Fractured Soul

While Jason grappled with the fearsome crocodile, Celestia had returned to Canterlot Castle.

Celestia landed at the entrance. One of her guards approached her before she could even finish folding her wings.

"My lady, your sister request your presence immediately." The guard said.

"Very well, take me to her." Celestia said. What could it possibly be now.

***

Celestia was escorted to her sister's room. The guard bowed to the Princess and left, as Celestia knocked on the door.

"Enter." A voice said from behind the door.

Celestia opened the door and she entered the room. In front of Celestia stood another alicorn. Her coat was a dark blue, much like the night sky. Her mane was a lighter shade of blue, and it seemed to twinkle, like the stars in the night sky. "Sister, what have you learned?" Luna asked Celestia.

"The only thing that I have learned is that he does indeed use the Words of Origination, but he does not know how he knows them." Celestia said.

"Tis a shame, but if a pony has returned that knows that magic, then some evil forces are afoot."

"I know, so why did you call me here?"

"We have received some, unsettling news."

"Unsettling?"

"Yes while you went to investigate that pony. Something came out of the Everfree Forest."

"It was a dragon." Celestia said, thinking she had beat her to the chase.

"No Sister! It was after the dragon came out, and it's much more than just a dragon."

"What is it?"

"I fear that there is an army hiding in the forest."

***

With a flick of my tail, the crocodile flew into Pinkie's arm's.

"Oh you poor thing!" Pinkie said, as she rocked the crocodile in her arms.

"That poor thing, was trying to eat me!"

"Oh that's just silly. This is only a baby crocodile. He has no teeth yet. See!" She opened the tiny crocodile's mouth. Revealing not a single tooth.

"Then why did he bite me?"

"The poor guy was abandoned by his family. He thought you looked like a kind and nice pony, so he wanted to ask if you would take care of him."

"Wait do you understand him?"

"Only bits and pieces. I don't speak crocodile, but it's close enough to alligator!" She said, as she threw the crocodile onto my back. "Now be a good father to him!"

"Pinkie! I never said I would take care of him!"

"But how can you say no to those eye's?" She looked at me with puppy dog eyes.

I looked at the reptile on my back. His purple eye's peered deep into my own. Staring way past me, probably somewhere deep inside of me. I could think of a few ways to say no. I turned my head back towards Pinkie to see her with an even sadder look. Now those eye's I couldn't say no to.

*sigh* "Fine I'll keep him."

"Oh I knew you would say yes! Now what are you going to call him?" Pinkie asked.

"He doesn't already have a name?"

"No he says his mother abandoned him before he got a name."

What a sad thing. Although, I was skeptical to Pinkie's animal translating abilities. I turned my head to look at the crocodile on my back. His purple eye's looked back at me in response. Hmm... Purple.

"How about Rythian?"

"Rythian?"

"Yeah, those eye's bring back a memory of someone I use to know."

At the mention of memory Pinke's smile grew. "Then Rythian it is! Now I need to plan out a baby crocodile party. To celebrate your adoption of this little guy!" Pinkie said excitedly.

"Great." I said a little dryly.

We continued our walk into Ponyville, making our way back to Sugar Cube Corner. Rythian's claw's dug into my back the entire way there. When we had made it inside of Sugar Cube Corner I let at an exhausted sigh.

"Uhh... I can't deal with his claw's, they are way to sharp!"

"That's why I always put Gummy in my mane."

"Who's Gummy?"

"This is Gummy!" Pinkie said as she motioned to a green alligator on the floor.

Gummy looked like Rythian, well almost the same. There was of course the difference in species, but they were both small, green, and deep purple eye's. The little alligator made a sound, and Rythian jumped off my back. The two met each other, then they stopped for a second, and stared at each other. Then they started to shift around, both made a weird reptilian noise with each move.

"Oh do you see that!" Pinkie said excitedly. "They've become brothers!"

The two made more noises.

