Unto A New World
Chapter Nineteen: Lost Days
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Thanks to Bronytime01 for giving me idea's to write this chapter!
Currently at a friend's house typing this. Sort of a get together with five of us. I'm the only brony here and it sucks, I'm the end of every joke. I can't even play my own xbox (Which I brought by the way).
"I'm going to play Fallout New Vegas.." I said as I rose from my seat. No one took any notice of me.
"When wants to watch Episode One of Seaon Two of Psychoville?" Asked one of them to the group, who were huddled around the computer and lying on the couches.
"Yeah sure"
"I do"
"I.. Don't" I said under my breath as I walked back to my seat and started typing again, hoping they don't ask me what I'm doing because I'll be made more fun of.
This fucking sucks man. Hello deppression!
*Sigh* I don't know why I told you all that.
Just.. enjoy.
Chapter Nineteen: Lost Days.
Everything was starting to come back to me. I could remember the last few days that I had 'missed'.
Tuesday:
I wasn't starting work at school until next week, so today and the rest of the days I wasn't there.
I was helping around where I could. Either helping Vinyl make music, Redheart at work or just cleaning up the house with Tumbleweed.
On Tuesday morning, Vinyl had me help her with her music.
Basically, she had me teach her how to play the drums. She picked it up incredibly easily, you know, being a DJ and all she could feel the beat. No double kick yet though.
Natural Talent at it's finest.
She could have used her magic, but she somehow gripped the sticks with her hooves. I.. what?
I started off by teaching her the most basic drum beat. Two bass kicks in a four count bar (A/N: I actually played drums for four years but I don't remember much), bass on beats one and three, snare drum on two and four and hi-hat on one through eight (Broken up, i.e one and two and three and four and).
Within half an hour, she could play the beat fluently.
The next thing I taught her, once she was confident enough, was that she could add to the basic drumbeat.
To explain this to her confused face, I took the drumsticks from her and added to the basic drum beat, i.e double bass drum or sixteen beat hi-hat.
Vinyl's eyes widened as she took in the information, understanding the aspects I was trying to get across.
Thankfully, when she sat down, she had used what she learned.
"This is pretty similar to DJ'ing" Vinyl said while pumping out a beat, panting slightly "But you don't need to use this much energy while cranking out beats from the vinyls".
"Well yeah, 'course" I replied while bobbing my head to here tune "Maybe you could teach me to play music like you do".
Vinyl replied inbetween breaths "I'd.. Like that.. Jackie".
"Jackie?" I asked, liking the name.
Vinyl finished her beat.
"Y-yeah.. Pet name.. Seeing.. As.. We are such good.. Friends" She said with a small blush.
"I'm glad you think of me as such a close friend" I replied with a smile.
"We have known eachother for a month or longer, I don't remember. Too many Wild Pegasus's does that to you" She replied with a grin.
"Then I'd better not tell you what you confessed the other night" I teased with a wink, making Vinyl's eyes grow wide with shock.
"WHAT DID I SAY?!" She practically screamed at me.
"Not telling!" I crossed my arms and poked my tounge out at her. I held my face up high.
Within an eyeblink, Vinyl was ontop of me, beating me with her hooves.
It wsan't an anger beating, but a friendly beating. Even then, my chest was going to bruise.. again.
Thursday:
My memories returned, but nothing of much importance. I guess the magic only allows you to see the most important things, although I still have memories of those things.
Now I was at Rarity's shop. Why would I be here? What the fu-.
"Darling!" I heard Rarity's voice call. I looked up to see Rarity using a machine. Her back was turned and she was working hard, pieces of fabric were floating over from all directions "I really need that gold twine right now".
Turns out I was heading towards a storage room. I had no control over what I was doing, I was merely a spectator.
I ran to the storage room and opened the door, made from some sort of tree. I could see the grains in the wood running vertically.
There were rows upon rows of shelves, full of assorted fabrics and twine, lace and frilly stuff.
