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Number of Edits: 4
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We always hope to learn more, criticism of both dread and joy are welcomed.

In the Dark of the Night
Crystal Empire – House Onyx, Master Bedroom – Night

Having moved to retire in our new bed chambers that were shown to us by Crystal Clear, with Dark Faith following suit still holding her Crystal Maul hefted on one shoulder as she eyed the other servants and the occasional new guard. It was obvious that they were looking at either us or Dark Faith because of our eyes, though her because of her aggressive stance and clear intimidation already showing her resolve.

Eventually we were led to quite well wait for it, Doors made of Onyx we KNOW they are study let alone EXPENSIVE. By the divine if thou thought of the time to even do all this, it made us wonder how it was done so in such a speedy manner, unless it was from our aftermath of well becoming us. Looking the doors over in a new ‘light’ we felt a kinship through it, moving to touch the doors they opened on their own force revealing well, two possible tastes.

The first being a blue and black for the furnishings, while a white and black for the rugs, bath robes and bathroom showing easily ‘whom’ gave us what and three bath robes with the violet one in the middle of a blue robe with CH broidery and a white robe with P broidery also. The desk was no different though at least the pieces fit more to our style than the confliction, we wondered how they were even able to accomplish this let alone well this!

Alright let us first write out our instructions for Crystal Clear to do on the side tomorrow than a request of our House’s requested documents to get our head around the current state of affairs before we try anything long term, perhaps we can practice our dark ritual on expendable subjects in case of failure.

Ordering Crystal Clear bring some candles and ordered Dark Faith to make sure we were undisturbed was a relief, though her method made it so she stood at rest inside the room with her new malevolent gaze eyeing every point of entry in her opinion. Placing the candles around us and closed our eyes to focus on a tiny flame spell to ignite the candles, to others since we knew where they were they flashed to life with an unnatural glow.

Sombra’s Mind – Ruined Mental Scape – unknown

Keeping our eyes closed we focused on our body, taking deep breaths to slow our heart rate as the world around us fell apart to only the six candles surrounding us. They each spoke with their burning fire, but as we focus more on our body leading to the mind, the rest of our world became unfocused with each beat of our heart and breathe. But soon enough our world snapped back into focus for when our eyes open it was of a completely different place all together, the first thing we SAW was the sky was broken, black tentacles curled around the broken holes within it looking down at us with maddening glee that we even saw it.

We wouldn’t deny being surprised at first though our attention was drawn away by a couple voices though when a glowing purple hand turned us away from the sky view only to see a ruined castle’s courtyard, a smiling glowing figure with the body of an Alicorn with a familiar necklace adorned ‘her’ neck with radiance. Looking behind ‘herself’ at the two bickering unicorns one who was myself of this world and the other a familiar black unicorn with a glowing star for a cutie mark.

“We’ll tell thou again fiend we shall not concede our point that broadening our magical resources is paramount!” The Black female unicorn anthro pony wearing a purple slim fitting robe with a wizard’s hat snapped at the armor wearing Sombra with his red unicorn horn, I thought it was weird since my gem horn was rough amethyst when his is just a red horn.

He snarled in response snapping back at her while locking gaze with her. “WE shall focus on DARK MAGIC, it’s our greatest tool at this time and the whelp has no basic understanding of our magic!” She rebuked him by throwing him back with a force wave of magic stomping after him for a moment. “WE should teach the colt how to UNDERSTAND our magic first so he may not end up as some ONE TRICK FRAUD!” She venomously spat only to make him grunt in acknowledgement standing up once more before having caught sight of me.

“Well, well, well! The whelp finally has arrived to grace everypony, thou should listen to us first as it’s vital to thou survival.” He began until a sound of flapping wings with a burst of wind with a soft thud of a new arrival and a protective talon hand touched our shoulder and in the other hand a weapon brought to bear before the others. “Each and every one of you ponies have done nothing but ARGUE; I’d make the point that we should ‘Properly’ introduce ourselves and get to what we agreed upon first like say I don’t know the fucking sky here?!?”

The griffin pointed above them with the spear in talons at the quite ominous breached ‘sky’ in my mental state with numerous eyes looking down upon us with twisted mirth, going so far as to wave a tentacle tauntingly at her and me. “Yea, last time I was in my ‘safe place’ in my own head it wasn’t a fortress I don’t think, and you lot weren’t here either?” I said pointing at them and the white furred female diamond dog who sat perched on a fallen tree in the courtyard just growling at the sky, before retreating to my side giving my form a look over before pulling me from the female griffin into a powerful hug with a happy bark.

