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Beyond My Grave

by AnnEldest

Chapter 34: What You See

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"So you thought you could sneak in?"

The creature in the chair that was facing the opposite direction of us asked. After our failed attempt of trying to sneak into the bar, the dragons dragged to us down to be confronted by this so-called all-powerful psychic. On the plus side, we got what we wanted. On the negative side, we weren't for sure exactly what was going to happen to us. I wasn't scared like Spike was but I was concerned. I have to be prepared for whatever they had planned for us. I knew for one that dragons weren't always the nicest of creatures. So when it comes to them, you always had to be careful.

"Well?" He spoke up, waiting for one of us to answer him. He swung the chair around to face us as he said "You really thought you could-- what the hell?! What did you do to them?"

What he was referring to was the marks and bruises that were on Discord's face. For he had try to fight back and get away but obviously failed miserably.

"Sorry boss. The ugly one tried to fight back," one of the dragon said.

Discord scoffed. "Hey, that's no way to talk to a princess.

Spike and I rolled our eyes. "Sure Discord." Was all Spike could say.

But that wasn't what I was really paying attention to. What actually caught my eye was when I saw this so-called psychic. Spike told us a little bit about him but he left out one big crucial detail. This psychic was not a pony nor a dragon and not even a griffin. In fact, this creature was a gargoyle. My eyes widen in surprise. I wasn't expecting that. I have heard about them and seen statues of them but never did I actually see one before. There are very rare around Equestria. I wasn't even for sure if Celestia ever seen one. So this was a little different for me. I knew how dragons, Griffin's and ponies work but not gargoyles. So I wasn't for sure how to respond to this. However, I wasn't very pleased that they dragged us down here and practically captured us. So I stood up angrily.

"How dare you insult me and my friends like that?! You have no right treating a princess like that nor have any authority to bring me down here by force."

"Forgive me, princess but you were the ones to trespass first." He said.

"What are you going to do with us?" Spike asked fearfully.

"Well I'm going to help you. Since you were coming down here for that reason," he spoke calmly.

I gave him a weird look. "What makes you think that?"

He smiled at me." I feel distress coming from all of you. It seems that you all been wanting how but very unsure of how and from who. Is that right?"

He walked right up to me and took a long look at my broken wing. " I feel anger when I look at you but not like you're angry but as if someone is angry at you. Did she do this to you?"

"How would you know?" I asked.

" I can see it through your eyes. I can see someone who's been playing around with you, messing with you, who shouldn't be here anymore. This wouldn't be the first time something like that had happen to you, right?"

Our eyes wide open and we all look at each other with uncertainty and surprise. None of us gave him any clue of what we actually wanted or what we were doing. So how would he have known that? I guess Spike might had been right to have some belief that he could help us. It was either that or he was just a really good stalker.

Spike looked at me. "I told you he was good."

"So you're Shredder? This all big and powerful psychic or whatever?" Discord asked.

"Yes I am. I have the ability to see memories and thoughts through the minds of the living and dead," he answered.

"So like a mind reader?" I asked.

"No. Not technically. A mind-reader can only read the thoughts you have at the present moment. I, on the other hand, can see your memories at any time of your life past or present."

"Oh really?" Discord questioned doubtfully. "I don't believe this."

"You calling me a liar?" He asked harshly to Discord.

"I never said that," Discord defended himself.

"Well you were thinking it."

Discord went closer to me and whispered."I don't like this guy. He reads minds."

" I thought I'd just clarified that I wasn't a mind reader."

He turned and looked carefully at Discord. Discord gave me an uncomfortable look." You seem to have fear of abandonment. Why you always try too hard to please a friend. You fear to lose her. Some may call it love but I call it fear. That's why you have nightmares about it because you don't want to be alone."

Discord scoffed at that. " I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm the Lord of chaos. I never fear of such pitiful things."

"Then how come Princess Luna had to go into your nightmares only to find out that you worry about losing your friends? She never went into your dreams before, not until then."

