"A gift, a blessing, a privilege" this is what they all said when I told them, only now do they know, just how wrong they were. Only now do they realize that this so-called "gift" was a curse worse than death. The fools....... Only now do they know..... only, its a little to late for them. They have all died and moved on, leaving me with an even greater sorrow than the last. Only now do they see, the true curse of immortality.

My name is Johnathan Smith, I am a drifter. I have traveled to every corner of the globe, every inch, and every mile. I travel around, a new place every month, looking for people to help. Looking for a new purpose.

I never make friends anymore, cause if I do, they will eventually die and I'll be forced to live without them. So I never spend more than a week around one person. And I don't even try to look for a lady anymore, for what's the use when they will die and leave me heartbroken. So... I keep moving.

I travel light, more or less. I keep a backpack, my clothes, my shoes, my knife, and a colt .45. However i have not touched that in years, for it was my fathers.

I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't live..... I just keep moving.

It can sometimes be very mundane, but when you live forever, you can see some pretty crazy things.

But nothing I had seen would prepare me for what would happen next.

It was a normal day, which one? I don't know, I had lost track many years prior. I was walking down a dirt road somewhere on the outskirts of west Virginia.

There was not a soul in sight.

For miles all I could see was field, and tree's..... maybe a mountain.

I was walking down the road on a mission to find the next person in need, when I heard a very loud "CRACK" somewhere in the nearby woods.

chalking it up to be just a tree falling i kept walking. Untill i heard a scream. a terrible ear splitting scream that signified near death. but that voice.... it sounded like, my mothers.

"MOTHER" i screamed and ran to the woods.

What a fool i was.

i had already known that my mother was long gone.

she had been dead for nearly five decades.

Yet i still ran, I ran like a scared dog to its owner, I ran till my heart beat could be heard in my ears.

I ran until it stopped.

When I got to the source of the noise, I found nothing out of the ordinary. Except for a very large pond surrounded by tree's, but there was something... odd about the pond.

"MOTHER!!!!!" i screamed " WHERE ARE YOU"

i was bellowing and practically begging for an answer. For her to answer.

but the one i got was less than pleasant.

a certain chill came down my spine. Something didn't seem right.

As I eyed the pond, I noticed that it was steaming, and that it looked like a very unnatural silver.

"Something seems.....off about this place" I said as I approached the pond.

Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the water was acting as a mirror, giving nothing less than a seemingly perfect reflection.

Who i saw frightened me for the first time since i was a little boy.

I saw my mother.

Her seemingly perfect face, her lovely swaying hair. She looked just like i remembered her.

but that is what mortified me above all else.

"NO" i shouted "YOU CANT BE REAL, YOUR DEAD!!" i turned around from the pond and screamed "STOP WITH THIS NONSENSE. MY MOTHER IS DEAD. I WILL BE TORTURED NO LONGER".

I turned back around to see that my mothers reflection was changing. She was melting.

Every inch of her beautiful face was almost literally falling of the bone.

I screamed in agony

It was as if she was dying right in front of me. All over again.

Yet the whole time, her beautiful smile never faltered. Until the moment she faded into she silvery depths of the cursed pond.

I'd had enough.

It was then that the sky began to darken, and all i could see was red in my eyes.

I had never gotten to the brink of killing an innocent person, but at that moment, i wanted BLOOD.

I then heard the laughter. The horrible laughter.

I knew that laugh.

Then, without warning, the pond started to shift, making a perfect ring system stretching from the center to the banks of the silver pond.

The laughter never stopped as one by one i started to hear whispers in my head, asking me to do their bidding.

At first they came one at a time, almost as if the pond itself was speaking, but not to long after the whispers became shouts, and the order became chaos as it seemed like tens of thousands of people where screaming at me all at once, telling me to do the same thing. "Get in the pond"

I wanted to, I wanted it to end, I wanted to end my suffering for good. "No" I said to myself. "I must not give in!" I shouted as I collapsed to my knees, with my hands clamped to my ears.

"DO IT" they commanded "YOU HAVE THE POWER, END YOUR MISERY".

I started to reach for my pistol.

I looked in the chamber.

" One shot" i whispered

thump thump, thump thump, thump thump.

The whole world seemed to slow down as i raised the pistol to my to my temple.

All i could hear was my heart beat.

THUMP THUMP, THUMP THUMP, THUMP THUMP

A being dressed in black that carried a scythe floated to me, and whispered two words.

one shot

I pulled back the hammer.

I had to say one thing before i left.

" Ill be with you soon mom"

Just as i was about to put an end to my suffering i saw a bright light, then heard a scream.

I turned to my right to find that the hooded creature was gone and the voices had stopped.

i looked towards the light and could just barley see a creature that seemed to be radiating light. she was beautiful.

I started to feel light headed and started to see black creep into my eyes.

I stuttered out one last thing before falling into the murky depths of the silver lake.

"m-mother"?

then i saw nothing but black.

When i woke up i found that unlike when i passed out all i could see was white, and had a lot of trouble breathing.

Turns out i was being hugged by something.

I heard a voice. It sounded sad, like it had been crying for hours.

"Its waking up, get my sister immediately!"

As my vision started to clear i started to make out what exactly was causing me my breathing troubles only to find out that it was a huge white pony.

Now that's something you don't see everyday, a talking pony

but what was more strange was her voice, I say her because her voice was exactly like my mothers.

I didn't realize it but she was staring directly at me with tears in her eye's.

before i could ask why she cut me off and said.

" I saw everything, i know what you have lost, i know your secret and i know your pain". she choked down a sob.

"And i'm sorry"

My thoughts where blurry but i managed to ask two questions.

" Who are you, and where am ?'

She choked down one more sob before giving a small smile, slightly bowing her head and softly said

"My name is Princess Celestia, and you are in Equestria.

"You are among friends"

Author's Note

Hey if you made it this far than congrats your not dead

now i do need constructive criticism as this is only story number two that I've wrote but make sure that its necessary