The Lives We Live

The Lives We Live Ch 2

New world same friends

Luna, Ven, and Celestia rejoined the rest of the group that was idly chatting, learning more about each other. Outside the rain continued its attack on the windows of Fluttershy's home, gray clouds blocking out the sun and it’s light. Ven was glad to see that his friends were up and okay, that gave him all the right to collect on some bets, at least to him that is.

“So…” Ven started with a smug grin on his face. “About not being able to travel to different worlds with electricity and magic.” He shot a glare to Mia, who looked away in irritation. “And that aliens don’t exist.” This time it was Leon’s turn to be under his sights.

“Look Ven, now’s not the time for dumb stuff like that.” Mia said in an unamused tone.

“Mia is right dude.” Leon backed up Mia, in hopes of getting off of the hook. “Don’t you think that we should be looking for a way back home?” An uneasy silence came over the room, a silence that made the soldier want to take back what he said. “Umm...what? Was it something I said?” Leon asked already knowing the answer.

“Dude, think about it. What do you think are the changes that we’ll get home?” Ven asked with a rather cold tone.

“Umm...what are you talking about?” Leon asked unsure as to where Ven was going with this.

Sighing as the Ven’s realization hit her, Mia bluntly said, “He means that the chances of us getting home is next to none.” Mia’s tone was one of sadness.

“What?! There’s got to be something we could do.” Leon said in disbelief, but when his friends nor the princesses said anything, Leon stared at the wall in a lost daze. “Right, guys?” He asked his friends that looked anywhere, but at him. Having only silence as his answer, Leon slammed his head back on the pillow. “We’re stuck here, aren't we?”

“Well not stuck, but the odd are so against us, that if we tried we may get ourselves killed.” Ven said running theory after theory in his head. “Like, the odds are so against us that this,” he motioned his hands around the room, “shouldn’t be possible, or even allowed.”

“Yes that lightning bolt should have killed us.” Mia recalled shaking the memory of the event out of her head. “So what do we do now?”

Leon didn’t answer, he didn’t want to. Stuck in an alien world, what could he do? “I don’t know...I just...I just don’t care right now.” He said in a tried and wavy voice.

“Well I’m Luna’s personal guard for the next two weeks.” Ven said with bored tone in his voice, not noticing all of the stares he was getting from his friends and the elements.

“What?!” Leon shouted, quickly sitting back up from the bed. “What do you mean that you’re Princess Luna’s guard for two weeks.”

“Ven what did you do?” Mia asked in a knowing tone.

“Nothing. Just told her to get her fat ass off of me, that’s all.” Ven replied in a nonchalant tone, putting his hands behind his head.

All expect Pinkie and Discord, who were laughing uncontrollably, was staring at the crazed human in shock and disbelief. Attention soon turned to a blushing Luna, silently awaiting an answer. Feeling the stares fall on her, Luna let out a small growl of irritation. “Yes it is true, Ventus Soul will be serving as my personal guard and escort for the next two weeks.” Luna said not even looking at the faces she was getting.

“Wait, wait, wait.” Leon said trying to get a grip on what's happening. “So you mean to tell me that he call you a fat ass, so you're punishing him by forcing him to be your personal guard?” Leon asked Luna. “Why, and how’s that a punishment?”

“Oh don’t worry about that Leon, I’ll make sure he’s being worked.” Luna said in a cold and somewhat evil tone.

“It’s true, I’ve seen the way she treats the guards.” Discord spoke up after he and Pinkie were done with their fits of laughter. “I’ll tell you, it’s like she adds five years on a stallion.”

“Okay Discord I think he gets the message.” Luna said cutting Discord off.

“Well that’s all fine for you, but about us?” Mia asked still not sure what to do.

“Nothing, not until you guys heal on up. I sure that we could find a place to call home in…” Ven stopped realizing that he didn’t even know the name of the town that they were in.

“Ponyville.” Celestia quickly filled in.

“Ponyville. I sure that we can find jobs, get an apartment or rent a house, and just work our way up from there.” Ven suggested.

Collectively sighing at Ven’s nonchalant attitude towards their situation, Leon and Mia looked at each other with worried faces. Thinking hard on what Ven said, the odds were against them to the point that they may die if they tried to go home. Not much of a choice, they thought. “Ven I hate it when you’re right, but we don’t have much of a choice do we?” Mia asked resigning to her new home.

“Guess the same could be said for me too.” Leon added in.

