Power

Power chapter 1

The beginning

You were born with a strange and powerful gift. To do what no other person in the world could think of or do. To see different things. Though with great power comes great responsibility. Because with power, it can betray you. It may hurt someone or do something you don't want to do. Over time you must learn to control it, or you will be a monster. As you grow up, you learn more about your power and what you could do. But you realize that you had to keep it a secret as you grew older, and up to this very moment...

you failed.

You wake up fresh in your bed and filled your lungs with morning air. You look over at your clock, 6:26. You woke up before your alarm. Even though it was early, It felt good. Maybe because you didn't wake up to a constant beeping sound.

You smile, time for another day. You get up and stretch, looking down at your bed. It was a mess. You decide to leave it for later, once you’re up and about. You slowly skid your feet across the cold floor, eyes barely open, towards the kitchen and open the fridge to grab some milk. You place it on the table and grabbed some cereal and a spoon. You slump down in your chair and listen to the silence. You loved the quiet, but you never really liked to be alone. Which for some people is really hard to combine. Especially with your friends being so loud.

Just as you start eating, you hear the alarm go off and you hear your brother groan. And with a snap of your fingers, the alarm shuts off. Yes, you have many powers and you probably still haven't figured them all out to this day. Though one power, your most powerful power, was the ability... To stop time and roam around while everything is stopped. You can almost do anything. You can go forward or back into the future. It feels great to have so much power, and you’ve learned to control it.

So blah blah blah you go to school, do stuff, 'learn', and you come home. And for some reason you watch and read a lot of pony stuff online. Like human going to Equestria fan fics. And you remember all the time while reading those and writing those stories, you would give anything to go there, to be there. And one night, you just couldn't sleep. So many things stirred in your mind about Equestria, and you just couldn't forget about it. So you get an idea.

Though it was crazy, you had to try it. You leave a note saying 'I will be gone for a while, don't worry I will be ok,' Thank goodness it was summer, and today was the last day of school. 'I have my watch, I will be back sometime soon. Anon.” And you put down the paper and pencil. They were usually ok with this, because with your power you are very strong and they trusted you. Besides, you could take care of yourself.

You put your shoes on and a coat and you always had your trusty pocket knife on you, just in case. Not that you ever really needed it. Because with your power, depending on what you use, uses up energy. Like for say levitation, doesn't take a lot of energy. But If you tried something extreme, like trying to speed up the rotation of the earth to speed up the day, would either drain you dry or almost kill you. So you still had to be careful. Luckily, you always had something with you to boost your energy. Like sugar, or an energy drink. Or a special adrenaline drink you made to make you from wanting to die to feeling like the king of the universe. But you only use them in extreme cases.

So enough about you. You walk outside to your backyard and stand there concentrating. Listening to the wind and your heartbeat. Suddenly, you start to feel the wind pick up more intensively around you as clouds formed like a hurricane would. You start to levitate and see a bright light leak through your eyelids. You feel your muscles tensing and feel a nose bleed break out. You start getting a huge headache, like if you had a brain freeze from drinking a slurppee and kept drinking otherwise. That's what it felt like.

Your body felt like it was going to rip in half. You wanted to stop, to forget about it and just stay home and not leave. But you couldn't. You open your eyes in horror and then everything stopped. It was quiet and you felt calm. You feel cold, wet leaves on your back. The quietness relaxed you of your pain and hyperventilating. you open your eyes. Everything was dark. You quickly sit up, flinching a bit from pain, only hearing crickets in the distance. You get up and try to remember what happened.

...You quickly realize that you can’t remember anything. Where you are, who you are...You sit there panicking. You take a deep breath, and look around. Everything was dark. You look up to see stars and a dark, blue beautiful sky. You feel around your pants for your phone so you could use the flash light. You feel it and pull it out of your pocket, then let out a shaky exhale of relief. Only 10 percent charge left, in response, you let out a frustrated groan, with a hint of fear. You use what you can and head out, with no idea where you were going.

After a while of walking you soon realize that you were in the middle of some forest. But where? You had never seen this place before. After about 5 more minutes of walking, your flashlight turns off along with the rest of the piece of technology. "Great, now what?" You ask yourself aloud. You suddenly hear growling. You stop walking.

