Chapters I ran through the forest my muscles ached and my breath was ragged and paced everybone and fiber in my body told me to stop but I knew I couldnt. I was being hunted by the hunters of Artemis. The same greek hunters of myth, yeah all the myths are real. The Empire state? Thats Olympus. The gods go to where the highest mortal influence is found so there in the United states. Im being hunted down beacause I fought on the wrong side of the war. The second Titan war unfurled when Kronos was awoked. Me and my brothers joined him in hopes of getting respect for the minor gods like my mother Hecate the godess of magic. We lost and all of "the rebels" are getting hunted down and slaughtered I happened to run across Thailia the head hunter of the hunters of Artemis and now being hunted down by her and her fellow hunters.
"By the Titans why wont you stop?!" I yelled back and was respondedd by an arrow flying past my head. I continued running. "Doenst Alabaster live nearby? He can help me? Wait i'll get him killed." I thought and continued to run.
"I GOT YOU NOW!" I heard a hunter scream. I quickly turned and fired my attack.
"INCENARATE!!" Fire bursted from my palms and the forest soon cuahgt on fire. "Why didnt I do that before?" I thought. "Maybe the'll stop bugging me." I hoped but to be sure ran even faster.
"So Promettis? Think that little fire was enough to stop us?" I heard a voice from behind me. I turned and saw the hunters all 15 of them infront of a roaring forest fire. I cursed myself for my stupidty. I cupped my hands ready to fire. But I had an idea.
"SKOTOS!" Imeaditally I was invisible it wouldnt last long and drains alot of energy so I ran right into the nearby river careful not to move. I heard hunters Cursing and looking everywhere 'dont look here plaese' I prayed. Of course a hunter came up and looked into the water. My vision was getting blury the spell has taken its toll. The hunter picked up a clump of dirt and threw it in the river right on top of me. She jumped back and fired and arrow and it made dirct contact with my shoulder. I sawn down the river dodging several arrows then I reached a lake. I got a quick breath of air and dove inot the botom it was freezing and pressure was making me bleed at the nose but it was my only option.
"Girls set up camp here no why hes gonna make it out now." I heard Thaila ordered. When I reached the bottom I sat in the dirt to conserve oxegyn. But something cuaght my eye a shiny orb not big the size of a pebble at most but it radiated massive amounts of magical energy. I reached for it but it just went into the dirt.
"Your kidding right?" Ithought and started to dig. My lungs were on fire begging for air. Just then the ground opened up to reveal a sinkhole. Alot of water fell in here and I couldnt fight the current. I tried as hard as I could but everything went black.
I awoke to darkness all around me but something soft on my head so I probably was at a hospital.
"....Shy ...is..this?" I heard not to far away.
"..dont know it.... here." another voice said. I groaned and and this startaled the two in the room. I slowly started to remove the bandages from my head but insatanly was stopped by something soft touching my hands. "No dont do that you need to heal. I maen if thats ok with you." The voice sounded like and angel. The vioce was feamle by the voice.
"C-canteen. Now." I mutterd soon I found the cool sweetness of nectar in my mouth. "There we go much better." I started to remove the bandages and saw a purple blur and a yellow blur. "Uhhhh. Im Promettis. Whats your name?" I asked trying to get information.
"I am Twilight Sparkle, The star pupil of Princess Celestia." The purple blure now Twilight Sparkle answered.
"Odd name." I thought but I noticed something. Twilight was radiating much more magic than anyone or thing ive everseen. I dismissed this. "Your name?" I asked to the other figure in the room.
"Fluttershy." She said in a small voice.
"Odd still but they are my rescuers I must thank them." I thought. I rubbed my eyes while I thanked them, "Thanks a lot im in your debt for saving me those hunters were going to kill me." When I opened my eyes my vision was perfect but there was a problem. My "rescuers" were ponies. ther ewas a yellow one with a long pink mane and teal eyes. The other was a purple unicron with a matching mane and pink strip going through it. And she had lavender eyes.
"It's no problem really." Flutershy responded.
"You can talk!" I shouted and Fluttershy hid behind a chair.
"Of course we can we are ponies afer all." I heard Twilght say
"Ponies dont talk where im from." I confessed
"Where are you from? You dont look like a pony what are you?" Twilight questioned.
"Im from Earth. Im a human." I answered.
"Whers that?" Twilight asked. I explained everything where im from that im a demigod everything exept the second titan war.
"So thats about it." I finished Twilights eyes were as big as dinner plates.
"Your a demigod?" She asked. I nodded. "A son of Hecate the godess of magic?" I nodded again. "Are you good at magic?"
"I am a master." I replied. Twilight got a big grin on her face and started jumping around the room.
"New spells to learn YAY!" she shouted.
"Twilight? Wheres mt stuff? My bullet proof vest with the runes on it, the little peices of paper call mist form cards, and my spellbook." I interupted. She quickly levitated all my stuff to my lap. "She can levatate things? I cant do that!' I shouted in my head. I went to the bathroom quickly to change. After I was done I looked in the mirror to look at myself. My brown hair was a little charred and my green eyes looked weary. This room was small so my 6 foot tall figure didnt fit well in this room.
"Hey Promettis?" I heard Twilight.
"Yeah?" I responded
"When your done I want you to meet my freinds."
"Ok" I replied. "I have a feeling this wont be good." I thought to myself and walked out the door.
I walked out of the bathroom to find a pink pony jumping on the bed, a cyan pegasus with a rainbow mane, and a walking marshmallow unicorn with a prim and proper prurple mane. I was going to say something but I was tackled by the pink pony.
"HIMYNAMESPINKIEPIEWHATSYOURNAME!!DOYOULIKEPARTIES?!" The pink pony now Pinkie pie blurted. I was going to reply the best I could but she ran out the door.
"What just happened?" I asked. All the ponies in the room started to luagh execpt the cyan one.
"You better not cause any trouble got it?!" She exclaimed. I nodded trying to hold back a laugh. 'What am I on? Seriously I found myself in this world of colorful ponies. '
"And I say, your clothes are horrid." The white unicorn insultingly.
"This is my vest it tells me when monsters are nearby and protects me from bullets." I retorted.
