Dreams Can Be Realby FlutterpoofChaptersPrologueChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Prologue“Hello?” I shouted into the darkness. No answer. I called out again. Still, I received no answer. I growled out of frustration and kicked the air. I felt my foot contact with something and I winced in pain. “Son of a-“ I was cut off by footsteps coming from… Well, all around me. “Hello, strange one,” a familiar voice called out from all directions. “I think it’s time you came.” I had absolutely no clue what the voice was talking about. “Uh… What?” I questioned. “I think you heard me loud and clear,” the voice, now realizing it was one of a girls, spoke. “I said it’s time you came.” “Where?” “I think you know” I couldn’t see the source of the voice, but I could tell she was giving a smile. I was walking through the back alley near my friends’ house on the way home. I had to have had the most fun in my entire life. Don’t get any wrong ideas, people with their mind in the gutters. We just finished a 24 hour gaming session of Counter-Strike Global Offensive, after each getting 2 keys by Valve. We both flipped out when we realized we both got keys, and we got installing and planning right away. I shivered. It was colder than I thought it would be the next morning, and I hadn’t brought along a jacket, only a light sweater. I was taking the back alleys to be in less open areas to be less cold, and also to get home quicker. It was still dark, and I sort of have a phobia of being in a dark place alone. Laugh at me if you must, it’s just out of experience when I was younger. But that’s for another time. Right now, I think I should give you a little information about myself. My name is Jeff, and I am a 15 year old guy. I love gaming, weather it be PC, Xbox 360, or PS3. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I LOVE My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. That show is my absolute favorite show in the world, and without it, I think I would probably not be able to function correctly. After Season 2 ended the other week, my Saturday’s got boring. I was extremely happy to have the gaming session on a Saturday, so I could keep my mind away from ponies for the day. I’ve told my friends about my liking of the pony show, and they all laughed at me and told me it was a girls’ show. I just shrugged them off, and didn’t mention it very much around them. I was never much of a person to go around in public and yell that I loved the show, so I kept it to myself, the internet, and my friends. I was a pretty hardcore fan of the show, watching each episode more than 10 times, reading (and in fact, attempting to write) fan fictions, and watching custom made PMV’s, pony music by authors such as The Living Tombstone, Mic The Mic, Jackleapp, Glaze, PinkiePieSwear- Well, if I kept on going, the list would be exceedingly long, so I’d much rather NOT. I really loved the community based on and around Friendship is Magic, that I was pulled in during the middle of Season 1, and am not regretting it one bit. The ponies are invading my life, and I can find them anywhere in any situation. I even dream about them, although my dreams are kind of farfetched. They usually consist of me finding some sort of portal where I can see Canterlot through it, but when I’m about to enter it, I always wake up. It saddens me that the dream ends there, and it never continues. I just realized I’m running through the back alleys now, trying to get home as quick as possible. I guess the darkness was getting to me, or was it my excitement to get home and continue my internet/pony life? I don’t really know. Before I know it, I can see my front door, and I stop running with a sigh of relieve. I am panting now, apparently from running so far. I open my door with my keys, enter, and re-lock it from the inside. I turn on my light and hang up my sweater. I immediately enter my room and click on my computer. It loads up to reveal my desktop of the Mane 6. I open up my internet and check my hotmail. To my luck, 8 of the 22 fan fictions I’ve followed, have updated with new chapters. I clap my hands together in excitement, and type FIMfiction.net into my web browser. The same dream, like always. This time I’m walking through a Minecraft-y type cave. I end up in a cavern with a portal. I can see Canterlot castle from inside the portal. I reach out my hand to touch it, and unlike my other dreams, I actually fall through it. I feel a falling sensation, and it seems like an eternity before I slam on the ground. I stand up, only able to see myself, and the rest is darkness. I start shaking, my phobia getting to me. “Hello?” I shouted into the darkness. No answer. I called out again. Still, I received no answer. I growled out of frustration and kicked the air. I felt my foot contact with something and I winced in pain. “Son of a-“ I was cut off by footsteps coming from… Well, all around me. “Hello, strange one,” a familiar voice called out from all directions. “I think it’s time you came.” I had absolutely no clue what the voice was talking about. “Uh… What?” I questioned. “I think you heard me loud and clear,” the voice, now realizing it was one of a girls, spoke. “I said it’s time you came.” “Where?” “I think you know” I couldn’t see the source of the voice, but I could tell she was giving a smile. “I… does it have to do with-“ I try to reason until she cuts me off. “Yes, it has to do with what you saw in the portal” the voice, getting more familiar and familiar by the minute. I whirl around again and again to see the source of the voice, never finding it, until I feel a burning sensation in my stomach. I yell out in pain and fall to my knees. I scrunch up my arms and place them around my stomach still yelling in pain. I look up yelling and see the source of the voice finally, after so long. I now know where I’ve heard that voice from, and mentally facepalm in not realizing it sooner. I gasp out loud in seeing her, and she smiles at me knowingly, like she’s been my friend all my life. Even in my dream, or real life in this matter, she still had the cartoony look to her that comforted me in the darkness somehow. It was Ce- Excuse me, it was Princess Celestia. Chapter 1Another falling sensation. Great, ‘cause, you know, I LOVE those. This time, I am not really sure where I am, or why I’m here. Am I still dreaming? I don’t know. I guess the only logical explanation would be that I am still dreaming, but I’m not entirely sure. I can still feel the searing pain in my stomach, and it’s making this whole falling ordeal so much worse. I feel my head contact with something, and I’m one of the two 1) Knocked out and awoken in an instant 2) Waking up from a dream And alas, I woke up, gasping for air. I fell out of my computer chair, which I fell asleep reading a story on. I lay on my back, grasping my stomach and gasping for air. Why had the dream gone on so long that time? Why did I actually feel the pain that I had in the dream? I shook my head That’s for a later time. Now, I have to get cleaned up I thought to myself, and nodded in agreement. I swept my eyes over my room. It’s not very impressive, but good enough for me. I have the case in the corner of my room holding my laptop (custom-built, not to brag or anything), my bed with normal covers on it, my multiple Friendship is Magic posters, and then my computer that I’ve had since I was 10 – The age I really started gaming. I sighed, thinking back on all the games I used to play that were fun and hilarious at the same time. I closed my eyes, smiling, and got to work. I took off the clothes I currently had on, and had a quick shower in the washroom that was connected to my room. I shivered while stepping out and quickly getting dressed, as my house is not pretty cold all the time. I pick up my case and slide it onto my arm, getting ready to go out for a walk to… somewhere. I don’t really know yet. I open my door, ready to be chilled to the bone, but instead I get relatively warmer. I stop, the door halfway closed. I stare at my surroundings. Something is certainly different, but I can’t put my finger on it. I close my door and walk out more, and I gasp out. I’m in Canterlot Castle. I open my eyes wide in amazement. I look at the beauty of the castle, taken back by all of it. The décor is so amazing to me that I don’t hear the oncoming hooves coming my way. “H-hel-hello?” I hear a male’s voice say; obviously trying it’s best to sound intimidating... I turn to look at him and see a… colt? One of Celestia’s guards if I’m not mistaken. He has a spear pointing out on me, pointing at my head. I put my hands slightly above my head and slowly back off. “Hey, I’m not asking for trouble,” I say, trying to sound my bravest even though I’m shaking like mad. “Suuure, that’s what they all say buddy,” the colt says, obviously still afraid of me. I raise my hands higher and back up into a wall. The colt smirks a little and brings the spear right so the point is about to touch my neck. “Jeff,” I hear the familiar voice say. The guard and I both turn our head to see Princess Celestia. The guard opens his eyes wide, drops the spear, and starts bowing to her. I slide against the wall, breathing out a sigh of relief. I look up to Celestia, still breathing heavily. She smiles warmly at me, just like she did in my dream. “Come,” she says to me, and turns around. I stand up slowly, looking at the guard with squinting eyes, and follow her. We walk for about five minutes in a really awkward silence until we reach a room, which I suspect is the room with the throne. Turns out I was wrong, as we enter a room with a fireplace, about five bookshelves, and three chairs. I am taking a wild guess and saying this is the Study. I take a seat on one of the chairs, while Princess Celestia does the same. She sighs, and looks at me. “I’m guessing you wonder why you’re here,” she says. I nod, trying to be as silent as I can. “Well, you remember the… ‘Dream’ you had last night, correct?” I nod my head once again. She chuckles lightly “I’ve brought you here for a reason, Jeff.” I look up at her with squinting eyes, just like I did with the guard. “Why me?” I ask quietly. She looks at me and tilts her head to the left a little bit. “Jeff, I need you to understand something. I’m aware that you know about us, Equestria and the Elements of Harmony,” She pauses, unsure how to continue. “Right now, there is something happening to the people of Ponyville. It’s far out of my grasp to be able to handle. I needed somebody with happiness and compassion to help them.” I laugh slightly. “I might have happiness, but compassion? Not so much,” she smiles, giving a small, and barely audible, laugh. “You’ll see. I notice you are taking this very well,” she points out. “I can take almost any situation well. Like when my parents died-” I stop, unsure if I want to cross this road again. I continue “Like when my parents died, I was the one who took it the best. I realized it maybe wasn’t their time, but I learned to not pity the dead. If you spent all your time doing that, you would waste your life away, not being able to live it fully” She looks at me with amusement. “That’s pretty deep, coming from the happy person you are,” she says. I shrug my shoulders. “I have lots of personalities. I have my angry one, which comes out a little bit TOO often then I’d like to admit, my happy one, which I am most of the time, and my sad one, which happens when someone or something close to me gets hurt,” I explain. She nods, looking at the fireplace. “Since you are taking this so well, I think it’s about time we cut to the chase on what I would like you to do. Remember, this choice is completely optional, and I am not forcing you to do it,” she explains. I nod and she continues, “I need you to go to Ponyville and somehow fix all that’s happening. I’ll let my student know of your arrival, and I trust her to tell her friends about you, too.” She pauses, looking for the right wording, “Ponyville is in great danger, and if you fail, whatever it is that is happening could spread all over Equestria. I’ll try my best to aid you, but there is not much I can do right now.” I nod and stand up, as does she. “Go pack your things; I will get a carriage to take you to Ponyville in about an hour. I turn to leave. “Oh, and Jeff?” she says to me. I turn around and tilt my head. “Good luck,” she smiles. I smile back, and head to my room. Once arriving in my room, I lock the door on it, and sit on my bed. I pinch myself and kick myself a couple times, thinking this was all a dream, but it wasn’t. I groan, and remember what my task had been. Spread happiness throughout Ponyville. Great, because I am the most qualified person for that. I hit my head against my wall, wincing in pain when my head contacts it. I looked at my room. I remembered my laptop around my arm, and I looked at it, smiling in a weird sort of way. I laugh at a thought of me approaching Princess Celestia and asking the weirdest question she would probably ever hear in her life. “Hey, does Equestria have electricity?” Chapter 2“Okay remind me to never do that again,” I say in a tipsy voice. I had just landed from the carriage Princess Celestia sent me to Ponyville in. I suspect she didn’t want the ponies to see me, so she sent me right to the entrance of the library. I walk over, still dizzy from the ride, and knock three times. “Come in!” I hear a girls voice say. I open the door slowly and peak my head in. I see a purple unicorn with her muzzle (literally) touching the pages of the book she was reading. I look at her with curiosity, recognizing her as Twilight. I move closer to her, and I crouch down beside her and start to read the book. She glances at me, and back to her book, then back to me, eyes wide in surprisement. She yelped, kicking me in the nose with her hoof, causing me to gasp and kick at her. I felt my foot contact with a wall (God, I hit myself on walls a lot, don’t I?), and I grit my teeth and groan. Twilight gasps, and covers her mouth with her hoof. “Oh my gosh, are you okay?” I can here the worry in her voice. I hold my shaking foot and shake my head. I barely notice the blood dripping from my nose. “Here, let me help! It’s the least I can do after I hit you” I can hear tinkling coming from her forehead and I feel a fire of pain sear through my foot. I gasp and close my eyes shut. The next moment, I feel nothing. My foot is no longer searing, and it’s like I didn’t even hurt my foot at all. “Fanks,” I say, the blood from my nose that moved into my mouth distorting my speech. I stand up and spit into my hand, seeing the blood. I give a shaky laugh and look up at Twilight. “Got any Kleenex?” “Here,” Twilight levitates a small towel into my hands. I nod in appreciation and raise it to my nose. I sniff and look back down at Twilight. It appears as she is studying me from head to toe, and I laugh. She looks up at me and blushes, realizing that I saw what she was doing. I laugh even harder and spit out some blood by mistake into my towel. I stop, and excuse myself. I walk into what appears to be a bathroom, and I turn on the sink-looking thing. I cup my hands and let the water pour into it. I take and drink and swish the blood, and spit. I left the water drain the blood, and I shut it off, wiping my hands before I leave the washroom. I come back into the library and I look around to see Twilight looking at me again. “Hello?” I say to her. She gasps and blushes once again. I tilt my head at her, and squint my eyes at her. She shakes her head. “Hello… Jeff, is it?” I nod. “I’m Twilight Sparkle. I live here at the library, and you are supposed to live with me until you can get a place of your own.” I groan, looking at the suitcase and bag I had brought from my room that… somehow found its way into Canterlot along with me. Celestia hadn’t given me any bits, so that means I had to find some sort of job, which was my LEAST favorite thing to do back on Earth, and I assumed it would be just as boring here on Equestria. “Any suggestions?” I ask politely. “Well, first of all, what is your talent?” Twilight asks. She looks at my hip, apparently looking for some sort of cutie mark. She raises her eyebrow and looks at me. “You don’t have a cutie mark?” I laugh. “No, us humans have to find out our talents on our own, but we don’t get any notification on ourselves that tell us of it,” I explain. She nods quickly, apparently very confused and excited at the same time. I crouch down and look into her eyes. “I understand that you’re kind of skeptical about some random person that is another species living in your house, so…” I pause, unsure on how to word it. “Would you like me to tell you about my species?” She raises her head and smiles widely. She nods about 15 times very quickly and levitates a quill and parchment in front of her. I laugh quietly, and begin explaining. “… and that’s how I got here. I had a talk with Princess Celestia, and now I’m here.” I finish. Twilight scribbles the last remaining bit of my talk, and rolls it up proudly. Just at that moment, I hear a door open from Twilight’s bedroom (I assume) and footsteps coming down the stairs. “Twilight?” a male voice asks. I recognize it as Spike’s, and I stretch my head to get a better look at him. He rubs his eyes and looks at me, his eyes wide as they could ever be. I stand up and walk up to him, holding out a hand. “Hi, my name is Jeff… and you are?” I ask smiling, pretending not to know him, not to be suspicious. He stares at my hand and grabs it. “Spike. My name is Spike,” he says quietly. “Hey, you have claws too!” I smile and wiggle my fingers. “No, I have ‘hands’. You see, I am a human, not a dragon or anything.” I explain. He looks at me holding his head. “Not right now, dude. I am REALLY tired, as SOMEPONY kept me up all night,” he glares at Twilight, who rolls her eyes. I laugh broadly and wipe my eyes, smiling. “I guess I’ll leave you two to… fight, I guess,” I grab my bag and suitcase and look around, not really sure on where to go. “Oh, sorry! The guestroom is over there,” she points a hoof over to another set of stairs leading to a door. I smile, nod and enter the room. I close the door, and I set my stuff in the corner. I rub my hand over my face and frown. This IS real, isn’t it? Wow, what a bunch of crap to put on a 15-year old. I smile and silently laugh in my head. I close my eyes and lay on the bed, giving a small laugh again, when I remember myself actually asking Celestia about the electricity, and I literally got a legit answer. “Well, no, but I can modify your electric devices to use their power off the sun!” I pumped my fist, getting happy that I can still play my laptop, iPod, and such. I pull out my laptop, open my window to let the sun in, and power it on. Time to get some gaming done. As I had expected, I had no source of internet, so I had to force Steam into offline mod, which kind of sucked. I decided on playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent, so I double clicked it and launched it. I set my laptop aside, waiting for the game to load, as I looked out the window. The town had become much livelier than it had this morning, filled with ponies walking almost every which way. I swear I even saw Derpy flying above the clouds, and a rainbow trail following on who I assumed to be the popular cyan Pegasus. I smiled and sat back down on my bed, pulling the laptop onto my lap, and starting up a custom story. The story loads up, and I set my hands into the right place, and play. At least 45 minutes, three loud screams, and four check ups by Twilight to make sure I wasn’t dying or anything later; I was saving and quitting the game already, shaking like mad. I shut off the laptop, and closed it, returning it to my bag, and taking notice that my battery hadn’t drained a bit, still showing the being charged sign. I smile, and look up towards the mountains where Canterlot lied and where I knew Celestia was watching over her faithful subjects from her castle. I take in the beautiful scenery, which many people on Earth called me girly for enjoying. I stow my bag back into the corner with my suitcase, and putting a blanket over the window to block the sunlight, I cover up into my bed and close my eyes. Today’s been a hell of a day, so I think it’s about time I got some shut-eye. I move around trying to become comfortable, before finally finding my comfort spot, and slowly falling asleep, smiling at the thoughts of what I had been through the past day. But little did I know, the messed up parts of my life, were far yet to come. Authors Note: Oh god, I promised 1,500 words, but I only wrote 1,478! Oh screw it, its close enough. Hope you guys enjoy! Oh, and by the way, the last sentence is true, and the most messed up parts aren’t coming for a few chapters or so. PS: The only reason I wrote this was so I could get over 1,500 actual words. SO HAH! I KIND OF KEPT MY PROMISE! Chapter 3I awoke sometime later in the afternoon, judging it to be around 5 PM. I yawn broadly and sit up from my bed, and move off of it. Suddenly, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up as I hear a crack in the floorboards behind me. I turn around to see a lavender unicorn staring at me, apparently hoping I didn’t see her. I yell and fall backwards onto the floor, flailing like mad. I stop, and look back at the unicorn. I recognize the face to be Twilight’s. I sigh a breath of relief. “You really shouldn’t sneak up on me like that, those games I play have made me VERY paranoid when something is out of place,” I smile worryingly. “Sorry, it’s just that you are a totally different species, I got kind of interested,” she explained, blushing. I laugh and ruffle her hair, which makes her blush deepen “It’s okay, you didn’t know. Well, at least you do now,” I say. She smiles, and turns to leave my room. Upon leaving, I groan and lay back on my bed. I have no idea why I did, I just did. I seemed to do it a lot, according to my friends back on Earth… Which I will apparently never see again… Ever… Damn it. I get off the bed and leave the guest room. I look around for Twilight, but after 5 minutes of not knowing where I am going, I stop. “Where in the hell is Twilight?” I ask out loud. “I dunno, but who are you?” I hear a voice say. I yell and fall off the step I was sitting on. I contact with the ground and yelp. I look up to see a pink fluff hovering right above my head. I look up a little more to see a pair of blue eyes. I quickly recognize them as Pinkie’s. She snorts, and starts laughing very loudly. “What’s going on here?” Twilight says, coming out of her room. I facepalm. The only place I didn’t look, and she’s in there. “Twilight, there is a funny monkey thing in your room!” Pinkie laughs even louder and falls on her back. I scowl and sit up. I look at Twilight, who shrugs and levitates Pinkie back on her hooves. She wipes her eyes and looks at me. “Who are you?” She asks once again. I sigh, and hold my hand out. “I’m Jeff. I’m a human, incase you were wondering,” I whisper the last part. “Well of course I know you’re a human, silly!” She giggles. “How do you think I know that we are being read by people right now?” What? “Uh… ‘Kay?” I question. “Don’t bother asking, she’s just being… herself,” Twilight sighs. “Oh, I haven’t told you my name yet! Silly me!” Pinkie laughs again. “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie! I love throwing parties and making friends do you want to be my friend Jeff huh do ya do ya do ya do-“ Twilight cuts her off by shoving a hoof in her mouth. I laugh at Pinkie and she quickly joins in. Pinkie abruptly stops laughing and gives a big gasp. She looks at me. “You’re new in town, aren’t you?” She asks, leaning in. I nod and she bounces in the air slightly. “Woo Hoo! That means I get to throw you a welcome party! Oh, but don’t tell anyone, it’ll be a surprise,” She gives me a shushing motion with her hoof, and I follow suit. She smiles, apparently satisfied, and bursts out the door, bouncing instead of walking. I stare at her quizzically, and then back to Twilight, who shrugs once again. “As I said, it’s just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie,” she explains. I nod and stand up; just realizing I had been sitting on the ground the whole time Pinkie was at the library. I sigh. Twilight teleports in front of me and looks at me with worry in her eyes. “Is anything wrong?” she slightly tilts her head. I felt an urge to flutter in the air, seeing the cuteness overload as she tilts her head. I shake my head, and look back at Twilight. “Well, it’s just that I had so many friends back where I used to live on Earth, and now, I may never see them again,” I say. Twilight, nods understanding me, and smiles. “Don’t worry; I’m sure you will meet tons of new friends at Pinkie’s welcome party!” She smiles even wider. “She throws the best parties in town, you know!” I smile broadly at learning this not-so new information. “I bet she does.” As I entered the doors to Sugarcube Corner, I wonder what would await me inside the candy filled bakery. Literally the moment I took a step inside the bakery, the lights flickered on and at least hundreds of ponies yell, all at the same time, “SURPRISE!” I jump back in surprise, and smile broadly. All of a sudden, everypony in the room became quiet. They looked at me quizzically, not understanding what I was. I laugh, smiling, and introduce. “Hi, my name is Jeff. As you might be noticing, I am not a pony,” I hear a few people whispering to the pony next to them. I continue, “I am a human from a place called Earth. I’m sure, somepony had to at least tell you that much?” I look over to Twilight, who seems to be shuffling her feet, feeling slightly off, and then Pinkie, who gasped very loudly. She quickly jumped in front of me and cleared her throat. “Excuse me everypony, but