(Old) Humans Are Awesomeby NightwatchTheRogueChaptersAct 1 Ch 1- ... and I feel like Destiny is comingAct 1 Ch 2: ... and I hate my life as a ponyAct 1 Ch 3: ... and I finally have a purpose and a way out(Renewed) Act 1 Prologue: ... and I want to live in their world. The world filled with HumansAct 1 Ch 1- ... and I feel like Destiny is comingAct 1 Ch 1: ... and I want to go to their world. NOW! Another wonderful day in Ponyville. The sun is shining, birds are... Yeah, I hate this introduction. Instead, here's me in bed, (innocently) cuddling my marefriend. There you go, the intro is done. Boom, my name's Lyra Heartstrings and good morning Equestria. Beside me is the most beautiful mare I have ever seen. I will always marvel her long, swirly cobalt blue mane & tail with light fuschia stripes that make me think of her sweet hoovemade candies. Her smooth light grey fur coat that feels like the clouds that pegasi sleep on. And the piece of resistance was her eyes, those sweet and mesmerizing arctic blue eyes that binds me to her control. Like every typical morning, Bon Bon, my marefriend, woke up before I do. In exchange for that routine, I ask her the same important question that I tell her to start the day for both of us. “BonBon, what do you think humans eat?” I asked my marefriend as I got up from my pillow. We were in bed, having conversations about humans while being next to each other. “Mmmm… I don’t know, Lyra.” BonBon groaned at me. “You’ve been asking me that question million times by now and you won’t give me the answer. Just tell me already.” “Nope” I smugly replied. I love messing with BonBon and I know she knows the answer. She’s just messing with me. “The answer is really easy” “Lyra, I’ve guessed every fruit, vegetable, and sweets that I could list on the top of my head but you keep saying maybe,” Bon Bon begged for the answer. She showed me her cute puppy dog eyes that I can’t resist “Please tell. Pleeeease” “I’ll never tell,” I said sternly. Her eyes were irresistible but I had to prevail. “Really?” she moaned in false dissatisfaction and pouty lips. She always does this and I would always give her a hint but never an answer. I know that she knows the answers but if I ever let my guard down, she will start to barraging me with her own questions. That and she already answered the question the first time. I'm just messing with her at this point. By the way, it was "Blueberries", my favorite fruit and pancake combination. Oh... she's getting up now. "Hey Lyra, don't you have work today." Oh great, she's reminding me that I actually work for a living. I sighed at this reminder as I hate working as an instrument "shop owner", I mean it's been a month that a pony has even visited the shop to really buy something and that was just Octavia purchasing a new cello after her "argument" with her roommate, Vinyl Scratch. I don't know what Vinyl did to make Octavia mad that had to resolve with her smashing the innocent cello over the DJ's head but I digress that story for later. Anyway, I have to give an actual response to Bon Bon, it's been a few minutes since she asked that question and I'm just awkwardly quiet as usual. "Do I have to?" I whined at her. Great job, genius, telling myself sarcastically. "Well, we have to find some way to pay the bills AND your research. A job is the most reasonable answer to all of them." She lectured me as usual. That's not true, Bon Bon pays the bills while I fund my own research with the little bits I can earn. Right now, I'm making my own portal gate or any form of transportation to the human world with my knowledge of magic and... (shudder my entire body) math. Twilight was kind enough to lend me books on advance magic theories, written by the great Star Swirl the Bearded, the only unicorn who has ever made a working portal to another alternative world. My current project is replicating the mirror portal that is similar to Twilight's (in theory, I never actually seen how the mirror works). Oh yeah, I have to get more lightning in a bottle potions. I need more natural magic electricity if I'm going to ever make my own portal to the human world (and decrease the electricity bill). I recently bought a new journal (with my own cutie mark on the front cover and fur color) just to keep notes on my findings. I keep forgetting my old ideas and findings that Bon Bon suggested the journal to keep them in writing if don't want to lose them. I mean I asked Twilight if I could use hers but Bon Bon told me to not to go. And by "told me", I mean yelled at me for two straight hours on why I should not go in anypony's portals without her permission. I don't need her permission, I'm a grown mare who can make her own decisions if I'm brave enough to really do it. Wait... why I'm talking myself? I have to get to work or Bass Drum's gonna have my flank on a platter if I'm late again. That sounds perverted. Curse you perverted brain for thinking that disgusting thought. Welp, can't stay here in bed all day. I've tried that once and it was the biggest mistake I made yesterday. I got out of bed, put my new journal in my saddlebags and took a long, warm shower while Bon Bon prepared breakfast. I dried myself and head to the dining area, where Bon Bon's homecooked blueberry pancakes were waiting for me, I poured a butt load of maple syrup. Mouth foaming with drool as I see that my marefriend topped up her culinary skills on the pancakes by writing my first name with tiny blueberries. I love her so much for being with me for this long. It has been three years today that we first met, two years and five months that I confessed my feelings (awkwardly) to her, and... Wait... OMC (Oh my Celestia), It's our two year anniversary of the day we bought a house together and became roommates. Okay calm down, Lyra, don't worry I got her the perfect present this year. It's not gonna happen like last year; I didn't forget the day and there aren't any cow stampedes this morning, so I'm in the clear so far. "LYRA!" Bon Bon furiously yelled my name from the bathroom. "YOU USED ALL THE HOT WATER AGAIN!" "OH, CRAPBASKETS!" I shouted back. Why did I swear? "DID YOU JUST SWEAR!?" Now I really have to get out of here; I scarfed down my breakfast as fast as my mouth can comprehend, grabbed my saddlebags and proceeded to whooped my way to work now. "Woop Woop Woop Woop Woop." **** After whooping for a few minutes, I got to my workplace with a stomach ache and leaving a very angry marefriend at home. My workplace is a one-story blue building with a front display window for the customers to see instruments and me behind the counter, bored out of my mind. I stand in front of the entrance and looked at the crudely designed sign. "Bass Drum's Extraordinary Instruments Shop." Yeah, more like "Ordinary" instruments shop, I thought to myself like I always do whenever I come to this place. I took a deep breath as this is going to be a really, REALLY long day of sitting my flank behind the counter, cleaning dusty instruments and being yelled at by my "boss" for "not being productive enough". I swear to Luna, I co-signed this place with him two years ago and yet he puts his own name in the store and he treats me like I'm the lousy employee. We were supposed to work together like we promised yet I do all the manual labor while he goes off playing golf with his jerk friends or what he calls "business associates". I basically own the entire store and the stuff that came with it. I raised my head to show that I'm not beaten down that the day will throw at me and opened the door; the first thing I see is Bass Drum. He had the same old stallion stare of disappointment that he always give me whenever we cross paths. He wore his usual plaid golf clothes under his blue fur coat and with his tail poking out, his golf bag at his left side, his golf hat poorly covered his black mane and his rugged beard spreading all over his face. I swear he should just give me the store entirely so that he can retire and go golfing all he wants. I have so many ideas at making this place attract customers, but Bass Drum wouldn't hear any of my plans as he says "You are a mare with no business experience and you would be begging in the streets for bits if it weren't for me." If it weren't for him, I could still have some of the bits that I "invested" in the store. "Where have you been?" The old Earth pony said in his gruff and fake posh voice like he's fooling anypony. His left forehooves tapping repeatedly and rapidly on the hardwood floor, his scowl was fixed on my general direction, and his heavy breathing could be heard throughout the entire room. Just another day at work. "I got here on time. I'm not sure what you mean?" I defended myself like the passive mare that I am. I pointed at the clock on top of the counter, it was nine o'clock exactly the schedule says. "T-that clock's slow and you w-were supposed to clean the instruments at seven and..." He complained, he was always making excuses that he could come up with on my work performance all the time. He trotted towards one of the pianos and wiped a small speck of dust from it. "... and there are some spots that you missed on the last day." I gritted my teeth, sighed and did my best professional employee impersonation. "I cleaned every instrument in the store the last time I was here. In fact, I wiped and polished them and the floors twice like you instructed me to do. Twice." I tried to hint him that I was managing everything in the store. He didn't catch it. "I don't care for your excuses." YEAH, my excuses. "I expected you to follow my orders if we are ever gonna make any bits and keep this store running." Again with his lectures. I rolled my eyes so much on that speech that I might cause them to fall off or get them stuck in the other direction, just like what happened to Muffins. Or what the rumors ponies tell me about her. She had the worse reputation in Ponyville, apart from me. He continued his lecture while I just gave him a blank stare. "...I expect you to be on your best behavior if a customer shows up. I'm not gonna have to remind you what happened last time, do I?" Okay, I lied to myself about Octavia being the last customer to come in this store, but I wouldn't call "an old pretentious mare insulting our instruments for being in poor quality and calling me a fillyfooler with a dead-end job and crazy human conspiracies" as a customer. She had that punch to the muzzle coming. That Spoiled Rich. Thank Celestia, her husband was a forgiving colt and kind enough to pay for the store damages she caused from her freak out after I punched her. "Lyra! Lyra! Lyra!" Oh, shoot, Bass Drum's calling for me. He took his golf bag and went to the door. "Lyra, stop daydreaming and actually do your work. I'm going outside to... advertise our store. Goodbye." He exited and slammed the door before I could say any opinions. With a sigh and more to come, I head back to my counter that I always sit in and do nothing but I watch the window for any customers passing by, play the cash register and contemplate my life and the day I might get to the human world. I always have questions in my mind that have been bothering me but never got the straight answer on all of them. First, should I have stayed with Father? I would say yes right away, considering he's the only family I have and might use his wealth on my human research & pay the bills. But he is a horrible stallion who treats me like his puppet and he tossed me & some of his bits out to the streets after I graduated school. Should I just ask Twilight if I can use her portal to the human world? She might reject my request at first but I hope I can get her to say yes someday, even if it's just a visit. I want to know what it's like to be in another world... and maybe see my friend again. What happened to Bass Drum that made him such a lazy jerk and a bitmonger? He wasn't always like this when we first met. He helped me get the store together with the leftover bits I got from Father. There's another question but I'd rather not mention as it relates to Bon Bon. It scares me that I even made that question in the first place. I looked around the room to see there's anypony in sight and took a deep breath as this is going to hurt my heart. "Should I leave Bon Bon?" I whispered quietly in the store alone, with my eyes closed. "I don't know." Bass Drum said as he standing behind me. Darn it, I forgot we have a backdoor. "But I do know what you should be doing and that is clean the store like YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO!" AHHH! He yelled near my left ear. Everythings ringing and feeling to vomit rising. I swallowed back my breakfast because I don't want to clean the floor. "I just did." I lied to him as he never really cares if I actually did the task. "No, you didn't. I only left thirty minutes ago and I was looking at the display window." Crude. "... and all I saw was you sitting behind the counter as always." Double crude."I've always suspected you being a lazy mare but being a liar as well. Should I call Applejack to give you a lecture on diligence and honesty, is that okay for you?" He said with sarcasm. I hate it when ponies mention the Elements of Harmony when they're comparing those girls to me. I don't hate any of them, it's just that... "LYRA!" AHHH! HE YELLED MY OTHER EAR! "I've had it with your antics for the last time." He was overwhelmed with rage now. "I want you out of my store and never come back!" Wait, what did he say? "Wait, are you seriously firing me!?" I asked as I was surprised that he actually said that to me. "Yes, I am. I want you to take your belongings and leave MY property. I'll send you..." I interrupted him as this was B*LLSH*T. "You can't fire me! I own half this store with my own bits." I protested at the jerk. "I worked my flank off to make this store presentable while you waste your time and bits on golf games, even though we don't have enough as it is." "NO! You sit on your flank all day doing nothing but stay in your tiny little world that you call your brain while I try to advertise our store with my business associates." He spat back with the worse excuse that I have ever heard. He was trying to guilt trip me into quitting the store with a pathetic lie! Yup, this is the day I snapped. Well, he can have his wish. "You know what, Ass Drum! You can have your good for nothing store and I get to quit. It's a win-win situation for you, is it not?" I used my magic to grab one of the jerk's golf clubs. "But before I leave this place forever, I'm gonna give you my resignation letter." I grimly smiled as this is going to be good. I can see Ass Drum's panicked state as I prepared my first golf swing ever. "Lyra, what are you doing? Don't..." He should be proud, now that I'm doing my job properly by removing some inventory. "Hole in one!" I yelled as a punctured a hole at the dusty piano that Ass Drum told me to clean. "I think that's an Eagle." I don't know a single bit about golf, which helps insult the new shop owner. "Lyra, please stop..." Oh look at that, he's actually begging to me. Looks like the metal shoe is on the other hoof now. I