Introduction and the man who ruins lives.
Hey everyone or everypony, I suppose it just depends on who finds this. If it’s a human that’s not another displaced then you most likely won’t believe me. If it is another displaced, fuck our lives huh? If it’s another a Pony or another being on the infinite Equus’… Equi? Whatever, all of the parallel pony worlds out there, especially the ones that have a displaced, then you most likely will believe me. See I’m writing this because I’m dying… again, and I have no idea if I’m coming back this time. Right, was just informed that depending on who gets this, they will have no idea what’s going on, so let me start at the beginning, years and years ago…
~Sometime in the past~
It was a nice day, well nice by my standards, it was overcast but had a very low chance of raining, which meant it was cool but had no chance of ruining everyone’s day. I stopped walking to look at a large building that had a sign that said “20XX Nerd Convention” yeah the name wasn’t the best but hey at least we were honest. People were entering and leaving the building dressed as many things, Dante, Ben 10, SCP’s, Kingdom Hearts’ Characters, Final Fantasy Characters, etc. you name it, it was here.
Now I decided to come dressed as Lewis, his ghost form, from the Mystery Skulls – Ghost animation. I liked the guy, the entire animation was heart wrenching once you looked at it closely enough and I sympathized with is plight…. Also a pink flamed skeletal ghost is fucking awesome. It took me some time to get this costume ready, mainly my hair, took forever to grow out but when it did it was just in time for the convention. I was so excited, that I forgot one crucial part of my costume, which I didn’t notice till I rummaged through my pockets. “Son of a fucking…. GOD DAMN IT! I forgot the stupid locket! Great…. well it’s not that important right? I mean it was only the most crucial part to figuring out his connection with one of the characters…. yep totally not important.” I sighed and my shoulders slumped, “Oh well, tomorrow, new day, new chance.” I was still bummed but I went into the building, I was in awe, there were so many things that if I was any less manly I would’ve squealed like a kid in a candy shop… wait I did.
I was having the time of my life until I ran into him, for you displaced who might be reading this, you already know exactly who I’m talking about. For those of you who don’t know if you are reading this. I ran into the man who causes all the turmoil and strife in every displaced’s life. The Merchant.
It was a pleasant enough meeting really, I was just walking when he spoke to me, “Hello sir, yes you, the one with the skull paint and the pink hair.”
I walked up to him and was quite surprised with what I saw, which wasn’t anything. He was wearing a hood that cloaked his face in pitch blackness, the only part of his body you could see were his hands, which were long, spindly, and…. yellow. I heard that each displaced sees the merchant differently but still yellow hands. “You called me? What do you want?”
“Ah it’s not what I want but what you want. You see, I noticed that you are dressed up as Lewis from Mystery Skulls.”
I scoffed, “Not that hard to tell really, especially if you’ve seen the animation.”
“Very true, however I also noticed that you are lacking a very important part to your… costume, apart I just so happen to have.” He said as he reached inside his cloak and pulled out a golden heart shaped locket.
I blinked, and I thought at the time that it couldn’t have been coincidence, honestly I wish I had followed that instinct, but instead I did what any normal person would do, “So how much are you willing to sell it for?”
He laughed a laugh that still sends a chill down my spine to this very day, “Ah for you, nothing at all except maybe a little entertainment.”
“I… ok, what do you want me to do, dance a little jig, sing, punch myself?”
He shook his head, or what I could tell through the slight movement of his hood, he held out the locket and motioned for my hand and I stuck it out, and he dropped the locket right in it, “No, none of that, you’ll know in time, but for now, just enjoy yourself, I’ll be seeing you around…. Lewis.” And with that he turned and left, leaving me much more than confused, but I shrugged it off.
