Felix Caetus

A Deal is StruckBy: LunarGuard12

The name is Brandon, at least it was before I left and took on a new identity. Twenty years old, husky build, green eyes, blond hair.....Ok I'm even boring myself now what was I going to say....Oh yeah so people often wish they could escape from where they are. I'm like that sometimes but it's not like I'll give anything to go but sometimes things just happen. For me it was meeting someone, or should I say something....You know I'm actually not really sure what category he would be under....Anyway as I was saying, meeting someone/thing I only thought existed in my mind. After that meeting and making a deal everything became much more interesting.

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"Ugh I hate people sometimes." I said just finishing a match in League of Legends with a loss that should not have happened "Some people just don't fuckin' listen. I told them not to go in and wait for the tank and they see one squishy move out of place and try to jump on them only to die before they do idiots." I heave a loud sigh. "Well I'm done with that for awhile. I exit out of League and open one of the stories that I try to write but never seem to be able to keep the momentum that most of my stories start with. "Let's see if anything comes to me." I sit there for a good hour before the writers block sets in. "Damn now I have to leave this story and hope I can come up with something." I look over to the clock and see it's eleven at night 'Well better sleep so I can wake up for work.' I thought to myself. I then checked everything around the house since I was there alone for a week while my family was on vacation and I was stuck here from a new job I got. 'It's a good job and I like it but why'd they always cut into vacations.' I thought "Whatever house to myself. Play my music as loud as I want. There are definitely perks to being alone, though being alone is a curse its self. Read a little bit to put myself to sleep.....and I need to stop talking to myself." so I read for a good half hour before I finally passed out on the couch, unknown to myself it would the last time I see it or anything else from this world.

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Sometime later that night I managed to enter that weird semi-conscience that allowed people to control their dreams and at the time I was busy screwing with my house's layout. "Turn the stairs so that my room upstairs now spirals down to go to the upstairs room, the hallway spins but gravity is always correct to the floor. Man I love when I can control the fabric of reality." I said out loud. "Well then you are going to love me then." said a velvet smooth voice behind me I turn to see one of my favorite characters, who still didn't have a story, behind me. Dissonance my draconequus of luck, conflict, and humor. I looked him over taking in the details that I gave him. The green scaled snake head with the two opposing horns adorning his head, one small straight one on the left and one long lightning bolt shaped one on the right both smoothly arcing back. The torso was covered in blue fur with the left arm being a panthers paw and the right being humanoid but grey in color and the digits ending in black talons instead of normal fingernails. Taking in the rest of him I looked to where I added the wings, a pair of dragonfly wings on one side and a skeletal wing on the other for his legs he had one orange and white mottled crab leg and a sleek black spider leg on the other side. Following his form I took in his tail, which went back to being serpentine and had the red fin that ran down it to the scorpion stinger end. "Eyes up man." he said making me pull my eyes back up to look into his, which I took great pride in, in his right he had black where the whites should be and a red iris, while his left was similar but inverted, red where white was and a black iris and red pupil.

He walked around a little flipping his coin as he went and me just following his movements as he walked down the hallway I just twisted. "Wow I thought my mind was weird." He commented on his way back. I only stood there looking at him confused as to how he got there. "Uhh Dissonance right?" I asked still trying to figure out how he got here and giving up shortly later.

"The one and only." he said going into a bow. Not really questioning his presence anymore since I was aware of the dream I was in. Dissonance followed me for a bit before saying "So seeing as you are now comfortable with my presence I would like to ask you a question." That confused me since he was a fragment of my thoughts "Sure?" I said.

"If you could go to anyplace real or fictional where would you go?" That question stopped me and he continued. "I mean there are infinite possibilities but what one would you choose?" After what seemed like five minutes, kinda hard to tell since dream time is weird, I gave my thoughts.

"Well the three biggest ones are the Final Fantasy Tactics universe, Poke'mon, and My Little Pony."

"Ok you have it narrowed down now. But what one would you choose." he pressed. I had to ask a question of my own before I answered him. "Why do you want to know?"