continued to swing to swing the now dented golf club at every instrument that I could find while Ass Drum attempted to save some of it, only for me to levitate it away from him and smash them with rest of the scrap pile. And now for the symphony. "UN!" I yelled as I swung the golf club at the guitar wall display. "DEUX!" I obliterated the wind instruments section and the display window. "AND THE FINALE." I trotted to the drums and with a mighty jump, I pummeled the big drum part and cymbals crashed to the ground as I shouted. "TROIS!" After my orchestra of mayhem finished, I looked back at Bass Drum. He was hyperventilating with his right hoof on his chest and sweating a lot. Like I care at this point. I just used my magic to snatch the cash register, stuffed my belongings into my saddlebags (which included Bon Bon's present that I hid in the store) and took my leave by wrecking the door with the cash register. Everypony outside was watching my meltdown and were giving me scared faces, some even avoid eye contact when I stared at them while walking. My mane's a mess, my ears are still in pain, my eyes are bloodshot and my blood pressures on the roof, but I don't as I was done with the store and instruments. **** "Give me all the lightning potions you've got," I harshly demanded the shop colt as I dropped the battered cash register on the counter. "Ummm... Bad day?" He nervously spoke to me like it's any of his damn business. I gave him a cold glare and snarled at him. "What do you think?" he cowered down to the floor. Good, I don't need more problems as it is. "Come on, I don't have all day. Give me the stuff." I'm scratching my mane like crazy from the waiting. The shop colt didn't get up from his hiding spot but he did give me the bottles. I took a deep breath (been taking a lot of these today) and forced opened my cash register to grab the bits. "N-no thanks. You can have it, free of charge. Please just leave my store." The shop colt begged me to leave. Just like Bass Drum. I put all MY bits & bottles in my saddle bag and took my leave. Rumors must have spread real quick as everypony run away when they saw my presence. Great, I'm the monster of the week. I just want to get home and make that portal as soon as possible or the Royal Guards will be marching here and send me to Tarturus. As I got home, there was nopony there (Thank Celestia). I immediately went to my workshop and got all of the material for the portal out of my saddlebags. At this point, I don't care if it works or not. I only have one chance left before everything else in my life falls apart. "I can't believe you would waste your life away on some ridiculous dream." I turned around and saw Bon Bon standing at the only doorway in my workshop. Oh no she's crying and shaken up. She must have heard of my outburst at Bass Drum's shop. "I can't believe you just did that." I tensed up when she spoke in an unfamiliar tone. it was cold, empty... and full of pity on me. "Who are you?" She yelled as her tears were increasing & blinding her sight and her movements became erratic. I've never seen any pony act like this before. "I don't know who you were before you met that human but I know you are not like this." She took a mirror at one of my desks with her mouth and tossed it towards my legs. I flinched back as the mirror shattered into pieces, some of the shards hit my forelegs and chest. "Look at what your obsession has done to you. You've become a scatterbrain, lazy, uncooperative towards others, and when ponies pushed you too far, you used violence first to get rid of your problems. Do you see it now?" All I saw from those shards was a little filly who wanted to see her best friend again but was distracted by ignorant ponies who were talking terrible things about her in secret. "I should have destroyed your work sooner..." She blurted out... What did she just say? "Wait a minute... what did you just say?" I hissed my question as my heart started to throb vigorously with anger and my eyes widen to the point that they would fall off. "Ummm..." Bon Bon won't give me a straight answer. "Y-you've been sabotaging my experiments!" I was appalled at what Bon Bon said." I got closer to her, only for her to back away from the doorway. We got to the living room before I stopped approaching to Bon Bon. Instead, I walked slowly towards the door to make my exit, but before that, I needed some answers. "Your experiments won't work like instant. It's just impossible to make a portal, according to Princess Twilight, it took Star Swirl the Bearded decades to make one and it was used to banish ancient evil beings..." My anger was increasing by the second. "What!? Since when did you talk to Twilight for that kind of information?" "I... I... I" She's beginning to stutter again but I need to know. "TELL ME!" My rage-filled voice was raised to the roof that the next door neighbors might hear me. Let them, I want them to listen to me call out a traitor that I used to call "my friend". Now she's the one looking on the floor. "I asked her right after you heard Twilight say she's been to the human world and that she has a portal to them. I can't let you go to that place. You don't what kind of dangerous creatures that are inhabiting on the other side. That's the..." I don't to hear more of this. Again with the excuses. Does everypony have this sick desire to lie in front of me? First was Father, then Bass Drum and now Bon Bon. My mare- no, not my marefriend, I don't know who this mare is at all for over the years she's been hiding things from me and she was actually embarrassed to be near ME. "Please Lyra..." And she's begging to me as well. I'm on a roll today. "You know what I'm out of here!" In my anger state, I grabbed one of the lightning potions I just bought in my saddlebags and tossed the bottle inside the house. I trotted as fast as my legs could take while the lightning inside the bottle explodes inside the house and I could hear Bon Bon screaming for help. After running for a few minutes while avoiding other ponies seeing me, I hid at one of the store's alleyways to catch my breath and contemplate at what I just did during the past three hours. I am a mess. No wonder I didn't say this morning was wonderful. Today is anything but wonderful. Happy Anniversary, Bon Bon. Author's Note Lyra is in big trouble, it's only the first chapter AND it's still morning time over there (like 11:00 a.m). It really escalated quickly. Start the story with a bang. I guess? I would've put a Dark tag on this story but Drama's more suitable. Hey guys, I have decided to make a schedule on the releases if this going to be a thing. (I only published the prologue early on impulse) By the way, I started the story on Lyra's mental breakdown to jump-start her motivation at going to the human world (and make you curious at what my version of Lyra's past is and why she behaves like this). There will be flashbacks of her past in some chapters but not on this beginning story arc. Thanks for reading my story. Nightwatch the Rogue Out. Act 1 Ch 2: ... and I hate my life as a ponyLyra's Journal Entry 2 He-ey n-new-w J-j-journal, Sor-rry, I'm w-w-riting to you l-like this way, I-I'm s-shaken up at w-w-what h-hap-p-pened this-s m-morning. Sh*t happens. Okay, I've calm down. For now. I'm writing to you in some random alleyway while sitting on the wet and disgusting ground, next to a garbage can. Hey, Mr. Garbage Can! Say hello to Mr. Garbage Can, Journal. He's my new best friend and maybe my only friend in this world for what I did. Well, you're my friend too, don't cry about it. I don't even know what happened, it went so fast. My everything still hurts, my mane's all over my face and I don't... I LOST EVERYTHING! Sorry for yelling at you in my writing but I need to vent my frustration somehow and I can't find anypony to either punch or yell this mess I'm in. Maybe, I... I do have a problem. NO! I won't listen to anything that mare has said about me. If I want to punch ponies, I can punch ponies. Do you want to get punch, Journal? Sorry about the threat, I just really need something to relieve my stress. Anyway, this morning was supposed to be my anniversary with ~~that mare~~ but I guess my life is consists of liars and traitors. I mean, I have other friends but the way I treated ~~that mare~~ and my house, they might be scared of me like the rest of the ponies after hearing my mental breakdown. Anyway, I woke up next to ~~that mare~~, ate breakfast, went to work, got forced to be fired from work, destroyed work, stolen from work, got free lightning in a bottle potions, went to my workshop, being lectured by ~~that mare~~, finding out that mare ruined my research & talking behind my back, blowing out my house with a lightning in a bottle and now just writing to you in a cold dirty alleyway. And that all happened like three hours IN THE MORNING! I'll give you a more specific list of problems that happened to me today. I think I woke up at like eight something in the morning, I woke up next to a traitor, ate her crappy food and went to my lousy job. Hey, did you remember that I told you that I work as a musical instruments shop owner? Yeah, that's all true except I just quit this morning and gave my "resignation letter" to Ass Drum in the form of smashing every instrument and anything else in the store with his "precious" golf club. I think my Cutie Mark's faulty because my real talent is actually wrecking sh*t up with style and creativity. I've always wanted to do that for months but I guess I need a little... "push" and being shouted at both of my ears by that good for nothing jerk. My ears are still ringing. After stealing back a quarter of the bits that Ass Drum owes me, I went to the magic shop and destroyed the shop colt's day. I was still pissed off at that time and decided to use rest on that pathetic colt, who gave me all of the lightning in a bottle potions for free. I have like... nine bottles in my saddlebags right now. That might the only best thing that happened so far, well except when I released my inner Lyra on Ass Drum's scrap pile of a store. But the worst part that happened recently was when I got home. I was in a rush to create a portal to the humans or die trying. That second part was most likely going to occur as I was confronted by ~~that mare~~. That horrible, traitorous mare. She thinks that she has the right to cry and insult my personality when she was the one who sabotaged all of my experiments somehow and talked to Twilight about the human portal behind my back. She was the reason why I'm always distracted all the time. She's an evil seductress who treated me like a puppet and using my feelings to do whatever she wants. OMC, She's like Chrysalis! No, she's worse than Chrysalis. That bug freak could have just knocked me out and kept me in her cocoon to be her food supply the moment we got close. Instead ~~that mare~~ tried to find ways to make my life miserable while I'm still conscious. She was laughing at me like the rest of the ponies in this sh*t pile town. I wished that I probed for more information on ~~that mare~~, but my anger was overwhelming me and being near ~~that mare's~~ presence for too long was making it worse, that I threw a lightning in the bottle at my home and ran away as fast as I could. And here we are, back in the lonely alleyway with just you, me, and Mr. Garbage Can. It couldn't get any worse, can it? Oh hey, Mr. Garbage Can had a friend inside him. Oh, I hope it's a cute furry kitty or a... **** Nope, that wasn't a kitty or a sweet, adorable puppy, that was a big, ass RAT! It tried to bit my face off when I tried to open Mr. Garbage Can's lid, but I used you to bonk its head really hard that it might be dead or not. I will never know the answer as I threw that thing back inside Mr. Garbage Can Okay, no more rat talk. EVER! I'm sorry I treated you like a blunt weapon back there but we will discuss this never as you are an inanimate object that is my only friend, with the exception of Mr. Garbage Can but I'm not sure that we can make this friendship work. If I ever come back here, please remind me to bring Mr. Garbage Can with us to the human world. In fact, I'll leave an ink signature of my Cutie Mark so that way I can find him easily. I might be getting too emotional on a garbage can... HOLY SHIT! I'M GOING CRAZY BEING STUCK IN HERE! I need to get to the portal now! Goodbye, Journal and wish me a butt load of good luck. I'll need it. Author's Note Surprise, everyone (and everypony) I keep getting new ideas for this story and others that I'm working on. I decided to use Lyra's journal and her thoughts to recap on what happened at some of the ends of each chapter. I'm still working on Chapter 2, 3 and 4. I'm just waiting for more feedback. And also mentioning ~~that mare~~ name and presence will be slashed for now. Lyra wants to forget about her fast if she is ever going to enjoy the human world. Act 1 Ch 3: ... and I finally have a purpose and a way outAct 1 Ch 2: ... and I'm sneaking around right now “That’s it. I can’t take it anymore” I shouted in frustration as I trotted out of the dark alley, leaving Mr. Garbage Can back there. This was the last straw; my experiments were leading me to nowhere and I just lost my job, home & ~~mare~~ friend today. I want to get to that portal. Now! I don’t care if Princess Twilight stops me or I get sent to Tartarus; I just need to get to the Human world fast. Bon Bon never believed in me at all. I thought she was my best friend. She lied to me. Not only that but she was actively sabotaging my experiments and never cared about humans. She would rather listen to other ponies' opinions but stayed beside me and continue lying instead of just leaving me alone What am I supposed to do now? I blew up the house, my research & the rest of belongings are still currently in flames, and I’m getting hungry. Being hungry has always been a number one priority for me, even when I'm in the deep poop pile of my own life right now. Wait... I can swear now that I kicked ~~that mare~~ out of my life. "Okay... ummm... I'm in deep sh... shi... sh*t!" I don't know why it took me three tries to say it in my brain? It's not like I'm saying it out loud. Wait a minute. I looked around my surroundings and I see ponies were staring at me with horrified or disgusted looks while some covered their foals' ears with their hooves or turn tail as they saw a wild mare on the loose. Oh great, I spoke my inner thoughts in public again and forgot that I was on the run. Now I really have to get out here before Ponyville goes into full riot mode on me and send me to the Princesses or worse. I can't let that happen, not after I ruined my life with my mental breakdown on Bass Drum's store (It was supposed to be my store), that shop colt and my house. I ran towards another alleyway again as walking in public is the worse idea right now. Why did I even got out of the shadows? In fact, when did I start moving? Ahhh! I am a scatterbrain; my thoughts are all over the place right now and I don't know what to do but go straight to Twilight's castle. I lay down on the cold alleyway ground next