My Second Chance

Chapters

Chapter 1 - Arrival
Chapter 2 - Learning
Chapter 3 - Earthanomics
Chapter 4 - M.P.D.
Chapter 5 - Dream
Chapter 6 - Legends
Chapter 7 - Memories

Chapter 1 - Arrival

All I can remember was the sound of cars, swerving to move out of the way to avoid one another, to save their own lives. The sound of a crash. The crushing sensation all over my body. I think I was in a car accident... Yeah... Yeah I was definitely in a car accident.

Is this Hell? Purgatory maybe? All I can see is an empty darkness. It feels almost as if I'm floating inside a large hot tub. Warm, wet, very wet in fact. Once I opened my eyes I was able to take note of the fact that I can still look down at myself and see that I am in one piece, surprisingly.

So where am I? Am I even dead? Or am I stuck in some kind of weird coma?

After hours of floating there, pondering to myself, about where I am and how I could possibly get out. A light appeared in the distance. Of course my first reaction was screaming "FREEDOM!" over and over in my head.

I started to reach for the light, clawing at it frantically, trying to get my hands on it. The light got brighter and brighter with every inch I made towards it. Searing my eyes with a painfully bright flash and awakening every sense in my body, bringing it back to life. The water surrounding my body now turned from a warm feeling, to an instantaneous freezing sensation.

I suddenly couldn't breathe anymore, almost like this whole time I've been holding my breath under this cold water. I reached up to grab the ledge of something. I pulled with all my might to get my head above the water so I could take in a deep breath of air.

Now you may be thinking, "alright, so a normal way to act would be to quickly gather your surroundings and make sure there is no danger around". That would have been a good idea... But I didn't quite have that same reaction at all. Actually the first thing I did was scream bloody murder as I pulled myself out of the water and onto solid ground. In which I proceeded to dump whatever contents I had in my stomach out onto the ground. I'm pretty sure that will be the last time I will ever taste Wendy's delicious burgers and frosties ever again.

There was other screaming around me aside from my own. I couldn't focus on it clearly since my vision was still blurry from that blinding light. The screaming in my own head was starting to drown out the others screaming as well. Once I established that I was on solid ground, I allowed my body to collapse next to the pile of burger vomit.

Slowly my blurry vision started to focus in, only for a moment. I swear I can see something... Something yellow, like a lemon. A second color joined in trying to pull away the yellow color, it was a pink color. I tried reaching out to it to bring it closer to me so I could get a better look. But my body was not allowing me to move anymore. I suddenly blacked out once more.

I just hope when I wake up I won't be in a pool of water like last time, god that would suck if I did though.

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It was another bright and sunny day in Equestria. The birds were chirping, the air was filled with the scent of blooming flowers. Everyone was happy... Except one pony. Sunny Days was busy grading her students paper work, at least until those pesky birds started annoying her and ruining her concentration. It didn't help when a certain lemon coated earth pony, Daisy Bloom, snuck into her home and gave her a surprise hug.

"Hey Sunny!" Daisy exclaimed, startling the pink coated unicorn. She let out a sigh of annoyance as she turned to her friend.

"Daisy how many times do I have to repeat myself. Do not bother me when I'm working." Sunny reminded her.

"Aw but Sunny! You promised to go to the park with me today! You're not going back on your word now, are you?" Daisy said with enthusiasm.

Sunny turned back to her paperwork before saying "You can wait a little bit longer. I need to finish these papers right now, or else I will have to work all night in order to finish these."

Daisy didn't really like this, she hated seeing her best friend getting stuck in such stressful work without a single break. "Tell you what, we only go for 10 minutes. One walk around the park and a little snack at the fountain, deal?" Daisy said. Sunny sighed in defeat, knowing her friend wouldn't stop annoying her until she submits to her demands. What the hay, it's only 10 minutes, right?

Daisy always enjoys her walks with Sunny, even though Sunny dislikes being out doors. They proceeded with the usual small talk, asking one another how their day is going, talking about problems at work. Daisy was going on and on about this new monster movie called "The Swamp Monster from the Void". Sunny never enjoyed scary movies, especially not ones with monsters in them. But she felt she had to indulge her friend, letting her know she's always interested to hear what her friend has to say.

Then there was a loud sudden sound, a sound that startled and scared the living daylights out of everypony that was around to hear it. Both Daisy and Sunny looked over to hear where the scream came from. Ponies were running in fear of the thing that was creating such a terrifying scream. Daisy's eyes lit up while Sunny's eyes shrank to the size of pin pricks when they saw the "monster" that crawled out of the fountain.

A large, ape-like creature had climbed out from the fountain. Screaming in intense agony, as if every nerve was shooting pain throughout its body. Sunny hid under a nearby bench while Daisy stood there, staring at this mysterious creature amazed at its shape and size. It climbed out still groaning in pain, before stopping to throw up on the ground.

After the monster collapsed onto the ground, it stopped screaming. Daisy took this chance to get closer to it so she could see this monster up close. "What are you doing?! Daisy get back here!" Sunny whispered loudly, trying to get her friend to come back without alerting the monster. Daisy ignored her friend's pleas as she stepped closer until she stood in front of the creature, now able to take note of the clothing it's wearing.

She even took note of something bulging from what she could only assume was the creature's back pocket. She tried reaching for it before she noticed the monster started moving again, which startled her and made her take a few steps backwards. It turned it's head to the side and glanced up at her. It stared into her eyes, and she stared back.

In it's green eyes she could see the words that this monster was trying to tell her. "Help me, please help me." were the words that Daisy could see. Sunny couldn't stand by any longer. She rushed over to her friend and grabbed her hoof, trying to pull her away from the creature.

"Daisy I told you to get away from it! It could be dangerous!" Sunny said in a scolding tone to her friend. Daisy turned to look at her friend right in her eyes. "He needs our help Sunny!" Daisy said, sounding sad.

"What?! H-help this thing? But Daisy it could-." Sunny said, still shaken up from the monster's horrifying scream.

"Look at him" Daisy interrupted, gesturing a hoof towards the now unconscious monster. "He's hurt, he could die out here if we leave him." Daisy said, trying to convince her friend to help her.

"O-oh hoho no no no no no! I'm not dealing with THIS thing, we don't even know what IT is!" said Sunny.

"Sunny you owe me... Remember when we were both just little fillies and-" Daisy said.

"Nope! Nope I'm not listening to this!" Sunny interrupted trying to ignore Daisy's guilt trip.

"And you found a stray dog that was cold, alone, hungry and dieing? I helped you take it home to care for it! Come on Sunny... Do this for me, pleeeeease?" Daisy begged, putting on her best puppy dog eyed look.

Sunny knew when she was defeated, she knew her friend helped her when she needed her most, and now shes asking her to do the same for her friend. "Alright ALRIGHT! fine!" Sunny sighed. "I'll help you get him to your house... But! we have to do this quickly!" Daisy got a wide grin and nodded her head quickly.

Sunny's horn started to shine with a yellow golden glow, as the monster's arms were enveloped in that same golden aura. She lifted his arms up as Daisy stood under his left arm, and Sunny under his right. She carefully sat his arms down onto their backs and held onto his hands while his arms were slung over their backs, so they could both drag him back to Daisy's home.

"Eeewww! There's vomit on his arm! I-I can feel it on my back!" Sunny shuddered with disgust while dragging the unconscious monster.

"Hrm! And he's heavy too! What does this guy eat?!" Daisy grunted while struggling to pull this 250 pound monster. What? I've been meaning to go on a diet, don't give me that look! Luckily they were able to get the strange creature back to Daisy's home without anymore troubles, aside from the occasional on looker. There, Daisy had to work on a way to warm him back up and clean off the vomit on his arm and around his mouth.

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Water. I have a feeling by the end of today I'm going to HATE water. This is the first thing I wake back up to, the sensation of warm water around my entire body. It didn't shock me awake though. The water this time was actually quite soothing. What did shock me awake however was the two multicolored horses standing in front of me while I am now sitting in a bath tub.

I shot up out of the tub and grabbed onto the edges. The pink coated horse-... pony... thing, backed away into the wall. But the yellow one put her hooves onto my chest to help sit me back down into the tub. Of course I was panicking and I had no idea how to react to this at all, so I just sat there in the tub. She gave me a soft smile while grabbing a sponge with her hoof... How the fuck is she doing that? The more I look the more it baffles me, she just puts her hoof on it and it sticks to her like shes got some sort of sponge magnet power.

She started to soak up a bit of bath water and continued to clean the vomit that was still on my chin with the sponge. Like I said, she has a yellow coat, like a lemon. She has a blue mane, the closest way I can compare the shade to is the same shade that denim pants has. Her hair style also reminded me of the character named "Sophie" from Final Fantasy VIII. She has purple colored eyes, took me a bit to look away from her eyes to inspect the rest of her. On her butt she has some sort of tattoo, two daisies, one with an orange color and one with a red color. The orange flower hiding half way behind the red one. Her tail was really long too, it literally touched the ground.

I looked over towards the pink coated pony, who was a bit more relaxed now as well. She has a horn, like as in a unicorn's kind of horn. (Maybe in this world some of the ponies have magic.) She has a golden brown color to her mane, like the perfect shade a roasted marshmallow should be. She also has a yellow triangle pattern in her bangs, like half a triangle on one bang and the other half on another bang. The rest of her mane hanging down off her shoulders has a sort of candy cane pattern where the yellow twists around down her mane. Her tail was shorter compared to the lemon coated one. Wherever her tail hair curled there was a yellow color to it. She was wearing a pair of green glasses, and even wore pure white pearls around her neck. Her eyes have a teal color to them. She also has a butt tattoo as well, (maybe it's a trend?) Her's was a ruler with a chalkboard behind it, everything about her just screams "I'm a teacher."

After the lemon coated pony finished cleaning my face, she started to inspect me more. Almost like she was taking notes of how I look. Just to help all of you I can describe myself. There's one word I need for this... "Hairy." There's hair all over my stomach, chest, and down both my arms and legs. I haven't had a haircut in awhile, but it doesn't go anywhere past my ears. I did shave my beard off not too long ago, so I only have a clean stubble of hair, with only a few patches missing on my cheeks. My nails where slightly longer than normal cut nails. I never cut them because I never cared to make first impressions with my looks. Plus I don't enjoy the feeling after I clip them. I don't have any blemishes on my face really, aside from a small scar made from a horse biting my cheek when I was a kid. I never really had a normal sleeping schedule, I always went to sleep very late and woke up early, rarely a full eight hours unless I slept into the afternoon. As a result I have a darker color around my eyes showing off my lack of sleep.

We stared at each other for what felt like hours to me, when really it was only about a good fifteen minutes. "So..." This was an obvious bad idea as this startled both of them.

"I-it can talk?!" the pink coated one screamed.

"Sunny! Calm down!" The yellow one yelled, trying to calm her down. Sunny, eh? Nice enough name.

The yellow one looked back at me again and smiled once more. "My name's Daisy, Daisy Bloom. What's your name?" Daisy said in a calming voice. Daisy Bloom? Is the bloom part a nickname or something? How are these ponies talking to me? Why am I still talking to myself?

I finally spoke up. "My name's... My name is Joel. Joel Summers." After telling her my name I proceeded to look around, taking notice of the small bathroom around me. "Where the hell am I?" I said.

"You're in my house, in Calmare." Daisy stated, now starting to get a more happy tone.

I looked at her with confusion. "Wait what? Calmare? Alright where is Calmare on the map?" Also, "Calmare"? I hope that is just a coincidence.

This time the pink one, I think her name was Sunny, came closer to me until she was standing behind Daisy. "Calmare is located in Equestria. Near the city of Fillydelphia." Calmare? Fillydelphia?

This started to make me laugh, which confused the two ponies. "Hahah! hah that's a good one, next you'll be telling me there's a place called Manehatten or even a giant city called 'Canterlot'! Bwahahahah!"

"But... There is." Daisy spoke up which immediately made me stop laughing and get right into her personal space.

"What was that?" I questioned her.

This made her back away slightly and shifting uncomfortably. "Th-there actually are cities with those names." Sunny spoke up for Daisy who was too nervous to answer.

What kind of sick joke is this? "This has to be a joke... Right? There can't possibly be any cities with those names!"

I started to slink back down into the tub. "I-I'm sorry Joel, but-" Daisy said before being cut off when I held my hand up to stop her.

"Please... Please don't explain it right now, my head hurts way too much to understand your geography... So I'm in a town, right?" I said, followed by her nodding. "And... There's others in this town like you?" Again, she nodded to confirm my question. "And... Are there any humans in this place you call 'Equestria'?"

I was hoping they would nod, I didn't want to deal with the truth that I'm stranded in some other world filled with colorful talking equines. But both Sunny and Daisy's heads shaking told me that there are no humans in Equestria. My heart stopped. This has to be a dream, yeah it has to be! This is impossible, I mean a world full of ponies? That's too crazy to be real. Maybe I'm in a coma, maybe I'm just sleeping in a hospital bed waiting to wake up. Well, if this is a dream I better just go along with it.

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After helping the human, Joel. Both Daisy and Sunny came walking downstairs after leaving Joel to bathe alone. Daisy wandered off into the kitchen to prepare dinner for everypony. While Sunny went over to Joel's clothing to inspect them further.

She used her magic to lift his clothes up to check them. He has a pair of black socks and brown rough shoes. She can't tell what the material these shoes were made out of but they seem like slip on shoes. He has a dark green t-shirt, and blue jeans that are slightly ripped up at the end of the legs. There's a pair of dirty glasses sitting on the table nearby that he wore.

She started to empty out the pockets in his pants. The contents in his pockets were a set of 3 keys on a key chain, a single wallet, and a slip of paper with smudged ink on it. Obviously smudged because of the water. She opens his wallet and starts to check the miscellaneous cards and receipts inside.

One card seems to catch her eye though, two in fact. One that displays Joel's picture, his birth date, eye color, sex, and even the name of where he is from. What was this place known as "Washington"? Sunny wondered. Taking note of his birth date, 1993, she could tell he is 20 years old. Only 20? He's only 3 years younger than her, 2 years younger than Daisy.

On the second card it shows Joel's picture again, this time with something different. On the card it displays the words "Honored Citizen", could this possibly mean Joel earned this title for an exceptional good deed in his town? She will have to ask him this when he has had time to calm down.

After about an hour Daisy finished making dinner. She didn't know what a human eats, so she decided to be prepared. Tonight she made hay fries, deep fried to the crispiest texture. A wonderful green and leafy salad filled with the essentials such as spinach, cabbage, sliced carrots, chopped beets, and her absolute favorite treat, daisies.

She also prepared a fruit salad with bananas, strawberries, pineapple, apples, oranges, and even Sunny's favorite fruit, plums. For dessert she decided to bake a cherry pie after preparing the other dishes. She was filled with so much excitement, she was finally cooking for a monster! Well at least Joel doesn't seem to act like a monster, not ones from her movies. But that wasn't going to stop her from feeling excited to treat Joel to a special Equestrian dish.

Daisy called out to Sunny and Joel to inform them that dinner was ready. Joel didn't come down from the bathroom which both Daisy and Sunny noticed. Sunny decided she should handle it and got up to gather Joel something to wear for dinner. All she could find was a blanket that she could help him fashion into a toga. She walked upstairs and knocked on the door three times. "Joel, dinner's ready."

Silence.

"Joel? Joel are you in there?" She started to open the door.

The moment she opened the door Joel was sitting right at the door ready for her "BOO!" he yelled. She screamed in surprise, dropped the blanket and fell backwards down the stairs. Letting out a yell and swear as she fell down each step. Joel popped his head out from the top of the stairs "Yo Sunny... Y'alright?"

Sunny let out a groan of pain and mumbled something about how she would love to stab him in his big stupid monkey face before standing back up. "Y-yeah! Yeah I'm alright... ow..." Joel looked at the blanket and frowned. He looked back at Sunny, who was climbing back up the stairs.

"Hey, what happened to my clothes?" Joel asked.

"We still need to wash them and dry them off before you can wear your clothes. I brought you a blanket so I could help you get into a toga for now" Sunny answered, still obviously angry at the human that had just scared her for the third time today.

Joel did NOT like that idea one bit, but he didn't enjoy the thought of walking around naked like these ponies either. "It's fine Sunny. Tell Daisy, I think that's her name, that I'll be down in a moment." Joel took the blanket and walked back into the bathroom so he could start forming it into a toga. Of course he didn't know how to make a toga at all. Every time he tried making one it would just fall down onto the floor and he would stare at it. As if he thought if he glared at it long enough it would hop onto him in the form of clothing.

After 20 minutes of struggling he finally made himself a makeshift toga. He walked downstairs to see that Sunny and Daisy were sitting at a table without chairs and three plates set up. His dish already set up with a leafy salad, a fruit salad, and what looked like really skinny french fries to him.

He sat on his knees at the table and started to poke through his salad to check it. "Uhm... There's flowers in this salad."

Sunny turned to look at him while swallowing a bite of her fruit salad, "Yes Joel, there ARE flowers in the salad. After all daisies are what make a 'daisy salad'."

Joel rolled his eyes at her comment. "Thanks for the information but here's a tidbit for you... humans don't eat flowers. Were omnivores, which mean we eat specific plants and meat."

Joel could see this worried Daisy and Sunny for a moment before he spoke up to calm their nerves. "We don't eat ponies, the closest thing to ponies we have where I'm from are horses."

Daisy started to get a smile on her face while Joel ate his fruit salad. "Oh! Speaking of where you're from. Where ARE you from Joel?" Joel looked over at her and then looked back at his food.

"Definitely not from Equestria... in fact, I'm from a whole different planet, or universe..." This caught Sunny's attention now, another universe? Impossible. "I don't know how I got here. All I want is to go back home to my family." Joel continued, Sunny and Daisy decided to sit in silence to let him finish his story. But he never finished it. He just sat there eating and staring at his plate.

Daisy thought maybe Joel could use some cheering up. "Well don't worry Joel, we can help you out. You can stay with me until you figure out how to get home."

Her plan worked, Daisy got Joel to smile at this. "Thanks Daisy, that means a lot to me. It really does... Well if you'll excuse me, I need some sleep."

Daisy pointed towards the doorway that leads outside of the kitchen and to the stairs. "Go upstairs and take a left down the hall, at the end take the right door. You can sleep in the guest bedroom there." Joel thanked her before standing up. His toga fell off just as he stood up, exposing his hairy body and even his manhood. Sunny and Daisy both smiled and giggled at his wardrobe malfunction.

Joel blushed and thought "No, fuck them! You walk out like a boss!" but instead, He panicked and quickly dashed out of the kitchen to the upstairs guest bedroom. After closing himself off he let out a sigh of relief to finally be out of that embarrassing moment. He walked over to his small bed and glared at it. "Seriously? a tiny ass little bed? Why do I keep getting the shit end of the stick." Joel couldn't care anymore at this point, he at least had a bed at the end of the day instead of the floor. He flopped down onto the bed, which of course made the bed creak.

Joel passed out into a dreamless sleep only moments later after wrapping himself up with the bed's covers.

Author's Note

This is my first fanfic I have ever written. Please tell me what you think and don't hold back your criticism!

Chapter 2 - Learning

I awoke to the sound of birds chirping outside. I sat up, stretching and yawning, looking around the room I'm in. Well the dream I'm in hasn't changed, same room I fell asleep in. I noticed my clothing sitting on the floor near the door, with a small note on it. I got up and walked over to get dressed back in my old attire, afterwards I started to read the note that was left on top of my clothing.

"Joel, I will be home at 3:00 P.M. there is left over fruit salad and hay fries from last night in the fridge. Please help yourself to them. Daisy Bloom."

Hay fries? I'm going to put that under "do not eat or you will DIE." I checked the room once more to see what's inside of it. A small bed with the covers strewn apart, a small dresser, a night stand with a lamp on it, and finally a clock hanging on the wall near the window, showing that it was already 12:37 P.M.

After taking in my surroundings one last time I walked out of the guest bedroom to head downstairs. Everything in the house seemed normal, except for the fact that there was no computer in sight, which annoys me. But it had everything a usual house had, a kitchen, a living room, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, one being upstairs and the other downstairs.

I was able form a small map in my head... What? Expecting me to send it to you? Sure let me just use my psychic mind waves to project these images into your brain- oh wait I forgot, I DON'T have powers. Maybe if I had a computer that had some sort of simple drawing program on it so I could email it to you but sadly this place doesn't seem to have a computer that I could use.

Anyways, I ended up walking to the kitchen to grab the rest of the fruit salad that Daisy left in the fridge. While I sat on the couch I started to think out loud to myself.

"So I'm on another planet filled with colorful talking ponies... At least my mind is making them speak and act like humans so there's that. *munch munch* So what's up with the horned one? Is it like mythical unicorns where they can use magic and stuff? Wait this is a different universe my mind is perceiving. That means I could do anything I want... hmm... *munch munch munch* nah, nah that wouldn't be any fun if there weren't any rules."

I sat there pondering more about my situation. Thinking on things I could do to pass the time until I woke up. Sometimes wondering how my family will react to me being stuck in a coma... This is boring as hell. I'm going to see what exactly is in this town.

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Sunny was sitting in the classroom drinking coffee while the little colts and fillies were playing outside. She started to worry a bit about Joel, as she knew that he was completely alone with nothing to do in a world that's completely alien to him. Will he wander off and cause havoc? Will he scare more ponies if he were to leave the home? After all he did scare a lot of ponies at the park the other day. What if he-.

Her thought was cut off by the sound of two children screaming and running into the classroom where Sunny was. She turned towards the children and got up from her desk, after setting her coffee cup down with her magic. "What's wrong? What's with all the screaming?" Sunny asked with both worry and confusion.

"Th-th-there's a monster! h-he w-w-wa-was g-going to eat us!!" Oh no. Oh no was the only thought and words that escaped from her mouth as she rushed out to see what this "monster" was.

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Why does everyone keep avoiding me? Do I stink or something? I mean yeah sure I probably look weird, but is that a reason to judge me and be afraid of me? Ponies are pretty speciest aren't they? Man I sure do ask my own head a lot of questions.

Looking around I could see that this town had more homes that looked a bit like Daisy's home. There were even shops around the area that I was in, and kiosk stands sitting in what I'll identify as "The Market Place." Maybe Sunny or Daisy work somewhere in this town, Sunny seemed like the teacher type too so I could probably find her at the school.

I started to look around for any place that seemed like a school. I was lost for at least what felt like an hour. Eventually I asked one of the locals if they knew who Sunny was, which they did. They directed me towards the schoolhouse on the other side of town from where I was at. I thanked them and headed on my way towards the direction the schoolhouse was in. Also, did that pony have a German accent? Place keeps getting weirder and weirder.

Once I got there I could see all the little fillies and colts playing out in the playground in front of the school. But there were three that caught my eye. Two of them were throwing a doll between one another while the third, who I could assume was just a little girl, was running between them, trying to get back her doll.

I can't allow this, I knew exactly how it felt to be bullied by some douche-bag little punks. I walked towards the three, while getting strange shocked looks from the other kids. I caught the toy mid air before it landed in the other kid's hands-...hooves... Fuck I'm not going to get used to this am I?

This now caught the attention of the three standing before me. I smiled and handed the little filly back her doll, getting a smile out of her while she held her doll tightly with both of her forelegs. I turned towards the two bullies who were now backing away while staring at me in fear.

I couldn't help getting a very evil grin on my face, before roaring "I'M GUNNA EATCHA!!" Making the two bullies piss themselves on the spot and rush back into the school.

I turned and made a heroic pose to the other kids with one hand held out saying "Fear not! For I, Joel Summers! Will never allow bullying to take place in school ever again!"

Thinking back on it I expected that these kids would cheer my name and call me a hero. That wasn't the case. The kids all picked up small rocks they found and started to PELT ME IN THE FACE! Yes I have to underline that and put it in bold letters, because it HURT.

I threw up my arms in front of my face trying to stop the onslaught. The only thing that stopped it was a very, very angry mare. A mare that everyone comes to fear one day in their life. Sunny Days stepped in front of me and proceeded to scold the children, something about "don't throw rocks because it's not nice" or some horseshit like that.

I honestly didn't care about what she was saying really, all I cared about was the fact that one of those little bastards threw a nice hand sized rock right at my eye, which broke the lens of my glasses. I guess I should be lucky that it didn't leave any marks on my face or hit my eye hard enough to bruise it.

Oh yeah remember when I said I didn't care about what she was saying? Yeah scratch that. Once she turned to give me her death glare I stood stiffer than a Welsh guard on red alert.

"And how DARE you scare two innocent children! Especially when I was on break!" Sunny scolded me.

Yeah right, Innocent. If they're innocent then I'm the pope. "Listen, Sunny those kids-" Sunny, of course, interrupts me.

"Ah ah ah! I don't want to hear it right now, you head back home right now before I give you the scolding of a life time! And it wont be pret-" Sunny continued to yell at me but I ignored everything she was saying.

While she was yelling at me I placed my hands just above her ears to scratch them while trying to sooth her with the sound of a roaring waterfall. Which to everyone was just "Shhhhh... Shhhh." continuing to move my hands down to her muzzle until I pushed on her cheeks to force her to stop talking and to look at me. "Shhhhhut the fuck up."

She gave me a confused look as I let go of her face, patting her on top of her head. This made her blush under her coat. "Alright, I'll head back home, only if you do me one favor."

She looked up at me as she said "And what would that be?" I was hoping she would ask.

I pointed over to the small filly I helped out earlier. "Ask her about the punks who stole her doll."

Sunny was even more confused as I just walked off back to Daisy's house. And do I even have to tell you that I got lost and had to ask directions again?

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Sunny was even more confused as Joel just walks off, not even close to the direction Daisy's home is in. She trotted over to the little filly he was pointing at and looked down at her. "Azure?" Sunny asked.

"Yes Ms. Sunny?" Azure Breeze said, still clutching onto her doll.

"What was Joel talking about when he said your doll was stolen?" Sunny asked. Still confused about what he was talking about.

Azure Breeze told Sunny everything that happened. Telling her how the two bullies stole her doll and playing keep away with it, at least before Joel arrived and stopped them. She knew that he must have hated seeing her bullied in such a way and just wanted to punish the two by scaring them. She thought of punishing them herself, but apologizing to Azure was enough of a punishment. After all, wetting yourself in front of the whole school and being nearly scared half to death is pretty bad.

When everypony came back inside after recess, the children started to raise their hooves up to ask questions. Sunny looked over towards Azure and picked her first to ask her question. She lowered her hoof and asked "Ms. Sunny, What kind of monster is Joel?" This all made the kids start speaking up, asking the same question. Showing that everypony had the same exact thing on their mind.

This made Sunny sigh and ponder this question herself. What IS he exactly? He says he's a creature known as a "human." But what was a human? Maybe she could take advantage of this to learn more about him. She turned to the classroom and put on a very good, but still fake smile. "How about tomorrow I bring him to class so he can tell us all what he is." This made all the children cheer in excitement.

Dear Celestia what has she gotten herself into.

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At around 3:13 P.M. Daisy walked back into her home with her saddle bags on her back. "Joel! Joel I'm home from work!" Daisy called out, half expecting Joel to come running down the stairs like a dog who'd been waiting for their owner to get home. Instead there was silence.

Daisy thought Joel might be playing a nasty trick on her, like he did to Sunny last night. She reached into her saddle bag to pull out a book, setting it down on the arm of the couch, as well as setting down her saddle bag next to the couch. "Joel, I bought you something today! I think you might like it!" Still no answer. This was starting to worry Daisy even more.

Daisy walked up the stairs after washing up Joel's left over fruit salad dish. She looked in his room, in the bathroom, and even her own room in case he might be sleeping in there. But he was nowhere to be seen, he wasn't even outside when she was walking up to the front door earlier.

She thought to herself to try and calm down. "Alright, don't panic. Maybe Joel stepped outside to see what the town is like? Ooooh but what if somepony thought he IS a monster and calls the town guard on him! I-I've got to go find him! I need to get out of here and-."

She was interrupted by slamming into Joel as she was rushing out the door to find him, causing them both to topple over with him lying on the ground and with Daisy on top of him. After Joel shook the dizziness from his head he looked down towards the worried looking mare before getting nearly suffocated by her neck hug of doom. "Joel! Joel I was so worried, I thought you might have gotten yourself hurt and-... And... What happened to your glasses?"

Joel pried himself free from her death hug, rubbing his throat where she squeezed the most. "Some brat threw a rock at my face, It didn't hurt but it did break my glasses." This caused Daisy to smile a little. At least Joel wasn't hurt, but still she feels like it's her responsibility to take care of him.

"I could take your glasses over to the store where Sunny buys her glasses, to get them repaired." Daisy said. He just sat there staring at her. Why was he staring at her? Was he not used to this kind of treatment?

He reached up to pat her on the back and rub it slightly. "I'm not a body pillow, you know." Joel said, making Daisy realize they were both still on the ground, while lying on top of him like a pillow. She blushed profusely, even Joel could see this as her blushing cheeks were showing through her lemon colored coat.

She started to get back off of him and stumbled only slightly when she backed away to give him space. "O-oh I'm so so sorry Joel, I-I was just worried about your glasses and all that I-." Joel placed his hand over her mouth to silence her.

"You panic too much Daisy." Joel said with a smile, now sitting up. He moved his hand away and began to stand back up, stretching and popping his back in the process. "It's actually nice to see that I have somebody worrying about me." He walked past her, running his hand through her mane once to pet her.

This new sensation actually felt good to her, which only made her blush more. Joel walked over to the couch to sit on it. After sitting down the book that was sitting on the arm of the couch fell onto his lap, catching Joel's attention. "What's this?" He said, picking up the book to inspect it.

The book itself looked like a history book, based on the cover and its back. "It's a book about Equestria and the ponies that live in it. I-I thought you might like it since you're from another world." Daisy answered. Joel looked at the book and opened it, scanning through the pages.

"Huh, so this has everything I need to know about Equestria and it's people-, er, ponies?" Joel asked, turning his head to look at Daisy. Daisy nodded, which made Joel smile as he closed the book. "Thanks again Daisy. You know I feel really guilty that you're doing all of these things for me without getting anything in return."

Daisy smiled as she walked over to lie down on the couch next to Joel, facing him. "Joel, you don't have to feel guilty. I'm happy to help you whenever you need it. I don't need anything in return." There was one thing that she did want, but she couldn't ask Joel. It was much too embarrassing for her.

Joel reached over behind her neck and began to pet her, which caused her to blush. "Come on, there HAS to be something that I can do for you to make it up to you." Joel said, continuing the gentle strokes of his hands from the back of her head, slowly down her neck and onto her back.

Daisy put her head on Joel's lap, nuzzling into his somewhat big and soft belly. "Just keep doing whatever you're doing now Joel, it feels really good." This actually made Joel blush quite a bit. He continued to stroke her neck and back with his hand, while taking his second hand and running his hand through her mane on top of her head. This got a soft moan out of the mare, who was clearly enjoying this new kind of treatment from Joel.

After only 10 minutes of relaxing and being petted by Joel, Daisy passed out. She let out soft cute snores as she slept which made Joel stop petting her, resting his hand on her back. He couldn't help but smile at the now sleeping mare.

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Damn, she really is cute when she's like this. At least I figured out one of her weaknesses. Now about this book, let's take a look at what's inside it. I grabbed a hold of the book so I could open it, reading its contents, using the references on the back to check out other specific information.

There was a lot of information on here. From the types of ponies and what they could do, to the cutie marks that appear on their rump when they find their special talent. Please dear merciful god make this only a pony thing and not a universal rule. The part that amazed me the most was that this place had two princesses ruling over the kingdom, wait... Princesses? Don't they mean queens? Whatever, must be a pony thing. But that wasn't just the amazing part, the amazing part was that both princesses could control the sun and the moon. Holy shit these two must have a LOT of power to be able to do that.

The book even had a map of Equestria. Which of course I had to resist the need to laugh at the many horse pun cities, otherwise I'll wake Daisy. What made me nearly pass out was the fact that there was no technology on computers, at all. No internet, no computers, no video games, nothing. Well at least they still have movie theaters and television.

I started to check out more of the mythology, which there wasn't much on it aside from the fact that it has a place known as "The Everfree Forest." Which has "Manticores" and some kind of wolf made entirely out of wood, also known as the "Timber Wolf." I didn't know my mind could make up such things. Hell, I could barely make a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, let alone an entirely new world.

After an hour of reading, learning more about the currency, it's value. But really? Even their money has to be a pun. "Bits" isn't very subtle. There was a knock on the door, which caused Daisy to stir and wake up from her nap. She was still groggy. She tried to get up, but I decided to place my hand on her back and sat her back down on the couch, closing my book and standing up. I walked over to the door and opened it to see Sunny standing there giving me an annoyed glare.

"We have to talk." She said, as she used her magic to pull me out of the house, closing the door behind me just after I exit the home. This can't be good.

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She couldn't believe she was doing this, asking him to come back right after terrorizing two of her students. "Joel, the children want you to come back to the school tomorrow." This made Joel immediately burst into laughter.

