An Adventure Gone Right?

Chapter 1

Unexpected Arrivals

“Happy Birthday!” I heard being shouted while a set of hands were removed from my face, while my vision readjusted to the light I noticed a cake with candles in it and my family gathered around wishing me a happy birthday. “Really guys?” I asked unable to suppress a smile from spreading across my face while walking over to them and allowing the hugs to commence, Can’t say I’m a very big fan of hugs but during birthdays I’ll be fine and accept them. The party was being held in my family’s rumpus room and had been completely redecorated to be more suited to a party setting.

“My big boy finally turning 20” I heard my mother say with a tear falling from her eye while hugging my father who gave me a huge smile, I could tell he was proud of me and also happy for me but I could sense something was knowing at him and wondered what it was. I was about to ask him if something was wrong but was dragged away to blow out the candles by my aunt. “Make a wish!” I heard everyone yell as I blew the candles out and made my wish.

Blowing out the candles I closed my eyes and wished ‘I want to go on amazing adventures just like my father used to’ I kept my eyes closed until everyone cheered and yelled another “Happy Birthday.” While opening my eyes I saw my best friend holding a non-serrated knife ready for me to use on the cake, I took it from him and heard him mutter something stupid about me cutting myself. Giving my friend Mark a hit on the head I went back over to the cake and started to slice through it narrowly avoided the bottom I heard everyone boo, I love to please a crowd so I pushed down once more and felt the knife hit the bottom of the platter. “Time to kiss a girl” I heard someone shout out, looking over to my mother I gave her a small kiss on the cheek before returning to the cake to help cut it up and hand the pieces out.

My mother always knew what I wanted during birthdays and the cake was no exception, for today she had prepared a delicious chocolate mud cake which was my favourite even though she herself hated it for a reason she never fully explained to me. While eating my slice of cake and experiencing the amazing heaven my father came to pull me away. “What is it dad?” I asked giving him a smile which radiated enjoyment.

“So what did you wish for?” He asked while reaching into a closet and pulling out a very large and carefully wrapped box which I didn’t notice.

“Oh you know dad just the usual” I brushed it off before seeing him frown. Caving in I told him the exact wish “I wished that I could go on an adventure just like the ones you used to” I told him while smiling happily and blushing a bit from embarrassment as to having to tell someone my wish and especially my father whom the wish was based around.

I noticed something flash in his eyes and thought it was a mixture of pain and fear, it was for only a brief millisecond but I noticed it nonetheless and was about to say something before he thrusted the gift into my arms and simply said “You might need this on those adventures then” with a smile he motioned for me to open it.

I dashed into the kitchen and lay the gift on the table while examining it, ‘what could be inside this’ I thought to myself while running my hand along the floral wrapping paper. Tired of waiting and guessing I started to tear at the gift wrapping and soon there was none left and a box stood in its place, I looked at my father with confusion but he just made a motion which told me to open the box. Opening the box I was given the biggest surprise of my life and couldn’t help but scream in joy “Thanks so much Dad, I’ll take it whenever I go away to look for adventures.” I yelled happily and took out what looked like a very old sword holding it in my hands. “This is such a good gift dad, thanks a lot” I said to him while rushing over to hug him tightly.

“Where did you get this Dad?” I asked quickly “On one of your adventures?” I finished the question just as fast as I posed it. He simply nodded and told me he got it just after we went on that trip which ended up in us finding all those gems in the cave. I pulled away from the hug and ran back into the rumpus to show off my new sword and present, leaving my father in the kitchen to think about his past.

“Please tell me he won’t have to fight that monster and if anyone has to it’s me” My father whispered to himself praying I would never have to go through that hell he went through twelve years ago.

I had run back into the room and brandished the sword proudly in front of my friends and relatives “Look what Dad got me Mum” I shouted while holding the sword safely and away from anyone close to me. She turned around from talking and gasped with a shocked expression on her face “Harold!” she shouted while storming into the kitchen angrily. I returned to the party and unwrapped my other presents although none even came close to being as cool as my father’s gift.

In Equestria

“The 6000th year of freedom celebration is upon us in a matter of days my princess” A royal advisor spoke to the princess who sat at her throne lazily levitating her crown in front of her “We need to plan the activities for the day and whether or not the parade will start in Canterlot and carry on all the way to Pony Ville, or if it’s to stay in just Canterlot” the Advisor continued talking while reading from a scroll.

