Chapters The cold steel felt good against my neck. All my hairs were on end from the sensation. Odd, I haven't felt anything in the last few years, but now that I'm at the end I can suddenly feel again. Now I'm not paralyzed, but emotions for me are hard to bring up. That's probably why I'm alone.
At this moment I'm holding a knife to my neck. I want to kill myself with guts, not just hang myself. Although pushing the chair over to hang takes guts as well. I planned to cut my jugular and watch the blood flow. Yet, even though I felt no hesitation or fear, I still couldn't do it. Something was telling me to hold on.
Right now you (the reader) are probably thinking that I want to kill myself because life sucks. Well yes it does, but that’s not why I want to off myself. I believe that we all have souls, and when we die, our souls find a new shell to control. Reincarnation is what's called I believe. However, I also believe that with enough will power, we can take control of our "unconscious souls" and do whatever we want. I want to end my own life so I can start my life. The truth of the matter is that I'm bored.
A serious problem I assure you. I am an extremely creative person like most writers. I love to make up new stories and worlds to share with everyone. The problem is that most of the creations are better than what I have, and it makes my life seem pointless. I also see worlds that others create and want to be a part of them too.
I'm somewhat new to the my little pony scene, but once I was introduced I was hooked. Like anything I have ever done, I got into this with full force. I watched the episodes, then I found the fan fiction. So many different worlds created out of just one show. Many wrote about how they themselves got to Equestria. I read these and wish it could happen to me. In fact my life took a straight downhill line since I saw this show.
I had everything set up for me. I was going to college to become an engineer, and after that I would get a job and make lots of money, From there I could retire early and do nothing. I looked at that life, and I turned away from it. Money will never make me happy, and neither will doing nothing. After seeing my little pony and its followers I changed. I saw how happy everything was, and I said "I want that". I wanted to be happy, but I can't be while I'm on earth.
It's like something inside of me woke up. It keeps saying "I'm not taking this shit anymore!". I wish I could believe it. I've stopped going to school, I skip classes, and I rarely study. My life is probably going to suck if I live it much longer. Yesterday though I found some spirit left inside me. I won't deal with this life any longer. I'm going to die and set out through the universe to find a better place, even if there isn't a universe. I'm bored here and never happy, I once knew a guy who said "if you're not happy here, then go". He was referring to college, but I think it works here too.
That is why I'm going to kill myself. The knife seemed eager to cut, and my mind had no problem giving the command. I had no fear of death, and even less of the pain. Yet still, I couldn't do it. Everything was ready, down to the tape that covered my mouth so that I couldn't scream and alert the neighbors. The knife refused to move. After a few minutes I gave up and flipped the knife closed (Did I mention it was a butterfly knife?). I tore the tape off and flinched at the sting.
In a few weeks this semester of college will be over, and I'm going to drop out. over the next semester I'm going to train. Then during the summer I'm off to basic training. From there I will fight until I die, or am too old to continue fighting. I had hoped to skip that nonsense, but apparently I lack what it takes to kill myself.
Hopefully I'll die in some accident and will skip it anyway. I have a backup plan though, this isn't the first time I have failed to finish the job, but it will be the last. I walked around my small home grabbing anything that still had value to me.
First my katana, a gift from a friend who is now in the air force with the same lookout on life as I have. Second my necklace, on it are the two symbols I choose to live by. One is a simple thick coin I found on the streets in California. It symbolizes the shell that we all walk in. The second is a simple metal ring, symbolizing the soul that controls the shell. Third, my butterfly knife which was no gift, but I've had it for years. Fourth my ipod, it holds no sentimental value, but it has been through hell and back, and music compliments life. Finally I grabbed my hat, a simple plain black fedora.
These are the things that I care most about in my home, sad huh? My Xbox sits in a corner gathering dust and the TV fairs no better. My computer sits on a desk, worn, but still in perfect condition. I took one last look around the house, and left locking the door. I got into my car and drove away.
First I stopped at a gas station to fill up my tank, wouldn't do to run out of gas. Second I stopped to grab my last dinner. Taco Bell (say what you want, but that food is delicious). After I ordered I pulled up to the second window (They never use the first one). I looked at the window guy with a sad look. He looked sad, but not depressed. At school I see way to many sad faces, makes me wonder why people go in the first place.
He handed me my food (Chicken burrito and mountain dew) and I drove away. I threw the Doritos out the window as I never eat them and drove back home. I pulled in to my garage and closed the door behind me (it’s a manual one, have to actually work to get it down). I didn't turn off the car, but I did turn on some music. Normally I'm a guy of all music, I can get down with anything that has a good beat, but today techno wasn't going to do it.
All sorts of rock played that night ranging from Def Leppard to Manowar, from Alestorm to Priestess, and all sorts of things. I don’t know how far down the playlist I got, but i got pretty far. I know I sung to wenches and mead, and I'm pretty sure that Running wild had an entrance. Regardless as the music played I began to eat, surrounded by the things I had any sentimental value in.
I woke up. At first I didn't dare open my eyes, terrified of the idea that I would see doctors and white walls. I didn't hear the music anymore, and the sound of the car had faded as well. Eventually I opened one eye to see… nothing (like when you close your eyes, but not black, just nothing). I moved an arm in front of me and I saw my hand. The clothes I had been wearing were still there, and I could feel the weight of my necklace. My knife was in my pocket, and my katana was laying on the ground next to me. No sign of my ipod though, shame.
I looked around and saw that I wasn't laying on anything, just kind of floating. I sat up and tried to put my feet on the floor. To my surprise I felt something solid under them. I stood up and jumped around. I felt really light , but at the same time incredibly heavy. I am a master of ignoring things, and convinced myself that feeling two opposites at once is completely normal. Not to mention that im currently in a big area of nothing.
For a little while I simply looked around, wondering if I had succeeded in awakening my spirit. I still had my body, so it looked like that was a no. Hopefully I wasn't in purgatory, that would blow. I was never a man of staying still and waiting for something to happen, so I grabbed my katana from the "floor" and started to walk.
For all I know I could have just been walking in place, I just know that it seemed like I had been walking forever. I suppose it's possible that I did, but I'm not going to think about that. Eventually, I came up with a great idea. I took out my katana and I shoved it into the "ground". The blade sunk in easily and stayed upright. My friend would understand, if I ever saw him again. I continued to walk and noticed with satisfaction that the blade was getting further away. I considered going back to grab it, but then I could be walking in circles and not even know it.
I continued to walk, and strangely I never felt tired. For a millennia I walked that wasteland of nothing, or maybe it was only a minute, It's hard to tell. Eventually something happened, I saw another man sitting on the "ground". As I got closer to him I noticed he was more of a boy, 17 at most. Or he could be eons old, but I have no idea.
"my name is Martin" he said "at least that's what they called me on earth".
"Glad to meet you, but would you happen to know where we are meeting at?"
He looked at me with a grin.
"I have no idea, and probably never will. I've been here an eternity, or maybe an hour. If you haven't noticed this place is very confusing. I wonder though, would you tell me how you got here?"
I stopped smiling and said "It's not a very happy story". He only shook his head. "Alright then, don't say I didn't warn you. I came from a planet called Earth, more specifically, Michigan. I woke up today, or is it yesterday? Whatever, one day I woke up and decided I had enough of life's bullshit, and I took my own life, in an attempt to free my spirit."
He looked at me and said "Then we aren't so different. I lived in Texas, and I hated it. everyone there looked down on me and made fun of me. You see I'm not the typical Texan, I like to use computers and think working out is a waste of time. Most of the other guys at school bullied me or worse, and anybody who tried to be friends with me were also bullied. I spent most of my time alone on the computer talking to others like me. One of them told me about this show that always made him feel good when he was down. It was called My Little Pony. Before you laugh at me let me explain. It was this show that was meant for little girls, but the ideas behind it were amazing".
He took a deep breath and started again "It was about true happiness and friendship, but it also preached about tolerance and loving each other. It was this that inspired me to kill myself. I thought if I could get to that world then I would be happy, and I could be accepted for who I am. When I did the act, I only though about that place and how badly I wanted to get there. Now I'm here with no idea of what's going on."
I looked at him and grinned "Well then, we should get going don't ya think?" He looked at me quizzically (how does one do that? do you just raise your eyebrow?). "Listen I know exactly what you're talking about, that show also inspired me to take my own life, maybe not to get there exactly, but I could live there. So get up and follow me, because we're going to get there no matter what, we will arrive in Equestria, even if there is no Equestria. Shall Heaven or Hell stand in our way, we won't be stopped!"
He nodded his head and stood up "You're crazy, you know that?"
I smirked "If I wasn't crazy then I would still be living a pathetic life on earth, so I'll take that as a compliment."
We walked for awhile in silence. We shared a few stories about what our lives on earth were like, but for the most part I wanted to forget the past and move on. Martin was 15 when he took his own life, making me the elder by 3 years. As we walked in silence I started to experiment with the nothingness around us. I could see no ground, but I could feel it. I expected a ground to be there, simply because there was ground everywhere.
Before I could get more into my philosophical reasoning, I was interrupted by a question from Martin.
"Uh… What's that?"
I looked up and my smile vanished. Sticking in the ground was my katana. Either I had accidentally walked back the way I came, or this place really did go in circles. I approached the blade and pulled it out of the ground. Doing so left a hole in the nothingness. I pushed my eye to the tiny hole and looked through. I could see shapes moving by my vision buy couldn't make anything out. Martin poked me and I let him look through.
For awhile he just looked, but shortly he exclaimed "That's Earth!"
"You sure about that?"
"Ya I can see the statue of liberty, the empire state building, all kinds of things. It's like I'm watching a TV show where the scenes go by quickly."
"Hold on, so when I tore a hole through the nothingness with my blade, I opened up a hole to earth? That makes sense. Now if I were to try again I wonder what would happen."
I took my katana and shoved it into the ground, but I dragged it and then pulled it out. I pulled on the tear in the nothingness to reveal… more nothingness.
"Well that was a dud" I sighed.
"Wait… What if it only opens when your thinking of something?"
"I can see that, I was thinking of Earth and my buddy who gave me this when I shoved it into the ground."
Martin took the katana from me and concentrated for a second. He opened his eyes and shoved the katana into the ground. He pulled it out and opened the tear. This time we got results. I could see flashes of vibrant color and lots of four legged creatures.
Martin jumped up and screamed "That's it! That's Equestria! Come on let's go through!"
I grabbed him before he could jump through. "Hold it, we have no idea if that’s safe. Let's try putting something through first. I took my hat off and said my goodbyes. I dropped the hat through the hole and watched. It changed as it went through. It became more cartoonish, ya that’s the word. It landed on some pony's head. He looked surprised and examined the hat. He smiled and put it back on his head and continued on.
"Enjoy it while you can pony" I grit my teeth "Cuz I'm going to get that back."
Martin looked at me nearly dying of excitement "Let's go, this is what I died for!"
I couldn't stop him and he jumped through the hole. I smiled at his enthusiasm and looked around for my sword. I then realized the horrible truth. Martin had took it with him! There were other places I had wanted to go before settling down in Equestria, so many adventures to be had. So much for that, looks like I was going in now.
Before I could go through the hole a voice called out "Stop!"
I turned to face…. Nothing, why was I surprised.
"Do not go in there, for you do not belong in there. You're friend already has made a grave mistake. You must go back to earth, for it is where you belong."
This guy had just managed to piss me off, quite an accomplishment for a disembodied voice. First he tells me to not do something, then he tells me to back to Earth, and finally he tells me that I belong there. I hated this guy with a passion.
The voice sounded confused "what is an immortal spirit, and there is no such thing as a defender of the universe. Your name is unimportant, what is important is that you take on a new body, back at earth."
"Immortal spirits are those who fight against fate, and those who would control us. Right now there is only me, but soon I will muster an army! I will free everyone from the oppression of fate and let them decide what they want, not some disembodied voice!"
If you haven't noticed yet, I'm making shit up right now. As I was shouting and distracting him I was inching closer to the hole. I hadn't yet thought that he was a disembodied voice and could be behind me. Even if he wanted to stop me he probably couldn't. As soon as this thought entered my head I changed tactics.
"Wait, why am I arguing with you? You're a disembodied voice and I'm in the middle of nothing. It doesn't make any sense, so I'm going to ignore you and the fact that there is a hole to a world based off a TV show, and just go in."
I woke up, again. This time I wasn't looking at nothingness or a hospital room. The great blue sky greeted my eyes. I smiled, a real smile mid you, for the first time in a while. Suddenly something blotted out the great view. It was a face.. No wait it was a horse face. No it was a pony face! The pony simply stared at me, it was starting to become creepy.
"Uh… Hi"
The pony blinked at me.
"So uh… How are you?"
The pony blinked again.
"What's your name?"
The pony continued to just blink.
"Alright get outta my face before I make you, and by make you I mean punch you in the face."
The other pony finally opened its mouth "It's you, I knew it! I mean you look completely different, but you still have that necklace."
I looked down and sure enough my trademark necklace hung on my… green neck? Now that I noticed something was wrong I began to examine myself. The fact that I had read those fics where humans become ponies would make you think I was prepared for this, but I was not. I couldn't feel my hands, I had no hands! That was the weirdest feeling, not to mention that my arm muscles had been converted into leg muscles. Oh right, I had four legs.
That’s when I made the best discovery in the history of discoveries. I had wings. This was so awesome. I wanted to just fly around and nothing else. I wanted to feel the wind in my hair.. mane. Then I made the worst discovery in the history of discoveries, I had no idea how to use them. I could feel them there, and the muscles that moved them, but I had no idea how to make them propel me upwards.
"It's me Martin! What took you so long? Why did you wait?"
I felt like punching Martin who was now a dark blue unicorn colt with a lighter blue mane. I really had wanted to explore first and then come to a peaceful place. Looking around i saw the thing that had gotten us here in the first place, my katana. Oh well… Back to the important thing.
Martin had been talking the entire time and I only caught the last bit. "So what do we do first? Introduce ourselves? Should we tell them who we really are, or should we pretend to be simple ponies?"
I silenced him with a look, "First we introduce ourselves, honestly, won't do us any good to start off badly. Then we will gather supplies and information."
"Supplies and information for what?"
I looked far off into the sky "Information on the pony who has my hat!"
Martin face palmed at this, which turned out badly as he actually face hoofed, which probably hurt. We were currently on top of a hill looking down on none other than Ponyville. Martin was bouncing up and down almost ready to explode.
"I had a few hours while you were knocked out to practice walking and stuff, maybe you should start out slow."
"I say we simply tell them we went to sleep on earth and woke up here, no need to distress them about the suicide thing, and I don't even have an idea about the nothingness thing, so why bother." I said as I fell once again.
I agreed with him on this point, but names could wait, and so could plans for that matter. I could walk, and that meant that we could head towards Ponyville. I started to trot down the hill with Martin bouncing along behind me.
The whole town was circular with several rings. The outer most ring was the market, where stalls were set up and the smaller businesses were located. The middle ring was comprised of homes, and other housing. The inner ring had all the big stores, including the boutique and Sugar Cube Corner, which somehow was on a corner, even though it was in a ring. I ignored that even as Martin asked me about it. The town hall and post office could be found here. The library was more or less in the center of town. From that point four roads went out of the city like the points of a compass.
One road went off towards the Everfree Forest, and presumably Fluttershy's house. Another went to another forest, but a forest of apple trees. That obviously went to Sweet Apple Orchards. One of the roads probably went to Canterlot, but the other I had no idea.
That road lead up to a big tower that I had never seen before. At least I'm pretty sure it wasn't in the show. That worried me, we could be in any kind of Ponyville. Anyone of the hundreds of fandom worlds. The mane six could be guys, or everyone in Equestria could be dead, or anything.
Before we could make it to the library to introduce ourselves to twilight, who was the most understanding of the group we heard a voice scream out.
"You there with the necklace! Come over here for a second!" That was a very familiar voice.
I turned my head towards the sound of the voice and my jaw dropped. Rarity was walking towards me. Rarity was walking towards me. I can't say that enough times. I hadn't really felt the hugeness of the situation, but now I did. Rarity was walking towards me. I don't know if it's because I'm now a colt, or because I'm seriously messed up in the head, but she was beautiful. I know in the show they say she is supposed to be pretty, but oh my god I swear sparkles were coming off her mane. Did I mention Rarity was walking towards me, or would she be trotting towards me? Who cares, Rarity is here.
"How can we help you miss..?"
"My name is Rarity, and your friend here has simply the best green coat I've seen in ages. It's hard to pull off the color green, you should be proud darling."
I could only nod my head, remembering that Rarity disliked the color green.
She continued, "I was wondering if you could come into my boutique and model a few things for me, I would pay you, and I don't often get to work with a stallion of your color."
I finally found my voice "I would love to help you". That was good.
She smiled at me. I could've died from that look. "Well then shall we head off mister…?"
I looked at Martin and motioned for him to go to the library without me, didn't need him to ruin things. Wait, ruin things. Am I trying to date a pony? Hmm I'll have to examine myself, after the date though.
I turned back to Rarity "Dash, Green Dash."
She looked at me "That's a unique name, I have a friend named Rainbow Dash, would you happen to be related?"
She smiled back at me and turned to lead the way towards her boutique. I followed her in without a second thought, I didn't notice the balloon ship above the town with a bubbly pink pony in it.
I walked into the boutique not even thinking of the horrible trap I was walking into. Rarity was a siren that had lured me to her lair. I had no idea of the mistake I just made, but if I didn't do something then I would soon find out. Rarity walked into the center of the main room and turned to face me.
She immediately started giving me commands. "Now darling i need you to take off those horrible rags, and I will hand you something to model for me. If I find something that really suits you, you can keep it".
That was when I realized the trouble I was in. I was now stuck modeling for who knows how long. I needed to find an escape, how the hell did I get into this mess? I would need a distraction and fast. It didn't come, but Rarity did (I see what you did thar!) with an outfit. It looked sort of like a white tux.
"Now just take off your clothes darling."
I had to run that command a few times through my head. As a master of all things logical, I was able to predict what exactly would happen next.
"Then I would be naked."
Rarity just gave me a look that said "seriously?"
I remembered that ponies didn't actually wear clothes, which almost led me to some even worse thoughts, but I resisted myself. I seem to be forgetting a lot of things until the last second, that isn't going to help. I took off my clothes as ordered, but before I could be tortured, a voice shouted from outside.
"Rarity I have something really important to tell you!" That was followed by a cracking sound in the door. This felt familiar in a way, but I couldn't quite place it. Rarity excused herself, and went to open the door in the other room.
"What is it now Rainbow? I have an important client right now." She sounded annoyed, probably with good reason. Memories of Rainbow Dash flooded me, and I leaned in closer to hear better.
Rainbow was panting as she talked, "It's… unbelievable *huff* two ponies *puff* fell from *huff* the sky *puff*! One was a green pegasus,". Here she took a deep breath, "and the other was a blue unicorn".
Rarity gasped, "The pegasus wouldn't happen to have a white mane would he?"
Rainbow nodded, "How did you know?"
"Simple, he is here in my store."
I took this moment to look around for an escape route. From what I can remember Rainbow dash was a pegasus of action, not thought. She was the last person I wanted to explain to first. If that makes any sense. I saw a window across the room, and took no time in jumping through it.
I made my escape towards the library, but I wasn't paying attention to what was in front of me and ran into somepony…body.
She mumbled something I couldn't here, but I could assumed from her nature that she had told it was okay, so I responded accordingly.
"It's not okay! Let me help you clean this up."
This proved to be a bad idea, as it proved that I wasn't used to being a pony. I tried to pick them up with my hooves, but the carrots either slipped out of my hooves, or I fell down. Needless to say I looked very silly, and she had to pick one up with her mouth before I caught on. After that I managed to get most of the carrots in the basket no problem.
"Let me carry that for you, since it was my fault that you had to stop" I can be a perfect gentleman when the situation demands me. She hid behind her mane and withdrew from my offered hoof.
"Oh no it's fine, I couldn't ask you to do that."
She looked so cute trying to hide behind herself that the only thing my mind could say was D'AWWWWWW. My mouth was able to get the right words out, regardless of my current mental state (cuteness overload).
"I insist, I accidently pushed you to the ground and made you spill the carrots, it's the least I could do."
Without further warning I put the basket on my back and motioned for her to lead the way. She squeaked (causing my mind to overload again) and finally started walking down the road. As we started to walk there was an awkward silence, in an attempt to make conversation I introduced myself.
"By the way my name is…" here I remembered that I didn't really have a name, and I wasn't stupid enough to say Green Dash again. After a bit of quick thinking I came up with "Copper Sparks". I'm horrible at this name thing, good thing I never had a kid (Dovahkin hands down).
She said something to me, but I was unable to hear. I asked her to repeat herself, but she only said it quieter. This sparked my memory, her name was "Fluttershy…" the last part I mumbled out loud. She nodded her head to confirm this and then looked up.
We were at her doorstep, and things immediately got awkward again. I handed (hoofed?) over the basket to her and she opened the door. She didn't walk in yet, she just turned around and looked at me. She looked like she wanted to say something, but couldn't get the words out.
I laughed nervously, "Well, I'll catch you around Fluttershy, nice meeting you, maybe we can hang out sometime." I turned around and walked away, cursing that I still didn't know how to fly. If I had been watching her I would have seen her reach out to stop me, but she didn't make a sound, so I never noticed.
I headed back to town to finally get to the library, so I could clear up the mess me and Martin had probably caused. I didn't see anyone out on the streets this time, and I got a nervous feeling as I approached the library door. I walked into the library as this feeling grew. The lights were all out, suddenly I remembered something important.
"Oh..Shit" was all I was able to say.
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An: I just want to say this is my first fic, but I'm not really expecting it to be great. I wrote the first four chapters at once, and I hope to keep churning them out as fast as I can. Before you ask i really do believe that stuff about spirits and setting ourselves free. This fic is something a friend told me to do. I write this to question myself, to make sure I have faith in my beliefs. That's enough sappy crap don't ya think. Anyway if you noticed I am a fan of Gurren Lagann a great series. If you want to flame, leave helpful criticism, or just say hi, then feel free to message me or leave a comment.
No one ever surprises me anymore. Then again no one scares me either. The reason? I overreact to it every time. I love that scared feeling, and I find it hilarious when people overreact to it.
For example, I was once in a library, somewhat close to the door. I had all my stuff together and was waiting on my friend who was in the bathroom. He snuck up behind me and shouted "Boo!" at me. Now it wasn't scary, but I made it seem like it was. I threw my hands up in the air and started screaming like hell, as I screamed I waved my hands frantically in the air I ran outside and down the street. Eventually I had to stop cause I couldn't breathe.
So when the lights blinded me and a shout of "Surprise!" reached my ears, I overreacted. In typical me fashion, I screamed loudly and waved my hooves in the air. This wasn't easy though, and I fell on my back. I stopped screaming and just started laughing. Everypony was giving me weird looks, but it was worth it.
Before I could do anything a pink face shot over me. I tried to prepare myself for the onslaught, but I don't think any amount of preparing would have helped in the end. It's like she was voiced in all caps and had no spaces in between her words.
"HI!I'MPINKIEPIEANDTHISISTHEPARTYITHREWYOU! WEREYOUREALLYTHATSCARED,BECAUSETHAT'SABITSILLY.ANYWAYIKNOWYOURNEWHERE,BECAUSE IKNOWEVERYPONY,BUTIDIDN'TKNOWYOU!SOWHAT'SYOURNAMEANDDOYOULIKEMYPARTY?" (It was hard not to press shift for the first words)
I had to stop, and replay the memory several times to understand what she just said. After I was sure I had all the conversation down I spoke to her.
"No I wasn't really that scared, but you did surprise me. My name is Copper Sparks, and as you pointed out I am new in town."
She laughed and said (slowly this time) "Well then that was good acting! I already surprised your friend, Lunar Crescent, so I wasn't sure if it would work twice."
A voice that I had hoped to not hear spoke out.
"I knew your name wasn't Green Dash, that sounds silly. Tell me darling why would you lie about that?"
If I still had hands, I would've snapped my fingers saying "so close", but I had to make do with hitting my hoof against the ground (still provided a satisfactory note). I decided that telling even more lies would get me into even more of a mess, but I only wanted to tell my story once.
"Honestly, my name isn't Copper Sparks either. I have a complicated story to tell, and I would prefer to only tell it once. If you could gather the friends you trust most, and Twilight Sparkle after the party then I will tell you the truth."
Rarity stared me down, "The whole truth? Promise?"
If I could have remembered the whole pinkie pie promise, I would've recited it, but I had to settle for simply nodding my head.
There was a lot of punch, but no alcohol, didn't bother me as I swore off the stuff. I also found an odd looking container, and after further inspection found that it was hot sauce. In a moment of inspiration I mixed the sauce and the punch and drank it. I spit out even faster than I had drank it.
"Silly, you're doing it wrong! You do it like this!" Pinkie Pie then proceeded to grab a muffin and apply a liberal amount of hot sauce to it (by liberal I mean, there was more sauce then muffin). She chewed and (thankfully) swallowed before giving me a huge grin.
Most of the party was spent mingling with the residents of Ponyville. I saw a few that I could recognize, Lyra, Bon-Bon, and the mayor. I also say a few whose names escaped me, but I could remember; A pony with messed up eyes, a colt with an hourglass on his flank, and the little orange pegasus.
For a while we played party games such as a variant of twister (much harder with hooves) , and of course pin the tail on the pony. I will admit it, I suck at that game. I managed to pin the tail on the head of the pony, earning a giggle from Pinkie Pie.
"Nice to see you again Fluttershy." Ya, especially because the last time I saw you wasn't even a half-four ago.
"It's..um.. Good to see you too… I was going to ask you to walk here with me, but you walked away before I could ask you.."
I don't like to be mean, but no she wasn't. She may have wanted to, but it would've taken her days to get the words out. It also worried me. That meant she had known about the party somehow, and I had been with her since I left the boutique. How did she know about the party so fast? Probably something to do with Pinkie Pie.
I chatted with a few more of the ponies, but the party was starting to die down, and people were leaving. It was dark outside, and almost everyone was gone. When the time came it was just me, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Lunar Crescent (Martin). Apparently Twilight was out somewhere, and we were waiting for her to get back. While we waited we started to clean up the mess that the party had left behind. Pinkie was still bouncing around when Lunar (Martin) came up to me.
In a hushed voice he said "So what are we gonna do? What do we tell them?"
I shushed him "We will tell the truth, nothing more, nothing less. Nice name by the way, Lunar Crescent?" I knew Rarity was listening in on our discussion, but I still was telling the truth, lying would get us nowhere.
He snorted "It's better than Copper Sparks."
"I was pressed for time, besides I'm bad with names."
As we argued time slowly passed. After what seemed like an hour (and probably was one), hooves could be heard outside. It was here where I somewhat kind of panicked. Twilight might not even be here, it was suspicious that only 3 of the mane-six showed up at the party. Twilight could be missing, or trapped and in danger, anything! My fears were misplaced, as the door slammed open and the purple (lavender?) unicorn walked in, followed by Rainbow Dash and Applejack.
Applejack opened her mouth first (but then I ended the chapter, it's four am and Ah'm not in the mood to write her dialogue).
AN: feel free to comment….Please? Also If you have any questions feel free to ask, I'm sure I missed a plot point or something. I mean it is the early morning so it's possible.
Is it becoming cliché to start off the chapter by saying I woke up? Well that is how my day usually starts, unless I pulled an all nighter. I opened my eyes to start my new life., but something was wrong. I was looking into space. I looked around and saw the earth. I felt like I was looking through glass.
Nothing happened for awhile , just me floating before the earth. Suddenly a hole appeared in space. A humanoid character jumped out. He wasn't human, but he was bipedal. He had odd bent legs, more like a horses, or cheetah, and large wings. The wings were like a bats, there were no feathers, but a film between them. He was tall, at least 7 ft. In his hand he held a sword… No it was my katana! The creature turned and looked directly at me. Even his eyes were weird looking, he had silver eyes, they almost hurt to look at. He winked at me and I woke up again.
Noticing that I once again was inside a tree, my breathing returned to normal. I sat up on the couch and looked around. The place had been tidied up even more since we had cleaned up after the party. I called out to see if anyone was home.
"Hello!?" I heard footsteps, and knew Spike was still here.
"Oh good to see you awake, you sleep even more than I do. Lunar told me to tell you that he and Twilight were going around town to see if they could find him a house. Twilight also said you can stay here as long as you need, but to pull your weight. There is a washroom upstairs if you need it."
I had no desire to get clean when at Rarity's house, she was probably going to clean me all over again. It would probably take forever for me to figure it out anyway. So I nodded at him and started to walk outside.
"Where are you going?"
"Oh didn't you know? I have a date with a certain dress maker." I laughed as smoke seemed to come off of Spike.
I walked the short distance to Rarity's boutique, and knocked lightly. The door swung open of its own accord, and a bell went off.
A singsong voice from above called out "Coooommmmmiiiingggg!"
Rarity came down the stairs and smiled when she saw me.
"Ah Silver! Good to see you decided to wake up! Oh but your mane is a disaster, come Rarity will make you handsome once again."
"Uhh Silver?"
"Oh I think it fits you perfectly, it was Lunar's idea after all. Now follow me."
Rarity led me over to a stool that I stood on, and she turned me to face a mirror.
"Now I need you to stay still for a little bit."
This was the first time I really got a good look at myself. I had a deep green coat, not dark, but not light either. My mane and tail were a white to rival Rarity's coat. On my flank there was a tattoo. I nearly slapped myself again. A cutie-mark, how did I forget those? The mark was a simple white shield with a design on it. A black dot was in the center, while black lines appeared to swirl around it. If I looked closely I could see white sparkles in the black.
"Very good, now we can get to the fun part."
I was brought back to reality by Rarity talking to me, and walking towards a rack of clothes.
"Would you happen to know where my old clothes are?"
"Oh darling, I threw those rags out. Now try this on." She handed me that white tux thing again.
After a while had passed that included me changing clothes more times than I could count, Rarity eyes lit up.
"Ideaaa!" She turned around and began rummaging through her materials. "It's so simple! You were hard to dress, but I've got it now. Simplicity is what compliments you!."
She handed me a black tux thing and looked at me expectantly. I sighed and took off the last garment I had been wearing. I put the new outfit on and looked at Rarity.
"Yes that's it! Why didn't I see it before! This new garment will simply make you dashing! Or maybe it will get you a dash eh?" She laughed at her own little joke.
She was testing me, trying to get a feel for my own feelings. I was always good at knowing when people were trying to find out about things without me knowing.
"Well I was hoping for a rare chance, but it appears that won't be happening."
She gave me another once over, before undoing the garment for me with her magic.
"Now go, I must work on this, and maybe that chance will grow with time."
I left the building smiling to myself, Rarity doing the same thing. I had a feeling that if I stayed much longer, I would start to fall for one of these ponies. Probably pony hormones or something. I started walking towards Fluttershy's house to get my flight lessons.
As I walked down the path the forest seemed peaceful. I decided to take a quick stop and just admire the beauty. I went a little off the path into a nice clearing. I could still see the road from my position, so I was satisfied. I laid on my back and just looked up, admiring the sky and the nature around me.
A few minutes in I heard hooves coming closer.
"What in the hay are you doing, taking a nap in the forest. Ah should drag you out of here by your mane." (Oh dear)
I looked to my side and saw Applejack standing there. She must have seen me from the road, and decided to bother me.
"I wasn't napping, I was just admiring the scenery."
"Your startin' to sound like Twi' talkin' 'bout the scenery."
"What's wrong with that. Haven't you ever just taken a moment to just stop and look around? Sometimes that's when we discover great truths." I got her with the truth bit.
She just huffed at me "Well normally Ah don't have the time to just stop. Ah do run a farm y'know."
"Well you're not doing anything right now. Pull up a bit of grass for awhile."
She complied and laid down next to me, "Now what?"
I laughed, "Now you just relax, let your mind wander. Think about whatever it is you want to think about, maybe you'll learn something."
We laid down silent for a while. Eventually I got up and started to walk back to the road.
"I've got to meet Fluttershy for something. Don't have all day to lie around like you."
AJ laughed "You mean your flying lessons? Ya she told me, but don't worry I won't tell anypony. You sure are strange Silver, but you're alright."
I had gotten her approval, for what I don't know, but I got it anyway. "I'll see you later AJ"
"See ya, sugarcube"
I walked down the road again towards the little hut next to the forest. I'm starting to like this place. I could live here for awhile. I started thinking about the future, but before I could get into anything to deep my stomach growled. Laughing I continued towards Fluttershy's house hoping she was willing to get some grub first.
I knocked on Bilbo Baggins' door, ready to tell him that we were going off on an adventure. At least that's how I felt. Fluttershy's house was somewhat like a hobbit house, if only it had a round door. Maybe I could convince her to get one. I waited patiently for her to answer the door. I knocked again and waited again.
"Fluttershy?" I called out. No response. I tried not to freak out telling myself that she was fine. Overreacting to something stupid would make it worse. I sat down and controlled my breathing. Eventually I calmed down, and went looking in the nearby forest to see if she was helping some animals.
I walked around keeping myself calm, but every time I looked and she wasn't around I grew more desperate. I sat down again and controlled my breathing again, I had to stay calm. After a while I got up once again and continued my search. After what seemed forever, I found her. I instantly deflated, holding all that stress in did a number on me, and my hunger. She had her head stuck inside a hole, talking calmly to some small critters.
My stomach once again made its situation known by releasing a loud growl. The noise spooked her and she tried to fit herself inside the small hole. She almost fit surprisingly.
Barely containing my mirth I said, "Relax Fluttershy it's just me, uh Silver I guess." With that I pulled her out of the hole.
"Oh no… We can get started right away…" At this her stomach also made its hunger known. She looked down embarrassed, "Or we could get some food… If that's okay with you I mean."
I gave her a smile and said, "That would be great."
We walked back to her house in silence, and as we arrived at the door she went inside promising that she would be right back. I stood outside waiting patiently, until Fluttershy finally came back out. I looked at her confused.
"Are we not going to go in and eat?"
"Oh… um… Actually I was hoping we could go… um never mind."
Did I just get asked out by a pony? No it must be a mess in her house, or maybe she has no food inside. A pony did not just ask me out, then again I was a colt. I still had a human perspective on things like this. I sighed inwardly, life was just confusing. Should I try and pursue a relationship with anypony, or would that be wrong? I'm not human anymore, and love apparently is all powerful. It seemed a bit soon for Fluttershy to have feelings of any kind for me, Hey maybe it was love at first sight .I'd think on it later, when I had food in my stomach. I looked at Fluttershy again who was hiding behind her mane.
"Well are we going? I thought you wanted to go out."
"Oh I do, I mean if that’s okay…"
"Its fine! Now let's go grab some food."
Even if I decided not to pursue a relationship, by the look on her face I had just made her day. Felt good to help, even better that she was paying. It may not be very gentleman-like to let her pay, but I didn't have a bit to my name. We walked together towards Ponyville.
AN: I would just like to say, these chapters are short so I can write them quickly. I could probably combine a few here and there, but it's nice and simple this way. So what do you think? Should Silver abandon his humanity and pursue a relationship, or should he stay true to his humanity?
To understand what happens next more fully, I would like to tell you a few things about myself. Number one would be that I am a little but insane. Have to be If I'm willing to accept that I'm currently in Equestria right? Next is that I'm extremely suspicious of everything. I may have a care-free outlook on life, but I still think everyone is out to get me, you're not paranoid if their out to get you right? So my suspicious nature along with my not so stable sanity, can often give me some odd conclusions about things. I often tend to read more into things when it's not needed, and overlook anything extremely important.
