A ghost in Equestria

“Goddamn my head hurts.” I mumbled. Now that I think about, he doesn’t exist, I mean, I would have seen him wouldn’t I, when I died. But, this is a story about technicolour ponies and not a religious debate. My eyes fluttered open and I was staring at white again. “Did I die again?” I asked aloud “No, deaths too good for you.” I heard a voice to my side. My head hurt as I tried to turn it. “Spike?” The purple and green dragon was sitting on a small stool, looking at me smugly. “Not sure if I should happy or sad about it.” I chuckled. “So what happened?” I asked, resting my head on my pillow. “Well,” Spike began “After Twilight did the, whatever it was, you kind of lost consciousness.” I looked at Spike “No shit Shelock.” “Who’s Sherlock?” I blanked “Uhh, Sherclop?” Spikes eyes widened in realisation “Oh him, Hey!” I laughed at his ignorance. “So after I got knocked out.” I continued “After you got knocked out, Twi levitated you to the hospital, where Nurse Redheart checked you up, or tried to, seeing as she had no idea what the Tartaus you were.”  I nodded, taking all this information in, then it hit me, “How am I not fading through this?” I asked pointing to the bed I was currently lying on. “Uhh, well, you’re not exactly, dead anymore.” I widened my eyes at him “I’m alive?” I felt like jumping for joy “Oh Faust no, you’re, kind of in between.” I blanked at him. “So, I’m not dead, but I’m not alive.” I questioned “Pretty much.” Spike rebutted “Then What the fuck am I!” I shouted throwing my hands up in the air, and through the straps that restrained me, wait, what “Why the hell was I restrained?” I asked. Spike coughed, causing me to look in his direction, and see he was pointing a finger in the opposite.

I turned to see six ponies I knew all too well, and for some reason, Derpy Hooves. The Mane Six were all sitting on their hinds and staring at me, I couldn’t tell if Derpy was staring at me or not. “Can I help you?” I asked rhetorically. The six of them froze up, and I suddenly felt like being very cheesy. “What’s the matter, you look like you’ve seen a ghost.” I said smirking. I heard Spike groan and Derpy giggle. “Dang,” Rainbow began “you are really ugly.” My cheeks flushed red with anger “At least I don’t get knocked unconscious in the air and end up landing in a tree.” It was Rainbows turn to turn red. “How did you kno-” “That weird part of the air,” I began, seeing Rainbow look towards me in, some form of excitement. “that was me.” Rainbow growled at me, like literally growled, and then lunged, I held up my hands to protect myself, then remembered, “Oh,, yeah, dead.” as she passed through me and face plant on the floor. I laughed so much I almost fell off my bed, but instead ended up facing the ponies upside down. I came face to face with Pinkie Pie, and thankfully, her mane was poofy again “Hi.” Was my instinct to say, and much to my, not sure if it was to my excitement or dismay that she started talking rapidly. “HimynamesPinkiePieandIdon’tknowyoubutyoubetupGildaaftershehurtFluttershysothatmakesyouokinmybooks,doyoulikeparties,canghostshaveparties,maybeIcanmakeadeadpartyandseeifanyotherghostscome.” She continued on like this, and much to my dismay, I tried to clamp her mouth shut, only to find my hand pass through her snout. I tried this several times, before eventually giving up. I was tempted to just yell at her, but that wasn’t me, and I don’t think the others would take to kindly to it, so I simply phased  myself downwards through the floor, the others watching me like I was going underwater.