“Just have it start in Canterlot then as they reach the borders get some unicorns to teleport them to Pony Ville, thus cutting the travel time and allowing them to continue immediately from where they left off” The princess answered while levitating her crown back onto her head and looking at the mare in front of her.

“Yes Princess” the mare wrote down what she had just said and then hurried off, her heels clicking on the tiles neatly and perfectly while rushing away to get the plans finalized. Celestia looked up from her throne and saw a stained glass window that she had made immediately after the battle; it depicted a stallion and her fighting Blaire the evil unicorn. She was wielding magic while the Stallion was wielding a sword and shield, she never let it slip that the stallion had actually been human and disappeared after that day to never be seen again.

While staring at the stained glass she noticed that it changed right in front of her and after a few seconds showed the Stallion and princess on the ground drowning in their own blood while the unicorn stood over them laughing happily in triumph. She was about to call her guards but heard a voice call out “I’m back Princess and this time your little hero isn’t here with his sword to save you.” She recognized that voice and shuddered in fear as if the room had suddenly gotten ice cold in temperature, “Now I won’t be returning straight away as that would ruin my fun but I will be messing with you from the sidelines” The voice which was now recognized as Blaire’s spoke out before disappearing as if it had never been there in the first place.

Celestia was left sitting on her throne shivering in the fear that Blaire would bring upon his return to the world, and without her sister Luna or Harold she knew there was no chance she could win and keep her kingdom alive. “Please Faust” she cried “Bring my saviour back to me” Celestia sobbed out while tears streamed down her cheeks and onto the cold tiles beneath her.

“Princess is something wrong?” Celestia’s guard asked while running into the throne room while hearing her sob, they had their spears and sword ready respectively and some were ready to use magic to fight back whatever was there. A stallion stepped forward and took his helmet off “Princess is everything all right” he asked with a kind voice and knelt down to look at her.

“I’m fine shining armour. I just need a minute because of the stress remembering what happened those 6000 years ago.” Celestia gave an uncertain smile with standing up off her throne and walking out of the room in a calm manner. Once outside the room and vision of the guards she broke into an all-out sprint and made her way to her bedroom where she slammed the door and collapsed on the bed praying that Blaire was not returning.

Back on Earth

The party had finished a long time ago and I was helping my parents clean up, why? Because that’s the kind of man I was raised into. While taking the trash out and putting it onto the curb I strapped my sword onto my side just to see how it felt, can’t say it felt right and soon adjusted it onto my back just like those movies I’ve seen and this felt a lot more natural to me although my mother said I looked stupid. She was completely against me receiving this gift and had been using everything against me; Cut myself with it “Dangerous weapon”, Drop it “Could’ve killed someone” and many more. For some reason I believe they know something about this sword I don’t and wanted to know what it was.

Approaching my Dad I was about to speak when I saw him crying to himself “Why are you crying dad?” I asked while patting him on the back. He just shrugged and said “I have no idea why” he sounded frightened while saying that to me and then I decided to leave him to his own thoughts and returned to cleaning.

A few hours later I was finished cleaning and had a small drink my parents who were now on the couch panting from the exhaustion of moving so much stuff out of the house and some of it into my old room for me to collect the next day. I stood up off the couch and told them I was going to leave for home “Hang on I’ll drive you” My father said trying to stand up but falling around a bit due to the alcohol he consumed earlier in the day. He ended up just flopping back onto the couch and sighing with annoyance, my mother was much the same and didn’t even try to stand up already knowing she would wobble and eventually fall to the ground.

“It’s okay Dad I’ll just walk” I spoke to him with a smile and then picked up my sword and bag which held my overnight gear since I had stayed at their house the night before due to the party. ‘I don’t even know why I brought this’ I thought to myself but shrugged it off and made my way to the door “Bye Mum, Bye Dad” I said to them before leaving out the door and heading over to the sidewalk. I could hear them complaining about something but brushed it off as being about the sword I wasn’t supposed to have due to it being too dangerous.

The walk home was not particularly exciting aside from a few kids who called me names due to my getup saying I looked gay and other hurtful words, Brushing the delinquents off I started to cross a street but didn’t see a truck completely speed down the road and come straight for me. Instinctively I brought my arms up to try and protect my face but it didn’t do much as I got hit by it anyway, at least I think I did because the next thing I remember was falling from the sky and then blacking out to the sound of screams and shouts.

