The strange Infiltrator

I woke up on a couch in castle libraries. Truth be told I was expecting to wake up on the floor of the castle bar. I decided to not question the strange turn of events and sum it up as good luck. I sat up slowly trying my hardest to shake off my terrible hangover from last night. By the way if you have a hangover it’s a terrible idea to shake your head from side to side. It was like someone nail hundreds of hot pins into my head and my tongue felt numb and slightly swollen. It took my minute to realize that I wasn’t the only person is the room or in this case pony. I look to my right and see Princess Celestia sitting in the armchair a foot away from the couch. She was just sitting there and drinking tea. “How are you today, guardian?” she asked calmly.

“Can you not shout?” I asked flinching at the sound of her voice. It was like she was using her royal voice that or the hangover made everything a lot louder. I put my money on the hangover.

“Sorry about that,” She responded dropping her voice to a whisper. “Is this better?”

“Yes it’s wonderful. Not that I’m thrilled to see you or anything but why are you here?” I asked.

“I’m here to see twilight. I got her first report on you already and I’d like to talk to her in person about it.” She said.

“No I mean why are you here in the library watching me sleep and drinking tea?” I asked holding my head in my hands in hopes that it would relieve the massive headache I had.

“Well in twilight’s report she said that you claimed that you adapt to new things by drinking heavily. To be honest I don’t think that is the best way but I was intrigued to see the results of such adaption methods.” She said as she took another sip from her tea cup. I could swear that there was a hint of a smirk on her face.

“Well having a hangover bucking sucks. Wait a sec. How come I said buck? I think I can’t say certain curse words. Buck, Horseapples, son of a diamond dog, for the love of Celestia! Interesting my vocabulary has changed since coming here.” I inquired while trying to think of curse words to say aloud. “Anyway humans usually don’t get hammered to adapt to new places that’s just me.”

“I see; that will be something I talk to twilight about.” She said while getting up and heading to a set of doors. “By the way I think there was somewhere you needed to be right now wasn’t there?”

I slap my hand to my forehead suddenly when I remembered that I have to go get the bill for that “game” last night. “That’s right, thank you princess for reminding me of that. Tell twilight I’ll be back up in a minute.” I started to head for the doors on the other side of the library when Celestia stopped me.

“It’s in the other direction.” She said. I looked at her slightly confused and then shook my head again to clear it up a little.

“Right thanks.” I replied and started heading in the direction she was pointing in.

I took me about five minutes to stumble my way to the bar. Ok I fell on the way down once but luckily the only thing I might have broken was my pride but that’s been dead for a long time so there was no harm done. I step into the bar and it was surprisingly clean. I couldn’t even see any dirt or smell any vomit. It was like no one even had drinks here last night. I make my way up to the bar and ring a bell on the counter. I rang the bell again after a minute then started hitting the bell repeatedly as fast as possible. The bartender came up to the counter eventually and asked me what I wanted. I smile at him even though my headache got even worse from ringing the bell and said, “I am here to pay the bill from last night. You know the drinking game I played here last night with my new friends?”

“Well the winner of the game already paid for it last night.” He said with the lack of enthusiasm. I looked at him like he had gone crazy.

“That’s impossible,” I said sternly. “I was the winner and I know I didn’t pay for the bill last night because I threw up and passed out at the table right after applejack lost.” He looked at my face blankly and said,

“You were not the winner.” I started to get aggravated and asked huffily,

“Well then who did win the drinking game last night?”

“Miss Fluttershy was the last one in the group still awake last night. That means she was the winner.” He claimed. I stared at him for several seconds while my mind tried to process what I was just told.

“Fluttershy was the winner. How is that possible?” I sat into the nearest chair and just stared at the bartender. “It can’t be. I thought she left after the first round. I didn’t even know she was there.”

“She won the game and even had a few cocktails after you passed out. She helped clean up the mess, paid for the bill, took you upstairs, and then helped me take applejack and rainbow dash home.” Said the bartender. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the idea. Fluttershy beat everyone in a drinking game and was sober enough to help clean up; it was impossible.