Now, I'm not one to know about this stuff.. But I know what golden twine.. or string.. looks like.
Took me thirty seconds, but I had found it. I gave up looking by myself and thought about my magic.
I channelled my energy into my hands. At this time, I'm pretty sure I hadn't learnt about the whole magic evolution thing, so I was basically just using magical instinct.
My hands glew (A/N: Is that even a word?) again in my new red aura.
In the corner's of my eyes I could see red, so I supposed my eyes were glowing too.
I focused my mind on golden twine, and as easily as I cast the magic, the twine floated out into my hands.
"Jackson? Do you need help?" I heard Rarity's voice call.
"No!" I replied "I'm coming now".
I ran out the storage room, shutting the door behind me. I soon found myself at Rarity's side, placing the twine next to her on the table.
She didn't even look up as she used her magic to thread a long strand of string into the machine she was using. The second needle on the contraption was now ready to go.
"Thanks for your help Darling, but I can take it from here" She said as she started to use the needle with the golden twine to stitch pieces of fabric together.
My face dropped and I my body was filled with guilt and sadness. Had I really taken that long?
"I-I'm sorry" I stuttered as I turned and walked to exit the building, before being stopped by Rarity.
"Darling, I didn't mean it like that" She said empathetically. I noticed her machine was whirling down to a stop "Darling look at me".
I slowly turned, keeping my gaze to the floor.
"Jackson please" She pleaded.
My eyes rose to meet hers, who was now a mere two feet away.
She rose up on her hind legs and put her forehooves on my shoulders.
"Darl-Jackson. Love. I didn't mean that in anyway to hurt your feelings. It's just you don't know where anything is, and I was stupid to ask for your help" I still wasn't feeling any better "I'll tell you what though, if you come in one day in the near future, I'll give you a full walkthrough of the boutique so you can help me more efficiently".
I didn't know how to take that. I still hung my face low.
"C-can you forgive me?" I asked her.
"Jackson, tis I who should ask for your forgiveness" Rarity said as her eyes seemed to grow larger.
(A/N: STILL GETTING FUCKING IGNORED)
I didn't say anything as she brought me in for a hug. One of her hooves rubbed the back of my head as our necks craned around eachother.
She smelled lovely.
"You still helped me today you know" Rarity told me as she broke the hug.
"Thanks Rarity" I said as I stifled a sniff.
"You poor dear, let me make you some tea" The white marshmellow mare said as she trotted off to the kitchen, her mane bouncing with each step.
I sighed and shook my head, a smile emerging on my face.
'Rarity is my friend, she wouldn't hurt me intentionally' I thought to myself as I walked to the kitchen.
Saturday:
I found myself alone in a carriage, I had no idea why.
(A/N: Quit Depression, didn't feel good xD I'm doing the happy dance.. I'm doing the happy dance +10 interwebs if you guess what movie that's from! What was this shit I was writing? DA FWUCK IS THIS? Where to go from here.. AHA!).
The pony inside the cabin with me was peering out the window as we rose up the long and winding road to the castle.
The castle.. The castle.. Oh that's right, Celestia invited the girls and I to a party thingo. Fun.
But where were the others?
"Is something wrong sir?" The passenger asked, whom was a unicorn, wearing a look of nervousness upon her face.
"Nothing Ma'am" I replied, seriously not knowing who this pony was "Just wondering how the girls are doing".
The mare's face lost all it's nervousness as it brightened up into a smile.
"They're probably wondering the same thing, and I'm sorry" She apologised "But this is a Masquerade Ball Sir, we can't really let you know what they are wearing".
"I suppose you're right" I replied.
'So I went to a Masquerade Ball huh? Fancy' I thought to myself as I let the memory continue.
I looked down at myself, and stared at my hooves before continuing on "Do I look alright?"
'Why did I have hooves?!' I panicked, obviously my past self had no problem with it.
"I wouldn't even know that you weren't actually human Sir, and you look smashing" She replied.
'Hah! Smashing! Thorneberries! But I guess this wasn't permenant'.
