The Journals Of A Human

My third day back in time, my first full day with the parents of the mares that showed me love and compassion…quite surprising, I’m happy to say that I’m now writing this from the comfort of my home, which I now feel more at home in. Especially since I’ve been given the opportunity to do what I’m good at.

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I woke up in the room that the king and queen were nice enough to lend me, however I was not alone, the king and queen were sitting in front of my bed. I did a double take as the two of them smiled and Sunflare spoke

“Ah, I see you are awake, I hope you know that you snore very loudly.”

I sat up and pulled the covers off me to see that all my clothes, save my boxers, were missing “Uhh, may I ask where my clothes are and why your watching me sleep?”

The king and queen smiled as the levitated up another tactical uniform with my vest and battle belt and the king spoke “You mean these?”

“Yeah, may I ask why you undressed me?”

The queen spoke “Well because your old clothes were covered in dirt and sweat.”

“I could have gotten them.”

“No, not yet, we need to know that we can trust you.” the queen replied

“Oh come the fuck on, it’s not like I can do much against you, take a look at yourselves, then take a look at me, I have no magic, and no guns, just let me go and check up on my place, hell you can even take a tour of it instead of just my balcony, now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna take a shower and put some clothes on, unless you don’t trust me enough to let me to use soap or dress myself.” I took the clothes and gear from their magic and walked into the bathroom and closed the door. About ten minutes later I was out of the shower and putting my clothes on, the queen had brought me my boots, tan tactical pants, a black shirt, my vest, and battle belt. I put all of it on and then opened the door and stepped out into the room to find the king and queen waiting outside the door, “So, what do you think?”

The queen answered “We have decided to grant you the ability to return to your home.”

“Great, lets go.” I began to walk to the door, but I found myself being held in their magic grasp

The queen spoke inquisitively “You wish to depart at such an early hour? You do realize that the woods are rife with Timberwolves and that you have not yet eaten anything.”

“Meh, I can make something at my place and as for the timber wolves, you do still have my pistol”

The queen was quick to speak “I know what you’re going to ask and the answer is no.”

“Ok, that's fine.” I replied and I kept trying to walk as they followed

The queen continued to speak “What? You’re not going to refute my decision? That seems very much unlike you.”

“Meh, the way I see it, there's not much I can do to stop you, and honestly I don't really have it in me to try anymore.”

There was a flach behind me and I looked to the that the king and queen were now wearing some sort of saddlebag or something. “And why is that?” the king asked

“I’m not a good man.” I replied as I walked out of the castle and down the path. The queen was right, it was still kind of dark out, a quick look at my watch revealed that it was just before 0600, but its not like I had that far to go. But as I walked down the trail I began to hear what sounded like a dog growling, A very big dog. “Your highness?”

The queen spoke “Yes?”

“Give me my gun…please.” and as I spoke a large timber wolf stepped out of the brush and walked toward me and the king and queen behind me. It was about 4 feet tall, had glowing green eyes, and some serious teeth on it.

Sunflare stepped forward with a smile “Oh don’t worry, it's only a timberwolf.” her horn glowed and a beam of light shot out of it and landed in front of the wolf causing it to scatter “See, not a problem at all, also, I told you so.” Right after she finished, the sound of trees breaking started to reach me ears, followed by a very deep growl.

“And what about that?”

The king and queen stepped in front of me as sunflare spoke “Johnathan, get behind us.” a large timberwolff stepped out of the woods and onto the path. It was basically like the last one, if the last one maintained a strict diet of steroids and red bull. it was about 20 feet tall on all fours and had a good set of teeth on it, teeth I planned to stay out of.

I took my face shield out of my pocket and pulled it over my mouth and nose looked to the king and queen “I have an idea, cover me.” I didn’t give them time to argue as I charged full bore at the massive wolf in front of me as sunflare and orbash started to unleash their magic on the wolf. As I got closer, I grabbed a smoke grenade from my belt and pulled the pin and let the spoon fly free as smoke began to pool out of the grenade around me, concealing my advance. I managed to get close to the wolf, but as I got to its paw I saw it was looking down at me with its other paw ready to strike “Shitbucket…Well this is gonna suck.” The paw came down and smacked me square in the chest and sent me flying back out of the smoke and into the dirt in front of the king and queen. The two ran up to me as I picked myself up off the ground. I felt an immense pain in my chest as I got up. “Ow” the king and queen just stared at me. I felt myself bleeding from a few places, but before they could start to fuss over my wounds or tell me how dumb my idea was, the wolf advanced out of the smoke.