Anyways, me and Fluttershy walked towards Ponyville in silence. It wasn't awkward, there was just nothing to say. As we neared the outer circle of the small town Fluttershy came closer to me. She lifted one wing and brushed my own with it. An odd sensation flooded through me, it wasn't sensual, or painful. I nearly stopped moving, why would she do that? I calmed myself, telling myself that it must be the equivalent of a reassuring pat on the shoulder. I mean this was Fluttershy, she would never do anything forward, especially when we had just met.
Ya, I was just overreacting again. I needed to chill, maybe something cool to drink. Fluttershy looking down embarrassed didn't help though. We nearly got to a food place without incident, but before we could make it to wherever we were going, Pinkie decided to spring from a nearby bush. In classic Fluttershy fashion, Fluttershy jumped behind me letting out a squeak.
"Oh, hi Pinkie Pie, I think you gave Fluttershy a shock."
"Oh HI Silver, glad to see your not still sleeping! Anyway I was just thinking about how to celebrate Lunar's new job. And then I was like 'WE COULD THROW A PARTY' (Really? That's surprising!), but then I realized I don't know a lot about him so I was wondering if you could come by and help me plan this super awesome delicious 'congrats on the new job' party!."
"Uh…" Before I could get myself in even more trouble Fluttershy spoke up.
"Um.. Actually Pinkie we were about to get something to eat."
Her sticking up for my food didn't bother me. I have no problem with a women sacrificing themselves for me or my well being (if they want to, why stop them?). What did bother me is that while talking she walked besides me and placed a wing over me. It was a good thing I wasn't walking this time, because I would have stopped and stood in place.
It took me awhile to figure this one out, but eventually I told myself that it was the equivalent of holding hands. Then I thought about how when you're talking to a girl that's just your friend their boyfriend comes in and will grab her hand to remind you. If you know what I'm talking about then what do you do? Punch them for being an idiot, or face palm from their stupidity? Was Fluttershy trying to tell Pinkie that I was hers, or was it just coincidental?
I tried to ignore the signals my body was sending me, like the softness of her wing or the heat coming off of her body. Eventually I overpowered my mind and managed to compose myself.
I looked up at Pinkie, who had deflated a little, "Sorry, maybe some other time."
With these words she sprung back up and began bouncing away "Okie Dokie Loki!" (God of Fire!)"
We continued to walk towards our destination, but Fluttershy didn't remove her wing. I didn't have the heart to tell her to remove it. Who could hurt Fluttershy like that? Even I don't have a heart that hard. We walked up to a small place, with a little patio outside. At least she hadn't brought me someplace expensive.
We took seats at a table for two, and Fluttershy finally separated from me. My body cried out at the loss of contact, but my mind simply informed my body that it was stupid. I looked over the menu, but I had no idea what anything was. Even the drinks sounded funny (If you ever come here, prepare to give up caffeine, I don't think it even exists here!). The waiter came by and Fluttershy ordered something that I didn't catch. The waiter turned to me and just raise his eyebrow.
"I'll have whatever she's having."
The waiter turned around and walked away. I simply sat on the chair, and looked down at the table. I was never good with the whole relationship thing, it seemed to just complicate everything, I was currently ignoring the fact that sitting down should be uncomfortable for a pony, but it was actually quite refreshing.
"So.. um.. How are you liking Ponyville so far?"
Ah ha! That must be why she's acting so weird. She must want to make sure that I feel like I fit in. She's just being nice to the new guy. I knew all my worries were unfounded.
"This place is great, the forest is nearly tranquil during the day, and I could spend hours looking up at the sky."
"Well… um how do you like us? I mean the people here in Ponyville."
Well that theory went out the window. This was another test, she wanted to see if I had feelings for anyone else. I am a hard guy to read, but I couldn't play with Fluttershy like I could Rarity, or even Applejack. I really didn't want to hurt her feelings, but hadn't I told myself to be completely honest?
"I have only been here one day, but from what I've seen everyone here seems happy. AJ is hardworking, so much that she has to be told to relax. Rarity pursues perfection in all things, even if it takes her forever to do it. Pinkie Pie is… well… um… Pinkie Pie."
I avoided the question while answering it, I'm good. I will find a way to describe Pinkie Pie even if it takes me 100 years. Fluttershy wasn't to be deterred though.
"What about the others.. and me?" Her voice had become almost silent towards the end of that question.
I sighed, I had no idea how to answer that question, "I haven't really been around them long enough to judge Rainbow Dash or Twilight, I haven't been here long enough to judge anything really."
I hoped this would have satisfied her, but she continued to look expectantly.
"I don't know what to say to you. Your obviously very kind, and you have some obvious quirks. You get scared easily, and would never ask someone to do something they don't want to unless it's important. Honestly I think anyone could fall for you, your just that likable. Whoever ends up with you would be extremely lucky."
I stopped talking, I hadn't mentioned anything about my own feelings, and I hoped she would be to content with the praise to notice.
"Well.. do you um.. think you would fall for me?"
She was determined I'll give her that, and determination is one of my favorite things.
"I do, I can see myself falling for you very easily actually, but I don't want to rush into anything. I don't want a relationship based off of lust or false feelings." I didn't really want a relationship in the first place. It's so much easier to have friends, but I couldn't say no to her.
Before I could do anything else, like eat the food that had finally come out, Fluttershy acted. She leaned across the table and kissed me. It was just a chaste kill on the lips, but it had just set off a series of conflicting thoughts.
The first was that I had just been kissed by a pony. My human side wanted to run and throw up somewhere, but then again I wasn't human anymore so why listen to that part of me. Secondly this action had confirmed my suspicions. This either wasn't Fluttershy or something was influencing her. Thirdly was the taste that had been left. It was between strawberry and apple. While those two flavors don't really mix, that's the only way I could describe it.
Fluttershy sat back down and looked extremely nervous. She could never have pulled up the courage to do that by herself, if she even wanted too. I think that's what hurt the most, is that all of this could be a lie. She could actually hate me for all I know, but I knew that however much I wanted it to be, this was not how Fluttershy would act.
This time it was me who stumbled over my words, "Well… That was.. uh.. amazing?" I was really asking myself what it was.
I stuffed the food in my mouth without even looking at it, which is how I got the napkin in my mouth as well. Fluttershy laughed at my action and started on her food. After what was probably the most awkward dinner of my existence, I finally got away.
"I know we had planned to do those lessons, but I'm really tired right now. I think I'll lay down for awhile."
Fluttershy looked disappointed, "Oh I was… um… hoping we could.. um…….never mind."
I wasn't even going to entertain thoughts on what she had been going to ask, "Ya sorry, but I'm just exhausted. I'll see you later then?
Her smile came back, "Oh yes."
I walked away from her towards the library. From the position of the sun I would say that it was nearing 5. The sun glared off that strange tower, and I knew where I was going tomorrow. Before I could get inside however a voice called out to me.
"Oh why hello darling, or should I say Mr. Silver." Rarity's voice dropped when she said my name in a way that made me shudder. My wings tried to move of their own accord, but I kept them down.
"Uh..NO! No you shouldn't."
Rarity laughed, "Well then Mr. Silver, would you like to come into my boutique and check out my…. selection."
What was with these ponies? I mean I know I'm awesome in everything, but come on! Something was seriously wrong here, and I'm willing to bet it has something to do with that tower.
"Uh… maybe later, I'm really tired right now."
With that I closed the door of the library and let out a sigh.
"Long day?" Twilight asked from her position on the floor.
I looked at Twilight for a long time just to make sure she wasn't going to try and hug me or anything. After she looked up at me and raised an eyebrow at me I was confident that she wasn't going to try anything…yet.
"You have no idea."
"Tell me about it."
Uh oh. How do I tell a girl I barely know that half of her best friends can barely keep their hooves off of me. I'm supposed to be the one who is clueless about others feelings.
"Well, it's hard to explain…"
"Not for you, surely. Is hard even in your vocabulary?" Oh the sexual jokes to be made right there, but now was not a time for them.
"Alright then, Both Fluttershy and Rarity can't keep their hooves off of me, and I think it won't be much longer until Applejack and Pinkie are doing the same thing."
Twilight looked at me, trying to see if I was being serious. After she could see that I was she said, "What do you mean?"
I told her about my entire day starting from Rarity's place until I got back to the library.
"It sounds like you were egging them on."
"I didn't think they were being serious! I thought it was all in good fun."
"Well tomorrow I think you should go to them and tell them how you really feel."
"Do you how hard it would be to tell Fluttershy that I don't feel that strongly for her, besides I've already got a plan."
"And just what is that?" Her voice implied that I had no idea what was going on. Good to see that she for one doesn't love me. Although she could have more faith in me.
"Don't worry about it, I've got this one."
"I have to worry about it, these are my friends after all."
"Look I'm the guy who is supposed to run in without thinking. I'm the one who is supposed to be clueless about everyone's feelings. I'm the one who is supposed to charge in, sword swinging wildly laughing like a maniac."
"It sounds like your just afraid of commitment."
"It's been one day! Besides I need to handle this my own way."
Twilight finally relented and sighed, "Alright, but if after tomorrow you haven't done anything, then I will."
"Don't worry, like I said, I got this one."
"By the way I made Spike put together a make shift bed on the balcony, so you don’t have to sleep on the couch."
I thanked her, but I wasn't really tired yet, so I started looking over the books she had. Some of them were quite similar, the one that stood out most was a black book that just had three words for a title and nothing else. It read "The Brothers Grimm". I wouldn't be surprised if these tales were across the entire universe.
I didn't really feel like reading either so I just walked up to the balcony planning to lay down and mull over my thoughts. I wasn't alone in that idea, Lunar (Martin remember?) was laying down already.
I laid down next to him and said, "This is one strange place, eh?"
He didn't look at me, but asked, "How so?"
I looked up at the sky, "Look how everything is working out for us. I could easily live here forever and still be happy. It's as if the world itself is bent on making everyone here happy. There's no war, famine, conquest, none of that."
Lunar laughed, "You missed death"
I now turned to look at him "I don't think even Equestria has managed to conquer death, but hey were immortal souls, you and I, we can always come back if we want."
Lunar now had a frown on his face, "That's just the thing, what if we can't? What if this is all a dream? What if I'm in a comma and years later I wake up? I'm scared that this isn't real Silver."
Figures, "Look Martin…"
"Please just call me Lunar, I want to be able to pretend as long as possible."
"Look you have to let go of that fear. You’re here now, so what does it matter? Even if I were to wake up tomorrow, I wouldn't worry. I would just try again, and again. No matter how many times it takes. You have to be brave, be ready to face whatever comes at you. Should this world end tomorrow, you have to be brave. Do whatever you do to the max. Don't hold back, give it your all. Were immortal spirits, we don't have to take life's bullshit anymore, because we'll beat it back to wherever it came from."
"You keep saying that, immortal spirits. How can you be so sure? Maybe we just got lucky and some deity placed us here."
Lunar didn't look very convinced, I never was a good speech giver, "I guess…"
"Just sleep on it alright, and one more thing.. Why Silver?"
Lunar finally smiled, "Because, you're like the lights in the sky that never die, like you said, you never give up."
Now I was the confused one, did that make sense to anyone? The sun was setting, but it still wasn't dark out.
"So tell me about this job you got."
Lunar smiled even bigger, "Oh it's great! I'm a mailpony! I start tomorrow, I can't wait! I'll be learning the ropes from Derpy… I mean Ditzy Doo."
Ah that was her name. Lunar walked out when I didn't say anything back to him. I could see that Tower in the distance as the sun gave its final rays. I like having a set plan, when the enemy is visible. As I mulled over my thoughts, I thought back on what I said. Maybe the world is actually trying to make everyone happy, I mean they all seemed willing to accept us, didn't even really show hostility to us. I wondered if Twilight had ever sent Princess Celestia a letter about the new arrivals. Eventually I managed to fall asleep, and let myself go to oblivion.
Again I woke up facing space, the earth floating before me. Except this time the Earth wasn't green and blue, more of a brown. Before I could really think on this a large space ship flew in front of me. Even with my knowledge of future spacecrafts (None), I was able to tell that this one was badly damaged. Smoke poured off of it, obscuring most of it from view.
There was a transparent part where the front of the ship was located. I looked through this to see a middle-aged looking man holding a steering wheel, like an actual ships, He was making erratic motions and he was shouting at other people on the ship. He suddenly turned and looked at me. His eyes were a bright silver, they almost hurt to look at. He winked at me even as his ship started to hurtle towards the earth.
I woke up with a start. The sun was barely out and thankfully not in my eyes. It did however shine on a tower far away and that let off a mean glare. I wasn't going to get anymore sleep, so I might as well get going. I left a short note on the table in the main room of the library, and headed off.
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An well that's doubled in size. Next chapter will focus more on martin and the citizens of Ponyville, in fact I don't know if Silver is really going to be a major character after this. He fades out for awhile, at least according to how the story looks in my head.
AN: The story is now from Lunar's (Martin) point of view. This is where the story gets hard for me. My muse tells me to follow Silver, but the story tells me that Lunar is the important person now. So were going to follow the story because that's what the people want. So this might take longer as I'm fighting writers block to do this.
I rose bright and early with the sun. My new mailbag was ready to go, but it smelled like breakfast was ready. I followed my nose to the kitchen were Twilight was already eating. She was using magic to control a fork and knife, something that I needed to learn.
"Oh hey Twilight, did you make breakfast?"
"Who me? Oh no I'm terrible in the kitchen. Spike always cooks, he's pretty good too."
A chef's hat huffed at that statement. Spike who was wearing a rather large chef's hat, was too small to be seen from behind the counter. His hat bobbed up and down as he jumped on various stools to reach the counter.
Spike motioned me to sit down "You're in the way, but now that your up would you like pancake?"
I went to sit down, glancing at Twilight to make sure she didn't object. "Uh, sure, but just one."
Spike handed me a pancake on a plate and I set it on the table. I looked over at Twilight again, who was still levitating the fork and knife. When she wasn't looking I shoved the entire thing in my mouth. She turned and looked at me and giggled. My cheeks were full with pancake, and I'm sure I looked ridiculous.
"Well that's one way of doing it, but you reminded me. You don't know how to use magic do you?"
Mouth still full of pancake, I nodded.
"Well when you're done with your route I can help teach you the basics, or if you prefer, there are plenty of books on the subject."
I swallowed, "You would? That's great, I can't wait!"
She smiled, "I thought so, also some more important news. Princesses Celestia and Luna are coming by later to see you and Silver."
Good thing I had finished eating or I would have spit out everything in my mouth.
"Are you serious? The Princesses want to see us?!"
"Well you did come from a different world, that is pretty important. I've held you up enough, go on and do your rounds. I'm going to visit AJ and Silver, to tell them to meet us."
I headed to the door with my new bag across my back. "Alright, I'll see you later."
First stop was the post office, where I would get all the letters for the day. I stopped by the office and greeted the receptionist.
"Hello, I'm the new mailpony, Lunar Crescent."
"Lunar, this is your first day correct? Well in that case you'll be shadowing Ditzy Doo to learn the ropes today. She's waiting in the drop off room, down the hall and take the second left."
She waved me off before I could even thank her. I went down the hall and took the second left as told and found one of the workers the arguing with Ditzy.
"I just don't get it. There's no place with that address, so how do you deliver those letters?"
Apparently I just saved her from an awkward conversation, because as soon as she saw me (sort-of) she rushed to my side.
"Oh sorry Cog, but I gotta go, this is the new guy Lunar Crescent. I'm showing him the ropes today."
She pushed me out of the room and closed the door behind her.
"What was that about?" I asked.
"Don't worry about it, nothing that concerns you."
It was weird having her talk to me while facing me, but her eyes weren't focused on me.
"So first stop is the Delivery Room, that’s the one around the corner here. We go here to pick up the mail and any light packages to be delivered. The stuff isn't in any particular order, so I usually go from delivery to delivery. It would probably be quicker if you looked through first, but I like taking my time."
We entered the room and two stacks of letters sat on a table.
"Now the first pouch in your bag is for the letters to be delivered to houses. The second one is where you're going to put any letters being sent out. Now that we have our letters we can go and do the route."
We walked outside the building and walked around the inner circle.
"The route I usually do is simple enough. Just do it one ring at a time. First stop is the library as it's in the center of town. There's never anything to be delivered there, and Twilight doesn't send letters to anypony. So we start at Sugarcube Corner."
We continued like this with Ditzy showing me what to do every time. We started on the second ring, when Ditzy stopped me for a second.
"I've got to deliver some things that you can't, will you be okay without me?"
"Uh I guess, but why?"
"Well can you fly up to Rainbow Dash's House?"
"Good Point."
"I'll be back to check up on you later."
So I continued on my own. It wasn't a difficult job really, the only hard part was getting letters in and out of the bag. With magic it would be even easier. I memorized all the letter addresses, so I knew who had letters and who didn't. I'm good at remembering things, I have a good memory.
The sun rose steadily as I did my route. Towards the end of the middle ring I started to see some ponies walking around. I waved to a few ,and said morning to the rest. In truth I was extremely nervous about them accepting me, but Silver told me to be brave.
As I finished the middle ring Ditzy finally came back.
"Sorry I took so long, I got held up."
"It's okay, I'm fine."
"Well now we just need to finish with the outer ring, there's usually not a lot for us to do there. Most of the time they get big deliveries of stock for the stores, so the Shippers deal with that."
We finished off the route, and headed back to the post office.
"Now we just have to drop off the letters we picked up, that’s the first room you were in."
We dropped off the letters and walked out.
"Well now your off, payday is every week on Friday. So what did you think of your first day?"
I looked up at the sun which was already high in the sky, "well it took longer than expected, but when I learn to use magic it'll be easier. It's a great way to get exercise though."
"Ya without you here it usually takes me until past noon to get the job done, but now that there's two of us we can go much faster. I'm surprised that you wanted this job though, most unicorns don't like physical stuff."
"Well, I'm not big into working out, but I do enjoy a refreshing walk every once in awhile."
"Well your gonna get one everyday now! I'll catch you later Lunar."
She flew away, and I started to make my way back to the library. I didn't even make the short walk to the library before being interrupted.
"Hey Lunar!" Rainbow was flying at me at alarming speeds. Thankfully she stopped before crashing into me.
"What's up Rainbow?"
"I was just wondering If you've seen Silver around anywhere."
"Actually he should be in the library getting ready to meet the princesses, why?"
Rainbow scratched the back of her head, "Oh well, I just wanted to get his opinion on some new moves I was trying."
Odd, I don't remember her and Silver exchanging more than a few words. "Well, he should be with Twilight right now. We can go in and find him."
I continued to walk and opened the door to the library. Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity were all inside, but no sign of Silver. Fluttershy was laying on the ground….crying?
I walked inside letting them know I was there, "What happened?"
Applejack turned to look at me, "Your friend did."
Somehow I got the feeling that Silver was often the cause of trouble, even when he wasn't around.
"What do you mean?"
Applejack just pointed at a piece of paper on the table, "Read that."
At the mention of reading Fluttershy started to cry even harder. I walked up to the table, and found a barely legible letter.
It read: Something is going on here, I just know it. All the girls are acting weird, except Twilight that is, well and Pinkie Pie I guess. They're all being really forward, with me and only after 1 day too. Why am I explaining this, I'll be back soon. Why did I just write that down… and that? Whatever anyway, I need to apologize for my actions in regards to your advances. The worst I feel about is Fluttershy. Hand the letter to her so she can read it. Look I don't know what's going on here, but I'm sorry. I took advantage of your false feelings, hoping they were true. I gave into to my own selfish desires instead of realizing something was wrong. I wanted you to have feelings for me, so when you acted like you did, I jumped on the chance. Don't worry though, I'll figure out what's going on here and free you from whatever is controlling you. I'm going off to explore that giant tower, I'll come back as soon as I know what's going on.
P.S. Cut down on Spike's gem ration, I gave him a bunch so he wouldn't wake up Twilight.
I put the letter down and looked at Fluttershy. Applejack was trying to calm her down to no avail.
She looked at me and said, "Did you know anything about this? If you did then I…"
Twilight cut her off "Applejack! Lunar, did you notice anything off about Silver before this, anything strange at all?"
I shook my head, "If you hang around him long enough everything he does seems strange. I just want to know, Was what he wrote true?"
I looked at the girls and they hung their heads.
Rarity was the first to speak, "Well, I admit I may have been a bit forward."
I raised my eyebrow at her.
"Alright, I did think he was rather attractive, but I would never had been so bold."
Twilight asked the next question, "Then why were you?"
Rarity sighed, "It was like a feeling, or a voice in my head, telling me that I should go for it. That he would be perfect. I thought it was just my gut telling me."
Applejack confessed next, "Well ah'll admit I thought he was a bit lazy at first, like he didn't want ta work. Then when we were laying down I got this feeling like.. like he was the one who could make sure I didn't work ma self to hard."
Fluttershy was still in no mood to talk, and Twilight looked around once more. "Well why don't you girls look around real quick and see if you can find him, oh and get Pinkie. Lunar help me with Fluttershy."
Right, because I know how to take care of sobbing girls. Regardless we did as ordered. When the others we out of range Twilight started speaking to Fluttershy.
"Can you talk to us now 'Shy?"
Fluttershy calmed down a little, occasionally sniffling and hiccupping.
"Now did you also have feelings too?"
Fluttershy took a few deep breaths before speaking, "Well.. No… *sniff* not at first. I was just *hic* surprised when he took an interest in me. *Sniff* then he asked me to teach him how to fly, and I um… thought that maybe *hic* he liked me. Then… the next day he found me *sniff* and he startled me. He laughed at me at first, but not in a mean way. *Hic* Then he helped me up and um… reassured me. He made me feel safe, and then..um… that's when it started."
Twilight motioned for her to continue.
"Well it was like.. um a voice in my head. It was telling me to um… take him out to um… see if he really did have feelings. He accepted, and we um… headed to town. From there the… voice kept telling me to take risks."
"So did you have any feelings at all before this started?"
"Maybe a little."
By this time Fluttershy had managed to stop crying completely and looked up at us. I still didn't know what I was doing there, but from Twilights blank stare that she wasn't about to tell me. I laid down next to Fluttershy and talked to her.
"Look I don't know what you think about Silver now, but let me tell you something first. During my time with him he never once mentioned a special girl in his life. I don't think he really understands how relationships work. He can't face them head on and just twist them to his will. I think he did have feelings for you, but when you started acting like it was a relationship he spaced."
Fluttershy moved to speak, but I stopped her, "I'm not saying he's not to blame, but you have to understand why he did it. I think he really cares about you, but he got worried when you showed an interest back. If you did have feelings before this, then don't let this ruin what could be a great relationship. Both your hands were forced on this one, and you got unlucky. However, I think you two would be great together, so when this is all over you should give him another chance."
Twilight gave me a shocked look, "Wow… that was really mature for your age and a guy too. Fluttershy I think he's right. He talked to me last night. He said that he did have feelings, but was worried that it was all fake. I think if he does find something is going on then he'll blame everything on whatever it is. If you want something to come from this, then you need to show him that you really do have feelings."
Fluttershy didn't say a word. With one problem down, we could get started on the other.
"So Twilight, when are the princesses supposed to get here?"
"In about an hour or so."
"Well then why don't we just hurry to this tower and get him."
"That's just the thing Lunar. There isn't a giant tower anywhere near Ponyville."
"Um what?" Even my voice sounded confused.
Twilight explained in detail, "The tower Silver mentioned in his letter, there isn't a tower anywhere near here. The only place that could be remotely close to what he was talking about would be the old castle, but that isn't visible from here."
I nodded to show my understanding, "So basically we have no idea where Silver went, and that he might not be in the right state of mind. Are we sure he isn't just in town laughing at us trying to find him?"
Twilight looked at me, "Well he doesn't really seem the type to play pranks, and this is going a bit far."
"That's exactly why he would do it, it doesn't make sense. I think your right though, he doesn't have the patience to wait this out in hiding."
"Well for now we just need to wait for the girls to get back, and you are not leaving this building." As she talked she pulled out an atlas and began looking through it.
"Uh why's that?"
She didn't even look at me, "I told Celestia that some interesting characters showed up, I don't want her to show up just to see that I lost both of them."
"Well okay, but I meant more of what's stopping me from leaving?"
Twilight turned to look at me, and her horn was glowing. A book flew past me of its own accord.
"Oh right." A silence fell over the room.
"Twilight can I ask you something?"
She nodded at me, "Did you have any feelings for Silver."
Here she laughed, "Ya right. Silver is an egotistical, self-centered, and idiotic pony. He thinks he's all that, and not even too make up for a lack of self esteem, but because he actually thinks he's better than everyone. He never thinks about what he does, and just acts. I was able to get all that from one meeting, I don't think I want to get to know him better. In fact I would say he is the exact opposite of me."
"Well you know what they say, opposites attract." I ducked as a book flew at me.
"I'd rather kiss a mule than him!"
"Be careful, he may hold you to that." I wasn't quick enough to dodge the next book, and 'Herby's Guide to Vegetation' hit me in the head. I held my tongue after that.
Soon the door opened and the rest of the girls poured in. Applejack spoke up,
"Ah'm sorry Twi', but we can't find head nor mane of Silver."
"They found me though!" Pinkie bounced out from behind AJ with a huge smile on her face. "Silver must be really good at this game if he beat me. Maybe we should play tic-tac-hoof next!"
Twilight sighed, "Pinkie this is serious, Silver is really missing. We need to find him before…."
A knock on the library door interrupted Twilight.
"They're here! Oh no what am I going to do? Celestia will be so disappointed in me! I let a potentially dangerous pony roam free!"
Rainbow opened the door before Twilight could say anything else. Celestia stooped down to enter the Library, Luna followed behind her. Celestia stood at a towering 7 ft, and her horn had to be at least a foot long. Luna was shorter than her sister and was probably around 5'8. Either one would be terrifying if they stood on two hooves.
All of the girls bowed, and I quickly followed suit.
"Please stand up. So Twilight, tell me about your discovery."
I had a feeling that it was a good thing Silver wasn't here, I didn't see him and the royalty mixing that well.
Twilight finally spoke up, "Well it started two days ago. Rainbow flew in here to tell me that she had seen two ponies fall from the sky. At first I was skeptical, but then next thing I knew everypony was in the library with Pinkie ready to surprise the newcomers. Lunar came in alone and they all surprised him. When Pinkie realized she had only gotten one of them, she asked everyone to quite down again."
Twilight took a deep breath, "While they waited Rainbow, Applejack, and I went out to where they had 'fallen' from. At the top of a hill we saw a weapon buried into the ground. We tried t get it out, but none of us could. Applejack even tried to buck it out of the ground. I studied the area a little bit to see if I could find any magical residue, but there was nothing."
"More like for hours…" Rainbow muttered.
Twilight glared at Rainbow before continuing, "Anyway we gave up and came back to the Library. By that time the other newcomer, who we call Silver, had arrived. The party was already over so we could start questioning them."
Twilight repeated what Silver had told them that night, or morning as it were. I watched the Princesses faces throughout the entire discussion, I couldn't really see Luna as she was somewhat hiding behind Celestia. When Twilight had mentioned a weapon her eyes had narrowed. When Twilight had gotten to the part about suicide her eyes widened in surprise, but only got wider when Twilight mentioned what happened after.
"… And that is who they are, and how they got here." Twilight then took a huge breath again.
Celestia finally turned to give me a closer look, "So, Lunar is it? I would like to learn more about the world you come from, but where is your friend, Silver?
Twilight spoke before I could say anything, "Actually that's what we were trying to figure out, we don't know where he is right now.
"Twilight I'm sure Lunar can speak for himself, Now Lunar, do you think you could leave in the fashion you came in? Do you think anything else could arrive like you did?"
I answered honestly, "Your highness, I don't think I can answer that. I think you need to ask Silver that. He understands this stuff more than anyone, but I would like to say that we have no intention of harming anyone."
"I see, well I didn't think that you intended to do harm here. Well I'm disappointed that I didn't get to meet your other new friend Twilight."
Twilight actually interrupted, "He is not my friend!"
Celestia laughed, "So you threw him a party, and let him stay at your place? Lunar I have a favor to ask of you, actually two."
Uh oh. "Yes your highness?"
"First of all, enough of this highness business, I'm not a queen. I would like you to stay here in Ponyville at least until Silver returns, I have some things to ask him. While you are here I would appreciate it if you could tell Twilight everything you could about your world. Twilight I would like you to record what he says down and send me a copy."
"So we can stay?"
Celestia laughed again, I could get used to that sound, "Well I can't just kick you out, that would be horrible. Besides even if I wanted too, I have no idea how to send you back. Interesting name you have, my sister's name is Luna."
Luna walked out from behind Celestia and smiled nervously.
"Pleased to meet you your highness."
"Oh no. Please just call me Luna." Her voice was timid, but she was confident. She didn't stutter like Fluttershy at least.
Before anything else was said Celestia spoke, "Well it was wonderful to see you all, but when both of us are gone from the castle too long the guards tend to panic. We have to get going now, but I hope to hear from you soon."
They left as quickly as they had come (Smirk). We all stayed silent for a little bit, nopony knew what to say.
Rainbow broke the silence, "Well what do we do now?"
The girls all looked down, thinking, but I already knew what to do.
"Nothing."
They all looked at me and collectively said, "What?"
"Well the entire reason we were looking for Silver was so he could see Celestia. Celestia told us to tell her when Silver came back. So now we just wait for him to come back. There isn't a problem anymore, so we don't have to worry."
"What about the voice you were all talking about?"
AJ spoke up, "Well now that Silver's gone I don't feel or hear a darn thing."
I spoke up before Twilight could find something else, "Besides Silver is out trying to figure that one out. I say we all go home and get some rest. We can think about this in the morning, besides by that time Silver might be back."
Everyone else agreed to this plan, and we planned to meet at back at the library after noon tomorrow. The girls walked out leaving me, Twilight and Fluttershy alone.
Twilight turned to look at Fluttershy, "Do you want to stay here tonight 'Shy?"
Fluttershy nodded her head, but didn't speak
Apparently Fluttershy didn't want to hang around, because she immediately went upstairs and went into the guest room. Now it was just me and Twilight. That made me realize that Spike hadn't been here the entire time.
"Hey Twilight, where's Spike?"
"Oh he's probably out with Snips and Snails. They've been playing some game for the past few days now. All I know is that my dice keep going missing."
I nodded and to avoid some awkward silence I said, "Well I'm pretty tired too." It probably wasn't even 6 yet, "So I'm just gonna go lie down."
I tried to move my legs, but they wouldn't listen. I turned my head to look at Twilight. Her horn was glowing.
She advanced on me, "Oh no you don't, you're going to answer all the questions I have for you about your planet."
She had on a smile that was really starting to creep me out. I still couldn't move so I sighed and agreed.
We talked for a long time, me answering any questions she had about Earth. I avoided some of the real nasty things, and I didn't go into detail in a lot of places. Eventually the sun set and the moon started to rise.
Twilight looked over the pages she had written and said, "Well I think that's enough for tonight. Why don't you go get some rest."
Now I was really tired so I went upstairs and went to the balcony make-shift bed. I laid down looking at the moon, wondering where Silver could be. Eventually I fell asleep with the moon hovering above me.
It was still there when I woke up.
AN: were going back to Silver's view. After a lot of thinking, the old plot has been thrown into the trash. I tried to think of a new plot, but nothing came to me as long as Martin's perspective was written. He isn't there enough to provide adequate detail. I had originally thought to do a satire of random plot stories, but this story cries out to me. I think I'm going to try to keep this low-key, but still have interest. So bear (RAWR!) with me as the story adjusts.
I started down the road at early dawn. If I could fly this would be so much easier! I could see down the road quite a ways, and was disappointed when I still couldn't see the base of the tower. I really needed to set some time aside to study my body in detail. I could gallop, but if I tried to run at full speed I usually fell over. The feeling of the wind in my mane was awesome. I knew that when I learned to fly that I would crash from trying to go to fast.
That was pain for another day, right now this tower was in for some pain. Well not literally, I doubt I can make any inanimate object feel pain. Something was nagging me that I shouldn't investigate. It kept telling me that this wasn't important and I should get back to Ponyville. That was just even more curious, I had been set on exploring this place, so why would I go back.
I also needed an excuse not to see Fluttershy again. She would probably cry as soon as she saw my letter, but it was for her own good. She deserved someone better than me. Someone reliable, and not mentally unstable. I would find out what was causing this problem and she would see me for who I really was and would hate me. I didn't want her regretting anything. Strange that didn't make me feel any better.
I was so deep in thought, that I didn't notice the turn in the road and I tripped on a loose rock. I looked up and saw the base of the tower. I didn't grin or anything. Determination filled me as I walked up to the door. I didn't even try knocking, I just kicked the door as hard as I could.
Nothing happened. My kicking skills as a pony were rubbish. In fact by trying to kick the door down, I had managed to just knock. That was something else I needed to learn, how to buck. Good thing I didn't try in front of Applejack, that would've been embarrassing.
No one answered the door after a while. That's what I get for being polite. Curious, I tried just opening the door. I wasn't surprised when it opened. I would've been surprised had it not. I walked in, sneaking wasn't really an option with hooves.
The place was huge, and filled with books. I couldn't see the roof, but pretty close to it. For a long way up the walls were just covered in book shelves, all filled with books. On the floor books laid in piles. A better way to describe this would be to just say book to any question about the place. A spiral staircase went around the tower up to the next floor.
I wasn't ever going to show this place to Twilight, never. Already I was feeling the urge to start looking at titles and flipping through pages. This entire place just screamed knowledge. Well since stealth wasn't an option….
"HELLO!? ANYBODY IN HERE!? ANSWER ME NOW OR REGRET IT LATER!"
My voice thundered throughout the building. At first I was scared that books would rain down on me. Luckily none did, but no one responded. I sighed, so much for avoiding the stairs. I began to climb.
I hate stairs. They're bad enough as a human, but as a pony they are horrible. I nearly fell several times in my attempt to climb. I didn't even try to count them. I didn't want to know how many were there. Sweat was dripping all over my body, making my mane stick to my neck. I looked back to see how far I had gone. My jaw dropped at the sight.
I Hadn't even gone up a whole flight. The ground was still close. Barely 20 steps away from me. How had I not noticed that I wasn't moving. If I was stupid enough I would've tried to climb backwards. I wasn't going to give up though, I was gonna reach the top of these stairs and kick Bowser's ass (Mario anyone?).
I just kept walking up and up, I never looked back. When I felt like my legs would just give up I stopped. I just wanted to be at the top already. With a great sigh I looked up. The door to the next floor was right in front of me. I'm not going to think about it, if I figure out there was an easier way, I might hurt something.
I opened the door steeling myself for whatever was behind it. A small bedchamber greeted me. Not one book was in it either. A large four-poster bed sat in the corner and a desk was opposite of it. A comfy looking chair was off to the side. Sitting in the chair, reading a book was a middle aged man. He had beard that was tied in a knot, with small trim sideburns. his hair was long and tied back. His eyes were a brilliant blue, and he focused them on me.
"Ah hello. I see you stumbled upon my humble home."
I laughed, "Humble? This place is huge. A giant tower that can be seen from anywhere does not qualify as normal."
He narrowed his eyes at me, "You can see this tower from far away?"
"No, I usually miss huge eyesore's like this one on a regular basis. Obviously I can see this place from far away."
The man said nothing to me.
"Now I just have a few questions for you. Why are you a human? Are you screwing with the ponies? And what's with all the books."
The man again narrowed his eyes when I said human. He still said nothing, and the silence was a bit disturbing.