“Weird but whatever, I’m not going to question a free gift.” As I was about to head on my way and explore more of the convention I felt the locket twitch in my hand, I looked at it and it was glowing, glowing brighter than any light, and it hurt, but I couldn’t let go, so I just tried my best to ignore the burning pain and blinding light, when it was over I found myself in a completely different room, it was tall with grand pillars, stain glass windows and golden banners. Then the sickness started, I threw up all over whoever’s floor this was, I even saw some blood, which terrified me, but it wouldn’t stop, then the burning started, the ungodly burning. I can still remember the pain and I was awake during all of it. I didn’t pass out until it was all over, and I hit the ground hard, before I did though, I thought I saw what looked like horses staring at me in shock, horror, and sadness. I chalked it up to the fact that I thought I was dying and my mind was making things up, I almost wish I had died at the time, I really did… actually I did.
Author's Note
Please forgive me, I'm having fun that is all.
I woke up, blinking away the darkness, “Ugh, my aching head…..” I sat up and looked around, I was in an all-white room with a curtain around me, it looked like a hospital, “Jesus, what happened last night? Hello? Anyone here?” I waited, no answer. “Eh…. I think I’ll be fine if I go look for someone.” I swung my legs over the edge of the bed and stood up, immediately getting dizzy, I shook it off and made my way out the room and down a very long, very large corridor until I reached two closed, gigantic, double doors. I was about to push them open when I could hear voices coming from behind them.
“So what do you think my little ponies?” asked a motherly sounding voice.
“I don’t know princess, that thing could be dangerous, I still say we should’ve locked it in the dungeons.” Said a boyish, yet still girly voice.
“Oh but it was hurt Rainbow… it was coughing up blood and he caught on fire… I do hope its ok.” A shy voice, she seemed concerned… wait coughing up blood, caught on fire…. were they… talking about me? Strange I didn’t feel like I got burned.
“While, I do agree with Rainbow in that he could be dangerous, I think if he woke up in a cell he would’ve been upset and if it is dangerous, there is no telling what hit could’ve done.” Heh, smart thinking there. The same voice continued to speak, “And Fluttershy, I don’t know if it will wake up, the doctors weren’t able to get any readings of life from it and I wasn’t able to get any magic reading from it. It very well could’ve died in that spectacle.” Wait… what?
“I’m afraid I have to agree with Twilight on this one dear, I know you love all creatures dearly, dragon aside, but I think it would be better if this one, didn’t recover. I mean no offense but its choice of clothes was horrid.” I scoffed, alright poshy mc bitchison, wouldn’t know cool if it bit her in the ass.
“Oh, well, I suppose you’re right, like twilight said, we don’t know if it could’ve been dangerous. I just wish I could’ve saved it.” The shy one said.
“Me too, I think it would’ve been cool, I mean did you see it's hair? It was pinker than mine and that’s saying something because I’m all pink!” Ok…. Scary hyper voice, got it.
A country accented voice decided to chime in, “I don’t know about you girls but there was something that was bothering me… that creature’s locket.”
“What about it Apple Jack?” Motherly voice this time.
“Not too sure Princess, it just gave me some bad feelings is all.” Hmmm…. Interesting.
“Well, I’m glad you feel you are all correct in that the creature is not alive, but we need to figure how he got here and why he’s here.” Princess mother is what I’m calling her for now.
“And how do we do that? It’s dead, right Princess?”
“Ah, I wish it were that simple but I’ve dealt with plenty of supposedly dead creatures in my time, and I’ve always dealt with better eavesdroppers.” Shit, busted. “You can come in creature, you’ve bided you’re time long enough.”
I gulped and was about to turn tail and run but the doors swung open revealing a very strange sight to me. There were seven horses all sitting down talking to each other. Now I really should’ve been freaking out but I just kinda chalked it up to the fact that I was either still asleep or dead, going with the second since they did say I had no life signs.
“Princess Celestia, I don’t understand, isn’t it supposed to be dead?” The purple one asked.
“It is dead, Twilight, well to be more exact it’s undead.” Celestia explained.
My fingers twitched, “Ok first off, who’re you calling it? Huh? You’re the strange ones around here, I mean you are fucking talking, candy colored HORSES with tattoos on your butt! And I’m a he and I have a name thank you very much, its James.”
“We’re truly sorry James but to us, you are the strange one here, and we’re ponies, not horses. They are in Saddle Arabia.”