Sunflare and Orbash kept firing beams of magic at it, but no matter what they hit it with, it kept reforming. The wolf kept moving towards us, and I noticed something though the opening in the queen’s bag, it was the grip of my pistol.

I shook my head as I worked myself up to do what I was about to do “Oh I’m going to be in so much trouble when this is over…fuck it.” I grabbed a magazine from my belt, reached into her bag, grabbed my pistol, loaded the mag in, and pulled back the slide, chambering the round.

Sunflare seemed to notice what I was doing as she stopped and pointed her horn towards me “WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?”

I pushed her aside and raised my gun towards the head of the massive wolf “MY JOB!” I replied, and I began to fire the pistol at the wolfs head. As my rounds impacted its head and mouth it began to stagger back, and now that we were gaining ground, the king and queen began their attacks anew, firing their magic into it, meanwhile I was focused on getting headshots. I counted out 7 shots from my pistol, all of them headshots, I dropped behind the king and queen as I loaded a new mag, but it the wolf still stood, I reloaded and fired my next six shots at the head again, with the .45 caliber round ripping into the wood and causing damage that I saw wasn’t repairing, but I was on my last shot in the mag. The wolf was distracted with the two royals strafing it from the skies, I had to hit something vital, and I had the perfect idea. I lined up my shot and timed slowed, “Sight alignment…Sight picture…Squeeze the trigger.” I pulled the trigger and I felt the recoil, and watched as my shot hit home in this glowing eye. The wolf let out a roar in pain and clutched its eye in its paw before retreating back into the woods. The slide of my pistol had locked beck signifying it was out of ammo. In one fluid motion, I pressed the mag release and let the mag drop into my hands and put it in my dump pouch before taking another mag from my belt, slamming it into the pistol, and released the slide lock before placing the gun in my holster.

The king and queen landed in front of me, the former with a smile on his face, and the later looking at me like she wanted to kill me. “So.” I said “Shall we continue to my place?”

Sunflare spoke with anger in her voice “How dare you do that!”

“Do what? Save our asses? Protect the royal family?”

“No!” she yelled “How dare you use that vile weapon against our will!”

I looked her in the eyes as I calmly replied “I don’t care.”

“WHAT!?!?! Give me one good reason why I should not vaporize you were you stand”

“Because I made a promise to the one woman I love. I promised her that I would do anything in my power to protect her, her family, and her world. Because I could have just as easily shot the two of you or myself. So, you know what if your going to vaporize me then do it, because without her, my life has no meaning, and believe me, I would LOVE to turn my gun on myself, but thanks to that damn tree, I can’t!” I grabbed her horn and put it to my head “So really, I have no good reason, so go ahead, kill me. I want you to.”

I looked at her with tears in my eyes, as she just stared back at me. I saw the anger in her eyes fade away.

“KILL ME!”

She raised her horn and shook her head “No, I will not do it” she backed away “I now see who you are. I see what my husband sees in you, I see you are a sad, broken, and lonely man, one that we are going to endeavor to repair. We shall follow you to your place of living and allow you to take a few items with you. you will be living in the castle with us, and shall be by our sides until we deem otherwise.” She picked me up in her magic and started to pull me with her “Now come along, your house is not far from here and, and your wounds need to be patched up, plus you did say that you were going to make breakfast”. A short walk/float later, my cabin came into view.

“Ah, home sweet home.” they floated me up to the front door and I pushed it open, “Please, come in.”

The king and queen walked into my house and began to look around

“My medkit is in my pack, on the roof.”

The king went up to the roof and came back down with my rucksack in his magic and floated it over to me. I grabbed the kit out of my bag and then started to bandage the gashes on my arms, but the supplies started to float away.

“I can patch myself up, I’m fine.”

Sunflare spoke “No you are not John, now let me help you.” her horn glowed and she touched it to my head. The wounds on my head and the pain in my chest began do dull away as she performed the same spell on me that tia did. “Your very lucky that you weren’t hurt any worse… Why would you charge and enemy like that unarmed?”

“Because It’s my job to protect the royal family. I was hoping that I could buy the two of you time to come up with a solution.”

“I see…were you hoping that the beast would kill you?”

“…..Honestly, it didn’t matter if it did or didn’t, I’ve become apathetic.”

