The Powers That Beby fieeeshChaptersThe MakerThe EncounterThe TrainingSemi Re-WriteThe MakerI was supposed to die. Might as well throw that out there now. My story begins on Earth in the middle of December on a snowy highway in the middle of a forest. The scene around me was picturesque in it's beauty, the kind of forest you would see on a post card with the words "Wish you were here!" written on it. I was driving down the road listening to the radio when I heard something whisper. "I have a proposition for you Matt." I looked around my car for the source of the whisper, but couldn't find anything, deciding that I was just tired I began to look for a rest area to take a nap. About a mile down the road I heard a car honking it's horn from around the bend, taking the turn I came face to face with a semi truck swerving to stay on the road, it lost control and flipped I jerked the steering wheel to get out of the way but couldn't get any traction on the slick road, the truck came crashing down upon my car, crushing me. I could feel my blood begin to pool beneath my body as I lay on the asphalt, looking up I saw a man in a trucker cap and thick jacket looking down at me, he grabbed my arms and pulled on me only to realize I was stuck under the car. He ran back to his truck to call for help but I was already too far gone. I closed my eyes for the last time and slipped into the warm embrace of death. And was abruptly awoken by a freezing wind blowing past me, looking around I saw that I was in some kind of gothic throne room. Several feet away sat a literal cloud of darkness, concealing any kind of distinguishing marks, except for a pair of glowing red eyes that seemed to be filled with disdain. The cloud spoke in that same haunting whisper I had heard on the road except much more clear. "I have a proposition for you, Matt Linwood of Earth. Do you accept?" I stared at the cloud in confusion before speaking. "How do you know my name? Who are you? Where am I? What proposition?!" The cloud chuckled at my panic. "I've been watching you Matt. I know plenty about you, but you may call me....The Maker. Now you are in my castle after I saved you from death. For your final question; long ago my throne was usurped by two so called "Princesses" who stole my artifact. Now I am stuck within this dreadful castle waiting for my banishment to end. But my banishment won't end for several thousand years and even then if the Elements have new wielders they can simply send me back here. But you can help, I will send you within a couple thousand years of my return and you will return my artifact to me and help me conquer Equestria." It's eyes seemed to gleam with sick desire as it ended the story. I took a step back and replied. "So someone stole your throne and now you want me to get your artifact and help you conquer a nation? How I am I supposed to do that? I don't have any outstanding skills that can help me." The cloud seemed to nod. "Yes. But I will provide you with several 'abilities' to help you on your mission. I will also provide knowledge on what your new abilities can do." I shook my head and sat down. "I don't really have a choice now do I? It's either this or death and I'd prefer not to die today." "I'm glad you see it my way." The cloud extended a tendril and grasped a nearby jar. "This is a pithos; a storage jar. This will give you your powers." It handed me the pithos, looking inside I saw a dark red liquid sloshing about. Steeling myself I brought the jar up and began to drink deeply. It tasted like cranberries mixed with blood. I coughed and spit as I dropped the jar. "What the fuck was that? Also I just realized how am I going to live for a thousand years? Humans don't live that long." "The liquid was a combination of pomegranates, cranberries, and alicorn's blood. The blood will help in the living regard." My vision started to get narrower as my head felt like it was being hit with a hammer. "Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!" I felt like I was simultaneously being burned alive and crushed with a steamroller. I began to black out and as I fell I saw a golden bell in my vision."This is what you must retrieve." and I blacked out. I came to laying on a balcony attached to a large castle, looking inside the room I saw a prominent 'Night' motif, from behind me I heard a gasp, I spun around and came face to face with a strange combination of alicorn and human, I knew it was an alicorn due to the wings and horn, I always was a mythology nut. The woman, painfully obvious due to the breasts, stared at me in shock before saying. "How dare you try and attack us! Thou shalt pay for your crimes assassin!" Her horn glowed a deep blue and I felt myself being flung into her room. I looked up and saw her fire a beam of energy at me. I knew I couldn't dodge it, so I did the next logical thing, bring my left hand up I extended my middle finger in her direction. The beam hit me and I felt my body begin to turn to stone, I tried to move but was unable. She looked at me and smiled. "We think that thou shalt make a glorious addition to mine abode." She then picked me up in her magic, as I could only assume the energy was magic, and deposited me next to a window overlooking a large hall. She then did something I found completely unexpected. She stripped her clothes off and went to bed, just like that, no gloating, no nothing. I felt kind of insulted, truth be told. I must have sat next to that window for two years, and I swear I saw the weirdest shit. Luna, as I would later come to know was her name, would come in with what I assume were guards and have sex! She wasn't even considerate of me, not even a blanket over me so I wouldn't have to watch, and I swear she must have frigged herself a hundred times. Anyway on my third year in Equestria Luna came over to me and just started telling her problems to me, I could tell she was crying, but why tell me? I couldn't help, this went on for the next couple of years until one day I heard a crash from the Royal Hall (I learned a lot from Luna's complaints) and saw who I assume was Celestia flying after a much more evil looking Luna, I didn't see much else except for Celestia returning to the hall without Luna. After that I never saw Luna again, luckily the magic calendar I had been using to keep track of the date still worked. I waited in that room for one THOUSAND years, yeah you heard me right, I guess The Maker was right about the whole immortality thing. One day though the door to the room was broken down by a fist and in walked a large centaur with The most metal horns I had ever seen. The centaur spoke up when he saw me. "Hmm. What is this? Another enemy of the Princesses, Luna to be exact." He bent down so that we were face to face and studied me. "What is your name?" I didn't respond because I was still a statue. He ran his finger across the top of my head and brought it to his mouth. "Ah lunar magic, quite refreshing. Now how about we see about getting you free." He opened his maw and sucked the magic encasing me off, he gave a slight burp afterwards but seemed nice enough. "So creature will you assist me in usurping the lunar and solar tyrants?" I stood up and stretched before responding. "Sorry but I already have someone I'm working for. Plus I wouldn't be of much use seeing as I don't know how my own powers work." He seemed okay with my response when he replied. "I see. Well I do hope we meet again you are quite the peculiar creature, and I do suggest you work on your powers else your employer cut you loose." He then trotted out of the room leaving me alone. I quickly looked around to see if there was anything I could use to find the nearest settlement, digging through the drawers only rewarded me with woman's clothes and some intimates, one of which I shoved in my pocket for an epic prank if I saw Luna again. I quickly walked outside into the forest only to be greeted by a dense canopy of trees, racking my brain I remembered that one of my powers granted me flight, smiling I began to work on figuring out how to fly. Several hours later I screamed at the sky. Five hours I had been working on flight, and what did I have for my patience? Nothing but some bruises, I had even tried several clichés