I open my eyes to find myself in the now-so-familiar white room of my Mindscape. Its eerie silence and blank atmosphere is the only thing occupying its emptiness as I lied on the floor with my cheek resting upon the unapparent floor. I laid there blinking a couple times as I collected myself before I heard a gruff voice calling to me.

"Rise and shine kiddo." I groaned with annoyance hearing Davian's voice as I lifted myself off the floor with a grunt. I turned my head to face him as he stood a short distance away with his arms crossed and that smug smile on his face. The smile that which always bothered me as I gave him an unamused expression and sighed.

"It's too soon to deal with you." I exhaled as Davian chuckled.

"I've been waiting for ya the whole day and now...it's time we get back down to business." He stated as I was stretching, feeling my bones popping back into place and the blood flowing through my body as I relaxed. Then, I remembered there was something I wanted to talk to Davian about, back when I was at Applejack's orchard racing against Dash. After recollecting the event that took place, I thought about who I spoke to about it.

"Let's see here, I've tried asking Twilight and Luna if they knew anything about the place I was at and they had no idea. So... Maybe what happened to me wasn't even magic from this world. Maybe... it had something to do with the Nether magic that I'm learning, and the only person who can tell me about it is standing right in front of me." After I finished mentally consulting with myself, I gave Davian my attention as he's been watching me the entire time as if he was expecting me to do or say something to him as he just stood there and waited.

"Hey Davian."

"Yea, what's on your mind kid?" I cast my eyes away, feeling a bit awkward for asking anything from this guy.

"There's something I needed to ask you about. Its regarding what happened yesterday morning."

"Okay? Out with it already." Davian urged as he was getting a bit impatient by the looks of it as he's tapping his crossed arm.

"Alright damn. So I was out working with Applejack, doing my shit and getting things done, took a little break and my friend comes and wanted to race me. And..." I began explaining what happened before Davian grunts.

"Is this gonna keep going on, or are you going to ask me a question instead of telling me a story?" I furrowed my eyebrows, giving him an annoyed gaze before rolling my eyes and resuming.

"Anyways, I went into some weird place. Like...it was dark, really dark, it was warm at first and...then it got cold after a while..."

"It sounds like you went back in the closet" He snickered as I scowled at him.

"I'M BEING SERIOUS YOU FUCKING DICK HEAD!" I shouted at him.

"Hey! Calm the fuck down! It was just a joke." He snapped in return as it only served to infuriate me even more.

"Fuck your joke. I almost died from being in that place if I hadn't flown towards a damn window or whatever the fuck it was!"

"wait...did you just say you flew towards...a window? Like...what did it look like?" Davian began to show some interest as his mood shifted dramatically from mocking to that of serious urgency. I simmered down when I saw him taking me more seriously as I answered.

"Well, it was lighted up, pretty brightly and...there were more then one. Like...there were a lot of these windows, each with different views, but it was like each of them had a portion of the orchard I was working at." Davian had an incredulous looks before he looked away and seemed deep in thought as he was muttering to himself about something. "He DOES know something about this. I mean...he must know. Other wise he won't be standing in front of me consulting to HIMSELF...right?" Davian finished consulting with himself as he turned to me and crossed his arms once again.

"So, what did you want to know about it?" Davian asked plainly. My eyes widened in a stupor from his simplistic but asinine question as I spouted.

"You kidding me?! I want to know what the hell that was?! I mean you know about it, don't you?" My eyes now focused on him intently as I awaited to hear his response. He didn't cast his eyes away, or shown any signs of ponder, restraint, or even hesitation as he casually replies.

"Yea, I know about it. I'm just having a hard time believing that YOU have been to the Void." He scoffed as he seemed to be doubtful about what upon or only see it as a strange convenience.

"The Void? Is that what that place is called?" I asked in interest, seeing that I'm finally getting some answers about this.

"If you've actually been to the Void, you shouldn't even be standing here right now. That place is death even to gods. " He turned to the side as he stated accusingly. Making me feel awkward about this, as if I was trying to tell a lie about being in a place that...seemed like it would kill me. Why would I want to lie about something like that?

"What exactly IS that place?" I persisted in hopes of learning more about this 'Void'.

