Chapters Transported
This place is called the Slave world where, as the name suggests, there are slaves. However though this dimension is under the rule of Tyrant Celestia and her sister Luna. They chose to keep slaves to make their lives easier in that world. The slaves though are not ponies they are actually humans.
This is the story of a 15 year old boy who grew up too fast and got into trouble too many times. His name is John his last name is unknown. He has long brown hair and his eyes are two different colors. The left one is a light blue while the right one is a murky green. He has scars all over his body from misbehaving and all of them gotten for taunting Warden Shining Armor. His clothes ( if you could call them that) were brown rags bloodied from all the lashes he got for messing up. His job was to work in the mines getting out gems that the ponies could use. Tyrant Celestia only intervened in the slaves business when she was giving them the death sentence if they did not work. Other than that there was the Elements of Pain. They go in this order; torture, maim, kill, sadistic, cripple, and break. The bearers names are in the same order as the Elements of Pain; Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity. They are second to none, other than the princesses themselves, in cruelty.
Now back to the boy named John. This is his plan for escape, a bad plan, but a plan none the less. Now back to the present.
"Imbeciles get that runt before he escapes!" the normally regal and proud voice screeched. "If he gets away I will personally send you to the moon!"
A boy named John ran through the hallway hoping to escape the royal guards.
John ran through the halls avoiding guards like he would when he was taking some, nonexistent, breaks. Ducking into rooms he never heard of, he just kept running and running. Whenever he would run into a guard he could not get past he would knock the guard out by attacking the neck or the temple.
'Shit shit shit SHIT!' John thought while he was running, 'That was a bad plan a very very bad plan.' He ran into the last room at the end of the hallway that he managed to go into. On the other side... Nothing. Absolutely NOTHING. It was just a room with a large circle in the center. He sighed and murmured to himself "Well I won't die without a fight they can sure as hell believe that."
There was pounding at the door "Open up and all we will give you are 1,000 lashes and that would be considered merciful with what you done" came a gruff voice. Not exactly deep but gruff no other way to describe it.
"Oh Yeah well not by the hair of my chinny chin chin." John shouted.
"We really didn't want to do, this especially since they're really angry now. Well it's out of my hoofs. Girls! Go crazy!"
It was then that John realized who he was talking about. "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT!! NOW I'M FUCKING SCREWED!!!" On the other side of that door was the Elements of Pain ramming into the door trying to get it opened. With each pound John stepped backward. When the door finally gave way he stepped into the circles center.
A flash of bright light went off and when the Element of Pain looked they saw that John wasn't there only a hat was in the human's place. When they looked at the hat they saw a note. It read 'HA good luck trying to find him cause you won't find him here
Signed Discord"
(Meanwhile in another Dimension)
"So Twilight what was it that Celestia told us to come see," Rainbow Dash, Element of Loyalty, asked.
"Well I don't know exactly but from the letter I got it must be pretty urgent." Twilight Sparkle, Element of Magic, replied.
(Can't do Applejack's accent so I'm not going to try) "Well it must be pretty important since she pretty much told us to drop everything." Applejack, Element of Honesty said.
"Oh my I hope it's not Philomeena getting sick." said the Element of Kindness, Fluttershy.
"Well I doubt that she would call us to take care of the phoenix. Remember what happened last time?" Rarity, Element of Generosity said.
"Oh maybe Celestia gonna give us a surprise party for imprisoning Discord back into stone." Pinkie Pie, Element of Laughter said smiling.
"Well we're here so we can ask her about it." Twilight stated when they got in front of the palace. They walked into the thrown room and gave a bow to both of the princesses. Celestia gave a little laugh and said "Twilight remember there is no need for formalities."
"Then why did you call us here?" Twilight asked getting murmurs of agreement from here friends.
"Well while looking around the castle while you were looking for the elements (If you don't know when this is then you can't call yourself a brony) in the maze Discord made I noticed a strong source of magic coming from one of the rooms in the palace. It was the same as Discord's magic" This was meet with a collective gasp from the six. "and we need to destroy it so he cannot return from the chaos it is generating." This time it was met with agreement from the six.
They followed the princesses down the hallways through some rooms and found where the strong magic source was coming from. Just as they opened the doors there was a bright flash followed by a stream of swearing. When all eight of them looked they saw a prime-ape like creature that was clothed in ratty brown rags. When Rarity saw she gasped at the clothes earning her the attention of the creature. As soon as the creature saw them it let one word out "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-"
End of Chapter One
A/N So yeah this is a new story my other one is on hiatus indefinitely until I can figure out where to go from there and a shout out to sweeper276 for reading AND commenting on my last story. I have no idea where this came from but I believe that someone else came up with the idea that humans were slaves to pony overlords if someone can tell me I will change this a bit so most credit will go to him/her.
Chase
"-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!" John yelled out, surprised that the light didn't make them blind for a little bit longer. Quickly looking around John saw a window to the left of him, but that way was closer to the door. Thinking of something quickly, but not thinking they would fall for it, he lifted up his arm, pointed behind them, and yelled "What's that over there!"
Stupidly they looked behind them. John said under his breath "Idiots." and ran towards the window shouting "LEEEEEEEEROY JENKINSSSSS!" which was followed by a loud crash as he went through the window.
Falling out the window that was about two stories high he landed on the ground and rolled, out onto grass. Jumping up he ran towards where he thought the exit was, but was instead led farther away from it.
Meanwhile back at the (for now I'm going to call it the transportation room) Transportation room. The eight of them there heard John shout out his cry before seeing him jump through the window "What is that thing doing!!" shouted Rainbow giving chase to it. Getting to the window just in time to see it run away, towards the gardens. "Guys that thing is running towards the gardens. I'm going to fly after it while you cut it off when it gets there." Rainbow said. After that she jumped out the window and flew towards the gardens.
John looked behind him and saw Rainbow chasing after him. 'Shit' he thought 'I thought that they would keep looking that way until I jumped out the window but maybe the stories are true that she is faster than a normal pegasus.'
Running a little farther John saw that he was in the garden. 'Shit if what the gardener slaves say are true then there should be a poison joke patch around here' John thought. One thing that humans were immune to was Poison Joke, instead of playing a prank on humans all that would happen was that they would just get dizzy with a slight chance of nausea depending on how long they stay in it. That is why Tyrant Celestia kept some humans as slaves to keep watch of the dangerous plants.
Finding a small patch of Poison Joke, John dived into it and lay down, the plants hiding him from view. After laying there for about a minute he heard the flapping of wings and the sound of hoof-steps. "C'mon guys I saw him around here somewhere." A, surprisingly, desperate sounding Twilight said.
"Twilight the only thing over here is that patch of Poison Joke. Princess, if you don't mind me asking why do you keep a patch of that plant around here?" Rarity asked.
"Well it grows here wildly and there is not much we can do about it, because ponies don't like the effect they have." Celestia answered.
It was at this EXACT moment that some Poison Joke rubbed against John's nose causing him to sneeze.
"What was that?" Twilight quickly asked.
"It sounded like a sneeze." Rarity said
"Where did it come from?"
"Oh I think over there by... the...... Poison Joke." Rarity said slowly.
"Fuck." John muttered under his breath as he got up quickly and bolted.
"There it is get it." Rainbow cried out.
John yelled over his shoulder "I AM A GUY thank you very much." After that snarky comment he ran in the opposite direction of the garden. THIS time heading towards the exit/entrance.
Little did he know that at the gate was Shining Armor himself. "Alright, men. We were given orders to capture this creature that is loose in the castle ground. We are not supposed to kill it." All of this was met by a murmur of "What is this creature?" and "How are we supposed to capture it?".
Their briefing was cut short by John running at the gates shouting again "LEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOY JENKINSSSSSS!" Just as he was about to go through the gates they slammed closed. John was immediately surrounded by guards. John face-palmed and muttered "Should have known."
"HALT!" Shining Armor shouted. "you are under arrest for breaking into the castle and attempting to resist arrest."
John, recognizing the voice as Shining Armor, shouted out, in an attempt to troll him "What's up Shiny! Hows the marriage going?!" Fortunately for John the Elements heard that.
"WHAT!" Twilight yelled "You're getting married and didn't even tell me about it! Who are you even marrying?!"
After that everyone watched the siblings, one of them was glaring at the other while the other one looked away. During the confusion John, trying to be stealthy, crouched down and walked slowly towards the gates, but was then enveloped in a light pink bubble.
John was taking deep breaths and letting them out quickly, trying to see if there was a place that new oxygen was getting into. Noticing that there was, he quickly ran his hands across the inside of the bubble while the ponies were watching him wondering what he was doing. Finding a small hole in the bubble (that recycles the oxygen) he lifted his arm, made a fist, and punched the hole. The effect was immediate the bubble shattered like it was glass, even making the sound.
Trying to find another way out John bolted away from them, but was then caught by a magical aura holding him in place. "Let me go! Come on let me go!" John yelled while trying to push against the aura. After a few minutes he sighed in defeat. "Alright. What now? Execution, torture, lashes, banishment to the moon, banishment to the sun? Or is it all of them put together first lashes, second torture, then banishment to the moon, then the sun, and finally execution." He said. Managing to turn his head a bit he saw their horrified expressions. "What? Oh don't tell me your NOW becoming good." John said sarcastically remembering the times Tyrant Celestia had been claimed to be good.
Meanwhile in the Slave World
"You mean to tell me that the boy managed to escape my top soldiers and the Elements!" Tyrant Celestia screeched. "You idiots I don't care if he's on another planet FIND HIM!" she sighed "Now I'm going to try to relax. Bring in that human singer. I believe his name is Justin Beiber."
(Okay so you probably know him already so I don't need to do a description) Justin walked into the room with a mic. Deciding to sing a song that he wrote he started. "Baby baby baby OHHHHH-"
"CUT OUT HIS TONGUE HIS MUSIC IS TERRIBLE!!!" Celestia shouted out. Guards came immediately and dragged him away. "Never again will he sing. That was just terrible."
A/N Yep this chapter is pretty much explanations (and spoilers)of The Slave World and other things.
Explanations
Slave World- The slave world is where John and Jane are from. It is ruled over by Tyrant Celestia and her sister Luna. Tyrant Celestia (for now I am going to abbreviate her name) rules over her kingdom with an iron fist. If a single pony starts an idea of rebellion the one who T.C. thinks started it will be led into public execution. This place is also ruled locally by the Elements. Applejack, Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash. Each of them is a single element. When they are together, though they create the elements of pain. (If you don't know what those are then read the first chapter) The Slave World got it's name from the countless human slaves that are forced to work there.
John- John is a human who was once a 'personal' slave of T.C. The things he did as a slave was work in the mines for about 6 years, was a servant for 5 years, and was T.C. 'Plaything' for 4 years, until his escape. While he was in his cell he picked up a few things such as; singing, lock-picking, and some medicine from the fungus and other things that grew on the cell's walls. He is also the few remaining human magicians.
Jane- John's 'Girlfriend'. Basically a stalker for John. Not much is know about her except for the fact that she is human and that she has a way to obvious crush on John even though he has his eye's on somebody else. Exceptionally skilled in potion making.
T.C. (or Tyrant Celestia)- The ruler of the slave world imagine normal Celestia except that, instead of motherly and kind, she's despicable, sadistic, insane.
Nightmare Moon- In the Slave World she was considered a saint among humans. By her bringing eternal night they would all die off that was a blessing compared to what they have to do each and every day.
Discord- In the Slave World he is considered the human's god. It is said that Discord created humans so that they could rule if Discord ever fell from the throne. That idea was crushed when T.C. took over and ordered the humans to stand down. Most of them were defiant until near genocide. With only 100 humans left they surrendered and were sent to slavery for the defiance.
Humans- In the Slave World, before Tyrant Celestia was there, the humans had a population of over 250,000,000. That changed when their god, Discord, fell from the throne. Tyrant Celestia had taken over but the humans were defiant. Nearly 10 years of bloody war was waged, the victors being the ponies. Since humans could not fly or use magic (except for a few) they lost horribly. So much that it was considered genocide almost wiping out the entire race. Now the human population is growing slowly from the slavery. It is now over 15,000 strong, but not enough to start a rebellion.
Gilda- A wanted criminal for not being cruel enough to others. In contrast with the Gilda in the normal world this Gilda is a saint to humankind.
Chrysalis- Upon her sneaking into the Royal Palace some human slaves caught her. When she was about to be taken to T.C she explained her plan to destroy T.C. The slaves let her go and a few days later when the wedding started she was expelled from the castle leaving 25 slaves dead for letting her inside the castle though the royal guard was not blamed in the slightest.
Unwanted Memories
"What do you mean by acting nice!? She was already nice from the start!" Rainbow Dash yelled.
"Yes. Nice. No she was nice I mean what princess would order her guards to capture a creature that wanted to leave. Yeah, that's right. A NICE one." John said sarcastically. "And don't get me started on the times I was tortured." Again there was shocked silence. 'Seriously what is up with the silences, if it was normal T.C. she would have been ranting about how I would have never escaped, and, possibly, rape me in front of the guards.' John thought.
Celestia got a horrified look on her normally calm face and was blushing profoundly. "I WOULD NEVER DO THAT YOU VILE CREATURE! HOW DARE THOSE THOUGHTS ENTER YOUR HEAD!?"
"WELL it seems the rumors that you could read minds is true." John said while trying to rub his ears but failing, "Well it's a wonder I managed to get this far with my half baked escape plan." The latter he said under his breath.
"Hey what did you mean by torture exactly?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah the Princess wouldn't harm a fly!" Rainbow Dash called out, adding her own two bits.
"Never ask a slave what tortures he's been through." John said with a tone of cold stone, "Lest your minds not take the stress."
"But.. But we really want to know." Twilight said with a heart-wrenching look in her eyes.
Luckily John was immune from the tricks "No and leave it at that."
Meanwhile Celestia was deep in thought when she spoke up "How about I will release you on the condition that you tell us about what you have suffered through."
"Okay, so, Freedom for a few horrible memories that would make even the toughest men/stallions run away in fear?" John said, thinking aloud, "Well it is freedom so sure. Why not? But I'm not going to tell you I'm going to show you. Celestia isn't there a spell that will let other people/ponies see into memories?"
"Yes, there is but I would have to find it in the archives." Celestia answered.
"Well go get it. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon." John replied back.
Uneventful moments later
Celestia came back to a middle of a fight. It was Rainbow Dash against John. "Why did you punch me you hairless ape!" Rainbow Dash yelled.
"Because you hit me in the balls!" John yelled back. All the other ponies were looking back and forth between the two. Celestia, slightly amused, held them both back by her magical aura. "Well I got the book that has the spell in it." she called out.
"Well finally. I was just about to punch this creature square where his jaw is." Rainbow Dash said.
"Oh yeah. Well then care to explain how you MISSED the first time." John shot back.
"ALRIGHT ENOUGH!" Twilight shouted. Both of them settled down a bit, but were still glaring at each other. "Lets just get this over with. Okay." She said glaring slightly at the other two.
"Anyways how many will be coming into my mind. I want them to wipe their feet before they come in." John said.
"Well it's not as if your mind can get any dirtier." Celestia said dryly.
"Lets get this over with. I want my freedom." John replied back.
"Alright here it goes." Celestia said starting the spell.
In the mindscape
John looked around and saw a vast emptiness. "Alright if anyone says I have an empty mind I will kill you." He turned around and saw Rainbow's mouth open before she closed it. "Humph thought so."
He thought up of each torture he's been through during his entire life. Immediately there was a doorway big enough to fit Discord standing up straight. "Well lets go." John walked forward and opened the doors to his horrors.
The first torture he had been through was the lashes of the whip for back talking when he was 2. You could see the whip cut into his flesh and pull out in gruesome detail and hear the screams of the child in agony. "Oh my." Celestia said shocked "Who is that boy?"
"What? Can't tell when it's me crying out in pain or have you gone deaf from how many times it has happened." John answered coldly and continued walking.
The next torture was when he was 5. This was for insulting Warden Shining Armor. "Ah so you think your tough don't you. Your just a little whiny BITCH who wants his mother. Well I got news for you. It was your parents who sold you out for their own freedom." Shining in the memory said. Everypony in the area looked at the Shining Armor not from the memory with horrified expressions that matched his own.
"This was one of my other tortures. They would put me in water," As if to demonstrate the boy was forced into the small tub of water, "and use the pegasi magic to create lightning to electrocute me." again, as if by some unseen force, two pegasi came out with a thundercloud and hit it when it was right above the tub sending over 1,000 volts into the water and the boy. "Now moving on to another one." John said not even bothering to look back at the others.
