‘This is bad, definitely bad’.
Blaze thought to himself while looking on still sleeping Vinyl next to him, her shades were laying on the night shelf next to the bed. Suddenly she started to open her eyes and lifter herself up to a sitting position, she yawned stretching her front legs and wiped her eyes.

Vinyl looked at still shocked Blaze and smiled.

“Hello there mr. “I can drink 8th drink without any problem” how are you?”

Vinyl’s question made Blaze realize his head was pounding and his bones felt like they were being smashed.

“I’ve been better, Vinyl what ha...”

“What happened yesterday night right?” She smirked and looked at him with mischievous expression, Blaze nodded slightly and she continued.

“Well we talk quite a lot and at one point you asked me if I was single, I said yes so you asked what would I say about a “One-Night stand” and BAM we’re here.”

Blaze muzzle went pale and after few moments of silence Vinyl burst out laughing.

“Oh my Celestia you should’ve seen your muzzle, it’s priceless.”

Blaze was dumbfounded as Vinyl continued to laugh and his expression slowly changed into that full of anger.

“HA ha oh buck, noo don’t worry Blazey, nothing happened, you just passed out after your 8th drink and I wanted to carry you back to farm, but it was quite far from the bar and since I too was quite drunk I didn’t have enough strength and patience so I brought you to my place instead, it was closer.”

Blaze sighed with relief and softened his expression, Vinyl calmed herself and stopped laughing, Blaze opened his mouth to say something but he got quickly stopped by the pain in his brain.

“Heh guess you won’t have a good day, I know dat feel.” Vinyl shivered remembering some of her more crazy drinking nights and looked with pity on Blaze.

“By the way that right eye of yours, so cool, you were born with it?”

It took Blaze few moments to register her words and he became pale again, his illusion are always fading during his sleep, which also means his cover of the Reptilian eye.

“Y-You like it?” He said hesitantly

“Yeah sure I mean, I never saw something like that before, sure bat ponies have that but a regular pony with cat eye? That’s cool.” She smiled and nodded in approvement.

Blaze smiled, another pony acknowledged his otherness.

‘Maybe Princesses were right, maybe making friends ain’t such a bad idea after all.’

“Thanks Vinyl, thanks for everything.”

Vinyl shaped her muzzle into confused expression as she didn’t know what was he so thankful about, but she thought that he meant taking care of him when he passed out so she smiled and nodded.

Blaze then realized that they are still sitting in same bed in which they also slept together, it made him blush a little although he didn’t know why, they only slept together after all.

“Soo umm.”

“What is it Blazey?”

“Why are you calling me that?”

“What I can’t?”

Blaze blushed a little and nodded sheepishly, and then he had an idea.

“But only If you will let me call you Snow White.”

Vinyl once again put a questioning expression.

“Why?”

“Cause your coat is white like a winter snow, it’s really beautiful.”

This time it was Vinyl turn to blush which was quite visible considering color of her coat.

“T-Thanks.”

They smiled looking each other in the eyes, Blaze felt this weird feeling yet again.

“Vinyl, I’m back from Canterlot, I hope you didn’t destroy our hou…” Octavia stood in the doors to Vinyl’s room staring agape at her friend and some stallion sitting together in Vinyl’s bed.

Blaze looked at Vinyl at then at Octavia, then again at Vinyl and he realized how it looked like.

“Emmm Hey Tavi?”

“VINYL WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS? I’M LEAVING FOR 3 DAYS AND YOU ALREADY HAVE SOME RANDOM STALLION IN YOUR BED?!”

Blaze not only felt fear because of her outburst but also the pain in his head doubled sending a shiver down his spine making him cover his ears in agony.

“Hey hey Tavi calm down, nothing happened, besides this isn’t some random stallion it’s my friend Midnight Blaze.”

“H-Hello, i-it’s nice to meet you” Blaze stammered

“What do you mean nothing happened? How did nothing happened? His in your bucking bed VINYL!”

“Octi let me explain for bucks sake.”

Octavia took ten big breaths and calmed herself down a little, she sat down on her haunches and stared daggers at them while calmly stating:

“Speak then.”

Vinyl told her everything that happened since Blaze saved her back in the alley, who he is and why is he here, Octavia sometime would ask a question or two, she also asked about his right eye, in response Blaze said it was like this since he was born and covered it behind illusion before anypony else will see it. Octavia didn’t react to the difference of his right eye at all simply shrugging it away, after Vinyl finished explaining gray mare sighed.

“I-I’m sorry Mr. Blaze I misunderstood the situation.”

“No, really I understand your reaction, I mean we kinda were in an awkward situation after all.” Blaze smiled to which Octavia returned the smile, three of them were now walking downstairs towards the front doors.

“You sure you will be fine? You have one mighty hangover.” Vinyl asked

“Thanks for the care Snow White, I’ll be fine I know a spell that can lower the pain.” Blaze smiled at slightly blushing Vinyl.

“See ya next time then Blazey.” Blaze nodded and bumped hoofs with vinyl, he then did a small bow towards Octavia and left.

“Snow White? Blazey? You are sure nothing happened?” Octavia said teasingly.

“S-Shut up.”

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Blaze trotted down the street mumbling in anger under his muzzle, earning stares of some ponies he passed by, as far as he loved going to clubs he hated hangovers the very next day.

Suddenly he heard someone yelling in excitement, as far as it made his head hurt he decided to find out hoping that he won’t regret it later.

Blaze walked towards the source of those noises and he finally saw them, a mare and a filly both jumping and screaming with joy, to his further surprise he knew both of them.

“I did it! I did it!”

“Congrats Scoots, I knew you had it in you!” Rainbow high hoofed Scootalo.

