Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 15

Thursday (The last day of the dare)

The final day of my dare finaly swung around, but I couldn't really care less about the dare now. I was up as early as usual to go to work and fix the radio equipment. I got out of my bed, that I actualy slept in this time, and made my way towards the radio station for another normal day of work. I actualy kept the events of last night in my head, because I was suprised that we both found something new from each other. Perhaps I should tell her about what I truely am. But only when she asks or when I absolutely have to. I smiled and decided to stop distracting myself with my own thoughts, and actualy get to the radio station.

I got to the radio station and the first thing I did was go to the radio equipment room. Vinyl was a bit worried about some of the radio equipment malfunctioning, but at first I didn't think it was anything too bad. When I inspected the equipment however, I saw exactly why it was having problems. Looks like it's not overclocked this time, rather it seems like some of the wires have started to become loose. I thought to myself. I turned off all power to the equipment before replacing the faulty wires with new ones that I got from the electronics room. I had to double check the wires to make sure everything is in place before turning on the power. The electrical current flowed through the wires normaly and I sighed in relief and closed the panel. Since the equipment was fixed again, I decided to actualy organize the instrument room since I missed doing a proper job yesterday.

I entered the instrument room to find that the whole place was almost an absolute mess. I don't know how it got that messed up, but I was sure that I had a lot of work ahead of me to fix this. I sighed and started to move the CD players out of the way and line them up against a wall first. I couldn't get anywhere else before I moved the players out of the way so once I moved them out of the way, I started to organize the instruments and the few electronics that were in the room.

It took me longer than usual to clean up the instrument room, but I did it eventualy. I looked over the room and sighed in relief that it is finaly done. As I turned to leave the room, I noticed a peice of paper lying on the floor. When did that get there? I wondered to myself. I shook my head and decided to investigate the paper. I was more confused on how I missed seeing it the first time than what the paper actualy was, but when I looked at the paper closely, it looked old and faded. I carefuly picked it up as if it would turn into dust if someone hoofed(?) it improperly. I turned it over as carefuly as I picked it up and noticed that it had a faded mark of some sort of emblem. The emblem was a sheild with a sun put on the center of it. It was odd, but I decided to keep it as it may be important. As I turned to walk out of the room I tripped on something that I couldn't see. Oh hell. I thought, before hitting the ground face first. The force of the impact was enough to knock me out, but I was glad I didn't land on anything that could have hurt me badly.

When I opened my eyes, I could not see anything of color. The whole place I was in is colored a blindingly bright white. As my eyes slowly adjusted to the bright light, I looked around.

"Where... am I?" I asked myself softly. I would only become more confused when I saw a shape of a pony in the distance. Since I couldn't see anything else, I stood up and headed towards the shape, wondering if this was a dream.

When I got to the shape, I looked at him in suprise. He looked almost like me, except his mane was a lighter color.

"Excuse me, but who are you?" I asked, blatantly ignoring the fact that he could possibly hurt me although not likely. He turned around, and then look at me in confusion. I smiled sheepishly, being as confused as he was.

"What art thou doing hither?" He asks me in a language that I recognized as being similar to what Luna spoke. I was semi confused at what he said, but I guessed he was asking me of what am I doing here.

"I have... no idea," I said, resulting in him being more confused.

"I hath naught seen nary a fellow pony," He said in suprise.

"Really? Guess that makes me the first," I said flatly.

"Art thou living?" He asked me cryptically.

"I may have knocked myself out by tripping, so yes I think I still am alive," I said, being mildly annoyed.

"Then I beseech you. I prithee, could thou assist me?" He asks me, sounding eager about meeting me.

"Um... Sure?" I said, being unsure about what he wants me to do. I got that question answered by him running towards me and disapearing before he even touched me. I was confused for a moment, but I didn't have time to be confused as the floor disappeared from below me. I fell into the blackness below.

I opened my eyes with a start and was breathing hard. What the hell... I thought in confusion. I decided to push that weird dream away and I turned to look at what I just tripped on. I expected it to have been a stray electronic or something, instead I found a shield. I simply looked at the sheild, being absolutely dumbfounded about it being there in the first place. I decided to prevent other pony's from tripping on it and picked it up. Strangly enough, it came with a leather strap behind the handle where one would hold it. Don't know how a pony could hold a sheild like this, but I think I'll keep it with me, it may be usful. I thought to myself as I strapped it to my back. I turned back to the door and walked out of the instrument room, closing the door softly on my way out.

