't theirs and pretending to be what they're not. They're the monsters, they're the things that foals have nightmares about every night! Afraid that they'll look at their parents one day and they'll not be them anymore, just things that look like them and drain them to the death. Parents afraid their children will be replaced by insects that feed off them, the foals tossed aside to die!

"That is what they are: Monsters! There is no cycle, they just need to be exterminated!"

Celestia panted, her rant having taken more out of her and leaving her more tired than ever. "Nightmares, endless nightmares. Sleep, so tired; so hungry. Need food. NO! Nonono. Will not- no; no feeding. Smells so good; have a taste, have a taste. NO! WRONG WRONG WRONG! Not one of them, kill them all and ponies will be safe. No more hiding from each other, no more fear that your fillyfriend is a monster just using you. Just safety; ponies will be safe.
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"I'm no psychologist... But I have been to so many dreams and seen so many things... Listen, I already told you: everyone here is willing to help you. If by help it means giving part of ourselves, then feel welcome." Dream Reaper said "Blind hatred... Paranoia... Trauma... From where they come? To where they go? All I know is... Someday, I'll be behind the absolute end of everyone's nightmare. As you may have seen, I don't care whether they are ponies, changelings or whatever in Celestia's name are the many races through the world..." she made a note on the mention of Discord "Now, please sleep... I'll be just waiting for you to fall asleep..."
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"Changelings aren't in her name!" She shrieked, unable to speak it as 'my name' thanks to the spell cast upon her by Discord. "They are monsters that were made by another monster for fun! Just to see them suffer; just for his amusement! They need to be stopped before they have all of Equestria under those hole-fulled hooves of theirs!"

'Carapace' fell back onto the bed, panting like she had just ran from Canterlot all the way to here. She muttered several things under her gasps, nothing really coherent or in line with what was happening, more just outright insane ramblings. Her body was far passed it's limits, only still functioning because Discord willed it. That was a greater torture than this body: To know that she was dependent upon something that she hated so.

However, as always, there was a limit put upon what she could get away with thanks to Discord's magic. That little explosion had taken a lot out of her, she finally passed out and into another restless sleep.
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Dream Reaper closed her eyes, and snapped them open. However, she kept the dream-reaping scythe down. She had another plans now. However, regardless of plans, her worry was taking the best out of her. Not that it would cripple the magic she was skilled in, but it would make her hesitate... She needed to get in, to be by her side in the dream to assist her better. While awaiting for the dream, she began singing a lullaby. Within it, was the tale of a "bird" that wanted to fly higher than the others, to be something it wasn't, and that the "bird" failed to realize until their last moment... But, still, said "bird" passed away for always believing in their dreams, and was able to soar higher then. Kind of sad, however, specially considering her tone was low and calm all the while. It wasn't her best lullaby, but she used to sleep to that when she was too little to comprehend the words...
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There was no escape from it; even in her nightmares, she was still this thing.

Celestia was back in the cell at Canterlot, some pony was attacking her again; punishing her for all the changelings yet roaming free. She couldn't see is face, and the armor covered his Cutie Mark; but that was okay, so many of the guards had suffered under the changelings that they had earned the right to take it out on her. This wasn't a nightmare, she wanted this. No, the nightmare came next.

The door of her cell shattered inward and then ponies followed it. They grabbed the guard that had been hurting her, then a blade was run through him. Celestia screamed as the ponies freed her, and pulled her out of the cell. More guards were dead, others were being killed as she watched. Changelings were there, laughing gleefully as ponies with glowing, green eyes of changeling control. Sonic Wing was there, coated with blood and with a dripping as he walked over to her. "There, there." He spoke like she was a foal, heedless of the blood coating him. "You'll be safe now, none of them will ever hurt you again."

"IT'S THEY'RE JOB!" She shrieked, struggling as best as her weak body could. "THEY HAVE TO SAVE EQUESTRIA; THE CHANGELINGS MUST BE STOPPED, THEY HAVE TO BE STOPPED! KILL ON SIGHT, KILL ON SIGHT!"

Then, a dark chuckle came; followed by a voice it seemed only she could hear. "You really need to... 'lighten up', as they say." Discord's laughter rang out as the remaining guards all burst aflame. The ponies only watched without reaction, and the changelings only laughed harder than they had been. And the guards, they writhed on the ground, screaming and begging for mercy.