"The Void is another plane of its own. A place where time and space are nonexistent. With no creator or ruler, the Void is the perfect graveyard, for all who falls in its maws becomes a part of it and loses their meaning of existence as it will devour them to their very soul." Davian explained in his gruff tone, his words weaving a tale that has its intimidation as well as seem...majestic in a way.

"But how did I get there though? Is this part of Nether Magic?"My mind was swarming with different questions, all wanting to know about this place and why such a place exists, and if I can use my magic to get there, what purpose will that serve me for?

"It is, but this is something that is too highly advanced, almost deemed impossible. The only ones who can enter and survive the Void's clutches are the exceptional handful." Davian expressed, which actually made me feel prideful from his words as I boasted.

"Hehe, I guess that makes me exceptional then, huh?" I jested, but still with the thought in mind as it tickles my self esteem.

~WOOMP

As I was chuckling, something bashed into my stomach, knocking the wind out of me before I was launched off my feet, skidding down the blank flooring before slowly coming to a halt. I coughed out sickeningly as saliva spurted out of my mouth before lifting my gaze from the floor to see a black bludgeon whip retracting back into Davian's extended arm, which was engulfed in a black hue as he stared at me threateningly.

"You want to talk, then lets see how "exceptional" you are brat!" Davian whips his blackened arm back as he kicks off in the air towards me, not giving me room or warning to prepare as I concentrated on my left arm, creating my Conductor. As he descended upon me, he slashes downwards, aiming his claws at my chest as I blocked his strike, grabbed his wrist, and rolled backwards with my foot planted on his chest before kicking him away behind me. I flipped off my back and on my feet, creating a large tendril to sprout out of my Conductor, thicker then my own arm and whipping violently as I twisted around and whipped the large tendril out towards Davian as he landed on all fours, looking up towards me as the whip smashed against his arm unexpectedly. But he doesn't topple or is thrown off his feet, but instead holds against the attack as the blow drags his boots across the floor, maintaining his position. His clawed hand grew immensely in size and grabs the tendril, pulls it as it pulls me along with it. He jumps towards me at incredible speed with his claw outstretched towards me. I see his lips curl in a devious smirk as I saw the white began to shift to a red color before I saw nothing but black as he grabs my face and slams me into the ground. As my head smashes into the floor, I felt something spread out from under my head, pushing its way out and around me as I heard the grumbling of what sounded like...dirt. I felt Davian release me from his grasp, chuckling as he hopped off of me.

I slowly opened my eyes to see a dark reddened sky with dense gray clouds hovering by, my hands pressed on dirt as I grasped it and lifted it under my face, opening my palms to see reddish brown dirt crumbled into my palms. I dropped the dirt as I looked out to see a stretched horizon of what seemed like a barren, but beautiful land. We sat atop of a cliff, as I stood on the edge, looking out the horizon to see a large crimson water spouting out from the bottom of its crown into a lake below. The trees appeared to be like dead willow trees that were decorated with black, neon purple, and sunburst orange flowers, and the grass had an orange hue, but didn't feel withered, but smelled strong and fresh, even touching the grass had a lively and saturated sensation to it. I stood up as I looked out in admiration and awe.

"What is this place?" I asked in deep fascination. But my admiration was cut short as I heard the grass crunch behind me, turning my attention from the scenery to Davian as he had a serious gaze while approaching me very quickly. He lashed out with his claw as I took a step back and was ready for a counter strike as something shot from behind Davian and towards me. I acted upon instinct as I made the shadow beneath me rise and block what was a giant shadow fist sprouting from Davian's shadow.

As I held the shadow fist in place, focusing to keep my shield up, Davian caught me off guard as he struck my side with his fist, feeling an excruciating pain from the tremendous force of the attack. I crippled to my side, losing focus on the shield before he kicked my knee, forcing me to buckle to the ground and twisted his body to elbow my face with his clawed arm, and in the same motion, my shield dropped and the shadowed fist came flying forth and crashed into my body with its overwhelming strength, knocking me off the ground and soaring off the cliffs edge.

Clenching my eyes from the impacting as blood was rushing out of my nose, I slowly creaked my eyes opened to see the redden sky pass before everything shifted downwards, seeing the horizon I was looking at before, only it was upside down as the wind rushes down to my feet. I was confused as I looked up to see the red lake I was looking at before was drawing closer to me. I was getting ready to brace myself before I heard the sound of clothing flapping in the wind as I looked down to see Davian approaching as he grasped my throat, clenching me before we crashed into the lake.