The next area had a giant medieval stretcher. This time John who was now 8 was being attached to it. The ponies and John himself heard his screams of excruciating pain from being stretched. John went into the next room not bothering to check to see if the others were following.
The next room was where John, who was barely 10, was stone faced as he went back to the lashes and again to the stretcher when he was 11.
"Now here are some of the more recent ones," John said, "Oh and just so you know this has mature content so squeamish viewers cover your eyes. I don't want some throw up all over my mind."
In the next room they could see John, who was now 13, tied down to a chair with scars all over his face and naked body. Near the chair was a table with a bloody knife on it and the floor was covered with blood. They hear the John in the memory say "Wow they must be really desperate to find the one who was thinking about starting a rebellion if they brought you in, Element." The ending was spat out with disgust.
Then they all heard a familiar voice, "Oh yes Tyrant Celestia will be pleased when she hears how I broke you." The voice belonged to Pinkie Pie.
John remained defiant even though he knew he was about to die before he gave away his friend. "You won't learn anything from me. Just give it up." The last thing they saw was Pinkie Pie, with her mane straight down, plunge the knife into his gut while laughing gleefully.
Now they were back at the beginning of his mindscape. All of them looking at John with sad and shocked expressions. Their thoughts were scattered after what they saw. Then John spoke up "Judging from the way you reacted through my entire thoughts, it seems that I am NOT on the same planet, or plane of existence, in that matter. Just so you know at the age of 11 I caught the eye of a certain leader. She was know as Tyrant Celestia. I became her...... 'Personal' slave. I will not go into details. I will only let Celestia here into my thoughts, but she must respect that if I say no she will not be allowed to view my other thoughts. From there though I don't know where I'll go."
After a few moments of silence Pinkie Pie asked a question, "Where will you be staying then?"
"I don't know. I might stay at the castle if Celestia and Luna allows it." He said looking at the duo.
"Yes you can stay at the castle as long as you don't try anything against us. I saw some of those thoughts you had about us and I must say you are very naughty." Celestia said after discussing it with Luna for a bit.
At the last part John blushed a little bit and said, "Stay away from those thoughts they get kind of freaky deeper down."
Celestia laughed a little bit and stopped the flow of magic to the spell and, the next thing anybody knew they were back at the front gates.
A/N Wow longest chapter so far. Anyways what do you think about John now that you delved a little deeper into what he has been through. Must say my hand HURTS!!!!!
With the Slaves
Slave World
"Where is John at?" That is the question that was most asked around the cells of the slaves. All that they heard was that he was going to Tyrant Celestia for 'personal' matters. Then they heard over the announcer, a technological advancement because of the humans, "All slaves report to the common room NOW!" The slaves knew better than to wait. The cell doors opened at once and all the slaves slowly walked toward the common room.
In the common room, near the front, was Tyrant Celestia herself. All of the slaves knew that it meant one of two things. One was an execution, and the other was some important announcement such as the return of Nightmare Moon. It was the latter.
"My subjects on the way to my rooms, John thought it would be a good idea to try to escape." The slaves were in a grim silence knowing that the punishment for trying to escape was death. "He had almost succeeded had he not run into a room that was a dead end. From there the Elements attacked and killed him." Again they were in a grim silence. "So that will mean that I need another slave to help me with personal matter." At this all the men faces turned grim knowing what that meant. "But here is the thing. This time I want a female." At this there was loud gasps of shock from both genders. "The men are dismissed the women must stay."
Knowing they couldn't fight Tyrant Celestia the men left with their faces in a grimace. The women stayed behind with their heads down. "I need a women who will suit my needs. You have to be under 25," at this most of them sighed in relief, got up, and left, "You have to be AT LEAST 15, "Again a majority sighed, and left, now there were only 5 between the age a 15 and 25, "And you must be a virgin." Now there were only two.
One of them, named Jane, had long blonde hair, light blue eyes and was one of the luckiest females. Most of the guards would have raped her at the start but she managed to avoid them keeping her virginity. She had absolutely no scars on her at all that was another reason she was considered lucky. She was 15 and has a major crush on John, borderline stalker if they were ever in the same room.
The other was name Alyssa. She had short red hair that curls slightly, brown eyes, and a scar running down her left arm. She, like Jane, has a crush on John because of his tough exterior and never letting anyone become his friend keeping almost everyone at a distance.
Tyrant Celestia was...... surprised to say the least. She expected more girls instead of just two. "Where are the other virgins?" She asked curiously.
"Well," replied Jane, "the guards normally rape every female that gets near them so we're extremely lucky that we're virgins." If looks could kill every guard in the room would be dead.
"THEY DO WHAT?!" Tyrant Celestia screeched. "Guards tell the others if they rape another female they are going to get PUBLIC EXECUTION!" The guards in the room gulped and ran to tell the others. "Now then which one will I use to help me?" she asked herself.
"Hey," Tyrant Celestia looked up and saw that it was Jane talking, "if that was the job John had then can I have it." 'What's the worse that could happen' Jane thought.
Tyrant Celestia grinned, not quite believing what she was hearing. "Alright then. You red head leave." Alyssa sighed in relief and left quickly, knowing what was about to happen. "Alright then. Here is the personal matter." She grabbed Jane with her magic and stripped her clothes off of her. "Here's the personal matter." You could hear the screams echo throughout the halls of the castle.
A Few Days Later
"That's it. I've gotta escape. Like John, even though he died, but where he failed I won't." Jane whispered to herself. It has been a few days since the first 'personal' matter had been. Nearly twice a day Tyrant Celestia would do the same thing. Jane had had enough of it and planned a half-baked escape plan just like John did.
Jane walked into Tyrant Celestia private room and found T.C. in a VERY compromising position. T.C was face down on the bed sleeping, with her plot up in the air. Jane slowly backed away thinking. 'Okay so since she is sleeping she shouldn't wake up for a while. Now would be the perfect opportunity to escape.' But, as fate would have it, she backed up to far and hit a table with a vase on it. The vase was wobbling and tipped with a CRASH on the floor. Instantly T.C. awoke from the noise and looked around. "Guards!" She yelled.
Jane, realizing that she was caught ran out the doorway and through a series of hallways (Remember this?). When she finally came to a dead end room with a weird circle in it. She turned to run the other way, but in the doorway was a guard. She backed away until she was nearly in the center when she tripped and there was a flash of light.
Normal World
"So, wait let me get this straight. You just defeated Discord and you only went in that room only because Discord's 'magical signature' was there?" John asked with his eyebrows raised. Again the group nodded as they went back to the room where they found John, still going to destroy it.
"Yes. How many times do we have to say this?" Rarity asked.
"Well sorry because in my world a wedding was being planned and that was about 3? 4 months after Discord's fall." John said.
"Hmm than that means that in your world time runs differently than here." Celestia said.
They got back to the Transportation Room just as a flash of light came from it. In the center was a girl, about 15, with light blue eyes, and long blonde hair, but she was lying on the floor, as if she tripped.
"GAH!" She screamed. She rushed to get up, but kept tripping over herself. John, finally finding the situation not funny after laughing a bit, went up to her, gripped her arm, and pulled. Immediately she was on her feet because of John's strength, and also she weighed less than 100 pounds.
"Okay as funny as that was. Who are you?" John asked.
Jane, recognizing John's voice, threw herself at him hugging him and sobbing into his shoulder. John just stood there with his arms in the air looking as uncomfortable as possible. "Uh do I know you?" John asked.
"That's right you wouldn't know me since your so awesome." Jane said in between sobs.
"Are you....... You're trying to flirt with me aren't you?" John said back.
She didn't answer but stayed with him. While she was still hugging him, John turned his head and saw that the others were trying hard not to laugh. "Yeah yeah laugh it up. After that can you help me get her off me? She has grip like iron." he said.
After a few minutes of laughing Twilight pulled Jane off John. When Jane realized she was floating in the air she then noticed who else was in the room and screamed.
"Yeah had about the same reaction you did too. Except without the ear shattering scream!" John shouted at the end of her screaming. "And also I did not get your name."
Jane screamed yet again. John, having heard enough, yelled to Twilight "Can you SHUT HER UP!?" A zipper appeared on Jane's and was closed. When the screaming stopped John sighed and said "Sweet silence. Now then before I take that zipper off of your mouth LISTEN TO ME!" The ending he shouted out. So John told the story of how he got there and how he ran away at first then realized that the ponies in this world were nicer than the ones in the other world then to the point that she got their. "Alright now I'm going to take off the zipper now don't scream again or the lesson will be with the back of my hand." John said as he reached up and took off the zipper that closed her mouth.
"Alright. So were not home are we?" Jane asked. John just let out an exasperated sigh but that was it. "And those aren't our Elements?" Again John let out a sigh and just nodded. Now she started tearing up again, "Everyone thought that you were dead John and i-i-it wa-was horr-horrible." She said and burst into tears yet again.
John just turned, stone-faced, to Celestia and said "We might need another room. Oh and if you don't mind I would like to spar with your guards."
Celestia was taken aback by the last request and she had to make sure she heard correctly "What?"
"I said that I would like to spar with your guards." John said back slowly as if she was an old woman (which she was. she's like over 1000 years old).
"Why?" Celestia asked.
"Well I want to see if their as tough in my world than they are here and so that I stay in shape don't want to just lie around all day and do nothing. Don't worry though I won't beat them up to bad." John answered with a smile.
"Well I would have to okay it with the Shining Armor, but I think we can arrange it." Celestia said with a small smile. For some reason whenever this human did something to make her smile she felt giddy inside. "On the condition that we could watch you spar."
John just shrugged and said "Sure, why not?" By this time Jane stopped crying and was watching them. "Anyways what was your name I'd rather not call you girl every time I see you." John said.
"Oh, well my name is Jane." Jane said.
"Alright then nice to meet you Jane." John said. "Celestia. Where are we going to be staying at the castle."
"We need to destroy this first." Twilight said.
"Oh right that was what were here for. Well destroy this quickly then lets go. I don't want T.C to be running around here." John said.
After a few minutes of magical stuff they managed to destroy the portal but closed the room off from the public. By the time Celestia and Luna showed them their room Luna had to raise the moon. "Well goodnight you two." Celestia said.
"Yes see thou in the mourn!" Luna shouted in the Royal Canterlot Voice.
While John lay in bed he couldn't wait until tomorrow for the fight. They got the okay from Shiny and training for the guards started the next day at 10 am. 'Best day ever' John thought 'I escaped T.C, jumped through a window two stories up, was chased through the castle grounds, made the princess blush horribly, got a chance to spar with the guards, met a strange girl, and, I believe that the princess might be in love with me. Yep not a bad day at all.' With those thoughts he fell asleep peacefully, the first time he slept nicely from the time he was a slave.
In the room next to his, Jane lay awake thinking about what she saw with the princess and John. 'She better not be trying to steal my man.' She thought 'He is mine.' With that she fell asleep.
Little did she know that somepony was listening in on her thoughts "Perrrrrrfect." it hissed as it evaporated into black smoke.
A/N
Sparring (With Songs)
John woke up in the most comfortable bed in the world. 'Wow,' he thought 'Much better than the rough ass stuff we sleep in.' It was after that thought that someone put their hands around him. He turned slowly and saw who it was.
"JANE ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS!" John shouted jumping up. Good thing he wore his clothes while he slept or there might have been some funny business going on. Jane got up groggily, apparently not aware of sleeping in his bed, and looked around.
"Hey this isn't my room." She said almost asleep again.
"Yeah no fucking kidding." John said back. When John said that she was waking up a bit more and saw him. She put on a small smile and her eyes sparked with something. John recognized it instantly seeing it far to many time in T.C eyes. Lust. "Nope nope nope nope." John said backing out of the doorway and sprinted full speed into the dining room.
Celestia, Luna and the Mane Six were having a nice breakfast when John burst into the room still yelling, "Nope nope nope no way nope." Stifling a giggle Celestia grabbed John before he could go out the other door. When in the magical grasp he still was saying "nope" over and over again.
After a few minutes Jane walked in the room. John's eyes never left her as she got closer to the table and sat down. That quieted down what he was saying. Celestia asked quickly, thinking that would happen again, "John, what were you talking about before?"
John looked at her, then at Jane, then at her again, then the door. Celestia nodded and took him out of the dining room. "Now what was it?" She asked again in a slightly demanding tone.
"Well let's see then. I woke up in the comfiest bed ever, looked and saw Jane sleeping next to me," At this Celestia's eyes widened in alarm, but John quickly reassured her "Don't worry there was no funny business at least not 'til after she woke up. She looked around smiled at me and her eyes flashed with a feeling I was used to. Lust. I ran out of the room into there, and you took me out of there to talk to me."
Celestia just nodded and started walking back to the dining room when John spoke up. "Um Celly?" She looked and saw him struggling against her magical grasp. "You can let me go now." She blushed a bit before releasing him and walked back into the room. John followed soon after.
As Celestia took her place her sister leaned over to her ear and whispered, "Didja get a date?" Celestia looked at her sister in surprise that she spoke normally before turning red from embarrassment. Luna took that as a 'yes' and did a little squee causing everyone at the table to look at her. Luna blushed furiously and went back to eating.
While in the middle of eating Celestia thought back to what happened a few moments ago feeling as if she missed something. She remembered John telling her that story of why he ran in there at full speed, she remembered getting alarmed that Jane slept next and a little jealous. She remembered when he asked to get out of her magic. 'Wait, it was something about the way he asked the question' she thought trying to remember what he said exactly.
Small Flashback
End Flashback
'That was it. He called me Celly.' Celestia thought as she went back to eating before realizing what he said. Finally it hit her. He had called her Celly. CELLY. That was a pet name. 'Does he like me too? Did he do that to abbreviate my name? Does he- why is somepony tapping my shoulder?' She broke away from her thoughts and looked to see who it was. It was her most faithful student Twilight.
"Princess didn't you want to see him spar?" Twilight asked.
"Hmm? Oh is it time already? She looked at the sun and saw that it was about noon, the time the guards normally sparred with each other.
"Well then let's go." Celestia said walking towards the guards training grounds.
John was having a wonderful time seeing most of the guards shrink away from him. The only ones that didn't were of high rank and one very hot-headed recruit. John was looking at the guards seeing who would be worthy in a fight, but all of them had a laid back and relaxed personality coming from the even the captains. Shining Armor came up to him, "What are you doing here?" he said.
"Oh I asked Celly if I could spar with your men. I'm going to compare them to the ones in my world." John replied.
Shining Armor didn't notice Celestia's nickname and said, "These are professionally trained guards you'll get hurt."
John barked out a laugh, "Yeah I'll get hurt. If it make you feel better you can have a few ponies to help you in case I get hurt. Or your men." The ending he said under his breath.
"Well alright then but don't say I didn't warn you." Shining said as he walked off.
Shiny went to his men and gave them a brief down on why John was there. They all agreed that he could spar with them but they insisted that they hold back against the 'poor human'.
"Alright now then who want to spar with me?" Immediately the hot-head came up.
"What's your name? Wait let me guess. Hot Head?" John asked cracking up while he was saying it.
"My name is Hot Head." He stated.
"Wow. Really? I was calling you that to insult you. I didn't think that was your name." John replied.
Hot Head just growled and crouched down into his battle position. "Wait." John said.
"What is it you chickening out?" Hot Head sneered as he got out of his battle position.
"No I was going to ask if you minded if I sing a little bit while we spar?" John replied.
Hot Head was taken aback by the request but he said "Sure." and got back into battle position.
John smiled and said "Perfect." as he crouched down also. Suddenly all the guards in the area heard a beat of music coming from around John. (I recommend playing MC Hammer's Can't Touch This)
"U Can't touch this"
Hot Head charged forward throwing a punch which John easily dodged.
"U Can’t touch this
John grabbed Hot Head's foreleg when he punched again and flipped him over.
"My, my, my music hits me so hard
John pointed at his feet and started jumping around dodging punch after punch from Hot Head who was slowly getting angrier.
"It feels good, when you know you're down
Hot Head jumped at John who fell backwards, but with his hand behind he back to catch him while he fell. As soon as Hot Head went over him he pushed on his hand and went back to standing up.
"I told you homeboy (can't touch this)
Suddenly John was enveloped in a small light and when he came out he was wearing black parachute pants with a red jacket that showed off his chest and stomach revealing almost all of his scars. When the other guards saw this they all cringed, even the veterans.
