Chapters The X chronicles: Focusfollower
Cold.
I am cold.
I have never felt cold until now. I know I am cold because of what others described cold as. It was strange living a long life without feeling much cold then now suddenly feeling it at it's hopefully full might. I didn't know why I am cold. That was strange as well, I only know that I am cold.
That and the fact that my body stopped trying to warm itself by shaking a few seconds ago. Now why would it do that? I have so many questions about my situation that no one can answer. But only one question hung above all the rest. Where was I? I try to move my hand and legs only to be surprised at how much force I have to use in effort to get movement. Am I weak now? Or is something causing me to move slowly.
I would probably be spending more time thinking if I hadn't realized that I don't have my eyes open yet. But when I do open them I'm surrounded in only blinding light until it fades to let me see fish and bubbles. Oh. How stupid of me, I'm underwater. It's only now that I realize that my lungs are screaming for air. I push with all of my remaining might upwards until I hit that barrier between water and oxygen.
I don't know how I found my way to land already but I don't care. I try to think but it is useless as the adrenaline of nearly drowning clouds my mind. Eventually my mind clears itself and I try to get started on checking if I had all of my body's functions working. I carefully raise my self until i'm in a weak stand, my balance fails me and I fall backwards landing awkwardly on my butt. I wait until my mind can focus the try to stand yet again only to fail.
Of course I did not see that at first I no longer had hands or feet, but hooves. My mind at it's worst at the worst time. I had changed forms yet again. Confused I let my mind try to figure out if I'm still on earth or in another dimension. I then decide to put it aside until I can look at my new form. The most obvious choice is that of looking at my reflection in the water, which I of course do.
I'm a horse. With what I see I have many features identical to a horse. I had a white pelt with a dark green mane that looked similar to hair. Now that I think about it most of the things around me are pretty big so I assume I'm a pony. I feel like I should be surprised but I'm really not after the time I had to save another dimension as a weird jackal creature. So it happens to be that I'm a unique colored young horse, not much of a problem there except that I may be trapped and taken to some stable out in the middle of some boring field that spans for miles. Well I'll try to avoid that.
Now where am I? I'm in the middle of a small clearing in what looks like dense trees and shrubbery. A small but murky pond just sits there in front of me. How deep was that? I have no time to figure out as I notice the trees surrounding the clearing. Apple trees. So apple trees are native to these forests or am I in some apple orchard. I slowly trot over to the dense shrubbery and push my way through it. I didn't have to go far as it was like a hedge only taking a second to get through. On this side of the shrubbery I see apple trees scattered over many healthy looking hills that ended far in the distance. I was not in a forest.
"What are you doing on my farm?" a girl said from behind me with an annoyed tone. I turn around to see a small orange horse with blond hair wearing a hat. Who was talking?
"Your tress-a-passing you know," the now obviously talking horse said, "you going to answer the question or am I going to buck some sense into you." Buck? Was that slang or was it something she did? Was she going to kick me with the back of her hooves perhaps? Let's answer this to the best of our abilities.
"I don't know." Of course, this body isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. We'll fix that soon.
"Really now?"
"I mean I don't know what I'm doing on your farm," I said, "I apologize for being on your farm." The mare only glared at me which I took as a demand for more information.
"I think I have amnesia?" The only answer I got was a blow to the face, rendering me unconscious.
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Well this seems to be new. Ponies everywhere.
I'm not meant to be in alternate realities like this one unless the others are here. Well X is here, yet unconscious somewhere in a apple farm. Ah how unfortunate for him.
Oh! I had the most wonderful Idea! Let's go terrorize the local ponies! Glad X went and got some info on this place. If I mess up and get caught he should be able to get me out of whatever punishment the ponies throw at me. Oh a castle! Let's go there! I wonder how many of the others are here. Gold plated armor Pegasus? Oh lets posses him!
Oh my original body looks horrible. I look like I had to wade through some sludge river on the way here. Let's just put some ideas in his head and get myself cleaned up. Take me to your leader!
Not original but I could learn more things if I go to their leader and make friends like I did with Hitler. Oh wait that didn't turn out so well. Well lets try not to put ideas into others heads when trying to kill them because they will end up killing your body. I should thank this stallion for escorting me after he comes back to he senses, then knock him out. I wonder how their leaders like? Is she a evil tyrant bent on controlling all or a nice pony who cares about what happens to her ponies. Ah here we are, guess I'll find out!