"You're joking right? After those kids pelted me with rocks, when I was just helping out one of the kids? Yeah thanks, but no thanks." Joel was about to turn around to head inside, until Sunny pulled him back with her magic.

"I'm serious Joel! The kids are really interested to learn about what humans really are. I think it could help them understand that there's more than just Equestria out there. Now just do this one favor for me." She really couldn't believe she was begging to this jerk.

Joel turns to her and folds his arms. "I want to be paid for this." He said.

"What?! Pay you? Why should I pay you?!" Sunny yelled.

"Well I need a steady paying job if I'm living here in Calmare. This seems like a perfectly good job opportunity to me. Pay me at leeeeeast.. 50 bits for now. 50 bits gets you a human for the day, deal?" Joel said, extending his hand out.

Sunny could understand why he needed money, but how in the world did he figure out what kind of currency they have so fast? Daisy doesn't own any books aside from her monster novels. "Fine, but you're not allowed to scare any of the children intentionally, and no swearing at all around them. The moment you scare them or swear, you will not get any bits, understood?" She held her hoof out to him, close to his hand.

"Understood." Joel said with a smile, wrapping his hand around her hoof and giving it a firm shake. After they finished Sunny turned to walk away. "Hey, where you going?"

Sunny turned to him and gave him a small huff. "You mean 'Where are you going?' Not 'Where you going?' And if you really must know, I'm going home. I still have some work to finish and letters to write to some possibly angry parents. No thanks to you." She continued to walk back home without giving Joel a second glance.

Joel couldn't help but stare at her as she walked away, watching her tail sway slightly and rhythmically with her steps. I said tail, don't get the wrong idea.

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I walked back into the house after that little scene. Daisy was already up and about it seems. I sat on the couch to continue reading my book, until I smelled something cooking in the kitchen. The smell seemed familiar, like a type of pasta. I walked into the kitchen to see Daisy at the stove, mixing a pot of boiling water that's filled with spaghetti noodles.

"So, Daisy, what kind of job do you have?" I asked, hoping to strike up some conversation before dinner was finished.

"Oh, well I sell all kinds of flowers that I grow in the backyard, have you seen my garden yet?" Daisy said, smiling while she continued cooking.

"No not yet, I got too bored just sitting around and ended up wandering off into town. Why don't we eat dinner in your garden tonight? That way I can see your work while we eat." I couldn't care less about her garden honestly. But I felt like I had to show some interest in her work, make her feel somewhat important.

"That sounds like an amazing idea Joel. Being able to eat together in a garden full of flowers, while the sun is setting in the distance..." Daisy said, letting out a pleased sigh.

"Hah, yeah, sounds romantic doesn't it?" I said. Seeing her blush again just like last time made me smile. She started to stammer a bit more.

"I-I u-uh... I-I d-didn't mean it in that way I j-just thought m-maybe we could just... S-sit and enjoy the scenery i-is all." Daisy said. I don't think she has a crush on me, I just think she gets easily embarrassed. In fact I really hope she doesn't have a crush on me, I'd hate to deal with the fact that a horse has that sort of feelings for me.

"It's fine Daisy I was only teasing you, you're a friend, nothing else. Alright?" I said. Daisy got a smile and nodded but sat in a blushing silence while she cooked.

After about 45 minutes of small talk about her work at the flower kiosk and how she had to take a delivery to someone across town, she finished dinner. I took the pot of spaghetti, while she grabbed two plates and forks for us. I'll admit, I was a bit taken back by how many flowers she had in her garden, nearly her entire backyard was full of flowers.

There were a few paths leading to different sets of flowers, and a stone patio with a single table sitting just outside of the back door. Some flowers I could identify, such as orchids, daisies, white and pink lilies. But there were a few flowers that were Equestria native flowers. She told me the different kinds there were. Like "Jade Blossoms" emerald-like flowers all bundled together, only the size of cherry blossoms. "Sun walkers" were flowers that had white petals that would curve to the right, with streaks of yellow going down the middle, following the curve of the petal. But my favorite had to be "Luna's Blessing." They were the same shape as marigold flowers, With black shorter petals attached to to the dark blue center of the flower, with longer dark blue petals peeking out from under the black ones. Within the black petals I could see small white specks that seemed to look like stars in a black night sky.

After explaining the flowers to me, Daisy leaned into me, nuzzling slightly so she could get comfortable. She was just getting comfy is all, right? Why should that be a problem? We continued eating and talking about the different flowers that both my world and her world has, and what little I knew about them.

Even after eating I didn't have anything better to do than just sit there and talk, at least until it got dark. Seeing the moon rise this night seemed strange to me, knowing that out there somewhere, a pony god is rising that giant glowing space rock. Daisy started to yawn, which caught my attention.

"Tired?" I asked, getting a small nod from her.

"Yeah... But I don't think I'm ready to go to bed quite yet." She said, turning to look at me. "Could you watch a movie with me?" She asked.

I couldn't resist that cute tired look. Really I tried, but she had some sort of powerful mind control stare that forced me to do her bidding. So I nodded and got up, taking our plates inside to set in the sink while she prepared the T.V. in the living room to play one of her favorite monster movies.

I sat with her, she once again leaned into me like I'm some sort of pillow. About 30 minutes into the movie I already wanted to kill myself. It was so boring compared to the movies we had back on earth. I know I've hated on CGI before, making movies feel more fake, but... I have to say it, I miss CGI.

I was snapped out of my train of thought after I heard Daisy's familiar snoring once more. I looked down to see that she had passed out on my lap, just like earlier today. I let out a sigh as I reached under her, my arms sliding under her legs and picking her up. She was knocked out cold, her head was hanging limp while she continued to snore as I carried her to her room. After finding her room I walked inside to set her down on her bed, and cover her up. After tucking her in she smiled and mumbled. Something about cheese, I have no clue.

Finding myself tired I decided to head off into my room. I lied down on my bed making it creak once more and passed out. That night this time I dreamed about the time I sat and watched the Lion King. Singing along with Timon and Pumbaa when they sung about a care free life. Crying and getting upset when Mufasa died. Scar may be evil but hey he has one nice set of pipes. I miss the movies back on earth... But I miss the ones from my childhood the most.

Chapter 3 - Earthanomics

Daisy was stirring in her sleep, something was wrong. She woke up, sitting up to see that not only Joel wasn't around, but she was in her room too. She climbed out of bed yawning, walking out of her room and crossing the hallway into Joel's room. As she slowly opened the door she peeked inside to check on her friend, whispering "Joel? Joel are you awake?"

Joel stirred a bit in his sleep but he did not wake up. Daisy walked over to him and sat down next to his bed just as he turned to face her, seeing the sad look on Joel's face. She climbed into bed, wrapping her forelegs around the back of his neck and holding him close. He returned the hug and smiled.

Daisy can't seem to help herself when Joel is around her, why did she come into his room in the first place? Why was she doing this for somepony that she barely knows? She was too tired to think of the answer right now. Instead she lied there with Joel, embracing him, falling back into a peaceful dreaming state.

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Why do I feel warmer? I rubbed my hands on the soft, fuzzy object I was now holding onto. I opened my eyes to see Daisy snuggling into me, like I was some sort of giant teddy bear. She must have snuck into my room last night. I needed to get up and prepare to go to school, but at the same time I didn't want to hurt Daisy's feelings by waking her up when she seems so comfortable.

I sighed silently and tried prying myself out of her grip. She didn't wake up but the look on her face clearly shows that she doesn't enjoy me breaking that hug. I got out of bed and went to the bathroom after taking off my glasses and setting them on the nightstand. Once I was in the bathroom, I took my clothes off and turned the shower on. Stepping into the tub and closing the curtains around me.

Oh man the water felt good. I know I said I hated water before but not when it's at this perfect temperature. At least until someone flushed the toilet on me, making the water scalding hot. "O-ow!! Son of a bitch! Too hot, too hot!!" I yelled in pain, while hearing Daisy laughing at me.

"Sunny's waiting outside for you. I'll give you a little tip on how to get on her good side, don't swear." Daisy said while she was walking back out of the bathroom. Didn't know she enjoys pulling pranks. Well... More like the worst thing you can do to a person while they take a shower. Seriously, who the hell does that?

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Sunny was tapping her hoof, getting more impatient with every second Joel spends inside the house. Just as the door opened up, Sunny turned towards it to see a slightly more red Joel. "What happened to you?" She said. Joel leaned against the door after closing it.

"Where to start... Oh I know, I've been transported to an alien world, I had a traumatizing experience just a few days ago, oh yeah and not to mention the part that my reward for helping a little girl get her doll back, was getting stoned by a bunch of brats. Oh! And my glasses are broken too so there's that." Joel said, giving Sunny an annoyed look the whole time.

Sunny deadpanned. "No, I meant why are you suddenly a lighter shade of red."

Joel waved his hand dismissively. "It's nothing really important, I just had a hot shower is all." Joel answered.

Sunny turned to walk towards the school, as Joel caught up to walk next to her. "And why would a hot shower change your color?" Sunny said, with actual intrigue in her voice.

Joel decided to enlighten her with a bit of intellectual talk. "Well, I'm sure your coat would lose it's luster if you were to become very ill, correct?" He said, pausing for a moment while Sunny nodded. "Well human skin has this thing called pigmentation. It only reaches up to the upper thin layers of our skin." Joel continued, giving Sunny a slightly intrigued look.

During the walk to the school Joel decided to share what he knew with Sunny. Ranging from a discussion of skin pigmentation, to a discussion about the geography of earth. At this point Sunny was surprised at the human. She didn't know he actually had some intelligence in that big stupid monkey head of his.

Both Joel and Sunny reached the school half an hour before class starts. Giving Joel some time to make a crude drawing of earth on the chalkboard, while Sunny prepared herself by making some coffee in the break room of the school. "I just hope that Joel won't make a mess of things." Sunny thought to herself while she poured coffee into her cup.

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I was pumped, thoughts racing through my mind on what to tell these kids. Earth was so awesome, seriously! Why do you think I want to wake up? I spent most of the half hour making crude drawings of earth, cars, space ships, the moon, and even a T-Rex. Okay so I got bored and drew a T-Rex, sue me.

When the kids walked in I could see that they were either freaked out, excited, or downright scared of me. Only two were scared of me. I also noticed that some of them didn't have their butt marks. I know it's called cutie marks, but it doesn't sound right to me. After the children took their seats, Sunny started with the usual role call.

Every single name I heard sounded the same to me. I mentally cringed and groan at each one I heard, like listening to a little girl talking about the names of her dolls. After role check, Sunny looked over at me and gave me a nod. Alright Joel, it's your time to shine.

I introduced myself to the class by telling them my name and even saying that I'll be their teacher in "Earthanomics." Okay yeah I know it was a stupid name for a class but I had to say something. I told them a few things that were common on earth, at least for me. I told them about cars, weapons, a little bit on how not every country is ruled under a monarchy, how humans reached space travel, how we got to the moon, and finally I told them about the magical little thing we call "internet."

One student raised his hoof up to ask me a question. "Yes, you in the back. What's your question?"

"Could you tell us about the music in your world?" The little pegasus filly asked. Good question too. I remember listening to a lot of music when I was playing video games, or doing homework when I was still in high school. I proceeded to answer her question by telling him the different kinds of music. I knew this world still had guitars, pianos, flutes, such like that. I decided to tell them more about modern music, but shared in some of my favorites that were still from the 50's to the 80's, not to mention the songs of today.

These kids were eating up everything I was telling them. They seemed to be loving earth as much as I was. One of the other children raised their hoof up to ask me another question. What the hell, I have enough time for one last question. "Alright last question." I said as I pointed at the unicorn filly.

"How do humans dance on earth?" She asked. Now I had two thoughts when she asked that. The first thought I had was "I'm not dancing for you". The second thought was "Maybe I can embarrass Sunny with this." I decided to go with thought number two.

A smile formed on my face as I spoke "Actually that's a very good question, I wish I could help you but I would need a dancing partner." I turned my head towards Sunny. "Sunny, could you help me with this presentation?" This got a look from Sunny, all signs point to no is what it said.

The children spoke up before she could, all of them asking Sunny to dance with me so they could see. She sighed as she got up from her desk to walk over to me. You're about to get the dance lesson of a lifetime Sunny.

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Joel reached down to grab Sunny's hooves, lifting them up and placing her left hoof on his right shoulder while holding her right hoof with his left hand. He moved his right hand down to touch her flank, making Sunny blush. He started to move his feet slowly while telling Sunny "Just follow along with my steps, slowly." She nodded, looking down towards his feet to watch where he was going, stumbling only a few times. After she got the rhythm down, Joel picked up the pace.

Sunny was able to keep up with him this time as they entered into a waltz. "This is what we call a waltz, not really my style but it is a formal dance where I'm from." This is the closest that Sunny has ever been with Joel. She was able to stare into his eyes to get a closer view of their color.

He had a green and blue mixture to his eyes, with a hint of yellow surrounding his pupil, like an eclipsed sun trying to shine light past the darkness. Her breathing becoming shaky, showing how nervous she's starting to feel. Her heart pounded in her chest as she lost focus to her surroundings, focusing on those eyes of his. Joel finished up the dance by twirling her once in place and stopping at her desk. She snapped out of it once she heard all of the students applauding by stomping their hooves on the floor and cheering.

She cleared her throat as she stood on all fours once more. "J-Joel, thank you for coming to class today, I think its best if you leave now." She sat back down, starting to calm down after that little heart attack of hers. Joel walked over next to the door, leaning on the wall.

"You sure I cant stick around? I might learn a bit more about pony culture from your lessons." Joel asked. Sunny let this idea run through her head, it wouldn't harm anypony if she were to let Joel stick around. He might learn a thing or two more by being here, after all she's paying for a whole days visit anyways.

During recess when the kids were playing, Joel and Sunny were relaxing by sitting at Sunny's desk. Joel used a student's desk as a seat, tired of not being able to use a chair at all. Sunny took a sip of her coffee while Joel got up to grab himself a cup of water, gulping down his glass refilling it every time he finished. "Do humans really need that much water?" Sunny asked.

Joel let out a relieved sigh as he set down his last cup "No not really, I've just been a bit scornful about water the past two days. But I forgot that I need it to survive, and to bathe." Joel said, bringing over his 4th refilled glass of water over to the desk. Sunny thought maybe this was an appropriate time to figure out who Joel really is.

"Joel, I was wondering if you could answer some questions. You don't have to answer them if they're too personal." Sunny said.

Joel waved his hand dismissively. "Oh don't worry about personal questions, ask away."

Sunny had prepared a list while Joel was teaching the class earlier. The questions she wrote down were as followed: What kind of work did he do? Did he have family back on earth? If yes, ask about them. What was his special talent? What were his hobbies before Equestria? ~~Does he have a special somepony?~~

She sighed. There was one question that was bugging her, more than the questions she wrote down. Sunny looked up from her list, setting it face down. "Joel, when you were still bathing in Daisy's tub, the day you came to Equestria, I looked through that strange card holder of yours." Joel nodded. He could understand, seeing as how at the time she still thought he might be a danger to both her and Daisy.

"I saw a card in particular that I've been meaning to ask you. How did you become an "Honored Citizen" in your home town?" Sunny asked. He must be a good person to have received such an honorable sounding title. The question is, how did he earn it?

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Ow, ow that really hurt. That question stung me real bad. I know I don't show it, a lot of people don't see it until I've pointed it out. I sighed, I knew she had to figure this out one way or another so might as well get it out of the way. "You remember how I told you and the children about the vehicles from my world?" I asked, getting a nod from Sunny. "Well, where I'm from an "Honored Citizen" is actually someone who's over 60 years old... Or disabled. It allows us to get cheaper prices on bus tickets and monthly passes."

"Disabled? You don't seem disabled to me." Sunny asked, hearing the confusion in her tone.

"I have a disability called "autism." To be more specific it's called Asperger syndrome." Sunny could already tell this was bothering Joel quite a bit. Before she could speak up, Joel interupted her by continuing. "It mean's something in my brain is fucked up, Sunny. I can't handle specific situations without having a mental breakdown, or socialize with others as well as others could. I couldn't hang around normal kids without being escorted by an aide or go into normal classes without being sat away in a corner where I wouldn't bother anyone." While Joel was speaking, he got up from his seat and walked over to the window to watch the children play outside.

"That card, at least to me, meant I was branded as a disabled-" I continued, before being cut off by the feeling of somebody, or pony in this case, wrapping their forelegs around me. I sighed again as I turned my head to glance back at Sunny, who now had a sad look on her face. "I'm sorry. I don't want you to think any differently of me now than you have before, because treating me differently because of that will only anger me."