You hear the crunching of leaves behind you and you book it. With no idea where you were going, you bump into a few trees and bushes but you finally see a light at the end of the forest. One of the creatures jump out in front of you, sinking in claw deep into your chest and through your shirt, almost tearing it and you in two. Your eyes start to analyze the darkness and find that you were completely surrounded by the creatures.

One of them leaps out at you and you one-foot jump off of a tree, (Tic tac if you know parkour) and you run. After several minutes which felt like hours of running you finally outrun them. You stop to catch your breath and continue walking; or staggering. After some more time of walking, you feel as if you were about to pass out. You were drained dry of energy, but just as you were about to fall to the ground in defeat, a small house comes into your vision. More of a cottage really. You walk towards it but trip on a branch. You fall face first into the grass, not having enough energy to catch yourself or get up. You eventually pass out lying there, but wake up somewhere else.

You slowly open your eyes and look around the room. Your eyes lead down to look at your shirt at where the rip had been, the whole shirt was stained with blood and your skin was roughly dried from the blood. You have dry blood streams on your face from you’re assuming a nose bleed. You go to rub your eyes with your hands when you suddenly feel something wrapped around your wrist, keeping it from moving. The same with your other hand. You stare at them, shocked. And the same with your feet too.

You start rocking the bed you are in. "What the hell? Where am I?!" You scream as you start to panic. You suddenly hear a door open and then footsteps, but more surprisingly sounding like… hoofsteps, coming towards you. Your heart starts beating frantically. You breathe heavier as the footsteps got louder, and louder and you close your eyes when the object entered the room. You crack open your eyes very slightly and slowly and your eyes meet... A, pony? Or pegasus?

You were relieved. But then a bit confused. The pegasus looked at the floor and scooted around the bed. "Hey, do you mind telling me why I'm shackled up like I'm a experiment for something?" You ask urgently and shake your wrists and ankles.
There was silence. You look up at the pony and she looks away from you. "Hello?!" You urge again, raising your voice a bit. You hear some mumbles as if she was trying to say something. You try to make it out.

"Uh, what did you say?" You asked, all ears.

"I was just trying to help..." It said.

You barely make out what she said but you heard her. You look at your ripped shirt and pull it up with your teeth, and see that you have bandages around your chest and waist. "Oh, thank you. But would you do me a favour and let me go please?" You ask a bit more politely. She slowly scoots over to you and undoes the shackles on your wrists and ankles. You rub them in response and sit on the edge of the bed. You try to get up but your legs won’t move and you collapse back on the bed.

"Please, you need more rest. You should stay in bed. If you don't mind..." She squealed.
She was very polite, in a weird way. But you like her. You for some reason didn't mind the fact that you were in a room with a talking pony, you just wanted to get home somehow now. "I just have a question..." You ask looking at her and around the room.
"Y-yes?" She answered, curling up into a tight ball. You have to admit, she was kinda adorable. You didn't want to sound weird but, but you- ugh, never mind.

You pause for a second and then ask: "Where am I?" She looked at you funny and giggled.
"Oh, I'm guessing your not from around here, are you?" She asked looking at you with her giant... Eyes... Adorable. What? You didn't say anything, what are you talking about?-moving on. You shake your head no.
"Well, you're in Equestria. Ponyville to be exact." She blushed.
"What happened to you? I found you at the edge of the Everfree forest. And you were passed out and bleeding so I took you inside and fixed you up. I'm sorry if I scared you..." She said as she looked down.

"Well, I remember waking up in, the Everfree forest I guess. And I couldn't remember anything. So I started walking, and then I got chased by these, wooden creatures. I don't know, I didn't really get a good look. So I out ran them and passed out and you found me." You say, poking at the bandages around your waist.
"Oh, my." She covered her mouth with a hoof.
"Well it's good you found me when you did. I would've bled out if you didn't come along." She looked away to try to hide her glow. The conversation went from an awkward turn to an awkward silence.
"Well, you should get some rest. I'm going to get a nurse to fix you up tomorrow morning." She said as she got up off the bed. You nod and lay your head on the pillow. As soon as you did, you realize that the bed was kinda small. But you didn't really care. As long as you had a place to sleep with a roof over your head, you should be alright. Even if in a world with talking ponies...
You should be alright.