Into The Unknown
Chapter 2 - In Ruin
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Gilda Radner
After being sucked into the portal, that bastard Babidi made. All Riamu could feel is mainly two things. One being immense pain, and the other is the feeling off falling. Riamu doesn't even have the energy to scream, never mind to try stop his decent. Opening his eyes, all he can see is a purple-orange ball surrounding him. Stretching his arm out slowly, his hand passes threw it with ease. His vision is starting to blur and it's getting hard to keep them open "This is it..... I'm going to die......" He thinks to himself. Giving into defeat, he looks in the direction he is falling and closes his eyes.
His face is now turning blue and purple, and the headache is only getting stronger. But fortunately for him, he's starting to pass out from the pain. Daring to open one of his eyes for the last time, he see's a small blue dot, getting closer and bigger and more distorted. And thats the last thing he see's before passing out.
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Alone. That is the perfect word Riamu would use right now to describe where he is. But when you think of alone, you think theres no people near you. But in this case, it means alone from everything. Theres no light, no dark, no up or down, there's absolutely nothing, apart from himself. In fact Riamu would also say there is no time in this place. How might he know that you ask, well. That is almost impossible to explain fully, but it's noticeable when it's not there. It's a feeling that everything that can feel, feels every day, every minute, every second, and for that reason, no one can tell you how time feels. Because you need to compare it to something, or have felt it either stronger or weaker than normal. You wouldn't know what happiness felt like, unless you have been sad (or someone told you what it felt like, but I digress). It's always there at the back of your mind.
"H-Hello is anyone there?" Riamu only gets complete silence as a reply. He turns in every way he possibly can, and all he see's is white. Some people think that, in a place like this, it would be just pitch black without any light. But darkness can't exist without light. "Am I dead? Is this the after life?" Are the questions going through Riamu's head right now. Falling on to his knee's and putting his head into his cupping hands, Riamu tries to keep it together.
"It's ok, everything is going to be ok" came a woman's voice behind him and not even a split second before he felt a hand on his shoulder. Jumping up in fright and surprise, he quickly turns around, to see no one is there. "I've finally gone insane haven't I?" He tries to think to himself, but he fast beating heart is putting up a good fight, to stop him. After a few of uneventful minutes, his heart beat finally starts to come down. He starts to feel calm................. To calm. He starts to feel tired, stretching his arms above his head, while yawning. He lays down on the floor (even though there is no floor to begin with), and is falling asleep. He tries to fight his body's need to sleep, but to quote a curtain agent "Its inevitable". And he once again he is out like a light.
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"Ahhh pain my old friend, we meet again...... Even after all this time, your still a bastard". Thankfully his body is starting to go numb, wether this is good or bad he can't decide. Reason's being, the pain was to an extreme and this could be the, tell tale sign of permanent damage. And on the other hand, the pain was slowly going. Opening his eyes, he is greeted with a bright slight, and he instantly flinches back and shuts his eyes. Trying again this time, slowly but surely, he gets used to the level of brightness. "How did I get here? Where is here anyway, and I don't remember being near a lake or for that matter, going for a swim. Although I wonder who that voice belonged to? Was it an angel who saved me, or the devil, because I owe him or her something. For all I know the devil could be a guy, but has a female voice and....... Wait, why am I thinking about if the devil is a male or female with a female voice...... Idiot! I must have really hit my head hard. First things first, need to try and move and see what I can and can't use. Then find out where I am, then find some food and shelter, and last very important thing, where is my hat. I swear if I find an animal trying to eat it again, I will kill it and go and eat it, in front of its family and.... Wow that was dark...... Okay, moving on from..... what ever that was, I need to get up"
Testing out his limbs, his legs are in bad shape, but can still but used, his right arm is totalled. At least for now, but it's not broken, soooo... yeah. To the outside world, it would have been an interesting sight indeed. An injured ape like creature, wearing white and blue trainers, royal blue - dark blue jeans, a torn to bits white shirt, of what looks like it was one of those shirts with quirky remarks (for example: A picture of Old woman in a pinkie woolly top smiling at the viewer and with the caption "I Used To Say Fuck Off, But Now I Say That's Nice").
