From Darkness to Light

Ya’ll still with me? I hope so, I love to hear from you out there, tell me how I’m doing and help me keep track so we can see this through together.

Disclaimer: Purely fan made, all characters and original story rights of MLP: FIM belong to Hasbro.

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Chapter Two: Talking Ponies, Sure why not?

“AWE COME ON!!!!” I scream into my mouth piece of my computer head set.

I watch in frustration as my level thirty three mage was vanquished by a level thirty two rouge. “That’s the game Stiles!” came the eager voice of my opponent and long friend, from his line.

I rage quit almost breaking my computer and get up for the fridge. It was well past midnight and with murder on my mind I started making myself dinner. I had let time slip, thirty minutes I had said, thirty minutes had turned to an hour, an hour to two….three….four…..five……

I bit into my burger placing my ear buds in, maybe that’s why I didn’t hear the shimmer of sound that comes with any form of magic; and also why I nearly choked when instead of my kitchen I was faced with a dark and empty void. With nothing else to do I continued to eat my sandwich for it may very well be the last good thing I’ll ever taste.

A sudden laughter filled the emptiness, so loud and deep that I felt more than heard it, pulling the headphones out I look around finding nothing, no light and definitely nobody that could have made that laugh. “Hello?” I call helpfully into the dark.

“Hello.” I turned and nearly ran smack into a horse.

No not a horse a very large pony, one about six inches taller than my six-five. “Whoa boy” I said reaching my hand out to touch him, only to fall flat on my ass.

“You don’t touch somepony without their permission you hairless ape” the pony said.

“………” I stare blankly at this pony as it offers me a….hoof, I take it only to cringe when instead of a hard hoof but a soft pliable…thing gripped me slightly and hauled me up.

“Nice to meet you in person Stiles, I’m Earth and this is my life mate, Sky” He said introducing a smaller pony that had walked in from the darkness.

She was much smaller than Earth, the top of her head only reached my chin “……..My pleasure?” I return with a grimacing smile.

“There, told you he wouldn’t ‘freak out’ as this race likes to say” said Earth, oh boy was he wrong but I wasn’t going to say anything, “I knew he was the one”

Sky smiled and rolled her eyes; “Yes darling, you are always right” she looked at me and shook her head slightly, I laughed, they seemed nice enough.

“Um….if you don’t mind….I’m the one for what?” I say pinching my arm hard enough to bruise, not a dream, maybe I’m dead.

“No you are not dreaming, and nor are you dead, you are….in a pocket of Space and Time, outside your world, and not in ours” Sky said pacing around me, she planted me squarely between her and Earth.

But I had not said anything….did she just smirk at me?

Earth must have noticed that I saw what she was doing and chuckled, “Not an idiot this one, he knows what you just did, but he did not see the others, he isn’t the best but he’ll improve”

I spin around noticing that two orbs of light were floating with me between them as well, “Okay this went from pleasant to concerning… can I go home now?”

“Sorry but no, I’m afraid that now that you are here there is no going back, for I sense your potential and that has sealed your fate you naïve creature of this barren Creation” came a voice from one of the orbs, I seemed to hear it before the vibrations in the air reached my ear, a time distortion I assumed.

Guess all those physics classes might have been useful for something…not really given where I am.

Laughing nervously I hold up my hands, then thinking about it I stuffed the last two bites in my mouth, “So because of who I am you will be doing what to me?” I’d already given the idea of running away up; I mean look….where in the hell was I going to go?

“Not because of who you are but because of who you will become we are taking you with us, to a place that needs you more than you are needed  here” This voice came from EVERYWHERE, I could only stare at the remaining orb of light.

“space and time….” I whisper to myself

“What was that human?” Earth said smirking.

“Space” I said pointing to one orb, “And Time” I said pointing to the other, “A pocket of Space and Time you said….” I shake my head in disbelief, “This is so unreal it’s not even worth thinking about, bye” useless or not I was going to try to run.

No matter how much I moved I didn’t leave the center of them, they just seemed to shift along the darkness, always spaced equally away from me. Out of breath I sit down heavily, “Okay….I figured that was pointless”

“Then why try?” asked Time, he saw that logically it wouldn’t work so why bother?

“I speculated, I didn’t know, so instead of just believing it to be and giving up I had to try” I shrugged taking a deep breath, “My granddad told me that if you know you can you will, if you believe you can’t you won’t, so unless you want to die keep trying, for to stop is to die”

“You have made a good choice Earth” Space said, “He just might pull this off”

“Can you at least tell me what you want from me?” I ask getting up

“We need your help to save our world, we are bound by oath to never interfere with our Creation, but an evil has awakened that must be stopped and even our strongest warriors will not be enough” Time said, “We need a champion to combat this enemy for we cannot”

“Why should I care what happens to your world?” I ask, they pulled me from my life, I mean for God’s sake I have animals to look after, “Why should I care if your world faces destruction, it does not touch mine”

I do care, even though it’s not my home it is home to somebody, to somebodies, I would help but I was ticked, they could have just asked ya know? But I did get the rise out of Earth I was expecting.

“WHAT!!!!” he yelled stomping forward making the darkness boom, though he never got closer, I guess the same principals applied for him that applied to me, interesting. He stopped and slammed his front legs down causing a massive quake to knock me down, “HOW DARE YOU CONDEM OUR HOME TO THIS FATE!!!!”

“Calm down love” Sky said, “He did not mean it, he is frustrated, he has just been….kidnapped from his home, his life, his world by creatures he did not believe in, he will be forever the only of his kind in our world he knows this and yet he willingly goes with us, don’t you?” she asked looking at me smiling like a mother would to a child she knew too well to be fooled by his antics.

“it is my curse” I whisper as I silently say goodbye to my friends and family, “I love you all” I stand up and at my tallest I turn towards Sky,  “Yes I will help, you need only tell me what I must do” I’m so afraid, so very afraid. What have I just condemned myself to….what awaits me beyond the void.

“Close your eyes and don’t stop, to stop is to die” Sky says solemnly.

Suddenly light blasts from behind my eyes, I see a white orb surrounded by darkness, and slowly three…auras make their way toward the pure orb, staining it, Blue, Red, and Green. As soon as the first of the auras touch what could only be my soul, my essence I buckled. It feels like I was cast into the center of the sun itself. I was burning. So much burning.

“Is this hell?” I think as I shout out in pain, never opening my eyes I watch as my soul is split evenly into three, as it separates something darts into the center and suddenly I grow cold.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, YOU CANNOT BE HERE IT IS FORBIDDEN!!!!” Space and Time shout together their blue aura quivering with rage.

“It is not forbidden, I have a stake in this battle too you old coots” and with a sickening pull I watch as a sliver of each piece of my soul is pulled together and stained purple. Whoever it was vanished from my consciousness as suddenly as he appeared.

“This wasn’t supposed to happen, what now?” Space asked frustrated as I feel his massive soul withdraw from me.

“Just because we didn’t plan for it doesn’t mean it wasn’t supposed to happen” Time says, I only now realize that Time is a she, her aura to much alike to Skys as she and Earth withdraw as well.

“We will block the memory till the time is right, then we will let him be learned in the……….” Sky was saying but I lost it before I could catch anything else.

I was no longer in that pocket of Space and Time; I was on a precipice a strong wind blowing from all sides. I kept my balance for about as long as it took to breath and then I was thrown over and with a torn cry I fell through darkness and into light.