“That’s what I wanted to hear. It’s like what grandpa would always say, ‘You can not pick the cards that are dealt, you can only deal with them,’ or something like that.” Ven quoted, scratching the back of his head in thought. “Or was it grandma?”

“Either way, I’m glad I’m sticking this out with you two. I would’ve been working myself to death trying to get home.” Mia said, blushing at how silly she sounded.

“I would’ve done something stupid by now. Like take a hostage or something like that.” Leon laugh, the idea ran through his head a couple of times now. “And Ven would be a psychopathic idiot on the loose!”

“Yeah! Hey Ven do you think that you could teach Cornix some of that psycho.” Mia poked fun of Ven. She and Leon started to laugh at their friend’s psychopathic nature, all the while Ven just stood in silence with a visible vine throbbing on his head.

“I don’t know why you two are laughing. If it wasn’t for me begin a ‘psycho’ then Mia, you would have to actually had to try to get in college, and remember that jackass from high school? Who was the one that set everything up?” Ven asked with a very irritated voice, one that was enough to silences both Mia and Leon.

“And Leon, remember that EX of yours? And that cocky cock of a boyfriend she had?” Ven stressed every word.

“Yo, not cool man.” Leon said looking away.

“So, now all of you are up, and you're staying huh?” A voice came from the door, everyone looked to see that it was Rainbow Dash.

“Sup, Rainbow. Yeah we’re staying can’t do much about it, hey and sorry for like earlier.” Ven said, hoping the mare wasn’t still upset with him.

“Pfft, don’t worry about it. It just surprised me as all, seeing that you humans don’t have horns.” Rainbow shook off any of Ven’s worries.

“Oh right, these are my friends Mia Young,” Ven waved his hand towards Mia, who waved at Rainbow. “and Leon Virgo.” He waved to Leon, who just nodded towards the mare.

“Do all you humans have weird names?” Rainbow asked the three.

“Rainbow! Now let’s not do this again.” Twilight scaled the mare she was going to say more, but laughter from the three Terrains interrupted her.

“Hahaha, oh nah, just the ones that are different.” Ven laughed. “So why don’t we finish that magic show I started.” Ven said nodding to the other two.

“Well I’ll go first then, as Ven may have explained, are magic comes from the world around us. It’s true that most humans use spell and the like, but there are some that can do a whole lot more.” Mia began the lesson just about where Ven left off.

“By what do you mean, ‘a whole lot more?’” Celestia asked with a puzzled look on her face.

“Well you see princess, there are some like Ven and Leon that are born with extra abilities. Then there are some that get their special type of magic through...other means.” Mia’s tailing off caused Celestia and Luna to raise an eyebrow. “I see an explanation is in order, one second.”

Mia raised her left arm in front of her face and placed her right hand at the bottom of her left arm. Then she simply ran her right hand over the arm, covering it in a bright white light. Her arm seem to change shape becoming slimmer and metallic looking, when the Equestrians couldn’t believe their eyes, Mia’s left arm looked like it was fashioned by a metal worker.

When Mia outstretched the arm all of the Equestrians were at a loss of words, feeling that the silence was a sign to continue Mia further explained, “As you can, this,” She motioned to the artificial arm, “is not my real arm. It was cut off in an accident while I was making this guy over here.” She explained, pointing to Cornix, who just made a beeping sound of response.

“W-what...what happened?” Celestia asked with hesitation.

“Huh? Oh it happened…” Mia narrowed her eyes, trying to remember the day of the accident. “Umm...actually I don’t remember much of that day, or couple of weeks after.” She scratched the back of her head embarrassed that she can’t remember the accident.

“Are you serious? You really don’t remember?” Ven asked not believing the woman’s lack of memory. “Grh, it was freshman year. You was working on Cornix for the science fair.” He said hoping to jog Mia’s memories.

It worked.

“Oh yeah! I was adding a hyper flux capacitor, when I accidently cut my arm off with the plasma welder. Oh man, blood loss can do a lot for your memories.” Mia said as the memories of that day faintly came to her. “Hey weren’t you guys there?”

“Yes, Mia we were.” Ven said with sarcasm leaking from his words, going completely unnoticed by Mia.

“Yeah, that day was weird. But anyway, In Terra some people had resulted to a more artificial mean of magic. Now I have the power to control an automaton life from, smash concrete with my hand, and a bunch of there stuff.” Mia listed off.