like "Up, up, and away!" but still nothing. At some point I had an idea, if the ponies flew with their wings why can't I? I then decide to test my new idea, visualizing to large wings appearing on my back I visualized myself taking flight. I was stunned when I saw the ground far below me, looking in the distance I saw a small village overshadowed by a massive castle situated on a mountainside. I decide to try my luck with the village, turning in it's direction I started my flight. Author's Note A little side story for fun. Hope you enjoy The EncounterIt had taken me awhile to get used to flying, but I slowly began to improve until I was soaring through the skies with ease. I took a glance at the village when I realized the metal centaur I met earlier was there, I flew down and landed next to him. "Hey! Fancy meeting you here. So.....how's the quest for power going." I idly inspected my nails as I talked. He merely glanced at me before snorting and continuing his walk towards what looked to be a burnt tree. I squinted to get a look at the blob of color around the tree when my eyesight zoomed in by about twenty times, allowing me to easily view the blob, which turned out to be a group of six ponies standing there looking ridiculous. I mean really, they looked like they were designed to sell children's toys. I decided to speak up. "Hey I didn't catch your name when we last talked." "It is Lord Tirek, I notice that you seem to have mastered your powers." I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly. "Well I haven't really mastered it but I did figure out how to fly." Neither of us spoke as Tirek walked up to the ponies. I hung back a bit, but that didn't stop them from noticing me. The purple one in front spoke up. "Who is this Tirek? I didn't take you as the kind to have minions." Tirek laughed at her words. "Don't make me laugh Sparkle. He is merely a hapless soul I saved from the lunar tyrant's clutches." 'Sparkle' as Tirek called her seemed angered at the words. "Like you have any room to talk! You're a power hungry tyrant yourself." I furrowed my eyebrows at this. "Is she telling the truth Tirek? Are you really the villain?" He looked at me and spread his arms. "Call me what you will, but I merely wish to have all of ponydom's magic in my grasp." I took a step back. "So you are evil. Well then, I guess I'm gonna have to take you down." I prepared myself to attack, but before I could move I saw the world around me slow down as my senses sped up exponentially. I turned and saw the ponies fire a rainbow at me and Tirek. I moved faster than I thought was possible before remembering my super speed, I smirked at the revelation, adding one to the powers I was capable of using. Everything sped back up as I released the power. I watched in awe as the rainbow hit Tirek dead center, and then watched in horror as he shrugged off the blow and stood up. His smile was dark and foreboding as he spoke. "HA HA HA. You ponies are foolish to believe you can stop me LORD....." I'm like ninety percent sure he was going to start monologuing before I sprinted at him at about mach three and punched him square in the jaw. The shockwave from my punch pushed the ponies back. "Lord Bitch-Ass Centaur." I saw him rise and growl at me before sending a ball of energy at me. I did what was natural and raised my middle finger, only to find the ball of energy dissipated when it got a few feet away from my outstretched hand. "Oh. Now that is what we call funny." I sprinted at him again, unleashing hundreds of rapid fire punches at his mid section. He reared back and punched me in the jaw as I ran in front of him, I was sent flying back, I felt my jaw pop back in to place when I stood up. We were about thirty yards away from each other, I got into a sprinters position and steeled myself for the punch. My leg muscles tensed as I pushed off I could feel myself speed up, thirty yards: mach one, twenty-five: mach three, twenty: mach four, at fifteen I pushed myself as fast as I could go. The world blurred as I began to move faster than the pony eye could follow, I jumped letting all my momentum go into this one punch. My fist connected and a shockwave pulsed out from Tirek's face as I caved in his skull. I hit the ground with a dull thud as I felt myself begin to pass out from exhaustion, looking at my hand I saw my knuckles and skin re-knit themselves. I then welcomed the soft embrace of the ground, the last thing I heard was the sound of wings flapping and someone saying. "Get him to the hospital, he must be tired after that fight." I felt a tingling sensation as I fell into a deep sleep. I awoke upon a nice, soft bed in obviously a hospital, looking around I saw eight ponies and some chimera creature all standing around my bed arguing. I saw Luna and Celestia as well as the six ponies I saved from Tirek, I had no idea who the chimera was. Luna was obviously pissed about something as she was nearly yelling her words. "Listen to reason! That thing was the one that broke into my tower." Celestia was calmly speaking as she parried Luna's complaints. "Now listen Lulu, he might not have meant to break into your tower. It could have very well been an accident. Why, if I had a bit for every time I had accidentally teleported somewhere I wasn't supposed to be I would be quite rich indeed." The purple alicorn with a star cutie mark sounded suspiciously like Tara Strong as she spoke. "I agree with Princess Celestia. It could have been an accident, besides I think he would have quelled any doubts about his moral standing after he...er killed Tirek and saved Equestria." Luna looked away at that remark. I decided that I had better speak up before they started arguing again. "Yeah Lulu, lighten up, relax, take a siesta, leave me as a statue for a couple thousand years. It's all right." Luna gulped at my words, and for good reason, as her sister slowly turned her head to Luna with unrelenting fury in her eyes. "You what Lulu?" "I ca...can explain, you see he appeared on my balcony and I might have hit him with a small petrification spell." She started to nervously tap her fingers together. I was having a hard time holding back my laughter, as Celestia led Luna out of the room and gave her what I can only describe as "The Speech of Pure Terror" after the speech Luna came back in and apologized to me. After her apology I had some questions. "So Luna what happened all those years ago? Also who's the chimera? Finally, why in the nine hells did you leave this on my head before you left." I brandished the stolen panties. Luna cheeks soon rivaled Cliford in red, I bust out laughing as she snatched the panties out of my hand and ran off. Celestia gave me a stern look of disapproval, but I could see the mirth in her eyes. "Did my sister really leave those on you?" "No. I just felt like messing with her for payback for being turned to stone." Celestia smiled and left to find Luna. I looked to the other ponies for answers to my earlier questions. The purple one smiled and walked over. "Hello. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and I will answer your questions; First Luna was err... transformed into an entity called Nightmare Moon who tried to create eternal night. Second that 'chimera' is called Discord and he is actually a draconequus. Now would you mind if I asked you a couple of questions?" I nodded in comfirmation. "First, what species are you? Second, what abilites do you have, I saw you demonstrate a few in your battle with Tirek. Finally how do you know Luna? She seems to distrust you. Oh! Also where are you from?" I smiled at the inquisitive young mare? I guess. "I am a human or Homo Sapien if you want to get technical. I have a few abilities but I really don't know how to use most of them, I need to learn how. I met Luna when I was sent here by my employer to get an artifact. I'm from Earth but I don't think I'll be able to go back anytime soon, seeing as I uh..........died." I heard the room grow completely silent when I said that, looking up I saw Luna and Celestia standing there, Celestia looking infinitely sad and Luna crying. I looked around the room and saw everyone had practically the same expression, even Discord seemed surprised as he spoke for the first time since I woke up and he sounded exactly like John DeLancie. "You...Died?" I nodded and said. "Yeah I was crushed by a truck." I then recounted my journey up to this point, stopping only to explain my powers and human vehicles. Luna wiped at her tears and said. "I apologize once again for my actions and now realize I acted hastily. I hope you can find it in yourself to forgive me." "I forgive you Luna, because if I didn't. I would have become exactly like Tirek, unwilling to accept friendship." Luna shook her head sending her hair flying every which way. "Still, I will do all I can to make up for it." Celestia put a hand on Luna and smiled at me. "I will try and find out more about this 'artifact' and locate it if I can. I will also have Rarity here make you some new clothes and we'll see about finding you a place to stay." She gestured at a white unicorn who was sketching something on a notepad. The orange one spoke up. "Ah reckon that my farm would be a good place to work on them fancy powers of yours when you feel better." I felt like my day had just gotten a whole lot better as I said. "You know? I think I'm gonna like it in Equestria." As soon as I finished speaking my stomach produced a sound that could have been registered as an earthquake. I smiled sheepishly. "Uhh maybe I should eat first though." The TrainingWe had decided that I would spend the night at the hospital, so when I awoke I slipped on my clothes and headed over to Applejack's farm to start my training for the day. It was a ten minute walk to the farm, I made it in seven seconds. God I love super speed. Anyway in front of me stood acres upon acres of apple trees, I started towards the barn and saw that everyone was there already. Celestia smiled at me and said. "Good morning and I hope you don't mind but would you be willing to tell us about your home?" I shrugged. "Sure. Well I guess I'll tell you about my family, I was orphaned at a young age, my father killed himself and my mother died of cancer. After several years in foster care, I began college with my sister who was a year older than me. Pretty soon my sister...she fell in with the wrong crowd and got addicted to opium, which was fairly expensive and hard to acquire at the time. So maybe she saw it as a sign of prestige or maybe she was just trying to deal with the pain, either way one day I came home from classes and found her on the floor, she died from overdose. I finished my schooling and took a job at a small company that specialized in computers and was on an errand for my boss when I died." A deep aching had formed in my chest as I recounted my tale, but no tears fell. Rarity put a hand to her mouth as she spoke. "What a sad tale. But why do you not cry? I can tell you are deeply pained by this, most ponies would have been sobbing by the end." I gave a half-hearted smile. "When I lived in the orphanage I learned quickly that tears were a sign of weakness, the other kids would give me hell if I cried, after awhile I just stopped." Pinkie put a hand on my shoulder and offered words of condolence. Everyone soon followed her example. When they finished we strode towards a relatively open part of the orchard for me to practice my powers in. We had decided to work with one power at a time so I could get a feel for each. We decided to start with my Nephilim Physiology, Rainbow Dash flew up and quickly constructed an obstacle course, made of clouds, for me to fly through. I flew up and began by flying through the first ring, several chicanes were next, I weaved through them as fast as possible, a row of pillars were next to slalom through, a straight beam of cloud was ahead I attempted a barrel roll, I ended up slamming straight into the beam. I began to plummet from the sky, my mind was racing, a fall from this height would shatter several bones, quick healing or not. I quickly tried to start flying again but couldn't concentrate, I began to think. "Oh. How I wish I was on the ground right now.". My vision shifted and I was staring at the dirt. Everyone ran over and asked if I was okay. Twilight was writing things down on her notepad as she spoke. "Matt I do believe you just teleported! Do you know what this means!? You can do magic! I'll have to set up some tests. Oh, I'll get right on it." She quickly scampered off and we continued my training. Next we began to test my endurance, by making me jog around Sweet Apple Acres until Twilight was done, after four hours of jogging with no sign of my slowing down they decided to call it quits. I saw that Twilight had set up several things during my jog, namely a table with several spheres on it, another table with a dish of water, a clump of dirt, a candle, and a fan, and a dummy. I walked over to the sphere and she told me that young unicorns would lift these orbs to practice their magic, I imagined myself picking up one of the spheres and moving it around,causing the orb to float up, Twilight had me pick up and set down the orbs multiple times as well as juggling them. She was still taking notes as she led me over to the next table, she then told me this was to test my ability to manipulate the basic elements. I smiled at that, I stood tall and proclaimed. "DO I HAVE POWER OVER THE ELEMENTS YOU ASK? YOU FOOLS I AM THE AVATAR MASTER OF THE ELEMENTS! Alas I am too late, as the fire nation has already attacked." After my little theatrics (and a brief bout of applause from pinkie), I worked on the elements. It was simple stuff, move this, burn that, dowse the fire, pick up dirt. We then moved over to the dummy, Twilight said this was for testing my weapon generation, I started off by visualizing myself holding a sword, I felt a tingling sensation in my arms as a sword was formed in front of me. I swung at the dummy and cut a slash down its chest. The whole movement felt natural. I began to work on bigger and more varied weaponry, as far as I could tell there was no limit on the size or complexity of the weapon. My final powers took far less time to master and as such I will not be recording the events here. After we finished training we all headed over to Sugar Cube Corner for lunch. Let me be the first to tell you, ponies know how to cook some damn good pastries, I had devoured two whole cakes before we left. The Princesses then informed me that I would be moved to Canterlot so that I could properly be introduce to the populace, namely at an event called the Grand Galloping Gala. I waved goodbye to my new friends before setting off on the road to Canterlot, I had decided to walk there as to give me some time to review my situation and decide on the next best course of action. Scrawled in the margins of this journal was this message: I'm beginning to have doubts about this whole escapade. What should I do? Author's Note Sorry for the wait, but I hope to get back in the swing of things soon. Semi Re-WriteAuthor's Note I gave up writing a long time ago and left this site soon after, I give absolutely no promises that I will ever write on here again but I still wanted to try and give one story that I could call well written. This was an attempt at restructuring this story into something I could be happy with, the ultimate goal was to rewrite everything up to where it left off, but life happened. Maybe I'll finish the rest but I doubt it. I hope this small attempt makes someone smile at least a bit. Semi Re-Write I was supposed to die. That seems as good a place to start as any. The events leading up to my demise have gone hazy, fragmented, I’m unsure of what happened in between, but I’ll try to piece together a narrative A snowy highway, cutting through the forest, it was December I was headed back to an empty home. A voice, a sinister, cold voice that sent chills racing down my spine, ”Matt Linnwood. I offer you power from your wildest dreams. You must only serve me.” A semi-truck careening towards me, sliding on the slick ice of the road. My own blood pooling beneath me, shouting, tugging at my body, but I could only feel the cold embrace of the snow, and then…..nothing. I was abruptly awoken by a howling wind roaring through my ears, looking around I saw that I was in some kind of throne room, black marble covered the floor and walls, monolithic pillars spaced around