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.