"Whats a bullet?"
"Nevermind. I'm Promettis what are you two girls named?" I tried to change the topic.
"I'm Raity I own the boutique in poville." The white unicorn answered.
"I am the one and only Rainbow Dash the fastest flyer in Equestria." The cyan mare boasted.
"Equestria?"
"Yeah that's this planet. Ruled by Princess Celestia." Twilight explained. 'That orb must of made me go crazy or something.'
"Well I must be off now." I blurted rather quickly.
"Wait!" Twilight exclaimed. "Can you teach me some magic from where you're from please?"
"All right." I sighed. "One day won't make that much difference." Twilight's horn glowed purple and she grabbed my hand with her magic and dragged me out of the hospital room.
"You can stay with me." Twilight offered.
"Ok. But only one night Twilight no more." I said. Twilight nodded.
"This 'demigod' sure is unkept." Rarity insulted behind my back.
"You try being chased by the hunters of Artemis for 3 days without rest." I retorted. This instantally caused everyone to stop dead in their tracks.
"T-t-the hunters of Artemis?" Fluttershy stammered. I nodded.
"Why were they chasing after you?" Rainbow Dash questioned. 'Crap! Think quick!
"Training exersise." I lied. All the ponies breathed a sigh of relief and we continued walking. 'There's hunters here!? They must never know I'm here.'
When we left the hospital everyone seperated except twilight and me. I looked around at the colorful town a lot of the ponies looked scared of me but I don't blame them. We continued to walk until we reached a very large tree in the center of town. The dim light green runes glowed brighter so there was a monster nearby but they were still pretty dim so I dismissed this.
"Here we are home sweet home." Twilight said as she opened the door. There were books everywhere so I guessed it was a libary. "SPIKE WE HAVE A VISITOR!!" Twilight called out. Not 2 seconds later a small purple baby dragon appeared and disappeared screaming something about a diamond dog wanting to eat his brain.
"Uhh what?" I asked. Twilight quickly went to talk to the baby dragon. They both soon walked over.
"Sorry for my behavior. I'm Spike." The dragon greeted and stuck his hand out.
"Promettis." I replied and shook his hand. "So what is a diamond dog?" I asked.
"Really big dogs that really like gems and jewels. They once took my friend." Spike explained.
"Well we can't let that happen again. Why don't I teach you sword combat?" I offered. Spikes eyes grew.
"You can teach me that?"
"Sure." I answered as I pulled out one of my mistform cards. I tapped it and the 5 foot long celestial bronze blade formed.
"What kind of magic was that!?" Twilight exclaimed.
"Mistform, it allows me and my half sibling to conceal weapons easier and better." I explained. "Your training begins tomorow Spike you and me can look for a good training grounds. Well that is if its ok with Twilight."
"Please Twilight. Please I can learn something other than being your assistant in this library." Spike begged.
"Oh all right." Twiligh sighed and looked at me right in the eyes. "If anything happens to him your dead." Twilight intimadated.
"Of course I swear on the river styx that Spike the baby dragon will not meet his death during training." I swore. Twilight seemed a little more at ease. Spike grabbed his stomach as a green flame left his mouth and was replaced with a letter. Immediatally Twilight picked up the letter and began to read it.
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
I will be in Saddle Arabia for some time. I'm expecting you to continue your studies as usual and don't contact me unless it's the highest of importance.
Your mentor,
Princess Celestia.
"Ok Spike please get some quills and parchment immedtitally." Twilight ordered. Spike saluted and ran off. "Now what kind of magic do you use?" Twilight asked levitating various quills and paper around her ready to write. I was going to begin talking but the runes on my vest have been getting brighter and brighter something was powerful and very close.
"TWILIGHT COME HERE IT'S AN EMERGANCY!!" Rainbow shouted as she burst into the room. We both got up in unison and follwed the pegasus.
"I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE!!" I heard someone call. The energy radiating in that area was staggering.
"Uh oh." I heard Twilight. I smiled 'this oppenent wil be powerful. Lets see what this "Great and powerful Trixie" Has in store.'
Twilight and I burst through the crowd of onlooking ponies to reveal a light blue unicorn, with a white mane and wearing magician robes that had stars and moons on them standing about 20 feet across from Rarity.
"Trixie?" Twilight muttered in disbelief. I was going to speak up but Trixie shot a beam of magic right at Rarity putting her in the most ridiculous outfit I have ever seen.
"Stop messing with my friends Trixie!" Twilight barked.
"Wait hold up!" I cut in. "If your a unicorn then why is your name Trixie?" I asked Trixie showed no signs of actual danger just a big bully with a lot of magic.
"The Great and Powerful Trixie has no time for such affairs with stunted apes." Trixie insulted as she shot and energy beam at me. I wasn't expecting it so it hit me dead in the chest but thankfully to my vest what would've been agonizing pain was really ticklish. I burst into laughter causing a lot of confusion in the crowd.
"STOP PLEASE HAHAHA MY VEST BLOCKS HAHA MAGIC AND PAIN AND MAKES IT HAHA TICKLE STOP! HAHAHA!!" I yelled out.
"Only if Twilight and the Great and Powerful Trixie have a magic duel." Trixie barked. I got to the point of no noise and tears rolled down my face.
"Fine just let him go!" Twilight exclaimed. I was released instantly but thrown into a nearby building knocking me out cold.
I was awoke by someone poking my face.
"Dude get up now." I heard Spike order. I groaned and opened my eyes and seeing all the ponies I met at the hospital plus one orange coated blond haired one. She looked southern with the cowgirl hat.
"What happened?" I asked the ponies.
"Well Twilight lost the magic duel so we're trying to find out why Trixie is so powerful." Rainbow explained.
"I'm going to take a shot and say Twilight and Trixie battled before." I guessed.
"Yes but that was ages ago she came back for her revenge and enslaved ponyville. She even put a gigantic dome around the city." Spike said.
"You're kidding." I asked. Spike just shook his head. "Well then lets find the answers then." I blurted and stood up. We all went to separate parts of the library the orange mare from earlier was right next to me.
"A'hm Applejack pleasure ta meet ya." She greeted in a southern accent.
