Invisible

(POV: Celestia)

“Our guest has fallen asleep, should we look into his dreams?”

“Luna, although we need to know more about him, I do not feel good about invading his privacy like that.” Luna’s idea does make sense, there is much more about this “human” then he will reveal. “But it is necessary, prepare the spell.”

Luna’s horn radiates a blueish white light as she prepares the dream walking spell. She engulfs the both of you in her magic aura, causing you to lose your vision for a few seconds. When your vision returns you and Luna appear in a black place, void of anything.

“The dream should appear about...now.” You are blinded for a split second. When your eyes reopen, you find yourself  floating above an alleyway. Rain was falling hard and thunder can be heard in the distance.

“THERE’S THE SHADOW! TAKE HIM OUT!” Three humans are sprinting down the alleyway. They are each holding something that looks like a weapon; they are L shaped and have triggers. They duck down behind some trash cans and point their weapons at a dumpster further down the alley. Behind the dumpster, a much younger looking Josh is taking cover. Instead of a long, messy brown mane, he has a buzz cut, his beard is gone. He is also holding one of those weapons except his is slightly bigger and has something protruding from the front.

The three humans behind the trash cans pull the triggers on their weapons. The loudness of the weapons firing startles you. Whatever they fired at Josh bounces off the dumpster he was hiding behind.

“RELOAD QUICKLY!” Josh uses this chance to pop out of cover and fire his weapon. Instead of one shot coming out each time he pulls the trigger, a flurry of shots are fired as he holds the trigger down.

“FUCK, I’M HIT!” On of the attackers falls to the ground with blood pouring out of his chest. The other two attackers do nothing to help him and continue firing at Josh. Josh reloads his weapon, and waits until the others have to. He pops his head out of cover and fires another volley of shots, he hits one attacker in the head and the other in the arm. The man who was hit in the arm drops his weapon and screams in pain. Josh uses this time to escape the alley. You hear the sound of sirens approach.

YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. LEAVE NOW!

You are engulfed in a purple aura as you lose your vision. When you regain your vision, you find yourself in the throne room.

“What was that?”

(POV: Luna)

“The dream should appear about...now.” You are blinded for a split second, and when your eyes open, you find yourself in an alleyway. You hear sirens and the sound of hoofsteps. Actually, you do not hear hoofsteps, you hear footsteps.

Josh is sprinting down an alleyway while other humans in blue uniforms chase him. Josh along with his pursuers are holding L shaped devices, you believe them to be weapons of some sort.

“Lethal force is authorized, shoot the suspect!” You hear one of the uniformed humans say, they must be some form of police force, but what would Josh do to be wanted by the police?

YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. LEAVE NOW!

You are engulfed in a purple aura as you lose your vision. When you regain your vision you find yourself in the throne room.

“What was that?” Celestia asks.

“I honestly do not know, I have never been thrown out of a dream like that.” There has also never been anything strong enough to throw you out of a dream. “ Whatever it is, it must be exceedingly powerful to remove us so easily.”

“This Josh… we must watch him carefully, we cannot allow power of this level get to the public.” You agree with Celestia, there is much more to Josh than we can ever hope to find out today, he could be an immortal god, an advanced alien, or a normal creature with a powerful guardian. There are endless possibilities.

(POV: ???)

“Our scouts say the shadow has arrived, should we take action?”

“Yes, send the assassin, Silent Slash, he should have no problem disposing of the shadow, but first, take this gem, it is what we will use to absorb his power.” You are given pitch black gem.

“I shall send the assassin, Glory to the Red Star!”

(POV: Josh)

“Lethal force is authorized, shoot the suspect!” The cops shoot bullet after bullet at you but only succeed in missing. You fire your suppressed uzi behind you in hopes to hit any of the cops.

“I’ve been hit” That’s one down, hopefully they stop to help them, it would make your escape so much easier.

You have no idea how long you have been running, there seems to be no exit to this alley, just random turns. There has been an absence of gunshots for a while so the cops must have lost you, so you take this moment rest.

*Click* You feel the barrel of a pistol press against the back of your head. “Time to die”

BANG

“Ahhhhhh!” You scream in fear, only to realize you are unharmed, and...in a bed. “It was just a dream, but seriously, what was that about?” You are perplexed by this dream, nothing remotely close to that has happened to you. It may have some sort of meaning, but what? What can a gun fight in an alleyway symbolize? You decide to set that mystery aside for another time, besides, you need a shower. Badly.

Luckily there is a bathroom connected to your bedroom, which you now realize is fit for a king. The bed is big enough to fit at least five of you comfortably, the blankets are unrealistically soft. This room alone is most likely bigger than your house, hell, there's even a fountain in the middle of the room.

