The Good, The Bad, and...The Ponies?

I'm standing on the lit porch of what I thought to be Applejacks' home.  I mean sure it's in Sweet Apple Acres, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any other houses.  It looked more like barn than a house really.  But what do I know, I'm only 18.  The place has a really "homey" feeling to it.  It more or less screams "Welcome!".  By the looks of things, it has been around for a while.  The paint is chipping, floorboards in the porch nervously creak everytime I shift my weight and the fact that there is a rusted plow in the front gives away the true age of this place.  With some paint and a few things here and there, this place could look cool.  Wait...what am I thinking?  I need to check to see if AJ is okay.

I frantically knocked on the door letting whoever inside know that I wanted in.  I could hear the faint muffled sounds of what was possibly crying and someone trying their best to console them.  After a few seconds of waiting, I knocked on the door again, this time with a little more force.

The door was opened by one of the cutest things I could have possibly seen in my life.  It was a small yellow pony with a pink bow in it's red mane.  I think it's a girl, I'm not sure, but the bow might be a dead giveaway.  She is smaller than Applejack, and I mean SMALLER.  She has to be at least half her size.  She actually might be her sister.

I looked down at the little pony, "Hi."  The pony closed her eyes and screamed at the top of her lungs, slamming the door in my face, quite litterally.  From the ringing in my ears and the high pitch scream, I can finally say for certain that was a girl.

Stepping back and rubbing my nose, I looked at the door confused.  I could hear the sounds of frantic movement inside.  She's most likely running around the house telling everypony in the house-barn-thing "Oh no!  There's a monster outside and it's going to eat us!  Whatever shall we do?"  Pffft, right.

"I'M GONNA SHOW THAT MONSTER WHAT FER!"  Whoever just screamed that must be really pissed.  It kinda sounded like Applejack.  But there's only one way to find out.

Turning around, I ran and hid behind a nearby tree waiting for whoever to jump outside.  Okay, recon mission...START!  Mission objective:  Find out who is sooooo pissed and show self if the target is known.  If otherwise, stay hidden.  I heard the door slam open and someone scream "COME OUT AND SHOW YERSELF!"  I stuck my head around the tree to get a better look.  No doubt about it, this was deffinately AJ's home.  She stood there clearly not in a mood to talk.  She looks like she has been through hell.  Her mane is in disarray, she's missing her stetson, and her eyes are slighlty red and swollen.  So she was the one crying inside.

I sure hope she doesn't kill me for what I'm about to do.  Stepping back from the tree I look up to judge the height of it.  Not too tall, about 20 ft.  Picking up a small rock, I tossed it near the plow making sure to hit it just enough to make some noise.  "THERE YA ARE!"  and there she goes after the sound.  I'm sure wherever he is, Snake is proud.  Jumping into the tree, I land as quietly as possible on a branch, which turned out to be no sound at all.

I looked back to AJ to see her walking back to the porch.  "Here I go." I wispered to myself.  I jumped from the tree and landed in a kneeling position five feet behind her, still no sound was made.  Slowly standing up and looking at her, I started to walk toward her shortening the distance between us.

Out of nowhere, a little girls voice screamed "Look out AJ, it's behind ya!"  Quickly looking up, I saw AJ's little sister standing in the doorway.  Darn it!  I was so close too.

I looked back down at AJ just in time to see her back hooves rear up.  F...M...L.  She bucked me in the chest hard, and I mean HARD.  It felt similar to being hit with a sledgehammer.  I stumbled back and started to say between coughs, "Jeez AJ, what was that for?"  She quickly spun around and saw me with a hand to my chest.  Almost immediately, her eyes began tearing up.  I swear these ponies cry waaaayy too much.  She started to gallop and jumped at me.  Reaching my arms out, I caught her in the air and spun once before hugging her tight, letting her cry into my shoulder.  "I told you I was gonna be right behind ya."

Walking into the home, I sat her down on a couch near a lit fireplace and took a seat next to her.  Still teary eyed, she looked up to me and asked, "Are you okay?  Are you hurt at all?  Ah swear, if that cockatrice shows up again..."  I can tell she is in a lot of stress.  I guess it's not easy to run from danger knowing that someone stayed behind to protect them.

"Well to answer your questions, yes, no and we don't have to worry about the cockatrice anymore.  I took care of it."

She looked at me with a confused expression, "How did ya do that.  I thought that it was impossible to beat a cockatrice... unless you're Fluttershy."

Wait a minute, Fluttershy?  "Did you just say Fluttershy?"  She nodded.  "How could a sweet and innocent pony like her, beat a cockatrice?  Don't get me wrong, I think that Fluttershy is awesome.  But seriously, how?"

She looked at me like this was common knowledge.  "She uses this thing called 'The Stare' on the animals if they misbehave and it gets them back in order.  Applebloom told me about it."

"Whoa.  That's intense."  She nodded in agreement.  "To answer your question, I think I used something close to it."

She tilted her head curiously.  "Wait, so yer meanin' to tell that ya'll just stared at it and it began to behave just like that?"

I shook my head, "No...Well yes...Okay I'll just tell you what happened."  I stood up and walked in front of the roaring fireplace and looked deeply into it.  "After you had escaped, the cockatrice and I were left alone to duke it out."

"Continue."

"Okay.  Well, you know how the cockatrice is supposed to turn it's victims into stone?  Well, that's actually what happened to me."

She gasped slightly, "If you were turned to stone, then, how are ya still out 'n about?"

I turned to face her, "That's just it, I'm not sure."  I walked over and sat back down on the couch.  "While I was being turned to stone, I heard a voice in my head."  God, I sound like a total nut case.  "It told me to take off my eyepatch for some reason.  Which I did."

"So, let me get this straight."  She put a hoof to her chin, "You were fightin' the cockatrice and were bein' turned into a lawn ornament.  Then from nowhere, you heard a voice and listened to it?"  The way you're putting it makes it sound like I belong in a mental asylum.

"Yes.  But the weird part about it was that, when I took off my eyepatch, the petrification process began to reverse itself."

"Petri-vacation?"

"No, petrification.  It's means that I was being turned to stone.  Anyway, when I noticed that the effect was wearing off, I looked up at the cockatrice to see it was turning to stone."  She looked at me in awe, mouth agape.  Yep, that's the same reaction that I had.

"Do ya know what made it turn into stone?"

If I knew, I would have probably told you by now.  "No I don't.  But I think it may have something about my eye.  Can you see anything about it that may appear as, odd?"  She began to look into my eyes in deep concentration.

Wow, I just noticed this, but her eyes are very beautiful.  They are almost like a dark green emerald that reflects all images upon it's brilliance.  And her mane, now that it's not hidden by her stetson, can be seen for what it really is, angelic.  Sure it may not be brushed or whatnot, but it still manages to have this perfect- whoa whoa whoa!  What am I thinking!  How can I be thinking these thing about a pony?  A pony!  I mean, sure she's cool, smart, brave...beautiful, funny, cute- AUGH there I go again.

"Ah don't think there's anythin' weird 'bout yer eyes at all."  Her voice broke me from my internal struggle.  And not too soon either, I think I was losing.  "But then again, ah'm not sure if they've always been different colors."

Did she just say what I think she said?  "Did you say, two colors?"

She nodded, "Yep, sure did.  You can have a look fer yerself."  She got up from the couch and walked into another room.  Okay, I think now is the appropriate time to start freaking out.  What could the other color be?  I know my eyes are supposed to be a really dark brown, but having two different colored eyes is so cool!  Yes Lady, that's plus one to your ego.  I just hope that the color isn't something weird like seafoam green.

She came back holding a small mirror in her mouth.  Taking the mirror from her, I slowly brought it up to my field of vision.  Now that's what I call cool!  Looking at my reflection, I could see that my right eye was the same normal dark brown but my left eye was a whole other story.

It looked exactly like the third stage of the sharingan from the anime Naruto.  But I can't complain, I honestly can't think of another way that I would want it to be.  Another good question is what powers does it give me.

I stared at the mirror for a few seconds before placing it down on the coffee table.  Do these ponies even drink coffee?  Doesn't matter right now, I need to know why my eyes were like this.  "To answer your question from earlier, my eyes have always been dark brown, never...this.  Do you know anyone who could tell me about my eye?"

