Curse or Gift
Part 5
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(9:00 pm)
*Cough cough*
Jack pulled himself out of the river with the feeling of sharp pain in his arm, while he rose up and looked down to see his arm was intact but a metal fragment from the rebar in his room. Sitting down he looked at the metal shrapnel in it before looking up back at the castle which he fell from, with the one question going through his mind.
Why?
(8:30 pm)
"Here you go darling," Rarity said with a smile on her face as she handed him back his uniform surprising the werewolf who smiled.
"That was fast... thanks Rarity," Jack stated as he held the air force uniform in his hands.
"It's not a problem darling," Rarity told him, Jack reached into his pocket and held out a few platinum bits. "Oh... darling you shouldn't,"
"Come on Rarity come on it's the least I can do," Jack smiled while Rarity spoke.
"Darling its not really necessary to keep them,"
"Seriously Rarity take them," Rarity then grabbed his hand and closed it.
"It's my gift to you darling keep your money," The white-coated mare told the werewolf causing him to blink.
"Rarity I can't thank you enough for this," Jack said with a smile, he hugged her as Rarity hugged back before breaking the hug.
But the look on Rarity's face made Jack blinked.
"Rarity something the matter?"
"Oh! Nothing to worry about darling just thinking about something back home," Rarity lied and Jack knew.
"Rarity?"
"JACK!!!" Landing on his back was Flurry heart as he stumbled forward.
"Whoa there!" Jack smiled, Flurry heart held her arms around the werewolf's neck. "Now what did I say about you getting too big for that?"
"Are you calling me fat?" Flurry heart puffed out her checks.
"Yes," Jack joked.
"AHHHHHH! TAKE THAT BACK! TAKE IT BACK!" Flurry heart 'cried'.
"OH no the little spider monkey is crying about the truth," Jack joked placing his uniform under his arm. "But seriously Flurry heart get off,"
"No..." Flurry stated.
"Flurry come on get off,"
"No!"
"If you don't I wouldn't tell you about how thor tricked the giants into giving him back his hammer," Jack stated.
"You wouldn't dare,"
"Oh, I will,"
"But you have to tell me!" Flurry whined, she loved Jack's stories about the viking tales he knew back on earth from his roots.
"Nah I don't think I will," Jack told her.
"Fine..." Flurry heart got off before Jack turned to her.
"See there that wasn't as hard now right?" Jack asked causing Flurry heart to huff and puff like a child of her age would do while not getting their way.
"Hmph," Flurry crossed her arms as Jack smiled before ruffling her hair. "AYYIII!"
Jack laughed.
"What was that?!"
Flurry heart blushed while the giant wolf looked down at her.
"Fuck you!"
"WHOA!" Jack exclaimed his smile on his face vanished.
"Flurry heart don less!" Cadance shouted, Jack, held out his hand while Flurry's mother came over to her with a mad look on her face.
"Uh oh,"
"Your on your own kid," Jack stated knowing it's best to stay away from a mad mom.
"Oh no you don't," Cadance said grabbing his ear as Jack whimpered like a dog. "Do you know where she learns those words?"
"Ummm... Shining?" Cadance pulled harder. "OW OW OW! I don't say that when you guys are here! I say Frak! Please let go that hurts even more now that I'm a werewolf!"
Cadance let go.
"Well, she learned it from someone... I'm guessing you," Cadance stated.
"Like I said Shining says it too,"
"After he learned it from you," The princess of love stated.
"Hey I'm not a kid Cadance I can curse I'm an adult too you know," Jack said rubbing his ear when he noticed Cadance's face she seemed sad. "What?"
Cadance didn't say a word.
"Come on Flurry it's time for bed,"
"What? But I didn't mean to-"
"Now flurry," Cadance then picked up Flurry up.
Jack then placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Cadance come on the kid mess up you don't have to push her like that let her enjoy the party," Jack said, Cadance turned to him.
