Immoral immorality
Twilight, frantic and hysterical, ran around the destroyed castle. As she ran to a particular spot, the castle floor caved in, and she fell into a dungeon and saw a cell of a monkey hybrid chained and on his knees, arms up in the air, being held by the chains. Twilight walked into the cell and noticed the hybrids eyes were open. She was about to touch him with her hoof as she walked closer to him. The monkey hybrid moved his hand closer to her hoof and that’s when he suddenly pushed her off to the side and accidentally knocked her out. The monkey hybrid was hit with a dark death beam. He flew back and destroyed the wall, impaled on a large shard of destroyed castle and his head was slightly cut off and dangling off his back.
Nightmare Moon laughs and exclaims, ”Oh, this is just delicious. You failed as my sister’s favorite student and as an element bearer.” As Nightmare Moon stopped and looked at the pile of rocks, she saw the monkey hybrid body move around slowly, and a dead body removed the pile of stones off his crushed and broken body; he was a headless, impaled body in view. The headless body moved and made cartoony movements trying to find his head which was now stuck under some rubble. She saw the man push his impaled body off the rock.
Nightmare Moon never felt fear until she watched the headless body take his fallen head out of the rubble, reattached it to his neck, and slowly moved it back into place. The headless body, now with a head, looked at Nightmare Moon who was stunned in fear. The Man gave her a creepy smile that was filling her with dread. Twilight woke up and saw the man and the hole in his chest slowly grow and heal. It was gruesome to watch even some of the pebbles were forced out of the shrinking hole.
He then walked over to Twilight and picked her up to keep her safe. Twilight saw the man and was intimidated and also frightened by his expressionless face and glazed over eyes. The man walked past Nightmare Moon, who watched him walk past her, she was stunned and scared, and as he past her. He suddenly ran with Twilight in hand, headed upstairs and got her to the throne room with the elements in the rocks. As he got to the door, he was shot with another beam in his chest, not going all the way through. The laser split into four beams and came out his arms and legs. The man lay on his stomach, unwavering and unfazed by what everyone watched, which should have been painful.
Twilight saw the stones and all her friends there. She had spots of blood all over her and the smell of burnt skin and boiled blood. The man opened his mouth, and only steam came out, he mouthed slowly. Twilight read his lips, and it looked like he lip-synced, “Inside.”
Twilight used her magic and noticed the elements inside the spherical stones. She removed them, and nothing happened. Nightmare Moon followed her evil laughter and stomped the ground, shattering the elements like usual. The man lay on his stomach, covered in his blood, watching the scene unfold. As he slowly passed out, he could see a bright light hit his eyes, and as he closed them he fainted.
The man opened his eyes slightly, still tired and broken. He saw a group of ponies huddled around him, and that’s when he passed out again. His mind lay in wait for his body to wake up. But nothing could fix his broken mind. That’s when a pair of sinister red pupils came into his mind and said, “Rise and shine my failed vessel!” As the words were said, the man woke up armless and legless. He looked at this group of girls who stared at him with nothing but questions. His dead, soulless eyes were what scared these girls the most. The man slowly turned his head to see a familiar face and expression. It was a tall white unicorn with multi-colored hair and tears in her eyes. The state of this man weaved a story of friendship, trust, and, ultimately, love.
Luna saw this man, and as she looked at him, her memories were slowly coming back. In a moment of sadness, she teared up as well, realizing that her friend was in such a state. The man looked to the floor, and his mouth moved, but no words came out. As time passed, he lost his consciousness and ability to speak.
Twilight looked at Celestia and asked, “Princess, who is this creature, and why are you sad?”
Celestia looked at Twilight and replied with a gentle, pained smile, “He is a human who was transported here by accident, and we took care of him when Luna and I were fillies. I had assumed he lived a long, fulfilling life and passed away. I didn’t know he was still alive and trapped in the dungeon under the destroyed castle.”
Twilight said, “What’s his name?”
Luna replied, “Anon was his name.”
The man snapped at the name, looked at Luna, and whispered, “A-no-non.” When he whispered that, AppleJack out loud said, “What was that now?” Everyone in the room looked at AppleJack, and Twilight asked, “What AppleJac?” Before Twilight finished asking, AppleJack shushed her and said, “Listen quietly!” The room went silent, and that’s when a whispered voice came out of Anon’s mouth and said, “An-on……..Ano-n……..a-non.”
When everyone heard Anon say his name, Celestia and Luna, both with tears, walked over to him and said, “Yes, that’s your name. It’s Anon.” Celestia and Luna hugged him, and as they did. His eyes went back to soulless and dead, and his head lowered slightly, and his gaze went to the floor. Twilight smiled and said, “Well, at least he responds to his name and remembers it. We need to test his memory retention and get mental clarity spells cast on him.”
Celestia and Luna backed off and headed to Canterlot. They were both saddened and relieved that Anon was still alive. But that left the question of why and how he was still alive. Celestia remembered Anon when they were teenagers said, “Human’s don’t live that long like a 100 years at most. Besides Tia life is what you make it.” Celestia teared up remembering him as his cheerful self and now he’s been trapped and unable to die or leave the cell in the destroyed castle. The thought of his soulless eyes and broken mind tore Celestia apart just thinking about him. Twilight writes down some notes and documents on Anon’s condition with a ton of hypotheses and other questions she wanted to ask.
