Rick's improbable journeyby Faolan211ChaptersChapter One Rick the Demon and the trickChapter Two Bears, Pegasi, and Unicorns oh my.Chapter Three Extreme Shift in ThemeChapter One Rick the Demon and the trickAs I lay there bored out of my wits my younger brother sleeps, and I'm thankful as can be for the fact that he's asleep. Don't get me wrong, I love my bro with all my heart, but we are polar opposites when it comes to personalities. He has a very hyper personality while I'm laid back and try to keep calm, even when freaking out. I have lost my cool while talking to leaders though. Sorry, how rude of me to not introduce myself. I am Rick Sanner a seventeen year old male that lives in Griffin Indiana. My interests are swords, meditation, and gaming. No I'm not a Buddhist monk, but I do like meditating to keep calm. Only a couple of things make me pissed and those are people invading my personal thoughts, a man striking a woman, and a one sided fight. "Man why is my life so boring" I said to no one in particular Now don't think badly of me when I say I wouldn't mind dumping this life for a new one. Now I know what you're thinking, "How bad is this guy's life that he wants a new one?" That's just it; I don't have a bad life. No bullies, no bad parents, and no horrible disease. It's just so dull that I want a change from boring and normal to exciting and adventurous. I've always wanted to travel somewhere no man has gone before, like mars or even another dimension, but that probably won't happen any time soon. I might as well meditate till it's time to sleep. Time frame one hour later As I get up to stand I look directly into the eyes of a creature not of the human or animal variety. I think two things. One, what demon is in my presence and two, my closest blade is under my bed five feet from where I am. I jump for the blade but I never hit the ground, instead I'm floating two feet above the ground with a black aura surrounding me. I look to the demon. "OK I'll bite what you want?" I said. Keeping calm after all meditating for an hour will make you very mellow. The Demon smiled a toothy smile "Surprising a human not too terrified to scream and take action. Well since you asked I'll tell you. I'm here to send you to a new dimension while I take your position on the human plain." "Interesting idea. I was just thinking about leaving this dimension" I said. "So what's the problem?" said The Demon "Well I have friends here that I happen to like." I said. "I can make it so that your friends remember nothing of you and neither will your loved ones. Unless you're like the 4th most important person in their life that is" said The Demon. "Well that won't do at all. Won't people think my families crazy for looking for someone that doesn't exist?" I retorted back. "Ah a man who takes the big picture and doesn't sweat little things, I like that." said The Demon sounding pleased with his pick. "Wow I'm getting compliments from a demon, I didn't think I was that special" I said in a sarcastic tone. Not SPECIAL YOU'RE ONE OF THE MOST IMPOR… um let's just say everyone is important in their own way." said The Demon with a bead of sweat going down his head. "Okay I'll ignore that last part. Do you plan on world domination? And please don't lie; I'm not going to tell you not to. Just to help my loved ones out when you do okay." I said looking serious. "You have my word that when I rule this world that your loved ones will have special connections." said The Demon taking on what feels like an unnatural tone of seriousness. "Great, now if I'm going to a new realm can you give me some things that are in the line of super powers?" I asked sounding hopeful. The Demon just smiled even brighter, "OK, if it's in my power I'll give you what you want." he said still smiling. "So what do you want?" said The Demon. "Wow you're really going to give me powers and stuff!?" "Why not." said The Demon. "O.K. Can you give me psychic powers?" I said with enthusiasm flowing off me. "Sure." said The Demon with that same smile it had the whole time we talked "Is that all?". "Sure what else do I need?" I said rather smug sounding. "Well, since I'm doing this for you I get to decide where you go alright." stated The Demon mocking my smugness with his own this in turn gave me a bit of concern. "Alright, can I say one thing about the dimension I go to?" I asked letting nervousness take over. "Alright what is it?" The demon asked with a slightly raised brow. "Thanks now let's see what would be good… I've got it! The locals for the most part are nice, but there are dangers there, just not the locals I should worry about." I said happy as a clam. The Demon smile seemed to double as he stated. "I've just the place in mind!" "Alright I'm ready." I said thinking I had covered most bases. "Good because I was getting to the point where I was going to send you without the powers. Oh you might want to take your IPod. You may want some music while you're there. I'll even make the battery use your psychic energy to make the battery last forever." he said with a small smile. "Wow, thanks dude. Hey, why don't you give me a phone to talk to you from other dimensions? You don't seem all that bad." I stated. "Alright. When you step through the portal you'll have all the items and powers that you asked for." said The Demon. "O.K. You got a name, because I feel bad not knowing the name of the being that's being so generous to me. Now give me a bro fist before I leave." I asked as I went to leave through the portal. The Demon smiled and said "It's Asmos." as he reached his fist over to me. I connected my fist with his and said, "Cool! Talk to you later, and play nice when you take over the world." "Ha! I knew I liked you when I saw you for a reason." said Asmos. As I jumped in the portal I felt my molecules being moved from one area to another then I blacked out. I woke up in a field and noticed two things. One, it was very colorful, and two, it was night. I decided to try feel in my pockets and found a phone and my IPod. I turned the phone on and noticed the signal was maxed out and the service had unlimited talk, text, and web. I looked at the brand of the phone and it said on the back, 'Asmos Wireless'. "Wow someone is full of himself" I looked around and decided that I would try picking up a tree to see if he had fooled me. I easily pulled it straight out of the ground and laid it down on it's side. I had no idea what the locals would act like if they heard a tree being slammed on the ground. I decided to try levitation next. I tried to think of floating the tree around and it picked up. I thought of it going higher and it went higher. After placing the tree back on the ground I decided to pull a move right out of the Phychonauts hand book. I made a shield of psychic energy and I noticed the shield was black with purple swirls. "Not bad." I said out loud. I quickly quieted myself as I heard someone getting close. I pulled another play from the Phychonauts book and tried invisibility. To my surprised it worked. I couldn't see who it was but I heard them. "I could have sworn that I heard somepony talking" said a very soft voice. I decided that I needed a place to stay. I figured getting a local on my side sooner was better than getting one on my side later, and did she say somepony? "Hello" I said hoping not to startle the being too much. There was a sudden "eep" that came from the spot the voice was at. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you, but I'm new here and I was wondering if you had a place I could stay the night…" I asked being hopeful. "Oh um… I guess I have a place to stay… I mean… if you want…" Did she just ask if I wanted to go with her right after I just asked? I thought to myself. "Alright. I'm going to step out of the shadows. One question, do you know what a human is?" "A hu-man? What's that?" she asked. Fuck Fuck FUCK! I screamed in my head this is so going to be hard to explain. "O.K I need you to promise me one thing miss…" "Fluttershy" she finished. "Miss Fluttershy, please don't freak out." I said. (This is bad very bad hopefully she doesn't freak) I decided to make fire on a tree limb that I had grabbed off the tree. Hopefully it would work. It did, but man did I wish it didn't. I looked in the direction of the voice and saw not a bipedal creature, but a pale yellow horse, or maybe pony considering the size. Either way she had a light pink mane and her bright sky blue eyes were staring at me, filled with fear. She did the exact opposite of what I asked and flew away. Yes, I said flew. She must have been a Pegasus. Well that went swimmingly. I should probably go into the forest and hide. For all I know I could have just scared the leader of this realm or someone else important. I thought to myself once more. I quickly went deep in the woods and found a light. I walked towards the light and saw a house. It seemed to be made of the roots of a tree and the tree itself. I walked to the door, which was only to my chest in height, and I cautiously knocked on the door. I heard a voice say. "Who is at my door at this hour? Do they not know I'm not a night owl." The door opened revealing a zebra. She was very surprised to see me and frankly I was just as surprised first ponies now zebras. "Before you slam the door in my face, please hear my story! I won't hurt you, but I will break your cane if you hit me with it." I said after just reading her mind. The zebra just smiled and placed her cane next to the door. "Creature of massive size, you may come inside and share your prize." she said moving out of the way. "Before I enter may I ask your name?" "I am Zecora, a zebra as you can see. Tell me your name with glee." she said in that same rhyming way. "Well I'm Rick Sanner, but most just say Rick." I said smiling a bit awkwardly. "Then come in to my abode mister Rick." she said. As I followed the Zebra named Zecora into her home, I reflected on what just happened to me in the past twenty-four hours. First I meet a demon, then get sent to a realm of talking ponies and zebra, and am now going to stay the night with a zebra. Well, if I don't do something stupid to get kicked out that is. Author's Note I will ask anyone who wishes to review this and comment on whether they want more or if this should fade away I leave it up to the internet. Chapter Two Bears, Pegasi, and Unicorns oh my.I woke up with a splitting head ache. That zebra didn't help with my sleep at all with that incessant rhyming and questioning, combined with sleeping on the ground. That was my choice though. She did offer to let me sleep in her bed with her, but that brought up all kinds of morale blocks. Let's just say I wasn't in the best of moods when I woke up. Luckily I woke up before Zecora, so I snuck out of her house. Not before leaving a note thanking her for her generosity though. I was annoyed, but not without manners. I walked through the forest and decided it was time to call a certain demon. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the phone. I looked at the contacts. Only one, big surprise… I clicked on the contact and heard it ring. Asmos answered with a simple "Hey". "Asmos how's it going? Got one question, did you send me here on purpose?" I asked. "Well yeah, you said a dimension that is mostly nice and I did exactly what you asked. Also I needed a big laugh." he responded. "ASMOS you asshole you sent me to a world where the population is talking horses!" "First off cool it. There are quite a few different creatures just like your home dimension, only without humans and more than a few mythical creatures. Second, they're ponies. Third, I warn you to not, under any circumstances, mention you got there via help from a demon or anyone. Just say you woke up there." he said sounding uncharacteristically serious. "Wait; why not mention I got here via demon powers?" "Because you mortal, you'll be cast out of the country faster than you can say oops." he said sounding impatient. "Ah, thanks for the advice. By the way, what's the limit to my psychic powers?" "Oh that's easy, any thought and practice is your limit." he said. "Cool, thanks any ways. Even if you sent me to a place filled with talking ponies… I'm going to get off, I found a cave that I'm going to explore, bye." I said. As I hung up the phone I walked into the cave. (since Asmos said the limit is my thoughts let's focus on a light for me to see). A purple light started to shine in front of my face. "Sweeeet" I said looking further in the cave. I walked for quite some time till I reached a very large open area and noticed something that looked like the night sky staring me in the face. I looked around the sky, it was bright red with stars all over it. It looked beautiful till I looked into a mouth that could fit a whole school bus inside. "I'm so glad my bowels were empty before I came in here…" laughing a little at my joke. The star bear thing didn't get the joke unfortunately as it roared in my face. I thought of how to calm it down and realized I'm psychic! I can talk to it with thought! "Hey bear dude, can you hear me?" I thought. The bear looked around as if it thought it heard something. "Who speaks to me?" it asked. "I do mighty one, the being standing in front of you. I am using my abilities to talk to you." I said hoping that the creature wouldn't mind. It looked down at me and asked, "One that is so small, why do you enter my home?". "Well, as you can see I didn't mean to encroach upon your home. I was just looking around and happened upon this cave. If you wish for me to leave then I will, but may I ask your name before I leave?" I said. "My name is Star Blaze, and if you wish to stay for a while then you may" he said. "Thank you Star Blaze. May I ask a few questions before I leave?" I asked hopefully. "You may, as long as you tell me your name and answer a few questions of my own as well." "The name's Rick, and ask anything you want and I'll answer it the best I can." The questions he asked were pretty simple. What am I, where did I come from, and where did I gain all my power. My questions were pretty much the same. Who was he, some rules of here, and who the ruler was. The last question is what got me, he asked if we were friends. I replied "Of course dude, just give a shout if you need something." I decided it was time to leave. When I got out of the cave I found that it was only mid-day and decided I'd give the town another try. Luckily Star Blaze told me which way to go and I got out in about thirty minutes. I could have ran, but decided that I would enjoy the walk, which is why it took so long. As soon as I spotted the town, I noticed one thing. Ponies running into homes left and right. By the time I got to the town, the streets were abandoned and I felt people watching me from the windows. I was slightly ticked at their rudeness and walked further into town till I reached a big building in the center which I assumed was the town hall. I walked to the door and knocked. A hoof quickly popped out with a sign that said closed and hung it on the door. Now that's just straight up rude. I decided that I would wait them out by going to the nearby fountain and meditating till someone walked out of their home. I sat there for maybe ten minutes before I heard a voice. "what are you doing?" Asked the voice. I opened my eyes to see a filly with a purple mane and orange fur looking at me like I had three heads. "Well little one, I am doing an exercise that calms the mind and clears your head." "So what are you" she asked. "I say, didn't anyone tell you that it's rude to ask a question before introducing yourself first." She looked extremely sad. Shit I just fucked up terribly. "I'm sorry mister I'm Scootaloo, and I lost my parents before they taught me manners…" she said looking even sadder. "Oh I'm terribly sorry Scootaloo. I didn't mean to hurt you like that. I'm Rick, your newest friend that happens to be a human. Now you get a favor from me for being my first pony friend." I said smiling lightly as I thought and to relieve some guilt I know have. Scootaloo brightened up at this and yelled "YAY!" while jumping into air. "Alright since you owe me I'll use it to have you spend the whole day with me!" I smiled at how such a simple request could make her so happy "So Scootaloo, what shall we do first." I said while picking her up. "You can start by heading to my clubhouse and meeting my other…" "Hey you freak! Put her down or prepare to taste the wrath of the coolest pony in Ponyville!" I turned around to see a blue furred and rainbow maned Pegasus staring at me with the intent to kill. I put Scootaloo on the ground and stared at the Pegasus with indifference on my face. "Heh at least you have some brains now leave before I get physical" she said. This