"Promettis." I replied. 'How could a unicorn with that power just enslave ponyville? There must be other more influential cities in Equestria'
"Hey look at this!" Spike shouted it was obvious he found something. I looked over and saw he had a book in his hands with a picture of an amulet on it. "Trixie is wearing the Alicorn Amulet. Its an enchanted amulet giving the wearer evil and powerful magic." Spike read.
"It must of corrupted it her." I guessed.
"We need to get this to Twilight!" Spike exclaimed.
"I have plan." I stated.
After telling everyone about my plan and dressing a very nervous Fluttershy everything was ready to work.
"Are you sure this will work?" Rainbow asked while we hid the bushes.
"No but its the best we got." I responded and Waited for Trixie to show up. The beavers were hitting the dome with their tails and Fluttershy was hidden in the log next to them. It wasn't long before we heard something that sounded like something heavy being dragged and two ponies grunting. I couldn't quite see but they were close.
"Move faster!!" I heard Trixie order.
"Wouldn't it be faster if w-we used WHEELS?" I heard a pony beg.
"Trixie doesn't trust wheels now move faster!!" She barked and I heard a whip crack. The beavers made their beaver noises and I could almost hear Trixie rolling her eyes.
"Skotos." I whispered and became invisible. The dome surrounding the city was lifted, the beavers carried the log with Fluttershy in it and I rolled to get free. I helped fluttershy out and we both made it into the Everfree. "Are you sure we will find Twilight in here?" I asked. Fluttershy was terrified by the look on her face.She stepped on a twig and she somehow jumped onto my leg shaking in fear and teeth chattering. "Just a twig."
"I-I-I'm scared." Fluttershy confessed. I reminded her that I fought monsters and even gods before this calmed her down a little but she had a death grip on my leg. Soon we reached a hut like something you would see in Africa carved into the tree. I knocked on the door to reveal a Zebra and Twilight. I explained to Twilight what was going on.
"Thats terrible we have to stop her." Twilight said. The zebra named Zecora grabbed my hand as if to read it like fortune teller.
"Your past and future are quite bleak but I see its peace you seek." Zecora foretold and she was right! I jerked my hand back hoping she wouldn't see my past.
How are we going to beat Trixie with that amulet?" Twilight asked.
"Twilight Sparkle you learned much work have you done you learned all my lessons all but one. If Trixies tricks have you in a fix you must combine your powers and use the six." Zecora rhymed.
"Use the six. I have a plan!" Twilight exclaimed. "But first we have to get Fluttershy back into ponyville." Twilight began writing on a piece of paper. "Ok Heres the plan." Twilight stated.
Twilight and I walked out to the dome, Fluttershy was already inside ready for the plan to fall into action.
"May I?" I asked Twilight nodded. I raised my left hand to the dome and yelled, "INCINERATE!!" Fire burst from my hands activating the alarm. It wasn't long until Trixie came walking up.
"Twilight what are you doing here?" Trixie scoffed.
"I just wanted to show what a real magic amulet looks like." Twilight boasted as she showed Trixie the fake amulet.
"Why would I do that when I have this amulet?" Trixie asked. 'That voice'
"Well then if you don't want to see the awesome powers beyond the Everfree Forest." Twilight said as we both started walking away.
"Oh WAIT!" Trixie blurted. "Rematch." and Trixie made the dome disappear.
Twilight and Trixie both in an epic stare down.
"First lets start with a simple age spell." Trixie began. "Snips! Snails come here." Trixie ordered and in a flash they were babies. Twilight just smirked and zapped Applejack and Rarity with a purple beam and soon they too were babies. Twilight zapped them again and Rarity was old and Applejack was normal. This process happened a few more times. "Thats impossible!!" Trixie shouted.
"Thats nothing!" Twilight retorted. She turned her head and hit Rainbow Dash and not two seconds later, another clone of Rainbow appeared right behind her.
"DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY!!" I shouted a little too loud. I looked at Trixie and Twilight which both with confused looks on their faces. "It's a demigod thing. Carry on."
"I can even make a pony play ten instruments." Twilight boasted and hit Pinkie Pie. After the smoke cleared, Pinkie Pie had a one man band instument attachment on her back and she started playing very well.
"This can't be happening." Trixie was in disbelief.
"One more. I can turn a stallion into a mare." Twilight stated. 'Wait what?' Twilight turned to me and she shot a beam at me.'NOPE!' I slapped the beam to the side making it hit a tree. "Well Trixie, it looks like my magic is greater than yours." Twilight boasted as the necklace was taken of her by Trixie's magic. "Hey, give that back!"
"Now I'll be the greatest unicorn in all of Equestria." Trixie said evilly. She ripped off the Alicorn Amulet and put the fake amulet on her neck.
"AQUIRE!" I shouted and the Alicorn Amulet was in my hand. "Pro tip. Trixie make sure your amulet works before making death threats." I smirked.
"Trixie, that's one of Zecora's door stops. You see when I was in exile, I learned the greatest magic was the magic of friendship." Twilight informed Trixie. Trixie still had a look of shock on her face. "All of those spells were just slight hand maneuvers. Promettis told me that that's the best magic when we were in Zecora's hut."
"Promettis?" Trixie mutterd barley audible as she sprinted into the night.
"Well what now?" I asked.
"I KNOW!!" Pinkie shouted "A PARTY!!"
"Thanks Pinkie, but I stiill have to practice for when the Princess comes back. Maybe tomorrow." Twilight said.
"OK. PARTY TOMORROW. THERE WILL BE CAKE AND ICE CREAM AND WE HAVE TO THROW A PARTY FOR YOU PROMY!!" Pinkie yelled as she was bouncing after every word.
"Promy?" I asked the bubbly mare.
"Well, I give my freinds nicknames." Pinkie explained. I just muttered whatever and we all went to go to our houses to rest off a hectic couple of days.
Twilight's house looked like a hurricane hit it, but a quick rearranging spell from Twilight made it all better. Spike was upstairs snoozing away.'Suprised he slept through it all'. Twilight walked up to him and kissed him on the forehead.
"He's like a son to you isn't he?" I asked Twilight.
