Chapters The Man with the Hidden Past
I hate Mondays. I wake up, go to work, then go home. And then repeat it until Friday, where I kick back and relax with my girlfriend. She says I have the "Cutest brown eyes." God I love her, even though she embarasses me often. I would do anything for her, but there are a few exeptions. For one, if I had to die, I would have to refuse. I would never forgive myself, but I would need to move on eventually. And as I was thinking of what I could do for her tonight, I noticed a show on my television set.
"Hm? Whats this?" I thought.
"My Little Pony, My Little Pony..."
~25 minutes later~
"My God, that was pretty good. I should probably look this up later."
So I grabbed a snack really quick, and went to my laptop. When there, I tryed to remember the names of the Characters in the show.
"Umm... Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, AppleJack, Rainbow Dash and... umm... oh well guess thats it!" I said.
"WAIT! Rarity. No idea how I forgot her." I said after a while.
And with that, I typed the first thing that came to mind. Fluttershy. And I was immediately confronted by dozens of pictures of the adorable pegesis.
"Well shit, I bet if I could tell whats cute and whats not, my heart would probably explode apperantly. I should really try and learn how."
I also noticed music, like "Fluttershy's Lament", and other great songs.
"Wow, these guys are great! I wonder how they do so well. But mainly, why can I only remember Fluttershy's Lament?"
Then I saw the add. It was about the U.S Army.
I immediatly grew sad. And angry. Then a memory formed in my mind. It was of a young man. He was holding another man with the same uniform as him in his arms.
"No! Don't die on me just yet!" the young one yelled.
"Don't worry Son, you just keep fighting. Keep those you love in mind, and here, have a happy birthday." he said with his last breath, handing him a key with a note attached. It read this.
"Dear Sergeant First Class Paul,
If your reading this, I didn't make it. So i have a present back at home for you. I had a custom message engraved in it. I need you to be the man of the house now. Keep your mother from knowing im dead. You know how she over reacts. And if she does find out, or makes you tell her, give it to her gently. She's cry, but she's get over it. Tell her I would never have wanted her to cry over me. Do what ever it takes to keep her happy. And, for once, get a girl too, you don't have many friends. You could use some company to brighten you up.
Love,
Sergeant Major Vince" "I will Dad", the boy said with tears flowing freely from his eyes," I will."
"Hello, I am Princess Celestia and I would have to ask a favor of you."
"Yes, of course, I am never one to turn down a kind lady. Even if she came into my home without my consent." I simply replied.
"You dont seem suprised though, why's that?"
"I am always the calm one in a group. I woun't ever truly seem suprised. People around me have never seen a face on me that's not one of anger or sadness." I said.
She cringed at hearing this.
"So what was it that you needed of me? Let me guess, one of your pony friends needs help?" I replied meaner than I had intended.
"Well, yes. How did you know?" She said, shocked at how I got it right.
"My instincts are almost never wrong."
"Wow, so. Is there anything you would like before we go?"
"Actually, yes. But how much can I bring?"
"Simply a saddlebag please."
I looked at her with slight anger in my eyes, " A saddlebag? Do I really look like I wear a saddle on my back? What ever. Ill just bring some food, clothing, and some other things."
"Yes, sorry, for the confusion, I'll just wait here for you."
And with that, I left. I went to the kitchen first, I grabbed a lighter, matches, some waffles, sauceges, hambuger meat, A LOT of steak, "God I love steak." I though, and some cooking recipes.
"Next is my bedroom." I said. As I walked to my bedroom I stopped at a closet in the hallway. One that I ALWAYS kept locked. When I opened it, I found the things that could provide food, protection, and some entertainment for me.
"Guns" I said, with an evil grin. "Wait," It had finally hit me, "how am I gonna fit these in a bag?" So I Improvised, I grabbed my hunting knife, attached it to the insides of my pants, grabbed a couple boxes of full metal jacket rifle bullets, and my rifle, which I put in its case, and put it on my back.
"I love the fact that my back can support a lot of weight." I thought as I put the gun on my back. The gun must have weighed like 15-20 pounds, plus the weight I would probably add on later. Knife in my pants, rifle on my back, and bullets in my back pockets. I went up to my bedroom. I imediatly put on my toughest leather jacket in there. Boy was I happy it had alot of pockets. So I took the bullets out of my back pockets and filled the inside jacket pockets with them. That left the front pockets to fill.
"Hm... What to get now... phone probably wount do much, nothing else is really small enough. Eh, I'll just get the cloths then." So I rumaged through my room looking for an average sized bag to put cloths in.
"Never know when ya might need one of these I guess." I thought while putting a Tuxedo in the bag along with a hat, some boxers, blue jeans, short and long sleeved shirts, and a couple pairs of shorts.
"Ready yet?" I heard. "Oh yeah, thats right. I should hurry, I almost forgot she was there!" I thought.
"Yeah, I'll be right there! Im pretty sure got everything." I yelled from my room.
"Good, then lets get going shall we?" she asked.
"Lets." I replied, happy to get away for a while.
The Man with the Hidden Past
I Blame the person responsible.
"OH. MY. GOD! ARE YOU PURPOSLY MAKING THIS TAKE FOREVER?!" I yell at Princess Celestia.
I could swear she laughed at me when I said that. Which is strange because I couldn't hear anything! It was like when your on a highway, going 60mph and you stick your head out the window.
"What would you do if I said 'yes'?" I heard in my head.
"OK, WHAT THE FUCK. HOW DID YOU DO THAT?" I yelled back at Celestia.
"I'm an Alicorn, remember?"she said in my head again.
"NO! YOU NEVER TOLD BE YOU WHERE AN ALI- WHATEVER! YOU JUST CAME INTO MY HOUSE AND ASKED ME FOR A FAVOR!" I yelled back at her. "I bet she's trying to make me mad..." I thought.
"Yes, yes I am. That was quite quick thinking of you." she said in my head again.
"OK, SERIOUSLY. GET OUT OF MY HEAD. I HAVE SOMETHINGS I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP TO MYSELF IN THERE. BUT CAN YOU AT LEAST SPEED THIS UP? IM ALREADY FALLING ASLEEP FROM BOREDOM." I yelled.
"You don't have to yell you know. And I would really like it if you didn't. My ears hurt aready from just doing this spell."
"Spell? Like what, Magic? But that isn't real!" I said, clearly shocked.
"What, you don't have magic in your world? What about that colorful box you where sitting in front of when I first arrived?"
"That was some technology my kind uses, and seriously, if we had magic, why did I use my hands for everything?" I said, slightly annoyed at her question.
"Well. I'll have some of my scientists try and invent one for Equestria, it looked quite useful."
"In my world, I would punch the guy who said this, but. Are we there yet?" I said, hopeing she didn't try and continue the subject of technology.
"Yes, we are. But I must tell you first, it may have some consiquences on your figure. You can stay with me and my sister at the castle until you adjust to your body here." She said, with a slight hint of some emotion, but I couldn't quite tell.
"Consiquences? Like, changes? Ok, sure. Lets just hope my eyes don't change. I love the color and the way they look."
Then I saw what looked like some sort of really fancy door. It almost looked like it was 3-4 feet tall. Its was a green that reminded me of grass, with white designs in the iddle and a black trim on the outside.
"I wonder what these mean." I said thinking out loud. "Oh well. Not my problem!"
And with that, I grabbed the handle on then, and pulled. I had to kneel to get under easily.
"Damn height. Always useful, but a pain in the ass when it isn't." I mumbled.
And then it was a free fall to the forest below.
"Damn it Celestia! You planned this didn't you!? You know what? Forget it! Just help me!"
And as I was falling I decided to look at my surroundings, and noticed a mountain with a city on it, a small village, and an Apple orchard.
"Ok, at least I know where I am. But where do I fall?" I said relizingI I hadn't even looked down. And when I did, I noticed a small lake in a forest, with a small pink and yellow creature.
"Oh God. Im probably gonna scare the fuck out of it when I land." I thought.
I landed with enough force to make a crater somehow. And I was consious. So I decided to stand. And when I did, I noticed the small pink and yellow creature was a horse. "Pony" my mind corrected.
"Well good for it. Because I don't give a fuck if it was a horse or a pony." I thought.
It also wasnt moving.
"Oh my god. Is it even breathing?" i wondered.
I slowly made my way to the thing, and put my ear on its side, and it had a small, FAST, heartbeat, and shallow breathing.
"Even I know you're not suppost to sound like that. I got to help her! Or him. I sure as Hell ain't gonna check." And with that, I picked her up in my arms, and cradled her like I would a kitten or baby to make sure it couldn't wiggle free of my grasp.
"Its really light for its size... but back to the task at matter, where does this thing live?" I said to myself. So I just decided to head to that villige I saw when I was falling. When I got out of the forest, all I saw was a cottege with alot of animals by it.
"Hey! Maybe someone there can help it! I sure can't, I don't know much about this place." I said, before rushing off to the house. When I got there, I knocked and waited. No answer. So I knocked again. Same results.
"Hey? Anyone there?" I yelled at the door. Once again, no answer.
"Ok, looks like I get to break down a door." And with that, I set down the thing a couple feet away, ran back a couple feet, and charged. The door was quite light, and my shoulder barely hurt. The door had also shattered when I hit it, so I should probably try and find a way to repay the person for it. If I even meet him or her. When I was looking for some place to lie the thing outside on, I noticed it was waking up. So I hurried up, wrote a note on some paper apoligizing for the door, and asked if it could help the poor creature. Then I ran back outside, gently grabbed the creature, and put it on the bed.
"Wait, I never even looked at this thing properly." I said, before looking at its face. And what I saw truly suprised me.
"Fluttershy? Why was she out there alone?! Oh god, I'm so going into that village and scaring everyone there because of this." I said with slight anger.
"EEP!" was the responce I got.
"Hm?" I turned and looked at what made the sound. And there was Fluttershy, trying to hide under her hands/ hooves? from me.
I quietly, went over to the bed, and sat next to her. With a genuine smile of kindness on my face, I slowly pryed her hooves away from her face and made her look at me. After she looked at me, she looked calmer.
"If I had a nickel for everytime I made someone calmer with this smile, I would be a millionare." I thought. And my exaustion from breaking down a door, running through a forest, and crashing into the ground finally caught up with me.
"Oh God, at least I'm in a bed that I can pass out on." I said. And fell forward. OFF the bed.
"Yeah, well fuck you too life. And gravity." Where my finally thoughts before I blacked out.
The Man with the Hidden Past
A Wonderful wake up call.
Author's Note: Yes, I know I need to spell things better, I also know that I'm terrible. Stop telling me things I already know.
I woke up with an annoying beeping coming from above me.
"What a pleasant way to wake up." I said, sarcasim oozing from raspy voice. I decided to get a drink to solve my voice problem, so I picked myself off the floor and wondered around trying to find a source of water. I ended up finding the bathroom. I put my ear against the door to see if there was anyone in there. Nothing.
"Must be empty then." I said. And with that, I walked in and found the sink. I had to kneel to reach it.
"Damn small ponies. Why cant they make anything for taller things?" I sighed, then turned on the water. I cupped my hands and washed my face real fast and watered down my hair so I can fix it better.
"I should really get my hair cut, or at least get it styled." I said noticing my hair was irritating my eyes.
"I don't even know why I keep it this long. I guess I just like the way it looks when the wind blows in it." I said, thinking about it even further.
And with that, I cupped my hands once more, and drank the water inside them.
"Ah. Much better. Now I don't sound like I swallowed sandpaper." I said, grateful for the drink.
And being the good listener I am, I was curious about the sound I was hearing. It was nothing. Absolute nothing.
"Strange... There should at least be foot- erm, hoofsteps? Coming from that pony." I said as I was getting up to look for her. I wandered around the small cottage, amazed at all the animals homes and other supplies. I also found that the door was fixed.
"I wonder who did that?" I though.
Then I noticed him. A small white rabbit. His eyes told me many things. It told me that he did not like my presence. But also told me that he needed my help with something.
I decided to take pity on the little thing.
"I'm guessing you need help?" I asked. He stood there shocked at how I was right on the first try. "Sheesh, don't act too suprised!" I said laughing slightly. "Now, back to the subject. What ya need help with?" I said serious again. "Damn, even here I have to help people with their problems. Why can't I just ignore them?!" I though.
The rabbit pointed to the door. So I opened it. And he charged out at the fastest he could go. I quickly caught up considering how 3 of his hops equaled one of my steps. And I was just walking leizurely, enjoying the scenery. When he stopped, I almost stepped on him. He looked at me with anger, fear, and annoyance.
"What?" I said. He looked at me with eyes that said, " You know what you did."
"And? So what. It was an accident." I shot back. He just rolled his eys and pointed to a shed.
"Let me guess, she's scared, its dark, and she forgot how to open the door?" I said with a voice like I had done this all before. The rabbit looked at me, then to the door, then back at me. And shook his head yes again.
I looked at the door and noticed it turned inward. I put my ear to it to see if I could hear her breathing. Barely.
I turned back to the rabbit. "She's either running out of air, or she fainted." I said, "No point in sugar-coating it." I thought.
He looked even paler now. "Whoa. You look like you've seen a ghost. And how can a rabbit with white fur get whiter?"
He looked at me annoyed and with eyes that said, " You gonna help or just stand there?"
"Fine, I'll help, but I need you to make sure she isn't in the way of the door. Can you like, dig under the wall or something?"
He looked at me and facepalmed. Or in his case facepawed? I don't know. But with that he got to work on digging. After about 10 minutes of waiting he came back out and shot me a look that said, "Ok, now get going."
"OK! sheesh. Don't need to be pushy." As I got up, I noticed a small jingleing sound. I reached into my jacket and felt the bullets there. I relized that I also had my rifle on my back.
"How did I not notice these earlier? I wonder if my knife is still there too." I thought. And reaching into my pants where I stored my knife, I found it. I quickly took it out. The rabbit looked at my with a look that said, "What's that?"
"Now this," I said unsheathing the oversized hunting knife, "Is a knife."
The rabbit now just plain ran away now. But stayed at a distance until I put the knife away.
"Wow, you guys get scared fast don't you? I'll remember that." I said. "Now then. Stay there. I don't want you getting hurt by my crazy ideas." I said, once again unsheathing the knife.
"Now, lets hope I still got some good aim." I said with a wicked smile. "I bet that rabbit is terrifide with what he sees me as." I thought before throwing the knife right into the middle of the door. Effectavly splitting it in half for no reason.
"Good, I still do. Now then. Enough fooling around shall we?" I said. All he did was fall back. I laughed at him and set my rifle down.
"DON'T. YOU. DARE. TOUCH. IT." I said grimly pointing to the rabbit.
With that, I walked up to the door, and kicked one side of it. To see what side the hindges where on. Left.
"This gonna be easy considering how easy my knife went into it." I said takeing a couple steps backward. And with all the force in my already strong legs, I ran up to the door and kicked on the right side, effectivly opening the door, and not just breaking off the hindges and having to explain why its like that.
Then I noticed the pony in the corner, hiding under her hooves again.
I sighed, "Look, either you stop being scared and get out, or I'm fixing the door and closing it again."
She bolted out of the shed and into the cottage. "Well that solves one question. Now to solve the ones I'll be pestered with later." And with that, I quickly pounded the hindges back in, and closed the door.
After making my way back to my gun, I noticed movment in the upstairs window.
"Looks like someone is curious about me." I called up to the window.
The curtains then suddenly moved. Like someone just ran away from them.
"Damn. Im not the handsomest man in the world, but I sure ain't that ugly!" I called up to the window again.
"Might as well scare someone into either pissing themselves, or to the point where they're so scared they become frozen in place." And with that, I went inside the cottage, closing the door behind me.
"Knowing how easily she couldn't open that shed door, I'm pretty sure I dont even have to lock this." I said, disappointed at the fact.
When I said that, I heard someone's feet/ hooves run across the floor above me.
"I just got an idea." I said with an evil smirk.
I took my rifle off my back and opened the case.
"Its been to long." Was all I could say at the gun. It was a Winchester Model 70 with an engraving on the forestock. It only said this, "May God Bless Those Who Fall Victim To This Beauty. They'll Need It." With idea still in mind I pulled back the bolt and noticed a blank in it.
"Well, that saves some trouble then. I was gonna shoot a buck and leave her a new hat. Oh well. Looks like I'll just partially deafen her." I said, disappointed by the fact I can't go shoot a buck now.
I took the gun with me as I walked up the stairs. I found all the doors closed. But I also knew the only one with a window. So I decided to do the only Jerk-like thing I could think of in this situation. I kick all the doors open. One by one. Slowly. Making sure my footsteps where heard. When I reached the last one, I heard crying.
"UGH! Fuck! I didn't mean to make her cry! ...well exept for that thing with the buck earlier. I was just... well, I don't know what I was thinking. Must be one of those consiquences Celestia said. And if thats the case, I should really think about my next move here..." I thought.
The crying continued behind the door. Each passing minute made me feel worse.
I sighed, "Listen, I'm sorry for scaring you. I don't know what I was thinking. Can you forgive me?" I said through the door in the kindest voice I could.
The crying got lighter after that. "Can I come in?" I asked.
I didn't hear a responce. All I heard was some hoofsteps on the other side. I was starting to wonder what she was doing when the door opened slighty.
"So I can come in?" I said, still wondering what exactly opening a door was suppost to do.
A highpitched mumble was all I heard. But my ears picked up every word.
"Well, thanks I guess." I said while opening the door.
When I was in the room, I saw her in the corner hiding behind her mane. I walked up to her as slowly as I could, and sat down right next to her so I could be at eye level with her. I gently turn her head to face me. Then I gently moved her mane to the side of her face, so it doesn't cover up her eyes. I tryed to soften the look in my eyes, and put on a smile.
"Listen, I found you in that forest over there knocked out. I brought you here in case you needed help. But I guess your doing fine on your own. I don't want to scare you anymore, so I'm just gonna go to into that village for some help. Can you take me there?" I asked, hoping to get her to actually like me some.
"Umm... I kinda have to feed the animals first. That is if you don't mind...." She said, just slightly above a wisper.
"Why would I mind? I'll go put this away," I said, pointing to my rifle."and then I'll help you!"
I quickly ran out of the room, hitting my head on the door frame on the way out.
"FU-" I started, but then I noticed Fluttershy right by my head making sure I was fine.
I quickly got rightback up, careful not to head my head on anything again. I quickly went back downstairs and put my gun back in its case.
"So, if my stuff I carried on me is right here, should the rest of my stuff still be in the forest?" I said to myself. Then I remembered the steak. "Oh... I shouldn't have brought that. That is only gonna cause me trouble. Wait. My steak! Nothing better touch them! Or at least they better hope I don't catch them anyway." I thought.
And with that, I hurried up and found Fluttershy. She was at the chicken coop feeding the chickens. Once the chickens saw me though, they imediatly ran and hid.
I sighed," I knew that would happen. The only thing that didn't run away was that rabbit."
Fluttershy quickly turned around with a look of worry in her eyes and looked right at me.
"What?" was all I said.
"Y-you didn't hurt him d-did you?"
"Him? Of course not. He's the one that told me you where in that shed."
"You understand him too? I thought I was the only one."
"Well that explains the suprised face he had when I did what he said. Oh yeah, I need to head off into the woods later. But would you mind leading me into town right now? After I get my something first though. I want to make sure I have something to protect myself with in case the people there act negativly at my appearance."
She shoot her head yes, and sat down to wait while I walked off to go get what I needed. Once I got there, I began to look for my rifle case again. I took out my rifle, and loaded in a couple cartriges. I then took out my knife again and this time straped it on the outside of my pants, to make sure nobody would attack me hopfully. I didn't want to use my weapons, but if I have to for my own or someone else's safety, then let it be done. After getting my rifle and my knife I walked back out to Fluttershy. Still decideing to act like I didn't know her, I decided to do something to try and befriend her.
"So, whats your name? You havn't really told me yet."
"Its umm... F-Fluttershy." she said. She almost sounded like she was trying to be quiet.
"Well, hello there Fluttershy." I said, suprising the little pony with the fact that I heard her. "Shall we get going now?"
"Oh. O-ok." Was all she said, and then she started to slowly walk to the village.
"So, you have any friends there you can introduce me to?" I said, trying to invoke her into introducing me to the rest of the mane six. It worked. She flew right up behind me and dragged me to the town. Babbling about Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, AppleJack, and Pinkie Pie the entire time.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Wow, thanks guys, for just reading it mainly. I may have a good amount of people who don't like this story, but I also have some who do. And just people saying they don't like it only makes me want to make more. Cause guess what. I'm just like that. So deal with it.
Once we got to the village I saw a sign that said, "Welcome to Ponyville."
"So this place is called Ponyville?" I ask Fluttershy.
"Oh yes! It's absolutly wonderful! Theres so much to do!" Fluttershy said, above her usualy wisper
"Oh sorry for being so loud. I'm just kinda excited to show everypony you." She quickly said after.
"So what. I'm like, your pet now? How degrading." I said sarcasticly. I looked at her after that and she seemed shocked by what I said.
"W-what? No! Of course not." she said sheepishly.
"Your a terrible liar Fluttershy." I simply stated.
After that, she just stayed quiet the rest of the way. But then my thumb started to get irratated.
"Shit. I know what that means." I thought. I quickly dug my heels into the ground to stop Fluttershy from dragging me. We came to a quick halt and it made Fluttershy look at me with curiousity.
"Whats wrong? Mr. umm... What was your name?"
"Now's not the time Fluttershy. Something is gonna pop out at us soon. And I don't like it." I said, grabbing the handle of my knife.
"Whats that for?" She asked, noticing my hand on the knife.
"Violence is it resorts to it. And hopfuly not Death." I said with my voice cold as steel.
All she did was gasp. Then what ever it was popped out. I imediately lifted it by its neck and held the knife up to it.
"What are you and what do you want." If voices could kill, my voice would have made the thing explode.
"You're new here so I thought I would through you a party! But then I remebered I didn't know your name! So I went and found you here walking with Fluttershy. But then I saw you stop so I ran over as fast as I could and then you grabbed me by my neck and lifted me in the air and pointed that shiny thing at me! What is that anyway? Its it a flat spoon? Why would somepony need that though. It wouldn't make any sense!" I quickly dropped the thing, grabbing my ears instead.
"Shit. I have no idea why I didn't kill the thing. It's killing me by just talking!"
"Pinkie Pie, I think your hurting his ears." Fluttershy wispered.
"OH MY GOSH! IM SO SORRY! I didn't mean it!" Pinkie Pie said, her coat and mane slightly darker.
"Heh, no worries. I've had worse." I said, a memory forcing its way into my head.
A young Soldier with a Winchester Model 70 with a specialy engraved forestock was looking through the scope at his target. The target saw the scope flash in the sun and opened fire in the area he saw the flash. One of the stray bullets went straight through the scope and into the soldier's right eye. Hearing the soldier yell in pain, he headed in that direction hoping to finish him before he calls for help. When he got there he found a note.
"Nice try stupid. Never let your gaurd down. And have a nice day in Hell." He read aloud. "What's this suppost to mean?" He said, looking up from the letter.
"Its means what it says. Never let your gaurd down." Came the voice of the young soldier, who made an eyepatch from some fabric off his shirt.
Before the target could turn to face the soldier, he already had a 5 inch hunting knife going through his neck.
"Damn. My aim is getting worse. This time I didn't even hit the vertebrae." He said wipeing the blade off on his eyepatch.
"Just a little more blood wount hurt. Besides, I always wanted a glass eye. Those things are cool."
And with that, I was shaken out of my forced flashback.
"Huh? What? What happened?" I said.
"You passed out when you where talking to Pinkie Pie. What was that about anyway?"
"Nothing. Where am I? This isn't the path I was on. And who are you? You don't sound familiar." I said.
"Me? Why I'm the fastest flyer in Equestria! Rainbow Dash!" the rainbow maned pegasus said.
"I see. The name suits you. Your name matches your title and your mane."
I noticed my knife was still in my hand. My knuckles where white from gripping it so hard.
"Yeah... Its stuck in your hoof. Its like somepony cut a whole in it and then glued it in."
"What, my hand? Nah. Its suppost to be like that." I said releasing my grip from the handle. I used my other hand to put it back in its sheath. I looked up from the make shift bed they made for me to notice that there was Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie?, and four others. All staring at me and my hand.
"What. Its just a hand. Nothing special."
The purple unicorn? spoke next. "No, not really just the hand. Its you mainly. What are you exactly?" It said, floating some paper and a quill with her horn.
"Wow, actual magic. Cool I guess." I said with my poker face on. Sadly, its not really my poker face. Its just plain my face.
"Either way, I'm a Human. I was asked a favor from someone named Celestia. She ended up dropping me from above tree level near Fluttershy. After that, you can just ask Fluttershy herself. And let me guess. Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, and AppleJack." I said pointing to each one respectively.
"Well, yes. How did you know?" Twilight asked.
"Fluttershy told me about all her friends." I said looking at Fluttershy. She was hiding behind her mane and blushing.
"Fluttershy, if you don't stop hiding behind your mane I'll cut it off." I said sternly. I never liked it when someone tryed to hide their own face.
She immediately removed her face, but kept the blush. But looked slightly scared now.
"Good. Now keep it that way. It will help you get over your shyness if you can look someone in the face." I said trying to make it sound like I was only trying to help. It seemed to work with all of the ponies there exept for one. A certain orange pony with a Stetson on her head. AppleJack.
I smirked. I could see the had a question in her head. I pointed right at her.
"I know what your thinking." I said.
"How did ya know?" She asked.
"I can see it in your eyes. And I'll even answer it for you. But nobody can answer a question if they arn't asked, now can they?" I said, smirk still on my face.
"Well, yeah, Ah guess yer right. So what exactly is goin' on with yer eye?" She asked.
"What, this old thing? I said, pointing to my right eye.
She slowly shook her head yes.
My smile turned into a wicked grin.
"Well, it looks like I can just show you." I said. And I put my hand behind my head, and smacked the back of my head with enough force to knock the fake eye right at her feet.
As soon as it hit the floor, everyone but Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie fainted. I think. Rainbow Dash looked kinda creeped out, and Pinkie Pie kept trying to do it too. But didn't get very far as she noticed her fainted friends and burst into laughter.
"Glad to see my injuries are amusing." I said, clearly angry that this was taken as a joke.
Rainbow Dash was the only one that caught the anger in my voice though. So she quickly flew over to Pinkie and shoved a hoof in her mouth to try and shut her up.
"Thank you. Now, can you go and get my eye back?" I asked.
She slowly walked over to the eye. She stopped right before it.
"Well? Ya just gonna stand there or something?" I said getting impatient.
She just picked up like it didn't bother her after I said that. "She has quite the bit of pride if all she needs is a little motavation to get her going." I thought as she brought me my eye.
"Thank you. Now then. You have some friends to wake up now. Lets get to work." I said, putting my eye back in place.
"You try shaking them first. Or else I'll go get the ice water." I told Rainbow Dash. She looked like she was thinking of what to do. Then she smiled.
"Nah, go ahead and get the water." She replied.
"She's purposly doing this. Looks like I'll have some fun while I'm at it too." I thought. I saw my rifle leaning against the wall. I pulled back the bolt and noticed the blank was still in there.
"Perfect" I said to myself.
I walked through what looked like a giant tree looking for a kitchen. I opened the door and ducked through it. I noticed the normal stuff in it. I found the sink and a bucket and filled the bucket with water. I walked out of the kitchen while trying to avoid hitting my head and with a bucket of water on my hand. Once I passed my rifle, I quickly picked it up with my other hand.
"Ok, I'm back with the water." I said, setting the bucket on the floor. I then dipped my hand in it, and caught some water in my fingers and flicked it at Rainbow Dash.
"Hey! What was that for?" She asked me.
"Picking the hard way to wake someone up. Your lucky your friends here arn't like me. The last guy that did this to me ended up in a hospital." I simply stated, picking the bucket back up once more. As I walked past each pony, I lightly tipped the bucket to splash water on their faces.
"Apparently water don't wake up ponies. Or they're just faking." I thought. I then grabbed each pony by their tail and pulled them in a circle.
"Wow, how could they not feel that?" I said, suprised that they didn't even make a sound while I was pulling.
"Why exactly are you doing that exactly?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"He's gonna wake them all up at the same time silly!" Pinkie Pie said, coming from somewhere next to me.
"Whoa! Where did you come from?!" I asked, avoiding stepping on one of the ponies' heads from stepping back.
"I was here the entire time silly!" Was her responce.
"No you wheren't. Your lieing, and your quite good at it. But remember this, "A lying man you could trust to never tell the truth, but you could never tell when the honest man chose to lie."
"What's that suppost to mean Mister?" Pinkie asked.
"It means that someone who always lies you can trust to lie, but when someone who's always honest lies, you can never tell." I replied.
"Oh..." Pinkie said. "Well I'll remember it just like you said!"
"Good. Now get away from me unless you want to be deaf."
I opened the bolt on my Winchester to make sure the blank was still in. It was. I then closed the bolt, and pointed it straight at my feet. Which where about in the middle of the circle of ponies I made.
"What are you gonna do?" Rainbow Dash asked, clearly worried.
"Well, If this don't work, I'm gonna make me a hat." I said, sounding quiet serious.
"W-wha... Why would you do that?" Rainbow asked, shocked that I would do that.
"Do you see one on me now? Before I was thinking of making Fluttershy a hat out of a buck, she should be happy I cought her crying when I did. Or else there would be one less buck in this world. And one more hat." I said waiting for her to be quiet so I could fire the blank.
After some silence I decided it was safe to fire my rifle.
-BANG-
"WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY?" Was all I heard after that. After All the ponies settled down, they looked at me for answers.
"What." I said. "I couldn't understand a thing you guys said after I fired my gun."
"So thats what made the noise. But why did you make it do that?" Twilight asked.
"I don't know... Maybe it was because a certain four ponies fainted?" I said. "This one should be smart! She lives in a fucking library for fucks sake! How can she ask such stupid questions?" I though.
"I heard that." I heard in my head.
"Great. Now Celestia's in my head again. GET OUT OF MY HEAD! THAT'S SERIOUSLY CREEPY!" I yelled at nobody particular.
"Celestia's in your head?" Twilight asked.
"No... I'm completly making this up for no reason. What do you think?" I replied, quite annoyed at how her questions where so stupid.
"You don't need to be so mean..." Celestia said.
"Hey, I didn't drop you from above tree level into a forest." I replied.
"Hey! That wasn't my fault."
"Then who's was it? I got some friends in my gun here that I would like to introduce them to." I said with a look of anger on my face.
"Well lucky them. Because I have no idea who did it. The only reason is that I accidentaly messed up where.... to... stop... I'm just gonna stop talking."
"Yeah. Your better off that way. Now. What did you want?" I said, trying to get to the point.
"What? No, I didn't need anything." Celestia said. Obviously trying to sound innocent.
"Yeah, like how I don't need Oxygen to breath." I said. Clearly being sarcastic.
"Ok, fine. I was wondering where you where."
"I'm in Twilight's library. If you want the details get your ass over here and ask Fluttershy." I said. I looked over at her and noticed Fluttershy behind her mane again.
"Damn it Fluttershy! I told you I would cut your mane off it you kept doing that! I'll only warn you one more time!" I yelled.
She quicky moved from out behind her mane.
"Good. Now keep it that way this time. Now then. I can tell you all have questions. And I'll answer them. But first, can someone show me a chair that I can sit in? The ones here look like they would break them if I tryed to sit on one."
Twilight then moved a couch over with her magic. "Will this do?"
"Eh. Looks a bit short, but yeah. It'll do." I said, trying to sit on the couch. My knees went up to my waist. "Fuck. I should have just sat on the floor. This is seriously uncomfortable." I thought.
"So. Who's first?"
Ok, now then. I'm gonna ask this of you guys. Send me a message saying what each character should ask, and I'll ask a friend to pick one or more questions for each character. They can be about anything. Just as long as it isn't just plain stupid or already answered.
The Man with the Hidden Past
I fucked up and up Chapter 6 here before. So I fixed it. Sorry for confusion. I just lied too. I don't give a fuck if you where confused.
Twilight quickly raised her hoof. She had a certain look in her eye. "Fuck. This is gonna take forever if she asks all of those." I thought.
"Ok, just because I can see how many questions Twilight over here has," I said, looking in her direction,"one question per pony please."
Twilight looked disappointed at that. "But why only one?" She asked.
"Because I said so. And that was your one question by the way, who's next?"
"I would like to please."
"Shut up Celestia, if you want to ask me something, get the fuck over here."
"Fine, you don't need to be so rude."
"I'm still not the one that dropped you from above tree level."
"Your gonna hold that against me arn't you?"
"Fuck yeah I am."
Meanwhile, while I was talking with Celestia, Twilight was looking sad, Rainbow looked like she was about to burst laughing, AppleJack just sat there confused, Rarity was joining AppleJack in on the act, and Pinkie Pie was, well, being her.
"NONONO WAIT !" Was all they heard me say before they where all in the Palace.
"HEY! I said for you to go there. Not us here." I said.
"Well what's done is done right? Pa-"
"NO! Don't say my name. If you do, you'll never see me again. And you'll probably gain a hat. Man, I love making hats. Mainly all the materials I can make them out of." I said, looking at all the ponies in that room.
"You wouldn't." Celestia said in shock.
"You appear to have forgotten my past Celestia." I stated.
"How did you..." she said, shocked my what I said.
"Yeah, like I couldn't notice. Why else would I think I had that flashback back on my way to ponyville?"
"Hehe... Oops?" She said looking guilty.
"Fuck yea 'oops'!"
"Yal don't need to talk like that ya know." AppleJack said behind me.
"Yeah, tell me that when I give a fuck. So, now that we're here, what did you want to ask Molsestia?" I said, with a sly grin on my face.
"I'll talk to you about what you said later, but I was wondering this, Why did you do what you did for your, erm... job?"
"I did what I did, for many reasons. But mainly because I felt the natural duty as a man to watch over others and make sure they where safe. And doing what I did kept people safe. I also was able to watch my father for my mother, she would over react a lot. And that also caused her end. As soon as she found out about my father, she was just a husk of her old self. I decided giving her some time was best and when I got back from my job I bought a house and soon got into a relationship. I can't say that went very far though."