“So what about you Leon?” Pinkie Pie asked, “Oh, oh, oh can you fly without wings? Or maybe you can run through walls, or shoot lasers out of your eyes. Or may-” Pinkie was cut off by Applejack hand closing her mouth.

“Why don’t you let the feller show ya?” Applejack asked mildly irritated and Pinkie nodded her head ‘yes’. “Alright sugarcube, show us what you got.”

“Thanks. Well like Mia said I was born with my magical abilities, however…” Leon raised both of his arms and clenched his fists, they were covered in a silver light before transforming into two gauntlets. “When I joined the army, I received training that honed my skills.”

“Well that is impressive, so Leon you were in the army.” Celestia said and Leon nodded. “Mia you seem to be an engineer.” Mia as well nodded. “But Ventus, what did you use to do?”

“Me? I just did odd jobs around town and I would be a substitute cook for an owner of a pizza joint.” Ven said, thinking about the cheesy circles of goodness, however these thoughts led to his stomach reminding him and his friends that they haven’t eaten yet. “Guess I a little hungry.” Ven blushed, and his stomach let out another roar of hunger.

“Oh I know a place you can eat.” Pinkie said pulling out a chef hat from absolutely nowhere. “We could go to Sugar Cube Corner!” She said in an energetic tone, however a loud thunderous sound cut her fit of energy short.

The loud thunderous sound was strength enough to shake Fluttershy’s house, causing some of them to finch slightly, while Fluttershy jump up in the air, and landed in Leon’s arms. “Ummm...Fluttershy are you okay?” He asked while the mare held on for dear life.

Fluttershy made a ‘eep’ sound, she quickly hopped out of Leon’s arms, and hide behind Rarity. “Umm...I’m sorry…” She whispered quietly to the point where barely anyone heard her.

“Umm…it’s alright, I kno-” Leon was cut off by a rumble coming from Ven’s stomach.

“Grrah! I can’t take it any more! Fluttershy, do you mind if I whip something up? If I go any longer I think I may just fade into dust.” Ven said with a pleading tone.

“Oh...umm I had just bought some fruits and vegetables from the farmers’ mark-” Fluttershy didn’t even finish her sentence before Ven was out the door and in the kitchen. The sounds of pots and pans being moved around, and banging filled the house. Mia and Leon sighed knowing how Ven gets when he hungry.

With the help of Twilight and Applejack, Mia and Leon were out of the bed, both stiff and sore, but more or less fine. Applejack took one of Leon’s arms and wrapped it around her shoulder to better support him, seeing as how he was the one that was the most seriously injured. When they finally got to the kitchen, Ven was already working on two separate dinners. The Equestrians looked at Ven with at a puzzled look on their faces but Mia, and Leon knew just what he was doing.

Ven was quickly going back and forward between pots, tasting whatever he already had cooking. All the while he was bobbing his head in time to a beat unknown to everyone. An intoxicating smell overcame everyone’s noses, causing most of them to drool. After a few more minutes, Mia, Leon, and Ven returned to idle chit-chat with the Equestrians. Laughing when Ven told a joke, or when Leon told a story from his time in the Terrain academy, even Mia told a joke or two about her classmates from college.

Ven went to check up on the food to see if it was done. Giving it a taste first, he nodded his head in satisfaction. “Food’s ready.” He called out opening a few cabinets looking for some blows, but didn’t find any. That’s when Fluttershy showed him where they were, he grabbed enough for him, friends, and even the Equestrians.

He, Fluttershy, and Pinkie served everyone their respective amount of soup. Mia and Leon were the first to dig in, follow by the rest of the group, who all gave moans of satisfaction. Pinkie and Fluttershy soon joined the group in praising Ven’s cooking skills.

“Oh come on guys, you two had some of my grandma’s vegetable and fruit soup before.” Ven remained his friends.

“Yeah but its never this fresh! Hey aren't there usually meat in this?” Leon asked causing everyone in the room to go silent. “Okay what did I say this time.”

“Dude usually its me that does dumb stuff like that.” Ven said with a blank face taking another bite of the soup.

“What?” Leon asked still not connecting the dots.

“Leon, think for a moment. We’re in a world where ponies are the equivalent to humans. Now think about that and what you just said.” Mia told Leon.

The soldier sat at his spot at the table, thinking what his friends where trying to tell him. “Oh, they’re herbivores. Now I get it...” He said finally connecting the dots.