"Yeah I raised since I hatched him." Twilight explained. "Here let me show you to your room." My room was the guest room next to twilights it had a bed a nightstand and a wardrobe next to it. I layed down on the bed as Twilight did the same.
"So how did you hatch him, Spike that is?" I asked trying to start a conversation.
"Well it all started when I was little..."
Over the next hour Twilight told a grand story on how her and her friends defeated various godlike creatures and the adventures they had in between.
"What's your world like?" Twilight asked. "Must be exciting."
"Well demigods like me train so we can fight monsters and things like manticores. My mother is the goddess of magic, so there's no cabin for her,so and my siblings and I slept in the crowded Hermes cabin." I explained.
"That must stink being in a cabin like that."
"Yeah it is but some were tired of it, so we left camp and made lives for ourselves as soldiers, hoping to get respect for Hecate."
"Who did you work for?" Twilight asked. 'Crap what should I say? I can't say Kronos they'll try and arrest me or something. Think fast.' I looked back at Twilight to find her snoring softly. 'That was close. What can I do?' I thought for a good fifteen minutes before sleep overwhelmed me too.
My dreams were the usual. I was in New York fighting for my life against the hunters. The war was raging on. My fellow soldiers so close to Olympus. During the battle, one hunter lunged at me like I remember I dodged and backhanded her with my sheild. My unguarded back was slashed as I woke up startled. I rubbed my eyes and looked out the window. Outside there was birds chirping and the sun was rising. 'Time to get out of bed.' I walked into the kitchen to find Spike making some pancakes.
"Morning." I greeted.
"Morning Sleep well?" Spike asked I nodded. I sat at the table and pulled out my AA-12 mistform card, and began to clean the shot gun. "What's that?" Spike asked putting some pancakes on the table.
"AA-12." I answered.
"What is it for?"
"To make sure everything in a single direction is one hundred percent destroyed." I answered and out the gun away and pulled out my claymore and began sharpening it.
"Is this a demigod thing?" Spike asked wit ha mouthfull of panckaes.
"Yes its always good that you have a sharp sword and a good shot gun in my opinoin." I replied and started to eat some pancakes.
"Shot gun?"
"A shot gun is uhh hmm I dont know how to explain what it is. Lets go shooting and I'll show you." I suggested.
"What are we shooting?" Spike asked.
"I dont know maybe a tree or something." I answered.
"Ok sonds good when are we going to go shooting?'
"After breakfast?"
"Sounds good."
Right after breakfast Spike and I left the libary to go shooting at a nearby field. For targets, I carved some out of tree bark.
"Spike the AA-12 is to big for you so I'll give you a M19-11." I said and handed the dragon the pistol. "Ok see how theres no ammo in it? Thats for safety here put this in the handle." I handed Spike the magizine he had a bit of trouble first, but soon inserted it sucsessfully. "Now pull the top part back and you should see a bullet go in."
"Ok." Spike mutterd and pulled the top part back.
"Doing great. Now you see that little lever?" I asked.
"Yeah." Spike answered.
"Flip it." I ordered. And Spike did. "Ok now before we start to open fire hold the gun firm in your hands. Do not aim the gun at anything you do not intend to destroy. Always think before shooting and always keep the safteyon and unloaded unless your going to open fire. Always aim the gun in a safe direction away from innocent ponies. Got all that?" I asked Spike. He nooded. "Repeat what I just said."
"Do not aim the gun at anythingyou do not intend to destroy. Always thnk before shooting. Keep the gun on safety and unloaded until ready to fire. Always aim the gun in a safe direction away from inocent ponies." Spike reapeted.
"Good. Always remeber those rules this is a dangerous weapon even more to those who dont know how to use it."
"Ok I understand." Spike said.
"Now line the dot up with the target and alowly pull the trigger." I said.
One hour and a little over two hundred bullets Spike and I headed to the libary. Some ponies were curoius at the noise of the gun to witch Spike and I received many confused and frightened looks. We entered the libary,Twilight writing on a large green book.
"Hey guys were have you two been?" She asked looking up from the book.
"Having fun destroying stuff." I answered. Twilight looked at me quizically.
"I have some questions about your world do you mind answering them?" She asked.
"Sure." I said and sat down infront of her.
"Ok. Question number one. What is the name of your world?" Twilight questioned. as she levatated a quill to her book, ready to write.
"Earth." I answered.
"How many countries are there?"
"104."
"Whats the name of the country you live in?"
"America."
"Whats the life of a demigod in America?"
"Well its different for everyone."
"Whats your story?" Twilight asked. Images flodded my mind seven years old and homeless on the streets.
"My mother Hecate fell in love with my father. I was born in the backwoods of Vermont, my father once he knew my....... abilities he kicked me out of the house. I was seven. Then for a couple years I was on my own till I met Alabaser, my half brother. We had some awesome adventures fighting monsters and such. Evantually we made it to camp halfblood and things went downhill from there." I answered and looked at Twilight.tears were in her eyes.'Oh no shes crying what do I do? I don't know what to do with a human girl when shes crying let alone a unicorn.'
"You were seven?" she muttered. I nodded. "You fought monsters and killed at seven?" she murmured. I noded again.
"It's nothing. Really I'm fine. Next question please." I said. Twilight looked at me for a little and nodded.
"Ok one last question how did you learn you had magic?" She asked. Images of me trying to do a kamehameha and lighting a forest on fire entered my mind.
"I dont remeber." I lied.
"That's ok." Twilight said as she closed the book. I looked over to Spike still holding the M19-11 in his hands.
"Keep that just remeber that's not a toy understand?" I asked the baby dragon. He looked at me with wide eyes and nodded.
"Oh no I need to get to Rarity's!" Spike shouted. And bolted through the door.
"You should go too she can make some clothes for you." Twilight suggested. I shrugged and followed the baby dragon.
Raritys boutique was a elagant place pefect white and looked kinda like a carousel. 'Something not right. Spikes a little off. Probably just tired.' Spike knocked on the door and stepped back. Not moments later I heard a pony call,
"Im coming." Soon the white unicorn opened the door and let us in. "Oh hows my little Spikey Wikey?" She cooed.'Spikey Wikey? Is this dragon in a realoinship or is he in the freindzone? Either way I hope the gods have mercy on his soul.'