"Fresh new kicks, advance
John was still dodging each punch Hot Head threw at him while only slightly breaking a sweat meanwhile Hot Head was getting tired and was sweating a lot if the fight went on longer he would be exhausted. Hot Head then realized that that was John's plan from the start and attacked with new ferocity. Meanwhile Celestia, Luna, Jane, and the Mane Six were watching in the bleachers that were on the side of the arena.
"Yo, I told you (can't touch this)
At that a small flash went off above his head. After the flash went away he was wearing a professor’s hat. John reached up immediately and tore it off, throwing it to the crowd of guards that had come to watch. Hearing a mare's voice shouting out "MINE!"
"Give me a song, or rhythm
Now Hot Head was getting even angrier but and still attacking with ferocity.
"That's word because you know...
U Can't touch this
John now went on the offensive getting hit after hit on Hot Head while still singing his voice seemingly broke into two to make the effect last. Punch after punch going straight for Hot Head's chest and forelegs.
Go with the funk, it is said
Break it down! Stop, Hammer time!
Break it down! Stop, Hammer time!
Every time you see me
U Can't touch this
John was suddenly filled rage.'Damnit all to hell' John thought 'It's happening again.' John kept up the onslaught even as the song ended and Hot Head was begging for mercy. Very soon Hot Head was going to be Hot Dead. Just when John was about to finish it he was shot backward by a magical blast of yellow and hit the wall on the far side. John barely even registered the pain all that he felt was anger. He got back up and walked towards Hot Head that was now crawling away from him making slow progress to get to the medical ponies on the side of the field.
Everyone was shocked. They almost got out of their expressions quickly enough to rush towards Hot Head. Almost. John smiled cruelly, and sang out in a cruel and malicious voice one not his own. The ponies were held in place by the sheer force of his voice and were scared witless.
(Recommended song: Discorded Whooves Bad Apple)
"Ever on and on I continue circling with nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony" Another sharp kick to the chest for Hot Head.
"'Til slowly I forget and my heart start vanishing." John thumped his chest where his heart is.
"And suddenly I see that I can't break free -I'm-" There were cracks in the ground and slowly John's lower body was like a shadow. John willingly went under the cracks so they didn't have to see his gruesome transformation.
"Slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity," John's head was going through the cracks and a pony made of shadow took his place. John's voice booming throughout the field.
"Feeling nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony"
The shadow pony had tears in it's eyes and from it's back sprouted countless claws breaking the skin on the ponies' back. The guards, the princesses, the Mane Six, and Jane gasped as it happened thinking of how much pain it must be in. In truth he felt nothing at all, used to the sensation of flesh being ripped of his back. John was slowly rising out of the cracks revealing that it happened to him also. Hot Head was being put in a stretcher as they all watched in absolute horror.
"To tell me who I am. Who I was. Uncertainty enveloping my mind 'til I can't break free and. Maybe it's a dream, maybe nothing else is real, but it wouldn't mean the same if I told you how I feel." John said looking towards Jane and the Princesses and looked away.
"So I'm tired of all the pain of the misery inside and I wish that I could live feeling nothing but the night." John still sang while looking to the sky.
"You can tell me what to say, you can tell me where to go, but I doubt that I would care and my heart would never know. If I take another move there'll be no more turning back because everything would change and it all would fade to blaaaack." John's skin became darker from the neck up.
"Will tomorrow ever come? Will I make it through the night? Will there ever be a place for the broken in the light? Am I hurting? Am I sad? Should I stay or should I go? I forgotten how to tell. Did I ever even know?" While John sang everyone there was still staring at him soon ghostly images appeared. His first changing into what he was. How he tried to hide it. How one of his friends found out and how he died when he figured it out.
"Can I take another step? I've done everything I can. All the people that I see I will never understand. If I find a way to change, If I step into the light. Then I'll never be the same and it all will fade to whiiiiite." Now from the neck up he was normal but from the neck down it looked like he was covered in shadows.
"Ever on and on I continue circling with nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony 'Til slowly I forget and my heart start vanishing." John thumped his chest where his heart is.
"And suddenly I see that I can't break free -I'm-" he was going through the cracks again.
"Slipping through the cracks of a dark eternity, Feeling nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony To tell me who I am. Who I was. Uncertainty enveloping my mind 'til I can't break free and. Maybe it's a dream, maybe nothing else is real, but it wouldn't mean a thing if I told you how I feel" Now he looked down at his sinking body.
"So I'm tired of all the pain of the misery inside and I wish that I could live feeling nothing but the night." John still sang looked to the sky as he slowly rose out of the ground.
"You can tell me what to say, you can tell me where to go, but I doubt that I would care and my heart would never know. If I take another move there'll be no more turning back because everything would change and it all would fade to blaaaack." John's skin became darker, again, from the neck up.
"If I make another move, If I take another step then it all would fall apart, There'd be nothing of me left." Another ghostly image appeared, this one not a memory but for show. It showed John lying dead on the floor with a long cut across the throat.
"If I'm crying in the wind, If I'm crying in the night, will there ever be a way for my heart to turn to white." John closed his eyes a teardrop forming remembering all that had died trying to become his friend or getting close to him and them figuring out why he didn't want any.
"Can you tell me who you are? Can you tell me where I am? I forgotten how to see I've forgotten how if I can." John's voice was returning to normal but still he sang.
"If I open up my eyes there'd be no more going back cause I'd throw it all away and it all would fade to blaaaaaack." John looked around and still saw their shocked expressions. Thinking that they were all angry at him he willed the claws on his back to morph into wings. Slowly the claws closed together forming wings and John took off into the air flying towards his room in the castle. Closing the window behind him, he willed the claws back into his flesh and locked the doors.
John started to take whatever he could, loose bits, a bottle of vodka he got from the kitchen, and his own clothes. He got one of the bed sheets and wrapped it around the stuff he had. John, now satisfied that nothing would fall out, punched out one of the wooden legs from a nearby chair using it to help him carry it (Imagine a hobo sack). John rushed into the kitchen to see what he could grab before leaving the castle.
Celestia was frantic. She was searching everywhere for John thinking that he would do something rash. She searched his room, the rooms around it, and the dining room. 'Where would he hide?' She thought to herself. She thought about it for a moment when she realized that he was a slave to this castle so that would mean he would know it inside and out.
'Where would he go?' She thought in despair. Then she got a flash of inspiration as she went to the kitchen where she saw John. He was reaching up grabbing some apples and other foods that wouldn't spoil easily. He quickly opened up a sack that was with him and put it in before walking to the door when he noticed Celestia was blocking it. "Shit." John said as he backed away looking for a way out before realizing he could grow wings. "Well I'm stupid." John said as he willed the claws to come out.
Celestia saw the horrible transformation John went through to grow out his wings and could feel the anger radiating off of him to make them grow. Slowly the claws came out sprouting from his back as they surrounded him. John was kneeling down on the floor with a single hand on the floor his face in a grimace as the claws grew more. Soon the claws enveloped him and when he stood, the claws flexed backwards and his eyes turned a glowing green color instead of his normal dark green and light blue eye. His eye color wasn't the only thing that changed all the scars that were on him reopened and was slowly bleeding. His pupils became slits almost like a dragon's. His voice turned commanding and full of malice as he said, "Let me be." He turned towards the windows and broke out of them as he flew.
Celestia was in silence before she gave chase hoping to figure out what had happened to the John she knew and, dare she say it, loved.
John was royally pissed off. He almost killed a guard, which was considerably more better then what normally would have happened, stole some things from Celestia, and was on the run from Celestia herself. He knew his destination, it was the area he was planning on going to when he first tried to escape. The Everfree Forest. John made a beeline for the forest hoping to outpace Celestia.
Celestia managed to hear what he was thinking and teleported (WHY IS THAT NOT A WORD) to the Everfree and took to the air, waiting for him to come. It didn't take long, John appeared like a bat out of hell going full speed and almost crashed into her, just barely stopping in front of her. "What do you want?" John asked coldly.
"I wanted to know why you ran away after the fight." Celestia stated.
"You mean to tell me that you're not mad that I almost killed one of the guards and almost sent Canterlot into mass panic?" John asked, confused.
"What was that about sending Canterlot into mass panic?" Celestia asked.
"You mean they wouldn't see a strange creature bursting out of the castle, being chased by the Princess herself?" John asked. His question hit her hard. She didn't think about anypony being around when he burst out the window or when she chased after him. News would travel quickly that there was some kind of monster causing panic and was last seen headed towards Ponyville. She started to sweat slightly as she thought about it and John saw it. "So you didn't think about your subject when you chased after me." He said. Celestia saw two things in his eyes that flashed at once. Intense confusion and sadness? It vanished as quickly as it appeared and he continued. "Well a reason is that you wanted to interrogate me about the wings," he demonstrated by flexing his wings in mid-air, "or you like me." The ending he said with a toothy grin, not expecting a reaction.
Celestia blushed horribly and stuttered, "N-no I have no idea what you're talking about." Then in a small voice, "Is it really that obvious?"
"Whoa, wait you actually like me?" John asked incredulously. "I was just saying that to mess with you. I wasn't expecting a reaction."
"Oh." was all she said, thinking that he had rejected her.
"But," Her ears perked up a bit. Too bad he was interupted. For some reason Pinkie Pie appeared in front of them hovering on a helicopter.
"My Pinkie Sense just went off." She said. "I had a doozy and it was somewhere near the Everfree forest. I got the girls over here quick just in time to hear Celestia say she liked you." John was blushing thinking that this was a private moment and that Pinkie was intruding. Celestia thinking almost the same thing except she just chalked it up as Pinkie Pie just being Pinkie Pie. John then realized she said the 'girls' his eyes widened as he looked around and, sure enough, the Mane Six and Luna were looking at them, Rainbow and Luna were flying but the rest were on the ground looking up at them.
"Shit." John said under his breath. He looked around again and saw that his wings were going back into his skin. "SHIT!" he shouted again and he blew past Celestia and shouted back "Sorry Celly got to go and Da Deus fortunae (God give luck) to me! Don't want you to know about the wings yet! I'll explain in a few days!" John's last thoughts before the wings went completely back into his skin and he plummeted 5 stories high over the forest. 'I'm such a Mary Sue.'
A/N Yeah I hope I didn't put it like a Mary Sue and is that LATIN? Yes yes it is. I was going to see if you guys (and maybe girls) would get which language it was in but decided against it. Anyways Oh No! John's in the Everfree. What will happen? Maybe he'll bring home a pet (wink wink nudge nudge) Hope it doesn't seem like a Mary Sue. Comment and tell me if it does or doesn't.
Spoof
"Muahahahahahhahaha." John laughed evilly as he left the Everfree leaving a horrible mess behind him with his army of creatures. "First stop Ponyville TO DESTROY THEM ALL!!!!" He shouted back to his army which roared in response. On the front lines were to manticores, behind them an army of trees. Scattered throughout the army were dozens of Hydras and Ursa Majors and Minors.
Twilight Sparkle and the Princesses heard the mighty roar all the way to Canterlot. "Oh no that was coming from the Everfree I hope John's okay." Celestia said worriedly. Luna walked to the balcony and did a magnifying spell to see John and his army destroy the small town of Ponyville. "I think John is leading the charge actually." Luna said quietly.
"But HOW?" Celestia shouted as she rushed towards the balcony and did the same spell Luna did. She saw Ponyville falling to a few mighty swipes of the Ursa Majors. "T-Thats impossible. NOW ONE HAS EVER TAMED SUCH CREATURES BEFORE. Twilight, quick, get the elements as much as I hate to say it we have to imprison John." Twilight was... shaken to say the least, but she nodded her head and rushed to get the others.
John was in a happy mood. Hearing the screams of the ponies he despised so well. "NOW MY ARMY" He shouted so all could hear. "WE SHALL NOW STORM CANTERLOT!!!" A roar went up again as the creatures got back into formation and ran towards the capital.
Upon arriving they were meet with heavy resistance from the guards but they were easily scattered or killed when the Ursa Majors came. The guards, after a few minutes of being beaten senseless, retreated and all that was left were six very familiar mares all adorning necklaces except for one wearing a tiara.
They tried their best trying to reason with John. Rarity tried the hardest.
"Why are you doing this? For the few days we left you alone you managed to amass an army the size of two Canterlots put together. Why?" She repeated asking why over and over again before John had enough.
"Shut your fucking mouth and listen up." That silence all of them. "I am tired of all of this. I just wanted a quiet place to think about things and I swear to the Gods if you ask about what I was thinking about I will rip off your heads and put them on a pike outside of the Palace before I attack it." He glared at each one thinking what their heads would be like on a pike. Maybe he could fit it loosely so it wobbled in the wind. "Each time ponies came after me thinking I was a monster. Especially three young fillies." They all tensed up knowing that the Cutie Mark Crusaders disappeared a day before John started the attack. "They made wonderful trophies." That made their blood turn to ice. They no longer had sympathy for the man, neigh, MONSTER standing in front of them. "The thing is though. I found something in the Castle of the Pony Sisters. It was a book and described in GREAT detail how to block the Elements of Harmony." Their blood ran even colder. Thinking that if he could stop the greatest weapon that Ponykind created like it was nothing other than a pesky fly.... No they had to try.
"We won't let you continue any longer!" They shouted in unison as they rose their eyes turning white.
John smiled knowing that he faced certain death, but that book would save him. "EX FIDE FORTIS!" (FROM FAITH COMES STRENGTH) John shouted and his complete faith in the book came poring out of him erecting a shield of pure light. The rainbow beam hit the shield head on and John felt it weakening "NO!" he shouted and gritted his teeth, "I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS!" John then realized it turned to night. John smirked before shouting "EX UMBRA IN FORTIS(FROM SHADOW INTO STRENGTH)" the darkness of the night went towards the shield empowering it with Luna's night.
The Mane Six were getting tired from holding the beam up for so long and Fluttershy fell from the air, cutting of the magical flow. They all plummeted to the ground, but there was a flash of light as Celestia and Luna teleported them to the room they were in. "Did you get him?" Luna asked.
"I think so." Twilight said. Then a roar of anger followed by "I... am.... going..... TO KILL YOU!!!!" John's voice reverberated through the castle. The doors to the throne room gave way as John burst through with utter anger on his face. The door flew farther than he had intended to and hit Rainbow Dash square in the chest crushing her ribcage and lungs as Rainbow hit the ground. Her death was instantaneous. "EXEUNT!" (THEY LEAVE) he shouted waving his hands to six of the remaining mares alive. The six felt the sudden urge to leave and, despite their protests, their legs obeyed the command John had given leaving only Celestia.
"Et tu, John? (You too, John?) " Celestia asked.
John just nodded his head and crouched down ready for a magical and physical fight as he left his army to deal with the rest of the guards. Celestia bathed the area in light which John replied with an "Ex solem in umbra." (From light into shadows) which darkened the area. John didn't see though that Celestia was close enough to impale him with her horn as she did just that.
John gasped in pain as the sword like horn pierced through the chest and lungs. John reached towards her immediately, grabbed her horn and pulled. With a SNAP and Celestia's cry of pain her horn came off while still inside of him. John took it out and charged forward plunging the horn into her heart. "I am sorry sweet Celestia." he whispered into her ear and gave her a small kiss on the cheek. He let go of the horn and she fell to the ground convulsing. The moon was not out anymore. There wasn't anything out their anymore! John looked around frantically seeing nothing but whiteness. John saw it turn dark and felt as if he was lying down. Something soft was brushing against his arms. It was.... Grass? He opened his eyes and saw he was in the Everfree forest.
'So it was all a dream?' John thought. 'That horrible nightmare... was a dream? No way it felt way to real.' He looked around and saw no army of creatures around him just grass and trees. 'Well then that was one FUCKED UP DREAM!' as he got up and brushed himself off. He heard a roar behind him. It sounded like one of the manticores from his dreams. It was coming straight for him!
` 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.
ANOTHER!?
It was close to midnight, Luna was watching her moon raise to it's highest point in the sky, when there was a disturbance. "Hmm?" Luna said to herself. She knew that some wild energy came off of the Everfree Forest but not in this magnitude.
She rushed to her sister's room and shouted "Wake up Tia!" Celestia was awoken as was the rest of the castle.
"Luna, what is it?" Celestia mumbled groggily.
"I felt something. It was some kind of energy and-" Luna was cut off by Celestia.
