Life of the Average Human in Equestria

Ever had one of those moments when you wake up and you suddenly have a migraine? That's what happened to me when I woke up that morning. When I opened my eyes, I shut them quickly. The pain was unbearable. It was like having someone beat your head with a baseball bat. That wasn't a good start to a day. At least it wasn't my worst.

I feel something nudge my shoulder, causing me to jump a little. But I relax as I see it's Sam.

"Are you okay?" She asked worriedly, giving me a curious look.

"Depends on what you mean by, 'okay'." I respond sarcastically. She didn't like that though and she gave me a frown shortly after.

I rolled my eyes, which hurt very much, and answered, "I have a migraine that hurts as much as getting beaten with a baseball bat."

Once those words escaped my lips, her angry face turned into a heart warming smile. I smiled back, but the pain soon became worse.

I rubbed my head, trying my hardest to get the pain to go away. It seemed like every time I tried to think about something my brain would go bonkers and try to kill me slowly. Then it suddenly stopped, like it was never there. I sighed with relief as the pain went away.

"It stopped," I said comfortingly, turning my head towards Sam, "I feel better now. Thanks for caring."

She rolled her eyes and stood up. I could see that she was still in her dress from last night, and so was I.

"I am going to go get changed. When I come down you're going to get changed too." She said calmly with a smile spread across her  face.

I nodded, she left the room, and I was left alone.

• Hello? A voice asked suddenly.

I literally jumped and looked around for the voice I heard. My eyes darted around the room, eyeing every detail closely. Where did it come from? No clue, I just knew that it was there. I didn't want to sit down and then suddenly be stabbed by a pony.

• Don't panic, just stay calm. I'm the reason that you might have had a headache, but I'm here for a reason. The voice asked, causing me to jump again.

Again, my eyes darted around the room, I couldn't have seen him but I could hear him. It always sounded like he was behind me, but every time I checked, he wasn't there.

"Hello?" I called out, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

• A bit off topic but I'll answer nonetheless. My name is Visionary Mind, and I am currently following your every move.

Okay, this is weird. I'm talking to something that might want to kill me but it sounds so near. What am I going to do? I thought, moving around the room slowly.

• Listen, I'm not going to kill you, and I'm not near you, I'm in you. Your mind to be exact.

When I heard those words, I froze. I didn't know how he heard my thoughts, and I didn't want to know.

Am I going crazy? I thought to myself, running my hand through my hair. If I was going crazy, then I would have to lay off of the waffles. Otherwise I may end up in an Insane Asylum.

• No you're not. If you were, there would be a multitude of voices in your head, but there's only one. Me. The voice responds almost proudly.

Okay, one more time. Who are you? What are you? How the actual fuck did you get in my head? I asked the voice, closing my eyes so I could focus better.

• Alright then. My name is Visionary Mind. I am a ghost who goes around Equestria entering the minds of unknown creatures. I got into your head with a special, let's say, key. Your head, as well as every other creature's head, is like a lock and I have the key to enter it when I want too, and I can leave if I have too. The Visionary responds.

What do you mean 'if I have too'? I asked, scrunching up my face.

• What I mean by that, is that I stay in a creature's mind until I get called back by the princesses. I enjoy invading minds you know, causing creatures to go bat-shit crazy. It'd definitely be fun if you were me. He answered lazily.

Wait, did you say the princesses?

• Why of course. Why else would I be in your head? Visionary asks curiously.

Why the hell do they need you in my head?

• Because they want me to monitor you to make sure you don't do anything bad. Which reminds me, what are you exactly? He asked questionably, causing me to hesitate on the answer.

Well, my species is called, 'Humans', but if you want to know who I am, I'm Jack.

• Alright. That's enough information to send back to the princesses. I can't wait to get home and in my bed. Until next time?

Until next time.

With that, a shiver was sent down my spine, probably because he left, but who knew?