"Im fine Rarity I thought you could use some help and Promettis need clothes." Spike responded. Rarity looked at me and smiled the kind of smiles I have nightmares about.
"Oh I would Love to make your freind somce clothes that arent so dirty." Rarity said with enthusasuim. "Follow me darling." She ordered and I followed. Spike was right next to me I tapped him on the shoulder.
"What?" he asked.
"Are you two dating?" I whispered.
"I wish." He muttered. ' Freindzoned huh? Maybe I can help the litle guy.'
"He we are!" Rarity said as we enterd what looked like her work room. "Stand right here please." Rarity ordered and I stood what looked like to be a pedastal.
Three hours and at least fifty outfits later Rarity picked out some clothes for me. They were simple clothes T-shirts,jeans, shorts and some cold weather clothes. Spike decided to stay and help Rarity who, refused payment for the clothes. At the Libary there was a little note that said,
Dear Promettis,
I'm not at the house right now please got to sugar cube corner. Its the bakery that looks like a gingerbread house. The key is underneath the mat please clean up a little before comming.
Your Freind,
Twilight Sparkle
"Freind?" I asked myself. "We've known each other for less than a week. Oh well I'm not complaining." I said as I retrieved the key and entered the libary.
In the library I noticed the book that Twilight was writting in earlier. 'One little peek won't hurt.' I opened the book to find the first page that read 'Hoomans' . The next page was had cursive writing and read,
'First of May 2013
An odd creature appeared at Fluttershy's cottage the other day it appered to walk on two legs, has no hair ecept at the top of his head and wore strange clothes with equally strange runes Fluttershy and I decided to care for the creature until it reaches full health.
May 5:
The creature woke up and thanked us. he even spoke english! His name is Promettis and his a demigod son of Hecate to be exact.
The rest of the book were entries until I reached the the last page with writing on it wich I read. "Intamite Real-NOPE!" I slammed the book shut and placed it back. 'Should I talk to Twilight about that? It was kinda weird we are completly different species after all.' I quickly got dressed and headed to Sugar cube corner. The streets were full of ponies closing there shops after a nine to five hour shift. Most them weren't scared and even waved and said hello.
Several minutes later I reached a building that looked like a giant gingerbread house. I looked at the door there was a pink note that said 'Come in.' Slowly I pulled out my claymore mist form card the blade grew as I slowly opened the door. Cautiosally I peeped in my entire body was still outside. There were movents in the shadows. I pulled out my flashlight and walked inside.
"SUPRISE!!" I heard ponies yell all around the room.
"Oh sorry, I must of been at the wrong place sorry if I crashed the party." I apologized and started walking out of the bakery.
"WAIT!!" I heard and turned there was Pinkie Pie witha slice of cake in her hands or hooves to be exact. "Wait silly willy, this party is for you!" She said as she gave me the slice of cake. 'These ponies are really nice. The party was probably for someone else but they don't want to hurt your feelings.'
"It's not nice to get someones hopes up like that." I muttered. Pinkie facepalmed or hooved and grabbed my hand over to a really big cake.
"READ NOW!" she ordered. I just nodded seeing the very fires of Tartartus in her eyes. I looked down at the cake and it read 'Welcome to Ponyville Promettis." in frosting.
"Oh. Sorry its just no ones ever thrown me a party before." I explained.
"Well today someone does come on I'll introduce you to some of my freinds." Pinkie grabbed my hand and she started naming random ponies.
Soon there was slow dance music coming on the speaker so insintally I sat down at a chair last time I danced with some one Mr. Thorn a.k.a. a manticore almost got killed by Percy Jackson. I gritted my teeth as I rembered the scene.
I was in Maine at a dance. My objective was to get two powerful gods (the children of Zues, Hades, Or Posieden) I was sitting at a chair in the corner when I saw them walk in. Thailia Grace the same one to tried to kill me and failled miserably, Annabeth Chase daughter of Athena, Then there was a satyr Grover Underwood he was the one who tricked me into going to Camp Halfblood. Then the Son of Posiden Percy Jackson, you want to hear about a cold blooded killer? At the invasion of New York me and my siblings were on a bridge making our way to the other side Percy just runs up and swings like a mad man! Impervious to arrows and other weapons he just started swinging with his celestial bronze weapon Riptide. He even laughed when he was massacring us. I remeber somehow ending up behind him and trying to shove a dagger in his back but Annabeth got in the way of the poisond blade. All the color left her face as I retreated back into my ranks.
"HEY!" Rainbow shouted jolting me from my recollection.
"What?" I yelled back at the cyan pegasus.
"Come on you have been sitting there for an hour. Twilight is doing a show at the town square to impress some ambassadors from Saddle Arabia." Rainbow said. 'If theres Saddle Arbia is there an Amareica, Maremont,Manehattan, Jersey Horse? Wait Jersey horse sounds like a disease'
"Ok lets go." I muttered. Soon we reached the center of town to see ponies in bleachers and a very concentrated Twilight making animals float in an inifinity sign. It was quite impressive how she could levitate that many things at once. Unfourtunetly, the show was soon over and most ponies started leaving to go home. Twilight on the other hand was talking to a rather large, snow white unicorn. Upon closer inspection behind the unicorns flowing multi colored mane were wings! Twilight saw me and motioned me over. Reluctantly, I walked over and the unicorn or pegahorn-incus looked at me with curousity.
"Hello I'm Promettis." I greeted.
"I am Princess Celestia." She replied. '*Gasp* She sounds exactly like my mom pitch perfect exact. Oh my goodness.' I remebered the one time I talked to my mother in my seventeen years of existance.
"Are you alright?" Twilight asked.
"I'm fine really."I muttered.
"I understand." Celestia said to me.
"Y-you do?" I stamered.
"Yes. I know what its like to have some one remind you of a loved one."
"How do you know I was thinking that?" I asked. And Celestia winked.'She can read minds?! What the-
"Language." She interrupted. I guess I must of looked really silly because she chuckled a little bit. "Twilight I couldn't be more proud of you." Celestia then wispered something in Twilight's ear that caused her to blush. "Now I must be off." A carrigde being flown by two pegasi. "Good Luck Twilight."