(Better late than never right) Riamu is a 21 year old man. He has white skin, with a little bit of a tan looked to it. Jet black hair, stands at roughly 6"1, has hazel eyes, and anyone would say he's a good looking chap. Not as good looking as most celebs, but it could get him a few dates lets just say or at least a few one night stands. However he is missing his trademark Stetson hat.
Standing up was a little more difficult than Riamu first thought. But at least the pain is more bearable. Taking in his surroundings, all he can see is a lake, a dirt path leading somewhere and a Forrest in the distant. Or at least he thinks its in the distance, his vision is not exactly working properly at the moment. GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
"Guess I was hunger than I thought. So where can I get some food? The dirt road will probably lead to somewhere, but that could be for miles, before any civilisation. Or I could go and check that forest, their will more than likely be some kind of food in there" Making up his mind, Riamu starts to limp over the forest, leaving a trail of blood in his wake.
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"So you see, I think I have the right to cut it down. It's an eye sore, and it attracts a lot of nasty birds, insects and the like. And I've had enough of it. I only had my coat done, and I don't want some.... Feather brain bird, ruining it." A slightly over weight stallion said.
"I... See." is the reply he gets. "Finally he has stop talking, thank Solaris. I swear the "problems" these nobles have now a days are nothing more than trivial at best. Sometimes I wish I would just drop them on somepony else.... But that wouldn't be fair on them. I wouldn't even do that to most of Equestria's enemies. I... Really need some cake right about now"
"After taking everything into account Mr Goldsmith, But Like I said yesterday. Things like this should be taken to the local Council, not The day court." The pony now dubbed as Goldsmith starts to protest. "However If I may say so. Something like this, is more than likely is not in your favour. For one it's not part of your estate, and two you would always attract wild life, with plant life. And third the City's Planning agreement clearly states that there needs to be some kind of plant life within 10 properties, and yours just happens to be near one. And forth from what you told me, it's nothing major. And if the Council doesn't see it your way, I would recommend buying more coat cleaning products. That is all Mr Goldsmith, have a nice day".
Goldsmith bows and leaves the room, mumbling under his breath. The big heavy doors close behind him, letting the pony still in the room to let out a little sigh of relief. "I though it was never going to end. Maybe I shouldn't have said that about the coat cleaning items, but...... Ooo who am I kidding, the look on his face was totally worth it. I think I will call it a day for now" She thinks to herself, letting on a very quiet giggle.
"Guard, please inform the ponies outside that day Court is now closed, and they can come back tomorrow morning."
"Yes, your highness" Says the Guard bowing and leaving the room, in a slow trot.
"I wonder how Philomena is doing. I better go and check up on her....." The mare feels a sudden pain in her head, and almost falling to the floor, but manages to stay on her hooves. "PRINCESS CELESTIA!, Are you ok?" asks one or two guards at the same time. "What..... Was.... That?!! That felt like...... No.... No it can't be. I-I must go and ask Luna, see what she thinks, before I react"
"I'm... Ok thanks, you may stand down. I need to go and talk to my sister. You are dismissed for the rest of the day." And with that, she teleports off before any the Guards can reply. In a blink off an eye, Celestia is teleported from the throne room to a dark room. Princess Celestia is a tall white Alicorn, with 4 coloured mane. Those colours being light blue, light green, light purple and pink. The mane it self has a twinkle effect and a never ending moving in the slow wind kind of effect. And she has violet eyes. She always wears her royal jewellery in public, those being golden breast plate and golden horseshoe's, and obviously her gold crown. The crown and chest plate each have a perfectly crafted purple gem in the dead centre of each piece. And finally she has a image of a sun on her flanks. Anyway back to the story. The room it self, is painted navy blue faded to a very dark blue in places, with little light cream spots dotted all over, some bigger than others. The effect of this, is a very realistic painting of the night sky. In the dead centre of the room, is a big double sizes beed, with their own see through dark blue curtains. Walking over to the bed, the mare pulls back the curtains, and muzzles the sleeping pony awake.
