A New Look At Death
So Now It Begins
Previous ChapterNext ChapterA/N: If you haven't already guessed it: this is a first POV story. However, I will change to third. There will be warnings so anyone wont get confused.
I was woken up by something poking my side. It felt kinda like a pencil or a pen, but I couldn't tell. I didn't want to open my eyes just yet due to the fact that I wasn't where I remembered. But what did make me open my eyes was the poking going somewhere that I'm not comfortable being poked. "Whoa now watch it!" I yelled, slamming my eyes open.
Next thing I knew, there were spears pointed right at my face. "Stand down, creature." One guy yelled. I raised an eyebrow at him and pressed my finger to the tip of the spear, drawing blood. He grunted and pulled the spear back.
I chuckled, looked at my finger and said, "Don't worry, just seeing if I was really awake or not." I sighed and continued with, "Apparently I'm in some kind of weird place with anthropomorphic people... Fuck it! I'm not even gonna try to think about it." With that I laid back down and closed my eyes. "So why are you all pointing spears at me?" I asked after about five minuets of silence and me getting poked again.
"The princesses say that the amount of power you posses makes you a possible threat." One guard said. Then he chuckled and said, "But you look weak to me."
I looked at him, back to the purple one that kept poking me, and back to him. "Can she stop? It's really starting to get on my nerves." I said pointing a thumb back at her.
"No!" She yelled. "You're a new species that needs to be studied!"
I sighed, stood up, and walked to the doors. All the while getting yelled at by the guard and Purple over there. Over the yelling I said, "So are you going to take me to these princesses of yours? Or am I going to have to find them myself?" That said, I walked out the door, immediately get flanked by two guards, and led around the castle.
The walk was uneventful and soon we where standing in front of a giant set of double doors. One door with the sun on it, and the other with the moon. The doors open and I am greeted with two other mares -As I found out they are called. One was white, with a horn, a set of wings, purple eyes, and hair that flows like it's in a breeze. Her hair was made up of the colors; pink, green, and blue in a rainbow pattern. She wore a golden dress that reached all the way down to the middle of her shins, a golden necklace with a purple gemstone in the middle, and a golden crown with the same gemstone as her necklace.
To her left was a dark mare with wings and a horn, her hair waves like the other's but the color is blue, and teal eyes. She wore a midnight-blue dress that reached down to her ankles, a black necklace with a white crescent moon, and a black crown.
But above all that I felt their power. It was great. Almost stronger than me. Almost. But I found something strange. They were holding their power back! I chose to keep quiet about it though. However, when they both began to walk down to me I let my power creep up to thirty percent. But yet even then, I could level a mountain easily.
They stopped dead in their tracks and looked at me, wide eyed. But the blue one was first to recover and asked, "Dost thou want to intimidate us?"
Old English... Great I thought. Aloud I said, "Maybe, maybe not. That all depends on what you want." The blue one's eye twitched. I smirked. That's when the white one stepped in.
"I don't think that we where properly introduced, I am Princess Celestia, and this is Princess Luna. We co-rule Equestria." She said with a serene smile. It was unnerving. That smile said a lot but so little. Whatever.
"Oh! You where the one that yelled at me!" I yelled pointing at the blue one. Her eye twitched again.
She took a deep breath and said, "Yes. We are the one that yelled at thou." I just chuckled. And hey! It got her eye to twitch again!
I began to laugh and said, "I think I'm going to call you twitch!" Then she did something I wasn't expecting. She spoke normally.
"Okay, I'm done! You're an idiot! I'm going in my room and going to sleep. Don't bother me if you want to stay here." With that she began to walk away but I stopped her.
"I'm sorry. I was only having a little bit of fun, and I kinda don't always know when to stop. But uh, if it helps, I'll try not to mess with you again, Princess." I held my hand out, hoping she would except it. And she did!
"I guess I may have overreacted a little." She said shaking my hand. I chuckled again and left it at that. But I couldn't quite walk away... She was still shaking my hand... aaaaand now it's awkward. She leaned in and whispered, "I'll get you back for this however." With that she let go and walked out the door. I shook my head and walked back to the center of the room where Celestia was still standing with that same smile. SERIOUSLY it was getting annoying!