Sunny nodded. She let go of me and turned to walk out the front door. "I need to bring the kids back in." She said. God I hate sad moments, I really do. I walked over to her desk so I could move the kid's desk that I sat on back into place where it belongs. Before the kids came back, I snatched the paper Sunny had out when she was going to ask me those "questions."

I stuffed the paper into my pocket, walking back to my spot in the back of the classroom just as the children walked in with Sunny to take their seats.

After school was over, Sunny asked me if I could come over to her place tonight. When I asked her why she simply told me "It's a secret." She wrote down the address for me before I left. Along the way I pulled out the paper to read it, a smile growing on my face as I read it. Guess it cant hurt to do a bit of homework.

After walking inside I looked around for Daisy. I saw her in her garden, tending to her flowers and such. I took this opportunity to get back at her for the toilet flushing by locking her out back, so she's forced to walk around to the front door in order to go back inside. I then looked around for a pencil or pen, finding one in the kitchen inside a drawer.

I sat down at the table, writing answers and connecting the answers to the questions by circling both of them, connecting them together with a line. By the end this is what I answered: What kind of work did he do? I had no job. Did he have family back on earth? If yes, ask about them. Yes I had a family, three elder sisters, a mother and a father. What was his special talent? ~~Being awesome~~ I honestly don't know. What were his hobbies before Equestria? Singing. ~~Does he have a special somepony?~~ Depends on what you mean by that. If it's a pony then obviously you and Daisy are my special ponies, you helped me when I needed it the most.

With all the questions filled out I let out a satisfied sigh, before being death hugged around my neck once more. "You locked me out didn't you?" Daisy said as she started to choke me to death.

"Can..t... breeeathe..." I managed to get out, with the world getting darker around me. Daisy let me go, giving me a chance to take in a deep breath of air, beginning to cough. "Holy shi- *cough cough* Daisy what the hell was all that about?" I said. Daisy smiled at me before turning her back to me, walking towards the living room.

"Don't lock me out of my own home next time, or I'll have to choke you again." Daisy said, walking over to the couch to lie down on it. I gave her a small glare as I got up to head for the bathroom. While doing my business I thought of how I could get at her for choking me. Then an idea came to mind. She's embarrassed easily, right? So why not just do something to make her blush and feel embarrassed.

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After walking out of the bathroom and down the stairs, Joel sat on the couch next to Daisy. She was lying on the couch with her rump facing his end of the couch, her head resting on the arm. He began to lie down right behind her, shifting them both so he could lie down with her back pushing against his body. She lifted her head up to look at him and asked "Joel, what are you doing?"

He began to wrap his arms around her. One hand on her stomach, the other on her chest. Her body became tense, her cheeks becoming a deep crimson red from feeling his warm hands once more. He began to massage her stomach with his hand, slowly moving it onto her side while his other hand began to massage her throat. She wanted him to tell him to stop, but the words kept getting caught in her throat.

She was holding back another sound in her throat, one that she didn't want Joel to hear come from her. She could feel his hands gently gliding along her neck, moving from the bottom of her chin slowly back down her neck towards her chest. His other hand moved back onto her stomach, pulling her closer to him, she could feel the warmth of his body.

She began to let out stifled moans. Joel leaned in close to her ear. "Promise to not choke me again?" He whispered, a smile forming on his face. Daisy glanced back at Joel, giving him a small, weak nod. Joel began to sit back up before Daisy turned to move on top of him, pinning him back down onto the couch as she nuzzled into his chest.

"Don't stop..." She mumbled. Joel placed his hands on her back and began to massage it slowly, pushing his fingers on her spine gently. His hands began to move up and down her back while he continued to massage her spine with his fingers, eventually moving one hand slowly up the back of her neck to the top of her head.

When she felt his fingers massage her spine, she couldn't hold back her moans. She knew this was embarrassing and shameful, feeling pleasure from what should be just a massage. She allowed him to massage her for at least another hour. He had moved her around through that hour, the last position she was in was with her back to him as he sat up on the couch, massaging her entire back and even at one point her rump. He didn't realize rubbing there would be the same as rubbing a human woman's ass.

He didn't stop until after she made a very specific sound and body movement. Once he realized what had happened, he began to blush just as much as she did. Nearly both of their faces were red at this point, with there being a mess on both Joel and the couch.

"Did... Did you just-..." He said, not able to finish his question. Without even needing to finish it, Daisy nodded. She hid her face from him with her hooves and burying it in the couch. She began to sob softly, now thinking Joel might hate her for doing such a thing. Instead she felt Joel get off the couch, pick her up, and carry her off to the bathroom. She looked at him while he gave her a soft smile.

"H-Hey, don't cry... I-I didn't really think you were enjoying it that much, honestly. I'll help you clean up." Joel said, getting a weak smile from the teary eyed mare. She started to wonder what was going on through his head though.

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OH GOD NO!! THERE'S HORSE VAGINA JUICE ALL OVER MY PANTS!!

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She started to wonder to herself. Maybe he enjoyed it too.

The entire time in the bathroom, there was an awkward silence. Joel was cleaning off his pants with a wet towel and drying it with a hair dryer, while Daisy was cleaning herself off in the shower. Joel finally spoke up "I-I uhm... Have to go to see Sunny at her place tonight."

Daisy looked over in the direction Joel was, as if she was staring at him through the curtains. "Why?" She asked. Sunny doesn't invite somepony over to her house unless it was very important.

"She didn't say why, she just told me it was a secret." Joel answered, now starting to wonder what she really wanted.

"Well, I'm locking the doors and going to bed at 10. Let her know that, so she doesn't shove you out when you have no place to go." Daisy said. Joel nodded and finished drying off his pants.

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After cleaning myself off and grabbing a bite to eat, I left the house to head for Sunny's home. Along the way I noticed that very few ponies walked around at night. I was wandering around, following the directions Sunny wrote down for me on the note she handed me. About half way to her home, somebody bumped into me.

Just as I looked to see who it was, something hit my chest and busted into a cloud of pink smoke. The smoke filled my nostrils and burned in my throat, causing me to start gagging and coughing loudly. I fell to my hands and knees with tears filling my eyes. I heard a set of hooves rushing off before an intense pain shot through my entire body.

I held onto my head as I let out a scream, it was as if my entire body was being split into four.

Chapter 4 - M.P.D.

Sunny was pacing around in her home. She was worried that Joel might have gotten lost along the way. "Should I even ask him to do it? After all he might refuse and-." There was a knock on the door. Sunny took a few deep breaths before trotting over to her door and opening it with her magic. Joel was standing at the door, staring at her with a blank look. "Oh, hello JooooEEAAAAAH!!" She screamed, surprised when three other Joels stepped out from behind the first.

"Wha-... How-... Jah... H-How is this possible?!" She yelled. Joel put his hand over her mouth, pushing her inside while the other three following close behind.

"Shhhh! Not so loud!" Joel said. He let go of her before taking a step back next to the others. She stared at them, something was off about the other three. The first Joel has a more darkened color around his eyes, almost as if he has had no sleep for years. He had a more saddened and depressed look, his eyes a shade of grey instead of the normal mix. The second Joel had a more angered and annoyed look to him, he looks almost as if he's ready to murder someone. His eyes had a shade of red to them, he also has a slightly stronger looking physique to his body. The last Joel had a more confident look to him, and even had different clothing. This one had a grey looking suit, with a black tie and white shirt underneath the jacket. His eyes were a lighter shade of red, like a pink color.

Joel let out a sigh, knowing he had to be the one to talk first. "Alright... So don't ask me why there are 4 of me now instead of one, I have no clue how this happened." Joel looked at the other forms of himself before turning back to Sunny. "Sunny?" He asked, still getting a blank stare from her.

The more depressed Joel spoke up this time "D-Did we break her? Sh-She's not moving."

Sunny suddenly collapsed, passing out from shock.

When Sunny awoke, she could feel the sun shining in through her window and onto her face. She took a deep breath before sitting up and stretching, looking around to see she was in her bed. She could see that it was morning, the clock saying that it was about 7:30 A.M. "Was that... Just a nightmare?" She asked herself, smiling after asking such a silly thing. "Of course it was, how in the world would there be more than one Joel?" She asked, climbing out of her bed and heading downstairs.

Sunny nearly fainted again when the first thing she saw was three Joels sleeping near the couch, with the stronger looking Joel taking up the whole couch and forcing the other two to sleep on the floor. She silently tip-hoofed her way into the kitchen. Questions rattling around in her mind, wanting to know the answers. How could this have happen?

Once she reached the kitchen she could see a depressed Joel, cooking breakfast. She could see a large breakfast set up on the table, enough to feed the other Joels and herself. She sat at the table, staring at him. She finally built up the courage to speak after a few minutes of silence. "How did this happen?" She asked.

Joel flinched, he knew she was there but he was too scared to speak to her at the time. He knew if he didn't tell her, then only more bad things could happen. "Th-There was an explosion, I-It made us n-nearly choke to death... A-After the smoke cleared w-we were all s-standing outside of him, with our own b-bodies." The tone in his voice seems to say that he's both scared and sad.

"I don't understand, what do you mean 'with our own bodies'?" Sunny asked, hoping for this Joel to give her the answers she's wanting.

"Th-The others didn't g-get their own bodies, o-only a few o-of us g-got out." Joel said, turning to set the last plate of food down on the table in front of Sunny, giving her a plate full of scrambled eggs, french toast, and hash browns. He sat across the table from her, "W-We're Joel's e-emotions..."

She heard another voice join in, this time sounding like the normal Joel. "His name is 'Sorrow'. An appropriate name for my fears and sadness." Joel said as he sat down at the table with Sunny, scratching the back of his head and yawning.

"And the others?" Sunny questioned, beginning to eat her breakfast.

"The one with more muscle is 'Fury'. He's my anger, inner strength, and willpower. The last one's name is 'Desire'. He's my lust, passions, and happiness." Joel said, taking a bite of french toast. The last one seemed to worry Sunny.

"W-Will Desire ever try to-." Sunny's question was cut off by Joel shaking his head.

"Oh no no no he would never do that. He may be my lust, but I have no sexual feelings for ponies what-so-ever." Joel said, making Sunny relax a bit more. One last question seemed to bug her.

"So if your emotions are outside of your body, then why do you seem so normal without them?" She asked. Joel looked at her and shrugged.

"I think that whatever caused this left some sort of... connection... I feel empty, like something is missing, yet I still feel everything." Joel said. This was only confusing Sunny more, how does someone still have their emotions if its taken outside of them. The two sat in silence, eating their breakfast and waiting for the other two to wake up.

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Ring-a-ding-ding baby, it's my time to shine now.

Hey, what have I told you about taking up my segments?

You mean OUR segments, we're all you.

W-We should s-stop fighting, guys.

Shut up Sorrow.

Alright alright, let's all agree to have our OWN segments. Sorrow doesn't get one.

Wh-What? Wh-Why don't I get one?

Because your stuttering is annoying, that's why.

I call the next segment, daddy-o.

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| Desire |

After waking up from that refreshing little snooze, I began to get up and follow the deeeelicious smell of french toast. Once I strolled in I sat next to Sunny. "So how's it hanging, baby?" I said, wrapping an arm around Sunny. She gave me a confused look, scooting away from me.

"Baby?" She said. She may be cute but she's a bit of a nosebleed isn't she? This time Boss decided to speak up.

"Desire don't bother her, I don't want to have to deal with controlling emotions both inside AND outside of my body in the morning." Boss said. What a wet noodle. I began eating breakfast, thinking of a little jingle in my head. Fury walked in without saying a single word. Nobody likes talking to that big bull.

Sunny was looking all around at us, looking a bit stressful. "You should chill, baby. After all I'm pretty sure this isn't a permanent situation, nothing good lasts for us anyways." It may sound depressing but hey, it's true. Boss gave me a mean looking glare.

"You think this is a good thing? How exactly is having my emotions split into different bodies a good thing?" Boss asked. He always ruins my fun, after all I almost got us laid with that cute little mare.

"Well we weren't exactly having fun when you kept stopping the both of us. Now that I have a body of my own, I can do whatever I want." I said, standing up from the table. Boss was about to get up before I made a snap with my fingers. Fury placed his hand on Boss's shoulder to force him to sit back down, giving me time to wander out of the house and into town. Time to paint this city pink.

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| Joel |

After I saw desire walk out of the kitchen I tried getting up, shoving Fury's hand away. This only made him angry, making him get up as well to bear hug me. "Gah! Fury, let me go! I have to stop him before heEEEE!" My chest was squeezed tighter, cutting off my sentence and even pushing the air out from my lungs. Sunny sat there, staring at us in fear.

Fury set me down, letting me go. "You've let your other emotions block up, causing me to get angrier. Hopefully Desire will get all his shit out of his system so I can have some fucking peace and quiet around in there." He said. I looked back at him, before making a dash for it outside to chase after Desire.

Once I got outside I quickly thought of what would be the first thing I would absolutely love to do. Then it came to me. I ran towards the market place, in search for a pub.

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Daisy was working at her flower kiosk in the market place, selling flowers to everypony that came to her stand. She was still worrying about Joel, worrying how he never came home last night. Did he spend the night at Sunny's, or did he get locked out of the house and had to find someplace to sleep?

Her worries melted away for only a moment when she saw Joel running into the market place. When she saw that he was looking around frantically, she began to worry again. She put up a "On break" sign, trotting over to Joel. "Joel, are you alright?" She asked, getting a startled look from the human.

"Daisy! Daisy, I know this sounds weird, but have you seen me come by here recently at all?" Joel asked, looking almost as if he just lost something very important.

"No, I haven't seen you all day. What's wrong? Did you lose something?" Daisy asked.

"Shit... Shit shit shit. Sorry Daisy, I have to go!" Joel said, as he rushed off in a different direction. She wanted to chase after him, but at the same time she didn't want to abandon her kiosk stand while it was still open and vulnerable to thieves. She galloped over to her kiosk to begin closing it down, she can risk losing a little bit of business today if it meant helping Joel.

| Meanwhile |

Sunny left Sorrow by himself at her house, knowing that he wouldn't want to leave and get into any sort of trouble. She was following next to Fury, looking for both Joel and Desire. She glanced over at Fury before looking straight forward again. "So, is Joel angry a lot?" She asked. He remained silent, only paying attention to his objective.

"You don't talk very much, do you?" She asked, hoping to get at least one word out of Fury. He let out a grunt of frustration, making Sunny take a few steps away from him. They kept walking until they arrived at the market place, Fury was looking for Joel while Sunny was looking for Daisy.

After only half a minute, somepony from behind them spoke up. "Oh! Oh! It's you! I can't believe it!" The pony said, both Sunny and Fury turning to look at the cloaked pony who was talking to them. He was staring right at Fury, with a giant grin on his face. "You are looking fine today it seems, ya? Vell, tell me, how do you feel my friend?"

Fury only glared at this strange sounding pony. The cloaked pony moved his hood off of his head, revealing that he is a zebra pony. He was wearing a brown bandana over his head, with the remaining mane that was sticking out from behind the bandana tied into a ponytail. "Come, come! Ve must make haste back to zee hut, zere is vork zat must be done!" The zebra commanded, grabbing a hoof on Fury and pulling him towards the town's entrance.

Fury didn't seem to struggle, but continued glaring at this mysterious pony. Sunny didn't know who to chase. She decided the best course of action was to find Daisy, so that she could help her gather the Joels back into one place.

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| Fury |

Why aren't my fingers in his eye sockets right now?

This question kept repeating in my head over and over as this zebra dragged me to a mysterious location. I couldn't focus on where we were going, I was too busy thinking of ways I could murder him. Should I beat him onto the floor, snap his small twig-like legs in half? Maybe crack a few of his ribs before I rip his jaw off.

My train of thought was cut off when he brought me into his home, sitting me down on a bed. His home was just as he said, a hut. He had what looked like an alchemy table set up in one corner of his home, skulls of what looked like large eagles lining his walls. Two large wings spread out onto the wall, just above the entryway.

Once he took his cloak off, I could see he had a longer looking tail than other ponies. He grew out his tail and wrapped it up with what looks like brown cloth, bleaching the very end of his tail white, it looked like a lions tail. He was also wearing what looked like eagle wings that were folded up and strapped to his sides. He was very scrawny, must be malnutrition. And finally, he was wearing what looked like a collar that had eagle feathers strapped all around it. His "cutie mark" was just a black and white pattern of a flask with bubbling contents.

Before I kill him, I should ask him his name. "What do the pony folk call you, strange zebra?" I asked, trying to sound calm so he would not become frightened of me... Yet.

"Ah, how rude of me. My name is, Doctor Gryphon." He said, ending his sentence with a loud "KA CAW!" Poor creature, must have gone insane some time ago. I was about to get up before he pushed me back down to a sitting position on the bed. "Nein, you must sit zere vile I give you a proper exam." He said.