I thanked the bartender and headed back upstairs. By the time I got back to the library twilight was already in the room. I didn’t see princess Celestia so I guessed that she already left for Canterlot. I went up to twilight and started to say good morning when she gave me a funny look. She covered her nose with one of her hooves and pointed to one of the hallways and said,

“Third door on the right.” I looked at her and wondered what had come over her.

“What are you doing?” I asked her.

“You smell like vomit, alcohol, and shame. You need to take a shower. Just put your clothes in a pile in front of the door and I’ll wash them. Everything you need is already in the bathroom.” She gagged. I headed for the bathroom grumbling that shame doesn’t have a smell.

I walked into the bathroom and took a good look around. It was beautiful inside. Everything was made of crystal and it looked very nice. I took off all my clothes and put them where she told me to. Then I stepped into the tub, if you can call it a tub. There was enough room for several ponies. It even had a showerhead. It was lined up with different settings and I spent the first few minutes testing all of them out until I found one I liked. I turned up the hot water to the point where a fog started to form. I missed hot showers and took my time bathing.

When I was done I turned off the water and stepped out of the tub. I looked around and found a tiny compartment that held a bunch of towels. I put one around my waist and opened the bathroom door to go back to twilight only to find her standing there. The heat of the shower hit her in the face and caused her to back up. “Gez, what were you doing in their cooking yourself. Why is it so hot?” she asked while coughing. I just shrugged and made my way to the library.

“So what are we going to do today?” I asked looking at her, “I really can’t go anywhere without clothes so you can decide what we do.” She didn’t say anything until we reached the library. I took a seat of the couch and was slightly surprised when she sat next to me.

“Well you promised me that today you would spend all day answer questions.” She said while looking around at the books on the shelves. “Actually you promised me and all the others to spend the day doing stuff for them. Tomorrow is Rarity’s day.”

“When did I do that?” I asked.

“Right before me and rarity left last night you pinkie promised to everyone if you lost then you would spend a whole day with each of them to do whatever they wanted.” She said. I decided to try and get out of the problem I got myself into by lying through my teeth.

“I didn’t lose the drinking game so I don’t have to keep the promises.” I claimed proudly. Twilight frowned at me and sighed,

“I know you’re lying. No one wins a drinking game with Fluttershy just ask rainbow dash.” I decided not to push my luck and accept my fate.

“Ok, let’s get started.” I said down casted.

An hour later twilight was running around the library triple checking her triple check list. I had dosed off and she woke me up when she was ready. I’m glad I took the nap at the very least my headache was gone and I was starting to get the feeling back in my tongue. She put some food in front of me that she know I could eat. At this rate it seem like the only thing that was going to kill me in this world is diabetes but I didn’t complain. As I was eating I had a brilliant idea that I believed you make this day go by more smoothly. Unfortunally it would only work if twilight knew the right spell that did what I wanted. I finished the food and then waited for twilight to finish eating her daisy sandwich. As she ate I finalized my plan hoping that it would work. I adjusted the towel around my waist to make sure that it wouldn’t fall off and then put my half-baked plan into action.

“Twilight is it possible for you to get into my head and see my thoughts?” I asked holding my breath and waited for an answer.

She stop eating and sat there with a look of deep concentration. “There are some spells that would let me do it but I need to know what exactly you want. There is a spell that lets me see all your memories and your past.”

“NO!” I shouted jumping up in a panic. I realized my reaction looked bad and sat back down. “Sorry about that. That spell won’t work. Is there a way your conscious can enter mine?”

Twilight looked at me narrowing her eyes. “It is possible.” She said. “It’s considered a dangerous spell and I’ve only done it once. The experience was awkward but that might be because it was pinkie’s mind I entered. There’s always a good chance that the spell could kill me and the other person so I don’t use it often.”