I sighed and said, "Okay, drop the fake ass smile." She raised an eyebrow.
"What makes you think it's fake?" She asked.
"When you do what I do and for as long as I've done it, you learn how to tell." Her smile falters a little and she begins to... giggle? I'm not joking she was giggling like I said something funny! Finally she stopped and got serious. Dead serious.
This bitch is crazy! I thought.
"Since you got my sister to leave, I can ask my questions." She walked over to a set of chairs in front of a coffee table and said, "Come, sit." So I sat. "What did you do before you got here?"
"I was a CIA deep cover operative. They called us solders but the government saw me and my crew as weapons." I said idly cracking my knuckles.
"What do you mean by that?" She asked.
"They basically treated us as such; When they had a job for us, we didn't have a say-so in whether or not we went, if we got injured, we needed to pay with our own money to get helped, and if one of us died... we get a replacement the next day." After explaining that, I looked over to Celestia, and she had her mouth hanging open and eyes wide. "You're gonna catch flies like that Celestia." I said after a while of silence.
"How could they treat you like that?" She asked.
"Humans don't naturally have magic. The person that taught me was killed in a raid, and the government found me and took me in." I chuckled and continued with, "Now I'm here. With you. In this weird, fucked up, place."
"That's pretty sad actually. What do you plan on doing now? If you can't go back home?" She asked.
"Well I can't go home actually." At her raised eyebrow, I said, "I was killed by my own teammate and now they all think I'm dead. I'd rather keep it that way." Oddly enough she seemed relieved by that little bit of information. But I dropped it. For now. "As for what I want to do? I kinda want to just let it all go, I guess. Find a home, and just stop." I chuckled. "But, knowing my luck, I'll have to do some bullshit stuff every week or month. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if you needed me to do some bullshit here. I'd actually prefer that... Doing nothing will get boring." I yawned and looked at her. She seemed curious about something.
"Are you a carnivore?" She asked, narrowing her eyes at me.
"No. I'm an omnivore. However, I don't need meat everyday. Me personally, I can go about a year without meat."
"What do you mean, you personally? Are all humans omnivores?"
I nodded my head and silently looked around the room. "So how old are you exactly?" I asked. Random I know, just felt like knowing.
She giggled a little bit before asking, "Don't you know it's rude to ask a lady her age?" I rolled my eyes at her and gave her a dead-pan stare. She sighed, "Six-thousand and twenty-three." My eyes widened.
"You don't look a day over maybe twenty-four!" I exclaimed.
"Oh? Are you flirting with me now?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
I just chuckled before saying, "If that's how you want to take it." I looked back over to her to see her looking me over. I smirked and asked, "So now your checking ME out, eh?" Her face took on a devious look and I immediately knew I made a mistake.
"Guards, leave us." They hesitate but did as she asked. The look dropped. "How old are you?"
"How old do I look?" I asked.
"Maybe around... twenty-six? Thirty?"
"Huh. The last guy said twenty-four." I chuckled and told her, "My magic keeps me alive for one, and also I take care of my body. I eat right and all that bullshit. With that said, I'm about... one-thousand, five-hundred, and twenty-seven."
Her eyes widened. "Really? And your magic keeps you alive?" I nodded. "Wow." She paused before saying, "And you expect me to believe you?"
I raised my eyebrow before saying, "Yes, I do. It's the truth, after all." I sighed and explained, "Like I said, humans don't naturally have magic. So one of the side effects of learning certain magic is lifespan. The magic I learned first, gave me about.. two-thousand years of life. And apparently when you learn all six, Combat, Healing, Chaos, Harmony, Hate, and Love, you have the CHOICE to become immortal. I was young and stupid, the choice is irrevocable, and I chose to be immortal." I stopped and sighed again before continuing with, "I watched as my family, loved ones, and friends all died, while I lived on. The worst part is when I was three-hundred I had enough and tried to kill myself... Only to find out I couldn't." I chuckled.