He began to examine me. Lifting my shirt to study my muscles, poking and prodding at different parts of my body. When I had enough of his nonsense I reached over to grab and squeeze his scrawny neck. "Give me a good excuse to not kill you right now." I said, wanting to hear his last words to be something pathetic.

He choked a bit, getting a nervous tone. "I-I can help you get back to n-normal, if zat is vat you vish." Interesting. I may have hated being inside that idiot's head all the time, but I can't say that being outside is any better than inside. I do want to return to our original hosts body, where we all belong.

I dropped Dr. Gryphon, making him fall to the floor before stumbling back up onto his feet. "I'm listening." I said, giving him another chance. He began to gather ingredients, bringing them to his table as he spoke to me.

"Zere is a cure zat could reverse all effects and bring ze pony back to normal. If zee cure is not applied vizen seventy-two hours, ze effects are permanent." D.G. said, still gathering ingredients.

"How exactly does it work?" I asked, wanting to know how to apply this potion to not only on myself, but on the others as well.

"Vell, zis is just a reversal potion. All you should need to do is take zee flask, and throw it on zee ground. Then, POOF, no more beefy muscles." D.G. said, starting on his creation of the cure.

"What if this potion made copies of me as well?" I asked.

"Vell, just make sure you are all in van place! Ozavise zee potion vill only eliminate ze copies zat vere hit by ze potion." D.G. Said. "Be back here in two days, I should have ze potion done before zree hours before sundown. I know zat you vere hit be ze original potion vance ze sun vas set, and ze moon vas rising. Again I apologize for spilling it on you in ze first place, I shall make it up to you by paying you for ze testing fees."

I still want to murder him for causing all of this trouble. But if keeping him alive means I have a chance to return back to Joel's head, then he must remain alive. "Fine, find me at the market in two days. If you do not have the potion, or show up, then I will find you and kill you." I sat up and walked to the entrance of his hut.

"Auf Wiedersehen!" D.G. Called out before I left him to his work.

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| Joel |

Once I get my hands on him, I swear I'm going to strangle that bastard to death. I ran around town, looking everywhere for Desire. I found several places where I thought he might be. A pub, a music store, an instrument store, hell I even looked for a bordello. Thank god there wasn't one in this town, I would refuse to go into a place like that.

I stopped to catch my breath, I haven't realized how tired I was until after I took a break. I've been running around for what seemed like hours, I lost all sense of time when I went into my initial adrenaline rush. I think I covered almost the entire town by now, Where could he have gone? He only strolled out of the house, getting about a 30 second head start before I had ran out. Maybe he was hiding somewhere by the time I got out.

I could hear several sets of hooves galloping in my direction. I turned to look and saw at least what looked like a dozen mares and even a few stallions galloping for me. "It's Buddy Love!" They cried. "Get him!" And there's the whistle for my lunch break to be over. I began to run in the opposite direction of the crowd, hoping to avoid being trampled to death.

I have a feeling this wont end well at all. My legs began to give out, I stumbled a bit before toppling over onto the dirt. I was expecting any moment to be stomped to death by the angry mob, but instead they crowded around me and began to help me up.

They began yelling at me, not in anger but in excitement. The words they asked ranged from being asked to sign a record deal, to being asked to go to dinner with them, to even invited to sing at parties. I just sat there in confusion, staring at the ponies. I snapped out of my confusion when I saw Desire walking across the street, knocking on a random home's door.

I tried getting past the crowd, I couldn't let him get away again. The crowd was too stubborn to move, ponies blocking my path to ask me questions, one even grabbed me with their hoof before pulling me away and out of the crowd. I was too weak and exhausted to resist, I was out of breath and my legs were burning.

When I looked at the pony who pulled me out, I could see it was Daisy. I used what little strength I had in my legs to get away from the crowd. A few ponies tried surrounding me before I could get away but Daisy pulled me away by making us pick up more pace.

We finally got to Daisy's home before being caught again. Daisy locked the door, I sat on the couch and allowed my legs to finally have some rest. "Damn it... It feels... like one thousand suns... are burning in my legs." I said, still panting and trying to catch my breath. Daisy trotted over to me and checked on me to see if I was okay.

"Joel, what's going on? Why were all of those ponies chasing you?" She asked. I knew she deserved to know the truth, she deserved to know what's going on with me just as much as Sunny knew. Something inside me didn't want to tell her, I didn't want her to get sucked into this mess as well.

"I-... There's-..." I continued to choke on my words. What do I tell her? How do I even start with her. Now that I think about it, she barely knows me. She doesn't know my ambitions, my hobbies, my past, who I really am. The only moments we've shared was a sunset dinner and a massage gone wrong.

We sat there staring for at least 3 long minutes. She was determined to know, never breaking gaze with me. Once I finally began to breathe normally, I started to tell her. "My name's Joel Summers. I'm 20 years old, I enjoy to sing and play video games." I said, getting a surprised look from the mare.

She wasn't expecting me to tell her about myself, she just wanted to know why I was being chased. But I knew if we were to be friends, then she would need to get to know "Joel Summers."

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Sunny looked everywhere for both Joel and Daisy. Where could they both be? Daisy wasn't at her kiosk, Joel wasn't anywhere to be seen. She could see ponies gathering around inside the local karaoke bar, she wondered if Daisy might be in there. She trotted over, walking inside where everypony is gathering. Once she was inside she could hear somepony finishing a song that she has never heard of.

"I don't want to set the world on fire, I just want to set a flame in your heart~" The voice sang, getting an applause from his audience. When Sunny looked towards the stage, she could see that it was Desire. He walked off stage to head to the back. What in the world is Desire doing in a karaoke bar? Is this something Joel has always wanted to do?

An announcer pony walked onto the stage and up to the microphone. "Alright everypony, that was Buddy Love and his song 'I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire'. Why don't we have him come back out here for an encore. Come on everypony give him another applause." He said, getting the crowd to applause again by stomping their hooves on the ground.

This caused Desire to walk back on to stage. "Oh, so you ponies want another round of the love machine, do you?" Desire said, getting a cheer from the crowd while a grin grew on his face. "Alright, here's one of my personal favorites. This one's called, 'Don't Stop Me Now'."

Sunny sat at a table, listening to Desire sing. Through moments of the song, ponies would stomp their hooves to the tempo, adding some more rhythm to the song. She smiled, enjoying Joel's voice. Even though she knew that Desire was just a piece of Joel, they shared the same voice.

After the song, she left the bar. The sun was only a few hours away from setting, she didn't feel like fighting with Desire to get him to return home. She began to head back for home, hoping that Sorrow hasn't gotten himself into trouble as well.

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| Joel |

Daisy was laying on the couch with me. Her head was resting on my lap, nuzzling into my stomach once more. "Why didn't you tell me before?" She asked, now saddened by the things I've told her. I told her almost everything about me. I even told her about how I always wanted to be a singer. But I couldn't tell her about the accident.

"I didn't really see a point in saying it, really. I couldn't write music sheets or lyrics, and when I try to sing a song that has already been sung, the original always sounds better. I was just stuck to listening to the radio and singing to whatever song I knew." I haven't really opened up to anyone like this before, it's a bit of a good feeling to get some of this off my chest.

Daisy looked up at me, moving her head onto my chest to listen to my now accelerating heart beat. "Sing me a song, Joel." She said, smiling at me. "Sing me a song from your world." It was hard to refuse a request from her. Once she catches you with those large purple eyes, there's no going back.

I began to hum a song, something that I remember learning not too long ago. Daisy continued to listen to the voice in my chest, and the words that came out of my mouth.

Far over, the misty mountains cold.
To dungeons deep and caverns old.
We must away ere break of day.
To find our long-forgotten gold.

The pines were roaring on the height.
The winds were moaning in the night.
The fire was red, it flaming spread.
The trees like torches blazed with light.

Once I finished singing it one more time to her. Daisy moved to sit on my lap, making me blush. "You have a beautiful voice Joel." She said, moving her hooves onto my shoulder. My heart was pounding, and my face felt hot. Even though she's a pony, I still can't help but feel nervous when a woman is this close to me.

She began to lean in closer to me. My mind was telling me to stop, to get away from her, to not let this happen. For once I threw away all my cares, my fears, and every single moral thought in my mind. our bodies were pushing against one another, and our lips drew closer with each second. Our lips were only mere inches away from locking into a kiss.

Author's Note

Song references used in this chapter

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire. -The Ink Spots.

Don't Stop Me Now. -Queen.

The Misty Mountains Cold. -The Hobbit.

I do not own any of these songs and all rights go to their creators.

Chapter 5 - Dream

Desire and Joel, two beings both at war with one another. For once they had a chance to sit together, alone in an empty field. "You know that this isn't a dream, right?" Desire asked, looking towards the now bruised up Joel. Joel just sat there, staring out towards the town of Calmare.

"I refuse to believe it isn't... I just want to go back home. I miss my family, my friends... My world." Joel answered. "There's just some things I haven't gotten to do."

Desire placed a hand on Joel's shoulder, looking back towards the town. "It's time to face the music Joel, everyone dies eventually." Desire said. He began to stand back up, tossing a single rose on Joel's lap. Joel picked up the flower before looking towards Desire. "You were just dealt a bad hand is all..." Desire finished, walking away from Joel.

Joel looked back at the flower, staring at it. "Why me..." Joel said to himself, a tear falling onto the flower. "Why did I have to die... Why was I even brought here..." Joel began to grip the stem, letting the thorns puncture his skin and draw blood.

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| Desire |

My eyes shot open after I began to already relax. I sat up from the bed I was lying in, with a sleeping mare next to me. I looked towards her and gave her a smile. "Sorry doll, but it seems like I've got a little business to attend to." The mare was a heavy sleeper, she stirred only a little in her sleep before relaxing again.

I got out of bed and put my suit back on. I doubt I'll see that mare again, I don't even remember her name. After getting dressed and grabbing a little something to eat from the fridge in the kitchen, I left the house.

Even though I may have my own body, I can sense when Boss is feeling something. Right now I can sense lust, and a lot of it. There's only one babe who can do that to us around here, guess it's time to talk business with the boss.

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| Joel |

I can't believe I'm having my first real kiss with a horse right now. Every fiber in my body is screaming for me to stop, but another part keeps whispering "keep going." I can't help but listen to that whisper, I've ignored it so many times... But this time I felt that I had to listen.

I could feel her soft, warm lips against mine. I had placed my hands on her sides, getting a small gasp from Daisy. She must really like the feeling of my hands, probably why she enjoyed the massage so much. Why were we doing this? I've only known Daisy for at least four days now, I would never do this with someone I've met only a few days ago.

These thoughts didn't deter me from going on. I continued to kiss Daisy, making small movements with my hands to massage her. She let out a small moan, unlike before when she was holding it back. She pushed her body against me more, wrapping her forelegs around the back of my neck and pulling me in for a deeper kiss.

Daisy began to slide her tongue into my mouth slowly, massaging and wrapping it around mine. I massaged her tongue in return as she pushed me over onto the couch, forcing me to lie back. I moved one hand slowly up to her hair, gently running my fingers through it.

We stared into each others eyes as we continued to make out with each other. At one point Daisy stopped kissing me, only to bite and tug on my lip gently. I moved my hand down her neck and her back. I began to run my hands down her body, Daisy letting out a moan the moment my hands stopped at her rump, squeezing it softly.

This went on for about 5 more minutes before Daisy pulled her head back, giving me a soft smile. "You know, I never thought I would enjoy having my first kiss with an alien." I said, getting a giggle from Daisy.

"That was your first kiss? Now I know that has to be a joke." Daisy said.

"I'm serious, Daisy. I'm not exactly a ladies man." I said. It was true, I never knew the right things to say to a woman. I always have had troubles trying to even make friends, let alone getting a girl close enough to me for a kiss. Before you say some shit like "I once kissed a girl who was a total stranger to me." I never kiss a girl unless I saw them as a friend, or more.

"And yet you managed to get a mare to jump on you and kiss you." She said, giving me a more playful smile. I rolled my eyes, relaxing back on the couch. "You know, I've been thinking." Daisy said, grabbing my attention again.

"What?" I asked.

"There's a dance club that I have always wanted to go to, but Sunny never wanted to go with me since she hates noisy dance clubs." Daisy said. I sighed, knowing the exact question she was going to be asking me.

"Alright, I might as well go." This made Daisy let out a quiet squeal, hopping off of me and heading towards the bathroom upstairs.

"I'm so excited! Let me go wash up before we head out!" She yelled from upstairs, slamming the bathroom door. After the door slammed, somebody knocked on the front door. I got up from the couch so I could walk over to the door to open it. Desire was standing there, a smug grin on his face.

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| Desire |

"You could stare down a T-Rex with that glare, Boss." I said. Boss took a swing at me, causing me to take a step back away from him. "Whoa whoa whoa, easy there daddy-o. I'm just here to ask for something, nothing else." I said, trying to calm the boss down. He took a step back into the house, still obviously angry at me.

"I want one more day, AH! No talking until I'm done. I want one more day to have a bit of fun, at sundown tomorrow we meet outside of town. I want to have a very serious talk with you Boss." I said, getting a raised eyebrow from Boss.

"Serious talk? The hell do you mean serious talk." He asked.

"You'll see, just enjoy your date tonight." I said, now turning my back and walking away.

"I still want to beat the shit out of you." He said, making me laugh as I continued to walk away.

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Daisy stepped out of the bathroom after about 20 minutes of washing up and putting on perfume. She was so excited to finally go to the new dance club that was opened only a few months ago. What excited her more was the fact that she was going on a date with Joel.

"I'm ready!" She called out, trotting down the stairs to see Joel sitting on the couch. He looked towards her after standing up.

"Phew, that's some really strong perfume you're wearing there Daisy." Joel said, starting to hold his nose. Daisy frowned at the sight of Joel plugging his nose.

"You don't like it?" She asked, now sounding a bit sad.

"N-No no, I'm not saying I don't. I'm just saying it's super strong is all." Joel said, walking over to Daisy. He placed his hand on top of her head to gently pet her. "You smell very nice, Daisy. Nicer than your entire garden full of flowers." He said, getting a smile from the mare again.

"Thanks Joel." She said, nuzzling into him one more time before walking past him to the door. Joel followed, opening the door for her. They both left the house, locking it up just before leaving so they could head to the dance club. When they got there, Joel took notice of the name. "The Prancing Pony" was the name.

The moment they walked in all the music stopped, everypony looking towards both Daisy and Joel. There was a short awkward silence before somepony spoke up. "Hey look, it's Buddy Love!" After that a few ponies that knew Buddy Love got excited, while the others that only heard of him or don't know him just got an interested look on their faces as the club music began again.

Ponies began to gather around Joel, unlike last time they were just offering drinks or saying hello. Joel accepted a few of the drink offers, handing a drink to Daisy. Daisy took the drink Joel was offering her. "Joel, what's going on here? Why is everypony calling you 'Buddy Love'?" Daisy asked.

He sighed and looked towards her, "It's a long story, can we just forget about it for now and I'll tell you when we get home?" He asked, getting a nod and a smile from Daisy. Joel and Daisy sat at the bar, conversing with other ponies for about half an hour while drinking. Daisy was tipsy by the time they finished, while Joel was also tipsy after only having a few drinks.

Daisy had more alcoholic drinks than Joel did, while he slowly drank his. Daisy was used to her drinks, she always had to have stronger drinks to get her drunk. One of the ponies who offered Joel a drink earlier came up to him, "Hey, you should go up on stage and sing. Everypony I've been talking to tonight has been wanting to hear you."

"You know what, why not?" Joel said, standing up and going up on stage towards the DJ. Something was strange about this unicorn's cutie mark. It was a brain with a musical note over it. She turned towards Joel, lifting her headphones up.

"So you're the guy my cousin has been talking about all night?" She asked, getting a nod from Joel. She grinned as her horn glowed, "Alright, I have a special talent that allows me to read songs in your head. Just think of one and I can play it back for you, can't read the vocal parts so you'll have to sing them." She said.

Joel pondered for a bit before nodding and lowering down so he was at eye level with the DJ. When her horn touched his forehead, he could feel a tingling sensation through his brain. "Oh, I like this one. Alright, just give me a sec to set the music up." She said, turning back towards her set up and working her magic over a clean record.

Joel walked over towards the microphone, grabbing it and taking it out of it's stand. He turned towards the DJ pony, getting a wide smile and a nod from her. As the music began to play, he took a deep breath before bringing the microphone closer to his mouth to sing.

Last night I had a dream about you
In this dream I'm dancing right beside you
And it looked like everyone was having fun
the kind of feeling I've waited so long

Daisy smiled, swaying her hips with the beat. Joel looked towards her as he sang and smiled, motioning for her to come up on stage.