"Alright, when I ask a question, you answer it alright?"
He finally opened his mouth, "Ah I see! You have been awakened. All though from the looks of you, just recently. I wondered when I saw your eyes. There's a fire there that most don't have. Well to answer your questions. I am human because I can't stand not having hands. Hooves are terrible for reading, and magic harms the books. To the second question, no I am not uh… interacting with the ponies in that manner."
I facehoofed, lightly, when he said that. "And finally, the books are my collection of knowledge. I take them with me wherever I go."
"I meant, are you messing with their feelings. Are you controlling them? And what do you mean you can't stand not having hands? You make it sound like it’s a choice to be a pony."
"Well in that case then I can say no, I am not. I haven't even introduced myself to the ponies yet, I have only met one of them in fact. Quite the odd one, she can see through my illusions somehow. Her eyes are quite… odd. I'll explain the human bit later, you have a lot to learn about yourself. Now that you have your questions answered, why don't we introduce ourselves. I'm mostly known as Morkar, the Intelligent."
"My name is Silver I guess, at least that's what they call me here. So you really aren't doing anything to the ponies? Are you conducting any weird experiments that could be?"
"You care an awful lot about them, that will cause trouble later. However, I am not in any way affecting the ponies of Equestria, but I may know who is."
"Tell me!"
"Why you're quite the impatient one, I wonder."
"Look old man, I need to find out who's doing this so I can stop them!"
"How do you plan on doing that?"
I waved my hoof, "Details, details. I need to take action now!"
Morkar grinned at me, "Well then I think I can help you there."
I stomped my hoof, "Alright"
"But first, you need to learn."
"Learn what? Didn't ya hear me old man? I need to take action, not sit around."
"First of all I am not old, I am currently a healthy 35. Secondly you need to learn a lot. Do you know how to use those wings of yours? How about fighting in that form? I can't teach you how to do those things, but I can teach you what being awakened means."
"What do you mean by awakened? Do you mean that my spirit has become conscious?"
"Now how do you not know that? Surely whoever awakened you explained what they were doing."
"No one awakened me, I did it myself."
Morkar grinned even more, "Ah an enlightenment. That makes things even more interesting. I have a feeling that you and I will be spending a lot of time together. However, I don't think you are yet ready to learn from me. I can tell you this though; A few days ago something entered this world besides you. That something has probably been behind whatever is going wrong. However, now that you have caught on, these things will stop. It will retreat and bide it's time. You have plenty of time to get used to your new body and new home. Once you are confident in your new form, come to me. I will teach you then."
I gave him a plain look, "What you're saying is that I came here to figure out what was causing the ponies to act weird, but by doing so I solved the problem?"
"Yes."
"So I didn't need to even come here?"
"Correct."
I couldn't stop myself in time. I brought my hoof to my face so fast that I knocked myself out.
AN: Well there it is folks. I like where the new plot is going, it makes so much more sense. It also gives enough time for the characters to just enjoy life. I'm tired, so no staying up till 3 am for me. Oh and my cat says hi. At least I think that's what he's trying to say. He's looking at me expectantly. Now he's looking at the Laptop. HE KNOWS!
Pain bloomed throughout my face. I steadily got to my hooves from the floor.
"Did you happen to catch the name of the guy who hit me?"
"Ya I did, I think he said his name was Silver."
"Ha ha, very funny. How long was I out?"
"About 5 days, or was it 5 minutes?"
"Alright I'll take that as not long."
I sat down on the chair. God this hurt. I'm never face-anythinging as long as I live. Morkar was still standing in the middle of the room. His robes moved around him as he laughed at me.
"You took a great time to sleep. Now before you go out and have fun, there are some things I need to tell you."
"I thought you weren't teaching me yet."
"This is different, you would have learned this had you been awakened normally. Even those who achieve an enlightenment normally understand more than you. It's like as soon as you got a taste of enlightenment you took off."
"What do you mean by awaken?"
"All in good time. I don't know how much you understand, so I'll start with the basics."
Morkar began sucking in breathe as if he expected to say it in one go. "Throughout all of existence there are an infinite amount of planets, galaxies, and even universes. To go along with this there are an infinite amount of souls. Now life exists in the form of shells, A.K.A. our bodies. We interact with the world with these bodies. The brain in these bodies usually takes up any memories gained throughout life. The soul is the controller of the body. For example, if I erased all of your memories and gave you all of mine down to the very last detail. You would be an exact copy of me. You would be me, but I wouldn't be you."
Impressive, he had managed to say all that without stopping. I gave him a blank look in response to his last explanation.
He sighed, "Another example is this sentence; I hate badgers. The shell is the hate badgers part. The shell is the experience, action, and idea of hating badgers. The soul is the I part. It's what gives us a perspective. Understand?"
I nodded, "As much as I ever will."
He smiled, "Good it's about to get much more confusing. Now when our shell dies the memories that were in the brain are lost with it. All of our experience and opinions, everything that defined us, gone. The only thing left is the soul, the perspective on things. When your soul enters a new shell it's still your perspective. You might have completely different opinions, memories, and ideals. You could even be the opposite sex. However, it's still you. You're seeing these things, you’re the one with the ideals."
Again his ability to not breathe stunned me.
"Now when one is awakened, or achieves an enlightenment, he or she activated the soul. Before the soul is pretty much acting on instinct. When it's set free, it immediately makes or finds a new shell near where it died. When the soul is activated it begins to absorb any memories the brain has collected so far. When the shell dies the soul becomes conscious. It can now think, and if it so chooses, leave the reincarnation cycle."
I absorbed this information, slowly. "You didn't answer my question. What is an awakening?"
"An awakening is when someone who has achieved an enlightenment share it with a willing soul."
I nodded, "You keep saying an enlightenment. Isn't enlightenment like a state of mind? Like Buddha, when you rise above life's existence."
Morkar shook his head, "Not really. An enlightenment is when someone realizes a great truth. I haven't met this Buddha guy, but I bet he did achieve an enlightenment. You must have realized a great truth, but your shell must have died soon after. Not a lot of people can do that, and it sends out a unique signal. Someone would have come to investigate, and most likely found you."
I tried to speak again, but Morkat held out his hand.
"You're getting me off track. Anyways, an enlightenment doesn't require you to release all of your ties to life, after all life is eternal and goes hand in hand with souls, whether awake or not. Not everyone has the same enlightenment, and some have the same one. The only other option is to find someone who will share theirs with you. There are certain groups who frown upon this act. They claim that everyone awakens their souls when they were meant too, at a predetermined time. They say that awakening souls goes against fate."
I needed another break, this was a lot to handle.
"Now when a soul is released from its shell and doesn't seek another shell it returns to the spirit stream."
I blanked, "The what?"
"You must have gone there. It's a place of nothingness, but everything. It's where spirits originate from, and can retreat when they tire of life. From here anywhere in existence is accessible. You must have seen that to get here."
I nodded, "I was able to cut a hole in the place with my sword, and it would lead to where I wanted to go."
Morkar smiled, "Exactly. That pretty much covers the basics of awakened life. Now as your souls is conscious It can now take in memories directly. Everything you do will stay with you no matter how long you exist. I've been awake for 359,037 years now. I still remember the day I achieved an enlightenment. I was 75 at that time, living on a planet called Acrium. I was a wizard there, and lived in a tower much like this one. Regardless, what I'm saying is that the next time you die you will again return to the spirit stream where you can rest, and if you so choose return to life."
Way too much information. I felt like my head was going to explode. "So I'm immortal?"
"Well no, you will probably die more times than you would want to, but your spirit will always be awake. You will go through many shells, but now you will remember every single life."
I nodded again, "I think I get it now."
Morkar huffed, "Now that were done with the basics, I can tell you what's really important. A powerful being, who some call a god, others fate happened upon our existence. Fate, as I call it, took over. It stopped souls from traveling to other worlds and trapped them all in their own worlds. However existence was too big for even fate. Fate split itself into countless parts. Each part watches over a section of existence. However, existence is always expanding, and the part they watch over slowly gets bigger."
Sounds like I found the big bad guy.
"These parts of Fate have been termed Regulators. Now as a whole being Fate didn't have a soul, so all the Regulators have no soul. They have learned from us and can imitate it, but In the end it doesn't work. If you kill a Regulator, then its gone for good. Some think that Fate was jealous and that's why it took over. You probably didn't get caught because the regulator watching your section of existence didn't catch your enlightenment signal in time to catch you. However, you won't always be so lucky."
I spoke up, "Actually right before I left that place, the spirit stream, a voice tried to stop me."
Morkar looked up quickly, "What?!"
"Ya it told me to go back to Earth."
"Curious. I had heard that some Regulators could actually get into the spirit stream, but they couldn't interact with it. Even more curious that it spoke to you."
Morkar finally stopped talking to think, but not for long.
"No matter. Now one more thing. Some souls have joined up with the Regulators in the belief that Fate should rule over all. They hunt souls like me and you down and try to capture us. They are dangerous in the fact that they can sense us even after our enlightenment signal dies. There is something different about us then the unawakened ones. They say that there is a certain fire in our eyes."
I laid down on the bed as I tried to understand all of this.
"I think that's everything. Now I'm sorry to inform you that I can't let you leave this planet. You need to learn how to fight in any circumstance and how, but before that you need to learn to adapt. That starts with you learning about your new body. Eventually you will be able to almost instantly adapt to a new body, but for now it might take awhile."
I didn't argue, "Um…wow…"
Morkar smirked, "Yes becoming aware of the entire existence means you have to know a few things."
"A few? I feel like my head is stuffed."
Morkar now let out a loud laugh, "Indeed, now I can't ask you to leave now, it's late and you can go in the morning. Remember to come back when you're used to your new body. Now follow me to where you can sleep."
He lead me out his door, onto the stairs, and suddenly we were at the bottom of the stairs.
"Brilliant isn't it, it works by…."
"Don't tell me."
"Very well, you can sleep here at the bottom. Here is a bed and other things." He snapped his fingers and a bed appeared complete with pillow and blankets.
I gladly lay down. My head was killing me, I really needed to sleep on this stuff. A part of me felt like he was pulling my leg, but then again he had a staircase that could teleport you. I felt like everything had just become a lot bigger. This morning I had just been a guy lucky enough to get into Equestria. Now? Now I'm an 'awakened' soul that has to avoid 'Regulators' and their cannon fodder. I've got a mentor to teach me about all of his, and I have my next step planned out.
I looked down at my necklace. Back on Earth it was so simple. All I had to do was get out, but now I had to figure out how I could stay. I had believed in a reincarnation cycle, but I had never imagined all this. The clanking of my necklace calmed me. I had set out to find freedom from Earth's mundane life. I didn't expect or want it to be easy.
I eventually fell asleep in the dark room, and I slept well.
When I woke up the room was still dark.
AN: My neck is killing me. This chapter doesn't really contribute to the pony story, but I felt it was necessary. It really expanded on how everything works. I feel like content wise this is the heaviest chapter I've written. You probably could've skipped this entire chapter and been fine. Oh well. Class in 5 hours WOO! I can't sleep though. It's not because I have a liter of Mountain Dew, that's for sure. Next chapter will hopefully see the return of Ponies and stuff. I'm starting to ramble. Like how I used the same cliffy?
Something was wrong. I never wake up during the night, and I can sleep till 2 in the afternoon. I was once told that I could sleep even if a train crashed into my room. The fact that it was dark when I woke up left only two logical conclusions.
Something bad was happening to one of my friends, or someone had stolen my leftovers (EVERY TIME!).
I fell to the floor clumsily and picked myself up. First I tried to get Morkar, he seemed like the type that always knows what's going on. After a few seconds of climbing up the stairs I remembered the futility of it. Oh well.
I ran to the front door and opened it. I prepared to gallop full steam back to Ponyville. However, instead of looking outside at the road I was looking at Morkar's room. Morkar was looking out a large window at the moon.
"It's curious. The sun and moon here both have no orbit. Magic is actually pushing them around and around. Theoretically I could make an eclipse whenever I felt like it. I can also keep the moon in place and have a everlasting night. I suppose the same is true of an everlasting day. Oh I see your awake. I guess my research will have to wait. I pegged you for an early riser, so I made my deadline when you woke up."
At this moment he turned away from the window. The moon suddenly flung through the sky. The sun rose quickly in its place. If you were really looking you could see the moon pass around again.
"Wait, you were causing the moon to stay in place?"
"Well yes. I was curious when I felt magic tugging at the moon. I experimented, but I have no idea where the magic is coming from."
Well I'm going to wager that someponies are panicking right now. "You didn't see how this could be a bad idea?"
He shook his head, "I learned something out of it didn't I? So I would say it was a wonderful idea."
I sighed, "What about the life here? Everyone is probably panicking right now?"
He laughed, "Who would be awake now? I'm sure you usually wake up in the early morning hours. So the odd pony thinks the moon stayed to long in its place, no problem."
"Well besides the fact that I usually sleep until 2 in the afternoon, I could see why you aren't worried."
His face fell, "Oh dear. I think I will stay hidden from the ponies for just a bit longer. Maybe you should get going eh?"
I shook my head, "You need to explain what happened to them."
"Sorry, but I think it would be best If we pretend that I don't exist for now."
He snapped his fingers at me before I could argue. I blinked. I was in front of Ponyville on the road towards the tower. I turned around and gasped. The tower had vanished, and the road seemingly led to nowhere.
"Well that makes sense."
Well eventually someone would find me, so I might as well get this over with. I walked towards the library intending to explain something to Twilight. I couldn't tell her about Morkar or anything he told me. I just needed to make something up for now. I just hope Applejack wasn't around, or she would catch me lying again. How would I explain the moon thing then?
I wouldn't! I could say that I knew nothing about it. Ya, they wouldn't assume that I was mixed up with the moon business. I just needed a way to explain the feelings the girls got. It was around noon, so I was hoping that everypony was too busy to be at the library, especially AJ.
I opened the library door and walked inside. I heard Twilight's voice from upstairs.
"One moment, I'll be right with you!"
I stood in the main room, waiting. Twilight walked down the stairs yawning. She stopped when she saw me.
"Uh…Hi?"
Apparently those weren't the words she was looking for. She got an angry look in her eyes as she advanced on me.
"And just where have you been? You happened to miss a meeting with the princesses, and made me look silly in the process."
I couldn't help but jibe, "well you don't need my help with that."
She huffed, "I will be the one talking here."
"Are you ever not?"
She was fuming now, "Where were you yesterday?"
"Uh… didn't you read my letter?"
"We all did. Congrats on ruining any chance you had with Fluttershy by the way. You wrote that you went to a tower, there isn't a tower anywhere near here!"
Quick thinking won out in this situation, "Uh….. It doesn't say tower. It says uh… power! Ya power. See I felt this weird power
Twilight raised her eyebrow, "Uh huh. And did you happen to find anything?" Disbelief laced her voice.
Well so far so good, "Well no. When I got close to the source it just disappeared. Needless to say this whole ordeal is over and we can pretend it never happened."
Twilight shook her head, "I think it's a bit late for that. I can see your hiding something from me, but I won't push right now. Now would you mind telling me what was up with the moon?"
Okay, hoping they wouldn't assume I was part of that was a bit silly. "There was something up with the moon?" Feigning innocence wasn't my strong suit.
"Yes there was, didn't you notice that it was up long past when it should've been?"
"Oh that, well yes… I did notice. I don't know anything about it though."
Again Twilight raised her eyebrow at me, "Uh huh. You won't be able to hide what you know forever. I'll just ask the princess about this mess. I will get answers from you, somehow."
She was just setting herself up, "Sorry Twi' I'm just not interested in you that way."
She did a double take and her face grew red, "That's not what I meant you… you… I don't even know what to call you."
"I think the word you're looking for is perv. Aren't you supposed to be really smart or something?"
"Shut up."
I laughed, "Well I gotta go! Plenty of things to get done today."
"Fine you can leave, but I want you back here by night time. Princess Celestia wants to ask you some things."
"Tell her that though I'm flattered, I can't make it to the special dinner for two she had planned."
I could almost hear the smoke coming off of Twilight as I left. Something about me just pissed her off. Something about her being pissed off was just hilarious. A great combination indeed. I had to put on my serious face though. It was time to talk to Fluttershy.
Excitement didn't flood me as I walked towards her house this time. Dread had replaced it. I hadn't noticed it at first, probably because I was stuck on trying to retain my human outlook, but I did have feelings for Fluttershy. I had promised myself that I wouldn't fall for any of these ponies, but now that I was here it was almost impossible not to.
I tried to think of what I should say to her, but I couldn't think of anything good. I was never one for plans. Before I could really think out anything I was at Fluttershy's place. I didn't hesitate and knocked. For a few seconds I hoped that she wasn't home. However, the door opened to reveal half of Fluttershy's face.
"Oh…um…hi…"
Well good thing this wasn't awkward. Well in for a penny, in for a pound (I know what that means, but how does it mean that?).
"Hi. Can we uh talk?"
She looked like she wanted to refuse, but she stepped out anyway. She nearly fell out actually, odd.
"Um…sure."
We stood there not looking at each other for awhile. The silence was deafening. I could have heard a pin drop it was so quiet.
"Okay screw this. Yes things are very awkward between us. I just came by to tell you that whatever was going on is done. I also want to apologize for taking advantage of you. Something made you have feelings for me, and I didn't have the strength to refuse you. However, although I realize that you may not want to see me again, I have a favor to ask of you. I was wondering if you could still teach me how to fly."
There I said it. Now I just had to wait for Fluttershy to respond. So I waited, then I waited some more. Then waiting became redundant.
"Okay I just bared my feelings out and your just gonna stand there? I know you're shy, but this is a time to speak up!"
She closed her eyes for a few seconds. Silence descended on us. Fluttershy suddenly spoke so loud that it made me jump.
"I still like you!"
Stopping to calm myself down, I had heard her say she still had feelings, but how long would they last. They were probably just left over.
Before I could speak, Fluttershy stopped me, "I would really… um… like to teach you… If that's okay with you I mean."
Well at least one good thing came from this. "Thanks" I didn't really want her to though. She would just realize how bad of a match we are sooner.
"When did you… um… want to start?"
"Actually I was hoping we could start now."
"Oh of course. Just um… follow me."
She led me behind her house into a large clearing. She turned around and looked at me.
"Um… well first you need be able to move your wings."
We spent a good portion of the day together. it got awkward again when she had to move my wings for me so I could learn how the muscles felt in motion. At first she just grabbed my wings and started moving them. That odd sensation flooded through me again as she did so. She quickly realized what she had done and dropped my wing, blushing furiously. After telling her that it was fine several times she continued. Eventually I could move my wings to my pleasure.
I had heard noises in the bushes, but had ignored them. If I had bothered to investigate I would have found Twilight, Lunar, and Spike spying on us.
It felt good to relax around Fluttershy, but I made sure not to take jibes at her. There would be plenty of time for that when I saw Twilight again. Fluttershy started to tell me how to use my wings to push air around. Apparently Pegasi wings have magic inside them that really lets them fly. By the end of the day I was pushing air around with my wings.
I jumped up and pushed the air under me forward and shouted, "Fus Ro Dah!" To my satisfaction an air cloud flew forward.
Fluttershy's confused face made me laugh. I fell over my own legs which caused her to giggle. We spent the rest of the day focusing on using the magic in my wings. Apparently this magic was very limited in the fact that it could only interact with the air.
We took a small break to eat a late lunch. If that's what you call some flowers between bread. It was a nice way to spend the day. We were just enjoying each others company and nothing else.
Eventually the sun began to sink and I had to go back to the library. I told Fluttershy that I would be back around the same time. I felt good, and was nearly hopping on the way back. Seeing that no one was around I stopped.
I placed my wings straight out to my sides and focused.
"Wuld!" I pushed all the air behind my wings in attempt to push myself forward. It worked, somewhat. I did move forward, but not at a high speed, or very far. Disappointed I walked the rest of the way to the Library.
I walked up to the front door and reached out to open the door. A voice behind me stopped me.
"You wouldn't happen to be Silver would you?"
I turned around and my jaw dropped. Princess Celestia stood in front of me looking very regal. She was huge! Bigger than me when I was human. She towered over me, making me feel very small. I wasn't about to be intimidated though.
"That's me, but who are you?"
She laughed, "I am princess Celestia, and when I heard you couldn't make it to my 'special dinner for two' I decided to come to you."
Twilight couldn't have…
"If you'll follow me we can go get dinner."
Oh she did.
I often find myself in situations that are unfavorable. This is the first that I was trying to escape from. Celestia was taking this way too far. In fact I would say she stepped over the line when she talked to me. A part of me knew that she was just joking, but the other part of me was trying to find a way out. I followed behind in her shadow as she led the way. It didn't help that she towered over me and had a horn that could probably spear me straight through.
It was getting late, so many ponies were already inside. However, a few were still outside and simply stared as Celestia passed. Some bowed low and others didn't even move. I should have known better than to involve Celestia. However, I wasn't about to just give up. She would get a special dinner if she wanted one. If she wanted to try and prank me she better be ready. Twilight had played her cards well, but I always have an ace up my sleeve (seriously, never play poker with me, I always cheat somehow).
Celestia led me to a very fancy looking restaurant. She opened the doors with magic and held them open for me. Aware of how ridiculous this looked I went inside. The waiter looked me over and scoffed. Celestia walked in behind me and the waiter's mustache comically fell off. He simply stuttered for awhile until he decided saying nothing was a better idea. He led us to a rather large table, in the middle of the room. Celestia shook her head and pointed towards a different table.
It was in a secluded corner, with a single candle on the table. You couldn't really see the table from the rest of the restaurant unless you walked up to it. The waiter looked at Celestia and then me then back to Celestia. His jaw dropped and he nearly fainted.
Ignoring the waiter's antics Celestia led me to the table. She moved one chair way off to the side and pulled the other one out. She simply laid down on one side, still being tall enough to look over the table. I sat down in my chair and took a final deep breath.
"It's good to finally meet you princess."
Her eyes bored into mine, as if she was trying to look into my very soul. I met her eyes and stared right back,
"The same goes to you Silver. I must admit though, I haven't heard much about you, perhaps you would indulge me?"
Before I could answer the waiter, who had finally come to his senses, came back with two wine glasses.
"Châteaux de Belle, the very best wine we have our highness. It's on the house."
He placed down the glasses and walked off before Celestia could say anything.
I looked at the alcohol with disdain, "Well what would you like to know?"
She began drinking from her glass, "Well I would like you to, among several things…" Here she gave me a saucy wink.
Oooh she was good, but it still wasn't enough to freak me out. "To tell me how you got here."
I once again told the story of my arrival, and she didn't even blink. I know it's not that interesting, but come on! I went through space and time to get here! That's pretty bad-ass if you ask me.
"Interesting… Do you think anything else could arrive in that fashion?"
The waiter once again interrupted us.
"Excuse me your highness, but could I take your order?"
I don't know what Celestia ordered, but it sounded expensive. The waiter turned to me and his fake smile was plastered to his face.
"For you sir?" It looked like it pained him to call me sir.
"Surprise me."
The waiter nodded and walked away from us.
Continuing the discussion I said, "I have no idea. It's possible but I don't know if anything will."
She nodded, her rainbow mane flowing behind her, "Could you leave the way you came in?"
"Probably, but I would need to get my katana to try."
Her voice dropped a few octaves, "And just how long is it?"
I did a double-take. She was very good at this. I needed to get my game on.
My voice dropped as well, "Long enough for you, and maybe your sister too."
I had hoped to win by bringing in her sister, but it was a no go, "Oh I don't know, we might have to test that theory."
I grinned, "I'm ready whenever you are, in fact, the sooner the better."
I was fighting back, if it kept up like this I could probably leave with my pride intact.
She obviously wasn't really interested about how I got here or anything important like that. She must have heard everything from Lunar. She seemed much more interested in this little game she had started. Leave it to Celestia to ignore inter-dimensional travel to play a game.
"Don't get impatient, we should eat first. Might keep you awake longer."
Her voice returned to its normal pitch, "In the mean time, why don't you tell me about your time here."
My voice returned to normal as well as I told her of my adventures, excluding the part about Morkar.
She gave me a genuine smile, "Sounds like you've been giving everyone trouble. Tell me more about you and Fluttershy."
I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything or I would have spit it out, "Excuse me?"
"I mean what are your intentions? Are you just having fun?"
So now she's Fluttershy's mom? Alright then. "I have no intentions. Right now I'm just having fun, if it goes further than so be it." An awkward moment followed that.
The waiter came in and placed down our food. Perfect timing. He had brought me some sort of soup, and I don't even know what Celestia was eating. I had been thirsty for awhile so I just picked up the bowl and drank the soup. I closed my eyes when doing so, I didn't want to know what was in there.
We ate in silence, but soon the food was all gone. The waiter came by to collect the dishes. Celestia asked him about the bill, but he waved her off and said, "On the house."
Celestia suddenly turned towards me and her voice dropped once again, "I'm still not filled up, if you know what I mean."
She had caught me off guard and I chocked. After I composed myself I said back, "I just happen to have something, but I think there's too much for just you to handle."
She grinned at me, I had walked into a trap. "Well then why don't we go outside? We might find someone to share with."
For a being of Harmony Celestia was good at this. She walked outside and towards the library. If I didn't know better I would say she was swaying much more than usual. Either she was drunk, or she was trying to sexy walk. Or both.
We approached the door of the library but before I could enter Celestia spoke in her regular voice, "Well I must say that was fun! I should do this more often. Thank you for a wonderful evening Silver."
Oh yeah lets ignore the shameless flirting that went on back in the restaurant. I don't know who was getting pranked here, me or the waiter at the restaurant. I could swear that she was giving me the troll face smile. I know she just wanted to say, Problem?
She leaned down and whispered in my ear, "Maybe next time we can visit the royal bed chambers."
With that she walked away from me and teleported back to Canterlot. I don't remember Celestia being that weird. This is gonna be one of those times that I just forget about completely. I opened the door to see Twilight laughing at me. It was me who had been pranked.
She calmed down enough to speak, "So how was your date?"
"Very well played Twilight Sparkle, but this isn't over."
She smiled innocently at me, but I just said, "You will regret this."
"I doubt it."
I didn't respond. I just walked upstairs out onto the balcony and went to sleep.
AN: This was a chapter written for fun. My friend suggested something like this, but involving Silver and Twilight. I thought Celestia was a better fit though. Besides I needed a little break from the actual plot.
I woke up as soon as the sun rose. Last night had reminded me that I currently did not have a bit to my name. I didn't really want to spend all day bucking apples, but hey it was better than McDonalds. I would rather work out in nature any day then back at that place. So I reluctantly got up and walked out the door.
The sun greeted me, shining in my face as I walked towards Sweet Apple Acres. I wasn't used to getting up this early. A foul smell hit me as I walked. It didn't help when I realized that the foul smell was me. I hadn't bathed or anything since Rarity had me model. Well to late to do anything about it now. Besides I was about to get all sweaty. The road took was longer then I had first thought, but eventually I reached a gate that had the words, Sweet Apple Acres, written across it.
I walked through it and soon I could see a large red barn. Applejack was standing outside it talking to Big Mac as he hitched himself to a plow. I walked towards them ready to begin the day. Now that I got a look at him, Big Mac was huge. He was only a few inches taller than me, but his legs were almost pure muscle. I made a mental note never to mess with any of the Apple family. I did not ever want to get into a fight with him.
AJ spotted me first, "Oh hey there Silver! Why don't ya come over here. I'll intorduce you to ma brother Big Macintosh. He's the eldest on this here farm. Applebloom is 'round here somewhere. She's the youngest. Big Mac this here is Silver, He's gonna help me buck apples."
Knowing what would come next I couldn't help but think it as well, "Eeyup."
He held out a hoof to me. I didn't really want to shake it, lest I fall on my face. So I knocked my hoof against his, a real brohoof. He didn't even give me a second glance as he walked off with his plow.
AJ nudged me and I followed her, baskets were already set out under trees. Apparently that was Applebloom's job. AJ led me to a tree that was prepped for bucking.
"Now let's see what y'all got."
In response I turned and hit the tree with my hind legs. I barely even hit the tree, much less knock apples down. AJ stifled a laugh and told me to try again. In response I pulled the trick that I had yesterday and used my wings to push air up at the apples. I smiled with satisfaction when all the apples flew upwards. I then frowned when I realized what was going to happen.
All the apples started to fall and smashed against the baskets. Most split open, and those that didn't probably got bruised real bad.
"Now look what y'all did."
"Um… Oops?"
"Darn right oops, maybe next time y'all think before acting. This is the same reason I kicked Rainbow off ma farm."
I walked up to a different prepped tree and tried a different tactic. Instead of throwing air up at the apples, I just pushed some as hard as I could against the trunk of the tree. It had the desired effect as most of the apples fell into the baskets. I looked back at AJ who nodded,
"Well it ain't perfect, but it'll do. Now you can just work as long as you like, when your done you can go to Granny Smith and She'll pay you for the apples you bring in. You’re the only worker today so you can just put your baskets in front of the barn door."
"Wait, then were not bucking together?"
She either missed the double entendre, or choose to ignore it, "Nah, I'll be in the market today."
With that she walked away and left me alone. Right now would have been a great time for my ipod to have come with me. The work was tiring, apparently throwing around powerful burst of air took a lot out of a pony. I continued at it for a good hour straight. Getting the apples down wasn't really the hard part. It was bringing the baskets back to the barn that really hurt. I had to grab each basket separately with my mouth and carry it. It wasn't that bad, but after a few hours my neck was killing me.
Applejack was right, the pay wasn't very good, but it was honest work. For every basket I brought back I got one bit. I don't know the exact conversion rate, but here's how I figured it out. A muffin that would probably cost about 2 dollars cost 5 bits. Every tree I 'bucked' gave about 5-6 baskets. It only took me a total of 5 seconds to rid a tree of its apples, but taking the baskets back to the barn took me a good 15 minutes, depending on where in the farm I was. So I made about 20 bits per hour, or about 8 dollars per hour. That was about what I made working at McDonalds, but I didn't have to pay taxes here.
I worked for a good 5 hours that day, from about 7 to 12. I got my pay from Granny Smith, and she just complained about unorthodox methods of bucking. Laughing at the double entendre, I carried my little pouch of bits back to the library. Twilight was sitting in the main room with Rarity chatting away. I walked in and Twilight turned around to see if I was actually someone going to the library.
"Oh hello Silver, I'm surprised your awake already. What's that?" She pointed to the pouch that was around my neck clinking with my necklace.
"That's the money I got from working on the farm. Here." I tossed the pouch on the table.
"What's this for?"
"Well you told me I had to carry my own weight."
"I didn't mean for you to give me all your money."
"Well I don't really need it. What would I buy with it?"
"Well I don't know, a nice suit? Or maybe some food?"
I gave her a blank stare, "I'm a pony, I don't wear clothes and I can eat grass." I had discovered that useful bit on my way to Morkar's tower. It didn't taste great, but hey it's free food.
Rarity spoke up, "I quite agree, we shouldn't cover something so delicious up." Saying this she gave me a once over.
When she saw the look I gave her she laughed, "I'm joking darling."
Twilight looked thoughtful, "Well you could always take Fluttershy out."
I sighed, "Were just friends, that's all."
"It didn't seem like that yesterday."
"Just give it time, she'll eventually realize that I'm not right for her."
"You are the weirdest pony I have ever met. It's like you don't want yourself to be happy. Besides can't a friend take out a friend?"
"I suppose, but not today. It's still about 12:30 and I'm going to nap for awhile. Wake me up in a few hours. I need to go to Fluttershy's place later."
With that I walked up the stairs. I walked out onto the balcony and for a little bit I just laid down. As I drifted off I realized I hadn't seen Lunar in awhile.
I was woken up by Twilight shaking me lightly, I'm surprised she didn't just yell at me.
"I was just dreaming about you…"
"Ugh… Can't you just be normal for a little while?"
"Now that is a word that isn't in my vocabulary. Well it is if referring to the difficulty of something."
"Right, well its around 3. I figured that by a few hours you meant 2."
"Oh yeah thanks. Well I'll just be on my way."
"I packed you a little something to eat…"
As if it knew that food had been mentioned my stomach choose that time to rumble.
"For when you get to Fluttershy's house. "
"Well it's nice to know you care so much about me."
"Well I was trying to be nice! Although you probably wouldn't understand that."
I gave her a sideways glance, "Seriously though, thanks. It really is nice to know that you care."
She blushed, "I just wanted to help."
"Still, thanks."
"Before you go you may want to uh... freshen up. You don't exactly smell great."
Uh oh, "Well i don't really know how to use the wash room."
"Oh that's easy, follow me."
She led me into the washroom, and i looked around. There was a a raised up area that had drains on the floor. Two shower heads poked out of the wall. There was a mirror with a sink under it. next to it two taps were right next to each other pointing outwards.
"Right, now first is the shower. These two knobs here control the two heads on the wall. This one will activate the top head and that will shoot out a stream of water. This other knob will activate the bottom head, and that will shoot out a stream of soap. Once your done with that you come over here."
She led me to the large sink and the two odd spouts.
"These spouts are for cleaning out your mouth. This one here will shoot a type of soap that cleans your mouth, and erodes any food in your teeth. This one will just shoot out water. You can use the sink to spit out the soap and water. That's about it, well for a guy anyway."
I did the weird shower thing, and brushed my teeth without actually brushing them. I felt much better, and clean. I shook myself as dry as i could and headed out.
I walked into the main room, and sure enough there was a basket covered with a blanket on the table. My sack of coins had vanished, but I didn't worry about it. I never cared about money, why start now. Reluctantly I grabbed the basket in my mouth and I set off to Fluttershy's house.
Once again I found myself walking down the familiar road. I couldn't shake the feeling that there was something I had forgotten. Something important that I had wanted to do. Oh well, if it really was important it would come back to bite me later. I once again approached the hobbit house that Fluttershy called home.
Before I could knock on her door, I heard Fluttershy in the back. I walked around the house to get a better look. She was hovering slightly above the ground with her back to me. A small bird was flying in front of her. Fluttershy was singing to the bird in a lovely voice. When she stopped the bird would repeat the verse.
I put the basket down and leaned against the house. I listened to her voice as she sung to the bird, and I couldn't bring myself to interrupt her. She kept this up for awhile, until the sad moment came when she stopped.
She cooed at the bird, "Very good Mr. Humming Bird. I'm sure by the next event, you'll be one of the top singers."
Now that she had stopped I was able to speak up, "That was beautiful." I couldn't think of anything witty to say, so I simply stated what I felt.
Fluttershy squeaked when she realized I was there.
"You should sing more often, I know I would like to hear you do so."
"Oh… um… thanks…"
"You're welcome. Before we start… Are you hungry?"
I think that in Equestria stomachs know when food is mentioned. Hers responded for her and she blushed.
"Well Twilight happened to pack me a late lunch. Would you care to join me?"
"Oh if Twilight made it for you then I couldn't possibly…"
"Nonsense! Besides I think she made it for the both of us. She seems to fancy herself as a matchmaker."
Fluttershy said nothing, but flew over and landed next to me. With an unnecessary flourish I lifted the blanket from the basket. I spread it across her lawn and motioned for her to sit down. As she did so I began pulling out things from the basket. Twilight had definitely packed for two. All kinds of things were in the basket. First I pulled out a few flower sandwiches. I was pretty sure these were different than the ones I had before, but to me a sandwich with any kind of flower in it will be a flower sandwich. We ate in silence. I was just enjoying her presence, and didn't really feel like doing anything.