"T-Tia??? Why have thou waken us.... From our slumber?" Says the half asleep mare. She is a navy blue Alicorn, with lighter blues colour mane, with little twinles in there as well. The night sky comes to mind when you see it. And much like her Sister, her mane is blowing in the none existent wind. But with sleeping and laying on he bed, it's stuck in a wild and messy style otherwise known as bed-head. And she has a deep teal eye colour, with an image of the moon on her flanks. This pony is known as none other than Princess Luna, Co-Ruler of Equestria and Princess of the night.
"I'm sorry Lulu but....." Celestia explains what she felt, and what it could mean. Meanwhile Luna expression is going from shock to concern. "I could be all in my head but.... I only know of a few, who have that kind of power. And most of them, are not to be trusted. Like I said, It could just be me over reacting, but I think it might be best if we were on alert for the seeable future, just incase. But we must act like nothing has happened, it will only cause panic, if we don't. So can you monitor our subjects dreams, looking for anything strange and tell me if you find anything."
Luna nods with a smile "Thee can count on us Tia".
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The sun is high in the sky, with barely a cloud in sight. All is well in the town called Ponyville, and in that said town is a big diamond shaped castle, that looks like a tree. This brings a hole new meaning to the word tree house, or in this case tree castle. In this castle there is a purple mare, having a staring contest with a book. Reading, and re-reading it to make sure, she read it properly this first few times. This mare is laying down on a plush read cushion with sliver edges. Her "new-ish" required wings, are lazily placed by her sides. Even though she is as not as bad as she first was with them. She still isn't up to the standard off being able to fly comfortably or just using them to glide and such.
After readjusting her wings a bit, her tail moves away from her flank, revealing her cutie mark, which is a big star int he middle, with smaller one going around it. Activating her magic, there is a purple-grey mixture of an aura around her horn, and the sound of something like wind chimes can be heard.
"Now going by these calculations if I add two hairs from a pegasus's feather into this, It should create a solution that can temperately make a pony have the ability to walk on clouds. Annnnndddd there. Lets test it shall we. The best place to test this would be the local lake, incase of a fall and no pony can get to them in time" Moving her wings as she says that. "Then at least they will have the water, to break thier fall.... sort of........ And seeing as I'm are going to meet the girls there anyway, might as well try it there with them".
She levitates the book back to its correct place, and going over her check-triple check list one last time, she nods in approval. Walking out of the library and leaving a note on the door, incase any pony came over, how ever unlikely it is, with these ponies that live round here. It's not long before she passes Rarity's and is not far now, from the meeting place she and her friends agreed to. Trotting over the small hill, she can see her friends, smiling, laughing and talking under a tree, in the shade. Well, most of them, Rainbow is probably nearby practicing or is late. "Hey girls, nice d......." Is all she can say, before she is assaulted by a very pink blur. Crashing to the floor, with what feels like a python's grip, hugging her torso. "PIN...KIE.....CAN...'T.......BREATHE!!!"
"Oopsie daisy" The pink fluff none now as Pinkie, lets her 'prey' go, gasping for air. Rest of Twilight's friends come over, seeing if their friend was ok. "You okay sugarcube?" an orange pony with a cowboy's hat on her head, asked, offering a hoof to help Twilight up.
After getting her breath back, she accepts the hoof, and gets up. "Yes.... Im okay, thanks for asking AJ".
"Why darling, what ever is that, you have behind you?" Asks the only Unicorn in the group, with Twilight being a Alicorn now.
