Searching for Answers

And so, we continue the journey of a murderous lunatic trying to get into a library, when he has no clue were the library is, and would probably be let in if he just asked...

"Shut up annoying voice in my head!"

He proceeded to move around the town, always sticking to the edge of the forest in an effort to avoid being seen, while yelling at me and talking to himself thus making his efforts at stealth pointless. He wondered what would serve as a proper distraction so he could raid their stores of knowledge, instead of, oh I don't know, just asking if he could go in their library, which is likely open to the public. He could not come up with a proper plan of action, until he found a cottage. Said cottage was surrounded by a plethora of animals, as a single yellow Pegasus took the seemingly impossible task of caring for all of them. Yet out of all of the things that could have caught his interest, his eyes lock on to what is undoubtedly a hen house. He suddenly had a wonderful, awful, idea, more awful than wonderful really. I mean seriously, this guy really needs to get his head checked.

"Of course! All I need to do is wait until night fall, then while they sleep I shall steal all of their eggs! After causing a ruckus in the hen house, the owner of the cottage will be so worried about what is out here that they will never notice me sneak into their home, to steal their eggs! With eggs in hand, I will find their leader, and pelt him with said eggs! While he is confused, I will run laughing back into the forest. It is GENIUS!"

Wait... How is that supposed to help you obtain their knowledge?

"SHUT UP! IT IS BRILLIANT! Now I just need to wait until night falls, luckily I still have this book I got from that -ugh- unicorn."

For the sake of my sanity (whatever is left of it), as well as to avoid confusion, I will just let him tell the story for now.

"Wait, what do you mean by-"

FIRST PERSON POV:

"-that?"

...

Huh, guess he's gone for now. Weird. Oh well, back to the book. It seems I got my hands on a proper Demonomicon. No, not Necronomicon (I wish). This seems to be a book about calling forth malevolent entities from other planes of existence... Odd. Ha, I knew that guy was just being a smartass! This book touches on the multiverse theory, even if they have only discovered a fraction of what the true potential for parallel universes could mean, and they have to be more advanced than he was letting on if they already have access to that. After all, only primitives and fools believe in magic, and no fool could get so far in understanding the physics behind-

.........

No... No no no. No NO NO NO NO *NO NO*! They only believe there is a set number of dimensions, and they think of them in what appears to be a religious sense instead of a scientific one, all connected by some magical Aether that allows passage from one to the next! If they still believe what is in this book, then he must have thought that I came from this "Tartarus", like the one in the Greek myths, and here it talks about the unicorn channeling mana for ritual summoning! Fuck! Alright, no biggie, according to this the unicorn uses a focus to channel the "mana". All I need is to figure this out, and test this for myself. Once I am capable of performing this "magic" myself, I can perform the necessary experiments to figure out just what is really going on. Yeah, no need to panic, plus this is a rather old tome, so they might have advanced far beyond this superstitious nonsense by now. Just look how quickly Humanity has advanced in recent years. Yeah, these ponies have probably already gone through their equivalent of the Renaissance... Hopefully.

Now things get interesting, what is the focus for this "magic"? Lets see, form the circle, ignite the ingredients, heh, the writer forgot the most important part to summoning demons, always place some safety measures. It may just be the role-player in me, but even a novice should know to place several wards on a summoning circle. Ah, it must be here, "Forming the Gate".

Step Five: Forming the Gate

To create a stable Gateway, you must not overload it, instead let the mana flow in a steady stream from your horn to power the spell-

*Slam*

I slammed the book shut with a wide eyed stare and pained smile on my face. I slowly stand, turn around to face the tree I found myself leaning on in an attempt to get comfortable (It is a big book), and start beating my head against it.

"GOD DAMN IT! WHY DIDN'T I KEEP THE HORN!? I'M SUCH AN IDIOT!"

Now that I have successfully attacked a tree with my face I pause in my self-hate to try and figure out what to do next, with my face still pressed against the tree.

"Heh, face-planting, I'm doing it wrong... That was terrible."

I can't go back for it, because I honestly have no idea how to get back there. The forest is like a damn maze, plus that unicorn has likely already been eaten, besides I doubt I would ever be able to get the smell of ass of the horn, and that is just unsanitary!

I continue with my pondering and removing my face from the tree, until I hear something that causes me to go stiff; a voice.

"Hello? Are you alright?"

Turning around, I find myself facing the yellow Pegasus from the cottage. I have been spotted! This cannot end well.