What…. “What…ok I’ll get to that but what do you mean undead? I am very clearly alive, I’m talking to you am I not? I’m moving am I not?”
They nodded, “yes you are, but without a mouth or any real muscle structure that we can tell ,at least not under that outfit of yours.”
“What do you mean no mouth or muscle structure?”
Celestia sighed, “Oh dear, it seems that even you do not know, Miss Rarity, be a dear and hand our guest the mirror you have on you.”
The white unicorn looked around and laughed nervously, “Whatever do you mean? I do not carry around… a…. mirror…” She trailed off as every one of them were giving her ‘Really?’ stares. “Oh fine, if I must.” Her horn started to glow and a small mirror appeared and floated towards me.
“Uh….. what?”
“Magic, now take the mirror please.”
I took it and proceeded to open it, “Yeah sure whatever, only if to prove that I’m not undead or whatever.” I finally got it open and I looked into it and well simply put… “WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK?!”
I didn’t have a face, I was just a skull, actually just the top half of a skull, Lewis’ skull. I brought my hand up to touch my face only to not really feel much. It was weird that I could feel anything at all. My hair while it was still pink wasn’t even hair anymore it was pink fire, or ectoplasm, whatever his hair as a ghost was made out of, or should I say my hair. I didn’t have eyes, instead I just had two pink rings that mimicked iris in my eye sockets,. Actually it was just a skull, no neck or anything else. I patted myself down and realized I was mostly an empty shell with the only body like parts being the six ribs that lined the outside of my suit and my floating skull. I was still able to emote with my eyes though, like scowl and look surprised or confused and what not. Something else I just noticed was that I was floating about 4 inches off the ground with a little circular ring of fire underneath me.
Then I felt it beating against my ‘chest’ I looked down at the locked and moved it closer to my face, feeling that it wasn’t doing a regular heartbeat, in fact it was going along to the beat of Ghost itself, I popped open the locket expecting the picture of Lewis and Vivi to be in it but to my surprise it was empty. So I sighed and closed it and went back to the mirror before I shook my head. And handed it back to Rarity.
“Thank you… Rarity, was it?” She nodded, “Also my outfit is not horrid, thank you very much.” She just smiled sheepishly.
“Well, since you don’t seem to be dangerous we would like to ask you some questions.” Celestia said.
“Sure, go ahead. I have some of my own as well.”
“Splendid, would you like to come sit down, I could order something to eat if you would like.”
“Apparently I’m dead so I don’t think I can eat, thanks but no thanks.”
“Of course so, what are you?”
“Do you mean me, or this? Because I was human, but now I guess I’m a skeletal ghost with flaming pink hair. And I can assure you I was very much alive before I woke up in the hospital.”
She nodded in agreement, “Indeed you were, we remember that you popped in here in a flash of golden light and when it died down a different creature, what I’m assuming was you before you turned into this, started coughing up blood and burst into a torrent of pink flame. We couldn’t get to you so we had to wait till the flames died down and when they did, there was well… you, all though you didn’t have any hair.”
“Huh…. Oh right… when Lewis woke up he didn’t either till he turned it on. I wonder if I can…” Nope nothing, well shoot. “Eh I’ll figure that out.”
“Right do you know how you came here? Always why do you keep saying Lewis, who is he?”
“Lewis…. Lewis, is who this-“I gestured to my body”-is. My name is James the guy who got unlucky enough to be stuck as him.” I started to sink through the floor and it was a few seconds before I realized, “Guess that’s a thing.” I pulled myself back out. ‘ok it might not be that bad, but how I got here… let’s see.” I recapped how my day went up till I burst into flames while coughing up blood. “And that’s that, now we’re here.”
“I see, and you think this merchant had something to do with it?”
I smiled, but remembered I didn’t have a mouth so… Uhm... I guess I scowled? “Oh I know it was him and the next time I meet him I’m going to rip him in half.” That got me several looks of terror, “Sorry I have no idea what that’s about, I’m generally much more calm than this."
Twilight seemed curious, “You are? Do you think your transformation into Lewis sparked this enhanced aggression?”