Now, something I didn’t realise, is that I was on the ground floor, and I had just kind of, phased into the ground. Instead of pitch black, or brown I suppose, I saw miles and miles of, nothing. I suppose the best way I could describe would be like glitching so you’re under the world in a video game, and you can see everyone from where you are, and it’s like they’re walking on nothing. As soon as I phased completely under everyone began to panic, I could here Twilight say “Where did he go!” and then I decided to have a little fun. I phased just under her, faced up to her and pushed my face out enough just so I could say “psst” and then suck back in. She looked down and then I made my move. I pulled a goofy but scary face and popped my head up to say “Boogaboogabooga.” Twilight screamed and ran out the door, causing me to laugh. I noticed something, the happier I am the easier it is to fly. So because I started laughing I started floating involuntarily off the ground. I stopped laughing, and therefore stopped floating, so I was kind of just suspended diagonally. I looked at the remaining three, Pinkie was talking to nothing, Rainbow was on the ground and you just saw Twilight. I lowered myself down to stand on the ground. I looked at the three remaining ponies, one was cowering, one was looking repulsed, and the other was staring me down.

I started with the one I had the most sympathy for. I reached out a hand towards Fluttershy beginning “Fluttershy, are you o-” “Get away from her you brute.” A white hoof attempted to swipe my hand away, only to have it receive a severe case of pins and needles. I stared at Rarity, if I’m really honest with myself, she had always been my least favourite pony, mostly because she was meant to be the Element of Generosity, but was extremely greedy, and I considered her to be quite egotistic. “Do you mind?” Was all I said, and I hoped it would be enough, unfortunately, it wasn’t “Yes I very much do, why are you trying to touch her?” she enquired. “Let’s see now shall we.” I said standing up in front of her. “She’s cowering in a corner, most likely because of me, I want to make her better and I want to see how her scar is.” I glared at Rarity, asking for a rebuttal. “Well I, uh, I, I.” she was clearly stalling.  “I have dresses to make.” were her final words before storming out and slamming the door in the process. I flinched at the sound. I turned back to Fluttershy, but before reaching out for her again, I glanced at Applejack, and raised an eyebrow. She realised she was being asked if she had anything to say, and cleared her throat. “Alright, Ah have no qualms with you stranger, so Ah’m just gonna leave you be, but, let it be known, if Ah find out you’ve hurt her,” she pointed a hoof at Fluttershy “or any of mah friends, I will find away to buck your ectoplasmic butt straight in the jewels.” I gulped and crossed my legs “Understood.” I stammered. “Good.” She finished and made for the door, but not before grabbing a still yammering Pinkie Pie by the tail and pulling her out the door “canghostseveneatcupcakes,maybeIshouldbakeaspecialspookybatchofcupcakesjustforyou,butwhatifyoucan’teatthem,ohwhatwoulditbeliketonotbeabletoeatcupcakesohIjustcouldn’tima-” The door closed and the sound was cut off.

I sighed and thanked God, or should I be thanking Celestia, I mean, she is kind of God, of here anyway, but earlier on Spike said something about Faust, I turned to see Spike had actually left, and most likely taken Rainbow with him, considering the cyan pony was no longer on the floor. I turned back to the quivering yellow pegasus. “Fluttershy.” I asked quietly, stretching out my arm “P-please,” I pulled my arm back “I’m, not ready to talk right now.” I was disappointed, but at the same time, somewhat relieved, she wasn’t angry with me, can she even be angry at me, I mean, she doesn’t really get angry. I shook the thoughts out of my head “That’s ok.” I began “You can tell me when you’re ready.” I backed away from her and sat down on the hospital bed. I had a lot of things to think about.  How are they all able to see me now, and how couldn’t they in the first place, I mean, I thought only animals could see me, but aren’t they technically animals, and considering Spike is sentient, wouldn’t that mean he wouldn’t be able to see me either. Or is it that only what are considered animals by who ever sent me here. Which leads to another question, who the hell was that. Was it death? I mean, he sure as hell looked like it, is there even a hell, or a heaven, am I actually dead, or am I in some kind of a coma, and if I am, which world is it, this one, or my one, and another thing-  “I’m ready.”