"Oh." Was all she said after that.
"Well, since you're all asking questions now, Yo Celestia, you got a taller chair? That couch at Twilight's was terrable."
"Yeah, I heard."
"You seriously need to get out of my head. Or else I'll have to start thinking of some things that would make you want to rip off your ears."
"Like what?"
I looked at her with an amused smile. I started thinking of the catchiest thing I could think of. TEN FUCKING HOURS OF JACK SPARROW SINGING "I Got a Jar of Dirt"
She got a look of amusment at first.
"Yeah, it starts off funny, just wait a while. I dare you."
It didn't take long. She gained a face of annoyance, and then anger, and all the while I was laughing my ass off at her reactions to the annoying song.
"Want me to stop? Because I can always think of worse ones." I said, with a grin of my face.
"Oh please do! This is annoying me greatly!" She quickly said.
"Stop what Princess?" Twilight asked.
"My Dear Twilight, be happy you can't hear this man's thoughts." she said looking at her student with a look of jelousy.
"You really want to know?" I asked Twilight.
"NO!" Celestia quickly yelled before Twilight could say anything.
"That bad huh?" Rainbow Dash said.
"You have no idea." I said. "Even I don't want to be in my head."
"I still know your there Celestia, and I'll cut you a deal. I woun't think of any more annoying music and I'll let you stay in my head, but in exchange I want 3 things." I thought, not wanting the girls to know about this.
"And what might they be?" Celestia said in my head.
"One, is a trip back to my world for some more stuff, and they'll be big by the way. REAL BIG. Two, is some kick ass wings, I'll make a picture of what I would like them to look like later, and three is this, I want some magic. And don't say you can't do it. I know you move the fucking sun."
"Fine...." Celestia said, sounding like she just had to do something she hated.
"Awesome." I said.
"What is?" Twilight asked.
"Hey, you already asked your one question. So once again, who's next?"
Rarity raised her hoof.
"Do you know much about fastion?" she asked.
"Should I tell her about my job's fastion or my world's fastion?" I though looking at Celestia.
"World's preferably."
"No, no I don't. I don't give a fuck about what I look like." I said.
"Oh." Rarity said. She clearly looked dissapointed.
"Now who?" I said, ignoring Rarity's feelings.
Fluttershy was next.
"Do you like animals?" She asked.
"Typical" I though.
"Yes. I love them. They're great for having for dinner."
"So you invite animals over for dinner?" Pinkie asked.
"No..." I said. "And thats counts as your question too."
"So who's next?"
Rainbow raised her hoof next.
"Why can you take your eye out?"
"You can do that?" Celestia asked in my head.
"Be quiet Celestia, you already asked your question."
"Fine, but don't tell her exactly how it happened."
"Fine I woun't." I said.
"You gonna answer me?" Rainbow asked.
"Hey, you already asked your question. But yeah, I'll tell you. I accidently got something in my eye and I had to get a fake eye to replace the old one.
"Happy now?" I thought.
"Very." Celestia said.
"Ok, and all thats left now is AppleJack. So lets hear it farmgirl." I said looking at her.
"So why exactly do ya carry 'round that shiny thing?" She asked.
"One, is because this ," I said, holding up a fist," May be able to break some walls, but this " I said, unsheathing the knife, "can break anything that lives, me, you, and even you beloved leader over there." I said, pointing you Celestia.
"But if you don't give me a reason to use it, you'll never see it used against you. Unless you wake me up like Rainbow wanted me to wake you girls up with. If thats the case, you better hope that I miss."
"What are the chances that you do?" Rainbow Dashed asked.
"Great, I can already tell this one is gonna try it. Poor thing, It's gonna be slow for her."
"Rainbow, I know what your thinking, and trust me. He just thought of what your going to do too. And you should never think of doing it again." Celestia warned.
"But he didn't answer me."
"You don't want to know." She replied.
"No, no. It's fine." I said.
"I know you hate math. But I'll tell you this. This knife right here," I said, spinning the tip on my finger," has met exactly 548 people. And none lived the next day."
"Ouch." I quickly said. The tip had cup my finger and I accidently dropped the knife. The knife fell on the floor and stuck in the floor.
"Stange, this floor is made out of stone." Celestia said.
I sighed. "Well, then it looks like you take terrable condition of it, because now my knife is stuck in it, probably went through a crack under the carpet, and now I'm gonna have to put it away, mainly because I don't want to prick another finger."
"So!" I said, trying to break the scilence that happened after I put away the knife. "I've already answered your questions, and I don't have any because I don't give a fuck, what do we do now?"
"Well, we could consider getting you a job." Celestia said.
"Ok sure, but nothing involving what I did before. I've had enough of that for now. Maybe something where I can still get excersize though. I need to stay fit or else I'll get into the habbit of being lazy. And nothing that involves baking. I hate it." I heard something like a baloon popping. I turned to look at the noise and found a sad, depressed Pinkie Pie there.
"Whoa. Damn Pinkie, do you have like, your own laws of physics or something?"
"No sir."
"Great. Just what I need. More people calling me 'Sir'." I though.
"But yeah, any suggestions on a job?"
"What about AppleJack's farm?" Twilight asked.
I looked over at AppleJack and she looked worried.
"Nah, I can tell she don't like me much. Just look at her, she looks like she's about to run and hide so I can't see her."
AppleJack blushed and looked down. I laughed slightly.
"Well, I guess I could use some help around the library..." Twilight said.
"She totally just wants to ask me more questions." I thought.
"No, but thanks anyway. I'll probably just go off into the woods and make a house."
"Out of what?" Twilight asked.
"Oh, I don't know... Out of trees maybe?" I said.
"Think she'll take the hint?" I thought.
"Hopfully. Even I'm getting annoyed by her questions." Celestia said in my head.
"Oh yeah, that reminds me, is there a way to let other people into my head? I'm kinda curious." I thought.
"Yes actually, I've made it so all you have to do is focus on someone else and you can form a bond with their mind to let you talk."
"But I didn't focus on you, why are you in my head then?" I thought.
"I focused on you. It works both ways kinda. But I had formed the bond on your way here."
"So, lets say, Rainbow Dashed focused on me, she could get in my head without me knowing?" I thought.
"No, you would have to agree to the bond. You had accepted my bond while you where in your house."
"When? I don't remember doing anything." I thought.
"Oh well, we'll figure it out later."
"Whatever". I thought.
"Ok Celestia, Just teleport us all back to the giant tree library." I said.
"My house?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah, sure. Why not." I replied.
And with that, we where all in Twilights Library, Everyone but Celestia.
"Ha. She forgot about our talk." I thought.
"No I didn't. I was waiting for my gaurds to leave the room. I'll see you in a little bit."
"Fuck." was all I said, as I walked over to Twilight.
"So, you really want in my head eh?" I asked.
"Oh yes! I could learn a lot about different species think!"
"Ok... but once you do in, theres no way that I know of out." I warned
"Oh, how bad could it be?" she said.
An with that, I focused on her. I noticed the world getting darker. It was almost turning purple. Wait, it was! It was turning a shade of Twilights coat. I closed my eyes, and fell on the floor. Out Cold.
The Man with the Hidden Past
I woke up outside what looked like a fortress. I tried to sit up and noticed I was being held down by some sort of weight on my back. I quickly turned my head to see what it was.
"What. The. Fuck." was all I could say. I was looking at what appeared to be a a giant pair of wings that looked like a bat's. But it looked like it was made of shadows and it had small steams of blood red flowing through them. Like seriously, it looked liked mother-fucking blood was just flowing freely within them.
"That totally looks awesome." I thought.
"THAT TOTALLY LOOKS AWESOME." I heard. It was my voice, but it sounded like it was coming from all around me.
"Ok... well then. My thoughts appear to be on the outside of my head right now. Might at as well have some fun then." So I quickly thought of what I would look like.
Biggest. Fucking. Mistake. Ever.
I noticed that what I thought was me, actually was me. And it thought of another me, and IT though of another me, and so forth.
"Fuck." I said. "Looks, like I get to think of a bomb then. No wait, So appearantly I'm in my own mind, or I'm dreaming. And frankly, this is to awesome to be a dream. And I don't want to blow up my own mind so...."
Suddenly, each one of Me, had a knife in their hand. And then each one, stabbed themselves in the face. Over, and over, and over.
"Ha! Thats fucking hilarious." I said.
"How is that funny? THEIR STABBING THEMSELVES IN THE FACE!" I heard behind me.
"Whoa. So, your in my mind too? Shit. My mind just got a whole lot more fucked up." I said. Not caring who was behind me. It was eather Twilight or Celestia, and neither had the guts to truly hurt anyone. If anything, I was the only one in this entire country that would kill without regret.
"Whats that suppost to mean."
"I ment that you're fucking boring. You goddamn bookworm. But either way, I'm gonna try and fucking use these wings or something. Ya wanna ride if I can actually fly with these?"
"Yeah, ok..." Twilight said. She obviously took what I said to heart. "Besides, this place is kinda scary."
I then decided to look at my surroundings. It looked like Hell from that one "The Darkness" game.
"Nah. This ain't nothing. I've seen worse."
"Like what?"
"Don't worry about it. It doesn't concern you."
"Then why did you mention it?"
"Because I did."
"Why?"
"Look. Your answer is 'Because I did.' now stop asking. I gotta try and use these things." I said, trying to concentrait on my wings. I was looking back to see if they did anything and when I focused on them, they ended up opening completely and smacking me in the face.
"SON OF A BITCH!" I yelled. I noticed the edges of the wing where covered in sharp little spikes.
"Cool. Spikes. Wait, hey Twilight, did I cut my face?" I asked.
"Well, yes. But its already healing."
"Must just be the fact that we're in my mind. Hey, if I think of anything, and it appears... I'm sure not gonna try and do things the hard way." I said.
Suddenly a book appeared in my hand.
"Whats that?" Twilight asked.
"A book telling me how to fly." I said. I opened the book and noticed the pages where blank.
"Fuck. I have to think of words too. Figures." I said. I then threw the book as far as I could. As soon as it it the ground, it burst into flames.
"Cool." I commented.
"So what are you gonna do now?" Twilight asked.
"Your mother." I mumbled under my breath.
"What? I couldn't hear you." Twilight asked.
"I said, I was gonna do it the hard way." I said. Decideing to try and avoid that conversation.
So, I decided that since I know that the wings where lightweight and just by when I hit myself in the face and that I could move them at great speeds without effort. So, I remembered what other pegesi did and just plain moved my wings up and down. I lifted slightly in the air.
"Oh. Cool. I always wanted to fly. Without a plane anyway. I fucking hate those things."
"What's a plane?" Twilight asked.
So I thought of a standard passanger plane. It appeared right in front of us.
"Wow. How does it work?" She then asked.
"You have questions for everything don't you?" I asked her. "And this is all I know about it."
I then decided to use my imagination a bit. I ended up imagining a door with all my knowledge of planes inside it. All one had to do was open it.
"So, do I just open this door?" She asked.
"Yeah. You go ahead and look inside it. I'm just gonna practice flying. Bye!" And with that, I left with a large boom.
"What was that?!" Twilight asked herself.
"IT SHOULD BE IN THE DOOR. JUST LOOK IN SECTION "S" IT SHOULD BE UNDER SOUND BARRIER."
"How can you hear me?"
"YOU'RE IN MY HEAD. DUH. DO I NEED TO MAKE MORE DOORS FOR YOU?"
"I would like that."
"OK FINE. BUT IM GONNA LEAVE SOME STUFF OUT. SO DEAL WITH IT."
"Fine..."
And with that, doors from A to Z appeared right by her. But some topics and a certain time zone where missing.
"Yay!" She said. And hurried to door A.
"Now then... I've successfully broken the sound barrier with no effort, and flown around my mind I think about 3 times, killed random people in my head, thought myself in the Revolutionary War just to see what would happen if the Confederate won, hated the Revolutionary War if the Confederate won, blown up the Confederate 5 times so far, and thought myself back to the present. What now..." I said to myself.
"Eh. Might as well go see Twilight."
Once I got there, she looked like she had gone throught Hell and barly made it back.
"Whoa. What the fuck happened to you?" I asked.
She didn't answer. She just looked at me. With empty eyes. They looked like those of a dead man.
"Fuck. I practicly just killed Twilight with knowledge."
I decided that since I wouldn't be able to explain this to the rest of the ponies, I should find a way to fix it. So I thought of a button. That erased all memories that took place in my mind.
"Fuck that, I sure ain't gonna press it. Yo Twilight, come here and press this button."
She slowly walked over and lifted to hoof above the button, and forcefully slammed it down on it. All I heard was the click of the botton, and then I saw her faint.
"Fuck. Now, I have to carry around a sleeping pony. I should have thought this through better."
"Yes, yes you should have."
"And now Celestia is in my head again. Perfect." I said.
I glided over to the pony and picked her up in my hand.
"Either my mind made me really strong, or ponies are really light." I commented.
"A little of both. And I think those are the wings you would have liked, correct?"
"Hell yeah I did. These things are awesome. They're like, 3 feet long, and look like a bat's wings. Plus the colors are fucking epic. I didn't expect the red though. But I sure ain't complaining."
"Well lucky you. 'Cause I can't find a way to bring you and Twilight out of your mind without bringing the wings back too. So thats one favor solved. And since we're in your mind, would you like to show me what you want to bring back?"
"Ok, sure. I don't see why not."
Then, a large, metal vehicle appeared in front of me. It had a large tube on the front, and it had what looked like many wheels with a chain around them. The giant tube was attached to a large object on top of a larger rectangular object.
"What is it?" Celestia asked.
"This," I said, motioning at the tank,"Is the U.S. M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank. But most people just call it the M1A1 for short."
"What's it do?"
"Well... It lets me get around faster." I said. Not wanting to tell her what it really was for.
"If she knew what it really was for, she sure as Hell wouldn't let me take it with." I mumbled.
"What? I couldn't hear you."
"Whats it to ya?" I asked.
"Nothing."
"Then why do you want to know?"
Scilence.
"Looks like I out witted a certain Princess." I said to myself.
"Well. That Fortress over there don't look like the best place I should go, but then agian, since when do I care?"
I carried Twilight with me and jumped in the tank. I quickly turned it on and drove off to the Fortress. It looked a bit to strong to just knock the wall down, and I couldn't just try and blow the thing up all willy-nilly. So I turned around. And decided to wait for Celestia.
"I'm gonna hate doing this but..." I said.
"YO CELESTIA! CAN YOU GET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE? I RAN OUT OF STUFF TO DO." I heard.
"Yes, I was waiting for you to tell me when."
"When where you ready?"
"When I first heard you wake up."
"You ass. Why didn't you get us out of here earlier? I almost killed Twilight with knowledge. Be happy if she forgets this. I'm not sure if that button I made erased her memories. All I know is that it made her pass out."
"Oops?
"Fuck you... Just get us out of here."
Then, in a bright flash, I was in the Palace. But only with Celestia.
"Now for our talk..." Celestia said, advancing on me.
"Fuck." I was all i said before I turned around and ran.
The Man with the Hidden Past
And I was Starting to Like Them Too.
Author's note: I actually cut this in half. And don;t get used to these long chapters. I think of the story On-The-Spot, I do consider what people say for it though. If any of you guys have any suggestions -that isn't get an editor, I already have one.- just putit on the comment section or just PM me.
"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck! !" I yelled as I ran. I turned my head to look behind me and noticed she was barly breaking a jog to keep up with me.
"Getting tired already?" She teased?
"Nope. I'm just getting warmed up!" I yelled, as I remembered my wings.
"And if this is like what it is in my world, you better hope you have some earplugs." I yelled back. And with that, I took off with a large boom following me. I turned around to see if she was following me and all I saw was a pitch black line with red waves going through it. I turned on my back to see her and she was left behind quite a ways.
"Ah ha! I'm faster than Celestia!! Whoo!!" I yelled.
I noticed Ponyville in the distance and flew over there to see if I could find a place to hide.
"Yo Twilight, you there?" I thought.
"What? Who is this? And how are you talking to me." I heard.
"Don't you remember wanting to be in my head?"
"Oh yeah! I can't remember much after that though."
"Good. I almost killed you with knowledge of my world."
"Really?"
"Did I give you a reason for me to lie about it?"
"No..."
"There ya go. Listen, Celestia is looking for me and I need a place to hide. Any suggestions? Wait. Don't tell me yet. Celestia is still in my head I think. By the way, do you know how to kick someone out of my head?"
"Um... No, maybe you should just try some things."
"Like?"
"If I knew I would tell you."
"I see that I'm rubbing off on someone."
"What? No way I'd be like you."
"Yep. More like me by the minute."
I didn't hear her after that. So I quickly flew over to her house and ended up knocking down the door on the way in.
"Sorry about that. Its kinda hard to stop when you break the sound barrier." I said.
"You broke the sound barrier?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah. Didn't you hear that boom a couple seconds ago?"
"No. Why?"
-BOOM-
"Oh. Looky there. There's that boom I was talking about."
Twilight stood there, If her jaw could unhinge I swear it would be on the floor.
"Y-you went faster than sound?! How?!" Twilight asked.
"Uh... How the fuck should I know? All I did was do it. I don't know how I did it. But if you want to know what I know, here ya go. I was running, Then I broke the sound barrier, then I came here. Now you know what I know." I said.
"That, doesn't help much..." Twilight commented.
"To bad. Deal with it. So, back to what we where talking about back there, where can I hide?"
"What about Fluttershy's place? You can easily get to the forest and I'm pretty sure Fluttershy took a liking to you."
"Fuck. How could she like me? I'm a human, and she's a what ever she is. Even if we did start to date, it just wouldn't work. Great. Now I have to act oblivious to her feelings." I thought.
"I can still hear you, you know." she said.
"Well then stop listening. This doesn't concern you."
"And what if I don't?"
"I'll have to break my promise with Celestia and make you go insane."
"Oh really?"
"You want me to prove it don't you."
"Yes."
"Ugh. Fine." I said, forcing a flash back into my mind.
I was in the battlefeild. I was on top of a hill with my knife, my rifle, and the bodies of my dead Brothers in Arms. I had to make a makeshift wall out of my brother's bodies to keep out the cold air, and to protect be from any bullets. Then, I heard footsteps, I instinctivly grabbed my knife, and peeked over the wall. There, stood about 15 enemy troops searching for me and my brothers, but all that was left was me. I quickly knock over some bodies on top of me to hide me as I waited for the troops to get closer, so I could quickly kill them with my knife. I knew it was crazy, but then again. I was fighting for my country, and If I could just kill one of those soldiers, I could save lives.
Once they where all within 5 to 10 feet away, I threw the body on top of me at them. I then charged. I ran up to the first one and snapped his neck while making my way to the next. I quickly threw my knife into his face and before he could fall, I ripped it out. I ran up to the third one then, and used him as a meat sheild from the other enemy's fire. I then took his own gun and shot 3 other's heads off. I then sunk my knife into his spine and ripped it out, knowing he was paralized from the waist down and would bleed to death. I threw his gun then at a fourth enemy hearing a sickening crack at the force from it fractured his skull. I ran over to the body and found a single frag grenade. I ran over to a fifth enemy and cut open his stomach with my knife, ripped the pin out of the grenade and shoved the grenade as far as I could get it into the man. I then proceeded to push the man into the rest of the enemies. They all where ripped apart from the explosion but 2. I cut behind the knees of both of them so they couldnt run, I then made them skin their comrades. I used the skin to make a simple tent and used the bones to make supplies like knives, clubs, and supports for the tent. After the two where done skinning their comerades, I simply ripped out their eyes with my hands and left them there.
"It took two months for help to arrive and get me out of there Twilight. And I hope your happy with your results. You have now been scarred by what you saw. You also think I'm a monster. And if that is what you want me to be then so be it. But unless you attack me, I will not put up a fight. You can tell that to Celestia too. I know your her student. Now. If you'll excuse me. I'm gonna go pay Fluttershy a visit." And with that, I walked out of the tree, and flew off with a large boom after me. Breaking all the windows in Twilight's house.
Twilight was shocked out of her trance from the boom.
"That, that was horrible. How can he do such things?" Twilight asked to herself.
Then suddenly Rainbow Dash burst into the library.
"Hey! Did you hear that really big boom? What was that?"
"That was the sound barrier being broken Rainbow."
"By who?" she asked.
"I don't really know. He never told us his name yet."
"That... um..." Rainbow started.
"Human." Twilight finished.
"Yeah, that. So he broke the sound barrier?"
"Yeah. Hey, do you think he's kinda, mean?" Twilight asked.
"Well, yeah! He's always being a jerk to everypony. But for some reason, I kinda like him." Rainbow said with a blush.
"You not serious, are you Rainbow?"
"Well... yeah. Of course I am. But I can't tell why." Rainbow said, still blushing.
"Well I, for one, don't really like him. He seems evil."
"Evil? Nah, that's just the way he is."
"But why is what I'm asking."
"How would I know? You should go ask him if your curious."
"What? No! He's way to scary."
"Ha! He isn't scary. Why would you think that?"
"He has that knife, and that one thing that makes a loud sound. Plus those wings make him look even scarier."
"He has wings?! Why didn't you tell me before! I'm gonna go challenge him to a race, Bye!" Rainbow Dash said before she bolted out the door. She saw him heading over to Fluttershy's place with a black trail with red lines following behind.
"Why would he go over there?" She wondered.
She decided to try and be sneaky and fly up to the window to peak in. The room was empty but she could hear me talking with Fluttershy.
"Listen, Celestia is after me and I need a place to hide. Twilight said that this would be good considering how the forest is nearby."
Rainbow could hear some mumbleing after that.
"Perfect. I'm going to go to the forest and retreive some stuff. Anything I should know about before I go?"
Rainbow could hear some more mumbleing and then heard the door open and close. She quickly flew over to a buch and hid in it. Then, suddenly, a loud bang went off and a patch of grass in front of her face disappeared.
"I don't like eavesdroppers you know."
Rainbow slowly flew out of the bush and saw that I was standing there, rifle in hand, aiming right at her head. Once I noticed it was Rinbow, I lowered the gun.
"Your lucky I don't shoot and ask questions later. That shot right there was a simple warning."
"THAT WAS A WARNING? WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU HAD GOTTEN ME?!" Rainbow screemed.
"Simple. You would have died. And then I would use your hide as a source of clothing and use the feathers on your wings for a pillow. Plus I would have gotten some food out of it."
"Food? You mean your a..." She said, backing up slightly.
"Omnivore ? Yes. Yes I am. But remember, I would always prefer a steak." I said, finishing her sentence.
"Now then, You distracted me from what I was doing. I will see you later." I said as I walked off. I quick threw a wave over my shoulder when I entered the forest.
"Now then, I gotta find my bag. I need some cloths and some food." I said to myself.
Suddenly I heard a russling sound. I quickly found the scource of it. It was some lion mutant thing going through my bag.
"You bastard. I'm not even gonna use my gun for this." I said as I steped into the opening where my bag was.
The thing looked at me with a steak in its mouth. Stupid thing. Just made his death worse. I quickly took out my knife and flashed the sun in his eyes. It reared up and tried to cover them. I took this chance and charged at the thing, Punching it in the face with my hand with the knife. I curved the punch so the knife would also cut the things face too. The knife ran through its cheeck. I could see the rows of teeth inside its mouth. One row on the outside where big and pointed, but not sharp.
"Most likely for appearance." I thought.
I then tryed to blind it again, only to have it swing its scorpion tail-like thing at me. I stopped trying to blind it and blocked the tail with the blade. I took this chance to use my other hand and smashed my fist into one of the tail's joints. Crippling the end. It rawred in pain and I threw my knife right into it's gullet. It let out a gurrgle and fell down limp. I walked over and felt for a pulse. None.
"Awww... I had many more things in mind for it." I said.
I picked up my bag and put it over my shoulder. I then walked over to the lion thing and tryed to pick it up. It was lighter than it looked.
"Cool. I was looking for more of a challenge though. But I ain't complaining." I said as I dragged the thing by its tail. When I walked out of the forest, I saw the six ponies from earlier by Fluttershy's house.
"You better not have brought Celestia with you!" I yelled over to them. They quickly looked at me and ran. I walked over to where they where and some drawings in the dirt. It looked like a map of sorts but with 6 X's all over the city.
"Looks like they where trying to find places to hide." I said with a clear frown on my face.
"And I was actually starting to warm up to those girls." I said to myself. This entire thing was only a small dent in my steel fortress of a heart, but it still hurt none the less.
I sighed and walked off back to the forest. But before I left , I took a stick and wrote a note in the dirt next to the map.
"Listen, I'm sorry for being who I am. I'm also sorry for scaring you girls. If you ever need me, I'll either be by Celestia, or in the forest. Hopefully the latter of the two. And Fluttershy, I know you like me. Twilight told me. And get a real man. I ain't one, I'm just a monster. Oh, and Twilight. If any of the six of you need me for some reason, you better tell me. I know where you live."
Once I got into the forest, I dropped my stuff on the ground and climbed a tree to find a cave or something. I ended up finding a clearing filled with rocks and some caves.
"Perfect. I can probably make some tools with the rocks and the caves will provide shelter." I said, while climbing down the tree. At the base of the tree, there where some blue flowers.
"Wow. Pretty." I said. And with that, I took my knife out and cut off all their heads. I grabbed them, and shoved them into my pockets. The pollen was starting to turn my hands a dark black.
"What the fuck? What the hell is going on here? Oh well. I'll only make me harder to see in the shadows." I said, as I noticed that the rest of my skin was slowly turning black too.
Once I reached the caves, I stepped into a shadow. I noticed that my hands started to dissappear.
"What the fuck?!" I yelled. I quickly stepped out of the shadows and noticed my hand slowly materialized where it was. I slowly put my hand back into the shadow and it dissappeared again.
"Cool. I'm turning into a shadow." I said. I looked at a rock in the shadow and focusted on it. I noticed a darker shade of black coming from where my hand was and surrounded the rock. I was able to lift it up. I then crushed it into the shadows, and noticed a shining gem in it. I immediatly felt a pain where my hand was.
"Ok... well thats Fan-fucking-tasic. I can't come within direct contact with light. Oh well. I don't really need much light. And condidering how It only effects me when I'm the shadow, I don't think its much of a problem. Hmm... If I wasn't hated in Ponyville I'd go terrorize some ponies... wait. I'm hated there, thats perfect reason to go terroize. But first I should go in these caves and make myself a home." I said.
While walking to the caves, I felt a small rumbleing under me. I quickly dismissed it but kept my gaurd up. I walked into the cave and my entire body was gone. I noticed my cloths appeared to be floating. My black jacket covered up where my waist was and my pants where a dark blue so I wasn't worried about being seen by anyone in the cave. I kept wandering through and noticed a couple torches on the walls. I also found a bunch of these dog like things all around. I made the shadows wrap their way into one of the dogs head and crushed its skull. All I heard of it was a sickening Crack, and then the thud of the body hitting the ground. I used the shadows to cover the body up and drag it to the wall, where the shadows where darkest near the bottom. I walked into a small opening in the caves where it was completely lit. I noticed my body materialize. I took out my knife in case one of those dog things showed up.
"I should really head back to Fluttershy's place every once and a while to visit and get supplies." I said to myself.
"Well, either way, considering how I can apparently become a shadow and how easyily those dog things die, I think this seems like a good place to stay." I said.
I had dug a small hole and put my bag in it. I now cut open that lion thing and gutted it. I cleaned out the stomach and attached it to a wall to dry out. I then cut off the tail, and used the plating on it to make some armor for my arms and legs. I cut off the front paws and hollowed them out so it was just the claws and the paw itself. I put the paws in my pockets so I had them with me all the time. I used some of the mane on the thing to make rope. I used my knife to make holes in the tailplating and wrapped the rope through them and tied them to my arm tight enought to hold them on and not get shook off. I used my foot to smash the things skull in half and used my knife to cut the rest of the flesh off. I then took off the upper jaw and the skull and put some rocks and dirt in there to get out any moisture in it. Once I cleaned it out, I used my knife to make 2 more holes in the side and tied the skull to my head. I used the rest of the mane on the thing and cut off the skin holding it and cut holes in to spots and wrapped it around my body.
"Nothing new, I used to do this with deer all the time back home. Then again, I always had to find a way to get a challenge out of killing them. I'm pretty sure the harest kill I had was when I snuck up to a buck and gutted him right there. Poor thing kept kicking until I ripped out his heart. Worst part is that he didn't taste very good either..." I said to myself. I suddenly felt the rumbleing under me again. Then, I saw 3 more of those dog things again. One was a large grayish- blue with a grey jacket, another was a small brown one with a grey jacket, and last was a taller dark-grey one with a red jacket. He looked the smartest of the bunch.
"Vat are you doing here?" the tall one asked.
"Your mother." I replied. I didn't like these three the moment I saw them. Instinctivly considering them enemies.
"Vat did you say?!" It yelled back.
"Your mother! " I yelled, as I stood up to my full height of about 6 ft 4in. The dogs must have been about the height of a pony, 'cause they had to look straight up at me. They shrank back when they first saw me, but quickly regained their composure. They quickly gained an attack stance. I, mean while, just stood there, waiting for them to attack. I put my hands in my jacket pockets where the lion-thing's paws where and slipped my hands in them. The dogs noticed this and started to circle me.
"What are you waiting for? Come and get me. I garantee you will die." I said.
"Ohh.... Now you vill get zit!" The tall one said.
"I advise you to run. Or you can stay and fight me." I said to it. It quickly got up and ran. I took my knife out and threw it straight into its spine.
"Wrong choice. I told you all you would die. And I keep to my word." I said, as I walked over to it, I noticed it was slightly breathing still.
"Poor thing. Don't worry, I'll end your troubles right now." I said, as I ripped my knife out and slit it's throat. It let out a small gurgle as the blood filled his esophagus.
"Now you." I said, throwing the tall one against the wall.
"You have successfully killed your friends with your actions! And now you will pay the price! They have died. And their deaths will be on your conscience. But you will suffer a worse fate. You will have to live without them! The people who loved you! You, will have to carry the burden of their deaths. Have a nice life you piece of shit! " I yelled as I kicked him in the side, breaking a couple of his ribs. I then picked him up by the scruff of his neck.
"Tell me this before I throw you out of here. What where their names?" I asked.
"Spot... and Fido." It said, having a hard time breathing.
"Good. Now you get to live with their names forever engraved in your skin. Have fun remembering your mistake." I said as I threw him on the ground once more. I held his arms in one hand and sat on his back. I then used the other hand to carve the names Spot and Fido on the dog's back. Once I was done, I got up, kicked him again, picked him up by his hind leg and walked to the cave entrance with him dragging behind. I then threw him about 10 feet away from the cave.
"And run to Ponyville while you're at it! Tell them that Paul'll be seeing them soon!" I yelled after it as it ran away.
Once I was back inside the cave, I made my way back to the opening where my stuff was. I went over to the lion-thing's corpse and opened up its abdomen. I then climbed in the body and moved some of the fat to where my head was and fell asleep purposly for the first time in Equestria, with the thought of steak for breakfast on my mind.
A couple hours later...
A tall dark-grey dog was staggering its way to a village. Once there, he quickly was found by a worried looking pink maned pegasus.
"A-are you alright?" It asked.
"Yes... But I needz help."
"Oh my! What did this to you?"
"A really tall creature..." It said, gasping for breath. "It said, 'Paul vill be seeing youz zoon." It gasped. It then fell to the ground unconsious. The pegasus noticed two names on its back. Spot and Fido. It also noticed a dent on its chest. Like something had broke the dog's ribs. The pegasus hurried to find help. She neared what looked like a castle in the sky and quickly knocked on the door.
Soon, a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane opened the door.
It yawned and ask, "Hey what's up Fluttershy? It's like 10 PM."
"There's a Diamond Dog on the road over there!" Fluttershy said slightly above her usuall wisper. "He calapsed and he said something about somepony named Paul coming to see us soon!"
"Paul? Never heard of him. What a strange name too. Did he say anything else?"
"He said that it was really tall." Fluttershy said.
"Tall? Could it be that one thing from before? I feel kind of bad from running away... He said that if we never gave him reason to attack, then he wouldn't. Do you think he found a reason?" The rainbow maned pegasus asked.
"I don't know Rainbow, but right now we need to help the Diamond Dog. He can probably tell us more when he wakes up." Fluttershy replied.
"Yeah, I guess your right. Come on, we need to get there fast. We should bring him to Twilight's, maybe she could help." Rainbow said.
The two pegesi quickly flew over to where the Diamond Dog lay. He was sturring in hissleep. Like he was having a nightmare. Fluttershy quickly flew over and noticed itandstarted tosing a lullaby.
"Hush now, quiet now..."
While she was singing, the Diamond Dog's nightmare was getting worse. The night mare kept replaying the events of that day over and over. Fluttershy noticed her lullaby wasn't helping and stopped. She motioned for Rainbow to help lift the Diamond Dog. Once they brought the Diamond Dog to Twilight's, they quickly knocked and after waiting about 5 minutes, Twilight finally came out with a messed up mane.
"What now...?" She asked, her eyes where still half closed and didn't notice what the two pegasi where carrying.
"Can we bring him inside and help him Twilight? He warned us that something was coming soon and we want to let him rest so he can tell us." Fluttershy asked.
"Bring who inside?" She asked as shelooked at what they where carrying. She saw the Diamond Dogs terrable condition and noticed that it looked familiar.
"Isn't that the Diamond Dog that kidnapped Rarity?" She asked. The two pegasi looked at him closer and recognized him too.
"Well... yeah. I guess so, but he's hurt and he warned us. He could help us with whatever is coming. He said something about a tall creature named Paul. He said he was gonna see us soon." Rainbow said.
"Fine... He can come inside. I'm going to go write to Princess Celestia about this." Twilight said. She then opened the door all the way and walked over to her desk and started to write. Fluttershy brought the Diamond Dog over to the couch and set him on it. She quickly started to work on his many cuts and bruises.
"Whatever did this to him must have been strong..." Rainbow commented.