“I see………. There, all done.” she set me down on the ground and I walked to the kitchen

“I’m gonna make breakfast, feel free to look around.”

Both of them began to look around my home taking in the sights and taking to eachother, but they both stopped when they saw the pictures on the wall. Pictures of me and Celestia, that I’m guessing were another gift from the tree. I let them look around the house as I went into the kitchen and started to make breakfast, eggs over easy. I set out some plates and began to make some toast and coffee as the king and queen stepped in. “You two want cheese on your eggs? Maybe some coffee?”
The queen sat down at the table and raised her hoof “No, coffee, but I would like some cheese.”

“How about you Orbash?”

The king sat down next to his wife “I shall try some yes.”

I set down a mug and poured some in before filling my own mug, which was cut from a 105mm shell. And set down some sugar and milk on the table before going back to the stove. “Can I get you anything to drink Sunflare? Maybe some tea if I can find it?”

She smiled “Yes I think I would like that.”

I got out a pot, filled it with water, and set it on the stove to heat up while the eggs cooked, and a few minutes later, the three of us were sitting around my table eating. We sat in silence for a minuted before the king began to speak

The king began to speak “You have a nice home Johnathan.”

“Thank you, and please, just call me John.”

“But we have some questions.” said Sunflare

“Well then ask away.” I replied

The queen started “How much do you love our daughter?”

“Ah so were getting right to the point then.” I took a sip of my coffee “She’s the mare of my dreams and the only one in my heart. I promised her that I would do anything to protect her and her family. I was going to marry her, and when I found out that the tree took me from her…” I sighed and put my pistol on the table “I took this gun and tried to shoot myself with it.”

“Just as I suspected.” the queen replied “I’ve seen your true character. You are a good man with a damaged past. You try to hide yourself in a soldier’s persona, try to hide your pain, and the zen that you feel from a battle, and for most ponies, they wouldn’t know, but my husband and I, we are not most ponies. We saw how you were when those timberwolves attacked. In that moment the only thing that mattered to you was keeping us safe, even if it meant injury to yourself. We saw the brave warrior that our daughter will see in the future.” She placed her hoof on me “You need to forget about your past. Let your pain go. The lies that you say about yourself are untrue.”

The king spoke up, “We want you to tell us about your past. About what made believe these lies, about how you got here.”

“Why do you want to know? I mean last night your wife wanted to kill me.”

“Because we’ve seen who you really are.” he replied

“And because we want to help you be better.” the queen continued

I sighed and began to tell them my story, all of it, everything from my childhood up until I met them, and to their credit, they listened intently, even smiling when I told them that the three princesses took me into the family, “…and then after I built the still I went to the tree, then made my way back here, and well you two know the rest.”

As I finished, the two looked at each other and then the king spoke “May we excuse ourselves for just a second.”

“Yeah sure, I’ll start cleaning up.” I picked up the plates and started to wash them in the sink before refilling my coffee and sitting back down at the table for a minute before the king and queen walked back in.

Sunflare put her wing around me “I had no idea that is was that bad, for one to go through what you have gone though, it is truly heartbreaking.”

“I tried to kill myself your highness.”

“Yes, I know, but I thought it was due to your separation from your true love, but I was wrong, you have been led to believe these lies about yourself but that’s all they are, lies. And if you would allow us, we will prove that to you.”

“I don’t think there’s a whole lot you can-” their horns glowed and the world around me shimmered again, I found myself standing in some kind of expanse similar to space, but it was colored similarly to tias mane, and before me there were scenes, my time with Celestia, my dreams with her, me decking blueblood, and me taking shots at the Timberwolf “…Do.”

Sunflare raised her wings high “You are damaged John, but you are still a good man, you are compassionate, loving, brave.” the scene of the three princesses hugging me after I accepted their offer to rule besides them “and a man that we would be happy to welcome into our family.” I stared at the scene before me and I could feel the three princesses hugging me again, before I turned back to the king and queen behind me as the king stepped forward “You have proven yourself to us.” He raised up a set of armor, similar to that of the guards, but different. This one was for a human, and it was all black. “We want to give you your position as a guard to the royal family.”

I looked at them for a second. “I’ll do it, im going to be spending time with you two anyay, so I mind as well do something then.” I pushed away the armor “And don’t worry, I have my own gear.”

“I don’t think so.” the queen spoke “You will be wearing our armor.” she pushed it back to me

“I don’t need to, I have my own, and if we could go back to my house I’d show you.”