"How do you laugh when you've been through all that?" Celestia asked.
"Easy. Don't focus on the past. Yes, you will get scars from it, yes, there are some things worth remembering, and yes, there are lessons from it, but you always have to focus on what you can do to make sure to live your life to the fullest." I chuckled again and said, "There was this stupid phrase back where I'm from that the young people would say, 'You only live once'. I took that as saying, 'Don't let your past ruin your chances of making a future'."
"I've never heard it put like that. Maybe my little ponies could learn a thing or two from you."
I couldn't help but laugh right there. "Really?!" I asked. "My-my little p-ponies?! THAT'S w-what you-you call them?!" I asked between laughs. Taking breaths to tried to calm my nerves, and stop giggling like a child, I said, "That has to be the funniest name a ruler has called their citizens."
"Yes, yes, laugh it up. They seem not to mind too much."
"That's because you RULE them! They respect you and defer to your judgement. It's not a matter of whether or not they mind, it's because they will let you call them anything you want and not give a single fuck." I said, resting my elbow on the table and pointing at her."
"Yes, well, let's change the subject shall we." She said. I could see a slight pink in her cheeks but didn't say anything about it. "What type of magic do you favor? Over all the others." She asked. This is what I was kinda trying to avoid.
I snaped my fingers and a black and white sword appeared in my hand. My sword was billowing in a purple and red fog that, to me, looked pretty bad-ass. "The magic that this blade is made up of are hate and chaos." Her eyes widened and her hands glowed a golden aura. She pointed them at me and a rainbow-colored beam shot at me, engulfed me, then dissipated. Nothing happened other than that. "Do you not remember what I said? I control all forms of magic. Harmony magic has no effect on a harmonic being." I said standing up. "I won't be a threat, unless you give me a good reason. I swear."
She lowered her hands and I made the sword disappear. "Now then! That's outta the way, what now?" I asked, putting my hands in my pockets.
Celestia was still eyeing me wearily but replied anyway, "Now I want you to meet my student, Twilight Sparkle." She began to walk towards the door but stopped, "Don't show her that sword. Or the hate magic." With that she opened the door, and lo-and-behold that purple demon that was poking me was there. "Twilight, this is Malekh. Malekh, this is Twilight Sparkle." Celestia then walked back to the throne room and slammed the doors shut.
Well... Shit
Her eyes lit up and she tried to reach for my arm but I pulled back. "What are you doing? I still need to study you!" She said reaching for my arm again.
Pulling back again I said, "Not just no, but hell no."
"What makes you think you have a choice?" She said reaching AGAIN for my arm.
I turned back to the doors and opened them. "Celestia, can you get someone to show me to my room please?"
I heard a gasp behind me and turned to see Twilight with her hand to her mouth. "Show some respect for her! She is a princess after all!" She said.
"Psh, I don't give a fuck! I've killed kings, queens, and a whole fuckin' royal family. Plus I'm not from here, so she's not my ruler, she your's." I said turning back around. To see Celestia herself looking at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Is that so?" Was all she asked.
"Yup." I said.
"Well then, let's get to your room then." She said, walking past me.
"Wait, so your gonna show me to my room?" I asked, wondering why she was doing it, and not a guard.
"Yes I am. Is there a problem with that?" She asked walking away.
"If I did you probably wouldn't care, huh?" I asked following her.
"No, I wouldn't."
"Meh."
"Princess Celestia! I still want to study him some more!" Twilight yelled. I sighed.
"No, and if you try to force me again, I'm calling rape on your ass." I said pointing a finger at her. Said finger was then grabbed and she tried to pull me down a side corridor. "RAPE! RAPE!" I yelled. Not as loud as I could, but loud enough. The effects were immediate.
Every guard was looking at us and our little group (except me) was wide eyed. Oh, and Twilight was blushing up a storm. She let go of my finger and began stuttering. Badly. Couldn't even understand a singer word she tried to say.
Finally Celestia said something, "Twilight, calm down. He was only messing with you. He didn't it. Right Malekh?" That last part was with a death glare.