"It's a potion I've created so none Pegasi can walk on clouds." Twilight said with a smile
"I thought there was already a spell for that egghead?" A voice said behind Twilight. "GAH!!!". The newcomer was now laughing to themselves. Placing a hoof on her chest, in order to stop her heart from bursting out. Twilight used the breathing technique a very close friend taught her a long time ago. She didn't need to look in order to know who it is, it is none other than Queen modesty her self, aka Rainbow Dash.
Ignoring the fact that Rainbow just scared the living Tartarus out of her, she began to explain. "Well, there is a spell for it, But.... With this they will only need a drop, and the effects last longer. AND it doesn't need as much magic, because the full bottle can be enchanted, and seeing as they only need a drop, they won't have to keep enchanting it. And with this ponies will be able to go to places like cloudsdale any time they want. That is if it works the why I planned."
"Geeze Twi I didn't want a history lesson". Twi smile's sheepishly, rubbing back of her head, and looks to the group. "Well, while we are on the topic. I need somepony to try this. Seeing as I have wings now, this won't work on me anymore." She said keeping the smile. Before any pony else can think on what she said, Pinkie is sitting at a desk, raising her hoof.
"Oh Oh pick me! Please Miss Twilight pick me!" Pinkie was now slightly hoping on her chair, and if she stretch her arm anymore, it could come off. But there was one thing, Twilight could help but to ask. "Where did you get that desk and chair from Pinkie?". She already knew the answer to it, once it left her mouth. "Why you silly filly, becuase I have desk and chairs, stashed all round Ponyville, incase of 'desk or chair' emergencies." She says with a smile.
Twilight sighs "Fine, Pinkie you can.....". To add to Twilights confusion of the pink pony, somehow there is a straw going threw the glass bottle. To where Pinkie takes a sip and pulls out the straw, and somehow the glass doesn't looked like ti every happened. Giving up and moving on, Twilight looks to Rainbow "Anyway, I was wondering if you could, take Pinkie up to a cloud and catch her is she falls threw. I would, but.... I'm still not used to these yet" She says moving her wings in time with what she was saying.
"Why darling, haven't you had them long enough to know how to use them?" Rairty asks.
"Not really, Im still not used to the hole princess thing, never mind these. I'm getting better with them yes, but still..."
"It's okay Twi, I can do it. I'm not the best flyer in Equestria for nothing you know. Come on Pinks, lets do this" Pinkie hops onto Rainbow's back, and straps herself in, with a seat belt. Rainbow learned long ago not to question the Pinkie Pie. As shoots of to the nearest cloud.
"And there goes Miss Modesty herself. So how have yah been Twi" Applejack asks, walking over.
"I've been doing fine, thanks for asking AJ. Other than this potion I've not got anything From the princesses, no monster has been terrorising the town or anywhere else, there's been no bad events recently and I've not had any 'Royal' duties to do. So if I'm going to be honest, it's been quite dull. Not that I'm complaining, its nice to have peace and quite now and again, but all the time, when there was that stuff happened virtually everyday."
"I am incline to agree, even though I've been busy with orders recently. I've kind of missed the adventure of it all." Rarity says agreeing with Twilight.
Applejack nods also in agreement. Twilight then see's one of her other close friends, know as Fluttershy. It's hard to notice her sometimes, what with her being so quiet. "Oh hello Fluttershy I didn't see you there......." Its only now that she seems..... off. "Is everything okay Shy? You look kinda.... sad"
Fluttershy sighs very quietly "Um... well... Today I was on my way home after buying some food for my animal friends. And then there was this big bang, and something landed in the lake. And when I looked something was coming up, and I kinda.... hid.... And when I looked there was an Injured human. And when I went home to get my first aid pack, when I returned it was gone. But it left a trail of....... Blood..... which lead to the" she gulped "The Everfree Forrest". It is now that tears are coming out of her eyes. "I know I'm scared of adult humans, but I just hope it's okay in there".