“Y-you guys eat m-meat?” Twilight shudder out, her and the rest of the element taking a nervous step back from the humans.

“Yeah, we do.” Ven said in a nonchalant manner continuing to eat the soup.

“But you guys are eating fruits and vegetables like us.” Rainbow said pointing a finger at the humans. “Hell, you’re the one that fix this soup.”

“That’s because humans are omnivores Dashie.” Ven said probing and elbow on the table and holding up his head with his hand. “At first the only thing humans would eat was meat, but in time are ancestors grow to eat certain types of plants.” He finished taking another bite of the soup to emphasize his point.

“B-but why eat m-meat if you can eat plants.” Twilight asked her nervous growing with every word.

“Because Twilight, humans can’t go long without the nutrients that come with eating meat.” Mia said giving a more believable reason than Ven.

“Well I afraid to tell you this, but you’ll find meat hard to come by in Equestria.” Celestia said only silently fazed by the Terrains’ diet.

“That’s alright princess. Me and Leon could always go fishing or hunting.” Ven said in a non-caring way.

“H-hunting? F-fishing? W-what about the f-families of those p-poor animals?” Fluttershy asked on the verge of tears.

Ven turned to Fluttershy seeing the absolute sadness in her eyes, having dealing with extreme vegetarians on Terra, Ven did the only thing that came to mind. He clapped his hands together and bowed his head to her. “I promise that we’ll respect the natural order of nature and the wildlife around us.” He said leaving his head down.

This in some way made Fluttershy cheer up a bit, although she still seemed to be unsure. “Y-you promise?” She asked both males.

“Don’t worry Fluttershy, at the most we’ll just be fishing, its too much work to go hunt a deer, or something like that.” Leon said with a reassuring smile.

This seemed to calm Fluttershy down and she nodded giving both of them permission to fish in Everfree. Everyone went back to eating when a thought came to Mia. “Hey princess, just how far is Equestrian technology?” She asked with the spoon in her mouth.

“Well, we’re seem to be behind you Terrains, but we are advanced in certain fields of both magic and technology.” Luna answered listing off a few things in her head. “Why you ask?”

“Well, I wanted to see if I could start an engineering shop or something like that.” Mia said sinking in her chair awaiting her friends to say something, but when they didn’t she looked at them while they just calmly continue to eat. “Aren’t you guys going to say something?”

“Like what?” Leon asked not knowing what Mia was talking about.

“She want us to say something like, ‘Mia you’ll take over the Equestrian engineering and push it into a new age,’ or something like that.” Ven said shrugging his shoulders.

“Well not that but you two always have something to say when I try, and set things up.” Mia said crossing her arms.

Ven shook his head at Mia’s childish behavior. “That’s because you were still in high school.” He said putting stress on the word ‘high school’. “That and your dad told us to keep you in line until you left college.” He continued to say, not knowing that Mia was completely unaware of the deal Ven and Leon had with her father.

“You said what now?” Mia asked glaring at the two males.

Leon sunk in his seat but Ven stood with a straight face, unfazed by the mechomancher’s gaze. “You heard me, your dad told us to make sure that you got into college for whatever you wanted to do.” Ven said finishing his soup. “Man Mia, your dad was a real cool guy, you don’t even know.”

Mia’s glare intensified all sights set on Ven, a light plush of magic began to swirl around her. Leon and the Equestrian ready for a fight between the two. Just as Mia’s and Ven’s showdown reached its peak, both of them broke out into a fit of laughter.

“Yeah you're right, he was cool.” Mia said through her fits of laughter. “R-remember that time he rigged the house to be a real haunted house on Crescent Night?” She asked Ven who burst out laughing at the memory.

“Oh man! I’ve never seen so many people run, screaming and crying. Hahaha!” Ven said grabbing the table for support. “Hey Leon, remember Superwoofer?” He asked Leon.

“Why did you remind me about that thing. It nearly blew apart the whole school, how is it that you two didn’t get arrested?” Leon asked unable to used stand the madness that his school went through.

“Ghost-walking technique baby!” Ven said disappearing from his spot and reappeared right next to Leon’s ear. “Woo, I can be in two places at once!” He shouted in Leon’s ear.

“Grrah! Don’t do that man, going to bust someone’s ear drums.” Leon shouted back, pushing Ven away. Everyone started to laugh at the two’s antics, smiles going all around. Both Celestia and Luna looked towards the clock to see that it was almost time to change the day to night. They nodded towards one another and excused themselves from the table to go outside and complete one of their tasks as alicorns.