me. About a hundred feet away sat a massive cloud of darkness, through it I could only make out the faintest of distinguishing features except for a pair of glowing red eyes that seemed to be filled with nothing but utter disdain. The cloud spoke in that same haunting whisper I had heard on the road except much clearer and much more real. "I have a proposition for you, Matt Linwood of Earth. Do you accept?" I could barely force a word through my throat, as clammed up with fear as I was. "Who are you? How do you know me?! What do you mean by proposition. I’m supposed to dead!" My voice broke as I shouted at the last of my words. I could feel my heart pounding a mile a minute. The cloud loosed a sadistic kind of laughter at my panic. "Who am I? Well now that’s an awfully rude way to speak to your benefactor. But I suppose it’s only reasonable you’d react this way. You can call me….The Maker, and for how I know you, why that’s simple Matt, it’s because I’ve been watching you. Watching and waiting till your untimely demise, and now you’re mine. My offer is simple, I give you a second lease on life, in exchange however, you will aid me in my destruction of those miserable wretches who’ve imprisoned me here." The Maker’s voice oozed with barely contained sadism. I took a second to calm myself and replied. “Who imprisoned you? Why did they do it? How could I possibly help you?” The Maker’s movements were hard to decipher behind the fog but he seemed to nod. "Yes,yes. All very good questions, and I will answer them to my satisfaction. The ones who imprisoned me are the rulers of a land called Equestria. They stole my throne from me and imprisoned me in this hellish pit they call Naraka. The only reason they could even hope to match my power is due to an artifact called The Charmstone. As for how you will aid me, worry not child, I will provide you with the power you need.” I shook my head and sat down. "You don’t really leave me any choice. I get the feeling that denial on my part wouldn’t end with a slap on the wrist." "I'm glad you see it my way. Now I will send you back 1000 years before my return use your time wisely and find The Charmstone." The Maker extended a rolling cloud like arm and grasped a nearby jar. "This is a pithos; a storage jar. This contains the mixture that will grant your powers." It handed me the pithos, looking inside I saw a dark red liquid sloshing about. Steeling myself I brought the jar up and began to drink deeply. It tasted like nothing I had ever drank before, it burned and froze and sent a tingling throughout my entire body. I coughed and spit as I dropped the jar. "What in God’s name? How will I live for a thousand years? Humans don't live that long." "Do you truly believe me so short-sighted? No matter. You will live, I assure you." My vision started to get narrower as a spike of pain stabbed through my head. I screamed in agony as I felt like I was simultaneously being burned alive and crushed with a steamroller. I began to black out and as I fell I saw a chromatic stone in my vision. "This is what you must retrieve." and my vision faded for the second time today. =============================================================== I awoke lying on a balcony attached to a large castle,a stained glass door stood in front of me, I walked over and gently eased it open, what greeted me was a large bedroom wich featured a prominent Night motif, heavily focused on constellations and dim lighting, from my right I heard a gasp, I pivoted quickly and came face to face with a strange horse thing. The being was about 5 feet tall with a dark blue….Skin? Coat? I was unsure of what the beings body was covered in, its hair was an odd color reminiscent of the night sky, and when I say that I meant literally, its hair was the night sky, finally to round out the oddity of the being, it possessed both a horn, like a unicorn, and feathered wings. The woman, which I had deduced from the creatures body structure and clothes, stared at me in shock before loudly proclaiming. "HOW DARETH THEE TRYETH AND ATTACKETH US! THEE SHALT PAYETH FOR THINE CRIMES ASSASSIN!" The horn atop her head glowed a deep blue and I felt an instant of weightlessness before being flung into the wall of the room. Staggered I was unable to act before I looked up and saw her fire a beam of energy at me. I knew I couldn't dodge it, so I could only attempt to look a bit more dignified in death, I stood tall and let the beam hit me square in the chest. The beam collided and I felt my body begin to freeze as it spread out from my chest, I tried to move but was unable.She looked at me and smiled. "Thee shall maketh a fine decoration." She then picked me up with that same strange energy and deposited me next to a window overlooking a large garden where I saw several other statues, what kind of monster could she be petrifying people for decorations? She then did something I found pretty unexpected, considering my current ideas on what kind of person she was.She just stripped down and went to bed, just like that, no gloating, no nothing. I felt kind of insulted, truth be told. I was expecting a bit more of an evil monologue. I sat next to that window for two years, and I swear I saw the weirdest shit. Luna, as I would later come to know was her name, would, at least three times a week usually more, come in with I assume were different guards, I couldn’t really tell them apart they all looked kinda similar, and just have sex. She wasn't even considerate of me, not even a blanket over me so I wouldn't have to watch, and I swear there was a statistic that said something like the average person would have sex 112 times a year, she would do that monthly. My complaints about others sexual promiscuity aside, by my third year in Equestria Luna had come to the conclusion that I was her personal therapy statue/diary. She would spend hours telling me about the most inconsequential bits of her day to day existence, but over time she began to tell me more and more about her problems, now obviously I couldn’t help her but I could tell she was taking things pretty hard, apparently her sister Celestia was getting all the attention and Luna was feeling insulted, I never heard about her parents which was odd but I learned plenty of info about her and her sister. This went on for the next couple of years, during which Luna began to get less sad and more mad towards her sister, until one day I heard a crash from the direction of what I assumed to be the throne room and saw who I assumed was Celestia flying after a very pissed and evil looking Luna, I waited for a few hours but didn't see much until Celestia returned to the hall without Luna. After that I never saw Luna again, nobody ever came into the room and the only things I heard was either nature or the occasional guard patrol walking by, luckily the magic calendar I had been using to keep track of the date still worked. I waited in that room for a thousand years, after a while I began to fall asleep for long periods of time, which was nice I suppose.But still, to learn The Maker was right about the whole immortality thing, that changed a lot. Eventually though the door to the room swung open, propelled by a large red fist and in walked a large centaur, who began to walk around the room, his horns barely touching the ceiling. The centaur spoke up when he saw me. "Hmph. What’s this? Another poor soul imprisoned by the Princesses." Hearing him say that, made me even more distrustful of whoever ruled the land, if Luna and Celestia regularly petrified people, what were the King and Queen like? He bent down so that we were face to face and studied me. "Who were you?" I didn't respond as I was still a statue. He ran his finger across the top of my head and brought it to his mouth . "Ah lunar magic, quite old too. Now why don’t I see about getting you free." He opened his maw and sucked the magic encasing me off, it peeled away like a snake shedding it’s skin. "So then creature, what will you do now that you are free? Do you wish to aid me in killing the tyrants of this land?” I stood up and stretched before responding. "Sorry but I already have someone I'm working for. Plus I wouldn't be of much use seeing as I’ve been stuck here for so long." (This stops shortly before the end of chapter 1)
