The Last Human

"Try again.” Twilight ordered.

“I’m trying!” I glared at the rock in front of me.

“Concentrate.”

“I am!”

“Obviously not hard enough. Levitating a rock is not difficult.”

“Easy for you to say.” Twilight was helping me learn to use my new magic.

“How can you not do this? You’re a nine hundred year old half dragon. This should be easy.” I was getting sick of this.

This is just sad.

“Shut up!” I shouted. Then the rock flew forward smashing through a nearby tree. Causing it to fall over. Twilight looked at the tree in surprise.

“Ok then. Well, let’s move to another lesson.”

“Which is?”

“Controlling your emotions. If there had been a pony in front of you they would likely have no head anymore.”

“Screw this. I’ll just stick with punching and stabbing my problems.” I started to walk away.

“Since when do you just quit when things are hard?”

You want to know the funniest part of this?

What?

The reason you can’t do this isn’t because you lack enough magic, you have more magic than 99% of the unicorns in the world. The problem is you’re too stupid.

Oh really?

Yep, stupid and impatient.

Ok, challenge accepted. I turned around.

“Twilight, let’s try again.”

“Really?”

“Yes. I’ll prove I’m not too stupid to do this.”

“I never called you stupid.” She looked at me confused.

“I know.”

“Then why are you trying to prove you’re not stupid?”

Don’t bring me up. It may get weird and she’ll start to pester you with questions.

“Myself.”

“Ok.” She looked unconvinced.

“So where were we?”

“I was going train you to not get so angry. With your power it is dangerous.”

“Fine, let’s go.”

“I did it!” I looked at the rock floating in front of me. “Take that!”

“Good job.” Twilight nodded at me.

“I know.”

“I feel like that’s enough for today.”

“Ok.” I finally noticed how late it had become it was getting dark already.

“So I’ve been wondering, where are you staying?” Twilight and I were walking through Ponyville.

“I found this nice little place near the outer part of town.” I pointed in the general direction. “It’s pretty good. Plus it’s free.”

“Really? How do they stay in business if they just give places away?”

“Well I’m an exception, it just took a little convincing.”

“So you’re abusing your power to get things for free?”

“When you put it that way it sounds sleazy and mean.”

“It sort of is.”

“Whatever.”

“I’d like to see this place.”

“Ok.”

“This is pretty nice.” Twilight looked around the good sized apartment. “Usually something like this would cost a good amount of bits.”

“True.” I walked in.

“You do realize giving something like this to you for free and paying any bills you get can’t be good for the owners.” She looked at me with a somewhat disappointed look.

“Don’t give me that look.”

“I just think you should either get a job of some kind and pay them or move.”

“Well I don’t have the patience for a job. So I guess I’ll look for somewhere else.”

You know, I think Twilight wanted you to not steal things.

Whatever, I needed a blanket and pillow.

You could have paid for it.

With what? I have no money. I could take some from an unsuspecting pony I guess.

That defeats the point.

They won’t miss a blanket and pillow. Now let me sleep. I pulled the blanket over myself, I was lying on a cloud, they are pretty comfy. Progenitus was asleep on my stomach so that he wouldn’t fall through the cloud.

I walked through town heading for the hill Twilight and I practice on. When I got up there Twilight was waiting.

“Hi Sean.”

“Hey Twilight.” I waved. “So what are we doing today?”

“Working on teleportation.”

“Nice.”

“Well that’s enough for today.” Twilight said looking tired.

“Fine.” I hadn’t been able to teleport at all. Not even an inch. We walked down the hill heading back to town. “I’m sure I’ll get it next time.”

“Yeah.” She nodded. We walked through town till we came to the library.

“Well, goodnight.” I turned and started to walk away.

“Hold on.” I turned to look at Twilight.

“What?” I asked.

“A blanket and pillow went missing from a shop yesterday, you don’t happen to know anything about that?”

“I am offended.” I put my hand to my chest looking hurt. “You think I would steal from a shop?”

“Did you?” She looked at me with an unamused stare.

“Yes.”

“Well return them.”

“But clouds are cold.”

“When you return them come back here. You can stay with Spike and me.”

“Fine.” I turned and headed for the cloud I had slept on.

“Sean wake up.” I felt something shaking me.

“What?” I reached with my right hand moving around until I hit the top of something, it was soft which I found weird. I raised my hand and hit it.

