Love is War

Chapter 15:....And Nightmares

Antony tossed and turned in his bed. Several unintelligible mumbles escaped his lips. His eyes were scrunched up, and it seemed as if he was having a bad dream......
"You all done having your little chat? I'm getting quite bored, and you do not want me getting bored." Lethal said in a way that sent chills down Antony's spine.
"Bring it on!" He challenged.
"Oh ho, Look at that spirit! I guess the lack of deaths in the last few minutes really made your bags of optimism burst! Very well. Since you're so brave about it, you can tell me your opinion about Equestria Girls Anton-"
"Oh, I really liked Equestria Girls!" KP quickly interrupted.
"Aha...hahahaha....ahh...there we go...that's more like it!" Lethal cackled.
"Wh-What? What's with the look?" KP asked, her voice quivering and her bubbly stance now fearful.
" The answer...was wrong. The movie was so bad no matter how you look at it. Anything above tolerating it is unacceptable!"
"But it wasn't even my turn! I just have a tendency to talk when I'm not supposed to!" KP cried.
" Let this be a lesson about speaking out of turn. I overlooked it last time, but I'm not letting it go again."
"Wait, you can't do this!" Antony desperately tried to stop Lethal, knowing something awful was about to happen to KP, and trying desperately to protect her. "It was my question!" He protested.
"Oh, but I can. It's about time for a murder anyway."  "This is not happening.... This ISN'T happening!" Kim wailed.

Suddenly she found herself alone in a dark room. Out of nowhere, large speakers began to blast loud rock music. The settings of the speakers were gradually set from low to medium to bad to 'it will make you bleed to death.' And that's exactly what happened. Blood poured from Kim's mouth and ears. Her eyes dilated to specks, showing only the white of Kim's eyes. The room shook, and glass shattered from out of thin air. A moment too late, a massive television fell from the darkness, crushing Kim. In an instant, the music had stopped, and blood spattered the walls. The five analysts stood petrified, none of them believing what they had just seen.
"There! That should get your spirits all nice and down again!" Lethal roared in victory.
"That....that should've been me...." Antony whispered hoarsely. A lump formed in his throat, and his eyes threatened to overflow with tears.
"Don't blame yourself for this Antony." Ink Rose pleaded, tears running down her cheeks
"No.....no, you don't understand, my answer was .....Thank you KP." He breathed, his hands in fists.
As the other analyzers grieved and murmured amongst each other about the situation, Antony closed his eyes, trying not to let tears leak from them. He pressed his hands to his head, trying so hard to convince himself that nothing he had just seen was real, trying so hard to forget what he'd just seen, he gave himself a migraine.
"This isn't real" he thought. " She's not dead. She's NOT!"
"Antony..."
"She's not dead!"
"Antony?"
"She's not!"
"Antony!"
"Leave me alone! "
"Dude! Wake up! What's gotten into you?"

Antony bolted upright in his bed, startling Voice of Reason, who had been trying to wake him from his nightmare.
"Where's Kim? Is she OK?! When I get my hands on that Lethal, I swear I'll-"
"Whoa there buddy, slow down. What happened to Kim? Who's not dead?" Voice asked, trying to calm Antony down.
"Get off me!" Antony groaned. His head throbbed. His fur was matted with sweat, and his eyes were blood-shot red.
"Hey, what's going on over here?" Firebrand walked over, rubbing his eyes. "Nothing!" Antony said. At the same time Voice blurted "Antony was having a dream about his girlfriend!" He teased
"What? She's not my-No I didn't!" Antony protested. "Oh yeah? then How come you kept shouting out her name?"
"I-Er-Well...."
"Hey, dude, its not a big deal." Firebrand said gently.
"You OK FB?" Voice asked.
"Hm? Oh, yeah, I'm fine. I just....had a bit of rough night too."
"I guess all of us are just worried about this whole situation, huh?" Golden Fox agreed, yawning. The others nodded their heads.
"Good morning everypony!" Discord appeared, his smile wide, arms outstretched.
"Morning." The stallions mumbled to him. Discord frowned. "Rough night?" He asked. The four stallions nodded. "Wanna talk about it?" Discord asked, a bit uncertainly. The four stallions, plus two, ToonKrytic and Silver Quill, glanced around at each other and nodded their heads in unspoken agreement. Discord sat down and suddenly he was invisible. Almost. "I'm all ears!" He chuckled, just antlers and battered, donkey-like ears floating in the air. "Discord! Can you be serious for a few minutes, please?!" Golden cried. "Sorry, sorry." Discord replied. "Ok, well..." Firebrand started nervously. "It's like this........"