to another trash can, which I will dub thee Mr. Garbage Can No.2, and checked my saddle bags if there's any food inside. All I have in my saddlebags are... My new (and slightly damaged) journal (with some rat blood and other fluids at the back cover), Gross. Two towels (I'm gonna use this one to wipe the rat mess of my journal), Less Gross but still gross. Nine lightning in a bottle potions (minus the one I threw at the house) that I strong-hoofed from that shop colt, The official deed to the now wrecked music shop with my and Ass Drum's signatures (I carried this around to show Ass Drum that I was the owner as well if our argument escalated too far. Never got the chance to show him. Maybe should have shown this instead of breaking everything in the store.), Nah. Two hundred & twenty-three bits (Yes, I've counted all of them) that I can't use in this town as I'm currently on the run, Should I put stealing some food on my criminal record? My industrial safety goggles (one of the last equipment from my workshop), My reading glasses (I can read just fine but I might still need these if ever get to the Human world), Sunglasses (for some reason), A brown cloak in case it rains today (It's cloudy, right now), Three quill feathers... oops, correction: two quill feathers and a one snapped version, No. 2 pencils (Ah! Math tests flashbacks), A bottle of water (not food but it will have to do), Some ink (which didn't spill a drop or cracked open, even after all that trotting around), Industrial Strength duct tape, That mare's present which I should have thrown at the house with the potion inside (basically garbage at this point), My Big "Equestrian Lore" book to introduce our culture and history to the humans (Wow, I have so much storage in these saddlebags, I can't even believe it), And lastly... a kitchen knife? Since when did I bring this with me? I wasn't even in the kitchen the last time I was in the house. Maybe I should throw... No, this is what I need to make a disguise. I levitated the knife towards my disordered mane and proceed to cut it short enough that I can still cover my face and my horn and put on the sunglasses. I use the cloak to cover my fur color, my horn, and my Cutie Mark. I was going to use the ink to cover my muzzle but I'd rather not look ridiculous when I get to the human world or get arrested. I'll put this as Plan B for Beard. With a gulp from my water bottle, a few meditation breaths that I learned from Fluttershy's friend, Tree Hugger, and tossed the knife to Mr. Garbage Can No.2, I exited the alleyway and into the streets filled with high alert ponies who are on the watch for my presence. So far so good, no ponies are looking at me but rather ignored & passing by me without glancing back. Good, they're too disoriented to even notice that there is suddenly a new pony in town while a deranged lunatic was on the loose. Oh great, there might be a possibility that I might get sent to the loony bin for years with the way I'm currently behaving. Whatever, I can just walk around town looking like one of the fashion ponies who are in a new trend and maybe casually reach to the castle to get to the portal or get sent to the dungeons for a lousy disguise or... or... Uhhh... uh... something with sandwiches. OMC, Stomach, I'll get you some food later. Portal first. I’ve been wasting my entire life in this quiet little town filled with liars (except for AJ and her family/close friends) for years without any achievements on my human world portal research. They either mocked me, yell mean things or worse... I can’t ask my other friends (if I should even call them friends) to let me hide in their homes as they either fear me at what I did and/or snitch me to the authorities, considering I burnt my house down. Either way, I can't let my life be distracted by ~~that mare~~ anymore; I have to get in that portal now. I’ve known Twilight for years back in magic school, but we recently have been keeping in touch after her reunion with Moon Dancer and the rest of our friends. She just reappeared in my life again and since then we have tea parties whenever we crossed paths. In our recent conversation, she mentioned that the portal that leads to the human world was in a full body crystal mirror that had purple frames & different varieties of jewels surrounding it and it was located one of the libraries in her crystal castle. It took a lot of willpower ~~and that mare~~ to not look suspicious when I asked that question. I can't lie my way to the portal because Twilight has been a great friend lately and AJ taught all of us ponies to never lie. That and she's the Princess of Friendship with her own crystal castle that might have a dungeon if I'm not careful. Nostalgia started to flow out of my mind every time I pass a building. I forced myself not to cry but the pain that I am feeling... Oh hey, I'm at Sugarcube Corner. Yes! I'm already halfway the... What was that? Like I was thinking, I am half... There it is again. What is that? I squinted my eyes through the sunglasses to see what I'm looking at. It looks like a pink blur that is somewhat growing bigger in my vision by the second. Wait... a pink blur? Oh no... "Lyra!" Oh no, it's Pinkie Pie. Oh no, Exposition... I've known Pinkie ever since she appeared in Canterlot when we were fillies, she was on her "Party Pilgrimage" or whatever she told at the time. Coincidentally, it was around my birthday but I wasn't celebrating it as Father had no time to spend it on me and most of my friends didn't know it at the time. I was very gloomy that I thought I was gonna spend another birthday alone and cold in the winter but then she arrived in my life and made it shine by hosting a party with just me and her (I requested the solitude version as she kept pestering to me about what type of party I wanted). She was a lot of fun as she told me many stories about her visits to most of the populated places in Equestria, Ponyville being her last stop and permanent home. At the end of the night, I accidentally kissed her after I made my birthday wish but she was really cool with it and gave me a proper one in return. By the way, my wish was to meet my human friend again. That second kiss felt like fireworks and tasted like the most delicious cake frosting that I have ever experienced. Not only did I got the best birthday party in my life but I also got a wonderful first kiss and the realization that I liked mares from the pink cotton candy mane & tail party filly. I was going to ask her out when we reunited in Ponyville but rejected the offer immediately as she told me that she wouldn't have the time for romance as she wanted to spend it all into making everypony smile with her well-planned parties and antics. I respected her decision and never bothered to bring that subject to anypony after that day. I wish just I had her by my side instead of ~~that mare~~ and maybe she would've helped me get into the portal without causing all this mess. Anyway, back to the panicking... Not her, anypony but her. I can't let her see me like this and I don't want to see her super sad face, it would hurt my heart. I can't even comprehend what that would look like and I'm not gonna if I just pace a little faster to the castle or maybe another hiding spot (Maybe I can meet Mr. Garbage Can No. 3 there). Just play it cool, Lyra. She's in super duper extra-serious detective mode right now, I can see her wearing that sleuth hat that she uses when she "attempts" to solve crimes. This means that she'll spend hours looking for me all over town, from every gravel in the pathway to... Wait, is she coming towards me? And "OH HIYA! Miss new lady mare. Hiya, I'm Pinkie Pie and welcome to Ponyville. It's so amazing to..." She announced to me with her usual gleeful attitude that always makes my heart flutter, now that I'm not with ~~that mare~~ anymore. S-she's s-s-shaking m-m-y hoof v-v-v-vigorously. H-head becoming dizzy. Hungry stomach churning. After a few seconds of standing still, I've regained my composure and didn't vomit (a second win-win). Just try to listen to the rest of her speech. "But before I give you a super mondo extravagant oh so fun that you could cry happily while dancing the pony pokey welcome party... could you please help me find a certain pony?" She asked me. Why me, Lyra, of all ponies had to be in her line of eyesight. Okay just try your Octavia accent that you've practiced alone in the store for weeks. I cleared my throat before speaking with a false accent. "Good day, Miss. To whom do you wish to seek that you have to act in such drastic behavior?" I don't even know what I just blab at her and I was the one who spoke it. "Well... you see." She leaned closer to my face. Okay, that's too close. TOO close too close. I sighed with relief as she bumped my muzzle with hers. It's not a kissing if I didn't like it. Okay, I liked it a lot. "One of my very important friends went cuckoo and my friends & I are trying to look for her before somepony calls the Royal Guards on her and take her to the dungeons or to Tartarus or send her to a dungeon in Tartarus or have her eat so many ice cream that will give her a really mean stomach ache & brain freeze or..." Okay, she's jabbering a lot. This my chance to slowly back away from her and find another way to pat to the castle. That wouldn't be too hard considering the Castle's just... "Now hold on there, partner!" That voice... that twangy farmer folk voice of judgment that was shouting in my left direction. Oh no... not Applejack too. I turned to the origin of that voice and see that it was Applejack. I can easily recognize the mare from her blonde mane & tail with red bands at both ends, bright orange fur coat, and that light brown Stetson that completes her reliable & hard-working character. She still looks hot. Oh boy, the first time I met her was on my first day in Ponyville and I acted like a complete idiot. I thought I had a chance to ask her out when I offered to assist her with some apple bucking even though my leg coordination and strength sucks. One thing led to another, a beehive fell down towards my flank and I spent most of that day running around Sweet Apple Acres while avoiding the bees until I jumped to a lake. Applejack had to remove the stingers from my flank and... clearing my throat... rubbed some medicine over there. It was super awkward yet guiltily nice. I guess another beehive dropped in my flank that I call my life as now she's also chasing after me and with her was a piece of rope that's been knotted into a lasso. Oh just great. Just real f*cking great. I'm going to be tied up by Ponyville's greatest and hottest lasso slinger. It's both kinky and scary. She flung her lasso towards me but I easily swiped it away with my magic and Pinkie began to flinch away from me and rope. Like that trick was going to capture me. But I spoke too soon as the lasso was suddenly wrapped with another magic glow, it had an elegant blue shine. Yup, it was Rarity. Yeah... I do not care for the mare. She insulted my fashion sense when we first met and after that fiasco, I just avoid her like the wind or leave the room if there's only the two of us. Good thing the second one never happened because I never give her the chance. Well.. there was that one time when I went to Princess Cadence wedding in Canterlot, she was personally fitting all the bridesmaids' dresses but I was with my... My inner monologue got interrupted when I saw Rarity walked behind Applejack and let out an appalled gasped when she saw my appearance. "Oh no, Lyra darling. You've mangled your marvelous mane in such a tragic state and a ragged brown cloak does not compliment your natural aquamarine color..." She continued to describe my appearance yet again but I blocked that noise. It both confused and pissed the f*ck out of me, considering this is a serious situation. I turned tail away from Rarity, who tried to grab me by the tail with Applejack's magic fused rope but I slapped it away easily with my own magic. I've learned more magic than her, Not Twilight/Princesses levels but enough that my skills are on par with a magic instructor. Basic levitation, fire starting, short distance teleportation and more that I can't discuss inside my head for I don't have the time. And the... Blahhhh! Something tackled me... no, somepony tackled me to the ground. I saw a blur when it happened but it wasn't a pink one but rather some sort of multi-color version. Oh great, it was Rainbow freakin' Dash. One of Ponyville's fastest pegasus, weather pony, blah, blah, blah. Ugh! I hated this mare ever since I met her. She's ignorant, stubborn, lazy, boastful and attracts too much attention wherever she goes like there's a parade for her. I'm only half of those things (well, I'm not a show off) and yet she became the Element of Loyalty somehow. I never left anypony's side (except for Father, Bass Drum, and ~~that mare~~) and yet most of them exploit my loyalty and mock me behind my back while she gets all the benefits. What makes her so special? "I got ya now, you psycho mare!" This mare is taunting at me while she pinned both of my forelegs. "Wait until we get you to Twilight..." Oh, that's it, it is on. The muscles of my foreleg tensed and horn burned brightly as I was preparing to push back this jerk to the air where she belongs. I sucker punched the mare straight in the face and released all of my strength on her. "AHHHHHH!!!" She's screaming as she got launched incredibly fast. Wow, I never thought I was this strong with my magic. That punch wasn't as great as the one I gave to that Spoiled Rich b*tch but it was enough to disorientate that rainbow mane jerk that she's thrashing around in the air and making pony-size holes on a bunch of clouds. Maybe I have... ACK! "I got ya know, ya varmint." Applejack bind both of my forelegs while I was face forward on the ground and wrapped the rest of my limbs. I looked up at her, who had concern expression "Ya need to calm down, Lyra." I flailed my limbs helplessly but it only tightened the rope's grip. Like I have a choice. "Serves you right!