The yellow female earth pony simply walked out from what I think was the main castle doors from the interior with a serious expression on her face while rubbing her chin until she walked close enough to join in. “We have completed our rough ‘study’ of the mental scape we have landed in by a result of-“ she pointed at me in a awkward diamond dog hug. “- the colt’s slaying of slaying us, the fascinating theory we have deduced is with a certain level of focus he could alter this state and even bring this place or even US into his dream state as the colt appears to be a Lucid Dreamer.”

During her whole conversation each of us backed up a step or two by the expression forming upon her studious librarian face, I saw a crazy woman when her grin went full blown and her teeth took on an unnatural gleam just like her eyes. “Right… First of all I knew I was a lucid dreamer but second of all who are you all?” I said motioning with my hand having finally broken free from the larger female diamond dog’s hold much to her disappointment but sat down smiling at the question, which she spoke up first in a gruff tone of pride.

“We are White Snout! Proud Alpha of Crystal Claw Clan!” Her tail wagged with joy as she sat closer looking into our eyes with joy though there was a look in her expression I was not understanding, that was until the yellow one replied to my possibly read confusion. “She is likely having seen thou as an abandoned pup in need and either maternal instincts are kicking in or some deeper emotional meaning we’ll leave unsaid.”

The nod confirmed that though that made me think until the armored talons of the golden feathered female griffin clasping onto my shoulder and gave a turn for our eyes to lock as she looked into my eyes. “Well young hatchling my name is Valira Goldfeather, one of the fastest fliers in the Griffin Kingdoms and former active hero to my kin.” She said this proudly before leaning closer one last time with a nod, until she started to poke my body with a slight frown. “Well young hatchling you’ll need to get some work in on your body and learn how to properly lead and use weapons in any fight.”

Sombra took a step forward having brushed past the black unicorn who frowned as he spoke up in a proud tone. “We are Sombra, thou’s first kill in our reality and pioneer practitioner in the Dark Arts of Magic, Rituals and Crystalmancy! Our knowledge of this world especially of the Crystal Empire will be of use, also note that OUR Dark Magic are thou’s greatest weapon!” he had made it clear on that subject and quite possibly pride, also at the mention of crystals White Snout grinned at the thought and the black unicorn groaned before pushing him aside.

Clearing her throat she took a slight bow before introducing herself in a more elegant noble tone. “We would be Star Talent and quite honestly the greatest wizard of our age, present us a tome with a magic we know not and it would be easy to learn as breathing. Hoping to advise thou not to take all the blowhard has to say on the subject as our wider range of adapting and learning is to greater effect.” She smiled as the feeling of a predatory look crossed her features before coming closer to kiss my hand, having caught me off guard before she winked at me. “Though if thou wishes to learn of a more intimate art we wouldn’t mind.”

White Snout pulled two steps back from her in a protective manner until a tap on my shoulder caught us both off guard as a merely smiling Female Yellow Earth Pony stood there with an apron over a long sleeve shirt and skirt down to her knees. “We appreciate the cursory glance young Colt, physical studies may be learned at a later date but for now know that we are Keen Mind, pioneer into the Studies of the mind and body. A Doctor having hoped to make her own way but now appearances has us as thou personal physician and aid to more subtle affairs others have towards us or those thou deem interested.”

She nodded astutely before taking a step back and made me wonder how she sneaked up on us, with a similar smile from before when she got out of my personal space. Letting my eyes look them over carefully and once up at the sky expecting it too to speak, much to my expectations it didn’t but I felt like it was smiling at me or something. Though my Amulet was the last as ‘she’ walked up and melded into my form with the necklace taking root even here onto my body as I felt her whisper inside me.

“We are thou’s proud friend, guide and tool always one and whole with thou holding us as thine possession close to the heart, mind and soul. All we ask is that thou use us with care, for we shall be forever loyal.” She spoke in an enchanting tone that always whispered something more than what she said.

White Snout wore a tribal attire with scavenged armor that showed her in her prime with fewer scars, her posture was showing a very strong physical build and how she resorted to claws and brawl fighting against others with a heightened nose and natural ability with digging and gem shaping. The next closest to me was Valira Goldfeather who wore custom gold with chain armor over most of her body as only light segmented plating covered the bones for her wings, I think it might had been made to be enchanted against magic users or to enhance her own protection.

Keen Mind in her doctor’s attire still regarded me with a smile though the thought of her dressed as a cute librarian continued to cross my mind as something more though that smirk seemed to have told her what thoughts I may have been having as that creepy smile returned with a passion that made me worry. But she had gotten cuffed in the back of the head by Star Talent who shook her head before gracing me with her own elegant smile and the bow of her head, though it may have been trying to draw out my arousal by her wink again.

Finally it was Sombra who was regarding me in some way before tossing his armored hand about as if gesturing me to speak up or well look at where we are, which reminded me of why I was here. Attempting to focus on the bigger picture around me, first starting what is closest to me as the courtyard starts to come to life with cobblestones being replaced with the once dead tree now standing again with life blooming onto its branches producing translucent apples that glitter.

Moving my hands slowly skyward as the once slowly deepening cracks in the sky start to mend themselves forcing the tentacle appendages back but not before at least hearing a shuddering chuckle, only to furrow my brow in concentration feeling my amulet help me in her own way. The sensation was a comforting warmth with the heat being focused on my amethyst horn, the sky was after much stress was fixed though not reinforced yet.

Receding the red sea around the mountain back as far as it could be pushed before erecting a higher level ground, forcing the mountain to shudder under the work forcing my own breath to hold until it released the heightened effort. Taking the time to construct a tiered road from the castle landing outside the walls down circling it with empty space for construction to take place only to stop about halfway down before adding in winch operated elevators.

They reached far down to the new base of the mountain as if a temporary solution from the exhaustive work. “So, how does it look so far?” I asked keeping my eyes closed attempting to do finer touches on the sky to keep whatever that thing was outside here by reinforcing it with living constellations that moved up there. “I hate to point this out but the sky’s stars are moving, also snapping at each other.” Valira Goldfeather had spoken up sounding rather shocked by the sight, though the happy whines of approval of Snout told me she felt what I did with the environment.

The ponies mostly were in mild shock except for Keen Mind who started cheering like a little girl getting her favorite present ever, for when my eyes open they were only seeing her forest green stare with childish glee etched across her face. “Thou MUST do more, make this ‘world’ more complex! Show us the creativity of the mind! Thou has the potential and under our guide, the mind will become the greatest defense anything will ever conceive of!”

Backing up a moment I try to make something to act as a heavy guardian, first focusing on the image of a spider-pony but made of crystals, smoothed and carved to make it a work of art at least to me. Giving it some intelligence and imprinting of how it should move and felt it could do defensive abilities and maybe blast someone. “Well now colt, thou knows something rather interesting there. This application and some alteration could make such a construct to be highly resistant to magical attacks and its mobile sturdy frame only adds to it’s possible capabilities.” Sombra complimented while White Snout looked it over rabidly, pointing things out to me that need fixing.

Anything else was interrupted when Valira Goldfeather spun me to face her armored glory again only to ask a request of me with the reward being her utter loyalty. “You and me, we NEED to find the three shitbags who had their fun with me when I was alive and kicking, all you have to do handsome is just get us close enough and summon me from you for my revenge on their actions.”

Taking a moment to smile for that thought. “On the plus side you get three more actual guards trained from this place for a leg up in our training you martially, and increases your options for when you can summon everyone at once and maintain it. From what glow has been telling me, all you have to do is practice in here and outside with summoning and controlling. But after what you do for me and I’ll follow you forever if possible for as long as you exist here or beyond.”

I nodded at her agreement with a smile offering a hand, which she took it and then a beak to muzzle kiss giving a smirk at my expense and befuddlement. With an audible sound happening in the background that may have sounded like broken gears as my brain restarted with seeing and hearing a laughing griffin female with a giggling unicorn joining in saying this. “We should have stolen his lips if that was the reaction he gives us! Though in all seriousness we simply request to be thou teacher in normal and advanced magic with a side hope of thou absorbing tomes with magic writings.”

Another nod which she followed by a lick with a hungry look in those white pupils, looking at White Snout now I noticed she was looking at me with a wagging expression. “We wish to be summon anytime wish, but demand when in danger!” She gave no ground on that issue and similar reactions were given, surprisingly even my counterpart though the reasoning was they exist because of me.

But as for Keen Mind I KNEW what she wanted and could do that while learning from her, but the invisible pull from my body grew though only became apparent when I did one last alteration adding proper bedrooms for them in the castle proper with a signpost left where I was for directions to each room on parchment. Everything from my mental space faded to nothing soon enough as another scent filled our nose.

