Bug Butt Filler 12

>You don't know when it happened
>But it did
>Your dreams have changed
>No longer are you playing in the woods as a young child with your friends
>Now, all you can see are dead trees, overgrown with moss and vines
>All you can hear is
>...
>Actually, you can't hear anything
>Your surroundings are as silent as death
>Soon enough, you're shivering from the cold
>Suddenly, a twig snaps
>Before you can react, your scenery changes
>You are on a clifftop
>One that seems eerily familiar
>You can't place why, but you recognize it
>As you walk around, you start imagining the structures of a massive building
>As you imagine them, they appear
>Slowly at first, but you keep imagining things
>Almost as if you remember them
>Not long after, you find yourself wandering a castle
>A grand achievement of architecture surrounds you
>The walls twist, bend, and warp around in ways that seem impossible
>There are places where you can put your feet in these sockets every here and there and walk up and around the walls
>You don't even care that you're the only one here
>You can't believe that you are diagonally upside down, high in the air, looking down at a ballroom
>These walls would go up, bend in loops, and be straight again, forming a very strange warped dome-like shape at the top
>With a grand sense of adventure, you begin exploring the castle
>Oddly enough, you seem to know where everything is
>You walk straight to the kitchen
>And directly to the laboratory
>Even though getting there required walking against gravity through various loops and twists near the ceiling
>And up (or down?) a similarly impossible flight of stairs
>Good thing these foothold things are everywhere
>The lab itself is super odd
>Like the rest of the castle, the floor itself is normal, while the walls and ceiling are extremely bendy
>But here, every table is set up in just the right spot to have a clear vantage point from every angle
>Even hanging upside down on the ceiling
>Every beaker, bottle, and box is empty, but somehow you get the feeling that someone was working on inter dimensional gateways
>You don't know why you think that, but you do
>Especially odd considering that this looks more like a place fitting to analyse chemicals and atomic level stuff
>With a shrug, you leave that room and resume aimlessly wandering the place
>In one particular hallway, you're horizontal with the floor, about 16 feet up, when you see something
>A door
>A perfectly normal, rectangular door
>All the others you've come across were warped to fit the surrounding walls
>Curious, you make your way to it
>Upon closer inspection, it resembles the door of your own home...
I wonder if...
>You open it, unprepared for what you encounter
>You're looking at the floor area of a balcony
>Only this balcony is above your head, and below it is nothing but air for easily miles down
>For reasons unknown, you decide to step into the footholds it provides
>When you do, you notice something peculiar
>The effect wasn't very intense in the castle, but here, the world looks so different upside down
>As you stand/hang there, a wind blows
>It came from your left, where some much smaller mountains lie
>Wait
>Mountains?
>A look around you tells you that yes, you've been exploring an odd castle at the edge of a cliff on the top of the highest mountain
>In fact, it looked pretty similar to something else you've seen recently
>But you can't place it
>Oh well
>No helping that
>You turn and re open the door, and find another puzzle piece
>It doesn't go back to where you first saw  it
>It now leads to a set of stairs that extended every direction except down, with footholds galore
>Loosely surrounded by a more or less circular wall
>Curiosity now piqued, you follow them
>As you climb, something starts nagging at you
>You still know, somewhere deep in your brain that this is a dream, but something is still bothering you
>Why is it so easy to stay upside down and sideways on these walls?
>It feels as though you only barely need them
>But that wasn't what the nagging feeling is about though
>It's about something else
>Something you can't place your finger on...
>You begin to hum a little tune to yourself, not knowing or caring what it was
>Just something to distract you
>Finally, you come to the end of the stairs and see another plain rectangular door
>Well, almost
>This one is wedged sideways into the wall
>You reach to open it, but that nagging feeling hits you again
>You just can't seem to shake it off
>You open the door, and step into a plain room
>Just like a regular room, this one has straight walls and a flat roof
>Further inspection reveals that furnishings are sparse here
>Just a bed, a dresser, a mirror, a nightstand, and a connecting bathroom
>Quite like your guest quarters back at Chrysalis's place
>The only thing on the wall is a huge oil painting
>...
>Of a scene you somehow recognize
>A large lake on the plateau of a mountain
Wha....
>You turn your attention away from the paining to try to think about it
>That nagging feeling is growing stronger by the minute
>Something about this whole place
>There's something you should know
>Something...
>You glance at the nightstand and notice a picture frame
The odd feeling turning into a pit of fear
>With trembling hands, you pick it up and look at the photo
>What you see almost makes you throw it away in shock
No...
>It's you
>You, standing next to the entrance of the castle
>And you're not alone
>Next to you is a unicorn with a large crown
>He looked a little taller than you, and his coat a dark blue, almost black
>With an short mane glowing like a fire
>Whoever he was, he looked
Familiar
>You think aloud
>Without warning, something starts rushing into your brain
>Memories
>Of you
>And that pony in the picture
>So many memories that you can't even process them
AAAAHHH!
>You drop the picture, and drop down to your knees
>The pain is almost unbearable
>Your head feels like it's splitting open
>Just before it feels like it does, it stops
>Sudden realization hits you, and all these memories connect
>This was your castle
>That pony...
>He was your friend
>He helped you build this castle
>His name...
>His name
>....
>!!
Ibaje
>You breath, realization hitting you
>With that realization came more memories
>Ones full of blood
>Corpses
>And one maniacal laughing lunatic standing over each of them, amidst tons of rubble
>Fear starts rushing your body
>You can hardly move, as the vision of that mad unicorn slowly became a reality
>He even started to speak
You did well, foolish mortal, but not well enough
>He whispers, and lunges at you
>You scream
>As loud as you can
AAAAHHH!!!
>You scream so hard that
>You jolt awake, shoving yourself away from something and slamming into a tree
>Blackness creeps up on you
>But not before you catch sight of very worried Chrysalis
Anon? Are you ok?
>The world around you starts to fade away again
>But you manage to do something before you black out
The castle...
>You point to where the castle is on the mountaintop
>The same one you noticed before you were teleported to the forest
>Then you black out