"It's pasted her bedtime Jack," This confused the werewolf knowing her bedtime was around 9:00 pm.
"Since whe-"
"HEY JACK!" Jack was interrupted before smiling as he turned to see a familiar blue scaled dragon in gold armor standing a few feet from him.
"Ember!" The nightwalker smiled with the dragon lord stood before him.
"So this is what happened to you? Turned from a hairless monkey to a furry mess?" Ember asked causing Jack to hold out his arms.
"Seems so," Jack stated with Ember smiling.
"It's good to see you alright Jackie," Ember stated causing Jack to roll his eyes.
"Ember really?" Before Jack could say anything Ember hugged him causing him to blink and notice that now he was taller than the blue dragon. "Ok, this is new,"
"Spike said I should do this," Ember stated. "I don't really want to do this,"
Jack smiled before the two just stood there with ember still hugging him.
"I thought you didn't want to do this," Jack threw out.
"Shut your trap you overgrown rut, just so warm," Ember stated with her arms around his body.
"And your... actually this makes sense for someone who has cold blood," Jack remembered before putting his hand on her head. "You are so damn cute when you stuff like this,"
"I'm not cute!" Ember broke the hug as he was punched in the arm.
"OK, Ryuko!" Ember growled.
"Stop calling me that!"
"I will when you stop calling me Jackie!" Jack stated as Ember hissed.
"You jerk!"
"It's good to see you too Ember," Jack smiled causing Ember's glare to fade as his smile made her blush.
"EHHH! Whatever!" Ember growled. "You-me arm fight now!"
"It's called an arm wrestle Ember,"
"Just sit down I need to beat your ass again," Ember stated placing her arm on the table.
"Are you sure dragon lord? I've changed a lot since we last met," Ember huffed.
"You scared runt?"
Jack sat down.
"Don't say I didn't warn you Rykuo,"
The moment he grabbed her hand the two were in a locked state with each side pushing but for the first time Jack had the upper hand with his inhuman strength from his transformation.
"BOOM!" Jack shouted bringing her arm down.
"BULLSHIT! AGAIN!"
"Pfft come on Ember it's so hard to admit I finally bested you?"
"I can't lose again Nightwalker!" Ember shouted.
"Ehh maybe later," Jack got up.
"Where are you going?" Ember asked.
"Simple got to put my uniform away don't want any of the lords over here to snatch it up or anything knowing how much they hate my guts," Jack told her causing her to huff.
"They're still butthurt about you living here?" Ember asked as she dropped her head onto her hands.
"Worse now I'm a werewolf,"
"Werewolf?"
"Human term for nightwalker,"
"Your weird," Ember spoke causing Jack to laugh.
"Thank you," Jack smiled while he walked away.
"Werewolf? Pfft, what? Is their a when-wolf? or a here-wolf? Humans are so weird," Ember grumbled.
(8:50 pm)
Opening the door to his room he whistled a tune... well he tried to 'whistled' now being a werewolf he doesn't really have lips now, does he? Still, the song was stuck was in his head.
'My mother told me someday I would buy galleys with good ore, sail to distant shore. Wait... is it galleys or gally? Damn my dumb human ears miss hearing words,'
Shutting the door to his room he walked over to his duffle bag and unzipped it having packed after this morning planning on going to Ponyville after the little stunt that happened this morning. Just for a while at least knowing that these lords and ladies need to claim the fuck down and chill off plus it would be nice to catch up with some old faces and see how the rest of the apple family was doing or maybe see the spa sisters just to catch up with them. Jack smiled as he then thought about Trixie who loved to see his 'magic' and learn from a few simple tricks of misdirection that the werewolf knew back in his human days.
'But why wasn't discord here? Or Octavia and Scratch? Actually where was everyone from ponyville? I thought the girls sent word for them to come today? Eh, probably busy... though Discord can just snap travel around,'
He then heard a familiar teleportation pop.