"In my defense, I told her I would do it. Yet, she decided to try and test me. Not a smart game-plan if you ask me." I said shrugging.
After the little episode in the hallway (Twilight was still reeling from that one.) I was led to my room by Celestia. And this room was BIG! I mean, bigger than three standard school classrooms, big!
Anyways!
I walked into the room and flopped on the bed. It was amazingly soft. I began to doze off after about ten seconds of laying on it! But I couldn't. Twilight decided to speak her first coherent sentence at that exact time.
"S-so are we just going t-to leave him, P-princess?" She asked.
"Well, it seems that he might fall asleep in a few more seconds... So yes, we are going to leave him." Celestia replied.
Heh. Thought you could pull a fast one, eh Sparkie? I thought. Aloud I said, "Well, it would be nice if you two leave... I'm really tired so. Yeah. Bye!" With that I shifted to where I was on my side.
"Sweet dreams, Malekh." I don't know who said it.
"Haven't had any in a hundred years." I mumbled. Sadly, someone heard me.
"I'm sorry."
"If there's anything I hate, and there are a lot of things, pity is in my top ten." I said waving my arm.
The last thing I heard before falling asleep was, "Fine then, grumpy much?"
Waking up, I had a mild panic. Before I realized where I was, and what was happening. Sighing I stood up and looked to the window to see that it was night. Sighing again, I walked over to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. My light brown skin showed visible scars all over my torso and arms, my face was partially covered by my messy jet-black hair, my only visible eye was a deep grey - almost silver, and had a scar going from the top of my eyebrow to my cheek-bone, my hair alone went down to my shoulders and was straight when combed - which it wasn't now. As I began combing my hair, I started doing something I hadn't done in a long-ass time. I started humming a song. It was a little ironic how that same song was the song running through my head when I fist lost control.
I was walking down the street thinking about how much of a mistake I made. I was angry with myself and only a small push would set me off. Said small push came from a mugger in a side alley. I won't write that down though. It's quite a long story.
Anyways. As I finished combing my hair I walked out of the bathroom and sat on the bed. Bored.
Very bored. Yet wide awake. So I chose to explore a bit. Y'know, walk around the castle. At night. Maybe get something to eat. At night. Or see if anyone is up. At night.
As I walked out of my room I noticed something else: My black cloak was down to the back of my knees. (My cloak shows how much power I have at disposal.) That and two guards at my door. I nodded to them as I walked out and one of them snorted. The other one just kept looking forward, not moving, blinking, but not moving. Like a mother-fucking statue... Creepy as fuck.
As I walked down the hallway I noticed some doors that I didn't before. Some doors had a sun on them, while others had a moon. My door had a sun, which I was guessing meant something important. It was around the three minute mark that I came across a set of spiraling stairs going up, and down. Me, being me, I walked up the stairs.
When I reached the top there was an even larger hallway with two giant doors on each side. The door on the left had a sun emblazoned on it, while the other had a moon. I studied each door for a little bit before looking at the four guards standing at attention in front of them. On one side of the hallway the guards in front of the sun-emblazoned door had golden armor and were white with blue hair, and on the other side the guards in front of the moon-emblazoned door wore black armor and where a dark grey with black hair.
As I walked up to the sun door all four of them looked at me with emotionless masks and their grips on the hilts of their swords. I whistled a low single note and nodded. They looked at me funny before shrugging and going back to staying still.
I was about to turn around when both doors opened and Celestia and Luna walked out. Both looked at me curiously and I just said, "I got bored and started wandering around. I kinda got a little lost and wound up here." I paused as they started giggling at me. I shook my head and asked, "What time is it anyway? I'm getting hungry."
"It's five-thirty now," Luna said. "We need to do our duties and we will lead you to the dining hall. I think Twilight has someponies she wants you to meet." She said that last part with a devious little smile that I saw all to often in my teammates before they pulled a prank on me.
I didn't want to think too much on what she was planning but I couldn't help it.
