The Friendship Tale

When Luna left the dream, Jacob woke up. He felt so weird, after this dream. Maybe it was familiar, but also completely new. Jacob felt like in early stages of pregnancy, he felt dizzy, sick and like hit by a meteor. After some yawing, he check the hour on his bionic arm's watch. It was half past midnight.

Suddenly, he heard a scream, then another one. Someone was crying, screaming and suffering. Jacob knew, that isn't someone out. It was his conscience. They were screams of war's victims. They were the people, who died cause of Jacob and his own cry for help. Jacob's insanity was giving it's know of presence. He started to see the blood, flowing from the walls, slowly covering the floor under his bed. On it were drifting bodies of the innocent and all of them were staring at Jacob.

"Murderer!" One of bodies said.

"Psychopath!" Moaned another one.

"Bucher!" Next one shouted.

"Mutant!" Dead scientist groaned.

Jacob, instinctively, pulled out his revolver. But then, it melted. Bodies were still calling him with grim voice.

"N-no, you don't exist." He said scared. "You're dead."

"Yes, cause of you." Said the skeleton, behind him, putting his hand on his shoulder.

Jacob knew that voice. That voice, like boiling lava. It was his ex-nemezis, Ven'galion. Slowly, bones were covered by muscles, then bloody brown scales, and, at the end, dark-orange robe with armor, without sleeves.

"Missed me, Dragon Hunter?" He said, with venom on tongue.

Jacob was frightened, hearing that voice again, after 6 months.

"Y-you? But, you're dead. I killed you."

"I'm not him. I'm personification of your madness. As long, as you're alive, I'm too."

"You can't do anything, phantom." Jacob said, more bravery.

"No, I can. I can play with your mind as long, as I want." Ven'galion-like thing said, with psychopath tone. "Just like your old friend, Ven'galion. And you, yes, you, can't do anything about it. I am part of you. And you can't get rid of me."

Phantom grabbed Jacob's neck and pulled him up.

"When I will end with you, inside you won't be anything, but pure insanity. And it won't happen fast. It will be long, painful time for you, what you have very much. I'll enjoy every crack, every snap and every click in your mind. That will mean, that my therapy of insane is going well. You will get even more pain, than any woman, child or man could get."

"Only in your dreams, freak." Dracons gasped, being suffocated.

After this words, he pulled out of his bionic arm a dagger and pressed it to phantoms throat. Just before that, everything was normal, and hallucination dissapeared. Instead, in place of the phantom was Celestia. Her eyes were white, like her coat. Jacob gasped and dropped the knife.

"Tia?" He said, surprised."How the fuck did you get here?"

"I heard, you were screaming. You were talking with me, like I was some kind of monster and you looked, like you saw a ghost." She told, worried.

"I saw, kinda. It's complicated. Even I don't know, what's going on in my head." Jacob puted his face with his hand. It was wet from sweat. "I need some fresh air."

Jacob and Celestia left the room and went to the royal gardens. The smell of flowers made Jacob even more confused. Normally, he liked that smell, but now, it was making him nuts. Human and alicorn sat in the arbor. Jacob made himself a head compress with ice magic to calm down. The only source of light was the Moon. Celestia decided to break the silence.

"Are you feeling any better?" She asked, still worried.

"Little bit." He answered, still pissed off. "Why my life has to be such pain in the ass?"

"You had any attacks, like this?"

"It's the first one. Earlier, I had only hallucinations of throwing up the blood or eating a dead corpses. But now, I saw everyone, who I killed. Every innocent life, what I took away. And that stupid lizard, Ven'galion. But, he acted... different. He sad, that he's the inpersonification of my madness, or something... I don't know, I'm exhausted of this bullshit!" He cried out, then started to cry. "I'm an insane mutant, who kills everything, what is able move. Twilight was right. Creature, like me, doesn't have any right to exist." He said, by tears.

"Every living creature has right to live." Celestia said, embracing Jacob with one of her wings. "No mather, what you did, you're not a monster or freak. You're Jacob Vincent Gregory Dracons, human from Earth, former guardian of the galaxy, citizen of Equestria and my friend." Jacob looked at smiling Celestia. "You don't have to bow to your insanity or past. Here, you can have a new start. You already found friends, home and normal job. Everything, what you wanted, you have here."

"Not everything." Jacob said, in better mood. "I still don't have family to love."

"You have time for it. Maybe, you'll fall in love again, marry somepony and live happily ever after." Princess said unsure with blush.

"Good idea." Jacob said, laying down on Celestia's shoulder, with smile. She blushed even more."Tia, can I ask you something?"

"Of course."

"Can I stay in Canterlot for a little longer?"

"As long, as you want to." She agreed.

"Thanks."

Before, they could notice, they fell asleep, with smile.

When Jacob woke up, Celestia was already gone, sun was on the sky, and he was in Celestia's chamber. But, luckly, he had all clothes on himself. When he woke up fully, he smelled fresh made pancakes with maple sirup, chocolate sauce and rasberries. They were next to him, and on them was note.

For the good start of the day.
Tia.
P.S. Meet me in the throne room.

Jacob smiled and looked at the pancakes. On the top of little tower was his shoulder tattoo, dragon head in the ring of fire, made of chocolate and with rasberry as an eye. He took a little bite.

"They're almost better, than mine." He thought.

Jacob didn't end his breakfast to quickly. He was enjoying every bite. When he finally finished, he made his way to the throne room. Celestia was sitting in the throne, looking at some kind of list. One of the guards informed her about Jacob's coming.

"Good morning, Jacob."

"Morning, Tia. Thanks for breakfast."

"Good to hear it. I made them myself."

"No shit." He said, surprised.

"Language, human!" One of the guards said angrily.

"It's good, sergeant." Celestia calmed him down.

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Anyways." Jacob said. "I sometimes make pancakes, too, and I say, you're one of the best pancake makers, what I met."

Celestia blushed.

"Flatterer." She said, hiding blush behind her wing.

"So. Fucking. Cute." Jacob thought. "So, do you have any plans for today?"

"I want to visit Crystal Empire. You wanna go with me?"

"Sure, why not." Jacob agreed. "I heard that place is pretty 'cool'." Jacob joked.

Celestia got it instant and started to giggle.

"That was 'ice' one." Celestia returned the joke. This time, Jacob giggled.

They started to tell some jokes, until they made their way to the train to Crystal Empire.