I headed to the electronics room, where I would be working for the rest of the time, and started working on another speaker. I have absolutely no clue of how there's always a speaker broken, but I didn't question it too much other than figuring that Vinyl may have blown a fuse in it from all of the Dubstep, rock, etc. songs she plays on them. Midnight came in a bit later, and I smiled as I thought back to last night, where I found out the truth about our feelings.

"So thine fair maiden loves thou?" A voice would ask in my head. Startled, I almost dropped a wire into the speaker. I managed to recover the wire before it fell into the speaker and pulled it back to where I once had it. What the... I thought in confusion, but I didn't hear anything else, other than Midnight working as well. I shook my head, thinking it was just a weird event that happened. I went back to work on repairing or replacing parts of the speakers that would not work properly.

By the time the work day was over, I sighed and walked up to Midnight.

"Done," I said simply as she finished what she was doing.

"With what?" She asked me with a questioning look.

"With the dare... and work. But I like this job, so I'm not going to leave even though I managed to prove you wrong," I said to her in a fat tone. I actualy enjoyed working with her, despite the fact of the dare, and I wanted to continue to work with her.

"Oh, that dare? I wouldn't want it to be any other way, since your the only pony who will work with me," She said with a smile.

"It could change, but for now I am the only pony who you know is patient enough," I said, returning the smile with my own, "well except for Blitz, who has to live with you," I added, hoping it didn't offend her.

"I would hope not, or else you would have competition," She said jokingly with a chuckle.

"Would you rather I be the sole holder of this rare event?" I asked her with a mischevious grin.

"If I say yes, would you beleive me?" She said with a beautiful smile. I think that sometimes, nights do have happiness in them.

"Probably not, but I wouldn't give it away for anything," I said with my own mischevious grin.

"Can't you two just kiss and get it over with already?" A voice asks suddenly. I would be suprised and turned around.

"What? I can't flirt with a lady without kissing her Pyro?" I asked him, trying to hide my annoyance.

"Oh dear Celestia, you've fallen for her but won't kiss her yet," Pyro said with a facehoof, "even I have kissed a mare before! And you both know how impossible that is."

"What do you expect? A romance that would sicken children if they watched?" I said with a half smirk.

"Yes, because there's no children even here," He responded snarkily.

"Dang, You are legal age... aren't you?," I said, frowning about Pyro outsnarking me this time.

"Yeah, but I think I'll leave you both to continue," He said, before walking out. Although I knew that he was watching from behind a corner or in a window or something.

"I think that thy fere is a bit evil..." The voice in my head said in confusion.

Oh bloody hell... You actualy do exist. I thought, being annoyed.

"Aye, but dost thou know my title?" He asks me.

Not really, I thought, being less annoyed.

"Oh, I thought..." It started to say, but I decided to tune him out and turn back to Midnight.

"Do you want to go to the library or something? I think I would like to read today," I said in an excuse to bring her along with me to see Twilight.

"Sure, Blitz needs to have some books anyways," She said in responce.

"Great, I'm sure that I could introduce you to Twilight Sparkle then," I said, and I walked out with Midnight, a small spring in my step.

We both arrived at the same library I had been at eight days before. I think that it is ironic about books being held in a tree, but I'm pretty sure everyone in the town already knew that. Midnight knocked on the door.

"Hang on a moment," A voice said from behind the door. I felt like I recognized it from somewhere. That question was be answered as I saw a purple lizard answer the door.

"Hello, do you- Hey it's you!" He said, pointing a claw at me. I decided to stand my ground, but I was worried again.

"I swear to the deities, I did not mean to crash through the roof of her house! I got distracted by a flying Pinkie Pie!" I said quickly.

"Don't worry, I belive you since Twilight told me what happened," He says and I sighed in relief, although I could still sense some weariness in his voice.

"Right, in my panic there I forgot to ask your name," I said, slowly becoming calm.

"Oh, my name is Spike, Twilight's number one assistant. Well, her only assistant," He said proudly. I didn't say anything in responce, other than walking in the library with Midnight folowing me.