I shrugged, “Probably I mean the entire point of him being a ghost was to get revenge on someone. Twice.”
“Ooh, I smell a good story.” Rarity said with a smile.
“Still mad at you marshmallow.” She scoffed, I laughed.
“Come on sugar, tell us about this Lewis fella.” Said the southern pony.
“Ok I will but before I start, could I get your names so I don’t have to keep calling you all some weird thing, unless I want to annoy you.”
“Oh right, I’m sorry for that, we were so caught up in you we forgot about us. I am Princess Celestia, Co-ruler of Equestria.”
“I am Twilight Sparkle, personal protégée to Princess Celestia and resident librarian of Ponyville.” She gave a smile.
“I’m Pinkamena Diane Pie, nice to meet you, but all my friends call me Pinkie Pie. I’m the party pony extraordinaire and friend to everypony!” She tried to hug me but only to go straight through me.
“Sorry no control over that.”
“its okie dokie loki, I’ll hug you at some point.”
“I’m Fluttershy… I uh… like animals and singing and things like that. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” She gave me a small smile behind her mane.
Next was the rainbow maned one, “Well now that’s surprising, normal Shy here is scared of any and everything. Sup, I’m Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria and coolest pony this side of Canterlot mountain.” She struck a pose, “An honor for you to meet me.”
I raised an eyebrow, I can still do that, only to be interrupted by southern pony, “Sorry about that sugar, rainbow can be a bit…. What’s the word?”
“Egotistical?” I offered.
‘Right that, but she means well, anyway. Name’s Apple Jack but most ponies just call me AJ. Proud owner of Sweet Apple Acres, best apple farm this side of Equis.” She held out a hoof, which I actually did manage to shake, for about 2 seconds, ok this intangibility thing I need to get a handle on. I concentrated on being solid and shook her hoof again this time not passing through her, or the floor, oh yeah that happened too with Pinkie as well.
Marshmallow flipped her hair, “And I am Rarity, the marvelous fashionista and designer of Ponyville. Do you see why I critiqued your outfit now?”
“Hmmmm, yeah no, well nice to meet you all and right Lewis… let’s see long story short, he was part of a paranormal investigation team, they were on a case when the group split up, he went with his coworker and friend Arthur and his girlfriend, Vivi, went down a separate tunnel with her dog Mystery, or so we thought. Arthur and Lewis found a pit full of spikes so a dead end, but Arthur got possessed by something and pushed Lewis into the pit. Lewis died. Years later, Arthur, Vivi, and mystery were on their way somewhere and their van short circuited, courtesy of …. Well me. I guess. In form of a haunted mansion created by Lewis, all to get revenge on Arthur, because he thought Arthur killed him on purpose but Arthur has no recollection of it, I think, not much is known really, this is all based on like 5 minutes of video… wait do you have video here?” I got nods. “Ok yeah, five minutes. Lewis wakes up and starts chasing everyone, ok really just Arthur but everyone else gets caught up in it, he finally corners Arthur, until Vivi protects him, stopping Lewis. Lewis gives her this.” I point to my locket. “Inside is supposed to be a picture of Lewis and Vivi hugging but, it’s empty. Anyway Arthur pulls her away before she can look in it and it falls to the ground breaking, which enrages Lewis to where he kinda goes supernova with pink flames exploding everywhere. And that’s that with the end of the video having him opening the locket and his ghost fading away with a tear rolling down his cheek. That’s the end. That’s the story that I know.” I got no response just a mixture of quiet and blank stares.
“Anyway, question, just one. Tattoos on butt, why?”
Twilight shook her head, “huh, oh our cutie marks?” I face palmed… well skull palmed… actually I technically don’t have a palm, whatever semantics. “They show us what our destinies are though they aren’t always as obvious as Princess Celestia’s”
I looked, “It’s a sun?”
“I raise the sun and rule over the day James.” She said nonchalantly.
“Oh… I see. Cool.” It was a few minutes before it clicked, “Wait you raise the sun? the big ball of gas that is trillions of miles away? And if compressed would have the density and weight strong enough to crush anything on this planet? Actually go straight through it?”
