Blood Flows Between Worlds

"I am not from this world. Originally, I am human."

The words stuck in Twilights ears, this much even I could tell. She looked at me, considering how crazy I possibly could be, before asking me: "And what exactly is a human?"

I never thought that they wouldn't know what we are: "Humans are evolved apes,or created by god, whatever one believes. The walk on two legs... "at this point, I tried to stand on two legs. I failed miserably, ".. and use their hands to work with tools. They can't use magic, the faces are flat and they have no wings, but they have an imagination beyond anything I have ever seen here, I have to admit. There is so much variety not only between different countries, but between each and every individual, it's beautiful and scary at the same time."

Her look told me she didn't understand. She didn't need to. Not now, at least. I wasn't sure myself how much was real, and how much I told her was a false advertisement born from my wish to return home.

"If your not from this world, how did you come here? And why do you look like one of us, even an alicorn. It doesn't make any sense." she asked me. She sat down, her left hoof on the side of her forehead, scratching while she thought about all the possibilities.

"How I came here, even I am not certain. I just now that I died, and woke up here, near where I first met Fluttershy." My heart began to race as I had Fluttershys mental image before my inner eyes. "And I believe I look like one of you because this worlds counterparts to humans are ponies. But why exactly an alicorn? I don't know myself. And yes, it makes not much sense."

She turned around, her back to me. Now would have been the moment to strike, while she searched through the pile of books she read recently. I noticed one title: "Transportation through time and space." Why would she read something like that? She answered the question herself.

"I was reading some books about time-travel to stop Princess Luna becoming evil. I know that this could mean I never get close to Rarity and the others, but at least I wanted to try. Or to see how my master was a thousand years ago. Maybe there is a clue how to travel through dimensions."

She looked over her back to me, expecting an answer. "I know of a way to return home." She fully turned towards me. "I have to fulfil a task, but I can't do it. I am not the type to do it."

"What task do you mean" she asked, looking at me with more knowledge than she should have. I noticed the caution, but decided to ignore it. My biggest strength at this moment could only be that she underestimated me.

"The task to kill you, within a year of my arrival." She played the shocked mare, but it wasn't very convincing. She probably checked on what Discord and I talked about, with magic. Or he told her. That was possible to, to convince her that he wasn't the evil she should concentrate on. "But I got fond of you and this world. I don't know what I should do."

She looked at me with triumph, as if she had averted another evil. "You could start to study our history and customs, and within a few years, become another royal at the Princesses courts. You are already an alicorn, and nobody would ever suspect you not being one of us. And you could stay with Fluttershy, if you wish to."

I looked at her, surprised what she just suggested. Study the history and customs of ponies? Living at the royal court? Keeping in touch with Fluttershy? It didn't sound bad, I had to admit, but there was one flaw in her idea.

"And what about my family? I don't know when or where I would return, but I am sure that I would regret not meeting them again." She sighed, as she hoped I would forget this part and simply accept her offer. She was at the end of her wisdom, and at the beginning of fear. Fear she might die today.

"I don't know, but murder is never the right way." She had reached a point where she hoped for me to decide for Ponyville and Fluttershy, and she raised her guard, keeping an eye on me. I had missed my chance for an easy victory.

"I am sorry, but for me, my family is my destiny." I looked at my flank, and turned a bit to show her my cutie mark. "My family is symbolized by my cutie mark. I made it when I was back home, on my shoulders. It wasn't a symbol of destiny, but of my own free will." As I spoke, we both were charging our magic, and after I finished, shot it at each other. I flow against the next shelf, while she landed on the stairs.

She regained her composure first, charging her beam again while walking up the stairs. I jumped out of her beams way and shot my own, below where she stood. "You missed" was all she told, before falling down. I hit the stairs support, more out of luck, and her weight was to much for the remainder, and collapsed.

She was up in the matter of seconds. She had protected herself with shield magic, and was ready to fire the next charge. But I was a bit faster. The beam hit her head on. At first, she was surprised to be unscathed, until she noticed she couldn't move. The paralysis Discord taught me really was my trump card in this battle.

I walked towards her, remembering how I died, for I was about to kill someone myself. I levitated a piece of the stairs that broke before, and whispered into her ears: "I am sorry, but I simply have to go back." The wood pierced through her heart. Her blood was everywhere, and as my face turned into the same colour as my mane, I looked down at me. I didn't vanish. I was tricked.

I ran through the door, fleeing from what I had done. Tears were running down my cheeks. I regretted what I had to do, and also feared for my life. The moment they would find her corpse was the moment my death sentence was spoken. I ran towards Fluttershys home, before I realized that the blood would certainly frighten her. I took another path, and ran straight into Everfree Forest. I simply ran, there was no goal I had to reach.

I was running until I had no breath left. Then I walked. The sun was rising, when I reached a familiar place. The silence was totally out of place, I thought, but I got calmer thanks to it, and realized that I found the path I walked the first day I arrived in Equestria, and decided to follow it.