ticked me off. Her arrogance knows no bounds. Here I am, a creature she has never seen before, and she threatens me without even the slightest bit of kindness after I already obeyed her first command. I am not to be made a fool of by a rainbow tomboy. "No" I said completely calm. "Alright then it's your choice." she said as she charged at me. I just shook my head and thought about her floating in the air. A black purple aura surrounded her body and she floated right into the air. I levitated her close to me. "Your first mistake was threatening me. Your second mistake was being mean after I had done nothing to Scootaloo, even after I obeyed your first request. Your third mistake was that if you want to fight, find someone else, because I don't hit girls, no matter what species." The whole time I was talking she didn't even bother to try struggling out of my grip. It was as if she was buying time for something… Just as I thought this, a lasso went above my head and wrapped around me. This distracted me long enough for my concentration to falter and release the rainbow haired Pegasus. That's when I turned to face my new attacker to see a giant red pony with an orange mane and a littler orange pony with a blond mane both holding a rope. "Ya'll better give up, yer outnumbered" said the orange one. I had had enough of this time to show a better example of my strength to get them to back off. I decided a psychic shock wave would be best to do this. "Scootaloo I want you to get away from here now. I don't want you to get even a little bit hurt, understand?" I said completely serious. Scootaloo just nodded her head and ran off into a nearby building. Since I didn't want anyone hurt I made the shock wave only strong enough to knock them on their butts. Before I could use it, I heard a giant boom and looked back to see a rainbow fly right towards me. Too bad for her I put my force field up just in time for her to hit the field instead of me. The field also severed the rope from its holder so I sliced the rope using a fine psychic line. I looked to the orange pony. Just as I released the force field, a mixture of purple and light blue energy slammed into my chest, completely singeing my shirt. I gripped my chest as I pulled the remainder of my shirt off and saw my skin was a bit burnt. I looked to where the beam was fired to see two unicorns. I finally lost my composure after seeing something I only dreamed about. Unicorns are my second favorite mythological creature, right behind dragons. "WAIT! Before this goes any farther, please just hear me out. The absolute last thing I want to do is hurt my second favorite creature, even if it is by accident or self- defense" I said. They all settled a little to hear me out. "O.K. now why are you two attacking me I said pointing to the two unicorns. The purple one spoke "We were scared you would hurt our friends…" looking a little apologetic as she said it I read her mind and found she didn't want to fight and had decided to use a knockout spell together with Rarity, which I assumed was the other unicorn, to study me after I woke up. I also saw that she was very surprised to see me still standing. "I assume that's all of your excuses right" I said as they all nodded. This made me slightly ticked because the rainbow one started all of this so I decided she was at fault here. "So what's your actual excuse" I said, pointing to the rainbow one. "What? Why ask that if I answered with everyone else already" she said. "Well the reason explains why those four where doing. It fits them, but it doesn't work for you because I wasn't attacking anyone, nor did I show any signs of attacking Scootaloo." I said staring at her with all my anger. "Well I was just… um well I just.." she blushed intensely and flew of so fast she broke the sound barrier again. "I guess I won't get any answers today…" I started walking to the house Scootaloo went into before this happened. I was halted by a purple aura surrounding me and looked over to see the purple unicorn's horn glowing. "Now what do you want. I have to fulfill my promise to Scootaloo, and if you keep me from doing that you'll see why you don't piss off a human" I said very annoyed. The aura stayed around me and seemed to intensify she also seemed to be straining to do something. "Alright I give up. What do you want from me?" I asked. No answer, just an increase in magic intenseness and her horn glowing even brighter. "O.K. Miss Rarity, can you enlighten me on what she is trying to do?" the white unicorn jumped at the sound of her name, but quickly composed herself. "I believe she is trying to levitate you, but I haven't seen her expel this much magic since she lifted the ursa minor" she said. "I have seen an ursa major, even talked to it, but I don't know how big an ursa minor is." Everpony there had their mouths dropped. "What, it's not that impressive is it?" I asked trying to do an innocent smile the best I could. The purple unicorn spoke "That's a feat only Star Swirl The Bearded has accomplished." "OK. One, can you give me your name for next time we meet? And two, I'm going to play with Scootaloo now, so good luck with settling everything" I said with a wave. With that I knocked on the door as soon as I saw Scootaloo. I grabbed her and ran the other way. I stopped when I reached some hundred apple trees. "Scoots where are we" I asked. "Sweet Apple Acres home of Applejack, Applebloom, Big Macintosh, and Granny Smith" she said proudly. "OK just point me to the direction of your clubhouse and you can introduce me to your friends" I said. As she pointed the way. I couldn't help but think why the rainbow one ran, and did she blush? I laughed at this. Like a pony could like a human! That would be an absolute riot! Author's Note Sorry if this chapter is a bit shorter, and frankly it probably needs a bit of slowing down I noticed. Chapter Three Extreme Shift in ThemeAs I walked up to the clubhouse I noticed one thing the house was way too small for me Scootaloo saw this as well and told me to wait outside while she got her friends. I stood there for a while and felt like I was being watched I looked around there was a single cloud in the sky which I found odd as Star Blaze said that clouds around the pony towns were moved by Pegasi then I noticed a rainbow color on the cloud. "Get down here." I yelled up at the cloud. The rainbow colored hair disappeared so I levitated the cloud down to me to see the same rainbow pegasi that ran off laying on the cloud eyes shut very tightly. I pinched the bridge of my nose. "Why do you stalk me miss rainbow?" I asked in an annoyed tone. She jumped a little to see me staring at her with my hazel into her magenta eyes. "Well are you going to answer me or not" I asked getting more annoyed with every second she just stared at me. She finally said "I don't know why I am doing this but I feel extremely compelled to follow you to see you and I don't know why did you do something are you the reason I feel like this It's starting to scare me" she said with tears starting to well up in her magenta eyes. I felt legitimately bad for her and had no idea what was causing her to behave like this but I had a good idea "Alright I don't know why you feel this way but I can help you figure out why." She brightened up at this "really how" She asked. "It's simple first you need to sleep and if you can't I could knock you out using a technique that's only twenty percent more painful" I said with an evil grin. She instantly lay down on the cloud and closed her eyes to sleep and was out in a matter of minutes this makes me think she sleeps in the day a lot. I got in my meditative stance and focused on her mind and saw her dream the dream was of her wearing some sort of blue jumpsuit along with a bunch of other ponies wearing the same jumpsuit I decided to interrupt her dream in order to resolve her problem I needed her I walked up to her she noticed me "Who are you and how are you in here" she said. "That will come through in a second the thing you need to know is that you are currently dreaming" I said with a small smile. "Oh I already knew that I always have lucid dreams I'm just that awesome you never told me your name you already seem to know my name as Rainbow Dash." she said looking around at the dream. "I see well my name is Rick, Miss Dash and I'm using psychic powers to enter your dream know let's enter your