Crystal Empire – House Onyx, Master Bedroom (again) – Night

The darkness of the room fluttered back into our vison with Dark Faith having kneeled in front of us now, as if having sensed our ‘waking’ from meditation with a joyful expression upon her darker furred muzzle making us wonder what she has been up to while we meditated. Her eyes glowed with the same expression with an unnatural Amethyst complexion, having a violet robe in hand in offering we stood up slowly careful to step out of the ring of used up candles before walking behind a dignity blind to undress into the robe for bed.

When we reemerge from behind the dignity screen we saw a slight mix of disappointment and drool- okay we have to admit that the SIGNS of her body language were clear to us even with her reserved ‘religious’ and knight training still doesn’t hide that from us, we’d have to be either normal or having somepony who’s specialty was reading body language of others and their possible reactions mentally. “Dark Faith, tell us truly if thou desires our form or is it more?”

The pure expression of both surprise and embarrassment etched across her face like a blushing sun, though admittedly her eyes glowed more from that too which we felt was correct? So many new things and we are exhausted beyond belief let’s hope our rest will be fulfilling, that’s if we cared to weave something nice, maybe how we think the crystal princesses may be like with us?

“Milord we would doth lie if we claim otherwise, we found it hard to resist while thou practiced in the ritual thou were doing, we feared if entering it would have ruined thou task and brought shame upon us if not our head.” She stated with a shuffling that a filly would before her crush, if said filly wasn’t a full grown mare that had trained herself to be a temple of a body maybe hidden under her current armor. But our instinct is ‘acting up’ down stairs by that possible thought which she clearly smelled with a smile etched on her lips though still careful not to mention it.

Sighing after long last we asked this of her. “If thou had a wild wish at this time in hopes of doing with us what might that be now?” Her reaction was almost as priceless as the first time with a few stutters and tripping over words before finally chocking out some understandable response. “Milord, we’d be deeply honored if say were to snuggle thou when sleeping when it be just thou.” Her voice was quiet and lacking the earlier confidence she bore openly before that only made this easier to accept, besides it was only a snuggle, what harm could that cause?

With a nod she Squeed before bowing on her hands and knees before us, moving towards the armor stand where ours lay hanged her slowly in a deliberate act, unfastened her segmented crystal armor to lay on the ground in a folded action with reverence. Soon enough she wore only bandages over her breasts that gave an impression of heavy C that could boarder line on D if she ate more perhaps, though her hips had a simple tied cloth that first wrapped around under her tail for the rest of it to come between her legs to slide back up behind it to be tucked in giving a careful though easy to unwrap style for utility.

Moving into the bed with a sigh at feeling it’s comfort made us think it was just one large pillow instead of a bed before we are roused from our thoughts and melting ease, by Dark Faith entering the bed gently before nervously as can be wrapped her arms around us. Her scent filled our nose with crystal berries from the field mixed with a warm breath and hearing her breathe in our scent with a shudder, following with a happy ‘purr’ like reaction before pressing in a bit firmer with her slight husky voice whispering this into our ear. “We wish thou the best of dreams Milord, for thou’s dreams coming true would make us only happy to make true.” With that our world faded with a snore soon taking our lips and something pressed to our neck leaving wetness.

Dreaming – Sombra’s Violet Bubble – First Dream

The first thing we noticed was the very bed we rested upon being what we are in now in this dream, looking up at the ‘sky’ showed we were at the pinnacle of the castle’s central tower that overlooked the empire and it’s night sky that twinkled from our view showing a dark blue moon for some reason.

Though some obvious giggling from a familiar voice of ‘Pandora’ with a smooth velvet tone of Crystal Heart having muttered something to her before both appeared wearing violent silks. Pandora smiles with a bounce to emphasize her appearance with that glittering white crystal coat and mane leading to her joyful ruby red eyes at our seeing this, taking a leap onto the bed only to land on our left side snuggling up.

Crystal Heart during that distracting moment fluidly slid up and under the covers on our right side with her glittering light blue coat hidden under the sheets while a heavy blush covered from her ears to her shoulders hiding her face by nibbling our neck and clinging onto our form, her sister only taking more notice by our surprised reaction and responding by taking a kiss from our lips that we thought would feel like from lunch earlier that day and ending it by biting her bottom lip only to guide our fingers under the covers to her stomach stroking her belly fur.