There were some other things in the basket, but I didn't feel like getting them. One was what may have been a bottle of wine, but I wasn't sure. There was also a book inside, I laughed at that. Of course Twilight would pack me a book. I just laid down on the blanket and let my eyes close. After a little while Fluttershy laid down next to me and drifted off to sleep. In a moment of inspiration I lifted my wing and placed it over her. She smiled in her sleep and moved closer to me.
As I laid there I couldn't help but have that feeling again. I was forgetting something very important. It was like a very far away light. I could barely see it, not enough to make out what it was, but I knew it was important somehow. I pushed these thoughts to the back of my head and just enjoyed the moment. I was still tired from working on the farm, and eventually I fell asleep.
AN; Writing this story has made me realize something. If I could I would just write things like this my entire life. Sadly I don't think I'm good enough to become an author and support myself with that. Hopefully when I get out of the force I'll still be as creative as I am now.
I woke to the sound of voices around me. I could still feel Fluttershy next to me.
"Nothing between them my horn."
"They are just so cute! I need to get a camera."
"Be quiet, you wouldn't want to disturb them."
I slowly opened my eyes, but I didn't move my head. I was still in Fluttershy's backyard and the sun had barely moved from where it had been. If I was going to guess the time, I would say it was around 5. The voices had originated from my left, near some suspicious bushes. Reluctantly I got up and returned my wing to its proper place. I walked over to the bushes and looked over them.
Twilight and Rarity looked up at me with sheepish smiles.
"Oh hi Silver. Fancy meeting you here."
"Were you two spying on me?"
"Well of course darling, I wouldn't miss this for the world. Besides someone has to watch out for Fluttershy."
"How many times am I going to have to day this. There is nothing between us."
I got this feeling that if this had been a bad romance novel, Fluttershy would have heard that and I would have had to chase after her. Forever realizing that we were meant to be together. However, she was still sleeping on the blanket.
"Oh come now darling, that was a very intimate moment."
"We were just sleeping."
"Well you and Fluttershy looked very comfortable."
These ponies were stubborn. I (Have a huge headache right now, my stomach is currently trying to consume itself, AND I can't feel my legs.) walked back over to Fluttershy and moved to wake her up. I stopped for a second and just looked at her. She seemed so peaceful just lying there. I looked back to see Twilight and Rarity giving me disbelieving looks.
They were right. It had only been a few days and I was hopelessly falling for Fluttershy. Even though I knew she would eventually shake off the last of these feelings, I kept going back to her. Maybe she would fall for me, and then…
I turned to look at Fluttershy, "I think that had to be the most refreshing nap ever. Thanks for spending time with me. Hopefully we can get on those lessons tomorrow."
"Oh of course, I would be glad to."
With that I grabbed the basket, and threw it at an unsuspecting bush. Hearing a cry of surprise I walked back to the library. I got there when the sun was giving off its last few rays. I wasn't really tired at the moment, but I didn't really have anything to do. I tried to read something, but the hooves made it near impossible. I was going to have to learn how to do a lot of things sooner or later. I gave up and walked up to my balcony bed.
Someone was already laying out on the balcony though. Lunar was laying down, reading a book. He was using magic to turn the pages, and was so focused that he hadn't noticed me.
"Hey."
He turned to look at me, "Oh it's you Silver."
"Long time no see, eh?"
"Well, I have been busy. I got a job working as a mail pony, and Twilight's been teaching me how to use magic."
Lunar gave me a blank look, "Uh how do you use magic?"
"Oh, well apparently Pegasi wings can use magic to interact with the air around them."
He just nodded.
"So… Mailpony eh? Sounds like…fun."
"It's okay, I've been working with Derpy. I've also been spending time with Pinkie Pie. She has been teaching me how to bake."
"Sounds like you've been having fun. I've just been hanging out with Fluttershy and I worked on Applejack's farm. Oh and let me tell you about me and Celestia's date!"
Here Lunar dropped his book, "YOU went on a date with the princess?"
"Yep, and she was creeping the entire time." I told him the entire story. Soon we were laughing together as good friends do. We talked for awhile, mostly about life in Equestria. Lunar however did remind me of something important.
"I wish I still had my earth clothes, Rarity grabbed mine and threw them away."
Lunar laughed, "Ya well don't forget, your hat is around here somewhere."
Something in my head clicked, "Your right! Lunar as soon as I learn to fly, were going on an adventure. An adventure to find my hat!"
"Sure, whatever you say Silver. We'll bring the girls along just for laughs right?"
"I don't think you understand the seriousness of this quest. That hat defines me, it is a representation of my very soul!"
Lunar just shook his head at me, "Alright then, well I'm going to go get some sleep."
I looked up at the moon. Life here was perfect. With that thought I fell asleep.
AN: I know this chapter is really short, and I'm really sorry. Things just aren't going my way right now. I feel like crap, I have a test this morning, and I'm so tired… I'll try to make it up to you guys tomorrow, or later today rather, but no promises. I didn't even break 1000 words, how depressing.
Again I rose with the sun, bright and early. I remember that I dreamed about something… but it had already faded. Like when something is on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't think of it. I didn't bother getting clean, but left the library immediately. I prepared myself for a long walk down the road to the farm. However, when I got started down the trail I wasn't alone. A brownish pony whose name I couldn't remember was also heading down the road. When he saw me, he stopped and waited for me to reach him.
"You heading down to the farm?"
"Yep, my name's Silver."
"I'm Caramel, you new in town? I don't think I've seen you working before."
"I arrived a few day ago, but yesterday was the first day I worked on the farm."
"I've been working with the Apples for a few years now, they're good to me. They may work you like a horse, but they care about their workers. Just curious, why did you decide to work on the farm?"
"Well I've gotta pay the rent somehow right?"
"Well most Pegasi just live in cloud houses they've built, or don't even own a house. Most don't settle down, they'd rather be out exploring the world."
Caramel seemed like a nice enough pony, but his random interest was surprising.
"I guess I'm just different. Why do you care?"
He laughed at me, "That's exactly what Rainbow Dash said when I asked her. Honestly I don't care. I was just being friendly. It's always good to make a new friend, even if they're a twisted Pegasus."
Well that's a great attitude to have. Don't see a lot of that on Earth. Maybe it would be a better place if you did.
"Sorry, I'm just not used to people being so friendly. Old habits die hard, y'know?"
"I understand, so where do you come from?"
Well you see I'm from an entirely different planet and I came through a whole different plane of existence to get here, ya that would go over well.
"Far away, hard to explain."
"Well that's mysterious."
"Well they say that girls like a man shrouded in mystery."
Caramel laughed, "You're alright Silver, if you ever need something, don't be afraid to ask."
Wow, a few minutes ago we hadn't even known each other. If everyone I met had his kind of attitude, i would have more friends than I would know what to do with.
"So what do the stallions around here do for fun?"
"Well, I'm usually working on the farm, but when I do get some time off I just like to hang out with my friends. If you're looking for a derby or something of that nature, then you're in the wrong town. If you haven't noticed, Ponyville has a lot more mares than it does colts. So most of the stuff is geared towards them. If your just looking to have a good time, there's a club in the center ring. Never been, but I hear it can be wild."
"Sounds… Interesting."
In a dry tone he said, "By the tone of your voice I can tell that you can't wait to get off work."
I didn't get time to reply, as we had arrived at the barn.
"Hey there Caramel! Good to see y'all back in town. Good to see your back Silver. Ah'll be on the farm today so I can show y'all how to properly buck."
Caramel snickered, and I couldn't help, but grin. Once again ignoring the double entendre, Applejack led us out onto the farm. Applebloom was still setting up the baskets, and could be seen zipping around. I was still trying to wake up.
"Now in order to do a proper buck, ya need to be close enough to the tree to hit it, but not to close where you have no leg room. Now y'all probably have ta git a runnin' start. Now you're going ta wanna stand facing away from the tree first. Then push against the ground with your font hooves and kick back as hard as y'all can. Got it?"
It took me a few tries, but eventually I performed an acceptable buck. I wasn't strong enough to just buck the tree right away, which Applejack didn't comment on thankfully. I had to run at the tree, turn around and stop myself with my front hooves and then transfer the momentum into my back legs as I hit the tree. Needless to say, I fell many times that day. It was good training though. I started to get into the finer points of having hooves, and how to control all four of them even when running. At one point Caramel met up with me and tossed me an Apple.
"On the house, at least that's what AJ said."
I ate the apple quickly, I hadn't realized how hungry I was. The apple was incredibly delicious, unlike anything I've ever had before. I can't even think of words to describe it. It was juicy, crunchy, and just amazing.
"That. Was. The. Best. Apple. Ever."
Caramel chuckled, "Well that's the Apple's apples for ya."
"I need to eat fruit more often…damn that was good."
"Might help you get some muscle too, from the looks of things you need it."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well you can't buck a tree without getting a running start. Even AJ doesn't need that."
"Well if you haven't noticed, I'm a pegasus. I don't get the boost you earth ponies do. I bet if I used my wings, I could get all the apples off the tree."
"Can you do it in a timely manner, and without destroying the apples?"
"Definitely."
"If you can do that, then I'll buy you something at Sugarcube Corner. If you can't, then lunch is on you."
"Deal."
I found a nice sized tree, with a decent amount of apples on it. I flapped my wings to get the air moving, and felt the magic in them tingle. I then forced the magic to shove the air against the tree. I put a lot of power behind it so even the unripe apples would fall, but I tried to make sure I didn’t just break the tree. The tree groaned as it bent back a little, and for a second I thought it was going to fling back and send all the apples flying. The apples however fell off before the tree could sling them. One by one they fell into the baskets. The tree returned to its regular position, and no apples could be seen on it.
Caramel blinked, "You got lucky"
I smirked at him, "Famous words of a loser."
He laughed and said, "I think the other guys would like you, why don't you come down to my place later today and I'll introduce you."
"I'd like to, but I already have plans."
"Oh well, some other time then?"
"For sure."
I continued to work until the sun was high above me. My legs felt like jelly, and my neck wasn't doing much better. It could only get easier with time. I waited at the barn for Caramel to come back with his last load of apples.
"I'm heading out. You wanna pay up now, or later?"
"Sorry, but I've got a few more hours left. See I own a house and that's expensive. So I can't just work a few hours and call it quits."
He was messing with me, but I knew he wasn't going to get off. So feeling like I could barely walk, I started down the road back to the library. I finally got there feeling like I couldn't walk another step. When I went inside I saw Lunar and Twilight sitting at a table. Lunar was trying to levitate a spoon and a fork at the same time, and Twilight was giving him pointers.
"Oh hey Silver, we were just practicing focusing on two different things a once. Wanna join?"
"Uh…no. I think I'll just watch from the couch here."
I really wanted to just go to sleep, but today I was going to go all day. For a little while I just watched the two of them practice, but eventually my legs loosened up. Feeling the need to wash up, I reluctantly got up. I threw my pouch of coins in front of Twilight and went to the washroom. After a nice refreshing shower I took up my place on the couch again.
"Okay these will do, and I can teach you more magic with them!"
My voice echoed from the next room, "Hooray."
"Now you need to concentrate on heat. What it feels like and how it affects things. Then apply that to the fries using your magic. Don't focus too much though, or you'll burn them."
After a few failed attempts, all of which I ate, Lunar managed to heat one of the sticks to the right degree. I took that one and ate it too.
"What are these things?"
"You've been eating them and you don't know what they are? Why doesn't that surprise me?"
"You're going to answer my question with a question? Why doesn't that surprise me?"
"Ha ha. These are Hay fries, they're…."
"Hay fries, got it."
I learned a long time ago to never question my food, even if it's something simple. I just laid there, occasionally stealing a fry from Lunar, for quite some time. It was moments like these that really made me enjoy life. When you could just sit down with friends and laugh. So why did I hate life on earth so much? I used to have plenty of moments like this, before I left all my friends and family behind anyway. Was it because the bad outweighed the good? Or because there was bad in the first place? Maybe it was….
At that moment a fry hit me in the face. It interrupted my thoughts and I looked up to see Lunar and Twilight giggling at me.
"Why the sad face Silver?"
I shook my head, flinging any thoughts into the depths of my mind. "It's nothing, just stuck on some dark thoughts."
"Well anyway as I was saying, were having a party later tonight to celebrate Lunar getting a job."
Oops, forgot about that. Oh well Pinkie Pie couldn't be mad at me for that. Besides I never promised to help. It's helpful to avoid making promises, if you like to keep them that is.
"So don't forget to come, oh and you'll be able to go with Fluttershy! It will be so cute!"
I scowled at her, "When did you become Rarity."
Twilight scowled back, "I can be excited about two of my friends shacking up, can't I? Besides I can keep my eyes and hooves off of you."
"Who said you and I were friends? And the only reason you're not all over me is because your teacher called dibs."
Lunar laughed and I soon joined him.
Twilight gave me a 'I am not amused face' and said, "Fine maybe were not friends! And you really want to bring that up, didn't you learn your lesson last time? Besides I'd rather kiss a mule than you!"
"Oh really? Well I think that can be arranged. All I have to do is find a mule. All though your point about bringing up Celestia is a good one. I was beating her off with a stick last time we met." I attempted to wiggle my eyebrows at the last statement, but I failed.
I think I got the joke across, because Lunar started laughing and Twilight paused for a second and then shook her head vigorously.
"I didn't need to hear that."
"Why? See something you liked?"
Twilight let out an exasperated breath, "What am I going to do with you?"
"Well you could…"
"Don't answer that."
After a moment of silence we all laughed again. Reluctantly I relinquished my couch and got up. Walking towards the door I called out one more time,
"Well I gotta go, see you two later at the party. Don't do anything I wouldn't!"
Twilight of course responded, "What wouldn't you do?"
"Kiss a mule, but in the mean time feel free to beat each other off."
Leaving both Lunar and Twilight with red faces I closed the door behind me. I chuckled to myself began to walk. I nearly ran into Rainbow Dash in doing so. She was flying at about head level, but her head was lowered so she was looking right into my face. The proximity was a bit unnerving to say the least.
"Oh hi, didn't see you there. What brings you to the library?"
She narrowed her eyes at me, "I'm watching you. If you hurt Fluttershy in any way I will… well I don't know, but you will regret it."
Of course Rainbow would be the one to be the big brother of the group.
"Okay."
My lack of response surprised Rainbow. She gave me one last look, pantomimed punching me, and flew away. I walked down the road shaking my head. When I reached Fluttershy's house she was already outside waiting for me. When she saw me, she jumped a little and said,
"Oh Silver you're finally here!"
"Am I late? I don't really have a way of keeping time."
"Oh no, you're fine. I was just excited to get started today."
"Oh? Why's that?
"Well today you should be able to get in the air and fly slowly."
Buck ya, "Well then let's get started!"
First she started off showing me how use the air around my wings to lift off and stay airborne, all on the ground of course. Then she told me to hold out my wings like I was actually flying. I complied and she began sending varying speeds of air bursts. Every time one hit me my wings got that odd sensation, and I had to adjust my wings to get rid of it.
"That's how you can tell if the wind speeds change, and how to adjust to them. I think we're ready for a test flight. Now on my count of three lift off, but don't g anywhere. 1.. 2… 3!"
I jumped up and spread my wings. I had done it! I was hovering above the ground, concentrating on keeping the air below my wings moving. I hovered there while I got over the fact that I was flying. Once I got a taste, I wanted the full meal. Doing as I had been shown I started flying in a straight path. I went slowly at first, but the sensation was getting to me. Soon I was speeding around dodging clouds. I kept going faster and faster, continually pushing myself. I felt at home in the air, makes sense I am a pegasus after all. No wonder Rainbow was always flying around so fast. I started to go fast enough to leave a green blur behind me. I turned around to head back to Fluttershy and took off. However, I was unprepared for the tree limb that suddenly came up from the left. I hit it full force, knocking myself out right away.
Pain once again blossomed in my head. I opened my eyes slowly and was greeted with Fluttershy's face looking into mine. She let out a breath when I opened my eyes and gave me a look of relief. Then she gave me a stern look,
"What do you think you were doing? Didn't I tell you to go slow! You could have been seriously injured! I'm just glad I saw you fall. I was so worried that you were badly hurt. You should feel ashamed of what you did! Now what do you have to say for yourself?"
Man she was scary when she was angry. I just wanted to do whatever it took to get her back to the actually shy Fluttershy.
"I uh… wasn't thinking?"
"Well obviously, next time think before you act! We don't need another Rainbow flying around. Now apologize!"
I used to laugh when my teachers scolded me, but right now I could barely speak, "I'm sorry."
"You better be… now can you get up?" her voice instantly went back to its usual tone.
I blinked, "Uh… yeah, actually I feel fine."
"Oh good, I couldn't find anything to bad, just a few bruises. I want to check your wings though, so if you could lay down again."
I did so and she pulled my wings out to their full span. She began running her hooves lightly across my wings and that odd sensation nearly flooded me. I lost the ability to think as she checked my wings over.
"Did you feel any pain while I was doing that?"
I let out a groan in response. She was still doing it and I could barely stand it. Then to my surprise my wings shot out and stiffened, I couldn't fold them up or move them. They were completely rigid.
Fluttershy instantly let go of my wings and jumped back deeply blushing.
"Um… what just happened?"
"I uh… over stimulated your wings… I'm sorry…"
"No idea what that means. Can you get them back down?"
She blushed even harder, "Oh well… um… I…"
Apparently that was the wrong thing to say so I tried again, "Just to let you know I have no idea what you did, so if it's something embarrassing then I have no idea."
"Oh well… when a wing is feeling the same pressure constantly and it isn't adjusted, then it will lock up. When you're not flying though… Its… um… considered… uh…"
"What?"
Her voice dropped to barely a whisper, "…Sensual to get your partners wings hard."
Oh, well isn't that just great. I just got a sensual massage from Fluttershy.
"Well you were just checking me for injuries, I know you didn't mean anything by it."
Fluttershy said nothing, but the redness in her face stayed. My wings eventually softened and I was able to move them.
"What time is it?"
"About 5." She pointed at a clock in her house.
"Wait you have a clock? Why doesn't the library have one?"
"Well Twilight says she can just check the time with her horn…"
"Well we still have some time left, would you like to accompany me on a relaxing fly?"
"Oh… um I don't know if that's a good idea. Maybe we should go for a walk instead."
"A walk it is then."
We walked outside and the evening sun shone down on us. We walked together talking about nothing in particular. We stopped near a pond and sat down.
"Fluttershy we need to talk."
"Isn't that what we're doing?"
"No we need to have a serious talk."
"Oh… Okay."
"What's going on between us?"
"Um… Well… I don't know."
"That's the problem, I don't know either."
"Well sometimes it's better to just go with it, instead of questioning it."
"Huh…" Odd, that sounded like something I would've said had someone asked me that question.
"Maybe you're right, I just don't want to do anything we'll regret."
"I don't think I'll regret spending time with you…"
I smiled at her, and she returned it. We sat there for awhile just looking out over the pond. We just leaned against each other, enjoying the shared warmth. Eventually I got up and pulled Fluttershy with me.
"We should get going if we want to make it to the party on time."
"Alright…"
We walked towards Ponyville and said nothing. Fluttershy was walking somewhat close to me, so I reached out with my wing and put it over her. She moved closer and together we walked. When we got into Ponyville, we headed for Sugarcube corner. I prepared myself for the chaos that would surely be inside and opened the door.
AN: Not gonna lie, I think I failed that test. Oh well, didn't matter in the end anyway. Here is a chapter and such. I don't have anything to really say this time. So read and comment and stuff. I think that covers everything.
The peaceful evening suddenly came crashing down. I opened the door and noise flew out to greet me. Loud music drowned out everything for a couple of seconds. Before I could adjust I was grabbed and pulled inside, dragging Fluttershy along with me. The door slammed behind us, leaving us trapped.
"Oh good you're finally here! Get ready to parrty!"
Pinkie Pie was bouncing around, sometimes reaching places that should've been impossible. I followed her with my eyes, trying to track her movements, but to no avail. She simply moved to fast. I ignored this and walked over to Lunar who was talking to Twilight. Rainbow had dragged Fluttershy away from me when I wasn't paying attention.
"Hey Lunar, I think congratulations are in order."
"Huh?"
"Well this is a 'congrats on the new job' party isn't it?"
"Oh well ya I guess, but I think Pinkie was just looking for an excuse. Have you tried the food here? Pinkie and AJ really outdid themselves."
"No I haven't, and for right now I don't think I will."
"Oh well. This party is pretty awesome huh?"
"Ya sure. I'm not a big party guy myself, I never know what to do."
"Hang out with friends?"
"I do that normally."
"Then mingle with people and make some new ones."
Lunar proceeded to ignore me from that point on, so I had to walk around and talk to other people. I saw Caramel talking to Doctor Whooves.
I walked up to them and said, "Hey Caramel. Surprised to see you here."
"So am I, I hadn't planned on being here, but Pinkie Pie grabbed me when I walked past. I couldn't say no to a party, especially a Pinkie Pie party. Have you tried the punch yet? I think Applejack may have broke out the heavy cider."
As if to prove his point, a random pony crashed to the floor. Apparently she had been attempting to dance. Emphasis on attempting.
"Oh this is my friend Dr. Whooves. Whooves this is Silver."
"Pleasure to meet you Silver."
"Same to you. You seem really familiar, I don't know why."
"I get that a lot, I think it's because of my common coat color."
I spent most of the party just talking to ponies. I had decided to avoid the punch, just in case. I didn't see much of Fluttershy, but Pinkie had managed to drag me to the dance floor.
"Uh… Pinkie? I have no idea how to dance."
"Well of course you do. Everypony does! You just have to move silly!"
After several attempts to get off the dance floor, I eventually gave in. Dancing had never been my thing, but I did know how to jig. It took a few tries, but eventually I was able to stand on my two hind legs and cross my front ones. Balancing carefully, I began to move my legs. I lasted about ten seconds before falling.
"Wow your good at that, it's like a combo of a jig and crashing! Crashig… No Jigash style!."
I had no idea if she was trying to make me feel better, or was being serious. I kept trying, getting several looks from some of the ponies. Oh well, if I needed to I could blame it on the punch. Eventually I was able to balance pretty well, and could
I walked over to Caramel again, breathing heavily.
"Well that's one way to dance."
"Never was much of a dancer. Think you can do better?"
He smiled, "I know I can."
"Prove it."
"Only if I don't have to buy you lunch."
"Fine, but if you suck then you owe me two lunches."
Draining the rest of his punch, Caramel set his cup down and walked to the dance floor. The doctor walked up and said to me,
"Well you just lost a free lunch."
"Hopefully it'll be worth it."
Caramel cleared out space, pushing ponies back. They all complied and he had the floor to himself. He waved at Pinkie Pie and the music started again. He then began running in a small circle. At first I was confused, but then awed.
I stood there with my mouth hanging open. The good doctor laughed at my expression. Caramel approached me, somewhat dizzy.
He grinned at me and said, "Looks like you just lost your lunch."
I took a step back from him, "And you look like you're about to lose yours."
He steadied himself against the wall and put a hoof to his head, "Man I haven't done that in a while. Now I remember why. I think I need more punch."
The rest of the night passed quickly, but neither Caramel or I made another appearance on the dance floor. Things started to take a turn for the worst when Pinkie found the cider that AJ had brought. She simply mixed it in with the punch, and forgot to inform everyone. I stopped Lunar from drinking any, but was quite content to watch everypony else get drunk.
Caramel and the good doctor ducked out before anything bad happened, but mostly everyone else stayed. I was just watching the ponies make idiots of themselves. I was interrupted from my people watching by Lunar, who looked very distressed.
"Silver, something really weird just happened."
"What's up?"
"Twilight just kissed me."
"Wow you're right. Who knew drunk ponies wouldn't be able to think clearly?"
"This is serious! What do I do?"
"I'm not giving you the talk if that's what you're looking for."
"Stop joking man! I feel…. I don’t even know what to feel!"
I looked closer at him, he was really freaked out, "Well it depends on how you view yourself."
"What?"
"Well do you still think of yourself as a human? If so you may want to go vomit somewhere. I wouldn't be surprised, keeping those memories really messes with your perspective. However, you are biologically a pony. You’re the same species so you should feel free to do what you want. It really just depends on what you think you are."
"I just don't know man. How did you get over it so easy? Your going out with a pony after all, how is your human side not disgusted by that?"
"Look when I died I had accepted that when I came back I could be anything. I could be a tree, or a bird. I don't really have a human side. I discarded that awhile ago. No point in holding onto something that only holds you back. In my view, having a human perspective when I wasn't a human seemed stupid. I had time to get used to the idea though."
"I… I can't do it. It's just too weird."
"Your choice, you'll probably change your mind eventually though. The longer you are a pony, the more ponyish your perspective will become."
"I think I just need to sleep on it."
"You do that, I'll tell everyone that you left."
Lunar bolted from the party as fast as he could. I had a feeling that I wouldn't see him at the library later. I looked around to find Twilight, to make sure she was okay. I found here sitting in a corner, silently crying. I sat down next to her and said nothing.
Eventually she spoke, "I just though… that since he and I were both similar… that he might…. well y'know?"
"He needs time. He hasn't been a pony all his life, and its giving him conflicting thoughts. He still doesn't feel like a pony. Right now, he feels that a whole different species just slipped him the tongue."
She huffed, "I did not! It was just real quick."
"I was just joking, calm down. Just give him time, he'll come around."
"So why did you hook up with Fluttershy so quickly?"
"I have a knack for ignoring the important things."
Twilight looked like she wanted to say something else, but she fell asleep on me before she could. I set her down and told Pinkie that Lunar had left and that Twilight would be soon. I looked around to find Fluttershy, but she was nowhere to be found. She must've left before the cider came out. I went back to Twilight and got some ponies help to get her on my back. She didn't weigh a lot, and my legs were more than capable of holding the weight.
I walked her back to the library. Right now she seemed happy and peaceful, but I made a mental note to get out of the library before she woke up. I walked inside, and for the first time in quite some time, Spike was there.
"What happened to her?"
"She can't handle her liquor."
"I don't get it."
"When you're older you will."
"That’s what Twilight says when she doesn't want me to know."
"Alright then. She drank this stuff that makes you act funny. Whether she did it or not on purpose I have no idea, but she drank too much. So she passed out, and if you want my advice, make yourself scarce in the morning."
"See I totally get that, why wouldn't she tell me?"
"Maybe she doesn't want you to try it. It does make people do some stupid things."
"Well she could've just said that."
"I don't know ask her later, I'm going to put her in bed, and then I'm out of here."
I walked up the stairs and unceremoniously threw Twilight on her bed. I didn't bother checking for Lunar, he was probably already asleep. So I walked outside into the night and stretched my wings. I flew up into the sky and looked around. I had been wanting to do this since I got wings. I found a particularly fluffy cloud and pushed my hoof into it. It was so soft…
When I was satisfied that I wouldn't fall through it, I landed on it. No wonder Rainbow Is always napping, these things were so comfortable. I laid down on my back and looked up at the moon. It didn't take long for me to fall asleep, and soon I sleeping peacefully.
The sun shone in my face, disturbing me from the best sleep I've ever had. As I opened my eyes groggily, I looked up into the sky. Now I understood what Caramel meant. If I could just sleep on a cloud whenever I got tired, what was the point of getting a house. Hell, If I really wanted to I could just make a cloud house. I made a mental not to ask about that later. I got up and stretched my wings. Life is pretty awesome when you have wings, not gonna lie. I've only learned how to fly one day ago, and now I couldn't wait to try it again.
Instead of lifting off like I had been shown, I just dived off the cloud. Feeling the wind in my face made me smile. The ground got closer and closer. I was about to pull out of this dive when something hit me at a ridiculous peed. The wind got knocked out of me, as I began speeding in a totally different direction. I couldn't see much moving so fast, so I couldn't see what hit me. When I started to slow down, I realized that a pegasus had intercepted me.
The pegasus finally came to a stop and put me down. I stood on my own hooves to look at Rainbow. I should've known. I rubbed my sides as she stopped to catch her breath. When she looked at me I could see she was pissed.
"Just what in the hay did you think you were doing?!" She was shouting at me, why are people always shouting at me?
"I was uh…"
"I don't even want to hear what excuse your going to make up. You know how lucky you are that I saw you. Do you even care? I don't know anything about your last life, but you have people who care about you here."
Uh oh, when she saw me diving, she must've thought I was letting myself fall.
"What about Fluttershy? How do you think she would've reacted?"
I planned on letting Rainbow finish, and then explaining calmly what had happened. Before I could do that another voice spoke up.
"What is going on out here?" oh good it was Twilight. She's the reasonable one, she would understand.
Rainbow spoke first, "I caught Silver here as he was flying straight for the ground!"
I opened my mouth, but Twilight beat me to it, "What?!" Here she turned to me, "How could you do that?! Don't you care about any of us?"
My mouth stayed open in surprise. Surely Twilight would give me a chance to speak. Well if she wasn't going to give me a chance to talk, then I would take one. I opened my wings, and began to build up air beneath them. However before I could fire, I felt the air get sucked out. Confused I looked around myself, as if I was going to find the lost air. Rainbow's wings were open and I could feel them gathering up air.
I shouted at her, "Hey, you can't do that! That's cheating."
"What, should I have let you fly away?"
"I wasn't going to fly away, I was going to stop Twilight from talking, so I could calmly explain what happened."
Before anything further could be said one more voice called out, 'Hey what's going on here?"
Pinkie Pie bounced up to join us. Once again Rainbow spoke first, "Silver was just about to explain why he was attempting to paint himself on the ground."
Pinkie, confused, only said, "Huh?"
I calmly said, "Rainbow thinks I was trying to kill myself."
Wrong words. Pinkie immediately deflated. She gave me the saddest look and said,
"Don't you like it here? I thought we were becoming great friends."
"We are friends."
"Then why would you do that to us?"
I couldn't take it anymore, "I WASN'T!" My voice echoed far away.
"I was diving, y'know like go down real fast then pull up. Come on, you of all people should know that Rainbow. I was doing a trick! You assumed that I was falling, an honest mistake, but this is ridiculous. Now I'm going to go work, and I don't want any of you following me."
With that I lifted my wings and once more. "Oh and one more thing, Rainbow I need to ask you some questions about your house. So if you could meet me at the library later, say around 3 it would be much appreciated."
I took off, and flew towards the farm. Feeling the need for speed, I put more energy into flying. When I could barely see where I was going, I was satisfied. I just love the feeling of wind pushing against you. I think I handled that in the best manner possible. I reached the barn in record time. In time in fact to see Caramel butting heads with Big Mac.
I landed down next to them and watched them try to push each other. Caramel surprised me. He was putting up a good fight considering Big Mac was twice his size. However, the inevitable happened and Caramel was thrown to the ground. I was debating on whether or not to interupt them when Caramel saw me.
"Oh hey Silver. You’re a bit late, but don't worry. Apparently AJ is getting some beauty sleep today."
"Ah'd shut that mouth of yers Caramel, 'fore I decide to wrastle with you. I'd sure hate to let Silver here see you lose to a girl."
Applejack walked up to us from the direction of her small house. I don't think she ever changed her appearance. It's like she made sure that every day she looked exactly the same.
"Well I for one would love to see that."
"Ah'm sure you would. 'Sides Ah don't have the time for beauty sleep."
I couldn't resist, "Maybe you should invest in some…"
AJ turned to look at me so fast, I swear her neck cracked, "Ah suppose you want to be beaten by a girl today too."
I really needed to learn to shut up, "Well I guess when I see one, I'll avoid them."
Caramel had been moving his hoof across his neck, but smacked his face when I said that. AJ on the other hand smiled at me, and not a good smile.
"Hardy Har. Ah think it's time ah showed you how we settle disputes, Apple style."
Uh oh. I wasn't a fool, years of apple bucking had given AJ very well-defined leg muscles. She could most likely kick my ass if she felt like it. At least it wasn't Big Mac that I had pissed off, I don't think I'd walk away from him. AJ began descending on me with that smile. Caramel stopped her though,
"Give the new guy a break AJ, besides I think that you don't need the beauty sleep, you're all ready beautiful."
AJ blushed at his comment, looks like someone has a soft spot after all. She gave me one last look and sighed,
"Well all right, but next time you won't get off so easy. Now get to work!"
Big Mac had apparently walked off at some point, he was an odd guy. Caramel walked with me for awhile as we walked deeper into the farm.
"You owe me for that."
"I know, thanks by the way. I'd really hate to 'wrastle' with AJ, although apparently she would love to with you."
"Watch it, or we'll be 'wrastling'"
"WOAH! Sorry, but I don't swing that way."
"Ha ha… You know what I mean. By the way, there's another worker here today. His name is Star Storm, do me a favor and tell him to watch out for AJ. She likes to pick on him for some reason."
"If I see him I will, what's he look like?"
"Dark blue coat, and a spiky white mane."
"Got it, see you later."
I walked away to begin my work for the day. I didn't see this Star Storm, but I think I heard AJ yelling at someone. I had decided to not investigate. My work was a lot easier today. I still ran and bucked the tree, even though I could've flown. I needed to push my legs to exercise them, so why not do it at work? However, when the baskets were filled, I was able to just fly them real quick back to the barn. I did accidentally run into a tree once, but I don't think anypony was watching.
I finished working around noon as I usually do and flew back to the library. Flying makes everything easier. I'm sure that even cooking would be easier if you could fly while doing it. I walked inside the library to find Lunar, Rarity, and Twilight sitting around.
"Now Lunar's job is in the morning so he has an excuse, but do you two actually do anything?"
Rarity answered first, "Well I run my own business, so I can decide if I open or if I want to close early."
"And I work here at the library. It's not my fault that nopony wants to read anything."
"Well I'm going to go wash up."
Rarity got up as well, "Splendid idea!"
I turned to glare at her, "Alone."
Rarity smiled, "I was just kidding, of course."
I took a brief shower and felt much better. I used to take cold showers in the morning so I could wake up better, but a hot shower relaxes your muscles so well. I walked back into the main room and took my customary spot on the couch. I started to fall asleep, but I made sure to keep one eye on Rarity. They mostly talked about magic, and eventually Lunar left to go bake with Pinkie Pie. Rarity and Twilight started talking about girlish stuff so I let my mind wander.
An hour later I woke up. Twilight was shaking me saying something. I was still too tired to understand her, and I just gave her a blank look. I shook my head to wake myself, and Twilight repeated herself,
"I said Rainbow is here. Are you deaf or something?"
Even half awake I could still poke fun at her, "Only when you're talking. Thanks for waking me up, what time is it?"
"About 1:30."
I looked up and glared at Rainbow, "You're early. That means I lost another hours worth of nap time."
She laughed nervously, "Ha… well I know the feeling."
Seeing that she was still stressing over this morning, I decided to leave Rarity and Twilight to themselves. I motioned for Rainbow to follow me outside.
She spoke first, "I'm sorry about this morning, I over reacted."
"No don't be sorry. You may have assumed wrong, but it was still good that you took action. Imagine if you had been right and didn't act on it. Sometimes you need to think before you act, but never hesitate to act."
"That doesn't really make sense…"
"Then it will eventually."
"Okay…."
"Now back to those questions I wanted to ask you. First, how did you suck up the air I was charging?"
"Oh that's easy. It's just a simple self-defense tactic the mares learned in flight school."
"How do I do it?"
"Well, when I do it I just send air over the other pegasus' wings and use that to sweep away any air they've been holding."
"Interesting, I'll have to remember that. Secondly, how do I build a cloud house?"
"Oh well that's a bit harder to explain. I can show you though, follow me."
She took off into the air, and I wasn't far behind. She stopped next to a rather large cloud and turned to face me.
"First you need to collect enough clouds to build your house. Once you have them you need to start molding them into the shape you want."