Discord went silent after that. He looked at me as if he needed to clarification that I never said anything about it. I questioned it to. How could he have known of that? Not many ponies knew that I went into his dreams or what he actually dreamt about. I never told Celestia or Twilight or anypony for that matter about what he had dreamt. I always kept it between us. So I didn't know how to respond.

He saw this and smirk at us. "See what I did? You didn't believe me so I told you something that I should have never known and now you believe me. That's kind of what I do to get others to know that I'm not a fraud. So do you guys believe me now?"

"Ummm sure." Discord answered.

"Ok. Now that's out of the way, what exactly do you need help with?"

"If you can see our memories why not just use that to find out yourself?" I asked.

" I could but I do like others to speak for themselves. Also because I can only do it for so long and so many times. It is a rather tiring thing to do. I know you have a hard time believing in this kind of stuff but I know it's because you fear how others would think of you by doing so."

I knew very well how Discord felt now. It seems that Discord been telling me that but hearing it from someone else made me think if they were right. I didn't know what to believe in anymore. I spent my whole life being told one thing. So it's hard to listen when somepony else tells you another thing.

"They both been through a lot. So I told them that maybe you could help. Do you know what's going on? Can you help us?" Spike asked.

"Of course I can. I just need to know what exactly is going on with them."

I looked about him. If I wanted any help I had to let out some things. He didn't need to know everything but I thought maybe I could tell him the main detail, the more important stuff. So I told him about Dusty and about some of the things I had been seeing and dreaming about. I also told him the night at the cemetery and how I first met her. But I didn't tell him about what I saw in my bathroom or about what I wanted to do to myself. He didn't need to know that nor did Discord and Spike. After I spoke, Discord but mostly Spike told him some of the things they saw. And I was a little stunned actually. They talked about a little who been communicating with Discord and taunting him with the same dreams about a murderous house. I made me wonder what else they been through. I guessed I missed a lot.

Shredder look at as carefully and listen quietly as we spoke to him. It was as if he was trying to piece together everything and debating if what we were telling him was true. I was a little nervous that he wouldn't believe us. It was rather big and unbelievable story that we ourselves barely believe. But by the facial expressions he made, it seems that he was believing us.

"Well, I must say you guys have been through a lot. The answer is still obvious but yet not," he said.

"What do you mean?" Spike asked

" I, myself, am not a hundred percent for sure what is happening to you two but I do know a few things that I do not believe you are aware of."

"Like what?" I asked.

"Like why you been seeing things. Like why you been spending your whole life debating if you were crazy or not. Like why you keep seeing things that you shouldn't be."

"Why?" I asked.

He gave me a smile very similar to the one Dusty gave me when we first met at the cemetery.

"Simple. Because you are a psychic."

It was as if I ran into a wall multiple times. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Was that it? The whole time I was thinking I was crazy. And now some creature tells me it's because I could see them because I was the psychic. I didn't know what to think but when I look back it was as if that was what she was trying to tell me. Dusty and Misty we're both trying to tell me that but I didn't listen. I didn't know how to respond. How could I? I wasn't for sure what to say so I was pretty much speechless. Discord and Spike looked at him very much the same way that I was.

"Ok what?! You're saying she is what now?!" Discord asked.

"A psychic. That's what she is. That's why she can see them. Why she been seeing them. I can feel it. A psychic can feel the approach of another one. And I can feel her very strongly. It seems that Princess Luna has it a lot more powerful and stronger than most " he said confidently to us. There was no doubt in his mind that he was correct.

"This has to be some kind of misunderstanding. There is no way I could be one," I said.

"And why is that?" He asked me. "Doesn't it make sense now? All you been through."

I shrugged"I don't know. In a way it's does. But I don't know how it can be true."

"Well it is. That's much I can say."

"Look at the bright side, it's better than being crazy." Spike tried to comfort me and make me feel better.

"So that's it?"

"Depends if you believe it is. Do you believe?" Shredder asked me.

"I don't know."