Curious as to what the alicorns were up to, the Terrains followed them out the door with the rest of the group with them, Ven helped Leon onto his feet. They all followed the alicorns out of the house and witness a slight that they never seen before in their lives.

Celestia’s and Luna’s horns lit in a bright golden and silver lights and their bodies lifted off the ground. They closed their eyes, wings expanded outward to their full length, both where absolutely focused on the task, and blocking out all outside distractions.

The Terrains were in awe, just the beautiful light from Celestia’s and Luna’s horn was enough to leave them speechless, a gentle warmth coming from them. Each of the Terrains were lost in one, or both, of the princesses. Leon attracted to Celestia’s golden light, the same that would bath the land during the sun. Ven was lost in the cooling and refreshing silver light, rejoicing in the calming light. Mia was awed by both of the princesses, a harmortic feeling came from both the lights.

Lost in the daily rituals, Ven could faintly hear Cutos’s voice in the back of his head. Open the skies, let the nightlight shine. Ven smirked knowing that Cutos did have a point. Why let the moon’s light be blocked by some clouds? He let Leon down and told Mia to hold him up for the time being, then disappeared in a puff of black smoke, and re-appeared in front of the princesses; who already finished with the raising and lowering of the sun and moon. He outstretched his right arm and gathered some magic, when he did this the black tribal markings appeared. The elements were going to run to Ven’s side but Mia stopped them, saying that Ven was under complete control.

Ven looked back to Luna with a smirk on his face, she was going ask what he was doing, but her answer came with him throwing the buildup of magic to the sky. Lightning arched out of his fingertips, meeting with the darkened clouds. They broke apart, ending the constant downpour, and gave way to the raising moon. The Equestrians were awestruck, never have the moon looked so big, or bright. Even Luna, the one that raise and lowers the moon every day, was in awestruck; never in her life have she thought that her moon could look so beautiful.

She looked downward to the person that was reasonable for amplifying the moon’s natural beauty; Ventus Soul. Ven was looking up to the moon, its light shining down on his features. The black markings stuck out from the pale white light, having already moved its way to the rest of his body, yet he was in no pain. And Luna could see his eyes glowing a bright blue-silver, one that could rival the moon’s. As Luna continued to look the Terrain over, she could feel that her heart skipped a beat, and a heat rushed to her cheeks. Only the sounds of Mia’s and the element’s cheering broke her out of her trace.

“Ven! That was amazing!” Mia shouted causing Leon to grumble in irritation. Ven looked back to the rest and just simple gave a thumbs up in response. He nodded towards Celestia and Luna, who nodded back, and started to walk back to rejoin the group.

“Well I think it’s time for us to make are leave. Don’t you think sister?” Celestia asked only seeing the flustered look on Luna’s face. Celestia followed her gaze and found that it landed on Ven, at this new bit of information made her raise an eyebrow, but she decided to address it later. “Ventus we’re making are leave, if you don’t want to walk to Canterlot, then go grab your stuff, and say your goodbyes for the next two weeks.” Celestia told Ven, who nodded and left to go grab his backpack.

Short moments later, he reappeared back out with all of his stuff. “Well alright I’m go to go to and take my ‘punishment’ for the next two weeks. Leon, make sure Mia doesn’t work herself into the grave, and Mia make sure that Leon doesn’t get himself into anything.” Ven said with some final teasing before he left.

“Whatever, just go on you delinquent.” Mia said in a uppercrust tone.

“Are you really talking?” Leon said with a fake questioning look.

Ven just rolled his eyes and bumped fists with the both of them. “Princesses, Discord shall we?” He asked looking towards the immortals. Celestia and Luna nodded, while Discord shrinks his size and propped himself on Ven’s shoulder. Celestia lit her horn, a golden light encased the four, and all of them were gone with a bright flash of light.

Thinking that it was time for to get back to Spike, Twilight too made her leave in a flash of light. Rainbow took to the air, saying that she had weather duty. Applejack and Rarity left at the same time, both saying that they had work that needs to be done tomorrow. And Pinkie Pie gave both of the Terrains a big hug, and bounced off toward her home/workplace. Both Mia and Leon shook their heads, walking back inside with Fluttershy to call it a night.

To call it a night in their new world, their new home.