She held up a small blue, circular vanity mirror, which was almost invisible against her own blue coat.
I guess i should explain what she was wearing first.. And what she looked like.
The mare was wearing a stunning dress, made with gold lining and the palest of blue, making it seem white.
Her mane and tail were short and green like her eyes.
Yeah, bad despcription get over it. I want to tell you more about meeeee. (A/N: Fourth wall breaking? :O)
I, if I do say so myself, made quite a cool looking pony. This body had nothing on my human form though. I suppose it made sense that I was turned into a pony for the ball, wouldn't be fair if I went as a human. What creature in this world looks like me?
My coat was a chocolate brown, and my mane and tail were striped like a fire (Red, orange and yellow).
I was wearing a creamy yellow coloured suit that had 'bird tails' at the back, running down either sides of my new flank, aswell as a 'pirate' looking hat, matching the suit, but had a pink feather sticking out the top.
My mask was a long stark beak, extending past my muzzle, and same colour as my feather.
I was pleased with this.
"We will arrive in five minutes Sir" my passenger/guide whatever told me.
"Thankyou" I replied to her.
Time skipped around and I was now at the ball, mingling with other ponies. Not that I had any clue who they were.. I WAS trying to find out which ponies were my girls.
Luna and Celestia had supposedly changed their forms into 'smaller', non alicorn ponies.
Every pony was wearing something amazing, tailored by either Rarity or some Canterlot pony.
I was startled by a voice coming from behind me.
I turned to see that it was a light azure pony, with a golden mane.
"Hi there!" Said the mysterious pony, the voice was female so that was a start. What she was wearing though was of much higher quality than any of the other pony's disguises.
"Hey! So, may I guess who you are?" I asked, straight forward as usual.
The mare let out a hearty chuckle.
"Sure go ahead" she allowed.
"Rarity, or one of the princesses" I spoke in a confident tone.
The questioned mare chuckled again, and made a noise like that siren thing on those game shows "Beow weow. You are wrong my good sir, but good guess!".
I scuffed a hoof on floor "Dang it, your turn".
The mare rose a hoof to her mask, which wrapped around her eyes and travelled down her snout.
"You're either Appleseed, Sunflower or Hoity Toity" She said to me, lips curling at the sides.
"Nope, no and no" I said with a smile.
"Oh, well great costume by the way. Can't wait until your identity is revealed" She said with a bow.
I bowed down too "As you M'lady".
The light blue mare turned with a chuckle, and swished her tail in my face before leaving.
The rest of the night was pretty much the same. I'd found Luna though, it's not hard to know the person or pony you love if you know them aswell as I do.
I spotted her quirky-ness out of the crowd easily, and I knew her giggle.
I seized the oppertunity to talk to her when she was alone.
Sneaking up behind her, I placed a hoof on her left shoulder while she was serving up her punch.
Luna let out a squeal as she turned to face me. Her new form didn't make her seem anything like a princess.
She had a white coat with a brown mane, wearing a light coloured dress that covered her flanks, and dragged along the floor.
Her face was covered by a mask that resembled some sort of creature.
"Hey there" I said in an upbeat manner.
"H-hi, you nearly made me spill my punch!" Luna giggled, not knowing it was me. Maybe I should use this to my advantage hmm?
"I'm terribly sorry madame, will you find it in your heart to forgive me?" I couldn't act like myself to spoil the disguise.
"Yes Jackson I will" She giggled "You sound so silly when you speak like that!".
"How did you know?" I asked her.
"Same way you knew it was me, I love you remember?" She said with a light blush on her cheeks "You make a good looking stallion".
"Yeah I guess" I replied bashfully "I love you too".
"So how's your night been so far?" Luna asked me, striking up a casual conversation so nopony would know it was us.
"Not bad, I haven't seen anyone I know yet. Yourself?" I asked, serving up some Punch for myself.
I took a sip and somepony had definately spiked this punch. Gooooood.
