Unto A New World

A/N:
This chapter is written in Luna's POV. Yes, the WHOLE chapter.

Chapter Sixteen: ..Jackson?

"Jackson" I called as I watched my love leave the library. I should have stopped him answering the question. I watched his face turn from one of joy and laughter to one of sorrow and pain. All I did was hug him, it's all I could do. I galloped to the door and opened it with my magic, and found myself out in the street.
Jackson was nowhere in sight.
"Jackson!" I yelled into the warm, crisp summer night air, the warmth was licking at my ears, making them twitch "Jackson where are you?" I yelled again, still no response.
I saw a light turn on in a nearby house "Hey shuttup would y-" the voice stopped, realising who he was scolding at "P-princess I'm so sorry please forgive me".
"It's alright my faithful subject" I said, trying to mimic my sister. I felt so stupid "I am sorry, you should be forgiving me. I will let you rest in peace".
"Goodnight Princess" Said the stallion, he obviously liked his sleep.

I had to find Jackson. He has no idea how dangerous Equestria at night. He was lucky to survive being kicked out of the castle. I tried my best to make the moon as bright as possible, but that's ALL I could do.
When he was gone, I only had the guitar he gave me left. I was so sad.
But I supressed my sadness, building a wall around the thought of him dying. Now.. it was now coming back.
Twilight and the other five came out to find me in a mess on the ground, drenched in my own tears.
"We'll find him Princess" Twilight told me, putting her hoof on my back.
"I couldn't find him anywhere" I sobbed pathetically "I don't think he's in Ponyville anymore"
"I.. I'm sorry" Rainbow said empathetically, trying to fix what she had done "I didn't mean for this to happen".
"It's.. I.." I started, trying to get my brain to work "I would say it's alright Rainbow Dash, but he's missing".
I saw Rainbow's face drop, and Fluttershy placed a wing over her.
"Though you couldn't have known how he'd act so it's not your fault" I finished, but the cyan mare didn't change any emotion.
"Princess.." I heard Twilight say into my right ear, her forelegs were around my neck "There is no way that we would be able to find him in the dark, lets look tomorrow okay?"
I nodded. Oh why did I nod? This wasn't what I wanted at all.

I stayed at Vinyl's that night. I couldn't stay at Twilight's, I couldn't sleep there.
Vinyl and Redheart comforted me. Redheart had finished work and they were both getting ready for bed. I felt terrible.
"What's wrong Luna?" Asked Redheart, seeing the state I was in.
My eyeliner was running down from my red puffyeyes. I took in a big sniff.
"Jackson.." I started "Ran away".
"What? How? What happened?" Red and Vinyl asked.
"Rainbow Dash asked him why he was kicked out of the palace. He explained but Twilight and the others couldn't see why Celestia acted that way and then he.. he just broke down and ran" I explained, feeling more tears coming.
Red embraced me in a hug while Vinyl paced the room, cussing random words and occasionally saying my love's name.
"Does he have any idea how dangerous this was?" Vinyl said sternly. I could detect a hint of panic and anger in her voice "Ohh when I get my hooves on him.."
"NO!" I retorted, maybe a little too loudly "Don't hurt him".
"I wasn't going to hurt him Luna.. I was going to tie him down and let you have your way with him" She said with a wink.
"I'd just let him g-" I realised what she had ment exactly, and felt my face turn beet red "OH!"
"VINYL!" Red scolded as she tackled her marefriend "What did I say about teasing Luna and Jackson?"
"To be a good little mare and do as I'm told and I'll get rewarded in the be-" Vinyl's voice was cut by Redheart's hoof, which was now inside the DJ's mouth.
"VINYL!" Redheart screamed, looking at me with an embarrassed face "The princess.. let alone anypony.. does not need to know about.. THAT.."
"You asked" Vinyl teased her mare. 'They're going to be together for a long time' I thought to myself.
"What's with all the noise?" A familiar voice called from the hallway. It was Tumbleweed, Vinyl must have been successful in getting her to live with the musicians "Why is the princess crying?"
"Sorry Tumbleweed" Vinyl said as she looked down to the floor, hanging her head in shame "Red and I were about to go to bed and then Luna came in and we saw she was crying and we asked what was wrong then I teased Luna with tying Jackson up when I find him so she can have her fun and then Red told me off and then I teased her and then you came down" Vinyl said in one breath. Really? Red and her must get up to some fun in there..
I felt myself blush. WHY DID I THINK THAT?
"Why are you blushing Princess?" Tumbleweed asked, which made Red and Vinyl turn their heads.
"NO REASON" I blurted loudly.
"..right" Vinyl replied to my weirdness. I wasn't a social butterfly like my sister. One thousand years on the moon will do that to you "Anyway, time for bed. It's your turn tonight Reddy" She said with a wink.
Red.. went Red. I let our a chuckle at my thought, which was heard by all three ponies.
"Now what?" Vinyl asked with a roll of her eyes.
I pointed a hoof at Redheart "Red's red".
Vinyl and Tumbleweed chuckled at my words, which made me feel more confident. I walked over to Redheart and wrapped a wing over her "Come on! It was funny!" I said in a humorous manner, and soon managed to get her to laugh by tickling her underside with the tip on my wing.
A few moments of that, and Tumbleweed spoke up.
"I can track Jackson for you tomorrow Luna" The pretty, exotic mare offered.
"That would be great, thankyou Tumbleweed" I said as I dried my eyes for one final time before we all headed for bed.

