One more final stitch for this dress and it will be complete. Once I finished I looked at the time; it was 5:00 am in the morning. I look at the ponnequins that held their dresses/suits that were due next week. I looked at my hands and I was shivering. I stood up all night and finished all the dress and suits in several hours time. I look at the bed where Coco was sleeping peacefully. I remembered that I woke up in the middle of the night and I just got to work on the dresses with a lamp light.

I put my palm against my forehead and it felt hot. 'Great I stood up all night and I am getting a fever now?' I thought. I think I am going to sleep off the rest of the day to get rid of this pre-fever. I walked towards the bed and I almost tripped myself with the ponnequin stand. I collapse on top of the bed next to Coco and went into a deep sleep.

"Ryan?" It was Rarities voice.

I open my eyes and I felt very groggy like my energy was suddenly drained from my body. A throbbing headache was what I got next which made me groan and got my hand to cover my face.

"I heard you last night and you finished all the dresses that were due next week. Just shake your head if you did all this so I can leave you alone." Rarity said.

I nodded my head and turned to my right side to get comfortable. I sighed as the headache was going away and my eyes were heavy which I let them close.

"Have a nice sleep darling." Was all I could hear from Rarity before I went into a deep sleep.

Darkness... It was the only thing I could see around me. I heard someones voice in the distance and it sounded familiar.

"Why didn't you help..." It gasped.

There was light, but it shined against the person who was there. My heart quickens when I realize that it was Jayden in chains and he was covered in blood from the head to his chest. His eyes were all white and moaned like a zombie.

I spoke, "I-I'm sorry... I had clothing assignments..." I choked.

"That is no excuse." He panted, "Why couldn't you help our a friend in fucking need."

His coughs got more violent and soon he puked out a bucket of his own blood on the floor. The dark floor was now being painted by blood spreading across the floor. He looked at me which I started to get afraid of him because he did a weird smile. I stood back as I put my head down and tears were flowing down my cheeks.

"I'm sorry..." I sobbed.

"Now... Suffer the consequences.... IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" He gargled blood through his mouth.

His body slowly started to decay, his face became unrecognizable as it melted into liquid. His shoulders popped off like a Lego figure and turned into pools of grey, green and red ooze. His eye balls fell off and rolled towards my foot. I look down at the eye with cold feet and hot sweat rolling down my cheeks. The eye blinked which made me yelp a bit from fear and when I looked at Jayden, his decaying stopped, but he lunged towards me and screamed, "YOUR FAULT!"

I fell off the bed to which woke me up from the nightmare. My eyes dashed around to see its surrounds and I was back into my room. It was the middle of the afternoon, but my body was covered in cold sweat, my head was still hot, tears were rolling off my cheeks, and my throat felt like sandpaper. I stood myself up after three attempts to walk towards the bathroom. When I got there I threw up my last nights dinner and dessert. Even after I did that I threw up dry heaves of nothing until my stomach was satisfied. I lye myself down on the cold titles as I heard a scream from Sweetie Belle. My head looked up and I raised my hand to point to nothing.

"Get... Rarity..." I sighed.

-Jayden's point of view-

"GAH!" I muffled in pain.

The surges that were taking away my magic are getting stronger and it draining my mental state. My mouth was still covered in a plastic wrap, but there was a hole so I can have water through a straw. Is this what's it's come to? I come to this beautiful world, but life just wants to take that away giving me a sour and bitter taste.

I look at the King who was standing there mindlessly being controlled by this bitch. I was getting angry, but I needed to calm down and think of happy thoughts. If this machine is trying to get my world into this one and there was two possible outcomes of what Despair is doing. One he might be getting my memories to open the portal, if that is the case I focused my mind on nothing but the anime I watched before I came into this world. Two if this was a sacrificial chamber where if I die the portal opens, then I have to stay here and brave it all until my friends get here.

Another surge of pain almost interrupted my focus, but I was trying to get use to it. Despair wasn't impressed by the results because he was frowning when the results came onto the screen. I don't know if he knows this, but I smirked through the plastic wrap thinking, 'Your going to have to do better than that.'

Then something echoed through my head and it sounded like Connor and Ryan. 'I'm... Sorry...' said Ryan 'I'm sorry too.' said Connor. I thought about what they meant and if they mean that they couldn't save me well I was going to do some punishment. I'll forgive them when I punch them into the moon, with Luna and Celestia's help of course. I look towards the window on my right which the day was ending with another sunset making it day two. One more day until this surging of pain becomes a problem.

