A tall man with a white coat and black spiky hair walked through a portal and appeared in a white void. He began to walk of into the abyss until he came across a single desk with a book and quil. The man snapped his fingers and a chair appeared on the opposite side of the desk. He sat down and looked at the book in front of him and chuckled.

I haven't had this much fun in centuries, all this time I've been letting the stories write themselves. Who knew that developing them myself could be so much fun?

Ahem...

A smile appeared on the mans face as he turned to see Vivi giving him the death stare.

Ah, this is unexpected, I thought you'd still be watching the boy

You lied to me...

Hmmm?

You told me that Symbol was taken from his world, but he walked through the portal voluntarily!

I said nothing of the sort, all I told you was that he arrived in Equestria, that's all...

You could have told me though...

Where's the fun in that, it's also better to keep you in the dark about certain things...

She couldn't argue with that, she was known for overreacting to things, she'd just get in the way of something important.

Besides, there are things even I cannot control when it comes to the boy, for example the darkness in his heart, the best I can do is delay the inevitable

Vivi just stood there, unable to say anything. She knew what he meant, and if she tried to warn Symbol about what was going to happen, there would be only remains to clean up after Discord awakens.

You know if I could stop the nightmare fuel I would, but I've only recently started writing again

I know...it's just hard to imagine that he'll become that monster...

I'm not happy about it either Vivi, but you can't let the fact that he's your son get in the way of what has to be done

She nodded and began walking towards the portal. When she was back in her world the man brought out two more books.

Neither of us can...*sigh* I just hope the dreams Luna has given him can keep it at bay long enough, however strange they are

About a week and a half ago, Symbol had a dream about a crystallised figure, that would just sum up as a normal dream for our human friend but this one was...off. It is what drove me to search through our friends memories. Here is a playback of said dream in Symbols point of view...

I had originally planted him in a dream where he fought alongside his favourite characters of fiction...but something else dragged him out of it, and into his worst nightmare.

I woke up in a dark alley. "What the hell, where's Mephilis?" As I exited the alleyway to find I was in the last city I ever wanted to be in.

"No...no no no, not again..." The streets of the city were black and bare, the moon was crescent and was being slightly blacked out by the clouds. The streets were lit by the slight moonlight. I looked down to see my necklace was gone.

"No god damnit where is it!" I frantically searched myself to find it, then I saw it floating a ways down the street. When I walked closer it moved backwards, like it was leading me somewhere. I followed it down multiple alleys and apartment blocks until it rose in the air above an intersection. With each step I took towards the area filled me with fear, like there was something I wasn't suppose to see down there.

When I reached a street heading straight for the intersection, I saw someone on the ground that I hadn't seen in years, even in my dreams...

"Abigail?" I ran to the body where I saw a puddle of blood. "nonononononononon!" I rushed over to her body, when I held her in my arms, tears started pouring out of my eyes

We had never seen our friend cry before, the look of fear and sorrow on our friends face was almost frightening. We didn't know who the female in the dream was, but she was obviously important to Symbol.

"Who did this..." I looked at her body, her sweet face was now covered in blood. "WHO DID THIS!?!"

What replaced Symbol this time was something of pure evil and sadness. He looked to his hand, his fingertips were covered in blood. That was enough to set him off. He screamed in pain. His skin went dark grey, his hair went jet black and spiked. His blue shirt became torn at the writs and hem. His fingers became sharp claws. Four black spider like limbs grew from his back, his eyes went black, his pupils were only red dots. His tears became blood and created red lines from his eyes to his chin.

We couldn't to see him like this, whoever that girl was, meant the world to Symbol. We had to stop the dream. After we used our magic to force him out of the dream, he woke up in a panic. There was tears in his eyes, he held his necklace tightly, he rocked back and forth trying to calm down. There was a slight blue fog coming from his body. That caught our interest, We wasn't aware that this was possible for him. We would question it later, right now we had to figure out who sent Symbol to that nightmare...

There was something familiar about that creature Symbol became, it was like a living nightmare...

I must look further into our human friends dreams and memories before I can take any sort of action, although it may be too late.