Walking around the castle led by the two princesses normally would feel strange for me, but recently I haven't felt any different. I actually felt kind of happy. Like a giant weight has been lifted off of my shoulders, but I also felt another felling. A deep setting sense of dread. Like at any moment shit will hit the fan and I might be smack-dab in the middle of it. It didn't help that the princesses were talking about some creature named Discord. Apparently he is the literal embodiment if chaos itself. He was trapped in stone by them a few thousand years ago, before Luna was banished to the moon.
Wait...
Banished to the moon?! That seems like a bit much to me. But I don't know the entire story other than that Luna went crazy, Celestia banished her for one-thousand years, she came back, and Twilight and her friends cured her. The same Elements of Harmony that banished her also cured her of her insanity, I guess. Pretty cool. Wish they could help me though.
My first mental break-down happened when I was ten. My dad was shot right in front of me and my mom just ran away without me. She didn't even come looking for me! The police found me a few days later, starving, dehydrated, and physically and mentally exhausted. But when my mom saw me she shut down. Wouldn't talk, cook, move, or even sleep. Eventually my mind shut down to, and I went borderline insane for about a week.
Or so I thought. When I began learning magic my instructor told me that I had to clear my mind and meditate. That only gave me another break-down. All the memories of that night were pushed to the forefront of my mind and replayed. All the pain, sorrow, and hate began to ravage my body all over again. I lost consciousness after about two minuets of it all.
After all that, my break-downs seem to become frequent. Nearly every two years or so, I have a random break-down and have a miniature seizure. Doctors said that my mind might not be able to take it much more and I'll go insane. That was one-hundred years ago. Magic helps keep my mind intact, but there are still times when I lose it. I only fear for the people around me when that happens. Last time that happened, I was in Iraq. Let's just say I was a really big factor in winning the war.
Anyways! Enough depressing shit!
We walked into the dinning room and I immediately recognized Twilight and her brother, but there were five others at the table. The first one that caught my attention was a pink blur that appeared right in front of me. She had blue eyes and pink hair that poofed like cotton-candy. She was wearing a pink shirt with blue jeans and yellow shoes. She had no wings or a horn which led me to believe that she was an earth pony.
"Hi! My name is Pinkie Pie, but my friends all call me Pinkie! What's your name, how old are you, and what are you?" She asked, mouth going a hundred miles an hour.
"I'll explain later." I said walking past her.
Next was a blue pegasus with rainbow-colored hair, rose eyes, a blue shirt that read, 'Twenty percent cooler' in all capitol letters, a black pair of shorts, and white track-shoes. She looked at me with a bored expression for a little before snorting and turning away.
Next was an orange earth pony with yellow hair tied into a pony tail. Ironic right? She wore an orange plaid shirt, blue overalls, brown boots, and a stetson.
"Howdy partner, Ah'm Applejack." She said in a southern accent that reminded me of Texas.
"'Sup." I replied.
Next to her was a yellow pegasus with long pink hair. She wore a pink shirt with a white bunny on it, blue jean-shorts, and white shoes.
"H-hi I-I'm Fl-fluttershy." She said in a quiet voice.
"Hello." Was all I said.
Lastly was a white unicorn with purple hair that was curled at the end. She wore a fancy purple hat, a purple dress, and black high-heels.
"I must say, your clothes are absolutely hideous!" She exclaimed, in a posh voice that you would hear in snooty ass movies.
I looked down to my clothes; black steel-toed boots, black jeans, a purple shirt, and my cloak. My cloak was black on the outside and red on the inside.
"Well nice to meet you too." I said crossing my arms.
"I'm sorry, it's just that black, purple, and red don't go together at all! I'm Rarity by the way." She said, walking over to me. "Take off that coat, and let me see your shirt please."
"No." I said walking over to an empty seat.
"Why not?" She asked going back to her seat.
"I'm not at full power yet, so it won't come off. Plus when I was trained, we didn't make our cloaks, or anything like that. It's basically made out of my own magic. Also, it's forbidden to take them off unless we are with loved ones or people that we trust with our lives." I explained leaning back in my chair and crossing my arms.
"What does it look like when you are at your full strength?" She asked.