She giggled, “Yep.”
“Fucking… magic ponies.” I shook my head again, this time a bit too hard causing it to spin around. “I’m very glad I’m a ghost or that would’ve made me sick.” They on the other hand id look sick, except Rainbow and Pinkie. One had a wide smile and the other one had a ‘whoa that’s cool smile.’
“Please don’t ever do that again.” Rarity pleaded.
“No promises… so what now? I have no idea how to get back and I’m assuming none of you do either.” Got plenty of shakes of the head.
“Sorry, we don’t but in the meantime you can stay in Ponyville with the girls, if that’d be fine with one of you.” The Princess looked expectantly at them.
“Sorry princess, he’d scare the twins.” Pinkie said with a shrug.
“Eh, I like my personal space.” Rainbow said dismissively.
“Well we definitely have room at the Acres but I’m sure he’d give granny a heart attack every time she sees him. But I do have an idea if he can’t find a job and considering how he looks, no offense, he probably won’t be able to.” Apple Jack said with a thoughtful look.
“I would like to…. But the poor animals, sorry.” Fluttershy gave me an apologetic look.
“Twilight? Rarity?” Celestia asked.
“Well my house really only big enough for Spike and I and the basement is full so I’m afraid not.” Twilight said with a sad tone.
“I guess that just leaves me, while he wouldn’t be able to help me with my work, My attic is relatively clean, so he stays upstairs sight during the day.”
I cut in, “You do know I can just float through the wall right? I’m just saying if I need to go out for whatever reason I can just float through the wall so your customers don’t see me.”
“Oh well, then that’s fine, but please do not try and scare my baby sister, she isn’t easily scared but you never know.” She gave me a look that said I had no choice.
“Deal, thank you.”
Celestia stood up and proceeded to the door, “Well now that that’s settled you’ll leave to Ponyville tomorrow, My sister wants to speak with you tonight. I’ll supply you with a room that’s in a lesser traveled section of the castle. Now shoo, all of you day court has to continue. Guard please show our guest here to hall 47 room 389.” The guard gulped but nodded and led the way.
We reached a fork in the road, the left was a long dark empty hallway and to the right a normally lit hallway that had windows that showed the outside. Of course we went down the dark hallway. And stopped in front of a door that looked to be made of black oak, he opened the door and hurried away as soon as I was in the room, closing the door behind me. “Thanks, I guess… Huh, this is a pretty nice room.” It was dimly lit with candles, the walls were a mahogany and the furniture was black leather with a desk made of the same black oak same with the bed frame, the sheets and cover a lighter red and a dark grey, but not black, respectively. I decided to lie down and see if I could even sleep, and as I found out I could.
Author's Note
Ok so jyust some introductory stuff out the way, and will be full finished next chapter, mostly. But There is one thing I'm worried about twith this story. How do Crossovers work? I've never done them before. 
I woke up, it was still dark, but then again this room was dark when I came into it so i have no idea what time it was. I looked into the mirror, hoping I looked like myself. I didn’t, i let out an annoyed groan and noticed my hair was out, “I wonder.” I did the hair sweep
“Sweetness. But it sucks really.”
“What praytell sucks?” I heard a new voice.
I turned my head, just my head to look at the entrance, in it stood a dark blue Alicorn, that's what the winged and horned ponies were called I learned from the guard, which is the only question of mine he answered. “And you are?”
She stood tall and proud, I am getting the strangest sense of deja vu, “I am Princess Luna, ruler of the moon and the night, protector of all inhabitants that dwell in the darkness and shadow. Co-ruler of Equestria, second under my sister.”
I gave her a confused look before it clicked, “Oh right, your sister told me you wanted to see me. Wait if you rule over the night and you’re awake, then it's still night time?“
“Indeed, though you did not answer our question.”
“What? Oh right, what sucks? Well i don’t know if your sister told you anything but I was essentially ripped from my home. I mean it’s not that big of a deal. i was an only child so no siblings and I haven’t talked ot my parents in about 3 years, nothing bad happened, we’re just living our own lives. Most of my friends drifted away into their own lives as well and I didn’t have any pets. i think the only person that’d miss me was my boss.”