She demonstrated by molding the cloud she was next to into a pole. She motioned for me to try, and I succeeded in making a poor-looking column. It was a lot like working with clay, except a lot softer.
"My house took me quite some time to build, but mine is really extravagant. I think it took me a couple of months to get the basic structure down. Then I had to fine tune it. I also had to make sure to anchor it to the ground so it didn't fly away."
When she mentioned a couple of months, my smile disappeared.
"Screw that, I'll just sleep on a cloud."
She laughed, "Ya… Well that's what most Pegasi do."
All my visions of an epic cloud battleship went down the drain. My dream of making a huge battleship that I could fly around Equestria, gone in seconds.
"Well that's disappointing, oh well. I guess I'll have to find a different way to build a giant battleship."
"A giant what?"
"Never mind, well I'm going to go back to the library now, you coming?"
"Sure."
We both flew back towards the library. Rainbow seemed determined to make it there before me. I didn't really feel like working up a sweat again, so I gave it a half-hearted attempt. She easily beat me there, and would've started bragging if I hadn't just ignored her and went inside. I went to sit on my couch when something stopped me. Rarity was laying down on the couch already. She was acting like something dramatic had happened, but I didn't care. I just wanted my spot back.
"Oh I think I saw some Fancy-Pants guy outside walking around."
Rarity immediately got up and raced outside. I laid down on the couch and sighed.
Twilight said, "Well that wasn't very nice."
"She shouldn't have been on my couch."
"That's not your couch, it's mine."
"Sure, keep telling yourself that."
Rarity came back in giving me a very stern look.
"I didn't see anyone out there."
"You must've just missed him."
"I'm sure."
"And I'm Silver, what's your point?"
They mostly just talked, while I added in the occasional comment. Pinkie and Lunar joined us shortly after. They brought some food, which I gladly ate, to make sure it tasted good of course. We all just hung out like we had been friends for years. It wasn't until around 3:30 that anything else happened.
Fluttershy walked inside the building, 'Twilight have you seen Silver anywhere? He didn't show up at my house today."
I spoke up, "I think he was at the library earlier."
"Oh thank you." She turned around and left. Only to come back in a second later.
"Wait…"
I tried not to laugh, but it was very difficult.
"Why didn't you come to my house?"
"Well I assumed after yesterday that my lessons were over."
"Oh… Well I guess that makes sense… Does this mean you won't come by anymore?"
"Well not for lessons, but we can still hang out."
"Oh… alright…"
"Why don't you stay for awhile?"
"Oh.. um.. okay…"
She went to sit down on the floor next to me, but I motioned for her to join me on the couch.
Rarity fake whined at me, "How come she gets to sit on the couch?"
"Because she's the only one who hasn't tried to throw me off."
It's true. Before they had all been trying to get me off the couch. It had turned into a king of the hill game, but after even Twilight's levitation magic failed to get me off, I proclaimed myself king.
"Now all we need is Applejack, and it'll be a complete set."
Twilight said to me, "We don't really see a lot of Applejack in applebuck season. It's not until winter that she really has the time to hang out with us."
"Shame, she probably would've been the only one strong enough to get me off the couch."
"I know plenty of magic that could get you off."
"I didn't know you knew erotic magic, but please don't use it on me."
"You know what I meant!"
Most of the day went by like this, until finally Rarity decided to leave. With her went Pinkie and Rainbow. That left me, Lunar, Fluttershy, and Twilight. I would've made a joke about couples, but Lunar was still sore on the subject. I just laid down with Fluttershy listening to Lunar and Twilight argue about something.
Eventually Fluttershy also decided to leave. The sun was giving out its final rays, and I set out to find myself a nice cloud to sleep on. As the moon began to rise I fell asleep once again looking into it.
Before I got this job on the farm, I would sleep in until at least 2. Now that I do, I find myself rising up with the sun every day. I yawned, stretched my wings, and got up. Instead of diving, I flew down slowly. Better safe than sorry, right? I flew towards the farm, ready to start another day.
Applejack was already at the barn when I got there, and so was Caramel. They were arguing about something, but I wasn't really paying attention. I just walked straight into the farm and began to work. Have I mentioned that I wish I had my iPod? Half-way through morning, Caramel found me.
"Hey Silver slow down for a sec."
"What's up?"
"Me and the guys are getting together at my place later today. I was just wondering if you wanted to come."
"Uh… Sure, who're the guys?"
"Well there's me and Big Mac. You already met Doc, and Star Storm works here on the farm. Then there's chance. He works down at the post-office. He runs the machinery or something. Never bothered to ask actually."
"What time, and where?"
"Meet me at my place, about 5 o'clock. It's the house behind the town hall. The brown one with the red roof."
"Alright see you then." I flew towards the barn to drop off my ext basket of apples. AJ was waiting for me, and motioned for me to go over to her.
"Ah need to talk to ya for a sec."
"Alright."
"Well in a few weeks applebuck season will be over. We won't need the extra help, and there won't be any work for you here."
"Okay."
"Ah just wanted to let ya know so y'all could find another job."
"Well thanks AJ, but honestly I don't really need the money."
"Then what are you here for?"
"Well, just in case I ever want to do something with Fluttershy. Or anybody for that matter."
"Well alright."
I went back to work in my section of the Farm. I tried to see how many unbucked trees were left, but the trees were too close to each other for me to see really well. I finished working and headed back to the library.
Twilight was by herself today, but I didn't stop to chat. I just took my shower before even laying down. Feeling refreshed I walked into the main room and laid down on the couch. Twilight was silent for a little bit, a miracle in itself, but eventually her voice echoed out.
"Silver, can I ask you a question?"
"Okay I've been avoiding the, 'you already did' joke, but if you people keep asking me that, I can't be held responsible."
"This is serious."
I sighed, it seems like everyone want my advice. "What?"
"Ever since the party, Lunar has been avoiding spending time with me alone. He won't talk about it, he just pretends that it never happened."
"None of that was a question."
"I'm asking you what I should do."
"Do I look like a relationship expert to you?"
"We'll no, but you always have good advice."
"I do don't i? Well this time all I can say is be patient. You could force his hand by being extremely forward, but you might not like what he plays. I'm positive that given enough time, Lunar will come around."
"What's with the card metaphors?"
"They work. Now I have a question for you."
"Yes?"
"Why do you want a relationship so bad? Can't you just be good friends with him?"
"Well from what I know, a relationship is something you start with someone you care about."
"I don't even want to know where you get your info from. Why don't you just stay good friends with him? Are you wanting to start something physical?"
She blushed, "Well no…maybe, but that’s not the point. I just thought that we might be able to build a higher bond then friendship."
"I'm not going to get into an argument abut love and all that crap right now. My advice is for you to wait a little bit longer before doing anything rash."
We sat in silence for a bit, until the door burst open. Rarity ran inside with something in her mouth.
"Oh hello Silver. Twilight you won't believe what just happened!"
"What?"
"Well I was working on a new dress in my shop when a customer came in. He was wearing an interesting hat, so I asked him about it. He said that that was why he came to see me. He said he's been trying to find out who made it, and who could make him more. So I told him that if he let me have it for a little bit, I would make him some copies for a discount, and he agreed!"
"That's great Rarity. is that the hat?"
"Why yes it is, what do you think Silver?"
"It's awesome."
"You didn't even look!"
I turned my head to glare at Rarity, but when I saw what she had in her mouth my jaw dropped. In her mouth was my hat. It took me a few seconds to say something again.
"That's my hat."
"What was that darling?"
"That's my hat. The one I dropped in first."
"Is it really. Well that is awfully convenient. Well once I make a copy you can have it back."
I didn't know how to feel about this. On one hand I got my hat back, and I really liked that hat. Then again, I was really looking forward to having an adventure. It was very convenient though. Rarity left shortly after, leaving me and Twilight alone once again. Twilight warmed up some frozen food which I gladly ate. She asked about work on the farm, and I told her about the days so far. We exchanged small talk while we ate. When I finished I returned to my spot on the couch. Twilight began walking around, shelving books that she had read.
At 5 I left the library and headed out towards Caramel's place. It was big, but not huge. It looked like a four pony house. I knocked on the door and waited. The door opened revealing Big Mac.
"Sup Mac?"
I held out my hoof, and to my surprise he knocked his against mine. He led me into a room with a couch and several chairs. On one of the chairs sat the Doc. On the couch was Caramel, and the blue pony named Star Storm. Sitting on a different couch was presumably the pony Chance.
When Caramel saw me he got up, "Guys this is Silver, he'll be joining us tonight. Silver you've already met the Doc and Big Mac. This is Star Storm…" He pointed at the blue pony.
"…and this is Chance." He pointed at the pony sitting on the chair.
Chance was a big pony, with rather large leg muscles. Actually he looked a lot like Big Mac.
"Sup guys? Y'know Caramel, Chance looks an awful lot like Big Mac, but his coat color matches yours better. Is there anything you're not telling me?"
"Ha ha. You're not the first to make that joke, and you won't be the last. Well now that you're here, we can get started. Come on lets go."
"Get started on what?"
"I'll explain on the way."
We left Caramel's house and started walking towards the Everfree forest.
"Every once in a while, me and the guys will get together and play a game."
"Game?"
"It's really simple. It'll be easier to explain once we get to the field."
We walked off the road and into a large flower field that had a large rectangle flattened out. At each end were goal posts. This was going to be interesting. From what Caramel said, this game was exactly like soccer or football. The one where you can't use your hands. Well actually this game didn't have that rule, but it did have a no mouths rule.
'Well what do you guys say? Browns versus the odd colors?"
It was me, Star Storm, and Big Mac on one side, and Caramel, Doc, and Chance on the other. Big Mac and Chance acted as goalies. I was more of a hockey guy, but I didn't have a problem with soccer (football, whatever). At first we sucked, because I had trouble coordinating my hooves well enough in order to run and kick the ball.
Eventually I got the hang of it, but it was too late to make a comeback. The next game went much better, but we still lost. After losing another game after that I was ready to give up. We did win the last game though, but I'm pretty sure they went easy on us.
It grew dark as we played, and soon it became too difficult to see the ball. After setting up another meeting a week from then, we all went our separate ways. I flew up to a random cloud and laid down. It was strange, I never thought I would be hanging out with the stallions in Equestria, but they were a lot of fun. I could get used to life here. Everything was so simple, and it was a good life. With these thoughts I once again fell asleep looking at the moon.
AN: This chapter was kinda rushed. Hopefully the next chapter will be much better. Have i really done 20 chapters of this? It doesn't feel like it. Comment rate subscribe, oh wait...wrong site. Seriously though feel free to ask any questions or just comment about how awesome a flying cloud battleship would be.
AN: I'm not sure if i'm happy with this at the moment. After a while it was all i could come up with. I might change it so be warned and stuff.
I was awoken from my slumber by something extremely cold hitting my face. Waking up instantly I shook myself to get rid of the feeling. Snow flew off of me as I looked around for the culprit. Pinkie Pie was on the ground laughing as I glared at her. She had built herself a small snow fort, but it wouldn't be enough. I dove towards the ground and pulled up at the last moment. I gathered a whole bunch of snow using the air speed to keep it up. I flew a little ways a way and turned around. I stated flying back towards Pinkie's fort. She saw me and screamed in fake terror,
"AIRSTRIKE!"
I let go of my load and watched as a large pile of snow covered pinkie. Before I could celebrate my small victory, a barrage of snow balls flew at me. Twilight, Rarity, and Lunar were all using their magic to send large amounts of them at me. I weaved in between them, but I wasn't quick enough. One managed to clip my wing, unbalancing me for a second. From that moment things went bad. My movement was halted and I was pelted with snow. Before I was taken down, Rainbow rescued me. She flew in and dropped another load of snow on the unicorns. Rainbow and I landed, cheering. Our celebration was short lived as a huge amount of snow flew towards us.
"TANK! DUCK AND COVER!"
Applejack was bucking huge snow balls at us that pinkie was making ridiculously fast. I laughed as one hit rainbow and she disappeared from view. Seems that every winter day started with a large snow fight.
It's been about 3 months since I arrived in Ponyville. Most of my time here has been spent with friends. Every day it seems, someone would want to do something. Sometimes Fluttershy would want to go out, other times Caramel had something planned. Occasionally Pinkie would find an excuse for a party. Life here has just been perfect. It's like I can't be unhappy, like physically unable. I still feel like I'm forgetting something, but it hasn't come back to bite me yet. Nothing too interesting has happened in the last few months. Well except the time Fluttershy and I… Well never mind.
An hour later we were all inside the library sitting in front of the fire. I was occupying the couch like usual, with Fluttershy with me. She had elected to stay out of our snow war games, good idea too. We were all shivering from the cold. Spike just shook his head at us as we complained.
"You guys do this every day. And every time you come here and tell me to light a fire. Maybe you should give it a rest."
Lunar responded, "Where would be the fun in that?"
"Besides it gives me an excuse to wear my snow fashion wear." That was Rarity.
From my spot on the couch I looked over at all of my friends. In only three months they had become the best of friends. Lunar and Twilight had finally started something, but I didn't ask for any details. I had already been through that mess once already. Applejack had recently started seeing a lot of Caramel, which had nothing to do with me. It wasn't my fault that I hit Applejack with a snowball and hid, she was the one who had blamed a nearby Caramel and tackled him. Pinkie was a mystery as always, and Rainbow was probably still training for the wonderbolts.
Twilight looked over at Rarity, "I think I know what ti get for my next birthday. My snow clothes can barely keep the cold out."
I finally spoke up, "Speaking of presents, when do you guys celebrate your winter holiday? It's been snowing for quite some time."
Everyone but Lunar gave me a questioning look, "What winter holiday?"
For a second it took me a minute to comprehend what they had said, "Wait a minute. Are you saying you don't celebrate any winter holiday?"
Twilight shook her head, "Unless you count winter wrap up as one, then no we don't."
I nearly panicked. Winter holidays were always awesome. Gifts, amazing food, and free time galore, what isn't to like about them?
"Uh you okay there sugarcube?" AJ asked.
"I will be once you tell me you're joking."
"We're really not."
I took a deep breath, "Okay this situation is salvageable. If you don't have a holiday, then we will have to make one."
Twilight gave me a disbelieving glance, "And why would we do that?"
"Because winter holidays are awesome. They're like a birthday party in which everyone gets presents."
I had won over Pinkie with that statement, "Oh my gosh that is such a good idea. It wil be the bestest best party ever!"
Twilight still didn't give in, "And how are we going to get everyone to celebrate with us?"
"We don't have to. I'll be happy as long as we do."
"And why would we celebrate."
"I don't know… Wait yes I do, we're celebrating the fact that me and Lunar came to Equestria. We'll call it Silver night. To be celebrated when the first snow is scheduled."
Twilght just shook her head, "I don't think people will get behind that…"
"OOH I can't wait, but the first snow already fell, so are we too late this year? Oh I know! We'll just celebrate it late! when is the next snow scheduled Rainbow?"
"I think next week sometime. Should give us plenty of time."
"You can't be serious."
"Come now Twilight. This is a great idea. It's always good to give gifts. Besides, I can get you a new scarf."
"Ya, and Ah love a good feast. This is the perfect excuse."
Fluttershy didn't comment, and Lunar just looked on with amusement.
"Come on even if it is a great idea, if we go through this, Silver's ego will inflate to unknown levels. Think about it, were pretty much celebrating him and Lunar."
"Its already there, so no worries. Besides you 'celebrate' Lunar quite a bit already."
She blushed, but said nothing.
Rarity added on to the idea, "I just had a wonderful idea. What if we don't tell anypony what we want? Then it will be a surprise when we get the gift."
"Good thinking"
Rarity and Fluttershy got up and left us, they headed to their usual spa meeting. I stretched out to fill the spot that Fluttershy had left. I sighed and said,
"This is the life."
Applejack got up to leave as well, "Ah'll see y'all later. I got uh.. plans."
"Would those plans involve a certain stallion?"
"Uh…"
"Don't be silly, she's obviously going to meet Caramel for a date."
"That's would I meant!"
"No, you said a certain stallion, and Applejack isn't going out with her brother."
That was a subject that could have been left alone. Brings up a good point though. I wonder if ponies frown on that kind of stuff, probably. Applejack left quickly as soon as Pinkie said that. Pinkie followed her out, and Applejack's protests could be heard until the door slammed closed. I didn't really want to be left alone with Lunar and Twilight.
"Well I'm going to leave now, don't leave any 'messes' for me to find. Especially on my couch."
"I don't know what you're talking about, I'm very neat."
"I hadn't realized you had convinced Lunar to do anything like that yet. Bye now."
Twilight blushed, and before she could say anything else I leapt out the door. I walked around town aimlessly. I though about rounding up Storm and Chance to go mess with Caramel, but I decided that not messing around with AJ on her date was a good idea. Then again that was a lifetime opportunity. Her reaction would probably be one for the ages. So against my better judgment I started to walk towards the house that Storm, Chance, and Caramel shared.
On my there I was stopped by a mare with a basket of flowers.
"Would you like to buy a flower? Maybe surprise a lucky mare?"
I was hit with instant inspiration. AJ would get just a little bit more time of peace.
"Hold on." I flew back to the library and opened the door. I closed my eyes and shouted out,
"Twilight I need some of the money I gave you!"
"You can open your eyes, were not doing anything."
"I don't believe you, I need like 10 bits."
"Why do I have to hold on to your money?"
"Because I have no where to put it. Now the money please."
"Fine, now leave so we can get back to what we were 'doing'"
I opened y eyes, "Please you are both extremely prude, you won't do anything for a million years."
I left a ,once again, frustrated Twilight. I flew back to the flower mare and bought one. I took the flower from her and zoomed off to the spa. The receptionist looked up at me curious,
"Can I help you?"
"Actually yes you can. Can you give this to Fluttershy when she comes out? Just tell her something that sounds sweet."
"Of course, that's very nice of you."
"Well I am pretty sweet aren't I?"
She chuckled, "I'm Lotus, nice to meet you."
"Silver, interesting name. I know this one story about some ponies called lotus eaters."
She was probably feigning her interest, "Oh really?"
"Ya, there was this one pony who was on a quest to go home, but he was tricked into eating the lotus flower. The flower made him happy and he never wanted to leave. He nearly forgot all about his quest, and was content to just stay in the paradise."
At that moment my head nearly exploded with pain. Memories started to rise from where they had been buried. Visions of earth pummeled me. I saw the homeless begging for food, and I saw people ignoring them. I saw army men of all kinds shooting each other. Terrified people ran in all directions, and abandoned children crying in streets. I saw people who went through life looking like machines. Then I saw a tower. I saw Morkar talking to me, telling me to come back when I was ready.
"Oh my gosh, are you okay?!"
Well that was interesting. Flashback much? It brought up something important though. Morkar had told me about a potentially dangerous threat, and I've been ignoring it. Looks like i had a tower to visit.
"I gotta go, tell Fluttershy that I'll be back soon."
I sped out the door and down the road that seemingly led to nowhere. I remembered what I had forgotten. I hadn't killed myself because my life sucked. I could deal with that. I had done it because the earth itself sucks. People killing each other in glorified natural selection. I remembered what Morkar had told me, that whoever had been messing with the ponies months ago would be biding its time. I had given it months to do so, good job me. Looks like I was the pony version of Odysseus. I flew to the general area where the tower was located and landed.
The only problem was that I couldn't see the tower. I walked around the area shouting, but it didn't appear. Then I saw another pegasus flying towards me. It was a mare, light blue in color. She landed down next to me.
"Uh hi?"
"Oh hi there, I'm Ditzy, I'd like to chat, but I'm running late. I need to deliver this package to the top of this tower."
"Um… Tower?"
"Ya right here, sorry, but I really gotta hurry."
She flew towards nothing, and stopped. She acted like she was opening a door, and then disappeared. I tried to find the spot where she had went it, but I had lost it. She came flying out to my left, and I rushed to the spot. I still couldn't feel anything, tower or door.
Frustrated I screamed, "How the hell do I get in?!"
Then I was inside. I tried not to think about and looked around. The tower had as many books as ever, and the staircase still didn't work. Trying what I had just did, I imagined myself in Morkar's room. I was still somewhat shocked when I found myself there. Morkar was opening a box, and pulled out a rock.
"Ah, I see you got my message."
"Your message? Wait did you mess with my head."
"I deemed it necessary. You had apparently forgotten about me."
"I guess I did, life here caught up with me."
"No worries, that's just the peace core at work."
"The what?"
"The peace core. A marvelous piece of work. I'm not even sure how, or who made it. I can't tell if its ancient, or very advanced."
"But what is it?"
"I can't really answer that, I can only tell you what it does. Answer me this, have you ever once thought about eating meat, or seriously harming anyone? Have you seen anyone else do so?"
"Well no."
"The peace core drives this planet to naturally be a place of peace. It strives to make everyone happy, and remove any form of violence. Didn't you find it odd that everyone was so accepting of two strangers who fell from a hole I the sky? Or that in days you had a relationship with one of them? That's the peace core at work."
"So all of this… Everything here… Has been fake?" All my new friends, Fluttershy, hell maybe even Lunar… Fake.. I don't think I could handle that.
"No, and maybe it's worse for that reason. Everything you felt is genuine, it just may not have come as quickly or at all on a planet without a peace core. Everything everyone else has done is genuine. They all did so because they wanted to. Now back to important things…"
I sighed in relief. I don't know what I would've done if it had been.
"I was looking through your memories, when I noticed something odd…"
"Wait you were looking through my memories?"
"Yes I took a copy when you knocked yourself out. Now be quiet, I have important things to say. When you arrived in the spirit stream, something odd happened. You should've been able to see all the worlds in all of existence. However, you could see nothing, and there was nothing. Just you and they Martin boy."
"His name is Lunar, but you went through my memories?"
"Didn't I already answer that? Now I have a theory that works out quite nicely. This Lunar did not achieve enlightenment. He simply pushed his spirit away from the earth with sheer willpower. He however was only focused on this world here, so when his unconscious spirit arrived in the stream, he could only go to this place. So when you arrived in the stream, you somehow got caught up with him."
"You did it without asking me."
"Are you still on that? Now as to the voice you heard. I believe it was the regulator of earth. He somehow also followed you here, and I think that it is him that is interfering here. He's limited to what he can do though thanks to the peace core. However, he has probably found a way around it, and we are short on time. If he has then he will come for you. I was going to teach you several things, but time is of the essence."
"Why didn't you ask me, didn't that thought cross your mind."
"No, now pay attention. I can't say when he will strike, but I have a feeling it will be soon. I want you to stand guard over the town you live in right now. So I'm going to transfer some of my knowledge to you temporarily. With it you'll actually stand a chance of living. I know this is a lot to absorb in such a short time, but I think you can handle it."
"You didn't even think that I would be upset about it?"
"Nope, I also got you a present. Here it is"
"Is that my katana?"
"It used to be, I fine-tuned it a little."
"Fine tuned it? It's completely different. It's not even curved!"
My katana had become a simple one edged blade. The handle reminded me of a kitchen knife, square with bolts holding the blade's tang in place. The hand-guard had become a black square.
"Now are you ready for the knowledge transfer?"
"Wait what?"
"You weren't even listening. Looks like I'll have to include this conversation as well. Now remember this is only temporary so you won't keep this knowledge. Oh and one more thing."
"Ya?"
"Don't die. If he can get in the spirit stream, he might be able to stop you from going."
Morkar suddenly grabbed my head with his hands and started to glow. I started to feel light headed, and started to lose focus. That changed quickly as for the second time today my head exploded in pain. Strange I didn't feel like I knew anything more than usual. The pain started to get worse, and I tried to shout. My voice didn't come, and the pain kept getting worse. I wasn't even going unconscious from shock. It would be useless to try and describe this pain. It was a whole new kind of pain. Something that made brain freezes look good. After what seemed like hours, the pain faded, and thankfully so did my consciousness.
I heard one last thing from Morkar, "Oh and I would keep this hidden. No need to start a panic, eh?"
AN: I know this is all very sudden like, but I couldn't think of another way to do it. If you haven't gotten it yet, then we are now several months ahead of where the last chapter ended. If you really want to know what happened in between then reread the last chapters, and imagine them being slightly different. Thanks to all you commenters and stuff. Your opinion is greatly appreciated. Seriously though, it helps me to keep going. The story calms down again, so don't panic. I won't just end it with a bang.
I woke up before the sun was fully up. Pinkie hadn't yet woken up, or had decided that this one day she wouldn't start a fight. Last night seemed so long ago. Like a faint dream that would soon fade. I could remember something about some core, and Derpy was there too. I shook my head to clear my thoughts. Most likely I got knocked out in some weird fashion and had an odd dream. Rainbow had probably picked me up and put me in a cloud. Besides I had some shopping to do. I needed to get gifts and stuff for our new holiday.
I laid down for a little while allowing myself to fully wake up, just in case Pinkie was hiding somewhere. After a few minutes I got up and dived off the cloud. I felt the sensation in my wings, and adjusted them accordingly. It didn't go away though so I slowed down. The sensation was still there, and no matter what I did I couldn't get rid of it. I tried flying straight, even upside down, but nothing worked. I started to head to the ground, when my wings locked up.
"Well fuck." My mind was racing trying to find a situation out of my predicament. As every tiny amount of time past my breath grew heavier. I sucked in a huge breath to calm myself. I let it out slowly, and then in one big gust. I grinned as fell closer to my death. I began sucking in a lot of air, feeling like a pink puffball. I breathed it out and sucked it back in. I caught a little bit of it with my magic, but it was too far from my wings to be very effective.
I continued with my efforts as I could start making out everyponies face. With a last final effort i let out a huge breathe. I tried to focus all my magic, but it proved futile. I barely managed a small cushion in between me and ground. I hit said ground, very hard. However, I wasn't granted merciful unconsciousness. I had twisted my body so I landed on my side, and not my head. It hurt, a lot. Yet, it only reminded me that I was alive, for how long was still questionable.
"The hell?"
"That was quite some fall, are you okay?"
"Apparently…"
The ponies began to disperse, but Rainbow flew over to me.
"I've taken some bad falls, but that one looked pretty bad. What were you trying to do?"
So when I'm not falling, I'm trying to commit suicide, but when I fall uncontrollably from an even higher height, I'm supposed to shake it off? That makes sense.
"I couldn't stop myself, I couldn't adjust to the wind speeds."
"I've heard of that, the Pegasi who encounter that call it, turbulance. You seem okay though. I've been trying to get Pinkie a present, but she won't leave me alone. Think you can take her?"
Apparently no one cared that I had fallen from the sky and lived. Well what makes sense to them makes sense to me.
"Sure, then I can just shop for everyone else. Is everyone getting theirs done early?"
"Well Twilight is waiting, and Rarity has locked herself in her boutique. She won't let anyone in. I haven't seen Fluttershy, and AJ asked Caramel to go with her to the mall."
"Well I can wait till tomorrow then. Alright I got an idea."
I spied Pinkie Pie hiding next to a stall carefully watching Rainbow. I tried to sneak up on her, but she turned around and shushed me. I walked up to her and hid down next to her.
"What are we doing"
"Seeing what Rainbow is going to buy."
"Hmm…"
Rainbow just stared at us blankly.
"Well this is boring. I've got an idea!" I poked Pinkie with my hoof and ran.
"You're it!"
"I LOVE THIS GAME!" She bolted after me.
I'll hand it to her, Pinkie can run. If she had race AJ and Rainbow, I think she would've won. Provided there was cake at the end anyway. I ran as fast as I could onto the trail towards Fluttershy's house. Pinkie was gaining on me, and I thought about just flying away. She would probably just find a way to get me anyway. I continued running, and I didn't look back. I could see Fluttershy's house in front of me and pushed myself even faster.
I burst through the door, scaring Fluttershy who was currently helping a squirrel do something. I dived behind her, and just in time to. Pinkie slammed into Fluttershy who then slammed into me. We fell into a pile with me at the bottom. I should've been in great pain at the moment seeing as I had just hit the ground very hard, but I shrugged the thought off.
Pinkie was bouncing around the house, "Your it Fluttershy! What are we playing anyway?"
"Distract Pinkie while Rainbow buys her present."
"Oh that sounds fun!"
"Yep."
"…."
I just looked around as silence descended on us.
Pinkie didn't say anything for awhile. Fluttershy looked at me and gave a nervous smile. Time seemed to crawl as Pinkie continued to smile at us. Either she was incredibly stupid or was waiting for me to snap. If she had been waiting then she won.
"Pinkie, Rainbow is buying your present right now."
Pinkie suddenly gasped loudly. She bolted out the door saying something unintelligible. I looked over at Fluttershy and the squirrel she had been helping shook his little fist at me.
I ignored it and said, "Sorry for scaring you 'Shy."
"Oh it's fine…"
A comforting silence fell over us. I think that's what really got me. I could say nothing, but still feel comfortable. I walked around picking up miscellaneous things and putting them back up.
"So why aren't you out shopping?"
"Oh…Well I'm making everyone something."
"And here I was thinking that only Rarity would bother."
Silence once again fell. I walked up to her and nudged her. She looked at me and slightly smiled. She leaned on me and sighed.
"Well I shouldn't try and sneak a peek should I? I'll leave you alone for right now."
With that I walked out the house and walked away. I debated on flying or not, but eventually stopped and just flew. I had come to rely on flying, and I rarely walked at all. I flew back towards Ponyville, but I saw Big Macintosh walking below me. I landed down next to him.
"Sup Mac?"
He didn't say anything, but gave me a blank look. Wasn't too odd, considering it was Big Mac I was dealing with.
"What are you doing out here?"
Again nothing, but now he was slowly advancing on me. Now he was starting to act out of character. I backed up a little.
"You alright Mac?"
He snorted at me. Now I was scared, he was hitting his hoof against the ground. He charged at me as I took off. He grabbed my tail before I got clear. He slammed me into the ground hard. I tried to stand, but he threw me by the tail in the opposite direction. I flew through the air in a different sense this time. I slammed against a tree and pain spread out once again.
"The hell?" Once again I found myself completely lost in the same day. Big Mac was running towards me again, but I managed to stand. He suddenly stopped, and I recognized what he was going to do. I leaped out of the way just in time as he bucked the tree I had been against. A crack resounded, and I cringed when the tree fell. That could've been me. Mac was giving me that blank look again as he prepared for another charge. Before he could move I charged him. I flew straight at him and tackle him. We both hit the ground and I struggled to get up. The pain from earlier was receding, but my vision had been clouded.
Big Mac once again started running at me, and I charged him. He was much smarter than I had anticipated and he stopped. Knowing what was about to happen I tried to stop myself. I wasn't fast enough and Big Mac bucked me right in the chest. Pain dulled all my other senses, and I barely felt myself hit the tree. I didn't even hear the sickening crack, or the tree fall behind me. I heard nothing as I blacked out.
Waking up once again, I saw it was still evening. I sighed as any pain that had been there previously was gone. I looked up to get a view of my surroundings. I nearly screamed when I saw Big Mac giving me a concerning glance. Instead I flew up and out of his reach.
"Is this where you've been hiding out?"
He didn't even acknowledge that he had beaten the crap out of me. I know how these things work, he probably didn't even remember the moment.
"Hiding out?"
"Well no one has seen you since yesterday when you fell, so I assumed you took a break and went to relax somewhere."
"Yeah well it sounded like a good idea."
"Well the girls were worried about you."
"And you weren't?"
"Naw, you can handle yourself. Besides I knew you would come back eventually. You should go visit the girls though. Sooner rather than later. Twilight seemed convinced that something bad happened to you. I think she mentioned the Princess…"
With that I took off speeding. No need to involve her with everything going on. I didn't need an even bigger problem than the one I already had. Trying to figure out why things are acting weird is enough. Hopefully I could get to Twilight before Celestia was informed. As the city came into sight I started to look around for the royal chariot. I didn't see it, and I sighed inwardly. I arrived in front of the library and walked in. I saw Twilight frantically running around the library.
"Hey Twilight."
"Oh hi Silver."
"….."
"Silver! Where have you been? Everyone has been worried. we couldn't find you anywhere this morning. You didn't show up at Fluttershy's either.
"I was…. relaxing."
"You were relaxing?"
"Ya I needed a break from everything and just went to find a quiet spot. I guess I took longer than expected."
She blinked, "Oh well that makes sense."
No it doesn't! I didn't even sound convincing, "Ya. So did you happen to send a letter to the Princess?"
"Well yes, but she said she was too busy at the moment…"
I sighed once again.
"but that she would send Princess Luna here."
All this over me? Then again I am still an alien in their world, so they should probably want to keep an eye on me.
"Alright well I'll just wait for her to get here and explain what happened." And then hopefully everything would go back to normal."
I laid on my couch for maybe a total of 5 minutes when a small knock could be heard. I opened the door and let Princess Luna in. She wasn't nearly as big as Celestia, but she still towered over me.
"Ah Silver. Your just the pony I was looking for. My sister wants you to attend a private meeting at the castle."
Before I could even protest Luna's horn activated. In a flash I was no longer I the library. I opened my eyes to a huge feast and a blank-eyed, but grinning Celestia.
"Well fuck."
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I slowed down when I started to get near Ponyville. A large boom resounded when I finally slowed down. It was deafening and I almost fell. I came to a near stop when I reached the library. It would probably be a bad idea to smash into one of the buildings. The moon was starting to rise and soon it would be at the apex of its orbit. I approached the library and saw that the lights were still on. I landed down next to the door and walked in.
Twilight was sitting in the main room along with Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Spike. They looked up when I opened the door, and then looked at each other.
Twilight asked, "How was your meeting with the Princess?"
I shuddered and said, "Ask her about it. What are you guys doing?"
Twilight sighed, "Rainbow here thinks someone is trying to steal her favorite trick, and as I was saying. A sonic boom is when something breaks the sound barrier, if you could do it I'm sure other speed loving Pegasi could manage it. Your unique color is what makes it a sonic rainboom, and I don't think anyone could copy that."
Rainbow tried to say something, but I interrupted, "Why do you think someone is trying to steal your trick?"
"Didn't you hear the boom? Besides Twilight, the boom is the hard part. If they manage to copy my color scheme then I'll be nobody again. I won't be the Rainbow dash, fastest flier in all of Equestria anymore. Then the Wonderbolts won't accept me."
Well the boom had come after I had stopped flying, so I had nothing to worry about.
"Then come up with a new trick. After all surprises only work once. Maybe you should draw something in the air with your rainbow trail. Speaking of that, quick question. How do you leave a trail?"
"That's a great idea silver. The Wonderbolts often leave images in their smoke, so If I show that I can already do it, then they won't have a choice, but to accept me!"
She took off and left without answering my question. Oh well I didn't really care that much about it. Twilight was just shaking her head smiling.
"What are the Vunderbolts anyway? Are they just entertainment, or are they an elite force?"
"It's pronounced wonder, and they're a little bit of both. They mostly do shows, but if Equestria is in danger, then the princess usually calls on them. Now tell me what happened at the princesses meeting."
"All I will say, is that I'm never going to talk about it again. Now if you will excuse me, I've had a rough day and I need to sleep. Goodnight."
I left the library and I found a nice cloud to lay on. Tomorrow I was going to get my shopping done for sure. If only I knew what to get. I closed my eyes, trying to forget the events of the day.
The next morning I woke up to the usual snowball in the face. I shook myself to get rid of the cold. I flew down to ground level where Pinkie was waiting with a pile of snow balls. She threw them all at me and I tried to dodge them, but there were too many. Soon I was under a small pile of snow. Laughing I shook it off and stood up. I flapped my wings and threw a mini blizzard at Pinkie. She was quickly covered in snow, and looked much like a snowball with eyes. Looked like things were back to normal. I sighed as Pinkie shook herself laughing.