The soft voice interrupted my thoughts. I sat up and turned to where it came from. I could see the timid Pegasus staring at me from beneath her soft pink hair. I twisted on my bed so I could face her properly. I opened my mouth to speak, but she stopped me “Now, now you listen mister.” I decided to wait and see what she had to say “I don’t know who you are, but, it was very dangerous of you to go and fight Gilda like that, not that I’m not glad that you did it for me or anything, but I’m not glad you’re hurt, I mean, um, oo, ah,” I could see the gears in her head turning trying to think of what to say next. “It’s ok,” I decided to spare her the pain “if you’re going to say sorry, it’s fine and you don’t need to, if you’re going to say thank you, I am very humbled.” Fluttershy looked at me for quite a bit before blushing and looking down “It’s just, I don’t like it when other ponies risk they’re lives for me, or are injured because of me.” “Ah but that’s the thing,” Fluttershy looked up at me “I’m not a pony.” I was trying to cheer her up, and I think it worked, she had one of those cross smiles on her. The kind of one where, it made you laugh but you’re kind of angry at them so you can’t show it, that kind. “You know what I mean.” She said a little laughter seeping into her voice “Oh I know, I know you said pony, and I am not a pony, and also I can’t really get hurt, you know, cause I’m dead.” She chuckled at this, but stopped laughing and became serious “How are you dead?”

The question kind of surprised me, I mean, that’s like asking a living guy why aren’t you dead. It also made me kind of sad, and angry “I got shot by some idiot who wanted some extra cash and a new watch.” I said angrily. I began to wonder what they did with my corpse, I had talked about being cremated and being put into one of those soil things, you know to help trees grow, so I could technically be a tree, I didn’t like the idea of a coffin, I was mildly claustrophobic when I was alive, and it probably carried over. “I’m sorry.” Fluttershy apologized “But, what does shot mean?” I was confused by the question, was thinking of the best way to answer it. “It’s, something you do with a weapon, what kind of weapons do you have here.” Fluttershy looked scared at the thought of a weapon of any kind. “I-I don’t think we have any, I mean some of the guards in Canterlot have a kind of sword but,” she trailed off. This is going to be harder than I thought. Suddenly, I remembered something from the episodes “Fluttershy, what do you think a tank is.” Fluttershy looked confused, “Tank? That’s Rainbows pet tortoise.” “Yes but where did she get the name from?” Fluttershy racked her brains.  “Umm, a tank, is something you store stuff in.” She smiled sheepishly “Oh no wait, um, there is a kind of chariot that is, really tough to prevent anypony from stealing whatever’s in it.” I facepalmed “What do you think a Bullet is?” Fluttershy smiled “I know this one, it’s something really fast.” She smiled knowingly “I didn’t have the heart to tell her. “Well where I come from, there are these things called guns,” Fluttershy looked unusually interested “you put bullets in them, and they shoot people, and leave them very injured, and sometimes worse.” I gestured to myself.

Fluttershy gasped in realisation “You were, were murd-“ “You don’t have to say it.” I gritted my teeth as Fluttershy tried to pronounce the word. “I’m sorry.” Was all she said, she looked so sad, oh how I wish I could hug her. I attempted to do so, but my arm went through her. This made me almost start crying. “Is something wrong?” Fluttershy asked, I could hear sincerity in her voice “Nothing, it’s just I really wanted to hug you.” I said, trying to laugh so it would seem like a joke. Fluttershy looked at me with sympathy, and attempted to hug me, but like I did with her, her hooves went through me. Fluttershy looked just as upset as I did. “Don’t worry, it’s ok, I’m not that upset.” I told her, even through it was a straight lie. She looked up to me in those big aquamarine eyes, and I felt my heart melt. “Don’t worry.” She began, hopping up onto my bed “I’ll find a way to hug you, I Pinkie Pie promise, and nopony breaks a Pinkie Pie promise.” She yawned softly and closed her eyes. I stared at her, I knew it was rude but I couldn’t help it. She reminded me of my sister in so many ways. She acted like her, thought like her, and hell, their eyes were more or less the same. As I laid down beside her on my bed my final thought before drifting off to sleep, just like Fluttershy, was “Maybe it’s not so bad being dead.” I then realsied that Derpy had gone, as well, but left a muffin on the bedside the bedside table. I decided to try and eat it tomorrow.