“Fair enough.” Their horns glowed and with a flash, the world around me returned to what it once was, my house “Now go fetch this armor of yours, and we shall put it to the test against ours.”

“Why do I get the feeling that ‘put to the test’ is gonna be a lot more destructive than I think?”

“Maybe because you’re finally starting to understand us.”

“Yeah I doubt that.” I said as I walked up to the roof and pulled the armoured plates out of my vest, and brought them back down.

The queen was baffled “This is your armour!? Two metal plates!”

“They’re not just metal, their AR500 steel plates, its class A3 armour. that’s some of the best armor on I’ve got, watch” I took the plate from her magic, walked out of my house, and placed the plate against a tree about 50 feet away. “Now with your permission, I’d like to test my armor.”

The king and queen looked at each other before the king spoke “Permission granted.”

I smiled and brought out my pistol and fired a shot into the plate. There was a loud clang and I holstered my pistol. I walked up to the plate and brought it back “See, not even a scratch, now lets try yours.”

Sunflare smiled as she put the royal armor on the stump. “Why don’t you try something bigger than that pistol?”

“Like what?” I asked

There was a flash and my sword appeared in front of Orbash, and an Barrett M82A1 appeared in front of Sunflare. I did a double take at the sight of the massive rifle in Sunflare’s magical grasp.

“I can understand why you’d want me to use a sword, but why the fifty cal? I mean I’d assume that you want there to be some armor left after the testing, and even then, the shot is gonna send this thing flying a mile away.”

Sunflare just smiled “Oh you’ll see.”

I took the rifle in my hands and loaded a round into the chamber “Ok, just warning you, that there isn’t going to be much armor.” I lined up the armor and pulled the trigger as the massive rifle roared and the large round flew downrange and struck the armor and sent it flying into the tree behind it and through the scope of the rifle I could see that it was still intact, with not even a scratch on the paint “…..Left.” I walked down to the armor and just stared at it and then I looked back at the king and queen “What the fuck is this thing made of!?!?!?”

Orbash stepped forward “It is the same material that the armor for ourselves is made out of, and it had been enhanced with many enchantments.”

“And what are these enhancements?” I asked

Sunflare spoke “It is resistant to heat, cold, blades, and many other things, including lightning. It has also been enchanted to grant its user enhanced speed and strength, in order for the user to stand a chance against most foes, and even grants the user fight.”

“It does what?”

Sunflare’s horn lit up and lifted the armor up and with a flash, a pair of wings unfolded from the armor and spread wide as she spoke “This armor was designed for the protector of the royal family, thus is must meet the royal family’s expectations, and allow the user to be able to keep up with the royal family in all aspects, including flight and magic.”

“Well shit, I hate to admit it, but your right, your armor is better than mine in all aspects...except one.”

The king and queen looked at me inquisitively as the queen asked “And what aspect is that?”

“Simple, your armor doesn’t have MOLLE.”

“What in Equestria is MOLLE?” the king asked

“And why is it so important that it makes your fabric and metal vest better?” the queen continued

“MOLLE stands for Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment. It's used to hook the magazine pouches and many other things onto my tactical vest, and without it, I wouldn’t be able to effectively use my equipment or my fighting style, which would hinder my combat capabilities and I assume that you would not want your personal guard to be hindered in combat would you?”

“No, we would not” the king responded.

The queen just stood there glaring at me “…...Very well, we will find a way to incorporate this Molly into your new armor, but for now, grab your things and meet us back here, we must return to the castle soon.”

“Ok, I'll get my pack and gear…but can I take the still along?”

“No.” the queen responded “We will not have you stumbling around the halls drunk.”

“Fair enough.” I said as I walked into the door of my house and began to get my clothes and gear ready to go “Who the fuck pissed in her cornflakes this morning?” I filled one duffle bag with clothes, one duffel bag with technology, parts to build technology, and my laptop. I then went to the gun room. “Now comes the hard part, what to choose.” I spent some time going through each gun and choosing the few that I would bring with me. I opted to go with an M45A1 pistol, a WP 870, because CQB. I chose an HK MP7 because more CQB. For my rifle I went with the Colt M4, because it’s a nice reliable weapon that I’m familiar with, and because it can be used for many situations. And then for long range, I went with the McMillan Tac-338 sniper rifle. I figured that .338 would be a good choice because I can have a balance between speed and power. With my bags packed I walked outside, closed and locked my door, and turned to face the king and queen. “Ok, lets go.”