“That spell is perfect. If it can work then I can use it to teach you everything about my kind and the best part is that it would be faster and easier for us.” I said excitedly. I freakin love magic I don’t think I’ll ever learn to survive without it if I get back to earth. Twilight looked at me like I was crazy.

“But…we could die.” She said trying her hardiest to get me to realize how dangerous it was to do the spell.

I looked at her smiling and said, “I know; are we going to did it or sit here all day talking about how it could kill us.” She huffed out a breath in aggravation and mumbled something that sounded a lot like suicidal idiot. After a few minutes if fuming she looked at me and nodded once. We faced each other and after a few seconds twilight’s horn lit up with a purple glow. She leaned toward me stopping with her horn mere inches from my forehead. She look at my face one last time, took a deep breath and closed the distance. As soon as her horn made contact with my forehead the whole room went white and then there was darkness.

I woke up in a soft queen size bed. It was mostly wood with beautifully designs engraved in it. I stretched and rolled over and came nose to nose with a sleeping twilight. I smiled and waited for twilight to awake up. I couldn’t help myself. I learned over the years that the best way to deal with stress and life is to have a little fun in every possible way. I think it was the only reason I never lost my mind over the years on earth then again I had people questioning my sanity my whole life.

It didn’t take long for her to wake up. She opened her eyes and they widen to double the size in surprise. I got ready to have lots of fun but I stopped when she relaxed and didn’t make any move to get up. I started to get worried and wondered if the spell went wrong. “Um…twilight are you ok?” I asked carefully.

She smiled and said, “I’m just happy that I’m not dead.” I started to chuckle lightly at what she said and she looked at me curiously and asked, “What’s so funny?”

I sat up in the bed and looked at her and said, “Well, the thing is we are dead. Our body is dead but our minds are still active.” She looked at me confused so I decided to use the lack of response to explain myself. “When you used the spell our hearts stopped and your subconscious entered my mind. So we are dead but not dead at the same time.”

“But-“

I cut her off and continued to explain more. “One’s mind doesn’t follow the laws of physics and if you try to ‘think’ logically you would burn into nonexistence and then you would really die. Also sorry.”

She looked at me confused and asked, “Sorry for what?” I laid my hands on both sides of her face and kissed her on her mouth. Her eyes bugged out of her head and she started to move backwards and fell off the bed. She started rubbing her hoof over her tongue and yelling at me the whole time.

“WHAT THE BUCK! YOU KISSED ME WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?” I let her yell for several minutes before I decided to explain myself.

“It would be easier if I just show you why I kissed you then just telling you. Just turn around.” She gave me her famous death glare and slowly turned around. Sitting right behind her was the largest timberwolf she ever saw in her life. She screamed and jumped back onto the bed. She looked at the timberwolf and noticed that it looked nothing like a timberwolf. It was large and covered in black fur and it just sat in front of her.

“What is that thing?” she asked getting as close to me as possible.

“It’s called a wolf.” I responded. “I can show you everything about them very soon but first I have to tell you the rules first.” She looked at me and then back in the direction where the wolf was but was surprised when there was nothing there.

“Where did it go?” she asked.

“Let’s me tell you everything about this place and it will make sense.” I told her.

“Ok, but you better have a good reason for kissing me.” She said giving me her glare and moving away from me.

“I didn’t kiss you. It was a subconscious connection that way you can see things in my head. All I need to do was to make physical contact with you but I also need to transfer a trace of me in you, thus the kiss. If I didn’t you would have been killed by the wolf. It protects me from mental invasions and attacks and if I didn’t kiss you it would have torn you apart and your body would just be a husk.”

“So if I die in your head my body would just be an empty vessel?” she asked calmly.

“Yes, your body would still be alive but it wouldn’t be able to do anything. You’ll end up in a mental hospital for the remainder of your life.” I explain to her. “I’ll explain things as we head to the location where I can show you the history of my species.” Twilight just nodded and moved off the bad and headed for the bedroom door. It caught me off guard how calm she was and decided to ask why she wasn’t asking more questioning things and trying to apply logic.

