When Red woke up, he looked out a window, and saw the sun was rising. "Hm, I wonder if Fluttershy's still asleep," Red muttered. He yawned and stretched. "Man, I haven't slept in a while, I'm surprised that I didn't have any nightmares..." Red thought aloud. Then he began to hear whispers, not the voice in his head, like usual, but multiple voices. "I wonder what that could be." Red opened the door and quietly closed it, just in case Fluttershy was still asleep. As he turned, he noticed that the whispers seemed to be coming from the forest. Right, Red thought, like I'm stupid enough to go back there. "Hey, it could be important." I fucking hate you, Red thought. He knew the voice had a point. He began to walk to the forest, knowing it could very well be, and probably was, a trap.

As he moved through the forest, following the whispers, he noticed that each step he got closer to them, one of the voices would disappear. As he drew near what looked like a long forgotten path, ten of the voices disappeared. He knew that where-ever the path lead, it would be where the whispers wanted him to be. After a minute, he came across an old bridge, going across a chasm. Red looked down, he couldn't see the bottom. He looked at the bridge, then said, "If this thing breaks..." As he slowly took  the first step, he could already hear a creaking noise. "Well, it was nice knowing you." Red took step after cautious step, and slowly, but surely made progress. He kept his eyes on the other side of the bridge the entire time.

He did not look forward to this again. As he neared the other side of the bridge, he noticed that the whispers were barely there anymore. Once he made it back to solid ground, he let out a huge sigh of relief. "Alright, keep following the path, and don't think about that god-awful bridge," He told himself."Yeah, good luck with that." Red grit his teeth . Would you just for once, Red thought, just shut up?

As Red walked along the trail, he noticed couldn't hear the whispers anymore. For some reason, he felt something watching him, but he hadn't heard anything. As he tried to ignore the feeling, some kind of structure came into his sight. It looked like some kind of castle. He looked at what was still standing, for some reason, it kind of felt familiar. As Red drew closer to the ruins, he noticed he could hear a soft humming, and it wasn't the voice in his head. When he came upon the entrance, he noticed it, for some reason, sounded feminine.

Red tried to shrug it off, but couldn't. Once he was inside, he was surprised to see that the inside of the castle didn't look like he thought it would. It was somewhat clean, although not as clean as it would be unsettling. As he walked through the corridors of the castle, he got a strange feeling, but dismissed it as paranoia, after all, he was in what was left of a castle. As he walked by a room, something on the inside caught his eye.

It looked like some kind of sculpture, and was made of what looked like stone, with a sphere at the top, and it looked like the lower parts branched off into five other directions. "Hm, what could this be?" Red wondered aloud. Then, he heard a voice, not the usual voice he heard, but a feminine voice, and Red realized that this was the voice he heard humming before. "This, my guest, is what held the Elements of Harmony, although, you probably don't know what I'm talking about."

Wait, Red thought, how long were you in my head? "Oh, since you took the first step those stairs." Well, Red thought, why didn't you say anything before? "That, my guest, would ruin the surprise." Red knew he was being toyed with, and he didn't like when that happened. So, he thought, you called me here, why?

"Well, I didn't call for you specifically, I just felt something that shouldn't be in this world, which, as it would turn out, would be you." Red mumbled under his breath. Alright, he thought, so why am I here? "Like I said before, that would ruin the surprise." Fine, Red thought, I'm guessing I need to go somewhere else now, am I wrong? "Hm, straight to business, I like that." Red's left eye twitched. So, he thought, where to? "Out of this room, make a left, keep going forward, and when you reach the armory, go inside, there's a gift I have for you, I'm sure you'll need it."

Red followed the directions given to him by the new voice in his head, and when he got to the armory, he saw, although it wasn't a surprise, that all of the weapons were gone. Except one. On a pedestal was a sword, along with the scabbard, as Red pick the sword up, he found that, it seemed to be custom made, and although the reach of the sword wasn't as long as he would have wanted, the sword took up more horizontal space. And the grip, it was almost as if this new voice in his head knew that whatever had entered the world had fingers, it felt almost perfect. And when Red drew the sword, he saw that the blade wasn't a metallic color like he thought it would be, but almost pitch black, which he preferred more than if it were shiny, which gave him a headache just from the brightness.

"Well, how did I do?" "Perfect," Red said aloud, sheathing the sword. Now, he thought, why do I need this? Next Chapter: Revelations Part II Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 11 Minutes