I pointed to Celestia and said, "Like her hair, flowing. It stays the same colors, but the end looks tattered looks like black fire on both sides." I said.
"Where is your power level at now?" Celestia asked, raising an eyebrow at me.
I looked down and noticed my cloak was down to me ankles and said, "About ninety-nine percent. Give me an hour and I should be at full power." Just as I said that I felt a slight pang in my chest and my it began to flow, looking like black fire. "Or now apparently." I said standing up.
"You're power's just as strong as Princess Celestia's." Twilight said.
"I'm hiding most of it. This is only ten percent of my total power." I said.
All of the eyes in the room went wide, even Luna and Celestia's.
I pointed to Celestia with one hand and Luna with the other and said, "They hold their's back too. I can feel it. They use blockers, I see four of them on each of you. But, it leaks out. That's how I'm able to tell." They both looked at me with raised eyebrows.
"How can you tell how many blockers we use?" Luna asked.
I pointed to my eyes and said, "Everything magical glows to me. Power blockers, enchanted items, and cursed items. I can also tell what kind of enchantments are on the items. But I can't tell what kind of curses. I can only tell that it is cursed." Celestia and Luna were nodding their heads.
"So what? He's strong. But is he fast?" Asked the blue one.
"Define fast." I said crossing my arms.
"Breaking the sound barrier." She said, a smug look coming onto her face.
"Tch, that's slow. Fast, is breaking the speed of light." I said leaning back in my chair again.
"Not possible." Twilight said.
I stood up, cracked my back, and flash-stepped around the table and behind her. "Is that so?" I asked.
She jumped. "You just teleported." She said glaring at me.
I looked around the room and spotted a table with napkins on it. I began to walk over to it and asked, "Does teleporting cause a trail of air to follow where you go?"
"No." She answered.
I stood on one end of the table and flashed to the other, causing all the napkins to disperse.
Their jaws dropped but the blue one got a smug look again and said, "You can't fly though."
I focused my energy and began to float off the ground and flew around the room. "I'm sorry what were you saying?" I asked when I landed by my seat.
"How can you fly without wings?" She asked still dumbfounded.
"An ability I picked up twenty years ago." I answered.
The rest of the day went on boringly. I was getting more stares that usual by the servants, maids, and guards as I was walking around the castle. I pinned it on my cloak flowing. But as I progressed through the castle most of the maids' stares changed to something I wasn't quite comfortable with... They were looking me up and down, some biting their lower lip, and a few of them winking at me. Wasn't a very comfortable experience.
After about two minuets of wandering around the castle I got to my destination. My room. I was thinking about finally doing something to it. Maybe add a few decorations that suit me better than gold and blue. But first things first. Shower.
Canterlot Castle 10:35 A.M.
Dining room after Malekh left
Third POV
All six girls were chatting among themselves before Rainbow Dash raised her voice. "I don't trust that guy one bit!" She yelled.
Everyone else stopped and looked at her. No one said anything for a while because they were all thinking to themselves about Malekh. Applejack looked up at the ceiling and sighed. "Ah don't either, sugarcube. But we gotta get ta know him a bit more before we jump ta any conclusions." Everyone in the room nodded their heads in agreement but Rainbow Dash.
"I still don't think the princesses should let him just roam around the castle with no one watching him." She said crossing her arms and shrugging.
"I think it's really nice of the princesses to trust him so much." Fluttershy said scratching her head.
"I agree with you there, darling. But maybe they are being a little too kind?" Rarity asked raising an eyebrow.
"I think he's a really cool guy!" Pinkie Pie yelled. "He seems nice and fun to be around!"
"Maybe the princesses are trusting him so much to teach us a lesson?" Twilight asked. "I mean maybe he could show us a thing or two later on." She said getting a small twinkle in her eye.
"Or maybe I'm letting him roam around because I know what it's like to be in his position." Celestia said walking in the dining room, followed by Luna.
"He is lost and in pain, but we think that showing him trust and friendship could help his situation be more comfortable." Luna said putting her hands on her hips.
Immediately everybody in the room got out of their seats and bowed. "Rise, you don't need to be so formal right now." Celestia said.