-Ryan's point of view-

I ran away from the Boutique like a mad man. I was feeling so sorry about not going with Frank and the others that I just got depressed. One of the things I would do if I get this sad is that I sprint, run or jog it off because exercise seemed to work for me. The only difference though is that the dream and it's images were lingering in my head when I blinked. I came to a full stop at the Spa to take a breather. The conversation from Rarity echoed from my head from moments ago.

'Why don't you take the day off? I'm pretty sure that Coco is worried about you. Go ahead and clear your mind on something else. You can talk to Coco or me if you want to open up. I won't pry on what your thinking, darling.' She said.

'Where is Coco now?' I asked.

'She said she wanted to give you some space and went to the Spa. I'm pretty sure that you need it.' She grabbed a piece of paper in her bag, 'Here's my free coupon if you want to go to the Spa and don't give Sweetie Belle any more scares.'

I scratched my head, 'I'll try not to.'

I stood at the door where Coco was at. My mind didn't want go to the Spa because the images would still haunt me, but I can get myself relaxed and it would make me feel better overall. My heart won this battle and I set foot into the Spa. There was a bell that rang and I found Fluttershy talking to Coco. I look in front of me to see two earth ponies one blue and one pink.

"Hello my name is Aloe." The blue one said and pointed to the pink one, "This is Lotus, how may we serve you to day?"

"Uh.. My name is Ryan. I have this coupon Rarity gave me and she said I could use it." I said.

I gave Lotus the coupon and she grabbed it with her teeth. Aloe looked at the coupon and she looked at me then smiled.

"Right this way Sir Ryan." Aloe said guiding me to the massage chair.

I never really been to a spa before, but I would like to go again in case I get into this mood. I felt all of my worries melt away in the bliss of hooves being massaged on my stiff back and shoulders. My mind erased all the images of the nightmare and all I could see was me skipping in the meadow of flowers. Coco was already finished, but she stayed for another round and caught up with me at the sauna. She had a robe around her and was a little embarrassed to sit next to me, but I patted the seat which reassured her.

She cleared her throat, "Do you want to talk about it?"

I nodded.

"Please express yourself."

I frown, "Jayden got captured by the Griffon Empire and Frank gathered everybody to get ready to save him. I declined because of the clothes that were due next week and Connor did too for another excuse. I finished the clothing last night and felt depressed at the time. I tried to sleep it off, but I had a nightmare..." She nodded and I continued, "This nightmare had Jayden decaying as he was dying he said..." I choked and Coco put a hoof on my shoulder, "It's all my fault... I believe the dreams sayings. After I awoke I couldn't stomach the images and went to the bathroom. Rarity convinced me to relax and it helped, but talking to you about it makes me a lot better."

I felt her hooves go around my side and she sighed, "It's not your fault because we don't know if he is dead; all we know is that he is captured and you weren't thinking." She puts her head on my chest as another round of steam pours into the room and continued, "I understand your excuse, but you need to make up for it."

I nodded as I petted her mane, "I think I know what to do and I need Twilight's help."

She looks up at me, "What's that?"

"We give them a welcome back party." I smiled.

"I think its a great idea!" Pinkie smiled in glee.

After the spa, Coco and I made our way to Sugarcube corner to have Connor and Pinkie to consider the idea. As always, Pinkie would accept, but Connor wasn't with her and was at the back getting ingredients. When he came back to the kitchen, he had assortments of fruits and flour in his arms.

He set them down on the table and sighed, "Where are we going to host it?"

"We need to talk to Twilight to see if we can have the party at Canterlot." Coco said.

Pinkie's eye widened and smiled, "THAT IS BRILLIANT!"

Connor grabbed Pinkie by the shoulders before she could jump on Coco, "Pinkie get yourself together."

She then turned to normal and hopped towards the kitchen saying, "Okie Dokie Loki!"

Coco looked at me wondering what was wrong with her, but I mouthed, 'Don't question it.'

Author's Notes:

Alright with the filler out of the way its the bullet train express for the next three chapters and the collaboration chapter! Hope you guys are enjoying this series! I just want to mention that there were some comments that it was a bit fast paced. Well don't worry followers/viewers I have another story in the works that is totally different from this one, but sad and dark (Yes it is a HiE, but with a twist).