In Equestria (Third person)

“Princess please come out of your room we need you to be present for the Canterlot Parade as it passes by” Celestia’s advisor yelled through the door to a Saddened Celestia, she got ready immediately not wanting to keep her subjects waiting and made her way out of the room towards her elevated position where she would watch the parade pass by before disappearing to Pony Ville.

“It’s been days since you left your room for anything other than eating and raising the sun Princess” the advisor spoke in a distressed manner hoping the Princess was okay. She just nodded and continued to make her way down the hall with the advisor.

“I’ve just felt a little depressed as of late due to the celebration of the 6th Millenium of freedom and was remembering that dreaded day.” Celestia spoke with barely any emotion in her voice but noticing this she immediately corrected it and began acting her normal self, “anyway how are my loyal subjects doing?”  She asked with a raised brow “And how is Twilight Sparkle my most loyal student doing as well?” Celestia continued to ask.

“She is doing fine and has been sending in letters every day, I’ve had them sent to your room but you haven’t received any of them in a while due to your little quiet spell” the advisor spoke and then continued “as for your subjects they have no idea anything if wrong and continue their daily life just like any other.” The advisor finished while looking over a final checklist as they reached the small balcony where the parade was passing by.

Everyone cheered as their Princess appeared on the balcony and waved while watching the floats and marching band go through the town, the middle float contained six mares that Celestia had come to know very well due to the many letters she had read from her student and they all waved energetically to the princess while showing off their dressed and riding the float made for Pony Ville. The float was covered in many things that represented Pony Ville, but the most eye catching one was a giant pink cannon made of paper mache that looked like it could actually fire. As the float came in front of the balcony the cannon actually did fire and sent up what looked like a metric ton of streamers and confetti with a pink pony screaming “Party” as loud as she could.

The floats continued passing by and soon went through a small portal set up by unicorns to send them to Pony Ville where the parade would continue then end. As the last float went through and the portal closed, Celestia stayed where she was and watched off in the distance as a speck of black appeared high up into the sky and began falling “What in Faust’s name” Celestia asked herself.

Celestia watched as the speck continued falling towards the ground and spread her wings to fly over to where the speck was falling “Is this Blaire’s doing?” she asked herself again and with one flap she was airborne and flying towards Pony Ville at breakneck speeds. But with the speck already halfway to the ground she knew she wasn’t going to be able to stop it but tried to get there anyway.

The body which was Jesse’s began spinning in the air when he passed out and flew towards the hard ground at increasing speeds, ‘Looks like this is it’ I would’ve thought if I’d been conscious during this time. But as the body of Jesse fell as group of Floats and bands appeared below him and started playing music continuing from Canterlot.

One of the bystanders was the first to scream in shock and then more followed when the speck came into view as what looked like a Pegasus without wings ‘wouldn’t that just make it an earth pony’  the pony who noticed started to think but quickly blocked it out when more screaming started to happen. The ponies on the floats were completely oblivious to the falling Stallion since they thought the screaming was out of enjoyment of the parade and continued to move through Pony Ville with the body looming ever closer to the cold hard ground.

But fate plays a strange role when it wants to and just as the body was 20 feet off the ground a certain float with a giant cannon was pulled underneath the body and it landed inside the cannon which was filled with confetti and streamers ready to be shot. The cries of ponies rang out screaming “Don’t shoot the cannon” but all the ponies of the float could make out was “Shoot … Cannon”

Pinkie hastily complied and pulled the string on the cannon causing it to shoot the tons of streamers and confetti as well as the unconscious body of a Stallion sky high. The screaming elevated to a new height and this caused the floats to stop and now look at what the commotion was truly all about, seeing the body they all started to freak out and a few of the Pegasus on floats spread their wings to fly into the sky.

Luckily for Jesse just as he reached the height of the cannon shot he was caught by a certain princess screaming out “Harold” who tackled him much more than caught him in the air causing him and her to spin and get tangled up with the princess. They both hit the ground hard and with a resounding crack of a bone snapping which caused one of the bodies to groan in pain.

Jesse became conscious for just a second as a deep pain flew through his veins and body, the only thing he saw was a beautiful female with fur covering her body look down at him with hope and something else in her eyes, “Oh Harold welcome back” she spoke softly and warmly before Jesse passed out.