"Poor dear. He must have been through alot. But whatever it was knew how to write. See? Just look at the names on his back." Fluttershy said, Turning over the Diamond Dog to show Rainbow.
"Do you think it was that one thing from before?" Rainbow asked.
"No, It couldn't have been. These cuts where from an animal with claws. Maybe it was a manticore."
"But he said that it was tall and could speak, remember?" Rainbow said.
"Yes, I remember. I just don't want to think that he would do this..."
"Why?" Rainbow asked.
"B-because... I-i Kinda like him..." Fluttershy said with a blush.
"You like him too?" Rainbow asked witha suprised look.
"Y-yeah, why? Do you do too?" Fluttershy asked.
Rainbow just simply nodded.
Suddenly they heard Twilight yell for Spike. Soon, a baby dragon with green scales and a purple body came walking down the stairs.
"Yeah Twilight?" It asked.
"Send this to Princess Celestia please." Twilight said.
The dragon blew a sparkly green flame at the letter and the ashed flew out the window.
"Good, maybe Princess Celestia will know what to do, Thanks Spike!" Twilight said.
"No proble-" Suddenly, the dragon was interuped as a puff of smoke came out of his mouth with a letter. Twilight opened the letter and read it. After she was done, she quickly dropped it and ran upstairs.
"What was that about?" Rainbow asked Fluttershy. Fluttershy simply shruged and watched as Rainbow walked over to the letter to read it.
My Dearest Student Twilight,
The thing named "Paul" was actually the thing you and your friends saw before. I feel that what he said was a threat and he is extremely dangerous. I will be sending Royal Gaurds to Ponyville to help protect you and your friends. Until we know that it is safe for you, I will not withdraw the Royal Gaurd. I advise that you stay away from anywhere that he could be. Sadly, that means anywhere. So I advise that you get all your friends and hide somewhere safe. I would like to tell you more, but all I know is this, he was a Soldier back from where he is from. He has killed thousands with deadly skill and quick thinking. If you ever see a glint of a small metal object in the sun, duck behind cover. I doubt that he would attack during daylight though, so be inside and hidden at night.
Your Princess,
Princess Celestia.
Once Rainbow was done, she was shaking in fear.
"Quick! We have to go get the others!" She yelled, and flew out the door as fast as she could go. First she went to Pinkie Pie's house. She flew in, knocking everything over, and grabbed Pinkie and flew out, heading to Rarity's place next. She then flew in the window on the second floor and grabbed Rarity. She quickly flew back to Twilight's and dropped them off. She then flew over to Sweet Apple Acres and flew into the barn and found AppleJack snoring in her sleep. She tried to lift her and found she couldn't. So she wrapped a rope under her front hooves and dragged her back to Twilights. By now, everyone was wondering what was going on.
"What's goin' on here?" AppleJack asked, she had woken up when a rock her her head on the way to Twilights.
"Here! Just read this!" Rainbow said, flying over to the paper and grabbing it. She then gave it to Twilight to read. After she was done reading it, all of them where shaking, all but Rainbow and Twilight, as they had already read the letter.
"So when is the Royal Gaurd suppost ta get here?" AppleJack asked.
"I don't know. Celestia never said." Twilight replied. Suddenly, there was sound of wheels on dirt and a knock at the door.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Author's Note: Ahh... Yes. More chapters to this story. Go ahead and voice your suggestions for the story. I might actually consider them.
"That was fast..." Twilight said. Once she opened it, she saw a large white pegasus with a light blue mane and golden armor. The armor had what looked like Celestia Cutie Mark on it.
"Twilight I presume?" He asked.
"Y-yes. Thats me." Twilight said.
"We are under order from Princess Celestia herself to gaurd the Elements. Is there anything we should look out for?"
"Yes, you should watch out for a tall, hairless ape-like creature. It carries around a sharp weapon and is very accurate when throwing it. Celestia told us that if we see a small metal object shine in the sun we should get behind cover. I suggest you take the same advice."
"Thank you. We shall keep this in mind." The gaurd said before walking off.
"I hope they can fight him..." Twilight said after she closed the door.
She then made her way over to her friends and told them to get some sleep. They all agreed and huddled together. All but Fluttershy. She stayed with the Diamond dog. Early in the morning the Diamond Dog woke up a cold sweat. He tried to sit up but couldn't, the pain in his ribs was to great. He gave out a small yelp and relaxed again. He found that there was pain in his back too. The pain formed words. Spot and Fido. He then remembered what happened to them and started to cry. Fluttershy, after waking up from his yelp, went over to him to comfort him. When she went near him, he tried to hide but couldn't move his body.
"It's ok... I woun't hurt you. Can you tell me your name?" Fluttershy asked.
He slowly moved his head no. He was to afraid of what would happen.
"Well can you at least tell me what happened to you?" Fluttershy asked.
He slowly shook his head yes and asked for some water. Once Fluttershy came back with the water he asked for her to put it to his mouth. Once she did, he quickly drank it.
"Do you really vant me to tell you?" He asked.
Fluttershy quickly shook her head yes.
"Ok zen... but I woun't leave any detailz out." He said before he started to tell her exactly how it happened. Once he was done, they where bothin tears. The Diamond Dog's condition only making it more painful for him to cry.
"I swear... he broke my ribz just to make it hard for mez to cry." He said.
"No... He couldn't have done all those aweful things... He wouldn't have!" Fluttershy said covering her face in her hooves.
"Fluttershy...."
"Who's there?" She asked.
The Diamond Dog quickly recognized the voice and ignored the pain in his chest and ran out the door.
-BANG-
Suddenly the Diamond Dog fell to the ground holding his leg.
"Fluttershy... I must thank you for taking care of me. But I see that Twilight has sent a letter to Celestia. And she sent gaurds. I'm sorry for what I'm about to do. You don't deserve to see this."
"Wha-what are you gonna do?" She asked. Suddenly, a figure started to form out of the shadows.
"I, am going to have to dispose of these gaurds. As Celestia will never consider you six safe from me. I'm sorry." I said before letting my figure return to the shadows. I moved to Fluttershy's shadow, transforming her's into mine.
"If you ever need me, look to the shadows..." I said, before returning to where I left my gun.
"What does he mean, Look to the shadows?" She wondered. She looked down and noticed her shadow had returned to her own. She noticed the Diamond Dog again and brought it back inside. She set him back on the couch and told him to get some rest. He happily agreed and tryed to sleep. Fluttershy however was still wondering about what I said. So she decided to test it. She turn off the lights in the room and looked around. She noticed a darker figure in the darkness.
"You called?" I asked.
"Um... No, not really. I was just wondering how you became like this."
"While I was looking for a place to stay after you all ran away from me, I climbed up a tree to find a cave. I found a dirt area with some caves and stones. I climbed down the tree and found some blue flowers. I cut off their heads and put them in my pocket. I then noticed that my skin was turning black and when I stepped in a shadow, I dissappeared and could control shadows. When I step in light, I look normal. But when I'm the shadow, and I come in contact with pure light, I feel pain. That is why I said to look to the shadows."
"Blue flowers?"
"Yeah. Why? You know about them?"
"Yes, their called Poison Joke. They play a joke on the people who touch them. Looks like the joke they played on you is better for you than it is bad."
"Yeah. I guess so..." I said. I was still wondering why I couldn't control the shadows like I could before I fell asleep and why my everything I had on me at that time also turned to shadows.
"Is there a way to cure this, Poison Joke?"
"Well, yes actually. It's a herbal bath. Me and the others accidently walked into a patch and had to have our friend Zecora help us."
"Hmm... Interesting. I'll find her late if I ever regret this power."
"So... uhh... Do you mind if I turn the lights on? I don't really like the dark."
"Of course. I'll be near the walls where there are shadows until I materialize again."
"Oh. O-ok."
Fluttershy then flew around the room. Bumping into a few things trying to find come candles.
"F-fluttershy? Is that you?" She heard somewhere to her left.
"Y-yes, It's me Twilight."
"Why are all the lights off?"
Fluttershy was starting to get nervous. How would she explain me?
"Uh... No reason!" She quickly said trying to look innocent.
Soon, there was a glowing light coming from Twilight's horn. Fluttershy quickly looked towrard the walls to look for me. Luckily for me, my wings tansformed too and I was flying in the shadows above them. After a while though, I started to materialize so I flew above them. Not making a sound, and dropped behind Twilight. I put my hand in front of her mouth and nose and held it there. I used my other hand to wrap around her neck to hold her head still. Slowly, the light got dimmer and dimmer. Once it was out, I turned back into the shadows.
"Don't worry. She's only knocked out. I'll go find some candles for you."
"Wh-why did you do that?!" She asked.
"One, is because she can't be trusted. Two, is because she would freak out and try to get help. And three, well there is no three. I just plain don't like her much."
Fluttershy stayed scilent after that. My eyes where well adjusted to the shadows now, so I found about five candles and lit them. I put them by Fluttershy. I then looked over to Twilight's desk and found a letter. I quickly read it while I waited to materialize.
"That bitch. I told her not to tell them my name." I turned around and looked at Fluttershy. She was hidding behind her mane. I took my knife out of my pocket and threw it at her. It went 2 inches in front of her face and cut off her mane. The knife eventually hit the wall and stuck.
"I warned you." I said after materializing completely. She looked suprised at what she saw. I looked like I did before. Lion thing's skull on my hed and everything. I thought I must have looked awesome, but we all have our own opinions. But I still had blood all over my cloths.
"I see that you noticed what that Diamond Dog's friends did to my cloths." I said pointing to the Diamond Dog on the couch. The sound of my knife hitting the wall had woken him up. He quickly noticed me and tryed to get up. What he didn't see what that I was right next to him before he sat up.
"I see that you're awake now. Your lucky I already gave you your punishment. Otherwise you would have suffered worse than a bullet in the leg. You better have thanked Fluttershy and her friends for their help." I wispered in his ear, putting the fear of God in his very exsistance. The dog then fainted. I let out a small chuckle and turned back to Fluttershy. She was cowering in a corner.
"I see... I am still not wanted here. Before I leave though, I'll tell you this, and only you. Anyone who stands against me will die." I said before stepping into the shadows once more.
"You no longer have to worry about the gaurds around the tree too. Their going to be gone soon."
Flutterhsy quickly looked out the door and saw me walking slowly behind a gaurd in the morning light. I looked behind be and saw her. I have a two fingure salute, and took out my knife. I shone the barly visable sun in her eyes. I quickly then sunk the knife into the gaurds neck before she could recover. I took the knife out and ran into the shadows. All she saw what me flashing the sun in her eyes and a gaurd fall to the ground, holding his neck.
"That was close. I hope she does't worry about the gaurds... Ah, who am I kidding? Of course she will." I thought. I looked ahead of me and saw a large white pegasus with a blue mane. He was looking around as if looking for a signal.
"Hello there gaurd. I beleive you are searching for me?" I said from the shadows.
"Show your self!" he yelled searching around for me.
"Of course, I always like a good fight. But I'm still waiting for one."
As soon as I stepted out of the shadows, he took a few steps back from what he saw. I had my wings streched out as far as they would go, and had all my lion-thing clothing on. I walked about 5 feet in from of him and sat down. All the while, he was watching me materialize slowly.
"Wh-What are you?"
"I am the one waiting for you to attack me ." I said leaning back a little.
He clearly let his anger get the best of him as he charged at me. I simply stood up and side-steped him. As he ran past, I used the palm of my hand and pushed down, causing him to fall face-first into the ground.
I yawned and sat back down.
"I love teasing idiots like this." I thought.
He took to the air and tried to dive at me. I noticed this and lied down. As soon as he was about 2 yard away from me, I turned on my side. He landed face-first again, 3 inches away from by back. I then turned back on my back. Half of it covering his head, keeping it there. As he struggles to get out, his wings where flapping wildly. I noticed this and grabbed one. I noticed all the feathers in neat rows.
"Nice feathers ya have here..." I said slightly lifting my back so he could hear me. " It'd me a shame if something happened to them..."
I started to pick each feather off, one by one. He started to thrash alot more after the first 10 feathers.
"Oh, I'm sorry, did you want me to stop?"
I heard a yell and sat up. He quickly withdrew his head. His eyes looked like fire. He flew up in the air again but this time not as fast.
"So you want to take this fight to the air now?" I asked with a grin. He shuddered at my face and took a defencing position in the sky.
"Your funeral." I said standing up. I stood there for a moment and slowly flew up into the air. I noticed his face turn to one of curiosity.
"Like my wings? Awesome right? Their also quite sharp." I said flying slowly toward him. He was slowly flying away from me.
"So. You gonna keep flying away? OR are ya gonna attack me. Because I don't want to ruin this warm up by killing you so soon." I teased.
He took the bait and flew right at me. I flew slightly to the side and grabbed his neck. I held him in front of me so I could look him in the eyes.
"Ya look scared big-guy. Afraid I might kill ya? Well you have good reason too." I said. After I said that, I slowly flew back to the ground. Once on the ground, I took out my knife and stabbed it threw his hoof. Pinning him to the ground. I flew away a little bit and spread my wings. I flew straight at him with what I swear should be my signiture black trail with red lines following me. I headed straight for him, as soon as I was close, I turned a hard right, making my left wing make a clean cut straight through his neck.
"Eh. He wasn't much of a fight. Worst part is is that he looked the strongest." I said picking up his head. I set it down and found a large stick. I went back over to the head and lined the stick up with the head.
"FORE!"
-Crack-
The head flew quite a ways and I heard a thud and a screem.
"Ha! I didn't expect a pony to be up this early." I said looking at the sun for a time. "About 7:00 AM" I thought. "Oops."
Any suggestions on what to do next? I'm running out of ideas.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Rainbow Dash, meet Freddy.
Author's Note: Thanks to my friend on steam ϟWonderboltsϟ - Chrysalis™ I have had some advise on what to do, and what to write next. I would like to say Thank You to him, and those who support this story and the few people who commentedon this story. And those who gave it a Thumbs Up. I still have no idea why you did so.
Rainbow Dash's point of view.
I woke up to somepony screeming outside. I hurryed outside to see what had happened and saw the pony who had screemed.
"Of course it would be Rarity. Nopony else can screem that loud." I said.
I heared a large boom and saw a black trail with red lines flowing through streak across the sky. I quickly remembered that it was somepony breaking the sound barrier.
"That must be that Paul guy! I'm sure I can take him down and show everypony that he isn't as bad as he acts." I said as I quickly took to the air after him. I noticed a cone forming around me after a while. I smiled as soon as I broke through it and took off. I was still going alot slower than him.
"HEY! WAIT UP! " I yelled after him. He must have heard me somehow because he turned on his back and looked back at me. He gave me a quick one handed wave and dived straight down. When he was close to the ground he made a 90 degree turn and went straight into the old Diamon Dog's caves. I slowed down and followed him. I didn't expect to see what I saw in there. I found dead bodies of Diamond Dogs and a body of a Manticore. I could look right into the belly of the beast and see the heart and intestines.
"Ah yes, I have yet to remove those. Don't worry, the stomach and liver and other relating intestines where quicky and easily removed. Thing barely put up a fight before it died. Makes a nice bed though." He said.
Thats when I noticed what he was wearing. He was whereing the Manticore's skull as a healmet and tail plating as arm and leg armour. I also noticed the Manticore's paws inside his jacket pockets. The jacket looked like some sort of skin. After seeing all these things, I felt like throwing up.
"Hey! No throwing up in here. It's still airing out from this thing. I named him Freddy. I think it suits him. He loved his claws by the way he kept them." He said pointing his thumb at the Manticore.
"Here, use this if your going to throw up." He said as he took some weird shaped thing off the cave wall. I quickly grabbed it and threw up into it. Three times to be exact.
"Thanks, what is this anyway?" I asked him.
"Freddy's stomach."
I threw up into it a couple more times.
"If it disgusts you, why do you keep throwing up into it? Not that I'm saying to use the floor or anything. If you want, you can used a dog's body, I think I still have one lieing around here somewhere."
"H-how could you do all this?" I asked him shakily. I didn't think I would like the answer.
"Easily really. I read the letter, and you probably did too. So I felt no guilt, and I did it quick and scilently. Exept for the dogs. They didn't do anything wrong, but I decided to let some anger out on them for you and your friends for leaving me. I guess that's my punishment for trusting again eh?" He said finishing with a small chuckle.
"Hey, you don't need to remind me. I felt bad for it in the first place. And we don't hate you if that's what you think."
"Oh really? Then why where you making a map to use to hide from me?" He ask.
"That was to find places to hide you ! Twilight thought it would be best to hide you from the rest of Ponyville!" I yelled.
"Well shit. I still can't return though. But feel free to let the other's no that I have no intentions to harm any of you. Exept the gaurds. Two are already dead." he said leaning his side on the wall.
"Yeah, I noticed. Wait, two? I only saw the head of that one."
"You'll fine the other later, it's by the library." he said. He yawned like he was bored.
"I'm sorry, am I boring you?" I asked. "Not that I can bore anyone! That's practicly impossible!" I thought.
"Yes." He said. I looked at him like he was crazy. "He probably is." I thought.
"Your just standing there talking to me. Now, if you want to continue this conversation, go ahead. I'm gonna take all this stuff off." He said. He started to untie the rope that held all his armour on. He then slipped out of his jacket. He had on a shirt with the words "US Army" on it.
"What does that mean?" I said pointing to the words with my hoof.
"It's my job. Erm, was my job. I quit after something had happened." He said as he stopped leaning on the wall and walked over to me.
"So why did you follow me here?" He ask me.
"I-i thought I could convince you to come back with me and show everypony that your not that bad." I sayed looking down at my hooves.
"Sure, I'll go with ya. I would be happy to actually. But being able to convice others I'm not a bad guy is going to be near impossible even without the gaurds. So I would suggest taking me at night, or letting me kill them. I'm fine with both." He said as he sat down by the manticore and leaned back.
"How can you be so relaxed like this?" I asked him.
"I am a heavy thinker, I almost always know of a way to handle a situation. But in order for me to think, I need to be relaxed. If I don't think, I'll do absolutly whatever. Kinda like your friend umm... Pinkie Pie. Little retard defies the laws of physics, but she looks like she's the one who boosts the spirit around here. So... if she boost moral, then if I am able to gain her trust first, all I have to is show up a couple times by her and people should warm up to me faster than if it was one of the others. There, I already have a plan for being accepted." He said.
"Wow, you whern't kidding when you said you where a heavy thinker. I'm suprised Twilight doesn't like you." I said. I was totally suprised a guy that's as awesome as him could be a heavy thinker.
"I can understand that. Most people don't. I'm a jerk. And I can easily admit to it." he sayed with a smirk.
"But why do you bring yourself down like that?" I asked him.
"Because, in my opinion, it brings out the good things about me." He answered. He had on this strange smile, it was calming, but it made me want to run at the same time.
"What's with the smile?" I asked.
"Oh this? Nothin. Just happens when I'm near someone. People say it almost talks to them. Those who like me, think it calming. Those who hate me, think it taunts them. And even people who fear me have thoughts on what it says."
"What?" I asked. I really wanted to know.
"Run for your life." He said grimly.
"Oh." I said. "Well that answers what my feelings about it where." I thought.
"Hey. You consider me your, friend right?" He suddenly asked as he stood up.
"W-what?" I asked. His question totally threw me off.
"You're my friend right? Yes, or no."
"Y-yeah! Of course!"
"Ok, good. I thought Fluttershy would be the only one. No offence to her, but she's a little too shy. Oh, and the next time you see her, compliment her on her haircut."
"She got a haircut? When?" I asked.
"About half an hour before you started to follow me. You should really go faster. I was barly trying."
I looked at him with eyes full of shock, admiration, and jelousy. "How could you break the sound barrier and not try?!"
"The fuck should I know? I just can." was his answer.
"You're a jerk." I said.
"I know." He said with this really funny face. I burst out laughing. He gave a small chuckle and walked over beside me.
"I always had a thing for animals. Horses and reptilians especialy. But hey, I guess this place is a place where I can relax. There's horses, erm. Ponies even though I don't know the difference, here I should loosen up some." He said as he sat next to me. His hand was resting on my head while scratching behind my ears.
"See? This is the side of you I want to show everypony! Just not this close to everypony though. But I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda enjoying being with you." I said. He stopped scratching behind my ears and looked at me with a face of shock. He sighed and looked down.
"Listen. I know about your feelings just by your eyes. And just now your words confirmed it. It would be best if you found somebody else. I'm a murderer. A monster." He said as he slow started to cry scilently.
I sat up and put my hooves around him and brought him into a hug. My legs barly went past his wide shoulders, but its the thought that count right? Soon, I felt hisarms wrap around me and pulled me close to him with a force that could crush boulders. I let out a small gasp and I felt him relax his arms some.
"S-sorry. I'm never like th-this. I... I just don't k-know what came over me." He said through his crying. I pulled back some to look at his face. His face looked almost the same. The only differences where his eyes where red, and they looked like they where looking right through me.
"H-hey. Don't cry, I hate to see my friends like this. Listen, we should probably get some rest. It's been a tiring day. You have an extra bed around here that I can use?" I ask.
His face seemed to brighten up some. Then get sad again. "No. I never expected someone to come in here and live to stay... I never had a chance to make a bed. I only left yesterday remember?"
"Oh, yeah... Hehe." I said blushing slightly. He looked around some and sighed. He looked back at be again.
"Listen. I have a feeling you don't want to sleep in Freddy. And my jacket is probably the softest thing in here besides me, Freddy, and you. So unless you want to sleep in Freddy, or on top of me, your better off using the jacket." he said.
"What's your jacket made of anyway?" I asked.
"Leather."
"What's that?"
"Cow skin. It's durable, water-proof, and it keeps in heat while keeping out the cold."
"I'll just sleep by you." I said after hearing that.
"I figured as much. But I don't have any blankets."
"It's fine!" I said. I walked over to him and waited for him to lie down. I then climbed under his shirt and popped out by his head. He sighed and looked at me.
"I'm not even going to say anything about this. Just a warning though. You better wake up before me."
"And what happens if I don't?" I teased.
"I'll take off my shirt and put it in Freddy with you inside it." he answered with a smirk.
"You're kidding right?" I asked. I seriously didn't want to go in there.
"Yeah, lets just go with that for now." he said as he put his arms behind his head and closed his eyes.
"So you where just kidding right? RIGHT?!
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The Man with the Hidden Past
"Don't Worry, it's Just a Murderer in a Suit!"
Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed a little look through Rainbow Dash's eyes. I'll probably do it again.
Back to my point of view.
I was the one who woke up first. And I knew what I had to do about it. I took off my shirt and made sure Rainbow Dash was still in it. I then took some dirt and put it on the shirt.
"Hehe. She's gonna freak when she wakes up. Better thank me for just using dirt instead of actually doing it." I said as I dug up my bag. Man's gotta have some cloths on. I found a couple outfits and my Tuxedo.
"Eh, why not. I always liked to dress nice." I said as I took out the Tuxedo.
I quickly took of my pants and put on the other ones. I then looked in the bag and found a nice red tie. I set it on the side as I put on a white shirt. After the shirt I put on the tie and vest. I started to hear Rainbow wake up so I wen over to the wall and leaned on it to watch the show.
"AH!!! HELP! GET ME OUT OF THIS THING! EW! " I hear her scream. I quickly fell on the floor laughing my ass off.
"Ugh! Paul! You jerk! get me out of this thing!!" she yelled.
"So the fastest pony in Equestria can get out of a shirt with dirt on it? How lame." I said after my laughing fit. She stayed quiet for a bit after that. I heard a small rumble and saw her head poke out of some of the dirt.
"What's with the suit?" she asked me.
"It's a Tuxedo, and I have no idea. I just like to dress nice every once and a while. Why, ya like it?" I said standing up. After wipeing the dirt off my pants I walked over to the Tuxedo's jacket and put it on. My wings had ripped through all the cloths but the jacket. I tryed to push them through and couldn't.
"Damn. This must be stronger than my leather jacket. My wings cut right through it. Looks like I'll just get to Twilight's place by shadow."
"What do you mean 'by shadow'?" she ask. I sighed.
"I really hope most ponies woun't act like this when ever they hear me talk about what those flowers did. Ya know what? Fuck it. I'm finding that Zecora person and getting rid of this awesome power." I thought.
"Ugh. I'll just show you." I said as I stepped into a shadow. My Tuxedo and everything changed with me. I used the shadows to quickly appear right behind her. As I was materializing I grabbed her sides and made her jump.
"EEP! What the buck man?! What was that for?" she asked.
"You wanted to know what I ment. So I showed you. And do you know where I can find someone named Zecora? Apparently she can get rid of this power."
"Why would you want to do that?!" She asked with a look of shock on her face.
"You actually just did it before. One, It scares people. Two, I don't really need it. And three, people are gonna keep asking how I do it." I said counting it off with my fingers.
"Now then. I'll see you by Twilight's place. I'll unlock the door for you." I said before I stepped into the shadows again. I quickly went to Twilight's place and went in throw the shadows in the lock. Once on the other side, I stepped into the light and materialized and unlocked the door. After I unlocked the door Imade sure I wasn't see. Since Rainbow and I slept until around noon, everybody was either gone, or hiding somewhere from me. After scanning the room again, I stepped backinto the shadows and waited. After about two minutes of waiting, I heard Rainbow at the door.
"I told you I would unlock it. You don't need to knock." I said from the other side of the door.
"What's with your voice?"
"I don't know. It just does this when I'm a shadow. It's funny how it echoes.
"How is that funny? It's kinda creepy." she said looking around for me.
"Nah, that's what makes it funny! But now back to why we're here. You go wake up everyone and make them promise to be quiet. And don't wake up Twilight. She'll tell Celestia that I'm here and I don't really want to get blood on my suit." I said after stepping out of the shadows.
"Ok, will do!" She said before she went upstairs to get everybody. Once she was gone, I went over to the couch and noticed the Diamond Dog was gone.
"Must have eaither died, or ran away. Not my problem though. If he ran away though, he better hope he can get on my good side." I said to myself before sitting on the couch.
"Ugh. I still hate how short these are. Fuck it, I'm putting this thing on it's side." I said before I stood back up and set it so its right arm was on the floor. I then sat on the other arm.
"Eh, Better. I guess..."
Rainbow's point of view. *I told you I would probably do it again. I fucking love writing in Rainbow's perspective.*
I quickly went upstairs to go wake up everypony. I went to find Fluttershy first. "I wonder what her hair looks like now." I wondered. When I saw her the mane from about eye-level down was missing.
"Huh. Looks kinda funny." I said after I shook her away.
"Wh-what does?" she asked.
"Your hair. Paul said to say soemthing about it."
"Oh, you saw Paul too?" she ask.
"Hm? Yeah, listen. I need you to promise to be quiet. He wants to see everyone but Twilight. I guess he doesn't trust her enough to let her know he's here. You go wake up Pinkie and Rarity. I'll get AppleJack. But make sure to make them promise to be quiet. We don't to wake up Twilight by accident." I said.
"Ok, but why doesn't he want Twilight to know?" Fluttershy asked me.
"Something about not wanting to get blood on his suit." I answered as I walked off to find AppleJack. I found her in Twilight's room. She was curled up by the side of Twilights bed. She was snoring slightly.
"This is gonna be tough." I said before walking over to where AppleJack was. I sat there thinking for a couple minutes before I got an idea. I bent down and put my muzzle by her ear. Then I slowly blew into her ear. It look a couple tries and a few muffled noises from AppleJack before she woke up.
"What in tarnation? Why did ya'll wake me up Rainbow?" she asked after she woke up some more.
"Shh! Don't wake up Twilight!" I wispered. "Listen, I need you to promise to be quiet, ok?"
"Alright, Ah promise. Now can ya tell me what's goin' on?" she asked.
"Paul's here. He wants to see everyone."
"Paul? You mean that guy that want's ta kill us?" she asked with an eyebrow raised.
"No, the one who we ran away from yesterday." I said with a frown.
"So ah was right. And why doesn't he wanna see Twilight?"
"If your so curious, go ask him yourself. Fluttershy should have woken everpony else up and they're probably waiting for us." I said waking towards the door. I paused and looked back when I noticed she wasn't coming.
"Ya comin' or what?" I asked.
"Yeah, yeah. Ah'm comin'" she said before following me back downstairs.
Back to me. *I have no idea why I didn't just put this in another chapter.*
"This couch is seriously uncomfortable. Even when it's taller." I said to myself. After a couple minutes of waiting for Rainbow, I hears some hoofsteps coming form upstairs. I wasn't sure who it was so I left the couch on its side and stepped into a shadow. I noticed it was just Fluttershy.
"Yo, what's up Fluttershy? I said after I made sure Twilight wasn't around.
"N-nothing... Where are you anyway?" She asked looking around for me. I stepped out of the shadows and straightened my suit. I need to look nice sometimes ya know?
"Why are you wearing a suit? That is, if you don't mind me asking..." She said.
"Fluttershy, listen. Ask what you want, when you want. I will either answer you, or I'll just not speak. And I'm wearing this because I am. That's why." I said. I heared some more hoofsteps coming now.
"You wake up Twilight?" I quickly asked Fluttershy.
"No. Why?"
"Because, she's a... how to put this nicely... she's a bitch and will tell Celestia I'm here." I said.
"That was nice?" she asked.
"It was nicer than it should have been." I said looking down at Fluttershy. I heared the footsteps getting closer so I stepped back into the shadow until I knew who it was. It was Rarity and Pinkie. I decided to play a little game on the two. I quickly used the shadows to get behind them and materialized in between them. I then went and knelt down on one knee.
"Boo."
"AH!!!
I let out a small chuckle at my trick and went back into the shadows before they recovered. They turned only to see each other. I used their shadows to make Rarity's look like her mane was in an afro and Pinkie's mane look flat. When they noticed, Rarity lookd like she would faint and Pinkie looked like she was having fun making her shadow's hair move.
I just stood there wondering what the fuck Pinkie was doing. "Pinkie, what the hell are you doing?" I said making Rarity fall on her ass and Pinkie look for what made the voice.
"Pinkie, you are probably the most retarded and most entertaining to watch pony out of all six ponies I've met so far." I said after I stepped out of the shadow. "That lived anyway..." I muttered under my breath. I noticed Rarity hadn't fainted like I had expected. She was staring at me like I was some sort of movie star.
"Yo, Equestria to Rarity. Ya there drama queen?" I said waving my hand in front of her face.
"Hm? Oh, Paul! you said you didn't care how you looked! And yet here you are wearing a nice suit!" she said walking around me admiring my Tuxedo.
"First, I don't care how I look. Second, this is a Tuxedo. And third, do you know why none of you ran away from me on first sight?" I asked. This was starting to bother me. I'm pretty sure a guy that's a killer and wears suits isn't exactly the best thing to be around.
"No, darling. I can't say I know. So was that you that scared me and did that to my shadow? I would give you a strong talking to if you didn't look so ravishing in that suit of yours!"
"Oh, and go ahead and give me that, 'talking to'. I'm pretty sure I can tune you out before you even say anything." I said waving my hand at her as I waked past her toward Pinkie. She had her attention back on her shadow. I stepped behind to her and let my own shadow cover up hers. She turned around and laughed at me.
"What's so funny?" I asked.
"I learned that when something is scary all you have to do is laugh and it will go away!" she said cheerfully. I just stood there like I just heard someone say something in some unknown language.
"What." was all I could manage after I understood how stupid what she said was.
"I learned that when some-" she said before I interuped her.
"No, no. I heard you. But that isn't how things work. When something is scary, there is two solutions I know of. Deal with it, or run away and be called a wuss. And because you just laughed at me, I'm scary. So are you going to deal with it? Or do I get to call you a wuss the rest of my life. And last I checked. Humans live longer than horses. So I can probably tell your children how much of a wuss you where this day." I said with a frown.
"I-I'll just deal with it." she said as she took a few steps away from me.
"Hey! That is not how you treat a lady!" Rarity said from over by Fluttershy.
"None of you are ladies though. You're ponies . Remember drama queen?"
She just gave a "Hump!" and walked away with her head in the air.
"Bitch." I muttered. I heard somemore footsteps and some wings. The sound of wings let me know Twilight wasn't coming, so I just went back over to the couch and sat on it again.
"Fucking couch. Why is this so uncomfortable?!" I said to myself.
"Fuck it. This thing is gone." I said as I picked up the couch and carried it to the door. I then took my jacket off and hung it up on a notch in the wall. I grabed the couch again and brought it outside. Once outside, I spread my wings and flew up in the air with the couch. I found a gaurd near the outskirts of town and flew above him. Once checking to make sure he was gonna stay there, I dropped the couch. I didn't stick around to see if it hit. I didn't have to. I heard a crunch and then the shattering of wood. Yep. It hit it's mark. Once I was back at Twilight's I was met by 4 pairs of eye's looking at me with curiousity and 1 pair with a look of anger.
"What." I asked AppleJack. Of couse she's the one with the angery look.
"Ya had Rainbow here wake me up just so ya could be late?" she asked me.
"Hm? Nah. I just had to go drop something off first."
"And what was it?" she asked.
"A really uncomfortable couch." I said as I went over to where the couch was and sat on the floor.
"Ah... Much better." I said after stretching out my legs. Rainbow flew over right next to me and sat to my right. Everyone else just stayed in from of me.
I noticed Rainbow playing with the edge of my wing. I gave it a light flap. Must have been a powerful little flap because it blew paper off Twilight's desk which was across the room. Rainbow started to blush because I had noticed. I gave a quick smirk and turned to everyone else.
"Now then. To why I am really here. Twilight has alerted Celestia about me. Though what I told that dog to say may have sounded like a threat, it actually wasn't. I was only going to be seeing you soon. I wanted to talk to each of you and find out why you didn't like me. But Rainbow over here," I said as I wrapped my wing around her," had cleared that up. And I noticed the dog went missing. What happened to him?"
"I patched him up and sent him on his way." Fluttershy said.
"Oh. Ok then. So. Now that Twilight isn't here to annoy me with endless questions... Any of you have any that you would like to ask?" I said looking at everyone in front of me. Pinie Pie was the only one who raised her hoof. I nodded my head at her.
"Why do you hate baking?" She asked. I sighed and gave my best answer.