The MakerI was supposed to die. Might as well throw that out there now. My story begins on Earth in the middle of December on a snowy highway in the middle of a forest. The scene around me was picturesque in it's beauty, the kind of forest you would see on a post card with the words "Wish you were here!" written on it. I was driving down the road listening to the radio when I heard something whisper. "I have a proposition for you Matt." I looked around my car for the source of the whisper, but couldn't find anything, deciding that I was just tired I began to look for a rest area to take a nap. About a mile down the road I heard a car honking it's horn from around the bend, taking the turn I came face to face with a semi truck swerving to stay on the road, it lost control and flipped I jerked the steering wheel to get out of the way but couldn't get any traction on the slick road, the truck came crashing down upon my car, crushing me. I could feel my blood begin to pool beneath my body as I lay on the asphalt, looking up I saw a man in a trucker cap and thick jacket looking down at me, he grabbed my arms and pulled on me only to realize I was stuck under the car. He ran back to his truck to call for help but I was already too far gone. I closed my eyes for the last time and slipped into the warm embrace of death. And was abruptly awoken by a freezing wind blowing past me, looking around I saw that I was in some kind of gothic throne room. Several feet away sat a literal cloud of darkness, concealing any kind of distinguishing marks, except for a pair of glowing red eyes that seemed to be filled with disdain. The cloud spoke in that same haunting whisper I had heard on the road except much more clear. "I have a proposition for you, Matt Linwood of Earth. Do you accept?" I stared at the cloud in confusion before speaking. "How do you know my name? Who are you? Where am I? What proposition?!" The cloud chuckled at my panic. "I've been watching you Matt. I know plenty about you, but you may call me....The Maker. Now you are in my castle after I saved you from death. For your final question; long ago my throne was usurped by two so called "Princesses" who stole my artifact. Now I am stuck within this dreadful castle waiting for my banishment to end. But my banishment won't end for several thousand years and even then if the Elements have new wielders they can simply send me back here. But you can help, I will send you within a couple thousand years of my return and you will return my artifact to me and help me conquer Equestria." It's eyes seemed to gleam with sick desire as it ended the story. I took a step back and replied. "So someone stole your throne and now you want me to get your artifact and help you conquer a nation? How I am I supposed to do that? I don't have any outstanding skills that can help me." The cloud seemed to nod. "Yes. But I will provide you with several 'abilities' to help you on your mission. I will also provide knowledge on what your new abilities can do." I shook my head and sat down. "I don't really have a choice now do I? It's either this or death and I'd prefer not to die today." "I'm glad you see it my way." The cloud extended a tendril and grasped a nearby jar. "This is a pithos; a storage jar. This will give you your powers." It handed me the pithos, looking inside I saw a dark red liquid sloshing about. Steeling myself I brought the jar up and began to drink deeply. It tasted like cranberries mixed with blood. I coughed and spit as I dropped the jar. "What the fuck was that? Also I just realized how am I going to live for a thousand years? Humans don't live that long." "The liquid was a combination of pomegranates, cranberries, and alicorn's blood. The blood will help in the living regard." My vision started to get narrower as my head felt like it was being hit with a hammer. "Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!" I felt like I was simultaneously being burned alive and crushed with a steamroller. I began to black out and as I fell I saw a golden bell in my vision."This is what you must retrieve." and I blacked out. I came to laying on a balcony attached to a large castle, looking inside the room I saw a prominent 'Night' motif, from behind me I heard a gasp, I spun around and came face to face with a strange combination of alicorn and human, I knew it was an alicorn due to the wings and horn, I always was a mythology nut. The woman, painfully obvious due to the breasts, stared at me in shock before saying. "How dare you try and attack us! Thou shalt pay for your crimes assassin!" Her horn glowed a deep blue and I felt myself being flung into her room. I looked up and saw her fire a beam of energy at me. I knew I couldn't dodge it, so I did the next logical thing, bring my left hand up I extended my middle finger in her direction. The beam hit me and I felt my body begin to turn to stone, I tried to move but was unable. She looked at me and smiled. "We think that thou shalt make a glorious addition to mine abode." She then picked me up in her magic, as I could only assume the energy was magic, and deposited me next to a window overlooking a large hall. She then did something I found completely unexpected. She stripped her clothes off and went to bed, just like that, no gloating, no nothing. I felt kind of insulted, truth be told. I must have sat next to that window for two years, and I swear I saw the weirdest shit. Luna, as I would later come to know was her name, would come in with what I assume were guards and have sex! She wasn't even considerate of me, not even a blanket over me so I wouldn't have to watch, and I swear she must have frigged herself a hundred times. Anyway on my third year in Equestria Luna came over to me and just started telling her problems to me, I could tell she was crying, but why tell me? I couldn't help, this went on for the next couple of years until one day I heard a crash from the Royal Hall (I learned a lot from Luna's complaints) and saw who I assume was Celestia flying after a much more evil looking Luna, I didn't see much else except for Celestia returning to the hall without Luna. After that I never saw Luna again, luckily the magic calendar I had been using to keep track of the date still worked. I waited in that room for one THOUSAND years, yeah you heard me right, I guess The Maker was right about the whole immortality thing. One day though the door to the room was broken down by a fist and in walked a large centaur with The most metal horns I had ever seen. The centaur spoke up when he saw me. "Hmm. What is this? Another enemy of the Princesses, Luna to be exact." He bent down so that we were face to face and studied me. "What is your name?" I didn't respond because I was still a statue. He ran his finger across the top of my head and brought it to his mouth. "Ah lunar magic, quite refreshing. Now how about we see about getting you free." He opened his maw and sucked the magic encasing me off, he gave a slight burp afterwards but seemed nice enough. "So creature will you assist me in usurping the lunar and solar tyrants?" I stood up and stretched before responding. "Sorry but I already have someone I'm working for. Plus I wouldn't be of much use seeing as I don't know how my own powers work." He seemed okay with my response when he replied. "I see. Well I do hope we meet again you are quite the peculiar creature, and I do suggest you work on your powers else your employer cut you loose." He then trotted out of the room leaving me alone. I quickly looked around to see if there was anything I could use to find the nearest settlement, digging through the drawers only rewarded me with woman's clothes and some intimates, one of which I shoved in my pocket for an epic prank if I saw Luna again. I quickly walked outside into the forest only to be greeted by a dense canopy of trees, racking my brain I remembered that one of my powers granted me flight, smiling I began to work on figuring out how to fly. Several hours later I screamed at the sky. Five hours I had been working on flight, and what did I have for my patience? Nothing but some bruises, I had even tried several clichés like "Up, up, and away!" but still nothing. At some point I had an idea, if the ponies flew with their wings why can't I? I then decide to test my new idea, visualizing to large wings appearing on my back I visualized myself taking flight. I was stunned when I saw the ground far below me, looking in the distance I saw a small village overshadowed by a massive castle situated on a mountainside. I decide to try my luck with the village, turning in it's direction I started my flight. Author's Note A little side story for fun. Hope you enjoy
