Chapters Chapter 1
Hello, my name is Youri. I am 21 years old, work on a high school as teacher, and live in a small apartment. So, just your average guy. Might not be the best life, but it was my simple life. But now I am being seen as national treat, code black, or something vague like that. And not by humans, but by ponies. Yes, you hear me. Ponies. Okay, I realize that this must be confusing for you, so lets start with the beginning.
So one of my friends was celebrating his birthday this afternoon, and invited me and a few other friends to come to his party. And let me already tell you: I don't like parties. Way to loud and way to much people. But my friend (his name was Kelvin, bydeway.) assured me to make it a small costumed party, with only his best friends.
And then another thing: costumed party. I did not get that. We were all grown up man, so why did we need to dress up like we were 12? But because he was my friend, I made myself a costume, because if I was going to wear a costume, it would be a costume I REALLY liked, and not some kind of weird devil costume that every store has. So I made my own costume out of plastic and cotton and that. I wanted to go as a evil vampire (don't judge me) and because I like skyrim a lot (again, don't judge me) I made my costume like this:
Let me already tell you, it was only the armor that looked alike. The guy that is in the picture looked nothing like me. I had black hair, with blue eyes, and a light skin. My hair was like two centimeters long, styled like a hedgehog.
With the costume, I made a black hood out of leather. It would cover up my hair and some of my face. To make a long story short: I looked badass. So when it was time for the party, I was confident that I would have the best costume ever. No, I KNEW that I had the best costume ever. I went to my bedroom and changed into my costume. I ate something before I left, and I was on the way. It was nice weather, so I decided to walk, as it was only a few streets away.
When I arrived at Kelvin's house, I knocked, and kelvin opened. He had red hair and.....wait, why am I telling you about my friend? This is about me!
''Hey, you made it,'' Kelvin said ''and nice costume, man. Come right in.'' he said as he let me in. I walked passed him into the living room, to see a few other people. Now, this is just normal. What wasn't normal was that I was the ONLY one wearing a costume of some sort.
''Kelvin, why am I the only one wearing a costume?'' I asked my friend as he also walked into the living room.
''Well, they decided not to come in costume,'' Kelvin said annoyed. ''and I am still not happy with it'' he said to the others.
''We forgot!'' one of them said
I sat down in a chair and started talking to the other guest while Kelvin got himself something to drink.
''What do you want to drink?''
''Some cola.'' I said back before starting to talk to the other guests while being really ashamed to be the only one in costume. After kelvin got back, we all talked while he turned on some music and putted some snacks on table. We just talked about work, woman and other things. I'm not going to tell you all what we said, because your probably not interested in that. A few hours passed and then we got to a topic I hated.
My little pony. Goddammit. One of Kelvin's friends started it, and soon whole the conversation was about it. Because Kelvin, and a lot of his friends, were ''bronies''. Okay, first tings first: I don't care what people do in their free time. That's up to them and I will not complain. But when a lot of your friends are bronies, (my situation) you kinda get sick of them talking about it. They even wore t-shirts with ponies on them. And because Kelvin talked about it so much, I also knew a lot about the show. I friking knew all the main characters by name. NAME!!! Kelvin even convinced me to watch a few episodes. I still don't get what people like about it. It's way to colorful and bright and everything is fixed with friendship. If you asked me, that pony princess had all the ponies brainwashed with her friendship ideas.
''...and that's why Rarity is best pony,'' one of kelvin's friends said
''Oh, hell no! Fluttershy is best pony!''
''Are you locko in the coco? Pinkie is-''
''COULD WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE?!'' I yelled ''I don't give a crap about ponies, so can we please stop this conversation?'' I asked. After that, we didn't talk about ponies that night, and just about likable things. Before I knew it, it was 2 A.M. The party ended there, as most of Kelvins friends, including me, were going home.
''Man, do you really need to go already? It was so much fun!'' Kelvin asked
''Sorry, but I need to be up at eight,'' I said as I was standing at his front door. ''See you next time.'' I said as I gave him a hand and opened the door to walk home.
''Bye Kelvin!'' I said one more time before setting out to go to my house. Even thought it was late, it was still comfortable outside. I was only walking for a few seconds as I saw thick droplets of water falling out of the sky. This was not good. My outfit was mostly made from cotton. I would become soaked if I didn't get home fast, so I started picking up speed.
A few seconds later, and the whole damn sky came down on me. I started running to get inside quick. I then noticed thunder in the sky. I stopped running and looked at the sky in disbelief. It was green. The clouds hanging above me were all green. The thunder that you could see once in a few seconds, was colored red. I had never seen anything like this. I started running again. This was not normal. I had to get inside quick. I was only one street away from my house, when I tripped over a branch.
''Fuck'' I yelled as I tried getting on my feet. Now the wind was blowing so hard, that I couldn't even hear my own voice. I tried getting on my feet again, while I slipped and landed on my back. I looked at the green clouds to see it being turned like some kind of tornado. It started making the clouds shift and a tornado of green clouds was coming right at me. The only thing I could do was screaming while the tornado wrapped around me.
All I could see was green while the tornado lifted me off the ground. It was the most scariest thing ever. But of course I did not scream like a little girl of eight. No, I screamed like a little girl of ten. Way manlier. Then the green clouds also got other colors. I could make out red, blue, and pretty much every color of the rainbow while I was being sucked further and further into the clouds. The last thing I remember was a light flash before the clouds disappeared. With me hanging in the air. I started screaming as I fell down. I saw a forest coming into view as I screamed at the top of my lungs. I saw that I was falling right down at some kind of pool in the forest. I landed in the pool with a loud SPLASH, before I climbed out of the pool.