Anon’s arms and legs slowly healed from the laser beams. Twilight documented the healing process. On the paper, the information read as such. “This Human, as Celestia calls it, was unable to heal like this before. It’s unnatural and eerie almost chaotic in nature. The human responds to his name by only saying his name. I’ve tested it once an hour. But he only says his name in different iterations and like he’s……………..ooh, that’s clever he’s trying to tell us something.”
Twilight sent a letter to the princesses, requesting their appearance to come back to the library and said, “Princess, I figured out why the human only says his name. Watch this,….Cough,cough…….Anon.”
Anon snapped his head toward his name being said and whispered, “-no, an-, ano,-n-n,——,a-o,-no.”
Twilight listened and wrote his words and letters, substituting the pauses for dashes, as she wrote Celestia and Luna looked at the Morse code word created with his name. The princesses gasped. Twilight wrote the word “DISCORD” on the piece of paper. Celestia and Luna looked at one another and said, “That was when he stopped sending letters, sister.”
Twilight asked, “Are you talking about when Anon stopped sending messages when Discord was causing chaos and mischief?”
Celestia said, “Correct, my little student. He wanted to explore the world and come back after discovering all for himself and helping others. He made us better, but when he disappeared my sister and I sort of lost our connection which created Nightmare Moon. Anon was a very down-to-Equestria kind of individual. But if Discord is behind this, then he could have scrambled Anon’s mind and broke him.” Celestia whispered, “I hope he’s ok.”
Twilight looked at Anon, and a new word came from his mouth in a whisper: “Immortal.” Twilight heard the word and looked at Celestia, who then looked at Luna. Anon, in a moment of fear and confusion, yelled, “THE MONKEY IS A BANANA PEEL AWAY!” Anon then went soulless again, and his eyes had tears running down his face. As a minute passed, his arms slowly raised up in the position where the cuff and chains were back in the dungeon, like he was experiencing a form of trauma.
Celestia sad-hugged Anon and whispered into his ear, “Please come back to me. Anon, I love you. Please remember who you are and where you are!”
Still blank and with dead eyes, Anon had more tears running down his face. Luna pulled off Celestia and said, “Sister, you must give him time to recover and return from his senses.”
————————several hours later———————
After several more hours of testing and work, Twilight went to her room and was about to go to bed, only to hear the sound of a bed crashing. Anon was on his knee, his hand in his head he shook his head and grunted out of anger and frustration. He seemed confused and scared. Anon punched the wall, and it shook the library. Twilight, hearing the commotion, ran to Anon and saw him conscious and actively looking around. He had a panic attack and collapsed seeing Twilight.
Twilight was confused and intrigued by the fact Anon was conscious but only for a minute or two before passing out. Twilight stayed up all night, and as soon as she was about to pass out, Anon woke up confused, fell out of bed, and started to give confused grunts. Twilight immediately started speaking, “Hello, Anon. My name is Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia’s student. I found you in the destroyed castle.”
Anon slumped his shoulders and looked relieved, unable to speak. He sat on the ground with his ragged clothes and with a look of tiredness that said he was done with the world's. He had tears in his eyes and silently ugly cried. He then pointed his hand to Twilight and wrote, “Thank you.” Twilight saw him write thank you with his blood. She was confused about where he was bleeding. He was still crying and she saw him move his hand to his gash on his lower torso side. Twilight, surprised, was about to leave. Anon stopped her and hugged her, the cut healed immediately.
Twilight, surprised and stuck in Anon’s grasp, asked a bunch of questions that made Anon wasn’t answering he was to busy crying. He put Twilight down next to his knee, he sniffed and smiled with tears still falling and eyes red from all his tears. He breathed heavily and only held out an arm in a sign for her to wait. Anon breathed in and out; as soon as he calmed down, Celestia was sent a letter from Twilight before Anon started crying. As Anon's breath slowed, he exhaled heavily and was about the talk but realized he was unable to speak. He then grabbed Twilight’s paper and pen.
Before he wrote something, Anon saw Celestia and Luna get to the room as fast as possible. Anon looked at Celestia, and as he did a double take, he stood up and walked to her. He put his hand on her cheek, and looked at her hair, he had tears welling up in his eyes, he saw Celestia and then noticed Luna who had some sort of hurt that they were hiding. Anon unable to hide it, pointed at Celestia and made a motion for her to released her pain and cry. Celestia teared up and forced her hooves around his body, He petted her head and scratched her ears, in the hug while Celestia cried. Anon then gestured to Luna and Twilight to come closer, and as they did, he forced a group hug to make Celestia feel better, she stopped crying and got her tears under control. The paper in Anon’s hand was pulled up in front of Celestia’s face and said, “Feel better?”
Author's Note
This story, the indomitable human spirit and mason the human will be the stories I wok on from now on and sorry about not getting to mason the human is a long ending like 10,000 words maybe less it’s a tough bastard I’ll tell you that.