"Because. It involves taking time to make something that woun't last long. And suger. Suger is probably something you will never want to see me eat. I will be more hyper than you." I said.
"Is that even possible?" AppleJack asked.
"Probably not. But you give me sugar and I will be. So, anyone else have a question?" I asked.
This time it was Rainbow.
"Why did you kill that manticore?" she ask.
"Y-you killed a manticore?" Fluttershy asked.
"Yes, I did. And I did it because it was eating my steak. Nobody eats my steak besides me." I said as I leaned back.
All the ponies exept Rainbow started to scoot back.
"Shit man, you guy's are scared of me now because I can eat meat? But yet you didn't run when you saw me here. You guys are either retarded or just plain confusing. And beside. I don't eat horse meat. I prefer certain meats. I ain't picky, but I'll find a way to get beef. I always do." I said with a smile. The thought of steak always does that. I felt Rainbow struggling in my wing. I looked at her and noticed my wing was almost constricting her.
"Oops. Sorry. I didn't notice it was doing that." I said as I unwraped the wing and tucked my wings in. I then stood up and grabbed my coat. I slipped into it and went back to where I was.
"So, anything else?" I asked after Rainbow stopped gasping for air. After a while, nobody had raised their hand so I figured they where done.
"Ok then. Well if that's all. I...need to find Celestia. I feel the need to make a certain Princess very mad." I said as I got up and walked to the door.
"How do ya expect tah git to Canterlot?" I heard AppleJack say.
"I'll walk. I could use some exersize. Killing things isn't exactly a challenge when most things here don't have the guts to kill. So yeah. I'll do some star gazing." I said as I put my hands in my pockets and leizurly walked out the door looking up at the sky.
Yeah, you can probably guess who I'm gonna meet on my walk. Still looking for suggestions too ya know.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Author's Note: Friends on steam arn't doing anything. If any of my readers would like to add me as a friend on there, go ahead. I accept pretty much everyone. Just let me know first. And seriously, I'm running low on ideas for this story. Any at all would be good. As long as it isn't completely unreasonable I'll probably consider it at least.
PS: FUCK. I KNOW I WAS WEEKS LATE. I JUST COULDN'T THINK OF ANYTHING. -music helps me apparently- Plus people kept bothering me about my damn birthday.
I was walking through the town for about 5 minutes before I saw about 6 gaurds heading in my direction.
"I was wondering where you all where!" I yelled at them. They all jumped and looked in my direction. The one in the front pointed at me and they all ran. I just turned around and slowly walked away.
"By the order of Princess Celestia, we command you to halt!" I heard one say.
I turned to look at them and put my hand to my chin and looked at the sky. "Hmm... Nah."
Apparently, that's a good way to piss off gaurds because they all started to run faster. I turned around again and started to walk into an alleyway. On turning into it, I noticed the gaurds out of the corner of my eye. They where about 10 yards away from me. I took this as an opportunity and slipped out of my jacket. I folded it up neatly and flew up onto a roof to watch the ponies. Once they where in the alley, I flew down behind them and stepped out. I noticed a rock at the bottom of the entrance and decided to kick it at the gaurd at the end.
"Eh, why not have some more fun while I'm at it?" I thought.
The pony quickly looked around at me and alerted the others of me. I took off at a slow jog until I heard them catching up to me. I turned around and ran backwards after I heard some of them take to the skies. I then noticed what they are. Three where Pegasi, two where Unicorns, and the last one was an Earth pony.
"Aw... Come on, this isn't a fair fight!" I yelled at them. I noticed the one of the pegasi had a smirk after I said that.
"I can easily take you all without a problem!" I said. The pegasus lost that smirk of his quick. I then turned back around and spread my wings. "But alas, I must go annoy your princess. So I must bid you, adieu." I said before I took of with my trail following behind. After I made sure I lost the gaurds I landed beside a tree I put my jacket back on and lied down at the base and looked for the Palace. It looked about a mile or two away.
"Damn. Night here is way better than at home..." I said looking at all the stars. "It's the most beautyful night I've ever seen."
I heard the sound of wings nearby. "Who are you, and what do you want." I said without even bothering to look.
"I am Princess Luna, I'm on my nightly flight. I noticed you looking at the sky and decided to say hi." I heard.
"Luna eh? That's Latin for moon I think. I think that's a good name. Way better than some others. Like, seriously. Who names their kid Twilight Sparkle? Fucking stupid." I said still looking up at the night sky.
"Yeah, some ponies' names can be quite stupid." she said with a small chuckle. I heard her walk over to me and lie down. I sneaked a glance at her and noticed it was an alicorn like Celestia.
"Hey, you don't happen to know someone named Celestia do you?" I asked. She looked at me with a confused look.
"Yeah, she's my sister, why?" she asked.
"Oh... no reason. She's only trying to either kill me or put me in prison for the rest of my life."
"WHAT?! WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT!?" she screemed at me.
"I may or may not have killed like, 5 of her gaurds and accidentaly threatened 6 ponies." I said casually.
"YOU DID WHAT?!"
"Hey, they attacked me first! Exept that one I dropped a couch on. He never knew I was there." I said chuckling at the last part.
"Ugh... I should throw you in prison right now." she said rubing her temples. Do horses even have those? Eh, I don't care.
"Then why don't you?" I asked sitting up to look at her.
"Because. Your the only one who didn't run or care if I sat by you and talked." She said looking down at her hooves.
"And I can answer why I didn't run. It's because I don't give a shit what you did. I've killed a manticore, 5 gaurds, 2 Dog things, and severly injured one and I wasn't even trying for any of them. As for why I talked, I have no idea. I think it has something to do with the night. I always did feel better at night." I said looking back up at the stars.
"Yeah, my stary night makes a lot of ponies feel better." She said looking up at the stars.
"Yeah, I guess that makes sence." I said.
"What does?"
"That its your night, and your name is Luna."
"Hm, I never really thought about it like that." she said looking back up at the stars.
"Yeah.. it's a habit of mine to over-think things. Oh! I forgot my leather jacket! I'll be right back." I said as I got up.
"Where is it? I'll take you there." Luna offered.
"Nah, I don't think you'd like my place. It has the manticore I mentioned before acting as a bed. Now sit there if ya want. I'll be back in about one or two minutes." I said turning to the tree.
"How are you gonna get it and be back that fast? We're miles away from any towns." she said.
"I live in a cave. I made a mistake and ran out of Ponyville. And I can travel by shadow." I say before walking into the tree's shadow. All Luna saw was a darker shadow go flying by, and a minute later, it came right back.
"See? Barely over a minute." I said as I took off my jacket and folded it, and put on my leather one. "Here. Catch. Just give it back to me at the palace." I said as I tossed her it. I then poked my wings through the cleanly cut holes in my jacket. I must have looked kinda funny from Luna's perspective because she asked what I was doing.
"I'm trying to get my wings though the holes they made before instead of having them make new ones. I happen like this jacket."
"Why, you have magnificent wings! I've only seen that type on bats and my night gaurds."
"I know, awesome right? Well, either way. I'm gonna be at the palace waiting for you. Or we could race. However, you have magic so it wouldn't be exactly fair."
"Race? It's been a while since I've had one of those... Sure. I accept your challenge."
"Ok then. On the count of three... One, Two... Three!" I said before I took off with a large boom. I looked to my left and saw Luna keeping up. I turned over on my back and have a quick wave. She noticed me and had a face of shock.
"How are you going such speeds without effort?!" she yelled.
"With very large wings. Nust help aan lot " I said remembering the Keizaal dovah language.
"So you can speak dragon? But that language hasn't been used in centuries! How did you learn of it?" she asked.
"Let's see how well her knowledge of it is shall we?" I though with a grin on my face.
"Hin mother " I replied.
"Well that's not very nice."
"I know. That's why I said it. It's kinda strange how the language exists though. Where I'm from it's from a game. Then again, where I'm from, this world was just a cartoon made for little girls... I wonder what would happen if I use a Thu'um... I'll test it later. Wait! I know one I would just love to try right now."
"WULD NAH KEST!"
I burst ahead in a sudden burst of speed. I heard another boom and saw everything fade away from me. I tryed to stop and slowly started to see everything re-appear. It was different though. It was all stone work and fancy banners.
"Fuck. I somehow appeared in the palace." Suddenly, I felt a large pain in my chest and fell to my knees coughing. "Note to self: Using Thu'ums hurt like hell." I heard the clopping of hooves to my right. I stopped coughing after a while and looked at the source.
"Of course it's you. Who else would I expect?" I said.
I ignored the pain in my chest and stood up to my full height. "Well? Ya got me. Watcha gonna do? Kill me? Go ahead. I got nothin' to lose besides some respect from your little pony friends. But I doubt I have any. And killing me, also hurts your elements too."
"Yes, I regret bringing you here now. But as the spell I used was a one way thing, I can't send you back. But answer me this before I kill you. How will killing you hurt the elements?" Celestia said.
"One, is because they're very friendly with everyone, and my loss with sadden them. Plus 2 of them I can confirm have a crush so to speak, on me." I said as I spread my wings. "If I'm gonna die, I'll take the American way out."
"What's that?" she asked.
"Fighting and dieing for a cause. Just as many men before me. I will die for my cause. That, Is the American way. And my cause... Is to free the people here of me. Be happy that I don't plan on winning." I said before I charged right at her and stopped right in front of her. I gave her a hard punch to the face while she was caught off-gaurd. The punch sent her staggering back a few feet. She quickly got up and spread her wings. She bolted straight for me with her horn lowered to stab me with it. I was expecting this.
"Tiid Clo Ul!"
Everything stopped. "Damn! That one hurt." I said as I fell on my hands and knees coughing up some blood. I used my wings to help me up. I then jogged over to Celestia and used a wing to cut a near 3 inch gash over her right eye. I made sure it didn't cut the eye itself. I then flew up above Celestia and landed on her back. I then relaxed while everything started to move again. I felt Celestia running under me. She stopped all of a sudden to look for where I went. I meanwhile, was thrown straight into a wall by her sudden stop.
"How comical... I have no idea why I didn't expect that to happen." I said as I picked myself up off the ground. Celestia heard me and charged at me again. This time I just stood there. And started to sing.
"If tomorrow all the things were gone
I'd thank my lucky stars
And I'm proud to be an American
And I gladly stand up next to you
"Hehe... Fuck you bitch..." I choked out before my vision was swallowed by darkness.
The Man with the Hidden Past
A New Beginning. -PS: Trololol-
Author's Notes: I'd like to thank Darkclaw Deathstrike for his help with this story. -creepy name, I know- But seriously. He was a big help, and I would just like to say this. "Everypony... please annoy the shit out of him. It's funny as hell." That is all.
"I have no idea what the hell is going on here." I said looking around. It was just some sort of black void. No floor, walls, ceiling... Nothing at all.
"Hm. So this is death. I always wondered what that would be like." I said.
"Hello!!!" I said. I listened for the echo and didn't hear it.
"Hello, wruth kiir.; Hello, my child."
"Yeah... creepy voice speaking in dragon coming out of nowhere... Seems Legit."
"Daar los ni hin tiid.; This is not your time."
"Hey mystery voice, I speak perfectly fine English you know. Dovah may be fun and all, but English is kinda easier to understand." I said as I started to spin. I think.
"Ah yes... You mortals are quite picky arn't you. But this is not the time to answer quetions. I offer you immortality right now. All you have to do is make a choice." Mystery voice said.
"Yeah, ok. Sure, what choice do I have to make?" I asked. "I'm going crazy. I just know it." I thought.
You have to choose between the world you wish to stay in for the rest of your life, Equestria, or Earth. Only one world will give you immortality."
"Fuck Earth. I choose Equestria. All earth has to offer me right now is people thinking I'm crazy and the same thing over and over." I said crossing my arms.
"You have chosen correctly. I grant you immortality. Have fun living for eternity." Mystery Voice said with a hint of sarcasm.
"I just done fucked the hell up." I though as suddenly the black void around me turned white in the blink of an eye. It stayed like that for a minute or two and then faded to a black again. This time I could regognize it though. It was the back of my eye lids.
"The fuck? I didn't close my eyes..." I thought. I slowly opened one and looked at my surroundings.
"I'm in a box." I said to myself. "And a closed one at that."
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"HOLY SHIT! THEY FUCKING BURIED ME!" I yelled. I then relized something. My chest didn't hurt. I quickly looked at where Celestia stabbed me only to hit my head on the top of the box.
"Ok... Looks like I'm gonna have to get out of here. Hm... How to do this..." I said as I wondered about what to do. Then I remembered I was immortal now. I could just use a Thu'um to blast the top of the box off and then dig my way out from that.
"FUS RO DAH!"
I heard an audible crack of wood and feel dirt fall on top of me. I used my arms to sheild my face. Once I felt the dirt stop falling I moved my arms. I could see the sky. It was mid-day. "FUCK!" I thought. "NOW I'M GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE SCREEMING 'ZOMBIE! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!' "
I sat up and brushed the dirt off my pants. "Poor pants. They where nice ones too." I said. I then remembered my chest. I looked at the wound and saw that it was gone. I patted the area where it was to see if there was any soreness or bruises. None. "Awesome." I said to myself. I started to stand up and caught something out of the corner of my eye. Well, not exactly something . More... somethings ...
And they where all staring at me. "Yo what up guys? Long time no see." I said as I got out of the crater my Thu'um made and walked over. "Being immortal certainly has its benifets. I can't feel any pain from the Thu'um!" I thought. They all ran or fainted when I got near them. All exept two. A rainbow maned pegasus and a orange earth pony with a stetson.
"What are Ya'll and what did you do tah Paul's body?!" AppleJack said as she got into an attack position. Rainbow however was slowly flying closer to me. I kept my attention on AppleJack.
"Listen AppleJack. I am Paul, and you wouldn't stand a chance against me." I said as I stretched out my wings. Must have been intimadating because she took a step back.
"Ah don't beleive ya. Now put Paul's body back in the grave and git outa here!" she yelled as she prepared to buck me. I gave a small snicker.
"Go ahead and try to attack me. I'll win. Just remeber what happened to the gaurds." I said. She looked like she was about to high-tale it out of here now. Instead, she ran right at me. When she was close, she turned on a complete 180 and tryed to buck me. Exept I had grabbed one of her legs mid-buck and used the momentum to throw her into a tomestone. She slowly got back up and looked like she was about to run at me again when Rainbow interupted.
"STOP! " She yelled. Then she looked at me in the eyes. "Is it really you?" she asked me.
I cocked an eyebrow. "No, I'm a fucking hummingbird. Moo." I said.
"Oh my gosh! It really is you!" she yelled before wrapping her hooves around me and gave me a kiss on the lips. I was shocked that she even hugged me, but kissing me over did it. I let my more energetic side of me take over. Suddenly, I had the sudden impulse to go see Pinkie. I broke the kiss and started to flap my wings.
"COME ON! I'LL RACE YA TO SEE WHO FINDS PINKIE FIRST!" I yelled before taking off. I flew around town about 3 times before seeing her tail duck behind cover.
"Ah ha! Found you!" I said before I sped up to catch her. "Whatcha doin' Pinkie?" I asked when I was flying by her side.
"Running from you!" She said cheerily.
"Why?" I said with slight worry in my voice.
"Because, I just saw you blow a hole out of your grave and then come right at us!" She said still running.
"Hey, do you know where the others are?" I asked.
"Yeah! Twilight's hiding in her basement, Rarity's in her boutique, I'm right here, Fluttershy fainted so Rarity took her with her. And Dashie and AJ stayed behind!" she said with a smile.
"Ok, thanks Pinkie!" I said before I took of towards what I thought was the boutique. That's when I started to think things through again. "What the fuck just happened?" I thought going through my memories of the last couple minutes. "Oh yeah. Rainbow kissed me and I went crazy for a while." I said to myself. After a while I arrived at Rarity's place. I gave a couple knocks and waited.
"Who is it?" I heard Rarity call from inside.
"Umm... Morning Rise?" I said changing my voice slightly.
"Oh! I never heard of you before! You must be new here. I'll be right there." I heard her say. "Damn. If a terrable name like the one I just made up exist... Imagin what worse ones there are." I thought to myself. "Wait. Why am I waiting at the door? I could just go in through a window." I said to myself. I spread my wings and flew up to the second floor. I heard the door open and quickly hid in a shadow. I used the shadow to scilently get inside. I then stayed in the shadows until I could make sure Rarity was gone. After I was sure, I slowly stepped into the middle of the room. I closed my eyes, cleared my head, and slowed my breathing. And listened. I heard a pony shuffling on something in the room to my right, a pony sleeping upstairs, and Rarity complaining to herself that nobody was at the door. I decided to check the room to my right first.
I calmly walked over to the door carfully walking to make sure my shoes didn't make noise. I put my ear to the door to listen better. Crying. I could only make out muffled parts of it.
"No... couldn't have... wouldn't do such a thing!"
After a couple minutes, it died down and turned into a slight snore. I quietly opened the door to see Fluttershy lying in a bed thrashing around in her sleep. "Must be having a nightmare." I thought. I walked over by the bed and sat down next to Fluttershy. I gently pulled her over next to me and pet her mane.
"Should probably get this cut better." I said quietly when I noticed that the part of her mane I cut off wasn't fixed yet. Me petting her was slowly calming her down though. Then, I remembered what my mother used to hum when I was having a nightmare. "Hell. Why not?" I thought before I started to sing Amazing Grace. By the time I was done, I was on the verge of tears.
"The hell. Why does this song do this to me." I said to myself as I wiped the tears away.
I felt Fluttershy move slightly. I looked down and saw that she had woken up. Her eyes where fill with something . It was like a bunch of emotions at once. Admiration, love, sadness, longing, and happyness all at the same time just to name a few.
"What. The. Fuck." I thought as I studied her eyes. They where like a puzzle that was impossible to solve. "Damn women. Why can't they ever be easy to understand like us guys?" I said in my head.
After a little while of just stareing, Fluttershy looked away and blushed.
"I-I didn't know you sang..." she said.
"Hm? Yeah... I do that sometimes. Apparently I'm pretty good at it." I said looking at the ceiling.
"Um... do you mind singing to me again? I really enjoyed it." Fluttershy said looking back up at me and cuddling a bit closer to me.
I couldn't help but chuckle a little. "Sure Fluttershy." I sat there for a little while thinking of a song to sing. Eventually I thought of one that I thought would fit the situation. After about half the song was done, I noticed that Fluttershy had fallen asleep again with a content smile on her face. I gently set her head on the pillow and got back up and stretched. I felt the satification of my back cracking multiple times. After that, I quickly cracked me neck. I must admit, it was louder than I expected it to be. Rarity must've heard it because I heard her start to quickly walk up the steps. I have a quick half-smile as my plan started to form. And it was time to put it in action. I walked over to the door and waited to hear Rarity's hooves on the floor. After I heard it, I opened the door and quietly closed it. Then I walked over to the window and opened it. I looked back and saw Rarity standing there. Frozen in horror shock. I put my finger to my lips.
"Shh... Fluttershy's a sleep." I said with a smile and jumped out the window. I landed quietly on the ground and stood back up.
Mental Checklist of Plan:
Scare Rarity: Check.
Goof Off: Not-check.
Visit Celestia Singing Trolololol: Next.
Go get some food because I haven't eaten since before I got here: Before I go see Celestia.
On my way to the market to get some food, I saw Pinkie being random again. And being the musical guy I am, it reminded me of a song . I ended up singing it under my breath on my way to the market. I was careful Twilight wouldn't see me. Didn't want to ruin Celestia's suprise more than it already is. On my way there, everyone would stop and stare at me, or run inside a random house and lock the door. When I got to the market it was already deserted of everyone. So, I just simply walked over to a stand full of apples and grabbed two and kept walking. I ate one apple while I walked, and tossed the other up in the air repeatedly.
"Damn. 'Dis a good apple!" I said as I ate it. Eventually I got out of the town while laughing a couple times at people's reactions of me. Gotta say though. One was kinda fucked up. Soon after I got the apples, Some mint green unicorn ran up to me and asked me a bunch of questions about my hands. Ended up with me asking if I needed to bitch-slap a unicorn. Poor thing said yes. I chuckled at the memory. Who in their right mind would say 'Yes'?
By the time I was finished with the second apple I was about half way to the palace. I decided that I wouldn't make it there before night and just decided to fly. I quickly broke the sound barrier and sped to the Palace. One there, I flew around a couple of the towers and looked for Celestia's bed room. After I found it, I made note of where it was. Then, I flew down to the city below and found a store that sold paper and quills.
"Hope I know how to use these things." I said as I took a quill and dipped it into an ink well. Then I went over to the paper and started to write.
"Dear Princess Celestia,
I have a suprise for you. I woun't wait forever either. I'll be right outside your palace.
Sincerly,
The one that you 'killed' "
I then grabbed the letter and flew back to the tower with Celestia's bedroom. I folded the paper into an airplane and threw it right at her head. Then, I went down to the steps of the palace and began my show.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to anounce a show just for Celestia. I shall begin once she gets here!" I yelled to everyone I could see. Eventually, I saw Celestia slowly fly down with a look of anger on her face.
"Ah! There you are. Ahem... TROLOLOLOLOLOL "
The Man with the Hidden Past
Author's note: A big thanks to Darkclaw Deathstrike. He's let me use his character in this story. -he had his character's traits, backround story and everything. I thought he was bull-shitting me when he said he had this all memorized, writen down, and typed out. Seriously, just ask him his library code. It's fucking long and only has 2 solid words in it.-
"B-but you... I killed you! I saw you be put in the grave!" she stammered after I was done singing.
"Yeah... I'm immortal now. Graves can't really help against that now can it?" I said with a stupid grin on my face. It would make Jason Vorhees run away. "I see that the mark I left on your eye had turned into a scar. Good. That's what I wanted. Makes you look scarier. Have fun making friends as fast." I said as I spread my wings and slowly flew up to her. I flew so I was about 5-6 inches higher.
"Now then. No more guards, no more pissing me off, and one of those marks that you ponies have on your asses. Deal?" I said having a slight smirk.
"I don't trust you... But fine. As long as you agree to stop hurting innocent ponies." She said with a scowl.
"Last time I checked, I didn't kill a single innocent pony so far. The only ones I've killed where your guards. You should train them better by the way. And even then. Most of them attacked me first." I said as I reached out my hand. "So is it a deal?" I asked.
"Grr... Fine. Deal." she said reluctantly. She has a slight half-smile. She had a plan.
"I look forward to seeing your plan in action Celestia. It's quite obvious your forming one." I said with the stupid grin from before. She then shook my hand and I felt a sudden energy surge through my body. I felt something imprint itself on my back. After we where done shaking, I didn't let go of her hoof. Instead I have it a squeeze and heard the gold shoe she was wearing crack.
"Until next time Celestia." I said as I flew back to my cave. I saw Celestia inspect her shoe with a frown. When done inspecting it, she used her magic to quickly fix it. Then went back to her room.
As I was on my way back to my cave, I remembered that I was still hungry. So, I decided to quicken my pace and flew into my cave.
~~~Meanwhile, in Celestia's room~~~
"Hmm... I have to get rid of that menace. But how..." Then she remembered the spell she used to bring me here. "Maybe, I could bring something else here to somehow defeat him." she pondered. So, she quickly grabbed the book that had the spell in it and quickly went from universe to universe. After about an hour, she was about to give up. At the very last universe she would go to, she found a pony. It had yellow eyes and small reptilian slits for pupils. It's tail looked like a sharp curved blade and it had black and grey armor on. It's coat for what she cold tell was just pure black. It's mane was the same black but had shades of gray too. She decided that this pony looked like he could handle himself in a fight. She then teleported the pony back to her room. When the spell finished, the black pony stood before Celestia. Each stood there for a while waiting for the other would act. Eventually the black pony broke the silence.
"What's up?" It asked. Then he noticed his new surroundings. "What? Where am I?" it said as he looked back at Celestia.
"Listen, there is an invader in our lands. He has killed 5 ponies and threatened some of the most important ponies in our world. I need you to get rid of him. That is the reason I brought you here." she said.
"Eh. Sure, why not? I got nothin' to do right now." He said slightly leaning to one side. Celestia noticed that his eye color had changed to blue now but decided to say that it was the effects of universal travel.
"So. Where exactly is this intruder?" he asked as if it wasn't a problem.
"I don't know exactly. I used to be in his head and could tell where he was for a while, but the spell started to where off after the first day. You should probably go to Pony-ville and ask around there. That's where he last was sighted besides about an hour ago when he came here."
"Well, which way did he head after that?" he asked as he stood back up straight.
"Hmm... I think it was South-East? Somewhere in the middle of those."
"So, East-South-East?" he corrected.
"Uh... Yes?"
"Ok. Good. I'll be on my way then." he said before turning around and walking toward the door.
"Wait! It would take days to walk to Pony-ville. I'll personally ride with you in a Royal Carriage there." Celestia said suddenly.
"Fine. I would rather walk though. But if it would be faster then fine." he said as he walked back to Celestia.
"Good. I'll go tell my guards to ready the carriage." She said before walking off. she thought. On the way to tell her guards about the carriage, she ran into Luna.
"Oh, hello sister. You look like you're looking for some-pony." she said.
"Hm? Oh, yes. I have a visitor that needs a ride to Pony-ville and I'm going to tell the guards to get the carriage ready for us."
"Why do you need to go?" Luna asked.
"Oh. Umm.... No reason!" Celestia said quickly.
Luna grew a smile of knowing. "Who is he. Is he cute?" she quickly asked.
"Wh-what? What makes you think that I like him?" Celestia said defensively.
"I never said you liked him. You said that all on your own."
Celestia then realized that she was tricked into saying that she liked the new pony.
"L-look. I don't even know his name. How can I possibly like him?"
"I don't know. Love on first sight?" Luna said as she shrugged, "Either way. I'm going to go visit some-pony. I'll see you later." she said before walking off. After Celestia notified the guards about the carriage she walked back to where the new pony was.
"I'm sorry. I don't think I properly introduced myself. I am Princess Celestia. I would like to thank you for agreeing to help with my little problem." she said with a smile.
"No problem. This should be easy." he said casually.
"Well. We'll see won't we?" Celestia said as she motioned for him to follow her. She reached the large doors at the end of the room and gently opened them revealing the Royal carriage in front of the palace. Celestia instructed the pony on how to get in and told the guards driving where to go. After a couple of minutes of getting ready, they quickly took off. On the way to Ponyville, the new pony was looking in the direction Celestia said the invader had gone in. He saw a figure leaving one of the caves and made a note of what it looked like.
He thought. .
The Man with the Hidden Past
Author's Note: Sorry about my monthly delay, I decided to give my friend Darkclaw a chance to write. It's kinda obvious he got distracted for a whole month. So here's what I got so far.
The walk to my cave was probably the most interesting walk in my life. Whenever the wolf would get near the ground, all the plant life would try to reach up and grab it. And seeing as how I was in a forest only meant that I eventually lost the wolf to the plants.
"Fucking plants. If I knew if you where poisonous or not I would eat you." I said as I looked back at the mass of plants surrounding the wolf.
"Bastards..." I mumbled as I moved the pony-thing to my other shoulder. After about 10 more minutes of walking I finally reached my cave. I took out my knife and put it in my teeth. I could taste the sap from the tree it was in. Surprisingly sweet. And bitter... But I enjoyed the taste while it lasted. I was getting tired of the taste of nothing. I threw the pony-thing over by Freddy and put my knife in Freddy to keep it safe. Then walked over to my home-made armor and weapons.
"This stuff needs to go. It's not like I really needed it in the first place. But I'm keeping the skull." I said as I picked everything but the skull up. I quickly walked to the cave entrance and dug a small hole to toss the stuff in. After I stashed the stuff and buried them, I ran back in the cave to get out of the rain.
"At least it's lightening up some." I said as I watched the rain at the mouth of the cave. I stood there lost in thought for about 3 minutes before I came back to reality. I walked back to where the pony-thing was and looked closer at it.
The creature was pitch black all over, with the exception of grey highlights on his mane and tail. It was a unicorn, but appeared to have devil's horns in addition to is single large horn. It's mane was styled like a Mohawk, and the tail looked like 2 scythes pointed downwards. It's cutie mark (if it even had one...) was obstructed by a black lab coat that it wore underneath it's gray jacket. The creature had grey sweat bands around each leg, and some sort of armored plating on its hooves.
After I looked closer at it's hooves, I noticed a faint glow coming from where I had broken off its claw. Then I noticed the same glow coming from the claw wedged in its eye... The claw in the eye was shrinking and the claw on its hoof was growing!
"What the fuck...? What is this thing!?" I heard a faint beeping sound followed by a strange robotic voice saying something in a language I couldn't understand. "Is this thing a robot? Ha. That would be funny. A robot in Equestria... Wait. I'm a human. This world was fucked up the moment I got here. Eh. Who knows?"
I dreh.
"And.... Mr. Creepy Voice is back. Perfect." I said as I stood back up and looked for the voice.
My gift of immortality is wasted on you. You have done nothing but waste your body's time.
I only had a single facial expression while he talked. When he was done, I saw a small ball of light. After a few seconds, the light started to move. It grew legs, arms, and a head, all at the same time. Soon the light was to bright for me to look at and I shielded my eyes. It was giving off a great heat, and I backed away slightly. The heat kept growing, but I didn't sweat, or feel like I was burning. I slowly looked pasted my hand and saw the figure reaching out to me. I quickly backed up to the cave wall to try and get away. As I was walking backwards, I kept my eye on the figure. It didn't get any farther. Only closer. By the time I was against th wall, It's hand was inches away from my chest. Seeing as how i had nowhere else to run, I sighed and hung my head in defeat. I felt it's hand on my chest. It was cold. I then felt like something was being yanked out of me. I looked down and saw my bare chest. Except it wasn't like skin. It looked like a blood red mist. I reached out to touch it, only to see my hand was the same way. I moved my hand, only to notice that the mist moved instead. I looked down and saw the rest of me was the same. I looked behind me to see my body looks the life in it's eye and drop to the ground with a loud 'Thump'.
I tried to speak, only to find out my voice sounded alot like it did before. Which suprised me saying how I no longer had a physical mouth. "What did you do?"
I have taken your soul from your body. I shall be taking it with me to my resting place.
"Wait wait wait... I've been alive again for only a day ! You planned this!" I yelled at the figure with my 'finger' (I'm not even sure what to call it right now. I don't think 'mist' is good enough.)
Of course! I'm, as you say, Awesome!
"No you're not dude, don't lie!" (Lets see how many people got that reference.)
Eh. I don't care what you say. You ain't even a solid person.
"Neither are you! You argument is invalid!"
Suddenly, the figure made of light, turned to moving stone.
You where saying?
"Ok, now that's just cheating." I said as I crossed my arms. I think. I don't know, it all looked like one big piece of blood red mist.
"Hey, why am I blood red? I always described myself as gray. That's how spirits work right? You become what you describe yourself as?" I asked the figure.
No. Where did you get that heinous idea?
"How the fuck should I know. I'm more random than Pinkie at times."
True. But the color of your soul depends on its element.
"You better not mean that whole 'Elements of Harmony' bullshit."
That? Oh. Of course not. That's fake. I do all the work behind that. What I mean is elements as in Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Light, and Darkness.
"So I'm fire?" I asked.
Kinda. Notice how it's a dark red. I haven't seen this color in a while actually.
"So? What does it mean?" I said. I was getting annoyed with this guy, first, he tricks me, then he says a bunch of stuff about 'elements'. I'm just waiting for him to tell me what I want to know and leave me alone.
I seem to have forgotten. I guess you'll have to figure it out on your own.
"Oh you're a dick. You totally know." I said.
Of course I know. I just like toying with you. Have fun! I said before it quickly grabbed my body and snapped its fingers. After it snapped it's fingers, it dissapeared in a bright flash.
"Bastard." I said as I good my head. I took a step forward only to notice that my foot wasn't there. My legs had joined sometime while I was talking without me noticing. Instead, there was just this mist trail.
"Well this is gonna be fun." I said as I tryed to figure out how to move. I felt a small twitch on my back and I tooked behind me. I noticed I still had my wings.
"Well, that's one thing to be happy about I guess." I said to myself. But the twitching became a poke. Then a jab. I looked past my wings to see a familar manticore standing behind me. I turned fully around to get a better look at it.
"Oh... I remember you. Hehe... What's up Freddy ." I said with a snigger.
It let out a low growl as a responce.
"Ok... good luck with that. I'm just gonna go." I said as I tried to move forward. "As soon as I figure out how."
After a while, I just said "Fuck it" and tryed to use my wings. Didn't work.
"Gah. What am I doing wrong?! It's just moving forward!" I yelled at nobody in particular. I then tryed just thinking about moving forward. It worked.
"Of course." I said as my face met the palm of my hand. I made my way through the cave and got to the mouth of it.
"I wonder if this is gonna be like vampires when they go in sun." I said to myself as I moved into the sun.
"No sparkles. Perfect! And as far as I can tell, that figure said I was wasting my body's time. So that means my spirit is immortal instead, I guess." I said.
"I wonder if I can haunt someone. But first, if I have no physical form, can I lift things?" I said as I looked around. All I could see where trees and boulders.
"Ok... Don't wanna go big right away..." I said as I figured I wouldn't be able to lift a tree or a boulder. I kept floating foward and felt something where my feet used to be. I looked down to see... just an average rock.
"Good enough." I said as I reached down to try and pick it up. I felt the rock in my hands as I picked it up. I got it to about eye level and focused on it. I saw it start to smoke. After a few puffs of it, it started to turn red, then orange, and it started to melt in my hand. Seeing this, I quickly droped it. But I felt it drop through my hand before I moved it. I looked at my hand and saw it was the same. And I didn't feel any heat on it. So I focused on the rock again and saw it start to melt again. It eventually just turned to a liquid so I decided that it was done.
I thought.
"I wonder..." I said as I looked at my hands. I held them both out in front of me and focused on them. Suddenly, I bright white fire grew in my left hand. I focused on my right. and a bright fire shaped in a heart formed. I closed both of my hands while focusing on them still. I opened them to see that they where gone. I looked around me to see the ground was slowly growing plants with a slight white glow to them. And the animals had a slight red glow in their eyes. And they seem to be 'friendlier' with each other.