I see it’s fit to tell you that Jeff here is not a pony, he is a human from a place called Earth! You probably didn’t know that, so I figured it would be best to tell you!” Pinkie smiled and bounced away. I blinked a couple times, before falling on my back and laughing very loudly. I hear the other ponies in the room following suit. I wipe my eyes and stand up. Everypony in the room is either laughing still, or still staring at me. I raise my shoulders, staring at them. “What are you all waiting for? Let’s party!” I yell. Everypony cheers and I notice DJ-PON3 way in the back of the room, turning up the music. I smile, and decide to mingle with the other ponies. I notice Twilight drinking some punch, and I walk up to her. I pour a little punch for myself, and take a sip. I smile in enjoyment. I never knew punch could taste this good! “Oh, hello Jeff!” Twilight says, noticing my presence. I say hello back, drinking the rest of the punch. “So, uh… you said earlier that you could introduce me to some friends of yours?” I ask politely. “Oh yes, that’s correct! C’mon, I will introduce to my four other best friends!” she says to me. I nod and follow her to five other ponies talking and laughing in the corner. “Hello, everyone, I would like you to meet Jeff!” she announces to the rest of her friends. They all give their hellos to me, while I nod in return. “Alright, this is Applejack,” she points her hoof to an orange earth pony, which lowers her hat, and raises it in acknowledgement. “This is Rairty,” she points to a white unicorn, who simply says “Charmed.” I smile and roll my eyes slightly. Twilight smiles warmly, and continues. “This is Fluttershy,” she points to a yellow Pegasus, who simply squeaks in response, hiding behind her pink mane. I smile and wave at her, and she simply cringes in response. “I believe you are already familiar with Pinkie Pie,” Twilight rolls her eyes, and points to the pink mare that is smiling really widely at me. “And finally, this is Rainbow Dash!” she exclaims, pointing to a cyan Pegasus, who nods at me. I nod back at her, smiling. “Hello. As Twilight said, my name is Jeff,” I say shyly. I never really was one to make new friends, especially to ponies. They all nod to me, a couple saying “Hello.” For about 2 minutes, it was an awkward silence before Rainbow spoke up. “Okay, I have a question. How the hay did you get here?” she asks roughly. I cringe back at the harshness in her voice, and Twilight scowls at her. I breathe in and out, ready to re-tell the long tale. “Well, it started when I was having a dream.” “… and now I’m here,” I finish. It must’ve been a while, because I look around, and see about fifteen other ponies listening on the story. I laugh, waving my hand at them. They all turn their heads, and whistle, pretending to not have ever listened to the story. I look back at the six ponies, which are all gawping at me with their mouths wide open. I laugh once again, for about the twentieth time that day, and raise their jaws back up. As I do, they each shake their heads and lower their heads in embarrassment. I smile, leaning down to look at them. They each laugh, and begin talking to one another I guess, adding me and Twilight into their conversations. I could already tell we were all going to be very good friends. A/N: Holy, I almost forgot to write this. It's almost Saturday as of publishing this, so it might of been slightly rushed. I will eventually go back and fix some problems, but not now. Also, WOOT! I got 1,500+ words without including the authors note this time! WOO HOOO! Chapter 4This chapter contains OC’s, my own OC, and my friends. (He says his OC is best pony, I disagree.) You will probably know when the OC comes in. Kai, have fun reading! Also, some romance is inserted into this part, and there will be some more later in the story, so I'll be adding a Romance tag! EDIT: Also, it has come to my knowledge that Green Cloud's story of how he get to Equestria is very similar to those of James' from the fanfiction What Seperates. If anyone else notices this, I just would like to say that up until xana452 pointed it out, I hadn't heard of What Seperates, EVER before. Also, if the author (or anyone for that matter) would like me to change Green's human name, I will talk to my friend about it ('cause the story of how James' got to Equestria was all his idea) and see if I could get him to reconsider the story. Thanks for pointing it out, xana452 After being at the party for at least 2 or 3 hours, I started to get quite bored. There were no alcoholic drinks like there was in a normal party, so there were no hilarious things that were done because the person claimed they were wasted, which was kind of disappointing (And no I don’t drink thank you very much!). I sighed, and stepped outside of Sugarcube Corner. I went around the corner of the building and sat down, and breathed in and out the fresh air of Ponyville. I smiled. The air was very, VERY fresh, unlike back at home, where pollution made the air smell like you were sticking your nose in a sewer full of sh-… human waste. I could hear the rustling of hooves of other ponies who had stepped outside, either for fresh air such as myself, or to have quality time with a special somepony. “Why don’t you just introduce yourself, you chicken?” I hear a pony say around the corner where I was sitting. I slowly crawled over to the corner and peeked my head around it. I saw two ponies standing there, one with a cyan coat similar to Rainbow’s, with a yellow mane and tail. He was smirking at the other pony, which looked as if he could knock out the cyan pony. He had a two-toned green mane, and a black coat. I looked closer at the cyan pony, and gasped, quickly covering my mouth though. He was an alicorn! I thought only Celestia and Luna were the only alicorns in Equestria! I shook my head, and stared at the black pony. He was a simple unicorn. “Because, wouldn’t it seem kind of odd for a pony, especially myself, considering what I used to be, to just walk up to someone of a different species and say hello?” the black pony stated. The cyan pony laughed a short, low pitched laugh and continued smirking. “No, because he doesn’t know what you used to be, smart one,” he laughed again. The black pony snapped, and bucked the cyan the pony into the bakery. I opened my eyes wide, and fully turned around the corner. The black pony didn’t even notice, and went to buck the cyan pony again. I quickly ran up to him and raised my foot. It connected with his stomach, sending him flying about three feet. I looked over to the cyan pony, who looked at me, and yelped. His horn started glowing and he started to levitate me. “Hey, what the hell?” I screamed at him. “Let me down! I have quite a temper when someone makes me angry!” he looked at me closer and realized I was the human they were talking about. He gasped, and his horn stopped glowing, in which I was sent falling to the ground. I groaned when I made contact with the ground. “Sorry, guy. I thought you were somepony else,” he muttered, and lifted me up with his magic. I quickly thanked him, to which I heard yelling. I turned to see a black hoof in my face, which made contact with my nose. I swore as I fell to the ground, searing pain in my nose. I stood up quickly, and jumped the black unicorn, holding him down. He struggled, while I connected my fist with his face again. He suddenly became limp, and stopped struggling. I stepped off his body, and looked at the cyan pony, who was staring at me. “Dude. That. Was. Awesome,” he said to me, and I smiled. “Although he is my best friend, he can have some anger issues at times.” I nodded and looked at him. He was still breathing and conscious, so that was a good sign. “You know what? I think he needs help,” the cyan pony looked at me in which I swear to God looked exactly like the “You Don’t Say?” face. I laughed and crouched by the black pony’s side. I lifted him up, taking him into Sugarcube Corner. As soon as I entered, Twilight quickly confronted me. “Where were you?” she nearly yelled at me. I flinched. “You’ve been missing for about half an hour, and you told NOPONY where you went!” She gasped as soon as she noticed a pony sprawled in my arms. “Oh my gosh, quickly, we need to get him help!” She quickly ran off. I noticed she changed back to her nice and caring self, to which I breathed a breath of relief. I looked at the black pony, and dropped him onto two chairs that were relatively close to each other. Twilight returned with a first aid kit, and quickly opened it, and started to clean up his wounds. I looked over to the cyan pony, who was staring at his friend, laughing. “What are you laughing at?” I asked him. He stopped, and looked at me. “It’s kind of funny. He is always trying to wail on me, and this time, he got wailed on. Thanks for that,” he stuck out his hoof. “My name is Blue Lightning, and my friend there is Green Cloud.” I took his hoof and shook it. “Hi, my name is Jeff. Y’know I heard you talking to him back there,” I pointed to the door, and he frowned. “So, you heard that, huh?” he asked quietly. “Yeah. What did he mean by “especially myself’?” I asked. He sighed and looked at me. “Green Cloud here used to be a human,” he sighed, and I looked at him in shock “Yeah, he used to be a scientist, and the lab boys there built a time travel portal. Green Cloud, his name used to be James, volunteered to be a test subject for the portal. He entered it, and something went terribly wrong. Apparently, while building the portal, the boys messed up and made it a teleportation device.” I stared at him in disbelief. “Yeah, kind of a silly mistake, right? Anyway, he arrived here, the portal broken in rubble, while Celestia sent him to a nearby field to Ponyville. The reason why she sent him there, I have no clue. That’s where I found him. I’ve been his best friend basically since then.” Blue finished his story. I gave a small ‘huh’ and sat down on a nearby chair. Blue followed and jumped onto the chair beside me. “I found it hard to believe too, but if the Princess herself tells you it, you pretty much have to believe her.” I heard a groan nearby, and stood up, walking to Green’s side. He was stirring out of… whatever he was in. He looked at me in wide eyes, and cringed. “N-no! Leave me alone!” he sputtered. I sighed and looked him. “Look, I’m not going to hurt you. I was just defending Blue Lightning from you. No hard feelings, kay?” I stuck out my hand. He hesitated, but quickly took it. We shook, and Twilight gasped as she looked at Green Cloud. “Gr-Green?” she sputtered. “Twilight?” he stared in disbelief. “Oh good Goddess,” Blue sighed. “Oh, here to bash on White Rose again?” she spat, and Green raised his hooves. “It wasn’t me! It was somepony pretending to be me, I swear!” he pleaded, but all Twilight did was roll her eyes. “Sure, when you have solid proof for that, I’ll believe you,” she turned around to see Blue Lightning, and her eyes opened wide. “Blue! You’re back! Just a minute, I’ll go get Rainbow!” and with that, she galloped off. I smirked at Blue, while he just scowled at me. “Soo… You’ve got it going on with-“ I laughed before he punched me in the stomach, making me fall off my chair. He jumped on my stomach and scowled at me even more. “Shut. Up!” he whispered between gritted teeth. I laughed; before he flew off my stomach and looked over to see a rainbow flash tackle him on to the ground. “Blue! You’re back! You’re really back! I thought you would never be back!” she cried into Blue’s chest, while he stroked her mane, and shushed her. “I told you I’d be back. Did you ever doubt me?” he smiled, and she smiled back at him. “Well, no. But you said you’d only be two months! It’s been at least three or four!” she laughed, while he joined in. He was about to say something to her when he was interrupted by a kiss from Rainbow. He opened his eyes up wide, before closing them and returning the kiss. I smiled, and turned away to leave them to have some quality time together. Twilight sighed, and followed me. “So, what’s up with you going all evil on Green Cloud?” I asked. She squinted her eyes, looking at me. “He’s a flipping jerk, that’s why I went all ‘evil’ on him!” she said through gritted teeth. “What did he do, and who is White Rose?” I asked. She sighed again, and looked at me. “White Rose is a mare Green Cloud met in Los Pegasus. They quickly bonded and became coltfriend and marefriend. When they got back, everything was fine, but about two or three weeks later, in public, Green Cloud started pointing out all her flaws, which set her home crying. When Green Cloud went home to check on her, she had gone to her own home in Ponyville, and wouldn’t let Green in. Green Cloud then moved to Manehattan, not caring about her at all. Blue followed him, and apparently they just got back.” She finished, anger showing in her eyes towards Green. I sighed, and crouched down beside her. “Are you sure there isn’t anything important missing in that story?” I asked. “No! Nothing’s missing! Don’t you think I would know if something was missing?” I flinched. She was actually screaming at me. I looked back at Blue Lightning, who was getting the same harassment from Rainbow. I turned back to Twilight, who had stomped away to her five best friends. I stared at her, and suddenly got really tired. I went up to Blue Lightning, who had silenced Rainbow with his magic. “Hey, I’m leaving here for now. You got a place to stay?” I asked him. “Well, with her acting all ballistic right now, I don’t think I do,” he sighed. “C’mon, I have a nice hard wood floor in my room. You could probably summon up a bed or something,” I smiled at him, and he smiled back. “Thanks. Hey, do you have your own home?” he asked. “No, I’m staying with…” I trailed off. “Twilight.” I huffed. She wasn’t exactly happy right now, so I wondered if she would still let me stay at her home. I shook the thought off. “Oh. Well, in that case, let’s go quickly before she gets home. Maybe everypony will of calmed down by then,” I nodded, and I started walking to the library. Chapter 5I yawned as I woke up in the morning to a small knock at my door. I looked up at my door to see Twilight poking her head through it. “Come in, Twilight,” I smirked. She gave a small ‘oh’ and walked in, her head hanging. I squinted my eyes and watched her walk into my room. It was sort of dramatic, until she obliviously tripped over Blue’s bed. Blue stirred awake, eyes bulging at the sight of Twilight falling over him. He quickly teleported out of the way to let Twilight fall onto something soft. She fell on the bed with a quiet ‘whump’ and she quickly stood up again. She shook her head as she stared at me. I was still squinting at her, remembering last night. She took a deep breath. “Hey, Jeff. I’m sorry about last night. I don’t know what came over me, and honestly, it’s being happening to all of the elements lately. I have no clue what’s going on, but-“ “But that’s what I was sent here for,” I interrupted, and she shot her head up. “What?” she asked. “The exact same thing you just described is the reason I’m here, in Equestria, sleeping in your guest bed. Didn’t I tell you yesterday?” Twilight went into a thinking expression for a few minutes, before looking back up at me. “So… Celestia obviously knows about this?” she asked quietly. “Yeah…” I trailed off, not finishing what I wanted to say. We just stood there in a really awkward silence, before we heard a voice. “Hey, I’m in here too!” I looked over to see Blue Lightning scowling at me and Twilight. We all laughed, as I got out of my bed and put my hand on Twilight’s shou- eh…. Actually, I have absolutely no clue what they call a pony shoulder, but just think of where a human shoulder would be, and that’s where I put my hand. “It’s okay Twilight, I’m here to help,” I tried, sounding as supportive as I could. “Do you think you could gather up the elements, I would like to question them about the uh… anger surges that you gals have.” Twilight nodded, and got a quill and paper, wrote a quick note, and multiplied the parchment into 5 different pieces. “SPIKE!” she yelled upstairs. “I NEED YOU TO SEND A LETTER!” Spike ran into the guest room, sent the letter away with the green fire, and ran back out. I laughed. “What’s he doing that’s so important that he needs to run in and out of the guest room?” I asked. Twilight shrugged. “I don’t know. Every time I ask, he changes the subject, and if I catch him doing it, he covers it all up with his arms, so I just gave up trying to figure it out.” I nod, and leave the guest room, Blue and Twilight following me. I sat down on a tree stump, and waited. I stood in front of the 6 elements of harmony, plus one elements coltfriend, unsure of how to start. I took a deep breath. “So, you are here to explain something to me,” I tried to sound as nice as possible, but failed, as I saw Fluttershy hide behind Rarity. I rolled my eyes. “Now, as you probably remember, two of the elements had a… lets just say, freak out, at the party last night.” I looked over to see Twilight and Rainbow hang their heads. “It’s okay, Twilight and Princess Celestia have explained a little bit of this to me, and I know for a fact you are not doing this willingly, it’s like someone is making you. Am I right?” I ask, and each of them nod. “Now, what I need you to explain is how you go from happy and cheerful, to angry and abusive, in, as Rainbow would say, ‘ten seconds flat.” Rainbow flashed a cocky grin, as the elements give an understanding ‘mm-hmm’. I sigh. This is going to be a LONG day. At least, I don’t know, possibly two or three hours later, after interviewing the elements, I’m sitting back in the living room. I breathe in and out, and stand up. “So, from what ALL of you explained to me, these surges come randomly, and you have no control over them,” I re-cap, and they all nod shortly. “Sounds to me like mind control,” I stop. “Eh, Equestria DOES have mind control, right?” I ask, giving a short laugh. “Yes, Equestria doesn’t have mind control, and that theory actually makes lots of sense. The question is, though, who is doing it?” Twilight asks, and everyone falls silent. “Well, THAT burned and crashed,” Blue said, talking for the first time since we gathered the elements. I swear, every time he speaks, he sounds more and more like my friend from Earth… Can he be…? “That’s right, it did,” I huff, and sit down. I put my head in my hands and groan. This was going to be harder than I thought. “Well, let’s think, bad people who would want to take over our minds?” Rainbow asked. I immediately think Discord, but he’s in stone imprisonment, and there is no way he’s breaking out anytime soon. “Well, there is that new pony,” We all freeze, and look over to Fluttershy, we had also just spoke for the first time. She looks at us, and hides under her mane. “You know, the big, grey one that bullies all the little ponies?” I face palm. Yeah, that could be it. “Does anyone know anything else about this new pony? His name, cutie mark, anything else?” I ask. Fluttershy perks up and smiles. “Oh, I know! His name is… Uh… I think his friends just call him Shadows,” she frowns. “His cutie mark looks like a brain with waves around it… Oh.” I smirk. “Ladies, I think we have our pony!” “Stop shoving, Blue, geesh,” I huff. He and I were sitting in a bush, watching Shadows. Blue punched me in the shoulder. “I told you to call me Lightning! It sounds better than Blue,” I roll my eyes at him. “Fine, Lightning, stop shoving! You can see just fine from there!” I move his head to a place where he can see fine. He gives a small ‘ah’ and squints his eyes at Shadows, who seems to be heading to a place full of statues. “What’s he doing there?” I ask quietly. “I don’t know! But whatever it is, it can’t be good,” Lightning frowns slightly. “Oh Goddess, quickly! Move! He’s getting away!” We quickly pick up the fake bush, and move closer to Shadows. He looks around to see if anypony is there, and he gives an evil grin. He undoes his saddle bag and pulls out a book. He clears his throat, and opens the book to a specific page. ‘For thou who sleeps in stone and clay Heed this call, rise and obey Trek on to the mortal door Assemble flesh, and walk once more!’ “Oh dear God, we are done for,” I open my mouth wide. I know I have heard this before, in a video, MAGIC.MOV to be exact. Things were not going to be good. Lightning moves himself slightly to see. I take out the binoculars Twilight gave us and I look at the Discord statue that he stopped in front of. I look closer, and see cracks breaking the statue, just like in the season 2 premiere. “Oh no, no no no nono! This is NOT good!” I say, and Lightning finally picks up, grabs me, and teleports us back to the library, where the elements are waiting for us. “Well? How’d you do!” Twilight asks, almost bouncing with excitement. I, still in shock, sit down and curl into a ball. “Not good not good not good not good not good!” I constantly chant. Twilight looks at me, and then to Lightning, who sighs slightly. “I don’t know, Shadows started to chant something in front of the Discord statue, and-“ he was quickly cut off by Twilight pouncing him, earning a scowl from Rainbow Dash. “What did he enchant? WHAT DID HE ENCHANT!?” She nearly yelled at him. Lightning levitated her with her magic, and set her on the ground. Twilight looked at him with mere confusion and worry. Lightning shrugs. “I don’t really know, to be-“ I interrupt. ‘For thou who sleeps in stone and clay Heed this call, rise and obey Trek on to the mortal door Assemble flesh, and walk once more.’ Twilight looks at me in horror. “He said this, WHERE?” She asks me. “In front of the statue of Discord,” I frown. Twilight reels back, and looks at the elements. “Girls, we need to get the Elements of Harmony, from Canterlot, PRONTO!” She yells the last bit, and they all nod. The girls start running towards the door, only to be stopped by Lightning. “Uh, girls? I’m an alicorn, I have enough magic to teleport us to Canterlot?” He smiles. Twilight face hooves and we all get in a circle, as Lightning readies his magic. I gulp. I have a small feeling that all of this is far from over now. A/N Well, finally done Friday’s chapter. Shadows is a name I came up with while writing, as I was listening to Avenged Sevenfold while writing this. Enjoy guys, next chapter will be uploaded tomorrow night! Chapter 6Upon arriving in Canterlot, I strangely felt less welcome than I did in Ponyville. I shook it off as anxiety, as we ran through the streets heading to the castle. Many Canterlot ponies watched us running through the streets, but most the attention was on me. I ignored them and kept on running. A couple times, I swear I heard a rasp voice calling me, but I ignored it and kept on running with the rest of the ponies. When we arrived in Canterlot, the guards immediately let us in. We stopped running and turned it into a leisure jog. I caught up to Twilight and leaned down. “Being Celestia’s student really has its perks, huh?” I smiled, and she blushed. I laughed shortly as we entered the area where my bedroom was. I looked over to where the guard had his spear pointing at me, trying to either kill me or capture me, and I smiled at the memory. Why I smiled at this sort of thing, I have NO idea. Twilight took a turn down the same hallway Celestia took me in, and she stopped at the study door. She slowly opened it with her magic, as she poked her head in, and motioned us to follow. There, in all her glory, sat Princess Celestia. “Welcome, my little ponies,” She smiled, and looked up at me. “Oh, and Jeff,” she added. I smiled as I took a seat in the same spot as before. I stretched a little bit before settling myself into my chair, and looking at Celestia, waiting. “Well, you all know why you are here, correct?” She asked us, and we all nodded. “I need you to explain all of it to me. I know very little, only that you needed to see me about something ‘urgent’,” she sighed. She looked up at me, and I cleared my throat. “… and Discord’s statue started breaking up, and now we are here,” I finished. I mentally smiled. I’ve been using the phrase ‘are here’ a lot since I came to Equestria. I sat back down, staring at the Princess, while she just frowned, closing her eyes shut. She opened them, as I saw a flare of anger in them. She stood up and started pacing through the study. “But how could a regular unicorn like him use such a black magic spell? I also would like to know his motive!” She stomped her hoof on the ground, and the ground shook. I flung backwards as the chair perked up when she stomped. I grunted and slowly stood up and looked at her. She was breathing heavily, apparently angry at the circumstances. “I don’t know, but what I do know, and it’s pretty apparent, is that Shadows isn’t a normal pony. He’s something much more than that,” I scrunched up my face into a thinking expression, as the rest of the ponies stared at the ground. I slammed my hand on the desk nearest me, as they all jumped. “Damn it, I don’t know who is doing this, but I swear on my life that I WILL stop them!” I shot my hand upward to add a little dramatic effect. Rainbow Dash shot another cocky grin, as she stared at the rest of the ponies. Lightning flew up to me, and grinned. “I agree, I will bring hell to this pony if it’s the last thing I do!” He stomped his hoof on the ground as me and him stared at the ponies, with grins on our faces. The mane 6 grinned, and walked up to us and stood beside us. I looked at the Princess, who just smiled at us. “Well what are you waiting for? Go,” she smiled at us, before the ground shook violently. We fell to the ground, all flailing around as the ground shook. I quickly regained my balance as I crawled over to the window. There, I saw a huge black coated pony, giving an evil grin at