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she floated down from her launch. OMC, she got a black eye on her right side. This moment right now is, what she says all the time, "Awesome"... even though I'm tied up and humiliated in public again. I just sighed in defeat when Pinkie and Rarity came towards me. I refused to stare at Pinkie as I was afraid at what expression she's making (I already disappointed her for lying to her with that lousy disguise) and I still don't care about Rarity like zero f*cks given to her. As I got hogtied and dragged on the ground by Applejack and a very pissed off Rainbow Dash, I looked around the ponies who are cheering at the "victorious mares who captured the crazy mare" while booing & hissing bad remarks directly at me, some of the ponies that I can't recognize began to throw... OWWW! My head... Author's Note What just happened to Lyra? She's more than meets the eye when it comes to her past. Is she gonna face the consequences or will she escape capture and get into the portal? Hey guys, I finished Chapter 2 and currently working on the rest. I still don't know how long the story or number of Acts should be. I added Lyra's romantic attraction on Pinkie (No.1 Fave Pony) and Applejack (No. 3 Fave Pony) as this will be one of the romance plots that will happen in the story when she gets to the human world. And also, I don't dislike/hate Rarity or Rainbow Dash, it's just something for Lyra's opinions on the Main 6. Originally this chapter had a longer word count, two bonus chapters and a scene where Lyra confronts Twilight alone but I had to cut them into 2 parts (Ch 2 and 3) and moved the bonuses to the next chapter because the scene is an important moment in this story and I can't screw this up with bad narration. I already planned the story's plot & (maybe the ending) but please give me more suggestions on the blog that I've made, it is titled "First Blog". (New Temporary Schedule) I will be releasing new chapters every Monday morning and the bonus(es) in the afternoon but there won't be any bonuses for Chapter 2. I got to thank diablo4000 for giving me good info on the characters & their history and Magnus the hydra for being the first person to motivating me on continuing the story. And thank you, the readers, for reading this story. Nightwatch the Rogue Out (Renewed) Act 1 Prologue: ... and I want to live in their world. The world filled with HumansAct 1 Prologue: ...But I live in a Pony World I want to be a human. Just saying it right now instead of wasting two chapters of my journal telling you about my daily life before finally say it at the very last page. I have been into humans ever since I was just a little filly. I actually met a human here in Equestria but nopony, even my own friends, believed me and some even made fun of or bullied me for that belief. However, that didn’t stop me from remembering that day like it was just eight years ago. It was during Hearth’s Warming Day in Canterlot; My friends & I were playing snowball fights outside the Canterlot walls. Twilight Sparkle was too busy reading her books than play with us like always and Moon Dancer got sick for a whole week & missed the snow when she got better. However, we felt bad that Moondancer didn’t get to play, so we gave her a “we’re happy you’re better now” party and showered her with lots of presents. That’s what all that mattered. Anyway, we were playing near a small frozen lake, everypony were building their own snow castle and snow ponies and skating at the frozen lake. It was a typical fillyhood moment except I had a wonderful encounter with fate… or whatever an event of meeting a real, breathing human for the first time is called. I met my first human after my friends decided to go home early and I was left behind at the lake. I was too occupied to even notice that everyone left me alone. I just didn’t want to go home so soon. I was making an army of snow ponies for my snow castle until I discovered I was alone; I decided to keep building the army to distract myself from the cold and the very next day. I was really happy to be playing in the snow; however, my life was about to change forever. Sweet Celestia, that was really lame to say. Anyway, there was this huge ball of flashing white light that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, then this weird bipedal creature came out from the light. I thought at first she was some sort of Diamond Dog or Minotaur species but she had no tail, her muzzle was small & flat, her ears were… weird looking and basically everything about her looked wrong at first. She had a weird fur coat that had pouches on her stomach, which I thought were used to carry her offspring. I was really scared and speechless when I first saw that human; I almost puked when it got close to me. I thought she was gonna hurt me but, instead, she hugged me and stroked my mane a little rough. She was giggling with amusement and saying things like “Oh my gosh, you are so cute” and “I want you to be my pony” to me as if I was a pet to her. “Oh my gosh, I want you to come home with me” She happily said to me. She was beginning to stroke my mane a little too rough that it was irritating me. “... Ouch!” I yelled in annoyance “Knock it off, you’re gonna tear off my mane” She stopped stroking my mane after I finally said something. I looked at her face to properly speak to her, but as soon as I did that, she had a shocked expression on her face. She started to shriek at me in fear as if she saw a monster or something scary. She pushed me down and ran behind a rock. I tried to get up from the snow-covered ground but then I heard a cracking noise. Unfortunately, I got shoved towards the lake that had a thin layer of ice. I wanted to jump away from the lake but it was already too late; the frozen lake floor gave in, it shattered open a large hole and I collapsed into the freezing water. I was crying for help but there was nopony around to assist me, except for the creature who pushed me into the lake. I was flailing my hooves all over the place. It was too cold to swim properly and there was no solid ground to hold on to. I shouted at the strange creature for help; she looked hesitant to even get out of her rock. I yelled louder as I desperately struggled to stay afloat on the lake. It took about a third time of screaming for her help that she actually started to do it. She tried to reach out to me and she grabbed my hooves with her… fingers? I think they're called fingers. After I got out of the icy lake, I was shivering because of the weather and the chilling water, which meant that I got hypothermia. I was beginning to pass out from the cold but the creature suddenly opened up her fur, which freaked me out, and she proceeded to place me in her stomach. I was panicking from that situation but my cold was keeping me distracted to even care. I fell unconscious; however not before feeling a strange but comforting warmth from her stomach. When I regained consciousness, I was in a dark, damp hollow cave and the creature was huddling alone in the center of the cave, trying to do something with a bundle of sticks and… hay? It appeared that she was trying to light up a fire but all I see was her bashing a bunch of rocks against each other. I thought that the cold was getting to her, but then I saw sparks coming out of the rocks which landed on the hay, there was smoke coming out and she proceeded to blow on it. To my surprise, she started a fire; I was amazed to see her make fire without the use of magic. I thought what she did was impossible for anypony who's not a unicorn or a creature capable of performing magic. It took me a few years to see that anypony can start fires with a flint and steel or that there were many methods to ignite one. I live in a city filled with magic using unicorns, leave me alone okay. “Wow,” I said to myself quietly as I don’t want the creature to noticed I woke up and scare her. But it was pointless, my soft voice echoed throughout the cave that any pony could hear it. The creature approached towards me and touched my forehead. I flinched as I thought she was gonna eat me just like the dragons used to do in Equestria before the princesses came into power. However, she was actually checking my temperature. She was reaching something from her… stomach pouch, I think? It was a carrot. “Here you go” she politely said. She placed the carrot on the ground front of me “You must be hungry, huh?” “Yes,” I weakly replied as the cold was taking an effect on my throat. “I was saving this for my snowman but you can have it” Snowman? Does she mean a “snowpony”? What’s a man? I had so many questions about that statement but I was really hungry at that moment and I need the food for energy to fight off the cold. My horn started to glow, used my magic to clumsy levitate the carrot into my mouth. Before I could take a bite, I heard the creature gasp again and I dropped my carrot. “What was that?” she gleefully asked me. Her face was getting closer to mine that it made me uncomfortable. “Was that magic?” “Yes?” I replied nonchalantly as if she never saw magic before. She did come out from a mysterious light; why should she be impressed with a simple levitation if she can start fires with a bunch of rocks (again leave me alone). Doesn't she have magic where she came from? “Oh man, you can use magic. I wish I can use magic… wait, are you a unicorn?” “Yes,” I repeated my first answer. “I am a unicorn and I can use magic” “Well, I’m a human and I want to learn how to use magic just like you” Her eyes were sparkling with delight that it outshines the darkness of the cave. “What’s a human?” “Well, a human is what I am. Two legs, two arms, two hands and ten fingers & toes.” She responded while she was fiddling her “fingers” close to my face. "And also I'm a girl." “Well then, I’m a unicorn pony. Four legs & hooves, one horn and no fingers or toes” I replied back jokingly and waved her back with my left forehoof. " and I'm a filly." Both of us were laughing out loud, which echoed throughout the cave, which calmed us down and warmed up the area. After that icebreaker (no pun intended), the human and I began to talk more about what we were, where we came from and what our worlds have to offer. She told me she came from a place called Manehattan but she says that her family was moving to the suburbs of Ponyville Street. These locations she mentions sounded familiar to me; I realized later that I’ve seen those names on the maps of Equestria. I visited Manehattan as my first location for my journey on the humans' location... and I did not care for that place. Terrible city noises, disgusting food, rude ponies and the hotel that I stayed in scammed me out of thirty bits for "special room service", which I never got by the way. I should've gone to Ponyville first and I could have saved a lot of time and ~~Father's~~ "borrowed" bits. Wait, where was I going with this? Oh yeah, I told her that I live in a capital city called Canterlot and I was studying magic & music with my friends/classmates at The School for Gifted Unicorns. The human then asked me what my Cutie Mark in my flanks are for, in actuality, she called it "my tattoos on my butt". I told her it was a mark that tells me what my destiny and identity are. She called it out as "stupid", it kind of made me furious at first for insult my mark but she explained that a mark or symbol doesn't tell me what can do with my life, it's my actions that she thinks determines my future. She both amazed me for telling me that I can be anypony I want to be without ~~Father~~ or others ordering me around. And annoyed me because now I think my Cutie Mark is useless as a destiny symbol, I only see it now as my brand to tell everyone what I own. Which is cool, I guess? We exchange every information that we could think of about our world. Her world is called Earth while mine is Equestria. The main inhabitants of her homeworld are humans like her and for mine were magical ponies (with the exception of other creatures). She says that their world's magic is really, really rare to have and I told her Equestria provides infinite amounts of magic to everyone. There were some weird ones that the human mentioned, like when she said that wearing clothes was mandatory and they have no fur, apart from the tiny strands of hair in their skin. My reply was that we can go around naked because we have thick fur covering our... inner layer or whatever perverted things you want to describe it. You pervert. Another was this thing called the internet, she described it as "tiny invisible numbers in the air that fly around everywhere and carry information such as messages... and cat videos?" And that they go inside big metal boxes called a monitor to see these cat videos. I got lost when she said "tiny invisible numbers." But now every time I wake up in the morning and breath the air, I think of math and I suck at math. Basically, breathing tiny invisible numbers made me bad at math. Yeah, I don't get the logic either but I got a D on my last test. Is it a coincidence? Nope, I'm just a procrastinator. Back to the point, I returned that confusion to the girl when I gave her a specific description of what kinds of magic we have in Equestria. I told her there were three tribes of ponies that have their own unique abilities and physical features. She was most interested in this one as she stared me with her unblinking eyes. "Taking mental notes," she told me, I picked up on that habit whenever I get new information on humans. It creeped everypony out, especially Bon-Bon, but tells me that's one of the reasons why she loves me. First were my tribe, the Unicorns. They have horns like mine but come in different shapes and sizes. Some unicorns focus their lives on studying and learning many spells, in hopes that they can make new ones on their own. Some decide to join in on luxury careers such as fashion and stage performances. The rest were already rich and can do whatever they want in life, ~~unlike my family~~. Next was the fast and headstrong Pegasi. They have wings, laid back manes and they can manipulate the weather anytime they want. They can make any section of Equestria have any weather they scheduled. Yeah, I never know and cared much about Pegasi for my thoughts on them are that they are arrogant and show-offs. What they lack in horns and wings, Earth ponies' magic makes up for it with their strength and intuition to perform everyday tasks such as gardening, construction, solve problems with efficiency & convenience, and any other manual labors. They were innovators on technology, agriculture, culinary and knowledge, that most of their career roles are teachers, chefs, farmers, and some special cases, party ponies such as this Pinkie Pie filly that I met during her visit to Canterlot. She was a great instant best friend when we first met. She was the one who suggested me to come to Ponyville and stay there as a permanent resident. She's also the one who introduced me to Bon Bon. I always come to her parties whenever I have free time from my job as a musical instruments shop owner and human research. I liked Earth ponies the most as they come with big families who are close and rely on each other. I was always jealous of Earth ponies because they get to come home, see their families & relatives smiling at them and helping them with your homework or other things. ~~All I have is Father~~. Anyway, that night in the cave was the best day of our lives as we continue telling stories about ourselves and the world we live in. As we hugged each other near the fire inside the cave on that night, we felt like we could've been best friends who can visit each other's worlds and try new things together. Too bad it was the only night we get to hang out with each other as the next day, the human disappeared and everypony was searching for me that night. ~~Father~~ was outraged when I got back home. He called me a disgrace to the "Heartstrings" title and I should be- You know what, forget about it. I don't want to write any more of ~~"that next day"~~. It's not like anypony is going to see this journal anyway. Goodbye, for now, Journal and sorry for ruining a good page with my... issues. Oh, by the way, this is Lyra Heartstrings writing to you. Sorry again, I forgot to tell you my name. Goodbye again.