"What was that about?" I asked.
"N-n-nothing." She lied. I decided not to ask agian.
I collapsed on my bed at the Libary and let the calm embrace of sleep take me.
"Promettis WAKE UP!" I heard and for some odd reason I was in a castle. Books and tomes levatated throughout the snow white room. I saw an eight foot tall mare with a tanish mane, brown hair and green eyes. She was an alicorn just like Celestia. "How did you get here?" She asked.
"Mom?" I asked. She nodded as I treid to contain a laugh.
"I ask again how did you get here?!"
"I was being chased."
"Yes."
"And there was a river."
"Okay."
"So I jumped in."
"Go on."
"And grabbed a shiny pearl thing and found my self here."
"Thats it?"
"Yeah pretty much. So why are you here? To help me?"
"Oh no don't be ridiculous. I'm not here to help you."
"Well then why are you here?" I asked my mother. The godess shifted nervously as if thinking if it was really worth telling me.
"What you found was a white point star not a pearl." She answered.
"What's a white point star? I've never heard of anything like that."
"Of course not it belongs in Equestria. It focuses on powerful and magical beings and brings it to it's dimension."
"So a demigod is here then?"
"Yes she arrived not too long ago and is in the badlands south of Saddle Araibia."
"She?" Hecate nodded.
"Good luck. This is part of an immunity deal. You get her to Ponyville alive, your acts againts the gods will be forgiven." She explained. I awoke not to long after. The moon was setting showing sunrise would be soon. This meant one thing. Hecate didn't want anyone to know about the quest. Quickly I got out of bed and made my way to the libaray. I made a note that read,
Dear Twilight,
I have to leave Ponyville for a couple days. Don't worry I'll be fine.
Sincerly Promettis.
I stabbed the note to the wall with my celestial bronze dagger. 'Perfect. Now she won't worry * and** know I'm leaving. I'm a genius'* I shook my cantteen of ambrosia, to which it made a made a slight swhishing sound. "Almost empty." I whispered. After finding the maps and grabbing food, I left in the grey morning light. By the time I reached the Everfree Forest the sun gave just enough light so I could see my map.
"So the Everfree forest is here" I placed my finger on the map where the Everfree forset was. ",So I need to go Eastward." I used the scale to judge how many days it would take to get to the badlands. "3 days walk. I can do that." And with that I set off.
I tried my best to not go into cities and scrounge up what little supplies there were. By the end of the first day I had blisters the size of pancakes on my feet. I was sore, tired, and nostalgic. This was just like old times running around America with Alabaster not knowing if we'll see the next day. It was awesome. Don't get me wrong it sucked but there was a sense of freedom in it that only a demigod could truly enjoy.
The second day was uneventful at best but the land seemed to become more barren and less green. By the end of the day when I looked at my map I was about five miles from the badlands.
"Well better set up camp." I muttered. Not too long after I had a tent and a roaring fire and was roasting a chicken I found and killed . It reminded me of when I was a kid back in Vermont. I colsed my eyes and relived the scene.
"Now listen up boy" My father barked in his heavy Russian accent. It was my sixth birthday, so my I thought my dad would of gotten me something stupid like socks or something. ",It's your birthday. So I wanted to give you this." he continued and handed me a small hen. "Take good care of it understand?" I nodded. We lived so remote in Vermont that I didn't even go to school. The only person I knew was my dad so this chikcen seemed like a godsend.
A couple moths later after my dad called me to the front yard and to bring the chicken. In the front yard there was a tree stump and an axe.
"Whats going on dad?" I asked.
"Bring the chicked here." He muttered. I walked up to him and he took the hen from my hands and placed it on the stump, he was still holding the hens legs. "Kill it." He ordered.
"W-what?"
"I said kill it!!" He shouted and handed me the axe. "Kill it now or I will." Tears were rolling down my eyes. I had to kill my pet.
"Why?"
"KILL IT NOW!!!" He barked. I slowly raised my axe in the air and it came down. The hen died instantly. I was thankful for that. After I killed the hen I ran up to my room and cried for hours.
The rumbling of my stomach reminded me that it was in the past and I need to eat. After I ate the chicken I lay down and went to sleep.
I woke up to the sound of a low grumble. Right next me was a wolf but not a furry one, but one made of stone and rock. It's eyes were a blood red and fangs the size of pencils. It didn't attack like I thought it would, rather walk off and look back every couple seconds. "You want me to follow you?" I asked not expecting an answer. But for some odd reason the wolf nodded! I gulped and followed it.
By the time of dawn I was still following the wolf and saw in the distance a large tower. The tower looked like it was made of some sort of nest and had numerous holes in it. The runes on my vest glowed brighter. The demigod was in that tower. By the time we actually got to the tower, the wolf stopped and looked at me with a grin. 'It's a trap!!' I pulled out my AA-12 shotgun just in time for the first creature to pop out. THere was no nice was of describing this it. It looked like a gigant in bug with a twisty unicorn horn. One shot from the AA-12 killed it. But not two seconds later more and more came out from hiding spots behind rocks. Good thing my AA-12 was fully automatic and enchanted for unlimated ammo or else I'd be dead meat. Unfourtunately theres only so much one man can do with his shotgun tens of the bug like creatures pillled on me as the world went black.
I woke up bound to a wall by chains. I tried to unlock them with a spell, but instead of the lock opening, it didn't. I was shocked.
"Shocking isn't it?" Came a voice behind me. I turned and saw a six foot tall insect-creature with pointy fangs and holes the size of golf balls in her legs.
"What are you?" I questioned.
"Changelings." She answered. "Beings banished to this part of the world to feed off of love."
"Cool story bro. I don't care." As soon as I said that, one of the other changelings tried to punch me but I dodged and kneed him in the face. The chains again shocked me beyond belief.
"Tsk tsk tsk. You shouldn't really do that." The changeling stated.
"Look. I'm here for a demigod. You let her go, I might think about letting you all live." The changeling just burst into laughter.
"I doubt you have the power to kill anyone without your weapons."
"Don't underestimate me. I am Promettis, second lieutenant of the Titan Army! I fought alongside Kronos himself!" I was of course lying. I wasn't a second lieutenant.