"Huh?" Jack turned his head around and spotting the main six. "Girls? What are you doing here?"
His eyes widen when the girls rose up with a familiar aura around them while wearing the elements.
"Hey now, what's-"
*BOOM!*
It was too late the rainbow blast hit Jack Wolfe causing him to scream a great pain engulfing his body this wasn't like how the elements worked before! The girl's eyes widen upon hearing Jack's screams not expecting the Nightwalker to scream for this has never happened before since they used the elements of harmony. The energy surround Jack was like hot metal on his flesh and it covered his entire body as it even felt like his insides were being ripped apart.
Were they trying to turn him back?
No, this wasn't the same thing as before!
Last time it felt like his entire body was being ripped apart from the inside out while his bone broke themselves and his muscle tissue was pulled like taffy.
This?
This felt like molten lead was inside his veins while his entire body felt like it was being branded from all sides at once.
He screamed so loud that the doors to his room were thrown one as Ember, Spike, Starlight, and sunset kicked down his door, seeing the elements in the air and seeing their friend screaming so loud that his mouth was gushing blood from how loud causing his vocal cords to be torn apart.
"JACK!" Ember shouted running towards him causing Spike stopped her.
"Don't!" Spike told her.
"We have to help him!" Ember shouted.
"I know but I've never seen this before!" Spike spoke horrified at what he was seeing as he looked at the elements. 'What did you guys do?!'
Jack's howls were heard from miles as he felt like everything was on fire.
"Damn it all! I got to help him!" Ember shouted but pushed herself into her way causing the dragon to snarl. "Out of my way!"
"Ember whatever is happening to Jack will happen to you if you get too close!" Sunset warned.
Ember and the remaining friends of Jack watched as Jack held his head from the pain digging his claws into his scalp as blood was drawn. It then got so loud that the group had to cover their ears from the scream were now so loud that it had to be heard all the way to ponyville. Celestia, Luna, Cadance, and Shining arrived with their ears covered as the castle was shaking from the howls of pain that could rival that of the red angels the day he killed his father.
(Points to whoever know what I'm talking about)
Ember had enough.
"FUCK THIS HE'LL DO THE SAME FOR ME!" Ember yelled as Spike turned to her.
"EMBER DON'T-!" But before Ember could run towards the nightwalker the magic then backlashed from the screams sending Jack and half the room being blasted outside as the others were blasted back.
The screams silence with all of their ears ringing the group slowly got up as the group looked forward.
Twilight looked forward in shock at what just happened as her ears rang so loud that she didn't hear the footsteps of a very pissed dragon lord. She was grabbed and thrown against the wall as the impact knocked her hearing back into place.
"GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON!" Ember shouted holding her fist back.
"Ember wait It-!"
"NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" Ember was about to punch Twilight but was stopped by Celestia.
"Ember don't!"
"Back off sun ass!" Ember shouted.
"Ember listen to me! This wasn't supposed to happen," Ember blinked turning to the sun princess.
"What the fuck are you saying?!" Ember snapped.
"Agreed... what are you saying princess," Spike asked while the two other normal ponies nodded.
Celestia held out her hands.
"This wasn't a part of the plan we had," Celestia stated as Ember stared at her.
"Plan? YOU PLANNED TO KILL JACK!" Ember snarled.
"NO! No! Of course not! I wouldn't think about harming Jack!" Celestia stated. "I rather go to the sun for 1,000 years before I would even think about hurting my friends including Jack,"
"Then explain why the fuck there is a big fucking hole where Jack was!" Ember shouted pointing to the 'giant fucking hole' but to be honest it was more like half the room was blasted out of the castle wall.
"Ember, please! Jack was only supposed to be turned into stone," Luna state.
"OH AND THAT'S EVEN BETTER!?" Ember snarled.
Luna nodded.
"I know that sounds bad but it was for his own good see we were-"
"You were what princess?" Spike asked causing Luna to sigh.
