Traveler

As the train start slowly slowing down towards the station, I grab the sheet from the bed that I was lying on and wrapped it around me to cloak myself. I opened the door softly and without waking others like the times you try to leave your house without waking your parents up, I walked as best as I could towards the end of the train. Noticing all the ponies sleeping peacefully, I was a bit envious of them but I had to keep moving forward.

As, I got to the end of the train, I opened the back door and checked the ground as the train continued to slow down. Without any second thoughts, I jump off the train hitting the ground as I bite my lips to avoid screaming in pain as my wounds start to reopen. I slowly got up noticing I was starting to bleed a little. I pulled the cloak close to my chest to stop the bleeding as I press forwards towards Canterlot. I look around to see where to enter.

In few moments I notice a small sewer just big enough for me to get in. Walking towards the open sewers, I see the train fully stop at the station and I barely hear the conducer shouting to the passengers. As I got to the entrance, it smells sweet; I pause to think how ironic of all places it had to be the sewers that smelled sweet. I start walking in the sewer even though I couldn’t see where I was going so I keep one of my hands on the wall to let me know where to walk. I continue to walk along the long sewer to the point where I feel on the wall that there is a turn to the right and I slide around the corner. All of a sudden, I start coughing but as I touch my mouth the texture feels like blood.

“Damit.” I said in a low tone as the coughing soon passed. I continue to walk to the point where I spot a little light ahead in the tunnel. Shortly after I get to the source of the light and notice a ladder designed for a small horse to climb. I start climbing the ladder and slowly push the manhole upwards to look around to see where I was. The first thing I notice was that no one was around. I push the cover off the hole as I climb out of it. Pull the cover back on once the cover was back on the manhole, I turn around.

[DANG]

I fall on the manhole with loud thump.

“Ow!” I said rubbing my butt as I try to stop the pain. I look up to see what I hit. My eyes are wide and my mouth drops open like a person who sees the President of the United States at your door. To my surprise I see a large pony with blue fur and crown on her head.

“Luna?!” I gasp in shock as my little fan in my head took over.

“Sorry we…I mean I bump into...” She said as she had a confused look on her face like a person who had found something but doesn’t know what to do with it.

“Umm… No problem.” Trying to form words, I start to cough again. I quickly cover my mouth with my hand.

“Here, this will help you stop coughing.” She magically handed me a cup that smelled like sweet honey.

“Um..thanks.” As I stood up and drink the tea, I realize it was tea. Usually I hate drinking tea, but it was very helpful stopping my coughing.

“What’s your name?” ask Luna watching me drink the tea. I pause for a moment, looking both at Luna and the tea she gave me.

“My name is Traveler.” I say as I bow my head thanking her for the tea.

“Traveler, I may be new to the modern world, but I that not young enough to be fooled. That not your real name.” she said in sharp tone.

“Tell me your real name or I will call the guards.” She threatens, as her eyes stare straight at me like they can see can see my soul.

“Shoot.” I thought to myself, thinking maybe this is the message my future self-told me about. But, I had no other choices.

“Okay Luna, let’s play a game, each of us may ask a question and get an answer.” I said as I tried to avoid talking about my name. I make myself comfortable while checking the area making sure there was no one around.

“Don’t worry. Most of the ponies around are asleep by now.” She claimed.

“Okay, I will go first, my first question is, what is your real name?” asked Luna.

“Traveler; why are you alone?” I responded back as fast as I could.

“There are no ponies to hang out with, during my time of control. Why do you call yourself, Traveler?”

“The reason is I have no home to call for myself, so I must continue moving forward. Do you have friends?”

“No I’m alone. Why do you have no home?”

“Because of my sins from what I have done to my kind. Do you need a friend?”

“Yes” Before she continues speaking, we start hearing voices coming towards us. Without any thought I start running in the opposite diction of the voices.

“Princess Luna?!” One the voice spoke, as I turn into an alley and lean against it to hear what they had to say to make sure Luna wouldn’t rat me out.

“Princess is okay?” asked one the voices shouting out to the others.

“Yes, just chatting with a friend.” After she said that, I knew she was trying to help me. As, I wait in the alley in the cold alley, I see why Luna turned evil to begin with. Seeing that there was no one around, made the area felt cold and lifeless. I look around the corner to see sheets blowing in the wind on the cold ground strangely reminded me of my home on a cold summer night just sitting on the street thinking my life is nothing. But now I wish I could go back home and sit on those cold streets again. I grab a couple of them and cover myself getting rid of the other one as it was covered with blood and sewer water. I start walking towards the other side of the street. Thinking it will be safer place for me, while I continue to walk until…

“Please no.” I turn around the corner to see two griffins bugging a pony.