The last few days had been hectic, and more than once terrifying, but whatever had been causing it looked done. I ducked as another snowball sailed over my head. I looked back to see Twilight's face covered in snow.
"Remind you of late night's with Lunar?"
She blushed furiously and chocked on nothing, "WHAT!? That is just disgusting. Why would you even say such a thing?"
"Well usually you and Lunar have snowball fights at night. What were you thinking about?"
She just shook her head and magicked some snow at me. I let it hit me as I was too busy laughing at her to move. It felt good to laugh, and even better to annoy Twilight.
About an hour later, the entire gang was once again in the library in front of the fire. Fluttershy who had once again skipped out was waiting for us. I sat on the couch with her, and said,
"So 'Shy when are you going to join us?"
"Oh well…. never?"
"Even Rarity has joined in. I promise it’s a lot of fun."
"I'd rather not…"
"Stop pushing her Silver." Twilight berated me.
"I reckon he 'pushes' her quite a bit when we aren't around, if ya know what Ah mean."
Woah that was unexpected. AJ usually just shook her head at us. I checked her face for any signs of blankness, but when all I could find was mirth I laughed. Fluttershy was blushing deeply at the looks we were getting. One night we had been in AJ's barn alone together and didn't come out until the next morning. I won't repeat what happened in there, but it wasn't what everyone is thinking. I had made Fluttershy promise not to repeat it either.
She said nothing, so I stood up for her, "And I reckon you get a lot of 'bucking' done now that you're with Caramel."
She laughed at this statement, and shaking her head said, "Now don't y'all bring in apple farming puns into this."
I looked over at Rainbow and Pinkie, "So when are you two going to find someone to 'buck' with?"
Rainbow blushed, but Pinkie as random as ever said, "Oh I already have loads of people to do that with! Since I host parties and stuff I meet a lot of people."
Well that was… interesting. Rainbow said nothing, but Rarity said, "Oh I know someone who I wouldn't mind 'bucking'."
She gave me a saucy wink, but I just frowned. I knew it was all in good fun, but Fluttershy wouldn't stand up for herself, and I felt bad when she was in the same room. We all looked at Rainbow who was trying to shrink into the wall.
"Well I uh…" She was saved from a knock on the door.
Twilight rose to open the door and I laid back and pulled Fluttershy closer to me. I nearly froze when the door opened. Celestia stood behind the door looking concerned. I didn't even wait. I decided to be safe and took off flying towards the balcony. I smashed open the windows and sped out the doors. I heard cries of surprise behind me, but explanations could come later.
Once again desperation to get away from Celestia filled me. I started pumping more and more air with my wings. Magic flowed freely throughout me and I felt that resistance building up. I pushed harder and harder, but this time my adrenaline was fading fast. Sweat poured off of me as I worked harder than ever to break the resistance. Then just like last time, I broke through and was flung across the sky.
I flew over the everfree forest and slowed once I was a good distance in. As soon as I slowed down a boom could be heard from over Ponyville. At first I thought Rainbow was chasing me, but no rainbow colors followed. I found a cloud and laid atop it, looking out for any giant ponies.
"What is this that I see? A flying green pony?"
I looked down from my cloud and saw Zecora. Oh this was going to be terrible. I could already feel the rhyming coming. I flew down to her and landed next to her.
"My name is Silver."
"A green pony named Silver?..."
She stayed silent for a while and then I realized something. Nothing rhymes with Silver! I wanted to laugh in her face, but I was content to watch her struggle. After a few moments she opened her mouth and I leaned in to hear what she had to say.
"But you are not the color of a chilver."
That had to be a made up word, I made a mental note to ask Twilight. I didn't really want to talk to the Zebra, as rhyming had a tendency to piss me off.
"Well nice to meet you, but I gotta fly."
I left her without another word, and flew back to Ponyville. As I neared the town I landed. I sneaked around the town trying to avoid Celestia if she was still around. I got to the library again and peeked through a window. I didn't see anyone, so I opened the door and walked in. The door slammed behind and I saw Rainbow holding the door closed. I gulped and lifted my wings to escape if I needed to.
"And just what in the hay was that all about?" Twilight was glaring at me from the top of the stairs.
"You guys aren't going to try and tie me up or anything are you?"
Twilight let out a breath, "Why are you so difficult? No we're not going to tie you up."
I sighed in relief and closed m wings, "Good. Now I have a question much more important than that one. Is chilver a real word?"
Twilight blinked at me, "What?"
"I just need to know. Is chilver a word?"
Twilight shook her head, "Well yes it is, it's an old word for female lamb. Now back to my question, why did you smash my window?"
Damn, so close. Oh well I guess I would just have to get Zecora to say orange. "Um… I was surprised by Celestia?"
Twilight huffed at me, "Well you better fix my windows. Oh, and Celestia told us what happened yesterday."
I had hoped she wouldn't, "What did she say?"
"She said that you never showed up, but that her guards told her that you had spoken to two of them, and that they spotted you running into the garden maze. Care to explain what you were doing in there?"
No good excuses were coming to mind, "Honestly I have no good reason for what I was doing."
"Then why didn't you meet up with the princess."
"Well I was going to, but then uh… Some guy told me there was treasure at the center of the maze. Ya, that's it." I'm not very good at lying on the spot.
Twilight just raised her eyebrow, "Riiight… Well Celestia said she just wanted to ask you a few things about earth, but Lunar volunteered to do it for you. Now I'm going to join them, but I don't want anything else broken in my house."
"Well technically you don't own this place, but okay. See you around."
Glad that that was taken care of. I went to sit down on the couch to rest a little, but Rainbow stopped me.
"Why didn't you tell me it was you that did the sonic boom?"
"Simple, because it wasn't me."
"Yes it was. I saw it with my own eyes!"
I thought about it for a second. If I was going faster than sound, then the sound of the barrier breaking wouldn't reach me until I slowed down… Realization dawned on me as I thought about this.
"I broke the sound barrier? I hadn't realized."
"Are you trying to steal my spot on the Wonderbolts?" Rainbow seemed really upset, like she wanted to cry, or hit me.
"Do I look like an entertainer? No thanks, you can have that spot. I would rather work on the farm than that. Besides, if I had wanted that spot, would I give you advice on how to be better?"
"I guess, but I'm still the fastest flier in Equestira. You'll have to settle for second best."
"Keep telling yourself that."
I looked outside, and I saw that it was a few hours after noon.
"Sorry, but I have some shopping to do. I'll catch you around later."
I left the library and set out to the stores of Ponyville. I had no idea what to get, but things like this tend to just come to me.
AN: We come closer to the end of the story. And yes chilver is a real word. There is also a word that rhymes with oarnge, but i don't remember it.
I really dislike shopping in Equestria. Back on earth I just go to the internet and search for what I want. I can see all the prices of things and even where the store is located. Here I have to walk around for ages just to find one thing, then I have to find out its price, then check all the other stores to see what their prices are. In the end just to find out all the prices are the same. It took me the rest of the day to shop for all the ponies, and at the end I was so tired that I just fell asleep after stashing my purchases in a place no one would ever find them. In the tree branches of the library.
The next day started out just the same. With snow ending up in my face. Pinkie must have a really good arm, she manages to hit me in the face every time. Following the daily routine I shook myself and flew to the ground. Preparing to launch snow at Pinkie, I was completely surprised when a snowball hit the back of my head. It hit me really lightly, like a tap. How do you throw something lightly, but still far?
I turned around to see Fluttershy hiding behind her mane, "Oh I didn't hurt you did I? I knew I would be no good at this."
Well if somepony knew how to throw something lightly, it would be Fluttershy.
"No you did good, but you should be helping me take down Pinkie there."
The fight continued, and with Fluttershy's help, I was able to thoroughly soak Lunar and Twilight. However the outcome was still the same and we all ended up in the library. The fire spread warmth and laying down next to a pony helped as well.
"So Rainbow, you never answered our question. When are you going to find somepony to buck with?"
Rainbow sighed, "We're still on that?"
Rarity said, "Well we just want to know if there is a special stallion in your life. It's perfectly okay if there isn't. I am not romantically inclined. My work is much more important."
"Or is it that there is a special mare?"
All the ponies gave me a disgusted look, but then looked at Rainbow curiously.
She gave us all an incredulous look, "I am not a filly-fooler! I guess I've been to focused on joining the Wonderbolts to think about it. For now, I think I'll continue to do so. I don't think a relationship would go well with that life style anyway."
We all accepted that answer and stopped asking. Fluttershy interrupted and said,
"Um… Pinkie it's about time for us to go. If that's okay I mean…"
"Go where?" I asked.
"Oh well… me and Pinkie were going to bake some things."
"Mind if I join, I don't have anything to do today."
"Um… Pinkie?"
"Oh sure! it'll be loads of fun with three people to bake! We can make all kinds of things!"
Why did I just do that? Why would I do that? I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. Now I was going to be cooking all day. Why couldn't I just shut up.
We left the library together, and headed towards Sugarcube corner. Pinkie led the way, bouncing happily while Fluttershy followed. I walked behind them awkwardly. I felt like I had just intruded on their girl-time, but I wanted to do something different today.
I haven't really cooked in my life. I can make all kinds of breakfast foods; pancakes, eggs, bacon, waffles, French toast, even crepes, but that's it. Everything else is boil some water with it.
Pinkie led us into what she called the kitchen and what I called 'ground zero'. It looked like a bomb had been set off inside. Ingredients of all sorts were laid out everywhere. I'm pretty sure I saw what looked like to be cactus on a shelf. Pinkie started by clearing off a section of a counter top.
"Mrs. Cake is out for the day, so she won't be making any treats today. So I thought we could do it for her!"
Pinkie pulled out a cup cake tray and laid it on the counter. She flew around the house gathering the materials for the batter. I didn't even bother trying to keep up with her. Fluttershy ignored Pinkie and began mixing up the batter. While she was doing that, Pinkie zoomed next to me.
"Now we have to put it the mystery ingredient!"
"Uh… What?
"Were making surprise cupcakes! Just grab something from the kitchen that looks good and mix it with the batter! Then we'll put them in the oven. Then we'll have cupcakes!"
Me and Pinkie gathered together random things from the kitchen, including the cactus thing and mashed them up separately. We poured each mesh into one of the holes in the pan. Fluttershy poured the mix in after, and we stuck the pan in the oven.
I tried to clean the kitchen up, but Pinkie somehow managed to keep messing things up. In the end, the chaos looked exactly like it had when we had first started. I guess there was some order to how Pinkie did things, but I would never figure it out.
When the 'surprises' were done we set up a small stall outside and let people sample them. Almost no one took the offer, and I can't say I blamed them. Lunar came by at one point, and asked me about them.
"Would you recommend eating these?"
"As a maker of the muffins, I say that these could be the best cupcakes ever. As a friend, I say that these things need to be buried somewhere."
"Alright… Whatever, I'll try one."
I handed him a random cupcake, and he bit into it. He chewed it, then stopped moving. For a good 30 seconds he did nothing. He just sat there, his facial expression undecided. Then he he turned around and spit it out. He dropped the cupcake and ran away, saying
"I think I'm going to be sick."
I looked at the cupcake on the ground, and saw that the inside was green. He must've gotten the cactus one, unlucky. A little later, Twilight came around.
"Do I want to eat one of these?"
"Are you willing to take a risk?"
"Uh…. no. By the way, Caramel stopped by earlier looking for you."
"Oh good, I needed an excuse to get away. Here you can try this one."
I handed her another random cupcake, and she looked at it for awhile. She handed it back to me and said,
"I think I'll pass. I don't feel like spending the rest of the day sick."
"Probably the right choice."
Twilight left and headed back to the library. Pinkie ate the cupcake I was holding out of my hoof.
"mmm! Apple cupcake!"
We stayed there for a little bit, but apparently Lunar's experience had traveled. Only a few brave ponies tried the cupcakes, and they usually went away running. After a while, Pinkie packed up and moved everything back into the kitchen.
I left to find Caramel, who hadn't decided to stop by Sugarcube corner. I stopped by the house he share with Chance and Storm, but only Chance was there.
"Hey Chance, you seen Caramel anywhere?"
"He was out looking for you. Storm said that he went to check Fluttershy's house."
At that moment, Caramel and Storm walked inside.
"Oh there you are Silver. Me and the guys are going to chop some wood, wondering if you wanted to come."
"You're going to chop wood?"
"Ya, the mayor wants some more houses to be built, and we need wood to do that. So before she hired some carpenters, she offered us local guys a chance to make some money. I know you don't have a job right now, so I thought I would get you in on this."
"Well sure, why not?"
"Alright, I knew you would want to. Big Mac is already waiting by the forest. I'll explain it to you on the way."
"Well Big Mac and Chance here are going to be bucking the trees down. It's our job to clear off all the branches. When that’s done you and storm will fly the log back to town. Leave it by the construction zone. I'll get started on the next log. Once we have enough, Big Mac, me, and Chance will help drag the rest of the logs back."
We arrived at the forest where Big Mac was waiting for us. He took us in a little, and showed us where he had already started. A few trees already rested on the ground. We started clearing the branches off, while Chance went to help Big Mac.
It took them several bucks to get the tree to fall, as these were thicker than the apple trees at the farm. They took their time, making sure the tree would fall in the right direction. While we stripped the tree, we began talking.
"So who would win in a fight, Big Mac or Chance?"
"That's like asking the difference between water and water. I think they would exhaust each other and tie."
"I can understand Big Mac, he spent his entire life bucking apples. How did Chance get so much muscle?"
"I don't know, he never really talks about what he did before coming here. I know that he has to work with heavy machines a lot, but we don't talk a lot about work."
"What about you Storm? What did you do before coming here?"
"Promise not to laugh?"
"When have I ever made fun of you?"
"All the time."
"Point, I'll try."
"Well I worked as a bouncer at model shows. I kept out all the people who tried to get in without permission."
"Why would I laugh at that? You get to wear a suit, some awesome shades, and push people around."
"I didn't like all the moving around. I know most Pegasi love traveling, and for awhile I did, but eventually it got to me. I wanted to stop and live in a house that I actually owned. I wanted to have friends that wouldn't disappear the next day. The road is a lonely place."
"Fair enough."
Caramel interrupted us, "Well if you two are done trading stories, this log is ready to go back."
I grimaced, moving the logs wasn't very easy for us. They set the log on our backs and we held it at each end. We would then fly the log to the construction site. We had to go slowly, so we wouldn't drop it on somepony. We couldn't even really talk either, we had to focus on flying in sync.
We took off slowly with the log, and made our way to the construction site. It was on the road towards the tower, but a lot closer than the tower itself. They planned to build a little neighborhood with the road running through it.
We delivered them to the construction site, where they would apparently make planks and stuff out of them. I'm not really sure how they would, but that wasn't part of my job. Caramel got the money form the mayor and counted it out between us. I took my share and after saying my good byes, left for the library. It was nearly nightime and the work had been exhausting.
"Keep this safe for me. "
She huffed and walked off to wherever she kept the rest of my money. I really just paid her to let me use her shower. I don't think she even took my money to be honest. Maybe she thought that one day I would use it for something.
I left without dwelling on that for too long. I flew up to a nice fluffy cloud and laid down. I let my tail hang off, and looked down on Ponyville. It was nice now that things were back to normal. No weird adventures today.
AN: I was given advice today by a fic writer who is also an irl friend. He told me to always have a set limit of words to reach ,and to always have a chapter prepared in case i have to leave for awhile. After he told me this, i decided i must be horrible at this. I just write a chapter until it feels done, and i always post them as soon as the chapter is done. Also this morning (2:30 a.m.) i went for a run. It's winter and i live in Michigan. You can probably guess how that worked out.
I woke up, not to a snowball in the face, but a Pinkie Pie to the face. Pinkie was flying in her hot air balloon, and was bouncing up and down in the basket. The sun was barely up, and I yawned in her face. I turned on my side and ignored her. Ignoring Pinkie Pie is a futile effort. She pulled out a tuba and began playing it in my ear. I wanted to pop that balloon and send her flying for real.
I reluctantly stood on the cloud and shook myself awake. Pinkie was saying something, but it was too fast for me to understand. I just shook my head and jumped into the basket. She calmed down enough for me to understand what she was saying.
"It's today! This is so exciting!"
"What's today?"
"Silver Night!"
I looked around, and sure enough snow was falling from the clouds below us. It was an amazing sight, where I could literally see the snow coming out of the clouds. I don't know if that's how it works on earth, but this was pretty awesome.
"I got this one."
I flew over to the front door and took one of the pots in front. I emptied the contents and flew over to one of the rainbow springs. I filled up my make-shift bucked and sneaked inside. I had never been in Rainbow's house before, but I was assuming that she slept on the top floor. Walking carefully, as to not drop my precious cargo, I looked around. Eventually I opened a door that revealed a large four-poster cloud bed. Rainbow slept to one side, and her breathing was steady.
Thinking of a way to make this an even better trick, I flew up to the bead. Placing my bucket down carefully on the bed, I laid down next to rainbow. I poked her side, and she turned to face me. She opened her eyes, and still groggy, smiled at me. For just a second she stayed that way, but then her eyes widened.
I acted as soon as they did. I leapt up and kicked the bucket so it spilled all over her. It fit really well, I mean now she was completely rainbow. Knowing time was of the essence, I took off through the house and flew out the still open door. Pinkie waved at me as I flew by and I shouted back,
"RUN AWAY!"
Soon after, a very frazzled and rainbow covered Rainbow Dash stood on her front door. She saw me flying away and chased after me. Now was the time to test my speed against her. I flew straight over Ponyville away from her. I looked back to see her gaining on me, and behind her Pinkie's balloon floated away towards Fluttershy's house.
I looked forward again, and with a grin on my face, sped up. I was flying pretty fast now, but Rainbow was still gaining on me. I pushed even harder, and once again felt resistance build up. I grinned even harder and my eyes narrowed. Sometimes speed is all it takes. I broke the sound barrier in silence. I looked back to see Rainbow colors fly out, and knew that she had done the same. I looked forward once again, and narrowly avoided a bird.
I flew fast, but apparently Rainbow flew faster. She was still gaining on me as we flew across the land. I knew that she would catch me if I kept going straight so I pulled a risky move. I let my wings fall flat, and I turned around in mid-air. I slammed into a cloud with my back hooves. Using my bucking experience, I pushed off of the cloud. Like a sling-shot, I raced across the sky. I passed Rainbow, who had a look of complete surprise on her face.
I sped back towards Ponyville, leaving a confused Rainbow in my wake. Ponyville got closer every second and I started to slow down. I could see ponies looking up at me, completely baffled. Most just shook themselves and went on their way, and a few shook their hooves at me. Oh right, I guess we did just make two sonic booms in the wee hours of the morning.
Pinkie's ballon could be seen heading back towards us, and I assumed that Fluttershy was with her. That left me two options, Rarity and Applejack. Deciding that I'd like to keep my body in good shape, I flew over to Rarity's boutique.
"What're you working on there?"
Rarity turned to look at me with wide eyes. I saw a glint behind her before she moved in front of it.
"Nothing! Well nothing you should know about."
"Is it my present? Let me have a look!"
"Absolutely not! Besides that would ruin the surprise."
"I guess you're right. Well I was going to wake you up, but the boom must've gotten to you first. I guess I have to get AJ."
"Is that safe?"
"No probably not, but when has that ever stopped me?"
"Good point. I'll send Twilight to clean you up."
"Thanks for having faith in me."
"Oh I have faith in you, but I have more faith in Applejack."
I left Rarity's and flew over the farm. It was depressing to look at. All the trees were bare, and it was a contrast to the usual sunny day, with trees full of green and red. I landed next to the Apple house and debated on my next step. I could just scare AJ, but that would leave me injured. If I scared her from out here, her family was most likely to wake up. Then Big Mac would get involved, and from personal experience, I knew I would be injured.
My decision was made for me as AJ walked out the door.
"Top of the mornin' to ya Silver. What're y'all doing out here so early?"
"I thought I would wake you up before Pinkie got to you."
"Oh are we doing that get together later?"
"I suppose so. I think Pinkie has something planned. Also I think you owe me one. Since I y'know saved you from one of Pinkie's pranks."
"Uh… Alright."
"Meet up at the library!" I shouted at her as I flew away.
I landed in front of the library, and assumed my position on the couch. Lunar and Twilight were in the kitchen, defiantly looking worse for wear.
Twilight talked to me first, "Don't say anything until I have my tea. I don't have the energy to deal with you right now."
"Why? Lunar tire you out last night?"
All I got in response were a few books flying at me. I held out my hooves laughing. The door opened, and Pinkie, Rarity, and Fluttershy walked in. Fluttershy sat on the couch with me, while pinkie and Rarity sat on the floor.
Rarity looked around before saying, "Where's Spike?"
The dragon ran down the stairs when he hear Rarity call his name, "I'm right here Rarity!"
"Could you do me a favor and start a fire?"
"Of course I can."
Spike blew a little flame at the fire place, and in response it roared. I'll admit, I kind of wish I could do that. Throwing fire around would be pretty awesome. I can fly though, and that's enough for me. A little while later AJ walked inside, yawning as she did so (Is it weird that when I typed that, I yawned?).
"Mornin y'all"
Greeting from all of us chorused back all saying good morning. Well all of them except Pinkie's who said,
"and a super Silver day!"
She was really taking this 'holiday' seriously. Oh well I can't complain. After all it's a holiday celebrated because I exist. Twilight sat down with Lunar drinking her tea.
"Where's Rainbow?"
At that moment the door slammed open, and a very rainbow Rainbow Dash stood in the doorway. Without hesitating I jumped behind AJ,
"I'm calling in that favor now!"
Rainbow approached AJ and me, "I'm going to… I don't even know! But you will regret this."
AJ who was chuckling at Rainbow's appearance said, "Woah there Dash. Can y'all explain why you're uh.. more rainbow than usual?"
Rainbow said nothing and just pointed at me. She continued to advance on me and Applejack. AJ however stood still and didn't back down. Rainbow got close to her face and stared down AJ.
"Anyone else think they're gonna kiss?" I really need to learn how to shut up.
They both turned to look at me, and then at each other.
"Only if you kiss Lunar."
That was unexpected, "No thanks. I don't really want to see you do it, I was just curious."
Rainbow looked at me with a raised eyebrow, "You don't want to see two mares kiss?"
"Well no not really, I am entangled with Fluttershy if you remember. Besides, I don't want to kiss Lunar. So I get no benefit out of this."
As if to make my point, I took my spot on the couch and laid down with Fluttershy. Rainbow and Applejack looked nonplussed, but just shook their heads.
Rainbow said, "You're safe for now, but I will get you."
"Only in your dreams."
Pinkie interrupted us and shouted out, "PRESENT TIME!"
I shook my head and said, "Well technically Pinkie, the holiday is called Silver Night, so shouldn't we exchange gifts at night?"
"Are you kidding? I'm so excited I could explode! We can do something else at night."
Nobody disagreed with her, and I was outvoted. Pinkie, Rarity, AJ, and Fluttershy gathered heir gifts from where they had been under Pinkie's balloon. Rainbow flew up to her home to get hers, and I flew up into the tree. I gathered up my gifts, and turned around.
"GAH!" I nearly dropped everything I had In my hands. For a second it looked like the leaves had made an evil grin face and were laughing me. I shook my head, it must be too early in the morning. We convened back in the main room and the pile of gifts was ridiculous.
"Maybe next year we should pick one pony to get a gift." Good idea.
We exchanged gifts, and I watched with satisfaction as everyone opened theirs. It would take too long to describe every one, so make something up. However as we went through, I noticed Rarity had not given me a gift, or Fluttershy.
When the gifts were gone, Pinkie pulled out a piece of paper.
"Now we all head to Sugarcube corner for breakfast!"
We all poured out of the library, but Rarity held me back. She waited for the others to get out of hearing distance. She pulled out a small box and handed it to me.
"This is for you and Fluttershy."
I opened it and my jaw dropped. A golden hoop sat inside. It was adorned with small diamonds circling a pink jewel. It was bigger than a ring, and I assumed that it was meant to go around a leg. I could've made a joke about Rarity proposing, but this was serious time.
"Rarity I…"
"Shh. Listen, I know you two are ready for this. I know you've been letting everyone assume that the night you and Fluttershy were in the barn, you well, bucked. However, I saw what happened."
I blushed badly, that was embarrassing.
"I know that she held you while you talked about your fears of your relationship. I know that she comforted you, and if you are comfortable with her enough that she can comfort you, then that just reinforces my opinion."
"And that is…?"
"That you two are ready. You may not think so, but Rarity knows all."
"I don't know what to say."
"Well than I just accomplished the impossible, shutting you up."
"Except that I don't think Fluttershy will appreciate you proposing to me." Serious time over.
Rarity sighed and chuckled slightly. We left together and went inside Sugarcube Corner. I found breakfast cooking gone bad. Eggs lay spattered on the ground, and flapjacks on the ground.
I pushed Pinkie aside and said, "Let the master do his work."
I started off making batter for crepes. I don't do them often, but on special occasions they're worth it. I told Pinkie to pull out cream, and whatever fruit she had. I was wary of the cheese section, so I left that out. Twilight of course couldn't resist poking at me,
"I didn't know you could cook, especially if last time was anything to go by."
"Breakfast is my element Twilight. Just like yours is doing those 'things' with your horn."
She blushed and said, "I have never done anything like that!"
"What magic? I'm sure you do that all the time."
I laughed and they ate the food that had been laid out. I prepared myself some food when a loud crash came from outside. I dropped my food, and in despair looked at it. All that deliciousness, wasted on the ground. I followed the rest of the group outside, and collectively we gasped.
Princess Luna, who was now a whole 3 feet taller was giving us a creepy smile. Her eyes were blank, but narrowed at us. The ground was cracked under her, and she turned to face me directly.
Her voice was no longer feminine, but was now a deep voice that boomed, "Spirit of Earth, now known as Silver of Equestria. You have gone against the decree of Fate, and ignored your warning. I find you guilty of conversing with a known traitor, and giving him aid. For this you must be contained."
Luna stopped talking and prepared a spell.
Well Fuck.
AN: Well there you go. I'm going to go run once again, so I don't know if I'll start working on this until later today. Questions, criticism, praise, and trolling can be left in the comments! Am I starting to sound like a comment whore? In truth I probably am. I check more than once a day, just so I can see what people think, and I get excited to see a new one. Should I change the tags? What about the description? When I started I wasn't sure where this would go, so now that the end is almost here I don't know if they're accurate. Later y'all!
Luna didn't fire a spell, but a large blast of purplish energy. It hit the ground before us and we were all sent flying. Comically so actually. If I had the time I probably would've laughed at our resemblance to bowling pins. I fell to the ground, ad several thumps could be hear behind me.
I got up and looked around, everyone else was shakily getting to their feet and looking at Luna. She prepared another shot, and I flew up and around her. Apparently I was her target, as she turned and fired another beam at me. It hit me and I went flying. I hit a tree, but oddly, I didn't feel any pain. I got up, and seeing that Luna was once again charging her horn, dived at her.
I tackled her, with minimum effect. She was much bigger than me, but I still managed to stagger her and make her lose focus. I flew away from her as she recovered. I flew next to Twilight and Lunar who were currently standing in the open.
"What's the plan?"
"What are you talking about? I don't even know what's going on!"
Actually, neither did I now that she mentioned it. I was more of a act now plan later guy. We were interrupted by another beam nearly hitting up. It landed in front of us and threw us in different directions. I landed on top of the house, bounced off and hit the ground. Once again, I felt no pain, and in seconds was on my feet.
"I've got a plan guys! You do the elements thing, and me and Lunar will distract her."
Lunar seemed distressed at the plan, "Wait I don't know how to do that!"
Twilight ignored him and said, "I left the elements in the library, we'll have to get them."
I dodged another beam and said, "Alright then take your time!"
Twilight and the rest galloped back towards the library. I flew next to Lunar and said, "I need you to teleport next to her and kick her."
"Are you insane? Besides I don't even know how to teleport."
Apparently, we aren't very good at the counter-ambush thing. Another beam knocked us off our feet, and once again I got up right away. Luna hadn't moved and was content with just blasting away at us. She didn't even move when I flew around her, just moved her horn back in line with me.
I landed next to Lunar once more and said, "New plan!"
Lunar eyed me warily, "And what's that?"
I picked him up and launched myself in the air, "Attack from above!"
Lunar began panicking and trying to get away from me. I flew around Luna and narrowly dodged a beam.
Lunar shouted up at me, "I think we should rethink this!"
I laughed and said, "No time, now go give her hell!"
I dropped Lunar right above Luna, and he flailed his legs wildly as he fell. In doing so he actually managed to hit her several times. He fell on her, managing to knock her to the ground. I flew down to them and picked up Lunar and got away.
"Wow you actually managed to do something."
"Anyone else think that this is incredibly random? I mean when did Luna manage to grow three feet? And how did she know all that stuff, and what's this about a traitor?"
"I'll explain later."
"Wait you knew about this?"
"Sort of."
We were hit out of mid air and we flew apart. Apparently Luna was as resistant to pain as I was. Speaking of which, smashing into the ground didn't hurt once again. I got up, and saw that Twilight and Co. had arrived. They were all wearing their elements, and walked up to Luna. They began charging up the elements, and Luna who should've done something was still focused on me. I wasn't even bothering to dodge anymore. Besides it was actually kind of fun, being thrown through the air.
As I was once again sailing through the air, I saw a rainbow beam shoot out from the mares. The beam went in an arc and hit Luna directly head on. She was thrown to the ground and stayed there.
"Take that ya wanker!"
Our victory was short lived, as Luna got back to her feet and laughed, "Think that's going to stop me?"
"Well I was kind of hoping it would."
"Well think again."
So much for a quick victory. Now that she had stopped throwing energy everywhere, I had time to think. The voice was very familiar, like I had known it forever.
"I tire of this game, if I can't hurt you, then I'll just contain you. "
Instead of charging up once again, Luna turned to face the mares.
"First you six."
She focused her eyes, and a liquid cube appeared in the air. It floated over the mares, and fell on top of them. Both AJ and Rainbow dashed out of the way, taking Rarity with them. Twilight, Fluttershy, and Pinkie were trapped in the cube. They pounded on the cube, but it wouldn't break. Twilight attempted to use magic, but nothing happened. Another cube appeared and trapped Lunar. I shook my head and started to fly. Turned out to be the wrong move, as I ran into Rainbow and we crashed into the ground. A cube trapped us in, and we couldn't break out.
"Well crap. That went well."
Rainbow continued to slam into the side as I sat down and waited. AJ ran up and tried to buck Luna, but Luna teleported out of the way, and soon AJ was trapped in her own liquid cube.
Rainbow turned to me, "Do you have any clue of what's going on?"
"No, I feel like I should though. It's like there's something I can't remember."
"Well you better remember soon, or we're all going to be trapped."
Rarity was trying to free Twilight, but to no avail. Soon she was also trapped, and Luna let out a deep laugh,
"I thought this was going to be harder. After all the spirit from earth seemed very determined. Shame, I haven't done anything interesting in years."
Luna was walking around us, looking at each of us. She peered at me and laughed,
"But it looks like you lost your will."
I would've flipped her off, but I didn't have fingers. I had to make do with shaking my hoof. I looked around, and something surprising caught my eye. Twilight was still trying to break through the cube containing her and Fluttershy. Pinkie Pie was bouncing around outside of it.
Luna turned to see Pinkie bouncing around.
"Ahh a natural chaos factor, now that is interesting."
Rainbow turned to me, "Okay now I'm really confused."
I replied, "I think it will be better if we just ignore everything that's going on right now. Right now we need to be finding a way out of this cube. Pinkie found a way out, so now we need to try."
We began ramming the cube, as Luna tried to capture Pinkie once again. Pinkie was bouncing around to fast, and Luna couldn't catch her. It was quite amusing to watch, as cube after cube splashed against the ground. Pinkie apparently didn't notice the danger as she was laughing as Luna chased her.
Rainbow was still trying to understand, "She doesn't even look like Nightmare Moon, so why is she attacking us?"
"I have no idea."
"How can you be so calm about this?"
"I'm not trying to understand what's going on, I'm just kind of going with it."
Before we could talk further, all the cubes exploded, sending liquid everywhere. I looked around confused, when I felt a rush of air pass by me. A tall man with flowing robes was standing before me. His hair was brown with a few grey hairs. He had a beard that was tied into a knot. He looked down at me and said,
"You forgot already didn't you? Well here's a little jolt to refresh your memory."
He grabbed the side of my head, and before I could move, I felt energy running through me. I was in a white place once again. I could see memories before me, back of my time on earth. Meeting Martin in the stream. Yelling at a disembodied voice. Then memories of a different sort flowed by. I could see me flying around, hanging out with Caramel. I saw myself hanging out with Fluttershy and the rest of the girls.
I could see the difference between the two sets. As a human and later a spirit, I was always rushing in. I wanted to find freedom from the mundane earth, and the horrors that accompanied it. When I arrived in Equestria, I changed. I had found a place that had been peaceful and fun. I wanted to stay there forever, and would've been glad too. I started to relax, and I lost my will to fight.
It was weird experiencing all of this. Like seeing my life from a different view. It reminded me of something though. I had found freedom, but I had left so many behind to die in the dust. I looked up to see two different versions of me, there was the human me, grinning at me as he hefted the plain one-edged sword on his shoulder. The other was the Pegasus version of me. He looked at me and gave me a smile, he looked two his left and waved at someone I couldn't see. Pure happiness was on his face as he turned around.
I had a choice to make, and if it had been a few months ago, it would've been easy. Now though, I had grown accustom to the happiness that Equestria offered. I liked hanging out with the Stallions, and even spending time with the mares. I had a ring to give to Fluttershy, and friends that would last forever. This place had become home to me, and I didn't want to abandon it ever.
On the other hand, I hadn't left Earth to just find happiness. I wanted to find freedom, not an enslavement of a different nature. I was happy here no doubt, but that was keeping chained just as much as the horrors of Earth did. I wanted to explore everything existence had to offer. I had wanted to free everyone as well as myself.
I looked at the two versions of myself and stared. The human me looked confident, and he was through and through. The pony version of myself still looked confident, but he was scared on the inside. However, the human me looked scarred, from experiences ages old. The pony me looked innocent, as if he hadn't experienced anything bad in his life. I closed my eyes and made my choice.
After a long time had passed, or maybe no time at all I made my decision. I opened my eyes on to see all the ponies hiding behind Morkar. He had erected a blue tinted half circle around himself and the ponies. Luna was firing a continuous stream of energy at him.
"Your lack of reason shows this day Morkar! You were allowed to live as long as you were deemed useful. Now you have actively struck against us, and now you must be contained."
"My reasoning is stronger than ever soulless being! I have been shaken awake from my long doldrums, I will no longer aid you or any of your kind. All of the souls in existence can choose how they live, and we won't let you make that decision!"
(You should probably turn on some epic music stuff right now. Not battle music though. It makes the whole thin seem ten times grander!)
I struggled to get to my feet, and as I did so I spoke up,
"I recognize you now. You're disembodied voice guy! You're the one who came here and messed with the ponies heads. You're the one who messed with my wings. You're the one who made Big Mac attack me. You're the one who took control of Celestia and Luna, and made them… well… You know what you did! You're the guy who told me to go back to Earth. Well here's some information for you. I don't appreciate those things, and I don't really like you. So I have one question for you."
I paused for dramatic effect. Everyone had stopped what they were doing and looked at me with open mouths. Luna had stopped firing energy and was looking at me curiously. Morkar's shield had faded and he was grinning at me. I reached down and picked up the one-edged blade from the ground. I hefted onto my shoulder, and a wild grin came onto my face.