“Hey!” I hit it again.

“Where’s the snooze button?” Then something hit me in the face. I finally opened my eyes to see Twilight looking at me, levitating a pillow.

“I am not an alarm clock.” She hit me with the pillow again.

“Would you stop hitting me?” I grabbed the pillow and threw it across the room. I climbed out of the bed stretching. Several of my joints cracked which I thought was weird. Twilight had gotten me a spare bed from their basement and put it in the front room. When I asked about why they had a bed in the basement she brought up some kind of Applejack and Rarity incident involving a tree. I stopped caring after that.

“Now what do you want?” I looked at her as she levitated the pillow to her.

“It’s time for breakfast then more training.”

“Ugh! I don’t feel like it.” I fell back onto the bed. Twilight threw the pillow in my face.

“Fine, I guess you don’t want to become more efficient at killing things, especially griffins.” She started walking away. “I was going to take a break from teleportation and maybe work on a little bit of control magic.”

“Control magic?” I sat back up. “What’s that?”

“You know, things like mind control and suppressing other beings’ magic.” She turned to look at me. “But you don’t feel like training so never mind.” She continued heading for the kitchen.

“Wait! I didn’t mean it.” I hopped off the bed and followed her.

She’s using reverse psychology.

I don’t care, I want to learn how to control people’s minds.

“Ok, so let’s work on mind control.” Twilight stood next to me. She pointed to the rainbow pony in front of us. “Rainbow Dash has been kind enough to let us practice on her.”

“Sounds good.” I smiled, this will be fun.

“Ok.” Twilight opened a book. “Step one, concentrate on the target.”

“Why do you need the book? Don’t you know how to do this?” I looked at her confused.

“No, it requires a lot of magic to maintain control for prolonged periods of time, so I’ve never really tried it. Now concentrate.”

“Ok.” I looked at Rainbow Dash.

“Step two.”

“That is not necessary Twilight.” Rainbow Dash said.

“What?” Twilight turned to look at Rainbow Dash, she was looking at Twilight intently, and her eyes were glowing green. Twilight looked at me I was smiling and glaring and concentrating one Rainbow. I concentrated more and then Rainbow Dash flew into the air and began to do tricks in the air. “Sean, that’s enough.”

“Fine.” I stopped and looked away from Rainbow and she fell to the ground. She got back up rubbing her head.
“Ugh, what happened?”

“That was fun.” I clapped my hands together. “What’s next?”

I’m really enjoying this control magic. I was currently looking at three unicorns. Twilight had brought them to practice magic suppression on. They were all looking very strained as they tried to use their magic.

I’m surprised how easily this is coming to you. This is advanced magic yet you couldn’t handle teleportation.

Who cares? I’m beating three unicorns without even touching them. Then I concentrated more and the three unicorns went flying. I turned to Twilight.

“What now?” I smiled.

“That’s enough for today.” She closed the book. “We’ve been working pretty hard. I don’t want to strain you.” She looked at the three unconscious unicorns. “Plus we’re running out of practice ponies.”

“That was a lot of fun.” I said sitting across from Twilight, we were at a restaurant for dinner.

“You did a good job.” Twilight said I could see she was thinking about something.

“What’s on your mind?”

“I don’t get it.”

“What?”

“How you could master that magic so easily. That’s the kind of thing that somepony whose been studying magic for decades would have trouble with. But you were using mind control after a few seconds. Yet you struggle with the simpler spells.”

“I’m just that good.”

“I guess so.”

“Why do we have to go back to teleportation?” I groaned as Twilight told me what the lesson was today. “Control was so much more fun.”

“It’s good to spread what you learn to keep yourself well rounded.”

“Whatever.” I looked at the target she had put on the ground a few feet in front of me.

“Ok, try to teleport to the target.”

“Fine.”

“Good work.” Twilight looked at me happy.

“Thanks.” I was getting the hang of teleporting now. I had just managed to go ten feet.

“Well, that’s good for today.” We began to walk down the hill.

“So, what do you want to do now?” I asked.

“I don’t know. We could go to Sugarcube Corner get some snacks and visit Pinkie.”

“Sounds good.” Then I began to cough.

“Are you ok?”

“Yeah.” I started to cough again. I ended up falling to my knees while I continued to cough. I covered my mouth.

“You don’t sound ok.”