As we sink deeper into the depths, he clenched unto my throat as I gasped, bubbles escaping my mouth as I looked around the shimmering crimson hue, looking for a means to free myself before I had a thought and concentrated on my back region, conjuring my wings as it took in the shape of sickles as they cross slashed him, pushing him off of my body with a trail of blood falling behind, mixing and spreading with the water.

Davian's body hurtled in the water from the force of my attack as I regained my composure, fanned my wings out and flapped them, gaining velocity as I jet my way towards Davian and shoulder bashed him as we both shot out of the lake and was elevating over the surface of the water as I pushed him off of me, shot my wing forward as it molded to an insect leg and pierced through his chest, pushing him downwards and pinning him to the ground. I molded my other wing the same way as its counterpart as I planted it to the ground to bring my body to touch down safely on land. Davian coughed out blood as he looked at me with a toothy smirk.

"Not bad kid, but I think its time we took this someplace else." said Davian as he grabbed on to the leg piercing him and soon began to sink into the shadows and dragging me along as well. I braced the other legging to keep me in hold to not sink in with him and fall victim to what nefarious plan he has in store for me. But I could feel him tugging at my 'wing' with an incredible strength as I couldn't hold on much longer before my leg gave out, sinking into the black abyss with him.

The strange land that I was in was shifting away before I came into a familiar black space. I looked around my surrounding to see those same lighted windows like before, giving me the view of different portions of an area, but...it wasn't Sweet Apple Acre's this time, instead...it looked like where I just came from as each of the window had that reddish orange atmosphere in its view.

"Is this what you saw kid?" Davian boomed from behind me as I turned around to see him floating with his arms crossed. I looked around the area to confirm as I nodded.

"Yea. This is the place alright, but...its different."

"How so?" Davian asked.

"The windows. Last time, they were showing different sections of the orchard I was working at. But now..."

"Now they're showing the land we just came from, right?" Davian finished as I nodded in reply before he continued to explain. "That's because when entering the Void, it allows the user to have access to all entrances within the vicinity." I looked through one of the windows to see the underside of a tree as it...looked like it was rustling through the wind, but it was incredibly slow, and when I recalled back on Davian's words from before, that's when a thought came to me.

"So...when you mention about time and space being nonexistent here. Were you implying that we are frozen in time?" Davian shook his head as he responded.

"Not exactly. Though time and space doesn't exist in this plane. Time does manage to seep its way through these windows once open." I tried thinking about the logic behind it, but it only gave me a headache as I shake it off and accepted it as it was before I continued asking.

"So if time hasn't stopped in here, and time seeps in from the windows, then why is everything so slow out there?"

"Because time doesn't come in here as a whole, only a small fraction can actually pass through as the remainder is swallowed up by the Void." Davian explains as I look out and am slowly understanding, within this limited knowledge of understanding this strange place.

"So...time is pretty much slowed down then?" I asked simplistically as Davian nodded. But there was another difference too about this, and that was last time I was here, I remembered I felt like I was dying, as if the darkness around me was choking the life out of me, but now...I only felt the warmth of something wrapping around me, comforting me and...making me feel safe.

"Whatever you do kid, do not fear the Void." Davian stated blatantly as I looked at him with curiosity.

"Huh? Why is that?" I asked with a little worry in my tone. He crossed his arms as he floated closer to me.

"Because if you fear the Void, it will see you as unworthy and unwelcomed, and will dismiss you in the only way it knows how, and that...is by death." Davian spoke carefully while maintaining eye contact with me as I couldn't help but stare at his crimson red eyes, as I gulped from the thought of what happened last time before the warmth was starting to cool down. I remembered what was to come after that and tried to accept the Void, to show my appreciation to be within its domain. With these thoughts in my mind, the warmth was seeping back to its glorious comfort as I was once more basked by its kindness. Davian noticed the shift in my expression as his lips curled in a smile and he floated back.

"I am thoroughly impressed. Even a highly trained Netherling could not perform such a task so fluidly." I looked at Davian in a puzzle as my eyes furrowed.