Rainbow Dash was the first to recover and asked, "What do you mean, you know what it's like to be in his position?"
"I have been lost before. It is not uncommon to get lost in places you do not know." She replied taking a seat.
"We were just small foals when we were separated. Our parents tried to find Celestia but couldn't. Finally after about three days, we found her in an alley in Trottingham. She had a major magic outburst." Luna said. "The same one that if I'm not mistaken caused you to hatch Spike, right Twilight Sparkle?" She asked.
"Yes that is correct." Twilight answered. "But that outburst was caused by Rainbow's Sonic Rainboom. What caused your's Princess Celestia?"
"I was only a foal. Young alicorns tend to have outbursts due to the amount of magic dwelling inside their bodies." She answered.
"But what do you plan on doing about Malekh?" Twilight asked.
"If he chooses to he can go with you six to Ponyville, or he can stay in Canterlot." Luna said.
Canterlot Castle 12:46 P.M.
Malekh's room
First POV
After doing everything that I could to make my room more... room-y. I laid down on my bed and tried to relax. Sadly, someone else had plans for me.
There was a knock on my door and one of the guards poked his head in. "The Princesses want to see you in the throne room." He said.
"Alright." Was all I said before standing up and walking out of my room. Once out I turned to the guard that knocked and asked, "Can you take me there, I don't really feel like getting lost again." He nodded and we were off.
When we got there the doors opened and the six that I met earlier where there as well as Celestia and Luna. The second I walked in the blue one zoomed in my face. "I'm watching you, punk." She said, narrowing her eyes at me.
I rolled my eyes and walked past her.
Twilight walked up to me scratching the back of her head. "Sorry about Rainbow Dash. She can be a little brash at times."
"Don't worry about it. I knew a lot of people that were like that." I said waving a dismissive hand. "As long as she doesn't start following me everywhere I go. Then I'd have a problem." I joked. She didn't get it though.
Applejack walked up to me and asked, "How old'r ya?" Random as hell. I looked over to Celestia and she was shaking her head with a slightly pained expression.
I looked back to Applejack and said, "I'm twenty-seven."
She narrowed her eyes at me and at that time I was glad I had the best poker-face in my team. She nodded and turned around. She walked up to Twilight and said something along the lines of, "He's tellin' the truth." But I just shrugged it off.
But apparently he decided that now was a good time to bother me. I felt it coming on and tried to fight it. "Let me talk Mal, come on! You never let me have any fun!"
"Letting you have fun is letting you kill people! I am not letting you out Sephtis!"
"I don't want to kill anyone this time! Just to talk. Please?"
"Are you okay Malekh?" Celestia asked. I was doubled over clutching my head out of impulse.
"Yeah. Just a headache." I said.
"Let me talk. Let me talk! Let me talk!! LET ME TALK MAL!!!
"FINE! Make your own body though. I don't want them thinking I'm insane."
"Oh Mal, you've been insane for a long, long time. You just don't want to admit it."
"Fuck you."
I felt a steady warmth flow out of my eyes and down my body. I heard a few gasps and steps but most of all I heard Sephtis. "A thousand years locked in your subconscious can kill someone, Mal.
I looked to my left and he was there in his purple foggy body that he made. I looked around the room at the stares I was getting, but Celestia seemed the most curious. "And who are you exactly?" She asked.
Seph chuckled and said, "I'm Mal's alter ego in a sense. He used to let me out when we went on missions when he couldn't handle killing. Sadly I blew that by hijacking his body and going on a small killing spree.
"A small killing spree is around fifty people. Not five-hundred." I said chuckling.
"See? I told you we would laugh about it someday!" He said putting a foggy hand on my shoulder.
"YOU KILLED FIVE-HUNDRED PEOPLE?!" Twilight screamed. "Why would you do that?"
"I was emotionally compromised and my anger transposed onto him and amplified it." I said sighing.
"What got you so angry?" Celestia asked.
"We were sent to kill the man that killed my parents. They tried talking me out of going, but I wouldn't listen and let him out on the town." I chuckled and said, "On the bright side, that was the day Seph officially earned his name."