"Ah sure do sugarcube."  She stuck out her chest with pride.  "If ya talk to Twi, ah'm sure she'll be more than happy to help answer that question."  Overconfident much?  "Which reminds me!" She jumped off the couch and began to pull me towards the stairway.  "Ya'll need ta get yer rest for tomorrow.  Twi told ya to be there so ya'll can talk."

I looked at her confused, "Why can't we go see her now?  It's not even that late."  I looked out of a nearby window to see that it was pitch black outside.  Yep, deffinately not that late.

"Sorry mister, but from the day ya'll had, yer goin straight to bed."  Where though?  I don't have anywhere to sleep.  " 'N don't worry about sleepin' arangements, yer gonna be sleepin' with me."

I could feel my face warm slightly, "I'm slepping with you?"

"Well yeah, there's enough room in mah bed to have two sleep in it so ah have no problem with it."  Wow she really is gutsy.  That or she doesn't understand what it sounds like she's asking.

"Alright, if ya say so.  Lead the way."  I guess it's okay.  I finally get to sleep with a girl.  God I really need to get my shit together.  This is a pony, not a human girl.  Even still, sentient beings can form relationships...FUCK I'M SO CONFUSED!  Walking up the stairs, I noticed old pictures of a younger Applejack, that little yellow pony that I think is Applebloom, and some red horse that is much bigger than AJ, must be a relative or something.

Reaching the top of the stairs, I gazed down a long hallway lined with doors that had pictures etched into the woodwork, except for two.  All of them must lead into what I presumed were the other residents rooms.  AJ walked towards the door on the end of the hallway with the three apples and pushed it open, motioning me to move forward.  Walking forward I could hear the sounds of feint snoring coming from one of the rooms on my right.  Treating it as nothing, I continued walking and entered AJ's room.

OH...MY...GOD.  So this is what a girls room looks like.  The room was decorated with all sorts of things ranging from old pictures to awards of all sorts.  She had one window facing towards the fields of endless apple trees the her family owned.  In the corner of the room was her bed.  I would think that it's the pony equivalent to a queen-sized bed.  "Kiyo, I need ya ta stay in here fer a bit.  I need ya ta meet mah brother and sister."  Oh great, I get to meet the family.

As she left the room she shut the door behind her, leaving me alone to my thoughts.  Now would be the perfect time to test out my new unknown powers.  "Hmm, lets try..."  I thought about where I was and what surrounded me. "I guess anything that doesn't involve fire, lightning, moving the earth, creating a hurricane, or controlling water is okay."  Looking around, I can see that she has a big room.  "Teleporting it is!"  Great, now that I have an idea of what to do, how do I do it?  I reached into my pockets hoping that I brought anything with me besides my boken and clothing.  I felt something metallic with something like a string connected to it.  No, did I really have this the entire time?  Emptying out the contents of my pockets, I sighed as if I failed myself.  I had my i-pod, some spare change, and my wallet with me the entire time.  I'll deal with this later.  I placed everything back into my pockets except or a singular quarter.

I placed the quarter on the floor and walked to the other side of the room.  Teleporting can't be as hard as it sounds.  I just have to somehow dematerialize my atoms and move them to another location.  Piece of cake.  "Alright here goes nothing."  I locked my gaze onto the quarter and pictured myself just appearing over to where the quarter was.  I can feel something happening, but I'm not sure what.  It feels like a sudden surge of warmth building in my left eye.  I guess this is what the powers' energy feels like.  "Now, release the power."

"Now when ya'll see him, just know that he's harmless."  Looking up I saw AJ, Applebloom, and the big red horse walk into the room.

"IT'S THE MONSTER!"  Applebloom ran out of the room screaming and the red horse got ready to attack.

"Calm down he's a friend."  AJ tried to calm him down, but the words were landing on deaf ears.

"Look buddy.  I don't know you, and you don't know me.  So let's start things off nice and-"  It was as if time had slowed.  He rushed at me with his head down straight towards me.  I can do only one thing and hope it works.  I released the energy in my eye.  I could feel my body start to go numb starting at my feet a rapidly moving up.  As I looked at the slow motion horse, I saw a raven fly past him.  As he got closer and closer, more and more ravens flew past him.  Did someone leave a window open or something?  Just as he was about to make contact, my point of view swooped around him and changed from being in front of him to behind him.  At that moment, time sped up at once and he connected with the wall with a loud thud.

