My Second chance

“Oh, you’re back, and apparently hungry. Don’t worry, Spike made you some daisy sandwiches for when you got home. They’re in the kitchen.” Twilight said turning around with a quill in the corner of her mouth.

“Thanks! Im starving.” I quickly trotted into the kitchen and picked up the plate of food with my magic. I then turned and headed back to the living room, “So, are you feeling better Twi?”

“Yeah, I just needed some time to relax.” She sighed turning back to reading and finishing her notes.

I sat down and took a bite of the first sandwich. It was amazing! Yeah, it had a leafy taste to it, but it was so good. The little amount of honey the flowers produced was divine. Once I was done gulping down the rest of the sandwich, I was over come with depression.

“What’s wrong Helix, is that not what you wanted?” She asked sounded concerned.

“Kinda. I um... never really ate...green a lot before in my world." I mumbled thinking of a big juicy steak with a yummy cheese burger.

“What, exactly, did you eat in your world?” She asked raising an eyebrow. I figured that moment would come, and I was loathing it.

“In my world every one is a human. I don’t know if you have any myths about us, but we're omnivores.” She had a face of misunderstanding so I had to tell her what exactly that entailed. “We eat meat and vegetables. Some go for only meat, others only for vegetables, but almost all of us ate meat. I wish I didn’t like it so much.”

“Helix... YOU ATE MEAT! That’s a serious felony in this universe! No pony eats meat without major consequences! Most get put to death for crimes against nature!”

“Twi, in my world it’s not a crime. In fact, its openly encouraged from some groups. Our bodies were made to eat both types of food. Ponies, on the other hand, aren’t supposed to eat meat. I hope you aren’t to mad at my race, we tried only to kill those who were unintelligent. Here, though, they are.”

“Well, what animals did you eat exactly?” She sounded like a mixture of curiosity and distraught.

“Well we ate cows, chicken, fish, pigs, turkey, lamb, and plenty more I don’t know about.” I finally looked up since the conversation started and she looked like she was going to throw up.

“Twi, I didn’t want to tell you, but I had to let you know sooner or later.” I tried to comfort her while I started to eat the last sandwich.

“It’s okay helix, I didn’t expect your world to be so…..”

“Vulgar?” I finished her sentence for her.

“Yeah. I don’t want to be mean, but your world is just so evil sounding. I don’t think I would like it there.” I finished the sandwich as she said this. (Nothing important, I just thought it was worth noting.)

“My world’s not evil. It may seem different, and it may be we weren’t the best of races, but we only did what nature made us to do. If you think about it, even bears do what we do. You may not see it happen, but I assure you that bears defiantly eat meat. Its just part of nature.”

“But, bears don’t need to eat meat. They can eat berries and nuts.” Pleading, she tried to refuse my argument,

“True, they can eat just berries. If they did, though, they would be unhealthy. They would probably die when they hibernate due to malnutrition. They have to eat meat to survive, I did to. I’m sorry Twi. I can’t change what I’ve done, but I can’t eat meat now even if I wanted.”

“Well, I guess you’re right. I can’t change nature. And if what you say is true, it was your nature. I guess I can forgive you. Just, don’t eat any meat here okay.”

Feeling a little bit better I replied, “Thank you Twilight. I’m going to go to bed.”

“Okay, I’ll take some time to work on a report to the princess. In the morning we’ll work on some more advanced spell. They have to be charged, so get plenty of rest.”

“Okay, good night.” I said as I walked toward my room

“Night.”

That night I had a dream about my life before. I was weird. I saw my funeral. My wife and kids were weeping; my co-workers were looking solemn, and I was lying stiff in a coffin. I was looking from a spirits standpoint, floating above everyone. I couldn’t believe what I saw, a huge ceremony celebrating my life. I knew I would have one, but I didn’t expect it to be this big.

As the ceremony started with a priest saying verses from the bible, I felt as if I was being watched. I turned to my left and saw a pony. He was floating there like I was, just standing on thin air. I had never seen him before in the show. What surprised me the most was the fact that he was an alicorn stallion! If I had to guess, I would say he was a bit bigger than Celestia. He was looking up and down my new body. His face showed a look of utter confusion.

His coat was a slightly dark shade of gray and he had silver eyes. His mane and tail flowed like Celestia's, and had the little stars in it like Luna's. Both his mane and tail were tri-colored. They were black at the core, gray in the middle, and had a white trim. His wings were flared and I could see that under his wings were the same as his mane and tail. The thing that looked weird to me, besides the fact he was another alicorn, was his cutie mark, a pair of old scales on top of a yin-yang symbol. Right after seeing his cutie mark, I saw that he had a scar going over the left eye, his right. Looking directly up, I saw that he was wearing a crown too. It was black on the half with the scar, white on the other half, and had three gray gems on the top. He wore a whit necklace with more gray gems and black shoes with more gems.

"Hello Helix." How does he know my name? I've never seen him before. How did he get into my dream?

"Who....who are you? I've never seen you before." I said with a rather shaky voice.

"I am here to show you what happened after you died. This is your funeral. In fact, its happening right now. you might want to watch." He said with a blank look on his face. The stoic look he gave me while waving his hoof toward the scene before us frightened me.

I turned back to my own funeral and saw something I never thought I would see, my own son crying over his fathers death. The way he talked to me when I was alive made it seem like he would be laughing when I died. His resentment for me seemed never ending, but here he was, crying. The mere sight of it made me start to cry. I wanted to hold him and say that I was okay, but I couldn't. All of my family, everyone of my friends, was their crying like they just had a piece of them ripped out and stomped on.

I turned back to the mysterious stallion, but he was gone. A note, however, was left in his place. It said, I will come to you when I have need of you. until then -M. Who's M? Oh well, it doesn't matter. I'll see him again apparently, so I can ask him then. I dropped the note and saw something else written on the back. I can't believe you're the one she's been having dreams about. I had just enough time to get a confused look on my face before I awoke with a start, the sun filtering through blinds.