"And what name is that?" Rainbow asked, fear etched on her face.
"Sephtis. Greek for death." He said chuckling.
"How can you give someone a name so dark?" Rarity asked.
"I named him the first day he showed up. It was the first day I went insane." I said crossing my arms.
"Insane?" Celestia asked.
"Did anyone catch what I said when I made my dramatic entrance? Malekh lied. He's not twenty-seven, he's-" I cut him off by placing my hand on his face.
"He's right. I'm not twenty-seven. I'm actually one-thousand, five-hundred, and twenty-seven." I looked around the room at all the skeptical faces but Celestia was shaking her head. "Why didn't you want me to tell them in the first place, Celestia?"
"Because, Twilight." She said.
"Wait, you're not lying?!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Nope, he's not lying. I've been with him since he was twenty-seven. So for one-thousand and five-hundred years." He said. Emphasizing how old we are.
"How?" Twilight asked.
"Magic." I said.
"No really, how?"
"No really, magic."
"Wow. Can I study you?"
"Hell no."
"Please?"
"No means no."
"I'll drag you." She warned.
"And I'll call rape again."
Her face burst out into a blush at that one and she started stammering. I smirked triumphantly but that small victory was shot down by Rainbow Dash.
"Bwahahaha! Y-you called rape on her?! That's hilarious!" She said. I don't know why but her laughing about it kinda killed it for me. Nevertheless she laughed at it for a good five minuets before Applejack slugged her in the arm. Hard. Her laugh turned into a whimper in two seconds. "You didn't have to hit me so hard, AJ." She said.
"Well ya wouldn't shut up and the princess looks like she wanna talk." Applejack said with a small smirk. I looked over to the princess and sure enough she had a face that said one thing; business. Sadly Seph was still there.
"Can it wait? I kinda want to explore! Mal here has only wandered around the inside of the castle. I wanna see the outside!" He said. When you've known Seph for as long as I have, you can tell when he is up to something.
"Hell no." I said.
"Why not?" Celestia asked.
"Yeah, why not?" Seph repeated.
"I don't trust you after the last time I let you out. Especially when you have a body of your own. Get back inside." I said crossing my arms.
"Yes dad." He said, knowing that I cringe every time he says it. I heard four snickers and saw three confused faces.
"Dad?" Celestia asked when Seph was completely inside my head. After all these years it still feels awkward as all hell when he goes back in.
I sighed. "Yes. Dad. I created him with my own magic and hate, so in a sense he is my son." I shrugged and began walking around the throne room. "This is a lot of fuckin windows here." I said after looking at all of them. But one caught my attention. It looked like a chimera. It had the head of a goat, one deer antler, one goat horn, a fang, beard, right arm of a lion, left arm is a claw of an eagle, right leg of a lizard or dragon, and left leg of a pony. Looking at it I can only think of one word. "Chaos." I said out loud.
"That is Discord." Twilight said from behind me. "The spirit of disharmony and chaos."
"Celestia, the choice is yours, but if you want true harmony, free him." I said turning around to look at her.
"WHAT!?" All six mares screamed in unison.
"Are you workin' for him?" Applejack asked.
"I knew you couldn't be trusted!" Rainbow screamed.
"ENOUGH!" Celestia yelled, silencing everyone in the room. "I will think about it. But first I want to talk to you about the things you had when you came here."
"Like what?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Like this." She said as she pulled a key out of her pocket. But not any other key, it was glowing.
"He's here." I said reaching for the key.
"Who?" Celestia asked.
"The Doctor."
Author's Note
Yes, he seems overpowered right now doesn't he? Stronger that Celestia, flash stepping, (got that from Bleach if you didn't realize that) and he can fly! What the fuck right? I have plans on using that.
Before you ask, yes, I made a YOLO reference. Deal with it!
I need art! I know this story is pretty bad and all, but I need something that I can use for the story art! Hope someone can do it. If not, oh well!
Underlined is when Sephtis is talking in Mal's head or using his mouth to speak.
