My Little Family

A little later that day, after I was calm, I went up to Chrysi’s room and knocked on the door.

“Hey Chrysi. Can I come in and talk to you?” I asked.

”Sure.” She replied. I walked in and closed the door.

“I wanted to talk to you about going to Princess Celestia and telling her that your here.”

“I’m not sure if I want to go yet.”

“Why not?”

“I don’t know what will happen, and if something does happen, she'll probably lock me up."

"Listen, I don't think she'll lock you up. Once she hears that you've been reformed, I think she’ll be alright with you here.”

She sighed and said, “I'm not sure.”

“You can't stay here forever. The quicker we do it, the better.”

“Alright.”

“How about we go on Sunday?” Today was Tuesday.

“Sure.”

On Sunday, Chrysi and I woke up a little early. We got ready and headed down to the portal room.

“Before we go, I want to do something. I want you to stay here, I’ll go to Celestia, and say I want to talk to her. If she agrees, I’ll open the portal and you’ll come through. Alright? It's just that I don't want the guards to attack you or anything.”

“Okay.”

I opened the portal to Celestia’s portal. I walked out of the room and down the hall to the throne room and knocked on the door.

“Come in!” Celestia said.

I opened the door and said, “Hey Celestia.”

“Johnny, how are you?”

“I’m good Celestia, thanks for asking! Could I speak to you in private?”

“Sure.”

We walked to her bedroom. She closed the door and I said, “There’s been a few things I wanted to say to you.”

“Okay.”

“First, there’s somepony I would like you to meet again.” She had a confused look on her face. I took out a Gersh Device, opened it to my portal and said, “She’s ready.” I stepped out of the way and Chrysi came through the portal. Celestia’s eyes widened.

“Chrysalis! What is she doing here?” She asked, her horn lighting up.

I stepped in front of Chrysi, and said, “Celestia, she’s been reformed.”

“What do you mean?”

“A while ago, I went through the Everfree Forest looking for Chrysalis, and I found her. We talked and she decided to come back to my place to have a new life and be good. It’s been working; she’s been good to Puppet and I. You can even ask the Mane Six for confirmation.”

The Mane Six came over to confirm that she’s been nice.

“I came here to tell you this so you wouldn’t freak out if somepony reported her.”

“Okay. She’s alright to be free.”

“Thank you Celestia.” Chrysi said.

“You're welcome. Did you say there was something else, Johnny?”

“Yes.” I sighed.

“I’m bisexual.” After a pause, Chrysi hugged me and said, “Congratulations.”

Celestia got up and hugged me. “Congratulations.” she said.

“Thanks.” I said back. “Can you guys Pinkie Promise you won’t tell anyone?”

“We Pinkie Promise.” They said.

“Alright. Have a good day Celestia!” I said as Chrysi and I walked out of the room.

“Listen, would you be alright if I told the public about you?”

After some thought, she said, “Yeah.”

“Alright. You go home and I’ll be back in a little bit. I would like to talk to Mayor Mare about talking to Ponyville.” “Alright.”

I pulled out a Gersh Device, and opened it to go home. Chrysi went through, I closed the portal and opened it for Twilight’s castle. I went through and blacked out. I started to dream about what just happened. “Was I knocked out? If so, by who or what?” As suddenly as I blacked out, I woke up. There was something wrong though. The room was almost pitch black except for the bit of light coming from under the door. I tried to get up, but I couldn’t. I was tied up with a rope. I tried to call for someone, but there was a cloth in my mouth. ‘Don’t panic, Johnny. That’s the worst thing you can do right now.’ I thought. ‘Just try calling. See if anyone hears you.’ That’s what I did. I did it for a while. I must have done it for a while, because they started to hurt when I tried calling anyone. I then started to panic, thinking no one would find me, and I would starve to death or die of dehydration. I started to black out again, but before I completely fell asleep, someone or somepony opened the door, and yelled, “I found him!”

I woke up in a hospital bed. When I woke up, I heard Twilight yell, “He’s awake!”

I then saw the Mane Six (except for Twilight), Starlight, and Chrysi crowd around the bed.