The EncounterIt had taken me awhile to get used to flying, but I slowly began to improve until I was soaring through the skies with ease. I took a glance at the village when I realized the metal centaur I met earlier was there, I flew down and landed next to him. "Hey! Fancy meeting you here. So.....how's the quest for power going." I idly inspected my nails as I talked. He merely glanced at me before snorting and continuing his walk towards what looked to be a burnt tree. I squinted to get a look at the blob of color around the tree when my eyesight zoomed in by about twenty times, allowing me to easily view the blob, which turned out to be a group of six ponies standing there looking ridiculous. I mean really, they looked like they were designed to sell children's toys. I decided to speak up. "Hey I didn't catch your name when we last talked." "It is Lord Tirek, I notice that you seem to have mastered your powers." I rubbed the back of my head sheepishly. "Well I haven't really mastered it but I did figure out how to fly." Neither of us spoke as Tirek walked up to the ponies. I hung back a bit, but that didn't stop them from noticing me. The purple one in front spoke up. "Who is this Tirek? I didn't take you as the kind to have minions." Tirek laughed at her words. "Don't make me laugh Sparkle. He is merely a hapless soul I saved from the lunar tyrant's clutches." 'Sparkle' as Tirek called her seemed angered at the words. "Like you have any room to talk! You're a power hungry tyrant yourself." I furrowed my eyebrows at this. "Is she telling the truth Tirek? Are you really the villain?" He looked at me and spread his arms. "Call me what you will, but I merely wish to have all of ponydom's magic in my grasp." I took a step back. "So you are evil. Well then, I guess I'm gonna have to take you down." I prepared myself to attack, but before I could move I saw the world around me slow down as my senses sped up exponentially. I turned and saw the ponies fire a rainbow at me and Tirek. I moved faster than I thought was possible before remembering my super speed, I smirked at the revelation, adding one to the powers I was capable of using. Everything sped back up as I released the power. I watched in awe as the rainbow hit Tirek dead center, and then watched in horror as he shrugged off the blow and stood up. His smile was dark and foreboding as he spoke. "HA HA HA. You ponies are foolish to believe you can stop me LORD....." I'm like ninety percent sure he was going to start monologuing before I sprinted at him at about mach three and punched him square in the jaw. The shockwave from my punch pushed the ponies back. "Lord Bitch-Ass Centaur." I saw him rise and growl at me before sending a ball of energy at me. I did what was natural and raised my middle finger, only to find the ball of energy dissipated when it got a few feet away from my outstretched hand. "Oh. Now that is what we call funny." I sprinted at him again, unleashing hundreds of rapid fire punches at his mid section. He reared back and punched me in the jaw as I ran in front of him, I was sent flying back, I felt my jaw pop back in to place when I stood up. We were about thirty yards away from each other, I got into a sprinters position and steeled myself for the punch. My leg muscles tensed as I pushed off I could feel myself speed up, thirty yards: mach one, twenty-five: mach three, twenty: mach four, at fifteen I pushed myself as fast as I could go. The world blurred as I began to move faster than the pony eye could follow, I jumped letting all my momentum go into this one punch. My fist connected and a shockwave pulsed out from Tirek's face as I caved in his skull. I hit the ground with a dull thud as I felt myself begin to pass out from exhaustion, looking at my hand I saw my knuckles and skin re-knit themselves. I then welcomed the soft embrace of the ground, the last thing I heard was the sound of wings flapping and someone saying. "Get him to the hospital, he must be tired after that fight." I felt a tingling sensation as I fell into a deep sleep. I awoke upon a nice, soft bed in obviously a hospital, looking around I saw eight ponies and some chimera creature all standing around my bed arguing. I saw Luna and Celestia as well as the six ponies I saved from Tirek, I had no idea who the chimera was. Luna was obviously pissed about something as she was nearly yelling her words. "Listen to reason! That thing was the one that broke into my tower." Celestia was calmly speaking as she parried Luna's complaints. "Now listen Lulu, he might not have meant to break into your tower. It could have very well been an accident. Why, if I had a bit for every time I had accidentally teleported somewhere I wasn't supposed to be I would be quite rich indeed." The purple alicorn with a star cutie mark sounded suspiciously like Tara Strong as she spoke. "I agree with Princess Celestia. It could have been an accident, besides I think he would have quelled any doubts about his moral standing after he...er killed Tirek and saved Equestria." Luna looked away at that remark. I decided that I had better speak up before they started arguing again. "Yeah Lulu, lighten up, relax, take a siesta, leave me as a statue for a couple thousand years. It's all right." Luna gulped at my words, and for good reason, as her sister slowly turned her head to Luna with unrelenting fury in her eyes. "You what Lulu?" "I ca...can explain, you see he appeared on my balcony and I might have hit him with a small petrification spell." She started to nervously tap her fingers together. I was having a hard time holding back my laughter, as Celestia led Luna out of the room and gave her what I can only describe as "The Speech of Pure Terror" after the speech Luna came back in and apologized to me. After her apology I had some questions. "So Luna what happened all those years ago? Also who's the chimera? Finally, why in the nine hells did you leave this on my head before you left." I brandished the stolen panties. Luna cheeks soon rivaled Cliford in red, I bust out laughing as she snatched the panties out of my hand and ran off. Celestia gave me a stern look of disapproval, but I could see the mirth in her eyes. "Did my sister really leave those on you?" "No. I just felt like messing with her for payback for being turned to stone." Celestia smiled and left to find Luna. I looked to the other ponies for answers to my earlier questions. The purple one smiled and walked over. "Hello. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and I will answer your questions; First Luna was err... transformed into an entity called Nightmare Moon who tried to create eternal night. Second that 'chimera' is called Discord and he is actually a draconequus. Now would you mind if I asked you a couple of questions?" I nodded in comfirmation. "First, what species are you? Second, what abilites do you have, I saw you demonstrate a few in your battle with Tirek. Finally how do you know Luna? She seems to distrust you. Oh! Also where are you from?" I smiled at the inquisitive young mare? I guess. "I am a human or Homo Sapien if you want to get technical. I have a few abilities but I really don't know how to use most of them, I need to learn how. I met Luna when I was sent here by my employer to get an artifact. I'm from Earth but I don't think I'll be able to go back anytime soon, seeing as I uh..........died." I heard the room grow completely silent when I said that, looking up I saw Luna and Celestia standing there, Celestia looking infinitely sad and Luna crying. I looked around the room and saw everyone had practically the same expression, even Discord seemed surprised as he spoke for the first time since I woke up and he sounded exactly like