"We were going to place him away for his safety since 90% of the court wants his head on a platter," Luna started. "We could have kept him safely away in the vault for a while till we found evidence that connects the court to the drugs that were placed in our food this morning,"
"Princess... you were going to lock him in the vault? As a statue!" Sunset was dumbfounded by what she heard.
"Yes only for-"
"For what until you found some evidence?" Ember asked.
"Yes!" Celestia shouted. "The court-"
"Knows to cover their tracks," Starlight spoke up. "Princess you know you wouldn't have found any evidence connecting the drugs,"
"Starlight that isn't true we could-"
"Could what princess? Keep in there for 100 years so that the court's children would go after him?!" Sunset asked. "Princess when I was thrown back here from the Mirror I noticed how ponies treated Jack BEFORE he was a nightwalker and how they treat ALL non-ponies you can't change them,"
"I know but-"
"But nothing!" Ember shouting throwing Twilight to the ground. "Jack is dead because of you!"
"Ember please," Celestia shouted.
"No, you killed Jack! This time you weren't drugged! You were in your right mind and set his very friends as a death squad to come up here to kill him!" Ember snarled.
"Ember please,"
"No this means-"
"LOOK!" Spike shouted looking down at the ground below the castle as he spotted something.
The group turned over to see what Spike spotted and sure enough, they watched as Jack climbeded out of the water.
"Oh thank mother," Luna said with a smile.
"Jack! He's alive!" Ember started seeing her friend still alive.
"I'll go down to see if he's alright," Celestia said with her wings out and went out the window.
"GAHHHHHH!" Jack ripped out the rebar from his arm as he watched the hole in his arm began to seal itself while he looked through it and got up. "MOTHERFUCKER!"
He then saw Celestia's wings from what remained of his room, looking up he then looked down to see his duff back on itself surviving the blast. Snatching up his back and throwing the strap over his shoulder he then bolted forward as he went into the woods below the city on the mountain.
"JACK WAIT!" Celestia shouted as she zoomed down after him seeing him rush through the woods before landing before him. "Jack wait!"
Jack didn't say anything like the dark of the woods covered him in their shadow from the moonlight.
"Jack I know this looks bad but once you'll hear me out then you'll understand this is one big misunderstanding," Celestia spoke. "See I sent the girls to your room to-"
Jack then bolted in another direction.
"NO! JACK! Damnit way to go Celestia!" She then flew up and dashed after Jack before she was tackled from above by an unknown being.
"STAY AWAY FROM HIM!" Ember shouted.
Jack stopped as he looked up from the woods.
"Ember..."
She looked down towards him and flew down before him
"Thank the pit your alright!" Ember said as Jack who backed up slightly. "Jack I'm not with her,"
...
"Are you alright Jack?" Luna's voice spoke out.
The two turned to see Luna fly down causing Ember's wings to show out in a defensive stance as if to protect Jack.
"BACK OFF!" Ember snarled.
"Ember please what we did was for the betterment of Jack's well being,"
Jack spoke up.
"BY BLASTING ME APART!?!"
"No to turn you into stone,"
"LIKE THAT IS ANY BETTER?!" The werewolf snapped.
"Look it was to keep you safe and once we put you in the vault then-"
"Than what? Keep him locked away for a billion years?!" Ember shouted as she summoned her staff.
"Ember please this-"
"Who else knew about this?" Jack questioned.
"Jack I-"
"Who. Else. Knew," Jack spoke.
"Shining and Cadance," Luna said honestly.
"And he called me his brother," Jack spat.
"Look Jack the plan was a bad idea if you come back we can-"
"Can what? Try again to turn me into some statue for you to keep around locked away?" Jack spoke. "Yeah fuck that,"
"Jack we were only trying to protect you from-"
"From what? Hurting your image?! Good lord... I love you guys like you were in my own family!" Jack held back tears in his eyes. "This is how you treat me? After so many years?"