The king and queen raised their heads and their horns glowed as Orbash spoke “We have decided to take the fast way home.”

“Teleportation?” I asked

“Yes.” he replied and with a blinding flash I was back in the room that I had spent the night in, and would now be spending many lonely nights in. I set my bags down and then fell to my knees as a wave of nausea overtook me “Little warning next time.”

The king winced and the queen walked up to me “Are you alright Johnathan?”

I laid down on the ground and closed my eyes, “Just….gimme a sec.”

“I probably should have mentioned that the first teleport will have…side effects on non-magical beings.”

“Ya don’t say.” I replied. After about ten minutes, I felt good enough to stand. The king and queen had left me to unpack, so I began to do just that when somepony began to knock at my door.

“Who is it?” I asked

I heard the voice of the king on the other side “Its us.” I opened the door to see that both the king and queen were in fact on the other side of the door. “We wanted to check on you to make sure that the teleportation was not having any more negative effects on you.”

“Its ok, Im fine.” I replied “I’m just starting to unpack.”

He continued, “Yes I see…. well then we will give you the day to yourself to let you get accustomed to the castle and unpack your things. Tomorrow you will start your position.”

“Ok, then.” I replied. I turned to close the door but Sunflare put her hoof in the way and stopped it

“Johnathan.”

“Yeah?”

“Please don’t do anything stupid.”

“I thought everything I did was stupid.”

She put her hoof on me “Johnathan I'm serious.”

“Look, you’ve only known me for a day and I haven’t exactly been the kindest guy. So please be truthful with me here, are you just doing this so I don’t shoot myself?”

“I…...We….I…I don’t have an answer.”

"Yeah I thought as much...look you should probably get to work, so I'll stop keeping you from it, but before you go, I just want to know one thing.”

“And what is that?” the Queen responded

“Why did you bring my pistol with you?”

“Well if it was as destructive as you said, I was hoping that we were hoping to get to see you use it to attain a better understanding of its workings.”

“That would explain why you just followed me instead of not letting me leave the castle or using teleportation…. that’s all I got, and you have a kingdom to run so I'll be in here the rest of the day if you need me" and with that the two turned and left. I'm surprised that they did, I mean honestly, I thought that they'd put up more if a fight, but I guess they figured that I was right...or maybe they're planning something.

After an hour or two of setting myself up in my room I sat down on the balcony and held the pendant from the royal sisters in my hand and stared at it. I was separated from them for the time being and there was nothing I could do about it. Only god knows how they are feeling whenever they are, forget about me, at the moment all I could do was think about their well-being. I let the pendant fall back to my body with a small metal Klink, and drew out my flask from my pocket and sipped shine as I watched the horizon. But before I could finish it off, I heard a very faint sound of a teleportation spell. So, before my “guest” could do anything else, I drew my pistol and whipped around to see Starswirl standing in my room “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.”

Starswirl stood there for a few moments looking at me in shock and confusion before I holstered my pistol “Oh…Well I’m very surprised that you heard me.”

“Don’t be.” I replied “The king and queen did the same trick on me a few nights ago, and I’m surprised that I heard it at all.”

“Ah I see, a warrior must adapt and whatnot.” he rubbed his chin with his hoof and floated my flask up to his nose and sniffed it before dropping it and coughing “However, I didn’t think that a warrior of your skills would require whatever liquor this is to function.”

I picked up the flask and pocketed it “Let me make this clear, one, I am not a Warrior, I’m a fake. Before I woke up in this world, er in the future to be precise, I was a fat, idiotic, depressed, coward. The only thing that has changed about me is my physical appearance and my physical status.”

“So?” he replied “You choose who you want to be, Celestia saw you as her warrior, and I believe the king and queen are coming around to you as well.”

“Yeah we’ll see how long that lasts.” I replied

“What do you mean?” he asked

“It’s simple really, in the end I’m going to fuck up. Don’t know how or when, but I will be the one that ruins my life.”

Starswirl floated my flask up again “Well then I see you’ve decided to take the fastest route to that ending then” he tossed it back to me “Maybe you’re right, I don’t know why the king and queen would allow a depressed drunk in their company, but remember this, you may not care about yourself.” his horn glowed again and my pendant and tags raised off my chest “But SHE does.” And with that he walked out of the room and closed the door, leaving me there alone with my thoughts.