And I thought we were normal. How wrong I was.

by Requim

Screaming Into The Darkness. 3

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     Uefi proceeded to sit down next to me as Luna went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. Wait. Is that glass fucking floating? I think as I see Luna walk back in with a glass floating next to her covered in a dark purple glow...So is that unicorn magic? Well her horn is also glowing dark purple. Yep magic. Then again I guess I should ask.

"I'm going to guess that is unicorn magic then?" I ask as she sits down and the glass levitates beside her.

"Yes it is. Though it is just basic levitation it's one of the spells most used by unicorns. There are spells for many other things such as invisibly,fireworks,gem finding and other things that are for other specialized purposes." Stealthy magic hmmm? That I'll need to learn.

"I'm going to assume I can't use magic since I don't have a horn?" Now I feel bad for Uefi, we're talking about our magical horn shit and he doesn't have one.

"Yes and no. As a Pegasus you walk on clouds at will, but you can't use any other magical things and obviously you can fly." So he can fly and I can use magic? Fun fun fun.

"And you can do both?" Uefi says taking a new interest in the whole I can fly and shit thing.

"Yes I am of a small group of ponies who have wings and a horn. We are know as alicorns and are usually high class royalty."

"So are there some people who have neither?" I decide to ask since we're talking about races.

"First everyone here is a pony so use the term everypony instead of everyone and yes there are some ponies who don't have wings or a horn." So...we're ponies?

"So we used pony or ponies where we would usually use person or people?" Uefi says beating me to the question

"Correct but I believe I was going to tell you about why your here, wasn't I?" Time for her to fill in some very annoying gaps in the story.

"Yes you were Luna, Quentin and I would love to know why you dragged us into a completely different universe and entirely new bodies." And now I let Luna speak and Uefi ask the questions.

"Well as You both might've guessed you are both in the land of Equestria. Most of the residents are ponies those being unicorns,pegasi,earth ponies and alicorns the other residents are griffons,diamond dogs and some dragons."Dragons hmm? Like with fire and wings? I think I might shit myself if I see one..

"My sister, celestia, controls the sun and I control the moon." Wait. They control the fucking sun and moon?!? *THE BLOODY HELL?** That's something you might want to mention when you meet someone. You know what I mean, something like "Hi I'm Luna and I control the fucking moon so don't piss me off." You know something that warns you.*

"YOU CONTROL THE FUCKING MOON?" Thank you for speaking for me Uefi.

"Yes and as for my explanation it flows over into how you got here." Well Luna you have have my attention.

"Well you'll have to understand that there are multiple universes and each universe has a set of deities. My sister, me, Discord, who is a deity over chaos, and a few others you shouldn't concern yourself with. Each universe and it's inhabitants are also aligned to a set wavelength as we have decided to name it. Each mind and body in a universe are synced with it within a close degree. However you two have wavelengths that were extremely off from the ones of your old bodies and universe. Now I know that most of the beings in each universe have theories about parallel universes, these are wrong. Each universe has some similarities but are for the post part entirely different with different people. Your wavelengths were at a level that was highly warped from the one of your world. Because of this your deities and the ones of of this universe decided that we would move the two of you once we moved one of your wavelengths close enough for the shift and let your new bodies finish the sync and then I would help you adjust. This was done as you slept because that is when you're wavelengths are the most free from outside influence and it is also when you're the most attentive to your surroundings. We could have done this at the beginning of the week since Quentin needed almost no sync time but he was so close he couldn't make out my voice because of the sound amplification from the highly similar wavelengths. This so also why he adjusted to his body and movements faster than you did Uefi. As for what is going to happen to you, you two are going to live here in the ever free forest near the edge and attend your schooling at the ponyville high school and from there the rest of your lives here."

     While usually if someone, or I guess somepony, told me this I would call bullshit, but considering that has happened and the nature of her story I guess I should believe her. While I could ask questions that have haunted humanity for what seems, like forever like "how did we get here?" and "what god is right?" but I really don't give a damn about it. I'll leave those questions to the philosophers and scientists.

"So we're going to live here alone after you've adjusted us properly?" I say deciding to speak up.

"Yes and for the most part you're adjusted I'm just going to install some basic things for your conditions. First is cutie marks. Each pony has a thing called a cutie mark which identifies their special talent. Each of you already has yours because you both already found it but just didn't have anything to show that you did. So I'm going to tell you what they are and I will copy over some basic magic to you Quentin and knowledge of flight to you Uefi." So I have a mark on me telling me what I'm best at? Sweet? But where is it?

"Quentin yours is of a hidden wrist stiletto and coin bag against a horizontal long black eye (author note: think of the eye in skyrim when you're detected while sneaking) and another eye same as the first but vertical that is centered with the first. It symbolizes your talent is, and this is why your colours are a little scary, stealth,thievery and assassination." So the thing I'm best at is being undetected, thievery and killing people stealthily? Badass.

"And there goes my shit, I'm going to be living with a guy who is some sort of stealthy killing thief bastard!?" You jelly?

"You're not the only one a little disturbed Uefi, I knew I was good at being quiet, sneaking past people and stalking animals but the whole thief and assassin thing scares me a little too."

"Yea, but still I'll be living with you when you could easily kill me or worse, take my Hershey kisses." Once again he values his Hershey kisses more than his life.

"You know I don't like candy, besides there's probably not any Hershey kisses here." Oh shit. I've doomed us all. Uefi immediately panicked and began to cry as his cruel own cruel Hershey-less reality set in.

"NO FUCKING HERSHEY KISSES, WHAT KIND OF WORLD IS THIS?"