Shortly after his departure, I made my way to the bathroom upstairs. The walk was calm and silent, I could only hear my footsteps and the bath running upstairs. Once I reached the top of the staircase, however, I turned to face the bathroom door. It was locked most likely. I didn't care though, just wanted something to pass the time.

The running bath water suddenly stopped and I heard Sam slip in with a sploosh. Now I played the waiting game.

To my surprise, she finished rather quickly. It took only, maybe, ten minutes. She usually stayed in there for twenty, but I didn't care. All I knew was that I needed to go in after she left so I wouldn't smell like moldy milk.

Speaking of which, I raised my armpit and took a small sniff. As I did so, my mind told me not to do it, but my body didn't listen. My life just flashed before my eyes as I my face scrunched up and I started gagging. I smelled awful. How the hell did I smell so bad if the last time I took a shower was... oh. Forget you ever heard any of this.

I was brought back to my senses as I heard the bathroom door creak open. When I glanced over, I saw Sam standing in the doorway with a towel rapped around herself. Her long, brown hair reached her shoulders in a straight line. She was hot.

She saw me staring at her and waved a hand in front of my face, which brought me back to reality.

"Jack," She started, "Get in the shower and stop staring at me."

I smiled sheepishly and hopped into the bathroom, closing the door behind me. I sighed with relief as I heard her footsteps go down the stairs. That was kind of embarrassing if you ask me.

I looked over to the bath tub that was still full of hot steamy water, and started taking of my clothes. I turned around and made sure that the door was locked. Sure enough, it was.

Then I walked over to the bath tub and got in. It was soothing but made me a little uncomfortable because of the sudden warmth. But a bath is a bath, and I couldn't do anything about it.

I looked for bar soap or some shampoo, and, luckily, there was bar soap right next to me on the edge of the bath tub.

I grabbed the bar soap and started washing my body, especially my armpits.

A few minutes later, I was done. I had to sniff my armpits to make sure though. Didn't want to go outside smelling like a bag of mold now would I?

Once I was satisfied that I smelled good, I got out of the tub and dried myself off with a towel.

As I was drying myself off, I could hear chatter coming from downstairs. Must have been up to yelling circumstances since I could hear it through the floor.

I walked over to the door with the towel rapped around my waist, and opened it slowly. Whatever was going on downstairs didn't seem okay to me. So I quickly slipped into some jeans and a shirt then quickly hustled down the stairs. When I got there, I was shocked.

I could see Black Night surrounded by a group of black-plated Unicorns that didn't look happy, Moonlit was over in the corner crying, Rose was knocked out cold sprawled on the floor, and the thing that made me want to grab onto all the ponies and kill them was that they were taking Sam away. I couldn't allow that.

I sprinted towards the Unicorn carrying Sam but was caught short when something hit my forehead, causing me to fall to the ground. I could hear the faint crying of Sam being carried away and the Unicorns trotting out the door with her. I raised my head and saw a tall Unicorn stallion in front of me. He didn't look happy and neither did I.

"Listen," He said sternly, "Don't try to follow us or else we'll torture your friend. If you want to know why we want her, you can have this note." As he finished, he pulled a little letter out from his pouch and placed it next to me.

Then he nodded to somepony behind me and then everything went black.

When I woke up, my head was throbbing. I didn't want to get up, I didn't want to move, but I had to make sure that everypony was okay.

I placed both my hands flat on the ground and pushed myself to my knees. I glanced around the room and saw it was a mess. Tables were flipped, knives were in the walls, and the portraits were sprawled across the ground. It looks like someone took a leaf blower and blew everything around.

Then the silence broke as I heard a soft weeping coming from behind me. I turned around and found Moonlit in the corner with a black eye, crying softly. He was hurt. He didn't do anything that I saw that caused the Unicorns to punch him, but they did anyways. If I wasn't pissed before, I was now.

