Trustworthy: The Truth Behind What's Loved

Ch. 4 - Side effects

“Ok, first things first,” I announced, taking a deep breath afterwards. ”what the fuck?” was the million dollar question is this situation. Today is not turning out so great.

After Shadow dropped me off on the middle of the everfree forest, and getting into an angry argument about getting us to a safer place, which ended up nowhere, I walked aimlessly through the would-be jungle to a cave nearby that served as shelter for the rest of the night.

Now, with my two other halves on the ‘room’, we started discussing ways to scrape by, but I bet we’re not going to get anywhere. Shadow, who was leaning against the rocky wall, chimed in flatly. “What the fuck is that, when you woke up, you were in prison. ”

“No shit, Sherlock, but what I’m asking is, WHY was I in prison in the first place?” I half yelled out, due to being tired of the demon’s bullshit. “You can’t just wake up in a cell block, waiting to be publicly killed, smelling of monkey piss without any reason. Unless it’s a dream, then in that case-”

“He’s gonna do it. ” With great force, and no thought to what I was doing, I punched my jaw. Let’s just say that I always regret what I do. Cursing a thousand obscenities, I covered my flaming jaw in hopes to reduce the pain. “Idiot. ”

“Tha’ washn’t such a goo’ idea.” I admitted, my hand sloshing my words. This got Heart, who was sitting on a rock, to laugh. Bastard. Thank God I didn’t dislocate my jaw. After the pain subsided I changed the topic, but still rubbing the sore area. “Ok, let’s form a plan here,” I took a deep breath. “We’re in the everfree forest, a place riddled with manticores, timberwolves and a cockatrice, which to me are like Medusa, but not at all like Medusa. We have just escaped the Canterlot Castle, a lot of guards must be pissed, a lot of ponies might have seen us, and the Princesses are already imagining our heads off. The ones that are most likely to find us in this place are the Elements of Harmony, which I don’t think I can take. I suggest a flawless strategy that will leave me with as less injuries as possible before everyone gets their torches up our asses and their pitchforks through our eyes.” I regain my breath with a clap of the hands. ”Go.”

Shadow was once again the first to answer. “You could die.”

I just stared at him with a look that shouted out ‘are you fucking kidding me?’

“No, I’m not kidding.” He said, shaking his head.

I shook my head, getting to the matter at hand. “Anything else?”

“Well,” Heart started. “we could try and find a way to get to meet everypony around Ponyville. Who knows? Maybe they don’t remember what humans have done and accept us as we are.”

“That could be a good idea if it wasn’t for the fact that they could never forget such an unforgettable experience that changed their looks on everything about my species. More suggestions.”

“Dig a way out?”

“We’re not in prison.”

“Walk out of this forest?”

“It’s called the ‘Everfree forest’ for a reason that I don’t know. Probably should’ve read more fics when I was on earth.”

“I still think we should try and befriend them. ”

“I will say you were a loyal idiot on your grave – that is, if you CAN die.”

“Kill them?”

“I shouldn’t take anymore opinions from you.”

After this wild game of non-accepting hacky sack we (Heart and I, Shadow can suck Tom’s dick. He’s over there.) came to a standstill as the two of us thought of more ways to safely escape this suppose-to-be cartoon hellhole, while Shadow nonchalantly looking around the cave, looking for something to entertain himself.

“Come on, Heart,” I said in desperation. ”We can’t just let this hand like that. If we stay in here doing absolutely nothing, there will be a bigger probability of the Princesses knowing where we went.” I rubbed my forehead to calm myself.

“Our actions are limited. We have to think about every detail so we can come up with the perfect plan to get us out of here. A plan so perfect so perfect that… I have no idea how to reach it.” He laughed nervously, trying to lighten up my mood.

I drew a deep breath, making a plan out of the blue. “Okay… here’s what we are gonna do… I think we should-“

“-get out of this cave immediately.” Shadow interrupted me. Although Shadow meant to sound frightened, his ‘I don’t give a shit’ demeanor didn’t make the emotion appear. Also he was looking towards the darker side of the cave, which made me curious as to what it is, and excited because I made a star wars reference.

“Didn’t I tell you not to- wait, why would I do that?” I asked as I looked to where he was looking. Let’s see, dark huge hole, seems like it could inhabit some huge animal, maybe a whole family if it’s big enough. What the hell is Shadow seeing anyways? It’s just a black hole with a giant bear head sticking out.

Oh…

“GET OUT OF THE WAY!” I yelled out as the ferocious constellation bear chased me down the cave onto to the light. The speed that the Ursa minor was going was telling me that I was either gonna get crushed, sliced, or tired from all the running.

I don’t want that. Especially that last one. It's scary.

I can see the end of the tunnel, my exhaustion starting to show as my running started to slow down. Though the adrenaline was still kicking in, that didn’t stop the immense burning pain from appearing in my legs. I knew I couldn’t stop or else I was bear chowder, but it hurts like hell.

The roars from the Ursa echoed throughout the cave causing my mind to panic while my legs were on the verge of collapsing. The huge steps that it took made the ground shake beneath my feet, testing my equilibrium. I should’ve called my other selves for help, but I couldn’t concentrate on anything besides the escape. They should’ve known I was in danger though.