And you know in movies, when someone falls into water and gets out of the water without any pain? In real life, it fucking HURTS when you fall into water from such a height. So I got out of the water, coughing and spluttering. I decided that I would just I lay down for a few minutes, because it felt like all the rips in body were broken.
So after the pain wasmostly gone, I started to look around me
''Where am I?'' I asked myself while I observed my surroundings ''Okay, I'm in the middle of a forest with tropical plants, which is not possible, because I have no forest close to home with tropical plants.'' I said while thinking about the situation.
''Okay, so I am likely to be miles away from my home, in the middle of some unknown forest, while nobody knows where I am. So being presented with those facts, gives me one conclusion about this all: I fucking hate my life!''
What also was weird, was the time of day. It looked like it was early in the morning, with the sun just coming up. But how is that possible? The whole tornado thing did take like 5 minutes. That means that it should be around two in the morning. This just wasn't logic at all. But it seemed that my brain got in some kind of autopilot and didn't worry about it back then. I needed to find people. A town, a village, hell I would even be happy with a single house with people. So I just started to walk in a random direction, hoping to find some kind of civilization.
As I was walking, autopilot kicked in, and to be honest, I do not know how long I walked and what I though about. Just after a time that could be minutes or hours, I reached the edge of the forest. That was the moment autopilot turned off and I again knew what was going on. I stepped out of the forest, and saw a small village. It sun was now up, and I guessed that it was around nine in the morning.
''YES!!!'' I yelled to myself. I was so glad to finally find people and a phone, so that I could go home. I then realized I was still wearing my costume with my hood on. What would they think, seeing me come into their town dressed like this. The weird glances I would get will be great I thought as I walked to the town.
It took a few minutes before I reached the town. What I saw there, still gives me nightmares. There were no people there. There where multicolored ponies walking the streets and talking to each other.
What the fuck is this? I thought as the ponies did their daily routine and not noticing me. The first thing I thought was that I was dreaming. One slap in my face, and it proved that I wasn't dreaming. I thought about dozens of other things, until one thought came into my mind: this is real. I started hyperventilating while looking at the town.
No no no, this can't be, this can't be. I need to run, need to hide, need to wake up, need to....calm down, calm down. I started to calm down a little as I looked at the town. Maybe one of those goddamn ponies has a way to bring me back to my world. Because now I was already assuming that I wasn't on my planet or universe anymore.
''Twilight! I need to find Twilight. She knows what to do,'' I said to myself. (Told you I knew way to much about this fucking world) I took a few deep breaths and walked in the town. Almost immediately all the ponies stopped and looked at me with fear. I stopped walking and looked around the town.
''...Uhm, hello?''
And hell broke loose. It looked like they saw Satan eating a child, or something like that. All the ponies started running and screaming monster while some passed out right on the spot. Others ran in their houses and smashed the doors shut, while others just ran in random directions
Okay what the fuck is wrong with these ponies? I thought as they all ran away. But then out of nowhere, I got hit in the head by a rainbow colored streak. I landed on the ground while hearing a loud bell in my head. I looked up to see a cyan colored pegasus with rainbow colored hair. I knew this one, this was Rainbow Dash, one of the main six. I did not get more thinking time as she flew over me and pressed me to the ground so that I couldn't get up.
''Would you be so kind to let me up?''
''Hey, I'm asking the questions here. You're not going to get up until you come with me peacefully,'' Rainbow said
''I don't have time now, I'm looking for-''
''It wasn't a question.'' She said as she added more pressure on my ribs. This was starting to annoy me really bad. I was being held here by some gay cyan pegasus for doing nothing wrong. I took a few deep breaths as I calmed down
''Okay, I'm gonna ask this one more time, would you please let me up.''
''Not a chance!'' Rainbow said.
''Okay, your choice!'' I said as all my patience was up. I hit her her in the head. She lifted a little of me, and that was what I needed. I rapped my arm around her neck and threw her off me. I quickly jumped on my feet, to see that the pegasus was already flying to me again. I quickly stepped to the left and rapped my left arm around her neck before pulling her into my chest, while my arm wrapped tighter and tighter on her neck. She got even bluer in the face as she couldn't breath. She started kicking, hitting and doing everything to get out of my choking grasp. After a few seconds, her fighting became less and less wild, because she was almost out of breath. Just before she passed out, I threw her into a building next to me.
''So, that's also dealt with,'' I said as I started walking further into the town.
The streets were all empty, except for a few brave ponies who looked at me like I was the devil. I looked around the town and saw that while it looked like a simple town from my world, it looked off. It took me a few minutes to realize what it was. It was to peaceful and beautiful. Everything was way to damn colorful. Everywhere I looked, there was color. Even the shadows made by the buildings and market stands where colorful. No dark, black shadows. Instead it was.... I don't know how to explain it. The shadows just had more... color. Does that sound weird?
It took me about twenty minutes before I reached the weird tree library. Let me tell you, on TV it looks way smaller. I reached the library and was just about to get inside when I heard someone yelling behind me
''STOP RIGHT THERE!!!!'' By now, I was starting to get pissed. Why can't nobody leave me alone.
''What now?!!'' I yelled as I turned around ''Can't you see that I'm-'' I stopped with talking as I saw 6 different ponies standing there, one which I already met. She had cuts and bruises on her, probably from me trowing her in a building, and she looked pissed. The other ponies were the rest of the main six.
''You have assaulted a citizen of Equestria, so come with us quietly and don't make this any harder on yourself, monster.'' The purple one said. That one was called Twilight, I think. The horned and winged pony. If I remember correctly, she was a princess. Now, I am normally not easily scared. But when 6 angry ponies stand in front of you, while you know that they are the bearers of the strongest weapons in Equestria, its scary. (of course, if their greatest weapon was friendship, it was less scary then something like a atom bomb, but I digress) But even though they were angry, I was pretty angry too, and I would not show them that I was scared.