“LYRA?” To my surprise, to see her there in the first place.

“First Luna, and now Lyra; what are the odds.” I thought to myself.

“Come on, time for some pay back.” one the griffins laugh, while I slowly walk towards them making sure to not make any sounds. So far, neither the griffins nor Lyra had noticed me yet. Lyra looks down and spots me a few inches away from the griffins, pointing my figure on my mouth telling her don’t say anything. I stood next to the griffins noticing their claws could easily kill me but I had to do something. I tap one of them on their shoulder trying to get its attention.

“What?” he shouted as he turns around.

[BANG]

I punch the griffin as hard as I could in face sending him falling backwards to the ground. Before the other griffin can turn around, I kicked him sending the griffin flying towards the ground. However, unlike the first one who is unconscious, Before I had kicked his back claws grabbing and tear the cloth I was wearing. Revealing my hands, Lyra’s mouth dropped down as I try to cover them with his tail rap and pull causing me to fall over. I open my eyes to see the griffin stand up about to strike with the full force of his strength.

“Slow down, slow down.” I keep repeating in my head over and over like an old record player repeatedly wishing that the griffin be slow enough to dodge. But, as I watch in horror that my life was about to end on a crazy planet that hates humans, I close my hands so I don’t have to see. Then my hand starts burning again like the time in my dream when I was able to divide by zero.

“You’re such an idiot.” I heard that voice again, thinking that I was in Hell. I reopen my eyes to see that my hand was glowing and all around me looked like a green jelly color. Then I realize that the griffin has stopped in place; I push myself out from under the griffin. I look at my hand and notice a clock spinning but both the big hand and the little hand are frozen in place. I slowly place my other hand over to see what it feels like. But, has my hand covers it, the clock stops and then slowly time starts moving forward again. The griffin strikes the ground and is stunned to see me gone.

“What the…” he looks around and spots me.

“How….” He questions as he runs towards me with another full run not planning let me go. Without any pause, I tap my hand again and like before all time stops in place like a person who pressed the pause to stop a movie in place. I realize that I can stop time any time I want.

“Hello again.” I look up to see the black silhouette of myself from my dream is there leaning against the griffin that was floating in mid-air.

“It’s you!” I spoke with fear in my voice as I was shocked to see him again. My heart pounds as I watch him with a scary stare and a smile with an evil grin like a bully finding fresh meat.

“How have you been, I missed you. I was inside you for long time and now you’re inside of me.” He said with the happiest tone.

“What?! I am out here and you’re….” Trying to find words to put it, trying to stop my mind from spinning so fast from confusing how and why he is here.

“Well you didn’t kill me, I’m part you. I’m the reason why you can do this” as he shows that around us is the green jelly air.

“The only way you can get rid of me is by putting a gun near your head, and pulling the trigger.” As he make his hand into a gun shape and points it towards me like he wants to shoot me.

“What do you want, my soul?” I ask as I watch him with a harsh look, thinking that he is a demon or something like that.

“No, I’m here for one reason and that is to make you suffer for all those people you killed.”

“That makes no sense. I only know a few people. Why I must suffer for all my kind.”
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“Well, I hear all of them. You may think your little black hole killed all of them. But, no you just crushed all the souls into one small can and part of your soul is there as well. However, because your soul is the dominant one you didn’t get sucked in. Now every soul in all of life is in me.” Then in a flash he put his head on my head then out nowhere I can hear millions of cries of pain of people screaming. Tears roll down my cheeks as my heart is heavy from hearing all those people suffer. It was getting harder to breathe, as the other me spoke in a low calm tone that can bring a chill down a person’s spine as he grab my head to make sure I can’t escape the crying souls.

“Suffer, suffer, suffer, SUFFER!” He keeps screaming as it was getting harder and harder to breathe. With all my strength, I kick him in his knee hoping he will let go.

[BANG]

To my surprise, I see that it works. Slowly I was able to breathe again.

“NO! I WON’T LET YOU ESCAPE AGAIN!” he yells in a demon voice as he charges towards me. I hit the clock on my hand again letting time resume again. Like clockwork, as time moves, he vanishes at the same time. However as I took deep a breath of relief just to be glad he is gone and promising myself not to touch clock again, I realize I forgot about the griffin who was still in the motion of jumping at me.

[BANG]

I scream in pain as I hit my head on the ground. It took me a while but I notice the griffin was on top of me pining me down so I can’t escape.