“That’s amazing, I can fly! Rainbow I can fly!” Scootalo jumped into the air and throw her arms around Rainbow’s neck engulfing her in a hug.

“Thank you so so much!”

Dash was a little startled by sudden hug, but she quickly returned it.

“No problem Scoots, no problem.” They stayed like that for a moment completely oblivious that a pair of teal eyes were observing them, huge smile forming beneath them.

“Hey Scoots, come on since now you can fly I can teach you all these tricks that I only told you about before.”

Orange filly smiled and wilder and flew after her idol.

Blaze only sighed in relief and continued his walk towards…

Towards what?

Blaze stopped in his tracks and realized that he didn’t know where he was going, he didn’t even know what time is it, by the sun position he knew it was somewhere near the noon.

‘Should I go back to the farm? Or actually, I’m quite interested why nopony knew about my arrival, I mean Princess Luna wrote a letter to Twilight…

That’s right!’

Blaze decided to find out and trotted toward the town library, which luckily for him wasn’t easy to miss as it was tall enough for him to see it over the roofs of other ponies houses.

It took him around 12 minutes of walking, feeling pain each time he heard something louder than his own hoofsteps and he finally stood before Ponyville’s library, house of the most boring pony in Equestria, at least in his opinion.

He gulped and knocked few times on the door.

“Come in, it’s public library you don’t have to knock.” To his surprise that wasn’t a mare voice, that was definitely a male voice, but not a grown stallion voice more like a colt.

He opened the doors and walked in, he was greeted by small purple dragon.

“Hey there mister, I’m Spike is there any book you are interested in?”

“Actually I’m here to meet with *sigh* Twilight Sparkle, is she home?”

“She is, but she kinda is busy with this weird book she got from Princess Celestia you know.”

“I just wanted to ask her some questions.”

“I-I guess we can try but, ok sure she’s upstairs.”
Spike made a “follow me” motion with his claw and Blaze did so, they walked upstairs and saw Twilight completely cut off the reality staring into the open page of her book. It looked very old and when Blaze looked at those weird letters he quickly realized he can’t read it.

“Ekhm Twilight?” Spike nudged her a little

“hmm?” Was her only response.

“You have a guest.”

“Tell them I’m busy.”

“Yeah but he is standing right beside me.”

“Hello Ms. Twilight, my name is Midnight Blaze I’m personal student of Princess Luna.”

Twilight’s ears perked up at the mention of her mentor’s younger sister and she finally looked away from her book, Spike was looking agape at Blaze who was standing there with stoic expression.

“Princess Luna student? It’s nice to meet you, I’m sorry for this rude behavior of mine but I really like reading, and this one is quite a challenge.”

Blaze only wanted to find out why she didn’t knew about his arrival, but words found their way out of his mouth before his brain could react.

“What is this book about?” Blaze mentally slapped himself

“Oh it’s about Nightmares, Princess Celestia told me to don’t tell anypony but I guess I can share this information with personal student of her younger sister right?” Twilight chuckled a little.

“Well I already know everything about nightmares so…”

“Oh it’s not about those nightmares you are thinking about, Princess found this book by accident hidden in Royal Archives, she couldn’t decipher it, this book is written in old Equestrian language used around 800 years ago.”

“But both princesses are much older than that, how come she doesn’t know it?”

“That’s because that language was forgotten long ago, I guess after not using it at all for over 700 years you might forget it.”

“So how are you deciphering it?”

“I’m using this old dictionary back from those times.” Twilight said while pointing towards other old book with her hoof.

“And why are you doing this and not Princess Celestia? She once spoke this language I think it would be faster.”

“Perhaps, but she doesn’t have time, she have a lot of royal duties.”

Blaze nodded.

“So what did you learn about those “Nightmares” ?” Blaze asked, it surprised him but talking with her wasn’t now as boring as he thought it would be.

“So basically these Nightmares that this book is about are some kind of dark powers that resides hidden in ponies, it would seem that everypony is born with them but only a few ever witnessed it.”

She looked at Blaze who nodded for her to continue.

“I also learned that there are 7 types of nightmares and if believing in the information from the book, 6 of them already showed up long time ago.”

“What are those types?” Blaze asked.

“Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Pride and Envy, I still don’t know which one of those didn’t show up yet, and what exactly are those powers that Nightmares provide.”

“Well let me know if you will find out something knew.”

“Sure.”

Silence fell over them and they stood staring at each other for few minutes, finally Blaze remembered what his original goal for coming here was and he broke the silence.

“Twilight I wanted to ask you something, didn’t you get a letter from Princess Luna about my arrival?”

Twilight made a confused expression and shook her head, she then looked at Spike who was nervously rubbing back of his head.

“Spike?”

“Oops.”

“Spike you got a letter from princess and didn’t tell me?”

“Well you were at Spa and…”

“Spike, if it’s letter from princess it is always of utmost importance, always!”

“Twilight calm down, everypony make mistakes, don’t shout at him.” He was partly honest, as much as he didn’t like the idea of Twilight screaming at her little assistant, the thing that irritated him much more was growing pain in his head whenever she shout out.

“You’re right, sorry.” Twilight made few long breathes and calmly motioned Spike to follow her, they walked outside where she scolded him this time in a calm way.

Blaze smiled thankful that his pain was lowered when he suddenly felt something engulfing him, he looked at his body but nothing was touching him, but he could feel it, he felt like slowly drowning in the water.

Kill them all

Blaze shivered when he felt strange voice, he didn’t know where it was coming from, but it sounded dark and intimidating.

Kill them all.

Darkness started to fill up his sight as he slowly started to lose consciousness.

Right before passing out he heard somepony running into the room and after that he heard three words echoing in his mind.

Kill them all.