subconscious." I finished with a small smile. As a rainbow colored door appeared where I was pointing it gave off a very inviting feeling, she would only look at me unsure. I smiled and said "It's alright remember this is your mind your rules." As we walked through the door into a giant room filled with other doors. I pointed towards a pink door. "That is your love door it reveals who you are truly in love with." I said with a simple tone. As I walked towards it the door, and was relieved it wasn't reacting I had been into my own subconscious before, and found that it reacts to whoever you liked. I went to open the door when Rainbow stopped me "I already know why I feel the way I do RIck." She said looking at me with either doubt or joy. I looked at her and instead of laughing at the notion like I had earlier I felt insanely bad for her. "Rainbow before you ask how I feel let me show you my door" I said with saddness. Another door appeared behind us this door was black and gave off a cold feeling and a fog surrounded the bottom of it that screamed stay away. She stood behind me looking scared as can be as I walked up to the door and opened it. It gave off a terrible screech as if it hadn't been opened in hundreds of years I walked in and she followed. "Stay very close lest you become the targets of the guards." I said looking serious. Where she had wooden doors in a single big open room my mind had been arranged into a large amount of corridors that created a maze with doors made of rusty iron giving off the look of an abandoned prison she looked at me and shivered this place scared the crap out of her. "If you think the place is scary wait till you see the guards" I said knowing that very few things topped what I used as a basic design. We walked through the corridors till we ran into a guard The guard stood at 8 foot tall wore black spiked armor that looked like no matter where you hit him your hand was going to get cut to ribbons with a hood that showed nothing of a face I stopped him and asked which way to the heart door he said nothing and pointed towards a corridor I thanked him and started to walk he saw Rainbow and went to raise a sword above his head she just stood there terrified of him. "I say she lives." I said the guard sheathed the sword bowed to me and continued down the corridor he was walking through I looked at Rainbow she finally snapped out of her daze. "What was that." she asked. "One of my mind knights they stalk the corridors of my mind as a defense against those who would try to steal my thoughts. I made them the night I got my psychic powers." I said with a small yawn. I walked down the corridor and she walked beside me a bit closer than before probably out of fear. We finally got to the heart door and found two sixteen feet tall mind knights standing on either side of the door the armor was white a sharp contrast to the rest of the area the door was chained up with twelve chains and a single huge lock connecting all the chains. "This is why I said don't ask how I feel before showing you this to save your feeling from being hurt I will tell you why my door looks like this when I first entered my subconscious I was paranoid and never wanted to be used so I made my mind a maze to make intruders lost the knights to kill anyone walking around but the thing I never wanted is to put my loved ones in danger so I sealed off my heart and made the mega mind knights to keep it forever sealed unless I decide other wise and so far your friends and your realm haven't exactly earned my idea of safe for this maybe I will unlock this door later if I find this place is as nice as it seems." i said as serious as can be. Rainbow just looked a bit surprised by the events that had just transpired. "I apologize for revealing so much to you but simply saying no without reason would have been rude and I am a gentleman to ladies" I said with a smile. Rainbow face hoofed and said "your seriousness has a time limit doesn't it"? "Why yes yes it does" I said still smiling "and it just ran out" I said smiling even longer "let's just say it runs out randomly anyways let's get out of here" I said as another door opened allowing us leave. I opened my eyes to look into the purple eyes of Scootaloo while she was shaking me and yelling for me to wake up. Man now I feel even worse for making her worry about me. "Scoots calm down I'm alright." I said trying to calm her down. She had tears streaming down her eyes. "I thought I had lost you I wouldn't be able to handle another loss of someone I call friend." she said crying. She cried into my shoulder that's when I remembered I didn't have a shirt it was one of four things I realized then, one Scootaloo needs someone to call parent, two I need a job, and three that door needs to be unlocked now. It was easy to do the last one but the second one is that everyone here but Scoots and Rainbow avoids me the first one would be incredibly hard and dangerous if Scoots parents were dead that is, but I had a plan. "Scoots how long ago did you lose your parents" I asked. "I lost them three years ago to an avalanche my grandmare was watching me at the time a year later she died and I was all alone." she said tearing up. "Scoots I have one question would you want them back." I asked. She stared at me for a while I started to notice Rainbow awaken "Scoots we'll finish this later ok." I said. "O-oh um ok..." she said drying the tears from her eyes. I'll go talk to Star Blaze he's been around for about 500 years if I heard him correctly, I will correct the wrongs done to you Scootaloo I thought to myself as seriousness took over my demeanor. "Scoots I've got to go meet a friend in the Everfree Forest about getting something to make up for my neglectfulness I know it's ungentlemanly to leave a woman in distress but if you want the surprise soon then I have to leave now." I said. "Ok I hope to see you soon Boldolf" she said. As she hugged around my neck I was stunned, but I returned the hug with my own. I will make this right Scoots I promise... I thought to myself. As I left I asked Rainbow to watch over Scoots as a favor to me and that I owed her. As I walked through the forest I managed to find Star Blaze's cave as I walked through I heard what sounded like two giants fighting I poked my head around the corner to see a green ursa major fighting Star Blaze and to my distress winning I wasn't about to let a friend die as I focused my thoughts into a blast of psychic energy. I blasted it a few times to give Star Blaze enough time to give it a quick death, before falling over himself. I walked over to my injured friend to find he was out cold, but still alive I used a new psychic power I hoped would work it showed me exactly what was wrong with him I decided that I couldn't help him alone I sent a mental message to Rainbow. "Hello Rainbow it's Boldolf do you know anyone good at helping animals" I asked her. "Yeah my friend Fluttershy is the best at helping animals" she stated. "Rainbow I'm sending you a descriptive mental image on how to get here I need you to get Fluttershy and bring her here" I said. "I got it" She said. Wow she agreed without even the slightest bit of argument. I stayed by Star Blaze's side till Flutterhy and Rainbow got here. Fluttershy was startled to see me, but quickly settled down when she saw Star Blaze and got to work wrapping up the wounds while I used my own powers to slow the blood flow. After it was over Flutteshy apologized for running away when we first met, and asked what happened to the green one I told her I helped kill it. As soon as I said that she got really sad and then REALLY angry and stared directly at me and started trying to demoralize me for my actions the stare was making me uncomfortable to say the least. "I took no pride in what I did but that green beast was going to kill my friend and I defended him with all my might." I said looking away refusing to make eye contact. Star Blaze started to awaken and I thanked Fluttershy for her help as she left Rainbow left much sooner as the sight of the dead Ursa was a bit much for her. As soon as Star Blaze awoke he got into a defensive position then he saw me. "I thought I told you to shout if you needed me". I said to him. "Sorry I thought I could take him". He said. "Star Blaze I know you're injured and all but I need you to answer a question" I said. "What's that" He asked. "Is there a God of the Dead". I asked with my eyes burning for the answers I wanted.