He looked at me for a moment and nodded. He could tell that this was a lot for me to process. And it was. A part of me tried to make sense of it and try to put it together with everything that been happening but at the same time it just sounded absurd. However, I was taught that everything that didn't make sense never meant that it wasn't true. I did believe that I was thinking too hard about it but I guess anypony would who was in my situation.

Spike then walked up to Shredder and spoke up. " well first I would like to say since I didn't get the chance to it's an honor to meet you. I read all your books and loved every single one of them. I just knew from the start when discord first told me about what he was going through that you were the one who could help."

"Wait, you always planned for us to go to him?" Discord asked.

"Not at first. Not until you had your dream. That's what I knew I was going to but I needed proof. I need to know if it was all real or if it was a prank." As he said that he pulled out a camera from his bag that he had brought with him and handed it to Shredder." Now that I have it, I think this will make more sense now."

"What is it?" Shredder asked.

"A recording of some of the things I had managed to capture of some of the things that make me and Discord saw."

"How did you get this?" He asked.

"It's a long story," Spike said.


2 weeks ago


Spike couldn't believe that they were back at the house and it was Discord's idea. He barely got Discord to go the first time and now Discord had to convince HIM to go back. He only agreed to go back with Discord only because he didn't want Discord doing something that would get him killed. Would he regret it? Yes he would. But he was Discord's friend and he couldn't just let him get himself killed. Spike and Discord entered the house once again. But this time Spike brought something with him and it wasn't just the Phoenix. He had a small camcorder with him. This time if he did see anything or if discourse all anything he would see if he could capture it.

"I hope you know what you're doing," Spike said. He never saw Discord like this before. It mad him wondered what else Discord saw and went through. It almost scared him.


"I do know. We just need to find Silver Blitzs and ask her what this Phoenix is, what it dose and how to stop whoever is doing this," Discord explained. Of course, even he knew it was easier said then done. He signed. He was going to try to get this done as fast as possible. Discord started going up the stairs.

"Where are you going?" Spike asked.

"I first saw her in a bedroom upstairs. It's a good place to start looking for her."

Spike shook his head and signed."How do you know we will see her? According to you she's dead. We're not going to find her."

"I thought the same thing before. But when I came here, I saw her. I actually saw her, Spike. Among other things." He mumbled the last part as he thought about the little "vision" he saw.

"You saw her?" Spike asked, confused and a little in disbelief.

"Yeah. I saw her. It was as if she was alive." Discord looked down at the floor; a little upset knowing how her life was cut too short.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. I'm sure."

Spike started following Discord. A part of him still doubting him.

"If you say so."

They headed up the stairs. Discord looked down the hall. He made sure there wasn't anything up there that would try to kill them. Discord walked slowly to the room that he first saw Silver Blitzs. He opened the door and walked in, Spike followed not too far behind. As excepted, there was nopony in there. Just the same broken bed and the secret door. Discord signed. It was worth a shot. Spike sat in the middle of the room; his arms crossed.

"So what now?" Spike asked.

"We look in some other room. Or we could wait and see if she comes in here."

Spike groaned. He thought there was no point in even trying. Spike was for sure she wasn't going to help them. If SHE was even a SHE. Spike didn't trust this thing from the start. He was for sure that Silver Blitzs was leading them into a trap. But Discord trusted her and Spike didn't want Discord going in alone. A part of Spike wished that Discord didn't tell him anything. But he did and he couldn't change what happened. He knew he had help Discord to the end of this. He knew if anything were to happen to Discord, he would never be able to forgive himself.

"Fine. Let's look around the house," Spike said.


It had been three hours and still no luck. Silver Blitzs was nowhere in sight. In fact, nothing seem to show up. All the creatures and demons Discord talked about weren't there. It confused Spike. He started to wondered if this was a prank. Of course, this was a little big for Discord. But if this place was really as evil as Discord said it was then where were the monsters? Maybe it was better for them not to know. They looked and looked but saw nothing.

Spike looked at the Phoenix. He wondered what it actually did. What was it meant for? Spike looked out the window in the living room. The sun was going down.