"Don't worry about it Luna it was probably something from the Everfree Forest." She mumbled out laying down on the bed again.
"Tia, you're wrong! It is much more powerful than that. It might be as strong as Twilight Sparkle." Luna said back. The elements, John, and Jane heard what they were saying and heard the sound of hooves hitting the ground hard.
"Well then let's get the Elements and the others so we can see if it poses a thre- Oomph." Celestia walked out of the door and ran into John both of them falling with Celestia on top of John in a rather suggestive position. They both blushed furiously and quickly got up. Celestia coughed and asked "Luna, where was it at exactly?"
"It was somewhere outside, but I'm positive that it is still on the castle grounds." Luna answered. Celestia quickly told the guards to follow them and rushed outside towards where the disturbance was.
A man wearing armor of old sat beside the pond in the castle gardens. The armor was chain mail with a black tunic. Even though he wasn't a knight he wore the armor, and his sword, like he was one his entire life. 'Now how the FUCK did I get here. I hope dad didn't send me to kill anybody. He's trying to get me to be more evil but I think that demon inside me is enough.' He thought.
'Come on, you know you love me .' The demonic voice in his head said smugly.
'Well slightly. You do make me more powerful and immortal though your so needy.' the man said with a smile hidden by his helmet.
His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of hooves on stone. 'Great horses. They'll fear me when they see me like always. Having a demon in your head can suck. I can't even play with animals. Hell I had a dog, he bit me in the leg when you first possessed me, Ahrimar.'
'HEY THAT DOG HAD IT COMMING HE WAS GOING TO KILL US !!' The, now angry, demon Ahrimar said.
'Shut up and don't try to take over my body like last time.' The man said.
He looked towards where they were coming from and couldn't believe his eyes. In front of him were mythical creatures. He was slightly unnerved when there were only two humans and there were an army of horses. He got an idea and said "None shall pass." followed by laughter in his head from the demon. 'Please fall for it, please fall for it.'
"What?" the Male asked confused.
"None shall pass." he said again louder than before thinking his helmet muted the sound.
"I have no quarrel with you, but I must ask you to come with us." The male said.
The armored man just smiled and shouted "Then you shall die!" He rushed towards the male as he reached behind him to grab his great sword.
John and the others were, surprised to say the least. John reacted quickly retching a sword out of the guard's scabbard and blocked to blow just in time. There was a loud clang of metal on metal. John quickly did an overhand strike but the man in armor just raised his sword and blocked it with ease. The man did two overhand strike in succession followed by a horizontal swing to John's stomach. John jumped backward and the man lunged forward. John deflected and went for a horizontal strike at the head, but the man easily ducked under it. The man repeated two overhand strikes but the last one he was to slow to get up from his hunched position and John rammed to hilt into his helmet making a loud clang. The man rushed forward and did a downward stroke. John saw an opening and swung downward right onto his unprotected arm.
The arm came clean off. "Now stand aside and let us take you to the dungeons." John said.
'Don't heal my arm yet. I want to do this the right way.' The man said to the Ahrimar.
The demon giggled and said 'Don't you mean the left way since he cut off your right arm .'
'Shut up and let me do this.' He said before speak out loud, " Tis but a scratch." Trying to hold in laughter as disbelief crossed the man's face.
"A scratch! Your arm's off!" he shouted.
"No it isn't." The man said still trying to hold in laughter.
"Well whats that then!" He said, pointing his now bloody sword to the ground where his arm is.
The man looked down and saw his arm then said plainly, "I've had worse."
The butter yellow pegasus fell to the ground. Apparently she had fainted at the mention of worse.
They both ignored her and John shouted, "You lie!"
"C'mon you Panzy!" The man said before charging forward.
John easily stepped out of the way and hit his other arm with the sword, cutting it off and making to man drop his sword. "Victory is mine." John said.
The armored man just ran back up to him and round house kicked him in the face, sprawling him on the ground. "C'mon then!" The armored man shouted before kicking John while he was on the ground.
"What?!" John said in great confusion trying to get up.
"Have at you!" The man shouted before kicking him in the chest.
"Look you stupid bastard you don't have any arms left!" John said while he grabbed at the guards sword.
"Yes I have." He said while jumping on both legs.
"Look!" John insisted and the knight looked down at where his arms used to be.
"Just a flesh wound." He said smugly as he kicked John again.
"Look stop that!"
"Chicken, Chicken!"
"Look I'll have your leg!"
The guards, the Princess, The Elements, minus Fluttershy, and Jane watched in absolute amazement as he just called both of his arms being cut off a flesh wound.
When the armored man kicked John in the shin, John swung his sword at the leg that was rising up and cut it off as well. Now the knight was hopping on one leg.
"Right! I'll hurt you for that!" He said while hopping on one leg.
"You'll WHAT?!" John said in utter disbelief that the man could lose three limbs and still be going.
"Come here!" He shouted while hopping toward him.
"What are you going to do bleed on me?" John said annoyed.
"I'M INVINCIBLE!" The knight shouted headbutting John.
"Your crazy." John said.
"THE BLACK KNIGHT ALWAYS TRIUMPHS!" He shouted before trying to headbutt him again. "HAVE AT YOU!"
John gave the man an annoyed look, then when the man jumped he rammed his sword into his other leg cutting it off effectively.
The man looked at both of his cut off legs and arms and said, "Alright. We'll call it a draw."
John just shook his head when he heard laughing coming from the man. He looked and saw a strange sight. The man was rolling on the floor laughing then he said out loud, "Alright Ahrimar heal me. I've had enough fun messing with them." Then, much to their surprise, new legs and arms shot out of where they were supposed to be, but they were skeletal.
"Um what's wrong with your arms and legs?" Twilight asked.
He looked at her and said "Talking horses? Impossible. Then again I am friends with Cerberus and I have mental conversations with a demon inside my head. So I shouldn't really say that's impossible.
Twilight's eyes lit up at the mention of a friend of Cerberus. When he answered her question, "My arms are like this because Ahrimar's healing ability sucks so it has do each layer of skin a day. First the bones then the muscles, that includes ligaments and tendons, on the second day. Finally the skin for the last day. Hurts like hell but it was worth it to see you look at me like I was a madman." He ended with a laugh.
"You said there was a demon inside you. Don't you want it out?" Twilight asked.
"Nah at first it was like hell had invaded my mind. You wanna see?" He asked with a devilish grin.
"Umm. Sure?" Twilight said.
"Perfect!" The man said and, with a snap of his fingers, he and the others in the area were teleported to his mindscape. "Welcome to my Mindscape! Please keep fingers, hands, legs, wings, horns, and other objects inside the ride at all times." A miniature roller-coaster appeared and the man sat in it. What they noticed though is that his helmet didn't follow him in so they could see his face.
He had thick brown hair to seemed to go into his eyes, which were a blood red color. He had a long scar running down the left eye and another along his right cheek.
They were taken out of there sight seeing by him saying, "You coming or not?" They got in and tracks started to appear out of thing air. Soon a beat of music followed.
(Recommended Eminem's Demon Inside)
"Yo, alright, yo.
A blood curdling scream came from the depths of his mind.
"The devil's spirit's trapped inside of me and I want it out."
The next thing they knew they were going into a houses living room.
"I'm on the couch bleeding to death in a haunted house,
They saw him lying down with his wrists bleeding
"With both my wrists slit I'm lifted up in the air,"
The apparition of him was slowly lifted into the air and they saw his hands prying at his neck as if to stop someone from choking him.
"Suspended in animation like someone's holding me there,
I feel somebody's cold hands wrapping around my neck,
while I choke on my own blood that I swallow and drown to death.
But I found a breath and somehow slip the clutches nearly blacking out from dizziness and head rushes."
The apparition of him fell to the ground and stayed there for a bit before standing up and walking out the door into the hallway. They followed and gasped at what they saw. Bodies were strung everywhere, there bodies and faces mutilated beyond recognition.
"Tripping over OD'd body of dead lushes,
Bloodstains paint to plush carpet like red blushes
Doors open and close by themselves, books fly off shelves, curtains catch on fire and the house melts."
Doors in the hallways opened and closed in unison while the books flew at them trying to hit them. If it wasn't for the man that they were with some of the guards would have been smacked so hard they would have died. The curtains around them caught fire but the only affected was the man that brought them there.
"My skin blisters and sticks together like twin sisters,
the wind blows and shatters windows like ten twisters
caught a piece of shrapnel in the Adam's Apple."
Pieces of glass flew at them but they seemed to be magnetized to the man in front of them one of them went straight toward his throat, but Luna caught it, smiled and dropped it on the floor.
"Two cups if Holy water and I'm looking at them half full.
But as soon as I go to touch 'em they turn to red rum."
They saw two cups of water, which they assumed was the holy water. When the man in front reached for them they turned to this red liquid then it went silent but the picture stayed.
"It got silent, then all these voices said,"
His voice became deeper and raspy.
"'Come follow me into the Gates of Hell'
I heard 'em yell, 'Welcome to the Norman Bates Motel'
I ran the bell for service and I was greeted by his mother,
She was covered in dry blood head still dented by the shovel.
I said I needed a room so I could try to get some rest,
She gave me the keys to the best suite and a bag of cess.
And told me that's for starters, Satan'll be in to see me later.
To see if I'm interested in being partners."
They came to a stop just outside of the area they started. They were silent for a bit when the man spoke up, "So yeah that was my first night with a demon in my mind. Speaking of which where the fuck is he?" He thought about if for a moment and realization came across his face. "Shit!" he snapped his fingers and they returned to their own bodies they realized that the man was moving towards to Princesses.
He stopped suddenly and shouted "Damnit Ahrimar don't take my body while I am talking to people/ponies." Then to the ponies, "Terribly sorry about that, Ahrimar gets very excited when he's alone. Just be happy that I stopped him from trying to rape you."
The females eyes widened at that statement. They had an insane demon try to rape them. Luna snapped out of it quickly and asked a question that the man was dreading to answer. "What's your name?"
"My name I only use it when I trust someone very much." He said and nodded his head. "I'll give you a different name until one of you can be trusted and I have been near mind readers before so White horse stop trying to get into my mind. The last guy who did that was found dead. His fingers were cut off and shoved down his throat, his arms were wrapped around his neck and both of his legs were broken. If you don't want to end like that then don't enter my mind." He said leveling a glare at Celestia. She gulped and cut off her magic. "This is the name I am giving you. Call me Shaded." He said with a smile, but Luna saw something flash in his eye's. Well, two things actually. Guilt and sadness. She knew it well when she was shunned for being Nightmare Moon.
"Why do you look so sad about?" Pinkie Pie said.
"That is personal. I do not want to talk about it. Now I am going to find a place outside of this city to stay." He said as he walked out the wrong way.
"That way is to the castle." Luna called out to him.
He walked back, blushing, and said "I knew that." and walked towards the city.
Making his way out of the city he went towards a cave he saw while walking. "Alright I'll live here." He made snapped his fingers and one-story house appeared. The cave was still there except that it was behind the house and you could only get to it from the back door. The inside was small, but cozy. The kitchen was stocked with food, the bedroom was small, but it had a desk, paper across it with a small lamp, bookshelves filled with books, and some music Shaded liked to listen to.
The living room had a couch and two chairs. It was connected with the guest room which had the exact same thing as his bedroom. The backyard he willed it to a garden so he could grow herbs and other questionable things. 'Now all that I need is oil and I could destroy my enemies here.' He thought happily. He had an alchemy lab where he set up the needed oil. There was another room that practically shouted DO NOT ENTER. There was a cellar that was fully stocked with every weapon known to man and thousands upon thousands bullets. 'Okay prepare for Zombie Invasion. Check. Alchemy lab with questionable things. Check. Part three Don't try to trust anyone no matter what they do. We'll see.
With that he went up to his room and fell asleep instantly and said to Ahrimar in his mind "You better not do anything funny or else."
"Or else what? You can't kill me." Ahrimar said in an anything but innocent voice.
"Well I could remember the song we both hate." Shaded said with a cruel smile.
"You wouldn't DARE!" Ahrimar said shakily.
"Don't try me then." Shaded said in voice with finality.
With John and the others
"Well that was weird." John said. Looking around they saw that the blood puddles, arms, and legs were still there.
Fluttershy's shy voice spoke up, "Do you really think that he had worse than those wounds that you inflicted?"
"I don't know Fluttershy, maybe you could ask him tomorrow right now I'm going back to bed." John said in a tired voice. All of them nodded and made towards to doorway except for one.
"Luna are you coming?" Celestia asked.
"He didn't ask us for our names before he left and I want to make sure that he's alright." Luna said.
"Alright then Luna. Just be careful okay?" Celestia said before going back inside.
Luna nodded and she flew into the air, flying towards the direction Shaded went in. She was about a mile away from Canterlot when she heard a gut wrenching scream. It sounded like a wild animal with all of it's limbs cut off. She flew towards where she heard it and saw a cave and inside the cave was a house. She walked up to the door and opened it, again she heard the scream and it seemed to be coming down the hallway. When she opened to door it was coming from she was shocked to see Shaded writhing on the bed as if he was in great pain. She walked forward quickly and shook him, "Wake up Shaded. Wake up!" she shouted. His screams were getting worse by the second. She couldn't do anything. She decided to wait the night there to see if she could somehow wake him up. She shouted in his ear, she shook him furiously, she even dumped water on him, yet he wouldn't wake. Running out of ideas she muted to screaming and shouted again.
Shaded was awoken to sound of someone shouting in his ear. He jumped out of bed, turned around and got into a fighting position. He looked and saw that midnight blue unipeg or was it pegacorn he didn't remember. He dropped his fighting stance and stood up. "Was something wrong ...? He realized he didn't have her name, but she filled it in.
"Luna." She said.
"Alright then. Was something wrong Luna?" He asked.
"Well you were screaming in your sleep. Were you having a nightmare?
"No." He said, but she knew he was lying.
"You can tell me you know." Luna said.
"Sorry Luna. It's just something about my past. Now go home. Please?" He said. He was almost begging her to leave and Luna was starting to get suspicious, but she gave in.
"Alright then. Oh and I wanted to introduce you to my sister and the others. Since you told us your name it's just right to tell you all of ours. Also we're ponies not horses."
"Alright then. I'll come to the castle later in the afternoon. Now bye." He said escorting her to the door.
A/N DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO COMMENT!!!! SERIOUSLY THERE WERE ONLY TWO COMMENTS THAT WEREN'T MINE! -Continues to rant- Okay for those of you who don't know how to comment. Scroll down after the chapter and at the bottom there should be an empty box. Click it and write down what you think. Also new character. What do you think?
I hate the Court
Shaded woke up to the sound of something falling and blinding light invaded his eyes. "SON OF A BITCH!" He shouted as he covered his eyes with the blankets. He then heard giggling coming from above to covers. "Alright! Who the fuck did that?!" he shouted as he tore off the covers and was face to muzzle with Princess Luna. Shaded looked into her eyes before they shot back realizing how close they were.
"Alright. Why did you bring me wherever the fuck I am and make me almost blind myself? Trust me you don't want to see what my eyes look like when they regenerate." Shaded said as he got out of his bed. He looked around and saw about a dozen other ponies, wearing suits, the two humans, the other pony princess, and those six mares.
"Didn't you say that you were going to visit?" Luna said with an obvious troll grin that only Shaded seem to see.
"I said yes, but I didn't think you would teleport me here. This is worse than the time I got turned into a newt. Don't worry I got better." He said holding up a hand at their shocked expressions except for Twilight who had a hungry look in her eyes. "Purple Pony stop giving me Hungry Eyes!" He shouted.
There was a silence after that, but Luna broke it with a cough and said, "Well these are the others. The purple pony you speak of is my sister's student. Her name is Twilight Sparkle."
After hearing the name Shaded couldn't help but snort in laughter and said, "Are you serious?" but he still kept on laughing. "It reminds me of a movie at home. It was so bad it wasn't even funny." He said still laughing.
The rainbow maned pony charged right up to him, thinking that she could hit him before he knew it, but Shaded was used to something with this kind of speed in the air. He quickly dropped to the ground as the rainbow maned one flew over him and hit the wall. "Let me guess what your name is. Rainbow Crash?" He said sarcastically.
"No my name's Rainbow Dash! Fastest Flier in Equestria." Rainbow shouted back in anger.
"Really? Wow. Not what I was expecting." Shaded said as he shrugged. "Alright next pony and/or person."
