Magic and Humanity : One Big Step
Chapter 3 [Saying hello and goodbye to mortality]
Previous Chapter[January 7th, 2014, 4:00 am, Unknown Location, Unknown, Equestria]
I heard noises fading in and out as I was trying to sleep, but I kept on hitting my head on the window each time the carriage hit a bump, I, curiously decided to wake up so I couldn't at least hit my head on the window again, I don't wanna get brain damage. I then saw that we were near a town, seemingly to have a huge castle in the background of the gorgeous city. I took a eye full of what was to be possibly the 'Place I'm supposed to be at'. I was very cozy at the moment and noticed that there was a light but noticeably thin blanket on me, it covered half of me, even since you know, they're as high as my god damn waist.
I saw what was the guards chatting and opening a gate to the castle itself, letting the carriage in, I was quite surprised that I was actually going into a castle, I just thought I would rather go into apartments and homeless shelters in my future, but this, this changes everything. I saw a door open, as the carriage parked to the side and they escorted me out, telling me to go inside. I went inside, seeing a beautiful array of glass structures and colors, they look just like twilight and the others. I then saw a pink pony walk out of the doors, she was apparently just bouncing crazy like she was fucked up on sugar.
I then looked at the door for a mere 5 seconds and took a breath, I opened the door and to my surprise, it wasn't no ambush, it wasn't no thug party, it wasn't some stupid guy trying to kidnap me, it was just a unicorn, but with wings. She was seemingly to have been sitting on what seems to be a pillow, I thought she would rather have a chair, but I guess a pillow is the same to a equine horse. The mysterious mixture confused me for that I should either call her a unicorn or a pegasus, I called her something that quite embarrassed me a lot.
“Hello, Unicorn Flying Thing.” I said just briefly and quick to the mixed pony. She just stared at me, not even replying. One of the armored guards whispered to me
“You have to bow, you numbnut.” he'd whisper in my ear, I was shocked that I forgot to actually show respect, even for the fact that she had a crown on her head, more like a tiara.
I'd bow awkwardly and then she'd chuckle softly and would look at me, saying soft words, probably more soft than Fluttershy, it sounded like a mother.
“It's fine, I understand that your kind don't have this way of greeting a princess.” she'd say. Her fur was a rather cream white, wearing seemingly golden hoof cuffs and a rainbow glittery sparkled mane, seemingly to make me cough as I accidentally inhaled a sparkle, it was like glitter to me.
“Well, we don't have princesses or princes or what not, we rather just have a queen in England, but that's all I know of. Saying for the fact that a president in the united states is a princess to us, he rather lives in a white apartment called the 'White House' and makes 400 thousand a year, I don't understand why my world can't be like this” I'd cite to her. She'd humbly stand off of her 'Sitting Pillow', walking towards me and examining me, my clothing and my face. She'd introduce her name to me, as of which sounded more like a astronomical name in my opinion.
“My name is Celestia, princess of the sun.” She'd say to me. I'd pause for a moment, realizing that this 'Princess' is the one that twilight talked about back in the hospital, That just blew a fuse in my fucking head.
So, I collected over my thoughts, I woke up in a alternate dimension full of ponies and I was in a hospital, I suffered a major wound, I have met a 'Princess of the sun' and I rode in a carriage. This entire time has been so weird, that I might as well call this a broken mental state and that all these ponies are just nothing but a hallucination, maybe this 'Princess' is just a white horse with a horn and wings glued to it and that loves to fall off a roof so it can think it can fly.
“I.” I stuttered, “I need a break.” I'd mumble to Celestia. I started walking out, looking at the skylight that was in the huge room, beaming a strong light into my eyes, I slid down onto the wall, sitting and glancing down. I thought to myself, Why is my life like this, why me? why couldn't it have been my neighbors or some other stranger than me. Am I just someone who just is picked like a unwanted lottery that I bet no one would like? I just wish I never walked through that door, I would've been home, not stuck in a equine dimension talking to a 'Sun Goddess'.
But, to my thought, I would've been stuck in a lousy home, I would've been broke, why didn't I think of that, I was just babbling words for nothing, I should savor this, I should be enjoying for the time I have here. But what if this Is a dream?
Ah heck, I am at least living the dream, literally.
I'd hear a door open, hoof steps were clicking and I was still looking down, a yellow aurora surrounded my head and my head was forced up, and let go as I was now looking at Celestia, her facial expression was sorrowed and she felt bad for me leaving.
“I.” I'd mumble softly “I just can't tell if this is real or not.” I'd say shocked. “W-What if you are just some, thing? Like a doll or something that I'm hallucinating as to be a pony.” I'd tell her, she'd calmly recover her emotion and would be rather soothed. She'd tell me,
“Don't worry, you're safe, as long as you stay under my guidance, and from my greatest friends, you, Zachary, will be okay.” She'd tell me without any anger, I'd then stop for a second and then realized.
“How did you-” I'd ask before she interrupted me.
“Being a princess means you got to know everyone, and, as a fact, Luna told me about you when you were asleep.” She'd say while chuckling softly. That explains the fact that everything I ate in my dream was hay, and why I kept on seeing a pony.
I'd rise off from the wall and would look at Celestia, her size was literally almost as tall as me, I'd hug her and she'd smile happily, knowing for what she did was worth while. I noticed that there was something going on as I felt the ground rumbling and the ceiling starting to char and leak peaces of paint and fragments of marble, I'd duck under what seemed to be a night stand, seemingly to be very small, I tried to fit in but I was too big, this is why I should have went on a diet.
I would glance at what was Celestia getting tumbled by a large chunk of marble, making herself vulnerable, to any attacks and her horn, grazed and charred into half. I'd yell for her but she wouldnt respond, I ran over and saw her, I listened to her and she was breathing, but I feared that this would not at all last long. I looked for the sturdiest object I could find in the room, seemingly to be a antique sword, I attempted at prying the rock off but the sword eventually broke in half due to its years wearing it down. I saw for what was her other half of her horn, I picked it up and tried to put it back on her, but she wouldn't respond at all for what happened, I ran over to the door and kicked it open, yelling for guards to arrive, seeing them trying to lift the large fragment of marble, they gave up, and Celestia said one thing to me.
“There is no such thing as immortality, you cant stop what has happened.” She'd mumble sadly, I'd feel for what was a tear shedding out of my eye, for I saw her eyes dilate and then stop, her mouth left open and her eyes, one half open, one almost closed. Her cuffs turned into stone, losing its shiny golden look, as her mane died down into a pink state, her breathing stopped.
It was sure to me, that I just saw the princess die.