“You seem rather calm. I expected you would react differently. What up?” I said looking at her.

“You told me not to try and explain it with logic and I’ve done this with pinkie pie. Your head is different than her’s so far and I’m just going to do the same thing I do when pinkie does something impossible. Don’t question it.” She said indifferently. “Is there anything else you need to tell me?”

“Yes, right now we are in my ‘room’ and when we leave it then the place will change. Don’t open any doors you see. Especially the one on the end. You understand when we start to move.” I said seriously. She just nodded and move to open the bedroom door with magic. When nothing happened she turned around to look at me. “I guess you can’t use your magic.”

I opened the door for her and we walked through it into a kitchen. There was a human woman around my age cooking something and twilight stopped to look at her. She turned to me and asked, “Who’s the girl?”

I sighed and said, “She’s my fantasy. It’s what I desire most.” At that moment I was interrupted when a little girl came running into the room calling for me.

“Hello my little princess.” I said happily picking the girl up and hugging her. The woman stopped cooking for a minute and joined in on the hug.

“I have to go for a minute but I’ll be right back.” I told them both. A second later they were gone and I went to the front door and opened it. Twilight went through it and I closed it behind me after going through too. We were standing in a beautiful meadow and the weather was the perfect spring day. Warm but not hot and there was not a single cloud in the sky. Twilight looked around in complete wonder of the site.

“It’s beautiful.” She said breathlessly.

She looked across the meadow and saw a door. She was certain that without the subconscious connect she wouldn’t be able to see the door and she would be correct. I head to the door and opened it. I decided to be the lead and held the door open for her to go through. Once through the door, everything looked different. It was a hallway that seemed to go on forever, the walls were made of steel, and there were doors on both sides. I closed the door to my ‘room’ and started walking down the hallway with twilight towing behind me looking at the scene in complete awe.

I passed the first door, but twilight saw that it was slightly open and stuck her head inside to see what she would find. I noticed and pulled her out.

“Don’t go in there!” I shouted. She just looked at me and started to stutter,

“I just… I saw…. It was you but different.” I shook my head in aggravation.

“Yes that was me. All these doors hold a different version of me. That was Antonio. All of them are based off my personality and emotions.” She looked at me with her mouth wide open.

“He was having sex with someone!” She exclaimed. I just shrugged my shoulders.

“He’s lust. We are all separated and are alive. I’m actually just happiness. I was put in the pilot seat so to speak. The main boss is Conner. It’s short for Subconscious.” She got over what she saw and we moved on. As we passed the doors I pointed at the name tags that just happen to show up on the doors that told her who lived inside. She followed my rules and did her best not to get all logical but I was certain that after we leave she was going to be debating everything that happened in my head.

“Don’t they try to fight for who gets control?” she asked suddenly.

I look at her and said, “No we work together to survive. No one wants control because they are happy not to be the one who has to live out the life.”

“Why are you all separated and how come you have control instead of all of you being one being living out your life?” She asked.

“I don’t know why it’s like that. I’ve always been this way for as long as I can remember.” I stated.

I stopped in front of a door and proceeded to open the door. It took a little longer because it was locked so I let twilight sit next to me while I found the right key.

Let me out.

Twilight jumped a little when she heard a voice. She looked to her left to see the hallway ending. It was different than the rest of hallway. The walls were red and it seemed darker. There was a door at the end and just looking at it caused shivers to run all over her body.

Open the door. Free me!

She jumped into the air again when she heard the voice for the second time. It sounded so tempting. The words were like honey. She couldn’t help but to head for the door.

“Got it!” I shout swinging the door I was working on. “Come on twilight, I am going to show you everything about my species.”

She took one last look at the door then turned around and walked in the door I opened. I went through it and closed the door behind me. I gave twilight a few minutes to take in the sight of the room. It was like we were in space. It took her a minute to get use to the lack of gravity. After a few minutes she looked at me and it was clear what she wanted.