Now the human male came forward. "John." He said as he stuck out his hand. Shaded nodded and shook his hand.
Next the other human. "Jane." She did the exact same thing as John, again Shaded nodded and shook her hand.
'Ahrimar your very quiet today. Why?' Shaded thought.
'I'm judging to see if they were trustworthy and if their a threat.' Ahrimar replied back.
'Alright then. Who's trustworthy so far?'
'That's the strange thing all of them seem trustworthy, and none of them seem a threat unless you hurt one of their kind.' The demon said confused.
'So herding adaption?'
'Herding adaption.'
'All right good to know.' It was then that Shaded noticed an outstretched that was a white color. It was a unicorn with a white coat and purple mane. "I'm sorry what? I was talking to the demon again." He said.
The mare just huffed and stated her name again. "My name is Rarity and you should learn how to pay attention. Didn't your parents teach you manner?" Normally he would have taken the normal insult easily, but that comment about his parents put him into a rage.
"My parents," He spat the word out like it was filled with taint, "left me at the age of ten to fend for myself in the middle of a forest. That forest was full of creatures that would make even the most toughest of men run in TERROR. For 2,000 years," There was a gasp all of them thinking he was much younger than that. "I wandered through the forest fighting demons, hell-spawns, Shades, creatures that would kill anyone who even looked at them wrong. When I finally got out of that forest, I found that over 2,000 years had passed and the first thing I did, I hunted down my family members. They were mutilated beyond recognition their bones were tore from their skins." Shaded started to cackle and continued. "The ones that are kept alive I turned immortal, and threw them into a lava pit. Sometimes when I go to my home world I can still hear them. Their throats raw from all the screaming. Sometimes I take them out, and watch the lava flow out of them before putting them back in. The lesson of this is Don't talk to me about my parents."
Everyone in the room was in shocked silence that such a normally silly man become so serious at a moments notice. Everyone looked disturbed at the story that was told. Some of the mares even puked while their husbands tried to comfort them.
"Anyways on with the introductions." Shaded said in a bored tone.
After the introductions were made quickly Shaded started to walk out of the room when he hear a snobbish voice say "Who is this peasant?" Shaded already in a bad mood said nothing, but his rage was growing. "You yes you. What is your name and what are you doing here?" Shaded felt a hoof connect with his thigh as he looked to see who it was.
He saw it was a unicorn stallion with light brown hair and a white coat. "Listen if you don't want to be kicked to the moon then you will leave me alone." Shaded said as he walked away.
"You will address me as Prince Blueblood and I asked you a question peasant." Blueblood said.
"THAT IT!!!" Shaded roared as he grabbed Blueblood by the collar.
In the other room they heard Shaded shout and heard a very girly scream followed by, "Guards help me!!" From a voice that sounded like Blueblood's.
When they rushed towards where the shouts were coming from they saw Shaded dragging Blueblood through the garden and into the city's center.
"STRAIGHT FOR THE MOON YOU GO!!!" They heard Shaded shout as he tossed Blueblood up in the air and brought his leg back. Too bad for Shaded, though that Celestia and Luna were there. They just barely managed to hold him back from kicking Blueblood so hard Blueblood wouldn't be alive. "You got lucky you little prick. The Princesses were here to save you. Don't insult me and you won't end up orbiting the moon." Shaded said and, when the Princesses released there magical hold, he strode away towards where his home was.
Blueblood was on the ground shaking like there was an earthquake that only affected him. He just kept muttering something over and over again. It sounded like, "Those eyes, those soulless eyes."
Then halfway to his house Shaded said to himself, "That's why I hate the Court. Too many snobs to little time."
SERIOUSLY!!!
The demon known as Vlad was enjoying a nice walk by the lake of fire when he felt a tugging sensation at his mind. Going through that many times it didn't surprise him, but what did surprise him what what happened when he got there.
Vlad looked around and saw himself near 10 miniature horses, all of their hooves were raised in the air, and they were sitting behind desks as was he.
'Great just great. School for horses. What next? Horses that can talk?' He thought with a small snicker.
"Hey what are you laughing at?" Came an innocent voice from one of the horses. Vlad had a sharp intake of breath and thought, 'I am soooo going to kill Shaded.'
Vlad got up and walked to the door when he was stopped by another voice. "And where do you think you're going?" He looked and saw an older horse who he saw as the teacher.
"To go kill a friend." Vlad said with a laugh, and he continued to walk towards the door.
"No you're going to stay here and learn about science." The teacher said in a stern voice.
Vlad just glared and said, "Look. Don't keep me here and bad things won't happen. Or do you want everything in this room to explode in fire?" Vlad continued to walk towards the door then realized that he also looked like a pony child. "OH I am so going to kill him for this!!" He shouted as he bolted towards the door and out of the school.
'Alright then knowing Shaded he would go to the place with the nearest royal, and, possibly, have one of the royals fall in love with him.' He walked towards the obvious castle.
After he got to the castle he was stopped by two guards outside. "Halt." They said in unison.
"Sorry my name's actually Vlad." He said in a snarky voice, "And I'm here to see Shaded." and he tried to push past them.
"Halt or we will have to use force." They said in unison again.
"Yeah I'd like to see you try to stop a demon who has enough power to destroy an entire army." Vlad said as he froze them in place, and pushed pass them. Halfway down the hallway Vlad smelled something strange. "Is that... Bug? Eh probably an infestation problem." He walked into the throne room disrupting an argument.
"Alright, Where the FUCK is Shaded?!" Vlad shouted, looking around he saw the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "Shaded!" He ran right up to him and hit him across the face so hard Shaded flew backwards into the wall. "That's what you get for turning me into this! Now what the FUCK do you want!"
"First off, OW! Second off, what's the password?" Shaded said. After a few encounters with some people claiming to be demons he entrusted a different password to each demon so he knew that it was them.
Vlad gave him an 'Are you serious?' face and said, "On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It's a silly place." After Vlad said that he cracked a grin and Shaded burst out laughing.
"Yeah that was the password." Shaded said after he was done laughing. "Why are you in the body of a foal?"
"I don't fucking know. I was hoping you would tell me. Only you or your father can summon me since they know my full name." Vlad said annoyed.
"Well Vlad I can't tell you why your in that body, and I didn't summon you." Shaded said.
Vlad just sighed. "Well the only way you can summon a demon is if you say his/her name out loud three times."
"I don't know, Vlad, who brought you here, but you can help me!" The ending he said excitedly.
"Um I'd rather not." Vlad said nervously.
"C'mon it'll be fun." Shaded said completely ignoring the nervousness in Vlad's tone.
"No. Remember what happened last time? Besides I can't stay in this body. It'll probably die before we can do anything... 'fun.'" Vlad said still nervous.
"Fine then. Use your real body." Shaded said.
Vlad just sighed and said, "No way I'm getting out of this am I?"
"Nope." Shaded said still excited.
Vlad just sighed again. "Fine let me carefully take this body off. Oh and to anybody who wants to see me go to my normal state. I advise not to." Vlad was standing stock still, but in his mind he was gathering energy to get out. Only Shaded could feel it and he smiled with glee knowing that Vlad wouldn't harm the body when he said he would carefully take it off.
After a few minutes nothing happened until there was a flash of light blinding everybody in the room. When the light went away what they saw made them gasp. Standing where the foal used to be was a man who looked almost like Shaded. Vlad now wore armor that was blood red. He was wearing a crown on his head with five large pearls ringing above his forehead. He had black hair that went down to his shoulders and a great-sword strapped to his back. The foal was in the corner asleep and a few medical ponies went to see if anything was wrong.
One of the mares, frightened by his sudden appearance asked in a shaky voice, "Wwho are you?"
Vlad just smiled and introduced himself, "I am Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler or the First Count Dracula." He had a slight accent which they could hear easily.
Princess Luna was brave enough to ask a question that was on all of their minds except for Shaded and Vlad, "Why do they call you The Impaler?"
Vlad just smiled, and started to explain, "I am called Vlad the Impaler because of what I did to people who opposed me. If they were still alive I would have a large wooden stake and... Wait it would be better to show it." Shaded nodded and snapped his fingers, a gel dummy was on the ground.
"Alright so this gel represents the human skin and muscles. You can test any weapon on this to see how effective it is." Shaded explained.
"Perfect." Vlad said as he snapped his fingers and a wooden stake, over six feet long, appeared in his hands, "Now what I would do is I would take a wooden stake much like this one. I would lay the victim down, normally having some of my men hold them down. I would put it between their legs and push the stake," Vlad grunted with effort as he pushed it through the skin of the gel dummy, "like so and then I would put them outside my kingdom to make it a warning to each of my enemies that this is what would happen if they came attacking my land."
Vlad grabbed the bottom of the wooden stake, with the dummy still on it, and lifted it up and slammed it into the ground burying the stake into the ground. He turned to the crowd who had turned green from the violence, he smiled and said, "That is where The Impaler came from. Oh and also there were some mind readers in my world so please stop trying to enter my mind. The last time someone did that I had their hats nailed to their heads with carpenter nails. Those are about.. What? Five.. Six inches. About six inches went straight into their skulls." He leveled a glare a Celestia who gasped as his mind filled with thought of the two mind readers with carpenter nails going straight through there skulls.
"Oh and Shaded." Vlad said.
"Yeah, Vlad?" Shaded asked.
"I thought that you would need more of that oil so here." Vlad reached into his pocket and pulled out a bottle of black liquid. Then he said with a smile, "You always run out of it. Also you left your Pan Flute back in the other world."
Shaded grabbed both items and said, "Thanks Vlad. I can't believe I forgot my Pan Flute." Shaded then took off his helmet and started to play.
(Recommended Sounds of Silence Pan Flute version by Heike Kammann)
After the song ended everyone in the room, except for Vlad, was in shocked silence. Vlad just smiled and said, "You remembered."
"Of course I did! It was the first instrument I learned how to play." Shaded said annoyed.
Realizing that everybody else was still silent, Shaded whispered to Vlad, "I think I broke them."
Vlad just laughed and said, "Well you do have that affect on people. Ponies are not excluded."
"How did you two meet?" Luna asked.
"Oh well I was sentenced to hell, or Tartarus as you would call it, I was given two choices. One was to burn forever in the Lake of Fire, and the other was to be like a servant to the leader's son. His son was Shaded. Yeah now that I think about it I would rather go back to the Lake of Fire, but the contract was binding." Vlad explained.
Shaded glared at him. "Seriously? You just had to say my dad was in charge of Tartarus?" He said.
Vlad said, "Yes and to explain WHY I wanted to take back the deal was because of all the stuff he goes through in each world. Last world we were in we were chased down by bandits and were made pincushions for arrows."
"No that was the second to last world. The LAST world we went to we were tortured until we confessed for something we didn't do." Shaded said.
"Oh yes that's right. The Iron Maidens were a nice touch. Right next to the medieval torture racks." Vlad said completely forgetting they were in the audience of some already sick ponies.
"Yeah that was a nice touch, but not like the mental torture. That sucked so much. Seriously Sleep Deprivation? That was the worse. It just wears at you mind followed with endless physical torture, that is just the worse." Shaded said.
Then Vlad added, almost sadly, "Yeah, but not as much as that other one."
Shaded, realizing what Vlad meant, said sadly with tears in his eyes, "Yeah your comrades and family being tortured. That just stopped it for me. My lover was being tortured." Tears were falling freely from his eyes. "I just wanted them to stop, but no they didn't even after I confessed to what I didn't do. I didn't get to see her for five years and when I finally did...." What he whispered out next shocked all the ponies, "She was dead." Then Shaded said with a cruel smile, "I just snapped. I let Ahrimar out." He started to laugh. "I watched them all break at my feet. I filled an entire river with their blood. I killed them all. Yet, I still felt rage. I wanted the planet to pay for letting her die. I destroyed the entire planet." Shaded still kept on laughing.
Vlad was starting to get worried. It had been over 200 years since that happened. Vlad thought he would be over it by now. "Are you okay Shaded?" Vlad asked.
Still Shaded kept laughing. His laugh became hysterical and when he finally stopped what he said chilled them all to the bone. "Shaded has left me in charge of his body for a while. You will now refer to me as Ahrimar the Destroyer, as I will destroy this world."
A/N Cliffhanger anyone? So yeah... Cliffhanger. Ahrimar took over Shaded's body what's going to happen? Also who do you think his father is? Tell me in the comments.
FIGHT!
A/N read the title like the Mortal Kombat
"Oh shi-" Vlad managed to say before he got punched in the stomach and was sent flying into the wall, then disappeared into a puff of smoke.
"Hmph. Weak." Ahrimar said. He walked towards the doors when they all heard the sound of stone cracking.
"Finally enough Chaos so I can be free!!" Discord shouted.
"Shut up, bitch." Ahrimar said as he hammered Discord in the stomach and snapped off one of his horns, which he then used to plunge into Discord's heart. "Idiot." Ahrimar said. Suddenly Ahrimar heard someone humming a song, followed by, "Chargin' my attack." The next thing Ahrimar knew he was walking straight into a blinding light.
"AGHHHH!" Ahrimar, feeling that it was Holy Light, screeched. Then another song was cutting in.
(Recommended song. Drop the World by Lil' Wayne Featuring Eminem.)
The blinding light cleared up and, when Ahrimar looked, there was a man standing there. The man had short white hair, his skin was a pale color, his eyes were light red making him an albino, across his neck he wore a golden necklace, but the rest was underneath his white shirt, in the pocket of his black pants he carried what looked like a cross in his pocket. This description made him look like a priest, but the song is one they would never listen too, there was also a crossbow strapped onto his back with a wooden stake instead of an arrow.
"I've seen nights full of pain, days are the same.
He raised his crossbow and fired the wooden stake at Ahrimar, who barely had time to duck.
"I search, but never find,
The albino charged forward taking the cross out of his pocket. When Ahrimar looked it was actually a dagger. The albino charged and managed to cut Ahrimar's arm. Normally it wouldn't have hurt that much, but it burned like fire.
'Damnit it's either blessed, it was enchanted, or it was dipped in Holy Water. I can't heal wound with my magic if it was inflicted by holy water or blessed.' He tried to heal his arm and found that he could not. 'Damn so it's was either dipped in Holy Water or it was blessed. Shit.' He managed to duck underneath the blade as it went over his head.
"And it's worse but better times
He threw the dagger at Ahrimar who had, foolishly, caught it. It burnt through his hand. Ahrimar screamed in agony as he dropped the Holy Blade (Yeah that is what I am going to call the dagger.). The albino reached into his shirt and pulled out the necklace. On it... was the Holy Hand Grenade. "Oh shit!" Ahrimar shouted running away.
"The spot gets smaller and I get bigger
The albino pulled the pin, counted to three, and tossed it towards Ahrimar. Ahrimar ducked behind a wall as the grenade went off, some shrapnel hitting his leg.
"So I pick the world and I'm drop it on your fuckin' head, yeah!
The albino charged after Ahrimar, and from his other pocket drew out a vial. Yet the albino still sang despite the destruction around him.
"Yeah! And I could die now Rebirth mother fucker
The albino, finding Ahrimar trying to limp, away shouted, "Oh no you don't Demon Spawn!" He threw a tiny bit of what was in the vial at Ahrimar who cried out in pain as the water touched his other leg. Ahrimar grasped his other leg and fell to the ground giving the albino enough time to catch up to him.
"Hold on.
The albino lightly sprinkled some of the water in the vial around Ahrimar, who was trying to crawl away. When Ahrimar touched the ground where the albino put some of the water he felt as if something was burning him. Ahrimar, steeling his nerves, jumped, with both of his legs hurt, through the circle that the albino made of the water. 'DAMNIT that was Holy Water!' Ahrimar thought in outrage. It was then that he felt Shaded wanting to return to his body.
"Uhh. My word is my pride,
"I'm not finished with you yet, Demon!" The albino yelled, "If you do not give him back his body then I will make you suffer worse than you already suffered, Ahrimar!" Ahrimar gasped that the albino knew his name, and, worse yet, that there was a possibility that he could suffer worse, but Ahrimar wanted freedom from Shaded's body. Ahrimar has been inside Shaded's mind for over 1,000 years! The albino just shook his head, "Fine then, suffer more." He reached underneath the rubble the Holy Hand Grenade caused and grabbed the Holy Blade.
"And I could die now Rebirth mother fucker
The albino's voice was changing. He seemed to be crying, remembering something that he didn't want to.
Elsewhere in the castle
"Cadence, is it possible that I could have a tour of the castle?" Jane asked when John left to see what was causing all the noise.
"Yes what do you want to see first?" The pink alicorn replied.
"I heard that there were mines underneath Canterlot. Do you mind if we go see them?" Jane asked knowing full well what it was like down there.
"Sure just let me tell my hoofmaiden." Cadence replied as she went to tell them.
Chrysalis, seeing that something like that would happen, was disguised as her hoofmaiden. She just nodded her head when Cadence told her that she was going to the mines, but said that all the other hoofmaidens went to see what was going on outside. Cadence just nodded and went to show Jane to mines that not even Celestia seemed to remember.
When Cadence left Chrysalis gasped as a spike in both anger and sadness came from outside. She rushed outside and saw what was happening. There was an entire wall crumbling, there was a crater in the center, caused by the grenade, and she finally saw two humans, the one generating sadness and anger was the one with white hair.
"Man it feel like these walls are closing in,
The albino slashed downward with the Blade, but Ahrimar rolled to the left fast enough to make the blade plunge into the dirt.
"And scared to look in my eyes
The albino wrenched the dagger from the ground and was kicked in the back by Ahrimar, who then felt like something was burning his foot. 'Geez what did he do? Bathe in Holy Water?' Ahrimar thought as he hopped on one foot. The albino got up and Ahrimar's foot stopped burning. Ahrimar got into his battle position and so did the albino.
Chrysalis watched to battle unfold feeding off some of the emotions the albino was giving off. 'If my plan for the wedding doesn't work then he would be excellent to feed off of.' She thought. She then remembered that she was going to trap Cadence in the mines. 'Well it's off to the mines.' She walked towards the secret door that led to the mines.
"Fuck this fame that ain't what I came to claim."
They both charged at each other, Ahrimar using hand to hand, and the albino using his dagger.
"but the game ain't gonna be the same on the day I leave it.
Every hit Ahrimar got on the albino he burned the part of the body that hit him.
"I swear to god, won't spare the rod
The guards were coming, as was John. They were surrounding both of them not knowing which one they were supposed to attack.
"Sleep on me and that's where your head'll lie
They heard what the albino was singing and started moving towards him. The albino let out a guttural howl that emanated from his chest, and, for some unexplained reason, they felt afraid of him after the howl came out.
"Incredible Hulk your trapped in my medicine ball.
The albino's voice was coming back to normal as he charged at Ahrimar and managed to cut him across the cheek and once on the leg.
"Pick the world up and drop it on your fuckin' head, yeahh!
His voice was splitting into two again as both the princesses arrived.
"STOP THIS FIGHT THIS INSTANT!" Luna shouted in the Royal Canterlot Voice. Both the albino and Ahrimar were blown backward by the force of her voice.
After recovering the albino said snarkily, "Of course, Dovahkiin. Maybe after you stop shouting! Now if you don't mind I need to rid this planet of a demon." He started striding towards Ahrimar who, during their small talk, succumbed to Shaded, pulling his mind back into his own body.
Shaded seeing the albino walk towards him with a dagger in his hand froze him in place. Shaded just barely heard him say, "Fucking Mary Sue." Before speaking up, "Alright I call hacks. Dr. Hax do you want to take over?"
The next thing anybody saw was a computer fly towards Shaded and hit him in the face with someone calling out "HAAAAAAX!"
After Shaded got up he looked around and saw all the destruction. "Oh shit did I do that?"
"No most of that was me." The albino said with a small shrug.
"Wait how did you shrug I froze you in place!" Shaded exclaimed.
"It's magic people don't have to explain shit." The albino said with another shrug.
Shaded just sighed and asked, "Alright how did you make that big ass crater?"
"The Holy Hand Grenade." The albino said plainly.
"You have to Holy Hand Grenade." Shaded said in disbelief.
"Well no. It blew up after I counted to five."
"Three."
"Oh a watcher of Monty Python, eh?"
"No not exactly. I was Lancelot."
"You fucking serious?" The albino asked in disbelief.
"Yes."
"Did you hear that? It sounded like my brain exploding. Hey Demon holder of Ahrimar. Guess what."
"What?"
"I can fly. I also caught a Chiozu."
"Hey you stole that from Team Four Star's Abridged series!"
"Maybe, maybe."
Shaded sighed and asked another question, "What's your name?"
The albino smiled and said, "My name is ......"
A/N So I already have a name thought out for him, I want to see if you guys can come up with a better one for the Albino. Just so you know, my name for him is Ghost. Also 3 MALES and how much royalty is there? Not counting Blueblood and Cadence.
Bastard
"My name is...? Whoa Deja Vu." The albino said. "Anyways my name is Ghost."
Shaded nodded and introduced the others. "Seems a fitting name for you. Now, if you don't mind we're taking you to the castle to answer questions.
"No." Ghost said.
"Well too bad." Shaded said as he used his magic to drag Ghost towards the castle.
"NO! Stop it you bastards!" Ghost shouted.
"Nah, I don't feel like it." Shaded said as he walked towards the, rather large, front doors.
Just when Ghost went past the doors, there was a guttural shriek. Shaded looked around and noticed something strange with Ghost. His eyes changed from a light red, to a blood red. Shaded then realized why. Ghost's eyes were bleeding! Just when Shaded saw that he realized the guttural shriek was coming from Ghost and that Ghost was bleeding out of his mouth, nose, and ears. "Oh SHIT!" Shaded shouted as he rushed him outside remembering that he didn't want to come in.
"Luna, Celestia, quick, get a doctor!" Shaded shouted and they rushed to find one. "John help me."
"I don't know how." John said in shock that whatever happened to Ghost happened.
"Help me turn him over!"
"Why?"
"We need to see how much he's bleeding out and where and to make sure he doesn't choke on his own blood."
"Alright." John said as he flipped Ghost over. There was a small puddle of blood that stained the grass. Luna and Celestia hurried back with the doctor.
"Needles." The doctor said stating his name. He was a beige stallion with strange hair that was light pink. His cutie mark was a needle. He looked at Ghost and recoiled. "How is he still alive? That is about twice as much as a normal pony produces."
"Humans are stronger." John and Shaded said simultaneously, both of them not thinking of a better answer.
"Alright then." Needles said, not quite sure.
It was at that moment that Ghost shot up and shouted, "DAMNIT!" He wiped his face off cleaning the blood that hadn't dried. He saw Shaded and said, "That is why I didn't want to go inside, bastard."
"What happened?" Shaded said completely forgetting about the others.
"Well you took me inside, despite my wishes against it, and you almost made me die. I do not want to die and go to some planet I don't know." Ghost said.
"I know that, except for that last part. What I meant was why did you almost die?" Shaded asked.
"Have you ever heard that a vampire couldn't come into a person's house unless they were invited in?" Ghost said.
"Yeah."
"Well the same thing goes for me. Except I'm not a vampire so don't worry about me drinking your blood." Ghost said. "The only way I could go inside is if the owners or co-owners allow it."
Needles, realizing that he would not be needed, went back to the Castle Infirmary to help with that other pony. Hot Head was his name if Needles remembered correctly.
"So that means that both Luna and Celestia has to invite you?" John said.
"One or the other." Ghost said with a shrug.
"Well it's alright for you to come in." Luna said.
"Just don't break anything." Celestia said jokingly.
"Thanks." Ghost said. They all walked back inside the castle.
With Jane
"Alright so we got her trapped. Now what?" Jane said.
"I will take her form. The wedding will be in a few weeks, but I need to drain some love from Shining Armor first so I could become more powerful." Chrysalis said.
"Alright, but what will I do until then?" Jane asked.
"Why don't you meet that new human that came today?" Chrysalis answered, with an almost dreamy expression.
"Alright then." Jane said with a shrug. She walked away and it seemed to be getting close to lunch.
Back with the Others
"Whose the chick?" Ghost asked.
"Oh her. She's Jane. Personal stalker to John." Shaded answered.
"Hey you guys don't have last names do you?" Ghost asked.
"No I do, but I don't think John has one." Shaded said casting a glance at John, who was talking to Celestia.
"I just thought up of last names for them. John Deere and Jane Doe." Ghost said with a smile.
"Son of a bitch. Why didn't I think of that." Shaded said as he facepalmed, which sent an actual crack throughout the hallway. John and Celestia stopped talking and looked at Shaded strangely.
"Sorry, just something stupid." Shaded said.
"Hey! I am not stupid!" Ghost yelled.
"I wasn't talking about you I was talking about what you said." Shaded said, sighing
"Let me send a letter to the Elements so you don't try anything funny." Celestia said as she wrote something down, signed it, and sent it.
After an hour passed, they went to John's room since it was near an almost secluded corner, there was a flash of light as six, now familiar, mares appeared. Ghost physically recoiled at the sight of them and muttered, "Oh fuck no." He bolted down the hallway.
"What is wrong with him?" Twilight asked.
"I don't know, but we better catch him." Shaded said.
Rainbow Dash shot off like a rocket, going as fast as she could in the rather large hallway.
"Nope, nope, nope, nope. I'm in a different versions of the same worlds. Nope." Ghost said as he ran down the hall.
He was then tackled by a blue blur. "SONUVABITCH!" He rolled and landed on top of her and shouted, "NO FUCKING WAY RAINBOW!" He jabbed an elbow down and it connected with her wing, popping it out of place. Rainbow gasped in shock then screamed in pain as she now realized her wing was out of place.
"Rule 1 of Amnesia: Don't look back. Rule 2 of Amnesia: Never break rule 1. Rule 3 of Amnesia... damnit I forgot rule 3." Ghost said to himself as he ran through the halls. He finally opened a door and slammed it shut behind him, then looked around.
"What...The....Fuck?" Ghost said as he looked at the room. Asleep on a bed there was a light pink alicorn. The alicorn took all of his attention. "Beautiful." Ghost said, quietly so not to disturb her.
Out in the hallway there was the sound of feet and hooves on marble. "Where did he go?" Shaded asked.
"Maybe he went in one of these rooms." Luna suggested.
All of them went to a door and opened it. It was empty. They did it for the rest before they came to Cadence's bedroom. "He must be in here. The guards told me they didn't see Ghost run past them." Celestia said pointing towards the guards that were patrolling the hallways.
They opened the doors and saw Ghost standing there guarding Cadence while she slept. When Ghost saw the door open he took out his Holy Blade and got ready for a fight. When he saw Shaded enter he relaxed a bit, until Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Rarity holding Rainbow in her magic so she didn't move, and Applejack. Ghost tensed back up eyes going back from all the mares.
Shaded motioned him to come in the hallway. Ghost followed warily, keeping out his dagger just in case.
When they got to the hallway, Shaded asked a question that was on all of their minds, "Why did you run?"
"Better for you to read it, I don't want to relive those moments." Ghost said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small journal that was about the size of his palm. It grew in size and became a full journal. "Journal. Last six worlds I've been to." Ghost said.
The journal obeyed and opened up to some of the last pages. "Aren't you worried about it running out of paper?" Twilight asked.
"No. Enchanted so it doesn't run out of pages." Ghost said as he handed the journal to Shaded.
"What did you write?" Shaded said as he looked.
Ghost said one word, "Creepypasta."
Shaded visibly cringed and handed the journal to John. "What is a Creepypasta?" Luna asked.
"Basically stories that unnerve readers." Shaded explained.
"Oh come now. It can't be that bad." Celestia said.
"6th world I came to before this one," Ghost said in a cold voice, "I was captured, butchered alive, and had my organs stuffed inside a doll," He then nodded his head towards Rarity, "Rarity."
"What are you-" Shaded managed to say before Ghost continued.
"5th world I came to until this one. Trapped inside a farm murdered. No survivors. Applejack." Ghost said, nodding his head towards the orange earth pony. "4th world before this one, captured, tested on for five years before dieing in an experiment, Twilight Sparkle. 3rd world before this one, captured inside a shed, butchered alive like some animal skeleton on the walls, Fluttershy. 2nd world before this one, captured, chest cavity broken in half, stabbed through the chest, died by blood being sucked out of me, Rainbow Dash. Last world before I came here, captured, tied down, tortured, organs cut out one by one, last one to go was the brain, organs grounded down and put into cupcakes, Pinkie Pie."
"What does that have to do with them?" Celestia asked.
"They were the ones that did it to me. For every world I said, I said the names of the ones that killed me." Ghost said. "The journal is a written experience of what happened, exact detail, great detail."
Fluttershy looked too scared to pass out. All the others looked completely green. "That is why I ran. I don't know if it is a different version of those worlds. So as far as I know one of you could murder me while I sleep." Ghost said with a matter of fact tone.
"Oh." The ponies said in unison. It was then that Fluttershy fell to the ground, out cold.
"Who was that pony in there?" Ghost asked, changing the subject and completely ignoring the pony that fainted.
Celestia answered, "My niece, she is getting married soon."
Ghost's face looked excited, but Celestia saw it was hiding something else. Jealousy. "Who is she getting married to?" Ghost said in a fake excited voice.
"My brother." Twilight grumbled.
"When is it?" Ghost asked, still in a fake excited voice.
"Sometime after Hearth's Warming." Celestia said.
"Hmm. Hearth's Warming? Sounds like a holiday in our world. Christmas. Oh the pranks I could pull." Ghost said with a devious smile.
"Well, until then, you need a place to stay. You can stay at my place if your interested." Shaded said.
"Sure. I'm going to plan pranks until then." Ghost said, devious smile still on his face, and to add to it, he rubbed his hands together. Both Shaded and Ghost walked to the doors and headed to Shaded's house.
A/N I NEED PRANKS!!!! I already thought of one. Mistletoe prank. I need others! You will, most likely, get that prank put in. Also done the Mary Sue test. I did John, Shaded, and Ghost. John and Shaded were pretty much the same. While it said I made Ghost like me a bit. Meh not going to worry about it too much.
Spoof
Shaded was happy. He married the love of his life, Luna. Today was her birthday so he asked his boss if he could get out of work early to buy here a present. The present was a golden necklace with sapphires placed all over it. The necklace cost about 1,000 bits. Shaded just smiled as he thought that she would love it.
He walked up the trail to the plateau, Shaded moved his house so he and Luna could have a view of Ponyville and Canterlot. He walked inside the house and heard a banging sound.
"What the?" Shaded whispered to himself. The noise seemed to be coming from his and Luna's bedroom.
He walked in and saw something that he would never forget. Luna was in bed with a stallion. "WHAT THE FUCK!!!" Shaded roared.
Time slowed down as two people appeared. One looked exactly like Shaded while another looked like Ahrimar.
(Recommended Song Guilty Consciences by Eminem and Dr. Dre. Go to the 2:10 minute mark.)
Shaded's copy said first, "Alright, relax, start breathing."
Ahrimar shouted, "Fuck that shit, you just caught this bitch cheatin. While you at work she's with some dude trying to get off?! FUCK slitting her throat, CUT THIS BITCH'S HEAD OFF!!!
"Wait what if there's an explanation for this shit?" Shaded's copy asked himself.
"What? She tripped? Fell? Landed on his dick?!" Ahrimar said.
"Alright Shady, maybe he's right Grady, but think about the baby before you get all crazy." Shaded's copy said.
Ahrimar wasn't finished though, "Okay! Thought about it, still wanna stab her? Grab her by the throat, get your daughter and kidnap her? That's what I did, be smart, don't be a retard you gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes??!"
Shaded's copy was outraged, "What'chu say?"
Ahrimar laughed slightly and continued, "What's wrong? Didn't think I'd remember?"
Shaded's copy charged towards Ahrimar, grabbed him and shook him, "I'ma kill you Motherfucker!"
Ahrimar said snottily, "Ah Ah! Temper temper! Mr. Dre? Mr N.W.A.? Mr AK comin' straight outta Compton y'all better make way? How the fuck you gonna tell this man not to be violent."
Shaded's clone shook his head, "Cause he don't need to go the same route that I went. Been there done that.. Aw fuck it... What am I sayin? Shoot em both, Grady, where's your gun at?"
Time returned to normal. "Get out." Shaded said quietly with barely suppressed anger.
"Shaded-" Luna managed to say before he slammed his fist into the wall.
"Get out before I do something I'll regret. From now on we're divorced. You know what? Happy Birthday to you." Shaded said still in a quiet voice before he walked out of the room.
"Who was that Luna?" The stallion said with a small smile.
"My husband," Luna said quietly, "I thought he would still be on a business trip."
The stallion's eyes widened when he heard that, "I didn't know you were married. Today was your birthday so I gave you, since I thought you were still a virgin."