"Haha, that's hilarious. Prove it." I turned to my side to show the scythe tattoo. "Bring him to solitary. NOW!!" Instantly, I was unchained and thrown into a cell in the east wing of the underground city. All the buildings were more like spires and were made of chitin. The changelings flew around the town doing whatever.
"Hehe. This is going to be awesome." I muttered and looked at my wrists..... my unchained wrists. I was too busy to notice my unchained wrists before I was tackled and pinned. I looked up to see Thalia, her electric blue eyes staring down at me almost covered by short, choppy hair.
"Well well, well, Promettis, I thought I would never find you." She said. "I'm going to kill you."
"Doubt it."
"Oh why might that be?"
"Well for instance, back on Earth you had at least 20 chances to kill me, but never did. And now you know that you need my help to escape from this place." The hunter looked at me for a couple seconds and slowly got up to go to her side of the cell.
"Fine, but we need to get out soon." She said.
"Yeah." I agreed and examined the lock. I tried to unlock it with a spell, but the lock only sizzled.
"Here, let me try." Thalia then walked over to me and punched the lock off.
"Why didn't you do that when you got here? How did you even do that?" I asked.
"One, my father told me someone was here that was going to help me. Two, it's all in the leverage and momentum. You could do it too if you wanted to." She answered. I just sighed and walked outside the cell, fortunately all the guards were playing some sort of card game didn't notice us leaving the cell.
"I'll take the one on the left if you take the one on the right." Thalia nodded, but something else happened all together. Two pony skeletons came up from the surface and strangled both of the changelings. They were still alive, but they were out cold.
"Hey Thalia. Long time no see." Came a voice from behind us. Instantly, we both turned to see a guy around fifteen years old. He looked a lot older and had a stygian iron sword on his hip. He looked malnourished like a skelton with skin.
"Nico, how'd you get here?" Thalia asked. Nico just shrugged,
"I don't know."
"Are you a son of Hades?" He nodded. "You look familiar, well we have no time for that. We need to get out of here." I said. They nodded and we sprinted down the hallway to find our confiscated items. Soon we found the warden's office. Fortunately for him, he was asleep so we tied him up and left him there. At the back of the room there was a big chest labeled "PRISONER ITEMS". Thalia again punched the lock off and the chest slowly opened. Inside there were both Thalia's and my weapons. Two minutes later, we were back off running down the hallway with all of our weapons, ambrosia, everything.
"Hey. Where are all of those weird insect things?" Nico asked. Then I realized all the changelings weren't flying around like usual. Nico and I looked over the edge of a balcony used for guards and saw them all in the center of the city. The biggest one, the one from earlier stood on the stage and cleared her throat.
"Changelings, long have we dwelled in this barren land. Long have we been rejected and hated from all. Soon we shall march onto Canterlot and be rulers of Equestria, like our ancestors 1,000 years ago!" When she finished, the crowd erupted into cheering. I was going to say something to the others, but some guards who were supposed to give us food saw us and sounded an alarm. We tackled two of the three and Nico made a skeletal hand grab for the last one so he wouldn't get away.
"And here we go." I muttered. We all sprinted towards a door at the end of the hallway and down the stairs. There was a loud sound of buzzing from the changelings outside.
"They're waiting for us." Thalia said. She pressed her ear to a wall. "Any ideas Promettis?" I thought for several seconds and remembered that only Thailia had to make it into Ponyville for the deal to work. Nico could help her get there.
"I'll cause a distraction. You need to get to Ponyville fron here." I handed her the map of Equestria. "Don't worry about me. Nico makes sure she gets there." He nodded and I ran up the staircase. When I reached the top of the stairs, I saw all the changelings flying above the building the staircase led too. After taking a deep breath, I began the spell that almost killed me many years ago. "BURNING STORM!"I screamed as fire erupted from my hands. The fire was white instead of orange from the intense heat. The size of the actual flame made my Incinerate Spell look like a pocket lighter. After a few moments that felt like hours, the spell stopped, leaving me incredibly weak. All the changelings looked perfectly fine ,angry, but fine. "They must be immune to fire. Well life was fun while it lasted." With all my strength I pulled out 2 AA-12's one in each hand and screamed, "LEROYYYYY JENKINNNNNSSSSSSS!!" I don't know why I said that, but it felt right. And after my battle scream, I opened fire. I don't know how long I fired. Seconds? Minutes? Hours? Time is a constant effect but we rarely know exactly how it acts on us. The changelings surrounded me. They had swords and claws that were poisoned and stung the skin which felt like ice in my veins. Whether it was from pain or exhaustion, the world was blurry and I was just blind firing. It wasn't long after before I was overwhelmed by the massive number of changelings.
I woke up bound to wall in even tighter chains and barely alive. The world was still black which meant only one thing. The poison blinded me.
"Ugh. I fell like I was hit by a train."
"You're lucky you feel anything below you neck." The voice was full of spite. "I am Queen Chrysalis and I will not stand for such an insult!" She slammed her hooves on I guess a table because I heard clattering of glasses. "You come in here, slaughter my people, burn my city and make me lose my prisoners!"
'They made it out?! Great! Hopefully they can get to Ponyville.' , I thought to myself.
"You prefer to be silent eh? Good, I'll make you squeal." There was a slight sound of metal in front of me.
'Great. Now I'm going to get tortured. What can I possibly know? There was a huge pain in my hand where the blade made contact. I screamed in pain as she slowly twisted the blade back and forth increasing the pain. She pulled it out and stabbed the other hand with it. Again I screamed in pain and she twisted the blade.
"Do you believe in an eye for an eye? HUH?! My son was in the death toll. MY SON!" Chrysalis yelled at me. I felt no need to reply. Her face was inches from mine. So close I felt her breaths on my face. "I'm going to ki-" She was cut of by me head butting her. And before any the guards could react I used my incinerate spell but instead of using my hands I used my feet so I rocketed up and slammed the back of the chair into Chrysalis, luckily the chair broke which allowed me to run. Unfortunately, due to my blindness I didn't know where the door was and was thrown back down by the guards. Instantly after I heard Chrysalis get up, I felt a hot piece of metal near my face. I laid there accepting the fact that I was going to die. That I would never set foot outside. Then, a miracle happened. There was a deafening sound of lightning and the weight went off my body so I could stand up.