“This place has no name.” I explained. “Its location is nowhere and everywhere at the same time. This places has no laws of any kind. We could be in here for what feels like hours and in the real world it be mere seconds that pass by. Here we can see all the different universes. Let me explain with an example. So there is Equestria and its universe. There are an infinite number of alternate versions of Equestria and its universe; one of them you went to through the using a portal mirror. All these different version are all held in a plane. It’s like a piece of square glass. Within seconds I showed her what it looked like. There are different worlds that are all held in planes like this one, pointing at the plane. There’s an infinite number of planes that hold all kinds of different worlds and the different versions. I’ve spent my life looking at the planes and labeling them according to their theme. There’s the DC plane, Full of superheroes. Religion plane, which holds every world’s religion obviously. Now we get to my plane, Earth plane. Here we can watch time revolve from the very beginning of time and see the world change throughout history.” Twilight looked at me her eyes full of wonder and excitement. “Are you ready to start?” I asked her. She nodded her head and I made my move.

“Uni, are you there?” I called out. I turn to twilight. “Uni is short for multi-universe. It’s this place’s nickname. You understand what I mean in a minute.”

Hello child. I see you are back and you brought a friend.

The voice spoke for everywhere. Twilight couldn’t tell where it was coming from in the room. She also couldn’t pinpoint what gender the voice was.
“Nice to hear from you Uni how have you been today?” I asked to thin air.

The same as always. What is it you want to do today?

“I want to show my friend the history of the place I came from.” I stated to the voice.

Ok, it’s the earth plane and you know which version is the one. Have fun you two.

In the blink of an eye we found my world and I started to show twilight everything. It was like watching a movie. We saw the big bang and the creation of the universe. Soon I was showing her the time of the dinosaurs and their life. Every time twilight would ask a question Uni would come and pause the place and explain everything. All I had to do was relax. Uni had just finished explain in great detail about the ice age to twilight when something changed.

“For the love of Celestia can’t you skip to the good parts?” Said a being of pure chaos.

I groan, who else could get inside my head so easily. I turn around and sure to my hunch find none other than Discord sitting in a theater chair with three D classes on and eating popcorn.

“Why are you here?” I spat out through clenched teeth. Discord laughed suddenly and popped up next to me.

“Come on Josh is that any way to say hi to an old friend.” He said. I hiss at the mention of my name.

“My name is Guardian.” Discord just rolled his eyes….in his hands.

“Why are you here in Equestria?” He asked as he knitted what look with a scarf with the universe surrounding me.

“I’m on a mission and it’s none of your business. Now get out of my head.” I said angrily.

“Fine,” he huffed. “I just want you to know that you’ll regret this in the end.” With that said he wrapped the scarf he made around his long neck and opened a door into a desert land and walked out. I turn to twilight thinking of excuses to use to explain what happened but it was like she didn’t even noticed. Discord must have bent the time reality to talk to be without involving twilight. To her it was like blinking which means she saw and heard nothing. After she was done talking to Uni I told her it was time to head back to the real world.

“But can’t we watch a little more?” she whined slightly while giving me the puppy dog eyes. I just shook my head and laughed.

“I promise we can come back again. Now that you know it won’t kill you to get inside my head we can come back. Also since you’ve been here once I won’t have to make another subconscious connection again. So I don’t have to kiss you every time we go here.” I said laughing at the end. She blushed a deep shade of red and looked away.

“Jerk.” That just got me to laugh some more.

We felt the room and I turned to lock the door leaving twilight to sit beside me for a minute.

Come to me twilight…

Twilight was looking at the door at the end of the hallway again. She could hear the voice again. It was not like Uni’s voice it seemed disturbed but she couldn’t explain it too well.

Come to me…

She started to walk toward the door and as she got close it opened on its own.

Come and free me…

She walked up to the entrance and called out into the dark room, “Hello is someone there?”

Come inside and free me NOW!

She walked through the door and took a couple steps inside the dark room. She was straining her eyes to see passed the darkness but still couldn’t see anything. She turned around and started heading for the door when she noticed it started to close itself. “Guardian Help!” She shout as she ran to get out.

