Dreams: Humanity

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If a squirrel takes an acorn from a crowded road and is killed by a car, did it deserve that death for being so stupid as to believe it could make it through, or arrogant to believe a car could not harm it, or insane enough to believe the world would stop for it to find the food it so desired.

Is the pawn guilty for the crimes of the king? Some would say yes, others would say no. Some say the pawn has a mind of their own and can make their own choices, but others say they have no choice, that they would die if they ever turned away.

The point of these pointless questions is pointless to point out, because the answers are never going to be the same, and no outcome is going to come out of the answers.

I watched the arena with interest, a small smile on my face as the doors on either side of the arena opened, a person was pushed out of each side, and I heard 'Last one standing fights again!' in Chinese. I watched the man on my left with brown hair and a stubbly beard stare across the arena floor at the redheaded woman in the torn army uniform.

I grinned wider as the woman charged the man, who launched a small bolt of electricity from his hands at her. The lightning bolt struck her in the head, coursed through her body, and shot back out of her into the man. Boooooring, let's make it more interesting! I snapped my fingers, grinning as everything slowed to a crawl. Adjusting my fedora, I walked down the stairs I made into the arena, past all the watching fans and empty seats, and come to rest next to the falling form of the redheaded woman.

I flicked my wrist, bringing her back to life in an instant. I pointed at the two empty walls and made two more doorways, inside each were three people armed with baseball bats. I shrugged and turned the bats into fish. Then I turned the men into giant jello men.

Then I smirked and slid a small blue crystal in the man's ear, pressing it firmly against ear canal, before snapping my fingers and disappearing in the same instant.

I visited the changelings and made them an offer. I put a diamond dog's dagger in a cat's eye. I stole a golden ring and necklace and slipped it to a disheveled showmare. I sent a scholar to a strange building to die. I sent a manticore to a strange new forest.

I laughed and laughed...

And laughed and laughed, laughed, laughed, laughed, laughed...

Cian

"What happened here!?" I shouted in surprise when Fluttershy and I came upon a redheaded filly with a red bow cuddling a white, pink maned filly who was curled into a ball. The filly in the bow jumped up, staring at me with a look of confusion.

"Ah'm so sorry, it's just Scootaloo and ah wanted to see the human that had come to Ponyville and mah sister talked about ya and Sweetie Belle didn't wanna go and then the other human was here when the manticore came and it took Scootaloo and the human went after it after helping Sweetie and Fluttershy ah'm so sorry!" She took a deep gasping breath once she was finished, before breaking into tears, rushing into Fluttershy's arms.

I let Fluttershy deal with Ms. Texas while I dealt with Sweetie Belle or whatever. Rarity's sister whose name I had only heard mentioned, but by her looks I made the connection.

I knelt beside her, jostling her. "Yo Sweetie Belle? Y'alright?" She groaned and nodded, rubbing a red spot on her stomach. I examined it for a moment before gasping in shock. It looked like some kind of sting, from a scorpion or something. And release The Scorpion! If our contestants want to be such good friends, let them die together!

'Hold it together!' Mirror shouted at me, trying to keep me focused. 'Now is not the time to go all crazy on them, you need to get her into town, fast.' No shit. I lifted the filly in my arms, cradling her as I nodded to Fluttershy, who had calmed the redhead, Apple Bloom, down from her previously blubbering state.

We walked Sweetie Belle out of that forest with the knowledge that she might die. Of course, when we got back into town and found out that Vaelyn had not only saved Sweetie's life by sucking out the poison, but got rid of the manticores permanently... Without killing them, he stressed to Fluttershy who looked disgusted before he mentioned that part. Scootaloo was practically attached to him until her friends were shown to be alright, then she vowed she would become a hero like him or something.

Didn't really pay attention. Saw Rainbow Dash look a little irritated by that when she heard, probably pretty jealous or something. No, what I was paying attention to was the voice in my head.

You're *what?*** 'I was in heat when I died. When you took me into your head. I was near the end of my cycle, at the peak pretty much, and now...' Are you stuck like this? 'Does that cyan one have a rockin body?' I looked to confirm this, saw a horse, and shrugged. Guess so, to another pony maybe. 'Then yes, I think I am stuck like this. Not to worry though, I have a plan...' What's that?

My hand jerked at my side, and before I could even blink it was caressing Fluttershy's backside, just above the tail. I could hear Mirror sigh in content as I tried to play the movement off as anything but creepy, rubbing my hand up her back and ending behind her ears.

"Who wants cupcakes!?" I heard a mare shout from nearby, most likely Pinkie to us. I couldn't suppress the smile that came to my face. Who could when cupcakes were involved? Nothing evil could be attributed to that name.

Vaelyn

With Scoots safely out of my arms, I regarded the group staring at me with accusatory, thankfu and curious looks with a shake of my hand.

"Heading to Fluttershy's to ask a few questions about animals when I heard these suckers making enough noise to attract a bear from a few miles off. A manticore was nearby, tearing up a pack of timberwolves near the strange building in the woods," the wolves I had completely forgotten about until that point, shit, "before it decided to go after these little ones. I fought it off for as long as I could, but it escaped me, grabbing Scoots and stinging Sweetie." I nod to the filly.

A collection of gasps interrupt my wonderful story, so I cleared my throat and sent a glare around the group. Twilight raised a hoof and I sighed before I nodded. "Yes?"

She stammered, "Manticore venom is very deadly, it would have... killed her in minutes without the medical attention she obviously didn't get." She looked to Sweetie Belle, who was talking to her worried friends and assuring them of her safety. "But she's clearly fine."

"Well I sucked it out. So I chased after the manti--"

"The venom is acidic, it would have burnt the inside of your mouth before you could spit it out again."

"Well, I didn't spit it out, and yes it burnt like absolute hell. It's gone for good though, after I caught up to it and hurt it rather badly. It's alive though, and it will be able to live its life just fine." I added the last part when I saw the accusatory glare of Fluttershy (the look doesn't suit her but damn do I feel bad when I see it) before I remembered. "Oh yeah, do you have anything for my mouth?"

Twilight stammered helplessly, "What?! We need to get you to Nurse Redheart, you shouldn't even be able to move!"

I looked up at her, shaking my head. "What? No, I'm fine my mouth just hurts. Anyways, enough about my day I must be boring you, how is yours going?" She seemed to scan my face for a moment before being... satisfied isn't the right word, but she looked less pissed.

"Are all humans as stubborn as you three?" Twilight glared at me before turning away. She started to walk away but turned back. "And my day is going just fine, thank you for asking!" I nodded in victory, looking around and eyeing a certain pink pony with a certain tray of certain confectionary treats. There were exactly three, a nice yellow colored cupcake with purplish-blue frosting.

I snatched one as she cried out "Who wants cupcakes?!"

I thanked her and turned away, almost running into Cian who was holding his own cupcake. "Nice cupcake." I observed, nodding towards his treat which identical to mine.

Cian grinned, "Indeed. So, to today, because there is no way it could get weirder!" I bit into my own cup... cake...

Eden

"Where did they get the stage?" I asked Pinkie Pie in irritation, nodding towards the aforementioned stage.

"I let them use it!" She replied as chipper as ever, watching Cian and Vaelyn on stage singing, the former on guitar and the latter on drums, with a tan stallion on bass, who looked even more confused than I must have looked from seeing the spectacle.

"And we light up the SKYYYYYYYYYY!" The pair of humans shouted in perfect singing voices (strangely enough, even I could sing in this place) while the bass player somehow managed to keep up, despite his hooves being, well, you know, hooves.

"And where did they get the instruments from?" I questioned further, though Pinkie didn't look away from the stage again

"Cian had them! I dunno where he got em from though because I've never seen anything like them, well except for the cello that I saw Octavia playing at the Grand Galloping Gala that one time but that sounded totally different and she used a long thing that made it sound different than any of that." She took a deep breath and finished, "And I let them use the microphone. At least all the other ponies like it!" She addressed the crowd standing around the stage, it looked like the entire town had shown up in the fifteen minutes that had passed since the, you know, kids almost dying and everything.