“Calm down.” When I pulled my hand away and looked at it I saw it was covered in blood. “Well that’s new.” Then I fainted.

I opened my eyes. Looking around I discovered I was in a white room, after a minute I realized it was a hospital room.

What happened? Why am I in a hospital?

You had some kind of coughing fit and lost consciousness.

Weird. Do you know why?

Not yet, I’m looking into it. Anyway, Twilight freaked out for a bit before bringing you here.

Well I feel better, let’s get out of here.

Maybe you should rest. We don’t know what’s wrong, may want to wait till I discover the problem.

Fine.

I’m so bored, I’ve been stuck here for what seemed like 10 hours. I didn’t even know what to do. I had tried to use my new magic to levitate things and do little tests to see what would break if it hit the wall and what would break the wall if thrown at it. Turns out the chairs in here aren’t too durable. Eventually they came in and took almost everything out of the room.

Found anything yet?

Maybe.

Well?

From what I’ve seen it looks like you’re running low on magic

Ok, so I just need to find some unicorns and get their magic.

That will only help for a little bit.

Then what do I do?

You won’t like the answer.

Just tell me.

You need to go back to Celestia.

What!

She’s the only one that has enough magic to keep you completely healthy.

I’d rather be sick.

You aren’t fooling me. We both know part of you misses the palace and Celestia. As Twilight said, you can’t just abandon centuries of friendship over a little fight.

Go away Bob.

“Ah, freedom.” I stretched as I walked outside. They had finally let me out of that stupid hospital.

So are you going home?

No.

Your stupid pride is going to kill you.

No it won’t.

I walked down the road that lead to the hospital as I headed for town. When I got there Spike was waiting.

“Hey Spike.” I looked at him.

“Hi Sean.”

“What are you doing here?”

“Twilight sent me. She knew you got out and wanted me to bring you to the library.” He turned and headed towards where the tree is.

“Ok.” I followed. When he got there he opened the door and walked in with me following.

“They’re this way.” He headed for the kitchen.

“They?” I followed I noticed the bed I had been sleeping in was gone. When I got there I saw Twilight sitting at the table, the surprising part was Luna was next to her. “Luna? What are you doing here?”

“Hello Sean.” She nodded to me. “Twilight Sparkle told me about your strange bloody cough. She requested I come here.”

“Why?”

“As fun as it’s been to have you here I think it’s time you went back to Canterlot.” Twilight spoke up.

“Why would I do that?”

“When my sister heard about you she told me you were probably running out of magic.” Luna said.

“So?”

“We both know if you run out of magic it doesn’t end well.” Luna looked at me smirking. “It makes you afraid of children.”

“Hey! They were trying to put me in a net and probably dissect me or something.”

“Still, you should come back.”

“No, I’m fine.” I started to cough again, leaning on a wall.

This is not helping my case.

Your case was flimsy at best anyway.

“Yes, you look like the picture of health.” Luna said sarcastically.

“Shut up.” I said before coughing more. Again I began to cough up some blood. Luckily I didn’t faint this time. “There’s nothing to worry about.”

“I see, tell me, where are your fingers?” Luna asked looking at my right hand.

“What are you talking about?” I looked at my hand, and sure enough my fingers were gone. “Aah!”

And so it begins.

What begins?

Your end. You’re beginning to fall apart. You need to get magic soon.

“If you will excuse me I have to go visit some unicorns.” I turned heading for the door. Then Luna appeared in my way.

“Why is that?”

“You know, trying to mingle get to know the ponies around here.”

“I think you are beginning to see some side effects from losing magic.” She pointed at my left shoulder. “You may want to get that looked at.”

“What?” I looked to see there was a large chunk out of my shoulder showing some bones. “That’s nothing.”

“Very well. Go mingle.” She got out of my way.

“I will.” I walked out the door.

There’s one. I spotted a unicorn walking through town heading towards the edge of town. I was crouching on the roof of a building. I had lost vision in my right eye, when I looked at my reflection in a window I saw that my eye and most of my skin was gone on that side of my face.

This isn’t going to work.

Why not?

First of all you’re attacking innocent civilians, second this is going to maybe help you for a few hours even if you get several it will last maybe a day.

Oh well. I jumped down from the building. As I was about to land on the unicorn I was enveloped in a blue bubble.

“Hey!” I looked around. “What is this?”