I grimaced as I slowly crawled over to Moonlit. Every push felt like a fire erupted in my arms, but I had to help Moonlit. I had to comfort him so he wouldn't be as sad.

He heard the sound of me grunting as I crawled over to him and his weeping stopped. He was surprised for some reason, like I was the only survivor. As I reached him, I propped myself up against the wall, right next to Moonlit.

Now I noticed it was probably past midnight saying it was pitch black outside. The moonlight, however, illuminated our living room through a broken window.

I looked down to Moonlit and saw that he was staring straight forward with a look of fright on his face. This made me worried, very worried.

As I slowly followed his gaze, I saw two dark silhouettes on the ground, a dark red blood puddle around them. I slowly stood up, wanting to make sure I didn't cause too much pain to erupt in my legs. Once I was at my full height, I made my way over to the bodies.

I froze as I started to recognize their faces, tears started pouring down my face and I painfully fell to my knees. I stared at the corpses of Black Night and Rose, the ones who protected me, the ones who were good in this world, the only ponies I cared for. They were both gone... forever.

I turned to face Moonlit who was still staring in horror. I, on the other hand, was still on my knees crying my eyes out.

After a few minutes of non-stop crying, I straightened up. I knew what I had to do. I was going to get revenge. I was going to kill the pony who killed my friends. Then I felt something in my hand. Something made out of paper.

I raised my right hand and saw a small envelope. I tore it open and pulled out the small letter inside. I opened it up and read through it.

Dear Creature, if you could understand the words that I had spoken to you, then you'll know what this letter is about. Since you opened this letter, I'll explain why we've taken your friend. We need her to buy ourselves some time to resurrect the King of Cruelty. He was once the ruler of Equestria, but was soon overthrown by those disgusting sisters. How will your friend buy us time, you ask? The princess sisters don't like to harm innocent creatures, which is why we need her. If you have any type of wisdom, you won't come looking for your friend. If you do, we'll murder her and capture that colt that was with you, and we promise that we will harm him. Don't forget to tell the princess sisters about this. Hope you enjoy the final months of peace in Ponyville, for they'll be your last. If you want to try to stop us, you'll have to walk to the Crystal Empire. Which is seventy degrees below freezing now that Princess Cadence and Prince Shining Armor are out of commission. This has been, yours truly, Sandstorm Dagger.

As I slowly pulled the letter away from my face, I could feel rage boiling inside me. They took the one girl I loved, and used her as a diversion to resurrect their so-called King of Cruelty?! That was unacceptable.

I turned to Moonlit with the most hopeful look I could muster and said, "Moonlit, I need you to go to Twilight, hand her this letter, and tell her that I'm already on my way with tons of food, water, and clothing."

Once those words left my mouth, Moonlit put an extremely confused face on, but then nodded. I held out the letter and he bit it with his teeth and trotted out the door.

Shortly after he left, I rose to my feet. I hustled up the stairs and grabbed a large bag. I stuffed a bunch of coats and thick paints into it until it was full. Then I ran to the fridge and did the same thing except with food. Then I ran to the sink and filled a large canteen with water. Then I was ready, and under ten minutes too.

I packed everything on my back and hesitated at the doorway. I looked over my shoulder and saw their corpses still sprawled across the ground. It made me feel dead inside, but I resisted to cry again. I looked to my left and found a knife buried far into the wall. If I was going alone, I needed a weapon to protect myself with.

I wrapped my hand around the end of the knife and slowly pulled it out. It was easy to pull out and was as light as a feather. Sharp too. This was the perfect weapon.

I slid the knife into the side of my shoe for situations like getting attacked. Then I left the building and headed North for my journey from Ponyville to the Crystal Empire. The train station was probably going to be closed so I had to walk the whole way. It's going to take a few weeks or months, but it'll be worth it.

I sighed angrily as the memory of the Unicorns taking Sam away from me appeared before my very eyes.

I was going to kill them, I was going to get my revenge, and nothing was going to stop me.