"The stallion on bass guitar?" I asked, watching him nail every note with ease, all things considered.

"Oh his name is Doctor Whooves!"

I sighed, rubbing my temples and looking into the beautiful blue sky. Stay calm, today is going to be a good day. You're gonna make friends and these ponies will love you... Stay calm... Eat something. "Hey Pinkie, can you bring me one of those cupcakes you gave them?"

Not even seconds passed before I had a cupcake in my hand, and Pinkie was staring intently into my eyes. "Try it!  I used a special frosting the Cakes ordered..." I looked at the two idiots on stage. I looked at the cupcake. I almost took a bite out of it when Pinkie continued. "Well actually there's no record of them making an order for this frosting. They didn't even mention it, actually. And it wasn't delivered, somepony standing behind the bakery said I needed to use it for cupcakes, but I only had enough for those three."

I smelled the cupcake experimentally, and it smelled very familiar. Like a certain plant found in the Everfree Forest that got me into the mess I was in. I tossed the cupcake aside, hoping smelling it wouldn't have any adverse effects on me.

"AaaaAAAaah!" Eden sang, bouncing around the stage like a mad woman.

"They take me away from..." Cian shouted into the mic in his hands.

"AaaaAAAaah!"

"The strangest places..." Vaelyn continued strongly.

"AaaaAAAaah!"

"Sweet Rarity and Eden." I mused to myself as I slipped through the entranced crowd as though they would even be able to see me if I touched any one of them, reaching the library fairly quickly and slipping inside. I took a quick look around and saw nothing worth mentioning so I won't. All I saw was my goal, the baby purple dragon looking out the window at the performance outside. The owl was sitting next to him, staring as stoic as ever at nothing in particular.

I approached him from behind, whispering in his attentive ears. "Those humans sure are exotic, huh?"

Spike spun around, frantically scanning the empty room, save Owlicious. "Who said that?!"

"Who indeed?" I laughed and sent the owl closer to Spike with a thought. "Me, of course!"

The purple dragon stared wide eyed at the owl for several minutes. I was ready to leave when he finally spoke. "So... You WERE messing with me!"

"Or you're insane. Either way, I have had a vision from the future and you must see it. It concerns Rarity."

He snapped to attention at the mention of his beloved. "What about her?! Is she in danger? We have to save her!" He looked ready to do something stupid, I had to act quickly.

"Not quite so grave. Look" I sent him a vision of Rarity and Eden dancing together at the Grand Galloping Gala, obviously causing him distress as he growled at the image, clenching his tiny claws and gritting his teeth. "She wants a human." I mocked him, smirking as the vision continued and the pair grew nearer and nearer, until their lips were just about to touch before I waved it away. "She doesn't just want a human, she wants a woman." He looked out the window at the woman singing on stage, then to the alabaster mare that was watching them all with an unreadable expression on her face. "If only there were some sort of artifacts that could make you both. Alas, the only mare I know with such things is-- oops, I think I've said too much."

He looked at the owl desperately, jumping up and down in front of him. "Who?! Who do I talk to?! I need these things!"

"Who indeed?" I chuckled. "From the north will come a mare, whose coat is light blue and quite fair. Though before she was mean and sourful, now she is the great and powerful..."

"Trixie!" Spike jumped in the air, whooping. Then he stopped and looked at the owl. "Sourful?"

"I'm an owl not a poet. You want me to tell you or not?" He nodded vigorously. "Fine. Exactly three days from midnight tonight Trixie will come seeking an audience with Twilight Sparkle. Ask her about 'the artifacts' and offer to trade. She will decline, but just ask her to borrow them and offer her a date with Twilight Sparkle. Get Twilight up to the idea ahead of time if you wish, but you need to get the amulet and the ring. Do not put on the ring, just the amulet. Go to her and show your love, and then put on the ring when you tell her what happened. She will have no choice but to be amazed!" I smirked, stepping out of existence and into the void.

"How do you know all about Trixie?" Spike asked the owl.

"Who?" The owl hooted.

"Trixie!"

"Who?"

I laughed out loud, grinning from ear to ear. "Who indeed?"