“Hey buddy, how you doing?” Rainbow Dash asked. I tried to talk, but it physically hurt to talk.

“What’s wrong?” Applejack asked. I tried mouthing “I can’t talk”, but they didn’t understand. Twilight then came in with the nurse, and the nurse looked at her clipboard and started talking.

“Alright, so it seems you burned your vocal cords from screaming a lot, and you’re bruised from the ropes that were tied around you. I have good news and bad news. Good news is that you should be out of here in a few days once the bruises heal, though you should still take it a little easy. Bad news, you burned your vocal cords so bad that it’ll take two to three months for them to heal.”

All I could do was widen my eyes.

“Is there anything you need?” she asked.

I thought for a second, before making the motion of writing something.

“Writing items?”

I nodded.

“Okay. We’ll get that as soon as we can.”

She walked out of the room. Twilight came over to the bed as well. “Johnny, are you alright?”

I nodded.

“Do you know how this happened?” I shrugged my shoulders. A minute later, the nurse came back in a piece of parchment, ink, and a feather. She gave me the parchment and feather, and placed the ink on the table next to me.

“Is there anything else you need?”

I shook my head.

“Alright, let us know if you need anything else.”

She walked out of the room. I dipped the feather in the ink, and wrote “Get Puppet” and showed it to them. Twilight then went and got Puppet, and when he came in, I wrote “Notebook and pencil” on the parchment. Puppet then went and got a notebook and pencil for me.

“So… what happened?” Twilight asked me.

‘I don’t know. I came to your castle to ask you something, but then I blacked out. I woke up in a dark room. Where was I?’ I wrote.

“Well, after you didn’t return home after a bit, Chrysi came looking for you saying you came to ask me something. After I told her you didn’t come to my castle, we panicked and I sent a letter to Celestia. She sent guards to look for you, and one of the guards found you in an empty room in her castle.”

‘Does Celestia know that I’m here?’ I wrote.

“I’m not sure. I’ll send her a letter.” While Twilight sent the letter, I asked puppet to get me a mini CD player, some earbuds, and “Insomniac” by Green Day. While he was getting those, Celestia came.

“Johnny, how are you doing?”

‘I can’t talk, but other than that, I’m good. Thanks for asking!’

“Oh, what happened?”

“He burned his vocal chords because he was screaming so much, but no pony could hear him because he had a cloth in his mouth.” Twilight said.

“Do you know who did it?” Celestia asked.

‘No.’

Puppet came back in with the things I asked him to get.

‘Thanks.’

“I’m going to go outside for a minute or two.” He then walked out of the room.

“Why is he going outside?” Rainbow Dash asked.

‘It must be hard for him to see his best friend like this.’

We talked for a little bit before the princess left. The Mane Six stayed with me in the hospital. Chrysi and Puppet visited me for the days that I was in the hospital. They were really sad to see me like this, but helped me if I needed help. We talked and decided that I would live with Twilight for a little bit until they regained their cool. On Wednesday, I got out of the hospital. It took a little bit of getting used to using my legs again since I wasn’t on them because of the bruises. I got my things and went to Twilight’s house. We read for a while on the first day, and I also practiced on my acoustic guitar. It was all fine until a few days later. Twilight had made me chocolate milk and wanted me to try it. I came down with her, sat down at the table, and drank it. I took a few sips before something kicked in. Now, I know Twilight wouldn’t be the type of person to spike a drink, but no one else was there. I started to feel dizzy, my eyesight was a little blurry and distorted, I started to hear things, and people talked weird. I started to panic a little bit, because I didn’t know what to do.

“Johnny,” Twilight asked, “are you alright?”

I realized how much more difficult this would be, since I couldn’t talk. I shook my head no.

“What’s wrong?”

I picked up the pencil and notebook, and wrote, ‘Dr.”. Or that’s what I thought I wrote. From what I saw later, it was gibberish.

“I don’t understand.”

I then pointed at the cup.

“Was there something wrong with it?”

I nodded.

“Was it bad?”

I shook my head.