"The princess is not receiving visitors. No go and escort this stallion elsewhere Spearstick." The guard in front of the door rudely said.
"What stallion?" Uh oh "How did I get here?"
Let's get this over with. I charge past the two guards and burst through the doors of what appears to be Celestia's living quarters. Celestia stands there talking with a darker version of her. She now jumps back in shock at seeing me burst through the door. Oh that face, I LOVE IT!
I blurt out something that would make the princesses underestimate me! "Princess Celestia I demand your finest Mountain!"
"WE ARE HAVING A SPEAK WITH THY SISTER RUDE STALLION OF THOU EARTH!" yelled the darker alicorn.
"Oh how rude! I want to be treated nicely while my time is being spent here you know."
"LEAVE NOW!"
"No."
"THY COMMANDS THOU TO LEAVE!"
"No."
"WE SHALL USE FORCE!"
Thankfully Celestia intervened. Though she was not much better.
She said "Leave now and we will talk about a mountain for you to inhabit after I am done talking with Princess Luna."
"I expected better of you young one."
"W-what?"
"Ah but I'll take my leave then, I expect a good mountain though." With that I trot out of her chamber out into the hall to formally apologize to Spearstick. He of course points a spear at me. I don't pay any mind to it.
"Hello Spearstick was it?" He just stays quiet for a moment then nods. "Oh OK well I formally apologize for possessing you and having you escort me here so I didn't have to deal with anymore guards."
"But your an earth pony, how can you use magic!?"
"You ponies actually have magic in this world? Well that's surprising. Well here's a gift from me." I hand him a long straight stick.
"Where did you get that?"
"Oh I picked it up at the shop and it reminded me of you so I bought it."
"It's a stick."
"That's why it reminds me of you, you can put all the spear heads you want on it."
"Who the Tartarus are you?"
"Call me N and no using that kind of language young one." I simply walk over to a fancy bench on a balcony and sit on it after that amazing apology.
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What the heck just happened? He called me young? Me Celestia, of over thousands of ages he calls me young. Who did that stallion think he was? How did he get up here anyways? I should have been able to sense him within the castle walls but I couldn't. He just bursts through the door and demands a mountain, why does he want a mountain? Why did he defy a princess such as Luna? "I do not like him" My sister says
"Neither do I sis, that was strange."
"He just defied me. Does he even know who we are?"
"Yes he does, He called me a princess."
"How do you you know thou was not courting?"
"What? Why would you think that?"
"He seems to be the kind to do that."
"How rude. I thought you were talking about about something important." The strange stallion says as he is now suddenly beside us. "I would never court one as young as her, or would I?"
I admit he startled me and has a point. We are no longer talking about how important Twilight's friends trespasser was or what the punishment would be.
"Now lets discuss my mountain and my friend if he's still there."
"WE ARE IN NO STATE TO EVEN CONSIDER YOUR MOUNTAIN." my sister responds quickly.
"Wait what friend?"
"Well that's rude. But you Celestia have heard of my friend haven't you?"
"No."
"I believe he's being accused of trespassing."
"Wait how do you know him?"
"Because I know he doesn't have amnesia." He finally answers a question.
"Oh well I'll jest send some guards to take him here then instead of getting applejack to take care of him."
"Don't he'll probably kill them by accident if they are to hostile."
"Wait what?"
"He's trained in killing and defending with everything. There is no stopping him."
My sister whispers in my ear, "He's crazy we should lock him in the dungeon!"
"Just one last question, what do you mean by I'm younger than you? You barely look older then me."
"My mind is older then this body and you still have much to learn."
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Green. So much green. Is this a dream?
Oh how I love green. I'm surrounded by it.
"Strange, he's awake."
Voices? Where did that come from.
"What should we do with him your majesty?"
"Keep him in there. I can sense his love for green."
Sense? Love? Impossible no one can sense emotions.
"We shall keep feeding on that love for the mean time."
Feeding? On my love? That is unacceptable. I should be able to break through what ever this green stuff is as much as I'd hate to.
"Ma'am, he's trying to break out!"
"Let him. He's not strong enough."