"STOP IT! STOP IT!" But her cries were only met with more screams of agony from the guards and more laughter from Discord and the Changelings.
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Dream Reaper had a bit of difficult... But eventually got in there. She went into Carapace's Dream. The scythe sliced clean through the dead guard and the Sonic Wings. The glow was gone, and the guard as knocked out. "Hurry, we have to get you out of here!" he said instead and ran to the entrance, to guard it. As for Dream Reaper... In Carapace's dream, she appeared with not only the magic scythe, but a magic robe too. "Seems you have quite the twisted vision on him..." Dream Reaper poked her. Then noticed more nightmare artifacts were in there... And then... Discord. She did not know, so she just went to cleanning that room. Now it was just the cells, empty, with Sonic Wings guarding the entrance. "Ah... Well... this wasn't hard to clean. But is tied to the other one. As I guessed, SOMETHING is the core. Who was that Freakazoid?"
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Celestia panted and shivered, the guards burning still seared into her mind after what she had seen. No matter what Dream Reaper wished, she knew that another dream like this would come up in the future. Truth be told, she honestly expected it to be much worse than this then; but that was a problem for when it happened. There was still the matter of what she was being asked.

"Discord!" She spat out the name like it was toxic to even speak. "Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony. He's probably sitting in a chair, laughing his ass off at this whole thing!"
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"So, that is the monster..." Dream Reaper sounded annoyed by just thinking of him "Now, we have to take meassures to calm you down. Apparently, I can't go into your dream hub, it is a MESS out there. That plus the barriers all over it. It is as if someone is preventing me from accessing your previous dreams to learn who you are. Well, whoever you are, you surely are on the good side too. And your fears and nightmares are reasonable: You live for Equestria and faced traumas of several invasions through the years. Your trauma is also way higher than Steel Wing... Listen, I know it is hard to let go, but you must do so. Trauma, fear, paranoia will weaken you even more, it is a miracle you are still BREATHING. Ah, do you remember of that little changeling I adopted? In case you wonder how she feeds, let me just flat out put this: she earned her love from those around her... And she has the mind of a filly."
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"Oh shut up!"

Carapace finally managed to pick herself off the floor, still shaking and looking very muc hthe worse for wear thanks to the dream guards having beaten her up. "Changelings feed on fear, paranoia and trauma; half the time for fun! Or even just to LIVE! They can't exist without harming other ponies, because that is how that monster you just saw made them! For his own amusement! And I am so sick of listening to you talk about peace and happiness with them! Everypony's happiness comes at the expense of somepony else's; for every winner of a race, there is at least one loser; for every successful business owner, there's another that they drive out of business just to pay their bills; for every pony that gets a decent meal, there's some that go hungry. That's the simple fact of life, there isn't enough to go around so we have to make due with what we have and save most when you can't save all!

"You can talk about how the changelings suffer, and I'm sure they do as they starve, but there are MILLIONS of ponies in Equestria suffering in fear and peranoia that you can't just wave your fancy scythe and get rid of! It's who they are, what they are and what they have become BECAUSE of those changelings that have harmed them! Between hundreds of changelings and millions of ponies, I will choose to help the greater number because that is what's feasible! The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few!" It was a harsh truth, but one that she had learned early on in her rule; even a goddess had her limits.
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"You fail to understand my point... If that monster made them... How come they desire to be accepted?" Dream Reaper suddenly disappeared. Then Utopia appeared, behind her. "I have been there... I have seen reflections of their hivemind within the dreams of one of them... They were no different. They feared rejection, desired acceptance... And partially got what they wanted... ... This form is a failure in dream matrix, don't worry, it happens whenever I stay too long in a changeling's dream.". Oh, she had to lie now... But, yet, she mate it seem as convincing as possible... Besides... How could one believe she was truly a changeling, if she was the very only to have a mark? In a flash of magic, she was back to Dream Reaper. "Much better! Now, Ca- Wait, that name shouldn't fit you... Hm... I have to make a name for you... Is Dawn Shine good for you?"
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"It doesn't matter what you call me!" It was a dream, so she wasn't as hampered by her weakness as she would be the physical world. "My point still stands, no matter what they wanted. You may weep for them, but what about the countless ponies they've hurt with their actions, twenty years in the past and more recently. Why do they get the short end of the stick while the ones that hurt them get everything they bucking want? I know I just ranted about how life is unfair and there's nothing you can do to fix it, but that... that is just outright sadistic to all those ponies still suffering!"
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