''Finally, there's the welcome committee. I was wondering when you would show up,'' I said while grinning to myself ''What took you so long?''
''Don't play dumb. You attacked a citizen of Equestria. You shall be punished for this.'' Twilight said
''Punished? How are you gonna punish me? Using your 'friendship' on me. Whoo, scary.'' I said as I threw my hands back while pretending to be scared. ''Now if ya don't mind, I'm just searching to get home. So would you multicolored horses please step aside so that I can get going?'' I asked mockingly.
That did it. Rainbow Dash flew to me with enourmous speed and punched in my stomach. But instead of feeling pain, I barely felt anything. It appeared that my armor changed from plastic and cotton, to steel and leather. Dafuc? Before Rainbow would punch me in the face, I quickly gripped her arm with my right hand, and with my left hand, I hit her in the head. Before she could hit me back, I rapped my arm around her neck, and hold her to my chest again with my firm grip. déja vu
''Nobody move or I break her fucking neck.'' I said to them. Okay, that was probably a little to much evil, I know. But give me a break, will you! I have been sucked in a tornado, fell out of the sky, landed in water, drained of all my body heat by the cold water, found out that I was in a world with multicolored ponies and assaulted TWICE by a cocky rainbow colored pegasus. I think this was pretty justified. And it worked too, as the other ponies took a few steps back.
''Please don't hurt her,'' Twilight said while Rainbow was finally just holding still as she realized that her life could be over any moment.
''I won't hurt her if you step aside,'' They immediately stepped away, while I walked away slowly while looking at them to make sure they didn't try anything. ''If you follow me, she dies,'' I said before I started picking up some more speed while still walking so that I could view them all. They stood still as they slowly got out of my view. I walked until I reached the forest again.
''Hey, are you going to let me go now?'' Rainbow asked with fear.
''Of course.'' I said while rainbow gave a happy sigh, probably knowing that she would be safe. ''But first, I want you to sleep.'' I said before I hit her head so hard, that she passed out. I threw her on the ground and started running into the forest
Chapter 2
So now you know how I got in this mess, walking around in a forest, with the fear that every moment I would be found by a powerful magic user and princess. Okay, I doubt that she would go after me right now, seeing that she doesn't know if I have any magic powers, and due to the fact that she has no idea where I am in the forest. Because even I don't know where I am right now. I'm completely lost. But I don't care, I'm just trying to get away from that cursed town. I've been here not even a day, and I already fucking hate it here. The place is to colorful, and the inhabitants are just big pussies who are even afraid of their own shadow.
''Or,'' I started to say to myself ''they are unreasonable and racists. I just walked into the goddamn town. I did nothing wrong. BUT NO, lets attack the weird looking guy and hey, even thought the first time was self defense, lets act if he started it all! I swear, if I had any power, I would bring this world to its knees and teach those ponies a lesson,''
I stopped as I thought about that last thing I said. I mean, why wouldn't I try to take over? If all ponies were like this (and I was pretty sure they were) then they deserved a lesson. But at the same time: why would I try to take over? If I can find a way home, I would probably take it. But seeing that I threatened to kill a pony, I don't think I can count on the princesses to send me back, nor at the main six. So it seems that I'm stuck here until I find a way back on my own. Fuck
''So I'm probably stuck here for a long time, while the princesses and the bearers are looking for me. Not a very good situation,'' I said as I started walking again. ''So that gives me a few options: staying forever in these woods, get power to take over this world and teach them all a lesson, or get enough power and some kind of spell to send me back. Number one will not happen, I mean, I have no desire to stay hidden in the woods forever. And then for option number three, I don't even know if it's possible to cross worlds with the magic they have here. For all I know, its impossible. So that leaves me with one choice: taking over this world,'' I said as I walked the forest
And thinking about this also makes me wonder: how in all that's good on both worlds would I be able to take over this world?
But that was the least of my concerns, as I was probably an enemy of the state. The least I need is something to defend myself against the princesses and the government, because otherwise they were probably going to trow me into jail if they ever found me.
So I need power.
I need magic.
I need an army.
I needed my teddy bear.
As I was walking and thinking about this situation, I remembered something from the show. A episode Kelvin kinda forced me too see. It was a very vague episode, about some blue unicorn named..... what was it? Blixie? Dixie? Ugh, I don't know how she was called, but she wanted revenge on Twilight for something weird as hell, so she used an amulet. The allicorn amulet. It was basically a very powerful amulet, making the wearer a master of magic. But it also made the wearer corrupt, according to the show (talk about a lord of the rings ripoff)
''If I can get my hands on that amulet, it would make me very strong. But it would be a temporarily solution, because the amulet corrupts. Actually, now that I think about it, when I find the amulet, I need to make sure that it doesn't corrupt me. No idea how I'm gonna do that, but I'll find a way. Now think Youri, how are you gonna get the amulet.'' I remembered that a zebra took the amulet. Zecora was her name and she lived in the Everfree forest. So if anybody knew where the amulet was, it would be her. But how am I going to convince her to tell me where the amulet is. I remembered that she lived in the same forest I was in right now. The best place to look would be at the edge of the forest, I guess. Otherwise it would take to long to get out of the forest if she needed help or something. So I started to turn around and walk at the edge of the forest
''Where is her goddamn house?!'' I said as I looked around. Two hours has passed since I started looking for her house, and I haven't even found a clue where it could be. I started to become frustrated when I heard a scream. I ran to the sound of the scream, to see a pony cornered by wolves.