Act 1 Ch 1- ... and I feel like Destiny is comingAct 1 Ch 1: ... and I want to go to their world. NOW! Another wonderful day in Ponyville. The sun is shining, birds are... Yeah, I hate this introduction. Instead, here's me in bed, (innocently) cuddling my marefriend. There you go, the intro is done. Boom, my name's Lyra Heartstrings and good morning Equestria. Beside me is the most beautiful mare I have ever seen. I will always marvel her long, swirly cobalt blue mane & tail with light fuschia stripes that make me think of her sweet hoovemade candies. Her smooth light grey fur coat that feels like the clouds that pegasi sleep on. And the piece of resistance was her eyes, those sweet and mesmerizing arctic blue eyes that binds me to her control. Like every typical morning, Bon Bon, my marefriend, woke up before I do. In exchange for that routine, I ask her the same important question that I tell her to start the day for both of us. “BonBon, what do you think humans eat?” I asked my marefriend as I got up from my pillow. We were in bed, having conversations about humans while being next to each other. “Mmmm… I don’t know, Lyra.” BonBon groaned at me. “You’ve been asking me that question million times by now and you won’t give me the answer. Just tell me already.” “Nope” I smugly replied. I love messing with BonBon and I know she knows the answer. She’s just messing with me. “The answer is really easy” “Lyra, I’ve guessed every fruit, vegetable, and sweets that I could list on the top of my head but you keep saying maybe,” Bon Bon begged for the answer. She showed me her cute puppy dog eyes that I can’t resist “Please tell. Pleeeease” “I’ll never tell,” I said sternly. Her eyes were irresistible but I had to prevail. “Really?” she moaned in false dissatisfaction and pouty lips. She always does this and I would always give her a hint but never an answer. I know that she knows the answers but if I ever let my guard down, she will start to barraging me with her own questions. That and she already answered the question the first time. I'm just messing with her at this point. By the way, it was "Blueberries", my favorite fruit and pancake combination. Oh... she's getting up now. "Hey Lyra, don't you have work today." Oh great, she's reminding me that I actually work for a living. I sighed at this reminder as I hate working as an instrument "shop owner", I mean it's been a month that a pony has even visited the shop to really buy something and that was just Octavia purchasing a new cello after her "argument" with her roommate, Vinyl Scratch. I don't know what Vinyl did to make Octavia mad that had to resolve with her smashing the innocent cello over the DJ's head but I digress that story for later. Anyway, I have to give an actual response to Bon Bon, it's been a few minutes since she asked that question and I'm just awkwardly quiet as usual. "Do I have to?" I whined at her. Great job, genius, telling myself sarcastically. "Well, we have to find some way to pay the bills AND your research. A job is the most reasonable answer to all of them." She lectured me as usual. That's not true, Bon Bon pays the bills while I fund my own research with the little bits I can earn. Right now, I'm making my own portal gate or any form of transportation to the human world with my knowledge of magic and... (shudder my entire body) math. Twilight was kind enough to lend me books on advance magic theories, written by the great Star Swirl the Bearded, the only unicorn who has ever made a working portal to another alternative world. My current project is replicating the mirror portal that is similar to Twilight's (in theory, I never actually seen how the mirror works). Oh yeah, I have to get more lightning in a bottle potions. I need more natural magic electricity if I'm going to ever make my own portal to the human world (and decrease the electricity bill). I recently bought a new journal (with my own cutie mark on the front cover and fur color) just to keep notes on my findings. I keep forgetting my old ideas and findings that Bon Bon suggested the journal to keep them in writing if don't want to lose them. I mean I asked Twilight if I could use hers but Bon Bon told me to not to go. And by "told me", I mean yelled at me for two straight hours on why I should not go in anypony's portals without her permission. I don't need her permission, I'm a grown mare who can make her own decisions if I'm brave enough to really do it. Wait... why I'm talking myself? I have to get to work or Bass Drum's gonna have my flank on a platter if I'm late again. That sounds perverted. Curse you perverted brain for thinking that disgusting thought. Welp, can't stay here in bed all day. I've tried that once and it was the biggest mistake I made yesterday. I got out of bed, put my new journal in my saddlebags and took a long, warm shower while Bon Bon prepared breakfast. I dried myself and head to the dining area, where Bon Bon's homecooked blueberry pancakes were waiting for me, I poured a butt load of maple syrup. Mouth foaming with drool as I see that my marefriend topped up her culinary skills on the pancakes by writing my first name with tiny blueberries. I love her so much for being with me for this long. It has been three years today that we first met, two years and five months that I confessed my feelings (awkwardly) to her, and... Wait... OMC (Oh my Celestia), It's our two year anniversary of the day we bought a house together and became roommates. Okay calm down, Lyra, don't worry I got her the perfect present this year. It's not gonna happen like last year; I didn't forget the day and there aren't any cow stampedes this morning, so I'm in the clear so far. "LYRA!" Bon Bon furiously yelled my name from the bathroom. "YOU USED ALL THE HOT WATER AGAIN!" "OH, CRAPBASKETS!" I shouted back. Why did I swear? "DID YOU JUST SWEAR!?" Now I really have to get out of here; I scarfed down my breakfast as fast as my mouth can comprehend, grabbed my saddlebags and proceeded to whooped my way to work now. "Woop Woop Woop Woop Woop." **** After whooping for a few minutes, I got to my workplace with a stomach ache and leaving a very angry marefriend at home. My workplace is a one-story blue building with a front display window for the customers to see instruments and me behind the counter, bored out of my mind. I stand in front of the entrance and looked at the crudely designed sign. "Bass Drum's Extraordinary Instruments Shop." Yeah, more like "Ordinary" instruments shop, I thought to myself like I always do whenever I come to this place. I took a deep breath as this is going to be a really, REALLY long day of sitting my flank behind the counter, cleaning dusty instruments and being yelled at by my "boss" for "not being productive enough". I swear to Luna, I co-signed this place with him two years ago and yet he puts his own name in the store and he treats me like I'm the lousy employee. We were supposed to work together like we promised yet I do all the manual labor while he goes off playing golf with his jerk friends or what he calls "business associates". I basically own the entire store and the stuff that came with it. I raised my head to show that I'm not beaten down that the day will throw at me and opened the door; the first thing I see is Bass Drum. He had the same old stallion stare of disappointment that he always give me whenever we cross paths. He wore his usual plaid golf clothes under his blue fur coat and with his tail poking out, his golf bag at his left side, his golf hat poorly covered his black mane and his rugged beard spreading all over his face. I swear he should just give me the store entirely so that he can retire and go golfing all he wants. I have so many ideas at making this place attract customers, but Bass Drum wouldn't hear any of my plans as he says "You are a mare with no business experience and you would be begging in the streets for bits if it weren't for me." If it weren't for him, I could still have some of the bits that I "invested" in the store. "Where have you been?" The old Earth pony said in his gruff and fake posh voice like he's fooling anypony. His left forehooves tapping repeatedly and rapidly on the hardwood floor, his scowl was fixed on my general direction, and his heavy breathing could be heard throughout the entire room. Just another day at work. "I got here on time. I'm not sure what you mean?" I defended myself like the passive mare that I am. I pointed at the clock on top of the counter, it was nine o'clock exactly the schedule says. "T-that clock's slow and you w-were supposed to clean the instruments at seven and..." He complained, he was always making excuses that he could come up with on my work performance all the time. He trotted towards one of the pianos and wiped a small speck of dust from it. "... and there are some spots that you missed on the last day." I gritted my teeth, sighed and did my best professional employee impersonation. "I cleaned every instrument in the store the last time I was here. In fact, I wiped and polished them and the floors twice like you instructed me to do. Twice." I tried to hint him that I was managing everything in the store. He didn't catch it. "I don't care for your excuses." YEAH, my excuses. "I expected you to follow my orders if we are ever gonna make any bits and keep this store running." Again with his lectures. I rolled my eyes so much on that speech that I might cause them to fall off or get them stuck in the other direction, just like what happened to Muffins. Or what the rumors ponies tell me about her. She had the worse reputation in Ponyville, apart from me. He continued his lecture while I just gave him a blank stare. "...I expect you to be on your best behavior if a customer shows up. I'm not gonna have to remind you what happened last time, do I?" Okay, I lied to myself about Octavia being the last customer to come in this store, but I wouldn't call "an old pretentious mare insulting our instruments for being in poor quality and calling me a fillyfooler with a dead-end job and crazy human conspiracies" as a customer. She had that punch to the muzzle coming. That Spoiled Rich. Thank Celestia, her husband was a forgiving colt and kind enough to pay for the store damages she caused from her freak out after I punched her. "Lyra! Lyra! Lyra!" Oh, shoot, Bass Drum's calling for me. He took his golf bag and went to the door. "Lyra, stop daydreaming and actually do your work. I'm going outside to... advertise our store. Goodbye." He exited and slammed the door before I could say any opinions. With a sigh and more to come, I head back to my counter that I always sit in and do nothing but I watch the window for any customers passing by, play the cash register and contemplate my life and the day I might get to the human world. I always have questions in my mind that have been bothering me but never got the straight answer on all of them. First, should I have stayed with Father? I would say yes right away, considering he's the only family I have and might use his wealth on my human research & pay the bills. But he is a horrible stallion who treats me like his puppet and he tossed me & some of his bits out to the streets after I graduated school. Should I just ask Twilight if I can use her portal to the human world? She might reject my request at first but I hope I can get her to say yes someday, even if it's just a visit. I want to know what it's like to be in another world... and maybe see my friend again. What happened to Bass Drum that made him such a lazy jerk and a bitmonger? He wasn't always like this when we first met. He helped me get the store together with the leftover bits I got from Father. There's another question but I'd rather not mention as it relates to Bon Bon. It scares me that I even made that question in the first place. I looked around the room to see there's anypony in sight and took a deep breath as this is going to hurt my heart. "Should I leave Bon Bon?" I whispered quietly in the store alone, with my eyes closed. "I don't know." Bass Drum said as he standing behind me. Darn it, I forgot we have a backdoor. "But I do know what you should be doing and that is clean the store like YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO!" AHHH! He yelled near my left ear. Everythings ringing and feeling to vomit rising. I swallowed back my breakfast because I don't want to clean the floor. "I just did." I lied to him as he never really cares if I actually did the task. "No, you didn't. I only left thirty minutes ago and I was looking at the display window." Crude. "... and all I saw was you sitting behind the counter as always." Double crude."I've always suspected you being a lazy mare but being a liar as well. Should I call Applejack to give you a lecture on diligence and honesty, is that okay for you?" He said with sarcasm. I hate it when ponies mention the Elements of Harmony when they're comparing those girls to me. I don't hate any of them, it's just that... "LYRA!" AHHH! HE YELLED MY OTHER EAR! "I've had it with your antics for the last time." He was overwhelmed with rage now. "I want you out of my store and never come back!" Wait, what did he say? "Wait, are you seriously firing me!?" I asked as I was surprised that he actually said that to me. "Yes, I am. I want you to take your belongings and leave MY property. I'll send you..." I interrupted him as this was B*LLSH*T. "You can't fire me! I own half this store with my own bits." I protested at the jerk. "I worked my flank off to make this store presentable while you waste your time and bits on golf games, even though we don't have enough as it is." "NO! You sit on your flank all day doing nothing but stay in your tiny little world that you call your brain while I try to advertise our store with my business associates." He spat back with the worse excuse that I have ever heard. He was trying to guilt trip me into quitting the store with a pathetic lie! Yup, this is the day I snapped. Well, he can have his wish. "You know what, Ass Drum! You can have your good for nothing store and I get to quit. It's a win-win situation for you, is it not?" I used my magic to grab one of the jerk's golf clubs. "But before I leave this place forever, I'm gonna give you my resignation letter." I grimly smiled as this is going to be good. I can see Ass Drum's panicked state as I prepared my first golf swing ever. "Lyra, what are you doing? Don't..." He should be proud, now that I'm doing my job properly by removing some inventory. "Hole in one!" I yelled as a punctured a hole at the dusty piano that Ass Drum told me to clean. "I think that's an Eagle." I don't know a single bit about golf, which helps insult the new shop owner. "Lyra, please stop..." Oh look at that, he's actually begging to me. Looks like the metal shoe is on the other hoof now. I continued to swing to swing the now dented golf club at every instrument that I could find while Ass Drum attempted to save some of it, only for me