Don't stop, come a little closer
As we jam the rhythm gets stronger
There's nothing wrong with just a little, little fun
We were dancing all night long

Daisy giggled, walking up towards the stage to stand with Joel.

The time is right
To put my arms around you
You're feeling right
You wrap your arms around too
But suddenly I feel the shining sun
Before I knew it this dream was all gone

Joel continued singing while holding his hand out, Daisy putting her hoof into his hand. He lifted her up to bring her closer, wrapping his free arm around her back. This caused Daisy to wrap her forelegs around him and hold onto him tight.

Oh, I don't know what to do
About this dream and you
I wish this dream comes true

Oh, I don't know what to do
About this dream and you
We'll make this dream come true

Once Joel finished those lyrics, he put the microphone back on it's stand. He moved Daisy's hooves into his hands, now dancing with her on the stage as the other ponies danced with one another to the beat.

Daisy danced with Joel, staring into his eyes. Her heart was nearly beating out of her chest, she's never felt this happy around anypony. The music finished, Daisy slipping her hooves out of Joel's hands to wrap her forelegs around his body. When she felt him return the hug by wrapping his arms around her, she nuzzled her head into his chest. Daisy couldn't deny what she was feeling right now, she was in love with Joel.

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It was dark by the time both Daisy and I got out of the club. I decided to stay only a bit tipsy so I could sing more for the club, while Daisy had gotten completely drunk. The moment I got her home, she ran into the bathroom and began to throw up. I let out a sigh and headed straight for the bathroom so I could help her.

I got her to bed, bringing a bucket in case she needed to puke more. I left her room so I could grab an extra pillow for myself. When I walked inside and turned on the lights, I noticed a small metal case on my nightstand. I walked over and picked it up, opening it to see what was inside.

It was my glasses. They were fixed, Daisy must have gotten them repaired for me. I smiled, closing the case and putting it into my pocket. I left to go inside Daisy's room to see that she had leaned over the bed to throw up a bit more, and miss the bucket. Of course I have to be the one to clean it up.

I replaced my normal earth dog at home for a talking pony. I absolutely hate cleaning up puke, whether its human, dog, or pony. They both did the same thing too, they drank so much that they puke their guts out. Seriously, my dog would drink his water until he hydro blasts all over my carpet.

After everything was cleaned up, I got into Daisy's bed. I wrapped my arms around her, making sure she stays lying on her side. It was a bit hard to sleep like this in a small bed with a pony, but after around an hour I managed to fall asleep. Dreaming about sleeping in my own bed, with my dog lying right next to me.

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Sunny finally got home after leaving the karaoke bar that Desire was singing at. Looking outside she could see that the sun was just about ready to set. She let out a sigh as she walked to the kitchen. "Please be okay, Joel." She mumbled. After around an hour of relaxing in her house her eyes shot open in realization.

She looked around the house in panic. Sorrow wasn't here anymore, and Fury never came home. There were 4 Joel's walking around Calmare, possibly causing trouble for everypony. She ran back outside to hunt down Sorrow.

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After Sunny and Fury left, Sorrow was starting to feel even more afraid being alone. About 30 minutes of waiting around he got up to run out the door. "G-Guys! D-Don't leave me here alone!" He yelled as he ran out the door. He stopped when he reached the market place, seeing that Fury and Sunny were nowhere to be seen.

He was panting, exhausted from running between Sunny's and the market. He yelled in surprised when he felt somebody poke his back gently. "D-Don't hurt m-me!" He begged, turning to fall to his hands and knees.

"Uhh... You alright, buddy?" The pony asked, getting a look from Sorrow. The pony had a cobalt coat on him, he had a pair of wings, orange eyes, and a pine shaded color of green messy mane. His cutie mark was three lances piercing through a cloud, two in an X formation and one straight down the middle. He also seemed to wear something around his neck, with a strange looking neck piece hanging off of it. He was giving Sorrow a confused look.

"Y-...Y-You're n-not going to h-hurt me?" Sorrow asked, now sitting up on his knees.

"Why would I hurt you? Come on, lets get you standing back up." He said, helping Sorrow back up onto his feet and giving him a toothy grin. "There ya go. hey my name's Sky Lance, just call me Lance." Lance said, holding a hoof out to Sorrow.

Sorrow took a step back from his hoof. "M-My name i-is Sorrow." Sorrow said, still afraid of this new stranger.

"Sorrow? That's kind of a depressing name don't you think?" Lance asked.

"I-It's what the others c-call me." Sorrow said, hoping Lance would leave him alone.

"Others? Oh I've heard from some of my pals over at the guard station earlier that he saw a few new creatures wandering around in town. Say, what kinda creature are you?" Lance asked. Sorrow tried backing away more from Lance, still not comfortable being around him.

"I-I-I'm a-a h-human, sir." Sorrow answered, fearing the guard pony. There are three things Sorrow fears the most: spiders, being lost, and policemen. Sorrow didn't even want to remember those bad memories with policemen.

"Well, it's not every day you get to meet a human. Say, why don't I help you find your friends." Lance said, smiling at Sorrow. Sorrow was too afraid to refuse his help, but at the same time too afraid to accept it. He only nodded nervously. "Good! Let's start by asking some ponies around." Lance said, spreading one wing to place it on Sorrow's back, causing him to flinch.

Lance began to help Sorrow on his search by asking ponies around town, the only information they could gather was that one was seen running frantically around town while another was singing at a karaoke bar. They decided the best option was to head for the karaoke bar to see if one of the other three Joels were there.

Along the way both Lance and Sorrow heard a scream come from a nearby mare. "Somepony help! He stole my purse!" The mare screamed. Lanced looked over to see a stallion running away from the distraught mare with a purse in his mouth. Lance began to run after the thief.

"Come on Sorrow! We have to catch this guy before he get's away!" Lanced yelled. Sorrow didn't want to follow after him, but he knew that if he wanted to find the others then his best bet was to follow.

"W-Wait! I-I need you t-to help me find the others!" Sorrow yelled, chasing after Lance. They both chased after the stallion, eventually cornering him in an alleyway. Lance stepped towards the thief, getting ready to pounce on him. The thief gave him a toothy grin and let out a sharp whistle.

Sorrow looked around and saw two other stallions block the alleyway off, one holding a knife with his magical grip, the other holding a bat in his mouth. "L-L-Lance, w-we have c-company!" Sorrow said, making lance grin a bit wider.

Lance didn't hesitate to take off into the air. He flew up at least a good twenty feet before dive bombing for the unicorn that blocked off the alleyway. The stallion tried moving away, but Lance was faster. Lance slams his hooves into the stallions head, causing him to tumble over onto the ground and make him slide away a few feet.

The stallion with the bat in his mouth took a swing at Lance. Lance quickly ducked under the swing, throwing his hoof up to the stallion's jaw. The moment his hoof made contact, there was a loud snap as the stallion cried out in pain. Lance had dislocated his jaw.

The thief galloped over and grabbed Sorrow by his neck, which caused Sorrow to yell in fear. Lance looked over to see the thief pulling Sorrow back towards the wall. "Stay back, or I swear I will hurt your friend." He said. Lance cringed his teeth, he knew he was fast but he wouldn't be fast enough to stop this stallion from hurting Sorrow if he made a move.

The two stood there, having a staring contest with one another. "I-I'm t-too afraid to d-die!" Sorrow cried. There was one thing about humans that these two ponies forgot. It's that no matter how scared they are, they will always try to find a way to make sure they get out of a situation alive.

Sorrow reached in, grabbing a hold of the stallion's leg and prying himself free. He was able to catch him off guard and slip away from him. Sorrow turned towards the stallion, swinging his right arm towards him. His right arm made contact with the left side of his head. While the stallion was in shock from the attack, Sorrow took the chance to sweep his left leg under both of the stallion's forelegs, causing him to fall over onto the ground.

Sorrow takes this chance to run from the now knocked over stallion, giving Lance a chance to rush over and pin the stallion onto the ground. He looked up towards Sorrow, giving him a smile. "Hey, good job Sorrow! I didn't know you had it in ya to do something like that." Lance said, making Sorrow calm down a bit more.

"Why don't you take this purse-" Lance said, grabbing the purse that's now lying on the ground with his wing, tossing it to Sorrow. Sorrow fumbled with the purse a bit before grabbing it tightly. "And return it to that mare. After that just meet me at the guard station, I think you deserve a reward for your help." He said, turning back towards the stallion and slamming a hoof down onto his head, knocking him out.

Sorrow nodded before walking out of the alleyway, heading back to where the mare was. Once he got there he saw a few other mare's comforting the one who was robbed. He walked over slowly to them. "U-uhm... M-Miss, I-I think th-this is yours." Sorrow says, holding the purse out to the mare.

She looked at it, taking it with her hooves before looking up at Sorrow. She gave him a smile with tears in her eyes before wrapping her hooves around him. "O-Oh thank you. Thank you thank you thank you." She said. Sorrow's body stiffened the moment she touched him.

"C-...C-Could you t-tell me where the guard s-station is?" Sorrow asked, hoping the mare would let go, which she did. She put her purse around her neck before giving Sorrow directions to where the guard station was, which he nodded and quickly walked away once she finished.

The mare stood there looking at him. "Strange boy isn't he." She said, looking at her friends. They all smiled and nodded before going on with their usual business.

It was getting dark. Sorrow began to panic at the thought of being lost and alone at night in a strange place. "Wh-Where did I go wrong?! Wh-Where's the guard station, I-I should have been there by now, I-I should have-" Sorrow said, hearing somebody cry out his name.

He looked over towards the direction and saw Sunny looking around, along with Fury. Fury had met her while searching for Sorrow and agreed to help her look for him. Sorrow rushed over towards Sunny, falling to his knees in front of her and hugging her tightly. "S-Sunny! I-I w-was so scared!" He cried, tears now streaming down his face.

Sunny let out a sigh and wrapped one hoof around the back of his neck. "It's okay Sorrow, just don't go running off without one of us again, okay?" She said, trying to comfort the living embodiment of Joel's sadness. Sorrow looked up at her and nodded weakly before getting up.

The three of them began to walk back to Sunny's home, where they could all finally go to bed and rest.

Author's Note

Song used in this chapter

Digital Love - Daft Punk.

I don't own this song nor do I claim rights to it.

I promise not to use filler like this unless I need it for plot reasons.

Chapter 6 - Legends

When I felt the sting of the thorns puncturing my skin, the tears streaming down my face and onto the ground, I knew I couldn't be dreaming. I could feel it all. No dream can be this real, not in a million years. I looked out towards Calmare, standing up and dropping the bloody rose.

I stood there, thinking about how I'll never get back my old life. How many people came to my funeral, how many people cried for me, what will my room mate do without me there, why did I have to die? These questions filled my mind, along with hundreds of others. I couldn't think clearly, my body didn't move from that spot.

My mind finally cleared when one thought appeared in my head. What will you do with your new life? I cringed my teeth, took in a deep breath, and screamed as loud as I could out of anger. "I'm not going to waste my life like I did before!! I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it!!"

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Daisy woke up, feeling a throbbing pain in her skull. "Ugh... Joel...?" She said, yawning afterwards. Daisy sat up, looking around for Joel. Daisy could see that she was in her room, a bucket nearby her that was filled with a bit of throw up. She began to remember bits and pieces of last night, about how she danced with Joel, when he sang, and how she drank through the night. She couldn't remember anything else after that.

Daisy climbed out of bed and began to walk downstairs, hearing the sounds of cooking as a waft of something delicious filled her nostrils. She walked into the kitchen, seeing Joel cooking pancakes at the stove. He turned his head to look at her, "Oh, hey Daisy. You feeling alright?" He asked, turning back to his work.

Daisy nodded as she walked over to sit down at the table. "Please tell me I didn't do anything stupid last night." Daisy said, massaging her temples with her hooves. Joel walked over to set down a plate of three pancakes and a fork. Daisy looked at the pancakes, noticing the bits of red in the pancake. "What's this?" She asked.

"A pancake." Joel answered, walking back over to cook pancakes for himself.

Daisy rolled her eyes "No idiot, I mean what's in the pancakes." Daisy said, picking up her fork to try a bite of the pancakes.

"I call them strawberry pancakes. I noticed you had some extra strawberries in the fridge, so I thought I might try making some." Joel said, pouring pancake batter onto the pan. When Daisy took her first bite, her eyes widened. She dropped the fork, which landed on her plate.

Joel looked back at her. "You okay?" He asked, getting a blank wide eyed stare from the mare. She picked up her fork and began to eat it fast and happily. This got a small laugh from Joel. The pancakes were made with shredded strawberries, then coated with the juices that were left over from the shredding.

She finished by the time Joel got the second plate done. She let out a relaxed sigh as she looked over towards Joel. "You can cook, sing, and give amazing massages. Keep this up and I'll have to marry you." Daisy said.

Joel sat on his knees and took a bite of his pancakes. "Yeah, if you married me then you would want a divorce after the first year." Joel said, giving Daisy a smile.

"Aw, why would you say that?" Daisy asked, giving him a fake, sad look.

"Because your puppy dog eye look will ware off and I wont do everything you ask me to do." Joel said. They both smiled and laughed. Daisy got up from the table so she could sit next to Joel.

"I think we should go see Sunny today, it's my day off so I want to check up on how she's doing." Daisy said, leaning into Joel. Joel suddenly froze, remembering that he never told Daisy about the situation he was stuck in.

"U-Uhm... I-I don't think that's such a good idea." Joel said, getting a look from Daisy.

"Why not? Did you two get in a fight?" Daisy asked.

"N-No no I just-... Well..." Joel said, trying to find the right words to say. He sighed in defeat, knowing it would be easier if he just told her the truth. "Listen... Something happened on the way to Sunny's place. When we get there, I want you to promise not to freak out."

"Well, alright. But If you did something to Sunny and it makes me mad, I'm going to slap you." Daisy said, getting up and walking towards the stairs that's outside the kitchen. "I'm going to take a shower, after I finish you better go upstairs and take one too."

Joel just rolls his eyes as he goes back to eating his breakfast.

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"So... Let me get this straight. If we don't give this potion to all four of you by sundown tomorrow... You will all have your own bodies, permanently?" Sunny asked, trying to understand the new information Fury told her this morning.

"Yes, that is correct. Tomorrow I will start my hunt for Desire. Until then I think the best course of action is to stay right here, before Sorrow gets himself into more trouble." Fury says, grabbing Sorrow by the back of his shirt and pulling him closer. "Isn't that right, Sorrow?"

Sorrow nodded his head quickly in fear. "Y-Yes! J-Just p-please don't hurt me!" Sorrow begs, cowering in fear. There was a knock on the door. Sunny looked over towards it, walking over and using her magic to open the door. She saw Joel and Daisy standing there.

"Daisy? Joel? What are you two doing here?" Sunny asked.

"Were here for a visit silly." Daisy said, wrapping her forelegs around Sunny's neck. Daisy looked into the house and froze when she saw Fury walking over towards them. Fury walked past Sunny and Daisy and went straight for Joel. Fury grabbed onto Joel's throat, causing Joel to gasp and grab onto Fury's wrists.

"You're going to go inside right now, sit down, and have a little chat with me. Understood?" Fury said, getting a nod from Joel before letting him go. Joel walked inside as Sunny sighed.

"Come on, let's go inside. I can explain it when we're in the kitchen." Sunny said to Daisy. Daisy put her hooves back onto the ground as she followed Sunny back inside, closing the door behind her.

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Fury had told me everything about the potion and the crazy zebra doctor. He told me that if we don't fix this by sundown tomorrow, then I would be stuck with 3 other forms of myself outside of my body. "So... We won't be able to get our hands on this potion until tomorrow?" I asked.

Fury nodded. "Yes, he will meet us at the market place three hours before sundown." Fury said.

"Why three hours before then? Don't you think that sets up for some retarded last second chase scene?" I asked, relaxing back on the couch.

"Maybe if you kept your emotions in control, we wouldn't be stuck in this situation." Fury said.

I rolled my eyes and looked towards the kitchen before getting up "I'm going to snoop around in Sunny's room. Maybe I can find some interesting books there." I said, heading upstairs to look for Sunny's room.

"Wh-Why not read something f-from the b-bookshelf down here?" Sorrow asked, turning towards me.

"She wouldn't keep the really interesting ones where anyone can get their hands on them." I said, now searching every door for Sunny's room. I found it after checking only a few rooms upstairs. Unlike Daisy's house, Sunny didn't have a guest room. Inside I could see that her room had a bookshelf filled with different looking books, with a book sitting on top of it.