"Ok... This isn't strange at all..." I said to myself as I looked at what's unfolding around me. I looked back at the plant because I didn't need to see any more of that . I saw that the plants there only grew about 6 ft away from me and then stoped suddenly. I moved toward the edge to see why. I took a posture that would rezemble kneeling if I had legs. I couldn't see any reason that I knew of. Then I got an idea.
I thought. I could see the white fire come from my hand, which was by my side. "Damn, that's one bright light." I said quickly before I got back to work. I looked to my fight and looked for a healthy tree. I got a good lok at it and then focused on the fire. It turned a slight shade of brown and had green at the tips of the flame. I slowly put my hand near the ground. Once the back of my hand was on the ground, I slowly began to slip my hand from under the flame. The flam sank into the ground. I stood back up and watched the spot for a while. Eventually I heard a slight rumble and saw a small sapling sprout from the dirt.
"Hmm... Interesting." I then focused on my hands again.
I watched as in one hand, A small black fire grew. But kept growing, It eventually made a long black pole made of fire. At the tip, It made a sharp blade.
"Ha! I'm the Grim Reaper!" I said as I joked around with the Scythe. I got kinda carried away and ended up loosing my grip on it. I grapped it before it hit the ground, but it ened up swinging through the sappling. I was suprised at what I saw. It didn't cut the sapling in half like it should have, but the sappling withered away like it would if it wasn't given water.
"Ok... This thing gotta go. I said as I held the scythe in my hand. I focused on my hand and closed it. The scythe turned into a black mist and dispersed into the air.
"Damn. I'm awesome!" I said as I threw a fist up into the air. I looked around to see if anyone was disagreeing with me. No one was there in the first place.
"Nobody disagreed, therefore it must be true!" I said before I walking off towards ponyville wooping and hollering along the way.
PS: if ya find an error or grammer mistake, let me know so I can fix it. I can no longer trust Darkclaw.
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.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Author's note: Well. I asked 4 of my friends what to turn my guy into. One said werewolf, 2 said vampire, and the last one, I slapped him for. He said a cookie. Plus chaos_trotter said werewolf... so it's even. I guess I decide.
After about 5 minutes of awkward scilence, I decided that I better go. I quickly hoped over the back of the couch and fell off the cloud. As I was nearing the ground I spread my wings and glided down the rest of the way. I stubbled a bit and then got back on my feet.
"Meh." I said as I studied my landing. "Ain't no great landing. But I'm standing at least. Well, it's kinda getting late. I better get back to town." I said as I looked at the sun's position. I was never good at telling time from the sun, but I'd say it was around... 6:30 PM? As I looked around I found a single earth pony walking around in the field. I didn't recognize him from Ponyville. I jogged over quickly to get a look at him. He was probably the dullest pony I've ever seen. Grey eyes, grey coat, white mane, black tail, and his cutie mark was a dull knife. And his mane was even combed over to the side.
"Dude. You, look completely out of place in this world." I said to him. I got no responce. "Hello... Ya there dude?" I said as I waved my hand in front of his face. I still got no responce. Exept one. I got a thought that made absolutly no sence. What was stranger was that I knew what it ment. And I don't know Latin!
< Ignis ergo incrementum intrinsecus... >
"Ignis ergo incrementum intrinsecus?" I repeated. Suddenly, I felt a new sensation. It felt as if I was being crushed, into the shape of a flame. Soon, my vision blacked out. but I could sence everything else. I could feel the tips on the fire I had somehow transformed into licking at the air. Almost as if trying to burn the heavens themselves. Maybe they will get there wish someday. But not now, because I felt myself moving towards the pony. I felt myself go through some sort of barrier. And then, I could see again. But I felt strange... I felt like my back had fucking razor blades spinning in it. I looked around to my back, only to notice that I now could see my whole back, and that I wasn't in my body. I looked at my new body to see it quickly go from grey to a dark red. I also saw that the tail was changing. the black tail that was cut short, soon grew Into 3 spikes that also grew red in it, but a single streak of darker than night black grew in the middle. Soon, my vision was obstructed by two lumps growing out of my back.
"GAHHH!! WHY DOES THIS HAVE TO HURT?! WHAT DID I DO?!" I screemed as my front legs gave out from the pain.
"Wait, Front legs?"
Yeah. You is a pony now.
-THWACK-
WHAT THE HELL MAN?!
"TURN ME BACK!"
Wait! Don't punch me again just yet!
-THWACK-
You ass.
"You know it."
Either way, there is an upside.
"What is it?"
Fuck you. You punched me. Twice. Go die again.
BACK TO THE STORY
I also felt my head getting slightly heavier. But not like something just suddenly placed on it, no... Like something was growing on it. I slowly reached a front leg around my head only to get it pricked by a bunch of sharp points.
"Ok... I either hand really sharp and long hair, or I got spikes growing out my head." I said as I put my leg back on the ground. Suddenly another wave of pain came from my back. I looked back through my tear striken eyes to see two long bat like wings burst out from the skin, spattering blood and flesh around me. I watched as it all quickly grew back while radiating a hellish black mist. As the flesh and blood grew back, I felt something in my mouth grow too. I opened my mouth and put a hoof up to it. I quickly bit down on my hoof and then removed my teeth. My bit mark was different. It only had two holes that quickly healed with the black mist from before.
"Soo... I'm a vampire?"
Stop interupting your own story!
"Fine..."
BACK TO THE STORY! again.
I then tasted something really spicy. Like, a spicy that makes you think your mouth is made of lava.
"Meh." I said as I dismissed the taste. I was actually suprised at how well I handled the taste. Normally I would have found the nearest pond or something and just stick my head in hoping it would help.
Once all the pain was gone from my back I decided that I should get back to what I was doing before and try to get back to town. I tryed walking. Suprisingly easier than I expected. I thought I was gonna have to learn how, but I guess animal instincts or something just lets me know how to walk. As I was walking, I found a tree.
"-yawn- I guess a nap wouldn't hurt." I said as I walked to the tree. As I walked to it, I noticed it's shadow.
"Wait. The sun is still out. And I'm a vampire? Erm.. vampony ? Why isn't this killing me? Or making me feel weak or something? Eh. I'll figure it out later. Nap now." I said as I walked over to the tree. As I sat down at the base of it, I noticed that there was little lines growing out of me and into the tree's shadow. The stretched across the entire thing and then joined. Almost like it was a web of sorts.
"Figure out -yawn- later... Nap... now...." I said as I drifted off to sleep.
"Hello once again. "
< Wait a minute... I know that voice! >
"What's up Luna?"
"Aw... you're no fun. But to the point. I'm here to tell you about your new ability. "
"So you're here to tell me about being a vampire?"
"Vampony. " Luna corrected.
"And while your explaining about being a vampire, can ya tell me why I can't see anything?" I asked as I looked around the black void I was in.
"Vampony. And you can't see anything because you're asleep. And for some reason you don't dream. AT ALL. Why? "
"Because."
"Because... " She said as she waited for me to finish my sentence.
"Because. Now tell me what ya came here for." I said as I got tired of getting side tracked.
"Fine. It's not my fault I enjoy your company. But back to the point, the people who are vamponies are called the Blessed. They are called that because they are blessed with imortality. Though some, call Vamponies the Cursed. It's all a matter of opinion really. But the abilities of the Blessed are that they have advanced sences, faster, stronger, and that they can transform into the animal that represents them. And most rumors are false. Vamponies do not die in sunlight, they arn't harmed by garlic, holy water, ect. We even are immune to decapitation. Though it might take a while for your body to regenerate... Saying as how when you took that body, it completely changed it's form. "
"What you mean."
"You're about as tall as Celestia, your muscles are quite obvious, your mane is deadly for some reason, your tail is pretty much just the same as your mane, you had your wings burst out of your back, Vamponic teeth, by the way, you should probably retract those later, and your ears are now pointed and curved. And, you have no cutie mark. "
"Really?" I asked before looking at my flank. I watched it as soon, a light gray started to appear it got darker and more clear. I was soon able to make out what it was. It appeared to be a Flame. It was black. Pure black. As black as the Dark void around me. I looked to the other side and saw that this one was red. It reminded me of the Fire of Passion. It had the shape and everything. Well, exapt the animals. God I was glad those wheren't on my ass. It would be strange explaining to kids what they where doing. Besides each other.
"What about now?" I said as I looked away from my flank.
"Hm. It appears that you can chose when to make your cutie mark appear. Though it seems as if you have two different ones. "
"Naw.. One is Fire of Passion, and the other is Darkness." I said.
"What's that suppost to mean? "
"Well... maybe the Fire of Passion means I can dosomething with love, and Darkness just means I can control anything relating to Darkness."
"Like the night? " she asked.
"Does that relate to Darkness?"
"I don't know. I guess... "
"Then I guess I do!"
"B-but that's my job! "
"Then you can have it! I'd probably fuck it up anyway!" I said gladly.
"You don't have much confidence in yourself do you? "
"Nope!" I said with a smile. "So how much longer until I can wake up?"
"Now. But first, I must tell you that you will need a few mouthfuls of blood every month or else you will start to feel drained and exausted. If you keep denying yourself of blood, then you will eventually fall into a coma until someone forces the blood into you. "
"Oh. Well. Isn't that intersting. Anything else?"
"Nope.
"Well then goodbye! Hopefully, we can talk about this face to face soon."
I heard her begin to say something, but I felt something tug to my right.
I quickly went after it on impulse. I found myself back under the tree suddenly. I saw everything in thermal vision. I looked to my right to see a small red dot in the shape of a mouse. I felt myself begin to change again. I felt my body begin to compress into a long, thin tube. I ignored the feeling as I moved closer to the mouse. Flicking my tongue out in the air. Doing so told me alot. What it just ate, a sandwich made out of flowers , what it's feeling, confusion, and how it's gonna taste. And from the taste of it, quite delicous. I slowly slithered to my new-found prey. I raised my torso to strike fear into it, to paralyze my prey. I felt as my hood expanded around my neck. I snapped my head forward. Baring my sharp fangs that can inject poison from the poison glands right above them. I brought my fangs down apon my prey and forced the poison down through my fangs and into the mouse. I removed them and retracted my fangs and watched the mouse writh in pain from his internal organs slowly shutting down. I did this all in a matter of seconds. I quickly coiled up around my prey to protect it incase any other predators decided that they wanted my meal. I let out a small yawn and felt my jaw unhing as I wrapped my jaw around the mouse. I moved my lower jaw backwards to force the mouse bakwards, down my throat, as my fangs slid out of their puncture wounds, and made new ones as I lifted my upper jaw up so I can stab them into my prey again. It took be about 5 minutes to finish my meal. After about 3 minutes after of just sitting there in the night air, I relized what I just did, and what I was doing.
< What just happened? > I thought.
< And why can't I talk? >
< Ugh. I'll just try to make my way to Fluttershy's. She could help me. > I thought as I slithered my way through the grass. I started to feel a pain in my eyes and noticed that I hadn't blinked in a while. I tried to blink and noticed that I couldn't. So I settled with something similer. I took my tongue. And wiped it across my eyes.
< Much better actually. > I said as I slithered along. Soon, I started to feel something again. I felt like my body was changing. I felt legs grow. And hair.
< Oh god. I hope that my wings don't explode out of my back again. > I thought as I braced myself for the pain to come. Nothing. I only felt my back go numb as my wings slowly grew out of it. By the time I was done, I blinked a few times to get rid of the dizziness I had. I ended up turning back on my thermal vision. I blinked again and it turned off.
"I ssseriously need to find a way to control that." I said as I predicted that it might be a problem later on.
"Why am I hisssing?" I asked myself. I flicked my tongue out and tasted something. A scent. One that I knew well. The scent of books. I quickly followed the scent flicking my tongue every once and a while to make sure I was on the right track. Eventually, it led me to Rarity's place.
< I need an alibi. > I thought to myself.
< How about... My name is Flame Heart... Yeah! that'll do. And um... I came to say that I was lost and looking for somepony that can help me find a place to stay. >
I slowly walked up to the door and checked to see if my Fangs had retracted. I then noticed that I could control them now, unlike before where they just did what instinct told them. I gave one last lick at the air to see if the scent was still there. Though now I tasted fabrics and purume, I could still taste the scent of books. I raised a hoof and knocked on the door. I guess Luna was right about the strength part. I heard cracking each time I hit it.
"Coming!" I heard Rarity call. Soon after I saw her open the door. I gave a quick glance behind her and saw Twilight and Fluttershy there too. I changed my voice slightly and spoke.
"Yesss... Hello! My name issss Flame Heart. And you are?" I ask with a slight nod of my head.
"Um.. Yes. I am Rarity." she asked cautiously.
"Well. I'm actually quite lossst. And I wass wondering if you knew sssomepony that could help me find a placcce to sssstay."
"Oh! Of course! Why not come in? You can explain everything that had happened to a cup of tea." She said as she moved out of the doorway.
"Thank you. I would be delighted to have tea with a beautyful mare ssssuch as yoursssself." I said making her blush.
"Flattery gets you no where Mr. Heart. But it is highy appreciated." she said as she walked towards her kitchen. As she did so, I was walking towards Fluttershy and Twilight.
"Hello there ladiesssss." I hissed out.
"Hello Mr..." Twilight started.
"Heart. Mr. Flame Heart at your servicccce." I said with a bow.
"Um... Mr. Heart... Why are you hissing like that? That is, if you don't mind me asking." she said as she looked at the floor.
"Hm? Ah yesss... that."
< Gotta think of something fast! >
"Well... You ssssee... I can't quite remember..." I said as I put a hoof to my chin.
< Good 'nough. >
"Oh.. I'm sorry." Fluttershy said as if she was on the brink of tears.
"Now now... What isss there to be sssorry for? You did nothing wrong." I asked her.
"I brought up bad memories for you."
"No you didn't. I don't remember at all. Now if I can't remember, how can I have bad memoriessss?" I asked her as I walked to her side.
"I.. I don't know..." She said as tears started to run free.
"Now. You clearly have sssomething elssse that'sss bothering you. What isss it?" I asked.
"Well... you see, one of our friends had gone missing a few days ago. We have no idea where he is. I'm just so worried about him." She said between sobs. I comfortingly put a hoof around her and tried to comfort her.
"You know... he may be clossser than you think. You jussst have to look in the right placccesss." I said as I tried to get her to look at my eyes. "And I'm pretty sssure that he wouldn't leave sssuch a pretty faccce without reassson..." I said making her blush. I gave off a small laugh and then looked at Twilight. She was busy studying my form, well, mainly my cutie mark.
"Ssssee sssomething you like?" I asked her. Making her jump in shock and blush at the fact she was caught.
"N-no! I was just wondering why you don't have a cutie mark." she said defencivly. I gave a slight smile.
"Oh really?" I said as I started to make my mark appear. "Then what'sss thissss?" I asked her as I pointed to it when a hoof when it was done becoming visable.
"Wha... How did you do that?" she asked with a look of awe on her face.
"Ah ah ah... That'sss a sssecret. Now then. I never got to know your namesss. Care to ssshare them with me?" I asked Twilight.
"Oh! I forgot. Well, I'm Twilight Sparkle. I run the local library. And that's Fluttershy." she said as she pointed with a hoof." She's kinda like the local veterinarian. What do you do exactly?"
"Erm... I'm actually unemployed. I had recccently gotten here."
"Oh! Really? Where where you from?" she asked.
< Ok... I remember seeing a map when I was at Twilight's before... What was one of those villages' names? >
"I think it wasss New Sssaddle? I had moved alot."
"Where where you before that?" she asked.
"Doesss it matter?" I asked slightly annoyed.
"N-no. I guess not." she asked as she backed away slightly.
"Tea's done!" I heard Rarity call. I watched as she came from the kitchen somehow balancing 4 cups of tea on a tray that was in her mouth. I gotta admit. I admired her skill.
"Ah... Thank you Rarity." I said as I grabbed a cup of tea in my hooves. "I grew up on tea. I can tell when sssomepony'sss tea is well made or not. And this, is absssolutly deliciousss." I said as I carefully sipped at the tea. I then remembered that I hadn't blinked in a while and wondered why. So I decided a quick trick might tell me why.
"AH! Oh dear... I appear to have gotten sssomething in my eye." I said as I quickly put a hoof up to my left eye.
"Oh dear! Here, let me see. I might be able to help." Twilight offered.
"Y-yeah. Ok." I said as I removed my hoof and opened the eye I had it over. Twilight leaned close to get a better look at it. It lookslike she found something.
"Well... I found it, but it looks like it's attached to your eye. Try blinking a couple times." she instructed.
< Uh oh. Blinking turns on my thermal vision. I hope it doesn't change anything. >
I rapidly blinked a couple times. Watching as my vision changed between thermal and normal very fast.
"I'm not sure if it did anything... You blinked to fast for me to tell. But it's still there."
< Maybe I grew a layer of skin over it like a snake? >
"Well... Poniesss have sssaid that I alwaysss had ssstrange eyesss..."
"Why's that?" Rarity asked.
"They sssay that the change." I said after I had finished my tea.
"How?" Twilight asked.
"I'm not sssure. I never really checked." I said. Which was kinda true. I never did check to see if thermal vision did anything.
"Well. Can you try and change it so we can see?" Twilight asked.
"Sssure! Anything for my new friendsss." I said. I forcefully closed my eyes shut to try and make the act convincing. I opened them to see all their body heats. I looked to Twilight's first and found that the middle of her body and her horn where the hotest. Same with Rarity. But with Fluttershy, it was the middle of her body, the tips of her wings, and her face. I figured that her face was warm because she was crying.
"Oh my! That certainly is a change!" Rarity said.
"It is! I wonder why that happens..." Twilight agreed before getting lost in her mind about the possabilities.
"Eep! They, they look like a snake's..."
"Sssnake's? Like, jussst a ssslit?" I asked.
"Well... Kinda. It's just a slit for a pupil and your normal bright red iris around it." Twilight answered.
"Interesssting." I hissed. "Well! I've cccertainly had a great time with you girlsss... But I mussst get going. I have sssomething I have to take care of." I said as I got up to leave.
"What is it? Maybe we can help you!" Twilight offered.
"I don't think that'sss a good idea. This issn't sssomething you ssshould reveal when you first meet sssomepony." I said as I started to walk towards the door. Suddenly, I felt myself be wrapped in Twilight's magic. I saw my hooves start to radiate the black mist from before. I watched as it wrapped around my body, covering everything but my eyes.Which where still in thermal. I then suddenly started to loose control of my fangs. I fought for control of them. I turned around to look at Twilight once I was sure I had control. I looked her right in the eyes. I found her shaking in fear.
"I wouldn't do that Twilight." I warned. I was shocked at my voice. It sounded deeper. Darker . It shocked me out of the state was in. I quickly shook my head to clear my body of the black mist. I also blinked to return to normal vision. I watched the black mist dissapear into the air around me.
"I am ssso sssorry about that Twilight. I didn't mean to ssscare you. I'm jusst gonna leave before I messs anything elssse up." I said with my head hanging low as I walked back toward the door.
"It's ok. I forgive you." I heard Twilight say. Instantly, my ears perked up and and I stopped walking.
"Seriously? You arn't pulling my leg?" I asked as I turned my head around. I saw her horn glow and felt her magic on my leg. She had a sly smile. I felt her magic strengthen slightly. After a while, I saw her smile turn into a frown.
"What."
"Nothing, it's just that I was gonna lift you into the air by your leg, exept you didn't even budge."
"Huh. Oh well?" I said cautiously. I watched her horn glow again, and watched as Rarity was lifted up into the air by her back leg.
"Twilight! Put me down this instant! There is a stallion in the room!" she said with a blush.
"Oh. Sorry Rarity. I was just checking to see if I could still lift ponies up." she said as she blushed too.
"Hey Fluttershy... You've been quiet lately. What'sss on your mind?" I asked her.
"My friend that went missing. He sang me a song and I'm singing it in my head. He said that his mother youed to hum it to him when he was young and it would always make him tear up."
< Oh God. Please don't sing it right now. I don't really feel like crying right here and revealing myself to Twilight. >
"Well. It must be beautyful then. You'll have to sing it to me sometime."
"Oh. Um. I can sing it now if you like..."
"NO! Oh. I mean, no, please. I really have to take care of my problem."
"Hey, you never told us what it was." Rarity reminded everypony. I mental facepalmed. Erm, facehoofed.
"Trussst me. If you knew, there'sss a great chanccce you woun't be my friend."
"Why? Are you a drug dealler or something?" Rarity questioned.
"What? No! No, of course not. If I was, I wouldn't have asked for help now would I?"
"Well... No, I guess not. Then what is your problem?" Rarity asked.
"Well... um. You don't have to tell us if you don't want to... but we would like it if you did..." Fluttershy said.
I gave a quick sigh. "Lisssten. If I tell you three, there'sss a large chanccce you woun't be my friend. Like I had sssaid before. But I promissse that I will tell you three sssomeday. Ok?" I promised.
"Ok, if you promise..." Rarity said.
"Fine. But I still want to help you if I can." Twilight offered
"Um. So would I." Fluttershy said agreeing with Twilight.
"Thank you. Now. I mussst get going now." I said as I walked to the door. I gave it a slight shove and heard it creak under the pressure before opening. I stepped out side and stretched my wings. I flapped them a few times and slowly flew up into the sky. I looked up to see the moon shining down on everything. I got an idea.
< Stars > Soon, a small white orb grew in my hoof. I pointed it to a star and found I could move the star. So, I put that start back, and found a big cluster of stars and moved them all aside so I could start my little project. After somewhere around an hour, my project was done. I looked up to admire my work. In the night sky there were the words...
I fucked up your night Luna. Lol.
Yep. I felt proud of myself. Suddenly, I watched as they rearanged again, this time it spelled
I can always fix it.
"Hehe. Of courssse you can." I said as I watched it go back to normal. I then flew back down to the ground and began to quietly trot along the road. I end up runnig into a white unicorn with purple sunglasses when I wasn't looking.
"Sssorry about that." I said as I helped the unicorn up.
"No problem man! Hey, my name's Vinyl Scratch. What's yours?" She asked.
"Mine? Mine isss Flame Heart." I said.
"Flame Heart eh? Cool name! Hey, quick question, what do you know about music?"
"Only that if you give me the sssong, I can probably sssing it. Just as long as it'sss a low vocal part, I ssshould be able to sssing it." I replied.
"Can you do anything about your hissing when you sing?" She asked.
"I'm not sssure. I havn't sssang in a while. I'll try later. Ok?" I offered.
"Yeah man, sure. I'll catch ya later." she said before walking away. As she walked away, I licked the air to get her scent. I couldn't find one. Suddenly, I heard a russtle behind me. I quickly blinked to turn on my thermal vision and looked behind me. I found a mouse family alittle bit away, but I found a bush. With a couple spots of heat in it. I decided to check it out. I found the three fillies from before hiding in there.
"Yesss?" I asked. They all jumped at being caught and ran. I felt the urge to chase after them. Soon, my fangs started to protract. I had to fight them back once again.
< This is gonna be tough at this rate. > I thought as I walked around the town. I would occationally flick my tongue through the air to get some scents. After a while of wandering, I passed the Mint green unicorn that I bitch-slapped before. I flicked the air once she passed to get her scent. She smelled like mint.
< What a suprise... > I thought as I stopped. I didn't notice at first, but I saw that she looked somewhat dazed. I quickly turned around to catch up with her. I quickly caught up.
"Hey, I'm new around here. What'sss your name?" I asked to get her attention. She suddenly snapped out of her daze and looked at me.
"Oh! I'm Lyra Heartstrings. What's your name?
"I'm Flame Heart. Pleasure to meet you." I said with a slight bow of my head.
"So why do you hiss when you talk?" she asked me.
"It'sss becaussse of my tongue." I responded.
"What's wrong with it?"
I decided showing it would get the point across better. So, I stuck it out and licked the air a few times. I caught the sent of the little fillies from before.
"Excussse me. I'm actually being followed by three little filliesss. I should probably lead them home. I'll talk to you later?"
"Of course! Just holler when ya see me!" she said before trotting off.
Turning around, I licked the air again to see if the fillies where still there. Yup. I started to walk my way back to Rarity's place first. I made sure to take a longer way so I didn't lead on that I was going to Rarity's. When I got to Rarity's I knocked a few times and waited. Soon, Rarity came to the door.
"Oh! Flame, you're back. Why so soon?" she asked.
"Oh. I beleive I have sssome followersss. One is your sssister." I said quietly.
"How do you know I have a sister?" she questioned.
"Clossse resemblenccce." I stated.
"I guess. So where is she?" she asked.
"Let me check." I said before I blinked. I looked around and found the three blobs of heat in a rose bush to my right.. "She'sss in that rose bush to my right. You want me to go get her for you?" I offered.
"Yes, I would appreciate that. Thank you." she said before closing the door. I quickly turned around and flew up into the air. As soon as I saw them leave the bush I flew behind them and quietly walked behind them. I turned off my thermal and kept walking behind them as they looked for me. As soon as Sweetie Belle was at the back of the group, I grabbed her in my hoof and covered her mouth with my other one I then used my wings to create a dust clowd to hide me flying off back to Rarity's. Once I was there, I stayed back on my hind legs and using my wings to keep my balance. I used one of my hind legs real fast to kick the door twice. Both times, shaking the whole door. Soon, Rarity appeared at the door again.
"You didn't have to hit it so hard you know."
"Well... I'm not usssed to being gentle enough to quietly knock on a door." I said over Sweetie Belle's muffled screems for help.
"Why are you handling Sweetie like that?!" Rarity screemed at me.
"Hey. I wasss only making sssure the other two didn't noticcce she wasss misssing."
"Why all the secrecy? And you can let her go now." Rarity said.
"Oh. Of courssse." I said as I gently set her down. "I wasss trying to do thisss while I was hidden ssso the other two wouldn't get ideasss. I'm planning on leading them to their homesss later."
"How did you know we were following you?" I heard Sweetie Belle ask me.
"You girlsss smell deliccciousss." I said as I turned on my thermal vision and flicked my tongue a couple times. She ran screeming. After I was done having my laughing fit, I got off the ground and turned off my thermal vision. Then got slapped by Rarity. In all truth, I barly felt anything. I think she hurt her hoof. Oh well. Gotta keep up my act.
"Ow. What wasss that for?" I asked while rubbing where she hit me.
"Scaring Sweetie Belle! That was so rude!" She said as she stomped her hoof a couple times.
"Hey, look. It wasss jussst a little prank. It did absssolutly no harm." I said as I slowly backed away from the angry unicorn.
"Prank?! That was what you call a prank?!" She yelled at me while advancing on me.
< Wow. How have her neighbors not woken up yet? >
"Uh, um. Yes?" I choked out.
"Well! I have some serious punishment planned for you because of what you did!"
"S-seriousss p-punishment?" I stammered. I was actually kinda scared of what she could do.
"Yes! You're gonna have a Time out Mister!" Rarity yelled. Well. There goes my fear of her.
"Yesss ma'am..." I said as I walked into th house with my head low.
< Humiliating... >
"In the corner!" I heard she call from beind me.
< Ow. My ears. >
So I walked in the corner. "How long isss thisss gonna take?" I asked.
"As long as it takes for you to learn your lesson."
"Thisss isss gonna take a few weeksss." I mumbled.
After about 5 minutes I started to remember a song . So I sang it. It was strange, because the random laws of physics in Equestria made the music come out of my head.
"How where you doing that?" Rarity asked me once the rediculously loud music coming out of my head was done.
"Sssinging? Quite easily actually. You sssee, your voiccce isss made from your vocal folds vibrating rapidly that makess-" I said before getting interupted.
"No, I mean the music."
"I dunno." I said as I shrugged. "I alwaysss figured that it wasss normal around here."
"No, a unicorn makes the music with magic from their horn."
"Oh." I said plainly. "Well. I'm jussst gonna go back to thinking about the lessson I have yet to learn."
"No, wait. You obviously arn't gonna learn it any time soon. You can go if you like." Rairty said as she watched me get up.
"Of courssse. But firssst, may I go apologize to Sweetie Belle?" I said as I tilted my head in the direction Sweetie Belle ran.
"If you promise not to make things worse."
I gave her a look. One that could only mean one thing. "Ssseriousssly? I want to apologize not make thingsss worssse. " I said before walking towards the hallway Sweetie ran in. I put my ear by every door in there to see which one she was in. I was suprised. She was in the first one I checked. I gave a quick knock on the door.
"Wh-who is it?" I heard her call form inside.
"It'sss me. I jussst want to ssay sssorry."
"It's ok, I forgive you, please leave me alone!" I heard her say at breack-neck speed.
< Good 'nough >
"Well... If you sssay ssso." I said before turning around and walking away. I ended up spotting Rarity standing at the corner watching me.
"What."
"Nothing. I was just watching you to make sure you apologized."
"That'sss it?" I questioned. She wasn't exactly the best liar, but she was good.
"Maybe..."
"Then what elssse?"
"I was just wondering if um... you would like to stay here?" she asked with a blush. Chicks be digging the buffness.
"Sssure. I would love to. Heh, I just relized I forgot to take care of my problem. You think the other two will go home by themselvvvesss?" I asked Rarity.
"Applebloom and Scootaloo? Of course! I know for sure that Applejack makes sure that she gets her rest and I'm not really sure about Scootaloo."
"Thank you." I said.
"For what darling?" she asked.
"For one, allowing me into your home, and letting me ssstay the night. And for reasssuring me about the other two. I wasss worried." I said. "Now then, I'm exausssted. I'm goining to sssleep on the couch if that'sss fine with you." I said as I walked over to the couch.
"It is certainly not fine with me! You're going to sleep in my room! I will not allow a guest to sleep on a couch while I have a perfectly fine bed." she said.
"Ok... If you sssay ssso. Where isss it?" I asked.
"Oh. Right this way. Follow me." She said before turning and going down the hallway. She went to to the third door and opened it.
< Ok... This is gonna be creepy sleeping in here > I said as I looked around the room. Dolls. Dolls and manikiens in the shapes of ponies everywhere.
"U-uh..." Was all I could stammer out. I was creeped the fuck out.
"Glorious right?" Rarity said as she walked in.
"Uhh... Ssssure..." I said as I walked in a bit slower. "I'm just uh... gonna sssleep under here." I said as I crawled backward under her bed.
"Absolutly not!" She yelled as she grabbed my hooves and pulled. I fought the urge to retaliate. I only got so far. My eyes changed to thermal, my fangs protracted, and I let out a long, low hiss. Rarity quickly let go.
"Wha-what are you?!" she quickly yelled from the corner she was hiding in. I decided that I should probably crawl out so I can talk.
"I... am Flame Heart." I said with my fangs still out, and my thermal vision still on. Her body heat and risen quite a bit. I stretched my wings real fast and then cracked my neck. Once again, louder than I expected.
"Wait... I know that sound..." Rarity said as she came out of the corner.
< Shit! >
"You where the one that snuck into Fluttershy's room a couple days ago!" she yelled.
< That was close. >
"Now wait a minute... I just got to Ponyville remember?" I said as I ended starting trying to hind back under the bed.
"Then how would I know that sound?" Rarity said as she advanced on me.
< Why am I so scared right now?! >
"How would I know? I just met you a couple hours ago."
< Why arn't I hissing anymore? >
"True..." Rarity said as she stopped and put a hoof to her chin. I gave a quick sigh and used my mane to quietly cut a small hole in the botton of the bed without her noticing.
"Now then. You must be tired from everything you did today. Why don't you get some sleep." I suggested.
"Hm. Yes, I must be a little tired. I'm sorry for acussing you." she said as she climbed onto the bed.
"No problem what so ever." I said with a grin. "Goodnight Rarity." I said before getting completely under the bed.
"Good night Flame Heart." Rarity said befire I felt her move around on the bed.
"Hmhmhm... This is working out a bit too well." I said as soon as I was sure she was asleep. Soon, I started to relax and I watched as my web of shadows expanded from me. I watched it wrap around the entire room as I started to feel like I was changing into a long, thin tube. I quickly raised my head up to the whole I made earlier and slithered in. I started to make my way towards the middle of when I felt something. Well, something, wet seeping through the bed.
< And... I'm out of here. > I thought as I quickly slithered my way out of the bed. Once I was out, I quickly made my way to the bathroom. It just seemed like the best spot. I found the bathtub and saw small amounts of water in it. I quickly climbed in and coiled up.
< This is actually pretty nice. >
In about 4 minutes, I was asleep in a bathtub. A really comfortable one at that. To bad my dreamless slumber was interupted early.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! RARITY COME QUICK! THERE'S A SNAKE IN THE BATHTUB!" I heard a high pitched voice screem.
< AH! MY POOR NON-EXISTANT EARS! >
I quickly raised my head and expanded my hood to the threat. I saw a large blob of heat slightly above the edge of the tub. As soon as I had raised my head, it started to run. I quickly tried to strike it, only to miss by a couple inches. I quickly went back to my posision of sitting coiled up, fangs bared, hood extended, and slowly swaying from side to side.
< Damn. Missed. >
Soon, and even larger blob appeared by the edge of the bathtub. I tryed to stand even higher to intimadate it. It backed away slightly. I knew I could handle this now. I slowly began to uncoil and made my way towards the edge of the bathtub. Always keeping an eye on the blob of heat. It started to back away, I let out alow hiss that made it stop. I continued to get closer, soon, I saw something at the top on the blob get hotter and I felt a pressure around me. I saw as a cold mist rose from my body and surround the hotter substance around me and eat away at it. Suddenly, I felt myself getting better control of my body. I could feel the air change from a fly beating it's wings in the kitchen, I heard the smaller blob crying somewhere in the hallway, I tasted the larger blob's fur as I sank my fangs into it's hoof. But then, I relized what was happening, and what I was doing. I quickly stopped my fangs from releasing the poison into the blob before it was to late. And felt a pain coming from my back. I started to twist and turn trying to get away from whatever was on top of me. Whatever it was, wasn't letting up. I turned my head around to see a small blob of heat. But it's midsection was unbeleivably hot. I recognized the shape of it as that dragon from Twilight's. I think his name was Spike. I was in his claws as he started to lift me in the air. I quickly wrapped my tail around his arm and started to coil my torso around it too.
