The life of Gray Matter

by Corporal Levi

Rating: everyone
Tags: Romance, Comedy, Random, Slice of Life
Length: 1376

Some maybe wondering why it says on my profile "The forgoten Bat Pony". This story can make it clear.

Gray Matter is a gentlecolt bat pony that is ratherly not liked by other bat ponies due to is "Royal Blood". However, some mares and colt's like his personality. He gets far in his life and always succeeds in every and or conflict. Find out about the story of this Bat Pony and how it turned out.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-01-08 13:02:40 UTC

1 Lets start at the very beggining.

1 Lets start at the very beggining.

Gray Matter was born in a cave somewhere near the mountians of Macintosh (Seen on the map). He was raised by bats. The bats brough him food and gave him lessons of hunting. There was one thing that Gray Matter wanted to do aswell;  Being Royal and Polite. The bats didn't quite like his idea of Royalty and politeness so they just ignored his thoughts.

There was also one thing that made this pony so different from the others, his way of seeing the world. He understood day as the bright encouragment of energy inside us. He understood night as the time to spend taht energy and or save it for later. The bats never letted him go out on the sun because they were afraid that he might die. So the only time that he could actually go outside his cave was at night. Of course he wasnt much of an adventurus pony, but still likes to feel the fresh wind in his mane.

Years have passed and the bats were getting older. Some even died witch made Gray very sad. When the time has come and Gray Matter was officially 19 years old the bats said "Make us proud on your quest around this world our son." Gray Matter replied "Don't worry my loved ones, I shall make you proud so you may look down on me from the stars as a hero." Gray Matter left the cave that night. Leaving all of his loved ones behind. As he traveled for a long time he saw Appleousa and the stampeding grounds. It was getting brighter and brighter as he aproched Ponyville.

Day was nearly among him. He heard very bad things about the day so he took a stop in the Everfree Forest. Since he was used to dark and creepy places like these he carried on without caring of any strange noices. He had an encounter with timber wolfs witch he beated without even trying. The timber wolf's know him as "The Slayer". He started to hear pony laughter and fun. Out of the bushes came a big source of light and there he saw it, Ponyville.

He saw three little fillies coming his way shouting "Mister! Hey Mister!" Gray Matter was shy so he decided to hide, but before he could do it it was too late. "What do you want little ones?" He said. The three fillies reply "Hi, we are the Cutie Mark Crusaders and we have never seen you around..." Gray Matter replies "No wonder I just came to these lands from my home." The Cutie Mark Crusaders reply "Oh okay. However my name is Applebloom. These are Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle." Gray Matter nods and says "I'm Gray Matter" the CMC say "Hi, Gray Matter!" Gray Matter smiles and then says "It's really nice to meet you, but I must go now..." The Cutie Mark Crusaders watch him go into Ponyville. Three other suspicious ponies watched him from trees. The three suspicious ponies followed him all the way to a big mountian where they lived.

Gray Matter looks up and he thought to himself "Must be a home to bats. Perhaps they wouldn't mind if I look around a little bit..." As he aproaches the cave he can see three shadows right above him. He decided to play the shadow's game and pretended like he didn't see them. He gets to the cave and steps in. He then quickly hides behind the corner and decides to suprise attack the three mysterious shadows. The shadows got near and they started saying "Where did he go?!". Gray Matter then jumps out and nearly shocks all the ponies taht were following him. As the three ponies noticed that it was a joke they all laughed. Meanwhile they laughed he looked at their wings and their eyes. They were Bat ponies like him. The grey guy said "Welcome brother, we thought there were none of us left!" Gray Matter looked very suprised as he heard the word "Brother". He said "Brother? What do you mean by that gray one?" The gray bat pony laughed and said "Please call me Aux Tism. And if you hadn't noticed, we are all bat ponies!" Gray Matter asked slowly "Bat...Ponies..?" The Dark purple one says "You were raised by bats, taht means you are a bat pony." Gray Matter replied "Ah, so what is your name Dark purple one?" MoonBeam replies "I am MoonBeam, the teams hunter. And this mare beside me is Jasmine. Quite a mare if you ask me..." Now that Gray Matter saw that everything is safe, he asked "Are there any more of you?" MoonBeam replies "Yes a couple of more but not a lot..." Aux quickly says "26 to be exact." Gray Matter then said "It's umm... very nice to meet you and all...." "Yes?" Say all of them at once, "But ummm... I kinda have to go... I must attend something...". One of them named Scarlet looked at me and said weakly "Will you come back?" Gray Matter see's something in her eyes but ignore sthe thought and says "Cross my heart I shall!" The Bat ponies cheered and Gray Matter was on his way to Canterlot.

2 Governor Gray I persume?

Gray Matter had quite a day. As he was flying he noticed that he is flying on daytime. He figured that day does not kill him. He shouts to the sky

"I told you that day does not hurt!'

He continued to fly as he reached the castle gates. "Halt! Friend or foe?" Say the guards. "I don't know, you tell me." The guards made a smile. "You may come in sir governor." The guards open the gate and I think to my self "They think I'm a governor? Mind aswell fool the others aswell. Hehe." As he entered the main hall, a lot of royalists stare at him giving him hoofshakes intreducing themselfs like Gray was some sort of prince.

After the crowd calmed down, the princesses came in the room and welcomed Gray. "G'day governor of the bat ponies." Gray was suprised that he was apointed governor of bat ponies. However he went with it and replied "It is an honor to be here your majesties." I stil lwondered why they treat me like this. Then Luna looks at me a bit shy and asks "Say, governor Gray, how long are you staying here?" Gray replied "Until my death, this place looks like it needs a governor to fix things up a noch." As luna blushed Celestia asked "Are you looking for a house and or mansion to live in?" Gray replies "Perhaps, I do need a place to stay." Celestia then Showed him a beautiful mansion.

"But, ma'm you really don't need to do this..."

"Oh but I must plus it's not much..." Gray shaked her hoof and went to the mansion. Yet he still had a feeling somepony was watching him. Beside Luna taht was in her room doing something. He saw red mane above him. He ignored it. Once he got to the mansion he saw a whole regiment of the elite royal guards standing in a perfect rank line to salute his arrival. "ATTENTION! Governor Gray is here! I demand a triple cheer for our new fearless governor!" Said the General Staff "Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!" Cheered all of the guards. "Ah, so these must be my men..." The general looked at him "Most of them are mares. But trained ones. We shall be loyal to you." Gray nods and heads inside the mansion. Some of the female guards followed him due to protection.

"Is this my room?"

The mare guard replies "All of this is yours, so I guess so." Gray looked up and saw the blood red mane again. Ignores it once more."I purpose this is my bedroom?" He says as he looks inside the bedroom. "Yes, sir governor." Gray Matter than asks for a little private time. The guard leaves the room. He then says outloud "You may show yourself stranger with blood red mane..." A gasp was heard and he saw the pony go out the window and flyed thorwards Ponyville.