to levitate it away from him and smash them with rest of the scrap pile. And now for the symphony. "UN!" I yelled as I swung the golf club at the guitar wall display. "DEUX!" I obliterated the wind instruments section and the display window. "AND THE FINALE." I trotted to the drums and with a mighty jump, I pummeled the big drum part and cymbals crashed to the ground as I shouted. "TROIS!" After my orchestra of mayhem finished, I looked back at Bass Drum. He was hyperventilating with his right hoof on his chest and sweating a lot. Like I care at this point. I just used my magic to snatch the cash register, stuffed my belongings into my saddlebags (which included Bon Bon's present that I hid in the store) and took my leave by wrecking the door with the cash register. Everypony outside was watching my meltdown and were giving me scared faces, some even avoid eye contact when I stared at them while walking. My mane's a mess, my ears are still in pain, my eyes are bloodshot and my blood pressures on the roof, but I don't as I was done with the store and instruments. **** "Give me all the lightning potions you've got," I harshly demanded the shop colt as I dropped the battered cash register on the counter. "Ummm... Bad day?" He nervously spoke to me like it's any of his damn business. I gave him a cold glare and snarled at him. "What do you think?" he cowered down to the floor. Good, I don't need more problems as it is. "Come on, I don't have all day. Give me the stuff." I'm scratching my mane like crazy from the waiting. The shop colt didn't get up from his hiding spot but he did give me the bottles. I took a deep breath (been taking a lot of these today) and forced opened my cash register to grab the bits. "N-no thanks. You can have it, free of charge. Please just leave my store." The shop colt begged me to leave. Just like Bass Drum. I put all MY bits & bottles in my saddle bag and took my leave. Rumors must have spread real quick as everypony run away when they saw my presence. Great, I'm the monster of the week. I just want to get home and make that portal as soon as possible or the Royal Guards will be marching here and send me to Tarturus. As I got home, there was nopony there (Thank Celestia). I immediately went to my workshop and got all of the material for the portal out of my saddlebags. At this point, I don't care if it works or not. I only have one chance left before everything else in my life falls apart. "I can't believe you would waste your life away on some ridiculous dream." I turned around and saw Bon Bon standing at the only doorway in my workshop. Oh no she's crying and shaken up. She must have heard of my outburst at Bass Drum's shop. "I can't believe you just did that." I tensed up when she spoke in an unfamiliar tone. it was cold, empty... and full of pity on me. "Who are you?" She yelled as her tears were increasing & blinding her sight and her movements became erratic. I've never seen any pony act like this before. "I don't know who you were before you met that human but I know you are not like this." She took a mirror at one of my desks with her mouth and tossed it towards my legs. I flinched back as the mirror shattered into pieces, some of the shards hit my forelegs and chest. "Look at what your obsession has done to you. You've become a scatterbrain, lazy, uncooperative towards others, and when ponies pushed you too far, you used violence first to get rid of your problems. Do you see it now?" All I saw from those shards was a little filly who wanted to see her best friend again but was distracted by ignorant ponies who were talking terrible things about her in secret. "I should have destroyed your work sooner..." She blurted out... What did she just say? "Wait a minute... what did you just say?" I hissed my question as my heart started to throb vigorously with anger and my eyes widen to the point that they would fall off. "Ummm..." Bon Bon won't give me a straight answer. "Y-you've been sabotaging my experiments!" I was appalled at what Bon Bon said." I got closer to her, only for her to back away from the doorway. We got to the living room before I stopped approaching to Bon Bon. Instead, I walked slowly towards the door to make my exit, but before that, I needed some answers. "Your experiments won't work like instant. It's just impossible to make a portal, according to Princess Twilight, it took Star Swirl the Bearded decades to make one and it was used to banish ancient evil beings..." My anger was increasing by the second. "What!? Since when did you talk to Twilight for that kind of information?" "I... I... I" She's beginning to stutter again but I need to know. "TELL ME!" My rage-filled voice was raised to the roof that the next door neighbors might hear me. Let them, I want them to listen to me call out a traitor that I used to call "my friend". Now she's the one looking on the floor. "I asked her right after you heard Twilight say she's been to the human world and that she has a portal to them. I can't let you go to that place. You don't what kind of dangerous creatures that are inhabiting on the other side. That's the..." I don't to hear more of this. Again with the excuses. Does everypony have this sick desire to lie in front of me? First was Father, then Bass Drum and now Bon Bon. My mare- no, not my marefriend, I don't know who this mare is at all for over the years she's been hiding things from me and she was actually embarrassed to be near ME. "Please Lyra..." And she's begging to me as well. I'm on a roll today. "You know what I'm out of here!" In my anger state, I grabbed one of the lightning potions I just bought in my saddlebags and tossed the bottle inside the house. I trotted as fast as my legs could take while the lightning inside the bottle explodes inside the house and I could hear Bon Bon screaming for help. After running for a few minutes while avoiding other ponies seeing me, I hid at one of the store's alleyways to catch my breath and contemplate at what I just did during the past three hours. I am a mess. No wonder I didn't say this morning was wonderful. Today is anything but wonderful. Happy Anniversary, Bon Bon. Author's Note Lyra is in big trouble, it's only the first chapter AND it's still morning time over there (like 11:00 a.m). It really escalated quickly. Start the story with a bang. I guess? I would've put a Dark tag on this story but Drama's more suitable. Hey guys, I have decided to make a schedule on the releases if this going to be a thing. (I only published the prologue early on impulse) By the way, I started the story on Lyra's mental breakdown to jump-start her motivation at going to the human world (and make you curious at what my version of Lyra's past is and why she behaves like this). There will be flashbacks of her past in some chapters but not on this beginning story arc. Thanks for reading my story. Nightwatch the Rogue Out.
Act 1 Ch 2: ... and I hate my life as a ponyLyra's Journal Entry 2 He-ey n-new-w J-j-journal, Sor-rry, I'm w-w-riting to you l-like this way, I-I'm s-shaken up at w-w-what h-hap-p-pened this-s m-morning. Sh*t happens. Okay, I've calm down. For now. I'm writing to you in some random alleyway while sitting on the wet and disgusting ground, next to a garbage can. Hey, Mr. Garbage Can! Say hello to Mr. Garbage Can, Journal. He's my new best friend and maybe my only friend in this world for what I did. Well, you're my friend too, don't cry about it. I don't even know what happened, it went so fast. My everything still hurts, my mane's all over my face and I don't... I LOST EVERYTHING! Sorry for yelling at you in my writing but I need to vent my frustration somehow and I can't find anypony to either punch or yell this mess I'm in. Maybe, I... I do have a problem. NO! I won't listen to anything that mare has said about me. If I want to punch ponies, I can punch ponies. Do you want to get punch, Journal? Sorry about the threat, I just really need something to relieve my stress. Anyway, this morning was supposed to be my anniversary with ~~that mare~~ but I guess my life is consists of liars and traitors. I mean, I have other friends but the way I treated ~~that mare~~ and my house, they might be scared of me like the rest of the ponies after hearing my mental breakdown. Anyway, I woke up next to ~~that mare~~, ate breakfast, went to work, got forced to be fired from work, destroyed work, stolen from work, got free lightning in a bottle potions, went to my workshop, being lectured by ~~that mare~~, finding out that mare ruined my research & talking behind my back, blowing out my house with a lightning in a bottle and now just writing to you in a cold dirty alleyway. And that all happened like three hours IN THE MORNING! I'll give you a more specific list of problems that happened to me today. I think I woke up at like eight something in the morning, I woke up next to a traitor, ate her crappy food and went to my lousy job. Hey, did you remember that I told you that I work as a musical instruments shop owner? Yeah, that's all true except I just quit this morning and gave my "resignation letter" to Ass Drum in the form of smashing every instrument and anything else in the store with his "precious" golf club. I think my Cutie Mark's faulty because my real talent is actually wrecking sh*t up with style and creativity. I've always wanted to do that for months but I guess I need a little... "push" and being shouted at both of my ears by that good for nothing jerk. My ears are still ringing. After stealing back a quarter of the bits that Ass Drum owes me, I went to the magic shop and destroyed the shop colt's day. I was still pissed off at that time and decided to use rest on that pathetic colt, who gave me all of the lightning in a bottle potions for free. I have like... nine bottles in my saddlebags right now. That might the only best thing that happened so far, well except when I released my inner Lyra on Ass Drum's scrap pile of a store. But the worst part that happened recently was when I got home. I was in a rush to create a portal to the humans or die trying. That second part was most likely going to occur as I was confronted by ~~that mare~~. That horrible, traitorous mare. She thinks that she has the right to cry and insult my personality when she was the one who sabotaged all of my experiments somehow and talked to Twilight about the human portal behind my back. She was the reason why I'm always distracted all the time. She's an evil seductress who treated me like a puppet and using my feelings to do whatever she wants. OMC, She's like Chrysalis! No, she's worse than Chrysalis. That bug freak could have just knocked me out and kept me in her cocoon to be her food supply the moment we got close. Instead ~~that mare~~ tried to find ways to make my life miserable while I'm still conscious. She was laughing at me like the rest of the ponies in this sh*t pile town. I wished that I probed for more information on ~~that mare~~, but my anger was overwhelming me and being near ~~that mare's~~ presence for too long was making it worse, that I threw a lightning in the bottle at my home and ran away as fast as I could. And here we are, back in the lonely alleyway with just you, me, and Mr. Garbage Can. It couldn't get any worse, can it? Oh hey, Mr. Garbage Can had a friend inside him. Oh, I hope it's a cute furry kitty or a... **** Nope, that wasn't a kitty or a sweet, adorable puppy, that was a big, ass RAT! It tried to bit my face off when I tried to open Mr. Garbage Can's lid, but I used you to bonk its head really hard that it might be dead or not. I will never know the answer as I threw that thing back inside Mr. Garbage Can Okay, no more rat talk. EVER! I'm sorry I treated you like a blunt weapon back there but we will discuss this never as you are an inanimate object that is my only friend, with the exception of Mr. Garbage Can but I'm not sure that we can make this friendship work. If I ever come back here, please remind me to bring Mr. Garbage Can with us to the human world. In fact, I'll leave an ink signature of my Cutie Mark so that way I can find him easily. I might be getting too emotional on a garbage can... HOLY SHIT! I'M GOING CRAZY BEING STUCK IN HERE! I need to get to the portal now! Goodbye, Journal and wish me a butt load of good luck. I'll need it. Author's Note Surprise, everyone (and everypony) I keep getting new ideas for this story and others that I'm working on. I decided to use Lyra's journal and her thoughts to recap on what happened at some of the ends of each chapter. I'm still working on Chapter 2, 3 and 4. I'm just waiting for more feedback. And also mentioning ~~that mare~~ name and presence will be slashed for now. Lyra wants to forget about her fast if she is ever going to enjoy the human world.
Act 1 Ch 3: ... and I finally have a purpose and a way outAct 1 Ch 2: ... and I'm sneaking around right now “That’s it. I can’t take it anymore” I shouted in frustration as I trotted out of the dark alley, leaving Mr. Garbage Can back there. This was the last straw; my experiments were leading me to nowhere and I just lost my job, home & ~~mare~~ friend today. I want to get to that portal. Now! I don’t care if Princess Twilight stops me or I get sent to Tartarus; I just need to get to the Human world fast. Bon Bon never believed in me at all. I thought she was my best friend. She lied to me. Not only that but she was actively sabotaging my experiments and never cared about humans. She would rather listen to other ponies' opinions but stayed beside me and continue lying instead of just leaving me alone What am I supposed to do now? I blew up the house, my research & the rest of belongings are still currently in flames, and I’m getting hungry. Being hungry has always been a number one priority for me, even when I'm in the deep poop pile of my own life right now. Wait... I can swear now that I kicked ~~that mare~~ out of my life. "Okay... ummm... I'm in deep sh... shi... sh*t!" I don't know why it took me three tries to say it in my brain? It's not like I'm saying it out loud. Wait a minute. I looked around my surroundings and I see ponies were staring at me with horrified or disgusted looks while some covered their foals' ears with their hooves or turn tail as they saw a wild mare on the loose. Oh great, I spoke my inner thoughts in public again and forgot that I was on the run. Now I really have to get out here before Ponyville goes into full riot mode on me and send me to the Princesses or worse. I can't let that happen, not after I ruined my life with my mental breakdown on Bass Drum's store (It was supposed to be my store), that shop colt and my house. I ran towards another alleyway again as walking in public is the worse idea right now. Why did I even got out of the shadows? In fact, when did I start moving? Ahhh! I am a scatterbrain; my thoughts are all over the place right now and I don't know what to do but go straight to Twilight's castle. I lay down on the cold alleyway ground next to another trash can, which I will dub thee Mr. Garbage Can No.2, and checked my saddle bags if there's any food inside. All I have in my saddlebags