''Please, help me!'' he yelled out to me. What do I need to do? Should I save him? Why should I save him? He's probably just like the rest of the ponies. I turned around and decided to walk away.
''Please don't leave me here! HELP ME!!'' he yelled after me. Ugh, I'm way to nice for this world
I picked up a stick from the ground and ran to the wolves who were facing the pony. Before they turned around, I smashed the thick stick into the head of one of the wolves. To my surprise, it fell into a hundred pieces of wood.
These wolves are made of wood. Are you fucking serious?
I quickly smashed the head of another wolf, before the wolfs started to attack me. I waved the stick around and hit a lot of the wolves. Now let me tell you, I know nothing about using a sword. I just swung the stick to the right and left, hoping to hit the wolves, which it did. That would be another point to look for: someone who could teach me how to use a sword. Then from behind, one of the wolves bit in my arm holding the stick
''AU, SON OF A BITCH!!!!'' I yelled as I hit him with my free hand. ''LET GO, YOU ABOMINATION OF NATURE'' I yelled as I kept hitting him. But of course, he keeps hanging in my shoulder, the asshole. I turn around with the wolf on my arm, and smack the wolf biting my arm, into a wolf running to me. Both wolves were reduced to little wooden sticks.
I turn around to see a wolf jumping to bite me in the face. I quickly grab his throat before looking him into his green emotionless eyes before saying: ''hasta la vista'' and trowing him with his head on the ground. He also was reduced to little sticks. Yes, I know: I'm a badass
I turned to the pony who looked at me, too see a look that holds a mix between fear and being grateful.
''There, you're safe. Now you can go away and live your simple petty pony life again.'' I said as I walked away. But before I got anywhere, he called for me
''Wait, I still need to thank you,'' he said as he walked up to me ''If you need anything, anything, I get it for you. Its the least I can do.'' Now curiosity had me.
''What can you offer me then, pony?'' I asked him with my best evil voice. I saw that he started to look a little scared, but he still wanted to repay me for some reason. Man, ponies are weird.
''Well, I'm a salespony of uncommon and magic items. Anything you need that is associated with magic, I can get it for you.'' He proudly spoke. And now I remembered him. He was the pony that sold Blixie the allicorn amulet. This is great. He can give, or direct me, to the allicorn amulet, or give me another artifact of great magic. But I know that I have to be careful here. If I started about the amulet right away, he would become suspicious, and I would lose my chance of getting the amulet.
''Now that I think about it, there is something I could use.'' I said to him as I turned to him ''Do you have something that lets non-unicorns use magic? You see, it is a dream for me to use magic, but I never had enough money to learn how to use magic. For all I know, I can't even use magic on my own. Could you... I don't know, look with some spell if I could use magic?'' My god, this was the biggest lie I've ever told
''Well, there is a spell so that I can look if you can use magic. I can use it on you, if you're fine with it,'' the salespony said
''Go right ahead.'' I said as I stood still. His horn began to produce light, and soon my body was the same color as the light from his horn. It took a few seconds before his horn stopped pouring light.
''And, can I use magic?'' I asked hopeful
''Yes and no.''
''Oh, yeah, I can use... wait, yes AND no? What do you mean?'' I asked him
''Well, your special because you can use magic when you have an artifact or something like that. But otherwise, you can't use magic,''
''Why is that special? Can't just anybody with a artifact use magic?'' I asked the salespony as I was waving my hands around.
''No, not everypony can do that,'' He said annoyed ''actually its very rare for a creature to be able to use magic without a horn. The artifacts that increase magical ability only works on unicorns. Well, normally it does. But apparently you are able to use your inner magic when you have certain artifacts.''
''Really? What artifacts?''
''Well,'' the pony started ''there are a few artifacts that have that power. One is the crystal heart in the crystal empire,''
Okay the crystal empire. I have no idea where that place is, and coming there would not be easy without drawing attention to me
''And the other artifacts?''
''Well, there are a few artifacts, but the most renown is the allicorn amulet'' he stated
''The allicorn amulet?'' I said while pretending not to know what it is ''What's that?''
''I'm not allowed to speak about that.'' he said nervous.
''Oh come on, There is nobody here.'' I pointed out. He sighed before speaking again
''Alright, but don't tell anybody else this.'' My god, these ponies are stupid. Is he seriously going to tell me about this while he is not allowed to? And only because I saved his life?
''Its called the allicorn amulet. It gives the wearer an enormous amount of magical power. But its power comes with a large price: everypony wearing the amulet will become corrupt. In fact, the princess found that the amulet was so dangerous, that they hidden it.'' alright, until now he only spoke about things I already KNEW about the amulet (except that the princesses hid the amulet) so tell me where the amulet is.
''Do you know where the amulet is?'' I asked him
''I have no idea. It could be everywhere. But if you don't mind, its starting to become dark and I really need to get out of this forest.'' he said while walking away ''If you ever need my help, just search for my stand in Manehattan.'' he said before disappearing out of my sight.
''Well that was a waste of time. And now its starting to become dark.'' I said as I started walking again. I needed a place to stay for the night. Maybe a cave or something. The hell, I would even be happy with a hole in the ground. While walking the forest, I noticed that lesser and lesser light came in. After a few minutes, it was completely dark outside. I knew that I had to find shelter fast, or else more of those wooden wolves could attack.
I searched some more, before coming in a open field. I can describe this place only by one word: creepy. You couldn't even see the ground, because thin layers of some kind of smoke were floating a few centimeters above the ground. The soft moonlight shined down, to give the place a kind of scary vibe. I noticed a rope bridge at the end of the clearing. The whole scenery was with one word spooky. And I loved it.