Chapter One Rick the Demon and the trickAs I lay there bored out of my wits my younger brother sleeps, and I'm thankful as can be for the fact that he's asleep. Don't get me wrong, I love my bro with all my heart, but we are polar opposites when it comes to personalities. He has a very hyper personality while I'm laid back and try to keep calm, even when freaking out. I have lost my cool while talking to leaders though. Sorry, how rude of me to not introduce myself. I am Rick Sanner a seventeen year old male that lives in Griffin Indiana. My interests are swords, meditation, and gaming. No I'm not a Buddhist monk, but I do like meditating to keep calm. Only a couple of things make me pissed and those are people invading my personal thoughts, a man striking a woman, and a one sided fight. "Man why is my life so boring" I said to no one in particular Now don't think badly of me when I say I wouldn't mind dumping this life for a new one. Now I know what you're thinking, "How bad is this guy's life that he wants a new one?" That's just it; I don't have a bad life. No bullies, no bad parents, and no horrible disease. It's just so dull that I want a change from boring and normal to exciting and adventurous. I've always wanted to travel somewhere no man has gone before, like mars or even another dimension, but that probably won't happen any time soon. I might as well meditate till it's time to sleep. Time frame one hour later As I get up to stand I look directly into the eyes of a creature not of the human or animal variety. I think two things. One, what demon is in my presence and two, my closest blade is under my bed five feet from where I am. I jump for the blade but I never hit the ground, instead I'm floating two feet above the ground with a black aura surrounding me. I look to the demon. "OK I'll bite what you want?" I said. Keeping calm after all meditating for an hour will make you very mellow. The Demon smiled a toothy smile "Surprising a human not too terrified to scream and take action. Well since you asked I'll tell you. I'm here to send you to a new dimension while I take your position on the human plain." "Interesting idea. I was just thinking about leaving this dimension" I said. "So what's the problem?" said The Demon "Well I have friends here that I happen to like." I said. "I can make it so that your friends remember nothing of you and neither will your loved ones. Unless you're like the 4th most important person in their life that is" said The Demon. "Well that won't do at all. Won't people think my families crazy for looking for someone that doesn't exist?" I retorted back. "Ah a man who takes the big picture and doesn't sweat little things, I like that." said The Demon sounding pleased with his pick. "Wow I'm getting compliments from a demon, I didn't think I was that special" I said in a sarcastic tone. Not SPECIAL YOU'RE ONE OF THE MOST IMPOR… um let's just say everyone is important in their own way." said The Demon with a bead of sweat going down his head. "Okay I'll ignore that last part. Do you plan on world domination? And please don't lie; I'm not going to tell you not to. Just to help my loved ones out when you do okay." I said looking serious. "You have my word that when I rule this world that your loved ones will have special connections." said The Demon taking on what feels like an unnatural tone of seriousness. "Great, now if I'm going to a new realm can you give me some things that are in the line of super powers?" I asked sounding hopeful. The Demon just smiled even brighter, "OK, if it's in my power I'll give you what you want." he said still smiling. "So what do you want?" said The Demon. "Wow you're really going to give me powers and stuff!?" "Why not." said The Demon. "O.K. Can you give me psychic powers?" I said with enthusiasm flowing off me. "Sure." said The Demon with that same smile it had the whole time we talked "Is that all?". "Sure what else do I need?" I said rather smug sounding. "Well, since I'm doing this for you I get to decide where you go alright." stated The Demon mocking my smugness with his own this in turn gave me a bit of concern. "Alright, can I say one thing about the dimension I go to?" I asked letting nervousness take over. "Alright what is it?" The demon asked with a slightly raised brow. "Thanks now let's see what would be good… I've got it! The locals for the most part are nice, but there are dangers there, just not the locals I should worry about." I said happy as a clam. The Demon smile seemed to double as he stated. "I've just the place in mind!" "Alright I'm ready." I said thinking I had covered most bases. "Good because I was getting to the point where I was going to send you without the powers. Oh you might want to take your IPod. You may want some music while you're there. I'll even make the battery use your psychic energy to make the battery last forever." he said with a small smile. "Wow, thanks dude. Hey, why don't you give me a phone to talk to you from other dimensions? You don't seem all that bad." I stated. "Alright. When you step through the portal you'll have all the items and powers that you asked for." said The Demon. "O.K. You got a name, because I feel bad not knowing the name of the being that's being so generous to me. Now give me a bro fist before I leave." I asked as I went to leave through the portal. The Demon smiled and said "It's Asmos." as he reached his fist over to me. I connected my fist with his and said, "Cool! Talk to you later, and play nice when you take over the world." "Ha! I knew I liked you when I saw you for a reason." said Asmos. As I jumped in the portal I felt my molecules being moved from one area to another then I blacked out. I woke up in a field and noticed two things. One, it was very colorful, and two, it was night. I decided to try feel in my pockets and found a phone and my IPod. I turned the phone on and noticed the signal was maxed out and the service had unlimited talk, text, and web. I looked at the brand of the phone and it said on the back, 'Asmos Wireless'. "Wow someone is full of himself" I looked around and decided that I would try picking up a tree to see if he had fooled me. I easily pulled it straight out of the ground and laid it down on it's side. I had no idea what the locals would act like if they heard a tree being slammed on the ground. I decided to try levitation next. I tried to think of floating the tree around and it picked up. I thought of it going higher and it went higher. After placing the tree back on the ground I decided to pull a move right out of the Phychonauts hand book. I made a shield of psychic energy and I noticed the shield was black with purple swirls. "Not bad." I said out loud. I quickly quieted myself as I heard someone getting close. I pulled another play from the Phychonauts book and tried invisibility. To my surprised it worked. I couldn't see who it was but I heard them. "I could have sworn that I heard somepony talking" said a very soft voice. I decided that I needed a place to stay. I figured getting a local on my side sooner was better than getting one on my side later, and did she say somepony? "Hello" I said hoping not to startle the being too much. There was a sudden "eep" that came from the spot the voice was at. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you, but I'm new here and I was wondering if you had a place I could stay the night…" I asked being hopeful. "Oh um… I guess I have a place to stay… I mean… if you want…" Did she just ask if I wanted to go with her right after I just asked? I thought to myself. "Alright. I'm going to step out of the shadows. One question, do you know what a human is?" "A hu-man? What's that?" she asked. Fuck Fuck FUCK! I screamed in my head this is so going to be hard to explain. "O.K I need you to promise me one thing miss…" "Fluttershy" she finished. "Miss Fluttershy, please don't freak out." I said. (This is bad very bad hopefully she doesn't freak) I decided to make fire on a tree limb that I had grabbed off the tree. Hopefully it would work. It did, but man did I wish it didn't. I looked in the direction of the voice and saw not a bipedal creature, but a pale yellow horse, or maybe pony considering the size. Either way she had a light pink mane and her bright sky blue eyes were staring at me, filled with fear. She did the exact opposite of what I asked and flew away. Yes, I said flew. She must have been a Pegasus. Well that went swimmingly. I should probably go into the forest and hide. For all I know I could have just scared the leader of this realm or someone else important. I thought to myself once more. I quickly went deep in the woods and found a light. I walked towards the light and saw a house. It seemed to be made of the roots of a tree and the tree itself. I walked to the door, which was only to my chest in height, and I cautiously knocked on the door. I heard a voice say. "Who is at my door at this hour? Do they not know I'm not a night owl." The door opened revealing a zebra. She was very surprised to see me and frankly I was just as surprised first ponies now zebras. "Before you slam the door in my face, please hear my story! I won't hurt you, but I will break your cane if you hit me with it." I said after just reading her mind. The zebra just smiled and placed her cane next to the door. "Creature of massive size, you may come inside and share your prize." she said moving out of the way. "Before I enter may I ask your name?" "I am Zecora, a zebra as you can see. Tell me your name with glee." she said in that same rhyming way. "Well I'm Rick Sanner, but most just say Rick." I said smiling a bit awkwardly. "Then come in to my abode mister Rick." she said. As I followed the Zebra named Zecora into her home, I reflected on what just happened to me in the past twenty-four hours. First I meet a demon, then get sent to a realm of talking ponies and zebra, and am now going to stay the night with a zebra. Well, if I don't do something stupid to get kicked out that is. Author's Note I will ask anyone who wishes to review this and comment on whether they want more or if this should fade away I leave it up to the internet.
Chapter Two Bears, Pegasi, and Unicorns oh my.I woke up with a splitting head ache. That zebra didn't help with my sleep at all with that incessant rhyming and questioning, combined with sleeping on the ground. That was my choice though. She did offer to let me sleep in her bed with her, but that brought up all kinds of morale blocks. Let's just say I wasn't in the best of moods when I woke up. Luckily I woke up before Zecora, so I snuck out of her house. Not before leaving a note thanking her for her generosity though. I was annoyed, but not without manners. I walked through the forest and decided it was time to call a certain demon. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the phone. I looked at the contacts. Only one, big surprise… I clicked on the contact and heard it ring. Asmos answered with a simple "Hey". "Asmos how's it going? Got one question, did you send me here on purpose?" I asked. "Well yeah, you said a dimension that is mostly nice and I did exactly what you asked. Also I needed a big laugh." he responded. "ASMOS you asshole you sent me to a world where the population is talking horses!" "First off cool it. There are quite a few different creatures just like your home dimension, only without humans and more than a few mythical creatures. Second, they're ponies. Third, I warn you to not, under any circumstances, mention you got there via help from a demon or anyone. Just say you woke up there." he said sounding uncharacteristically serious. "Wait; why not mention I got here via demon powers?" "Because you mortal, you'll be cast out of the country faster than you can say oops." he said sounding impatient. "Ah, thanks for the advice. By the way, what's the limit to my psychic powers?" "Oh that's easy, any thought and practice is your limit." he said. "Cool, thanks any ways. Even if you sent me to a place filled with talking ponies… I'm going to get off, I found a cave that I'm going to explore, bye." I said. As I hung up the phone I walked into the cave. (since Asmos said the limit is my thoughts let's focus on a light for me to see). A purple light started to shine in front of my face. "Sweeeet" I said looking further in the cave. I walked for quite some time till I reached a very large open area and noticed something that looked like the night sky staring me in the face. I looked around the sky, it was bright red with stars all over it. It looked beautiful till I looked into a mouth that could fit a whole school bus inside. "I'm so glad my bowels were empty before I came in here…" laughing a little at my joke. The star bear thing didn't get the joke unfortunately as it roared in my face. I thought of how to calm it down and realized I'm psychic! I can talk to it with thought! "Hey bear dude, can you hear me?" I thought. The bear looked around as if it thought it heard something. "Who speaks to me?" it asked. "I do mighty one, the being standing in front of you. I am using my abilities to talk to you." I said hoping that the creature wouldn't mind. It looked down at me and asked, "One that is so small, why do you enter my home?". "Well, as you can see I didn't mean to encroach upon your home. I was just looking around and happened upon this cave. If you wish for me to leave then I will, but may I ask your name before I leave?" I said. "My name is Star Blaze, and if you wish to stay for a while then you may" he said. "Thank you Star Blaze. May I ask a few questions before I leave?" I asked hopefully. "You may, as long as you tell me your name and answer a few questions of my own as well." "The name's Rick, and ask anything you want and I'll answer it the best I can." The questions he asked were pretty simple. What am I, where did I come from, and where did I gain all my power. My questions were pretty much the same. Who was he, some rules of here, and who the ruler was. The last question is what got me, he asked if we were friends. I replied "Of course dude, just give a shout if you need something." I decided it was time to leave. When I got out of the cave I found that it was only mid-day and decided I'd give the town another try. Luckily Star Blaze told me which way to go and I got out in about thirty minutes. I could have ran, but decided that I would enjoy the walk, which is why it took so long. As soon as I spotted the town, I noticed one thing. Ponies running into homes left and right. By the time I got to the town, the streets were abandoned and I felt people watching me from the windows. I was slightly ticked at their rudeness and walked further into town till I reached a big building in the center which I assumed was the town hall. I walked to the door and knocked. A hoof quickly popped out with a sign that said closed and hung it on the door. Now that's just straight up rude. I decided that I would wait them out by going to the nearby fountain and meditating till someone walked out of their home. I sat there for maybe ten minutes before I heard a voice. "what are you doing?" Asked the voice. I opened my eyes to see a filly with a purple mane and orange fur looking at me like I had three heads. "Well little one, I am doing an exercise that calms the mind and clears your head." "So what are you" she asked. "I say, didn't anyone tell you that it's rude to ask a question before introducing yourself first." She looked extremely sad. Shit I just fucked up terribly. "I'm sorry mister I'm Scootaloo, and I lost my parents before they taught me manners…" she said looking even sadder. "Oh I'm terribly sorry Scootaloo. I didn't mean to hurt you like that. I'm Rick, your newest friend that happens to be a human. Now you get a favor from me for being my first pony friend." I said smiling lightly as I thought and to relieve some guilt I know have. Scootaloo brightened up at this and yelled "YAY!" while jumping into air. "Alright since you owe me I'll use it to have you spend the whole day with me!" I smiled at how such a simple request could make her so happy "So Scootaloo, what shall we do first." I said while picking her up. "You can start by heading to my clubhouse and meeting my other…" "Hey you freak! Put her down or prepare to taste the wrath of the coolest pony in Ponyville!" I turned around to see a blue furred and rainbow maned Pegasus staring at me with the intent to kill. I put Scootaloo on the ground and stared at the Pegasus with indifference on my face. "Heh at least you have some brains now leave before I get physical" she said. This ticked me off. Her arrogance knows no bounds. Here I am, a creature she has never seen