"Alright, Spike do you know where ancient history books are?" I asked as soon as we entered the library. The whole place had bookshelves line the walls, but I was more focused on trying to figure out who the voice was. Based on the fact that he spoke something of ancient english, he would probably be in one of those history books.

"No, but Twilight does. She is always reading them to try to find some more information about the past. If you want I'll get her," He said in a friendly way.

"Good idea, I'll just wait here," I said, and promptly sitting down on the floor.

"Why would you need to read books like that?" Midnight asked me in confusion.

"I'll wait until Twilight gets here before explaining it," I said simply. Midnight wasn't too happy, but she decided to wait. Spike left through a door that probably led to the area where She and her family sleep.

It was not long before I saw Twilight come through the same door.

"Hey John, what do I-" She started to say, but I interupted her by carefuly pulling out the paper I found and setting it on the table.

"I want to look through ancient history books for an emblem like this," I said, making everyone confused about why I would want to look for something like that. I noticed their confused looks and decided to explain, "I managed to find these in the instrument room, before I managed to meet this spirit. I don't know what he did, but whatever he did he-" I explained, but suddenly I couldn't talk. It was as if my mouth was not my own anymore.

"Sorry, but dost ye know the yore?" The voice asks through me. Luckily, the voice was not my own so there wasn't much more confusion than need be. I was scared that he could actualy control me, but it seems like he wanted to speak with her. The result was Twlight looking at me being confused, and suprised.

"Did you just speak ancient Equish?" She asks me curiously.

"No, that was not me... I think that was the spirit I was talking about," I said, becoming worried.

"Did you get possesed by a spirit?" Twilight asks me, sounding more worried about my safety.

"Somepony call the Ghost Busters..." Midnight muttered softly. I ignored her comment for the time being.

"Aparantly so, I don't know why but-" I started to say, but then the spirit intrupted my Sentence and spoke through me again. Better not make that a habit. I thought bitterly.

"I did besought this noble soul, but I do not hath a sence of time in the midst of that area," He said calmly.

"Could you say that again in equish?" Spike asks, being confused of his fancy words.

"He asked me for help and I agreed, but he has no sence of time so he wants to know what year it is now," I said in a quick explaination.

"It's around 2:13, why do you ask?" Midnight says simply. I felt the spirit speak through me, in absolute shock.

"How hath I been trapped there for many a yore?!" He exclaimed, being suprised.

"What do you mean trapped?" Twilight asks him in confusion.

"I hath been trapped in a timeless room, left for dead with nary a companion," He said sadly.

"Before you go on about this story, can I ask you for your name?" I asked him, he would answer through me once more, showing that he could hear me.

"I have a name, Golden Shield, but it is for naught since I've failed," He said sadly

"Failed to do what?" I asked him.

"To protect the princesses," He said, becoming more sad with each word

"You mean princess Luna and Celestia?" Twilight asks him, and he would perk up.

"Dost thou say they survived?" He asks curiously, "What of a third?"

"Yes, but I think it would be better if they come here, I'll write a letter to her," Twilight said, and she talked with Spike about something. Meanwhile I thought about what he said, unsure if what he said was true.

"Alright, Spike take a letter," She says as spike took out a quill and paper. I was unsure of how he got them, but I didn't care too much about that. She than began to dictate how the letter would say.

"Dear Princess Celestia,

I'm writing to you to inform you that a certain pony seems to have been possessed by a spirit from ancient times, he seems to know you and claims to have been protecting you before. I would appriciate it if you could come to the library as soon as you can. And please bring your...um...Partner?

Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle."

Spike wrote everything down as fast as she said it, before rolling up the paper and setting it alight.

"Did thou just sayest that thou are Celestia's proby?" Golden Shield asked in confusion.

"I am the student of the princess of Celestia, why?" She said with eagerness.

"I am suprised she would take up one..." He said to himself, but I was bored of letting him talk through me.

"While we wait, could we look through your books?" I asked, being eager to look through a book.

"Sure, I think we could find something about him in one of the books," Twilight responded with a happy glee.

"I think I should help you with this, I would want to know if it would hurt John or not," Midnight said out of concern.

"I'm sure we can find something in them... Besides, what's the worst that we could find?" I said, before my instinct kicked in and I had a feeling that one of the books will not be pretty.

"Get down from there John!" Twilight shouted.

"No! I am not going to come down from here! Hell no!" I shouted back.

"You're going hurt yourself!" Twilight said out of concern.