After gazing upon the amazing  room, you finally get out of bed. Beside the bed there is a blue back pack with your name on it. You look inside to find, clothes from back home, your music player from back home, a sack filled with coins, and a metal box. Inside the metal box there is a suppressed uzi with a note on it:

This will never run out of ammo, never go anywhere without it.

-Z

“Does this have something to do with my dream, and who is Z?” You whisper quietly. “oh well, I’ll figure this out after a nice shower.” You take some jeans and a white T-shirt from the bag and head to the bathroom, which of course had to be grand.

“Alright, what the hell is going on? First talking ponies, then strange dreams, now THIS!” You look at your arms. Black flames are tattooed all the way from your wrist to your shoulder on your right arm, on your left arm black spikes are tattooed. “I guess its just another thing I’ll have to figure out after a shower.”

Feeling refreshed, you decide to take a look at yourself in the mirror.

“Damn I need to shave” Your brown beard is long and untamed making you look at least 10 years older, and your hair, which was also messy, was almost down you your shoulders. “Why couldn't the bag have anything to shave with?” You don’t suppose ponies would have to shave, but a hair cut may be possible.

After you get out of the bathroom, you find a tray of food waiting for you on the nightstand by your bed. There are eggs, hash browns, and surprisingly, bacon. Celestia must have remembered that you ate meat. You finish the meal in less than 2 minutes, you didn't know how hungry you really were.

There’s not much you can really think of to do, so you just settle on going to the garden. You hopefully remember how to get there. You don’t.

“I swear this is the way!” You took what was supposedly the same path you took to the garden last time, but you somehow ended up in a big open room. There room seemed pointless, it was just a big open space with large windows on each side.

“Lost?” The voice startles you from behind. You turn around, there is a midnight purple unicorn holding a strange dagger in his magic grip, his cutie mark is that same dagger. He was wearing a maniacal smile. “Hahahaha, Time to die, there’s nobody to save you here!” He charges at you, readying his dagger.

Combat Mode Active, 100% power remaining

The tattoos on your wrist light up red on or right arm, and light blue on your left. You instantly feel stronger, faster, and powerful. The unicorn swings his dagger at you, you dodge swiftly with a speed you never knew you had. He continues to swing at you as you dodge each of his attacks, but you couldn't keep this up for ever.

You must fight! Use your magic by focusing on your tattoos!

You decide not to question the voice in your head and just go with it. “Focus on my tattoos...Lets see…THAT'S IT! Fire!”You open your right hand in front of you and you think about forming a fireball, and as expected, a fireball forms. It feels like a baseball in your hand, so you throw it at your attacker, hitting him directly in the side. His dagger drops to the ground as he is sent flying across the room.

“They never told me you had magic, but no matter, I will just have to actually try!” He gets back on his hooves and a golden light emits from his horn and the impact point of the fireball. “He’s healing!” You throw two more fireballs at him, but he dodges them both.

“It’s going to take more than a few low level spells to beat me, but maybe not for you.” His horn glows red as he shoots three fireballs at you, you dodge the first two but one makes it’s mark right on your chest.

Your left arm is Ice! Use that!

“So that's what those tattoos mean.”  You imagine a spike of ice forming in your hand, and it forms. “This will make a good knife” To your surprise, the spike of ice transforms into a dagger. The adrenaline from the battle and learning magic makes you forget the pain of the burn on your chest.

The unicorn grips his dagger in his magic again, and slashes at you with it, you deflect it with your newly made ice knife. It is surprisingly strong and isn't melting. You swing at the unicorn with it but he deflects it. The two of you continue this routine for a few minutes until you decide to mix things up a bit. As you deflect one of his attacks, you throw a fireball at him, knocking him down. When he is down and on the ground, you try to stab him, but when your knife reaches its target, he disappears into a puff of black smoke.

“I will return, Shadow, but next time I will not lose!” His voice resonates throughout the empty room, as if there was several of him surrounding you.

Healing mode active, power recharging

You feel a cooling sensation on your burn. “How the hell did I get magic?”

“Josh! There you are, where did the assassin go?” Celestia rushes to you, flanked by several royal guards.

“I don’t know, he just disappeared.” As you say that, you start to feel fatigue “And, damn I’m tired”.

“You must get rest, using magic for the first time drains you” You couldn't agree more, you could use a rest.

Celestia brings you back to your room, and places you on the bed, you aren't tired enough to sleep, but laying down feels good. “Thank you”

“It is no problem, You fought well against the assassin, the royal guard is currently searching for him” You feel a bit relieved knowing that he won’t get away. “Goodbye for now, lunch will be brought to you, I do not want you out of this room without me or Luna until the assassin is caught” It's not like you had much to do anyway besides explore a garden.

You are now left with 3 mysteries, Why are you here? Who is the voice in your head? Why do you have magic? There has to be a reason.