I started walking to the makeshift bridge. A bridge meant that there had to be people (or ponies...ugh) at the other side. As I came close to the bridge, I saw that I had to be careful. It looked like it could break any moment. I started walking on the bridge while saying my last thoughts to god.
''...and I'm sorry for that one time I stepped on a ladybug, but please lord, don't let the bridge break!'' I said as I was walking. After a few seconds, when I opened my eyes again (yes I had them closed because....light was shining in my eyes, yeah that's a good explanation) to see that I was already on the other side of the bridge. I then noticed the large building in front of me.
It was dark, so I couldn't make out details of the building. I did saw however, that it looked like that it probably was a castle a few hundred years ago. It was one large building, were certain rooms and walls were gone. From were I stood, I could see that some ceilings were also gone.
''This might be a good place to stay for the night,'' I said to myself. I walked up to the door and started pulling at the door. No movement. I tried again. Still no movement
''Oh come on, you stupid door!'' I said as I pulled again. I then thought of something ''Please don't let that be the case.'' I said as I started pressing against the door. With one smooth movement, the door opened.
''Goddammit,'' I said as I entered the castle. It was already very late, so I decided that I would just find a chamber with some carpet in it and to sleep on that. Lucky for me, such chamber was right next to the entrance hall of the castle. I lay down on the carpet, and fell asleep
Chapter 3
I awoke the next morning, feeling like a piece of shit. The floor is not really comfortable, even if their is carpet. I looked out a window and saw that the sun had just risen. It took a few seconds for me to realize where I was. Then it all came back to me. The storm, Ponyville, the castle I had slept in.
''So it wasn't a dream,'' I said as I stood up. I would really like some coffee right now. I then started walking a little trough the castle. I did not come far however, as it became darker with each step deeper in the castle. So I decided to just turn back. It wouldn't help me if I could not see anything. (no, I'm not scared of the dark, dammit)
I came back to the entrance hall and started to look around. I noticed that in front of me there was a big staircase. Where I stood, just in front of the staircase, there where different corridors you could walk in. There were three at the left, and three at the right.
''Okay, I'm gonna go... the second one on the right!'' I walked into the corridor and just started walking down. It was way lighter here than in the other section. Probably because there were windows here. I then reached a big double door. And big door always meant something. Mostly the protection of the things behind that said door door. And if something needed protection, it would be valuable or powerful. I started pulling at the door
''Oh, come on, open you.... oh goddammit!'' I said as I pushed against the door. And of course, it opened smoothly. I walked inside to see a very nice sight. It was a library. And a big one too. Now normally, I don't like reading. I don't understand why people read for fun. Watching TV is way more fun. But if I could learn anything from a book, I would gladly read it. Ever heard of the saying: knowledge is power? So I was really glad that this ruin had a functional library. I walked into the library and walked down the bookshelf's.
The library was divided in two sections. The old-and new section. The old section was the biggest, with the most books. The problem was that those books where in some weird other language.
''Dafuc is this?'' I said as I was looking in a old book. This was not working. While it was the same alphabet we had, it was another language altogether. I set the book back and walked to the new section. Lucky for me, this books were written in normal English. I picked up a book called 'Equestria and everything you need to know about it' and started reading
It was a very helpful book as I was reading it trough. But why was I reading it, you ask? Well, while I knew a lot of this world there was also a lot I didn't knew. This book helped me with all the basics I needed to know. Of course, I also read about things I already knew, like that there were two princesses who ruled this land, before one became corrupt. I knew this already because Kelvin forced me to watch the first two episodes as well. I didn't pay much attention to the episode, though. So then I read that the princesses raised the sun and the moon
''Oh oh oh, Celestia and Luna, you little, little liars. I have to say, its a smart way to control your people. Let them believe that you raise the sun and the moon, so that they wouldn't dare to take over. Seriously, this is something that many other dictators did to control their people!'' I just skipped the part about them raising the sun and moon. It was to stupid to read. Then I came to a chapter that made me curious.
''different creatures'' I said out loud before starting to read.
It was very interesting. There was info about those weird wooden wolves, (which are called timber wolves, bydeway) and what they could do. I read about manticores and hydra's. But I also read about creatures who were lesser known, like a cockatrice. I then found something that shocked me.
In the creature section was also something written about some kind of dogs. These dogs walked on two legs and were, according to the book, only interested in gems and fortune. They were called diamond dogs. Now, why did those diamond dogs stood out? The book said that they were all sentient. So that meant they have to feel emotions, that they had be able to think, and have memories and experiences. But if something is sentient, then not everyone of the species think alike. So that meant that not all diamond dogs would only care about gems. This didn't make much sense.
I looked if I could find the one who wrote this book. I didn't find any writer. I did found the publisher of the book, though. The national publisher. I started doing some research to the publisher, because you know, a library....duh. It took a few minutes and I already found what I needed. The publisher was sponsored by the princesses. With other words, the princesses had total power about what would be published and what not. Because to make sure I was right, I started picking random books out of the bookshelf's. All the books I picked, were from the the national publisher.
I was still not sure, however. So I took another book about creatures of Equestria. It said the same thing about diamond dogs. Of course, it did say it somewhat different, but it came down on this: diamond dogs only care about gems. In one book their was even written that it was common knowledge.
''Does the books also say how to deal with them?'' I said as I was looking in the books ''Ah, here. Advised is to stay away from the diamond dogs, as nopony knows how they react. If they by chance come to your town, hide inside until they are gone. If you know something about fighting, try scaring them off or to fight them. But only do so as their is no escape.''
I closed the book and was silent for a few minutes. This world does not look so innocent anymore. Not because this world has diamond dogs, but how much power the princesses have here. There is no way this info was correct. If a being is sentient, then they are not mindless beasts that only want food (or in this case, gems) The ponies did not view the diamond dogs as equals. They saw them as mindless beasts, thanks to the info.
