Invisible

BANG!

You immediately jolt awake, shivering in fear, at the sound of lightning striking down from the clouds above. As the shivering stops, you roll over to look at the alarm clock on your nightstand.

3:00am

“I still have a few hours to sleep,” you say quietly as you close your eyes and attempt to fall back asleep, but to no avail, you are unable to. Damn lightning ruining your sleep.

As you get up from the bed you turn the lamp next to your alarm clock on revealing your rundown room along with several empty soda cans, empty chip bags, and random clothes scattered across the floor.

“Damn, I really need to clean this room ” is all you can think of as you walk through your room, kicking all the junk and clothes to the side. You reach into your closet and pull out an old gray hoodie to wear, it is worn out, but it is still warm. You leave your room and head towards the front door of the house. You decided to go for a walk, there was always something about taking walks during storms that relaxed you.

You walk outside only to find that there was no storm, in fact it was a full moon. Strange, but you still decide to continue with your walk; It’s not like you have anything else to do at three in the morning.

As you walk through the neighborhood you can’t help but think about how depressing it is. The road  itself is not taken care of, trash lines the sidewalks, and it smells of pollution. It is a poor neighborhood in Gardner, Massachusetts, where every house is either a rundown three decker or a one-floor house built in the 1800’s. You live in the latter, which you can barely afford making ten dollars an hour.

The thought of your salary reminds you you need to get back home soon, since you had to go to work at 6:00am. As you head back to your home, you can’t shake the feeling that someone is following you from the shadows. In fact, you have had that feeling since you left your house. You look in every direction, but you see nobody, so you decide to ignore the feeling. Besides, nobody would want to follow you anyway; there is nothing interesting about you.

You reach your house in all of its falling-apart glory. The windows are all cracked, the paint is chipping,  and it looks like it would collapse any minute now.

“Hello Josh,” you instantly turn around and see a man. He looked to be in his mid fifties, had spiky white hair, strange red eyes, and he obviously hasn’t shaved in months. He wore a worn-out green sweatshirt and blue jeans.

“Who are you?” you ask wondering why some random guy has been following you at 3:00am.

“Oh, just an old man who has an offer,” the old man says with a chuckle at the end, you are thinking this man is a bit messed up in the head.

“I’m really not interested.” This man was a bit creepy, randomly sneaking up on you with an offer.

“Really now? What if I told you that you could have a second chance at life; where people would actually acknowledge you and you would be able to make friends.” This man was definitely insane.

“What are you going to do, teleport me to a new dimension where people aren’t such assholes?” You decide to go along with it. What’s the worst that can happen?

“Where’s the fun in telling you what I’m going to do, it will ruin the suspense, accept the offer and find out, or decline and continue your miserable life.” You think for a moment, should you accept and find out what will happen, or decline. You go with the former.

“My life is fine, now leave me alone.” The old man just shook his head.

“Don’t try to lie, we both know thats not true.” You don’t know whether to be scared or not, first he knows your name and now he claims to know about your life.

“You don’t know me, now just go away.” You are annoyed and hoping that he will leave you be now.

 “ Oh, I do know you Josh. Let’s see, Josh Tristan, Bullied in elementary school by Ryan Cormier and Nate Trifiro, your dad didn’t care and the teachers did nothing. Than, in seventh grade you liked a girl, Sarah, you asked her on a date, she accepted. On your way to the movies Ryan, Nate, and their friends come out from behind a tree and beat you to the ground. It turned out it Sarah planned this. After that you shut yourself in, since nobody cared about you anyway. Ever since then nobody has bothered to even acknowledge you. Even now your life sucks, you’re stuck working in a factory for ten dollars an hour, hell that house isn’t even yours–”

“Enough, I accept your offer!” You only want him to shut up, it’s creepy how he knows all of this, and he was bringing back bad memories.

“Great Choice! Enjoy your stay in Equestria, oh and by the way, you will have no memory of this meeting.” He snaps his fingers and disappears.

“Well that was strange.” You reach for the doorknob only to see that your hand is on fire. You panic trying to put out the fire; you bang it on the door, on yourself, on the ground, but you only succeed in spreading it further. You drop to the ground and roll around as it spreads to your shoulders, chest and torso, but the fire is unaffected.

“AHHH!” is all you can scream as the fire continues to burn, it has spread to your feet, you continue to roll around and panic.

You give up your panic as flames engulf your vision. You close your eyes as you lose feeling in your legs and feet; knowing what is to come in the next few seconds. You then lose feeling in your torso, than your chest, your arms, and now your consciousness.

You are falling, that is all you can feel. You open your eyes only to see a void of black; you can’t even see yourself.

“Where the hell am I?” you ask out loud. You have no idea how you ended up here, all you remember is leaving your house to go for a walk during a thunder storm.

After several hours of falling through the void, you fall asleep out of boredom.

“ Sister, you must wake up, the sun will not raise itself.” You wake up, happy to hear the voice of your sister, one of the few true friends you have.

“Thank you Luna, now go rest, you need as much energy as you can to raise the moon,” you say to her as you walk out of bed and head towards the balcony to raise the sun.

As you go through your daily routine - raise the sun, eat breakfast, look through any letters you received over night, reply to some of the letters, then open day court - you have a strange feeling that something big is going to happen soon, by big you mean something that will change Equestria and the surrounding nations. After being a ruler for thousands of years, you have gained the ability to sense things like this.

“Princess…Princess, are you alright?” You realize that you have spaced out and snap out of it, remembering that you have a noble to deal with.

“I’m fine, I just have a lot on my mind,” you say, knowing that he will buy it; you have been dealing with nobles like this for years.

“Of course, now, I would like to request the funds to build a–”

BANG!

The whole castle shakes, causing the noble to scream like a little filly, and all the guards in the throne room to form a defensive position around you. Screams can be heard throughout the castle so whatever happened must have been serious to cause all this panic.

“Princess Celestia!” The doors to the throne room open and Shining Armour walks in, clad in his shining purple armour, along with four elite unicorn guards, wearing gold armour with sun emblems, on each side of him. “An unidentified object has hit the courtyard, we do not know what could have sent it!”

“I want you to clear the impact zone of any civilians, than surround the area with guards, armed and ready to attack, after that, pick two of your best soldiers to investigate the object with us.” You do not want any harm to come to any of the ponies, so you will be there to defend anything that may come out of this “object”.

The civilians have been cleared, guards are surrounding the area. You, Shining Armor, and two of the elite unicorns that were with Shining in the throne room are standing before the “object”.

There is not much to it, it’s just a black rectangular box with a doorknob on the front of it. Smoke is rising from the box as if it was burning earlier.

“Shining Armour, open the box.” You need to know what is in the box and its purpose, if it is something that will cause harm to your kingdom, you will destroy it immediately, you do not know what to do if not.

“As you wish Princess” He flares his purple magic and grasps the doorknob with it. He opens it slowly, fear is obvious in his face.

“What the hell?”