"Woah! This snake is smart!" I heard him say.
I quickly started to squeeze that arm that was currently wrapped in my body.
"Nice try buddy, but my scales are as tough as steel! Nothing can break-"
-CRACK-
"them?" He finished. "AHHH!!! GET THIS THING OFF OF ME!" He screemed as she waved his arms and ran in circles.
< Ha! Ok, 'nough fun. I gotta get outa here. Hm... I wonder... >
Soon, I felt an uncontrolable pain come from my upper mid-section. I quickly dropped to the ground writhing in pain.
"What did you do to it Spike?" I heard Sweetie ask from the doorway.
"I... I don't know." he said as he watched me writhing in pain on the floor. "Wait, what's that coming out of it's back?" He asked the others as he saw two bumps growing on my back.
< Huh. So I can control them. > Suddenly, I felt my wings explode out of my back once again. God, it was painful. I watched as chunks of my flesh and blood spattered on everything around me. That included Spike and Rarity.
"AAAAAHHHHH!!!!" Was all I heard as the two tried to get well, 'me' off of them. As soon as my pain turned to numbness, all my blood and flesh that flew off me started to disintegrate and turn into the cold mist from before, and flew into my two flesh wounds. The more mist the wounds absorbed the faster they healed. As soon as It was done, I gave them a quick stretch and turned to the others. I gave the best smile a snake could give and gave a few powerful flaps to get blast myself up into the air. I flew over their heads and made my way to the flower pot by the door. I quickly folded my wings up whileI was in the air and crash landed around the flowers. I coiled myself up around the edges of the pot and waited for Rarirty or Spike to open the door so I can escape.
"Did you see where that Horrid thing went?" I heard Rarity ask Spike.
< You bitch. If I had hands, I would slap you! >
"No, maybe it's hiding somewhere. We should go get Twilight to help find it." Spike suggested.
< Yes! Open the door... >
"Wait! Maybe you should sent her a letter so we can keep looking for it." Rarity said.
< You bitch. >
I decided that since my plan would no longer, work I had to try a new one. I waited until they turned around and then sped down the hallway. I found a hole in the wall I could fit in and slithered in before the two found me. It was really cold. I slithered in the wall for a while until I saw a light. I slowly stuck my head out and saw that I was outside. I slowly made my way out.
< Yay, this sun feels really nice. > I thought as I coiled up right outside to bask in the sun. After a while, I felt my wings slowly recede into my back. I turned around to see them finish. I decided that I was safe now and closed my hood. After a while, I saw Twilight's shape appear. She looked warmer than normal.
< Must be consentration. >
She kept going in a zig-zag pattern all around Rarity's place. Suddenly, she stopped when she was about 10 feet away from me. She turned in my direction and slowly walked towards me.
< Magic. Not concentration. Ok then. I'ma run now. > I thought before quickly uncoilding and slithering to the nearest bush. I quickly wrapped myself around the base of it. If she wants me, she's gonna get a bush too! Soon, she was right at the bush, using magic to move the branches to get a better look at me. I decided I should scare her. I quickly un coiled my tail, but kept my torso around the bush. I then made my tail, sneak behind her and wrap around on of her legs. I gave it a tight squeeze.
"Ah! Get it off me!" She screemed while she did her imatation of a bucking bronco. I let go as soon as I saw her getting tired. As soon as she calmed down, I saw her face get warmer.
< Ok, 'nough fun. I'm just gonna give up. > I thought before I slithered out with my head on the ground. As soon as I was close, I rose my head eye level with Twilight's, and that still left about 9 feet of me still on the ground! I tilted my head to see what she was waiting for. She just sat there frozen. So, I decided to give her a hug the only way a snake can. I took my head and wrapped it loosly around Twilight's neck. I then wrapped the rest of my body around her neck so I could move my head more. I kept my head eye level with Twilight's while I was around her neck. Soon, I saw Rarity and Spike come running. I quickly expanded my hood and let out a hiss as I bared my fangs.
"T-Twilight... Don't. Move." Spike saidas he put his hands in front of him.
"H-help." I heard Twilight say as her body temperater skyrocketed.
I saw Rarity slowly getting closer to me. I didn't pay her anymind. It was Spike that had my attention right now. He was slowly going to the other side of Twilight. Soon, he to started to get closer. I figured out that they where trying to grab be so I quickly turned around and bit Rarity's nose. I made sure not to release any poison. I only wanted to scare her off.
"AH! It, it bit me! What if it's poisonous?"
< Well, I'm obviously a King Cobra from my size, hood, and color. Of course I'm poisonous! What did you expect?! I even bit a mouse earlier and it died from the poison! Sheesh. Give a snamke some credit. Wait. What's this? > I thought as I liked my fangs clean of the small traces of blood on them. < Roses? Why does Rarity's blood taste like roses? > I quickly swallowed it and turned back to Spike. I found him reaching out to me. I looked him right in the eyes and let out a small hiss. Be backed away and ran after Rarity. I closed my hood, retracted my fangs, and rested my head and neck on Twilight's head.
"Y-you arn't gonna hurt me?" Twilight asked after a while. I rased my head and slowly put it in front of Twilight's. I tilted it slightly, then shook it no. "Wh-what?"
< Ugh. Man I wish I could talk right now. >
"Really?" I shook my head yes.
"Then why did you bite Rarity?" she said asked. I could tell she was mad. I decided that since I can't talk, I'll have to settle with something else. I slowly unwapped my tail so I could use it. I reached about 3 feet infront of Twilight and started to write.
"S...O...R...R...Y?" She said as I wrote. Writing with my tail, is harder than it sounded in my head.
"So you didn't mean to hurt anypony?" I shook my head no again. Then, I started to write again. Pain in the ass by the way.
"O...n...e... S...e...c...o...n...d..." She said as I wrote. As soon as she was done, I unwrapped myself from around her neck and started to transform back into my pony form. The one that I don't like as much. I mean, being a snake is awesome! I felt everything start to regrow again. I quickly gained the ability to blink again and did so. Normal vision is less annoying that thermal at times. I watched as my wings started to bulg under my skin again as my body started to get shorter and thicker. I watched as the bumps that where my wings burst out of my back again. This time, with no pain. I was unbeleivably grateful for that. Soon, my abnormally sharp hair started to grow. Aswell as legs and my tail. I quickly retracted my fangs and stood up.
"Ah... Much better." I said as I stretched everything. About 10 cracks from my spine, each leg cracking once or twice, neck, well. It out numbered my legs.
"Hm. I'm dissapointed. I usually can crack more." I said before looking back up to Twilight. Didn't see her. Unless you count the dust cloud running off towards the library her.
"-sigh- Well. It's gonna be a long day." I said before flying up in the air.
Author's Note: YAY! LONG FUCKING CHAPTER! Still accepting questions btw. Mainly a prereader. If you're intersted just add me on steam. Because it quite obvious that there's a shit-ton of mistakes in this chapter.
The Man with the Hidden Past
"Hey, what's this?" I asked myself as I found a piece of paper in my hoof. I quickly unfolded it to see what it said. It had some strange circle with symbols everywhere inside it. I read what it said and got an idea.
"Come to me, from Distance Far, To serve your new Master, where ever they Are." Soon, the peice of paper started to spark and a small rectangle with a wire that broke off into two small peices rose out of the center. As soon as it stopped sparking. I quickly picked it up and turned it on.
"What's that? And what did you do?" Rainbow asked me.
"I think I just summoned an MP3." I said as I went through the songs... Some pretty good ones actually.
"What's an MP3?"
"It plays music. Here." I said as I handed Rainbow the earbuds. "Put them in your ears." I instructed. As soon as she did I started to flip through for a song she might like.
"Umm... How about this? " I asked her. She seemed fine with it.
"Ok then. You have fun with that. If ya want another song or something just holler." I said. She quickly waved me off with her hoof as her head bobbed to the music.
"Hmm... I should practice making that summoning circle. First, I need some blood. Wait, that tree had a small pool of Rainbow's blood. Hopefully it hasn't been absorbed or evaporated." I said as I walked over to the tree. I looked in to see it still there and in liquid form.
"Ok... I need to clear a spot to use." I said to myself as I found a flat clearing nearby.
< Fire > I saw the bright red fire form in my hoof. I thrust it forward to spray the bright red fire across the clearing. Clearing it of any grass, weeds, and plant life. I took out the paper and got a good look at it. I then went back to the tree and dipped a hoof in the blood. I ran back over to my clearing on three legs and started to work. I was about half way done before I was interupted.
"Yo Flame! Can I get some help over here?" Rainbow called. I quickly ran over to see what was wrong.
"What's the matter?" I asked in a panic, thinking something was attacking again.
"The song ended. Can you put on another please?" Rainbow asked me.
"Hehe... Sure. What ya want?"
"Umm... Something fast."
"Fast? Yeah, I think I can find one." I said before going through the songs. "Umm... How 'bout this? " I offered.
"Seems good. Thanks man." she said before putting the headphones in her ears. I jogged back to my work place and found that the blood in the tree is almost gone.
"Damn." I said to myself. I turned my head to check on Rainbow and saw she was slowly nodding off to sleep. "Ermm... Rainbow comes first. I'll go get a new source later." I said to myself before I walked back over to Rainbow. She was softly snoring with her mouth barly open. I noticed something in her mouth. Well, somethings . I slowly put a hoof to her top lip and lifted it slightly. I found two slightly larger canines.
"...Shit." I said before closing her mouth and lightly slapping her face to see if she was asleep. I got a couple murmers and her hoof swatting at mine.
"Good 'nough." I said to myself before moving down to her dislocated leg. I grabbed the bottom with one hoof and her hip with the other. I gave a couple deep breaths to calm myself. Once I was ready, I yanked them appart. I also woke up Rainbow. And she screems LOUD. After ignoring the pain in my ear, I slowly started to put the leg back in it's right place.
< WHY DIDN'T I KNOCK HER OUT?! > I thought as I was starting to feel sorry for her. I then remembered the splint I was making. I ran over and grabbed the stick and went to the towel I was using to clean Rainbow's wounds. I then ran over, set the splint, and started to tie the towel aroundvrainbow's leg so the splint would stay in place.
"Ok, Rainbow. Shh... I need you to be quiet so I can think ok?" I said as I tryed to calm her. She gave me a quick nod and tried to quiet down.
< Ok... Rainbow's becoming a vampire. I'm to blame. But I didn't bite her. FUCK.... It must be transmited when my blood gets into another pony's bloodstream. It must've happened when she accidently swallowed some of my blood. Even though it was kinda funny, I seriously gotta fix this. Umm... Maybe Luna? God I hope she'll understand. I don't wanna die again. But first, I gotta explain this to Rainbow. Wait, no I don't. I just have to knock her out, get Luna here before she wakes up, and then fix it. Yeah... That'll do. But how do I knock her out... >
I found a rather large rock nearby < Nah. That'll kill her > Large stick < Not heavy enough > A tree < J-just no. > Same large stick as before < Perfect! > I picked it up and aimed. And threw it a bit to hard. It hit her with an audible CRACK! as the stick split in half and Rainbow fell to the side. I ran over to see a small pool of blood forming.
"Fuuuck... Now I wanna go lick that up." I said to myself as my fangs protracted. I quickly ran over to the sack and pulled out the blanket. I cut off a peice with my mane and went over to Rainbow. I tied it around her head to stop the bleeding. After I saw the bleeding slow, I spread my wings and flew towards Luna's. I figured flying in her window would attract gaurds so I flew down to the front gates.
"Halt! Who goes there?" one of the royal gaurds so kindly greeted.
< The harbringer of Doom! > "Flame Heart. I have a meeting with Princess Luna." I said.
"Nopony see's the Princess!" The gaurd yelled.
"Ok... but before I go. What's that over there?!" I yelled pointing in some random direction away from the gate.
"Where?!" The gaurd yelled before looking. While he was distracted, I quickly used my wings to give me enough of a boost to jump over the gate.
"Hey! Where'd you go?" I heard the gaurd yell from the other side. I stayed quiet as I made my way up to the front doors. Doors that would have been great for me had I still been human. Soon, I heard a large amount of hoofsteps coming in my direction. I quickly pushed open a door and tried to close it as quietly as I could. After listening for footsteps I turned around and was confronted by about 20 gaurds.
"Ummm.... Hi?" I said before walking towards them.
"Halt!" one yelled before they all held a spear to my neck.
"Oh please. You think these will do anything? Now. I demand you release me at once!"
"We will do no such thing!"
"-sigh- Fine. I guess I'll have to fight you." I said as I looked down.
"Fight? Us? You wouldn't stand a chance! That's a death wish!" A gaurd yelled.
"On the contrary. I beleive it is you who has the death wish here. But, I don't want to become a wanted criminal again. So I'll just leave."I said.
< Shadows > I thought as I felt my form spread to the nearest shadows. I felt as the gaurds' spears ran through the spot I was in. I quickly ripped the spears out of all the gaurds' hooves and stuck them all into the ceiling where they couldn't reach them.
"Ah ah ah... Don't want anyone to get hurt now do we?" I taunted. I decided that the gaurds had had enough so I quickly just picked them all up and threw them in a corner before making my way to Luna's room. After climbing a REALLY tall tower in the shadows, I finally reached Luna's room. I quickly got out of the shadows and knocked. When it opened I quickly looked behind Luna. I saw the moon.
"There a reason your door is a portal to the moon?" I asked.
"Yes, but that surely isn't the reason you came."
"Yeah... I may have accidently figured out how to turn someone into a vampire. And I need to get her medical attention." I said as I started to think of all the other things that would need fixing.
"Author's Note: Ok! That's it. So, Rainbow as a Vampony, what ya guys think. Yes? No? I don't really care. My friend suggested it.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Sorry white_raven. More people said yes.
Me and Luna quickly exited the palace. Me taking the more destrucive route of just flying through a wall and Luna following.
"You could have just used a door you know." Luna said as she looked back on the wall that would need fixing.
"Yeah, but where's the fun in that? Besides. It's not like I felt it really." I lied. I definently felt it. I'm gonna get a pretty bad bruise later. "So. How exactly are we gonna fix Rainbow?"
"Rainbow's the one that needs help?"
"Uh... Yeah. Didn't I mention that? Oh well. From what I know, her leg was dislocated, her wing had a large piece of wood in it, and she's becoming a vampire. I think I fixed her leg, her wing could use some work, and I have no idea how to fix vampirism."
"Well, Lucky for you, I know how to fix all of those. Exept Vampirism must be cured on the Blessed's own will."
"So... she has to want to be normal for Vampirism to be cured. Welp. I'm either in for a beating, or a hug. Probably both when she figures out I'm the one that threw that stick. Ok. Let's just get this over with. I'll show ya where she is." I said as I thought this situation over. I put a little more force in my wings and lead Luna to where I made my little camp.
"What's that?" Luna asked as she spotted my unfinished summoning circle.
"That's uh... a Summoning Circle?" I said cautiously.
"What's it made of? Why is it red?"
"Um... It's best you don't find out." I simply put as we neared Rainbow. Who was awake.
"Flame you jerk! Why the buck did you knock me out?!" She screemed as she saw me.
"Because of what you're doing right now?" I said as I landed about 5 feet away from her. Wait. What's that in her hoof. Oh shit.
-THUD-
"OW! What the hell Rainbow? I threw a stick! Not a fucking rock! H-hey! Stop throwing fucking rocks at me!" I yelled as I dodged more and more rocks. Where did she get these anyway?!
< Fuck it. I'm outa here. Luna can fix this. I'm gonna go work on that circle thing. > I thought as I ran back over to my circle. I then remebered that the blood in the tree was gone.
"Yo Luna! I'ma go look for something. You got Rainbow?"
"Yeah, I think I do. She calmed down a bit after hitting you with some rocks."
"Yeah, that's nice. Come find me if you fix her before I come back." I said before rushing off into the nearby forest.
After a while. I got to thinking. Mostly those annoying 'What if' questions. Like, 'What if the girls figure out who I really am.' Or 'What if Rainbow stays a vampire.' Each question making me think of all the possibilties they could cause. My thought's got interupted when I got tangled up in a vine. I was aboutto just cut it in half with my mane when I felt it moving. I stood still as I felt it wrap around my neck. Once I felt it fall off the tree I started to feel it get tighter.
"Hehe, you think thay will do any- Ack!" I said before I couldn't breath anymore.
< Shoulda killed it while I had the chance. > I thought as the world around me got darker. When it was completely dark, I felt a sudden rushing sensation, like I was in a wind tunnel. Soon ,the world came back into veiw.
"Dah fuck?" I said as I got back up off the ground. I saw a snake trying to swallow a grey pony with a dull knife for a cutie mark.
"Ok.... I'm a ghost again. Time to go get another body!" I said with a crazy grin. One you should only find on a person that lost his mind. Of in which I did. It was being swallowed whole by a fucking snake. I was just a fucking spirit right now. After about 5 minutes of flying through trees looking for a body I would like, I heard this, really high pitched screem. I quickly ran over to the source and found Luna killing the snake. Not as grusome as I would have done it, but I guess turning a snake inside out is pretty brutal.
"Nice." I commented. I don't think she heard me. I walked up to her and saw she was crying.
"Naw... I couldn't have been that important. She has to have some other friends... Right?" I said as I took the scene in. I waved a hand in front of her face and she didn't show any reaction.
"Yoohoo... Ear- um... Equestria to Luna. Ya there?" I asked her. Still nothin'. "So... Would you mind if I took your body for a moment?" Still nothing. "I'll take that as a 'yes'." I said before I felt my body become a single flame. Tips, reaching up to the sky, as if they could burn them.
< Ha. Maybe someday. Just not any day when I'm alive. > I though as I felt myself go into Luna. I opened her eyes and saw her coat start to change colors.
"Shit. I kinda want to keep this disguise for now." I said in her voice. I quickly tryed to stop the transformation. I succeeded and watched as the color that had already appeared started to change back.
LET ME OUT OF HERE AT ONCE!
"Luna?" I asked as I looked around.
HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME. ARE YOU GOING THROUGH MY MEMORIES?!
"Uh... No. I just wanted to borrow your body until a get a new one. My last one kinda got eaten."
Flame? But how?
"You can call me by my real name you know."
Real Name?
< Ok... She don't know my real name. Note sure if good or bad. >
I can still hear you.
< And she can read my thoughts! This is just like when I first got here... > I said as I sighed and put a hoof to my face. Well, Luna's face. But it's mine at the moment.
What do you meen 'like when you just got here'?
"We'll talk later. Right now I need to check on Rainbow."
You like her don't you.
I immediatly stopped. "Listen Luna. I don't like people interfereing with my life. You say anything about this, I swear, I will hang you."
How?
"By first, making a noose. Then, puting your head through it. Then! Kicking the chair out from under you. And people will just think it's a suicide."
Oh really? And how will you force such things to happen?
"By being in your body like I am now."
Oh. I guess that means you do?
"You're starting to piss me off."
So I guess I'm right.
"-sigh- Fine. I like Rainbow. Now shut up so I can consentrate. But first, how I use magic?"
Clear you mind
"I can't. You're in it."
Oh, ha ha. Just do it the best you can. Ok, now do you feel the particles around and in you?
"Yeah..."
Ok, imagin them moving up into your horn. Now, see how your horn is lighting up?
"Well, technically, it's your horn, but yeah. I see it."
Ok, now let's try a simple levatation spell. Make those particles reach out and grab that rock over there.
So I did. I saw a dark purple radiate from the rock.
"So, why isn't there a trail connecting your horn to the rock?" I asked her.
The particles are actually controlled by your mind. If you make them form a bridge between your horn and the rock it should happen.
"Would it be a physical bridge? Or would something be able to pass through it." I asked her. It might come in handy sometime. Besides. Never hurts to ask. Sometimes.
No, sadly it isn't. The bridges can't materialize in the physical plain due to-
"I dunno and don't care why. I just wanted a 'yes' or 'no'. Now then, I need to get back to the circle from before. I kinda wanna finish it and try something.
Would it be possible?
"Probably not. That's why I said try . I still wanna see though. Now then. I hope you don't mind me gettingyour body a bit dirty. I need to go hunting."
For what?
"Oh now come on. You're in this head too.I shouldn't have to explain everything."
B-blood? Why would you need that?
"Keep on searching."
I-I don't want to. It's kinda scary in here. It's all dark, and there's this really big castle in the distance.
"Huh. So you're in my head. Instead of me being in your head. I wonder why. Either way. Fly up in the air and see if you can find anything besides the Hellish area you're currently in."
I'm afraid to. I can't use magic in here and the clouds above me look acidic.
"Well, one second." I said before closing my eyes and clearing my mind of everything. Soon, I entered my mind. I looked down and saw that I was human again.
"Yes! I'm tired of being a pony!" I shouted as I stretched my wings
"So, you arn't actually Flame?" Luna asked as she looked me over.
"Took ya long enough. I thought you ponies would never figure it out. It's insulting how my disapearance is dismissed around here!"
"Hmm.. Yes, it is quite disturbing how ponies get over hings like that so easily."
"And why don't you?" I asked her. She always acted like she was a different species than ponies.
"Being as old as I am has let me acknoledge my differences. I am very different than the rest of my species. And being on the moon for a thousand years tends to make somepony a bit darker in mentality."
"Yeah, I can understand that! But you'll never reach the mental state of this." I said gesturing to the surrounding area.
"Probably not. And I certainly hope I don't!" Luna said with a small chuckle. I joined and it turned into a full on laughing fit. After a bit I just stopped. Suprising Luna.
"What." Luna asked. My smile suddenly started to get through and I burst into laughter again. This time Luna laughed a bit more cautously.
"Ah... Nothin'. I just do that sometimes. Kinda fun to see how long you can do it before laughing again. Now then. Who's gonna go get the blood. Me or you. You know how to use this body, and if I get it, it'm probably gonna get it messy. You choose."
"I'll just do it. It'll probably save theanimal from suffering..." Luna said. "But how do I get control?"
"I dunno. Just try to imagin being back in your body."
"How do I do that." Luna deadpanned.
"I dunno. Your problem." I said before making a TV and chair appear in front of me.
"You remind me somuch of Discord."
"Seems like my kinda guy." I said as I jumped on the chair and turned the TV on.
"Strange... This looks alot like the forest in front of your body. Wait, it is. Shit. You might wanna find out how to be in control soon." I warned.
"Why?"
"Because one of those wolves made of wood is about to kill ya."
Author's note: Tell me if I fucked anything up. I just got DawnGuard and I kinda wanna try it. So tell me in a couple hours.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Apparently this is a meme. I thought it wasfunny. But I'm wondering why some is in English and the rest is in whatever language the guy's speaking in. I think someone said Korean or something.
OH FU -Poof-
"Ha." I commented before turning back to my TV.
Flame, you liar! This isn't just one Timber Wolf!
"Yeah... But you figured out how to get your body! Isn't that a reason to be happy?"
I guess...
"Good! Now stop getting distracted."
But- You- Never mind.
"Welp. I'm gonna just fuck around in here. Let me know if ya need anything. And if you kill that wolf, bring it back to the circle. I'll take care of it from there." I said before jumping out of my chair and facing the fortress in the distance.
"You're secrets will be mine. Even if I have to destroy my own mind to get in." I said with a scowl.
Ugh! Flame! I could use some help! The wolves are out numberingme and I've been bit.
A large wave of red energy started to pulse out of the fortress into the air and ground. I felt it pass through me.
"Help... Save... PROTECT!" Rang through my mind.
I soon lost control of my body. I watched my own body from an unknown source as it began to change. My legs moved farther backand I was forced onto my hands to support myself. My hands and feet morphed together into four hooves. My arms and legs changed into what resembled a horse's legs. I watched as my arms stayed in the same spot as my torso moved to the front of this.. this... whatever it was. Soon, the body behind my torso began to get more muscular and thick. My legs where bulging from the shere amount of muscle in them. My torso underwent a change too. My hair became shagier and more unkept. Two horns exploded out of my skull, spraying the area with small amounts of blood. I saw a buldge starting at my shoulder. Soon, two more arms exploded out of those buldges with the same effect as the horns. Exept with alot more blood. The arms looked like they had been there the entire time. They too, where supporting a large amount of muscle mass. They grabbed a horn in each hand and put pressure on them. When they let go, the horns where both red. Soon, my vision flashed and Iwas back in my body. I looked at my hands.
"Whoa... Wicked..." I commented before I tried to run towards the TV. After about what felt like 10 minutes trying to figure out how to walk and run, I reached the TV. I felt as if I needed to do something with it. So I did the first thing I could think of. I punched it. My fist went straight through the screen and into the wiring inside it. I grabbed a fistful of wiring and ripped them out.
CRACK
A strange white crack started to form from the broken TV. Exept it went into the ground. I picked up the TV and looked under it. The crack stayed. I smashed the TV on the ground to create more cracks. The TV shattered the peice of floor and fell through. I looked behind me and saw my new body's horse-like body. I also felt a tail.
"What's with the tail. I swear, everything in Equestria has a fucking tail." I gave the tail a quick swish and found it to be the same color as my horse body. A deep brown. The same as my eyes and hair. I took my size into consideration and considered I was somewhere around 7 ft tall and about 5 feet long. That TV didn't make a big enough hole.
"Shit." I said before I thought of an idea. I had to weigh a good amount so maybe I could just break the floor. I rose up on my hind legs.
< Feels weird doing this>
And smashed by front ones down onto the ground. The ground shattered, but didn't fall. So I startd to repeat this in a small circle around the first hole. When the little circle was complete, I didn't know what to do. I expected them to fall.
Flame... I could use some help here! Any time would be nice. Hopefully before I get mauled!
I felt a surge of energy run through me at Luna's words. I closed my eyes and consentrated. I opened them and spread my arms. I used my new energy to force my hands together strong enough to shake the ground enough to cause it to fall. I felt the same rushing feeling like when I leave a body. I opened my eyes to see that I was outside and in front of Luna. Around us where about 5 or 6 timber wolves.
One ignored the new presence and lunged at Luna. It managed to get close enough and bit into her back leg. I saw this and grew furious. After letting out a primal cry I ran at the wolf. I grabbed it by the back of the neck and threw it to the wolf to my right. Sending them both into a tree. I now had the attention of 4 more wolves. They began to circle me. I resisted the urge to run at one of them and rip it's head off. I waited for them all to attack at once. As soon as they did. I reached out to the one in front of me and ended up grabbing it under one of it's front legs. I used the momentum and slammed it into the ground. I put one of my hooves to it's neck and crushed it as the other three latched onto my body. I turned my torso and slammed a fist down onto one of the wolves spines. The wolf let out a quick yelp before falling to the ground. I turned to the other and tried to repeat. It let go of me and jumped back. I hadn't noticed the other one get under me. It reached up and bit at my soft under belly. I quickly reared up trying to shake the beast off. I ended up slamming it into the ground when I came back down. It had enough force to knock it off. I put a hoof to it's skull and crushed it. The first two had decided to go after the easier prey which happened to be Luna. I noticed this and started to run at them. One of the other wolves decided to try and stop me. It ran in front of me to try and block me. I reached down and gave it an uppercut to the jaw. Not enough to send it flying though. Just enough force to knock it on it's back. As I proceded towards Luna, I ran over the wolve I just punched, trampling it. Luna was trying to start a spell to defend herself. Exept she was to weak and collapsed when the spell failed. I started to run faster. One of the wolves walked up to Luna and stared down at her. It bared it's fangs. And almost got them smashed. I had kept running and ended up kicking the wolf. My hind legs ended it quickly for the wolf as one broke his ribs and the other snaped it's spine. The other wolf noticed that it's companion was gone now and started to retreat. I didn't let that happen. I ran up behind it and grabbed it by the tail. I yanked it up in the air so the wolf was hanging. I quickly let go of the tail as my other hand punched the wolf into a large rock. The wolf started to slide down as I walked up to it. I reached back down and grabbed it by the neck. I lefted it up to me so it was face to face. I wanted to look this beast on the eyes. I reached my other arm around and slammed it into the wolf. I felt a small snap as my fist broke ribs. I started to repeat when I felt my hand get resistance. I looked at it and saw a dark purple field around it. I threw the wolf to the side and looked over to Luna. Her horn was glowing. I felt my hand get tugged closer to her. I walked over and knelt down. Kinda strange because it ended up looking like I was laying down.
"Thank... You..." She wispered before she fell into unconsousness.
Author's note: I feel like I'm rushing this story. And if anyone has any idea what my guy is now, Please tell me. I first started with him just being a Centaur, but then shit got out of hand. I should probably stop listening to Skrillex when I write. But we all know that isn't gonna happen.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Random chapter for the few random people who still read! Good for you guys! And for the people who don't read... Nothing. You don't get anything because you're not here to retrieve it.
< Oh fuck. Oh fuck.... How do I fix this. How the fuck do I fix this?! > I thought as my heart started to race. I did the first thing I could think of and put my hands on Luna's wound and put pressure on it to try and slow the bleeding. I looked up at her face and noticed it getting paler by the second.
< Shit, I have no idea how to fix this! Um... I need help. I should still be some-what close to Ponyville. Oh shit, is Rainbow alright? > I thought as my mind tried to wander away from this situation. I shook my head to clear those thoughts and returned my focus to Luna.
< I could probably carry her to Ponyville. But I'm not sure if I could make it in time. And I need to check on Rainbow to see if she's alright too. >
< Fuck, now I'm doubting myself. Ah... forget it. > I thought before I started to slip my hands under Luna. Once I made sure Luna wouldn't fall, I turned around and laid her on my back. I turned around and starting walking in the direction I thought was where my campsite was. I started to get lost in thought about how I was gonna help Luna as I went along.
"Damnit. I need to take my mind off this." I said to myself before I started to think of some songs to try and keep me busy. I quickly found one that I loved. I immediately started to sing it. About half way through the song I spotted my campsite through the trees. I grew a smile as I jogged up to the log I had laid Rainbow against. She wasn't there. My smile disappeared.
"Ok... either Rainbow was taken, Luna had fixed her and she left, or someone came along and helped. Hopefully not the first one." I said before getting back on task. I went over to the bag I had used to carry the objects from the shack and began to go through it. I didn't notice anything remotely useful.
"Damnit!" I yelled in frustration. I didn't have anything at my disposal to help Luna. Unless...
I quickly ran back over to Luna and swiped my hand along her wound as I ran. After I covered my hand in her blood I ran back to my little circle thingy. I managed to finish it, though half of it looked terrible. Hope condition don't matter. I rested my hands on the edge of the circle and willed it to work. After a few second, I saw a small ring of sparks come from the circle and spread to the edges. I kept my hands where they were in case it mattered any. The ring of sparks stopped inches away from my hands. In the center of the ring, another group of sparks grew, but in a ball. The ball grew larger. I looked away to shield my eyes from the light. when I looked back, the light was fading and I saw a wooden cart.
"Good. Now to get to Ponyville." I said as I got up and ran over to the cart. I looked around it to find a spot to hook myself up to it. Needless to say, I didn't find any. I decided not to waste time making any and ran up to the front were I grabbed the posts and lifted them up. I then ran the cart over to Luna and dropped it. I walked over to Luna and carefully lifted her up onto the cart. She murmured or turned her head every once and a while but I decided that ment she was getting better. I ran up to the front of the cart and picked up the posts again. i looked around to find a trail I could use. I didn't find any. But I did notice two sharp nails at the ends of the cart's posts.
"-sigh- I'm not gonna enjoy this." I said before I stabbed them both into my body's sides. I felt a sharp pain and then a strange sliding feeling as the nails punctured my skin and slid through my flesh. I winced at the pain but brushed it off. I prepared for what I was about to do next.
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE! "
"Huh?" I asked myself as I looked around for the source of the voice. I didn't see anything. I ground a hoof into the dirt as I got prepared for the run through the forest.
"I SAID STOP! "
"Ok, Shut the fuck up imagination! I don't give a fuck about you right now!" I said as I shook my head to see if it would fix the problem.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?! "
< Ok... this isn't my imagination. And whatever it is sounds big. Fuck! Can't fight now! Fight later! > I thought before I took off running. I reached the edge of the trees when a large, blue object appeared in my path. I quickly ground to a halt inches away from the beast. I backed up a couple feet to get a better look. It was a large, blue-ish grey ox with big silver like horns. It appeared to be wearing a headset and a had a tie on. And a Silver nose ring. But it had hands and was standing on two legs that ended in hooves. And it looked fucking PISSED.
"Ok. there's only one solution I see here." I said as I put a finger up in the air. The beast looked confused at my action. Which is good, because that way it didn't expect me punching it straight in the face. The beast fell to it's side. I took a quick took at it. It wasn't out cold, dead, or asleep. It's was still alive and well. And more angry than ever. I noticed it getting back up. I figured now was a good time to get the hell out of there and took off running. Did you know that this forest's trees are incredibly weak? Well neither did I until I ran straight through about five of them. I looked behind me to see it running after me. Was it... Smiling?
< No... I know that smile... OH SHIT. IRON WILL! WHAT DOES HE WANT?! >
"COME BACK HERE WITH THE PRINCESS!"
< Oh. I guess he just wants Luna. >
"And why the hell should I?!" I yelled back at him as I continued to run. I could see a clearing ahead and a dirt path running through it.
"Because if you don't, Iron Will is gonna knock ya all the way to the Griffon Kingdom!"
"I actually kinda want to go there... But alright. I'll stop."
"HA! THAT'S WHAT IRON WILL THOUGHT!"
"After you tell be why you want her." I said as I was getting closer to the road.
"Uhh... What?" he said in confusion.
"I said I'd give her to ya after you tell me why you want her." I re-stated as I stopped at the road.
"Uh... Because you had taken injured her and then ran off?" he said as he started to calm down slightly.
"Ok, first off. I wasn't the one that did this. Timber wolves did. I'm just trying to help her right now. And don't you find it kinda strange how I'm a fucking half horse thing?" I asked him.