"Actually Uefi Hershey products are one of the inter dimensional similarities between all universes." Oh thank Luna, what she said she is a deity, there's Hershey products here. Uefi would've killed us all on his misery and hatred fueled rampage.

"So anyway what you're saying Luna is that the things I'm best at are any actions involving stealth as their core?"

"Yes quite, while thievery isn't too uncommon I haven't seen a assassination cutie mark in a few thousand years let alone a pony whose special talent involves stealth of most any form." Again. Badass.

"Well Luna what's mine? Not to be disrespectful Quentin but I'd also like to know what I'm badass at doing." Yea he's jelly. Uefi said deciding that talk of assassination and shit could happen later and that he probably felt left out.

"Yes, yours is of four feathers pointing downward with a few clouds behind them. While this being slightly cryptic it shows that your talent is high speed evasive maneuvering."Well that explains a lot. It makes sense actually. If you've seen Uefi walk though a crowd you'd agree with me. I would look across when I'm only a quarter of the way though a crowd and see Uefi on the other end waiting for me to cross.

"Well Uefi what do you think?" I say trying to gauge his reaction.

"Well while mine may not be as broad of a spectrum as yours, yours only has one aspect that is legal under common conditions. Mine ,however, can be used under almost all circumstances and will help with normal actions so I think I beat you Quentin." Damn it. He's right. While I still favor mine he is right, the only part of mine I can use is the basic sneaking, even then might be kinda creepy, while he can use his in almost anywhere at anytime. But what is Luna's?

"So what is yours Luna?" Thank you Uefi.

"Well as my name and profession may imply my special talent is moving the moon." Well I guess we should've seen that coming. Uefi and I seem to think simultaneously looking over at each other.

"Now, before I give you some basic magic knowledge Quentin and Uefi your basic flight knowledge do either of you have any questions?" Oh no. How could we have any questions at all. OF CORSE WE DO! Really how couldn't we?

"Well first, since we don't have any legal guardians here how can we attend high school while living on our own unattended? Wouldn't that cause some form of legal issue or problem with money for schooling?" I say starting off with a simple question.

"In Equestria you only need to have a guardian for the first years of schooling being the age you are now makes you allegeable to live on your own as long as there's another pony living with you, though he or she doesn't need to be a guardian they just need to be somepony to help keep the both of you in check. As for money, except for clothing, supplies and unnecessary commodities, schooling is provided by the nation." While I fail to see how this system hasn't collapsed I'm just gonna go along with it since its helping us out.

"And this actually works?" Uefi says apparently picking up and the bullshit system while Luna gives him a quizzical look.

"Why wouldn't it? Where you are from it may not make sense but that's most likely because your world's deity is just an ass if I may be blunt." While this response doesn't satisfy me more does it seem to satisfy we both seemed to decide to go along with it and move on to the next question.

"As for the second question, how are we going to pay for electricity,water and heating of we don't have any money or jobs currently?" Uefi says actually thinking of something I didn't question about myself.

"This might make me seem like a bad pony, but I added a few additions to a home in ponyville's pluming,heating and electric systems without their knowing and connected them to here." Wait...She did what? The princess stole? How unbecoming of her.

"Don't you think they'll notice when their bills rise though?" I ask sensing another bullshit answer on the horizon.

"Considering that the home is actually a mansion and costs an amount each month that's already obscure I doubt anyone will notice the added cost. Yea, no one will notice....

"3rd,  besides our current ones we don't have any clothes, food or other items. Any ideas as to how to get some?" I ask worried as to  how we're going to get food and hygiene items.

"Well you're going to have to find jobs to pay for your food,clothes,supplies and whatnot but I took some bits ,which are the equestrian currency and equal to the value of your money just about, to give to you to get some things to keep you going until you get jobs." Well that was nice of her to give us some money ,or I guess "bits", to start us off with.

"How many "bits" are we talking about Luna?" Damn it Uefi. Now we seem greedy.

"Somewhere around 5000 so you can get other clothes and a few recreational items if you choose." Well that was very nice of her. In reality we didn't need that much probably but still it was very nice of her.

"Thank you, fourth question, how long is it until the school resumes?" I ask wondering how long I have before any form work begins.

"It will resume on the Tuesday of next week however there is a meeting for your group of students tomorrow to let people reacquaint, receive schedules and be briefed on how it will be working this year."

"Damn it Uefi we lost our Friday again." I say realizing the rest of this day would be preparation for the following.

"Fuck. Oh sorry princess. Just a little pissed." Uefi says remembering what the princess had said about profanity.

"Yes, well do you have anymore questions?"

"Yes, finally where are our cutie marks?" Well?

"To be honest they are on your outer thigh or in this terminology "flank". The fucking thing is on my ass? Well at least nopony will see it and ask about it.

"Is there any way we can get something to show e image of it? Like a necklace or something?" Uefi asks seeming to want to show off his talent without looking unbecoming.

"Yes there are companies that make jewelry and such for it, but I figured as a final welcoming present I'd get you both one. You'll find them in your rooms when I leave and if you're going to ask whose room is whose just check the pendants." Once again I gain a dumbfounded look at her generosity. Are all the people here this nice?

"Well I don't have any more questions do you Uefi?" I say deciding I was satisfied for now.

"Nope."

"We'll then I'll give you both your knowledge of magic and flight along with some basic cultural concepts and be on my way." Luna says while here horn begins to glow.

Then my world goes dark. REALLY? HOW MANY TIMES IS THIS GOING HAPPEN IN 7 HOURS?

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