"Discord, maybe we should come back. It's getting late," Spike said.


He looked back only to find that Discord was no longer there in front of him. He called out Discord`s name but there was no response. Spike looked around the room and the kitchen but Discord wasn't there. So he walked up the stairs and onto the hallway. When he got there he saw Discord, standing very still.

Spike started walking slowly up to him.

"Discord. Discord, what are doing?" He asked, annoyed. Discord said nothing. Spike kept walking to him. Just as he thought he was going to get mad at him, Spike started getting a very uneasy feeling. The closer he got to him, the more he got scared. He started feeling as if his friend with something else. Something very evil. He started shaking and he wasn't for sure if he should even get closer to Discord. He started walking even slower than he was before as he was getting closer to him. It was like he was walking up to a black figure not knowing what would happen if he approached him. Spike had no idea why he was feeling this way. Why would he be afraid of his friend? As the feeling grew stronger, Spike started walking even slower as he came upon Discord.

"Discord?" He asked confused and scared at the same time. Spike got up to Discord when he noticed that Discord started twitching. Spike reached out to touch him.

"Discord?" He asked slowly. As he was about to touch him, he heard footsteps coming from behind him. The footsteps came followed by a devious little girl laugh. Spike quickly turned around and saw a small black pony shape figure run across the hall and down the stairs. Spike blinded, unsure if his eyes saw correctly. A part of him was confused to what he saw but he was also completely scared. He wasn't for sure if what he just saw was real. He was really hoping it was just his mind playing tricks on him, though he doubted it very much. He turned back to ask if Discord heard the footsteps and saw the figure but when he did turn around, Discord was nowhere to be found.

"Discord!" He screamed very loudly.

"Yeah. What's up?" Discord called from Silver Blitz's room.

"What are you doing?" Spike asked madly.

"Come on. I got something to show you."


"Wait, what?! Did you not just see that?" Spike asked shocked.

"Just come here."

Spike carefully and reluctantly walked into the bedroom. As he entered, he saw Discord staring out at a open double door closet.

"Come here Spike. I want to show you something."

Spike groaned. "Discord!" He was about to walk up to him when he heard someone calling his name from downstairs.

"Spike! Spike. Come down. I think I found something." It was Discord?


Spike frozed as he turned around. Wasn't he just talking to him? He followed him up here. He couldn't be downstairs.

"Discord?" He yelled back.

"Yeah. I'm down here and why are you talking to yourself?"

Spike quickly turned back to the closet. The Discord standing there looked down at Spike. Spike started shaking. He knew that wasn't his friend. He started to take steps backwards. Spike looked up at the Discord in front of him. It stood there for a moment before letting out a loud roar and jump at him. Spike scream loudly as he covered his face as if he was trying to protect himself. Spike fell backwards onto the ground as the creature went through him and disappear into a mist. Spike looked around the room, breathing heavily. He couldn't comprehend anything at that moment.

"Discord! Discord!" He screamed. He didn't want to up there in that room alone. He got up from the floor and ran down the hall. He went down the steps when he bump into Discord; who was running upstairs after hearing Spike scream.

Spike's started talking in incomplete sentences and hyperventilating. Discord couldn't understand what he was trying to tell him.

"Spike! Calm down. What did you see?"

"You! I saw you."

"Spike, I have not been up there for ten minutes."

"I know!"

Discord gave him a confusing look "I don't follow."

"Let's just say I think I say a demon that looks like you!"

Discord screamed but then stop suddenly."Actually, compared to the other things I've been seeing that's actually pretty tamed."

Spike looked at him scarcely. "Now I'm really scared." Spike started walking up and down the stairs. " I know what this is. This is karma getting back at me. Discord, I'm sorry for doubting you."

"That's ok- wait you doubted me?!"

Spike shrugged. "Well, it's not that surprising that any of us would."

"Fair enough. I doubted myself. Literally." Discord signed.

"What do we do?!"

"I know." Discord walked up the steps.

"What are you doing?!" Spike screamed.