me. He laughed madly. “So, this is the human? What a pathetic piece of-“ he started before he was hit by a something. He stumbled a little to the left, before staring at the thing that hit him. It was Green Cloud. Lightning grinned at Green as he shot another laser out of his horn, aiming towards the pony’s head. He missed, as the giant black pony laughed, and picked Green up. He squealed as the black pony laughed again, and threw him at the window where I was. Before I had time to react, he collided with me as I got shot backward a few feet. I felt small amounts of blood trickle down my face from my lip. I scowled as I stood up, and growled at the pony. I stopped, as I looked at Celestia. “What can I do? I can’t fly or use magic!” I yelled over the commotion the giant was making. “Jeff, I know for a fact there is a gun in your bedroom! You always keep it in there for safety reasons!” She yelled back. “Oh yeah. Right,” I murmured, as I took off down the hallway, not even thinking about the fact that Celestia knew I had a gun in my room. I ran blindly through the hallways before I came up to the door I knew was my room. I entered it, and ran through the door. I quickly opened my closet door, searching for the gun in there. After searching for a while, I finally found it. The M16A2 my Dad gave me before he died as a birthday gift. I grinned madly. I took a belt full of ammo clips for the gun as I strapped it to my waist. I took a clip, shoved it into the M16, and turned the safety off. I run back into the study, aiming the gun at the pony’s giant muzzle. I shoot a few bullets, and hear the bullets collide with him. He stumbled a few steps back as blood trickled down his muzzle. Small amounts, but there was blood. I grinned, and took fire again, this time in short, 3 round bursts. He didn’t even stumble this time, as he swiped at the study. “Oh shi-“ I exclaimed as his giant hoof smashed through the study, sending us all flying. I broke through a castle window, and fell to the ground. I closed me eyes, as my life slowly flashed before then. Wait. The air was horizontal now, not vertical. I opened my eyes, to see a yellow and cyan trail behind me, and I looked down slightly to see Lightning carrying me. “Oh no, you are NOT dying on me! Not today!” He yelled at me, as I smiled. He closed his eyes, as he teleported us to some sort of cave. I looked around to see everypony else there, too. I looked around. “Where are we?” I asked quietly. “A bunker. After Nightmare Moon, I had this built under the ground to bring cover to ponies incase something like that happened again,” Celestia explained. I nodded as I looked at the gun still strapped around my shoulder. I took it off as I made it lean against the walls of the bunker. I noticed Green Cloud was still here, shaking slightly. “What’s the matter with him?” I asked. Twilight shrugged. “I don’t know. He’s muttering something, but I can’t tell what he is muttering,” She shook her head. I walked over to Green and shook him. “White… White Rose… Rosey…” he muttered. I squinted my eyes. “What? What does White Rose mean?” I asked. Lightning punched my hip. “His marefriend, I told you that yesterday, smart one,” he smirked, as I kicked his hind leg back. He teleported away, and he smirked. I stuck my tongue out at him as I looked back at Green. “What about White Rose?” I murmured to him. “She… She is still in Ponyville. We can’t let her get hurt. Please save her, PLEASE!” He pleaded. My eyes bulged as I stared at the rest of the ponies. They looked up at me eagerly. I gulped. “White Rose is still in Ponyville. Green here wants us to go and save her,” I explained. Twilight snorted. “Why? So he can harass her again?” she gave a bitter laugh. Lightning growled. “Twilight! That was NOT HIM!” He yelled at her. “I’ll explain it later, but now, we need to go get White Rose!” Twilight looked at him, before nodding. “Right. C’mon, Lightning, Jeff. We have a pony to save!” she struck a dramatic pose. I grinned as I threw my M16A2 back onto my shoulder, and cocked it. Lightning grabbed us, and readied his magic once more. He teleported, and we ended up in a field… somewhere. Lightning swore. “Damn it, I overshot it! Looks like we’re walking from here to Ponyville, which I believe is… That a-way!” He pointed south. Twilight and I nodded before starting to walk, Lightning closely following us. We stopped as we heard a pop behind us. We looked to see Green Cloud standing there, staring at us. Lightning grinned. “What, do you expect me to just sit there while you save my… ex-marefriend?” he stuttered the last words, before grinning. I walked up to him, slapped him on the back, as we started heading towards Ponyville. This was going to be fun. Chapter 7As we arrived in Ponyville, each of us gasped. The small town was on fire, ponies were running in every direction trying to escape the fiery hell that used to be their home town. “Son of a bugger!” I exclaimed. “This place has had better times.” “No, this is obviously the best Ponyville has ever been. Goddess, do you need glasses or something?” Lightning smirked at me. I felt like kicking him right there in his spot, before Twilight hit him upside the head. “Thatta girl, Twilight!” I cheered, and she scowled at me. “Lightning, now is not the time to mess around. We need to go save White Rose!” she hit him in the head again, as I whooped. Lightning bucked me in the stomach, which sent me hurling backwards. I hit the ground, and looked up to see Lightning laughing above me, holding his hoof out. I grabbed it as he helped me up, and I slapped him across the head. I smiled as I ran away from him towards Ponyville, laughing hysterically. I slipped my M16 further up my neck as I stretched. I turned around to see Green frowning at the ground, and Lightning patting his back, whispering to him. I shrugged as I continued heading towards the small town. Upon entering the town, the shrieks of the ponies grew louder, as I felt a weird pain in my chest. It’s like this whole situation was familiar and I knew how it was going to turn out, which was odd. I shook my head, trying my hardest not to think of it. I readied my M16 as I slipped around the corners of buildings, trying to find my way to White Rose’s house. Just then, it hit me. “Hey guys, I have absolutely no clue where this mare lives. Why am I leading the way?” I asked. They all looked and me, and Lightning sighed. “C’mon, follow me everypony,” he said blandly, as he took the lead. We all followed him as we walked through Ponyville. I cracked my neck to the side, looking through the sights of my gun. I was kind of surprised how good I was at using it, considering I’ve only used it twice in my entire life. My Dad had always been good at using guns; maybe that’s how I got so good at it. I don’t really know, but now is not the time. After rummaging through the place for about ten more minutes, we arrived at a small cottage not far from the library. I heard Green gulp as he stepped forward to the door. He knocked a few times before stepping back. We waited, and no one answered. I stepped up, and wailed on the door. Twilight held my hand back with her magic, gasping. “What are you doing?” she said between gritted teeth. “Uh… If you hadn’t noticed, there is a lot of noise out here, and it wouldn’t be surprising if she couldn’t hear Green’s knock,” I rolled my eyes. She looked at me, before nodding and releasing my hand. We waited a little longer, and we left after about five minutes and no answer. “Is it possible she ran away in all the commotion?” I asked the three ponies. They all shrugged in unison. “It’s possible, but where could she be?” Twilight asked quietly. “Do you think you could locate her with your magic? I mean, we have two unicorns and an alicorn here, I don’t think it would be that hard,” I suggested. Twilight’s eyes opened wide, before she grinned broadly. “Jeff. You. Are. A. GENIOUS!” she exclaimed before tackling me. “If we put our magic together, we would be able to get her exact position! Without the three of us, we would only get a guess of where she is, but with three ponies, it’ll be much easier!” “Uh… Twi? Could you please get off me? Please?” I asked politely. “Oh! Sorry,” she blushed as she climbed off me. I gave a quick thanks to her as I stood back up. I looked to see the three ponies already preparing the magic. I ran up to them and joined the small circle they had formed, and I closed my eyes. I opened them to see a trail of white smoke leading to the other side of Ponyville. I groaned. “Well, this is going to be so fun,” I said sarcastically. I started following the smoke trail, as did the other three. We followed it, not really paying attention to where it was taking us, until everything went dark except for the smoke trail. I looked up and around to see nothing but darkness. “Uh… guys? I think we might have entered the Everfree Forest,” Lightning stated the obvious. I gulped as I turned around. In a second, the forest was illuminated by Twilight’s horn. “Oh yeah, right. Magic,” I laughed. I turned to follow the trail again before all I gasped. I turned around again to face the ponies. “Uh… We are in the Everfree Forest, correct?” I asked, and they all nodded. “And White Rose is here, correct?” They all nodded again, before seizing up. “Uh oh… ROSE!” Green yelled before running ahead of us, following the trail. I flicked my gun around so I could aim it, and we all followed. “Rose? White Rose?” I yelled through the caves entrance. “Hello?” I grunted. Lightning flew up to the cave entrance, peaking through it. “Hello? Rose, it’s me. Lightning!” he exclaimed. Just then, a shriek sounded through the cave. It was a blood curling shriek. As the last bit of color drained from Green’s face, we ran into the cave, with Lightning’s horn illuminating our surroundings. We came to a dead end in the cave really quickly, and we all stopped. “Wh-What?” I asked, dumbfounded. “How is this possible? This is the only way through the cave!” I huffed as I went to lean against the dead end. Only, the wall never came, and I was flung through the wall and into a pit. I screamed as I fell, quickly joined by three other voices from above. We fell through the pit of darkness before we contacted with the ground. The weird thing is, it was soft rather than hard stone, like the rest of the cave was. I quickly stood up as I looked around, to see the other three ponies looking just as confused as I felt. I heard a small groan from behind me, as I readied my gun and pointed it at the source. There lying on the ground, sat a white earth pony, with a red mane. I quickly brought my gun back, realizing who it was. “Wh-White Rose?” I asked quietly. She looked up at me, terror in her eyes as she stared at me. “Sshh, it’s okay. I’m friendly,” I reassured her as she backed away slowly. I grunted. “See? I’m with Twilight Sparkle, Blue Lightning, and-“ I cut myself off. I breathed in and out slowly. “-Green Cloud.” I saw her eyes light up as she heard the ponies’ names, and she shot up. “Twilight?” She said in a high pitched voice that sounded weirdly close to Pinkie’s. “Is that really you with Blue?” “Yeah! It is!” Twilight exclaimed, before being attacked by White Rose with a hug. She blinked, before hugging her back. White Rose let go of her, before quickly attacking Lightning. “Aw Blue! It’s been too long!” she squealed. Lightning smiled. “Hey, I told you to call me Lightning, not Blue!” he said quietly, and Rose smiled. When she let go, she looked at Green who smiled sheepishly. “Hey,” he said quietly. Rose looked at him with squinting eyes. “YOU!” she growled. “YOU BUCKED UP MY LIFE SO MUCH! YOU HAVE SOME NERVE SHOWING YOUR FACE IN FRONT OF ME AGAIN!” Lightning and I quickly ran up to the duo and held them back from each other. “It wasn’t me! I can explain, and Lightning can back me up with the facts I have!” he pleaded. “Give me a chance, please!” Rose looked at him, before sighing. “Fine… but you have ONE shot! And if you mess this up, I will kill you,” she muttered. Green sighed before taking a seat on the ground. “You might want to sit, it’s a LONG story,” “Wow,” Twilight and Rose said in unison. I was still trying to make up what the story exactly meant. “So, to recap: You were at your house alone, when a black pony came into your house and tied you up. He stole some of your mane, and put it in a drink, and he became you, and this is who harassed Rose?” Twilight asked. Green nodded slowly. Twilight gave another ‘wow’ before looking at the ground, biting her lip. Rose had tears forming in her eyes as she looked at Green. She quickly hurled herself at him, and hugged him. “Oh Green, I am SO sorry! If only I would’ve let you explain, none of this would have happened!” she cried. Green looked at her for a second, before hugging her back. “It’s okay, I forgive you. Right now, we should focus on getting us out of here,” Green suggested, as Lightning nodded and readied his horn. In a flash, we all arrived at the entrance of the cave. We all breathed a breath of relief, before we heard clapping of hooves. “Congratulations. You made it out. Too bad you’ve only walked right into a death trap,” We all heard a voice say. I whirled around to see the black pony smirking at us. “You!” I growled at him. He laughed. “Yes, ‘me’. I take it you figured out I’m the one from Green Cloud’s story?” he asked us. We all nodded quickly. I aimed my M16 at him, aiming for his chest. He laughed. “You are stupid aren’t you? I can’t die from your stupid little machinery. I am much more powerful than that, you filthy human!” he spat. I cracked. That was enough. I emptied the entire clip on his chest and forehead, as he just stood there and laughed. I gasped as my gun fell out of my clutches, the strap snapping. “Told you,” he grinned. I looked at the four other ponies. “You ready to get your hooves dirty?” I asked, grinning. They all nodded, as we ran at him, the pony from the day before. Shadows. Chapter 8NOTE: Stuff gets violent in this chapter. If you are a young viewer, GTFO :o Or just skip this chapter. Sorry for the long wait. Writer's block is a bugger to deal with. Enjoy, anyway!!! I brought my fist up into the air as I ran at Shadows. I flung it down, but he jumped out of the way laughing. He quickly jumped forward and kicked me upside the head. I yelled and fell to the ground. Lightning shot a bolt of… laser? I’m not sure, but Lightning shot something at Shadows. It hit him on his left hip, sending him a few feet back. He groaned, as he quickly stood up and charged at Lightning. He smirked and jumped in the air to take flight, only, he didn’t. He fell right back down to the ground. “What? What’s going on?” He asked. I shrugged my shoulders and quickly change my attention to the black pony to my side. Green is frantically waving his hooves around to try and hit Shadows, even though he is about five feet away from him. I facepalm. “Green! Shadows is not even-“ I try to tell him before he gets hit in the chest with Shadows horn. “Near you,” I finish, frowning. I shake my head and stand back up. I run over to Twilight who is just standing over on the sidelines with tears in her eyes. “Twi, what’s wrong?” I ask her worryingly. She stares at me and sniffs. “N-nothing. J-just, do-don’t lose, ok-okay?” She stutters. I smile and nod, and turn back to Shadows, who is wailing on Green. I quickly run up and kick him in the chest, to which he groans, and flies off Green’s body, which isn’t moving. I swear under my breath, and charge with Lightning at Shadows. He readies his magic, and when we are a couple feet away, sends a blast of blue lights at Shadows, blinding him. He stutters backwards, and I find the perfect opportunity. I punch his jaw, and then his chest, jaw, chest, jaw, chest, jaw, chest, until he finally falls down, bleeding from his mouth. I smirk, and kick his rib. I turn around to walk away, when Shadows grabs my foot and trips me. I fall to the ground and hit my nose on the ground, to which I hear a crack. I scream, and tears well in my eyes. I hit the ground with my fist, as Shadows starts to fight with Lightning. My ears start ringing as I hear hooves clopping on the ground. I hear the voice of Twilight and White Rose (Who I had forgotten was there), calling my name. I wipe the tears away from my eyes as my ears stop ringing, and I get on my knees. “Don’t worry, I’m fine!” I yell at them. They look at me for a second, before nodding. I run over to Shadows, who is once again wailing on a pony, this time, Lightning. Lightning is waving his hooves around, swearing every time Shadows punches his cheek. I scream at Shadows, and he looks over. Just then, Lightning punches Shadows in the jaw, as I kick his spine. He lets out a blood curling scream as he falls to the ground. He groans, and I smile evilly. I stomp on his stomach, and he coughs up a little amount of blood. I keep wailing on his stomach, until Lightning eventually pulls me back. I scowl at Shadows, as he coughs up blood, and a tooth. I turn my head away to Twilight and White Rose. I smile. “See? Told you I wouldn’t lose to hi-him,” I say, shaking. I suddenly feel very weak, and I fall to the ground. I notice a black aura around me, and I start floating in the air. I look behind me, and see Shadows with his horn glowing black. Lightning, gasps, as he shoots over to the black pony. Shadows scowls, and uses a spell to block Lightning. Lightning gasps, and falls to the ground, apparently becoming unconscious from the blow of the shield. Twilight and Rose run up to him and start yelling his name and shaking him. I twitch my left eye. I’ve never seen so much actual blood and violence in my life. I’d always play it in video games, but those are games. Not real life. I yell at the top of my lungs, which frightens Shadows, and he drops me. I fall to ground with a thud, and quickly get up. I run over to him, jumping over Green’s unconscious body, and jump onto Shadows. I start punching his stomach as hard as I can, yelling as I do so. “YOU SON OF A-“ I scream at him. He kicks me off his body, and I fall backwards. He kicks my face, and I yelp. He looks forward at something and runs off. I look over to him and see who he is targeting. Twilight and White Rose. “No…” I cough weakly. He screams, and the two mares jump backward. He grabs their heads, and conks them together violently. Both the mares fall to the ground with a thud, also joining the unconscious pair. “No…” I say with a little more strength. Shadows laughs evilly. He just laughs, and laughs, and laughs. I feel my eye twitch and my head twitch to the side very quickly. I feel tears welling up in my eyes, and they fall down my cheek. “No…!” I say audibly. Shadows doesn’t hear me and keeps laughing. I start bawling. No one to hear me, except some evil bugger who wouldn’t help me if his life depended on it, and four unconscious ponies. My friends, the four ponies unconscious, all losing blood at an alarming rate. “No!” I say through tears. I cry into my arms, and wail my feet. Shadows looks at me, and laughs even harder. He falls to the ground, laughing hysterically. I look at him with fire in my eyes, as I cry. I wipe my eyes, and I stand up to face him. “No. You are not hurting them any further,” I say, the shakiness in my voice obvious. Shadows stands up, and laughs at me. “Really? You think you can beat me, you stubborn human?” He spits on the ground. “Pathetic. Stubborn, and pathetic!” I crack. I run at him and kick him in the side of the head. He yelps as he flings to the side. I run over to him and climb onto him. I punch him in the jaw, as hard as I can. He screams. I smirk, and wail on his jaw. He yelps each time my fist connects with his face. Seconds pass, which seems like minutes, hours, days, even, before I stop. Shadows lies under me, twitching violently. I stand up, and kick both his ribs. “Take that, you asshat,” I spit blood on his face, and crouch down besides Lightning. He is twitching every second or so, and blood is running from his chest and jaw. “No!” I yell. I stand up and run to a tree, and pick a long piece of thick grass. I run back over to his body, and wrap up his wounds. I use a couple of leafs to clean up the blood, but most of the blood is dried up, and won’t clean. I do the same for the three other ponies, and wipe my eyes. I’m on the verge of vomiting, as I’ve never seen this much blood in my life. “Hey, ‘asshat’,” I hear a voice behind me. I turn around, and see a black hoof in front of my face. It hits me and I fall backwards. I see Shadows climb on top of me, his horn glowing black. Out of nowhere, a rusty dagger appears in his hoof. “Goodbye, Jeff. Nice knowing you,” he says, and brings the dagger up. I panic, and kick my foot out, which hits his hoof, and the dagger falls beside my body. He looks up, and I see the opportunity to get him off. I kick him and he flies onto his back. I pick up the dagger and climb onto his body. I can tell the blood has been getting to me, and I think of my four friends. I twist my head violently, and I crack. “You. YOU!” I yell. I bring the dagger back. “YOU!” I bring the dagger forward and dig it into his chest, and quickly bring it out. “STUPID!” I bring the dagger forward again, into a different spot. I lurch the dagger upwards, causing Shadows to scream. I bring the dagger upwards again, and growl. “FUCK!” I bring the dagger forward into his head. I hear the blood gurgling in his mouth as I do so. I hear the dagger hit his brain as I lurch it forward. I bring it out, and look at Shadows. I see tons of blood coming from his head. I urch. I vomit over Shadows body, which just repels off and lands on the ground. I look at Shadows, and see his eyes open. He is still alive. What. “Told you. Can’t kill me!” He yells, and laughs sharply. I fall backwards, my eyesight growing dark. The last thing I hear is the sharp laugh, of the bastard black pony. Chapter 9POV: Green Cloud “Stop!” I cried as I ran through the fire, my tears flying off my cheeks as I ran. “Stop!” I had no clue where I was. The last thing I remember was Shadows punching the living hell out of me before he teleported me here… or am I actually here? Is this all in my mind? I don’t know right now, but I figure I will later on. I have SOOO many questions to ask myself. Are the others safe? What’s happened to Shadows? Most importantly, WHERE THE HELL AM I? It looks like hell, except it’s not. I’ve been having hallucinations ever since I’ve gotten here, and they’ve all been making my life hell, no pun intended. I wiped the tears away with a quick swipe of my hoof, and continued running. I had no idea where I was heading, but the sooner I got away from the hallucinations, the better my sanity would be. I really needed to find a way out. I looked frantically around for some sort of exit, but there was none to be found. I cursed at the top of my lungs and kept running. A trickle of sweat runs down my face, and I look up to see flames burning my mane. I scream and fall to the ground, only, the ground doesn’t come. I just keep falling and falling, until everything goes black. I open my eyes to see myself back in the battle area, and I look over to my friends. I scream, causing, the ponies to stir awake with a start. “WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?” I yell. I quickly get on my hooves and run over to Jeff’s unconscious body. I panic. Is he alive? Is he unconscious, or is he…? I gulp I run over to Lightning and shake him. “Hurry up! Jeff isn’t alright, he’s either unconscious or-“ I have no time to finish, as Lightning flies up at the words ‘Jeff isn’t alright’. He flies over to his unconscious body and looks at him, shocked. “Shadows! You bastard! What did you do to him!?” Lightning shouted into the air, to no answer. He must be long gone by now. “He’s gone, Lightning. He’s LONG gone,” I hear Twilight sigh behind me. I sniffle. I turn around and hug Rose. How I would long to kiss her again, but I don’t think it would be fitting at this time. “Don’t worry, though. We will find that plothole, and kill him,” I smile sheepishly. Lightning laughs shortly, looking at Jeff’s body. “C’mon, guys. We need to get him some help. By a licensed doctor,” Twilight mutters. We all nod and stand up, Lightning carrying him with his magic. We walk through the trees and back into the Everfree, not worrying about what lies inside at the moment. Who would’ve thought, meeting up with this col-… Man, would change our lives so much? I sure as hell didn’t. But I spoke the truth earlier. When we find Shadows, we will kill him. I’ve never been one to be so violent – and that fact was proven in the fight, as I didn’t really fight back much with Shadows, seeing how I was the first one to be knocked out. – But I will make it my mission, to make sure Jeff doesn’t go down in vain. I’m sure Lightning, Twi, and Rose feel the same way, to be honest. I gulp, scared out my wits. We arrive at the hospital, and enter the visitors room. The nurse looks up, and gasps. “Oh my goddess, we need a doctor. NOW!” she slams her hoof on the table, and gets a roller bed to lay Jeff on. Lightning sets him down, and they take him down the hallway into a room, and close the door tight. The only thing we can do right now, is wait. “Well? How is he, doc?” Lightning asks the doctor. It’s the first time I’ve heard him be serious in a long time, no sarcasm or cockiness found in his voice at all. I shudder. It’s obvious the entire ordeal is getting to Lightning the most out of all of us. “I don’t know… It’s not anything we’ve seen before. It looks like he was put under a spell to be knocked out, but the power of it was massive, like it was the power of Celestia and Luna put together!” he looks down at his clip board, and back up again. “There are also traces of unknown magic in his blood, which really adds to the whole ordeal. We