are... My new (and slightly damaged) journal (with some rat blood and other fluids at the back cover), Gross. Two towels (I'm gonna use this one to wipe the rat mess of my journal), Less Gross but still gross. Nine lightning in a bottle potions (minus the one I threw at the house) that I strong-hoofed from that shop colt, The official deed to the now wrecked music shop with my and Ass Drum's signatures (I carried this around to show Ass Drum that I was the owner as well if our argument escalated too far. Never got the chance to show him. Maybe should have shown this instead of breaking everything in the store.), Nah. Two hundred & twenty-three bits (Yes, I've counted all of them) that I can't use in this town as I'm currently on the run, Should I put stealing some food on my criminal record? My industrial safety goggles (one of the last equipment from my workshop), My reading glasses (I can read just fine but I might still need these if ever get to the Human world), Sunglasses (for some reason), A brown cloak in case it rains today (It's cloudy, right now), Three quill feathers... oops, correction: two quill feathers and a one snapped version, No. 2 pencils (Ah! Math tests flashbacks), A bottle of water (not food but it will have to do), Some ink (which didn't spill a drop or cracked open, even after all that trotting around), Industrial Strength duct tape, That mare's present which I should have thrown at the house with the potion inside (basically garbage at this point), My Big "Equestrian Lore" book to introduce our culture and history to the humans (Wow, I have so much storage in these saddlebags, I can't even believe it), And lastly... a kitchen knife? Since when did I bring this with me? I wasn't even in the kitchen the last time I was in the house. Maybe I should throw... No, this is what I need to make a disguise. I levitated the knife towards my disordered mane and proceed to cut it short enough that I can still cover my face and my horn and put on the sunglasses. I use the cloak to cover my fur color, my horn, and my Cutie Mark. I was going to use the ink to cover my muzzle but I'd rather not look ridiculous when I get to the human world or get arrested. I'll put this as Plan B for Beard. With a gulp from my water bottle, a few meditation breaths that I learned from Fluttershy's friend, Tree Hugger, and tossed the knife to Mr. Garbage Can No.2, I exited the alleyway and into the streets filled with high alert ponies who are on the watch for my presence. So far so good, no ponies are looking at me but rather ignored & passing by me without glancing back. Good, they're too disoriented to even notice that there is suddenly a new pony in town while a deranged lunatic was on the loose. Oh great, there might be a possibility that I might get sent to the loony bin for years with the way I'm currently behaving. Whatever, I can just walk around town looking like one of the fashion ponies who are in a new trend and maybe casually reach to the castle to get to the portal or get sent to the dungeons for a lousy disguise or... or... Uhhh... uh... something with sandwiches. OMC, Stomach, I'll get you some food later. Portal first. I’ve been wasting my entire life in this quiet little town filled with liars (except for AJ and her family/close friends) for years without any achievements on my human world portal research. They either mocked me, yell mean things or worse... I can’t ask my other friends (if I should even call them friends) to let me hide in their homes as they either fear me at what I did and/or snitch me to the authorities, considering I burnt my house down. Either way, I can't let my life be distracted by ~~that mare~~ anymore; I have to get in that portal now. I’ve known Twilight for years back in magic school, but we recently have been keeping in touch after her reunion with Moon Dancer and the rest of our friends. She just reappeared in my life again and since then we have tea parties whenever we crossed paths. In our recent conversation, she mentioned that the portal that leads to the human world was in a full body crystal mirror that had purple frames & different varieties of jewels surrounding it and it was located one of the libraries in her crystal castle. It took a lot of willpower ~~and that mare~~ to not look suspicious when I asked that question. I can't lie my way to the portal because Twilight has been a great friend lately and AJ taught all of us ponies to never lie. That and she's the Princess of Friendship with her own crystal castle that might have a dungeon if I'm not careful. Nostalgia started to flow out of my mind every time I pass a building. I forced myself not to cry but the pain that I am feeling... Oh hey, I'm at Sugarcube Corner. Yes! I'm already halfway the... What was that? Like I was thinking, I am half... There it is again. What is that? I squinted my eyes through the sunglasses to see what I'm looking at. It looks like a pink blur that is somewhat growing bigger in my vision by the second. Wait... a pink blur? Oh no... "Lyra!" Oh no, it's Pinkie Pie. Oh no, Exposition... I've known Pinkie ever since she appeared in Canterlot when we were fillies, she was on her "Party Pilgrimage" or whatever she told at the time. Coincidentally, it was around my birthday but I wasn't celebrating it as Father had no time to spend it on me and most of my friends didn't know it at the time. I was very gloomy that I thought I was gonna spend another birthday alone and cold in the winter but then she arrived in my life and made it shine by hosting a party with just me and her (I requested the solitude version as she kept pestering to me about what type of party I wanted). She was a lot of fun as she told me many stories about her visits to most of the populated places in Equestria, Ponyville being her last stop and permanent home. At the end of the night, I accidentally kissed her after I made my birthday wish but she was really cool with it and gave me a proper one in return. By the way, my wish was to meet my human friend again. That second kiss felt like fireworks and tasted like the most delicious cake frosting that I have ever experienced. Not only did I got the best birthday party in my life but I also got a wonderful first kiss and the realization that I liked mares from the pink cotton candy mane & tail party filly. I was going to ask her out when we reunited in Ponyville but rejected the offer immediately as she told me that she wouldn't have the time for romance as she wanted to spend it all into making everypony smile with her well-planned parties and antics. I respected her decision and never bothered to bring that subject to anypony after that day. I wish just I had her by my side instead of ~~that mare~~ and maybe she would've helped me get into the portal without causing all this mess. Anyway, back to the panicking... Not her, anypony but her. I can't let her see me like this and I don't want to see her super sad face, it would hurt my heart. I can't even comprehend what that would look like and I'm not gonna if I just pace a little faster to the castle or maybe another hiding spot (Maybe I can meet Mr. Garbage Can No. 3 there). Just play it cool, Lyra. She's in super duper extra-serious detective mode right now, I can see her wearing that sleuth hat that she uses when she "attempts" to solve crimes. This means that she'll spend hours looking for me all over town, from every gravel in the pathway to... Wait, is she coming towards me? And "OH HIYA! Miss new lady mare. Hiya, I'm Pinkie Pie and welcome to Ponyville. It's so amazing to..." She announced to me with her usual gleeful attitude that always makes my heart flutter, now that I'm not with ~~that mare~~ anymore. S-she's s-s-shaking m-m-y hoof v-v-v-vigorously. H-head becoming dizzy. Hungry stomach churning. After a few seconds of standing still, I've regained my composure and didn't vomit (a second win-win). Just try to listen to the rest of her speech. "But before I give you a super mondo extravagant oh so fun that you could cry happily while dancing the pony pokey welcome party... could you please help me find a certain pony?" She asked me. Why me, Lyra, of all ponies had to be in her line of eyesight. Okay just try your Octavia accent that you've practiced alone in the store for weeks. I cleared my throat before speaking with a false accent. "Good day, Miss. To whom do you wish to seek that you have to act in such drastic behavior?" I don't even know what I just blab at her and I was the one who spoke it. "Well... you see." She leaned closer to my face. Okay, that's too close. TOO close too close. I sighed with relief as she bumped my muzzle with hers. It's not a kissing if I didn't like it. Okay, I liked it a lot. "One of my very important friends went cuckoo and my friends & I are trying to look for her before somepony calls the Royal Guards on her and take her to the dungeons or to Tartarus or send her to a dungeon in Tartarus or have her eat so many ice cream that will give her a really mean stomach ache & brain freeze or..." Okay, she's jabbering a lot. This my chance to slowly back away from her and find another way to pat to the castle. That wouldn't be too hard considering the Castle's just... "Now hold on there, partner!" That voice... that twangy farmer folk voice of judgment that was shouting in my left direction. Oh no... not Applejack too. I turned to the origin of that voice and see that it was Applejack. I can easily recognize the mare from her blonde mane & tail with red bands at both ends, bright orange fur coat, and that light brown Stetson that completes her reliable & hard-working character. She still looks hot. Oh boy, the first time I met her was on my first day in Ponyville and I acted like a complete idiot. I thought I had a chance to ask her out when I offered to assist her with some apple bucking even though my leg coordination and strength sucks. One thing led to another, a beehive fell down towards my flank and I spent most of that day running around Sweet Apple Acres while avoiding the bees until I jumped to a lake. Applejack had to remove the stingers from my flank and... clearing my throat... rubbed some medicine over there. It was super awkward yet guiltily nice. I guess another beehive dropped in my flank that I call my life as now she's also chasing after me and with her was a piece of rope that's been knotted into a lasso. Oh just great. Just real f*cking great. I'm going to be tied up by Ponyville's greatest and hottest lasso slinger. It's both kinky and scary. She flung her lasso towards me but I easily swiped it away with my magic and Pinkie began to flinch away from me and rope. Like that trick was going to capture me. But I spoke too soon as the lasso was suddenly wrapped with another magic glow, it had an elegant blue shine. Yup, it was Rarity. Yeah... I do not care for the mare. She insulted my fashion sense when we first met and after that fiasco, I just avoid her like the wind or leave the room if there's only the two of us. Good thing the second one never happened because I never give her the chance. Well.. there was that one time when I went to Princess Cadence wedding in Canterlot, she was personally fitting all the bridesmaids' dresses but I was with my... My inner monologue got interrupted when I saw Rarity walked behind Applejack and let out an appalled gasped when she saw my appearance. "Oh no, Lyra darling. You've mangled your marvelous mane in such a tragic state and a ragged brown cloak does not compliment your natural aquamarine color..." She continued to describe my appearance yet again but I blocked that noise. It both confused and pissed the f*ck out of me, considering this is a serious situation. I turned tail away from Rarity, who tried to grab me by the tail with Applejack's magic fused rope but I slapped it away easily with my own magic. I've learned more magic than her, Not Twilight/Princesses levels but enough that my skills are on par with a magic instructor. Basic levitation, fire starting, short distance teleportation and more that I can't discuss inside my head for I don't have the time. And the... Blahhhh! Something tackled me... no, somepony tackled me to the ground. I saw a blur when it happened but it wasn't a pink one but rather some sort of multi-color version. Oh great, it was Rainbow freakin' Dash. One of Ponyville's fastest pegasus, weather pony, blah, blah, blah. Ugh! I hated this mare ever since I met her. She's ignorant, stubborn, lazy, boastful and attracts too much attention wherever she goes like there's a parade for her. I'm only half of those things (well, I'm not a show off) and yet she became the Element of Loyalty somehow. I never left anypony's side (except for Father, Bass Drum, and ~~that mare~~) and yet most of them exploit my loyalty and mock me behind my back while she gets all the benefits. What makes her so special? "I got ya now, you psycho mare!" This mare is taunting at me while she pinned both of my forelegs. "Wait until we get you to Twilight..." Oh, that's it, it is on. The muscles of my foreleg tensed and horn burned brightly as I was preparing to push back this jerk to the air where she belongs. I sucker punched the mare straight in the face and released all of my strength on her. "AHHHHHH!!!" She's screaming as she got launched incredibly fast. Wow, I never thought I was this strong with my magic. That punch wasn't as great as the one I gave to that Spoiled Rich b*tch but it was enough to disorientate that rainbow mane jerk that she's thrashing around in the air and making pony-size holes on a bunch of clouds. Maybe I have... ACK! "I got ya know, ya varmint." Applejack bind both of my forelegs while I was face forward on the ground and wrapped the rest of my limbs. I looked up at her, who had concern expression "Ya need to calm down, Lyra." I flailed my limbs helplessly but it only tightened the rope's grip. Like I have a choice. "Serves you right!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she floated down from her launch. OMC, she got a black eye on her right side. This moment right now is, what she says all the time, "Awesome"... even though I'm tied up and humiliated in public again. I just sighed in defeat when Pinkie and Rarity came towards me. I refused to stare at Pinkie as I was afraid at what expression she's making (I already disappointed her for lying to her with that lousy disguise) and I still don't care about Rarity like zero f*cks given to her. As I got hogtied and dragged on the ground by Applejack and a very pissed off Rainbow Dash, I looked around the ponies who are cheering at the "victorious mares who captured the crazy mare" while booing & hissing bad remarks directly at me, some of the ponies that I can't recognize began to throw... OWWW! My head... Author's Note What just happened to Lyra? She's more than meets the eye when it comes to her past. Is she gonna face the consequences or will she escape capture and get into the portal? Hey guys, I finished Chapter 2 and currently working on the rest. I still don't know how long the story or number of Acts should be. I added Lyra's romantic attraction on Pinkie (No.1 Fave Pony) and Applejack (No. 3 Fave Pony) as this will be one of the romance plots that will happen in the story when she gets to the human world. And also, I don't dislike/hate Rarity or Rainbow Dash, it's just something for Lyra's opinions on the Main 6. Originally this chapter had a longer word count, two bonus chapters and a scene where Lyra confronts Twilight alone but I had to cut them into 2 parts (Ch 2 and 3) and moved the bonuses to the next chapter because the scene is an important moment in this story and I can't screw this up with bad narration. I already planned the story's plot & (maybe the ending) but please give me more suggestions on the blog that I've made, it is titled "First Blog". (New Temporary Schedule) I will be releasing new chapters every Monday morning and the bonus(es) in the afternoon but there won't be any bonuses for Chapter 2. I got to thank diablo4000 for giving me good info on the characters & their history and Magnus the hydra for being the first person to motivating me on continuing the story. And thank you, the readers, for reading this story. Nightwatch the Rogue Out