As I finally reached the outside, I ran up to a tree and in behind it, panting heavily, in hopes of losing the giant monster. I sat down, clinging to my knees, praying to the supernatural non-existent paranormal entity that some call ‘God’ that my ass would be okay. Though, because of what I do I wouldn’t expect much from him. Hehehe…

The Ursa minor ran pass me without taking a look back. I went wide eyed at it as it took off into an unknown part of the forest. The show made it look smaller than it actually was. It was the size of a 5 story building that was being constructed. The farther it went, the more of his path he destroyed, and the less I could see him. That took a couple of minutes, because of its size and the trees that were… crushed.

I shivered.

“That was interesting,” I turned back to the cave, seeing Shadow and Heart flying out. “it would be much better if something happened to you. Something bad, to be more specific.” His usual asshole self was visible in his smirk. He loves me so much I just want to strangle him to death.

“Master, are you okay? Did that bear hurt you?” The angel’s caring personality was evident in his speech as he looked at me, preoccupied about my current state. “Can you walk?” I think I heard a… whimper. I think he should grow a pair.

“I’m alright, nothing too serious,” I got up, dusting off the dirt on my pants. “It’s not like I broke a bone or pissed myself.”

Shadow gazed down at my pants. And stared.

Then Heart stared.

And they both stared.

And stared.

Still staring.

I looked down at my pants.

…

“Maybe a little. I mean it’s not a lot, you know. I can clean this up in like, what, 5 minutes or something. It won’t even take that long- STOP LOOKING!” I suddenly yelled out, out of the fact that I have indeed pissed myself in fear.

The demon instantly looked the other way while snickering. Heart also adverted me, but blushing instead of having the case of the ‘giggles’. Still needs to grow a pair.

“Now that that’s taking care of why don’t we get out of here?” They both agreed so we started-

Hold on!

“Are you two flying?” I asked as I finally noticed the elephant in the room – forest – WHATEVER!

“Oh, this?” He pointed to the empty space between his feet and the floor. ”We could do this ever since we came here. Why, does this surprise you or something?”

“Oh no, finding out I could FLY THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME doesn’t surprise me in the least.” I grew more irritated with every passing word. “Why didn’t you tell I could do that before the damn oversized dog started chasing me?”

“Because you can’t.” Heart simply said.

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“I’m sorry, what?” Confused and more confused, it was all I could say.

“You can’t fly yet.”

Oh great, an additional ‘yet’. Long story comin’. “Still not following. What do you mean I can’t do it yet?”

“It’s complicated,” Says the guy who seriously needs to grow a pair. I expected that phrase being told by some teenage girl. ”when you arrived, you started absorbing the magic revolving around this new world, and it was going just fine. But, because the cellblocks’ purpose is to not let the magic seep into the living beings it holds it interrupted the process you were going through. Normally, the absorption would start where it left off, but because it already made us, it stopped, not knowing it was only halfway done.”

I looked at him in understanding. ”Go on.”

“The effects of the absorption are very powerful – much more powerful than previous years - and permanent, so you are going to have us for the rest of your life. Sorry about that.” I waved a handed in dismissal. “When a new being comes to this world the energy is automatically established in said being, and, as it ages, its power grows in many ways, with the owner of its powerful feel nothing at all when it happens. In your case, the interruption of it is going to make this last part much, much harder for you.”

“Why?”

He drew a big breath. “Shadow and I are going to have to establish our power within you, and that...”

“… is not pretty.” The demon finished for the angel.

I tried to process all the information into my brain, but I only got about half of it. Nevertheless, I agreed without a second thought. After all, how bad could it be?

The two manifestations faded into light smoke, both of them their respective colors. The smoke moved towards me, disappearing upon contact. I guess I gotta wait until something happens. Might as well go back to the cave, that chase left me tired.

I began my way into the cave. Everything seemed fine, but halfway something inside of me made me stop abruptly in my tracks.

I got confused by it. It wasn’t painful or anything, it was just my muscles that stopped moving for a second. “That was wei-“In an instant, a pain in my stomach quickly grew causing me to throw up violently, eyes shut tightly from the strain.

I opened my eyes to look at the ground facing me – it was blood. As I began to panic, my arms turned from nothing to numb, to an intense burn, like I was being branded in a slaughterhouse. I tried to move to cover my arms, but I found myself unable to do so from the feeling of being literally torn apart.

My head felt like it was being injected by thousands of needles filled with detergent. I felt sweat dripping down my forehead to the ground, mixing with the pool of blood – my ears hurt so much, yet I could hear the drops. My vision have never been fuzzier than what it is now, I couldn’t further than the ground.

The legs collapsed, making me rely on my knees for support, though it wouldn’t take long before I went face first to the floor. My whole body screamed for the pain to fade away, getting no answer whatsoever as the whole ‘magic restoration’ process continued, terror completely apparent on my face in my thoughts.

It wasn’t until I felt the cool night air that I realized my whole body was finally able to breathe. The only problem was that I was losing conscious, yet again.

Fuck me, right?

I don’t swing that way.

Go fuck yourself.

Isn’t that the same thing as what you said before?