“A spell to prove my point.” I looked to a nearby bush to see Luna and Twilight walk out. “You were coming after this unicorn for the magic. It also helps that you weren’t able to tell that it was a fake and that you didn’t notice the spell I had put on you. If you were healthy you wouldn’t have missed that.”

Wow you got owned.

“Why won’t I just drain the magic from this?” I touched the bubble and was electrocuted.

“I apologize for resorting to this but you’re being foolish.” Luna watched me.

“Sorry about this Sean.” Twilight apologized.

“Let me out.” I glared at Luna. We were flying to Canterlot in her chariot. I had tried to use some mind control but I was too weak.

“No.” She looked at me. “You clearly need help.”

She’s right. Allow me to list what you’ve lost so far. Your right fingers, the right side of your face, your left arm, and are currently losing your left leg and right shoulder. Plus your powers are all gone.

“Let me out! Release me now you filth!” I shouted, my voice getting a little deeper. I pressed my hands against my prison, quickly being shocked.

“Wow, you definitely need my sister.” Luna said, I heard a bit of mockery in her voice. “That superiority complex has gotten a lot worse.”

“Progenitus help!” I looked at the hydra sitting next to Luna. He looked at me before shaking his heads. “Traitor.”

“I’m home.” Luna said as she entered the palace two unicorn guards levitating the bubble I was trapped in.

I find it funny.

What?

The fact that despite what you say you have to rely on ponies to survive.

Shut up.

It’s just funny, then there’s the fact that the one you do have to rely on is the one that you currently hate, but not really.

Luna opened the doors to the throne room and we entered. Celestia was sitting at her throne waiting. The guards carried me in and placed me in the middle of the room.

“Hello Sean.” Celestia walked to the bubble I was stuck in.

“Celestia.” I nodded.

“I hear you’re having a bit of trouble with your internal magic.”

“What makes you think that?”

“Well half your face is missing.”

“Fair enough.”

“Let me help.” Her horn glowed and she touched it to the bubble. I was then enveloped in a yellow aura and after a minute I began to regenerate and feel better. “Luna would you release him?”

“Are you sure sister?” Luna looked at her. “He seemed a bit unstable on the trip here.”

“Yes, he should be better now. Also I would like to speak with him without him seeming like a prisoner.”

“If you say so.” Luna’s horn glowed and my trap vanished. I stood up and stretched.

“That’s much better.” Celestia said. “Please give us a moment.” She looked at the guards and Luna. They nodded and left. When the door closed she looked at me. “I think we need to talk.”

“Yes, I’m pretty sure imprisoning me and forcefully dragging me here is illegal.” I didn’t look at her.

“I mean about what happened before we were taken to that other dimension.”

“What’s there to say? You got angry and talked about wishing you’d never met me.”

“If you think I actually meant that you’re as dumb as that voice says.”

“What?” I looked at her surprised. “How do you know about Bob?”

“So he has a name now.”

“Answer the question.”

“I’ve known you long enough to get past that little mind reading barrier. I had wondered about how you would occasionally zone out for no reason. So I checked your mind once and heard Bob talking.”

Did you know about this?

No.

“As I was saying, I did not mean what I said. I was under a lot of stress and my pride was a little hurt from losing to Chrysalis so easily.” She looked at me and I saw some sadness in her eyes. “I am sorry for what I said.”

Accept the apology.

Why should I?

We both know you want to. She’s clearly sorry and has missed you, and I know the feeling is mutual.

Shut up.

Get over yourself. If you don’t accept it and leave you will regret it.

Fine!

“I accept the apology, I guess.” I looked away.

“Really?”

“Sure, may as well.” Then I was tackled into a hug. “Hey!”

“Thank you.” She said still hugging me.

“Ok, I get it.” I tried to escape. “You know my policy on hugs.”

Get over it.

Easy for you to say. You’re not getting bear hugged by her.

“Seriously.” I gave up on escaping. “Do you plan to stop this anytime soon?” After another minute she finally let me go. I got up. “Thank you.” I looked at her. “So are we good?”

“Yes.” She nodded.

“Alright, well I’m going to get a cupcake.” I headed for the door out. “Haven’t had a decent one for a while.” When I opened the door Luna and the guards jumped back and started trying to act like they weren’t doing anything. “Really? I’m going to come after you three in a bit. You get a five minute head start.”