Okay, I might be wrong here. I thought This could be real info, and the diamond dogs really DID only care about gems. After all, I have never seen these diamond dogs in the first place. But the fact that the ruling factor here has the power to deny something to be published, is a worry. You know, now that I think about it, I think I need to meet these diamond dogs.
I read the first book again, and apparently most diamond dogs lived in the mountains south of Equestria. Those mountains went on to the zebra kingdom. (seriously, A zebra kingdom?) There lived the most diamond dogs. Trough the rest of Equestria, some packs lived underground. Lucky for me, their was a dogs den very close to the ruin.
I was about to get outside, when I tripped over a book
''AU, FUCK!'' I yelled. ''Stupid book.'' I stood up and picked the book up. It was a book about the old castle in the everfree....wait, that's this castle. ''This might be good'' I thought as I opened the book to read.
Now, most of it was stupid background info. About the two royal sisters, yadayada. But there was one thing that stood out of the book. Apparently there were magic lanterns in this castle, that you could activate by saying a password. When you said the password, the lanterns in this castle would stay on forever. They would only stop bringing light if you said the password again. Lucky for me, the password was in the book. You could also do a password for each chamber, and chance the password. Not going to tell how you did that all, because you were probably not interested.
''So, to activate them, I have to say: let there be light.'' as soon as I said it, a few lights flew on in the library. I putted the book down and walked out of the library, to see that there was also light in the corridors. In fact, whole the castle was lighted.
''Awesome!'' but before I started walking to the entrance hall, I picked up the book about the castle. I decided that I would do some exploration first, before going to the diamond dogs. I want to know more about the diamond dogs, but they are not going anywhere. And it might be better to know the castle better before trying to figure out more about the dogs. I also saw opportunities with the castle. It was clear that no one has lived in this castle for quite some years now. This could be a great hiding place for me.
But the ruins do need work to make them like they once were, a castle. And it needed A LOT of work. There where cracks in the walls everywhere. The ceiling of a lot of rooms were broken of, while lying on the ground. To make a long story short, the castle needed a lot of work. I saw in a window that there was a second building. It was just a very small building, looking from here. That building did not survive time as well as this building. From where I stood, I could see that whole the ceiling was gone, just as most of the outer walls. Someone could see that there used to be a building there, but that was it.
Lucky for me, it seemed that the other building was just outside these buildings. That was good, because if the building... okay, lets just say that the building where I'm standing right now is building one, and the building that is almost gone is building two. So it was good that building two was not so close to building one, because that means it had no strategical value. So that meant that I didn't need to find a way to restore building two.
I started walking again and exploring. After a hour I had discovered all the rooms that were still pretty much usable. I found a kitchen, a room that was in some period in time the barracks, a throne room, a war room, a eating section and some other rooms. I also found the master bedroom, with the bed already gone. The cabinets and all the other stuff was still in there, though.
I also found something else when I was looking out of a window. I saw that next to the castle, was a section with a lot of rocks on them. The fun thing was that I could make out some rails that went in a tunnel. My guess is that it used to be some kind of mine back when this building was still a castle.
When i'm fixing the castle, I can use rocks from that mine to rebuild te castle, I though as I started wandering trough the castle again
But there was one room that perked my interest. On first sight, it looked like a library. But when I walked into the room, I saw that there were no books here. No, there were scrolls here. And not just normal scrolls, no. Magic scrolls. I walked and picked a scroll up. I opened the scroll to see a lot of weird scrabbles on it. I had no idea what stood on the scroll. But with a little research I would find out.
Not right now, though. Because I couldn't use magic without an artifact. It was around lunchtime right now, and I remembered that I hadn't eaten since I arrived here. I walked outside, looking if I could find some plants I could eat. I found some weird berries on a bush, and ate them.
''Hmm, not bad.'' I said as I ate all the berries on the bush. ''So I guess its time to find those diamond dogs,'' I said as I was finished my meal. I stood up and walked to the place were the dogs would be.
Chapter 4
It didn't take as long to get to the clearing as I thought it would take. In fact, it only took about 15 minutes to get there. It was a ....why am I telling you how it looked liked? We all know how a clearing looks. Just a clearing with a lot of stones. That's it. So I came there and I started looking for a sign of the diamond dogs. I searched for a good twenty minutes before giving up. This was way too much work. As I was about to get back to the castle, I heard voices somewhere to the left of me. I started walking to the place, to see three Diamond dogs standing there talking to each other
''But what are we're going to do? If Rover finds us, were doomed!'' one of them said
''We have to flee. We need to get to the mountains before he finds us.'' another one said
I had heard enough. I saw big opportunities with these dogs. It was clear that they wanted to flee for someone called Rover. I might convince them to join me I thought to myself. I pulled my hood over my head and sneaked right behind them
''Hello, gentleman.'' I said in my most evil voice. They immediately turned around
''What are you?'' one of them said
''Oh, that's not important,'' I said ''what is important is what you talked about. I heard a name called 'Rover'? And that you were on the run?''
''Yeah, but why do you want to know about him?''
''Because I might be able to help you, if you're willing to tell me what the problem is.'' I said. They seemed to think if they could trust me, Apparently, they thought I was trustworthy, because one of them started talking.
''Yeah, we are fleeing from Rover. He is the boss of the group settled here. We are fleeing from him because....''
''Because what?''
''Because he only lets us work in the mines. He only cares for gems, and the whole group is supposed to dig day in day out to find those gems. The whole group is starving, and Rover still wants them to continue.''