"Just who the hell do you think I am?"
"I think you're a fool. Abandoning that body was the last mistake you will ever make. That form couldn't be hurt, although it couldn't hurt anything either. Now back in your human form, that is no longer true. I can subdue you much easier now."
"Blah blah, evil guy cliché talk. Let's talk with steel!"
I swung my blade to point it at him, "Unless you're scared?"
"I'm literally shaking."
"Well that's a lie."
"Indeed. However, since you have abandoned your peaceful form, I shall do the same."
Luna instantly went rigid, and her eyes rolled back into her head. She fell to the ground slowly and didn't get back up. Nothing happened for a few seconds, until a bright light flashed. I was blinded for a second, and I tried to open my eyes. When I did, I found myself facing a typical male. Nothing special about him actually. Well built and a shaved head, but honestly there was nothing remarkable about him. He was taller than me, by about a foot. He was wearing a plain white shirt, and jeans. Another flash, and he was holding a large two-handed sword.
He looked up at his blade and said, "This will do nicely."
I've never actually been in a real sword fight. I got lessons back when I was a kid, but I never actually used them. I used to pretend that I was a knight or something. The man started charging at me, saying nothing.
Throwing caution completely out of this world, I ran at him sword stuck out. Right before we clashed, I dived to the floor and slashed up at him. He jumped unrealistically above and away from me.
"Now that's just cheating."
"I call it a tactical advantage."
"You're just too scared to fight on an even playing field."
"More like too smart."
"Fair enough."
I once again rushed at him, but this time I kept my blade close to my body. He started to swing overhead, and as a certain unforgiving game has taught me, I dived to the side at the very last second. That would be when the blade is already coming down on you. His claymore smashed into the ground, and a very painful sounding crunch echoed out. It served to remind me of my own frailty. This wasn't back on earth, where if I died I was okay with it. If I died here, apparently this guy could take my soul before it could do anything.
Rethinking my strategy, I backed up from the man and called out, "Morkar any advice?"
"I would suggest hitting him."
"Why don't you come down here to help?"
"I'm a scholar, I don't fight."
Big help he is. I ducked as another swing from the claymore that sailed above my head. I jumped to the side once again as the blade came vertically at me. I was seriously outclassed here. I had joined the big guy league without even training. Yeah that sounds like something I would do.
Throwing strategy to wherever caution had gone, I drew my blade in close and rushed. The man stood his ground and waited for me. As I got close, I jumped to the side and struck. A metal ring, and a nasty vibration up my arm, were the results. I jumped back before he could cleave me. I tried again and this time tried to slide under him.
He had been expecting this move, and swung the flat end of his blade down at me. It hit me in the ribs and I went flying. This time the pain came, and it hurt. I staggered to my feet, barely even noticed the cries of warning. I looked up in time to see the man towering over me with his claymore behind his head, ready for a final strike. This time instead of jumping to the side, I threw myself forward and head butted him.
It…worked. He fell back, but my head was aching badly. I looked up to see the rest of the ponies trying to get to me. They were being held back by some force field.
"I couldn't have your friends interfering now could I?"
I watched him carefully, and I heard Morkar's voice call out, "Use the knowledge I gave you"
Oh right. I stopped running and concentrated. Nothing happened, except that I had to move before I was in pieces.
"How do I do that?"
"You forgot that too? Do you remember anything important?"
I dodged another swing and struck back only to hit metal once again, "Only if it has to do with food."
As I struck out to keep the man on the defensive, I was hit by energy from behind.
"That should jolt your memory."
Oh and it did. So much for being a scholar, Morkar knew more about fighting then he should've. It was weird, I knew things, but I had no idea how I knew them. I jumped back one last time.
"No more running."
The man spoke up, "Good, I'm tired of chasing you around."
"Just one question."
"Oh?"
"What's your name?"
"Why?"
"So when people ask about the regulator I killed, I can tell them his name."
"Like that will happen."
Fear left me, even as he advanced on me, the claymore looking very dangerous. I gave him a wild grin, and charged at him screaming, "CHEESE FOR EVERYONE!"
He stopped moving for a second, confused. I took that moment to strike him in the gut with the handle of my blade. He clutched at his stomach, and I turned and kicked his head. He swung wildly to keep me off of him.
"Your skill has improved vastly."
"Nah, you just suck more than usual."
With nothing holding me back, I went all out. Again and again I hit him, but I never landed a cut or a stab. I could bruise him, but not make him bleed. He was however losing, and I started to get hopeful. He suddenly sent out a wave of power that knocked me down.
"Enough sword play. Show me the extent of your willpower."
"Uh… What?"
His claymore vanished with a snap, and the man held his hands together.
"Physical prowess will not win you any battles. You must also have enough willpower to overpower your enemies."
However, I couldn't resist. Even in a life or death situation, that could determine the fate of all existence. I put my hands to my side and started chanting.
"Ka me ha…."
I stopped chanting as I dodged another beam. Pissed off that I hadn't got to reenact that moment I shouted, "Asshole!" and fired. The energy left my hand at a tremendous speed. It felt good to be honest. I began firing more balls of energy at the man, who erected a magical shield.
I tried to use different types of magic, but I couldn't find the knowledge. I didn't know how. Well giant energy balls it is. We both began firing at each other, with me dodging the shots, and the man shielding himself.
honestly this fight felt a little cliché. Like a boss that has several stages, you know where you fight them in different ways. It stopped feeling cliché when an energy ball skimmed my ear. A burning feeling was spreading throughout my face. I touched the spot and went white. My ear was completely gone, and the wound had been cauterized right away.
Reality once again took hold as I realized what would happen if I was hit directly, or worse hit in the head. I shook myself, sending these thoughts away. I needed to focus, not get distracted. I brought forth another ball of energy, and fired it. This time instead of letting go, I held on. A beam of energy was formed, and this time the man fired his own beam. In classic dragon ball style, our beams connected.
At first I tried pouring my energy into it, but I was surprised when nothing changed.
"This is a battle of will power, not of physical energy. You must fight with determination."
I didn't have time to worry about why my enemy was helping, I just focused in a different way.
"If you're trying to overpower me, then it won't work. I have a will of iron. I will succeed in my mission and nothing will stop me."
He was right, no matter what I did, I couldn't bring forth any power. The beam didn't slowly come back, but nearly instantly. I threw my hands up, wishing I had some sort of shield. I was thrown far, and landed painfully on my back. There wasn't a gaping hole in my stomach, but there was enough pain to keep me on the ground. I felt like just laying there and letting him finish me off, there was hardly a chance for me to win.
The man got distracted when the barrier fell. Morkar, who had claimed he wasn't a fighter, began throwing all kinds of magic at the man. The ponies all gathered up and prepared to charge him. I was too far away to hear anything, especially with only one ear. I tried to pick myself up, but the pain held me down. I looked up into the sky, watching snow fall around me. A small patch away from me had been stained red. Must've been from when he burned off half my face.
Nopony was out right now, as most stayed indoors during the snow. The commotion outside must've convinced them to stay inside even more so. There was no one to stare at me on the ground. Only me, the ponies, disembodied voice guy who now had a body, and Morkar were out. It was funny, I could almost hear Christmas music playing, as I laid down in the dirt.
I looked back over to the fight that was going on. All the ponies had once again been trapped inside cubes of liquid. Except Pinkie, she was laying unconscious on the ground. Morkar was waving around a whip of energy and keeping back the man. It was a nice light show to watch. The man threw an energy ball through the whip, and Morkar dropped it, and brought up a shield. Morkar had this under control, a master wizard could pick this up where a man, not even, a kid from earth had failed.
The pain was starting to get to my head and I had to look away and lay my head down. If I hadn't been in so much pain I would've jumped up in surprise. I was laying down next to myself.
"Not you again."
"Actually it would be, 'not me again' but that's unimportant. The important part is that you're losing."
"Well now I feel better."
"You need to get up and get back in the fight man!"
"Morkar's got this one."
"No he doesn't. Look this fight is about pure willpower, the determination to win. Morkar doesn't have as much desire to kill that guy as that guy does for him. You, or I, do. We have enough determination to conquer the universe."
"That sounds like the ambition that nearly got me killed."
"But you're still here. Besides that ambition got you off of Earth. You can do anything my friend, just go at it 100% and you'll do fine."
The pain started to clear away again, and I jumped up to my feet. "Thanks figment of my imagination, you're right. I can't just lay on the ground like some loser. I'm Silver the immortal spirit who will free all of existence, I think I need to remind people of that."
The other me gave me a questioning look, "Figment? Oh no I'm from the future, so remember to do this when you're done fighting, or else the next you won't exist."
"Wait what?"
"I'm just messing with you… Or am I?"
With that he disappeared. I really hoped he was joking, or would it be me who was joking? I shook myself once again, ignoring all of these thoughts. I picked up my blade once more and looked over to the fight that was going on. Morkar was hiding behind a shield that was slowly cracking as the man shot a continuous stream of energy at him.
"Hey! I didn't hear no bell."
The man looked back at me in surprise, "Well well, look who wants another beating. Perhaps I should take your other ear."
I put my hand to the side of my face and concentrated. An icy sensation covered my face and I pulled my hand away. Where there had once been horrific burns and scars, was the rest of my face, ear included. Thank you Morkar.
"Which one?"
The man glared at me and left Morkar alone. He approached me once again and said, "Haven't you had enough? Do I really need to contain you first?"
I grinned at him, "Sorry, but I always ask for seconds."
After saying that I threw another stream of energy at him. He countered with his own stream and they locked together once again. I focused on my will to beat this guy, and to crush that smile of his. It apparently wasn't enough as the beam once again nearly snapped and flew back at me. I held on, but only just.
I tried to push even more will into the beam, but nothing happened. I was once again on the losing side of this battle. Well not anymore! My side was going to be the winning side, if not because I'm fighting for true freedom, then because I'm on this side. The people back on earth, who hated the life they were given, whether they were poor, bored, depressed, or any reason at all. The ponies here, who had not once ever been in real trouble, but now were face with a crazy guy. All of them needed me to win this. The spirits of people I had met, and the spirits of those that I didn't know yet existed. For everyone I would wipe the floor with this guy.
Determination once again filled me, and I pushed with everything I had. I poured all of my determination, from getting revenge for my breakfast, to freeing existence, into the beam. To my satisfaction, the beam started to head in the other direction. Of course it did, it wasn't going to hit me after all. The man suddenly stopped laughing and took on a serious face.
"Playtime is over then."
He began pushing back, but I already had this in the bag. I was going to win no matter what. The beam reflected my confidence, and it snapped once more. This time it struck the man and he went flying. He landed face down, but he didn't wait long to pick himself up.
"Where do you draw this power from?"
"I don't draw it from anywhere, it's already there. Just like you have already lost. Face it, you never had a chance."
"You don't know that!"
"Yes I do actually. See I'm Silver, the immortal spirit. I'm the guy who is going to stop you and the rest of the regulators, and set existence free. I'm going to let every soul decide for itself where it wants to be. They won't be contained any more. So you might as well give up."
"Now who's making cliché speeches?"
"What can I say? I love the theater."
We stopped talking and the man summoned his claymore once again. I didn't bother hoping around this time, I met him head on. Our weapons clashed and a metal sound rang out. I heard the ponies cheering for me, apparently they had gotten free. Even Pinkie's voice could be heard.
"Don't worry guys I got this one!"
I struck once more, and the clang resounded once again. The man jumped back putting some room between us. I held my blade in both hands facing him. I rose it above my head, but dragged it around to slice horizontally. He blocked it, but barely. I had finally managed to cut him a little, and blood seeped out of the wound.
His eyes went wide when he saw his own blood.
I laughed and said, "Oh that's right. You don't have a soul do you? I wonder what happens when you die? Are you a machine to be shut down?"
He didn't respond, and I knew I had pissed him off. He didn't waste time, and swung rapidly at me. His attacks were sloppy, but effective in keeping me away. Looks like I would need just a little bit of help to finish him. After blocking a few more swings I called out to the ponies.
"Hey, could I get a friendship beam or something?"
They all gathered together and began forming one.
I looked back and narrowly dodged a swing. Looks like I would have to keep him a bit busy. I leapt to the side, and came at him with an over head swing that he blocked. He reached out and punched me with one hand. I stumbled back from the blow, but the gin stayed on my face. Victory was close, I wouldn't be denied. I blocked another one of his swings and kicked at him. I connected, but it didn't do much. The man flinched, but didn't move.
The mares were still charging, so I swung my blade once again, using only one hand. As expected our swords clashed, but taking a page from his book, I leapt up and punched the man in the face. A satisfying crack could be heard. Good thing to because that was hard to do, and I wouldn't be trying again soon.
The girls had finished the beam and shot it up in the air. Acting on knowledge that wasn't mine, I reached out and drew it close to me. When it got near I held my blade up to catch it. My blade became surrounded in the rainbow energy, not the coolest, but still pretty cool. The man was on one knee looking defeated. I grinned as I clutched my sword with both hands and pointed it forward. I began running at him and shouted,
"Magic of Friendship Stab!"
I lunged with the blade.
(To be continued….)
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(Right now! =D)
My blade never made contact. Well with the man anyway, it probably hit the dirt somewhere. As I lunged the man quickly got to his feet and grabbed my blade. With his other hand he brought forward his claymore that had been laying on the ground. I couldn't do anything and he shoved it into me.
Time didn't slow down, and I felt the pain that came. My life didn't flash before my eyes, I was just simply stabbed. I was lifted up and most of my muscles shut down. Shock was probably going around somewhere in my head, but I couldn't feel it. I could feel the giant blade embedded in my stomach, and it hurt. The man's mouth was open, probably laughing I couldn't hear. The only thing I could think of, was wiping that laugh from his face.
My right arm, that had previously held what I thought would be the end of this fight, moved as all of this was happening. I reached into my pocket, and felt what I had been hoping for. The one thing I still had from Earth. My ipod was gone somewhere, my Katana was now a straight blade, and was flying away from me. My fedora had been cut down to size by Rarity (forgot to mention that didn't I?). My necklace was stashed wherever Twilight kept the bits I gave her.
The snow beneath me had been spattered red, and all the mares faces were showing shock. Morkar looked on with a grim face. Lunar wasn't even looking at me. With one final push, I flipped open my butterfly knife and shoved it into the man's face directly in between his eyes.
All of that happened in probably 5 seconds. It sounds like a lot, but for me it wasn't. The rest of my senses came back to me. I could hear hooves and screaming, I could hear crying, and shouting. However the thing that comforted me the most, was that I couldn't hear the man laughing.
He fell to the ground, and I fell with him. Pain temporarily flared as I hit the ground. I couldn't see anything, as I was facing away, and I wasn't about to turn myself over. Something landed in the snow next to me, but already my hearing was fading. I struggled to keep my eyes open. Hopefully that guy was dead for real this time, otherwise he would 'contain' me. I should've asked Morkar about that.
My blood began pouring out staining the snow. Odd, I wonder if the ponies had ever seen blood before. I couldn't feel most of my body anymore, and the pain had receded to a dull throb. I stared into the eyes of my enemy, and with satisfaction, saw them empty and lifeless. A yellow face came into my failing vision, but it was to blurry to identify. I had only a few seconds left, and just enough strength to say one last thing.
It's a hard decision, the final words of your life. Last time I had said nothing, but this time I just repeated what I had said earlier this day.
"Cheese for everyone…"
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(For real that's the end of the chapter)
I felt…dull. That's the only way I can think to explain it. I could still feel the pain, hear things, and even see some things. However, they were very far away, almost like a dream. They were well faded into the background. That was the only thing different this time. I had once again appeared in that strange place that isn't a place.
Morkar had apparently given me a little knowledge about the place. For example, I knew that a body wasn't required here, but since I was so used to having one, I did. Time did apparently pass here, but at what speed, I have no idea. It could be going backwards for all I know. Also there was no ground. I had just been used to their being something underneath me, that a ground had been there. There actually isn't anything in that place, but everything can be.
Honestly, it's probably better to just ignore this entire place, or non-place. Trying to understand it is like trying to not understand it. I hadn't been there long, or maybe I had been, when a voice spoke out to me.
"Well done. I personally thought you would fail."
Damn, "Well well, disembodied voice guy. I thought I killed you."
"Oh you did, congrats by the way. No I'm simply using the last of my power to speak with you here in the stream."
"You're taking your defeat very well."
"Well, I was hoping you would win."
"Alright, in less than 5 sentences, you confused me."
"Let me explain then. You know about Fate and it splitting up to form us regulators correct?"
"Ya."
"Well I happen to be the regulator that was assigned to your Earth."
"I knew that already."
"Yes well, I have watched your Earth since it came into existence. I watched the early man struggle and fight to survive, to become the man who fights just because he knows no other way. Early man didn't have a lot of resources, so he had to fight to survive. However, recently on Earth there is plentiful resource to go around, but man has fought for too long, and doesn't know how to stop."
"And this is important because?"
"It's not really. Anyways, I happen to be a piece of the original Fate that was against controlling existence. Like a person who splits their personalities, I was the 'outcast' so to speak."
"Then why did you fight me?"
"All in good time. Anyways, it wasn't like I was going to fight all the other pieces of myself, so I watched your planet. I saw the potential in many of the people to become free. I knew that it would be a soul that would take us on, so I waited. Eventually you came along, and I was interested. You got away before I could stop you, and managed to find a place where it took me quite some time to get to you. Even when I did you were able to defeat me."
"So this was all a test?"
"Yes and no. I was testing you, but with the real deal. First with your new body, after all if you couldn't adapt to new bodies then you would be of limited use. You proved to me that you can adapt and even engage with other intelligent beings of other species. However, you failed to uh… copulate with one of them, but in time I'm sure you would've."
"I'm not so sure…."
"Nonsense, next was your ability to deal with issues that didn't make sense, as is often found in existence. I'm not sure it is a good thing that you passed so easily. After that I had to test your actual fighting ability, which could use some work. You're lucky Morkar offered you his knowledge, but that is a resource to use in a fight."
"Huh, I thought you were going to call me a cheater."
"There isn't such a thing as cheating, only taking the advantage. Finally I had to make sure you were determined to finish this. I gave you a choice, and you proved to me that you can and will take the fight to the regulators. You proved that you are either the stupidest soul in existence, or that you will finish this fight. You proved to me that you really are an Immortal Spirit."
"Well… Thanks? I still don't like you. I mean, you did kill me."
"Incorrect. Your body is still alive, not surprising as Morkar was there to clean up. Can you feel things, that are like distant memories?"
"Actually ya I can."
"I would like to explain more thoroughly, but my power is running out. Now I have a question to ask you."
"Hmm?"
"What do you think happens when a soulless being dies?"
"Why would I know?"
"Just humor me."
"Well… Since you don't have a soul you wouldn't be able to reincarnate. Maybe you end up in a place like this, but you can't leave?"
"You don't want to say it do you? That I will cease to exist. It is alright, I am at peace with this, I have been ever since Fate split itself. However, I don't want to let this existence to go to waste. So I give you a gift. My knowledge about the universe, the stream, and even Fate. Use it well, or don't, I won't be around to see it."
With that the voice fell silent, and it felt weird to say it, but I felt it leave. I had a lot to think about, and apparently I had time to think about it. However, the sounds, and sights were becoming louder, and clearer. I could now make out voices, and a roof.
I opened my eyes and took in a huge breath. I felt my stomach, and sighed when I didn't feel a huge hole there. I looked around myself and took in the surroundings. The very familiar surroundings actually. There were books everywhere, and the ceiling looked like the inside of a tree. I was in the library, laying down on the couch. Of course the couch had been expanded a little to fit my bigger form.
"Ah you're awake."
"Oh hi Morkar, care to explain why I'm not six feet under?"
"Well that's easy. I was going to let you die, but then all these mini horses,. Ahem, ponies kept trying to save you. I had been hoping to see if the rumors about a dying regulator taking a soul with it to wherever it goes were true, but I couldn't resist them. So here you are, safe and sound."
"Wait, you were going to possibly let me non-exist?"
"Oh no! I knew you would get out of it somehow, I was just curious. Anyways, we have some things to talk about."
"I already got one big load of information, can't this wait?"
"No. Now first things first, I will take my knowledge back."
He put his hands on my head and light glowed. I felt like a foreign part of my mind was being sucked away, not comfortable.
"One question before we start, how long was I out?"
"Three days and about an hour or so. Now then back to business. What are your plans from here? Do you have any idea of what your next move is from here?"
"Um… No?"
"I thought so. I have done the planning for you. First you will need to find a man named Jarvel (Pronounced with a Y). He will be helpful in this suicidal mission of yours. Last I heard he was seen in Acrium, my home world."
Morkar and I talked a long time about how to take the fight to them, and in the end I just listened to him. I didn't know enough right now to be making big decisions. I didn't even know how to fight yet. Apparently that was something I was going to pick up in Acrium, wherever that is, as well. Morkar gave me quite a few books to read and learn from. However, before that, there was a place I needed to visit.
Morkar left me after a little while and I was alone. The regulator of Earth, who still didn't have a name, had said he would give me information, but I didn't feel like I knew any of it. I could worry about that later, I had some things to do.
I walked inside, the bells ringing as I did so. Mrs. Cake arrived at the front counter quickly, ad looked me over.
"Oh, it's you. The girls are upstairs in Pinkie's room."
"Alright then."
"Leave the door open."
"Really? First off I'm not even the same species, so that would be just wrong. Secondly, there are six of them, I don't think a sevensome would go over well."
With that awkward statement, I walked up the stairs behind the counter. It was low, so I was stooping as to avoid hitting my head. I opened the door to Pinkie's room to find that I had been wrong. Only Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack were there.
"Well a fivesome is still out of the question."
They all looked over at me, looked back, and then looked at me again. I was met with mixed responses. Pinkie slammed into me, giving me an awkward hug, saying
"Silver! Oh my gosh you're alright! I mean I knew you would be, but that was so scary!"
Applejack stayed where she was, and just smiled at me. Rarity walked over to me and whispered in my ear, "I think you should still do it."
Finally, Rainbow dash flew in front of my face and said, "Looks like I'm back to being the fastest flier in Equestria, seeing as you're no longer a flier."
It's true, my wings were gone, "Don't start that. I'll put you on my shoulder, and tell everyone you're an exotic parrot."
"As if anyone would believe that."
"You talk enough to make it convincing."
"Hush there you two. Ah think we would all like an explanation of what happened."
Well there it was. I guess I would have to tell them, and let them tell the others.
"Where to start…"
"Ah reckon the beginning is a good place."
I told them about the voice that had stopped me, and about Morkar's tower. I told them about the weird things going on, except Celestia, and about Morkar's warning. Basically all the things that I had ignored that turned out to be important. I explained to them about Morkar giving me his knowledge and what had happened after the fight. When I was done they simply sat there.
"I have one last thing to say to you, and this one is actually important."
"And the rest wasn't?"
"Well to you no, but this is. I'll be leaving soon, and I don't know when, if ever, I'll be back."
Several voices chorused out, "What?"
"There's something I have to do before I can relax. I made the choice when I turned back into a human. So I guess this is goodbye."
They stayed silent for a little bit, but Pinkie whose hair had deflated said, "So we won't have any more parties for you?"
I smiled at her, "Actually I was hoping you could do a going away party for me."
She somewhat poofed out, and a little bit of a hop came back into her, "Of course I can, I mean, I am the party pony."
"I guess that means this isn't our final goodbye then. I'll see you all later then."
I walked out of the room, I still had a few to go. I still had to find Lunar and Twilight, then I should probably visit the guys. Well I knew where the guys would be, so them first. I walked the short distance to the house, and I knocked. Chance opened the door lazily, but his jaw dropped when he saw me,
"Uh…."
"It's me, Silver. Don't you recognize me?"
"Well… uh… no I don't. They said you had changed, but this is… wow…"
I walked inside to see Big Mac, Caramel, and Storm sitting around. They looked up at me, and nearly ran until Chance explained that I was Silver. I didn't bother explaining anything to them, but simply said that I would be leaving and I wasn't sure if I would come back. I got a varied response from them.
Big Mac didn't even flinch, and Storm nodded his head. Chance looked at me, as if to make sure I was okay. Caramel sighed and spoke up first,
"Those were the words I feared I would hear. I had hoped you would stay here, but I guess with those changes, you don't have much of a choice. I don't really understand where you're going, but I know it's far away. I just want to tell you, that if you ever come back, there's a place for you here."
Storm spoke next, "I expected as much. You may not be a Pegasus anymore, but you're still a wanderer. Maybe someday you'll tire of it like I did, but I feel that's a long way off."
Chance just shook his head, "Well if you're serious then I guess there's no stopping you. Just don't forget about us alright?"
Big Mac said nothing, and I turned to him, "No sappy goodbye from you?"
"What's the point? You'll be back soon."
Well he was confident. Then again soon in Big Mac's opinion could mean from now until a hundred years from now. I said a few final words, but I left quickly. I didn't like goodbyes. I would rather just leave in the night, but they didn't deserve that. Next I had to find Twilight and Lunar. After searching for quite a bit, I checked the balcony of the library. I could see them laying down on the padding that had once served as my bed.
"Hey guys."
Lunar didn't look at me, but Twilight said, "We know why you're here. Morkar told us."
"Ah… well… Time to get all that sappy stuff out of the way."
"I'm going with you."
Well that was unexpected, although in hindsight no it wasn't. I turned to look at Lunar and I said,
"No you're not. First of all you can't, secondly this is where you belong. You wanted to be here, so why leave?"
"Because we got here together, so why not go everywhere else together?"
"Because you don't want to. I know that I'm a pretty big part of this place, but you didn't come here for me. Stay here and enjoy life, if you come with me, you won't. Someday I might come back, but I don't know for sure."
Lunar stayed silent, but Twilight said, "I guess this really is goodbye then."
"Nonsense, we still have a party don't we? I'll see you guys there."
I'm was getting tired of these goodbyes, they made me sad. Well only one pony left now anyway. I found her by her house, sitting on the snowy grass. I thought about what Rarity had said, and I debated over it for awhile. In the end I decided to go with it. Maybe it was wrong since I wasn't that pony anymore, but I wanted to hold on to this last piece of this world, and if I did come back, then somepony would be waiting for me. I approached Fluttershy with the ring in my hand, but she spoke before I could say anything.
She didn't turn to face me, but kept looking forward. "I know what you're going to ask, but I don't know how to answer."
My grip tightened on the ring as she continued, "There used to be this feeling whenever I looked at you, but it's not there anymore. I don't know if it's what kept this relationship going. I think… I just need time to sort out my feelings. I'm not sure if all of this was fake, or if it was all real. So my answer is… no."
She said the last word in a barely audible whisper, but I still heard it. I had known this was going to happen, it was obvious when I had chosen to become human. Even before that I had known, when Morkar explained to me what was going on. So why did it still hurt? She hadn't turned to face me, and I'm glad she didn't. She didn't see the single tear that fell, or me clutching my hand so hard that the ring bent. I dropped the ring in the snow, and I walked away. Leaving the last bit of peace that I had known as well.
I really do hate goodbyes.
I sat on the library balcony that Lunar and Twilight had abandoned. I looked out over the place that had become home for me in the past few months. It's sad to know that I'm leaving. I will come back one day though. Even if it's just to visit. However, the happiness of existence comes before my own.
I heard the windows open behind me. Morkar stepped out and sat next to me. For a few seconds neither of us said anything.
"You're party is almost ready."
"I know. Morkar, what would've happened if the regulator had 'contained' me?"
"That is one of the few things that I don't know. Anyone who has ever been contained, has never come back. Rumor is that you are trapped in a desert land, but it is most likely not the case. Even the best of us lose sometimes, remember that. I used to know a man just like you. Well he wasn't really a man, as he wasn't human, but he was a male. Anyway, he was a great warrior, and friend. He fought just like you, never hesitating and rushing in."
"What happened to him?"
"I don't know. Last time we heard, he was off on some distant planet. He disappeared after that, and we believe that he may have been contained. Some believe that the regulators managed to erase his soul, thereby erasing him. Some will think that you are that blank soul."
"Am I, it's a possibility."
"No. He never had the will to win as you do. That is something that would stick with a soul. His first life wasn't very easy. I won't go into detail, it's his story to tell. No, I think he's still out there somewhere, either held captive, or fighting still."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"It will give you a serious advantage."
"How?"
"His first life was spent on Acrium, where he grew up. He saved the world from a great disaster, and they praised him. When you go there, you're going to take his form, and pretend that you are his soul reincarnation."
Wow, that's like inception, but with reincarnation. "Why?"
"The people there will love you, and word will spread like fire. Other souls like us will rise to fight under your banner."
"My fake one."
"We don't have any other option at the moment."
"How will I take his form?"
"When you enter the world think of the form you wish to take, and instead of being given one like here, you will assume that one. I'll give you my knowledge of what he looked like. Also remember to take all your things with you. I'm not sure how, but physical things can traverse the stream as well."
"What was his name?"
"Poltagon, lord of the winds."
"Sounds like a man of action."
"You have no idea."
At that moment the windows burst open and Rarity walked through.
"You going to attend your own party?"
It was weird. They didn't treat me different, even though I was. At first I thought that they would all act differently, but everyone seemed to accept that I was still Silver. I walked down stairs, leaving Morkar alone, and out the door. Sugarcube Corner was lit up like a skyscraper. I stooped and walked inside. There wasn't a lot of ponies there, just the five mares, Lunar, and the guys. I walked inside and everyone cheered. Fluttershy was nowhere to be seen, and I couldn't blame her.
The party, while fun, had an air of finality around it. Everyone knew that this was the last time I would be here. I was approached by everyone, all saying their goodbyes, and giving me well-wishes. Lunar had apparently been lost in the crowd, and I couldn't see him anywhere. I ducked out of the party, and saw Lunar looking up at the night sky. I sat down next to him and said nothing.
"I'm never going to see you again am I?"
"Of course you will. I'll come back eventually."
"That could be years from now, maybe even centuries. I'll probably be dead by then."
"I'm going to tell you a secret. You'll probably forget soon, but it'll comfort you when I leave. Time doesn't make any sense. Morkar says I could be back anytime from tomorrow, until after eternity. However, the fact is you'll be alive no matter how long it takes. The ponies here have never experienced death, hell they've probably never seen blood until the fight. Remember when I said even Equestira couldn't conquer death? Well I was wrong. Didn't you notice that when Luna was tossing you around that you never felt pain?"
"Well actually ya I did, but it didn't seem important until just now."
"That's exactly it. The ponies here will never die, but they won't notice that they have lived forever."
"So do our memories get erased or something?"
"No, although bad ones get smoothed over. I can't really explain it. You just won't notice it. Soon you'll forget about this discussion completely."
"Well that's helpful."
"For now it is, so why don't you come back and party? After all if this place isn't as awesome when I get back as it was when I leave, I'll have to fix everything."
We went back inside, and two new additions to the party also joined us. Princesses Celestia and Luna greeted us as we walked back inside. Luna had kept her height growth, and now stood about a foot taller than Celestia. It was funny to see Celestia looking up at Luna, and still trying to be the big sister.
"So Silver care to explain exactly what went on here in the last few days, and why you are… different?"
"Nope, you can ask someone else. I'm done here."
Celestia dropped her voice, catching me off guard, "Well in that case, we can go outside, and due to your size change, you can 'ride' me properly."
I coughed violently, and everyone focused on me. I blushed as they all looked away and I gave Celestia a nasty glare, "That's the most disgusting thing ever. I don't even want to think about it. I mean were not even close in anatomy."
Celestia raised an eyebrow, "Well you have a stick, and I have a hole, so to speak."
I nearly ran away from her, hearing her laughter follow me. She was just too damn creepy. The party continued at a slowed pace, but eventually ponies began to leave. Eventually it was just me, Lunar, and the 5 mares. As I waited, we talked about all the time we had spent together. They dropped off one by one, until only Twilight was awake.
"You are coming again, aren't you?"
"I hadn't realized I had once."
She hit me with a hoof, "You know what I mean."
"I promise, I'll be back. I can't say when, but eventually I'll get back here. No matter what I have to do."
She sighed and said, "What if you have to do Celestia?"
"Do you want me to come back? Besides, I know you all will miss me too much, so I have to don't I?"
I don't know if Twilight heard all of that, because she was sleeping on the floor with the rest of the ponies. I got up silently and walked out the door. I met Morkar, and together we walked towards the hill where I had first arrived. Morkar kept reminding me of what I had to do, it was annoying actually.
"Morkar I know what I have to do. Don't worry about me. Make sure to keep these ponies safe for me alright?"
"Of course, although I doubt anything will come this way."
"I'll see you later then, remember I'm going to need you someday, so don't get lazy."
"I never forget what I have learned."
"Of course you don't. I have one more favor to ask of you."
"Oh?"
I whispered to him my idea, and he just shook his head. He did as I asked however, and in a flash of light, it was done. A large statue of my Pegasus self was on the hill. It stood on a pedestal, which had a plaque on front of it. The plaque read: "Silver, the fastest flier in Equestria."
"Looks like I'm all set then."
I strapped on the pack that Morkar had given me, full of books on various things. I grabbed my blade and held it in my hand. My necklace once again in it's proper place. The reassuring weight of my knife in my pocket. I looked once more over Ponyville,
"See you later."
Morkar opened up a hole back to the stream where I had cut through originally. Without hesitation I leapt through it. The hole closed behind me, sealing off a silent Ponyville.
AN: Well that's about it I think. I'm going to do an epilogue, or maybe several, but they will be from Lunar's point of view. So don't say goodbye just yet. In fact, I could say we're just getting started. Until next time, HAYO!
Epilogue 2: A Stranger from the Sky.
Still on Lunar's point of view!
I woke up, before Twilight surprisingly. I quietly got up and walked downstairs. I put some water on for tea. Twilight without tea is not a pretty sight. I woke spike up, and he got started on breakfast. My cooking skills were horrible, and Twilight didn't even have any. I walked outside to get started on my mail route, but what I saw made me consider taking the day off.
I walked back inside the library and sat on a chair. The couch was pushed off to the side. It didn't feel right to sit on it. The water began to whistle and Spike prepared two cups of tea. Twilight walked down, and I didn't say a word. She instantly brightened as soon as she took a sip.
"So why haven't you started on your mail route?"
"I'm taking the day off."
"Why?"
"There's a giant metal ship in the sky, and I think that's a viable reason to miss work."
"Oh."
I waited for a few seconds, counting to five in my head.
"Wait… What?!"
"Ya there's a giant space ship above us right now."
"And you're not panicking why?"
"I'm just going to ignore it, and enjoy a nice day at home."
"Come on we have to check this out."
Regrettably, I got up and followed Twilight out of the library. She ran ahead of me and gasped when she looked up.
"Alright, we checked it out, I'm going to go back to sleep now."
Rarity ,Pinkie, and Rainbow joined us outside the library.
"Oh hey girls, enjoying the view?"
"What's going on?"
"No idea, but I'm going back to sleep."
I started to walk back into the library, but my muscles stopped obeying me. Twilight pulled me back with magic and set me down.
"No we need to figure out what's going on here."
"But I don't care, I just want to sleep on my day off."
"Too bad."
Applejack joined us, and soon Fluttershy came by as well. We all just stared up at the ship for awhile. It was big and black, and very ship-like. I don't know how else to describe it. It wasn't star wars style, it was bulky. It was way too far away for me to actually pick out any details about it.
"Look there!" Rainbow pointed her hoof up in the sky.