"A Centaur. The term you're looking for is centaur. Don't you know anything about basic mythology you stupid twit? Now hand over the Princess." He said as if I should have known this. I mean, c'mon! I've only been here for what... a week? A couple days? I have no clue. Plus, I've been killed twice, turned into at least 3 different animals, and I was also a vampire at one point.
"Where ya gonna take her?" I questioned.
"To a hospital. Duh, where else would I take her? She needs urgent medical attention!" He yelled in my face. I raised an eyebrow.
"Hath I rustled thou jimmies?" I asked.
"Uh... No?" he responded, suprised at my random question. He gave the answer I wanted. I raised up on my hind legs and pointed a hoof at him.
"TIS A LIE! THOU JIMMIES ARE INDEED RUSTLED! "
"Iron Will's Jimmies are not rustled! Even though Iron Will has no clue what jimmies are! Now hand over the Princess. This is your last chance!"
"I have no idea what you're talking about. I've been waiting for you to take her the entire time. I was gonna take her to the hospital anyway. Mind if I tag along?" I asked as he finally relized I had taken the bolts out of my sides and laid the cart next to me when I asked him if his jimmies where rustled.
"Uhh... Sure? I guess? But you'll have to prove worthy of following Iron Will's trail of Bravery!"
"It's a fucking dirt path dude. And I, can also remind you of a certain unsatisfied customer of your's that I personally know." I said as I remembered Fluttershy for no reason. Why the hell was she on my mind right now, of all ponies? Oh god. I've gone to long without making a princess insanely mad.
My statement put a dent Iron Will's ego. One that was quickly fixed. "Well come on then! We have to get the Princess to the hospital! And the only one worthy of such an honorable task is none other than Iron Will! Come my strange hallucination! We must go to the hospital and find more of those needles with the strength boosts in them for me! I-I-I mean the Princess! Yeah!" Iron will said before running off with the princess towards Ponyville. Leaving me to slowly shake my head in disappointment.
The Man with the Hidden Past
"Yo Iron Will! Wait up! I wanna see the ponies' faces when they see a bleeding out Princess being carried along in a cart by you!" I called after him as I walked along behind him.
Iron Will stopped to analyze my request. I could almost see the gears turning and grinding to a halt as he tried to figure out my plan in his drugged up mind.
"On second though, I will supervise this operation. Sergeant Hallucination! You shall take over the task of caring the Princess into the village! I shall start planning the entrance!"
< Oh my god it's a miracle! He actually figured out my plan or was shear luck! >
I gave a quick mock salute and took the cart from him. As he walked away I heard him grumble something about hiring goats and fireworks. Stupid Minotaur.
It took a couple hours to get to where Ponyville was in sight. All the while, I was wondering where Rainbow was, was Luna alright, or why my body kept changing. And if there was a way for me to make it all stop once and for all.
"Ugh... My head." I heard, shocking me out of my little mind adventure. I looked to my right to see Iron Will holding his head.
"What now." I asked him. He looked over to me and his eye grew to wide in shock. He slowly backed away and pointed to something behind me.
"What."
"Sergeant Hallucination? Y-y-you may want to turn around." He stammered out. I rolled my eyes and looked to my other side. And at that side made my mouth curl up in a smile. Right there, was the Princess of the Sun herself. Princess Celestia. I quickly turned back to Iron Will.
"That's all?" I asked as I pointed a thumb my shoulder. His expression was priceless. A perfect mix of scared and thinking I'm insane. I laughed inwardly and turned back around.
"Hello! Hello! Hellooooo....! I've gotta a baby that's-" I started singing before the Princess did quite the un-lady like thing and used the act of punching me in the face to make me be quiet.
"My my Princess. I never thought I'd see the day I saw you use your hooves for violence instead of your precious horn. And I see you have a nice scar on your eye too. Hmm... I wonder where you got that?" I said as I donned my famous shit eating grin.
"Quiet you abomination to nature! I had wiped your race from this planet over a million years ago and I will happily do it again! And why do you have my sister? What are you planning, Rape? Torture? Both?!" Celestia accused. I looked behind me to the unconsious princess.
"Well, I was just going to take her to the hospital... But now that you mention it, I might as well do those too!" I said, all the while keeping my grin. I was rewarded by being picked up by her magic and forced down to her face. I looked into her eyes as she tried to force images into my mind. Images of me being ripped apart by many a stallion. Of being stabbed, only to have mounds of salt poured on the wounds, constant starvation and unbearable heat of the sun. I laughed. I laughed at her petty attempts of intimidating me. I laughed right in her face. I laughed at the world I was in. I laughed at the very fabric of time and space. I calmed myself so I could make words without laughter in them. I looked right inter her eyes again.
"Now, what did you expect that to do? You've seen my mind. It's a terrible place. It made your sister scared. And she's also the most evil thing on this here planet besides me. After all, she only caused endless night for little over a few days. Not a single pony died. However, I've been here what, a week? And already this world has lost around 15 of it's occupants. I will not hesitate to rid it of it's beloved Princess. After all, I merely wish to live a life of peace right now."
"PEACE?PEACE?! IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL IT? YOU CALL PEACE THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS AND GORE FOR YOUR OWN PLEASURE?!" She yelled in my face.
"Psh. I find blood and gore merely as a stress reliever. And what would you think? Would you not have any stress if you where brought to a world by a god, only to have that god turn against you? AND make friends only to be forced into hiding and be away from them? What would you do? Would you not have stress? How about if you where forced into varies bodies of shapes and sizes? How about then?! Well? What WOULD you do Celestia?!"
"Well FIRST I wouldn't start with killing the settlements GUARDS!" Celestia yelled back in responce. Little did we know, death from another world was staring at us from the bushes.
-----------------11:30 PM of last night--------------------------------
Your body will make an excelent nest for my hatchlings!
I will cut off your head and mount it on my wall, Trophy!
At that, the two monsters clashed. Black claws against blades. The rough, dome pushing against the battle-scarred helmet. Each fighting for dominance of the other. Each knowing that a single mistake will cost them not only their lives, but the lives of their species on the ship. As the hunter and the soulless killing machine fought, the hunter's helmet analyzed the situation and discovered it's owner's odds of only a 42% chance of survival, 60% chance of harvestation, and only a 50% chance of death. The hunter knew he was going to die. He told his helmet to set his plasma caster to directly behind him. If he was going to die, then he knew his crew would have an even worse fate. He would spare them of the trouble and kill everyone and everything on the ship.
The plasma caster fired.
The blast went straight through the walls and out of the ship, damaging it's cloak slightly. The ship rocked slightly as the vacuum of space started to remove all the air. The hunter lost his stance slightly and the other beast took it's chance. It's sharp, bladed tail swung around it's insect-like body and pierced it through the hunter's chest and pushed the hunter away from it's body. The beast grabbed the hunter's arms and pulled it closer, as the segments on it's tail ripped it's organs apart. The beast looked into the hunter's mask and opened it's mouth. The hunter was experiencing the one emotion it was never suppost to feel. Fear. It never got to yell in terror before a sharp, tubular appendage shot through his mask and into it's skull. The beast had been kind to his adversary. It quickly got down on all fours and rushed to the back of the ship as it started to be pulled into the gravity of the nearby planet. The beast traveled to it's nest with great hast to warn it's queen. The queen had foreseen it's fate and had already gathered the Hive. The beast had entered the nest and was greeted by it's brothers and sisters. It confused the beast. He asked the Queen and she explained. He gave the beast one final task before she and the Hive died. To take the last egg she laid and put it inside of her chest cavity. The beast was honored to do this for the queen. But was also away that killing the queen to do with would cause the rest of the Hive great pain as their connection to her was severed. But it did as it was told and used it's tail to cut open her chest. Her acidic blood pouring on it's tail; melting it. The beast hissed in pain but grabbed the egg and slowly pushed it into the queen's chest. It's soft shell protecting itself from the acid. The queen gave one final nod to her servant and curled around herself so she could protect the egg, even in death. And with that, the queen passed away. The hive all curled up around their dead queen and screeched in mourning. And that is how they laid when the ship entered the planet's atmosphere. It's how they laid as the ship crashed through many trees, causing the cloak to fail. It's how they laid as the blast covered everything inside fire. The only thing that remained is their now charred exoskeletons and a single egg inside the dead queen.
And that my dear friends, Is another chapter.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Queens only rise with the help of others.
"Hey! You're the one that sent those! And plus, the first thing I did in this world was help Fluttershy!" The large, strange creature-thing yelled, as it started to get in the other thing's face.
"There is still no excuse for threatening me, the elements, or the fair population of this kingdom!" The white animal yelled back.
"These creatures confuse me greatly. They are family by body, but hate, and disrespect each other from smell. Though the larger one would make a great host. I shall follow this one in hopes of starting a hive." the I thought. Suddenly, I sensed a creature moving in the shadows behind me. I quickly jumped around to see a dark grey creature with black hair and a strange tail of the same color. It had green eyes. These, strange green eyes. They felt... Comforting. I had to resist the urge to jump right then. I could tell this was a powerful creature. But I could tell the other one would be better. I need THAT one. Not this... Curious creature standing before me. Maybe... It can help me. And if it dare attack, I can always jump and insert my tail into the creature's... large head. It had a protrusion coming from it. I'd have to be careful if the creature chose to use it against me.
I continued to stare at it. And it stared back. It looked like it was having some sort of internal battle with itself. Trying to figure out if it should try to attack, or help. It's a curious creature at that. It appeared to be sizing me up, trying to figure out what I was, and if I had any weaknesses. It's eyes softened and it came out of the shadows. It had two objects strapped to it's back. One appeared to be a thin, and sharp blue blade. The other was a longer, thicker blade but equally as sharp as the first. It came up to me and I arched my tail up so I could react should it try to attack. I couldn't stop staring into it's eyes. They almost had two different personalities. One, a serious, and caring one. The other, was indescribable. I had no way to explain it. It was like it had a spirit trapped inside. It was always changing. The creature took a step back when I rose my tail.
"Don't worry, I woun't hurt ya little guy. You're actually kinda strange. Maybe I can find somepony that can help.
"WATCH OUT RISING! YOU GOT A SPIDER ON YOU!"
I didn't understand this. What was this new presence saying? Why did it sound worried? I saw a new figure come out of the darkness. One like my kinds'. It had a black exoskeleton and a sharp appendage on it's head. It also had leathery looking wings and hair. I felt something coming from this creature. It was not like the one I was on, but similar. It must be a queen of another hive. It was trying to take my new host. I raised my tail and prepared to defend my host from the other creature. The creature lifted a leg to try and crush me. I struck out with my tail, sending it straight though. But something was off. I felt no shower of acidic blood. I heard no screeches of pain. I looked at where my tail had struck and saw that it had stopped the leg in the air somehow. I saw that my tail had found a hole in the leg and had gotten caught on it. Except the blade of my tail had gone far enough through that it was inches from the creature's face. I quickly tried to get my tail out of the leg only to find that I couldn't move at all. I gave a hiss in frustration as I tried to squirm from the invisible grasp.
"C'mon Hollow, you should know that if it was dangerous that I would have handled it."
What where these things saying? It sounded like they spoke the same language. But their different species. How is that possible?
"What are you protecting that.. thing?!
The voice from before was this creature. It sounded higher than the one's that I was on. I fought to get out of the grasp again. It didn't budge.
"Oh, please. It only attacked because you scared it. Right little guy?"
The one I was on had said something and looked at me. It kept the caring look in it's eye. I know I would be safe with this creature. But I still couldn't move.
"Hollow... I see you using your magic."
The Protector, as I decided to call it, had said something to the other one, who I named the Betrayer. I could move again. I quickly scurried up to the Protector's face and hide in it's hair. I wrapped my tail around it's neck and grabbed the soft tissue of it's back with my legs.
"Whoa little guy. Easy there."
The Protector had said something again. It sounded as if it was trying to calm me. I did as told and released my grip slightly on his neck, but kept my legs firm.
"C'mon Hollow. I heard somepony yelling over that way. Maybe they have an idea on what this is." The protector said as it pointed a leg in the direction of my targeted host and the other creature.
I gave a little growl in satisfaction and the Protector seemed to notice.
"See? Even this little guy agrees with me. I like him. I think I'll name him... Snuggles. On account that he likes to snuggle up against me." The Protector said it started walking.
"Are you sure it's even a he?"
The Man with the Hidden Past
I WAS RIGHT! :D
The Protector Started to walk through the trees as the Betrayer followed but kept a wary eye on me. I did not like this creature. I began thinking of all the horrible ways my young will kill this creature. Or I could always insert my Drone into this creature and save my Queen for my intended host. I would need the Protector's approval first though. I do not want Protector to try and attack me. Though the two appear to be allies of some sort. I doubt Protector will approve. I'll need to insert my Drone in secret. I'll do it later. Protector is nearing my host.
"AND SECONDLY, IS IT REALLY MY FAULT THAT HUMANS ARE OMNIVOROUS?"
"YOU STILL COULD HAVE EATEN A SALAD!"
What exactly did I miss here? I could still see rage in their eyes, but my host's seemed a bit more mischievous.
"BITCH DIRE COSA?"
"What?"
"HA!"
This is strange. They appear to be arguing. But my host is laughing? Is this some sort of joke? Protector had left the protection of the shadows. I no longer feel as safe as I did before. I tightened my grip.
"Ack! H-hey! Loosen up there 'k? I still need to breath Snuggles." Protector said. I still could not understand but I could feel it struggle to breath. I loosened my tail slightly.
"Rising? Are you sure that thing is safe? It was just trying to choke you." The Betrayer said.
"Hollow. I already told you, if Snuggles was dangerous I would have already handled it. Now c'mon. The two we heard are right ahead."
"Alright... But I don't like that thing at all. It looks... Alien to this world. Like it's not even suppost to be here."
"Maybe. I guess we'll just find out later. Now hurry up and disguise yourself. I can almost see them."
"Whatever. I'll just be Spark Aura. 'K? I think I told you her story."
-Spark Aura:
"Yeah yeah... You've told me ALL their stories. Now shut up. We're here." The Protector said. I looked back to see a new creature there. But, the Betrayer was just there! What's going on?! Protector had brought me right up to my host! It was must taller and more menacing than I had thought from the safety of the shadows. I noticed that the two had stopped argueing a while ago as Protector, this new creature and I all came up to it. I know this would make a fine host. I unwrapped my tail from Protector's neck. My host noticed this. I could see his eyes twitch downward to see what the movement was.
"Celestia, We'll settle this later. We have guests." My soon-to-be-host said.
"WHAT?! You can't blow this off just because ponies have come to watch!"
"Oh really? You need to look at the big picture. Over think things at times. This simple gathering of two ponies and whatever is in the one's mane can spread. It starts with two. Then it becomes 4. Then 8. And on and on. Soon, the whole empire knows that you had a fit because a strange creature appeared instead of helping your bleeding out sister. Thinking. Ever heard of it? Now go take Luna to the hospital. And take Iron Will with you. I think he ran off to the hospital to go get drugs." Wow. I may not have understood that, but even I could tell that was kinda mean.
"Now, what is it that you two ponies and your pet needed?" my host said as it turned to us. It was huge! I began doubting my jumping abilities.
"Well, you see, our... 'pet' is a bit strange. We don't know what it is. I was wondering if you or the Princess knew?" Protector said.
"I'm probably not the one to ask for creatures of this world. Other ones, I might be your guy." Host said. I have a strange feeling about this... I don't think I should start a hive from it. I think this would be better as a Drone. It will be able to protect the Queen best. Betrayer shall have the Queen. Or, if I'm lucky, the white creature shall.
"Well, I don't think it's from this world. But Rising doesn't seem to care any. But I don't trust it one bit. I'd greatly appreciate it if you took it from him."
"Spark! I'll decide if it can take my friend or not!"
"Hey, I'm a 'he' thank you very much!" Host interupted
"I'm pretty sure it's more of a 'pet' than anything!"
Something snapped inside my brain. I could not take this. I needed a host. NOW! I looked around for the nearest host. It was that new creature. I leaped. The creature screamed. Protector reached out for me. The other two stood there. Host, was smiling. A wicked smile. It knew what was coming. I latched onto the creature. I wrapped my tail around it's neck as my legs grabbed it's face. I felt around for an opening. It had closed it's mouth tightly. I looked for another. I found two. I knew this must be it's nose. I quickly put both my proboscises into them. One, down the creature's trachea, and the other, down the creature's esophagus. I inserted the first egg I could. The Queen. As soon as I could though, My tail was pried off the creature's neck and my legs forced off it's face. I retracted my proboscises so they where not vulnerable. I squirmed to get free. The creature I had latched onto was laying on the ground. It was coughing to get it's breath and recover from the sudden shock. I began to feel sorry for the queen that will have to come out of that thing. So brittle and weak. But I have confidence that the Queen shall emerge strong. I looked back to see my captor. It was Host. It was still smiling.
"Well well well. Looks like we got a Queen Facehugger here. And it jumped your friend Spark over there. Better get your last words out Spark. You're gonna die." Host said. He was still smiling. He was looking forward to something.
"Wha-what?! What do you mean she's gonna die?!" Protector sounded worried. I do not like this.
"The queen had just put an embryo inside Spark. That embryo is gonna grow. And grow. And grow. At rapid speed. Eventually that embryo is gonna want out. Ya understand yet?"
Protector Shook his head up and down slowly. His eyes looked sad now. They were leaking some sort of liquid. Protector's chest was heaving up and down. I do not like this.
"HOWEVER, there is a way to save her. But we need to do it fast."
"A-anything! What ever it takes to save Hollow!" Protector said, Hope suddenly in it's eyes.
"Ah... So her name is Hollow, Eh? I could guess Spark wasn't her real name by the way you said it. Now, hurry up and cut her open."
"Wha... What?! Cut her open?! Wouldn't THAT kill her instead?!"
"Not if you do it right. Just make a quick stab, and I'll reach in and rip the little bastard out. Easy peasy. How hurry up and do it before it decides to do it for you."
Protector shook his head again. He walked over to the creature as Host followed. His skull protrusion glowed and the blue sharp object came off it's back and floated down.
"I'm sorry." Protector said before slipping the blade slightly into the creature. Host then walked over and reached down to the opening. It put the other one of it's appendages into the hole and slowly slid in.
"Hm... Can't. Seem. To find it." Host said. "Wait! I think I found it. And.... Here, we... Go!" Host said before yanking my Queen out of the creature. It was squealing from the sudden pulling. I pitied the Queen. It will not survive like this. It has not finished growing. It doesn't have the nutrition from it's host anymore. It shall die within hours.
"Here, wanna pet the beaut'?" Host asked Protector. I could not understand. But it sounded like and offer. Protector quickly shook his head, scared of what the Queen could do. Host shrugged his shoulders and dropped me. I was free again!
"Stay." Host said. I obeyed. A creature with such power isn't a good one to disobey. I watched as it put it's other appendage behind the Queen's fins and the other, to the Queen's ridge. I looked away.
-SNAP-
All was quiet. I knew now, that starting a hive was now much harder to do. The Drone would have to go through many stages and troubles in order to become a Queen now that the old one is dead.
"Alright. Problem solved. Magic her up and we'll get a move on." Host said.
"'Magic her up'?"
"Yeah, you know. Do your magic thingy and fix her up. I need to get to Ponyville. So. What you name the facehugger again?"
"Snuggles."
"Seems fitting. Alright! C'mon Snuggles. I got plans for you." Host said. It reached down and grabbed me by the tail. I stayed as still as possible. I waited as he reached up and gently set me on it's head. Did it already trust me that much? And where was it taking me? Protector seemed to be staying behind and helping the new creature. I hope it catches up soon.
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Irish Wristwatch is a very hard phrase to say.
It really is. Try it. But don't say it slow, say it like you would say 'Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.' Yeah. Have fun saying both of those.
-To 'Host's' Perspective-
Never thought I'd see the day where I found a fictional terror in a completely different fictional world. Well, I didn't technically live saying how I've died what, 3 times? Twice? I really should start keeping track. Speaking of death; I have no idea why I put a fucking Queen Facehugger on my head. Need a cage. Not the top of my head.
"-sigh- Looks like another day in the life Anthony." I said to myself. Anthony wasn't my real name. But my real name had so many variations of it. Paul Bunion, Paul Revere, Paul McCartney, the list goes on. Anthony doesn't have many variations of it. Not many I knew of anyway.
I heard distant sounds of hoof steps behind me. I turned my head slightly to see who was behind me out of the corner of my eyes. The two from before. "Ya com'in or what?" I yelled behind me. The two started to hurry up.
"H-hey, thanks for saving me. I owe ya one. Is really safe to put that thing on your head?" Hollow asked me.
"Not in the slightest. But in all truth, I've died two or three times already and I would prefer it to be over with already. Just wanna settle down and relax. Whether it means I have to die again, or I'm allowed some peace from Celestia. I don't care either way. Just... Want it to end." I said as I went into a little trance as I explained myself. Speeches, even as small as this, will always put me into a trance as I spoke them.
"Wow." Was all they could say when I was finished. Suddenly an idea came into my mind.
"Hey, you guys got a map on ya?" I asked them.
"I think so, why?"
"I'll show ya. Just hand-er... Magic it up Rising."
"Alright, here ya go." Rising said as his horn glowed and he magiced up the map. I opened it and looked for the village I was planning on going to. Alright. Found it. Now to find where the hell we are.
"Ok, Rising. Find us on the map. I need to see which direction I'm going to go in."
"You're going in? Nuh uh! You saved me. I'm gonna go with you!" Hollow said. I admired this kid's spirit.
"And I'm with her!" Rising said also. Looks like I got company on my little destruction plans.
"Alright then. Since you're all gonna come with me then, Which direction is Appaloosa in?"
"Appaloosa? Umm.... If we're here.... And Appaloosa is there... We need to go.... South. From there there's a railroad that will take us over Ghastly Gorge and we can follow that down to Appaloosa. We'll get there by nightfall if we're lucky."
"Wait, what? Nightfall? Bit soon don't ya think?" I asked him. Nightfall seemed a bit close.
"Yeah. Me or Hollow could just teleport us there, but that'd exhaust us. So, we could take intervals and teleport here, here, here, and here in order to keep us rested and such so we can keep traveling." Rising said as he pointed to various spots on the map.
"Alrighty then. And Hollow. ya look a bit uncomfortable. Why not drop the disguise?" I asked Hollow.
"Wha- What disguise? I don't have a disguise. This is how I've always looked." Hollow responded nervously. I narrowed my eyes at her but then turned back to the map. "Alright. So, Rising, you get these two teleport locations, and Hollow can get these two, Alright?" I said as I pointed out each one. They both nodded, agreeing with me. Alright. Now, I'll meet ya guys there. Keep to the simple system I said. Go on without me. I'll catch up. I may look different. By a lot. Just remember this name, 'k? Flame Heart. Remember that name." I said before waiting for them to teleport out of here. They nodded and I was blinded by a bright flash, and... They where gone. Ok. Time to do my quick death. I searched around me more anything that could be used as a weapon. I found a stick and a rock nearby. I went over by them and sat down. I patted the earth next to me, signaling Snuggles to come over. She came. Good. I then grabbed the stick and the rock and began rubbing the ends together. Eventually i ground the end of the stick into a sharp point. I gave a small smile. Always believed that if you're gonna die, go out with a smile on your face. I raised the stick up to my neck. I ran the stick into my neck and across it, coating the small object in warm, crimson blood. I then dug the stick into my chest. I left it there. I took my last breath and lowered myself down on my side and closed my eyes. Waiting for my spirit to get ripped out of my body.
It all happened so fast. The cold feeling, the darkness, and then suddenly; everything is back. I looked down at my ghostly form and began to admire how little wisps of it would disperse into the air around me. It was quite enticing. I shook my head so I could concentrate. I grabbed the little Facehugger and lifted it into the air. It was suprised at this and tried to squirm to get out of my grasp. I chucked at it's foolish attempts.
"Shadows."
I began to turn a darker shade of red and as did the facehugger. I walked over to the treeline and began to blend in with a tree's shadow. I was invisable. I took one hand away from the facehugger and looked for it. The whole shadow had a red tint to it, but my hand seemed slightly more red. I returned it to the alien as I began to try and remember how I had traveled by shadows. I began to side track to say the least. But that's how I find things I guess 'cause I remembered. I quickly shot through shadows all the way to Appaloosa. Except for the parts where I had no shadows to travel though, as I was forced to be a shadow in the sun; it was relatively painless. I reached the village only to be greeted by yelling.
"You uncouth fools have no clue how hard it is to be me! I have butlers that don't work, my parents never give me enough money, AND my Aunt's keep sending me to cities for no reason!"
"Oh please! Ya'll barely ev'n work! Us here at Appaloosa have to work fer our food! We dun work, we dun get paid! We dun get food! We dun even get fresh water if we dun have the money to pay fer it!"
"Oh... Now I just need to see this. A stuck up prick arguing a hard workin' man, or in this case stallion. I can already tell somebody's gonna get their ass kicked." I thought to myself as I tried to find the sources of the yelling. I found a distinguished, tall, grey earth stallion with black hair and a black mustache. He had a salt shaker as a cutie mark and was wearing a black vest and a monocle. The other, was a pure white unicorn stallion with blonde hair and a blue, fancier vest. Now this guy... This guy right here, quickly struck me with the 'total prick' mindset. I however, took an interest to the earth pony. I waited. And watched as how he saw this unicorn as hopeless and walked away; leaving the unicorn yelling at him to 'come back' and how he 'wasn't done' with him yet. I followed the pony to a saloon type place. He walked behind a counter and went into a back room filled with barrels. He reached into his vest and pulled out a flask and started to fill it from one of the taps. I decided to reach out to the flask and try to spook him. The Queen noticed this and struggled again. She fell out of my hand. She jumped at the first thing she could out of suprise at her new freedom. Sadly, the first thing she jumped on was the earth pony.
"Oops." I said as the pony began to struggle to get the alien off it's face. It suddenly stopped. I know what was going to happen next. I had seen the movies. I sighed and walked out of the saloon; feeling bad for the poor soul. I walked around the town trying to find a sleeping pony or something. I found the unicorn from before. He was, once again, arguing with a pony. I couldn't take it. This guy just pissed me off. I walked up to the guy and right out punched the guy. My hand, being a ghost and all, went through him. The stallion gave a shiver and looked around himself.
"OH COME ON." I yelled to myself as I grew frustrated at my inability to punch the unicorn. He quickly spin around towards me. He looked around to find me but couldn't.
"Who's there?!" he yelled.
"Hm... Let's see... What should I say back to make him shit bricks?" I thought to myself.
"Isn't it obvious...? I'm you're poor father... Why? Why did you do this to me? Why did you have to kill me?" I said as I walked around him slowly. He began to sweat.
"Wha-what? No! That wasn't me! I swear! I never did any of that!" the unicorn yelled back. I smiled at my mental tormenting.
"No... It WAS you! You did it! I see the guilt in your eyes! And I'm going to drag you all the way to Hell with me!" I said right in his ear. I passed a hand through his body that made him shiver again. He gave out a girlish scream and ran down the road. I gave little chase as I began to laugh under my breath as I walked along. I walked down the road looking for him. I found him in a cart of hay, with his eyes and hair sticking out. I walked up to him and put my face by his.
"Time to leave you inconsiderate prick." I said before I forced by entire arm into his body. And my body followed suit as I was sucked into his body. I found myself in the usual empty area with distant fortress. However, Mr. Prick, as I have decided to call him from now on, was here too.
"Yo Mr. Prick." I said as I caught his attention. "Your so ugly when you popped out the doctor said 'Aww... what a treasure!' and your mom said 'Yeah, lets bury it.'
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Giving away candy is shunned apparently. Who knew.
"Wha... Why I oughta-" Mr. Prick started.
"You oughta just shut the hell up while I take your body." I interrupted. I really did not like this guy for some reason. I closed my eyes and began to concentrate. I felt a strange flowing. Like what happens when you go in a lake and the water is pushing against you. I opened my eyes to find them surrounded by darkness. I felt a scratch at one of them. I nudged it out of the way and slowly poked my head out. A strange of an orange-blond hair covered my eyes. I pushed it away with a hoof. I felt something on my chest and noticed it was a jacket. A leather one. Nice.
"Wait. When did Mr. Prick get red hooves? And orange-blond hair? And a leather jacket?! SINCE WHEN?" I thought to myself. I was freaking the fuck out. Where did all this come from? Shit appearing out of nowhere shouldn't happen. Or at least, it shouldn't...
"WHAT THE?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BODY! I DEMAND YOU LET ME OUT OF HERE AT ONCE!" I heard something scream inside my mind.
"Oh just shut up. I'm gonna have some fun while I'm you. Maybe make you a wanted criminal. Beat up a filly... What do you think?"
You... You wouldn't Dare do such a thing!
"Oh really? Did I ever tell you about the time where I murdered a bunch of Celestia's Guards?"
That was you?!
"Nope. That was the Boogeyman. What do you think?" I asked.
Where is this Boogeyman I will report him to my aunt as soon as I force you out!
"Yeah... You keep thinking that." I said to myself before I saw people staring at me. I noticed a small child up front. I grew a smile and looked into her eyes.
"Hey there little girl. I got some candy in here. Want some?"
Her mother gasped and quickly pulled her away.
"What." I said to the crowd. "Is there a problem here where I can't give candy to little fillies while inside a cart of hay?" The crowd looked at me like I was crazy.
"Well fuck you guys. and to think I was going to give all my money to this town."
"YOU SHALL NOT TOUCH MY MONEY! "Mr. Prick yelled in my head.
"Quiet you! I'm busy ruining your life!" I thought. He began to say something else but I quickly tuned him out as I jumped out of the cart. I walked up to the filly before and asked her her name. It was Cloud Rush. I gave a wicked smile.
"Well Cloud Rush... You appear to have something on your face."
"Rising, are you ready yet?" Hollow called behind her as she walked along the path. "I wanna get to Appaloosa as soon as possible!"
"Whoa, what's the rush Hollow? Know a special Somepony there?" Rising teased.
"No! I'm just tired of waiting for you!" she said as she shook off her slowly growing blush.
"Well sorry for not being the best at teleportation. Besides,I told you I major in combat magic. Not this... Teleportation magic." Rising said as he jogged a bit to catch up.
"Fine. Just try not to lag behind, I wanna to to Appaloosa before that centaur gets there so I can rub it in his face!"
"Why? What did it do to you?" Rising said, he was curious about Hollow's sudden attitude.
"Hm? Oh, nothing. Centaurs are fabled for their strength and speed. It's said that their only weakness is that they can't use magic."
"She must really know her mythology." Rising thought.
"But they were thought to be only myths. But it's also said that one appears, it had a life before the current one."
"And?" Rising interrupted.
"You didn't let me finish. Now as I was saying it supposedly has a past life. And the current life is here to either protect the land from a growing evil, or it shall become the evil. The choice it chooses depends on the creatures it meets in the past life."
"Wow." Rising said as he thought about it. "So what do you think that centaur's previous life was like?"
"I'm not sure. Maybe we should ask when we get there. I think that they should be able to remember their old life. Now c'mon. This is the last teleport before we're there. Ready?" Hollow asked before she got her magic ready. Rising nodded his head and got his magic ready also. And with that, they teleported into Appaloosa. However, the centaur was nowhere to be seen. Rising then remembered what it has said. To look for a 'Flame Heart.' so he asked the first pony he saw, who happened to be the town's sheriff. He said that he had recently locked up a noble for punching a filly in the face, public disturbances, assault, attempted murder, and mentally scarring the entire town.
"Strangest part is though, I knew who the noble was, but 'e kept on sayin' to call 'im Flame Heart. No idea why. Blueblood had a whole new personality after he wen' in'ta that cart a hay."
"Alright, thank you sheriff. I hope I didn't bother you any." Rising said.
"No, no. It's alright. Ah'll do anything to get that pest outa here." the sheriff said before he walked away. Rising immediately turned to Hollow.
"Not good."
Author's Note
I need some better titles...
Also. A thousand words exact. I feel a strange mixture of proud and curiosity of why it is I'm proud.
The Man with the Hidden Past
"Uh Oh" Rising said as he looked at Hollow. The pony they where supposed to meet was in jail. For good reason too.
"Maybe... We could just go and break him out?" Hollow suggested.
Rising was shocked. "And let a dangerous criminal free? I don't think so. We'll just talk to him, find out where that centaur is, and then we go and find it. I refuse to release a dangerous criminal from where it belongs. In jail."
"But you where trapped too once. Remember what it felt like?" Hollow stated. Rising, however, did not appreciate her brining up painful memories. But she kept going. "Now imagin what that poor soul feels. Dangerous or not, the shame and hatered from the town should be punishment enough right now." Rising began to understand what Hollow was getting at, but was none the less mad. But being the stallion he is, he refuses to let the anger out on his friend. I gripped one of the swords which he named Tsuki no me (Eye of the Moon) and Taiyō no me (Eye of the Sun) with his magic and threw it into a nearby cart. The pony riding it quickly ran off from the sudden attack.
Hollow looked back from the blade that had imbedded itself in the cart to Rising. He looked slightly less mad.
"Hollow, there are many ways to convince a pony to a cause. But bringing up bad memories is NOT the wisest of them. However, I do understand what you want to try and do. We need to find out where that centaur went. If the myths are wrong, we could have a huge problem on our hooves." Rising said as he pulled his sword out of the cart. "Now let's get going."
Ok, so maybe I didn't have the brightest of ideas. Fun though, but not the best.
I sighed as I sad in the jail cell waiting. As much as I want to simple kill myself again and be free, I don't think a Mr. Prick would enjoy that as much as I would. OH! Turns out his name is Blueblood. Funny name right? Turns out his blood isn't actually blue. I've tested it. Oh... was it funny when the town's faces turned green watching me.
I laughed at the fun memory. I felt a pain in my head again. Nothin' new. Mr. Prick has been trying to fight his way out since I punched that filly in the face.
"Hey, stop it in there. I'm trying to inner monologue here." I thought. Man Blueblood an be annoying. Now where was I? Ah yes. Punching a filly in the face. Well, after I had done that, I was about to-
-CRACK-
Dah fuck? I looked behind me to see a small spider webbing rack in the wall. I ignored it and turned around.