“No place to run jerk!” He laughed in a raging tone as he slowly raised his claw. I didn’t know which was worst, having him about to claw my face part or letting the other me torture me for my sins. Different choices were going through my mind as I was stuck between two hard places until…

[SMACK]

My lips lock with his, now I didn’t care if it was gay. It was the only way I think of that might stop him from striking me and also give me more time to get an idea for escape. He froze as our lips stayed locked not knowing what to do. I was holding because I didn’t want to die or call the other me again. For few seconds both of us didn’t move as our eyes lock to each. One was confused and other was scared.

“HEY!” we both pull back and look in the direction of the voice. A pony was flinging towards the griffin kicking him in his face like in the action movies. Sending him flying, it was…

“LYRA?!” to my surprise as she looked at me trying give me a thumbs up even though she had no hands.

“Great, I now know how Bon Bon feels.” I stated.

“How?” she questioned me of how I knew her partner. But before she could talk to me...

“That hurt Lyra! And you why did you kiss me?!” He shouts but his voice sounds like a girl? I roll over.

“Um, I know this question is out of place, but are you a girl?” I ask while I lay on the ground. Both of them look at me with more confusion than before.

“Umm” She paused as I lay there with a stupid look on my face.

“Yes” she said as I ask her another question.

“But your voice sounded like a dude earlier.” After I said this, her face slowly started to laugh.

“ ha ha, I have a problem that when I get mad my voice deepens.” She explained.

“Okay, umm is she a girl too?” I point to the unconscious griffin on the ground.

“No he is my younger brother, and to answer the other question, we have gotten out of control debt. Sky pirates or the grounded wizards, and one thing led to other.” She stated.

“I was going to win until you showed up” chuckled Lyra as she walks to me I get up. I was feeling bad but also glad for stopping them before things got bad between them.

“Sorry I punched you, my name is Traveler.” I bow to show that I’m sorry, the griffin bows her head too.

“My name is Sam.” She said as she walks towards her brother to wake him up.

“Hmm…Mommy?” he said in low tone as he rubbed his eyes.

“OW!” He shouts as the pain that was coming from his head. I quickly cover my hands while the griffins are talking to each other.

“So?” asks Lyra as she looks at me with eyes of wonder.

“What brings you here? Can you open a jar, what’s it like having those, can I touch them, and are you human?” Lyra is asking me all these questions without taking a breath. He was puzzled at first then remembering that the fans had made her want hands badly.

“Umm no, same as you having hooves, no, and yes.” trying to answer all her question in the order she asked them.

“So thing, what brings you here?” asked Lyra repeating her first question as the two griffins both look up to see what I’m going to say. I thought for a bit why I came here in the first place.

“There is something that is not right.” I said as all of them had a look of puzzlement on their faces. “How you do you guys know what a human is, and why there such hatred towards them.” All of them look at each other seeing if any of them had an answer. Then they start thinking about it until something in their heads click.

“Your right; I was told as a young filly that humans were a myth. But, recently there’s been so many new laws saying if see any humans kill or capture on sight.” Said Lyra.

“So you’re human?” asked Sam as I nodded to her question.

“I told Twilight and her friends to come with me to get here but” as I pause remembering the message that future self gave me, I stop saying anything else thinking they may bad guys.

“The point is, I must see your queen.” I said in a commanding tone.

“You mean the Princess.” Lyra corrects me.

“Sure” showing I didn’t care that much about the title of their leader.

“If you want see the Princess, you have to wait. And waiting is about 3 years. Then you can see her.” said Lyra, as I look at the castle looking for any opening to get in. Thinking there must a fast way to see her.

“Sorry about the punch but I need to get going.” hearing some of the ponies about to wake up soon. Looking down the street, I ran down to other alley. Following the alley, I got to the other alley and notice two guards walking around then turn towards a different street. I make sure they were gone, my next plan which I think that this was stupid but there are no other choices. But, as I turn my face, it is met with Sam?

“What?! What are you guys doing here?” I question in harsh low tones as they smile like they having a good time.

“Well, a human is about to break into the castle to see the Princess who made a law against humans. And, you want us go home like nothing excited is going to happen. FUCK THAT, we going with you to see what’s going to happen now.” Teased Sam as Lyra kept nodding her head like asking a kid if he wants to go to the candy store. As I look at them, I notice their faces show they’re not going to change their minds.

“Fine, just be careful.” I stated as we notice the sun was breaking the blue sea of darkness. “How much time do I have left in this dimension” I thought to myself as I look at the clock on my hand as it ticks like a normal clock.

“Next stop the castle!” shouts Lyra as other two griffins shout “yay”. I stare deep at the castle, thinking what is inside waiting for me.