aren’t sure if he is unconscious, or… dead, at the moment, but we will try our best to keep him alive. It’s difficult, what with Ponyville being in the state it is. We are getting more patients by the second, not to mention the power surges we’ve been getting. It’s just… awful.” The doctor closes his eyes and rubs his forehead. “….Thanks, doc,” I sniffle. He nods and walks away, back into Jeff’s room. The door of the visitor’s room blasts open, and we see the rest of the mares burst into the room. Rainbow flies over and hugs Lightning. “Thank goddess your okay! What if… What if you got hurt as bad as…” she stops, and hugs him tighter, as he strokes her mane. “Twilight, dear, how is our human doing? I sure hope he is okay, his features would look simply AWFUL with cuts and bruises,” Rarity says. I groan. Hell of a day, same prissy Rarity. “He’s… in a coma, to say the least. He’s basically… well…” Twilight struggles. “In Limbo,” I say, and all the ponies look at me. “It’s basically a place between heaven and hell where… uh… I’m going to say where ‘un-dead’ ponies go when they ‘die’,” I explain. Twilight gives a small ‘ah’, while the rest just shrug at me. If it wasn’t for the circumstances, I would go into more detail, but the mood I was in was making it hard as hell to do so. I look down and fiddle around with my hooves. It was the best thing I could do to waste the time. I sigh, and look around the room. It’s way past midnight, and I suddenly feel really tired. I settle down in my seat, and close my eyes, preparing for a long night, as I slumber into a night sleep, wondering. Should I tell them? I think of Rose, and the way I saw her that fateful day, how hurt she was. Nah, I think it can wait until morning. I shudder a bit, before falling into a deep sleep. AN: SORRY FOR THE SHORT CHAPTER! I suck at writing in different POV’s, but the next couple chapters will have them as well, so prepare yourselves! Also, sorry for not updating yesterday, but my router conked out and didn't get it fixed up til a couple hours ago. ALSO, NEW UPDATE TIMES ARE EVERY TUESDAY INSTEAD OF TWICE A WEEK! SORRY, BUT I AM KIND OF STUCK ON WHERE TO GO, SO I NEED MORE TIME TO THINK CHAPTERS THROUGH BEFORE WRITING THEM!!!! Chapter 10POV: Blue Lightning (Last POV Chapter) I stroked Rainbow’s mane while she sat there, sleeping on my chest. Her light breathes were the only thing that reassured me that she was alive. We still hadn’t been allowed into Jeff’s room, and we all were getting impatient. It was around five in the morning, judging by the sun slowly peaking out of the horizon. I was really panicking over this situation, because… well, it’s my bad luck. Everytime I meat somepony, their life turns into hell. I met Green Cloud, he got put into a bunch of crap, plus he gained a marefriend, and then lost her within a month, all because of me. I can’t believe Dash stayed with me this entire time, even though she knew that being with me would only cause her misery. I shook my head. I shouldn’t be thinking this much. Shadows gave me a damn good buck to the head. I had to admit, he was a real athlete, and gave a good kicker. He should try out for Soccer… although, from what Green told me, it’s kind of… rough, so maybe he shouldn’t… Actually, if it’s rough, sign the pony up right away, the bastard deserves a good plot kicking. I sighed, and closed my eyes. Everypony else was asleep, so I decided I should get some too. I quickly drifted off into slumber. “Lightning, wake up,” I heard a voice above me say. I moaned and turned over. “Nooo… Let me sleep for a while longer, mum! School isn’t for another hour,” I said, dazed. “Oh for… GET UP!” the voice yelled. I yelped and fell out of my chair. I looked up to see Dash smirking. “…Ow. I will get you back for that,” I said through squinting eyes. Dash gave a small, fake laugh. “Can’t wait,” she smirked. I facehoofed. “That’s not what I meant at all! Get your mind out of the gutter, girl,” I said. She laughed, and then turned her expression to a serious one. How she does that, I’ll never know. “They’re letting us into Jeff’s room now. Thought you might want to know that,” she muttered to me. I was wide awake now. I quickly sprung up off the ground, and looked over to see Twilight. She motioned us to follow, and I immediately obeyed. She led us to a room on the third floor of the hospital. I opened the door to see Jeff on a hospital bed, with the beeping noise emitting from the machine next to him. The only thing that reassured his life isn’t done. “Hey, buddy,” I said quietly to Jeff’s motionless body. I sniffled to keep a tear back. Even though I’ve only known Jeff for a few days or so, I’ve come to be his, like… best friend, here in Equestria. I looked towards the wall, closing my eyes to think for a moment. I wish there was more that I could do, but even Alicorn magic is very limited. I looked back over to Jeff. There was one thing I could do. I lowered my head, and my horn started glowing. Jeff’s body started glowing the same, blue aura that my horn had. “Lightning! What are you doing?” Twilight asked me loudly, in a demanding voice. I cringed. “Helping him! It won’t revive him, but it may increase the chances of him… not dying,” I explained to her. She nodded hesitantly, and stepped back to let me do my work. I gritted my teeth and close my eyes, groaning. I put all my thoughts to the spell, as I felt a trickle of sweat run down my forehead. I opened my eyes and let out a sigh and fell down to the ground. Twilight and Dash quickly ran up to me. “Omigosh, are you okay?” Twilight said to me. I nodded and got up. I looked at Jeff’s heart meter to see that the beeping started getting faster. I sighed a breath of relief, knowing the spell had worked. I walked away from his body, slowly. “That’s all we can do for him for now. All we can do now is wait,” I said to the other ponies. They all nodded as they sat down on the chairs in the hospital room. I looked over to Fluttershy, and walked over to her. She looked up to see me and gave a small ‘eep’. “Are you okay, Fluttershy? You’ve been very quiet since the whole incident in Canterlot,” I asked her. She looked at me, and sighed. “Yes, I’m just very uncomfortable right now. If you could let me have some time to myself, I would appreciate it… if that’s okay with you,” she mumbled. I smiled and nodded, and walked back to my seat. As soon as I got on it, Rainbow flew onto my chair and put her head on my chest. “Hey, I’m not a pillow you know,” I pointed out to her. She laughed, and raised her head, looking at me. She giggled. “You look upside down to me,” she giggled loudly. I groaned. “Just go to sleep,” I said to her. She laughed again, and closed her eyes. She fell asleep rather quickly, as I felt her chest rise, and fall. I hesitated, but kissed her forehead lightly, and rested my head. “Have a good sleep, Dashie,” I said to her, before falling back to sleep. “What the hay is going on?” I heard a colt’s voice say. “I don’t know, but the beeping on the meter is going insane. His heart rates are high; he needs medical attention, fast!” I heard a mare’s voice say. I opened my eyes to see a doctor and a nurse, panicking over Jeff’s body. I stood up, knocking Dash off my chest and down to the floor. She awoke on impact. “OW! What’s going on?” She asked me. “I don’t know! But something is wrong with Jeff!” I told her, and I quickly awoke the other six ponies with my magic. I explained that something was going wrong with Jeff, and everypony started panicking. I went up to Green Cloud, who had actually heard the whole conversation between the two doctor ponies. “What’s going on? What’s wrong with Jeff?” I asked him. He gulped. “His heart rates are going insane. It’s like his heart is being unnaturally fast, like, faster than the speed of sound!” He said to me, and I opened my eyes wide. “Yeah, so I don’t have big hopes for Jeff right now. I hate to say it, but I don’t,” He looked down and sat back in his chair. I groan, and tell the rest of the ponies what’s happening. Panicking, we look over to Jeff who is surrounded by medical ponies. I feel a tear coming to my eye. Is he having a heart attack? Is he dying? What’s it feel like to him? My thoughts are interrupted by a punch to my head. “C’mon, we gotta get out. The doctor pony says so,” Dash says in an angry tone. I sigh, as I leave the room. I look over to Dash, and try and lighten the mood. “Oh, me knocking you off my chest? Pay back for earlier,” I force a smile. She smirks at me, and slaps me playfully. “Ow. Stop hitting me!” I say to her. “Make me!” she sticks her tongue out and flies to the waiting room. I groan. Maybe lightening the mood wasn’t such a brilliant idea. I arrive in the waiting room to a bunch of frantic. There are other ponies crying, and yelling to the nurses. My head starts throbbing. I walk over to the seven ponies, and sit down. I look to Twilight, who nods and both our horns start glowing. All of a sudden, the noise cancels out and we can’t hear any of their babbling. “Sound proof spell. Thank Goddess it exists,” I mutter to myself. Twilight nods, agreeing with me, and I settle back in my chair, fatigue suddenly washing over me. I close my eyes and drift back into to sleep, hoping I won’t be awoken again, to which my pleads weren’t answered. Less than an hour later, I awake to being shaken by Twilight. I growl loudly. She scowls. “WAKE UP! Jeff is awake! We can go see him now!” She says to me, happily. I open my eyes with a gasp, and burst out of my chair. I quickly fly to Jeff’s room, and burst through the door. I look at my friend, who has bandages all done his body, and dry blood that wasn’t cleaned running down his head. I see a big bandage over his chest, where the medical ponies obviously cut through to look at his heart. I shudder, thinking off looking into a humans insides. I think I’ll pass on that opportunity. I look him in the eyes, to which he smiles, shaking. He raises his hand to head level, holds up his first three fingers, and slowly flicks his wrist to the side, like he always does when he waves. I smile slowly at him, the happiness showing in my expression. “Hey bro, what’s happening?” Jeff says gleefully. A/N: Felt like cutting off the chapter 300 words ago, decided against it, and I am happy I did. The chapter went more in depth and took a turn in the middle and end. Next chapter will be Jeff’s POV again, and I hope it will stay that way… for now… HURRARY FOR WRITING AT 12 IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU’RE TIRED AS HELL! YAAAAAAY! Chapter 11POV: Jeff, and I hope it to stay this way for a while! “Hey bro, what’s happening?” I said gleefully. I was going to be okay; I just needed to rest for a while, even though it’s against my will. I REALLY didn’t feel like I needed rest, but the doctors insisted, and they apparently have the final word on everything. I smiled at the ponies before me. Lightning is grinning the widest grin I’ve seen him have, Green is talking with White Rose, which is understandable, probably to explain in a little more detail of the story, as we had to keep it short before the whole battle thing. Twilight has tears in her eyes, smiling, and everybody else is smiling, Pinkie grinning so widely you’d think her teeth would be ripping her gums open. “I’m serious, what’s going on?” I ask Lightning happily. He smiles and trots over to me, and we brohoof. I smile. I’ve ALWAYS wanted to do that with someone/somepony! “Well, we’re not sure. We’ve spent the last day and a half hoping you were going to be okay, and you are!’ Lightning flutters above the ground before gracefully floating down. I close my eyes. “What about Shadows?” I ask. Lightning frowns. “He got away, the bastard,” he says quietly. Dammit! This is not good! “Any idea where he went?” I ask, frowning. “Nope. Haven’t heard from him since last night,” I groan. This is bad… “Oh well… Hey, want to know something? When you are in a coma, you are actually aware of your surroundings, and can hear everyone and everything around you?” I say, smiling. “No… I didn’t know that,” Lightning chuckles. “It’s true! So that means that I haven’t slept for the past 48 hours!” I say grinning madly. Lightning looks at me, smiling, but confused. “Do… do you want us to leave?” He asks. I shake my head. “No, but I would like to sleep. Bring some chairs in, or make some chairs out of the air particles, I don’t care. Just, please, stay in here,” I plead. They all nod, and sit on the chairs. I settle back down into the pillow, and close my eyes, instantly falling asleep. I open my eyes to severe sunlight, and the chattering of my friends. I look at them, but they seem not to notice. I sigh. At least I’m not going to be bed ridden today. Oh no, I am leaving this hospital. TODAY. I hear a small knock at the door, and I tell him to come in, which alerts the other ponies, and they bid their good mornings to me. A nurse comes in and unhooks all the machinery that’s connected to me, and I stand up. It feels good to be back on my feet. I stretch a little, before looking at my friends. “So… I can leave now?” I ask the nurse. She nods, and I whoop. I’m already in my clothes, as the doctors didn’t have any hospital shirts that fit me, so I run out the door of my room, out the front door, and into the… smoke? I cough loudly, looking back at my friends, who close the door to the hospital. I kneel down out of the smoke. “Where did all this smoke come from?” I ask. “Ponyville, I’m assuming,” Green tells me. Logical enough. “Should we go check it out?” I ask. He nods. “C’mon everypony, we are going to Ponyville!” I yell. They give a small ‘yay’ before I start walking. Upon arriving, the place is worse than it was when we were here the other time before. I look up to see a yellow claw in front of me, and I yelp, stepping backwards. I look up even further to see the owner of the claw, who is drinking the glass of chocolate milk. Literally, drinking the glass. Discord. “Hello, my little ponies, and my little human. Having fun?” He asks before laughing. “Oh god, now we have to put up with this guy?” I ask Lightning, and he nods slowly. I moan. This day gets better and better. “Having fun?” Discord asks again. I shake my head. “Not really. Now, if we added a little-“ something conks me on the head and I see Twilight looking at me, angry. She pretends to zip her lips, before looking back at Discord, who is still drinking the glass. I look up at him. He looks at me before snapping his fingers, and I feel a burning in my face. I shriek loudly and fall to the ground, holding my face, screaming still. I feel tears’ welling up in my eyes before a mirror magically appears in front of me. I look at my face, and I yell out loud. I bare a striking resemblance to ‘Jeff the Killer’… Ironic, how we both share the same first name. “What the hell did you do to me, you… asshole!” I say to him. He just laughs, snaps his fingers, and flies away. I notice I can’t stop smiling. I try to stop, but I can’t. I look back to the other ponies. “We have to stop him, FAST!” I say. They all nod. “What about the Elements?” I ask. “I don’t think he would fall for it this time, unless we get him secretly,” Twilight says. I nod, finding the logic. I suddenly get a bright idea. “I have an idea. Everypony come on in, I’ll tell you it.” “OI! DISCORD!” I yell out into the sky. I hear a pop and Discord appears in front of me. “What do you want, I have chaos to make?” He asks. I tap my chin. “How do you know about Jeff? The killer, I mean, not me,” I ask him. He frowns at me, before laughing. “Silly human, I know EVERYTHING about your world. The facts, the myths, the stories, the fake ones, the real ones, how to reproduce-“ I cut him off. “OKAYOKAYOKAY, I get the idea!” I yell at him. He laughs sharply again, and I give the thumbs up to the ponies behind Discord. Their necklaces start to glow, and they slowly start floating up. I feel a force around me, and I start floating. “Whoa, what the hell is happening?” I ask. Discord stops laughing, and looks at me. He gasps, and looks at me in awe. I feel a burning in my face, as the smile drops from my face. I feel my face. It’s turned back to normal, and I give a small ‘phew’, before light fills my eyes. I feel something burning in my chest, but it doesn’t hurt. I start floating up, and I yell. I feel whatever was in my chest release and fly out. I fall to the ground with a thud, and I close my eyes. What happened? I open my eyes and see Ponyville is ridden of flames, and it seems to have gone back to normal. The destruction is gone, and I see ponies having the same reaction. I look over to Lightning, who is looking at us in awe. I walk over to him. “Did you see what happened to me?” I ask him. He nods, and he tips his head forward. “You kind of… started floating, then your face melted back to its original form. Then, your eyes flashed white, and some orb thing shaped like a… I dunno, flew out of your chest, and it hit Discord with the other elements power, and he disappeared, but not before turning to stone,” Lightning explains. I’m looking at him in shock and awe. I walk over to the Elements, and I help them up. “Are you guys okay?” I ask. They nod and Twilight looks at me. “What about you? Are you okay?” She asks. I nod. “Do you know what just happened?” I ask her, and she frowns a little. “Well, I kind of used a little bit of your power and energy to help us. Don’t worry, you won’t permanently be an Element, it was just a one time thing,” She reassures, and I breathe out in relief. I look over at the other ponies, who are cheering and stomping their hooves. I look at Twilight, who is waving around at the ponies, and we all join in. I’ve never actually done something so heroic before, and I hope I can do it again, because the feeling when you have saved someone – or somepony – feels great. After a few minutes of waving the ponies start living their daily lives again, quickly forgetting all about the reign of terror that just happened. All of a sudden, Pinkie appears beside my side. “Wooow…. We sure got rid of Mr. Discord fast! It’s like, someone writing a story or something, got REALLY bored of this chapter and decided to end it really fast because they are LAZY!” Pinkie grins at me. I look at her in confusion. “Um… Okay?” I tell her, and she bounces off. I shake my head. I’ve had enough Pinkie confusion for the day. I touch Twilight’s mane, and she looks at me. “Could we head back to the library? I’m a little tired,” I tell her. She smiles. “You go on ahead. I need to write something to Princess Celestia, to tell her what has happened today,” She says. I nod, and roll my eyes. I start walking back to the library. I wave to anypony that walks by politely, and when I arrive to the library, I immediately walk to my room and lie on my bed, and fall into a deep sleep, forgetting all about Shadows. Who would’ve thought the very pony I had forgotten about, was watching me, right at that moment? Chapter 12"RUN!" I yelled to the people around me. I jumped into the bunker I plugged my hears with the palms of my hands. I could faintly hear the explosions and screams of people around me. I was... Trapped. Yeah, that fits the ticket. I had no where to go, only straight towards the enemy, which would be a suicide, but I ain't going to die a coward either! No way, hose. I clenched my teeth, and jumped up. I scowled and I started running ahead. "CHARGE!" I yelled at my men. They are started yelling and screaming. I shot each bullet into the enemy, trying to kill every last one of them. I closed my eyes as I ran. I was screaming at the top of my lungs, while mindlessly shooting. I opened my eyes to see me in the middle of nowhere, somewhere completely different... In a forest? Wait... Forest? Oh crap. "I'm back!" I heard a sing song voice say. I turned around and was tackled. I looked up to the attacker. No... "Goodbye, Jeff. Before I kill you, I have one request," Shadows smirked at me. I whimpered under him. "WAKE! UP!" I yelled as I woke from my slumber to see Blue Lightning floating above me. I clutched my heart and started calming my breathing. "What... What happened?" I asked Lightning. He sighed. "You were yelling and screaming in your sleep," He explained. I looked down at my bed sheets while I tapped my head. Yeah, what he said DOES make sense, I guess. I shook my head to clear my thoughts. What kind of dream was that? I've honestly never had one so violent, or so... vivid. I decided to ponder about it later. Today, I should be worrying about Canterlot. It's probably being destroyed right now. "Wait... What are we doing? Isn't Canterlot being wrecked by Shadows?" I asked Lightning. He tapped his chin, and gave a small 'oh'. "Twilight and the rest of the fillies already went there to assist Celestia. Twi said she would write to us if anything majorly bad happened, so don't worry, bud!" Lightning reassured me and slapped me on the back. I nodded, but still thought fit to go there. "C'mon, I'm wide awake now and have nothing better to do, lets go check on them, shall we?" I asked him. He nodded, and his began glowing the familiar cyan glow. In a split second, we were back in the bunker in Canterlot, and everypony was there, talking. I sighed. "Don't you realize there is a huge pony war going on outside?" I said to them, sounding bored. They all looked at me, and greeted me, before Twilight began speaking. "Yes, but we have to lay low. Nopony is leaving until Shadows shows himself," Twilight said, stomping her hoof dramatically. I grinned at her. "Alright, well, good thing I'm not a pony," I told her as I looked for the exit. She looked at me in confusion. "Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. What are you doing? I said nopony is leaving until Shadows show-" "Yes, well I'm not a pony, so when you say 'nopony', it doesn't apply to me," I told her. Whether that was a loophole, contradiction, etc. etc., I don't care. I still love it. Oh, I also love the look of frustration on Twilight's face. "But but but but but-" She tried to reason. "No 'buts'. I am going outside, and I will find him personally," I told her. She grunted. "Fine, but at least take this. It will let us track your motions so we can see wherever you are," Twilight told me, with a look of slight happiness in her expression. I nodded as I strapped the bracelet onto my wrist. Twilight pointed over to a stone door, which blended in quite well to the wall. I walked up to it, and slid it open, revealing a long tunnel. This'll take I while, I grunted before starting the walk. Once I arrived at the end of the tunnel, I was POOPED. I hadn't walked that far in ages, and I was TIRED, as the entire tunnel was up hill. Hooray. "Whoa, this place looks... terrible, to say the least," I muttered. It was true, Canterlot looked absolutely awful. I walked outside the tunnel, and noticed I was a few miles away from Canterlot. I yelled in frustration. I hate walking long distances. I HATE IT! About half an hour later, I arrived in Canterlot to screaming and fire, like I was expecting. I looked around the burning stores, and I was surprised by some of the stores. They had a toy store, which looked like a Wal-Mart filled with toys, a funeral home, and a fishing store. I walked into the fishing store, ducking through the door way. I gasped. There were fishing rods and fishing equipment EVERYWHERE! I looked around for a knife, and I found one. It looked like a hunting knife you would find back on Earth, except this thing was REALLY sharp and long, kind of like a machette. I cut a hole through my shirt so I could straddle it across my back, and I slid the machette through the holes. I exited the store, ducking once again. I started walking to the North East, hoping to find a forest of some sort, because it's pretty apparent that Shadows likes forests. Within a few minutes, I found a forest, covered with trees. I smiled. This would be perfect. I started walking to the center of the forest, pulling my machette out in the process. I looked around at my surroundings for Shadows, to no luck. I turned around, and saw a blue orb floating in the air. I backed off and readied the machette. Lightning appeared out of nowhere, and I mean the pony, not the electrical stuff in the sky. He flew down beside me and grinned. "What? I wasn't going to let you fight him alone!" He said, flashing a cocky grin. "Sweet. Thanks," I snickered. Lightning tilted his head slightly. "It's just that, I realized, you are absolutely PERFECT for Rainbow. You are both very self-centered!" I said, laughing. He rolled his eyes and continued trotting to the middle of the forest, and I followed, smiling. Cutting through branches and long grass, isn't as easy as it looks in the movies and TV shows. It actually takes precision and time, to cut through grass anyway. Branches are slightly easier, but still quite difficult. At last, we arrived at the center of the forest. We sat in the middle, and waited. Five minutes passed. Then twenty. Then thirty. An hour. Two hours. Four hours. "Where is he? He should be here by now!" Lightning asked impatiently. We both heard a snicker from the tall grasses, and we stood up in a flash. Shadows walked out of the long grass, smirking. "You two didn't even look! I've been sitting here for five hours!" Shadows laughed madly. We scowled. It wasn't that fun watching trees for four hours... "Anyway, you are stupid. You can't hurt me, as long as the Ceminum is safe... Oh hell, I shouldn't of said that good bye," He left in a flash, running the opposite direction. Before anyone could move, I spoke. "Don't. All we gotta do is find this Ceminum thingy, and apparently, he becomes vulnerable," I muttered to Lightning. He snarled, but nodded. "C'mon, let's go back to the bunker. We got some interesting news to tell them," I said to him, and we disappeared in a flash.