That's quite rude for a lady to say about one. Who does she think I am? Well it's as hard as stone! I guess I will be waiting here for a bit.
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"Ma'am, we can't feed off him!"
"What!? Impossible!"
"No ma'am, quite possible. He isn't letting us because he's still conscious."
"Well let him out then! Make him unconscious!"
Now's my chance! I'll throw open the thing and make a run for it while their still distracted!
"Ma'am he's making a run for it!"
"Surround him!"
Well that is a wonderful tactic. I'm now surrounded by weird equine bugs. Guess it's the mental world for a while.
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Oh god N. What the hell did you do? Now you are facing serious punishment time from a ruler of this world. I should tell X when I come across him that I'm proud of him. But now he is being taken seriously by the rulers of this world by the foolishness of N. He is a crazy lunatic as he always is.
I'll have time to think about that when I'm out of here. We are not supposed to be in a dimension all together like last time. Oh my Chayton there is hundreds of ponies trapped here asleep and weak. All of them seem to remember horrible ways of getting caught and tricked throughout their lifetime and in the past week. They dream of every betrayal and lie that these monsters are capable of. These monsters are the changelings.
I think I like them.
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Skin. I hate skin. As I also hate the feeling of fur.
Waking up in the middle of a dark forest as a pony doesn't help either. My colleagues are spread out through this world at random. The closest one is X but he is in captivity so I will have no help when it comes to removing useless flesh. Although I have done it before back at earth before the new age when humanity was united into one nation. Back before we helped it unite when it was dark and full of war against each other. We watched them grow and we watched them fall so we helped them get back up to something higher then they were before. Now we go and unite different species across many dimensions. This is our latest one, Equestria. This one however has brought most of my colleagues to it. I can not tell the seriousness of this problem but it has remained hidden to the rulers for a long time. They may not even know about it.
Now to get this skin off. If I cut here I should be able to slide it right off. Hopefully I won't have to peel it off like I did when I was human. I'll take shelter in this castle for now. The castle seems to be made of dark stone and is covered in vines along with other plantation. A armory was easy to find. The Armory had many old looking blades on weapon racks which lined the wall. On a desk there was a small dagger or large letter opener which had somehow remained sharp through out the ages. Judging by how old the other blades were it was about 1090 years of age. I wonder if it will do what it is intended to.
Ah it all slid off after one cut but I am now bleeding heavily. I do not need blood to survive but it become's more painful to move without it. It also causes panic in others for them to see just a mess of organs and sinew walking around. They are more tolerable when it is a mess of sinew and bandages walking around. I remember being confused with another in a similar situation in another world full of what they call Pokemon. But that is another story. Where is the place where the medics are? I could go for some bandages and Gauss.
Switching to third person
It was easy for the strange being to find a medical room. It however was a mess and full of knocked over beds and chairs. Scattered on the floor were many vials and jars of unknown contents smashed from what the being assumed to be a occasional looter or animal.
The being makes no haste in wrapping himself in bandages and Gauss among other things successfully covering most of the sinew. "Eh it will do." The being mutters to himself. He then stumbles around to get used to moving in his new form. Even with being in the new form of an equine he surprises himself with moving his limbs in directions they should not be moving. He is more that happy to find his bandages held while his Gauss tore a little at the knees of his legs. His hooves however uncovered them selves from the bandages. Never was going to work anyways He thinks. He decides to keep them that way and heads in the direction of the nearby town of Ponyville to free his colleague X.
Later in Ponyville
The being wanders on the outskirts of the town, worrying about how the occupants would react to him. Facing his fears he walks through the middle of town leaving a trail of blood behind him. He hoped no young one would see this.
He only saw a few ponies with looks of horror on their faces before they ran to any hiding space that was closest to them. Others just stood there frozen from horror and shock. One however just walked past.
"I thought they would stop after the other ponies came over for the cure to poison joke." The zebra said, "Ah it was not meant to be, I'll just leave them be." With that she turned around to face the being. She freezes in immediate shock then it was the beings turn to speak.
"I am not here to cause trouble, only to help a friend get free."
"W-who- what are you?"
"Same as you, a pony. Now I need to get to the nearest apple farm."
"W-why?"
"Because my friend is in trouble."
With the beings demands in her mind she manages to ask one final question to the mess of a pony in front of her. "Who are you?"