All the while we had yet to notice somepony looking into on this dream from the outside when a light blush crossed her dark blue muzzle and her dark starry mane flowed, slowly in another direction at that particular moment with a slight lidded stare at the dream orb she saw that stood out from others for an odd reason. Her curiosity only deepened to ‘watch’ it play out as the night had been rather uneventful so far to her subjects sleeping, though she had to be careful due to this one wasn’t technically being not one of her ‘subjects’ but from the Crystal Empire.

But when she returned by the third hour having been lured back each hour from a deepening curiosity as she has never seen a dream involving more than one mare before let alone involving two princesses of the crystal empire that she has met before, though the stallion in question seems to be the description of this newly appointed ‘Crystal Unicorn’ pony, the implication of one being born or ‘made’ or ‘changed to one’ was too absurd to ignore and now she has the opportunity to contact him.

When we were in the final ‘throws’ of our wet dream we felt something enter and took guard but the sudden crystal weapon while in current ‘state’ only well made it more awkward until we saw the ‘aggressor’ being a Female Mare wearing a gown with a regal appeal and took notice he had changed the wet dream to a field showing the same night sky and him in his full armor. “Who are thou knave?” We demanded but the response made us steel our will, also her ‘Royal Canterlot Voice’ added to her wellbeing. “WE DOTH NOT A KNAVE HEALTHY STALLION, WE BE PRINCESS LUNA! WOULD THOU BE ONE NAMED SOMBRA?”

The sound and ‘wind’ blew at us but standing our ground in a guarded pose using what ‘skill’ we absorbed were pretty good for normal standards and had prepared to summon White Snout. “We would be he, though we humbly REQUEST thou voice to be lowered to a more ‘tolerant’ level of civil conversing.” We spoke in a more calmed voice but it was still evident by our flushed cheeks that blush was consuming our fur coat at this time, also our ringing ears be folded back. “*coughs* We may attempt to make it more reasonable since we had, ‘intruded’ upon thou dream as our curiosity drew us to this dream bubble.”

We just stared in wonder before she spoke again looking up at the sky not truly regarding our battle ready stance, also our flustered state when we can see she is blushing too from her spoken words. “We may have ‘openly’ looked at thou dream and saw the traces of one whom can mold or shape their dreams freely, would this be true young Sombra? Also we ask if thou like the night, for we have not seen this pattern before.” Looking around with embarrassment before answering her thusly. “Well it is true we call our self a Lucid Dreamer but it is not a widely regarded name or one we have openly called what we do. Also we do enjoy the peaceful jeweled night even though we have to lay our head to rest.”

We noticed she flushed at calling the night that but not the reason why, it was like being given a compliment perhaps? “We doth have thusly spent our time crafting our nights with great ease for all to gaze upon with joy!” She stated loudly but not as loud before with a sheepish response before forming a table for us to sit at with a gentle smile. “We hope to partake respite with thou for a short time if thou be willing?”

Upon us giving a nod she only smiled more as the moon glowed before our first informal ‘talk’ began with flushed faces and more than half of the conversation revolving about our ‘wet dream’ and the wonder as for how we had become so ‘perverse’ in the more mirthful questions. Which sadly left us floundering and stuttering over our responses but she seemed far more shocked at our informal way of conversing with her and now prostrating before her as all the ponies her and her sister meet, though we hope she doesn’t share the ‘name’ of calling us a perverse stallion to others…

But oddly enough we think this might be the start of a foreign friendship? Or tis a wrong thing for this to happen when our emperor has refused to join this Equestria, but we do know one thing, she has said she’ll invite us to the next gala and we may bring three with us.

Crystal Waste – Trade Caravan – Metal Heart same night!

I grumbled and had to beat off a few ‘grabby’ types with my new ‘fists’ to work out some of my frustrations because of that slick inkblot tentacle Bastard for dropping me earlier, sooner or later I’ll figure out how to get payback on him. “Well at least I’ll be arriving ‘back’ at the Crystal Empire tomorrow sometime around noon, hopefully I’ll be able to find him easy enough. Though from these notes I’ll need to give him my ‘letter of introduction’ and so on and he might still be suspicious as I would be too if something in the sky just dropped some help and not even at my doorstep too, maybe I should show what I can do.”

Grumbling some more as I took another bite out of some hard bread with the wind being blocked by the caravan wagons, looking up at the viewer’s perspective giving my new ‘finger’ a work out at the reader’s direction not realizing that it isn't just the Architect of Realities watching me actions but through what he is willing to show others that heard of him. Though there is a good chance I MAY have pissed somepony else off in the process or not.