"Going to see what you saw. What else should we do?"

"We should leave!!!"

"Like I said that was pretty tamed. And besides, after one little jump scared and you're going to wuss out?"

"Yes?" Spike answered in a high pitch voice.

"Well, good luck with that." Then he continued up the steps.

Spike stood there absolutely bewildered. "What is wrong with you?! Where are you going? Wait. Don't leave me down here alone! Discord!!!"

He followed him up the stairs. He went up and stay at the top of the stairwell and peak around the corner.

"Where did you see it?" Discord asked.

"That room-..."

That was when they were both interrupted by a growl and when they got the strange feeling that they were not supposed to be up there.

"Spike, you said it look just like me?"

"Yes."

" I think I know what it is. Maybe we should go back downstairs."

"Yeah, didn't you say you found something downstairs?"

"Yes, I did."

Discord turn and started heading closer to spike who is still peering around the corner. As approached him, he heard the same growl from behind him. He turned around as he looked at Silver Blitz's door that slowly opened. At the same time, a black mist quickly swept into the room.

"Yep, downstairs."

And they both quickly ran down the stairs. Well, actually more like tripping and tumbling against each other down the stairs.

"Oh sure, you're used to it." Spike said annoyed.

"Hey, I said it was pretty tame. Not that I was used to it."

They ended up in the living room. They were both panting and hyperventilating, trying to keep their cool.

"So... what...did...you... find?" Spike asked.

"What? Oh... sorry. Follow me. By the way you don't have a weak stomach?"

"Why?"

Discord walk through the kitchen out into the backyard: Spike followed not too far behind.

"So this is where you were when I was up there with that... Other thing?"

"Ummm yeah."

"Ok...ok."

They walked across the yard to a small wooden shed.

"What's this?"

"Well, a shed."

"I know that. What's in there?"

"I don't know."

"You didn't open it?"

"No. Cuz that's not what I wanted to show you." He ran his hand on the bottom of the door and pulls out a string."This is what I wanted to show you."

He pulled the string and a sound like a door opening could be heard from a distance. They both turned around and saw a door open with stairs that lead underground. Swarms of flies came out of the doorway and flew into the air. Discord and Spike walked up to the door and look down the stairs. They could see that there were tons of bags covered in blood with flies surrounding every single one of them.

" I guess the police didn't find everything," Discord said.

Spike immediately turned around and started throwing up all over the ground. Discord patted him on the back over and over.

"Let it out. Let it all out. It's okay."


Spike's spend the next five minutes throwing up, trying to clear his mind of everything he had seen at the moment. Discord stood behind him waiting for him to be done.

" I think we seem quite enough. We clearly have our work cut out for us."

Discord scoffed. "You haven't even seen the half of it."

"I'm starting to see that. We need to do something and fast."

"That is what I been saying!" Discord yelled.

Spike looked down at the ground. "I know. But now you need to tell me everything you know. I think it may have to do with why you keep having dreams here."

Discord crossed his arms and groaned madly. He knew that the time had come.


"So what? you spend the next two weeks being a paranormal Investigator or something?" I asked.

Spike looked at me annoyed. "No. I just needed proof."

"Wait, that was where you were the two weeks everypony thought you were missing?"

Discord shrugged."Yes, basically."

Shredder only nodded. "I will take a look into this."

"Ok. But we still don't know what is going on here," Spike said.


" To be honest, I'm not for sure either. However, I can see that these spirits that are constantly communicating with you too want something. I honestly think they're seeking help."

I scoffed."I highly doubt that. She been tormenting me purposely."

" I think she has a reason for that. I think she wants you to know what you are," Shredder said.

"But why?"

"Don't know. That's just my guess based on what you told me."

"So what do we do?" Discord asked.

"With you," he pointed at Discord. "I'll get back with you on that. However," he looked at me." The only thing she needs to do is learn how to control. That's her main problem. She's not taking control and letting the spirits know that she doesn't want to see them. But they're taking advantage of that."

"What? That's it? Sounds too easy." I said, surprised.