“You didn’t have a lover and why would only your boss miss you?” She asked.
“Probably because i was her best worker, and no I didn’t have a lover. been single for 6 years now.” I shrugged, “I enjoy my space.”
She frowned, “Well thats not a good thing, surely people would start to panic after a while since you’ve gone missing right?”
I scratched my head, didn’t think of that, “Yeah I suppose they would… hmm but I might just be put up as one of those missing person things. its actually been happening a lot, always to people who go to conventions like I did…. no way. No fucking way,did they all meet the merchant too? there were over 100 missing people last I heard.”
“Are you saying that over one hundred more people could be on Equus right now? or start appearing on Equus?” Luna asked.
I shook my head, “I’m not sure maybe, I mean if they did wouldn’t they be here before me? I mean I wasn’t the first to be taken. Maybe it doesn’t matter when you were taken because whatever we get sent through ops us out at different times? Or they could end up in other worlds, who knows.”
“We see, well we shall Inform our sister when we can.”
“Alright, hey why do you use the royal we and our and stuff?”
She blushed slightly, “Ah well, it’s a long story but lets just say its left over form adapting to modern times. May i ask you a question?”
“Sure go ahead, and have a seat, I don’t really need to.”
She sat down on the bed, “Thank you, but did you realize you have a very dark force within yourself?”
I gave her the nest deadpanned look i could, no pun intended, “Luna, I’m a ghost who solely wanted revenge on and old friend because I thought he killed me and I feel way angrier than I ever have. I’m pretty sure I have a dark force within me.”
“While that is very interesting, It’s not what we meant, it feels very familiar, please do not let it gain control over you. We fear the harm you might cause and we sense no malicious intent from you but darkness does things to even the best of us and we’d hate to be forced to put you down, And while you are already technically a dark force it doesn’t mean you aren’t good remember that.”
I let that sink in, a dark force that isn’t already me, “I’ll try my best to not be overcome but whatever force you sense.”
She stood up and stretched, “Good, ah the sun will be rising in a few minutes, we better go and finish a few things. your departure will be at 10 or clock, it is currently 6:45, if you need something to occupy your time we suggest the guards. It was nice meeting you and remember what we said.” with that she departed to wherever.
“The guards huh?” I got a wicked idea, “Well now would be a good time to test out what I can do I do have 3 hours to spare.”
~3hours later~
I laughed as I floated down the hall after scaring another guard, “Oh that was fun, who knew I could do so much stuff.” Apparently I could do a lot of things since I was a ghost. Outside of being able to go through things, i could turn myself invisible, control objects, possess certain ones even multiple at one since they had no sentience to them. But when It came to actual living creatures with higher brain functions like the ponies i could only possess them in 2 ways. One was at a distance but it was very limited. Say if they had a goal like going to the bathroom I couldn’t make them change their goal but I could make them go about it differently, like to make them take the long way around or go to a completely different bathroom as long as their goal stayed the same, couldn’t even have in between goals. Now a full body possession I could do well everything with them, make them stop going to the bathroom and go get a sandwich, stuff like that. Stronger willed ponies are harder to take over obviously, tried it with Celestia, got it for all of 2 seconds before I got booted out. Another thing is if it went completely against their moral code, like a guard killing an innocent bystander I couldn’t make them do that. don’t ask man, I was bored and wanted to see what I could do.
Some side effects to that were while I was in fullbody possession they’d have all the weird possessy stuff happen to them ,like being able to climb walls and crap, I tried not to do that, it was creepy. In both types they’d completely forget everything that happened 5 minutes before and after while also having no memory of between. They’d be heavily drained of energy, which is apparently how i fueled myself, but since energy and magic are one in the same in this world i could just drain it from the air because that shit is everywhere. Now I’d also be drained but not as much as they would be unless it was someone like Celestia, that seriously drained me of almost all my energy. Also one more power is that I could read the minds of whoever I’m possessing whether it be full or partial if I so choose to. Did it by complete accident with one of the guards and the things he thinks about are…. I shivered, if you can creep out a ghost you need to go to therapy. There were more but I’ll leave that for a later date, it was time for me to head to Ponyville, but first a prank!