Prologue“Hello?” I shouted into the darkness. No answer. I called out again. Still, I received no answer. I growled out of frustration and kicked the air. I felt my foot contact with something and I winced in pain. “Son of a-“ I was cut off by footsteps coming from… Well, all around me. “Hello, strange one,” a familiar voice called out from all directions. “I think it’s time you came.” I had absolutely no clue what the voice was talking about. “Uh… What?” I questioned. “I think you heard me loud and clear,” the voice, now realizing it was one of a girls, spoke. “I said it’s time you came.” “Where?” “I think you know” I couldn’t see the source of the voice, but I could tell she was giving a smile. I was walking through the back alley near my friends’ house on the way home. I had to have had the most fun in my entire life. Don’t get any wrong ideas, people with their mind in the gutters. We just finished a 24 hour gaming session of Counter-Strike Global Offensive, after each getting 2 keys by Valve. We both flipped out when we realized we both got keys, and we got installing and planning right away. I shivered. It was colder than I thought it would be the next morning, and I hadn’t brought along a jacket, only a light sweater. I was taking the back alleys to be in less open areas to be less cold, and also to get home quicker. It was still dark, and I sort of have a phobia of being in a dark place alone. Laugh at me if you must, it’s just out of experience when I was younger. But that’s for another time. Right now, I think I should give you a little information about myself. My name is Jeff, and I am a 15 year old guy. I love gaming, weather it be PC, Xbox 360, or PS3. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I LOVE My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. That show is my absolute favorite show in the world, and without it, I think I would probably not be able to function correctly. After Season 2 ended the other week, my Saturday’s got boring. I was extremely happy to have the gaming session on a Saturday, so I could keep my mind away from ponies for the day. I’ve told my friends about my liking of the pony show, and they all laughed at me and told me it was a girls’ show. I just shrugged them off, and didn’t mention it very much around them. I was never much of a person to go around in public and yell that I loved the show, so I kept it to myself, the internet, and my friends. I was a pretty hardcore fan of the show, watching each episode more than 10 times, reading (and in fact, attempting to write) fan fictions, and watching custom made PMV’s, pony music by authors such as The Living Tombstone, Mic The Mic, Jackleapp, Glaze, PinkiePieSwear- Well, if I kept on going, the list would be exceedingly long, so I’d much rather NOT. I really loved the community based on and around Friendship is Magic, that I was pulled in during the middle of Season 1, and am not regretting it one bit. The ponies are invading my life, and I can find them anywhere in any situation. I even dream about them, although my dreams are kind of farfetched. They usually consist of me finding some sort of portal where I can see Canterlot through it, but when I’m about to enter it, I always wake up. It saddens me that the dream ends there, and it never continues. I just realized I’m running through the back alleys now, trying to get home as quick as possible. I guess the darkness was getting to me, or was it my excitement to get home and continue my internet/pony life? I don’t really know. Before I know it, I can see my front door, and I stop running with a sigh of relieve. I am panting now, apparently from running so far. I open my door with my keys, enter, and re-lock it from the inside. I turn on my light and hang up my sweater. I immediately enter my room and click on my computer. It loads up to reveal my desktop of the Mane 6. I open up my internet and check my hotmail. To my luck, 8 of the 22 fan fictions I’ve followed, have updated with new chapters. I clap my hands together in excitement, and type FIMfiction.net into my web browser. The same dream, like always. This time I’m walking through a Minecraft-y type cave. I end up in a cavern with a portal. I can see Canterlot castle from inside the portal. I reach out my hand to touch it, and unlike my other dreams, I actually fall through it. I feel a falling sensation, and it seems like an eternity before I slam on the ground. I stand up, only able to see myself, and the rest is darkness. I start shaking, my phobia getting to me. “Hello?” I shouted into the darkness. No answer. I called out again. Still, I received no answer. I growled out of frustration and kicked the air. I felt my foot contact with something and I winced in pain. “Son of a-“ I was cut off by footsteps coming from… Well, all around me. “Hello, strange one,” a familiar voice called out from all directions. “I think it’s time you came.” I had absolutely no clue what the voice was talking about. “Uh… What?” I questioned. “I think you heard me loud and clear,” the voice, now realizing it was one of a girls, spoke. “I said it’s time you came.” “Where?” “I think you know” I couldn’t see the source of the voice, but I could tell she was giving a smile. “I… does it have to do with-“ I try to reason until she cuts me off. “Yes, it has to do with what you saw in the portal” the voice, getting more familiar and familiar by the minute. I whirl around again and again to see the source of the voice, never finding it, until I feel a burning sensation in my stomach. I yell out in pain and fall to my knees. I scrunch up my arms and place them around my stomach still yelling in pain. I look up yelling and see the source of the voice finally, after so long. I now know where I’ve heard that voice from, and mentally facepalm in not realizing it sooner. I gasp out loud in seeing her, and she smiles at me knowingly, like she’s been my friend all my life. Even in my dream, or real life in this matter, she still had the cartoony look to her that comforted me in the darkness somehow. It was Ce- Excuse me, it was Princess Celestia.
Chapter 1Another falling sensation. Great, ‘cause, you know, I LOVE those. This time, I am not really sure where I am, or why I’m here. Am I still dreaming? I don’t know. I guess the only logical explanation would be that I am still dreaming, but I’m not entirely sure. I can still feel the searing pain in my stomach, and it’s making this whole falling ordeal so much worse. I feel my head contact with something, and I’m one of the two 1) Knocked out and awoken in an instant 2) Waking up from a dream And alas, I woke up, gasping for air. I fell out of my computer chair, which I fell asleep reading a story on. I lay on my back, grasping my stomach and gasping for air. Why had the dream gone on so long that time? Why did I actually feel the pain that I had in the dream? I shook my head That’s for a later time. Now, I have to get cleaned up I thought to myself, and nodded in agreement. I swept my eyes over my room. It’s not very impressive, but good enough for me. I have the case in the corner of my room holding my laptop (custom-built, not to brag or anything), my bed with normal covers on it, my multiple Friendship is Magic posters, and then my computer that I’ve had since I was 10 – The age I really started gaming. I sighed, thinking back on all the games I used to play that were fun and hilarious at the same time. I closed my eyes, smiling, and got to work. I took off the clothes I currently had on, and had a quick shower in the washroom that was connected to my room. I shivered while stepping out and quickly getting dressed, as my house is not pretty cold all the time. I pick up my case and slide it onto my arm, getting ready to go out for a walk to… somewhere. I don’t really know yet. I open my door, ready to be chilled to the bone, but instead I get relatively warmer. I stop, the door halfway closed. I stare at my surroundings. Something is certainly different, but I can’t put my finger on it. I close my door and walk out more, and I gasp out. I’m in Canterlot Castle. I open my eyes wide in amazement. I look at the beauty of the castle, taken back by all of it. The décor is so amazing to me that I don’t hear the oncoming hooves coming my way. “H-hel-hello?” I hear a male’s voice say; obviously trying it’s best to sound intimidating... I turn to look at him and see a… colt? One of Celestia’s guards if I’m not mistaken. He has a spear pointing out on me, pointing at my head. I put my hands slightly above my head and slowly back off. “Hey, I’m not asking for trouble,” I say, trying to sound my bravest even though I’m shaking like mad. “Suuure, that’s what they all say buddy,” the colt says, obviously still afraid of me. I raise my hands higher and back up into a wall. The colt smirks a little and brings the spear right so the point is about to touch my neck. “Jeff,” I hear the familiar voice say. The guard and I both turn our head to see Princess Celestia. The guard opens his eyes wide, drops the spear, and starts bowing to her. I slide against the wall, breathing out a sigh of relief. I look up to Celestia, still breathing heavily. She smiles warmly at me, just like she did in my dream. “Come,” she says to me, and turns around. I stand up slowly, looking at the guard with squinting eyes, and follow her. We walk for about five minutes in a really awkward silence until we reach a room, which I suspect is the room with the throne. Turns out I was wrong, as we enter a room with a fireplace, about five bookshelves, and three chairs. I am taking a wild guess and saying this is the Study. I take a seat on one of the chairs, while Princess Celestia does the same. She sighs, and looks at me. “I’m guessing you wonder why you’re here,” she says. I nod, trying to be as silent as I can. “Well, you remember the… ‘Dream’ you had last night, correct?” I nod my head once again. She chuckles lightly “I’ve brought you here for a reason, Jeff.” I look up at her with squinting eyes, just like I did with the guard. “Why me?” I ask quietly. She looks at me and tilts her head to the left a little bit. “Jeff, I need you to understand something. I’m aware that you know about us, Equestria and the Elements of Harmony,” She pauses, unsure how to continue. “Right now, there is something happening to the people of Ponyville. It’s far out of my grasp to be able to handle. I needed somebody with happiness and compassion to help them.” I laugh slightly. “I might have happiness, but compassion? Not so much,” she smiles, giving a small, and barely audible, laugh. “You’ll see. I notice you are taking this very well,” she points out. “I can take almost any situation well. Like when my parents died-” I stop, unsure if I want to cross this road again. I continue “Like when my parents died, I was the one who took it the best. I realized it maybe wasn’t their time, but I learned to not pity the dead. If you spent all your time doing that, you would waste your life away, not being able to live it fully” She looks at me with amusement. “That’s pretty deep, coming from the happy person you are,” she says. I shrug my shoulders. “I have lots of personalities. I have my angry one, which comes out a little bit TOO often then I’d like to admit, my happy one, which I am most of the time, and my sad one, which happens when someone or something close to me gets hurt,” I explain. She nods, looking at the fireplace. “Since you are taking this so well, I think it’s about time we cut to the chase on what I would like you to do. Remember, this choice is completely optional, and I am not forcing you to do it,” she explains. I nod and she continues, “I need you to go to Ponyville and somehow fix all that’s happening. I’ll let my student know of your arrival, and I trust her to tell her friends about you, too.” She pauses, looking for the right wording, “Ponyville is in great danger, and if you fail, whatever it is that is happening could spread all over Equestria. I’ll try my best to aid you, but there is not much I can do right now.” I nod and stand up, as does she. “Go pack your things; I will get a carriage to take you to Ponyville in about an hour. I turn to leave. “Oh, and Jeff?” she says to me. I turn around and tilt my head. “Good luck,” she smiles. I smile back, and head to my room. Once arriving in my room, I lock the door on it, and sit on my bed. I pinch myself and kick myself a couple times, thinking this was all a dream, but it wasn’t. I groan, and remember what my task had been. Spread happiness throughout Ponyville. Great, because I am the most qualified person for that. I hit my head against my wall, wincing in pain when my head contacts it. I looked at my room. I remembered my laptop around my arm, and I looked at it, smiling in a weird sort of way. I laugh at a thought of me approaching Princess Celestia and asking the weirdest question she would probably ever hear in her life. “Hey, does Equestria have electricity?”
Chapter 2“Okay remind me to never do that again,” I say in a tipsy voice. I had just landed from the carriage Princess Celestia sent me to Ponyville in. I suspect she didn’t want the ponies to see me, so she sent me right to the entrance of the library. I walk over, still dizzy from the ride, and knock three times. “Come in!” I hear a girls voice say. I open the door slowly and peak my head in. I see a purple unicorn with her muzzle (literally) touching the pages of the book she was reading. I look at her with curiosity, recognizing her as Twilight. I move closer to her, and I crouch down beside her and start to read the book. She glances at me, and back to her book, then back to me, eyes wide in surprisement. She yelped, kicking me in the nose with her hoof, causing me to gasp and kick at her. I felt my foot contact with a wall (God, I hit myself on walls a lot, don’t I?), and I grit my teeth and groan. Twilight gasps, and covers her mouth with her hoof. “Oh my gosh, are you okay?” I can here the worry in her voice. I hold my shaking foot and shake my head. I barely notice the blood dripping from my nose. “Here, let me help! It’s the least I can do after I hit you” I can hear tinkling coming from her forehead and I feel a fire of pain sear through my foot. I gasp and close my eyes shut. The next moment, I feel nothing. My foot is no longer searing, and it’s like I didn’t even hurt my foot at all. “Fanks,” I say, the blood from my nose that moved into my mouth distorting my speech. I stand up and spit into my hand, seeing the blood. I give a shaky laugh and look up at Twilight. “Got any Kleenex?” “Here,” Twilight levitates a small towel into my hands. I nod in appreciation and raise it to my nose. I sniff and look back down at Twilight. It appears as she is studying me from head to toe, and I laugh. She looks up at me and blushes, realizing that I saw what she was doing. I laugh even harder and spit out some blood by mistake into my towel. I stop, and excuse myself. I walk into what appears to be a bathroom, and I turn on the sink-looking thing. I cup my hands and let the water pour into it. I take and drink and swish the blood, and spit. I left the water drain the blood, and I shut it off, wiping my hands before I leave the washroom. I come back into the library and I look around to see Twilight looking at me again. “Hello?” I say to her. She gasps and blushes once again. I tilt my head at her, and squint my eyes at her. She shakes her head. “Hello… Jeff, is it?” I nod. “I’m Twilight Sparkle. I live here at the library, and you are supposed to live with me until you can get a place of your own.” I groan, looking at the suitcase and bag I had brought from my room that… somehow found its way into Canterlot along with me. Celestia hadn’t given me any bits, so that means I had to find some sort of job, which was my LEAST favorite thing to do back on Earth, and I assumed it would be just as boring here on Equestria. “Any suggestions?” I ask politely. “Well, first of all, what is your talent?” Twilight asks. She looks at my hip, apparently looking for some sort of cutie mark. She raises her eyebrow and looks at me. “You don’t have a cutie mark?” I laugh. “No, us humans have to find out our talents on our own, but we don’t get any notification on ourselves that tell us of it,” I explain. She nods quickly, apparently very confused and excited at the same time. I crouch down and look into her eyes. “I understand that you’re kind of skeptical about some random person that is another species living in your house, so…” I pause, unsure on how to word it. “Would you like me to tell you about my species?” She raises her head and smiles widely. She nods about 15 times very quickly and levitates a quill and parchment in front of her. I laugh quietly, and begin explaining. “… and that’s how I got here. I had a talk with Princess Celestia, and now I’m here.” I finish. Twilight scribbles the last remaining bit of my talk, and rolls it up proudly. Just at that moment, I hear a door open from Twilight’s bedroom (I assume) and footsteps coming down the stairs. “Twilight?” a male voice asks. I recognize it as Spike’s, and I stretch my head to get a better look at him. He rubs his eyes and looks at me, his eyes wide as they could ever be. I stand up and walk up to him, holding out a hand. “Hi, my name is Jeff… and you are?” I ask smiling, pretending not to know him, not to be suspicious. He stares at my hand and grabs it. “Spike. My name is Spike,” he says quietly. “Hey, you have claws too!” I smile and wiggle my fingers. “No, I have ‘hands’. You see, I am a human, not a dragon or anything.” I explain. He looks at me holding his head. “Not right now, dude. I am REALLY tired, as SOMEPONY kept me up all night,” he glares at Twilight, who rolls her eyes. I laugh broadly and wipe my eyes, smiling. “I guess I’ll leave you two to… fight, I guess,” I grab my bag and suitcase and look around, not really sure on where to go. “Oh, sorry! The guestroom is over there,” she points a hoof over to another set of stairs leading to a door. I smile, nod and enter the room. I close the door, and I set my stuff in the corner. I rub my hand over my face and frown. This IS real, isn’t it? Wow, what a bunch of crap to put on a 15-year old. I smile and silently laugh in my head. I close my eyes and lay on the bed, giving a small laugh again, when I remember myself actually asking Celestia about the electricity, and I literally got a legit answer. “Well, no, but I can modify your electric devices to use their power off the sun!” I pumped my fist, getting happy that I can still play my laptop, iPod, and such. I pull out my laptop, open my window to let the sun in, and power it on. Time to get some gaming done. As I had expected, I had no source of internet, so I had to force Steam into offline mod, which kind of sucked. I decided on playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent, so I double clicked it and launched it. I set my laptop aside, waiting for the game to load, as I looked out the window. The town had become much livelier than it had this morning, filled with ponies walking almost every which way. I swear I even saw Derpy flying above the clouds, and a rainbow trail following on who I assumed to be the popular cyan Pegasus. I smiled and sat back down on my bed, pulling the laptop onto my lap, and starting up a custom story. The story loads up, and I set my hands into the right place, and play. At least 45 minutes, three loud screams, and four check ups by Twilight to make sure I wasn’t dying or anything later; I was saving and quitting the game already, shaking like mad. I shut off the laptop, and closed it, returning it to my bag, and taking notice that my battery hadn’t drained a bit, still showing the being charged sign. I smile, and look up towards the mountains where Canterlot lied and where I knew Celestia was watching over her faithful subjects from her castle. I take in the beautiful scenery, which many people on Earth called me girly for enjoying. I stow my bag back into the corner with my suitcase, and putting a blanket over the window to block the sunlight, I cover up into my bed and close my eyes. Today’s been a hell of a day, so I think it’s about time I got some shut-eye. I move around trying to become comfortable, before finally finding my comfort spot, and slowly falling asleep, smiling at the thoughts of what I had been through the past day. But little did I know, the messed up parts of my life, were far yet to come. Authors Note: Oh god, I promised 1,500 words, but I only wrote 1,478! Oh screw it, its close enough. Hope you guys enjoy! Oh, and by the way, the last sentence is true, and the most messed up parts aren’t coming for a few chapters or so. PS: The only reason I wrote this was so I could get over 1,500 actual words. SO HAH! I KIND OF KEPT MY PROMISE!
Chapter 3I awoke sometime later in the afternoon, judging it to be around 5 PM. I yawn broadly and sit up from my bed, and move off of it. Suddenly, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up as I hear a crack in the floorboards behind me. I turn around to see a lavender unicorn staring at me, apparently hoping I didn’t see her. I yell and fall backwards onto the floor, flailing like mad. I stop, and look back at the unicorn. I recognize the face to be Twilight’s. I sigh a breath of relief. “You really shouldn’t sneak up on me like that, those games I play have made me VERY paranoid when something is out of place,” I smile worryingly. “Sorry, it’s just that you are a totally different species, I got kind of interested,” she explained, blushing. I laugh and ruffle her hair, which makes her blush deepen “It’s okay, you didn’t know. Well, at least you do now,” I say. She smiles, and turns to leave my room. Upon leaving, I groan and lay back on my bed. I have no idea why I did, I just did. I seemed to do it a lot, according to my friends back on Earth… Which I will apparently never see again… Ever… Damn it. I get off the bed and leave the guest room. I look around for Twilight, but after 5 minutes of not knowing where I am going, I stop. “Where in the hell is Twilight?” I ask out loud. “I dunno, but who are you?” I hear a voice say. I yell and fall off the step I was sitting on. I contact with the ground and yelp. I look up to see a pink fluff hovering right above my head. I look up a little more to see a pair of blue eyes. I quickly recognize them as Pinkie’s. She snorts, and starts laughing very loudly. “What’s going on here?” Twilight says, coming out of her room. I facepalm. The only place I didn’t look, and she’s in there. “Twilight, there is a funny monkey thing in your room!” Pinkie laughs even louder and falls on her back. I scowl and sit up. I look at Twilight, who shrugs and levitates Pinkie back on her hooves. She wipes her eyes and looks at me. “Who are you?” She asks once again. I sigh, and hold my hand out. “I’m Jeff. I’m a human, incase you were wondering,” I whisper the last part. “Well of course I know you’re a human, silly!” She giggles. “How do you think I know that we are being read by people right now?” What? “Uh… ‘Kay?” I question. “Don’t bother asking, she’s just being… herself,” Twilight sighs. “Oh, I haven’t told you my name yet! Silly me!” Pinkie laughs again. “Hi, I’m Pinkie Pie! I love throwing parties and making friends do you want to be my friend Jeff huh do ya do ya do ya do-“ Twilight cuts her off by shoving a hoof in her mouth. I laugh at Pinkie and she quickly joins in. Pinkie abruptly stops laughing and gives a big gasp. She looks at me. “You’re new in town, aren’t you?” She asks, leaning in. I nod and she bounces in the air slightly. “Woo Hoo! That means I get to throw you a welcome party! Oh, but don’t tell anyone, it’ll be a surprise,” She gives me a shushing motion with her hoof, and I follow suit. She smiles, apparently satisfied, and bursts out the door, bouncing instead of walking. I stare at her quizzically, and then back to Twilight, who shrugs once again. “As I said, it’s just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie,” she explains. I nod and stand up; just realizing I had been sitting on the ground the whole time Pinkie was at the library. I sigh. Twilight teleports in front of me and looks at me with worry in her eyes. “Is anything wrong?” she slightly tilts her head. I felt an urge to flutter in the air, seeing the cuteness overload as she tilts her head. I shake my head, and look back at Twilight. “Well, it’s just that I had so many friends back where I used to live on Earth, and now, I may never see them again,” I say. Twilight, nods understanding me, and smiles. “Don’t worry; I’m sure you will meet tons of new friends at Pinkie’s welcome party!” She smiles even wider. “She throws the best parties in town, you know!” I smile broadly at learning this not-so new information. “I bet she does.” As I entered the doors to Sugarcube Corner, I wonder what would await me inside the candy filled bakery. Literally the moment I took a step inside the bakery, the lights flickered on and at least hundreds of ponies yell, all at the same time, “SURPRISE!” I jump back in surprise, and smile broadly. All of a sudden, everypony in the room became quiet. They looked at me quizzically, not understanding what I was. I laugh, smiling, and introduce. “Hi, my name is Jeff. As you might be noticing, I am not a pony,” I hear a few people whispering to the pony next to them. I continue, “I am a human from a place called Earth. I’m sure, somepony had to at least tell you that much?” I look over to Twilight, who seems to be shuffling her feet, feeling slightly off, and then Pinkie, who gasped very loudly. She quickly jumped in front of me and cleared her throat. “Excuse me everypony, but I see it’s fit to tell you that Jeff here is not a pony, he is a human from a place called Earth! You probably didn’t know that, so I figured it would be best to tell you!” Pinkie smiled and bounced away. I blinked a couple times, before falling on my back and laughing very loudly. I hear the other ponies in the room following suit. I wipe my eyes and stand up. Everypony in the room is either laughing still, or still staring at me. I raise my shoulders, staring at them. “What are you all waiting for? Let’s party!” I yell. Everypony cheers and I notice DJ-PON3 way in the back of the room, turning up the music. I smile, and decide to mingle with the other ponies. I notice Twilight drinking some punch, and I walk up to her. I pour a little punch for myself, and take a sip. I smile in enjoyment. I never knew punch could taste this good! “Oh, hello Jeff!” Twilight says, noticing my presence. I say hello back, drinking the rest of the punch. “So, uh… you said earlier that you could introduce me to some friends of yours?” I ask politely. “Oh yes, that’s correct! C’mon, I will introduce to my four other best friends!” she says to me. I nod and follow her to five other ponies talking and laughing in the corner. “Hello, everyone, I would like you to meet Jeff!” she announces to the rest of her friends. They all give their hellos to me, while I nod in return. “Alright, this is Applejack,” she points her hoof to an orange earth pony, which lowers her hat, and raises it in acknowledgement. “This is Rairty,” she points to a white unicorn, who simply says “Charmed.” I smile and roll my eyes slightly. Twilight smiles warmly, and continues. “This is Fluttershy,” she points to a yellow Pegasus, who simply squeaks in response, hiding behind her pink mane. I smile and wave at her, and she simply cringes in response. “I believe you are already familiar with Pinkie Pie,” Twilight rolls her eyes, and points to the pink mare that is smiling really widely at me. “And finally, this is Rainbow Dash!” she exclaims, pointing to a cyan Pegasus, who nods at me. I nod back at her, smiling. “Hello. As Twilight said, my name is Jeff,” I say shyly. I never really was one to make new friends, especially to ponies. They all nod to me, a couple saying “Hello.” For about 2 minutes, it was an awkward silence before Rainbow spoke up. “Okay, I have a question. How the hay did you get here?” she asks roughly. I cringe back at the harshness in her voice, and Twilight scowls at her. I breathe in and out, ready to re-tell the long tale. “Well, it started when I was having a dream.” “… and now I’m here,” I finish. It must’ve been a while, because I look around, and see about fifteen other ponies listening on the story. I laugh, waving my hand at them. They all turn their heads, and whistle, pretending to not have ever listened to the story. I look back at the six ponies, which are all gawping at me with their mouths wide open. I laugh once again, for about the twentieth time that day, and raise their jaws back up. As I do, they each shake their heads and lower their heads in embarrassment. I smile, leaning down to look at them. They each laugh, and begin talking to one another I guess, adding me and Twilight into their conversations. I could already tell we were all going to be very good friends. A/N: Holy, I almost forgot to write this. It's almost Saturday as of publishing this, so it might of been slightly rushed. I will eventually go back and fix some problems, but not now. Also, WOOT! I got 1,500+ words without including the authors note this time! WOO HOOO!