"I'm sorry Fluttershy, but the odds of it surviving in there are...." Twilight didn't finished her sentence, but simply hugged her friend, as she quietly cried into her shoulder. Fluttershy stopped crying a few minutes, but sniffling now and then. SPLASH!!! the sudden sound made the group, while the shouted out the varieties of "EEP", "GAH!" "WHOA NELLY" & "AAAAH!". They slowly looked over to the lake, taking slow and tiny steps, once arrive they each leaned forward. Until they could see each other's reflection.... there was something in there, a black figure getting closer. But judging by the size, it was either really small or really far away. "GAAAAASSSPPPP!!!!"
Yet again the group was scared out of their skins and did the same thing as before. Twilight and Applejack where getting a bit annoyed at this and looked to see who was responsible, it was none other than Pinkie. Who was shockingly laughing at their reactions, they not soon after, also heard somepony else laughing up a storm. "RD!! Y'ALL GET DOWN HERE SO AH CAN KICK YOUR FLANK!!" This only increased the laughter. RD aka Rainbow, was on a cloud about 20 yards up, she poked her head over the side still laughing.
"Yeah..... Sure..... like.... you.... could..... beat.... me...... scaredy..... pony" RD said in between laughs. AJ's face only got angrier, as it was turning red. Twilight decided to ignore the pair and turned to the always laughing Pinkie. "Pinkie.... I'm guessing it didn't work, seeing as you're here."
Pinkie shook her head "Nope. It woke perfectly, now I can see all my Pegasus friends and make new ones anytime I want. This is the bestist raspberry cloud walking potion ever! *GASP* You know what this means??!! NowICanAlsoTakeMyAwesomenessPartiesToCloudCitiesAndTownAnd...." By now Twilight had put her hoof in Pinkie's mouth.
"So it worked?" Twilight said out loud. "But what did you mean by raspberry? The potion shouldn't have any flavour.... You know what forget it." Twilight was too happy to care. Maybe this will finally get here the Hoofington Award, that she wanted for some time.
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It didn't take long for Riamu to find his Stenson and to reach the forest. Once in side it was actually darker inside than it looked. But he could still see fine. Besides, just because a forest is dark, doesn't mean its all mean, scary and dangerous. This forest just seemed like that.... right? Looking in every direction he could, it took a while to find some food. Berries. Riamu sighed, not the most ideal food, and no where near his favourite. Being not most ideal because you have to eat a lot more of them, compared to say potatoes. Still he would rather have these over some foods like broccoli or cabbages. There was only one problem, what if this berries where poisonous. For that matter what if all food he finds is poisonous to him, what being from a different planet and all. He still could still be on earth.... but it just didn't feel like earth, and the fact that, that shrimp bastard Babidi said before he sent him into the portal.
Deciding that just standing here, thinking negative thoughts, and not eating wouldn't do him any good. So gingerly taking one of the berries of the bush, and tasting and swallowing it, he waited for any kind of reaction to eating them. After 30 seconds of nothing he was satisfied that there were poisonous, she he pig'd on down, as they say. Now he could hardly ever eat as much as normally Saiyans could, after seeing what he mother could eat. But when he was this hungry the Saiyan in him came out. The poor berries never stood a chance, and he left the bush empty.
After his feast on berries Riamu decided to either find or make some shelter. Being injured and all, he will look for some first. Choosing a random direction, he started to walk. The good thing about have Saiyan attributes, they have much better senses and instincts than humans. I.e have better hearing and are more.... attune with animals, but more with predator species than the prey species. And having a tail was pretty awesome, it does have its draw backs though, or at least with Saiyan's ones at least. Yes they make the Saiyan stronger, and make than able to transform into wereapes. His mother did tell him what the proper name for it was, but he was only young before she....... left. It was also there weakest spot, someone only ha to grab it to make them weak. Also stroking it as his found out to his own price, makes the Saiyan or in his case half Saiyan, tends to make them sleepy.