(Renewed) Act 1 Prologue: ... and I want to live in their world. The world filled with HumansAct 1 Prologue: ...But I live in a Pony World I want to be a human. Just saying it right now instead of wasting two chapters of my journal telling you about my daily life before finally say it at the very last page. I have been into humans ever since I was just a little filly. I actually met a human here in Equestria but nopony, even my own friends, believed me and some even made fun of or bullied me for that belief. However, that didn’t stop me from remembering that day like it was just eight years ago. It was during Hearth’s Warming Day in Canterlot; My friends & I were playing snowball fights outside the Canterlot walls. Twilight Sparkle was too busy reading her books than play with us like always and Moon Dancer got sick for a whole week & missed the snow when she got better. However, we felt bad that Moondancer didn’t get to play, so we gave her a “we’re happy you’re better now” party and showered her with lots of presents. That’s what all that mattered. Anyway, we were playing near a small frozen lake, everypony were building their own snow castle and snow ponies and skating at the frozen lake. It was a typical fillyhood moment except I had a wonderful encounter with fate… or whatever an event of meeting a real, breathing human for the first time is called. I met my first human after my friends decided to go home early and I was left behind at the lake. I was too occupied to even notice that everyone left me alone. I just didn’t want to go home so soon. I was making an army of snow ponies for my snow castle until I discovered I was alone; I decided to keep building the army to distract myself from the cold and the very next day. I was really happy to be playing in the snow; however, my life was about to change forever. Sweet Celestia, that was really lame to say. Anyway, there was this huge ball of flashing white light that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, then this weird bipedal creature came out from the light. I thought at first she was some sort of Diamond Dog or Minotaur species but she had no tail, her muzzle was small & flat, her ears were… weird looking and basically everything about her looked wrong at first. She had a weird fur coat that had pouches on her stomach, which I thought were used to carry her offspring. I was really scared and speechless when I first saw that human; I almost puked when it got close to me. I thought she was gonna hurt me but, instead, she hugged me and stroked my mane a little rough. She was giggling with amusement and saying things like “Oh my gosh, you are so cute” and “I want you to be my pony” to me as if I was a pet to her. “Oh my gosh, I want you to come home with me” She happily said to me. She was beginning to stroke my mane a little too rough that it was irritating me. “... Ouch!” I yelled in annoyance “Knock it off, you’re gonna tear off my mane” She stopped stroking my mane after I finally said something. I looked at her face to properly speak to her, but as soon as I did that, she had a shocked expression on her face. She started to shriek at me in fear as if she saw a monster or something scary. She pushed me down and ran behind a rock. I tried to get up from the snow-covered ground but then I heard a cracking noise. Unfortunately, I got shoved towards the lake that had a thin layer of ice. I wanted to jump away from the lake but it was already too late; the frozen lake floor gave in, it shattered open a large hole and I collapsed into the freezing water. I was crying for help but there was nopony around to assist me, except for the creature who pushed me into the lake. I was flailing my hooves all over the place. It was too cold to swim properly and there was no solid ground to hold on to. I shouted at the strange creature for help; she looked hesitant to even get out of her rock. I yelled louder as I desperately struggled to stay afloat on the lake. It took about a third time of screaming for her help that she actually started to do it. She tried to reach out to me and she grabbed my hooves with her… fingers? I think they're called fingers. After I got out of the icy lake, I was shivering because of the weather and the chilling water, which meant that I got hypothermia. I was beginning to pass out from the cold but the creature suddenly opened up her fur, which freaked me out, and she proceeded to place me in her stomach. I was panicking from that situation but my cold was keeping me distracted to even care. I fell unconscious; however not before feeling a strange but comforting warmth from her stomach. When I regained consciousness, I was in a dark, damp hollow cave and the creature was huddling alone in the center of the cave, trying to do something with a bundle of sticks and… hay? It appeared that she was trying to light up a fire but all I see was her bashing a bunch of rocks against each other. I thought that the cold was getting to her, but then I saw sparks coming out of the rocks which landed on the hay, there was smoke coming out and she proceeded to blow on it. To my surprise, she started a fire; I was amazed to see her make fire without the use of magic. I thought what she did was impossible for anypony who's not a unicorn or a creature capable of performing magic. It took me a few years to see that anypony can start fires with a flint and steel or that there were many methods to ignite one. I live in a city filled with magic using unicorns, leave me alone okay. “Wow,” I said to myself quietly as I don’t want the creature to noticed I woke up and scare her. But it was pointless, my soft voice echoed throughout the cave that any pony could hear it. The creature approached towards me and touched my forehead. I flinched as I thought she was gonna eat me just like the dragons used to do in Equestria before the princesses came into power. However, she was actually checking my temperature. She was reaching something from her… stomach pouch, I think? It was a carrot. “Here you go” she politely said. She placed the carrot on the ground front of me “You must be hungry, huh?” “Yes,” I weakly replied as the cold was taking an effect on my throat. “I was saving this for my snowman but you can have it” Snowman? Does she mean a “snowpony”? What’s a man? I had so many questions about that statement but I was really hungry at that moment and I need the food for energy to fight off the cold. My horn started to glow, used my magic to clumsy levitate the carrot into my mouth. Before I could take a bite, I heard the creature gasp again and I dropped my carrot. “What was that?” she gleefully asked me. Her face was getting closer to mine that it made me uncomfortable. “Was that magic?” “Yes?” I replied nonchalantly as if she never saw magic before. She did come out from a mysterious light; why should she be impressed with a simple levitation if she can start fires with a bunch of rocks (again leave me alone). Doesn't she have magic where she came from? “Oh man, you can use magic. I wish I can use magic… wait, are you a unicorn?” “Yes,” I repeated my first answer. “I am a unicorn and I can use magic” “Well, I’m a human and I want to learn how to use magic just like you” Her eyes were sparkling with delight that it outshines the darkness of the cave. “What’s a human?” “Well, a human is what I am. Two legs, two arms, two hands and ten fingers & toes.” She responded while she was fiddling her “fingers” close to my face. "And also I'm a girl." “Well then, I’m a unicorn pony. Four legs & hooves, one horn and no fingers or toes” I replied back jokingly and waved her back with my left forehoof. " and I'm a filly." Both of us were laughing out loud, which echoed throughout the cave, which calmed us down and warmed up the area. After that icebreaker (no pun intended), the human and I began to talk more about what we were, where we came from and what our worlds have to offer. She told me she came from a place called Manehattan but she says that her family was moving to the suburbs of Ponyville Street. These locations she mentions sounded familiar to me; I realized later that I’ve seen those names on the maps of Equestria. I visited Manehattan as my first location for my journey on the humans' location... and I did not care for that place. Terrible city noises, disgusting food, rude ponies and the hotel that I stayed in scammed me out of thirty bits for "special room service", which I never got by the way. I should've gone to Ponyville first and I could have saved a lot of time and ~~Father's~~ "borrowed" bits. Wait, where was I going with this? Oh yeah, I told her that I live in a capital city called Canterlot and I was studying magic & music with my friends/classmates at The School for Gifted Unicorns. The human then asked me what my Cutie Mark in my flanks are for, in actuality, she called it "my tattoos on my butt". I told her it was a mark that tells me what my destiny and identity are. She called it out as "stupid", it kind of made me furious at first for insult my mark but she explained that a mark or symbol doesn't tell me what can do with my life, it's my actions that she thinks determines my future. She both amazed me for telling me that I can be anypony I want to be without ~~Father~~ or others ordering me around. And annoyed me because now I think my Cutie Mark is useless as a destiny symbol, I only see it now as my brand to tell everyone what I own. Which is cool, I guess? We exchange every information that we could think of about our world. Her world is called Earth while mine is Equestria. The main inhabitants of her homeworld are humans like her and for mine were magical ponies (with the exception of other creatures). She says that their world's magic is really, really rare to have and I told her Equestria provides infinite amounts of magic to everyone. There were some weird ones that the human mentioned, like when she said that wearing clothes was mandatory and they have no fur, apart from the tiny strands of hair in their skin. My reply was that we can go around naked because we have thick fur covering our... inner layer or whatever perverted things you want to describe it. You pervert. Another was this thing called the internet, she described it as "tiny invisible numbers in the air that fly around everywhere and carry information such as messages... and cat videos?" And that they go inside big metal boxes called a monitor to see these cat videos. I got lost when she said "tiny invisible numbers." But now every time I wake up in the morning and breath the air, I think of math and I suck at math. Basically, breathing tiny invisible numbers made me bad at math. Yeah, I don't get the logic either but I got a D on my last test. Is it a coincidence? Nope, I'm just a procrastinator. Back to the point, I returned that confusion to the girl when I gave her a specific description of what kinds of magic we have in Equestria. I told her there were three tribes of ponies that have their own unique abilities and physical features. She was most interested in this one as she stared me with her unblinking eyes. "Taking mental notes," she told me, I picked up on that habit whenever I get new information on humans. It creeped everypony out, especially Bon-Bon, but tells me that's one of the reasons why she loves me. First were my tribe, the Unicorns. They have horns like mine but come in different shapes and sizes. Some unicorns focus their lives on studying and learning many spells, in hopes that they can make new ones on their own. Some decide to join in on luxury careers such as fashion and stage performances. The rest were already rich and can do whatever they want in life, ~~unlike my family~~. Next was the fast and headstrong Pegasi. They have wings, laid back manes and they can manipulate the weather anytime they want. They can make any section of Equestria have any weather they scheduled. Yeah, I never know and cared much about Pegasi for my thoughts on them are that they are arrogant and show-offs. What they lack in horns and wings, Earth ponies' magic makes up for it with their strength and intuition to perform everyday tasks such as gardening, construction, solve problems with efficiency & convenience, and any other manual labors. They were innovators on technology, agriculture, culinary and knowledge, that most of their career roles are teachers, chefs, farmers, and some special cases, party ponies such as this Pinkie Pie filly that I met during her visit to Canterlot. She was a great instant best friend when we first met. She was the one who suggested me to come to Ponyville and stay there as a permanent resident. She's also the one who introduced me to Bon Bon. I always come to her parties whenever I have free time from my job as a musical instruments shop owner and human research. I liked Earth ponies the most as they come with big families who are close and rely on each other. I was always jealous of Earth ponies because they get to come home, see their families & relatives smiling at them and helping them with your homework or other things. ~~All I have is Father~~. Anyway, that night in the cave was the best day of our lives as we continue telling stories about ourselves and the world we live in. As we hugged each other near the fire inside the cave on that night, we felt like we could've been best friends who can visit each other's worlds and try new things together. Too bad it was the only night we get to hang out with each other as the next day, the human disappeared and everypony was searching for me that night. ~~Father~~ was outraged when I got back home. He called me a disgrace to the "Heartstrings" title and I should be- You know what, forget about it. I don't want to write any more of ~~"that next day"~~. It's not like anypony is going to see this journal anyway. Goodbye, for now, Journal and sorry for ruining a good page with my... issues. Oh, by the way, this is Lyra Heartstrings writing to you. Sorry again, I forgot to tell you my name. Goodbye again.