Aj rushed over to the slightly disoriented horse on the floor.  Did I do what I had wanted?  Looking at the floor underneath me, I saw what I had wanted to see, the quarter.  I had managed to teleport out of danger.  What I didn't expect, was that I would turn into a flock of ravens.  If I remember correctly, wasn't that how Itachi got away from danger?  Man, if I'm not mistaken, this eye is really trying to get me to become the next member of the Uchiha clan.  "What did ya do ta him?"  Looking up, I saw AJ with a concerned look about her.

"I didn't do anything... well, to a certain extent."  AJ was starting to look a little more angry.  "All I did was teleport behind him."  Hearing this, AJ sighed a breath of relief.

I walked over to the disoriented horse and stared down at him.  AJ looked at me with a worried expression.  I turned to her and gave her a wink letting her know that I had planned for nothing bad.  Turning my attention back to him, he stared at me as if he was looking at something straight from a nightmare.  "By the looks of things, we got off on the wrong foot... um, I mean hoof.  So let's try this again."  I extended my hand out to him, he winced a little as a response.  "Come on, it's not gonna bite ya."  He looked at me and then back to my hand.  He reached up and took hold of it.  Pulling up, I lifted him to his hooves.

"Thanks."  He looked down and scratched at the floor as if he had failed miserably.  Well he kinda did, in a way.

"Hey, don't beat yourself up about it.  This has happened about two times already, so I'm kinda used to it by now."  He looked back up from the floor with something that looked like a smile.  "By the way, name's Kiyoshi.  Nice to meet you."

"Big Mac."  He extended his hoof and we gave each other a hand-hoof shake.

"You don't talk much do ya?"  Had to ask.

"Nnnope."  That answers my question.

"So is everything water under the bridge between ya'll?"  AJ spoke up bringing our attention to her.

"Eeeyup."  If all he says are one liners, then conversations between us are going to be very limited.  I nodded as a response.

"Well as ya already know, this is Big Mac.  He's mah older brother."  Big Mac gave a single nod to this.  "The one that ya saw scream and run away was our little sister, Applebloom.  Speakin' of her, Big Mac, could you go and find her?  Make sure she gets back ta bed and tell her what's going on."  How he's gonna tell her what's going on is a friggin' mystery to me.  Giving a nod, he left the room and shut the door behind him, leaving AJ and I alone.  "Sorry about that.  He can be protective sometimes."

"Like I said, I'm used to this already."  Strange for me to say considering that I've only been out of the hospital for less than a day.  "Anyways, I'm sure he was just lookin' out for you."

"Thanks.  Anyway, it's time fer ya ta sleep."  She walked over to bed and got in.  I, on the other hand, had other plans.  I lay down on the carpet in the middle of her room and shut my eyes.  "Uh, what're ya doin'?"

I opened my eyes and rolled over to look at AJ.  "I thought I was going to sleep.  Why?"  I really hope she doesn't mistake this as an insult to her hospitality.

"I told ya that ya could sleep in mah bed.  There's enough room fer two."  She patted the available spot next to her.

She obviously doesn't know what it sounds like she is asking.  "Oh.  Uh, okay."  I slowly stood up and walked over to the bed.  I placed my boken next to the bedpost and removed my shoes.  Sliding under the covers, I lay my head on the soft down-feather pillow.

She was looking at me the entire time.  "Comfy?"  She asked.

The bed is incredibly soft.  It feels like it was made out of the clouds themselves, that is if it were possible to sleep on them...or is it?  NAAHHHH.  "Yeah I am.  This is the first time in a while that I've slept in a real bed."  Corny or not, it was the truth.  Ever since I arrived here, I've been cooped up in a hospital room on one of the beds either by choice or tied down against my will, which I gotta say, wasn't very comfortable.

She wore an expression of joy.  "Good ta hear.  Well g'night."  She turned to her right and extinguished the lamp on her nightstand.

"Once again,  thank you for letting me stay here."

"It's no problem at all.  G'night Kiyo."

"Goodnight AJ."  With that, I closed my eyes and drifted off, awaiting for the unexpected dangers of Ponyville to creep up on me once again.