A different reason

by ODST

A little help

Previous Chapter

"Thanks god I'm wearing cloths" I said with a relieved sigh but then I paused "I just hope other ponies do as well...."


After a quick prayer to the god of cloths, I decided that it was time to be a little more concerned about what I'm going to do now that I'm lost in the middle of an unknown city, without money, somewhere in Equestria. Well, the money problem is not something that I can resolve at the moment unless I can make gold appear by snaping my fingers.
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Wait, don't tell me... I close my eyes, take a deep breath, concentrate aaaaaand... *snap*... absolutly nothing happens.

"it was worth a shot" I sighed.

So, no magic gold, but at least identifying the city that I'm in should be easy, even if I don't recognize it I can just ask someo...pony? Do they call themselves ponies? Well, it's not something I can find out on my own so I better get going, I have a lot of things to do and not a lot of times before nightfall... I think?

*sigh*

Ok, I have to stop asking questions and start collecting informations to answer them. I looked up and saw that the sun was at it's zenith, so yeah, not a lot of time left. Just has I was leaving the park I felt something at the back of my mind, it didn't speak but somehow I knew what it meant : "look behind you". Now, I played my fair share of horror games and I know that when you here these words, you do NOT want to turn around, but this 'presence' wasn't menacing, it felt more... frustrated.

Not wanting to annoy something that can invade my mind, I turned around. At first I didn't see what 'it' wanted me to find but after a few seconds I noticed a brown leather notebook on the grass right next to where I *cough, cough*'made my appearance'. While walking up to it, I felt the thing in my head turn from frustrated to relieved and then completely disappear from my mind. I wondered why the presence was so happy that I noticed the book but quickly turned my attention back to the book, if it's all it took for 'it' to go away I wasn't about to complain. The book had a blank front, looked new and had an A6 format. As I picked it up I was slightly surprise that it felt like real leather around the book and not some pony-friendly leather imitation since I would assume that it wouldn't go well with them to use the skin of an animal to enfold their books. Intrigued, I opened the notebook to the first page :

"guide #645 : How To Mess With Celly McSunbutt And Get Away With It."

I...I have so many questions.

Fortunately, before I reached the point of no return and delve in the maze of questions that my mind became, I noticed a hastily written note at the bottom of the page that said :

"explanations are on the next page ->"

Well, that's convenient. Before turning the page I threw a look around and went to sit at a curiously placed bench that was away from the main path of the park and mostly hidden by trees and bushes. It was perfect for me since I figured that I didn't want anypony to see me reading a book that talked about messing with, who I would assume is supposed to be Celestia.

After a successful retreat to the Bench of Secrets (TM), I turned the page and began reading :

Dear confused human turned unicorn,

Wait, I'm a unicorn? I lifted my hand to my head and sure enough I felt a horn sitting there. Did I have a horn before?I can't seem to remember...Well, doesn't really matter as long as I don't become an alicorn.

I must begin by congratulating you since from all the wishes your comrades did, yours is the second best. Don't be disappointed about not being first, you just CAN'T beat chocolate candy cloud, it's just not humoristicly possible, the only th...wait, is humoristicly even a word? Well if it isn't, it should be. You know what I think? I think we should not be afraid of saying things even if they make no sense. there was that one time where............

What follows appeared to be a rent about semantics and it's place in society followed by many other subjects written in a barely legible handwriting that continues on three pages. Finally, on the forth page, the handwriting improves to it's original level :

...not unlike the red shark. Anyway that's how I lost my medical licence. What were we talking about again? Ah yes, I really liked your wish and the thoughts that you put into it. I, myself, think that Equestria could use a little Chaos, and since in this dimension I'm still stoned for a little while, I figured that helping you a bit wouldn't hurt. That's why I included in this notebook almost all of the theory on dark magic that I could find. AND, before you scream "SOMBRA!" at my face, none of the dark magic found in this book will consume you or your mind. I wouldn't want my new partner in Chaos to lose his mind, now would I?... Would I? maybe I would actually... I have to think about it, I'll get back to you on that. Anyway, I guess that's it, don't forget to have fun!

PS : there is a spell to duplicate bits if you're interested.

love, DISCORD.

Well that's...

that's...

that's fucking awesome! I mean, I'm sponsored by the god of Chaos himself!

Amidst all my excitement, I felt a little confusion to the fact that this notebook is supposed to contain ALL the theory of dark magic while being so little, but after flipping through the notebook I discovered that it contained a lot more pages than what's visible at first glance. When I first looked at it I thought it had, I don't know, 200 pages...300 tops, but it had at least a thousand pages! First I'll need to separate the useful from the useless, and then prioritize spells by difficulty and importance, all of this while learning light magic, geography, history, politics, laws and pretty much anything about this society... Wow, I'm gonna have a few busy years before I can do anything of importance in this world.

This realization was reinforced by the fact that I was still in the very place that I arrived at. Recognizing the idiocy of sitting there when I didn't even have a shelter for the night yet, I put the notebook on dark magic (that I now refer to as the 'Guide' in honor of Discord's joke) inside the black hoodie that the wish generously gave me on arrival, I stood up and finally left this park.


Author's Note

"use the skin of an animal to enfold their books."
Does 'enfold' works in this situation? I honestly have no idea.

Tell me what you think in the comments :pinkiehappy: