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` Returning

(This is about a week after John went to the forest)

John walked back to the palace and all the higher class ponies kept looking at him nervously. John sighed and said something under his breath which sounded like, "Not looking forward to this." John walked through the front door and was greeted with a flying tackle hug from Jane. "Jane will you get off me." John said in gasps from her squeezing him to tight. She let go immediately and planted a kiss on his cheek.

John froze immediately. The next thing anybody knew was, Jane was on the ground holding her cheek, which had a red mark on it, and John's hand was where her face used to be. "Don't ever do that again." John said as he walked to the court room.

Celestia was in the court room listening to her nephew, Blueblood, about, quote, "Those six mares who ruined the Grand Galloping Gala with atrocious behaviors especially that Rarity." He was then interrupted by the doors opening and a figure walking in. Celestia recognized the figure immediately as John, but the others, all nobles, stared in shock as they had never seen him before. Before Celestia could do anything John said, "You want me to clear the room so you can hear my explanation to why I'm late?" Celestia didn't answer, but John could see clear on her face she wanted to badly get rid of them.

John just smiled, which was rare for him, and let out a shrill whistle. The nobles heard three things as once, a roar, a crash, and guards running around swearing. John's smile widened as he shouted, "In here Fluffy!" Before Celestia could puzzle out who Fluffy was, a full grown manticore burst through the doors with guards chasing it. The manticore stopped just behind John. Celestia was worried that he was going to get mauled, but he just laughed and said, "Fluffy. I told you not to scare to guards." and he ran his hand through her, Celestia was sure it was a female, mane, to which Fluffy purred and started to lick his hand.

The nobles, seeing the manticore, ran for the doors soon all of them exited and John said "Can you drop your spears? It's making Fluffy nervous." As if the prove it Fluffy got closer to John and was growling slightly. "It's okay Fluffy. They won't hurt you." John said. The entire scene looked ridiculous, John was petting a ferocious beast that was acting like a kitten, while the guards and Celestia stared in wonder at how he tamed such a beast.

"You were going to explain why you were late?" Celestia asked.

"Hmm? Oh yeah well I only want to say this story once so get everybody you want to hear it here so I can explain." John said still petting Fluffy who took to lying on the ground.

Celestia told the guards to get Luna as she grabbed some parchment wrote down something and sent it.

Somewhere in Ponyville a familiar purple dragon burped up a letter which Twilight Sparkle grabbed immediately. She read it and rushed out the doors to get the others especially Fluttershy and Applejack. A few hours later a carriage arrived to pick them up to go to the castle. As soon as they arrived they rushed to the court room where they were greeted with a strange sight.

John was rubbing a fully grown manticore's stomach and she seemed to be enjoying it. When Fluttershy saw this she slowly walked toward the manticore to see if it was hurt. Besides a small bruise on her face the manticore was fine. "She seems well taken care of." Fluttershy said.

"Yup. Took care of her after she tried to kill me. I was just waking up when she attacked and, after a few hits to the nose, she calmed down quite a bit." John said smiling. "I decided to keep her and named her Fluffy. She seems to like me."

Rainbow Dash tried to stifle a laugh at the name but failed horribly. "Yeah. Go ahead and laugh just remember what manticores' eat." John said and that shut Rainbow Dash up pretty quickly.

"Anyways. So Celly is that everyone you want to hear my story?" John asked.

"No. Luna should be here soon." Celestia said as the door opened.

"Sorry I'm late!" Luna shouted striding across the room quickly.

"When did Luna start talking normally?" John asked confused.

"It was after Nightmare Night." Luna said plainly.

"Well alright then. Where do you want me to start?" John asked.

"Wait. Where is Jane at?" Twilight asked.

With Jane

"I CAN'T BELIEVE HIM!" Jane shouted. "I LOVE HIM HOW COULD HE DO THAT!"

"I can make him love you." a voice whispered. "Just help me and I will make you irresistible to him."

Jane recoiled in shock, "Who's there?!" she shouted.

"Hush child. I am a friend. Help me into the castle and I will make you irresistible." the voice whispered out, but it seemed closer to her. It was coming from behind her! Jane turned around and saw an insect-like pony with holes in her legs. Her horn was strange to say the least ( I don't really know how to describe Chrysalis's horn). Her body was black and her mane was like a teal color, as was her tail.

"Why do you need my help if your already in the castle?" Jane asked.

"I need someone to get rid of a certain Princess-" the creature said but was interrupted by Jane.

"Is it Celestia? I will gladly get rid of her." Jane said.

"No. Not her although someone like her is well loved. I need another gone. Her name is Cadence. She has an upcoming wedding and I am going to take her place so my family can feed." The creature said.

"Alright then what does she look like? Also I never got your name." Jane said.

"My name is Chrysalis and this is what she looks like." Chrysalis body started changing into the form of an alicorn. The body was a light pink body her mane wasn't that different except for the almost rainbow style hair.

"Where do I get rid of her?" Jane asked.

"There are mines under Canterlot, put her in one of the tunnels and I will block her in." Chrysalis said.

"I'll do it as long as you hold your end of the bargain." Jane said as Chrysalis evaporated into smoke.

Back to John

"I don't know I haven't seen her since I slapped her." John said casually, almost like it happens everyday.

"You slapped her!?" Everyone in the room said in unison.

"Yes and before you ask why I slapped her because she kissed me."

"Why did you slap her after she kissed you?" Rarity asked.

"I believe that saying that will make you badger me even more so I won't tell you." John said

Rarity just grumbled something when John remembered something. "Celestia. DON'T YOU DARE GO INTO MY MIND!" John shouted.

Celestia just blushed and cut off her magical flow to John's mind. "Alright then any other questions that don't have to do with my Love Life?" John asked.

"Where did you get the wings? Where did you get the claws? What was it like in the Slave world? Why did you go MMPH!" Twilight was interrupted by a hand shoved into her mouth.

"One question at a time." John said as he took his hand away.

Twilight just blushed and asked her question one by one. "Where did you get the claws from?"

"Oh those? That was a gift from Discord when he came back a second time. He also gave one human angel wings, another razor sharp claws, and another the ability to use magic. He also said something about me being special."

The others were shocked of this news. Discord giving gifts to creatures were unheard, of course the only things he managed to create in his time as ruler were Parasprites, Manticores, Hydras, and the Ursas. Then Twilight got to thinking. If Discord created humans and Manticores does that mean that creatures of Chaos bond better with other creatures of Chaos? That just added another question.

"Another question?" John asked.

"Yes. What was it like in the Slave World?" Twilight asked.

John just sighed. "You saw some of the tortures that I went through right?" They nodded the memories were still fresh in their minds. His next sentence turned their blood to ice. "That is only a fraction of what they came up with to punish me." All their mouths dropped in unison. They all had the same shocked expression except Fluttershy. She was passed out on the floor thinking about how bad the tortures were in the first place and imagined tortures even more horrible. Everyone in the room also looked sick as if they were going to throw up at any second. "Alright we'll finish this conversation tomorrow if you feel this sick."

John turned and walked towards the door where he was held in a magical hold and brought back. He looked up and saw Luna holding him back. "I'll take that as you want me to continue?" John said. Luna just nodded not quite trusting herself to speak for fear of throwing up. "Alright then. Anyways do you know what my job was as a slave? My first job was a miner, my second a servant, and my third, a lover for the ruler." They all turned to Celestia. John just smiled and said "No not her. My version of Celly."

They just nodded their heads but Rarity seemed to pick up Celestia's nickname. "Celly?" Rarity asked very suspicious.

"Yes Celly. Now before you jump to conclusions that was the nickname I gave my Celestia because she wanted to be called a pet name." John explained, "Now if you want me to continue shut up and listen." Rarity nodded, but she was still suspicious.

"Alright anyways. My first job was a miner. I was chosen with the worst job. I was working in the mines underneath Canterlot that seems to be long forgotten in this world. I worked there doing back-breaking work for six years. My second job was to be a servant to Prince Blueblood," At this there was a cringe from Rarity. "For about, what was it, five? Six? However though he is actually more despicable in this world than in my world." He laughed a humorless laugh. "Well I might get some payback in this world. Anyways my final job was being T.C's lover. That was actually fun." He smiled as if remembering a happy thought, which he was. "When I was T.C's lover she ordered the guards to not attack me, even if I was being a total dick. I used that to my advantage I explored the castle finding nook and crannies where I could hide. As long as I stayed around some guards. She pretty much had me watched 24/7. I manipulated her to get some of my friends out of trouble until....." John stopped talking. When they looked at him, he just nodded his head showing that he wasn't going to explain.

"Well alright then. What were all of our enemies like in your world?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Give me a name and I'll tell." John replied.

"Hmm how about Nightmare Moon?" Rarity asked.

"Alright then Nightmare Moon. Ah she was wonderful to the humans. Sure she would have brought the end to the sun, but to us that would have been a blessing to some." He smiled at Luna then looked away. Luna blushed which clashed horribly with her coat.

"Well then let's continue my other story. One day when I was going to T.C's room and I might have bumped into the Other Luna by accident." He said while looking at Luna. "We fell in an awkward position that suggested a lot of things, none of them good." Everyone in the room blushed except Pinkie Pie who kept asking what he meant. John, deciding to be a good guy dumped the mare to Rarity who was blushing the worst. After a quick glare to John who was trying hard not to laugh she explained what he meant. Pinkie just went "Ohhhhhh." before settling back down.

"Anyways T.C saw us and got the wrong idea and sent her guards after me. I ran into that room that you saw me in and that circle transported me here." John said. Fluffy was starting to wake up from her nap and she saw John. Since she was still tired she went to John and curled up into a ball by his feet. John smiled and started to pet her mane again, which relaxed her enough that it made her fall asleep instantly.

While he was doing that Celestia was wondering what it would feel like if he ran his fingers through her mane, but she chided herself that it would be a bad idea. "Alright that's all I'm going to answer today. Now shoo. Oh, Celestia." John said.

"What?" she asked.

"Well could you stay behind I wanted to ask you something?" John said.

"Well alright then." She said as the others left.

When the others left he asked, "Do you know a place where Fluffy can sleep? She won't bother anyone."

"Well I don't know where we can put her, but if your room the room is big enough you can keep her in your room." Celestia answered.

John's eyes lit up. "Thank you Celly." He walked up to her and gave her a small hug, which sent shivers down her spine. With that he let go and walked to his room with a now awoken manticore.

A/N Do any of you readers have questions for John? I can't think of any. Write in the comments which the question and I might use it. Oh and also Pixels came up with the idea of human slaves in a pony world. Yeah I feel stupid just seeing that now. I will leave asking questions until I have five good ones. The questioning though will end on 11/25.