"It's been good, I know what Twiight Sparkle looks like now" She said with a chuckle "Enjoying your punch?" She said with a wink.
"That was you?!" I replied, slightly startled.
Luna nodded frantically "Don't tell anypony alright?".
"I won't".
"Promise?".
"I promise, but you and I are going to have a talk about this afterwards okay?" I told her, hoping not to sound like I was going to lecture her. I really wasn't going to.
Luna nodded again "Okay, I must be off! The night is still young and there's pony's yet to be pranked!".
And with that she was gone.
A couple of hours later and I too had found Twilight. That beard gave it away. Why would somepony come to a Masquerade ball dressed as a bearded magician?
The night came to an end with the revealing.
Twilight was the spokespony, who stood on a stage infront of a microphone.
She took off her beard and cloak to reveal it was her, when everypony already knew who she was.
"It's me everypony!" She explaimed. The crowd let out fake gasps "I know right? Best costume of the night?".
I heard somepony behind me say 'no', and somepony else coughed.
There was an eerie silence in the room, and I saw little beads of sweat break out on Twilight's face.
She looked at me with pleading eyes, beckoning me to help.
So I did. I made my way upstage and stood next to the terrified unicorn.
"Without further a-do, lets start the revealing!" I announced for Twilight, who started to relax.
"Thankyou Jackson" She whispered.
"How did you know it was me?" I asked her, copying her quiet tone.
"I was the one who turned you in to a pony, and don't worry it's temporary. I did it for many pony's here tonight".
"Cool, mind unvieling me then?" I asked with a smile.
"It would be my pleasure, I'll make sure to change your clothes with you, nopony needs to see.. that" She said with a blush.
"See what?" I asked her.
"Well when I changed you into a pony.. You couldn't wear anything during the transformation.." Her blush grew into a deeper red.
"Oh man.." I said with a light blush myself.
"Yeah, nothing to be ashamed of.. I've just never had the chance to see anypony or human like that, it was actually sort of fascinating" Twilight told me, her blush starting to fade.
"Alright well just turn me back and please make sure nopony else gets to see me naked okay? Since you've seen me like that I guess it's alright for you, but nopony else understand?".
"I understand" She replied, within milliseconds her horn started to glow as her aura wrapped me, and I felt my bones changing. I held back a scream from how much pain this actually caused me.
Apparently I would have changed back in time, but I could be changed back whenever I wanted by the pony who cast the spell, and ONLY by that pony.
The crowd let out a truthful gasp as they saw my turn into my human form.
It felt better being able to stand up straight. Never going back into that pony form. Ever.
The crowd cheered and begged for more the elegent azure pony to show herself, who complied and made her way onto stage.
Twilight's horn glowed brightly as the elegant pony's hair puffed out and turned pink, and her coat turned to a darker shade of pink.
My jaw, aswell as the crowd's, hit the floor.
Pinkie was that 'elegent' pony.
"No way" I exclaimed as I looked at the excited party pony.
"I fooled you all I was so good! Betcha you guys didn't think it was me!" She bounced up and down.
The looks on some ponies faced wwere hilarious.
The rest is boring. Luna and Celestia presented themselves. As usual Celestia looked at me with sorry eyes (Seriously.. this is getting annoying), aswell as many other ponies.
The night was coming to an end and everypony was leaving through the two large doors. It was just The princesses, the six friends, my girls, and I left.
Vinyl, who didn't look too pleased in the way her hair had been done up was the first of us to leave.
"Sorry guys but I gotta go wash this stuff out of my hair, Redheart thought it would be a good idea to use it and now my hair is all hard and feels terrible. See you all later" She said as she left the room, recieving friendly goodbyes.
Cheerilee and Tumbleweed left next. They had gotten to know eachother better at this ball, and they didn't even know they were talking to eachother the whole night!
Then Twilight and her friends left, leaving Redheart, Luna, Celestia and I.
Redheart left to go see how Vinyl was doing and then it was just us.