''But why don't they all just go away?'' I asked him
''Because diamond dogs have great moral standings. When a diamond dog swears that their loyal, it is for life. Its considered a sin to abandon your master if you have done the oath. That's why nobody can leave.''
''So, then why are you leaving?''
''We just couldn't take it anymore. We had to flee. I know that you probably think that we are the worst creatures.''
Now, these were creatures I liked. They actually had moral standards, and did not only care for gems (at least, most did not) if I could convince them to join me, they would make excellent soldiers. This also proves my theory that Celestia decides what comes into the books here
''You know, I want to help you and the whole group. Tell me where the home of Rover is, and I will gladly show him who the boss is.'' I said to them. They all looked like I was a mad men
''Are you crazy?'' one of them said ''You never get close to him. If you want to take him out, you have to challenge him to a duel.''
''Why wouldn't he send his minions to me if I challenge him to a duel?'' I asked
''Because it's forbidden to do so if someone wants a duel.''
''Okay, so where is this hole of yours?''
It took another five minutes before we reached the entrance. It was a hole in the ground, that went deeper and deeper. Lucky for me, there were no guards outside, so we could just walk inside. How farther we went in the cave, how more howling could be heard. Eventually, we reached a large hall underground, and what I saw there, stunned me beyond belief.
There, in the center of the room, were lost of diamond dogs busy digging while howling. From where I looked, I could see the ribs of some of the dogs. It was clear that they didn't like doing this. My thoughts were interrupted by yelling. I looked to the place where the sound came from, to see a diamond dog with a red vest. Looking at how he treated the other dogs, with his yelling, it was clear that he was the leader of the bunch. I walked up to him, still unseen by him and the dogs working, and I stopped a few meter behind him
''Rover, I challenge you to a duel!'' I yelled through the cave. Everybody working stopped and looked at me. Rover also turned around and looked at me.
''Who are you?'' He asked while looked at me. '' I have never seen anything like you before.''
''It doesn't matter who I am. I want a duel with you, right here, right now!'' I said in my bravest tone. But in truth, this was the moment I realised that this could end badly for me. That didn't stop me though, as I stood there trying to look tuff. Rover looked at me for a few seconds before he started to laugh
''If you want to die, then so be it. I accept your duel.'' Before I could say anything, Rover threw himself at me, with the intention to punch me in the face. I quickly tried to jump out of the way, but because I was focussing on avoiding his fist, I didn’t noticed until it was too late, that Rover tried to kick me.
Rover kicked my legs away. I felt on the floor. I tried to get up, but Rover was on my back in a few seconds, trying to hold me down while punching on my back. Lucky, I knew to grab his arm. I pulled him closer to me, while I knocked my other arm back, to hit him in his stomach. After a loud yell from Rover, the weight on my back lifted a little. This gave me the chance to throw Rover of my back.
I turned around to Rover, just in time for him to hit my face. I quickly stepped two passes back while holding my nose. A red liquid was coming out of my nose. I had no time to wipe it away, however, as Rover run up to me to hit me again. This time I saw it coming though. I grabbed his arm and made sure he couldn’t move the arm, while hitting his extended arm. A loud sound of crushing bones filled the cavern.
Before I could hit him again, Rover kicked me between the legs. Rover threw himself on to me again while I was on my knees, holding my balls he just kicked. Before he could get me down, however, I hitted his stomach
This time, I jumped on Rover. We rolled around for a few seconds, before Rover was on his back, with me below him. I quickly threw my arms around his neck (the same technique I used on Skittle hair before) and started to add pressure. But Rover was way stronger and I could barely press his throat close. Before I had to let him go however, I used all my strength to force his head to the right. Again, a loud sound of crushing bones filled the cavern. This time, however, it stayed awfully quiet after the sound.
I threw the dead dog of me, and stood up. I looked around the room too see that all the dogs were looking at me with shock. After a few seconds, they all started to bow for me
Dafuc?
It took me a few seconds before my brain registered what happened. They saw me as their new leader. Awesome!
‘’Diamond dogs, I am Youri, the dark lord.’’
Why did I use my own name? I could have had the best villain name like Harkon, but instead I said my real name. Good job!
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It took a few hours before I knew what to do. The first thing I did was looking through the cavern. I found out that there was in fact enough food for everybody, but Rover didn’t want to share the food. I of course made sure that every dog got a good meal.
There were 30 diamond dogs in this pack, including the three that tried to run away. At first, the other dogs almost killed them, because they did something so heinous in their culture. I made sure that they wouldn’t be killed, saying that if it wasn’t for them that they wouldn’t have food right now. That seemed to calm the other dogs enough to not kill the three.
But I have to give it to Rover: he knows how to make a fortune. There was one section of the cave where Rover putted in all the gems and valuable items. I almost made a happy dance right there. Whole the room was filled with the gems. And it wasn’t a small room either.
I thought of what to do next
‘’Diamond Dogs,’’ I said as I sat at the head of the table while they were eating their meal, ‘’I decided what we will do next. We are moving.’’ There were some small whispers under the crowd, that stopped as soon as I hold up my hand
‘’But before I tell you more, I like to know something. How are you as species treated here in Equestria?’’ I asked. It remained silent before one of the dogs started to speak
‘’Good, except that we aren’t allowed to enter the pony cities.’’
‘’Are you being treated differently?’’
‘’Now that you say it, yes we are,’’ one of the other dogs said. ‘’When you compare us with the ponies, the ponies have way more rights then we have.’’
‘’Aren't you angry about that,’’ I asked them
‘’Yes, but what can you do about it?’’