Chapter 4This chapter contains OC’s, my own OC, and my friends. (He says his OC is best pony, I disagree.) You will probably know when the OC comes in. Kai, have fun reading! Also, some romance is inserted into this part, and there will be some more later in the story, so I'll be adding a Romance tag! EDIT: Also, it has come to my knowledge that Green Cloud's story of how he get to Equestria is very similar to those of James' from the fanfiction What Seperates. If anyone else notices this, I just would like to say that up until xana452 pointed it out, I hadn't heard of What Seperates, EVER before. Also, if the author (or anyone for that matter) would like me to change Green's human name, I will talk to my friend about it ('cause the story of how James' got to Equestria was all his idea) and see if I could get him to reconsider the story. Thanks for pointing it out, xana452 After being at the party for at least 2 or 3 hours, I started to get quite bored. There were no alcoholic drinks like there was in a normal party, so there were no hilarious things that were done because the person claimed they were wasted, which was kind of disappointing (And no I don’t drink thank you very much!). I sighed, and stepped outside of Sugarcube Corner. I went around the corner of the building and sat down, and breathed in and out the fresh air of Ponyville. I smiled. The air was very, VERY fresh, unlike back at home, where pollution made the air smell like you were sticking your nose in a sewer full of sh-… human waste. I could hear the rustling of hooves of other ponies who had stepped outside, either for fresh air such as myself, or to have quality time with a special somepony. “Why don’t you just introduce yourself, you chicken?” I hear a pony say around the corner where I was sitting. I slowly crawled over to the corner and peeked my head around it. I saw two ponies standing there, one with a cyan coat similar to Rainbow’s, with a yellow mane and tail. He was smirking at the other pony, which looked as if he could knock out the cyan pony. He had a two-toned green mane, and a black coat. I looked closer at the cyan pony, and gasped, quickly covering my mouth though. He was an alicorn! I thought only Celestia and Luna were the only alicorns in Equestria! I shook my head, and stared at the black pony. He was a simple unicorn. “Because, wouldn’t it seem kind of odd for a pony, especially myself, considering what I used to be, to just walk up to someone of a different species and say hello?” the black pony stated. The cyan pony laughed a short, low pitched laugh and continued smirking. “No, because he doesn’t know what you used to be, smart one,” he laughed again. The black pony snapped, and bucked the cyan the pony into the bakery. I opened my eyes wide, and fully turned around the corner. The black pony didn’t even notice, and went to buck the cyan pony again. I quickly ran up to him and raised my foot. It connected with his stomach, sending him flying about three feet. I looked over to the cyan pony, who looked at me, and yelped. His horn started glowing and he started to levitate me. “Hey, what the hell?” I screamed at him. “Let me down! I have quite a temper when someone makes me angry!” he looked at me closer and realized I was the human they were talking about. He gasped, and his horn stopped glowing, in which I was sent falling to the ground. I groaned when I made contact with the ground. “Sorry, guy. I thought you were somepony else,” he muttered, and lifted me up with his magic. I quickly thanked him, to which I heard yelling. I turned to see a black hoof in my face, which made contact with my nose. I swore as I fell to the ground, searing pain in my nose. I stood up quickly, and jumped the black unicorn, holding him down. He struggled, while I connected my fist with his face again. He suddenly became limp, and stopped struggling. I stepped off his body, and looked at the cyan pony, who was staring at me. “Dude. That. Was. Awesome,” he said to me, and I smiled. “Although he is my best friend, he can have some anger issues at times.” I nodded and looked at him. He was still breathing and conscious, so that was a good sign. “You know what? I think he needs help,” the cyan pony looked at me in which I swear to God looked exactly like the “You Don’t Say?” face. I laughed and crouched by the black pony’s side. I lifted him up, taking him into Sugarcube Corner. As soon as I entered, Twilight quickly confronted me. “Where were you?” she nearly yelled at me. I flinched. “You’ve been missing for about half an hour, and you told NOPONY where you went!” She gasped as soon as she noticed a pony sprawled in my arms. “Oh my gosh, quickly, we need to get him help!” She quickly ran off. I noticed she changed back to her nice and caring self, to which I breathed a breath of relief. I looked at the black pony, and dropped him onto two chairs that were relatively close to each other. Twilight returned with a first aid kit, and quickly opened it, and started to clean up his wounds. I looked over to the cyan pony, who was staring at his friend, laughing. “What are you laughing at?” I asked him. He stopped, and looked at me. “It’s kind of funny. He is always trying to wail on me, and this time, he got wailed on. Thanks for that,” he stuck out his hoof. “My name is Blue Lightning, and my friend there is Green Cloud.” I took his hoof and shook it. “Hi, my name is Jeff. Y’know I heard you talking to him back there,” I pointed to the door, and he frowned. “So, you heard that, huh?” he asked quietly. “Yeah. What did he mean by “especially myself’?” I asked. He sighed and looked at me. “Green Cloud here used to be a human,” he sighed, and I looked at him in shock “Yeah, he used to be a scientist, and the lab boys there built a time travel portal. Green Cloud, his name used to be James, volunteered to be a test subject for the portal. He entered it, and something went terribly wrong. Apparently, while building the portal, the boys messed up and made it a teleportation device.” I stared at him in disbelief. “Yeah, kind of a silly mistake, right? Anyway, he arrived here, the portal broken in rubble, while Celestia sent him to a nearby field to Ponyville. The reason why she sent him there, I have no clue. That’s where I found him. I’ve been his best friend basically since then.” Blue finished his story. I gave a small ‘huh’ and sat down on a nearby chair. Blue followed and jumped onto the chair beside me. “I found it hard to believe too, but if the Princess herself tells you it, you pretty much have to believe her.” I heard a groan nearby, and stood up, walking to Green’s side. He was stirring out of… whatever he was in. He looked at me in wide eyes, and cringed. “N-no! Leave me alone!” he sputtered. I sighed and looked him. “Look, I’m not going to hurt you. I was just defending Blue Lightning from you. No hard feelings, kay?” I stuck out my hand. He hesitated, but quickly took it. We shook, and Twilight gasped as she looked at Green Cloud. “Gr-Green?” she sputtered. “Twilight?” he stared in disbelief. “Oh good Goddess,” Blue sighed. “Oh, here to bash on White Rose again?” she spat, and Green raised his hooves. “It wasn’t me! It was somepony pretending to be me, I swear!” he pleaded, but all Twilight did was roll her eyes. “Sure, when you have solid proof for that, I’ll believe you,” she turned around to see Blue Lightning, and her eyes opened wide. “Blue! You’re back! Just a minute, I’ll go get Rainbow!” and with that, she galloped off. I smirked at Blue, while he just scowled at me. “Soo… You’ve got it going on with-“ I laughed before he punched me in the stomach, making me fall off my chair. He jumped on my stomach and scowled at me even more. “Shut. Up!” he whispered between gritted teeth. I laughed; before he flew off my stomach and looked over to see a rainbow flash tackle him on to the ground. “Blue! You’re back! You’re really back! I thought you would never be back!” she cried into Blue’s chest, while he stroked her mane, and shushed her. “I told you I’d be back. Did you ever doubt me?” he smiled, and she smiled back at him. “Well, no. But you said you’d only be two months! It’s been at least three or four!” she laughed, while he joined in. He was about to say something to her when he was interrupted by a kiss from Rainbow. He opened his eyes up wide, before closing them and returning the kiss. I smiled, and turned away to leave them to have some quality time together. Twilight sighed, and followed me. “So, what’s up with you going all evil on Green Cloud?” I asked. She squinted her eyes, looking at me. “He’s a flipping jerk, that’s why I went all ‘evil’ on him!” she said through gritted teeth. “What did he do, and who is White Rose?” I asked. She sighed again, and looked at me. “White Rose is a mare Green Cloud met in Los Pegasus. They quickly bonded and became coltfriend and marefriend. When they got back, everything was fine, but about two or three weeks later, in public, Green Cloud started pointing out all her flaws, which set her home crying. When Green Cloud went home to check on her, she had gone to her own home in Ponyville, and wouldn’t let Green in. Green Cloud then moved to Manehattan, not caring about her at all. Blue followed him, and apparently they just got back.” She finished, anger showing in her eyes towards Green. I sighed, and crouched down beside her. “Are you sure there isn’t anything important missing in that story?” I asked. “No! Nothing’s missing! Don’t you think I would know if something was missing?” I flinched. She was actually screaming at me. I looked back at Blue Lightning, who was getting the same harassment from Rainbow. I turned back to Twilight, who had stomped away to her five best friends. I stared at her, and suddenly got really tired. I went up to Blue Lightning, who had silenced Rainbow with his magic. “Hey, I’m leaving here for now. You got a place to stay?” I asked him. “Well, with her acting all ballistic right now, I don’t think I do,” he sighed. “C’mon, I have a nice hard wood floor in my room. You could probably summon up a bed or something,” I smiled at him, and he smiled back. “Thanks. Hey, do you have your own home?” he asked. “No, I’m staying with…” I trailed off. “Twilight.” I huffed. She wasn’t exactly happy right now, so I wondered if she would still let me stay at her home. I shook the thought off. “Oh. Well, in that case, let’s go quickly before she gets home. Maybe everypony will of calmed down by then,” I nodded, and I started walking to the library.
Chapter 5I yawned as I woke up in the morning to a small knock at my door. I looked up at my door to see Twilight poking her head through it. “Come in, Twilight,” I smirked. She gave a small ‘oh’ and walked in, her head hanging. I squinted my eyes and watched her walk into my room. It was sort of dramatic, until she obliviously tripped over Blue’s bed. Blue stirred awake, eyes bulging at the sight of Twilight falling over him. He quickly teleported out of the way to let Twilight fall onto something soft. She fell on the bed with a quiet ‘whump’ and she quickly stood up again. She shook her head as she stared at me. I was still squinting at her, remembering last night. She took a deep breath. “Hey, Jeff. I’m sorry about last night. I don’t know what came over me, and honestly, it’s being happening to all of the elements lately. I have no clue what’s going on, but-“ “But that’s what I was sent here for,” I interrupted, and she shot her head up. “What?” she asked. “The exact same thing you just described is the reason I’m here, in Equestria, sleeping in your guest bed. Didn’t I tell you yesterday?” Twilight went into a thinking expression for a few minutes, before looking back up at me. “So… Celestia obviously knows about this?” she asked quietly. “Yeah…” I trailed off, not finishing what I wanted to say. We just stood there in a really awkward silence, before we heard a voice. “Hey, I’m in here too!” I looked over to see Blue Lightning scowling at me and Twilight. We all laughed, as I got out of my bed and put my hand on Twilight’s shou- eh…. Actually, I have absolutely no clue what they call a pony shoulder, but just think of where a human shoulder would be, and that’s where I put my hand. “It’s okay Twilight, I’m here to help,” I tried, sounding as supportive as I could. “Do you think you could gather up the elements, I would like to question them about the uh… anger surges that you gals have.” Twilight nodded, and got a quill and paper, wrote a quick note, and multiplied the parchment into 5 different pieces. “SPIKE!” she yelled upstairs. “I NEED YOU TO SEND A LETTER!” Spike ran into the guest room, sent the letter away with the green fire, and ran back out. I laughed. “What’s he doing that’s so important that he needs to run in and out of the guest room?” I asked. Twilight shrugged. “I don’t know. Every time I ask, he changes the subject, and if I catch him doing it, he covers it all up with his arms, so I just gave up trying to figure it out.” I nod, and leave the guest room, Blue and Twilight following me. I sat down on a tree stump, and waited. I stood in front of the 6 elements of harmony, plus one elements coltfriend, unsure of how to start. I took a deep breath. “So, you are here to explain something to me,” I tried to sound as nice as possible, but failed, as I saw Fluttershy hide behind Rarity. I rolled my eyes. “Now, as you probably remember, two of the elements had a… lets just say, freak out, at the party last night.” I looked over to see Twilight and Rainbow hang their heads. “It’s okay, Twilight and Princess Celestia have explained a little bit of this to me, and I know for a fact you are not doing this willingly, it’s like someone is making you. Am I right?” I ask, and each of them nod. “Now, what I need you to explain is how you go from happy and cheerful, to angry and abusive, in, as Rainbow would say, ‘ten seconds flat.” Rainbow flashed a cocky grin, as the elements give an understanding ‘mm-hmm’. I sigh. This is going to be a LONG day. At least, I don’t know, possibly two or three hours later, after interviewing the elements, I’m sitting back in the living room. I breathe in and out, and stand up. “So, from what ALL of you explained to me, these surges come randomly, and you have no control over them,” I re-cap, and they all nod shortly. “Sounds to me like mind control,” I stop. “Eh, Equestria DOES have mind control, right?” I ask, giving a short laugh. “Yes, Equestria doesn’t have mind control, and that theory actually makes lots of sense. The question is, though, who is doing it?” Twilight asks, and everyone falls silent. “Well, THAT burned and crashed,” Blue said, talking for the first time since we gathered the elements. I swear, every time he speaks, he sounds more and more like my friend from Earth… Can he be…? “That’s right, it did,” I huff, and sit down. I put my head in my hands and groan. This was going to be harder than I thought. “Well, let’s think, bad people who would want to take over our minds?” Rainbow asked. I immediately think Discord, but he’s in stone imprisonment, and there is no way he’s breaking out anytime soon. “Well, there is that new pony,” We all freeze, and look over to Fluttershy, we had also just spoke for the first time. She looks at us, and hides under her mane. “You know, the big, grey one that bullies all the little ponies?” I face palm. Yeah, that could be it. “Does anyone know anything else about this new pony? His name, cutie mark, anything else?” I ask. Fluttershy perks up and smiles. “Oh, I know! His name is… Uh… I think his friends just call him Shadows,” she frowns. “His cutie mark looks like a brain with waves around it… Oh.” I smirk. “Ladies, I think we have our pony!” “Stop shoving, Blue, geesh,” I huff. He and I were sitting in a bush, watching Shadows. Blue punched me in the shoulder. “I told you to call me Lightning! It sounds better than Blue,” I roll my eyes at him. “Fine, Lightning, stop shoving! You can see just fine from there!” I move his head to a place where he can see fine. He gives a small ‘ah’ and squints his eyes at Shadows, who seems to be heading to a place full of statues. “What’s he doing there?” I ask quietly. “I don’t know! But whatever it is, it can’t be good,” Lightning frowns slightly. “Oh Goddess, quickly! Move! He’s getting away!” We quickly pick up the fake bush, and move closer to Shadows. He looks around to see if anypony is there, and he gives an evil grin. He undoes his saddle bag and pulls out a book. He clears his throat, and opens the book to a specific page. ‘For thou who sleeps in stone and clay Heed this call, rise and obey Trek on to the mortal door Assemble flesh, and walk once more!’ “Oh dear God, we are done for,” I open my mouth wide. I know I have heard this before, in a video, MAGIC.MOV to be exact. Things were not going to be good. Lightning moves himself slightly to see. I take out the binoculars Twilight gave us and I look at the Discord statue that he stopped in front of. I look closer, and see cracks breaking the statue, just like in the season 2 premiere. “Oh no, no no no nono! This is NOT good!” I say, and Lightning finally picks up, grabs me, and teleports us back to the library, where the elements are waiting for us. “Well? How’d you do!” Twilight asks, almost bouncing with excitement. I, still in shock, sit down and curl into a ball. “Not good not good not good not good not good!” I constantly chant. Twilight looks at me, and then to Lightning, who sighs slightly. “I don’t know, Shadows started to chant something in front of the Discord statue, and-“ he was quickly cut off by Twilight pouncing him, earning a scowl from Rainbow Dash. “What did he enchant? WHAT DID HE ENCHANT!?” She nearly yelled at him. Lightning levitated her with her magic, and set her on the ground. Twilight looked at him with mere confusion and worry. Lightning shrugs. “I don’t really know, to be-“ I interrupt. ‘For thou who sleeps in stone and clay Heed this call, rise and obey Trek on to the mortal door Assemble flesh, and walk once more.’ Twilight looks at me in horror. “He said this, WHERE?” She asks me. “In front of the statue of Discord,” I frown. Twilight reels back, and looks at the elements. “Girls, we need to get the Elements of Harmony, from Canterlot, PRONTO!” She yells the last bit, and they all nod. The girls start running towards the door, only to be stopped by Lightning. “Uh, girls? I’m an alicorn, I have enough magic to teleport us to Canterlot?” He smiles. Twilight face hooves and we all get in a circle, as Lightning readies his magic. I gulp. I have a small feeling that all of this is far from over now. A/N Well, finally done Friday’s chapter. Shadows is a name I came up with while writing, as I was listening to Avenged Sevenfold while writing this. Enjoy guys, next chapter will be uploaded tomorrow night!
Chapter 6Upon arriving in Canterlot, I strangely felt less welcome than I did in Ponyville. I shook it off as anxiety, as we ran through the streets heading to the castle. Many Canterlot ponies watched us running through the streets, but most the attention was on me. I ignored them and kept on running. A couple times, I swear I heard a rasp voice calling me, but I ignored it and kept on running with the rest of the ponies. When we arrived in Canterlot, the guards immediately let us in. We stopped running and turned it into a leisure jog. I caught up to Twilight and leaned down. “Being Celestia’s student really has its perks, huh?” I smiled, and she blushed. I laughed shortly as we entered the area where my bedroom was. I looked over to where the guard had his spear pointing at me, trying to either kill me or capture me, and I smiled at the memory. Why I smiled at this sort of thing, I have NO idea. Twilight took a turn down the same hallway Celestia took me in, and she stopped at the study door. She slowly opened it with her magic, as she poked her head in, and motioned us to follow. There, in all her glory, sat Princess Celestia. “Welcome, my little ponies,” She smiled, and looked up at me. “Oh, and Jeff,” she added. I smiled as I took a seat in the same spot as before. I stretched a little bit before settling myself into my chair, and looking at Celestia, waiting. “Well, you all know why you are here, correct?” She asked us, and we all nodded. “I need you to explain all of it to me. I know very little, only that you needed to see me about something ‘urgent’,” she sighed. She looked up at me, and I cleared my throat. “… and Discord’s statue started breaking up, and now we are here,” I finished. I mentally smiled. I’ve been using the phrase ‘are here’ a lot since I came to Equestria. I sat back down, staring at the Princess, while she just frowned, closing her eyes shut. She opened them, as I saw a flare of anger in them. She stood up and started pacing through the study. “But how could a regular unicorn like him use such a black magic spell? I also would like to know his motive!” She stomped her hoof on the ground, and the ground shook. I flung backwards as the chair perked up when she stomped. I grunted and slowly stood up and looked at her. She was breathing heavily, apparently angry at the circumstances. “I don’t know, but what I do know, and it’s pretty apparent, is that Shadows isn’t a normal pony. He’s something much more than that,” I scrunched up my face into a thinking expression, as the rest of the ponies stared at the ground. I slammed my hand on the desk nearest me, as they all jumped. “Damn it, I don’t know who is doing this, but I swear on my life that I WILL stop them!” I shot my hand upward to add a little dramatic effect. Rainbow Dash shot another cocky grin, as she stared at the rest of the ponies. Lightning flew up to me, and grinned. “I agree, I will bring hell to this pony if it’s the last thing I do!” He stomped his hoof on the ground as me and him stared at the ponies, with grins on our faces. The mane 6 grinned, and walked up to us and stood beside us. I looked at the Princess, who just smiled at us. “Well what are you waiting for? Go,” she smiled at us, before the ground shook violently. We fell to the ground, all flailing around as the ground shook. I quickly regained my balance as I crawled over to the window. There, I saw a huge black coated pony, giving an evil grin at me. He laughed madly. “So, this is the human? What a pathetic piece of-“ he started before he was hit by a something. He stumbled a little to the left, before staring at the thing that hit him. It was Green Cloud. Lightning grinned at Green as he shot another laser out of his horn, aiming towards the pony’s head. He missed, as the giant black pony laughed, and picked Green up. He squealed as the black pony laughed again, and threw him at the window where I was. Before I had time to react, he collided with me as I got shot backward a few feet. I felt small amounts of blood trickle down my face from my lip. I scowled as I stood up, and growled at the pony. I stopped, as I looked at Celestia. “What can I do? I can’t fly or use magic!” I yelled over the commotion the giant was making. “Jeff, I know for a fact there is a gun in your bedroom! You always keep it in there for safety reasons!” She yelled back. “Oh yeah. Right,” I murmured, as I took off down the hallway, not even thinking about the fact that Celestia knew I had a gun in my room. I ran blindly through the hallways before I came up to the door I knew was my room. I entered it, and ran through the door. I quickly opened my closet door, searching for the gun in there. After searching for a while, I finally found it. The M16A2 my Dad gave me before he died as a birthday gift. I grinned madly. I took a belt full of ammo clips for the gun as I strapped it to my waist. I took a clip, shoved it into the M16, and turned the safety off. I run back into the study, aiming the gun at the pony’s giant muzzle. I shoot a few bullets, and hear the bullets collide with him. He stumbled a few steps back as blood trickled down his muzzle. Small amounts, but there was blood. I grinned, and took fire again, this time in short, 3 round bursts. He didn’t even stumble this time, as he swiped at the study. “Oh shi-“ I exclaimed as his giant hoof smashed through the study, sending us all flying. I broke through a castle window, and fell to the ground. I closed me eyes, as my life slowly flashed before then. Wait. The air was horizontal now, not vertical. I opened my eyes, to see a yellow and cyan trail behind me, and I looked down slightly to see Lightning carrying me. “Oh no, you are NOT dying on me! Not today!” He yelled at me, as I smiled. He closed his eyes, as he teleported us to some sort of cave. I looked around to see everypony else there, too. I looked around. “Where are we?” I asked quietly. “A bunker. After Nightmare Moon, I had this built under the ground to bring cover to ponies incase something like that happened again,” Celestia explained. I nodded as I looked at the gun still strapped around my shoulder. I took it off as I made it lean against the walls of the bunker. I noticed Green Cloud was still here, shaking slightly. “What’s the matter with him?” I asked. Twilight shrugged. “I don’t know. He’s muttering something, but I can’t tell what he is muttering,” She shook her head. I walked over to Green and shook him. “White… White Rose… Rosey…” he muttered. I squinted my eyes. “What? What does White Rose mean?” I asked. Lightning punched my hip. “His marefriend, I told you that yesterday, smart one,” he smirked, as I kicked his hind leg back. He teleported away, and he smirked. I stuck my tongue out at him as I looked back at Green. “What about White Rose?” I murmured to him. “She… She is still in Ponyville. We can’t let her get hurt. Please save her, PLEASE!” He pleaded. My eyes bulged as I stared at the rest of the ponies. They looked up at me eagerly. I gulped. “White Rose is still in Ponyville. Green here wants us to go and save her,” I explained. Twilight snorted. “Why? So he can harass her again?” she gave a bitter laugh. Lightning growled. “Twilight! That was NOT HIM!” He yelled at her. “I’ll explain it later, but now, we need to go get White Rose!” Twilight looked at him, before nodding. “Right. C’mon, Lightning, Jeff. We have a pony to save!” she struck a dramatic pose. I grinned as I threw my M16A2 back onto my shoulder, and cocked it. Lightning grabbed us, and readied his magic once more. He teleported, and we ended up in a field… somewhere. Lightning swore. “Damn it, I overshot it! Looks like we’re walking from here to Ponyville, which I believe is… That a-way!” He pointed south. Twilight and I nodded before starting to walk, Lightning closely following us. We stopped as we heard a pop behind us. We looked to see Green Cloud standing there, staring at us. Lightning grinned. “What, do you expect me to just sit there while you save my… ex-marefriend?” he stuttered the last words, before grinning. I walked up to him, slapped him on the back, as we started heading towards Ponyville. This was going to be fun.