"I'm not hearing you leaving!!" Shaded shouted, "If you continue to stay here any longer I will treat you as trespassers!"
Luna sighed and said, "I'll try to apologize to him later. Though we might want to leave, quickly. He treats trespassers like they are going to kill him."
She started to pack her wedding dress and some of the jewelry that Shaded bought her. She stopped when she saw a box on the ground. She opened it and saw the necklace that Shaded bought her. There was a card attached to it, it said, "Happy Birthday Luna. Were you surprised that I came home early? I just wanted to surprise my favorite mare."
Luna shook her head and put it with her stuff. After she finished packing she went outside and flew to the castle, but not before hearing part of a song. "When you see my face hope it gives you hell, gives you hell." While she was flying away she started to feel anger, then great sadness coming from the house.
Shaded was armed to the teeth. Two knives in each shoe, machine gun strapped to his back, spare bullets inside his pockets, a katana inside it's sheath, two pistols in his shirt pocket, and, in case of emergencies, a vial of holy water around his neck.
He walked outside and pulled out his katana, his first target was that stallion that decided not to leave.
"What are you doing?" The stallion asked.
His response was decapitation. Shaded smiled as blood covered the katana. He walked outside and headed towards Canterlot.
Luna was in her room at the castle. After telling Celestia that Shaded was angry at nothing, Celestia said she could stay there as long as she wanted. Luna was sulking around when she heard the screams. Suddenly there was a song playing.
(Recommended Song Another One Bites the Dust by Queen)
"Steve walks warily down the street, with the brim pulled way down low.
There were loud bangs that rang out. Luna was sure that it was coming from Canterlot. She looked out her window, but saw nothing different. The voice though sounded very familiar.
"Out of the doorway the bullets rip
The beat of the music was punctuated by loud bangs.
"Another one bites the dust."
Luna then recognized it. It was Shaded's voice. 'Maybe I should apologize to him for sleeping with another stallion.' Luna thought with slight giddiness, but was interrupted when guards came into her room.
"We're here to protect from the massacre that is happening in Canterlot." They said, they were visibly scared.
"Massacre? What massacre?" Luna asked.
"Well do you hear all those loud bangs?" One of the guards asked.
"Yes. but what does that have to do with a-" She cut herself off. She remembered when Shaded showed her his gun collection, and he even fired one. She remembered the deafening bang that it gave off. "Shaded. What are you doing?" She whispered to herself.
"Another one bites the dust.
"No," Luna murmured, "I'm not happy. Shaded I'm so sorry." She started to tear up.
"Out of the doorway the bullets rip to the sound of the beat! Look out!"
The loud bangs were now coming from the main hallway that lead to the throne room where Celestia was holding court. Luna heard the guards scream after each gun shot.
"Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust.
Another scream rang out and was silenced immediately.
"Hey!
Now screams were coming from the throne room. Then they all heard a shout, "Where is that slut, Celestia. I believe she is your sister!" Then the singing began again.
"There are plenty of ways you could hurt a man and bring him to the ground.
The doors to Luna's room burst open and in the middle stood Shaded, dragging Celestia by her mane. "Alright. Guards, if you don't want to die then leave now!" Shaded softly. The guards were so scared they complied. He grabbed Celestia's mane again and threw her at Luna. "I should kill you, but I want you to suffer, both of you." Shaded said.
"And what makes you think that we will allow that?" Celestia asked.
Shaded smiled evilly and said, "I was hoping you would ask that." He snapped his fingers, and chains erupted from the ground binding Celestia's and Luna's legs together. Two more chains came from the ceiling and tightened around their horns. "You don't do what I say those chains will tighten. I think I'll have a lot of fun with this." Shaded said.
A/N You know what would happen. I'll give you a hint. It starts with R and ends in APE. So yeah another spoof. More where this came from.
Flashbacks
John woke up early and with a massive headache. He also noticed that he woke up before Celestia. No, he didn't look to see if the sun had risen, instead he looked at his bed and was surprised when he saw Celestia hugging him while she slept.
"The hell?!" John said, though he said it rather loud since after that Celestia woke up.
Startled by the noise Celestia quickly looked over and saw John. Both started blushing before jumping out of the bed simultaneously. "What happened last night?" Celestia asked still blushing.
"I don't know. All I remember is some wine. All of us drank it, except for Ghost." John thought about it for a moment. "You don't think...?" John trailed off, both of them knowing where the sentence would go.
"That bastard spiked our drinks!" John shouted as he rushed out to find Ghost. Celestia following soon after.
With Shaded
Shaded woke up with, like John, a massive headache. He opened his eyes and immediately regretted it. Bright sunlight went straight for his eyes. He covered his eyes when he felt something wrap around him.
He looked and saw Luna asleep right next to him. He then heard a snort of laughter. He turned his head and saw Ghost standing in the doorway.
Ghost looked between Luna and Shaded, with a rather devious look in his eyes. Shaded knew where this was going and shook his head. Ghost smiled and nodded his head. The process repeated a few more times before Ghost shouted out, "Wake up!!"
Luna startled and annoyed that her comfortable slumber was ruined shot a bolt of magic him and tried to fall back asleep. "Luna wake up! There's a surprise for you!" Ghost shouted again, trying to get her out of her slumber.
Luna cracked open an eyelid before both eyes shot open as she saw Shaded. It was then that both Shaded and Luna realized that Shaded wasn't wearing a shirt. Luna's face turned a beet red and looked away while Shaded was quickly putting on his shirt.
"What the hell happened last night!?" Shaded roared at Ghost. Meanwhile Ahrimar was laughing his ass off inside Shaded's head.
Ghost smirked before saying, "I'll tell you when John and Celestia get here. I did the same thing to them."
Despite herself Luna chuckled a bit. Shaded loved the sound of her laughing and looked at her. Luna, blushing at the look Shaded gave her, said quietly, "If she was in the same position I was then she would both love it and hate it."
"Why?" Shaded asked. Ghost facepalmed from the doorway.
"It's rather obvious that they both like each other, Shaded." Ghost said, annoyed that it had to be explained to Shaded. After that Ghost walked out of the room.
They followed him out and sat down waiting for John and Celestia. When suddenly Ghost spoke up, "Three, two, one." As soon as his countdown hit one they heard a shout outside.
"You bastard!!" John's voice echoed throughout the cave. Ghost smirked slightly and walked to the door, but didn't open it. He waited a few seconds before opening it just in time to let John burst through and hit the wall.
John groaned and got up. "You mad?" Ghost asked with a troll face plastered on his face. Next thing that any of them knew was that Ghost was pressed into the wall by a golden aura.
"Start explaining. Now." Celestia said in a commanding voice. Ghost didn't seem fazed though.
"Yes ma'am." Ghost said, managing to move his arm enough to make a salute. Celestia dropped him to the ground.
Ghost stood up and asked a question, "Do any of you remember about last night?"
"No." The other four answered in unison.
"Alright. First, freaky." Ghost said, talking about them answering simultaneously, "Second, I spiked the wine with some strong alcohol and something else that I will not tell until you say the right sentence."
"That doesn't explain why we don't remember what happened last night. I get drunk from time to time and I still manage to remember most of the night." Shaded said.
"Wow, well that was the right sentence. I added a memory loss potion to it." Ghost said smiling.
"You did what?!" Luna and Celestia shouted at him, both pushing him against the wall with their magic.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Shaded said, " Calm down Luna." He got up pulled her down until she was sitting. John did the same thing calming down Celestia. They both released their magical hold on him.
As he hit the ground he winced a bit. This action was not unnoticed by Shaded. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, just might have fractured a bone." Ghost said, standing up, "Nothing worth healing yet. Though maybe later it'll happen."
"Can't you just show us what happened? Like what Shaded did?" John asked, getting annoyed that it was taking longer then expected.
"No. I don't have that power. What I do have is mimicry." Ghost said.
"Hey what's going on?" John said.
The others looked at him. "What? I didn't say anything." John said.
"Really? I thought I saw your mouth move." Luna said.
They all looked at her. "I didn't say anything." Luna said.
"Please save your applause." Ghost said.
They all looked at him like he was crazy. "What? You didn't think they were actually saying that?" Ghost said chuckling. "I can throw my voice and mimic anyone I heard. Even if it was only once. There is also another form of mimicry."
They looked at him, but in his place was Celestia, minus the regal wear. They looked back at the Celestia where Ghost was, and the Celestia beside them. The Celestia where Ghost was then smirked and in a small flash there was another Shaded. He then changed back into he normal form.
He smirked again. "That was the other form of mimicry." He laughed slightly at their shocked expressions. "Anyways what happened last night. Well..."
Flashback
Ghost smirked as they took a sip of the wine. He didn't touch his, he just sat back getting ready to watch the chaos.
"Why aren't you drinking?" Shaded said, his voice starting to slur slightly.
"I'm not thirsty." Ghost said, still smiling as he pushed the drink away from him.
"I'll dinks it!" John said, the alcohol getting to him already. John reached out to grab it, but there was a golden aura surrounding it and it floated to Celestia. She gulped it down in one go. John saw the empty glass and pouted.
Celestia smiled slightly before saying, "You know you looks adorable when you pouts." Celestia was drunk also.
John blushed slightly and started to make a sentence when he was surrounded by Celestia's magic and brought up to her. Before any of them could form the next thought, Celestia's face shot out and pulled John into a kiss.
John struggled for a bit, before giving up and kissing her back. There was a flash and Celestia teleported John and herself to her bedroom.
End Flashback
Ghost smirked. Celestia and John were trying to avoid each others gaze, blushing. " Don't worry I made sure nothing happened. There was also another mix added to it. It made any sexual urges negated." If possible they blushed more. "Anyways, continuing on..."
Flashback
"Well that went fast." Ghost said, chuckling slightly. He looked over and noticed that Shaded and Luna weren't there. He looked around when he heard some giggles behind him. He was then shoved to the ground and the sound of running hooves and feet echoed through the hallway to his left.
He chased after them. He ran down the hallway and got to an intersection, but he was moving to fast to notice a foot being stuck out to trip him. He crashed to the floor and skidded down a few feet. He got up and noticed a guard was looking at him like he was crazy.
"What? I spiked their drinks and now their drunk. Oh and just a hint. Don't bother them when they wake up. They will have a major hangover." He then chased after the laughter that was coming from the hallway.
After being tripped, pushed, and slammed into walls Ghost finally got them. Though when he found them they were sprawled on the ground, out cold. When Ghost saw this he shook his head. He grabbed them and lifted them over his shoulders then started to make way for Shaded's home.
End Flashback
'Man. I like this kid. He cause more chaos with spiked drinks then I did.' Ahrimar said.
'Shut up.' Shaded thought to Ahrimar.
"I feel as if I'm forgetting something." Ghost said, his voice telling them that he was thinking. "Oh... Shit." Ghost finally said after a while.
"What?" Luna asked.
"I left my journal with those Twilight and the others." Ghost said as he got up.
"Why do you need it?" Shaded asked.
"Well a few reasons. One is that there are some questionable things in there. Two is that I explained each world in great detail." Ghost said. He walked to the door.
"I still don't understand." Shaded said.
"Each world I've been to had a few things. Wars, abuse, rape, and torture. If they managed to read my journal they will most likely have mental scars after reading it. I also explained some of my powers." Ghost said as he walked out the door. While that sunk in on the other four, Ghost was walking out of the cave and towards the castle.
They charged after him and started pushing him forward. "C'mon we got to hurry!" John said.
After Running to the Castle
"Did any of you read my journal?" Ghost asked Twilight, while the others behind him were out of breath.
"No. We couldn't open it. Even my magic wouldn't open it." Twilight said.
"Well that is good." Ghost said. He looked back at the others and raised an eyebrow. "That was why I wasn't hurrying. They couldn't get it open and even if they did it would take them a while to make out the words."
"Alright then. Why didn't you tell us?!" Shaded shouted.
"It's because I'm a troll. Problem?" Ghost said making another troll face.
"Now can you please explain your powers?" Luna asked.
"I don't know. Can I?" Ghost said, troll face still on him.
"May you please explain to us about your powers?" Celestia asked.
"There was the proper grammar." Ghost said, smiling slightly, "Alright, but later."
Author's Note
A/N Sorry for the long break. But yup I'm back and as a result I wrote a chapter that is slightly longer than the last one. Oh and please point out grammar and spelling errors. Yeah this was meant as a type of Christmas special. Sorry if it sucks.
Everyone's Powers Part 1
"Well my powers mainly include anything that is internal." Ghost said before a hoof shot up. "Yeah?" It was Pinkie Pie who raised it.
"Can I throw you a party? Oh! Wait! I haven't thrown John or Shaded one yet! I need to throw all of you a party!" Pinkie said as Ghost saw the thoughts passing through her head.
"Um? Sure," Ghost said "But after I explain my powers."
"Yay!" Pinkie shouted.
"Alright then. As I said before my powers are internal. They involve my organs, my bones, my muscles, the two of the five senses, and my skin." Another hoof was raised. This one was purple. "Yeah?"
"What are the two five senses your talking about?" Twilight asked.
"If you would let me continue I would tell you." Ghost said, leveling a blank stare at her.
She blushed from embarrassment. "Anyways to answer Twilight's question they affect my sense of smell and sight. My eyes are sharper than a normal persons. I can also see slightly farther then most. My sense of smell is... strange. If something smells really bad I actually lose my sense of smell." Ghost said, chuckling slightly at a memory.
"Can you tell us more about what you could do with your bones?" Rainbow asked, wondering what his powers would be able to do.
"Ah. Promise me that you won't scream when I do this." Ghost said in a serious tone.
They all nodded. "Alright, Shaded." Ghost said.
"Yeah?"
"Have you ever been to the Naruto world?"
"Only once."
"Have you ever meet Kimimaro?"
"No. Nothing but stories."
"Tell them the story about his powers."
Shaded looked at him questioningly before realizing what he was getting at. "You seriously are able to do that?" Shaded asked in disbelief.
Ghost smirked. "Yes."
"Who's Kimimaro?" Rarity asked, confused about what they were talking about.
"Kimamaro is the last remaining member of the Kaguya Clan. They were a clan of barbarians who cared about nothing but war. They feared few things. One was the power of Kimimaro. Kimimaro had to ability to control his bones. The power was known as Shikotsumyaku, Or Dead Bone Pulse in Japanese, or what you would call Neighponese. Only a few have the ability to use it." Shaded explained. "What Kimimaro did was use his own skeletal structure to battle."
They all looked at him in disbelief, not believing that such a power could exist.
Ghost smiled at their expressions. "He called his attacks dances. I believe a demonstration is in order for you to believe it." They all watched him.
Ghost bent his knees and bowed slightly. "Dance of the Willow!" From his elbows, wrists, shoulders, and knees, bone sprouted from his body, breaking through the skin and the bones had razor sharp points at the end. Though the bones broke through skin no blood escaped. They all jerked back in surprise.
"From this point I can extend my bones to easily reach opponents that are far away. I am a willow, shaking in the wind. Though, unlike a willow, I puncture through skin and muscles." Ghost said. The bones slid back into place though the one on his left shoulder stayed out. "Shaded you can guess what is next."
"The Dance of the Camellia." Shaded muttered before speaking louder, "It's know as the Dance of the Camellia."
"Well it seems you remember some more stories about him." Ghost said while griping the bone that was protruding from his shoulder. With a tug he pulled it out. Fluttershy, seeing enough, promptly fainted while the others watched in sick fascination.
"The Dance of the Camellia is where I take the bone from one of my arms and use it as a sword. However I move much faster. If an opponent watches me their eyes will lag behind them." He demonstrated by charging to the left. All of them only saw images of him trailing to the left. "Like this I attack quickly and unseen, waiting for openings where I can land a death blow."
Rainbow felt something cold against her neck. She turned around and saw Ghost standing behind her. "Boo, you're dead." Ghost said as he withdrew the bone sword away from her neck. "It also affect my bones healing ability. I can actually regrow my bones if I use them." He showed them his useless left arm and suddenly it was lifted up. "I just regrew the bone in my arm."
Though he seemed to be barely doing anything, Ghost looked rather tired. Shaded noticed and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing. It just leaves me tired after a bit. I have enough energy to show three more before I pass out." Ghost said panting slightly.