Thankfully, or at the time unthankfully, his mother training his tail. Well, before she carried his sister. And his father picked up the pieces. But the one thing his mother didn't and couldn't teach him was, how to be in control when he transformed. She never was in control, so therefore couldn't teach him. It's not that she wasn't strong enough physically, it just that apart from being a lot smarter than average Saiyans, she was one of a kind. Being that she was a kind spirit. And it's a lot harder for kind hearted Saiyans to control the beast within that is the opposite. Luckily, when there was a full moon on the way, the 3 of them (being himself, his sister and mother) stayed in the basement that was renovated. So they could stay down there in comfort.
After 20-30 minutes isn, Riamu was about to give up, until he saw a damaged wooden bridge. There wouldn't be a bridge he, unless there was something on the other side. Although some people like exploring and hiking and as such. But normally it meant the former. He was too weak to fly all the way across, so if he wanted to cross, he would have to cross the death trap of all wooden bridges. Gingerly putting a foot on the first plank, and testing it with his weight. He wait for either it to give way or not............. cccrrrrreeeeaaaakkkkk He mentally cringed and flinch at little, But it didn't break, or the bridge it self for that matter. Standing on the plank he tested the next, and the next and the next. His pace was picking up as was his confidence in the stability of the bridge. "Its not breaking? HA take that universe!" But as any adventure, horror and some other genres of films, games and etc, that being too "confident" or "cocky" means, something will happen to that character.
SNNNAAAAPPPP!!!
Riamu foot fell throw the floor of the bridge, almost taking his hole body with it, as the broken plank falls to its doom. (Although being broken, wouldn't that already be its doom?) Riamu's arms and hands frantically moved about, trying to grab ahold of anything to stop his descent to the bottomless pit. He managed to get one hand on the side rope. He could hear the ropes being to strain with the added stress. He feared that, if he didn't act fast, he would be joining that plank in the pit. So using some of his limited energy, he made himself lighter. By not flying , and not fully hovering, just enough to make himself lighter, but not using his energy quickly. He was at half way across, so picking up the pace, he almost speed walked across, thankfully with no more events.
Once his feet touched the other side, he got down on his knee's and started kissing (metaphorically) the ground. "ground, sweet, sweet beautiful ground" Riamu didn't have fear of heights or anything, but who doesn't have a tiny bit of fear of falling to their demise. Getting up of his knees, after his ass kissing. Riamu saw a path, it wasn't easy to see, it almost blends with the rest of the forest floor. So following the path for a few minutes, much to Riamu delight, there stood in front of him a run down castle? It looked like a castle, it could just be a very old mansion or something. And being on a different planet, probably would mean differences in their cultures and so on. So for all he knew, this building could be one person's house or outhouse. But something this big couldn't be that, unless the owner was huge. Or rather ex-owner, seeing it's in ruin now.
After walking around the ruined building, Riamu noticed a double door. It was big, but it wasn't big enough to say that something really big used to live here. So this being a outhouse and or other types of shelters or buildings, were crossed off. It was more or less, looking like a castle. Walking unto the double height double doors, he pushed them upon, with all his strength. They slowly opened up, unlocking the building secrets, that have remained that for all he knew, could be hundreds of years.
Author's Note
What will Riamu find in the run down castle? Money? A pot of Gold? Deadpool?
Find out in the next chapters. Sorry that this chapter took longer than it should, Ive been busy, but better late than never right. Hopefully the next chapter will be out soon. I hope you enjoyed this, please like, fav, watch and I'm Timer Smith and I'm out :P
Power Levels (When not using any power boosters):
Riamu - 235
Celestia - 13,000,000
Luna - 11,700,000
Twilight - 7,000,000
Rainbow - 60,000
Applejack - 65,000
Rarity - 10,000
Pinkie - 42,000
Fluttershy - 3,500
Royal Guard (Average) - 23,000