"Look Jack please-" Celestia joined the group.
"FUCK OFF CELESTIA!" Jack shouted as he held his eyes trying not to look weak in front of the three girls he loved... at least the one he still loves now. "Fucking hell,"
"Look Jack I can see we hurt you and-"
"And broke my fucking heart," Jack finished as the two girls looked up a few tears went down his muzzle. "Goddamn it... I loved you two more than a friend..."
Ember turned towards him as she lowered her wings slightly as Jack stayed in the dark to hid his face.
"Fucking hell I knew all this was too good to be true," Jack huffed.
"Jack please-"
"No," Jack sniffed. "No... Luna... You want to know something?"
Luna's throat went dry.
"I knew you were hitting on me since day one when you started and when I was still human I wanted to be with you," Ember felt her blood freeze upon hearing that. "But I knew that because of me being a mortal and you being Immortal that we couldn't be together and even if we were then it would hurt you in the end,"
"Jack?"
"Because of me being a mortal man I would have only have a short time compared to you Immortality meaning when I grew grey and frail you would look at me with pity and worry before I would finally die which in cause would break your heart," Jack inhaled. "You would be in so much pain that I wouldn't forgive myself for causing you so much pain,"
Luna began to cry.
"But now that I'm a fucking werewolf than I thought... hey maybe we were meant to be together but no," Jack spoke as he whipped his face off. "Seems like my affection was meant to be thrown away now that I know who really loves me and doesn't want me to be turned into some art piece to be locked away,"
Ember blushed slightly as her heart fluttered.
"So Luna, Celestia let me tell you this," Jack spoke as the two looked watch him walk out of the shadows. "Go fuck yourselves,"
The hate in his eyes told them of how he now felt for them as Ember felt her chest burn up as he then turned to leave.
"I never what to see you two ever again," Jack stated as he began to walk away.
Ember turned towards them with a glare before turning to follow Jack.
Jack held his face as the feeling of pain shot through his chest as it was far worse than the element's attack and a million times worse than what happens when his own mother would talk about him.
The pain was always there with him, so much pain it could make a drukhari blush.
"GAHH!" Jack growled as he looked down. "Why does this keep happening to me,"
Jack sighed dropping his hands while sitting down on a tree root.
"Where am I suppose to go now,"
A pair of arms wrapped around his chest.
"Ember?" Jack asked.
"You idiot..." Ember stated. "You can go with me to the dragon lands, genius, you always have a home there with me,"
Jack held her hand rubbing it.
"Are you sure you want me there Ember?" Jack asked.
"Yes I want you there you bastard," Ember spoke. "I don't want you to be alone out here,"
...
Jack didn't say a word but felt Ember's cold touch on his fur.
"Let's go home you furball," Ember stated.
"Alright, Ry- Ember,"
...
Ember just smiled as the staff she held glowed red before vanishing as the two princesses rushed forward.
"Jack?"
Author's Note
BETRAYAL!
Total you thinks were going to get dicey.
*Whisper*
I didn't? I could have sworn I did.
*Whisper*
Oh yeah! So... got betrayed by his 'family' and the sisters damn, they were planning on turning him to stone without telling anyone else?
What were they going to say? Play the dead dog went to live on a farm thing?
"Oh Jack? He went to live on a farm for awhile till things blow over,"
But damn the princesses were in their right minds when giving the order which has to triple the pain.
Damn...
Though Ember now took the werewolf to the dragon lands to hopefully recover from another change in his life were he will meet a few strangers of the old way.
What's the old way?
Well... Jack's transformation wasn't just a John Constantine call back for one legend about a beast wrapped in gold, and being banished because of someone being scared about a vision about him causing his death and ending all things.
Though I would be mad too if I just been born and someone wanted me dead because of something I haven't even done yet. So if I was free of course I would want a bit of revenge on the one who stabbed me with a sword and tied me up in a unbreakable cable.
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