"Well, that's if you learn how to control it. Otherwise it'll take advantage of your lack of control," he explained to me.

"So how do I control it?"

"That is something you have to do for yourself. That is something I cannot help you with."

"What?! But I don't know how to. I don't even know where to begin!" I yelled very frustrated at him.

" I would first start with believing if I were you. That might help you a little."

I sighed heavily. He knew I was having a hard time believing this. And if I didn't believe how was I going to learn how to control it? I wanted to believe but something was holding me back. Just this little voice that always seemed to give me doubt of everything that I had seen and had been told.

"If I did believe this that means that everything I saw wasn't in my head?"

"Actually that's not true. It is technically in your head," he corrected me.

"Ok. What?"

"A spirit is nothing more but thin air. You can't just see them. However, they can find a way to let you see them. The best way for them to be able to be seen is by gathering enough energy to do so. How they do this is either by getting energy from a pony physically or by fear."

"So what does this have to do with me?"

"Because with a psychic this is a partial exception to that," he said.

"Like how?"

"A psychic's mind is more sensitive to them. Which is basically what a psychic is. It's easier for us to connect with them because of that. It doesn't take a lot of energy for them to be noticed."

He explained this very carefully and looked at us making sure we are following along and understanding what he was telling us. I could tell that Spike was understanding this. It seemed more to me that he already knew all of this but it was discord that I could tell was a little confused.

"In your case princess, you can physically see them as if they were alive because your mind is that sensible to them. So what they do is kind of in a way give you an illusion of themselves in the way they want you to see them. They do this through your mind. With this, they can look like the way they look when they were alive, or when they were killed or if they just want to freak you out and look like something completely random."

When he said that I remembered when Dusty turned into his that monster back at the cemetery. If what he was saying was true and accurate it could explain why I was seeing that. I was just hoping that it was not as crazy as it was sounding.

"Ok, I'm confused. what are you saying?" I asked.

He walked up to me." Let me put it like this. What you see through here, " he pointed to my eyes, "is what they want you to see through here." He pointed to the side of my head." Simple as that your highness."

Well that was all I needed to hear. I stormed off just as soon as he finished telling me that. I left as quickly as I could. I didn't need to hear any more of his nonsense. I tried to process it all but it was bizarre and just so much to accept. Discord and Spike followed behind me.

"Oh, come on, Luna. Don't be like that," Spike said.

"Be like what?! You really believe all he said?!"

"Yes I do. I have believed in that for a long time," Spike answered very sternly.

"Then you two can go ahead." I started walking off.

Discord went in front of me."Where do you think you are going?"

"Back to reality."

Discord groaned madly."This is reality and you know that. You keep lying to yourself."

"How can I believe in any of this?!" I yelled.

"Cause you seen it."

I look down at the ground. I knew he was right. It made sense in the strangest of ways but I was just trying to deny it all. But why?

"I know. I'm going back to the castle. I just need some time to process all of this," I said and then I walked away from them.

I went back to my bedroom and lay down on my bed. The only thing I could do now was think about everything I was told about. I knew that no matter how hard I try to deny , I knew deep down inside I knew what I really felt and what I really believed in. And that was what scared me the most about everything. It wasn't that I didn't believe.

It was that I was starting to.

Author's Notes:

Yeah, I know. It took longer. I had a temporary writer's block so it was a little hard to write. But once I took a break and cleared my mind it was easy and I got right to it.

So Luna is a psychic apparently. That's if she's willing to believe in that. We're two chapters away to the end of this. How will it end? Will Luna end up admitting to what she believes? What exactly is going on with both of them and how does it tie in with everything that's been happening to them? And what is Discord? It was said once what he was but what does that mean? These answers and everything else will be concluded soon enough. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I hope you're prepared for what is coming next.

Also sorry for this but I lost my editor. So this chapter wasn't edited the best. Let me know if you catch any mistakes.

Leave a review and a like. I would like to know how I can improve and what I'm doing good in the story.

Till Next Time!!!!!:pinkiehappy:

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