John DeLancie. "You...Died?" I nodded and said. "Yeah I was crushed by a truck." I then recounted my journey up to this point, stopping only to explain my powers and human vehicles. Luna wiped at her tears and said. "I apologize once again for my actions and now realize I acted hastily. I hope you can find it in yourself to forgive me." "I forgive you Luna, because if I didn't. I would have become exactly like Tirek, unwilling to accept friendship." Luna shook her head sending her hair flying every which way. "Still, I will do all I can to make up for it." Celestia put a hand on Luna and smiled at me. "I will try and find out more about this 'artifact' and locate it if I can. I will also have Rarity here make you some new clothes and we'll see about finding you a place to stay." She gestured at a white unicorn who was sketching something on a notepad. The orange one spoke up. "Ah reckon that my farm would be a good place to work on them fancy powers of yours when you feel better." I felt like my day had just gotten a whole lot better as I said. "You know? I think I'm gonna like it in Equestria." As soon as I finished speaking my stomach produced a sound that could have been registered as an earthquake. I smiled sheepishly. "Uhh maybe I should eat first though."
The TrainingWe had decided that I would spend the night at the hospital, so when I awoke I slipped on my clothes and headed over to Applejack's farm to start my training for the day. It was a ten minute walk to the farm, I made it in seven seconds. God I love super speed. Anyway in front of me stood acres upon acres of apple trees, I started towards the barn and saw that everyone was there already. Celestia smiled at me and said. "Good morning and I hope you don't mind but would you be willing to tell us about your home?" I shrugged. "Sure. Well I guess I'll tell you about my family, I was orphaned at a young age, my father killed himself and my mother died of cancer. After several years in foster care, I began college with my sister who was a year older than me. Pretty soon my sister...she fell in with the wrong crowd and got addicted to opium, which was fairly expensive and hard to acquire at the time. So maybe she saw it as a sign of prestige or maybe she was just trying to deal with the pain, either way one day I came home from classes and found her on the floor, she died from overdose. I finished my schooling and took a job at a small company that specialized in computers and was on an errand for my boss when I died." A deep aching had formed in my chest as I recounted my tale, but no tears fell. Rarity put a hand to her mouth as she spoke. "What a sad tale. But why do you not cry? I can tell you are deeply pained by this, most ponies would have been sobbing by the end." I gave a half-hearted smile. "When I lived in the orphanage I learned quickly that tears were a sign of weakness, the other kids would give me hell if I cried, after awhile I just stopped." Pinkie put a hand on my shoulder and offered words of condolence. Everyone soon followed her example. When they finished we strode towards a relatively open part of the orchard for me to practice my powers in. We had decided to work with one power at a time so I could get a feel for each. We decided to start with my Nephilim Physiology, Rainbow Dash flew up and quickly constructed an obstacle course, made of clouds, for me to fly through. I flew up and began by flying through the first ring, several chicanes were next, I weaved through them as fast as possible, a row of pillars were next to slalom through, a straight beam of cloud was ahead I attempted a barrel roll, I ended up slamming straight into the beam. I began to plummet from the sky, my mind was racing, a fall from this height would shatter several bones, quick healing or not. I quickly tried to start flying again but couldn't concentrate, I began to think. "Oh. How I wish I was on the ground right now.". My vision shifted and I was staring at the dirt. Everyone ran over and asked if I was okay. Twilight was writing things down on her notepad as she spoke. "Matt I do believe you just teleported! Do you know what this means!? You can do magic! I'll have to set up some tests. Oh, I'll get right on it." She quickly scampered off and we continued my training. Next we began to test my endurance, by making me jog around Sweet Apple Acres until Twilight was done, after four hours of jogging with no sign of my slowing down they decided to call it quits. I saw that Twilight had set up several things during my jog, namely a table with several spheres on it, another table with a dish of water, a clump of dirt, a candle, and a fan, and a dummy. I walked over to the sphere and she told me that young unicorns would lift these orbs to practice their magic, I imagined myself picking up one of the spheres and moving it around,causing the orb to float up, Twilight had me pick up and set down the orbs multiple times as well as juggling them. She was still taking notes as she led me over to the next table, she then told me this was to test my ability to manipulate the basic elements. I smiled at that, I stood tall and proclaimed. "DO I HAVE POWER OVER THE ELEMENTS YOU ASK? YOU FOOLS I AM THE AVATAR MASTER OF THE ELEMENTS! Alas I am too late, as the fire nation has already attacked." After my little theatrics (and a brief bout of applause from pinkie), I worked on the elements. It was simple stuff, move this, burn that, dowse the fire, pick up dirt. We then moved over to the dummy, Twilight said this was for testing my weapon generation, I started off by visualizing myself holding a sword, I felt a tingling sensation in my arms as a sword was formed in front of me. I swung at the dummy and cut a slash down its chest. The whole movement felt natural. I began to work on bigger and more varied weaponry, as far as I could tell there was no limit on the size or complexity of the weapon. My final powers took far less time to master and as such I will not be recording the events here. After we finished training we all headed over to Sugar Cube Corner for lunch. Let me be the first to tell you, ponies know how to cook some damn good pastries, I had devoured two whole cakes before we left. The Princesses then informed me that I would be moved to Canterlot so that I could properly be introduce to the populace, namely at an event called the Grand Galloping Gala. I waved goodbye to my new friends before setting off on the road to Canterlot, I had decided to walk there as to give me some time to review my situation and decide on the next best course of action. Scrawled in the margins of this journal was this message: I'm beginning to have doubts about this whole escapade. What should I do? Author's Note Sorry for the wait, but I hope to get back in the swing of things soon.
Semi Re-WriteAuthor's Note I gave up writing a long time ago and left this site soon after, I give absolutely no promises that I will ever write on here again but I still wanted to try and give one story that I could call well written. This was an attempt at restructuring this story into something I could be happy with, the ultimate goal was to rewrite everything up to where it left off, but life happened. Maybe I'll finish the rest but I doubt it. I hope this small attempt makes someone smile at least a bit. Semi Re-Write I was supposed to die. That seems as good a place to start as any. The events leading up to my demise have gone hazy, fragmented, I’m unsure of what happened in between, but I’ll try to piece together a narrative A snowy highway, cutting through the forest, it was December I was headed back to an empty home. A voice, a sinister, cold voice that sent chills racing down my spine, ”Matt Linnwood. I offer you power from your wildest dreams. You must only serve me.” A semi-truck careening towards me, sliding on the slick ice of the road. My own blood pooling beneath me, shouting, tugging at my body, but I could only feel the cold embrace of the snow, and then…..nothing. I was abruptly awoken by a howling wind roaring through my ears, looking around I saw that I was in some kind of throne room, black marble covered the floor and walls, monolithic pillars spaced around me. About a hundred feet away sat a massive cloud