“Do you need to go to the doctor?”

I nodded.

“Alright, let’s go.”

We walked to the hospital, and the entire way there, I was scared. First, I was drugged, and I didn’t know what was going on. Second, I didn’t know what ponies would think of me. We got to the hospital.

“Hi Twilight! What can we do for you?” The pony at the counter asked.

“Hi. So my friend has been staying with me for a few days now, and today I gave him some chocolate milk, and he said something was wrong with it, and that he needed to go to the doctor.”

“Alright, I’m going to need you to sign your name here so we know who to call.”

“I’ll sign my name.” Twilight said. She signed her name and we sat down. I must have been breathing heavily, because ponies started looking at me.

“Are you nervous?” Twilight asked.

I nodded.

“Do what you told me. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Try thinking of something else as well, like, lyrics to a song.”

Eventually, a pony called Twilight’s name, and we followed them into a room.

“Alright, how are you two doing?”

“I’m doing good, Johnny isn’t though.”

“What’s wrong?”

“I’m not sure. A few days ago, he burned out his lungs, so he can't talk. I asked him some questions and all that I got was that something was in the chocolate milk I made him, and that he needed to come here.”

“Alright.” The doctor turned to me.

“There was something wrong with the chocolate milk?”

I nodded.

“Look at me.”

I looked at him.

“Your eyes look bloodshot. Was there something in the drink, like medication?”

I shook my head, but rolled one of my hands, giving him the motion to say things like that.

“Drugs?”

I nodded my head.

“You think someone spiked the drink?”

I nodded.

They ran a few tests, then the doctor came back to me.

“So, it does appear that you were drugged.”

Twilight gasped.

“But, it does appear that it should be gone by tomorrow.”

We then left soon after. Twilight explained what happened to Starlight and Spike. Then for the rest of the day, we hung out in my room and listened to songs from Green Day and Blink 182. I didn’t get any sleep that night, though the effect did wear off little by little, and by the next morning I was out.

I woke up a little later to get a drink. As I was walking to the kitchen, I could hear Twilight talking.

“We ended up going to the doctor, and it turned out that someone spiked the drink.”

I heard a whole bunch of gasps.

“Is he okay?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yeah. The doctor said by today, it should be gone. So, hopefully, he’s doing good. Would you guys like anything to drink?”

“I’ll have a water.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Alright, I’ll be back.” Twilight walked into the kitchen and saw me.

“Oh, hi Johnny.”

I waved.

“How are you?”

I gave a thumbs up.

“What are you looking for?”

I grabbed my notebook, which was still on the table from yesterday. ‘I’m looking for chocolate syrup.’ I wrote.

“I’ll make it for you. You go and talk with the rest of the Mane Six.”

I took my notebook and pencil, and went out into the library. Applejack saw me and said, “Hey Johnny. How are you?”

I gave her a thumbs up.

“We heard what happened to you yesterday. We’re sorry to hear that happened to you.” Rarity said.

I sat down and wrote, ‘It’s okay, you guys didn’t have anything to do with it.’

“If it’s alright with you, what was it like?” Starlight asked.

‘It was kind of scary. My vision was distorted and blurry, I was dizzy, and everypony talked weird.’

“Do you know who did it?” Rainbow Dash asked.

I shook my head.

“Do you think it was the animatronics?” Starlight asked.

My eyes widened. I hadn’t even thought about them! They could have also been the ones that tied me up! What if they were doing this as a warning? I wrote down, ‘I hadn’t thought about them. They could be the ones that tied me up as well. Do you think they did it as a warning?’

“That could be a possibility. After what you did to them before.” Rainbow Dash said. Twilight then came back with my chocolate milk, and Rainbow Dash’s water.

“What’s going on?” She asked.

“We think we know who tied up Johnny and drugged him.” Applejack replied. “We think it was the animatronics.”

Twilight saw that I was getting nervous and worried about this. “Hey, calm down. Go get your music player and get the Blink-182 CD, and play that one song. “All The Small Things”, right?”

I shook my head and went to go get it. For the rest of the day, we listened to songs, and talked.