"Dance of the Larch." Ghost said. All across his body bones sprouted at angles, making hooks. "This is for defense also. Though I can charge into the fray of battle taking out enemies with single swipes. For the other dance is a two part dance. I am being completely honest with you when I say that I hate doing this." The bones across his body went back into his skin. "It's called Dance of the Clematis: Vine." He crouched down and put his hands on the floor. He raised his right hand to below his neck. He then tore into his skin and pulled out most of his spinal column, beginning at the crevical veterbra and ending before the sacrum. He immediately started to heal his spine so he could stand up.
When he got up he could see that all of them looked sick, some of them even fainted. Pinkie was looking at him sadly before asking a question, "Does it hurt?"
Ghost gave a small sigh before saying, "Yes. Though, after doing this for a while it just turns into a throbbing sensation."
Pinkie still looked sad though. Ghost saw it and said, "Besides, I am the one who agreed to this. I know what's to come. You didn't force me, so I am doing this of my own free will. Don't feel down, turn that frown upside down." He walked over to her and pulled her face into a smile. She giggled slightly at what he was doing.
"Now back to my explanation. With this I can use my spinal column as a whip or a blade. The cartilage makes it extremely flexible." He demonstrated by making a downward stroke. "This is the first part of the dance. I count this as two dances because of how much of my energy is used to use them." Ghost looked at them and smirked. "The follow up dance is a power house move, though it is very slow. That is why this is the first part of the dance. It wouldn't make sense if the power behind the move missed, would it?" He slammed the spine into the ground and it appeared behind John wrapping him in the bone.
"Ah! What the he-" John managed to say before the bone covered his mouth.
"The second part is called Dance of the Clematis: Flower." Ghost held out his right arm and seemed to be focusing on it. It then erupted with bones, covering his entire arm in grey. The bones near his hand twisted until it resembled a drill. "What I would do is use the first part to hold the opponent in place. Then with this one, the target is immobile I charge forward and drill my arm into the target."
The bones on his arm started fading away, along with the bone around John. He glanced at it before saying, "See ya when I wake up." and promptly passed out, but not before a pained look crossed his face. It vanished as fast as it appeared making most of them believe it was a trick of the light.
"We should wait for them to wake up. Also when they wake up I could tell you some skills I learned while I was a slave." John spoke up after a minute of silence.
Meanwhile Luna was talking to Shaded. "I could enter his dreams to see what he seems so pained about."
"So, you also noticed that pained look in his face when he fell asleep too?" Shaded asked, looking for confirmation and not fazed that Luna could enter dreams.
"Yeah. I want to see what it is that has him so pained." Luna said, before walking to get permission from her sister to enter Ghost's dream.
Ghost's Dream
Ghost looked at the destruction that laid before him. He could hear screams of agony from the people in front of him. He wanted to help them, but knew it would be no use. He just shook his head and walked through the destruction, taking in every detail that was already engraved in his memory.
He saw people burning alive, people with cuts and bruises across their entire body. He saw people dieing of sickness and famine. As he walked by he felt a tear trail down his cheek.
With The Others
They moved Ghost to one of the guest bedrooms while he slept. While others were talking, Luna and Celestia's conversation took a turn to entering Ghost's dream.
"I don't see why you would enter his dream, Luna." Celestia whispered to her sister.
"But sister," Luna whined out quietly, "did you not see his expression before he passed out? I want to help him!"
"I did, but it was a trick of the light, Luna. You need to see through illusions." Celestia said.
"Sorry to interrupt, but it looks like Ghost is crying while he's asleep." Shaded said walking towards them. While the others ponies were talking to each other, while John and Shaded were watching Ghost. They both saw the pained expression on his face. John and Shaded had seen something like that quite a few times, John on his fellow slaves, Shaded on some of his friends that help him from other worlds.
Luna shot her sister a glance and walked towards the bed. Sure enough, Ghost had a tear trailing down his cheek.
"Please, Tia," Luna started, "let me help him."
Celestia let out an exasperated sigh before saying, "Alright... fine. Just be careful."
Luna smiled her thanks before starting the spell that only she could use.
]Ghost's dream
Ghost stood surrounded by his memories. He shook most of them off, leaving only a single memory that he had to confront every single night. He looked around and saw some creatures. He was then surrounded by green skinned creatures with light blue shirts and dark blue pants.
He looked at his right hand and found a familiar diamond sword, along with a block shape for a hand. He charged forward and cut through the creatures easily. "Chrystal!" He ran through the creatures he could not hit fast enough and their skin burned his when they touched. He ignored the pain and continued on through the hoard.
He got to a wooden two-story house with the creatures banging on the door and saw the doors break when he charged into them. He managed to kill them all and rushed inside after replacing the door.
"Chrystal!" He shouted as he looked through all the rooms on the first floor and rushed up the stairs.
It was at this time that Luna entered his dream.
He ignored the alicorn, as if she wasn't there, and looked inside each room. His eye started to twitch slightly. He looked inside the last room and saw a blond haired, brown eyed 9-year-old girl in the corner. "Come on! We need to leave now!" Ghost said as he pulled her out of the corner.
He ran back downstairs and opened one of the chests. From it he pulled out a bow and some arrows, and he grabbed something that looked like some eyeballs. He mashed them up and dipped the arrows into the goop. They glistened in the moonlight.
"Chrystal! Come on! We need to leave!" Ghost shouted as Chrystal came downstairs.
"Uncle Ghost? Where are we going?" Chrystal asked.
"The monsters are attacking again. We need to move. Quick get your stuff." Ghost said, his voice making no trace of him panicking. Chrystal's eyes widened as she went to another chest and pulled out some things. One that she looked at though was a photograph. It was black and white and had a baby girl with her parents. In the background a teenager stood there, almost as if watching them, as if waiting for trouble.
Luna watched them as they packed. "Let's go." Ghost said when they were finished. "The escape route." They walked over to the wall and Ghost pressed a button, opening the wall. Chrystal walked in first while Ghost turned around and threw a wooden sword at a button on the far wall. When it hit the button the wall opened up revealing what appeared to be heads with their mouths in an O shape.
They started to shoot arrows at the doorway effectively killing the creatures that managed to break through the doors again.
He then charged down the corridor after Chrystal.
After a few minutes of running he finally caught up to Chrystal. "Are you getting faster or am I getting older." Ghost said, catching his breath. It was then that Luna noticed that Ghost looked to be about 27. There was almost no difference between the age except for height. Normally Ghost was about 5'1, now he was about 6'1
"No, your just getting lazier." She said, smiling playfully.
Ghost chuckled slightly as they continued down the corridor big enough for the two of them to walk side by side.
They came out to a hallowed point in the corridor. It was about 11 by 13 meters. There were two beds, a furnace, a work bench, and a chest. "You hungry?" Ghost asked as he opened the chest.
"Of course! We ran for the past 20 minutes!" Chrystal exclaimed.
Ghost chuckled as he rummaged through the chest and grabbed four pieces of bread, giving them all to Chrystal. "Aren't you going to eat?" Chrystal asked.
"No. I'm not hungry. After you finish eating, go to bed. I know you're tired, so don't argue." Ghost said, a smile across his face. He then walked down the corridor that they came from.
Luna saw Chrystal finish the bread quickly before following him. Luna followed them both and what she saw was Ghost pulling a hidden lever next to him. Luna heard a hiss of something lighting on fire. Five seconds later the ceiling exploded, leaving rubble to fall down the pathway, blocking off the passage from any potential pursuers.
He walked back and saw that she was in bed, but not asleep. Ghost rolled his eyes playfully and said, "You want me to help you fall asleep?"
"Yes please!" Chrystal exclaimed, full of excitement.
"Well what do you want me to do?" Ghost asked as he sat down on the bed.
"Hmm. Tell me how you first came here." Chrystal said.
"Sure." Ghost said. "Well when I first came here, I didn't have what you would call common knowledge of this place. When your father found me I was nearly starved and pretty much ran from everything."
"Yeah. Dad said that you didn't know what a Creeper was!" Chrystal said while laughed slightly.
"Yeah. My first encounter with one it just chased me. I managed to trap it in a hole, though." Ghost said chuckling at the memory. "Anyways when your father took me in he taught me all about this place. He had to actually tempt me with food before he could talk to me."
"Like he did with a wolf! He tempted them to stay with him for bones!" Chrystal said.
"Yeah, kind of like that. He managed to calm me down. When he realized that I didn't know anything about this place, well, he took it upon himself to teach me about it." Ghost said as he smiled. "I still owe him for that, but I believe that I'm doing that by protecting you. Now go to sleep."
Ghost got up from the bed before his arm was grabbed. "Don't abandon me. Please?" Chrystal asked.
"Of course I won't. I'll always be here to protect you. Don't ever doubt that." Ghost said, wondering where that came from. He leaned down and kissed the top of her head. She smiled at him and threw the covers over her and turned over, asleep.
Ghost smiled at the scene before his face turned serious. He walked back to the passage and covered it with cobblestone and obsidian he mined out beforehand. He walked back into the room and put some coal into the furnace in case it got cold into the night. He then went to the bed on the opposite side of the room and went to sleep.
The dream then skipped to mourning when Ghost awoke. He smiled as he got up. He made sure that all the gear was there and then walked to Chrystal’s bed. He then tickled her arm slightly. She brushed his fingers away and went back to slumbering. He then tickled her neck causing her to do the same thing as last time. He then poked her face.
"Ah!" She woke up and rolled over falling to the floor.
"You awake now?" Ghost said, laughing.
"Hate you." Chrystal mumbled.
"Love ya too!" Ghost answered back. "Come on. We have to move farther away."
They got all their stuff and left down the hallway away from the one they came from. They went deeper into the area that Ghost had mined out.
"Where are we going?" Chrystal finally asked after walking in silence for a while.
"Well remember when I disappeared for a few days?" Ghost asked.
Chrystal nodded and said, "Yeah I thought you died. Or you got lost in one of the cave systems."
"Yeah well during that time I built a safe house. I filled it with snow golems, iron golems, and traps." Ghost said with a smile, obviously proud of what he had built. "It should be coming up soon."
The corridor started to go upward and soon natural light flooded into it. The harsh sunlight hurt both if their eyes. They squinted before Chrystal's and Luna's mouth dropped.
The safe house was enormous it looked like the roman coliseum. There was a fence gate that was lever activated. "Well what do you think? Do you think it's safe enough?" Ghost asked, smirking at her expression.
"I won't know until we're inside, but yes this looks completely safe." Chrystal said, still in awe.
They entered the building and Chrystal and Luna saw iron blocks put into a cross formation without the head. "If we're attacked all we need to do is place a pumpkin for their head." Ghost said.
It wasn't long before they were attacked again.
The creatures came without warning. The green skinned creatures managed to work the hidden lever to open the gates. The skeletons ran forward and shot their arrows trying to hit them.
"Chrystal go!" Ghost shouted, as he ran to the golems and put the pumpkin heads on them.
He then ran towards where Chrystal escaped to. He ran to her and from there they waited near the halfway built golems getting ready to put the pumpkins on in case the iron golems failed. They didn't wait long.
They heard an explosion and they put the pumpkins on the golems' heads and ran to the upstairs floor. The spiders crawling along the wall to get to them. Ghost was slashing through the spiders that jumped at them. It was then that the skeletons came and start to shoot arrows at them, along with the zombies getting closer to them.
Ghost quickly handed Chrystal his sword as he changed to his bow and shot the poisonous arrows at the skeletons and zombies. Realizing that it wasn't killing them fast enough he switched to a potion. Remembering that healing potions for humans hurt monsters he threw a potion of healing at them, causing them to get hurt by just walking near the cloud that appeared from the potion.
It was then that he heard a scream of pain behind him. He quickly spun around and saw Chrystal with a cave spider on top of her. Ghost charged forward and punted the spider off of her. He pulled another potion of healing out and gave it to her, his last one. "Drink it." Ghost said.
She gulped it down greedily and stood back up as it took effect. Ghost grabbed his diamond sword and attacked the monsters that came too close. They slowly backed away managing to kill of some of the monsters. They then turn and ran down the corridor.
After fight some more mobs the worst possible thing happened to them. Ghost's sword broke. Ghost cursed under his breath as he threw as hard as he could the end with the handle at the closest spider. It effectively killed it and the body provided a means to block the corridor. He and Chrystal ran down to the end of the corridor where there was a ladder leading to the top.
"Up there I have swords, bows, arrows, and armor. Go up and equip it. I'll make sure they won't catch up until we're ready." Ghost said as he turned back to the corridor before being stopped by a hand. He turned around and looked into Chrystal's shining brown eyes.
"Thank you." Chrystal said as she pulled him into a hug. The hug was unexpected, but not unwelcome. She then let go and started to climb the ladder.
Ghost walked back to the corridor with his broken sword. After a few minutes of watching he saw that they managed to actually go through the body of the spider, tearing through it. Ghost ran back to the ladder and tossed his sword at the button, hoping that he didn't miss.
His doubts were for nothing as the blade buried itself into the button. The wall opened and, similar to the one at the house, shot arrows at the incoming monsters.
Ghost climbed the ladder and got to the roof. From there he saw Chrystal, in full armor, grabbing a bow with arrows. "Well that didn't take you long." Ghost said, startling her.
He reached into the chest and donned the iron armor and another diamond sword. "So do you have an escape plan if this fails?" Chrystal asked.
"Of course I do! Do you think I'm dumb?" Ghost said. "Did you notice that the chest had boats in it?"
"Yeah, I was wondering why."
"Well that's our escape plan. I made a waterfall near the back of the safe house. From there I can make the safe house go into self destruct with all the TNT I set into the foundation and walls. Most, if not all, monsters are after us. Therefore if I blow up the safe house it'll kill most of the monsters, making them leave us alone until they regroup. Then we can do this, over and over again if they regroup to quickly." Ghost explained.
"Alright then." Chrystal said.
"You didn't hear a single word I said, did you?"
"I stopped listening after you said safe house go into self destruct."
Ghost rolled his eyes before hearing the moans and groans of zombies along with the clacks of from skeletons. "Grab a boat and get ready in case we have to go."
Chrystal nodded and grabbed a boat, carried it to where the waterfall is, and placed it in the water. Ghost did the same. They got back to the opening in time to see the zombies crawl out of it first. They slashed at the zombies, causing them to fall on the others that were climbing up the ladder.
It was then the spiders came from the wall of the safe house, surrounding them. They both slashed, dodged, stabbed, rolled, and slammed into the spiders. It wasn't long before the zombies and skeletons managed to climb the ladders and added onto the attack.
"Escape plan!" Ghost shouted to Chrystal. She nodded and rushed towards the boats. Ghost stayed behind and provided cover, until he heard a scream coming from the boats. He looked over and saw a cave spider biting Chrystal's leg. "No!" He at the spider and slashed it in half. He looked at the wound and saw it was green from the poison.
"No! No, no, no! Don't die on me! We can get some milk. That will take the poison out." Ghost said.
Chrystal looked at him sadly before saying, "You know we won't find a cow in time."
Ghost's eyes were watery, threatening to spill with tears. "Don't die on me."
"Ghost," Chrystal's voice seemed to be getting weaker as the poison took effect. "Don't be sad. I'm going to meet Dad again. I love you Ghost." Then she drew in her final breath.
Ghost picked her up, tears streaming down his cheeks, sat on the boat with her in his lap, and pushed of down the waterfall. They hit the bottom and Ghost gently picked Crystal back up and carried her to the lever which will blow up the safe house.
He pulled the lever and heard the hiss of TNT getting set on fire. He turned around and walked down the pathway as the safe house exploded into thousands of pieces, scattering bones and rotten flesh from the creatures across the forest.
He looked at Chrystal's body. He saw that she looked peaceful, almost as if she was asleep, but he knew better. She would never be waking up. He brought her body to a safe place and made a coffin for her. He put her in and buried her.
It was then that Ghost acknowledged Luna's presence. "What do you want?" His voice was commanding and cold. It sent chills down Luna's spine.
"I wanted to see what you were so pained about." Luna said. "Who was-" was all she managed to finish before Ghost cut in.
"Well happy now? You found out. Leave my mind, now." Ghost said. He waited for a bit before looking back and still saw her there.
"What did I just say? Get out. Leave me to my own thoughts." Ghost said again, if possible he said it even colder than before.
Luna obeyed grudgingly and faded from Ghost's mind.
Author's Note
A/N Part Two coming soon! Also what you think about Ghost now? Overpowered? Not? What do you think in your honest opinion. Rather long chapter, don't you think? Also the world that Ghost was in was Minecraft.