The Man with the Hidden Past

Author's Note: My whole Q&A part would be my 20th post for this story, so yeah. Have fun with that, any other ideas can just go anywhere on this story. And sorry for the delay, I was busy partying. Well, if you call throwing a basketball around and working up a good sweat a party anyway. Either way, I havn't had that much fun in a while. Lets see how it effects this here story. Plus, when I was about to upload it, I fell asleep. Fan-fucking-tastic. eh?

I floated into town to see everyone acting like they usually would.

< Why arn't they running away? >

I floated to the town center and found a group of small fillies. One, a small while unicorn, looked alot like Rarity. Another, a small orange pegasis, looked like she was telling a story to the other two. The third was a small earth pony with a red man and a very large pink bow. As I got closer, I heard the orange one a bit better

"..hmm.... Maybe... We can get our Cutie Marks in singing?"

"Nah... Ah don't really like singin'" the earth pony said.

< Sounds kinda like AppleJack. Sister maybe? >

"Well, I think it's a great idea!" the white one said.

< Hm... Loud, white, unircorn, abnormally clean for some reason... Yup. Rarity's sister. Has to be. >

"Maybe we should play Rock, Paper, Scissors!" the pegasus said.

< How are they gonna even do that? >

Each one lifted one hoof in the air and shook it downward 3 times. They all looked the same. Well, they must've seemed to find a way to tell who had what, because the earth pony looked disapointed.

"Darn. Fine, we can all try singin'. I think Sweetie Belle has a good chance at this!" she said.

The white one blushed. < Hm. Well, that's one name down. >

I decided to walk up to them and get a closer look at them.

"Hey, did it just get colder?" the pegasus asked the others.

< Ok... I make the surrounding area colder. Classic. >

"Yeah, Ah guess it did. But ah thought it was supposta be sunny?" the earth pony said as she walked away with the others.

"Yeah, you're right Applebloom! Rainbow said that the clouds should all be gone today." the pegasus stated.

< Another name down. One more. >

"Really Scootaloo? But... What about that cloud up there?" Sweetie Belle said as she pointed to a single cloud in the sky.

< And... Done. I got there names. Wait. Why do I care what their names are? >

"Wait, what's that?" Applebloom asked as she pointed to something hanging off the cloud. I looked up and saw it too. I spread my wings to go check it out only to remember they didn't do anything.

< Maybe I just have to think about floating up? Like with going forward? > So I thought about floating up. Nope.

< Ok... That don't work. Try wings again? > I said as I spread my wings to try again. I flapped them a few times to notice that I was in the air again. And that there was alot of dust flying around under me.

< Oh yeah. There's something wrong with the world if someone didn't question that. >

"What was that?" Scootaloo asked the others as she pointed to the dust cloud.

< That was fast. >

"Probably just a bunny or something." Sweetie Belle said.

"Hey! I ain't no bunny!" I yelled from the air. They all jumped and turned in my direction.

"Who's there!" Scootaloo yelled.

-insert shifty eyes here- "No one..." I said.

"Oh. Ok then!" She said before skipping away with the others.

"I'm not sure if I should laugh... Or just hate this world because of the stupidity shown to me just now. So I'ma laugh."

...

"I'll do it later."

I decided to get back on track and hurry back up to the cload. I flew up to the edge and peeked my head over. I found Rainbow. Asleep.

"Of course." I said as I flew onto the cloud. Seeing how I was pretty much a ghost, I was supprised to see that I left footprints under me. "Ok, that makes no sence. I have no feet anymore!" I said as I studied the foot prints more. As I moved, I noticed I was moving like I was before, without having to think about moving in a certain direction. I looked back down to see I had legs again.

"Ugh... Forget laughing. I'm just gonna hate this world a bit more." I said as I put my hand on my head. I knelt down to see if I could make marks with other parts of my body too. I stood back up to see a mark where my leg was. So, I decided to make a couch out of the cloud.

"Best cloud ever. It just never ends!" I said after I made the couch and saw the cloud was still the same size. After I got on the couch and lied down, I noticed Rainbow shuffling around a bit.