The being answers with his favorite sentence. "I am the Mouth of Chayton."
As MOC uttered the words of his name that the zebra would not be forgetting soon. A random stallion yells at MOC "Get out of out town you monster!"
"Please please do not fret, I only wish to free my friend form captivity."
"For what? So you can eat him?"
"No he needs help. He is lost in this world."
"I think we should listen! I do not feel as one to dis but if he tells the truth then we may cease to exist!"
"Thank you for putting a much better image of me in these ponies heads."
"I'm going to inform he guards! He threatened us!"
"You must be joking." with that MOC sprinted as fast as he could with his form across Ponyville. Past building and corners until he lost a mob of guards and frightened civilians. He sighed, only a few more blocks to go until I reach the apple farm. I can sense him close.
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After dodging mob after mob of ponies he finally reaches the road to the apple farm where his friend was held. He walked for a bit which was a huge effort after running for so long. My bandages ache he complained to himself. When he reached the gate he saw the sign which clearly said the name. Sweet Apple Acres. Nice name, not so sweet with it's security if they have one.
He then trots along the path until he comes across a decision. Is he in the barn or the house? With the luxury of being able to sense him MOC found out his friend was in the barn. He slowly moves over to it's door making sure no one can hear him until he creaks it open a bit. He stumbles on a bandage coming loose and falls into the door slamming it open. He is met with looks of horror from Rainbow dash and her friends. He responds weakly with "Ur, Hello?"
"Who are you are you a mutant from the Eeverfree forest or an abomination?!" Rainbow dash demanded.
"To answer you I am an earth pony. How racist of you. Now where is my friend?" MOC responds while getting up.
"Ya don't look like any earth pony ah seen." The orange one responds.
"I'm sorry about that then."
"A-are you alright mister? You look like your in allot of pain." The yellow pegasus asks.
"Fluttershy! How can you be nice to this monster!?" The white unicorn instantly responded to Fluttershy. Nice knowing her name.
"How can you survive being like that?! It's impossible!" The purple one claimed.
"I have ways now Rainbow dash how can you be the fastest one. I bet you can't get to the changeling hive, save my other friend and bring him back here."
"Oh it's on!" With that she zooms out on the way to T.
I was too lazy to come with other ways to get rid of the others since I only knew about Rainbow from X.
"Now about my friend."
"Right behind you MOC." A familiar voice says behind me. "Glad to see you."
"Good to see you too X" I responded ignoring the five colorful ponies stares as I greeted him.
"We have colleagues to save and work to do."
"Let us go then."
The two walk out calmly leaving four mares and a purple unicorn who's only thought was I failed the princess!
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Should have been more prepared for that.
I shouldn't blame myself for that, I not used to combat or controlling anything about this body. I'll have to test how the bones structure moves in this body. I'm floating in the nothingness of the mental world at the moment, it's always boring when I wait for the body to recover from physical damage when I have a new body.
Let's make something to pass the time. If I remember anything from my trips to the mental world is that I can form anything in it. Let me form a land of green forest. I will train in a small clearing similar to the one I woke up in. It works, I still have control of my mental world here as well. But can I summon mental images in reality here too? Something for later I guess. What else can I remember about the mental world.
Oh yeah! I can travel to others who are in the mental world. Most of the people I can travel too are safe as the do not know how to control their mental world and are in the dream state. Some have nightmare or in a rare case can control their mental world. Let's look for a napper or sleeper shall we? Ah, here is a a blue horse with wings and a rainbow mane apparently sleeping in a cloud at reality. That is quite unnatural, I guess I could learn more about this horse and world by going through it's memory and knowledge.
Oh how rude of me, it-she is a female. Her kind are referred to as ponies of six different races consisting of unicorns, Pegasi, Earth Ponies, Alicorns, A mix of bats with ponies and changelings. Her name is Rainbow Dash and her occupation is controlling the weather? Apparently this world has magic that is proven and is in every pony and allows Pegasi to do many things such s hopping up and down on clouds. That appears to be her favorite thing to do as a filly other than flying fast. Good Chayton I sound like a researcher. I'm not a researcher, I'm X. That seems to be all that's important other then culture and how they speak. Perfect English with a few differences.
Oh she woke up. Time to leave. My body is ready to wake as well.