before, and she threatens me without even the slightest bit of kindness after I already obeyed her first command. I am not to be made a fool of by a rainbow tomboy. "No" I said completely calm. "Alright then it's your choice." she said as she charged at me. I just shook my head and thought about her floating in the air. A black purple aura surrounded her body and she floated right into the air. I levitated her close to me. "Your first mistake was threatening me. Your second mistake was being mean after I had done nothing to Scootaloo, even after I obeyed your first request. Your third mistake was that if you want to fight, find someone else, because I don't hit girls, no matter what species." The whole time I was talking she didn't even bother to try struggling out of my grip. It was as if she was buying time for something… Just as I thought this, a lasso went above my head and wrapped around me. This distracted me long enough for my concentration to falter and release the rainbow haired Pegasus. That's when I turned to face my new attacker to see a giant red pony with an orange mane and a littler orange pony with a blond mane both holding a rope. "Ya'll better give up, yer outnumbered" said the orange one. I had had enough of this time to show a better example of my strength to get them to back off. I decided a psychic shock wave would be best to do this. "Scootaloo I want you to get away from here now. I don't want you to get even a little bit hurt, understand?" I said completely serious. Scootaloo just nodded her head and ran off into a nearby building. Since I didn't want anyone hurt I made the shock wave only strong enough to knock them on their butts. Before I could use it, I heard a giant boom and looked back to see a rainbow fly right towards me. Too bad for her I put my force field up just in time for her to hit the field instead of me. The field also severed the rope from its holder so I sliced the rope using a fine psychic line. I looked to the orange pony. Just as I released the force field, a mixture of purple and light blue energy slammed into my chest, completely singeing my shirt. I gripped my chest as I pulled the remainder of my shirt off and saw my skin was a bit burnt. I looked to where the beam was fired to see two unicorns. I finally lost my composure after seeing something I only dreamed about. Unicorns are my second favorite mythological creature, right behind dragons. "WAIT! Before this goes any farther, please just hear me out. The absolute last thing I want to do is hurt my second favorite creature, even if it is by accident or self- defense" I said. They all settled a little to hear me out. "O.K. now why are you two attacking me I said pointing to the two unicorns. The purple one spoke "We were scared you would hurt our friends…" looking a little apologetic as she said it I read her mind and found she didn't want to fight and had decided to use a knockout spell together with Rarity, which I assumed was the other unicorn, to study me after I woke up. I also saw that she was very surprised to see me still standing. "I assume that's all of your excuses right" I said as they all nodded. This made me slightly ticked because the rainbow one started all of this so I decided she was at fault here. "So what's your actual excuse" I said, pointing to the rainbow one. "What? Why ask that if I answered with everyone else already" she said. "Well the reason explains why those four where doing. It fits them, but it doesn't work for you because I wasn't attacking anyone, nor did I show any signs of attacking Scootaloo." I said staring at her with all my anger. "Well I was just… um well I just.." she blushed intensely and flew of so fast she broke the sound barrier again. "I guess I won't get any answers today…" I started walking to the house Scootaloo went into before this happened. I was halted by a purple aura surrounding me and looked over to see the purple unicorn's horn glowing. "Now what do you want. I have to fulfill my promise to Scootaloo, and if you keep me from doing that you'll see why you don't piss off a human" I said very annoyed. The aura stayed around me and seemed to intensify she also seemed to be straining to do something. "Alright I give up. What do you want from me?" I asked. No answer, just an increase in magic intenseness and her horn glowing even brighter. "O.K. Miss Rarity, can you enlighten me on what she is trying to do?" the white unicorn jumped at the sound of her name, but quickly composed herself. "I believe she is trying to levitate you, but I haven't seen her expel this much magic since she lifted the ursa minor" she said. "I have seen an ursa major, even talked to it, but I don't know how big an ursa minor is." Everpony there had their mouths dropped. "What, it's not that impressive is it?" I asked trying to do an innocent smile the best I could. The purple unicorn spoke "That's a feat only Star Swirl The Bearded has accomplished." "OK. One, can you give me your name for next time we meet? And two, I'm going to play with Scootaloo now, so good luck with settling everything" I said with a wave. With that I knocked on the door as soon as I saw Scootaloo. I grabbed her and ran the other way. I stopped when I reached some hundred apple trees. "Scoots where are we" I asked. "Sweet Apple Acres home of Applejack, Applebloom, Big Macintosh, and Granny Smith" she said proudly. "OK just point me to the direction of your clubhouse and you can introduce me to your friends" I said. As she pointed the way. I couldn't help but think why the rainbow one ran, and did she blush? I laughed at this. Like a pony could like a human! That would be an absolute riot! Author's Note Sorry if this chapter is a bit shorter, and frankly it probably needs a bit of slowing down I noticed.
Chapter Three Extreme Shift in ThemeAs I walked up to the clubhouse I noticed one thing the house was way too small for me Scootaloo saw this as well and told me to wait outside while she got her friends. I stood there for a while and felt like I was being watched I looked around there was a single cloud in the sky which I found odd as Star Blaze said that clouds around the pony towns were moved by Pegasi then I noticed a rainbow color on the cloud. "Get down here." I yelled up at the cloud. The rainbow colored hair disappeared so I levitated the cloud down to me to see the same rainbow pegasi that ran off laying on the cloud eyes shut very tightly. I pinched the bridge of my nose. "Why do you stalk me miss rainbow?" I asked in an annoyed tone. She jumped a little to see me staring at her with my hazel into her magenta eyes. "Well are you going to answer me or not" I asked getting more annoyed with every second she just stared at me. She finally said "I don't know why I am doing this but I feel extremely compelled to follow you to see you and I don't know why did you do something are you the reason I feel like this It's starting to scare me" she said with tears starting to well up in her magenta eyes. I felt legitimately bad for her and had no idea what was causing her to behave like this but I had a good idea "Alright I don't know why you feel this way but I can help you figure out why." She brightened up at this "really how" She asked. "It's simple first you need to sleep and if you can't I could knock you out using a technique that's only twenty percent more painful" I said with an evil grin. She instantly lay down on the cloud and closed her eyes to sleep and was out in a matter of minutes this makes me think she sleeps in the day a lot. I got in my meditative stance and focused on her mind and saw her dream the dream was of her wearing some sort of blue jumpsuit along with a bunch of other ponies wearing the same jumpsuit I decided to interrupt her dream in order to resolve her problem I needed her I walked up to her she noticed me "Who are you and how are you in here" she said. "That will come through in a second the thing you need to know is that you are currently dreaming" I said with a small smile. "Oh I already knew that I always have lucid dreams I'm just that awesome you never told me your name you already seem to know my name as Rainbow Dash." she said looking around at the dream. "I see well my name is Rick, Miss Dash and I'm using psychic powers to enter your dream know let's enter your subconscious." I finished with a small smile. As a rainbow colored door appeared