"Must be having a nightmare." I said to myself as I watched a bit more.

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"God Damnit." I said as I got off my hand-made cloud couch and went over to Rainbow. As I reach down to pick her up, I felt something. It felt as if something was pulling my hands toward her. I quickly backed away.

"What the..." I slowly reached forward. I felt the pulling again.

"Well. I can't tell if it's good or bad unless I let it happen. I said as I stopped fighting the pulling. I watched as my hand went into her body. The pulling then traveled up my arm. So I just went limp and let myself be pulled in. Then, the world went black. I opened my eyes to see I was in the sky, with a few clouds here and there. I looked to my right to see a large castle made out of feathers. I wondered how I was going to get in when suddenly all the cloads around me made a path to the castle. As I walked along the clouds, I noticed that as soon as I stepped off, it turned dark red and melted into blood.

"Well. Isn't that interesting." I said as I watched the blood fall. It just kept going. Soon, it just dissapeared. As soon as I turned away, I saw something in the corner of my eye. It was a new cloud. It flew into the spot where the previous cloud was and took it's place.

"High maintenance clouds. Cool." I said as I kept walking. As soon as I got up to the castle I stepped on to see the feathers under me turn red too. I ignored it as kept walking. I reached the door and found it to be a dissapointment. It was the same size as any other pony sized door. Not some huge door that would fit the size of the castle. I reached to it and tapped it.. All the feathers in the way just flew in random directions.

After a few sneezes, I ducked and walked in. I found a single long hallway. Each side was lined with doorways. Each one had a random word on it. And not in any order I could think of. I found Twilight Sparkle and Crash Landings right by each other.

"Must just be some coincedence." I said as I kept walking. As I reached the end of the hallway, I reached a single door. Dreams. I heard the sound of Rainbow wimpering in it. Deciding to see what was causing it, I opened it. Suddenly, a large window appeared. It flashed and showed tons of images at a very fast pace. Some pleasent, some funny. Some even out right strange. But the last one slowed down so I could see it better. It was one of Terror. I saw Rainbow being held to a chair, While I took my knife, and skinned all her friends. Then, when I was done, A random sewing machine appeared. I went over to it with the skins and made each one into a hat. And I must admit. They looked TERRABLE! I mean, come on! I can make way better hats than that! Maybe. Ok, fine! Those where actually better! Anyway, back to the story. When I was done with the hats, I went over to Rainbow with my knife. By now, I've seen enough. I ran up to the window and just right out punched it. My hand went though and kept going. I pulled my hand out to see that the window still worked, exept the me in the window was looking behind him at a random hole that had appeared. Rainbow was looking too. I reached my hand into the whole in the window and saw a dark red mist. I grew a smile. Only one that a Dark, sadistic person could grow. I pulled my hand out again. And put my face to the whole.

"Here's Johnny!" I said. The other 'me' got the reference somehow and laughed. I then reached my hand in and felt around the whole and found a doorknob. I turned it and went in. I walked up to the other me, and studied it better.

"Ok, now that's just not fair."

"What is?" It asked.

"You totally are gonna die." I answered. "I mean, come on! I'm a fucking ghost."

"I always wanted to fight a ghost..." it said as it rubbed his chin.

"Yeah... I always did. But I'm getting side-tracked! Let's just fight." I said as I raised my hands.

"Yeah, sure." I said as it spread it's wings and flew up.

< Death. >

I watched as the black fire grew in my hand into a dark pole of black flame. Soon, the Blade appeared, I hadn't studied it before so I figured now was a good of time as ever. ([The picture at the bottom is what I'm baseing the scythe off of. So yeah. it's probably the best you're gonna get. Because i suck at describing things.]) It was completely black with only a slight line of silver where the blade was sharp. The pole it was one was lined with what looked like to be a snake's skeleton. Exept near the top where the skull was, it grew small spines. And the snake's skull had small red dots of flame in the eye sockets. I looked back up to see that the otherme was just sitting there quietly drinking tea that ge got from nowhere, also whereing a monocal and a top hat that he also got from no where.