I turned invisible and floated into the room where I was supposed to meet everyone and lo and behold they were all there, no doubt Celestia could sense me though, She quickly glanced up and smirked, yep definitely could.
“It’s good to see everyone is here.” Celestia said.
“Not everyone Princess, where’s that James guy?” Rainbow asked.
“Oh I’m sure he’ll be here.” She said with a smile.
While she was looking around I spread myself out across the room possessing any object that could be lifted from the ground.
“Well he needs to be here soon, I need to get back to my shop, i have orders to fill out and he needs to get his room set up.” Rarity said impatiently and at that point one of the small candles next to Celestia’s throne flew past her and everyone else. “W-what was that?”
Twilight was immediately on alert and the rest of the girls followed through while Celestia did her part and acted surprised, “I don’t know but I saw it too, be on alert girls, if it's something dangerous we need to protect the princess.”
Oooh I guess that means it's time to go all out, ehehe. I made the objects fly about the room randomly, the candles, the stacks of papers, the candelabras, made the chandelier that was on the ceiling swing to and fro, made the curtains move wildly and since Celestia’s throne was a tad bit too heavy with myself split like this I just made it rock angrily, even made the stained glass windows rattle. All the while emitting an echoing laughter.
“Alright alright that’s enough” Celestia said through a smile.
“Aww you’re no fun I was just getting started.” I put everything back to how it was and popped into existence in front of the girls, “Howdy.” Celestia giggled.
The girls looked so confused and then exceptionally angry, “What that… what?!” they all yelled simultaneously, except Fluttershy, she was passed out.
“Was just a prank, sorry, one of you might want to wake Fluttershy up, have things to do chop chop.” I was still grinning, well i could tell i was, actually im pretty sure you could through my eyes too
“We’ll talk about this later, but first how are we going to get him on the train Princess?” Twilight asked.
“Yeah, it’s not like we can exactly bring him aboard, ponies are bound to either freak out or be scared.” Apple Jack said.
“I wouldn’t worry too much about that, I’m pretty sure he can take care of that himself.” Celestia said with no explanation.
“Oh my, did I fall asleep, I’m so sorry, oh Mr. James, when did you get here?”
I shook my head and tried not to laugh, “A few minutes ago.”
“Alright, now that Fluttershy is awake, can we get a move on please?” Rainbow asked.
“Of course, it was good seeing you again Princess.” Twilight nuzzled against her teacher.
“Same to you twilight, you should visit more often.”
“I will.” She turned and led her friends out of the throne room I went to follow before Celestia stopped me.
“James please try to keep the pranks down to a minimum.”
“No promises.” she gave me a serious look, “Ok ok, I’ll try, but I have a feeling you wanted to talk to me about something else.”
“I did, Luna told me what you told her last night, and I don’t know if more of your kind will end up here, but I have this bad feeling. And if any of them do, I need you to greet them, and if they’re bad I need you to help defend the ponies of this land.”
“Me? But…. i don’t know, i was never really a fighter, I did take some self defense classes but that's about it.”
“Please, the girls are strong, Luna and I are too, but I feel that the things that are to come can only be stopped by you. Please.”
I sighed realizing I didn’t have much choice, “Alright I will, i mean i’m stuck here and I’d rather not have my home be a graveyard so i’ll do what I can.”
“Thank you.” She nuzzled me.
Not sure if I could blush but if I could I would be showing it, “Y-yeah, no problem, well I gotta go, don’t wanna miss the train. See ya.” I left to go find the girls.
“Please visit!” She called after me.
Now where aha, there they are. oh they’re already getting on the train. I turned invisible and went through the train wall, looking for a pony to possess. Let’s see… oh you’ll do. I stopped and concentrated until I felt a connection and let myself follow it, when my vision cleared I was now sitting in the same cart as the girls. “Off to Ponyville to start my new life.” I said with a deep breath.