"Why are you even up there anyways?" Midnight asked.

"Why would Twilight have a book like that in the library!" I shouted down in responce. I am standing at the top of a very tall book stack.

"What book?" She asked, being curious.

"The book on the table there!" I said, pointing quickly at the book I left open on the table before putting it back down to keep balanced.

"What's so bad about- Oh Celestia!" Midnight said, after she walked over and looked over the book

"See why I don't want to come down now!" I shouted.

"I don't see what's so bad about- AHHH!" Twilight exlaimed, before using her magic to shut the book.

"It's horrifying! Why would you even have that!" I shouted down to her.

"I didn't even know I had a book like... that!" She said in fear.

"What book?" I heard Dusk ask from behind Twilight.

"Oh, nothing," She said, trying to keep Dusk from looking at it. But he turned around and notice the book on the table

"Hey, that's an intrestesting book on the table," He said, and walked up to it.

"Don't do it Dusk!" I shouted, and Dusk became even more curious and opened it.

"What is.... oh my....." Dusk said, before slowly closing the book, "PYRO! PRYO,WHERE ARE YOU?!" he walked off trying to find him.

"Someone should burn that horror! No pony could ever bend that way!" I said in fear.

"Agreed, that is just sickening," I heard Golden Sheild say, It may take time but he will learn our way of how we speak soon enough.

"What is going on here?" I heard a royal voice ask. Activity in the room stopped for a moment to see that Luna just entered the library.

"Luna! Heeeyyaaah!" I said, falling down with the stack of books.

"Why does everypony look so worried?" Luna asks curiously

"Horrifying book, your majesty," Midnight responded.

"What could be so-" She started to say, before looking in the book.

"Oh..." She finished with a bit of suprise.

"Somepony please burn that book already!" I would say, being more worried about anyone else reading it.

"Isn't this one of Flare's books?" Luna asks, being confused about the nature of the book.

"Isn't what one of my books?" I heard another royal voice ask. I turned and saw Flare walk in with Celestia.

"Why would any one have a book like that!" I would say, being pretty mad about royalty walking in. I dislike royalty, but I won't ever disrespect them... too much.

"Ahh, there you are!" Flare said, sounding relieved and teleporting it someplace else.

"I want to burn that book for the horrors it contains," I said to Flare with a frown.

"Sorry, but I need this book," She said in responce simply.

"Why would you ever need a book like that?" I asked her.

"Where else would I get idea's about pleasuring my partner then?" She asked me with a Mischievous smile. I would give her a blank stare in response. Perv.

"Right, now lets get to business, do you happen to know of anypony named Golden Sheild?" I asked Luna and Celestia.

"He was actualy one of our best soldiers, but he died to protect us from the invasion of the griffons long ago." Celestia said, with a bit of sorrow in her voice.

"So thou have vanquished thine enemies," Golden Sheild said, with happiness for seeing the princesses alive and well.

"Is that old equish?" Luna asked me, being confused about why I spoke like that.

"Sorry, Golden Sheild is the spirit who is currently speaking through me, and lives in me apparantly, and I think that you both would know him and can help him to understand about what happened. As for me, I just hope that he won't live in me forever," I said, explaining the best I could of the situation to the new royal arivals. Flare then had her smile fade.

"Perhaps I could help you with that,"  She said in an eager tone.

"Really? Because I would rather not have a ghost look through my thoughts," I said, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, does the body still exist today?" She asked Luna.

"Yes, it oddly has never decayed over time, we thought it was an enchantment, but it turns out the spirit was put in a time holding state," Luna explained to her.

"I think I have an idea, but we need some pretty powerful magic to make it work," I said in a serious tone.

"The Elements of Harmony! I think those would be powerful enough to actualy suit the needs right now." Twilight said with a bit of glee in her voice.

"Should I look for Sparx and the others?" Dusk asks, returning after Spike left to tell him the news that it wasn't one of Pyro's books.

"No, I think the Elements of Harmony would work for this matter," She responded. I was wondering of why Dusk would ask that, but I guessed that there was a diffrent group as well.

"Alright, I'll look for Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie," Dusk said, and walked out of the library.

"I'll get Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy," Twilight said before also going out of the door.

"Great, again with the waiting game," I said out of sheer boredom.

"It won't be that bad this time, at least I think it won't be," Midnight responded.