"I want to make a deal."

"What kind of deal?"

"One very few get."

With that last statement my reality seeing side set in making the dream around me dissipate "I'm in a dream, you're not real, and I'm about to wake up and have to knock myself back out unless it's morning already." But the emptiness around me didn't give way to the couch I knew I was on. "What if I was real?" I turned to see Dissonance still with me in the emptiness.

"Ok how are you still here? You can't be real you are an idea I thought up one day when I was bored."

"But I am real. Draconequus are not limited to most physics and I am an idea just one brought to life on a different plane of existence." I was utterly confused but he continued anyway "Some draconequus can develop thoughts while they are still an idea and if we manage to figure out most of our powers on our own, a new draconequus is made."

"So basically one of my ideas came alive because it was that strong?"

"In a nutshell yes, though most ideas are not strong enough or in my case crafty enough to last."

"Ok my next question would be why do you want to know what other world I would go to if I could?"

"Ah now we are getting somewhere. A draconequus has great power but you thought me up with a few limitations something that you could help me with." he said with a smile revealing the double row of shark teeth in his mouth. I knew that smile it's the one he gets when he is very confident.

"I see now, your planar limitations. I gave you massive amounts of power but I limited you to only planes where a 'avatar' of yours existed. I also remember you needed to get heads ten times in a row on your coin before you could make a new avatar."

"I hate you for that by the way, do you know how bad it is that I actually need luck to go to new places," Dissonance said with a irritated look at me.

"Hey great amounts of power need limits or they become problems easily." I said casually back. Dissonance gave me a flat stare before saying "Killjoy." I only shook my head with a smile "Exactly what I would expect you to say since you are inherently good. I'm glad I didn't make you a villain."

"Me too, means I won't die at the end of any stories you come up with."

"I also remember you had to make a deal with the avatars you made." I said smiling now "And that you were generally desperate to get to new areas."

"Damn you know too much. The deal is going to be way too lopsided now."

"Well I know the place I would want to go. Equestria. As for the deal itself, don't worry I know you won't cause too much trouble."

"Wait you are going to make a deal but your not going to abuse the leverage that you have against me?" Dissonance asked a curious look on his face.

"Nope. Nothing's fun unless there is a little challenge to it. Ok I know where I'm going so lets get to deal making." Dissonance and I sat down at a table that we conjured up and since I was still in a dream technically I would mess with reality a little while we were making the deal. After what felt like several hours we came to an agreement.

"Ok read back to me what we have." I said to Dissonance who picked up the paper we wrote the deal on and he listed off what we agreed on. "First off you are going to be a dragon when you get to Equestria. You will appear randomly there out of four locations the Everfree, Ponyville, Whitetail Woods, or in the middle of a plain somewhere in Equestria. Are you sure about that last one?"

"Yeah. I mean the rest of them are safe or at least relatively safe and if I run into trouble I'm pretty sure I can get out unscathed."

"Alright well continuing on, You will have access to chaos magic as well as regular magic although the regular magic will be limited to mostly cantrips so you can't magic out of everything and the chaos magic derives from my luck aspect meaning it won't always work and only happens when you need it." I nod and motion for him to continue "You want no memory of this deal, what your name was, or of myself or the power I wield but you do want want to remember that you had a family even though you won't remember much about them and also most about your world but not all. Why?"

I sighed then explained to him "If I knew where the ponies came from they would find out since I am a terrible liar also if I know where I'm from paranoia would set in and lastly jokes, jokes would be good to know even if they don't get it." I said with a smile plastered on my face. "Ok I see what you mean there." He said with a smile of his own

"Lastly you want a double to take your place so family won't worry about you and if you have to come back you will retain all memories of Equestria for yourself."

"That about sums it up. This is going to take effect when I wake up right?

"Yes and don't worry about the double I won't make it crazy or anything."

"Ok thanks now time to forget and have some fun." I said as I felt the familiar floating feeling of being shocked awake.