-facepalm-

"Yes, Quite." He said.

"Oh, just shut the fuck up and get down here."

Suddenly, his tea, top hat , and monocal just disappeared in a puff of smoke. "Fuck no, I'ma chill." He said as he laid back on nothing.

-facepalm. Again.-

"Ugh... Fine." I said as I flew up there to get him. I found him asleep. "Of course. Well, now's a good time to try something new."

< Nightmare >

Suddenly, a black fame with red tips appeared in my hand. It went up my arm. And it grew. And grew. And grew, Until it was up to my shoulder, then stopped. Dismissing it as part of the power, I reached down to his forhead. And just plain punched it. I couldn't moove my hand away. Soon, I saw the black flame crawl backdownmy arm and onto his face. It went into every hole it could find. Starting with the ears and eyes, then just smothering his face as it found his mouth and nose. I took my fist off to see that his face was starting to turn red. He was starting to cry, and yell, and call for help. Eventually he was doing all that, AND crawling up into a ball.

"Ha! That's funny. Now, to finish this." I said as I returned the hand I used to the Scythe. I raised it above my head and brought it down. I saw it pass through his neck. I saw the effects imediately. He stopped crying, and went limp. Soon, his skin turned grew, and wrapped around his bones tighter. Eventually the bone was appearing in holes in the skin. after about 5 minutes, it was just a skeleton. After about another 5 minutes, the bone started to turn to dust. I grabed the knife he had on him and flew back down to Rainbow, who looked absolutly mortafided at the fact that there was two of me at one point. I raised the knife in my hand and twisted it slightly. I saw that it was slightly longer and was covered in blood still from the skinning it was doing before. I went up to her and saw that she was a mess. Bloodshot eyes, tears running down here face, and sporting a few bruises and a black eye.

"Hey, no worries. Other me is gone. And from the looks of it, I should have beat him up and then killed him because of what he did." I said as I got closer. When I was close, I knelt down to try and look at her face. She turned away and started to cry again. "Hey, hey... No more crying. You've done enough of that. Now come on. Let's get outta here." I said as I lifted her chin. She slowly nodded and stopped crying. I went around to the other side of the chair and cut the ropes. Seeing how I still that the scythe in my hand, I closed it and watched the flames disperce. After making sure Rainbow was out of the chair, I stabbed the knife into it and walked over to Rainbow. I knelt down to her and grabbed her in an arm. I felt her wrap her hooves around my neck and cry softly into my shoulder. As I walked out of that room, I remembered what a nightmare makes ya feel like when ya wake up. As I got back to the door I entered from, I looked back into the room.

< Fire >

Soon a standard fire appeared in my hand. I thrust my hand forward to see a jet of fire come out of it and spread around the room. I then got out of the door and closed it. And saw that the hole I made was gone. I dismissed it as part of the dream being destroyed. I desided getting as far away was best for her. So I quickly walked away from the door and out of the hallway. As I was nearing the door to leave, I noticed that Rainbow was falling asleep.

< What happens if you fall asleep inside a dream? > I wondered. Soon, I heard her start to snore softly, and I started to feel the pulling again. It got stronger the longer I was in Rainbow's dream.

"She must be waking up then. I guess that's my signal for me to leave." I said as I reached my hand out to Rainbow. Leaving was kinda the same as entering. Exapt when you leave, There's a bright sun shining in your eyes.

"Gah! Stupid sun!" I said as I sheilded my eyes. I looked down to see Rainbow looking at me.

"What."

"What happened to you?"

"To long of a story. Not gonna tell it all."

"I got time." She said as she climbed onto the couch I made.

"I died." I said.

"Oh. How?" She asked with a frown.

"Don't worry 'bout it."

"But I want to."

"Then go ahead. But I ain't gonna tell ya." I said as I walked to the edge of the cloud.

"Hey! Where are you going?" She asked as she jumped off the couch.

"I dunno."

"Then, ya wanna just stay here with me?" she asked with a blush.

"Heh. Sure. Why not." I said with a smile.

Author's note: And... end. Here's the picture I said I would have at the bottom.