The next day:

After a hearty, but awkward breakfast Tumbleweed and I set out to find Jackson. Redheart had work and Vinyl had a meeting to go to, so it was just the two of us.
We were walking past the library when Twilight spotted us from the balcony. Oh I really didn't want her to come along. "Princess!" She exclaimed "Are you going to find Jackson? Mind if I come help?"
'Yes' "Not at all young one" 'Goddesses damn it'. That felt weird.
"I'll be down in a sec" Twilight said in a giddy manner.
"Why?" Tumbleweed asked "She'll slow us down".
"I know I just.. can't say no" I whispered, feeling ashamed "I'm not like that"
"Well Jackson is one lucky human" Tumbleweed said bashfully as we both waited outside of the library.
A few moments later, the door opened and Twilight stepped out.
She had spike, her baby dragon, riding on her back, aswell as two saddlebags full of items.
"What's in the saddlebags?" I asked her quizzically.
"A few books on emotions and psychology, food and water" She said proudly.
"You won't be needing those Twilight" I sighed, and she just gave me a look that ment that she thought I was wrong. "Fine, let's go".

It wasn't long until, would have been shorter if we didn't need to take so many breaks for a certain purple unicorn, Tumbleweed traced his tracks into The Everfree Forrest. Ofcourse he went in there. I was starting to panic more than before. He could be dead for all I know.

I really hoped he wasn't dead.

'Luna? What's wrong? I can feel your distress..' Celestia asked me. We have always had a strong magical bond between us.
'Jackson has run away' I told her bluntly 'We've tracked him to Everyfree Forrest. I don't want to talk about it until we've found him okay?'
My sister went quiet for a few moments, before replying.
'..sure' Her voice sounded hurt, making me inwardly wince.

"His steps have gotten closer here, which means he was slowing down" Tumbleweed informed me "Is that.. blood?" She waved me over to where she was loooking, a tree. upon it's bark was a small smear of blood and the trail led straight up to it. "Is that his?" I asked, panic was rising to an all new high.
"There's no way to be sure, but clues say yes" She said in a worried tone "If he's injured, he won't be far"
"Are these hoof marks?" Twilight spoke up from behind us. Surprisingly, they were. "Good work Twilight" I said with a genuine smile. She wasn't THAT bad, actually kind of cute. Maybe I should hook her up with somepony.
'Argh! Brain focus!' I told myself, mentally punishing my own mind.
"Zecora's hut isnt far, and if there are hoofmarks where Jackson's tracks stop then maybe she took him?" Twilight suggested.
"Or it could have been a werepony" Tumbleweed said, pure worry on her face.
My eyes went wide and I looked to Twilight for an answer.
"There's no such thing as a werepony Tumbleweed, that's just an old mare's tale" Twilight reassured me and Tumbleweed.
I let out a breath that I didn't realise I was holding.
"Where's Zecora's hut?" I asked the unicorn. I knew that Tumbleweed could find it herself, but if Twilight knew the way then it would make everything faster.
"Follow me" She said with a swish of her tail and a pleased look on her face. Oh goddesses. I chuckled again at this. Jackson had only started using it, and it sort of caught on I guess.