where I was pointing it gave off a very inviting feeling, she would only look at me unsure. I smiled and said "It's alright remember this is your mind your rules." As we walked through the door into a giant room filled with other doors. I pointed towards a pink door. "That is your love door it reveals who you are truly in love with." I said with a simple tone. As I walked towards it the door, and was relieved it wasn't reacting I had been into my own subconscious before, and found that it reacts to whoever you liked. I went to open the door when Rainbow stopped me "I already know why I feel the way I do RIck." She said looking at me with either doubt or joy. I looked at her and instead of laughing at the notion like I had earlier I felt insanely bad for her. "Rainbow before you ask how I feel let me show you my door" I said with saddness. Another door appeared behind us this door was black and gave off a cold feeling and a fog surrounded the bottom of it that screamed stay away. She stood behind me looking scared as can be as I walked up to the door and opened it. It gave off a terrible screech as if it hadn't been opened in hundreds of years I walked in and she followed. "Stay very close lest you become the targets of the guards." I said looking serious. Where she had wooden doors in a single big open room my mind had been arranged into a large amount of corridors that created a maze with doors made of rusty iron giving off the look of an abandoned prison she looked at me and shivered this place scared the crap out of her. "If you think the place is scary wait till you see the guards" I said knowing that very few things topped what I used as a basic design. We walked through the corridors till we ran into a guard The guard stood at 8 foot tall wore black spiked armor that looked like no matter where you hit him your hand was going to get cut to ribbons with a hood that showed nothing of a face I stopped him and asked which way to the heart door he said nothing and pointed towards a corridor I thanked him and started to walk he saw Rainbow and went to raise a sword above his head she just stood there terrified of him. "I say she lives." I said the guard sheathed the sword bowed to me and continued down the corridor he was walking through I looked at Rainbow she finally snapped out of her daze. "What was that." she asked. "One of my mind knights they stalk the corridors of my mind as a defense against those who would try to steal my thoughts. I made them the night I got my psychic powers." I said with a small yawn. I walked down the corridor and she walked beside me a bit closer than before probably out of fear. We finally got to the heart door and found two sixteen feet tall mind knights standing on either side of the door the armor was white a sharp contrast to the rest of the area the door was chained up with twelve chains and a single huge lock connecting all the chains. "This is why I said don't ask how I feel before showing you this to save your feeling from being hurt I will tell you why my door looks like this when I first entered my subconscious I was paranoid and never wanted to be used so I made my mind a maze to make intruders lost the knights to kill anyone walking around but the thing I never wanted is to put my loved ones in danger so I sealed off my heart and made the mega mind knights to keep it forever sealed unless I decide other wise and so far your friends and your realm haven't exactly earned my idea of safe for this maybe I will unlock this door later if I find this place is as nice as it seems." i said as serious as can be. Rainbow just looked a bit surprised by the events that had just transpired. "I apologize for revealing so much to you but simply saying no without reason would have been rude and I am a gentleman to ladies" I said with a smile. Rainbow face hoofed and said "your seriousness has a time limit doesn't it"? "Why yes yes it does" I said still smiling "and it just ran out" I said smiling even longer "let's just say it runs out randomly anyways let's get out of here" I said as another door opened allowing us leave. I opened my eyes to look into the purple eyes of Scootaloo while she was shaking me and yelling for me to wake up. Man now I feel even worse for making her worry about me. "Scoots calm down I'm alright." I said trying to calm her down. She had tears streaming down her eyes. "I thought I had lost you I wouldn't be able to handle another loss of someone I call friend." she said crying. She cried into my shoulder that's when I remembered I didn't have a shirt it was one of four things I realized then, one Scootaloo needs someone to call parent, two I need a job, and three that door needs to be unlocked now. It was easy to do the last one but the second one is that everyone here but Scoots and Rainbow avoids me the first one would be incredibly hard and dangerous if Scoots parents were dead that is, but I had a plan. "Scoots how long ago did you lose your parents" I asked. "I lost them three years ago to an avalanche my grandmare was watching me at the time a year later she died and I was all alone." she said tearing up. "Scoots I have one question would you want them back." I asked. She stared at me for a while I started to notice Rainbow awaken "Scoots we'll finish this later ok." I said. "O-oh um ok..." she said drying the tears from her eyes. I'll go talk to Star Blaze he's been around for about 500 years if I heard him correctly, I will correct the wrongs done to you Scootaloo I thought to myself as seriousness took over my demeanor. "Scoots I've got to go meet a friend in the Everfree Forest about getting something to make up for my neglectfulness I know it's ungentlemanly to leave a woman in distress but if you want the surprise soon then I have to leave now." I said. "Ok I hope to see you soon Boldolf" she said. As she hugged around my neck I was stunned, but I returned the hug with my own. I will make this right Scoots I promise... I thought to myself. As I left I asked Rainbow to watch over Scoots as a favor to me and that I owed her. As I walked through the forest I managed to find Star Blaze's cave as I walked through I heard what sounded like two giants fighting I poked my head around the corner to see a green ursa major fighting Star Blaze and to my distress winning I wasn't about to let a friend die as I focused my thoughts into a blast of psychic energy. I blasted it a few times to give Star Blaze enough time to give it a quick death, before falling over himself. I walked over to my injured friend to find he was out cold, but still alive I used a new psychic power I hoped would work it showed me exactly what was wrong with him I decided that I couldn't help him alone I sent a mental message to Rainbow. "Hello Rainbow it's Boldolf do you know anyone good at helping animals" I asked her. "Yeah my friend Fluttershy is the best at helping animals" she stated. "Rainbow I'm sending you a descriptive mental image on how to get here I need you to get Fluttershy and bring her here" I said. "I got it" She said. Wow she agreed without even the slightest bit of argument. I stayed by Star Blaze's side till Flutterhy and Rainbow got here. Fluttershy was startled to see me, but quickly settled down when she saw Star Blaze and got to work wrapping up the wounds while I used my own powers to slow the blood flow. After it was over Flutteshy apologized for running away when we first met, and asked what happened to the green one I told her I helped kill it. As soon as I said that she got really sad and then REALLY angry and stared directly at me and started trying to demoralize me for my actions the stare was making me uncomfortable to say the least. "I took no pride in what I did but that green beast was going to kill my friend and I defended him with all my might." I said looking away refusing to make eye contact. Star Blaze started to awaken and I thanked Fluttershy for her help as she left Rainbow left much sooner as the sight of the dead Ursa was a bit much for her. As soon as Star Blaze awoke he got into a defensive position then he saw me. "I thought I told you to shout if you needed me". I said to him. "Sorry I thought I could take him". He said. "Star Blaze I know you're injured and all but I need you to answer a question" I said. "What's that" He asked. "Is there a God of the Dead". I asked with my eyes burning for the answers I wanted.