"Well, I want to know something... Flare, what do you and Celestia do in your spare time?" I asked, completely ignoring the fact that she got her idea's from a book that had to do with a certain pony's anatomy.

"Well, first I have to get Celestia into bed..." She started on her story, and I listened to it with mild intrest. 'Probably never going to use any of her idea's when I sleep with a gi- Mare here.' I thought to myself

It took around a full hour before I saw Dusk and Twilight enter with the other elements, plus Luna carrying a certain body that I would recognize.

"Luna, next time, don't do grave robbing," I said out of sheer boredom. Flare's tale about what she does was intresting to a point, but now it's something I do not want to think back to.

"We did not grave rob because he is still alive," Luna said with a frown upon her face. I rolled my eyes.

"Good point, anyways, now that the elements are here I am going ot make this simple for everyone," I said, and the six ponies would look at me.

"I need you to blast me with the elements, if we manage to succeed, we can bring Golden's spirit back into his body and 'revive' him," I said, using my hooves to make air quotes around revive.

"That's it?" Twilight asks me, sounding a bit disapointed that it would be that simple.

"No, I need one of the royalty here to actualy make sure that Golden's spirit goes into his body, so they may need to use their magic to help guide him," I said with a frown, and I stood right in an open area of the library. The elements would circle me and put on their elements, except pinkie pie, who kept bouncing up and down in her spot.

"Pinkie, I need you to calm down!" I said as she bounced.

"Sorry, but I am just too excited to throw a party for a new pony!" She said with a big grin on her face.

"That's nice..." I said, not really caring so much about her excitement. The best explaination about her thinking is that it's just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie.

"Can I beseech something?" Golden Shield asked her.

"Sure, what is it?" She asked, stopping her bouncing for just a moment.

"What is a party?" He asked simply. I could see Pinkie freeze in place, with her mouth hanging open in an attempt to gasp. Instead of gasping, she remained silent. I walked up and waved a hoof in front of her face. She didn't even react to it, so I closed her mouth for her.

"Wow, I can't believe anyone could suprise her like this," Twilight said, but in reality, she was as equally shocked about Golden Sheild not even knowing what a party is.

"Right, this makes all the more of the reason to get him back in his own body." I said, and I walked back to the center of the circle.

"Okay, everything in place?" I asked Twilight for quite possibly the fourth time.

"So far so good, I think we are ready," Twilight said.

"Then start, for the time being I won't be able to talk until the ritual is over," I said for what would be the last time before the ritual started.

"Alright, here goes," Twilight said, and used her magic to focus all of the elements of harmony, including her own element, on me. I could only see colors for a moment before blackness overtook my vision. I knew that it was a part of the ritual, so I wasn't too worried about blacking out. I was more worried about if I would be still the same after it was over. I couldn't hear or speak, so I only saw blackness. I easily got bored of the blackness, and played creator by making impossible things. From the ground grew Yellow flowers, but I decided I didn't like the color black, so I made pink grass. I questioned why I made pink grass and decided that it would work better with blue grass instead. I continued to change the colors to my amusement until they started to fade away, signaling that I was waking up again. I sighed and let the colors drain away into darkness.

I opened my eyes, to find myself face to face with a yellow pony with almost the exact same hair style as me, except that his mane looked more of a lighter brown. While mine looked like the color of dirt, his looked similar to to the color of chocolate.

"Judging by the way you are looking at me... it worked?" I asked, being carful in my word choice.

"It was actualy easy, but Golden Sheild wanted to wait until you woke up," I heard a voice say.

"How nice of him," I said, being pretty bored from sleeping for a period of time.

"Yes... Since thou helped me... I have agree'd with Luna to... try to learn thy language of today." He said, being as simple as I was.

"Sure... But I can't teach you alone," I said, being mostly confused about him wanting to teach me.

"I think it would be best if you wait for doing that tomrrow," Suggested Midnight.

"Good point, you will need to get used to being alive again, and I think I'm going to need sleep too," I said. I then turned to the royalty in the room.

"Thank you for helping with this, I'll contact you myself should anything else happen," I said, before walking out of the room. I was more tired than before, so I used what was left of my energy to get to my home and into my bed to sleep. 'It has been a long day, I think I deserve this rest now.' I thought to myself, before falling asleep on my own bed.