"Zercora?" Twilight called as she pushed open the door to the zebra pony's hut. Inside was dark, maybe a little eerie.
In the dense darkness, something stirred. It moaned and hit something before the lights came on and it turned out to be Zecora.
"Ah Princess!" Her eyes went wide in panic "Forgive me for I look a mess"
She didn't really "It's alright Zecora" I told her.
"Zecora, have you seen a creature called Jackson around ehre? We were following footsteps and they turned into hoofsteps"
"Hmm" The zebra rose her hoof to her chin in thought, and then nodded her head, making her bangles and bells jingle "Do you mean the pink, hairless ape?"
"HEY!" I yelled but then retorted, thinking about what she said. He actually was a pink, hairless ape "Sorry, never mind"
Twilight gave me a stare and turned back to Zecora "Where did he go?"
"He stayed the night here because he was quite ill, but this morning made his way back to Ponyville" Zecora rhymed.
The three of us remained silent. "Did he say anything?" I asked.
"He did not speak much, but he did talk about a certain bunch" Zecora replied.
"What did he say?" Twilight asked nervously.
"He asked me not to tell, you will have to learn about this without putting him under a spell" The zebra mare said with an added emphasis.
"Thanks for you help Zecora" Twilight thanked, aswell as Tumbleweed and I.

The three of us left the hut and followed the trail back to the entrance of The Everfree Forrest, true to Zecora's word.
The trail led us back to the outside of Ponyville and underneath a cloud house. At the base of a nearby tree, sat a cyan blue pegasus and with her was Jackson, who had no shirt on and a bandage wrapped around him, aswell as one that was on his hand and up his right wrist.
Jackson's left arm, which appeared unharmed, was wrapped around Rainbow Dash. The both looked up and saw us and said a few words before getting up and making their way over to us.
"Hey" Jackson said.
"Hey.. HEY? THAT'S ALL YOU CAN SAY?" I screamed at him, which made him hide behind Rainbow "I THOUGHT YOU DIED!"
"I'm sorry.." He said softly, looking down at the floor.
"I know you didn't want to answer the question lastnight, I was going to stop you but I didn't" I told him.
"It's not that. It was.. something else" Jackson said sadly, and Rainbow nuzzled his neck.
"What's going on?" Twilight asked, confused as the rest of us.
"I sought out Rainbow this morning to tell her it wasn't her fault.. and the real reason I left lastnight" Jackson retorted.
"Well?" I asked sternly "What is it?"
"I'd rather not talk about it right now. I had Rainbow swear she wouldn't tell anypony. THAT'S how I felt about it.. I don't want to go around telling ponies" He told us.
"Let's get back to Vinyl's then. You have some explaining to do" I ordered.
"I actually have plans with Applejack this morning and I'm not one to go back on things like that" He objected, but soon gave in once I gave him my puppy eyes look. I nearly had to let out a tear to get him to come.

On the way back to the DJ's house, Twilight left back to her library.
Tumbleweed, Jackson and I made our way through Vinyl's front door.
'Luna, I'm happy that Jackson is safe' Celestia said with her usual motherly tone.
'As am I sister. It seems he still hasn't gotten over the whole ordeal that happened at the castle. I hope you know what you're doing at the masquerade ball..'
'Don't you trust your own sister?'
'Of course I do.. and Celly?'
'Yes Lunacae?'
'Don't call me that' I felt my cheeks go red 'Nopony calls me that. Anyway I'm sorry for how I treated you lastnight. I'll talk to you about it later today okay?'
'You had good reason to Lunacae. I look forward to talking with you, because I too have some things that I need to talk about'
'Until later'
"Luuuuuuuunaaaaaaa" I heard Red's voice call, and was started when I saw a hoof infront of my face.
"Sorry but you were sort of out of it there.." The white nurse mare told me "Jackson's wounds are minor compared to before, but not too serious. I have to look after him again"
"Well I wouldn't have anypony else look after him" I replied, making Red blush.
"Aww I'm not THAT good, but thankyou" She said, accepting the compliment "I'll need t-"
Redheart was cut off by Jackson screaming.
"Vinyl! What are you doing? Untie me!" He tried to thrash about, but Vinyl had his arms and legs bound, and he was lying on his side on the floor, sitting ontop of him was the DJ responsible, who was laughing loudly.
"Here you are Luna, have fun" She said, poking her tounge out at Jackson "Don't ever do that to us again"
"I won't just untie me!" Jackson yelled.
Vinyl got up off him and trotted up to Red and I "He's all yours" She whispered as she dragged Redheart out through the door, followed by Tumbleweed.
The DJ looked back at Jackson "Thanks for dinner by the way Jackson, it was so sweet. We had a great time. Toodles"
And with that everypony was gone except for me, and the human lying on the floor.
"Luna, untie me please!" He begged.
"Hmm.. let me think about that" I said as a slowly walked over to him and crouched behind him. "Nah.. I want to have some fun"
"What kind of fun?" He asked me, a hint of panic in his voice.
"Nothing to worry about my love. You trust me do you not?" "I.. I do.."
"Then you have nothing to fear" I assured him.
I levitated Jackson off the ground and made my way to the bedroom.

Oh this is going to be fun.