of darkness, through it I could only make out the faintest of distinguishing features except for a pair of glowing red eyes that seemed to be filled with nothing but utter disdain. The cloud spoke in that same haunting whisper I had heard on the road except much clearer and much more real. "I have a proposition for you, Matt Linwood of Earth. Do you accept?" I could barely force a word through my throat, as clammed up with fear as I was. "Who are you? How do you know me?! What do you mean by proposition. I’m supposed to dead!" My voice broke as I shouted at the last of my words. I could feel my heart pounding a mile a minute. The cloud loosed a sadistic kind of laughter at my panic. "Who am I? Well now that’s an awfully rude way to speak to your benefactor. But I suppose it’s only reasonable you’d react this way. You can call me….The Maker, and for how I know you, why that’s simple Matt, it’s because I’ve been watching you. Watching and waiting till your untimely demise, and now you’re mine. My offer is simple, I give you a second lease on life, in exchange however, you will aid me in my destruction of those miserable wretches who’ve imprisoned me here." The Maker’s voice oozed with barely contained sadism. I took a second to calm myself and replied. “Who imprisoned you? Why did they do it? How could I possibly help you?” The Maker’s movements were hard to decipher behind the fog but he seemed to nod. "Yes,yes. All very good questions, and I will answer them to my satisfaction. The ones who imprisoned me are the rulers of a land called Equestria. They stole my throne from me and imprisoned me in this hellish pit they call Naraka. The only reason they could even hope to match my power is due to an artifact called The Charmstone. As for how you will aid me, worry not child, I will provide you with the power you need.” I shook my head and sat down. "You don’t really leave me any choice. I get the feeling that denial on my part wouldn’t end with a slap on the wrist." "I'm glad you see it my way. Now I will send you back 1000 years before my return use your time wisely and find The Charmstone." The Maker extended a rolling cloud like arm and grasped a nearby jar. "This is a pithos; a storage jar. This contains the mixture that will grant your powers." It handed me the pithos, looking inside I saw a dark red liquid sloshing about. Steeling myself I brought the jar up and began to drink deeply. It tasted like nothing I had ever drank before, it burned and froze and sent a tingling throughout my entire body. I coughed and spit as I dropped the jar. "What in God’s name? How will I live for a thousand years? Humans don't live that long." "Do you truly believe me so short-sighted? No matter. You will live, I assure you." My vision started to get narrower as a spike of pain stabbed through my head. I screamed in agony as I felt like I was simultaneously being burned alive and crushed with a steamroller. I began to black out and as I fell I saw a chromatic stone in my vision. "This is what you must retrieve." and my vision faded for the second time today. =============================================================== I awoke lying on a balcony attached to a large castle,a stained glass door stood in front of me, I walked over and gently eased it open, what greeted me was a large bedroom wich featured a prominent Night motif, heavily focused on constellations and dim lighting, from my right I heard a gasp, I pivoted quickly and came face to face with a strange horse thing. The being was about 5 feet tall with a dark blue….Skin? Coat? I was unsure of what the beings body was covered in, its hair was an odd color reminiscent of the night sky, and when I say that I meant literally, its hair was the night sky, finally to round out the oddity of the being, it possessed both a horn, like a unicorn, and feathered wings. The woman, which I had deduced from the creatures body structure and clothes, stared at me in shock before loudly proclaiming. "HOW DARETH THEE TRYETH AND ATTACKETH US! THEE SHALT PAYETH FOR THINE CRIMES ASSASSIN!" The horn atop her head glowed a deep blue and I felt an instant of weightlessness before being flung into the wall of the room. Staggered I was unable to act before I looked up and saw her fire a beam of energy at me. I knew I couldn't dodge it, so I could only attempt to look a bit more dignified in death, I stood tall and let the beam hit me square in the chest. The beam collided and I felt my body begin to freeze as it spread out from my chest, I tried to move but was unable.She looked at me and smiled. "Thee shall maketh a fine decoration." She then picked me up with that same strange energy and deposited me next to a window overlooking a large garden where I saw several other statues, what kind of monster could she be petrifying people for decorations? She then did something I found pretty unexpected, considering my current ideas on what kind of person she was.She just stripped down and went to bed, just like that, no gloating, no nothing. I felt kind of insulted, truth be told. I was expecting a bit more of an evil monologue. I sat next to that window for two years, and I swear I saw the weirdest shit. Luna, as I would later come to know was her name, would, at least three times a week usually more, come in with I assume were different guards, I couldn’t really tell them apart they all looked kinda similar, and just have sex. She wasn't even considerate of me, not even a blanket over me so I wouldn't have to watch, and I swear there was a statistic that said something like the average person would have sex 112 times a year, she would do that monthly. My complaints about others sexual promiscuity aside, by my third year in Equestria Luna had come to the conclusion that I was her personal therapy statue/diary. She would spend hours telling me about the most inconsequential bits of her day to day existence, but over time she began to tell me more and more about her problems, now obviously I couldn’t help her but I could tell she was taking things pretty hard, apparently her sister Celestia was getting all the attention and Luna was feeling insulted, I never heard about her parents which was odd but I learned plenty of info about her and her sister. This went on for the next couple of years, during which Luna began to get less sad and more mad towards her sister, until one day I heard a crash from the direction of what I assumed to be the throne room and saw who I assumed was Celestia flying after a very pissed and evil looking Luna, I waited for a few hours but didn't see much until Celestia returned to the hall without Luna. After that I never saw Luna again, nobody ever came into the room and the only things I heard was either nature or the occasional guard patrol walking by, luckily the magic calendar I had been using to keep track of the date still worked. I waited in that room for a thousand years, after a while I began to fall asleep for long periods of time, which was nice I suppose.But still, to learn The Maker was right about the whole immortality thing, that changed a lot. Eventually though the door to the room swung open, propelled by a large red fist and in walked a large centaur, who began to walk around the room, his horns barely touching the ceiling. The centaur spoke up when he saw me. "Hmph. What’s this? Another poor soul imprisoned by the Princesses." Hearing him say that, made me even more distrustful of whoever ruled the land, if Luna and Celestia regularly petrified people, what were the King and Queen like? He bent down so that we were face to face and studied me. "Who were you?" I didn't respond as I was still a statue. He ran his finger across the top of my head and brought it to his mouth . "Ah lunar magic, quite old too. Now why don’t I see about getting you free." He opened his maw and sucked the magic encasing me off, it peeled away like a snake shedding it’s skin. "So then creature, what will you do now that you are free? Do you wish to aid me in killing the tyrants of this land?” I stood up and stretched before responding. "Sorry but I already have someone I'm working for. Plus I wouldn't be of much use seeing as I’ve been stuck here for so long." (This stops shortly before the end of chapter 1)
