Where The Darkness Resides

Chapter 2- Friendship Blooms

By: Big Odie

*Note I'll fix the breaks later*

Darkness, it's the bane of Odie's life. Odie slowly awoke to find himself in a large purple bed. He looked around to see that he was in a master bedroom, but papers where everywhere. There was a small table on the side of the bed with a note and a plate of pancakes. The note read--

Dear Stranger,

I have left you some food and am very intrigued as to what your story is, but I'll let you come downstairs when you’re ready and feel strong enough to talk.

Your new friend,

Twilight Sparkle

Big Odie slowly got up and started to walk over to a mirror in the corner of the room.

“Damn, I look like shit,” Big Odie was very malnourished, but due to his abnormal size he was able to survive. Odie then went over to the table and started to eat the pancakes, they were the most delectable ones he ever had.  While he was eating, Odie thought over what had happened. His whole village was wiped out by him. He checked every ponies pulse, they were gone. He fled shortly after gathering his belongings. He was walking for days, and as he looked back upon his thoughts, a knock was at the door,

“Hello?” some pony shouted from the other side,

“Yea-Yeah, one minute.” Odie yelled out, he quickly downed the rest of the food and said “Come in,”

With that the door opened, and in came a lavishing lavender unicorn.

“I-I, hell- hello?” Odie stuttered,

“Hello, my names Twilight Sparkle!  Umm, what’s your name?” Twilight said nicely

“Uhh, ohh, Odie, my names Big Odie,” Odie said nervously,

“So, uhh what happened to you, Odie?” Twilight asked curiously,

“Well its sort-a long story and it’s really complicated.” Odie stated, not wanting to scare the only pony who helped him in his life,

“Oh, well I have time to spare, so… “Twilight said enthusiastically, but was stopped mid-sentence

“Don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t want to scare you, and I don’t really know you …” Odie said trying to steer this away from what had happened.

“Oh, don’t worry, I’m sure once you get to know me you’ll be able to tell me” she said with a heartwarming smile,

“Yeah, heh, I guess I should get out of your hooves then,” Odie said wanting to get away to process everything,

“What? I don’t think so,” Twilight said,

“Wh-Why?” Odie asked, frightened that she wanted to talk more.

“Uhh, for starters you’re malnourished, secondly you can’t go around a town you don’t know and thirdly you need rest,

from the looks of you, you’ve been walking for days.” Twilight said with a concerned look,

“Ohh, umm ok”,

“So, I’ll get you something to eat, and you stay here and rest.”,

“Wait, I don’t need to keep you from you’re bedroom, I could sta-“Odie said, before being cut off.

“No you don’t, but I want you to stay somewhere comfortable.” Twilight said insistently.

“Al-alright” Odie gave up, “just give me some time to think”,

With that Twilight went downstairs to make him some more food and Odie finally got some time to think.

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After a few days of resting at Twilights, Odie now had a decent idea of what happened. The darkness inside had now awoken again and he went into a sub-consciousness when it was raining. The darkness went around and had to power to kill everypony, by giving them a heart attack. At least that's all he could piece together. As he was just starting to try and be at ease with his dark side, a knock was heard at the door. "Come in." Odie said, over the time he spent resting at Twilights, he had started to become a little more social.

“Hey, Odie, I just wanted to check in." Twilight said as she walked in,

" I'm doing much better, no thanks to you.",

" Well that's good, umm; I have some ponies who would like to meet you, if it’s okay with you?” Twilight said hesitantly,

"Uhh, sure, I guess" Odie said, wondering who the hell would want to meet him.

"Girls! Come on in." Twilight called into the hallway. With that in came five other mares about the same age as Twilight. There was a white unicorn with a purple mane, she seemed to be the oldest and seemed very ladylike. An orange earth pony with a blonde mane, who seemed to brighten the room with a smile. A yellow Pegasus with a pink mane, who walked in looking down at the ground. A cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane, she was very toned so Odie assumed she was an athlete. And a pink earth pony who hopped on in, her mane was just slightly darker than her coat.

“Girls, this is Odie, the stallion I told you about." Twilight Said as a matter a factly,

"Well butter ma biscuits ya actually do got a colt friend," the orange one said, making Odie and Twilight blush.

“Applejack, that was quite brash, “the white one said, “My names Rarity my dear.",

" Hello Rarity,",

" Ah was just sayin wat every pony was thinking." Applejack said trying to save herself,

" Yeah, Applejacks right, that sure is what it seems like," the cyan Pegasus said " we hadn't seen you for day's and you

come down to Sugarcube corner and say you found some stallion,"

" Well yeah Rainbow Dash, when I found him he was malnourished and I had to take care of him, and I couldn't send spike he was busy working on containing his new magic." Twilight said trying to tell them what happened,

“Righhtt, and why was he malnourished exactly?" The cyan pony asked,

"Well, truth is I don't even know." twilight said awkwardly,

"Holy Moly Twi, for all we know he could be a bad flank, or a, filly fooler," the pink pony said, drawing out a long ooo at the end,

"Come now Pinkie Pie, if he were a bad flank, he would of done something by now." Rarity said trying to calm the pink pony down,

"Yeah and the only reason he doesn't want to tell us is because he doesn't trust me too mu-" Twilight tried to say but was cut off mid- sentence,

"It's okay, I think you girls are the type to blab about me, I sort of left my village in haste, because I was, was, scared."  Odie lied,

"Now why we're ya scared Sugarcube?" the orange pony asked,

"I, I, don't want to say.",

“That’s quite alright my dear, I can tell you went through something quite tragic." Rarity said, trying to comfort Odie.