Chapter 7As we arrived in Ponyville, each of us gasped. The small town was on fire, ponies were running in every direction trying to escape the fiery hell that used to be their home town. “Son of a bugger!” I exclaimed. “This place has had better times.” “No, this is obviously the best Ponyville has ever been. Goddess, do you need glasses or something?” Lightning smirked at me. I felt like kicking him right there in his spot, before Twilight hit him upside the head. “Thatta girl, Twilight!” I cheered, and she scowled at me. “Lightning, now is not the time to mess around. We need to go save White Rose!” she hit him in the head again, as I whooped. Lightning bucked me in the stomach, which sent me hurling backwards. I hit the ground, and looked up to see Lightning laughing above me, holding his hoof out. I grabbed it as he helped me up, and I slapped him across the head. I smiled as I ran away from him towards Ponyville, laughing hysterically. I slipped my M16 further up my neck as I stretched. I turned around to see Green frowning at the ground, and Lightning patting his back, whispering to him. I shrugged as I continued heading towards the small town. Upon entering the town, the shrieks of the ponies grew louder, as I felt a weird pain in my chest. It’s like this whole situation was familiar and I knew how it was going to turn out, which was odd. I shook my head, trying my hardest not to think of it. I readied my M16 as I slipped around the corners of buildings, trying to find my way to White Rose’s house. Just then, it hit me. “Hey guys, I have absolutely no clue where this mare lives. Why am I leading the way?” I asked. They all looked and me, and Lightning sighed. “C’mon, follow me everypony,” he said blandly, as he took the lead. We all followed him as we walked through Ponyville. I cracked my neck to the side, looking through the sights of my gun. I was kind of surprised how good I was at using it, considering I’ve only used it twice in my entire life. My Dad had always been good at using guns; maybe that’s how I got so good at it. I don’t really know, but now is not the time. After rummaging through the place for about ten more minutes, we arrived at a small cottage not far from the library. I heard Green gulp as he stepped forward to the door. He knocked a few times before stepping back. We waited, and no one answered. I stepped up, and wailed on the door. Twilight held my hand back with her magic, gasping. “What are you doing?” she said between gritted teeth. “Uh… If you hadn’t noticed, there is a lot of noise out here, and it wouldn’t be surprising if she couldn’t hear Green’s knock,” I rolled my eyes. She looked at me, before nodding and releasing my hand. We waited a little longer, and we left after about five minutes and no answer. “Is it possible she ran away in all the commotion?” I asked the three ponies. They all shrugged in unison. “It’s possible, but where could she be?” Twilight asked quietly. “Do you think you could locate her with your magic? I mean, we have two unicorns and an alicorn here, I don’t think it would be that hard,” I suggested. Twilight’s eyes opened wide, before she grinned broadly. “Jeff. You. Are. A. GENIOUS!” she exclaimed before tackling me. “If we put our magic together, we would be able to get her exact position! Without the three of us, we would only get a guess of where she is, but with three ponies, it’ll be much easier!” “Uh… Twi? Could you please get off me? Please?” I asked politely. “Oh! Sorry,” she blushed as she climbed off me. I gave a quick thanks to her as I stood back up. I looked to see the three ponies already preparing the magic. I ran up to them and joined the small circle they had formed, and I closed my eyes. I opened them to see a trail of white smoke leading to the other side of Ponyville. I groaned. “Well, this is going to be so fun,” I said sarcastically. I started following the smoke trail, as did the other three. We followed it, not really paying attention to where it was taking us, until everything went dark except for the smoke trail. I looked up and around to see nothing but darkness. “Uh… guys? I think we might have entered the Everfree Forest,” Lightning stated the obvious. I gulped as I turned around. In a second, the forest was illuminated by Twilight’s horn. “Oh yeah, right. Magic,” I laughed. I turned to follow the trail again before all I gasped. I turned around again to face the ponies. “Uh… We are in the Everfree Forest, correct?” I asked, and they all nodded. “And White Rose is here, correct?” They all nodded again, before seizing up. “Uh oh… ROSE!” Green yelled before running ahead of us, following the trail. I flicked my gun around so I could aim it, and we all followed. “Rose? White Rose?” I yelled through the caves entrance. “Hello?” I grunted. Lightning flew up to the cave entrance, peaking through it. “Hello? Rose, it’s me. Lightning!” he exclaimed. Just then, a shriek sounded through the cave. It was a blood curling shriek. As the last bit of color drained from Green’s face, we ran into the cave, with Lightning’s horn illuminating our surroundings. We came to a dead end in the cave really quickly, and we all stopped. “Wh-What?” I asked, dumbfounded. “How is this possible? This is the only way through the cave!” I huffed as I went to lean against the dead end. Only, the wall never came, and I was flung through the wall and into a pit. I screamed as I fell, quickly joined by three other voices from above. We fell through the pit of darkness before we contacted with the ground. The weird thing is, it was soft rather than hard stone, like the rest of the cave was. I quickly stood up as I looked around, to see the other three ponies looking just as confused as I felt. I heard a small groan from behind me, as I readied my gun and pointed it at the source. There lying on the ground, sat a white earth pony, with a red mane. I quickly brought my gun back, realizing who it was. “Wh-White Rose?” I asked quietly. She looked up at me, terror in her eyes as she stared at me. “Sshh, it’s okay. I’m friendly,” I reassured her as she backed away slowly. I grunted. “See? I’m with Twilight Sparkle, Blue Lightning, and-“ I cut myself off. I breathed in and out slowly. “-Green Cloud.” I saw her eyes light up as she heard the ponies’ names, and she shot up. “Twilight?” She said in a high pitched voice that sounded weirdly close to Pinkie’s. “Is that really you with Blue?” “Yeah! It is!” Twilight exclaimed, before being attacked by White Rose with a hug. She blinked, before hugging her back. White Rose let go of her, before quickly attacking Lightning. “Aw Blue! It’s been too long!” she squealed. Lightning smiled. “Hey, I told you to call me Lightning, not Blue!” he said quietly, and Rose smiled. When she let go, she looked at Green who smiled sheepishly. “Hey,” he said quietly. Rose looked at him with squinting eyes. “YOU!” she growled. “YOU BUCKED UP MY LIFE SO MUCH! YOU HAVE SOME NERVE SHOWING YOUR FACE IN FRONT OF ME AGAIN!” Lightning and I quickly ran up to the duo and held them back from each other. “It wasn’t me! I can explain, and Lightning can back me up with the facts I have!” he pleaded. “Give me a chance, please!” Rose looked at him, before sighing. “Fine… but you have ONE shot! And if you mess this up, I will kill you,” she muttered. Green sighed before taking a seat on the ground. “You might want to sit, it’s a LONG story,” “Wow,” Twilight and Rose said in unison. I was still trying to make up what the story exactly meant. “So, to recap: You were at your house alone, when a black pony came into your house and tied you up. He stole some of your mane, and put it in a drink, and he became you, and this is who harassed Rose?” Twilight asked. Green nodded slowly. Twilight gave another ‘wow’ before looking at the ground, biting her lip. Rose had tears forming in her eyes as she looked at Green. She quickly hurled herself at him, and hugged him. “Oh Green, I am SO sorry! If only I would’ve let you explain, none of this would have happened!” she cried. Green looked at her for a second, before hugging her back. “It’s okay, I forgive you. Right now, we should focus on getting us out of here,” Green suggested, as Lightning nodded and readied his horn. In a flash, we all arrived at the entrance of the cave. We all breathed a breath of relief, before we heard clapping of hooves. “Congratulations. You made it out. Too bad you’ve only walked right into a death trap,” We all heard a voice say. I whirled around to see the black pony smirking at us. “You!” I growled at him. He laughed. “Yes, ‘me’. I take it you figured out I’m the one from Green Cloud’s story?” he asked us. We all nodded quickly. I aimed my M16 at him, aiming for his chest. He laughed. “You are stupid aren’t you? I can’t die from your stupid little machinery. I am much more powerful than that, you filthy human!” he spat. I cracked. That was enough. I emptied the entire clip on his chest and forehead, as he just stood there and laughed. I gasped as my gun fell out of my clutches, the strap snapping. “Told you,” he grinned. I looked at the four other ponies. “You ready to get your hooves dirty?” I asked, grinning. They all nodded, as we ran at him, the pony from the day before. Shadows.
Chapter 8NOTE: Stuff gets violent in this chapter. If you are a young viewer, GTFO :o Or just skip this chapter. Sorry for the long wait. Writer's block is a bugger to deal with. Enjoy, anyway!!! I brought my fist up into the air as I ran at Shadows. I flung it down, but he jumped out of the way laughing. He quickly jumped forward and kicked me upside the head. I yelled and fell to the ground. Lightning shot a bolt of… laser? I’m not sure, but Lightning shot something at Shadows. It hit him on his left hip, sending him a few feet back. He groaned, as he quickly stood up and charged at Lightning. He smirked and jumped in the air to take flight, only, he didn’t. He fell right back down to the ground. “What? What’s going on?” He asked. I shrugged my shoulders and quickly change my attention to the black pony to my side. Green is frantically waving his hooves around to try and hit Shadows, even though he is about five feet away from him. I facepalm. “Green! Shadows is not even-“ I try to tell him before he gets hit in the chest with Shadows horn. “Near you,” I finish, frowning. I shake my head and stand back up. I run over to Twilight who is just standing over on the sidelines with tears in her eyes. “Twi, what’s wrong?” I ask her worryingly. She stares at me and sniffs. “N-nothing. J-just, do-don’t lose, ok-okay?” She stutters. I smile and nod, and turn back to Shadows, who is wailing on Green. I quickly run up and kick him in the chest, to which he groans, and flies off Green’s body, which isn’t moving. I swear under my breath, and charge with Lightning at Shadows. He readies his magic, and when we are a couple feet away, sends a blast of blue lights at Shadows, blinding him. He stutters backwards, and I find the perfect opportunity. I punch his jaw, and then his chest, jaw, chest, jaw, chest, jaw, chest, until he finally falls down, bleeding from his mouth. I smirk, and kick his rib. I turn around to walk away, when Shadows grabs my foot and trips me. I fall to the ground and hit my nose on the ground, to which I hear a crack. I scream, and tears well in my eyes. I hit the ground with my fist, as Shadows starts to fight with Lightning. My ears start ringing as I hear hooves clopping on the ground. I hear the voice of Twilight and White Rose (Who I had forgotten was there), calling my name. I wipe the tears away from my eyes as my ears stop ringing, and I get on my knees. “Don’t worry, I’m fine!” I yell at them. They look at me for a second, before nodding. I run over to Shadows, who is once again wailing on a pony, this time, Lightning. Lightning is waving his hooves around, swearing every time Shadows punches his cheek. I scream at Shadows, and he looks over. Just then, Lightning punches Shadows in the jaw, as I kick his spine. He lets out a blood curling scream as he falls to the ground. He groans, and I smile evilly. I stomp on his stomach, and he coughs up a little amount of blood. I keep wailing on his stomach, until Lightning eventually pulls me back. I scowl at Shadows, as he coughs up blood, and a tooth. I turn my head away to Twilight and White Rose. I smile. “See? Told you I wouldn’t lose to hi-him,” I say, shaking. I suddenly feel very weak, and I fall to the ground. I notice a black aura around me, and I start floating in the air. I look behind me, and see Shadows with his horn glowing black. Lightning, gasps, as he shoots over to the black pony. Shadows scowls, and uses a spell to block Lightning. Lightning gasps, and falls to the ground, apparently becoming unconscious from the blow of the shield. Twilight and Rose run up to him and start yelling his name and shaking him. I twitch my left eye. I’ve never seen so much actual blood and violence in my life. I’d always play it in video games, but those are games. Not real life. I yell at the top of my lungs, which frightens Shadows, and he drops me. I fall to ground with a thud, and quickly get up. I run over to him, jumping over Green’s unconscious body, and jump onto Shadows. I start punching his stomach as hard as I can, yelling as I do so. “YOU SON OF A-“ I scream at him. He kicks me off his body, and I fall backwards. He kicks my face, and I yelp. He looks forward at something and runs off. I look over to him and see who he is targeting. Twilight and White Rose. “No…” I cough weakly. He screams, and the two mares jump backward. He grabs their heads, and conks them together violently. Both the mares fall to the ground with a thud, also joining the unconscious pair. “No…” I say with a little more strength. Shadows laughs evilly. He just laughs, and laughs, and laughs. I feel my eye twitch and my head twitch to the side very quickly. I feel tears welling up in my eyes, and they fall down my cheek. “No…!” I say audibly. Shadows doesn’t hear me and keeps laughing. I start bawling. No one to hear me, except some evil bugger who wouldn’t help me if his life depended on it, and four unconscious ponies. My friends, the four ponies unconscious, all losing blood at an alarming rate. “No!” I say through tears. I cry into my arms, and wail my feet. Shadows looks at me, and laughs even harder. He falls to the ground, laughing hysterically. I look at him with fire in my eyes, as I cry. I wipe my eyes, and I stand up to face him. “No. You are not hurting them any further,” I say, the shakiness in my voice obvious. Shadows stands up, and laughs at me. “Really? You think you can beat me, you stubborn human?” He spits on the ground. “Pathetic. Stubborn, and pathetic!” I crack. I run at him and kick him in the side of the head. He yelps as he flings to the side. I run over to him and climb onto him. I punch him in the jaw, as hard as I can. He screams. I smirk, and wail on his jaw. He yelps each time my fist connects with his face. Seconds pass, which seems like minutes, hours, days, even, before I stop. Shadows lies under me, twitching violently. I stand up, and kick both his ribs. “Take that, you asshat,” I spit blood on his face, and crouch down besides Lightning. He is twitching every second or so, and blood is running from his chest and jaw. “No!” I yell. I stand up and run to a tree, and pick a long piece of thick grass. I run back over to his body, and wrap up his wounds. I use a couple of leafs to clean up the blood, but most of the blood is dried up, and won’t clean. I do the same for the three other ponies, and wipe my eyes. I’m on the verge of vomiting, as I’ve never seen this much blood in my life. “Hey, ‘asshat’,” I hear a voice behind me. I turn around, and see a black hoof in front of my face. It hits me and I fall backwards. I see Shadows climb on top of me, his horn glowing black. Out of nowhere, a rusty dagger appears in his hoof. “Goodbye, Jeff. Nice knowing you,” he says, and brings the dagger up. I panic, and kick my foot out, which hits his hoof, and the dagger falls beside my body. He looks up, and I see the opportunity to get him off. I kick him and he flies onto his back. I pick up the dagger and climb onto his body. I can tell the blood has been getting to me, and I think of my four friends. I twist my head violently, and I crack. “You. YOU!” I yell. I bring the dagger back. “YOU!” I bring the dagger forward and dig it into his chest, and quickly bring it out. “STUPID!” I bring the dagger forward again, into a different spot. I lurch the dagger upwards, causing Shadows to scream. I bring the dagger upwards again, and growl. “FUCK!” I bring the dagger forward into his head. I hear the blood gurgling in his mouth as I do so. I hear the dagger hit his brain as I lurch it forward. I bring it out, and look at Shadows. I see tons of blood coming from his head. I urch. I vomit over Shadows body, which just repels off and lands on the ground. I look at Shadows, and see his eyes open. He is still alive. What. “Told you. Can’t kill me!” He yells, and laughs sharply. I fall backwards, my eyesight growing dark. The last thing I hear is the sharp laugh, of the bastard black pony.
Chapter 9POV: Green Cloud “Stop!” I cried as I ran through the fire, my tears flying off my cheeks as I ran. “Stop!” I had no clue where I was. The last thing I remember was Shadows punching the living hell out of me before he teleported me here… or am I actually here? Is this all in my mind? I don’t know right now, but I figure I will later on. I have SOOO many questions to ask myself. Are the others safe? What’s happened to Shadows? Most importantly, WHERE THE HELL AM I? It looks like hell, except it’s not. I’ve been having hallucinations ever since I’ve gotten here, and they’ve all been making my life hell, no pun intended. I wiped the tears away with a quick swipe of my hoof, and continued running. I had no idea where I was heading, but the sooner I got away from the hallucinations, the better my sanity would be. I really needed to find a way out. I looked frantically around for some sort of exit, but there was none to be found. I cursed at the top of my lungs and kept running. A trickle of sweat runs down my face, and I look up to see flames burning my mane. I scream and fall to the ground, only, the ground doesn’t come. I just keep falling and falling, until everything goes black. I open my eyes to see myself back in the battle area, and I look over to my friends. I scream, causing, the ponies to stir awake with a start. “WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?” I yell. I quickly get on my hooves and run over to Jeff’s unconscious body. I panic. Is he alive? Is he unconscious, or is he…? I gulp I run over to Lightning and shake him. “Hurry up! Jeff isn’t alright, he’s either unconscious or-“ I have no time to finish, as Lightning flies up at the words ‘Jeff isn’t alright’. He flies over to his unconscious body and looks at him, shocked. “Shadows! You bastard! What did you do to him!?” Lightning shouted into the air, to no answer. He must be long gone by now. “He’s gone, Lightning. He’s LONG gone,” I hear Twilight sigh behind me. I sniffle. I turn around and hug Rose. How I would long to kiss her again, but I don’t think it would be fitting at this time. “Don’t worry, though. We will find that plothole, and kill him,” I smile sheepishly. Lightning laughs shortly, looking at Jeff’s body. “C’mon, guys. We need to get him some help. By a licensed doctor,” Twilight mutters. We all nod and stand up, Lightning carrying him with his magic. We walk through the trees and back into the Everfree, not worrying about what lies inside at the moment. Who would’ve thought, meeting up with this col-… Man, would change our lives so much? I sure as hell didn’t. But I spoke the truth earlier. When we find Shadows, we will kill him. I’ve never been one to be so violent – and that fact was proven in the fight, as I didn’t really fight back much with Shadows, seeing how I was the first one to be knocked out. – But I will make it my mission, to make sure Jeff doesn’t go down in vain. I’m sure Lightning, Twi, and Rose feel the same way, to be honest. I gulp, scared out my wits. We arrive at the hospital, and enter the visitors room. The nurse looks up, and gasps. “Oh my goddess, we need a doctor. NOW!” she slams her hoof on the table, and gets a roller bed to lay Jeff on. Lightning sets him down, and they take him down the hallway into a room, and close the door tight. The only thing we can do right now, is wait. “Well? How is he, doc?” Lightning asks the doctor. It’s the first time I’ve heard him be serious in a long time, no sarcasm or cockiness found in his voice at all. I shudder. It’s obvious the entire ordeal is getting to Lightning the most out of all of us. “I don’t know… It’s not anything we’ve seen before. It looks like he was put under a spell to be knocked out, but the power of it was massive, like it was the power of Celestia and Luna put together!” he looks down at his clip board, and back up again. “There are also traces of unknown magic in his blood, which really adds to the whole ordeal. We aren’t sure if he is unconscious, or… dead, at the moment, but we will try our best to keep him alive. It’s difficult, what with Ponyville being in the state it is. We are getting more patients by the second, not to mention the power surges we’ve been getting. It’s just… awful.” The doctor closes his eyes and rubs his forehead. “….Thanks, doc,” I sniffle. He nods and walks away, back into Jeff’s room. The door of the visitor’s room blasts open, and we see the rest of the mares burst into the room. Rainbow flies over and hugs Lightning. “Thank goddess your okay! What if… What if you got hurt as bad as…” she stops, and hugs him tighter, as he strokes her mane. “Twilight, dear, how is our human doing? I sure hope he is okay, his features would look simply AWFUL with cuts and bruises,” Rarity says. I groan. Hell of a day, same prissy Rarity. “He’s… in a coma, to say the least. He’s basically… well…” Twilight struggles. “In Limbo,” I say, and all the ponies look at me. “It’s basically a place between heaven and hell where… uh… I’m going to say where ‘un-dead’ ponies go when they ‘die’,” I explain. Twilight gives a small ‘ah’, while the rest just shrug at me. If it wasn’t for the circumstances, I would go into more detail, but the mood I was in was making it hard as hell to do so. I look down and fiddle around with my hooves. It was the best thing I could do to waste the time. I sigh, and look around the room. It’s way past midnight, and I suddenly feel really tired. I settle down in my seat, and close my eyes, preparing for a long night, as I slumber into a night sleep, wondering. Should I tell them? I think of Rose, and the way I saw her that fateful day, how hurt she was. Nah, I think it can wait until morning. I shudder a bit, before falling into a deep sleep. AN: SORRY FOR THE SHORT CHAPTER! I suck at writing in different POV’s, but the next couple chapters will have them as well, so prepare yourselves! Also, sorry for not updating yesterday, but my router conked out and didn't get it fixed up til a couple hours ago. ALSO, NEW UPDATE TIMES ARE EVERY TUESDAY INSTEAD OF TWICE A WEEK! SORRY, BUT I AM KIND OF STUCK ON WHERE TO GO, SO I NEED MORE TIME TO THINK CHAPTERS THROUGH BEFORE WRITING THEM!!!!