"What do you mean? How is it difficult just to show respect for something that seems...alive?" Davian gave a hearty laugh from my statement as the lighted window began to dim and flicker in conjunction with Davian's laughter.

"Hehe kid, you're a quick learner. Because they don't realize that the Void is its own being. They think its just some place, and that...shows their inferiority in the eyes of the Void. But you've proven to be welcomed by accepting it not just a place, but like a being accepting you into its home. Netherlings don't realize that until its too late, because they are too dense or inconsiderate." I scoffed when he made that last statement.

"Inconsiderate? That's funny coming from you." Davian lost his smile as he looked at me with a straight face.

"Just because I'm unmerciful doesn't mean I don't 'consider' my opponent as a living being. There is a difference between the two. I know what I fight and kill is...or was...a living being, its existence doesn't escape me, but in the field of combat, such trivial emotions only proves to slow you down, and a simple mistake can cost a life." As Davian made his clarification, I began to slowly understand where he was coming from. The thought of this guy who I viewed as a savage killer, may have been more then what he seemed. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with his method, but I can consider that being his way of upbringing.

"So...mind telling me what that place was back there?" Davian's eyes widened for a moment before easing back to normality as his eyes shifted away.

"It was once my home." Davian confessed as I looked at him strangely.

"You're home? I...don't even really recognize it." He looked back at me with what seemed like a solemn expression.

"I don't expect you to. But...enough of this talk. We've wasted enough time as it is and its coming to the end of our day." He floated to me as he grabbed the front of my shirt and tossed me back as I soared out and what seemed like through a window as I felt that rushing sensation, and the wind shifting from a very subtle touch to a gentle breeze before landing on the grass. I leaned myself up before I saw a pair of legs step beside me and looked up as I saw Davian. I stood up as Davian looked onward to the lake.

"When we meet next time, I can show you more about the Mindscape, and how you can create something like this from its nothingness." I listened as I looked at Davian's straight expression, seeing he was taking in his 'home' and showing that he misses it. I never took him as someone who would actually care for something, but...I guess everything just isn't what it may seem, and you can't really judge someone so quickly.

I then felt my mind beginning to slip as I looked at Davian as he return his attention to me.

"Until next time. Remember to keep training." I nodded in response as I was beginning to feel something strange before...

I woke up on the couch, completely stark naked with Rarity nuzzled on top of me and Luna before me on the other end of the couch, seeing that I was the only one in the nude as all of us were completely exposed and...well, a complete mess. I got up carefully as I rest Rarity down on the couch and noticed we made a huge mess as our "aftermath" from last nights event has dried up on the couch and on each other. Luna began to stir awake as she looked up at me as she watched me get up.

"Good morning Vincent, tis everything alright?" Luna greeted as I looked at her with a smile on my face.

"Good morning Luna. Sorry I woke you up, I just need to get ready for work but...I'd feel bad if I left with this mess still here so, I'm going to grab some things to try to clean up." Luna smiles tiredly as she looked down at the couch and her horn glowed in a blue aura as the same aura engulfed the stains all around before it shriveled up and disappeared. I blinked a couple times in confusion as she rest her head back on the arm of the couch with a sigh.

"We only ported it away. But, before thou takes thy leave. Would thee mind flushing the toilet?" As Luna expressed, my mind was putting one and one together from her explanation and realized what she did as I chuckled.

"Sure, no problem. Thanks Luna, I'm going to get washed up before I go." I said as Luna nodded before drifting back to sleep. I turned and made my way up the stairs to get ready as I noticed I still had my outfit on without my pants, but luckily it didn't get stained or anything. But I decided to take it off, draping it on my arm and making my way to the main room where there was my clothes stacked neatly in place. I took a simple red shirt, red boxers and some black pants and socks as I made my way to the bathroom, hung my coat up and got ready for work, taking a nice warm shower to wake me up for the day. After about a good ten minutes, I stepped out and was feeling fresh and ready to take on the day, putting on my attire and grabbing my coat before walking towards the exit while grabbing Salvation along the way.

Once outside, I took in the nice morning breeze while looking out to the dim blue sky of the rising dawn before exhaling. I concentrated as I created my wings and took off to the sky as I was planning for the day and making a mental checklist, feeling that today was going to be a another great day in this new world that I'm in.