I was busy locking the door back up and left twilight to stand near. I was almost done locking up the door when I heard her shout for help. I turn to my right to see what was wrong and saw her in that room and the door was closing. “NO TWILIGHT GET OUT!” I yelled as I ran to stop the door from closing but I was too slow and it closed and locked itself and I couldn’t open it.

Twilight didn’t reach the door in time and it closed before she got out. It was pitch black. This darkness was the evil kind. It was the same kind it darkness that Sombra had and that meant very bad things. She try to get the door open with magic but no matter how hard she try she couldn’t use any kind of magic. She sat in front of the door pleading for Guardian to get her out then she felt a presence behind her. She got off the floor and slowly turned around. At first she couldn’t see anything in the darkness but then it lift like a breeze came through. She was just outside Ponyville and she started to head into town. She was so relieved that she was back in Ponyville or that’s where she thought she was. When she got to the buildings she noticed that they were different. They looked different up close and she noticed that the whole place around her looked different. The buildings were in shambles or completely destroyed. The sky was blood-red and there was no sun, moon, clouds, or stars. The trees were stripped bare of leaves and their bark was burn and twisted. All around the street were bodies. They were disfigured and distorted. Hundreds of ponies that were torn piece by piece laid in the streets. Everywhere she looked there was blood and it looked like the sky. She ran through the town trying to get away from the scene. She made it to the town hall or what was left of it. Most of the building was destroy from some explosion. At the center of town was a human. “Guardian is that you? What…what happened here?” Twilight asked shaking in fear. The Human was kneeling on front of a pony’s disfigured body. Not just any pony’s body; a close look at one of the legs twilight could see a cutie mark. It was her cutie mark.

Free me!

Twilight started to back away from the human and started to think that something wasn’t right. She only took a few steps back when the human got up and turned around. He look like Guardian but was different. His skin was blood-red, he was bigger and had more muscle definition. His eyes were pitch black and he didn’t have any pupils and when he smiled it revealed a row of pointed teeth. She started to scream at the sight of the monster that looked so much like her friend and she turned around to run but before she even took a step forward he appeared in front of her. She was paralyzed with fear and couldn’t move an inch. The monster smiled again and then started to speak.

You came to me. You will free me!

Twilight couldn’t even speak. Her whole body was shaking to the point that she could barely stand. Her heart saw racing as fast that it felt like it was about to burst out of her chest. She could barely breathe and every time she swallowed she could feel a lump in her throat. It just spoke to her without moving its mouth.

Oh you silly little pony. I can taste your fear and I’m going to use it to get free.

Twilight couldn’t even think straight. She could feel it inside her head twisting and turning inside her head. “Guardian…please…help” She whimper.

He isn’t coming for you. He’s abandoned you to die.

The creature’s words pierce through her like a knife. Her knees buckle under her and she fell to the ground. She didn’t move. She couldn’t even if she wanted to. All she could do was cry as it tore through her head. The darkness was starting to come back and surrounding her.

That’s it. Be a good little pony and die! Die so I can be free. Die knowing that your body is mine and I’m going to use it to kill everyone you love!

Twilight brought her body close to her head and cried. Everything was on fire and it hurt so much. He was killing her as slowly as possible.

BEG FOR ME TO KILL YOU! Beg for the end.

She wanted it all to stop.
Twilight…
Twilight…
TWILIGHT!

Hearing someone call her name made her force her eyes open but all she could see was the darkness.

Twilight if you can hear me, it’s Guardian. You have to fight him. FIGHT!

“I can’t” She whimpered.

Yes you can twilight. He’s feeding on your fears and pain. It’s what makes him strong but you can fight him.

“How?” She asked barely whispering.

Love, that’s what makes him weak. Think of the ones you love and use the thoughts of them to make you strong. Use the thoughts of the one’s you love to fight him.

“I’m so scared…please help.”