Chapter 10POV: Blue Lightning (Last POV Chapter) I stroked Rainbow’s mane while she sat there, sleeping on my chest. Her light breathes were the only thing that reassured me that she was alive. We still hadn’t been allowed into Jeff’s room, and we all were getting impatient. It was around five in the morning, judging by the sun slowly peaking out of the horizon. I was really panicking over this situation, because… well, it’s my bad luck. Everytime I meat somepony, their life turns into hell. I met Green Cloud, he got put into a bunch of crap, plus he gained a marefriend, and then lost her within a month, all because of me. I can’t believe Dash stayed with me this entire time, even though she knew that being with me would only cause her misery. I shook my head. I shouldn’t be thinking this much. Shadows gave me a damn good buck to the head. I had to admit, he was a real athlete, and gave a good kicker. He should try out for Soccer… although, from what Green told me, it’s kind of… rough, so maybe he shouldn’t… Actually, if it’s rough, sign the pony up right away, the bastard deserves a good plot kicking. I sighed, and closed my eyes. Everypony else was asleep, so I decided I should get some too. I quickly drifted off into slumber. “Lightning, wake up,” I heard a voice above me say. I moaned and turned over. “Nooo… Let me sleep for a while longer, mum! School isn’t for another hour,” I said, dazed. “Oh for… GET UP!” the voice yelled. I yelped and fell out of my chair. I looked up to see Dash smirking. “…Ow. I will get you back for that,” I said through squinting eyes. Dash gave a small, fake laugh. “Can’t wait,” she smirked. I facehoofed. “That’s not what I meant at all! Get your mind out of the gutter, girl,” I said. She laughed, and then turned her expression to a serious one. How she does that, I’ll never know. “They’re letting us into Jeff’s room now. Thought you might want to know that,” she muttered to me. I was wide awake now. I quickly sprung up off the ground, and looked over to see Twilight. She motioned us to follow, and I immediately obeyed. She led us to a room on the third floor of the hospital. I opened the door to see Jeff on a hospital bed, with the beeping noise emitting from the machine next to him. The only thing that reassured his life isn’t done. “Hey, buddy,” I said quietly to Jeff’s motionless body. I sniffled to keep a tear back. Even though I’ve only known Jeff for a few days or so, I’ve come to be his, like… best friend, here in Equestria. I looked towards the wall, closing my eyes to think for a moment. I wish there was more that I could do, but even Alicorn magic is very limited. I looked back over to Jeff. There was one thing I could do. I lowered my head, and my horn started glowing. Jeff’s body started glowing the same, blue aura that my horn had. “Lightning! What are you doing?” Twilight asked me loudly, in a demanding voice. I cringed. “Helping him! It won’t revive him, but it may increase the chances of him… not dying,” I explained to her. She nodded hesitantly, and stepped back to let me do my work. I gritted my teeth and close my eyes, groaning. I put all my thoughts to the spell, as I felt a trickle of sweat run down my forehead. I opened my eyes and let out a sigh and fell down to the ground. Twilight and Dash quickly ran up to me. “Omigosh, are you okay?” Twilight said to me. I nodded and got up. I looked at Jeff’s heart meter to see that the beeping started getting faster. I sighed a breath of relief, knowing the spell had worked. I walked away from his body, slowly. “That’s all we can do for him for now. All we can do now is wait,” I said to the other ponies. They all nodded as they sat down on the chairs in the hospital room. I looked over to Fluttershy, and walked over to her. She looked up to see me and gave a small ‘eep’. “Are you okay, Fluttershy? You’ve been very quiet since the whole incident in Canterlot,” I asked her. She looked at me, and sighed. “Yes, I’m just very uncomfortable right now. If you could let me have some time to myself, I would appreciate it… if that’s okay with you,” she mumbled. I smiled and nodded, and walked back to my seat. As soon as I got on it, Rainbow flew onto my chair and put her head on my chest. “Hey, I’m not a pillow you know,” I pointed out to her. She laughed, and raised her head, looking at me. She giggled. “You look upside down to me,” she giggled loudly. I groaned. “Just go to sleep,” I said to her. She laughed again, and closed her eyes. She fell asleep rather quickly, as I felt her chest rise, and fall. I hesitated, but kissed her forehead lightly, and rested my head. “Have a good sleep, Dashie,” I said to her, before falling back to sleep. “What the hay is going on?” I heard a colt’s voice say. “I don’t know, but the beeping on the meter is going insane. His heart rates are high; he needs medical attention, fast!” I heard a mare’s voice say. I opened my eyes to see a doctor and a nurse, panicking over Jeff’s body. I stood up, knocking Dash off my chest and down to the floor. She awoke on impact. “OW! What’s going on?” She asked me. “I don’t know! But something is wrong with Jeff!” I told her, and I quickly awoke the other six ponies with my magic. I explained that something was going wrong with Jeff, and everypony started panicking. I went up to Green Cloud, who had actually heard the whole conversation between the two doctor ponies. “What’s going on? What’s wrong with Jeff?” I asked him. He gulped. “His heart rates are going insane. It’s like his heart is being unnaturally fast, like, faster than the speed of sound!” He said to me, and I opened my eyes wide. “Yeah, so I don’t have big hopes for Jeff right now. I hate to say it, but I don’t,” He looked down and sat back in his chair. I groan, and tell the rest of the ponies what’s happening. Panicking, we look over to Jeff who is surrounded by medical ponies. I feel a tear coming to my eye. Is he having a heart attack? Is he dying? What’s it feel like to him? My thoughts are interrupted by a punch to my head. “C’mon, we gotta get out. The doctor pony says so,” Dash says in an angry tone. I sigh, as I leave the room. I look over to Dash, and try and lighten the mood. “Oh, me knocking you off my chest? Pay back for earlier,” I force a smile. She smirks at me, and slaps me playfully. “Ow. Stop hitting me!” I say to her. “Make me!” she sticks her tongue out and flies to the waiting room. I groan. Maybe lightening the mood wasn’t such a brilliant idea. I arrive in the waiting room to a bunch of frantic. There are other ponies crying, and yelling to the nurses. My head starts throbbing. I walk over to the seven ponies, and sit down. I look to Twilight, who nods and both our horns start glowing. All of a sudden, the noise cancels out and we can’t hear any of their babbling. “Sound proof spell. Thank Goddess it exists,” I mutter to myself. Twilight nods, agreeing with me, and I settle back in my chair, fatigue suddenly washing over me. I close my eyes and drift back into to sleep, hoping I won’t be awoken again, to which my pleads weren’t answered. Less than an hour later, I awake to being shaken by Twilight. I growl loudly. She scowls. “WAKE UP! Jeff is awake! We can go see him now!” She says to me, happily. I open my eyes with a gasp, and burst out of my chair. I quickly fly to Jeff’s room, and burst through the door. I look at my friend, who has bandages all done his body, and dry blood that wasn’t cleaned running down his head. I see a big bandage over his chest, where the medical ponies obviously cut through to look at his heart. I shudder, thinking off looking into a humans insides. I think I’ll pass on that opportunity. I look him in the eyes, to which he smiles, shaking. He raises his hand to head level, holds up his first three fingers, and slowly flicks his wrist to the side, like he always does when he waves. I smile slowly at him, the happiness showing in my expression. “Hey bro, what’s happening?” Jeff says gleefully. A/N: Felt like cutting off the chapter 300 words ago, decided against it, and I am happy I did. The chapter went more in depth and took a turn in the middle and end. Next chapter will be Jeff’s POV again, and I hope it will stay that way… for now… HURRARY FOR WRITING AT 12 IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU’RE TIRED AS HELL! YAAAAAAY!
Chapter 11POV: Jeff, and I hope it to stay this way for a while! “Hey bro, what’s happening?” I said gleefully. I was going to be okay; I just needed to rest for a while, even though it’s against my will. I REALLY didn’t feel like I needed rest, but the doctors insisted, and they apparently have the final word on everything. I smiled at the ponies before me. Lightning is grinning the widest grin I’ve seen him have, Green is talking with White Rose, which is understandable, probably to explain in a little more detail of the story, as we had to keep it short before the whole battle thing. Twilight has tears in her eyes, smiling, and everybody else is smiling, Pinkie grinning so widely you’d think her teeth would be ripping her gums open. “I’m serious, what’s going on?” I ask Lightning happily. He smiles and trots over to me, and we brohoof. I smile. I’ve ALWAYS wanted to do that with someone/somepony! “Well, we’re not sure. We’ve spent the last day and a half hoping you were going to be okay, and you are!’ Lightning flutters above the ground before gracefully floating down. I close my eyes. “What about Shadows?” I ask. Lightning frowns. “He got away, the bastard,” he says quietly. Dammit! This is not good! “Any idea where he went?” I ask, frowning. “Nope. Haven’t heard from him since last night,” I groan. This is bad… “Oh well… Hey, want to know something? When you are in a coma, you are actually aware of your surroundings, and can hear everyone and everything around you?” I say, smiling. “No… I didn’t know that,” Lightning chuckles. “It’s true! So that means that I haven’t slept for the past 48 hours!” I say grinning madly. Lightning looks at me, smiling, but confused. “Do… do you want us to leave?” He asks. I shake my head. “No, but I would like to sleep. Bring some chairs in, or make some chairs out of the air particles, I don’t care. Just, please, stay in here,” I plead. They all nod, and sit on the chairs. I settle back down into the pillow, and close my eyes, instantly falling asleep. I open my eyes to severe sunlight, and the chattering of my friends. I look at them, but they seem not to notice. I sigh. At least I’m not going to be bed ridden today. Oh no, I am leaving this hospital. TODAY. I hear a small knock at the door, and I tell him to come in, which alerts the other ponies, and they bid their good mornings to me. A nurse comes in and unhooks all the machinery that’s connected to me, and I stand up. It feels good to be back on my feet. I stretch a little, before looking at my friends. “So… I can leave now?” I ask the nurse. She nods, and I whoop. I’m already in my clothes, as the doctors didn’t have any hospital shirts that fit me, so I run out the door of my room, out the front door, and into the… smoke? I cough loudly, looking back at my friends, who close the door to the hospital. I kneel down out of the smoke. “Where did all this smoke come from?” I ask. “Ponyville, I’m assuming,” Green tells me. Logical enough. “Should we go check it out?” I ask. He nods. “C’mon everypony, we are going to Ponyville!” I yell. They give a small ‘yay’ before I start walking. Upon arriving, the place is worse than it was when we were here the other time before. I look up to see a yellow claw in front of me, and I yelp, stepping backwards. I look up even further to see the owner of the claw, who is drinking the glass of chocolate milk. Literally, drinking the glass. Discord. “Hello, my little ponies, and my little human. Having fun?” He asks before laughing. “Oh god, now we have to put up with this guy?” I ask Lightning, and he nods slowly. I moan. This day gets better and better. “Having fun?” Discord asks again. I shake my head. “Not really. Now, if we added a little-“ something conks me on the head and I see Twilight looking at me, angry. She pretends to zip her lips, before looking back at Discord, who is still drinking the glass. I look up at him. He looks at me before snapping his fingers, and I feel a burning in my face. I shriek loudly and fall to the ground, holding my face, screaming still. I feel tears’ welling up in my eyes before a mirror magically appears in front of me. I look at my face, and I yell out loud. I bare a striking resemblance to ‘Jeff the Killer’… Ironic, how we both share the same first name. “What the hell did you do to me, you… asshole!” I say to him. He just laughs, snaps his fingers, and flies away. I notice I can’t stop smiling. I try to stop, but I can’t. I look back to the other ponies. “We have to stop him, FAST!” I say. They all nod. “What about the Elements?” I ask. “I don’t think he would fall for it this time, unless we get him secretly,” Twilight says. I nod, finding the logic. I suddenly get a bright idea. “I have an idea. Everypony come on in, I’ll tell you it.” “OI! DISCORD!” I yell out into the sky. I hear a pop and Discord appears in front of me. “What do you want, I have chaos to make?” He asks. I tap my chin. “How do you know about Jeff? The killer, I mean, not me,” I ask him. He frowns at me, before laughing. “Silly human, I know EVERYTHING about your world. The facts, the myths, the stories, the fake ones, the real ones, how to reproduce-“ I cut him off. “OKAYOKAYOKAY, I get the idea!” I yell at him. He laughs sharply again, and I give the thumbs up to the ponies behind Discord. Their necklaces start to glow, and they slowly start floating up. I feel a force around me, and I start floating. “Whoa, what the hell is happening?” I ask. Discord stops laughing, and looks at me. He gasps, and looks at me in awe. I feel a burning in my face, as the smile drops from my face. I feel my face. It’s turned back to normal, and I give a small ‘phew’, before light fills my eyes. I feel something burning in my chest, but it doesn’t hurt. I start floating up, and I yell. I feel whatever was in my chest release and fly out. I fall to the ground with a thud, and I close my eyes. What happened? I open my eyes and see Ponyville is ridden of flames, and it seems to have gone back to normal. The destruction is gone, and I see ponies having the same reaction. I look over to Lightning, who is looking at us in awe. I walk over to him. “Did you see what happened to me?” I ask him. He nods, and he tips his head forward. “You kind of… started floating, then your face melted back to its original form. Then, your eyes flashed white, and some orb thing shaped like a… I dunno, flew out of your chest, and it hit Discord with the other elements power, and he disappeared, but not before turning to stone,” Lightning explains. I’m looking at him in shock and awe. I walk over to the Elements, and I help them up. “Are you guys okay?” I ask. They nod and Twilight looks at me. “What about you? Are you okay?” She asks. I nod. “Do you know what just happened?” I ask her, and she frowns a little. “Well, I kind of used a little bit of your power and energy to help us. Don’t worry, you won’t permanently be an Element, it was just a one time thing,” She reassures, and I breathe out in relief. I look over at the other ponies, who are cheering and stomping their hooves. I look at Twilight, who is waving around at the ponies, and we all join in. I’ve never actually done something so heroic before, and I hope I can do it again, because the feeling when you have saved someone – or somepony – feels great. After a few minutes of waving the ponies start living their daily lives again, quickly forgetting all about the reign of terror that just happened. All of a sudden, Pinkie appears beside my side. “Wooow…. We sure got rid of Mr. Discord fast! It’s like, someone writing a story or something, got REALLY bored of this chapter and decided to end it really fast because they are LAZY!” Pinkie grins at me. I look at her in confusion. “Um… Okay?” I tell her, and she bounces off. I shake my head. I’ve had enough Pinkie confusion for the day. I touch Twilight’s mane, and she looks at me. “Could we head back to the library? I’m a little tired,” I tell her. She smiles. “You go on ahead. I need to write something to Princess Celestia, to tell her what has happened today,” She says. I nod, and roll my eyes. I start walking back to the library. I wave to anypony that walks by politely, and when I arrive to the library, I immediately walk to my room and lie on my bed, and fall into a deep sleep, forgetting all about Shadows. Who would’ve thought the very pony I had forgotten about, was watching me, right at that moment?
Chapter 12"RUN!" I yelled to the people around me. I jumped into the bunker I plugged my hears with the palms of my hands. I could faintly hear the explosions and screams of people around me. I was... Trapped. Yeah, that fits the ticket. I had no where to go, only straight towards the enemy, which would be a suicide, but I ain't going to die a coward either! No way, hose. I clenched my teeth, and jumped up. I scowled and I started running ahead. "CHARGE!" I yelled at my men. They are started yelling and screaming. I shot each bullet into the enemy, trying to kill every last one of them. I closed my eyes as I ran. I was screaming at the top of my lungs, while mindlessly shooting. I opened my eyes to see me in the middle of nowhere, somewhere completely different... In a forest? Wait... Forest? Oh crap. "I'm back!" I heard a sing song voice say. I turned around and was tackled. I looked up to the attacker. No... "Goodbye, Jeff. Before I kill you, I have one request," Shadows smirked at me. I whimpered under him. "WAKE! UP!" I yelled as I woke from my slumber to see Blue Lightning floating above me. I clutched my heart and started calming my breathing. "What... What happened?" I asked Lightning. He sighed. "You were yelling and screaming in your sleep," He explained. I looked down at my bed sheets while I tapped my head. Yeah, what he said DOES make sense, I guess. I shook my head to clear my thoughts. What kind of dream was that? I've honestly never had one so violent, or so... vivid. I decided to ponder about it later. Today, I should be worrying about Canterlot. It's probably being destroyed right now. "Wait... What are we doing? Isn't Canterlot being wrecked by Shadows?" I asked Lightning. He tapped his chin, and gave a small 'oh'. "Twilight and the rest of the fillies already went there to assist Celestia. Twi said she would write to us if anything majorly bad happened, so don't worry, bud!" Lightning reassured me and slapped me on the back. I nodded, but still thought fit to go there. "C'mon, I'm wide awake now and have nothing better to do, lets go check on them, shall we?" I asked him. He nodded, and his began glowing the familiar cyan glow. In a split second, we were back in the bunker in Canterlot, and everypony was there, talking. I sighed. "Don't you realize there is a huge pony war going on outside?" I said to them, sounding bored. They all looked at me, and greeted me, before Twilight began speaking. "Yes, but we have to lay low. Nopony is leaving until Shadows shows himself," Twilight said, stomping her hoof dramatically. I grinned at her. "Alright, well, good thing I'm not a pony," I told her as I looked for the exit. She looked at me in confusion. "Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. What are you doing? I said nopony is leaving until Shadows show-" "Yes, well I'm not a pony, so when you say 'nopony', it doesn't apply to me," I told her. Whether that was a loophole, contradiction, etc. etc., I don't care. I still love it. Oh, I also love the look of frustration on Twilight's face. "But but but but but-" She tried to reason. "No 'buts'. I am going outside, and I will find him personally," I told her. She grunted. "Fine, but at least take this. It will let us track your motions so we can see wherever you are," Twilight told me, with a look of slight happiness in her expression. I nodded as I strapped the bracelet onto my wrist. Twilight pointed over to a stone door, which blended in quite well to the wall. I walked up to it, and slid it open, revealing a long tunnel. This'll take I while, I grunted before starting the walk. Once I arrived at the end of the tunnel, I was POOPED. I hadn't walked that far in ages, and I was TIRED, as the entire tunnel was up hill. Hooray. "Whoa, this place looks... terrible, to say the least," I muttered. It was true, Canterlot looked absolutely awful. I walked outside the tunnel, and noticed I was a few miles away from Canterlot. I yelled in frustration. I hate walking long distances. I HATE IT! About half an hour later, I arrived in Canterlot to screaming and fire, like I was expecting. I looked around the burning stores, and I was surprised by some of the stores. They had a toy store, which looked like a Wal-Mart filled with toys, a funeral home, and a fishing store. I walked into the fishing store, ducking through the door way. I gasped. There were fishing rods and fishing equipment EVERYWHERE! I looked around for a knife, and I found one. It looked like a hunting knife you would find back on Earth, except this thing was REALLY sharp and long, kind of like a machette. I cut a hole through my shirt so I could straddle it across my back, and I slid the machette through the holes. I exited the store, ducking once again. I started walking to the North East, hoping to find a forest of some sort, because it's pretty apparent that Shadows likes forests. Within a few minutes, I found a forest, covered with trees. I smiled. This would be perfect. I started walking to the center of the forest, pulling my machette out in the process. I looked around at my surroundings for Shadows, to no luck. I turned around, and saw a blue orb floating in the air. I backed off and readied the machette. Lightning appeared out of nowhere, and I mean the pony, not the electrical stuff in the sky. He flew down beside me and grinned. "What? I wasn't going to let you fight him alone!" He said, flashing a cocky grin. "Sweet. Thanks," I snickered. Lightning tilted his head slightly. "It's just that, I realized, you are absolutely PERFECT for Rainbow. You are both very self-centered!" I said, laughing. He rolled his eyes and continued trotting to the middle of the forest, and I followed, smiling. Cutting through branches and long grass, isn't as easy as it looks in the movies and TV shows. It actually takes precision and time, to cut through grass anyway. Branches are slightly easier, but still quite difficult. At last, we arrived at the center of the forest. We sat in the middle, and waited. Five minutes passed. Then twenty. Then thirty. An hour. Two hours. Four hours. "Where is he? He should be here by now!" Lightning asked impatiently. We both heard a snicker from the tall grasses, and we stood up in a flash. Shadows walked out of the long grass, smirking. "You two didn't even look! I've been sitting here for five hours!" Shadows laughed madly. We scowled. It wasn't that fun watching trees for four hours... "Anyway, you are stupid. You can't hurt me, as long as the Ceminum is safe... Oh hell, I shouldn't of said that good bye," He left in a flash, running the opposite direction. Before anyone could move, I spoke. "Don't. All we gotta do is find this Ceminum thingy, and apparently, he becomes vulnerable," I muttered to Lightning. He snarled, but nodded. "C'mon, let's go back to the bunker. We got some interesting news to tell them," I said to him, and we disappeared in a flash.