"Jackson, would you like to stay at the castle tonight?" Celestia offered in a quiet tone.
"I'd love that Celly" I replied, recieving a blush and a smile from my use of 'Celly'.
"Great, you may use your old room. Luna? Would you like to take him there?" She offered.
"Actually.." Luna started as she walked over to me and whispered in my ear "I think you should ask Celestia if she'll walk you to your room". She gave me a kiss on the cheek as she drew her head back and returned to her spot next to her sister.
"What did you say?" I heard Celestia whisper into Luna's ear, who just smiled.
"Celestia, I'd like it if you showed me to my room.." I told her "I mean, if you'd want to..".
This startled Celestia. She wasn't expecting that question.
"I.. Um.. Sure. L-Luna I'll talk to you later" She glared her sister down, making Luna grin and clop her hooves to the floor.
"Huzzah! Another victory for Luna the Prankster!" She said as she ran off down the hallway giggling.
"So.." I started trying to strike up a conversation.
"So.." Celestia replied "Shall we?".
The majestic alicorn stood back, pointing her wing to the door.
"Of course!" I said back to her, beaming her a smile as I took my place by her left side.
A few minutes of walking in silence, I decided to speak up.
"Celestia, please may we put what happened behind us and start again? Luna told me a while ago that you wanted to do just that.." I asked.
Celestia's ears shot up and she stopped walking "Jackson I'd like nothing more than that".
Her hair started to gain some of it's colour as we spoke.
"Great! Well can you tell me something?" I asked.
"What's that? She replied, colour still pouring back into her now semi-moving mane.
"What's it with Luna and her pranks?" I chuckled. My question made the princess giggle.
"Well it started not so long ago.. Nightmare Night to be exact.."
"-And it took the Pegasus guard's three days to get all the furniture down from the ceiling!" Celestia laughed loudly as she used her magic to open my door. By now all the colour had returned to her mane and tail, and there was no tension between us at all anymore.
I gripped my sides in pain while I chuckled and fell onto my old bed. The princess had been telling me of Luna's pranks, of when she made 'fire breath' cupcakes that backfired on the prankster, when she put a zapper on the door handle of the kitchen so whenever the chef tried to open it he'd get shocked or, with the story she had just told me, glued everything in the guard's quarters to the roof with superglue so the room was upside down.
I finally caught my breath and the pain in my lungs slowly disappeared. Celestia still let out a few giggles as she calmed down too, and sat next to me on my bed.
"It brings me great pleasure to know you're back Jackson" She said in a motherly tone as she extended her wings and hooves out for a hug.
I couldn't say no to the princess, so I soon found myself in a tight embrace with the white unicorn, her forelegs wrapped around my neck and wings around my back. It was so warm inside that caccoon, I didn't want to leave. I don't think Celestia wanted to either.
It seemed like she was pouring all her guilt and sadness into the hug, which lasted for atleast ten minutes.
I started to laugh as her mane wrapped around my waist and tickled my underarm.
The princess broke the hug, but kept her wing around me as she spoke.
"Breakfast will be at seven tomorrow. I'll have a guard fetch you when it's time" She informed with a smile as her lips nuzzled my cheek "I'm glad this is all over".
"Thankyou Celestia" I replied, rubbing my head against her neck as I wrapped my arms around her torso "And so am I".
I let out a yawn that I couldn't stop.
"I suppose I should let you sleep yes?" She said with a light chuckle.
It was too late. I had already drifted off to sleep in Celestia's embrace.
The white alicorn sighed with a happy smile and carefully laid down with Jackson onto the large bed. She made sure not to wake him.
She too, fell asleep in the warm embrace from her sister's lover.
'Now I know what she see's in him' She thought as she finally drifted asleep.
A/N:
I am having trouble with uploading this chapter. I don't know what the fuck is going on.
Shitty quality chapter, but oh well. Mega case of writer's block up in this bitch. All I can think of is the sequel and the flash animation I'm trying to make for this story.
Hopefully I get it finished by the end of this story.