I looked through the bookcase, looking for anything juicy. I had to see if Sunny had any smut books, something to tell me that she isn't a complete boring teacher. I was about to give up after checking the title of every book, until I remembered the book atop of the bookshelf.

I reached up, grabbing a hold of it and reading the front pages. "Spring Tome's Book of Spells." Hey, at least it's something to read. I opened the book, reading it as I head back downstairs. I shifted through the different pages, looking for an amazing spell I could read up on.

"Ooohh.. Hey guys, check this out." I said, walking back over to Fury and Sorrow. "I found this spell book in Sunny's room. Check this spell out." I said, sitting down on the couch next to the two and showing them the book. "It says here whoever casts this spell can make their dreams go from just a simple dream to a reality." I said, getting a glare from Fury while Sorrow scooted away from me slightly.

"You know this is a horrible idea, reading one of Sunny's personal spell books." Fury said.

"I-I a-agree, let's j-just put it back where y-you found it." Sorrow said, agreeing with Fury.

"Hey, I'm just reading ONE page, don't get all pissy with me." I said, starting to read more of the spell. "Hmm... Wonder what this means." I stared at the incantation, I couldn't understand what a single word it said. I said them out loud, seeing if anything might happened.

After I finished there was a long pause. I let out a sigh, closing the book and setting it on the floor. "Well that was anti-climatic." I said, folding my arms and relaxing back into the couch.

"What did you expect?" Fury asked.

"Well how about something to happen, I'd love to see what kind of fantasy can come true out of this." I said, now wondering about the several fantasies I would love to experience. I thought about how I would have enjoyed to know what it felt like to be a part of the raids on World of Warcraft, or feel the wind rushing past me as I ran at the speed of sound like sonic, maybe fight gods of extreme power as a white wolf like in Okami.

The book began to rumble, letting out a flash of light and opening itself. A vortex began to form within the book, causing Sorrow and I to yell in terror. The book began to suck Sorrow in first. I grabbed his hands, starting to get sucked in myself. Fury grabbed onto my feet as Sorrow was half way into the vortex. Eventually Sorrow was sucked in, then I was sucked into the book, followed by Fury. Then everything went black.

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"So... There's four Joels now because of a potion?" Daisy asked, getting a nod from Sunny. "And if we don't gather all four of them and give them the cure by sundown tomorrow, they can't go back?" Daisy asked, getting another nod from Sunny.

"That's what Fury told me at least. He said some crazy zebra caused all these problems and that he can-" Sunny said, being cut off from the loud sound of a magical explosion. The only time she heard those were at her father's lab in Canterlot. Sunny and Daisy rushed off to the living room, seeing Fury being sucked into the spell book that Sunny had kept in her room.

"N-No!!" Sunny screamed, rushing over towards the book just as the vortex closes, being replaced by a magical mirror. In the mirror she could see what looked like a dark forest surrounding what looked like a large arena. Two sides with two different colors. Blue on the left, Purple on the right.

Daisy ran over by Sunny's side. "Wh-What happened?! Wh-Where did Joel go?!" Daisy yelled, panicked by seeing Joel get sucked into the book.

"Joel must have set off one of the spells my father put into his book. I-I don't know how to reverse it." Sunny said, now starting to feel worried.

"S-...S-So they're stuck there?" Daisy asked, tears filling her eyes.

Sunny looked towards Daisy. "I don't know Daisy... But... The most we can do now is wait." Sunny said, turning her head back towards the book. Her eyes widened when she saw what appeared over the arena, along with the voice of a woman.

"Welcome, to the Twisted Treeline!"

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Why do weird things always happen to me. When I finally woke up, I could see a screen appear in front of me. "Select your champion." Is this what I think it is? It's all there, every single champion from League of Legends right in front of me. I reached up, touching on the icon of a few champions, each one making the quotes they would from the game.

A wide grin formed on my face, this truly was a dream come true. I selected one champion for this, the only one that I would need. Twisted Fate, the Card Master. I locked in as the champion, seeing my other companions pick their own. Even my skins for the champion were there.

After everyone selected their champion, the darkness faded quickly. I looked around, seeing that I was standing in the purple team base. I could also see my other team mates.

Amumu, the Sad Mummy. Amumu was a short champion, but a tough one too. He was midget size, had large yellow eyes, sickly green looking bandages covering his entire body. Don't forget his obnoxiously big yordle head. He wore garbs similar to that of a pharaoh, garbed in black and gold.

Tryndamere, the Barbarian King. Tryndamere was always a favorite for those who were new to the game. This one had the Demonblade Tryndamere skin, making him look scary as hell. He had a large jagged blade, connecting to his arm by a dragon-like head that's fused to his arm. Tentacles wrapped around his right arm where the dragon head is, tentacles sliding out from his back, wrapping around his shoulders and his sides. His right shoulder was covered in spikes, making him seem more intimidating. He had long black hair and a black goatee, and eyes that shone with a mysterious blue light.

I was Twisted Fate. I had selected the skin known as Underworld Twisted Fate. My entire left arm was ethereal, a white color from my hand moving up past my elbow, stopping while making a flame pattern. The rest of my arm was a light blue color, hiding under the large metal shoulder pad I was wearing. The best way to describe how I look is almost that of a cowboy knight. Wearing a trench coat and cowboy hat that had pieces of metal covering it.

"Welcome to Twisted Treeline!" The familiar voice of the female announcer said. "Today's match is between Team Joel, and Team Jekyll."

I looked at my two companions. Amumu had the name "Sorrow [Joel]" Over his head, along with a health bar display, Tryndamere having the name "Fury [Joel]."

"Wh-Where are we? H-How did we get here?" Sorrow asked, looking around with fear in his eyes.

"We're in Twisted Treeline you idiot, the spell must have worked." Fury said, now with a demonic sounding voice.

"Hey there, did our voices change all of the sudden?" I asked, now with a southern accent and a deeper voice. "Holy shit, we're like the exact copies of the champions now!" I said, now with excitement in my voice.

In my eyes it was almost like the same as the HUD from the game, showing all my skills. I thought it would be difficult to select the spell I wanted to use first, since I didn't have a mouse to pick it. All I had to do was think of upgrading that skill, and it upgraded.

"Guys, try out your spells." I said, now flipping a card in my hand. The card would change color with each flip. Blue Red Yellow Blue Red Yellow. How am I even able to do this? I couldn't flip a card like this in my hand so quickly before.

Sorrow stood there, now starting to cry. Of course he would pick Amumu's crying ability. A pool of tears surrounded him, showing the area of damage enemies would take when they stood inside of it. I looked towards Fury, who only shrugged. "I chose my healing ability first." Fury said, now walking over to the shopkeeper.

"Oh man, ah am SO excited! Ah can't wait to kick some serious ass." I said, buying my level 1 boots and Doran's blade. I knew Tryndamere was a basic attack champion, while Amumu was a tanky magic user. If I want to get the most out of my abilities, I'm going to need to get a hybrid of attack and magic damage.

Fury turned to me, putting the sword he had in his hand-... Arm... Up to my neck. He gave me a menacing glare. "When we get out of here, you are receiving the beating of a lifetime." Fury growled, sounding way more intimidating now than he did before.

I put my hands up and backed away. "Okay okay ah promise not to ignore you again." I said, walking down the stairway towards the bottom lane. "Let's all agree to at least agree to play like we always do." I said, turning towards Sorrow and Fury. "The faster we get these guys, the faster the match will end."

"And when the match ends... You're kicked back out to the desktop." Fury said, causing me to grin at him.

"Exactly, the book should just spit us out when the match is over." I said, turning back again and heading for the jungle that lies between the top and bottom lanes of the arena. I knew the layout of this map like the back of my hand, I may enjoy Summoner's Rift way more, but hey I can still enjoy a few Twisted Treeline matches once and awhile.

We reached the brush that was to the right of the center part of Twisted Treeline. Every now and then a Health Node would pop up to restore a chunk of health and mana, while giving a minor speed boost. We watched carefully, making sure to ambush anything that comes out of the fog of war that surrounds the entire treeline.

I could see them, rushing straight for us. Garen, the Might of Demacia. Fiddlesticks, the Harbinger of Doom. Finally, rushing right next to Fiddlesticks was none other than Cho'Gath, the Terror of the Void. Cho'Gath worried me much more than the others, I knew what he could do and how devastating he can become during the late game.

Fury charged forward, roaring in anger at the champions. Sorrow rushed after Fury, knowing that if he doesn't play the right way then his team would take their anger out onto him. I flipped through my card, readying a gold card. "Aim for Fiddlesticks first!" I yelled, throwing the card in my hand towards Fiddlesticks.

When the card made contact with him it made a chime, indicating he was stunned. All Fiddlesticks could do was stare as both Fury and Sorrow charged for him. "Oh you have got to be kidding-" Fiddlesticks said, getting cut off by the sword smashing into his face.

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"First blood!" "Purple team double kill!" "PURPLE TEAM TRIPLE KILL!" The announcer roared in excitement. Both Sunny and Daisy cringing when they saw the man who had Fury's name above his head brutally slaughter the opposing team. "Ahah! Eat mah nuts blue team!" Joel yelled out at the corpses, rushing away back to his side of the battlefield.

"W-Was that Joel?" Daisy asked, watching the crazed cowboy.

"D-Did they just commit murder?" Sunny asked as well, watching Fury and Sorrow become engulfed in a ray of blue light which teleported them back to the purple base. After only mere seconds after the slaughter, they both saw the blue team spawn back into their base.

"W-Wait! I know what this is!!" Daisy yelled, looking closer at the mirror.

Sunny turned her head towards her. "You do?" Sunny asked.

"Joel told me back on his world they had games that they could play on boxes, almost like a television but not quite. It was... League or some other is what he called it." Daisy said, now remembering how Joel went on about video games the other night.

"What else do you know about it? Why did Joel KILL those things?" Sunny asked, turning back towards the mirror.

"Apparently, the objective of the game is to destroy these things, I think." Daisy said, pointing a hoof at the large crystals in each base. "Nopony actually dies, they always 'come back to life after a few seconds or a minute' is what Joel said."

"Purple team double kill!" The announcer spoke up again, showing a picture of Amumu's face along with the deceased champions.

"I-I'm sorry, please don't hate me!" Sorrow pleaded, running away from Garen. Daisy and Sunny watched closely as Garen spun around the small mummy, roaring in anger as he slams his blade down on Sorrow. A bright flash of yellow light came crashing down on Sorrow, knocking him to the ground.

Sorrow turned onto his back as Garen raised his sword in the air, bringing it down to finish off Sorrow. Daisy and Sunny closed their eyes, not wanting to see the horror of his death.

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CLANG

A sword blocked Garen's strike. Garen looked to see Fury, blocking Garen's sword with his own. Fury threw his sword up, causing Garen to stumble back towards the wall. Fury slashed down to try and crush Garen's skull, but Garen jumped out of the way. Fury couldn't stop the momentum of his sword, causing him to slash through the wall.

Fury didn't give Garen enough time to react. He pulled his sword out of the wall, spinning the blade around once to build up momentum, slamming it down towards Garen once more. Garen decided to block Fury with his own large two handed sword. Fury was relentless, pulling his blade up and slamming it back down on Garen's blade.

Garen knew if he didn't act quickly, Fury would slaughter him just like he did before. Just as Fury lifted his blade, Garen sidestepped away. Fury slammed his sword down onto the ground where Garen previously was, giving Garen a chance to thrust his sword into Fury's stomach, causing him to slump over.

Silence. This confused Garen, usually the announcer would cry out when a champion has been slain. His confusion was cleared when Fury grabbed onto the hilt of Garen's blade, lifting himself back up. Fury's eyes glowed with a bright red glow. "Endless Rage mother fucker." Fury growled.

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"An enemy has been slain!" The announcer cried, causing me to fist pump. "Yeah! Man ah wish ah had games like this back home." I said to myself, killing minions with my card throws. A minute after hearing the announcer, I started to wonder where the enemy team went. I suspect they might be trying something.

I closed my eyes, using my ultimate power to reveal the enemy team. I could see them, all of them were surrounding me, there was no way out. "Get him!!" Fiddlesticks cried out. I grinned as I stood up, a circle of cards appearing below me. "Don't let him get away!" He cried, his entire team now rushing in to fight me.

I teleported away, safe inside of my own base at the spawn area. "Get back here you coward!!" Fiddlesticks yelled out from the jungle. I laughed at him, walking over to the shopkeeper to buy more items. Fury appeared behind me after using the recall power.

"I'll admit, I'm starting to calm down now that were having a lot of fun with this." Fury said, buying another item with the gold he had earned from his kill.

I looked at him, giving him a thumbs up. "Ah always have fun when we play perfect league matches. First blood AND a triple kill right from the start, we can't possibly lose now."

"An ally has been slain!" The announcer called out, showing an image of Amumu and signifying that Sorrow died to Cho'Gath. I sighed, walking back down the stairs to get to my lane. "Last thing we need is for them to start getting kills, especially Cho'Gath. You both know what can happen if he stacks his feast up." I said.

The match continued, even after nearly an hour they never surrendered. I understood why once they began to earn kills of their own. I became the main focus, considering I was the easiest to take down. Cho'Gath grew in size, becoming much stronger and bulkier. Garen built up on his armor rating to counter Fury and his strikes. Fiddlesticks remained somewhat weak, due to not earning kills of his own.

We were nearly matched, both team's towers and inhibitors destroyed and their nexus the only structure remaining. We all met at the center circle, agreeing to have one final fight before allowing the other to take the nexus.

Fury rushed in first, avoiding Cho'Gath's ground spikes. Cho'gath roared at him, letting out a horrifying screech that silenced the warrior. I could see fiddlesticks readying his ultimate power, stopping him with a swift fling of a gold card. Sorrow grabbed onto Garen, unleashing his ultimate power to hold everyone in place. I took this opportunity to rush in and finish off Fiddlesticks with a few more card throws.

Fiddlesticks fell to the ground, dead. Garen spun around, unleashing his attacks onto Fury. Fury may have a lot of strength, but his Endless Rage ability couldn't keep him alive long enough to kill Garen or Cho'Gath. After Fury died, Sorrow and I threw everything we had at Garen to kill him. Garen tried chasing me, but was always cut off with a gold card stun. Garen turned towards Sorrow, slamming his ultimate power down onto him to finish off Sorrow. I threw one last gold card at Garen, killing him where he stood.

I ran from Cho'Gath, throwing card after card while also being flung into the air by his ground spikes. He was nearly down, I just had one last card to throw. I was too late, Cho'Gath grabbed a hold of me, lifting me up towards his mouth. "Say your prayers Twisted Fate!" He roared, chomping down on me. His feasting ability was too powerful for me to survive. I died, leaving an opening for him.

He decided to savor this moment by dancing over the remaining corpses, before a burning eye appeared before him. "W-Wait, but how?!" He said, before roaring in pain from an onslaught of cards hitting him.

"Aced!" The announcer said, just as Cho'Gath's corpse hit the ground. "Summoner spells Cho'Gath... Revive-" I said, grinning as a green light engulfed me. "And teleport" I finished, teleporting on top of a minion near the enemy's nexus. I threw my cards at the nexus while the minions hit it as hard as they could.

The nexus let out a powerful wave of energy after it took enough damage, exploding and guaranteeing our victory. "Aha! Yes!! We won!!" I yelled, a light enveloping me. "Huh? What's going on here?"

The light blinded me, I could feel my body become numb.

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Daisy and Sunny cheered as they saw Joel teleport into the enemy base and destroy their nexus. The mirror shifted again, creating a more softer and calmer portal of light. Daisy and Sunny stepped away from it, seeing light pour out from the portal. Joel, Fury, and Sorrow began to form from the light.

They fell to the floor just as the light vanished. Daisy rushed over to Joel, while Sunny rushed over to Fury and Sorrow. "J-Joel! J-Joel, you okay? Please speak to me Joel." Daisy begged, shaking Joel gently. Joel groaned, turning his head to look at Daisy.

"I'm fine, I'm fine. Stop shaking me around." Joel said, standing back up to his feet. Sorrow and Fury rose to their feet as well. Joel yawned and looked at Sunny. "Hey, Sunny? Would you mind if I crashed on your couch for a while? I'm feeling really light headed and tired..." Joel said, walking over to the couch.

Joel fell face first into it, passing out immediately. Sorrow sat on the floor next to the couch while Fury sat on the available space that Joel wasn't taking up. "Y-Yeah... I-I'm really t-tired too..." Sorrow said, yawning and falling asleep. Fury only nodded in agreement before passing out as well.

Sunny sighed, looking at Daisy. "At least they're alright." Sunny said, smiling at Daisy.

Daisy returned the smile. "Can we just leave the boys here and go have a normal lunch together?" Daisy asked, walking towards the front door. Sunny nodded before picking up the spell book with her magic.