" Tha-Thanks," Odie said thankfully,

“Well, how are ya fellin now?” Applejack asked,

"Well I sure am feeling better than I was three days ago." Odie said even though the extended talk was draining him,

" Well that's good to hear, we'll let you get a bit more rest, “said Rarity, noticing my very delusive state.

" Thanks, I'm just a bit tired," Odie said tiredly. As the group left Odie quickly fell into a deep, long awaited sleep.

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Twilight had just finished saying goodbye to her friends, and she felt the urge to go check to see if Odie really is okay. She crept up the stairs at her own pace, and when she got to the door, she knocked and quietly asked, " Odie, are you still up?" she then proceeded to open the door and walk in. She was pleased to see that he was asleep for once. The past three days consisted of him just lying there, and eating. She thought he was doing this for a reason but it would seem he had a lot on his mind. 'This is the perfect opportunity,' she thought to herself, ' I can find out how he's doing without him lying or brushing it off, like the other 10 attempts.'

She closed her eyes and slowly lowered her head until her horn was touching his. She opened her eyes and a flash of light blasted throughout the room, she slowly backed away from the brown unicorn in front of her.

“Wh-What was that?!?" she exclaimed. While that spell was meant to examine the body and mind, she felt an eerie presence from within him, and when she had ended the spell, she heard a mumbled voice say something. She was now slowly getting a grip on what she had heard, Nightmare. The one word echoed through her head now. She slowly came back down to Equestria; she realized this was no random occurrence. She started to pack, for she knew what she had to do. Learn.

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Odie had just awoken, and went downstairs for surprisingly the first time in his stay at Twilights. The entire time he was here he wanted to not be disturbed so he could figure everything out, and the only interruptions were Twilight checking in or bringing him food. As he descended the stairs he looked into a large room filled with bookshelves. They were filled to a t with books; Odie had never seen so many books in his life. His thoughts were interrupted by a small hello barley audio able, he turned around to see the yellow and pink Pegasus from last night.

“Hello, umm, heh I sort of didn’t catch your name from last night” Odie said,

“Fluttershy,” the yellow mare whispered,

“P-pardon?” Odie asked a little confuzzeled,

“flut-fluttershy,” she repeated, her voice creaking up at the end,

“Hey, Fluttershy, my names Odie, it’s nice to meet you” Odie said smiling,

“H-hello, O-Odie,” Fluttershy said with her face down,

“Are you alright Fluttershy?” Odie asked curiously,

“Mhhm” fluttershy said quietly looking away,

“Ohh, I see, you’re shy!” Odie figured out,

“Yes” she confessed,

“Hey, it’s nothing to be ashamed about,” Odie said trying to show her it’s alright, “You’re no different from anypony else, you just don’t like crowds,” Fluttershy looked up to him at when he said that,

“To be honest, people who are quiet, in my opinion are usually more intelligent, but they keep to themselves. I know this cause I usually kept to myself when I was younger.” Odie admitted,

“Really!” Fluttershy shouted, “Oh, sorry, for yelling”,

“Haha, its fine, so where’s Twilight?”,

“Oh, well she had to leave in quite the hurry, she didn’t tell me why but she said she was going to Canterlot and for you to stay here. She wanted me and spike to watch you.” Fluttershy explained quickly,

“Holy, I guess you can talk when you want” Odie joked,

“Hmm, yeah, “Fluttershy said embarrassed,

“So, who is Spike?” Odie asked quizzically,

“Oh, you haven’t met, well he’s Twilights personal assistant.” Fluttershy said,

“Mhh, where’s he at?”,

“Ohh he went to get some food for lunch.” ,

“Heh seems I ate all of Twilights food, “Odie said feeling a bit ashamed, just then the front door opened and a small purple dragon walked in with some bags of food.

“Holy Shit!” exclaimed Odie, “A bucking Dragon!” Odie ran in front of Fluttershy, “Who are you and what do you want!” Odie protectively asked.

“Uhhh, I’m Spike, and I live here.” Spike said, wondering wtf was happening,

“You’re Spike!?!” Odie asked seemingly mind fucked,

“Uhhhhmm, yes?” Spike said still wondering why he’s being asked questions,

“But, I dragons were hostile people?” Odie asked,

“Well Most but I was hatched by Twilight, and she taught me to be a more civilized dragon” Spike said proudly,

“Shiiitt, that’s awesome, so what can you do? Dragon magic? Breathe fire?” Odie asked excited that he met a dragon,

“Uhh, I’m sort of at the dragon age where my magic gets a little unstable because my body is now just acknowledging

them.” Spike clarified,

“Heh, wow, Can you do anything right now or?” ,

“No, I just started this week, and soon I’m going to Canterlot to get help from Princess Celestia.”,

“Holy, you know the Princess? Hell you’re going to be trained by her!” ,

“Umm, we all know the princess’s, Odie, we helped them” Fluttershy explained, Odie just sat there on his haunches like ‘wat.’

“Do you know anything that happened these past few months?” Spike inquired,

“No, my village was … ‘cut off’ from the rest of Equestria” said Odie,

“Oh, well when Nightmare Moon came back … Then the Elements are Harmony worked and Discord was turned back into stone.” Fluttershy described the adventures they had saving Equestria. Odie seemed to be in deep thought ever since they mentioned The Nightmare.

“Odie? ODIE!” Spike bellowed out,

“Huh Oh uhh, sorry about that I guess I zoned out.” Odie stated,

“Yeah, well I got to go make supper, so yeah” Spike said realizing how much time they had spent talking,

“Wow that took a while.” Odie said,

“Yeah,” Fluttershy agreed,

After they ate, Odie went into the main room and read while the others did their own stuff. He then proceeded to go to bed.