"You didn't think we'd leave you here. Did you?" I knew that voice. It was Thaila's! For some reason I guess she came back.
"I can't see. You'll have to be my eyes." I informed her, but just then a huge explosion went off and there was the sound of roars of griffons which kind of sound like a mix between a roar and a screech.
"I brought help." Thailia stated.
"How?!?!"
"It seems the griffins hate the changelings as much as us."
"But how did you get to their kingdom? It's only been a day."
"Nico can Shadow Travel."
"Shadow what?"
"He kind of teleports through some weird limbo like dimension. I'll have Nico explain it later. Come on!" She grabbed my wrist and she sprinted out of the room. All throughout the streets of the city, I heard conflict. We were running from a battlefield.
"How are we gonna get through this?!" I asked.
"We're not, we have to get out through the eastern gate. Nico is waiting for us with our ride to Ponyville." Thailia explained. We were about to run until a deep voice came from behind us,
"I can help you. Just keep running. My archers will try to keep the changelings at bay."
"Thanks Marcus." Thailia said.
"Don't thank me yet. RUN!!" He shouted. and so we did. While we were running we heard all the changelings around us getting hit by arrows. I'm surprised not even one got to us. After what seemed like hours but what were probably minutes, we made it outside. It was amazing to feel the sun's heat on my face.
"Hey guys." Nico greeted behind us. "Oh Promettis, here's your stuff. Complements of the warden." He then threw my bulletproof vest at me and since I couldn't see it, it hit me square in the face.
"We need one more skeleton horse for Promettis." Thailia said and I heard Nico snap his fingers and crackling bones from nearby.
"Oh hey Promettis, a word of advice hang on." After getting on the horse it blastback towards the changeling city.
"NOOOOO!" Surprisingly though, the horse never made contact with the building. I instantly felt like I was in an air tunnel, only it was really high powered. It felt like my skin was going to tear off. Then all of a sudden it stopped. The birds were chirping, the sun was back to shining on my face. I smelt newly cut grass as the horse treaded along.
"OK, well that was...... interesting." I muttered.
"So Promettis, where to?" Nico asked.
"In the center of town there's a library. We should go there, but first lets get rid of the horses. We don't want to scare the natives."
"Good idea." And just like that they disintegrated into ash and we were walking along. "Hey Promettis, what about your hands? They look pretty bad."
"Oh yeah, adrenaline made me forget the pain."
"Here I got it." Thailia murmured and walked over to me. Several second later, my hands were wrapped in ambrosia soaked cloths and felt remarkably better.
"Thank you." I said and we continued the walk back in silence. Many ponies in the town greeted me but were a little afraid if Thailia and Nico. I can't really blame them. Thailia looked down right intimidating with her ripped up jacket, jeans not to mention her replica of Aegis, the shield used by her father, Zeus. Nico however didn't look tough, but he had a weird feeling surrounding him like he was death itself.
It wasn't long before we reached the library. There was a sign on the huge oak tree inside the library that read, "CLOSED" We knocked anyway. It wasn't long before we heard a very disgruntled Twilight Sparkle open the door and basically yell,
"WE'RE CLOSED!!!!." But right before she slammed the door I felt her staring daggers at me. "Where have you been?!"
'Oh no. I'm dead.'
"I have been worried sick! Your note too by the way you might as well not of written it. I mean you just leave without telling anybody, so I ask favors to try and find you and you show up looking like a prisoner of war.
"Funny thing about that. You see I..." I began but the world just faded into black.
"Beep......beep.......beep." I slowly opened my eyes to see one of those heart monitor things and a mirror. I looked terrible. I was filthy, cut, bruised everything.
"You look better blind Promettis," I chuckled at my joke, then came to the realization, "MY EYES! I CAN SEE!"
"Yes, yes, quite a surgery. Changeling poison is very hard to get rid of." Came a unicorn. He had a tan coat and brown hair. He was going to continue talking but the door swung open to reveal all my pony friends and my human allies.
"How yah feeling sugarcube?" Applejack asked.
"Well I feel a lot better than I look that's for sure." I answered I began to get up but that same unicorn who I thought was my doctor spoke up,
"No, you need bed rest."
"I'm fine. I've been through worse." I stood up all the way and was tackled by Twilight giving me a huge hug. I hugged her back and even after I let go she still hung on to me like a monkey. "Uhh Twilight, you can let go now." She muttered,
"Oh sorry." And she blushed a little bit.
"Well if you not going to get rest here get it soon, the anti-venom will have serious side effects." The doctor ordered.
"Like what?" I asked.
"Well you'll be kind of loopy and incoherent for a day, so sleeping it off is the best way to make sure nothing seriously bad happens."
"Ok Doc, whatever you say." So when we got back to the library, Twilight insisted on me sleeping so I didn't object. Thalia and Nico were left to go on a tour of the town with Rainbow dash and Applejack while Pinkie Pie planned a surprise Welcome to Ponyville Party for them.
After several hours, I woke up to see Twilight sleeping. Her head rested one the nightstand next to me. She slowly began to wake up to but I faked asleep.
"Well, you look peaceful. Hehe. What am I going to do with you?" She muttered. "You haven't been in equestrian for less than a month and you saved the town, rescued your friends, and...."
"Pstt Twilight?" I heard Spike whisper.
"Yeah Spike. I'm here."
"Well, its time for dinner."
"Ok." I heard Twilight stand up and the slight sound of her hooves hitting the oak floor. Then all of a sudden she leaned in and kissed me on the cheek. After that she sprinted out the door. Instantly my eyes shot open and rubbed the part of the cheek where she kissed me.
'She kissed me! We are different species. I mean come to think of it she's just a human with hooves.. and incredible soft fur and adorable eyes. WAIT, WHAT!!' I shook my head repetitively to shake the thought from my mind.
"Do I... have a crush on Twilight?!" I whispered to myself. "No... no, ugh." I got out of bed and went to the kitchen even though I wasn't hungry. "Things are going to get really complicated."