"Yeah, let me just put this away first. I would like to at least enjoy my last day off without anything else weird or crazy happening." Sunny said, heading upstairs to hide the spell book once more.

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I woke up hours later after that amazing battle in Twisted Treeline. I looked around to see that the spell book was gone, along with Daisy and Sunny. Was it all just a dream? Or did it actually happen? I got up off the couch and went to the fridge, looking outside just as I grabbed an apple to eat. I nearly dropped my apple when I saw the sun was almost about to start setting.

I rushed outside, waking Sorrow and Fury up with the sound of the door slamming behind me. I ran to the outskirts of town, looking around frantically for Desire. "Well, looks like you made it in time." I heard from behind me. I turned to see Desire smiling at me. "Ready to have that talk?"

I glared at him "One condition. You will come back to Sunny's place after were finished. Deal?" I said, holding my hand out. He took my hand with his own and gave it a firm shake.

"Deal."

Chapter 7 - Memories

We walked beside one another, heading for a nearby hill that overlooked the entire town. When we reached the top, we stood there. I turned to look at Desire. "So what did you want to talk about?" I asked, now feeling somewhat uneasy. He didn't answer. I could see that his smile slowly faded.

"I'm starting to get emotions other than the ones I was born from, Joel." He said, turning his head to look at me. "You've noticed it too, haven't you? Fury and Sorrow are doing things out of their normal behavior."

This made me terrified, I haven't thought of it until now. Sorrow was acting brave by rushing into combat with me and Fury back in the Twisted Treeline. Fury even told me that he was starting to calm down and enjoy his time fighting as a team. My empty feeling began to grow. I realized what was happening.

My emotions were starting to become their own being.

"You know that you can't run away desire... Tomorrow near sunset we're all going to use a potion to bring things back to normal." I said, hoping he wouldn't resist.

"I'm not an idiot Joel. I know that you can't go on without me or the others." Desire said, now sitting down on the grass and taking his jacket off. "Can you just sit with me and listen to what I have to say? No interruptions."

I nodded and sat down next to him.

"Listen... Joel. You have ignored me for such a long time. The only times I can recall that you listened to me was when you wanted to be isolated, to play games and do nothing but eat. You just sat there in your own filth, fattening and never really doing anything with your life. I wanted us to go out and make something of ourselves. To find a job for us both, to find a true calling, to make friends, to find love. I have tried and tried again, yet you always stopped me." Desire said, losing his greaser accent around half way through his speech.

"Joel... We died in that car crash." Desire said, turning to look at me. My heart sank, I didn't want to hear those words. I stood up and took a step away from him.

"No... No no, you're lying... Y-You're lying!! I can't be dead! I'm alive damn it, I'm going to wake up any day now! I-" I screamed at him. He stood up and socked me in the face, hard. I placed my hand on my cheek, feeling the pain shooting through it. I looked at desire, who now had his fists up and ready for me to retaliate. He knew me too well.

I screamed in anger, charging at him and punching him hard on his chin. He took the blow, returning his own by slamming his fist into my chest. I stumbled back, which gave him a chance to charge at me and tackle me to the ground. He began to hit me, over and over again. After about the fifth blow to my face I was able to shove him off of me.

I wasn't an honorable fighter, Desire should know this. I lifted my leg up and shot my foot right into Desire's balls, knocking him over onto the ground as he cried out in pain. I stood up and walked over to his side. He rolled over onto his back to look at me just in time for me to start kicking him hard in his sides. Every kick sent a bolt of pain through his body, every kick would make him grunt in pain.

I began to tear up as I kicked him. At this point I didn't see Desire as my own emotions incarnate. I saw him as myself. Desire didn't move, he wanted me to vent out like this on him. When I was finished with kicking him, I made sure he was lying on his back. I got on top of him, straddling over his stomach and raising my fist into the air.

THWACK

My fist came down to strike him in his jaw.

THWACK

Another fist, this time hitting him just on his temple.

THWACK

My attacks never eased up. At this point I was crying without making any noise, aside from my screams of anger with every punch. My life began to flash before my eyes, I could remember so many things.

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| Joel: Age 10 October of 2003 |

I hated my teacher so much. This fat bitch had it out for me and always treated me like I'm a retard. About two months ago she had announced to her class that she was pregnant. Yes, she was THAT kind of teacher. She had been emotional through those two months, at least I think that's how pregnant women work.

My mother had told me that women become more sensitive when they become pregnant, so I would need to understand why she would get more angry at me than usual. Today she had come in all mopey and depressed. This made me excited to hear why she was so sad since I had hated her so much.

About half way through the day one of the kids eventually asked her why she was so sad, which she responded with "It's... Because I had a miscarriage." She said. You would think that a teacher should keep that much of her personal life to herself, but she treated her class as if it were her family. She never held back much about her personal life unless it was far too inappropriate. To her, talking about her pregnancy doesn't fall under the lines of "inappropriate."

"Maybe the baby was crushed under all that fat of yours." I said, getting gasps from the class and shocked looks. All eyes were on me this time, especially the teacher. Now I thought she would cry, maybe say something pathetic towards me. Instead she just stared at me for a long time, I mean it was long.

Everyone was looking between me and her, to see which one would talk first. All she did was clear her throat, sat at her desk, and continued on with her lesson.

| Five months later on March of 2004 |

I sat in my corner, not wanting to work anymore or deal with anyone. Only a month after insulting her miscarriage, which got me a scolding and a spanking from my parents of course, my teacher had convinced my parents to make me sit in the corner of the classroom. My part of the classroom consisted of a large desk that had walls on its side and back. It was designed to block noise out so I could focus on my work instead of the class.

It was nearing the end of 4th period and I had gotten done with a piece of homework that my teacher had forced me to work on. We had gotten into another fight, I couldn't remember what it was all about this time. I stormed out of the classroom, now being chased by the teacher. I sat outside in front of the school.

Everything in my mind was fuzzy, this flashback was something I had repressed quite a bit. All I can remember is that I shoved her, I knew it wasn't hard since I was only ten years old and she was a four hundred pound thirty plus year old woman. What I do remember clearly though was being taken to juvie, or "Juvenile Detention" is what it's called.

They had this balding police officer guy who had me strip down out near where the main entrance was. This area wasn't the larger juvie where they keep the kids locked up, it was just the smaller area where they first call the parents and check them for weapons and such.

I was scared shitless, the main entrance to the place was RIGHT THERE. I could see it if I turned my head, which he yelled at me when I did. I was crying, which didn't phase him. After patting me down with my clothes on, he had me strip in front of him down into my underwear.

I didn't want this, I wanted to go home. I wanted my mommy, I wanted my daddy, please come save me. He was touching me again, he was touching me someplace I didn't want him to. It didn't last too long but it was long enough to strike all sorts of fear into me. He had me dress back up and wait in a very small room where I sat and waited for my dad to get there.

When my dad got there I was able to walk out with him. I remained silent, I didn't want to remember anything about what happened today and I didn't want to talk to my dad about it. He forced it out of me of course, giving me a blank stare after I told him.

"Let's go get some Dairy Queen..." He said, making me nod.

| Two months later on May of 2004 |

I sat in the room that was just outside of the principle's office. I had another outburst this time, it was so bad that they had to remove furniture from the room and put the school cop in the room to watch me. I was yelling and taunting him, sitting there and glaring at him.

I didn't want to wear my shoes anymore, so I began to loosen them and kick them off. The first landed on the floor near the wall, but the second flew off and hit the metal heater that was lined up along the wall. The moment my shoe hit the heater it made a loud gunshot-like bang, which caused the officer to jump in fear and turn towards me.

He yelled something at me, something ticked in my mind. I was suddenly frightened of him, I was afraid he might hurt me or do something worse to me. I was afraid to go back to juvie because I made him angry, just like my teacher. I began to cry, pleading for mercy from him. I began to choke on my tears, not being able to breath normal anymore with the amount of fear in me.

I was able to convince him to let me talk to my dad over a phone so that I could stay calm. My dad talked to me over the phone, telling me everything would be fine and that he would be there to pick me up soon. Thirty minutes later, my dad came into the school. He was able to get me out of school so that I could go home. My father was very protective of me, and knew that I had developed a fear of police. He didn't want to punish me after what he heard from me over the phone. All he wanted to do was do his best to cheer me up by taking me to Dairy Queen.

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| Joel: Age 12 July of 2006 |

I finally was a part of something. I had joined the Sea Scouts just in time for a three day trip to a beach. They had two houses, one for the guys and one for the gals. It was night time on the first day, we were playing recon on the beach. The object of the game was to have two guys defend the flag while the other two crawled through the bushes to capture the enemy team flag.

I was a recon on our team, along with one of the older Sea Scouts. My partner was about 14 years old, so he seemed much taller to me. We had gotten to the part where there was a clearing, a small road that lead to the beach with more dried tall grass on the other side. My partner noticed a person, who I will remember as "King", and stood up. He had told me to stand up as well, which I did.

King, which I called because he ruled over all of the other Sea Scouts with an iron fist, and his two lackeys "Fatso" and "Shrimp" walked over to us. "Who's this?" King asked, looking at me after taking the cigarette out of his mouth.

"You know, I don't think you should be smoking." I said, getting a laugh from King and his lackeys.

"Listen kid, you do what we say. We run the scouts here, so don't tell me what I can and can't do. Got it?" He said. I can't remember much after that, only that he was about to beat me up before my partner told him that I was stupid and new. King had agreed not to beat me up this time and walked away.

I asked my partner why he was such an asshole, which he told me about how King is the leader because he is the strongest one around. Typical.

The second night, we all had crab for dinner. After eating we had headed up to our rooms. We talked, told stories, joked and laughed. It wasn't until one of the kids heard someone coming upstairs. "Pretend you're asleep!" He said, which caused all of us to get in our beds and pretend to sleep.

King and his lackeys walked into the room. I took a peek, now relaxing since I saw that it wasn't one of the adults. Everyone remained "asleep" though, as if king was just as much of a problem as the adults were. He walked around, putting hot Cheetos into different kid's mouths and pouring bottled water over their heads.

Nobody moved when they were picked on, only remaining still. I spoke up. "You know, you shouldn't be doing that." I said, catching King's eye. He walked over. Fatso was sitting on his own larger bed, while Shrimp stood next to mine.

"Oh yeah? What are you going to do about it." He said, giving me a toothy grin. I simply told him that the adults would punish him, which caused him and the other lackeys to laugh at me. Things went somewhat blurry here in my head, I don't quite remember what we had talked about, but it lead to your mom comments.

"I bet your mom is this big fat whore." Shrimp said, getting a laugh from King and Fatso.

"Oh yeah? I bet your mom is addicted to crack, having to suck dicks for money to pay for her drugs." I said, getting an angered look from Shrimp. Shrimp took a few steps back and charged at me. Everything went slow motion for me. He leaped into the air, both his feet aiming for my head. He hit my head with enough force to make it feel like someone was smacking the palm of their hand against my head just to annoy me, causing Shrimp to fall flat on his back.

"Well, that was pathetic" I said as Shrimp stood up, taking deep breaths. Little did I know at that time that his mom really was a drug addict. King sat up from the chair that was in front of my bed.

"Get up." He said, causing me to look at him. "I told you, get up." He said calmly. I obeyed and stood up, opening my mouth to say something. He swiftly punched me in the mouth, causing me to fall on my ass on the bed. It didn't hurt, it just shocked me is all. It was surprising really, someone who's supposedly "the strongest sea scout around" isn't strong enough to hurt someone when he punches them in the mouth.

It didn't help him when I went full retard mode and yelled in anger at him. I stood up from my bed, rushing past him and picking up the chair he was sitting in. Both him and Shrimp ran over to Fatso, jumping behind him and on the bed to use him like a meat shield.

I stood there, staring at him. I knew that when I went into full retard mode like this that I couldn't control myself. For once I was able to listen to a voice in my head and ignore every desire I had to kill him with this chair. The adults busted into the room, asking whats wrong.

Everything went fuzzy again, I didn't remember everything. I remember setting down the chair, having conflicting thoughts about hurting someone, crying and getting in my dad's truck to go home. I told him everything once I was able to calm down. Dad gave me a smile, telling me that he was very proud that I never hurt anyone and that I stood up for all those other kids.

Guess where he took me, just guess... You'll never believe me in a million fucking years. Spoilers: it's Dairy Queen.

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| Joel: Age 13 August of 2007 |

I hate school so much... Why am I even here? Oh yeah, because they want me to make a friend. Who's this "Harold" guy anyways? They said I could get along with him. I guess I could use the friend, since I'm still a freshman. I sat at a table in another classroom that I don't usually eat my lunch at. The door opened just as I got my lunch out. The boy who walked in sat at the table I was sitting at.

He had orange hair. He was tall, slender, kind of scrawny armed. Reminds me of a ginger version of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I sat at the table with him, getting my lunch out from my backpack.

"Are you Joel?" He asked, getting a nod from me. "I'm Harold."

We sat there and ate our lunches in silence. After around 15 minutes of silence Harold looked over at me. "Do you play Yu-Gi-Oh?" He asked, getting a nod from me.

"Yeah, but I didn't bring my cards with me." I said, eating the last of my lunch.

"I've got 2 decks with me, wanna play?" He asked, now reaching into his backpack to grab the decks. I smiled and nodded. We dueled each other for the last bit of our lunch, coming back each day to play some more while we eat. I would bring my own cards sometimes and he would bring his.

After about only a week or two of visiting during lunch and sometimes after school, I had asked if he wanted to come over. He agreed to come over when his parents could pick him up. Coincidentally his mom drove right past my neighborhood when she was heading home from work, so Harold could visit every day.

For the first time, I finally had somebody that I could call a friend.

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| Joel: Age 17 June of 2011 |

This was it, I finally made it. Everyone had doubted that I could make it this far. But here I am, shaking hands with my principle as he handed me my high school diploma. After the ceremony I met up with my parents. They hugged me, congratulated me, told me how proud they were. At times I doubted that I could get this far.

I always struggled before in school, had to deal with trying to grow out of my disabilities. Four long years of trying to show everyone that my disability shouldn't hamper my success in life. Though my troubles have almost caused me to kill myself at one point, which got me expelled from school until I spoke with a therapist. I was only gone from school for a week after that. I knew that if I died, I would be leaving more troubles for others to deal with.

The only thing that's upsetting to me is that my friend, Harold, is going to go to some training school for landscaping. I wouldn't get anymore visits with him, at least until he finally gets out. Hopefully he keeps his promise to move in with me eventually.

| Joel: Age 20 May of 2014 |

Let's double check things. Harold has the spare key to our apartment, I have my phone in my car, I have my keys, wallet, GPS, gum and sticky note with a list of things to get from the store. I got into my car and drove off, heading for the grocery store. Along the way I thought to myself.

My birthday was coming up next month, I'll be turning twenty one. What am I going to do for my birthday? Where am I going to go for it? I know I'm going to get drunk as fuck since its my twenty first birthday. I wonder if Harold will get drunk with me, or even my sisters. What if- OH SHIT!

I swerved to the side to try and avoid a car that was crashing just in front of me. my car slammed against the side of it, causing my air bag to go off and stop me from getting hurt further. I heard the sound of a semi-truck's horn and turned to look at it. For just a second, I could see it heading straight for me. Crashing into my car... Crushing me to death.

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I stopped punching Desire two flashbacks ago. He sat there, staring at me. I shook my head softly and got off of him, sitting down on the grass once more. Desire sat up, grabbing his jacket that was nearby and putting it back on. He sat next to me as we both watched the sun set.

"You know that this isn't a dream, right?" Desire asked, looking towards me. I just sat there, staring out towards the town of Calmare.

"I refuse to believe it isn't... I just want to go back home. I miss my family, my friends... My world." I answered. "There's just some things I haven't gotten to do."

Desire placed a hand on my shoulder, looking back towards the town. "It's time to face the music Joel, everyone dies eventually." Desire said. He began to stand back up, reaching into his jacket and tossing a single rose on my lap. I picked up the flower before looking towards Desire. "You were just dealt a bad hand is all..." Desire finished, walking away from me.

I looked back at the flower, staring at it. "Why me..." I said to myself, tears streaming down my face and dripping onto the flower petals. "Why did I have to die... Why was I even brought here..." I began to grip the stem, letting the thorns puncture my skin and draw blood.

I stood there, thinking about how I'll never get back my old life. How many people came to my funeral? How many people cried for me? What will Harold do without me there to help with rent? Why did I have to die? These questions filled my mind, along with hundreds of others. I couldn't think clearly, my body didn't move from that spot.

I stood there until the sun completely set. When it was starting to get dark, I walked back towards town and headed straight for Sunny's place.