‘’We can at least try something! I don’t know what you think about it, but I don’t want to be treated differently!’’ I yelled as I slammed my fist on the table
‘’I have been insulted and attacked without any reason. And when I fought back, all the ponies were angry on me. While I was just defending myself! I will not stand that we are being seen as lesser than the ponies. They pretend to be all about friendship, but then why do they judge without even knowing?’’ I stood up to stand above the diamond dogs
‘’They have better food, because they don’t allow you to trade with them. They have houses, while you live underground, because they don’t allow you to make your own city.’’ I shouted. I saw that some dogs were starting to cheer
‘’Do you want food?’’
‘’Yes.’’
‘’Do you want to have a house?!’’
‘’Yes!’’
‘’But what’s more important: DO YOU WANT TO BE EQUAL?!!’’
‘’YES!!’’
‘’Then follow me, and someday, you shall be treated the same as the ponies.’’
‘’YEAH, YOURI, YOURI, YOURI,’’
I sat back as they started to cheer and yell my name.
Celestia, its time for a rebellion.
Chapter 5
It has been five days since I became the new pack leader.
The first thing we did after the meal, was transporting the gems to the castle. The diamond dogs had carts in the caves that we used to transport the gems with. We also took all the other things that could come in handy. You know, things like scissors, clothes and mining tools
We also brought the food with us. This was more difficult to transport, as we needed to make sure that we didn’t crush certain kinds of foods. But I figured that even though this would take longer to take with us, it would still be beneficial. The food was enough for around two days, if we were careful
But after 8 fucking hours, we finally had everything transported.
But because it was already very late, I ordered them to go to sleep. The next morning, I told them what we would do. (After breakfast, of course)
Every vein in my body told me to make an attack on Ponyville and get even with those stupid ponies. But my rational thinking stopped me from launching an attack. There were way more ponies in Ponyville then that I had Diamond dogs to help me. Plus, these diamond dogs have no training whatsoever. And even if we manage to destroy Ponyville, then we would draw attention to us that we couldn’t use right now
So I decided that 15 diamond dogs would stay with me at the castle, and help me rebuild it. From the 15 diamond dogs that were over, I decided that 10 of them would go hunting and gather food. The other 5 diamond dogs would go and rob small farms and houses that were at the edge of the forest. That would give us furniture, without drawing too much attention to us
And this continued for three days like this. After the third day, a lot of the castle was already rebuild with the rocks from the mine. The group that was robbing houses brought home a few beds and furniture. It wasn’t enough for everybody, but it was a start.
I’m reading a book in the library right now, trying to find out what to do next. It would be neat to have more soldiers, but then I have to go out of Equestria to find them, and we just renovated this castle.
I also thought about getting some kind of informant that can tell us what’s going on in the rest of Equestria. I need to know what’s going on in the rest of the country, because that can be really beneficial. But that idea is also not possible yet, as the ponies think that all Diamond dogs are brutes, and don’t allow them into their cities.
‘’Boss, boss!’’
I looked up from my book to see a one of my soldiers running to me
‘’This better be important,’’ I said to him as he came to halt in front of me
‘’We have finished making the smelter.’’
Oh, I forgot to tell you. I also ordered them to make a smelter and other tools to make armor and weapons. The mine that lies next to the castle has a lot of iron in it, and I can use that to make weapons and armor for the soldiers.
Yesterday, I was reading a book that told how to make those things. I also ordered one of the diamond dogs, Sam, to read the book as well. I chose him because he was one of the little diamond dogs that could read
A smile crept in my face as I heard the news
‘’Good. Tell Sam that he can start making weapon number 1 and armor set 1, thirty times. If he needs other dogs to help him, he can use some of the diamond dogs that helps repair the castle. Oh, and get Jan for me. Now go!’’ I watched him go until he was out of my sight.
I picked up the book and started reading again. After a few minutes, Jan walked in.
‘’You called for me, boss?’’ Jan asked me as he stood a few metres away from me, looking really uneasy.
‘’Yes, Jan. I heard that you have some knowledge about fighting. Is that true?’’
‘’Well, I-I’’
‘’Do you have any knowledge about fighting, yes or no?!’’
‘’I know some basic techniques.’’
‘’Good, that’s all I need’’ I thought
‘’Then you’ll do just fine. I’m going to show you all different fighting techniques and you are going to train the the other soldiers.’’
‘’How do you know a lot of fighting techniques?’’ Jan asked me
‘’From years of practise’’ I learned it from a book I read here. ‘’I’m going to show you the techniques now
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Its now two days after I thought Jan how to fight. It were just basic moves and all that, so it didn’t take so long to learn him this. Jan was already busy teaching the other dogs to fight.
Sam also finished the armor and the weapons. He made armor out of leather the hunters gathered for us. Some parts of the armor had small iron nets on top of it, to make the armor stronger. The reason that I ordered to make the armor out of leather, is that the diamond dogs are faster with this then with iron armor (and I kinda used all the iron and steel for the swords)
But now that we have have the right equipment, its time to get enough furniture for the castle. I know that I had dogs robbing small farms, but we just didn’t get enough furniture. So I came up with the plan to go rob a furniture store in Ponyville. Tonight, I will go to Ponyville with a few of my men… or dogs, whatever
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‘’Is everydog ready?’’ I stood on a platform outside my castle, speaking to my man one more time before we went to Ponyville. I decided to take 15 diamond dogs with me. I actually didn’t want to bring so many of my soldiers, for the fear of being detected, but if I took lesser men, then we wouldn’t be able to load all our cars full with furniture, and I REALLY didn’t want to go a second time.
‘’Lets take talk about the plan one more time. We go into Ponyville trough sideroads, and search for a furniture shop. We will break in through the back door, and try to steal everything without being seen. Okay?’’
‘’Okay,’’ the dogs said in union.
‘’Then lets go to Ponyville!’'
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