I opened my eyes in the deep dead of night but I am unable to see anything “Twilight!” I called. Nothing… “Jet!” I yelled next. Still nothing… I was unable to move my body. but I am able to feel a wetness next to me. “is it  my sweat?” I thought “Or could it be urine?” Lightning flashed and continued to illuminate the room to reveal the ugly truth, it was blood. I turned my head to see Twilight’s mangled, lifeless body, then I could feel a second wetness on my face, I was crying. I turn over to the couch were Jet was, it was the same thing he was dead and bloodied. Then I heard an unfamiliar voice “There was nothing you could do, there was nothing you could do to save them. You will always fail, and you will always continue to fail again and again for the rest of your short, sad life!” the voice started to laugh, and mock me as I cried.

I woke up in a cold sweat, and I turned to Twilight who was alive and still sleeping, and so was Jet. Another damn nightmare, but I was glad it was just that and they were still okay. I looked over at the clock, it was 5:45 in the morning. It was time to get some work done, I slowly and quietly got out of the bed, not to disturb Twilight, grabbed my jacket and money and left the room.

I exited through the lobby and waved goodbye to Cos, and went outside into the cold morning air. It was still pretty dark but I could see the sun poking itself up over the horizon. I continued until I found the 24 hour convenience store I was looking for, as I entered I could hear the buzz of the ceiling lights and see the one pony working here that just seemed to hate his life, trying to stay awake. I started moving up and down the aisles of the store gathering everything I needed; men's razors, blond hair dye, some body paint, and finally red new red hoodie. I went up to the counter and paid for my goods and left the store. I then head over to an old storage center, and went to storage room 13 and brought up the key that I had for it and slid open the door. Inside I had several weapon from over the years, I took a duffel bag and started to fill it up pistol, rifle, and shotgun ammo and grabbed a new bag of crossbow bolts. I then grab my double barrel sawed off Remington, and an old hunting rifle, all of this should due in cased I ran into trouble, I zipped up my bag and closed up the storage room. The bag was heavy but I pushed myself back to the hotel, I finally made it back and it was only 6:30, I entered thought the hotel doors and Cos was still standing there, he saw my bag and just smiled and gave me a wink.

I headed back up to my room, where Twilight and Jet were still sound asleep. I headed over to the bathroom and switched on the lights and turned on the hot water, I hopped in the shower and quickly got cleaned up and toweled off. I then went over to the sink and turned on the water there, I opened my razors and stated to shave, looking up at myself I already started to look like a different pony. Next my mane, I took the bottle of temporary hair dye, it would only last a few days, buts that’s all I needed, I lathered it all over my mane and tail and looked back into the mirror and whispered to myself “Stay golden pony boy.”

One last step, changing my cutie mark,