Just think of those who you love and you can defeat him. I know you can do it.

Twilight closed her eyes and thought of the ones she loved. She thought of her brother, mom, and dad…

What are you doing? Stop! I SAID STOP!

She thought of Cadence and all the times they spent together when she was young…

I SAID STOP! JUST DIE!

She thought of Princess Celetsia and all the nights that she stay up with her. Helping her study and learn…

DIE! JUST FUCKING DIE YOU STUPID PONY!

She thought of all her friends and all the times they spent together…

FREE ME! JUST FUCKING DIE AND FREE ME!

Finally thought of Guardian. She looked back at everything he ever did. Saw how he always seemed so laidback and cracked jokes at every chance he got just to get others to laugh. She could see that it was all a lie. A disguise to hide to pain. The never ending pain caused by the monster in the room with her. She thought of Guardian and promised to always show him love just as much as she loves her friends and family. Promised to never leave him to suffer alone…

NOOOOOO!

A bright light spread into the room and suddenly everything felt better. The door opened and she could sense Guardian running inside and rushing to her. She couldn’t get up everything still hurt and she was so tired but she did it she beat it and now she was safe.

I tried everything to open the door but it wouldn’t open. I know what was going to happen and I had to save twilight. I had to save her from me. I had only one way to reach her now. I got into the lotus position and I reach out to her using my subconscious. I found her and she was not doing well, she was dying. I called her name until she would answer and I told her how to fight. I couldn’t hold the connection for long not with him there. Minutes ticked by as I waited hoping she could fight him and win. She did and the door opened. I rushed inside the room and came up to her body. She was alive but just barely. “Twilight?” I tried to say with the lump in my throat making it hard to talk. “You did it. You beat it.” Twilight painfully looked around the room. Ponyville was gone it was just an empty room made of iron and steel.

“Where did it go?” She asked weakly.

I carefully picked her up into my arms and turned her to see one of walls. He was chained to the wall. Every inch of his body was attached to chains that kept him to the wall. He was smaller than she remembered and looking at him closely he looked weak and old. “He can’t hurt you anymore.” I told her. I turned around and left the room. The door closed and locked itself after I left. I started to head back to my ‘room’ and while I walked I held twilight close to my body to make her feel safe. She was shaking terribly and I know it had nothing to do with being cold.

“What is he?” She asked weakly. I flinched went I heard her talk. I could tell it hurt her just to do that.

“He’s my hate, my bloodlust, everything about me that is bad.” I stated darkly. “Every moment of my life he has been there with me. Tormenting me…”

“I-I’m so sorry.” She said.

I could feel the wetness on my shirt where her face laid. We made it back to my ‘room’ and I took her back to the bedroom. I sat down on the bed and looked at twilight.

“You have to do the spell again to leave. Do you think you can do it?”

“Y-yes I think I can.” She said. Her horn lit up and she brought it to my forehead and the room was filled with a white light.

We woke up back in the library. I was still in a towel and so I went to get my clothes. She had spike lay them out to dry after the wash. I noticed it was a lot darker and when I took a look outside one of the windows and I saw that the moon was out.

I found my clothes and put them on. I then headed back to the library. When I got inside I noticed that twilight wasn’t inside. I started looking around the castle and found her in one of the bathrooms throwing up. I waited her to stop before entering the bathroom. She was a mess and she admitted that she crawled to the bathroom because she was too weak to walk. I started a bath for her and helped her clean up. While I was bathing her I tried to make a joke about how she spent the whole day inside my head but I don’t think she was in a joking mood. I took her back to the library and made her a daisy sandwich and then went and took a shower.

When I got back to the library she was still sitting where I left her. The food I made her laid untouched and when I asked, she said she wasn’t hungry. I picked her up carefully and took her to her room. I went to lay her down on her bed but she wrapped her hoofs around me harder and begged not to leave her alone. I could feel my heart breaking and I couldn’t say no. So I laid down next to her and held her close to my body. She cried herself to sleep and she wasn’t the only one.