Ya that was helpful. 'Look at the giant thing in the sky!'. However, it wasn't the giant thing she was pointing at. A small dot was falling from the ship, and falling fast. As I got closer I could see that it was a humanoid shape.
I turned to Rainbow, "Aren't you going to catch it?"
"Oh yeah!" She took off into the sky.
The thing got closer to the ground as Rainbow sped towards it. Before she could catch it, the thing spread wings, that I hadn't known were there. They were like balloons that filled up, and slowed his descent. He landed close to us, with rainbow next to him.
"Alright, I'm going now."
"Not yet, we have to see what that thing was."
I gave her an audible sigh. "Fine."
We waited for Rainbow to come back, and when she did, the thing was walking next to her. It was bipedal, a humanoid. It was at least 7 ft tall, towering over us. It had long arms, one of which looked metallic. It had wings on its back, but they weren't bird wings. They were like a bats, leathery. The wings were folded down on the things back, and seemed to sag a little. His legs were bent oddly, but didn't look broken. His eyes were a deep forest green, and his face was smooth and friendly looking. His black hair was long, but tied back in a pony tail. He wore a brown leather jacket, with holes in the back to accommodate his wings. He wore black shorts, revealing his odd legs.
Not many ponies were out this time of day, but the ones that were stopped and stared at the thing. He walked up to us and said, "Good day mates."
Well I'll be, he speaks my language.
Twilight opened her mouth to speak to him, but he held up a hand,
"Before we play twenty questions, you got any grub?"
Twilight closed her mouth, and led him into the library. He stuffed his mouth with bread, refusing to eat the flowers. While he was eating Twilight said,
"So care to explain yourself?"
He swallowed and said, "They call me Skies, and I'm part of the Anti-Space patrol. For you, that means that I fly with my squad, scouting out for nasties up in the stars. Well I used to anyway, now I'm stuck here."
"What nasties?"
"Well it probably means nothing to you, but we call 'em regulators. I won't be here for long maybe one or two days."
He leaned back in his chair and pulled something from under his shirt. It was a necklace, with a solid coin and a loop on it. He played with it as Twilight took in this information.
"Wait… Is that you Silver?"
He looked up at the mention of the name, stared at Twilight, and then let out a booming laugh. It was a laugh that made you want to laugh.
"Wait. You think I'm Silver? Commander Monoromei? One of the greatest soul warriors? Ha! Well if you know his true name, then you must know more then I gave you credit for. Tell me, did you hear that an ambush was planned at Lost Izalith?"
"Well yes actually, but wasn't that almost a year ago? And I thought it was called Izalith."
Wow, I can't believe Twilight even remembered the name. I had forgotten all about that. Know that she mentioned that though, I haven't checked on Morkar's tower this week.
"A year ago? Huh, the time flow here is really messed up. No the battle happened only a few days ago. We call it Lost Izalith, because Izalith as a whole planet doesn't exist anymore. We lost the battle."
"What?! Is Silver okay?"
"I don't know. I wasn't on the front lines. We were protectin' the escape routes. However, I did hear rumors and tales of what happened. From what I gathered, it happened like this. The force of regulators was much bigger than we had anticipated. When they came into view, many of the men turned and fled. However, a few stayed, and they fought with Monoromei and Jarvel. They say that Jarvel called for a retreat only a few minutes after the battle had started. Monoromei was too far in though, and he didn't retreat. One soldier said he just gave up and dropped his sword, another said he threw his sword to Jarvel and fought without it. Whatever the case Commander Monoromei is missing."
"Oh…"
"I wouldn't worry about it. The commander has a knack for getting into trouble, and coming out of it for the better."
We all looked at each other with grim faces. Twilight asked, "Why did you come here then?"
"I didn't really plan on it. We were being followed by a small segment of the regulator force, and we had to separate. We left one man to sail the ship, and the rest of us jumped."
"Then why did we only see you?"
"Oh we all jumped to different planets, we accessed a sort of portal that leads everywhere, and jumped at random. It's a great tactic to confuse regulators, I just hope our captain gets out of there okay."
"So how will you get back?"
"Oh a ship will come by in time to pick us up. From there we go back to scouting. Commander Jarvel has given us orders to find Monoromei, but I think he'll find us first."
"So did Silver… I mean Monoromei form an army to fight the regulators?"
"Well… yes and no. There is the three commanders, Morkar, Monoromei, and Jarvel. Then there is the Anti-Space patrol, that scouts for regulators, and their sections of existence. We're more of a hit and run group. As proven, we don't stand a chance in fair combat. It's hard to explain accurately."
Skies had nothing else to tell us as 'he wasn't in on the commanders personal lives'. However, one thing was clear, Silver had been busy.
"Just one more question. What are you?"
"Ah now that I can answer. I am the last member of an extinct race. Well technically anyway. Some still take this form, but I was the last born into this form. I don't remember the name of our race, but we once lived in a great floating city on the planet Acrium. The fabled warrior Poltagon was one of us. I don't really know the history, as I was raised away from the city, and I had no desire to find out."
At one point, Skies found the statue of Silver, and stared at in awe.
"So you're telling me this is where Monoromei started. It's almost an honor to be here, where he once stood. It also brings him down though. I know now that he wasn't always as strong as he is now. It makes him seem more… real."
A few day later, a ship did come by. Skies, he told us he couldn't say his real name, said his goodbyes. He wasn't there long enough, and many ponies were secretly glad when he left. When the ship arrived over head he spread his wings, and oddly they filled up with air. He stood on the ground, for a few seconds. Then without warning, a large boom could be heard, and he shot upwards at ridiculous speed.
"Wow, from 0 to speed of sound in less than a second. Impressive."
Epilogue 3: Now Who's a Fancy Lad?
We are still on Lunar's POV right?
I dropped my mailbag on the bed. I was tired, but not sleep tired. Just… tired. Twilight had gone off with Morkar, who had wanted to see something about everfree trees. Morkar had returned to us a few months ago, but when questioned about Silver's whereabouts, he shook his head and said,
"He's been gone for about 2 years since the battle, and no one's heard anything from him."
We have celebrated four Silver Nights without Silver. Some ponies didn't say anything, but I could see it in their eyes. They were sure Silver wasn't coming back. The news we had received wasn't exactly good either. Only me, Rarity, Twilight, and oddly Big Mac believed he would return. Big Mac just said,
"He'll be back soon enough."
Rarity claimed that love would bring him back. She said that the bump in Silver and Fluttershy's relationship, was just that, a bump. She went on and on about true love. Twilight said that he would come back because even he would need rest.
Me? I think Silver will come back, because he said he would. Everyone else seemed to think he was gone for good. Either that, or they just didn't think about it. Fluttershy seemed to be normal again, but whenever Silver was mentioned she teared up, and often left the room. Rarity had repaired the ring, for when he came back.
I walked back outside, I didn't want to sit around inside. The sun was setting behind Morkar's eyesore. I walked up the hill that Silver's statue was on, to watch the sunset. It really was a beautiful thing, and worth the time to watch.
Nothing other worldy had happened since Morkar came back. I did figure out that there wasn't actually anything going on between him and Celestia though. Apparently Morkar hadn't responded when she advanced on him. Unlike Silver and challenging her, Morkar simply ignored her. She seemed rather impressed, making me want to never know what she tried to get his attention.
When she had mentioned Morkar's 'large… brain.' he instantly began discussing all the things he knew about. He really did like to hear himself talk. Apparently they just spent their time actually studying.
I walked up the hill and was about to sit down. I looked up at the statue and shook my head. Someone had defaced the statue, drawing a mustache and a monocle on Silver. There was a pile of rags nearby, and I used my magic to pick one up. I tried to wipe the marker off, but it was stubborn. I nearly jumped in surprise when a voice from underneath the rags said,
"I thought he looked much better that way."
The rags shifted around, revealing a light green pegasus, with a brown tail. His cutie mark was an odd symbol. I looked at him and asked,
"Who are you?"
"A friend. Well a friend of a friend, but I think that makes us close acquaintances, not friends."
"So you are?"
"Nobody really, besides that's not important. I bring a message of good news."
"What's that?"
"It isn't going to rain tonight."
"Well that's fantastic."
"I don't think so. I like the rain, and lighting. Storms in general really. I like the wind blowing around, making odd noises. The sound of rain hitting glass, or wood. The flash of lighting, then the rumble of thunder. It's all calming in a way."
"Okay…."
"Oh right the message."
"That wasn't the message?"
"What wasn't the message?"
"The not raining bit."
"It's not going to rain? Shame I like the rain."
"I know."
"Anyway the message."
"Yes, what is it?"
"What is what?"
"THE MESSAGE!"
This guy was getting on my nerves.
"Hmm? Oh right of course. How could I forget? Well let's see here, I put it around here somewhere."
I nearly growled in frustration. Instead I stomped my hoof into the ground.
"Oh right, it's in my head. Oh right, the message is look up."
I looked up, to see nothing.
"I don't get it."
"I didn't either, I mean that message is like eons old, but I still don't get what he meant. I looked up, and there was nothing there. Was it the fact that there was nothing? Or maybe it was the sun."
"Was that the good news message?"
"Hmm? Oh no, that's what my teacher told me once. He hit me on the head after, don't know why."
"You have got to be kidding me."
"I know! It was completely random."
"Just give me the message you have for me."
"Do I have a message for you?"
"You said you did."
"Are you a Mr. Lunar?"
"Yes."
"Oh then I already messed up."
"I'm supposed to give this message to a Lunar, he doesn't have a prefix."
I face hoofed, something I hadn't had to do in a long time.
"Oh well close enough. Anyway the message is, 'By the way I'm bringing cheese for everyone.'"
"Is that really the message?"
"Yes."
"I don't get it."
"What's not to get? There is going to be cheese! For everyone! Are mini-horses usually this dumb?"
This pony was infuriating, "I'm a pony, and so are you. I don't who is bringing the cheese."
"I am? I hadn't noticed. Odd that, I didn't really want to be one. Well I've got to go now, start my adventure and such. Good-bye mini-horse! This was a fun meeting."
"Wait! What's your name, and who is bringing cheese?"
"No one's bringing cheese. Oh wait yes they are. My name is Poltagon, not that that means anything to you. Doesn't mean a lot to anyone these days. It used to though. Oh well, gotta fly!"
With that he disappeared, leaving me utterly confused. I stood still for a few minutes, running the conversation through my head several times. Wait… Poltagon, that seemed familiar somehow. Before I could think more on this another voice spoke up,
"Oh this is good, but it's missing something. Ah! There we go, now who's a fancy lad?"
I looked up to find that the Silver statue was now wearing a top hat. It fit very nicely with the mustache and monocle.
"Stop defacing this statue."
"Defacing? I improved this old thing. I gave it a new look, so to speak. Also, I'm sorry. I couldn't figure out how to get the cheese here, so there will be no cheese. Sorry to get your hopes up."
Another pony figure walked around from behind the statue. This one was covered completely by a cloak, complete with shadowy hood. The pony sat down on its hind legs and laid back on the statue base.
"Who are you?"
"Good question. I've been called many things, Lance, Avendale, Brother Sabre, and Epsilon, to name a few. The more common ones would be Commander Monoromei, and Lost Monoromei. My real name? I don't remember what my real name is, but then again I guess your name is what your friends call you. In that case, then my name is Silver."
I stared at the pony for a second, disbelieving that statement.
"It can't be."
The pony threw off it's cloak, revealing a deep green coat, and a white mane. A shield with a swirl in the middle was its cutie mark. Wings opened from the sides, and a wild grin was plastered on the face.
I stood dumbstruck as Silver looked at me, "What can I say? I love theater."
"Is it really you? I mean what happened out there? They said you were kidnapped, that you had been lost. Did you beat the regulators? What's with this Monoromei stuff?"
Silver stuck up a hoof to silence me. I looked into his eyes, they were so bright they almost hurt to look at. They spoke of knowledge and age old memories. They also held pain, and sadness. They were the eyes of someone who had lived a very long time, and experienced all kinds of things.
"Let me start at the beginning."
Fin.
And now a message from the author:
It feels so good to write that word. I don't like 'the end' because it's not is it? Well it is of this Fic, but Silver's story goes on and on, just like we do. This is the last epilogue by the way, but still feel free to come back and comment whenever you feel like it. I'll still be checking for new ones when I'm fifty years old if I make it that far. I wish this fic could've been spread more, maybe I'll post it elsewhere.
Don't worry though, I think I'll stay on the fanfiction scene for awhile. I already have two ideas that I have been mulling over in my head. One features Caramel, Big Mac, Chance, and Storm (I don't think that is his name, but it stuck) going on an epic adventure. The other involves four guys who are completely different from each other ending up in Equestria once the earth is destroyed. They have to work together to save Equestria from remnants of the human race that wish to take over. Along the way they might become friends or something like that. If i decide to write anything, know this. They will be updated much slower than this.I will be working on a real book that i can one day publish. So that will take up a lot of my free time.
If you have any questions about the fic, than feel free to leave a comment, or send me a message. Although I have been having issues with the message thing here. I really enjoyed writing this fic, and I hope you guys enjoyed reading it. Maybe I should've made this a little sub-chapter…
A shout out to those who roughed this journey with me. This fic had some issues, with me especially. I half-changed the plot in the middle of things, and I often had to re-read my own fic to remember where I was. I would give you all a hug, but obvious problems are in the way, so have dancing Kirby's instead. <('_'<)^(-_-)^(>'_')>
See you guys later, C.A.W.
AN: Warning, there is AJ dialogue in this chapter, and I will probably butcher her dialogue to an unrecognizable point. So bear with me on this one.
Before Applejack could ask any questions, or any of the ponies could, I raised my hoof.
"Before any of you ask any questions, I would like to ask a few of my own. First do you know about the elements of harmony?"
All of the girls looked at Twilight, who nodded and said, "We are the elements of harmony, Magic, Loyalty, Honesty, Laughter, Generosity, and Kindness." She pointed to the respective ponies as she listed off the elements.
I felt a little bit relieved, "Secondly, have you heard of Nightmare Moon and Discord?"
This time it was Pinkie who answered my question, "Of course silly! We harmonified Nightmare Moon into princess Luna! Then that Discord guy came around with chocolate rain clouds! They were so delicious, and then the animals got all weird! The clouds were my favorite part, they were cotton candy with chocolate inside. I mean how cool is that?!"
She hadn't specified if they had defeated him, but I got the message. Feeling relieved I told them to go ahead with their questions.
First was Rarity "What is your real name?" There was no darling this time or kindness in her voice. She must be really mad at me. I thought on this question for a while before answering, but I had said I would tell the truth.
"Well… I'm not sure. I had one, but I don't think that name fits anymore."
Rainbow asked the second question "How did you fall out of the sky from nowhere, and where did you come from?"
I laughed, "Two questions in and we are already at the point where it's easier for me to tell you he entire story. Well Me and Martin, who is called Lunar Crescent, came from a whole different planet, one called earth. We didn't know each other there, but we both lived on earth at some point in time." I finally elected to skip the part about suicide, it would only worry them. "One day I went to sleep and I woke up in an even stranger place."
Pinkie Pie tried to get a word in, but Rainbow stuffed a muffin in her mouth.
"In this strange place is where I met Martin, and we began our great adventure. This place really had no time flow, I could never tell how long it had been. Eventually we managed to escape the place by cutting a hole through the… dimension I guess with my…."
Here I realized that I didn't have my katana with me, it was still back on that hill. "Well sword, but I left it on top of a hill near here."
Twilight spoke up "Actually that's where I was. Rainbow told me about it, and we checked it out. By the way It's actually called a katana (I facehoofed…lightly), but we couldn't get it out of the ground. It won't budge."
"Probably because you're not it's owner. Actually I have no idea, I'll look into it later. Anyway where was I.. Ah well we fell through the hole and landed here. That's our story, any other questions?"
Applejack spoke for the first time, "Ah know y'all still holding somthin back. What is it y'all don't wanna tell us?"
Count on Applejack to catch a half-lie. "In truth I didn't get here by just sleeping. I took my own life, I committed suicide (which is a crime, that's why you commit it)."
I could tell Applejack regretted asking, but the truth is hardly ever pretty. Rarity was the first to gather her wits. "Why would you do such an awful thing darling?"
The kindness was back in her voice, I smiled at that, "Do you want the long complicated story, or the simple one?"
"Simple, if you would please."
Alright then "I was bored."
"So… you killed yourself because you were bored." Now she just sounded disbelieving.
"Well for the most part, we would have t take the complicated route to figure out the rest."
"I change my mind then, why don't you tell us the complicated one?"
Women, they just can't make up their minds, "Alright now pay close attention, because I only want to say this once. I hold a belief that we all have spirits, or souls, and when are spirits our on a world, they need a shell to interact with the world. For the most part we are unaware of our spirits, so when the shell dies, the spirit unconsciously just makes a new shell on the same world. However, if we become aware of our spirits and we have a strong enough will to take over, then we can 'awaken' our spirits and go wherever we want in the universe."
A long silence followed my explanation. Again Rarity was the first to gather her wits, "So you committed suicide believing that you could free yourself of the 'shell' life and just roam as a spirit."
"Well no, a shell is required to interact with any world, the spirit and shell work in harmony. I committed suicide so I could explore all kinds of worlds, even though I still need a shell to explore them."
Rainbow who had said nothing since her first question had stopped giving me glares. Not angry ones, but disbelieving ones. Now she seemed to be deep in thought.
Fluttershy managed to beat Rarity this time "I think I get it, but um… according to you, you could have just lived life until you died naturally…if that's okay with you, I mean."
I laughed "I wasn't okay with it, that was the problem. Life on my world was… complicated. There is a lot about it that you probably wouldn't understand, but to simplify it, I was bored of that life."
Throughout the entire discussion, Lunar (Martin) had tried to make himself as small as possible. I wasn't going to make him tell his story, it was his decision to do so.
"So now that's cleared up, anymore questions?"
Twilight of course had spotted a rather large question, "How did you know so much about our world?"
"That's easy, in our world there is.." They probably didn't know what TV is, that would be even harder to explain. "Stories about this one. Someone writes them down and we can kind-of see your world through them."
Twilight was still confused, "and how do they write these stories?"
"Well I would presume by using a pencil and some paper" I couldn't resist that one.
She huffed, "I mean, how do they know about out world?"
"I don’t know."
Twilight got even more flustered, "what do you mean you don't know?"
"I mean that I have no knowledge of how they do it."
"I know what I don't know means!"
"Then why did you ask?"
Twilight seemed ready to buck my face, better her then Applejack. Conveniently, Applejack decided it was a good time to intervene.
"Calm down Twi', Ah'm sure that he don't know everything 'bout his world, 'Sides, you got your answer the first time."
Applejack to the rescue. I looked outside, it was getting really late. "I would love to continue this discussion, but I'm exhausted, and I would really enjoy a nap right now."
The rest of them looked outside and noticed how late it was. Twilight spoke up "Well it is late, and we can continue this later, but don't think you're getting away from me. You have answers that I want, and I will get them."
"Then direct any questions you have at Lunar. He probably knows much more than I do. Also I have a favor to ask, could we uh… crash here for the night?"
Twilight sighed "Very well, but one of you has to sleep on the couch, I only have one guest bed here."
Everyone said their goodbyes, and made promises of meeting up tomorrow. As Rarity left she caught my eye.
"We still have a deal, remember?"
I sighed and nodded. Of course she remembered. She walked out, and Fluttershy was right behind her.
"Hey Fluttershy!" She looked at me and squeaked, "I was wondering if I could ask you a favor…" Rainbow Dash was hovering over us, obviously listening in. "Alone." I looked up at Rainbow for extra effect.
She got the hint, but didn't take the advice, and she finally spoke to me, "anything you can say to her you can say to me!"
I sighed again, I'm doing that way too much, "Well I could, but it would be embarrassing, I promise it's nothing bad." I didn't even know what I meant by bad, but Rainbow did fly away, sort of. She sat in a tree far enough away that she couldn't hear us, but she could still see us. She looked like a bird doing that, but I kept that to myself.
Fluttershy was looking at me expectantly, "I was wondering if you could uh.. teach me how to fly."
She looked surprised at this "you don't know how?"
"Well I've only had wings for about a day now."
"Well.. um why don't you ask Rainbow Dash, she is a much better flyer than me."
"You fly slow though, and can probably pass on knowledge better than her though, after all I need to learn the basics first."
"Well than I guess it would be okay…"
I smiled "Alright then, I'll talk to you later then."
"Bye" Fluttershy walked away and flew off toward her home. I wish I could do that, the flying that is. Before I had a chance to turn around and go back in I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned and was face to face with Applejack, a little too close for comfort.
She backed up a little and said, "Ah just wanted to let ya know that if you're ever looking for work, my farm always has room for a bucker or two, especially during applebuck season. It's not the best pay, but for honest work it's enough. Your friend is welcome to join, but he don't seem the strong type."
Again I smiled, been doing that a lot too lately, "Thanks for the offer, I may just have to take you up on that."
Applejack smiled back "work is from 6 to 4 with a lunch break in the middle. Ah won't be surprised if you don't show up tomorrow though, it's already 2 in the morning."
How did she know that? I instinctively looked towards the moon, and I figured that she had learned to read the time from the position of the moon. "Alright well I'll see you around then."
As applejack walked away I looked towards the tree Rainbow had been sitting in. She had left at some point. Again before I could go inside a voice behind me spoke out.
"Do you really believe what you were talking about in there? All that spirit stuff?"
I didn't turn around, "Of course I do, I bet my life on it once already didn't I?"
"But how can you be so sure?"
I turned around and looked Rainbow in the eye, "Honestly it's impossible to be sure, but that's why its called religion, you need to have some faith. I'm 100% behind my beliefs, so I'm sure that what I say is the truth, but decide for yourself what to believe in. I can't tell you what to believe in, your parents can't, and neither can the priest. You have to believe in it. Why do you want to know?"
She backed away from me, "No reason." She took off and flew to her house. Something was up with her, but I wasn't going to force her to talk, that's her decision. I turned around to finally go into the library, when I felt another tap, but this time on my hind leg. What is with these ponies. Do they all want some advice or something? I'm not all knowing ya know.
"Uh who are you?" I looked down and saw Spike the baby dragon assistant. I had forgotten about him, I wonder where he was. I was too tired to explain anymore.
"A friend, ask Twilight for anything more." with that I walked inside and fell on the couch.
"Ah Silver, you're just the pony I was looking for."
Celestia had stopped grinning, but the blank stare remained in her eyes.
"Well what can I do for you?"
Her voice dropped, "It's more of a what can you do to me thing."
I twitched, "Ha ha I get it. Now seriously why did you drag me here?"
Her voice didn't change back, "Oh I am serious."
I looked back at Luna, but she just stood in front of a door. She didn't even give me a glance.
"Okay I'm not playing that game right now."
Her voice changed back to normal this time, "I am not playing a game. I want you."
I twitched again, "Well that's a uh… generous offer, but I'm otherwise engaged. So I'll have to decline."
She started grinning again, "Oh I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make it sound like you had a choice."
I had been backing up, but Luna had put up a hoof to stop me from moving. She gave me the same blank stare. Well now I was seriously fucked… literally. Celestia stood up and began approaching me, her horn had started to glow. I looked around, but there was no way out. Not even a window to smash. Just the doors behind Luna and Celestia. I took my chances and flew straight up. Celestia let her spell go and it missed me. I flew around her and towards the door.
It wasn't like I had time to land, so I stretched out my hooves and smashed through the door. I was in a long hallway, once again without windows. Celestia was calmly walking towards me as if she knew I wasn't going to escape. I flew down the hall and passed several doors. I burst through one of them and I found another door. there was a tiny hole at the top and I could see flowers. The gardens, perfect.
I smashed against the door, but it wouldn't open. I looked through the window and saw two guards holding it closed.
"You guys got to let me out!"
They didn't even respond.
"The Princess is in danger!"
They still did nothing.
"Fine be that way, but I'll remember this."
I dashed back out and into the hallway again. Celestia was still walking and was very close. She started to power her horn again and I took off. I dodged the spell, but was almost hit with a second darker one. I looked back and I saw Luna preparing to fire once more. I burst through another door, and was hit with a broom. A cleaning closet, great. I ducked back out into the hall and continued flying forward. After another two useless doors I was getting worried. I saw a door at the end of the hall and flew through it.
I was greeted by a horrifying sight. A large bed sat against the far wall, and the rest of the room was very royal looking. The royal bedchambers. I think I'll go back to the broom closet. In truth it was very royal. The bed was very large with a gold frame. A few bookshelves went across the wall, also framed in gold. A dresser sat next to the bed and on top of it was a bottle of wine with three glasses. However, there was still no window.
Celestia spoke behind me, "Well we're here."
A very audible gulp came from my throat. I would rather get bucked by Big Mac 100 times before this. Luna walked in behind Celestia and the door slammed closed. My fate was sealed. Celestia used her magic to pour the wine and handed a glass to her sister. A glass floated towards me, but I knocked it away.
"Oh come now Silver, stop fighting so much. You'll exhaust yourself before we start to have fun."
I was starting to get desperate, I needed a way out and fast. I hadn't even done this with Fluttershy, and I would be content with never doing it. No matter how much I ignore my human instinct, it would take years for me to do anything close to this.
Celestia walked up to me and looked down on me. I felt myself frozen in place and I was lifted up. Celestia put me down on the bed on my back. She didn't do anything else yet.
"Just calm down, this is supposed to be fun. Besides you should feel honored." She was still grinning with that blank look.
I couldn't even say anything back. Luna had went to one side of the bed and began stroking one of my wings. The odd sensation was starting to slow down my thought processes. I just knew I wanted a way out of this. Celestia walked to the front of the bed and put a hoof on my chest.
"It's not everypony that gets to bed with the royal sisters."
She stroked her hoof across my chest, and I tried to move. Luna was keeping me down with her magic however, and I was stuck. I was surely going to be scarred for life after this. How would I even explain this to anyone. I tried to think of different scenarios, but Luna's actions with my wings were starting to overpower me. I could feel them straining trying to move, but Luna was keeping them down. Maybe if I hit myself hard enough, I could knock myself out and not even be awake for any of this.
Celestia started to move her hoof lower, and I yelped. Not a very manly sound. However she removed her hoof and walked around. I sighed a little having stalled the inevitable. Or maybe I didn't because both her and Luna got on the bed with me, still frozen, and leaned over me. My wings had become stiff and even if I wasn't frozen flying wouldn't be an option. They both put a hoof on my chest and started to move them lower. none of this would even be happening if I had found a window. I just wanted one window, was that too much to ask for. No I needed a window and now. The magic holding me in place faded as Luna became distracted. However where there once was a door, a window was. It looked over the gardens, but it was obviously quite a way up.
Without even questioning the arrival of the window I acted. Celestia and Luna were both way to close for comfort and were focused elsewhere. So with my limbs able to move once again, I hit them both in the face with my hoof. It probably didn't have much effect, but they both recoiled. It gave me the time I needed, and I launched myself of the bed. I ran at the window as they both shook off the pain. They began to power another spell.
I smashed through the window screaming, "Fuck this!"
Two spells narrowly missed me and I began to fall. My wings were still dysfunctional, but if yesterday was anything to go by, I could survive another fall. I looked back up, and to my horror both Celestia and Luna were flying after me. Looking out I saw the garden maze and the entrance point. I looked at the quickly approaching ground and hoped there was a bush or something. Luckily for me there was. I landed in the bush which surprisingly acted as a very good cushion.
Without pausing to check myself over I raced towards the maze. I rushed into it and began taking various twists and turns. I just needed to stay hidden until my wings functioned again. I could hear Celestia calling out.
"Silver this is silly. I thought we were done with the foreplay."
Once I got out of this, I was going to hit my head so many times that I would forget this day. I ran away from the source of the voice and ran into something that managed to even stop me. A human was sitting on the ground with his legs crossed. He was wearing a pair of khakis a leather jacket, and a fedora donned his head. He looked over at me with mild interest.
"So this is the new me huh?"
"Sorry to be rude, but right now is not the time for me to talk to my consciousness."
"It's always the right time. Besides if not now when?"
I started to run again, but I followed myself.
"I don't think I like the new me. I mean I'm pretty much just awesomeness in physical form, but you? Your just lame. Look at yourself, you used to dream about exploring the universe, but now you are just content to lay around and do nothing. What happened to exploring and then settling down? You used to have dreams of freeing the universe, not of living together with Fluttershy."
I ignored myself and continued to run.
"You are pathetic. You used to be all about action. You would never think twice about anything. You were so sure of yourself in everything you did. Now you just walk around this world, asking what you should get for your friends. If your me, then I want to be someone else."
Man I was an asshole, "And let me guess, your some future me brought here by magic. or maybe a past me."
"Oh no. I'm just a figment of your imagination. You probably hit your head to hard or something."
With those final words I disappeared. I stopped and stared at where I had been. I shook myself and ignored that whole encounter. Still staring at the spot where a second me had stood I started to run again. I ran right into something and fell on my back.
Luna was staring down at me with that blank expression. She walked over me, and started to lower herself. Unlucky for her, because my wings had decided to start working again. I built up air quickly, and before she could do anything I sent a large burst of air up at her. She was thrown off of me, and I didn't even look back. I flew up and away. I flew as fast as I could, certainly faster than I ever had. I felt a resistance building up, and I pushed myself even harder. The resistance began to build up, but I could feel it weakening in the middle.
Suddenly I was flung forwards as the resistance gave way. I could see Ponyville far in the distance as the sun began to set. Three days gone, and I still hadn't gone shopping. If these weird things kept happening I wouldn't get a chance to buy anything. Wouldn't do for me to miss out on the first Silver night.
I flew towards Ponyville at amazing speed, and I grimaced as I realized people would want to know what had happened. I spent the entire travel time trying to think of an excuse. Then with a sudden thought, I realized that Celestia, or Luna wouldn't remember what happened.
AN: Well I slowed down there for a bit, but I feel entitled to that. First I had a full day of school (my last!) and then an 8 hour shift at work. Six hours into that shift I threw up, and had to go home. From there I just slept. It's over now though. So have a chapter or two, and remember to leave a comment. It really does help to know that some people are reading what I write. Kudos to those who have. Enough from me though right?
Epilogue 1: The Wizard's Farewell
Lunar's point of view!
I woke up to Twilight moving around down stairs. I decided not to see her until she had her tea. Be a better morning that way. I looked out the balcony window to see Morkar's giant eyesore reaching up as always. His tower, was a part of Ponyville now, and ponies got uncomfortable when it randomly disappeared.
I heard Twilight's voice call my name sweetly. I guess she had her tea. I walked downstairs, and got my own cup of tea. I was never a coffee person, tea always seemed to do the trick. We drank in silence, as Spike was running around making breakfast. Me and him had an agreement of sorts. Neither of us would discuss any details, or mention my relationship with Twilight. It worked out, and we had become friends of a sort.
Using my magic to sip my tea, I watched twilight drink hers and read a book. I was lost in thought when she tapped my head.
"You alright?"
"I was just thinking."
"About what?"
"You."
A voice echoed from outside the door, "Would those thoughts involve a bed?"
Twilight spit her tea out in my face, and giggled when I wiped it off.
"Thanks for that."
I walked up to the door and opened it to reveal Morkar. Even though we had asked him several times to disguise himself as a pony, he wouldn't do it. Said something about hooves being bad for books. Morkar was an odd fellow. He randomly showed up, and when he did he usually had no good reason. His usual response was just, "I was curious".
He seemed to just walk around examining everything in Equestria, always muttering about a core. I didn't ask him about it, whenever Twilight did she came back with a headache. Celestia had spent quite a bit of time with Morkar over the last few months. She said that they talked about Equestria, and such things. If you ask me, I think they did more than talk. Celestia was a bit to friendly with Morkar, maybe they were a special type of 'study buddies'. I'd never voice my opinion to the Princess though. I shuddered when that thought crossed my mind.
Morkar sat down with us, taking a cup of tea for himself. He was lacking in social skills, worse than I used to be. I had to hand it to him though, he knew more than he had a right to. he drained his tea in one gulp, and wiped his mouth.
"Ah that hits the spot. Now onto business. I need someone to watch over my personal collection of books, and my tower of course."
Twilight jumped up and instantly volunteered herself. She had been in the tower once, when Morkar had been bragging about the collection of knowledge inside it. I had to drag her out with the help of Rarity.
"Lunar you seemed like the perfect man… eh… pony for the job. Make sure to keep out that mare of yours. She might never come out next time!"
"Uh… Sure? Why do you need me to watch it?"
"Oh Silver has called for my assistance, and apparently we're all gathering at Izalith to ambush a large group of regulators who are trying to ambush us. Personally I think we should've waited, but you know how he is."
"Wait you've heard from Silver?"
"Well I think they call him Astorias, but he still goes by that name."
"What did he say?"
"I just told you. The regulators have caught on to us, and gathered a large force to ambush us with. Silver got the information somehow, and needs every able warrior he can get."
"Did he say anything about us, or to us?"
"Uh… I have no idea, you should ask him yourself."
"How are we supposed to do that?"
"Oh good point. Well ii need to go so, but since you bring it up. Do you want to pass on any messages?"
"I don't know, that's a lot to remember."
"That's the simplest message we could give."
"I'll try, anyway time is of the essence. Apparently it takes the regulators a very long time to figure out they're being hunted down. So know that they know, they are gathering en-masse."
"It's only been four months since Silver left. He couldn't have done that much could he?"
"Oh don't be ridiculous. The time flow isn't the same. Last time I checked, he's been out there for a long time."
"How long."
"I don't know, my counter reached its max, and I didn't notice in time to reset it."
"What is the max."
"Well I reset it once, so about 20,000 Earth years? My math may be a bit off though."
"What?!"
"Seems longer doesn't it? Well I must be going."
So Morkar left us, with our mouths hanging wide open. He closed the door, and just disappeared.
"Well… that was… interesting."
I nodded, "I think I'm just going to pretend he went on vacation, safer for my head that way."
Rarity walked in to find us sitting in silence, "Oh you two, being silenced by my beauty."
Twilight just gave Rarity a look.
"I thought I saw that odd man around here, anything interesting?"
"Be better if you didn't know. Just know that Silver is out there somewhere."
"Well I already knew that darling."
At that moment the door opened once again. Twilight threw her hooves in the air exclaiming,
"What is this? Pony central?"
Fluttershy flew in and landed on the floor.
"You'll never believe what Angel found under my lawn today."
"What is it?"
Fluttershy held out a hoof with a glittering object in her hand. Rarity gasped, and I tried to get a better look at it. It was gold, but it didn't really have a shape. It was crushed, and mangled badly. If I had to take a guess, I would say that it was a gold loop. Almost like one of Zecora's earrings. However, this one had diamonds and a pink jewel on it.
"I give in, what is it?"
Rarity seemed completely flabbergasted. She said nothing, but looked at the thing with shock. After a few seconds had past, she spoke to no one in particular.
"When I hadn't seen Fluttershy wearing it, I assumed he didn't take my advice, and took it with him."
Twilight looked at Rarity, "What is it Rarity?"
Rarity looked over at Fluttershy before speaking, "Well it was the engagement ring for Fluttershy that I gave Silver, before that horrible man arrived. Although, considering it's condition, I'm guessing that didn't go well."
Fluttershy looked down at the mangled ring in her hoof, "He was going to propose?"
"I should think so."
Fluttershy looked down at the ring for a few seconds, before dropping it and flying away. She left the door open and flew back to her house. Somehow, even when he wasn't on the planet, Silver managed to cause problems.
"Well I'm going back to bed, when I wake up, this problem will hopefully be over."
Twilight picked up the ring, and walked away with it. I went upstairs to sleep once again. I love the no post on Sundays rule.