"Ay! I'm trying to tell a story here!" I yelled at the crack.
-CRACK-
Ok... Clearly this pony has no sense of decency for those trying to tell stories!
"Yo! Shut up!" I yelled behind me.
BOOM
"What the fuck man?! Did you really have to break down a wall?" I yelled at the two who had done the deed.
"Sadly yes. We're kinda in a hurry." a feminine voice said though the dust and rubble of the now shattered brick wall.
"And who exactly would you tell a story to? You're the only pony in here." A male voice said.
"Oh nobody. You don't need somebody else to tell a story." I said as the dust settled. It was Rising and Hollow!
"Hazzah! I rescue has finally come to break me free from this dreaded stone prison!" I said as I picked up a piece of wall and grinded it to a dust in my hooves.
So you weren't telling me what we had already done?
"Don't you mean I ? YOU didn't do shit besides make me have a small headache!" I said out loud accidentally.
"Don't you mean I ? YOU didn't do shit besides make me have a small headache!" The pony said.
"You sure he should be in this room instead of a padded one?" Rising wispered to Hollow. She shrugged.
"Ok... Come on now Mr. Heart. Time to go..." Rising said carefully. He did not want to make this pony mad. Who knew what he could do right now!
"No! Shut up BlueBlood! I am Not a damn child molester!" The pony said. There was a pause. "Wha... No! You deserve to be in my mind! Stop with these accusations. H-Hey! How did you get into my memories?! Get outa there!" Another pause. "Well that's just great. Now he's been traumatized."
"Did he say... Blueblood?" Hollow whispered to me. I nodded. He did indeed say Blueblood. But why would Blueblood even be in his head? Blueblood should be at an inn nearby right now.
"Mr. Heart. Are you coming?" I asked him more urgently this time.. I looked behind me to make sure nopony had seen us yet. None. Yet.
"Hm? Yeah sure. Let's go Rising." He said as he got up and walked over to us. I stopped him.
"How do you know my name? We have never met."
"Oh that's easy. I was that Centaur you and Hollow met. Oh, and I may have doomed this town seeing how you ponies don't have the technology to remove the aliens or kill them fast enough. However, Thanks for breaking be free! I truly do appreciate it. Not really. I could have easily just did it myself..." He said as he walked by us. He had mumbled something as he got past. I couldn't hear it properly and just let it pass and began to turn around when I saw a pair of glowing blue lights staring at us. I blinked and they were gone. Strange. I mentioned this to the others.
"Wait, glowing?" Flame said. I said yes. He had a look of recognition in his eyes. "Shhhhit." He said as he drew out the sh's.
"What?" Hollow asked him.
"I got an idea what it might be. But the last time i saw it, it's eyes were red and I had killed it. Maybe."
"What do you mean 'killed it' and how can something maybe be killed?!"
"I mean 'killed' as it would normally mean, and I mean 'maybe' because the thing is a damn robot that can rebuild itself." He said. A robot? That can rebuild? We may have a problem. Flame's eyes focused behind me. I slowly turned my head to find two glowing red reptilian eyes staring back.
"Hostile Spectral entities confirmed. Preparing to open can of Whoop-Ass."
Author's Note
I have no clue what i just wrote after all this time. This ->
And sorry if i spammed you notice box.
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The pony from another world that demands payment.
.Author's Note: ... I got nothin'.
"Now, about my payment..."
"What?" a startled Celestia asked.
"My payment. You didn't think I was going to do this for free did you?" the mysterious pony asked.
"Oh, well I never thought about that... What would you like to be paid in?"
"I prefer gold. I noticed that your castle had large amounts of it as decoration, and gold is a rare metal where I come from."
"Well we have no shortage of gold here in Equestria. How much do you need?"
"A few bags of it will do. I don't need much."
"Very well. I'll see to it personally after you are done with your mission."
Once Celestia and the new pony arrived at Ponyville, the dark colored pony decided it was as good time as any to ask what the intruder looked like.
"Celestia, can you tell me what this intruder looked like?"
"He was tall, walked on two legs, had a brown mane on his head, and had hands." Celestia answered.
"Human. I suspected as much. I saw him on the way here. He was leaving some caves and was going into the forest. He didn't appear to be carrying anything on him."
"Nothing?" Celestia asked.
"That's what I said."
"I see. If you would like, you can leave now, or search for him later." Celestia offered.
"I think now would be best. The sooner the better." the pony said before getting out of the carriage and heading off in the direction of the caves.
Celestia thought as she watched him go.
Back to me.
I looked up and noticed some clouds about a mile away. It looked like it was heading to my left so I decided not to worry about it much.
It took me about half an hour to find something to kill. It was a wolf. Except it was made of wood.
I thought as I watched it eating a rabbit.
I watched it for a couple more minutes until I heard a rustling in the bushes behind me. I dismissed it as a bird or something and walked into the small clearing where the wolf was. It looked up at me and started to growl. We circled for a couple seconds before it lunged at me. I used my arm to block it and it ended up biting my arm and drawing blood. I gave a little snicker.
"Sheesh. I've had poodles bite harder than you!"
I then reached around with my other arm and punched him off. I grabbed for my knife and got ready to throw it. Seeing this, the wolf walked closer to a tree. Then I quickly threw my knife, aiming for the wolf's neck. It somehow stepped into the tree and came out a tree behind me. I didn't have time to wonder how it did it, because it jumped at my back with a growl. I heard it, and swung my fist around, punching it in the neck. It fell to the ground about two yards away gasping for breath. I slowly walked over until I reached it. I then proceeded to put my foot on it's throat. It started to squirm so I put more force. Eventually it's breathing slowed down. Once it was about to pass out, I dug my heel into it's neck and twisted my foot. Effectively breaking it's neck and killing it quietly besides the small yelp it made before dieing.
Then I remembered my knife was in the tree. I walked over to the tree before stopping at the sound of more rustling in the bushes. I quickly grab my hunting knife from the tree and prepare for another wolf. What I saw instead was a pure black pony with red glowing eyes.
"Hahahaha! My my, you are a jumpy one. Then again, you would need to be quick witted to kill all those guards. Speaking of which, I was sent here by Celestia to teach you a lesson." It took me a second to comprehend that. As soon as I did, it stood on its back legs, grew claws, and jumped at me. I quickly blocked one claw with my knife and blocked the other with my hand. The creature was slowly over powering me. I then remembered a trick a bully used to use on me when I was in high school. I took the claw in my hand and twisted it. I heard a metallic crack as the creature recoiled in shock; I had broken one of its claws clean off. "What the-" Before it could recover, I swept my legs around knocking it to the ground. I then used the creatures broken claw as a new knife and stabbed it repeatedly into the thing's left eye. It's eye started to flash and spark as the creature let out a metallic scream. Suddenly, the creature grabbed my hands and kicked me several feet into the air. It rolled out of the way as I crashed to the ground. I staggered to my feet and ran over to the creature, who was busy trying to remove the claw from its eye socket. I knocked the creature on its back and began repeatedly stomping on the claw. Pushing the claw farther and farther into its skull. Eventually, it got to far in and I ended up smashing the area around the eye. The creature let out another blood-curling scream before its other eye faded to black.
"What. The. FUCK?!" I screamed to myself. "WHY THE HELL DID THAT THING HAVE CLAWS?!"
A drop of water hit my head. Then another... It was beginning to rain...
I looked at the sky at saw that the clouds had moved. "That can't be normal. Clouds arn't suppost to do that! Gah! This world is Trolling me." I said before i turned back to the bodies.
"Ugh. Might as well just bring the bodies back with me. No reason just leaving them here. I can probably find something for what ever that thing is, and I can burn the wolf or something. I don't know. I'll figure it out when it's time to." I said. I walked over to the wolf first and put it on my shoulder.
I thought as i walked over to the pony thing.
I tryed to lift it only to find out that it was light.
I thought as I remembered the fight it put up.
Author's Note: Terrable spot to end I know. But it's me we're talking about. You guys should have figured out I'm a terrable person by now.
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And this, is the idea i get while VERY tired.
So uh.... Yeah. This here chapter is just plain useless. I'm not even counting it as a chapter. I'm thinking of doing one of those common Q&A with the characters. And how do you feel about Vampires? Specificly me getting turning into something that I would hate. Besides a vampire. I love those. Well, before Twilight ruined them anyway. Well, what I meen is a THE REST OF THIS SENTENCE HAS BEEN REMOVED BY THE FEDERAL LAW OF ME BEING RANDOM.. Now, if I knew how to show you guys a picture of what I imagin what my guy could look like, I would. But I have no clue how to. But yeah. If you have a question you wanna ask a character, just put it in thecomments, and I'm also looking for a pre-reader. You know, just someone to read it ahead of time and tell me what you think. If ya want to, just add me on Steam. As doing so, I will also ask you for suggestions on what to do, be completely random, and hopefully get to know you better. And now, if you'll excuse me. I need to get back to writing and fall asleep soon. After all, it's 2:25 AM and I've been asleep for somewhere around 2 days, Staying awake on Monster doesn't help after 2 hours now.
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Author's Note: I knew I shouldn't have said anything about the cookie. Even if it would have been funny. Well, either way. TO THE STORY!
I flew around the town a bit to look for Twilight. As I was looking, I saw a green puff of smoke leave the library. I quickly remembered it from the small amount of facts I could remember from the show that it was Twilight sending a letter to Celestia. I put alittle more force in my wings and caught up with it fast. I reached a hoof out to it and saw it materialize in it. I quickly read it.
Dear Pricess Celestia,
Today I learned a new species of snakes has been discovered. The snake is able to transform parts of it's body to fit the situation. I've also learned that they have conscious minds. I have recently made friends with one, though I ran away when I saw it begin to change. I'm not sure what it change into, but Rarity and Spike said that it had grown wings in a very painful and discusting process before. Rarity has also said that she was unable to use magic on it as a black mist would seep out of it's skin and negate magic. Spike is also currently in the hospital from his experience with it. The snake had wrapped itself around it's arm and cracked the scales. It has also bit Rarity and we are unsure if it is poisonous or not. After I finish writing this letter I will go out and search for the snake.
Your Faithful Student,
Twilight Sparkle.
"Well. Looks like I might be able to find a place to stay if I convince her to let this 'snake' become her pet. Wait. I'm not hissing anymore. Oh well. I actually kinda liked it." I said as I let go of the letter. It suddenly burst into the green smoke and floated in the direction of the palace. After getting lost in thought about how exactly that works, I shook my head and went into a full-on nose dive towards the ground. I looked to my right and saw Rainbow speeding towards me.
"Shit." Was all I could say before she ramed into me in the air. The force making us fly out of control into the ground. She better be happy with the way we landed. I suffered the blow of flying through about 5 trees and making a big crater in the ground. What does she get? The ability to sit there and hug me.
"Havin' fun there?" I said as I struggled to get out from under her.
"Oh! Um... Sorry about that." She said as she got up and scratched the back of her neck in embarrasment. "I saw you plummeting towards the ground and thought you where in trouble."
"Uhg... Nah. I'm fine. I could say less for those trees though." I said as I got up and pointed to the tree's I was forced through.
"Whoa! What happened to those!?" She asked.
"Well. It a rather interesting story. Once apon a time, a pretty cyan pegasis flew into an incredablly handsome red Pegasis." I said as I pointed to each other. "As they flew towards the ground, the red pegasis ended up breaking the cyan pegasis's fall with his body. The end. Now. Wasn't that a great story?" I said as I stretched.
"Pretty? You think I'm pretty?" she asked me.
"Well. Actually no." I said, causing her ears to fall. "You're actually better than pretty. I just don't have a better word at the moment." I said causing her to blush.
< Yup. I still got it. >
"Now then. We can chat while we get back to Ponyville. Name's Flame Heart by the way. Yours?"
"My names Rainbow Dash! Fastest flyer in all of Equestria!" she said as sh flew up in the air. I gave a quick half-smile.
"Wanna bet that title?" I challenged.
"What do I get when I win?"
"I'll tell you my secret. If I win though, you have to go to dinner with me." I joked. I don't think she got it. "It was a joke. Just not a funny one. Either way. If I win, I don't want anything. I'm perfectly fine with what I have already. So where shall we race to?" I asked as we walked along.
"Your jokes suck dude. And how about... Sugarcube Corner?" she suggested.
"Yeah. Sure. But uh... where is it?" I asked. I seriously didn't know.
"You'll know where it is when you see it. It looks like it's made of sugar." she said as she got ready. I meanwhile. Just stood there watching her. "See something ya like big guy?" she asked when she saw me staring.
"Well that all depends."
"Like what?"
"Like if you're ready to go or not. I've been ready for a while now." I said as I leaned to the side.
"You didn't even get ready."
"So?"
"What ever. First one to Sugarcube Corner wins. READY SET GO!" she yelled before she took off.
"Hehehe... I might as well wait a bit." I said as I slowly got into the air. As I saw her get a bit ahead, I put more force into each of my flaps and caught up.
"That it?" I asked her as I flew on my back.
"Not even close!" she said before speeding up. I turned back over and caught up again.
"Come on now. You can surely do better. Now, if you need me, I'll be at Sugarcube Corner." I said before speeding up again. I soon saw a cone form around me.
"Screw that. I'ma go the fast way." I said before putting all my strength into my wings and shattering the cone around me. Along with another as I left a trail of black flame wherever I flew. I saw Ponyville coming up fast so I slowed down and searched for the building known as Sugarcube Corner. I found one that looked like a giant gingerbread house with to much frosting.
"Well. I guess this is it." I said as I started to land in front of it. I went by the door and sat down. After about 5 minutes, the door opens and out of it stepped Rainbow eating a cupcake. After some mindless babble I was able to get words out.
"H-how?!"
"I knew the way here." She said before taking another bite. "You're pretty fast by the way. How do ya do it?"
"I flap my wings?" I said before giving them a few flaps. Which ened up blowing Rainbow's cupcake across the street. "Sorry?"
"Whoa! You got some strong wings! I've never seen somepony's wings so strong. And you owe me a cupcake. Now about that bet..."
"Hehehe. I guess you would have found out sooner or later. Come on. I'll show you along with Fluttershy and the rest they should know too. Can ya go get them? I have no idea where they are. I'll be at Library. Just bring them there." I said before trotting off to the library. Once there, I quickly went in and looked around.
< I see Twilight got a new couch. Hope this one is more comfortable... > I thought before I went into the kitchen and turned on the sink. I was just about to put my mouth to the steady stream of water before I heard the library door open. So I quickly turned the water off and walked out of the kitchen.
"And who are these fine ladies?" I asked as I noded my head towards Pinkie and AppleJack.
"Oh, they're friends on mine and I figured they would like to know." Rainbow said.
"Ah. Ok. Well, I've already met Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rarity. And it's nice to see you again. Due to a recent bet, I'm happy to tell you all my secret though it may put our friendship at risk. But, the truth is... I'm a vampony." I said. It look a while for them to comprehend what I had said.
"So you're saying that you're a... vampony ?" Twilight asked. I gave a quick nod. Suddenly, they all burst out laughing.
"You don't take me seriously do you?" I asked them.
"I'm sorry Flame, but there's no such things as vamponys! And even if there were, there's no proof!" Twilight said between laughs.
"Oh really? Then what am I? Am I not proof?" I asked her.
"But you where just outside in the sun! Plus, I can't see any fangs in your mouth." she aid as she tried to look inside my mouth.
< This is going no where. > I thought. < Fuck it. I'll just show 'em. >
"Ok. Fine. You want fangs?" I said as I opened my mouth. I quickly protracted my fangs and gave a toothy grin. "You got 'em." I said as the girls started to huddle together.
"Y-you're a-a-a vampony?" Fluttershy squeeked from a corner.
"Well. Yeah. Something wrong with being one? I personally, like being a vampony. Advanced sences, more strength, faster, and I'm immortal." I said as I retracted my fangs.
"N-no... there's nothing wrong with it... it's just scary is all."
"Ahh... Yes. And that is why I didn't want to tell you girls at first. Though I am happy to get this out of the way. I'll tell you the facts later. But first, I need a drink." I said.
"Y-you don't drink... blood do you?" Rarity asked.
"Yeah. I do." I said as I pushed the door to the kitchen open. I walked over to the sink and turned it on again. I soon heard the girls start to move around a bit. I put my head to the steady stream of water and took a long drink. As I was getting the drink, I heard the door behind me open and and somepony walk in.
"Flame, I was just wondering..." I heard Rarity call from behind me. "Can you turn me into a vampony? I've always wanted to be one ever since I saw the movie SunDown."
< Twilight crossover. Of course. > I thought as I turned the sink off and turned to look at her.
"Eh. Probably. I'll check in with Luna later and ask if I can. 'K?"
"L-luna?! You know her personally?" Rarity asked me.
"Uh... I just said that I did." I replied as I swallowed whatever water was lingering in my mouth. "So how's your hoof? I heard it got bit by a snake."
"Oh, it's fine. Turns out that it wasn't poisonous. Though I wonder what happened to the creature. Twilight only explained so much to me about it."
"She might have to tell me about it later. I know quite a bit about snakes. But any way, I'm actually starting to feel a bit dizzy. I should go see Luna. Tell the girls I said bye ok?" I ask her.
"Why? You can go to them yourself." she said as she tilted her head.
"Ah. But I'm going to take a faster route, and using the front door isn't exactly it." I said as I reached toward the window.
"Oh. Ok then. I'll go tell them for you." She said before turning around.
"Thanks."
As soon as she left I quickly forgot about opening the window and just flew right through it. Letting it shatter everywhere. I really needed to see Luna. As I was flying, I noticed that ever once in a while, I would see a blur from my right.I decided to lose whatever was following me and quickly landed. I kept flapping my wings as I ran to give me an extra boost. Eventually, I saw that cone form again.
< This thing is getting annoying. >
I desided not to shatter it this time. I slowly gained more speed as the cone became narrower. I glanced to my right to see the blur keeping up.
< Only one pony I know of can go this fast. >
I put on a sudden burst of speed to shatter the cone. As soon as I shattered it, I immediately stopped. The air that was around me ripping up grass and branches from brush. I soon saw my persuer create a large rainbow colored ring and a trail of rainbow shoot by me as they tried to imitate me. Sadly, they couldn't stop right away as I did. So they crashed into a tree.
< Wow. The trees around me just LOVE to die. >
I hurried over to the crash site to see if they where alright. I found Rainbow there looking pretty beat up.
"Yo Rainbow Dash... Ya alright?" I asked. I got a few murmers as a responce. "Oh. Oh dear. I... don't think your leg is suppost to look like that." I said as I lightly tapped her hind leg, which was jutting outward at an odd angle. She quickly let out a screem of pure agony and started to cry from the pain I accidently caused her.
"Shit. I am so sorry 'bout that. I gotta think. Can ya hang in there a little longer?" I asked her. I saw her head nod slightly. "Ok, I'll get a fire started and try to help in any way I can." I quickly went off to fine fire wood. I couldn't find any anywhere. Then I remembered what Luna said in my dream. My mane and tail where deadly. I quickly found a dead tree and ran at it with my head turned to the side. I ran right along the side and felt as my hair made a clean cut through the trunk. My hair had cut halfway through it and it was time to finish it off. I turned around and gave it a solid kick with my hind legs, which ended up with it flying back to where Rainbow was.
"Oh. How lucky." I said as I rushed back over. I found Rainbow shivering. "Why... I don't think dislocated limbs do that. Blood loss, yes. Shock, I'm not sure. Probably. Wait, Rainbow, I need to check something. And this is probably gonna hurt. Alot . I'm gonna need you to tough it up and handle it alright?" I asked her as I slowly got closer. I saw her head nod again. I walked to her side and put a hoof to it.
"Ready?" I asked. Another nod. I slowly lifted her side and saw that there was a large splinter of wood going through her wing. It doesn't look like it hit a bone, but it definately hit a vein or something. The splinter was acting as a way for the blood to travel and the splinter led into the tree which now had a small pool filled with blood inside it. I had to fight the strong urge to drink it.
"Ok, I found the problem. Now, I need to remove it so it does doesn't cause an infection. Here, bit this." I said as I spread my wing in front of her mouth.
"A-are you sure?" I heard her ask.
"If I wasn't, would I offer it?" I responded. After a little while, I felt her mouth bite my wing.
"Ok, I'll do it on the count of three. One..." I said as I gripped the splinter. "Two.." I felt her mouth bite harder on my wing. "Three!" I yanked out the splinter as I ignored the searing pain in my wing. I looked at the splinter and found alot of blood on it. I found my fangs protracting quickly.
< Well... One little taste wount hurt... > I thought as I stuck my forked tongue out and ran it across the rough peice of wood. Besides the wood, I tasted something like rain, with something fruity hidden away in it.
< I be tasting the rainbow. Screw you Skittlez. The only joy you gave me was when I threw you at people screeming 'TASTES THE RAINBOW BITCHEZ!' > I thought as I licked the splinter clean. Soon, I felt Rainbow release her bit on my wing. I heard her cough a few times and spit something out.
"Ugh... Sorry about that. I think I punctured the skin on your wing.... Bleh. Your blood taste funny. Spicy. Like, really spicy! Ah! It burns! -gulp- Ewww!! I think I swallowed some!"
< Oh god. Why didn't I just knock her out?! > I thought as I listened to her complain about 'how spicy my blood was' or 'why we arn't moving yet.'
"Hey, I still need to get that fire ready. Wanna watch?" I asked her. Mainly just trying to shut her up. The 'Fastest Flyer in all of Equestria' is a pain in the ass when she isn't doing what she wants.
"Sure. I got nothin' better to do. Since I can't get up." she said as she crossed her hooves. I quickly started to cut up the tree into smaller logs with my tail as I kept an eye on Rainbow. After the tree was in sizable chunks, I dumped a couple in a ring of stones I had made and sat by Rainbow.
"So. Why where you following me?" I asked.
"I'm not sure. I just felt like I needed to follow you." she said. I gave a small smile and wrapped my wing around her, drawing her close.
"Hey, if ya wanted to ask me something... Ya could just ask." I said, suprising her.
"H-how did you know?" she asked as she pushed away from me to look me in the eyes.
"Face it. I can read anypony like an open book." I said still smiling. I saw Rainbow push farther away from me. I then remebered that my fangs where still out in the open.
"Hehe... Sorry." I said as I quickly retracted them. "Welp. I need to get back to that fire."I said as I unwrapped Rainbow and walked back over to the pile of wood.
< Fire >
I helt out my hoof as the fire begain to materialize in it. I looked over to Rainbow and saw her stareing at my hoof wide eyed. I gave a quick chuckle and and thrust my hoof at the wood pile, causeing the fire in my hoof to shoot out and coat the pile of wood in a deadly, blood-red colored flame.
"Yo Rainbow! I heard you like fire. So I brought ya a fire. You want some?" I asked as I walked over. Everytime I got close I saw her try to crawl get farther.
"What's the matter?" I asked. She pointed to my hoof. Which had left a trail of hoof-sized burn marks on the ground because I forgot to get rid of the fire.
"Oh." I quickly clapped my hooves together and opened them to see the flame gone. "Now common. We gotta get you to the fire. I said as I wrapped one of her hooves around me so I could lift her off her dislocated leg. I really should have just held her in a wing because when I stood straight, she was a couple feet off the ground. I gently set her down by a log I cut from the tree.
"Hey, I'm gonna go look for supplies. Stay here ok?" I instructed.
"Hey! I can take care of myself you know!" she yelled at me.
"Sure ya can. But if you could take care of yourself, you wouldn't have needed me to remove that big peice of wood from your wing. And you wouldn't have needed me to make a fire. So I'm gonna go look for supplies. Stay by the fire and don't move your wing." I said before running off into the forest. After half an hour of being scared when a random stick snaped or a bird flying in right front of my face, I found an abandomed, run down shack. I quickly run up to it and tapped on the door. Which broke off the hinges and fell to the ground.
"Well, the shack itself is in terrable condition. I could blow on a wall and it would probably fall." I said to myself as I walked in. The shack was cleaner than I expected, sure it was absolutly covered in dust. But not a single cobweb in sight.
"Huh. Ok then." I commented as I wandered the shack grabbing anything useful. I ended up having to find an old sack to be able to carry everything. After I had everything, I quickly spread my wings and shot out the roof. I saw Rainbow in the distance trying to fight something. I quickly recognized it. Soon, my fangs protracted, and I felt myself go into a rage. I saw as the black mist from before burst out of my body and surrounded me. I soon found myself in thermal. I saw as the figure she was fighting was a large, very high temperature, human shaped creature.
GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM HER! I yelled as I flew straight at it. I quickly dropped the sack by the log Rainbow was on and flew straight at the figure, knocking into it and roleing around as it tried to get me off it. I ended up on it's chest. I took this chance and I repeatedly smashed my hooves into it's face with all the power I could. I saw as the cold mist that surrounded me soon began to surround it as well. Soon, I saw it's body grow colder and it stopped putting up as much fight. I started to relax and got knocked off by a punch in the jaw. I looked back at it to see that the cold mist still surrounded it. I saw the creature's heat trying to fight it but it couldn't win. The mist wouldn't let up. I saw it run over to where Rainbow was lieing and wrap an arm around her neck.
Another move and she dies. I heard.
< Strange, that's not the voice from the one before. But, that means he doesn't know what I can do. Shadows. > I thought as I found myself melt into the shadows. The black mist around me soon shot off into every shadow in the general area.
HEAR ME SHADOWS! AND FOLLOW TO MY EVERY COMMAND! I bellowed. Commanding the shadows to obey. The creature holding Rainbow was franticly looking around for me. What he didn't see was that his own shadow was beginning to form behind him. Soon, all the shadows in the area became one big mass and surrounded it. The shadows began to craw up his feet and imobalize him. He soon dropped Rainbow to try and save himself. Soon, the shadows and reached his arms and pinned them to his sides.
Ahh!!! Help! Please! I'll do anything! Just don't kill me! I heard it beg. I quickly commanded the shadows to stop.
Anything?
Yes! Please! Just let me live! It begged before breaking down in sobbs.
Ok then. Have fun! I said before commanding the shadows to release him. And then make him explode half an hour later. Can't let him get off without a lesson now can we? As soon as he was released, he bolted out of there. I quickly ran over to Rainbow to see if she was alright as I went back to normal and the black mist evaporated into the air. I put a hoof to her neck to see if she had a pulse. It was still going strong.
"Hehe. Thata girl." I commented before picking her up in my wing and leaning her against the log. I ran over to the sack and started looking for the stuff I needed. I grabbed out a bottle of whiskey, a towel, a blanket, and a small sack of salt.
"Here." I said handing the bottle to her. "Drink some of this. This should help some." I said as I took the towel and dabbed at any wounds I could find. After she was done, I quickly grabbed it and put some on the towel. "Ok, this is gonna sting. Here." I said handing her the salt.
"Throw some into the fire. It might take your mind off the pain." I said. I watched her open the sack and grab some salt in her hoof. She lightly tossed it in and the fire burst into a yellow color.
"Wow..." she said as she marveled over the trick. I took her distraction as my chance and slowly dabbed at her wing with the towel. I felt her wings tence from the pain and I held it still with my other hoof as I continued to clean it. Soon, I heard a loud screem and sickening popping sounds and rips.
"Hehehe... I guess we got our revenge eh Rainbow?" I asked her, trying to keep my mind from wandering. I needed to stay focused on taking care of Rainbow.
"Heh. Yeah. Though did you really have to kill him?" she asked as she watched the fire.
"If I didn't, he would have came right back. Though I'm wondering why he attacked you in the first place." I said as I finished cleaning her wound. I quickly went over to the splinter that caused it and put it by my tail. I began to cut it into a smooth stick to use as a splint for Rainbow's leg when I fix it.
"What are you doing with that?" she asked when she saw me.
"Making a splint."
"Why?"
"Because I'm not sure what's wrong with your leg and I don't take chances when it comes down to something like this. And don't worry about the pain. You'll be asleep when I fix it." I said as I said as my mind began to wander. After about half an hour, I remembered something.
"Guess what I just remembered."
"What?" Rainbow asked as she tossed the bag the salt was in into the fire.
"You never told me what your question was."
Author's Note: Q&A coming up next! Last call for questions too.
The Man with the Hidden Past
Ah... Yes. HELLO EVERYBODY! I am Saxton Brony Hale, And I will be reading the questions until further notice! Since most of these are from Steam friends who know nothing of this story, I woun't bother saying who asked them! If your question is in here, then isn't that recognition enough?
"Nope!"
Oh be quiet Pinkie. Ok... First off... Everybody get in here!
Soon, a random door poofed into the theater I didn't mention I was in and everybody walked in. I ain't gonna bother saying who, because I'll say later.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?" a tall, strong, and very handsome Red pegasus yelled.
Who am I? That is a simple question, yet it is one without a simple answer. I am many things—and I am one thing. But I am not a thing that is just lying around somewhere, like a pen, or a toaster, or a housewife. That is for sure. I am much more than that. I am a living, breathing thing, a thing that can draw with a pen and toast with a toaster and chat with a housewife, who is sitting on a couch eating toast. And still, I am much more. I am a man.
"What."
Nothing. Just having a little fun.
"Why hello there. I don't believe we've met. I am Princess Celestia. And you are?"Celestia said as she introduced herself.
"I'm Flame Heart. Pleasure to meet you."
No you arn't.
"What?"
Don't worry 'bout it. Now then! back to the story. Lets see... 'Flame Heart'... Cupcake?
"Fuck you. Get that thing away from me."
Ok... 'Flame Heart' again... Seriously? I can't beleive I have to ask this but... Do you enjoy fapping to ponies?
"... No. You ask another one of those questions, I'ma kill you."
"What's 'fapping'?" Twilight asked.
PFFFT... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! Aha....
"What's his pro-"
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AH HA! AHH...
"You done?" Twilight asked.
Maybe. Ok... 'Nother question for Flame... Ok seriously? I'm even gonna say who this was from. Just because. Corey, (Steam Friend) what the fuck? Gah... I'm sorry about this, but, What do Rainbows taste like?
"Like Rainbows."
Well there ya go. Rainbows taste like Rainbows. And... One for me... Who is your favorite pony? Well. Mine, is one of the mane six. I ain't gonna say who... because they're all right here and I'm scared of what they could do if they get mad.
INITIATING FACEPALM IN 3... 2... 1...
-THWACK!!- My god. Ok. This one is for you Celestia. And please, this room has a roof and I would like to keep it that way. Now then. The question is... Do you like bananas?
Celestia's face got deathly pale. "How do you know of such things."
Shit. Welp. Flame, hold these. If you need me, I'm gonna be running for my life.
"Ok... Well. Have fun Celestia!" Flame yelled after her as she chased me out of my own theater. That bitch. As I was dodgeing bursts of fire, Flame started to flip through the cards.
"Wow... This... This is embarrassing."
"What do they say?" Twilight asked as she looked over Flame's shoulder.
"You can't read it?"
"No. You can?"
"Yeah. I can read it. Strange. Either way. To the cards... Umm... One for Rarity. Ok, Rarity, I'm embarrased to ask this, but why was your bed wet that one nght I slept under it?"
"Oh that? I umm... C-can we please just move on?" Rarity asked obviously trying to hide something.
"Whateve's. Hey what's this." Flame said to himself as he found a slip of folded paper. It showed a complicated model of some sort.
Draw this in blood to summon objects from Earth. The more blood used, the larger the object that can be summoned. Chant this. Come to me, from Distance Far, To serve your new Master, where ever they Are.
"What is it?" Twilight asked.
"It's a summoner of some sorts. It says I need to make it out of blood to make it work. Wait..." Flame said as he lifted the paper close to his nose. He gave it a quick sniff and his thoughts where confirmed. This one was made of blood too.
"Come to me, from Distance Far, To serve your new Master, where ever they Are." Flame chanted. Soon, the paper burst into a feild of sparks as the paper began to take a new form. The paper became a cylander of metal and filled with a liquid. On the outside of it had a mark of three claws ripping through it. Right under them was 'Monster Energy'. As soon as it was done sparking, Flame quickly ran over to it.
"Yes! Finally! I haven't drank one of these in forever!" Flame asked as he opened the tap with his teeth.
"What is it?" Twilight asked.
"This... Is the best thing in the world in my opinion." Flame said before starting to chug the drink. After it was gone, he quickly twisted it and smashed it into a mangled wreck. "Oh. And by the way. NEVER give one of these to Pinkie. Ok. Now back to the questions. One for Twilight. What do you think happened to that Paul character?"
"I'm not sure really. He went into the Everfree and then he dissapeared."
CRASH
WHOA! Hey! I don't remember throwing you through any walls! In fact, I never even touched you! Ya know what. Fuck this. Get back in here!
"-Poof!- Will Not! What the... How did you teleport me in here?!" Celestia yelled as she got ready to attack.
Oh. Pu-lease! I'm the author of this story! I do what I please!
"Story?"
Shit. I said to much. -snap-
"Will Not! What the... How did you teleport me in here?!"
Magic -snort snort-
...
...
"Well?"
Well what.
"Are you gonna read the questions?"
I dun have 'em. I gave them to Flame.
"Yeah... He did. See?" Flame said as he lifted the cards. "Well. I guess I better read some. Um... one's for you Pinkie. He askes if you want to come back to the real world with him."
"Real world? Ooo.. What's that like? How can I go back with a peice of paper though? How can you tell if a paper is a boy or girl Flame? Can it talk? Hi Mr. Paper! I would love to go to the real world with you! Where is it? Maybe I've been there before!"
"There ya go... And... One for Vinyl?"
"-poof- Where am I?"
"I have no idea. But I got a question for ya. Do you plan on hiring me?"
"That depends. I see you fixed your hissing problem though. Can you come upwith your own songs?"
"Nope!"
"Good. I have no skilles in music either. I just make sure it plays and everything runs smoothly. I need some serious help to make my own music."
"Welp. I guess that answers the question. I think. Bye Vinyl!"
"Bye! -poof-"
"Ok... That's it! Now how do we get out of here."
Yeah... Flame. Hold onto that paper. When I send you all back, You will remember none of this and it will be like this never happened. The only proof this ever happened is going to be the paper Flame is holding. So I bid you all adieu.