Author's Note

Sorry for the extremely long delay. Things had stacked up delaying me much more than I anticipated.
I also won't be updating much either, I have year 12 this year so my focus will be on studying and doing work.

Also, I had a massive writers block for a while, and had no idea how to end this chapter, so it's probably shit. Next chapter will be focused on breaking down the current powers the character possess, but there will be more.

Chapter 4

"Oh is that so? Well too fucking bad arsehole." I declared angrily to the pompous little shit in front of me.

He reeled back in shock, "well I never!"

"Look here dickhead, you think I'm just going to get on my knees and apologise for bumping into you? I might have just given a simple 'sorry' if you didn't demand me to do it you twat." I glared at the pony in front of my.

"How dare you?! Do you know who I am!?" He barked loudly, body shaking with rage.

"No, and I couldn't give two shits. To me, you're just some fuckwit who thinks he's important, when in reality, he's just some stupid trash." Putting extra emphasis on trash for effect. It got the desired reaction and I smiled internally.

"I'll have you thrown in the dungeons for this! Guards! Guards where are you?!" He shouts, looking down the halls for any nearby guards.

I wave my hand over my shoulder dismissively, "yeah whatever dick muncher."

Arriving at my destination - Luna's quarter of the castle - I begin to hesitate a little. I have a feeling things are going to get really awkward really quickly. I mean, what am I supposed to say? "Hi Luna, how was the moon?" I think sarcastically to myself.

Steeling myself, I push open the doors in front of me. Immediately, I'm greeted with total darkness, and a spear to my throat.

"Who goes there?!" Shouts a random guard I can't even see.

I immediately put my hands in the air as a sign of surrender. "Whoa, easy there mate, I'm a friend of Luna. I came to see her."

The spear lowers, and I finally adjust to the darkness. There standing in front of me, was a bat-pony. Cat-like irises and bat-like ears, standing at average height they have dark-blue armour, and even darker blue coats. It's been a long time since I've seen a bat-pony. Outcasts like myself, we got along well.

The guard looks up at me in wonder, "could it be?" He whispers to himself. Standing at attention, the guard salutes. "Sir! We've been awaiting your arrival. The princess is this way, follow me."

Well... that was weird. I followed the guard down the hall and to the left. There, was a pair of double doors, extra-large in size. Guards standing on either side, protecting that which lies within.

The guard escorting me nods to the others before turning to me. "She's just in here." I nod before opening the doors.

Inside, my best friend was waiting. "Hello again Luna. It's been a long time."

She looked up at me and soon started to tear up. She then tackled me into a hug.

"Hello again Julian. I've missed you."

---------- 3rd person POV, back at the hospital----------

Celestia was standing at the window, looking up at the castle with a smile on her face. Her expression, however, soon turned serious - not something you see too often - as she turned to address the ponies behind her.

"Now that he is gone, I wish to talk to you." The ponies all nodded. "Julian was brought here over a thousand years ago. Thrust into a strange land filled with strange creatures, and at such a young age. He was all alone, and completely terrified. He survived in the Everfree forest, alone, for about 5 years."

"The Everfree?!" All the ponies collectively shouted in surprise.

Celestia nodded her head. "When he found civilization, it was not what he thought it was going to be. The ponies did not take kindly to him being different, so they shunned him, and worse. Because of this, he now holds an extreme grudge to all ponies. That was, until Luna found him. Alone in some cave, with nothing but a small fire and some fish he caught from the nearby stream."

Celestia took a deep breath. "She saw him on the floor, crying himself to sleep. When he noticed her however, he jumped up and grabbed his spear, which was little more than a sharpened stick. He lunged at my sister, but thanks to her quick thinking and calming words, she could have been injured, and he may have died."

Celestia paused to take a look at the gathered ponies. They all had the look of concentration. "After that, she brought him to the castle. It was there that he lived out the rest of his days, slowly adapting to pony society. Never overcoming his hatred, as the many of our subjects still despised him as a monster. The only two ponies he ever opened up too were myself, and Luna, I however still did not trust him and neglected his problems. And then, when Luna fell to darkness, he tried his absolute hardest to stop her. When he failed, and Luna became Nightmare Moon, he was thrown into a deep depression. Soon after, he found out that I was the one who contributed to her fall to darkness by neglecting her. At that point, he snapped, and was overcome by rage and sadness." She paused again to look all of them in the eyes.

"Luna saved his life."

"That's terrible." The soft voice of Fluttershy uttered. She was on the brink of tears, while the others fared no different. Rarity was close to fainting, Rainbow looked a little ashamed, Applejack's expression was hidden behind her hat, Pinkie had streams of tears flowing from her eyes with a straight mane, and Twilight had her ears down and a sad expression.

"It is indeed. I will need to talk to him again, and you all may like to be present for when I do. In the meantime, we need to figure out a place for him to stay while I sort out things with the mayor. I think he will wish to stay in the castle, but it would be simpler if he were to be in Ponyville."

"I suppose he can stay in the castle here." Twilight suggested, "I want to show him that not all ponies are bad. And there's plenty of room as well."

Celestia smile approvingly at Twilight, "very well. Tomorrow, I will send him here. For now, it is goodbye."

The ponies all said their goodbyes before Celestia left. Then, there was silence. "Are you sure it's a good idea to let that thing stay in the castle?" Unfortunately for some, Rainbow broke that silence.

"Rainbow! You must stop being so rude." Rarity shouted to her friend.

"What? I'm just saying what everypony's thinking"

"Well regardless, the decision has been made." Twilight interrupted before things escalated into an argument, "I just hope nothing bad comes from it."

Silence descended upon the group once again.

"Whelp, Imma hit the hay. Night everypony." Applejack declared as she made to move for the door.

Soon, the ponies agreed and followed out the room single file. All that was left was Twilight and Spike. The former of whom, was contemplating her decision. While the latter of the two was worried for his caretaker/best-friend.

"Well Spike, we better get going as well."

Spike nodded in agreement and followed her home.

----------My POV - The Next Day----------

I awoke in the guest quarters of the castle. After Luna and I met, we talked for hours, both happy to see the other.

We caught up with each other, although considering we were both locked in stone for 1,000 years, nothing new really came up. I did hear some interesting stories about last years Nightmare Night though, wouldn't mind attending one of those.

Anyway, Celestia came to get me this morning and told me that we have something important to discuss. So, like the good little boy that I am, I followed her to collect Luna.

Once we had Luna in our little party we flew to Ponyville in a chariot. Apparently the Princesses needed to be formal because they also had other important business with the mayor of Ponyville.

So once we arrived we had the six ponies from the day before meet us in the strange crystal castle.

"This is where you will be staying, with Princess Twilight." Celestia said as she addressed me.

"And what will I be doing here?"

"Living normally with the common ponies. Try to fit in please." The last part sounded forced.

I rolled my eyes. "Celestia, I know how to interact with people." She raised her eyebrow in response. "Don't look at me like that, I know how but that doesn't mean I like it..."

Luna chuckled next to her sister.

Celestia rolled her eyes, "regardless, we have important things to talk about."

"And what might they be?"

"We need to know the full extent of your powers."

"Well then... Where to start?" This is going to take a while... And it's not going to be fun