"Uhh... Sure Pinkie, whatever you say." I picked Rythian off the ground and held him in my hoof. Gummy ran up Pinkie's hoof, into her mane.

"So Pinkie I've got a question. How exactly am I holding Rythian?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well I'm holding him but my hoof isn't going around him, how am I holding him exactly." As I said that Rythian dropped from my grasp.

"Oh just don't think about it or you'll lose the ability to grab stuff."

"That doesn't make sense."

"Sure it does, you thought about it, and now he is on the floor." She gestured to the scrambling crocodile. "What's not to understand?"

*sigh* I guess I'll chalk it up. I wonder how expensive chalkboards are. I grab Rythian again.

"So where should I put you?" I asked Rythian.

"Ooo ooo, how about you put him in your scarf?"

It was worth a shot. I brought Rythian up and dropped him in my scarf. He didn't stop falling, but he didn't fall onto the ground.

"You saw that right?" I said.

"Yep, and I must say that is a very cool trick. How did he fit underneath it so well? Oh look there he is again!"

I looked down and Rythian had poked his head over the top of my scarf.

"I don't know."

I reached my hoof underneath my scarf. My hoof kept going, until I realized my entire leg was underneath my scarf.

"Ooo, that's a really cool trick."

"Yeah, now only if I could figure it out. I think it supposed to be like a set of pockets."

"Pockets?"

"Yeah I keep hitting stuff. Now if I could grab onto something..." My arm slid out revealing a small square. "What is this?'

"Let me see!" Pinkie bounced over to me. She grabbed the square from my hand and looked at it. "Oh it's a lemon square!" She said as she took a large bite.

"Hey don't eat all of it!" I said as I grabbed the treat from her hoof.

Hmm... Lemons? Well down the hatch. I opened my mouth, I tossed the remaining square into my mouth.

Dear Celestia! It was amazing, tears rolled down my face. I tried to savor every bit, but eventualy I had to swallow. That had been the best thing I had tasted in my life, of course what I could remember.

"Jason?" Pinke asked worriedly.

"Sorry, it was just, so good!" I said as I rubbed the tears out of my eye's.

"Let me try pulling something out." Pinkie said as she reached into my scarf. She buried her face into my neck as she looked for something. Her mane enveloped my face, it smelled like a fresh baked cake, and cotton candy. That must have been some high quality shampoo. "Aha got something!"

Pinkie pulled her hoof out of my scarf. In it there was a diamond.

"Well that's interesting."

"You must be super rich Jason!"

"I guess so, hey Pinkie do you know any jeweler's in town?"

"Why sure I do! You're not thinking of selling that are you?"

"Well I'm going to need money, so..."

"You don't need to do that."

"Pinkie I don't want to be a mooch, so I'll need to get money."

"Well why don't you just work here!?"

"You mean baking pastries?"

"Yeah!"

"Well I guess."

"Yay, we're going to have so much fun together Jason, but we better get to bed. We have to wake up early to do some baking!"

"Hey Pinkie I just noticed, you stopped calling me Mr.J."

"Well I..." Pinkie's face turned red. "Uhh..." She ran up the stairs.

"Pinkie!" I yelled as I ran up the stairs to catch up to her. A smile crossed my face as I made my way up.

***

We had made it up the stairs, before I said. "Pinkie where exactly am I sleeping?"

"Well in my room of course!" She said nonchalantly.

"Oh, okay." The gears in my mind removed the block, and started turning again. "Wait in your room?" My face was hot.

"Of course, I have to make sure my patient doesn't escape in the middle of the night."

Patient? "Well I wouldn't mind a little TLC, from this pony." I thought as we entered the room I had stayed the night before.

"Pinkie did I sleep in your room last night?"

"Well duh! I wasn't going to have you sleep in the Cake's room while they are gone."

"Who are the Cake's?"

"They're the couple that owns this shop."

"And where are they?"

"They're taking care of some business, and they left me in charge!"

Maybe not the best idea on their part. "So where am I sleeping?" I said sheepishly.

"Well in my bed of course."

My face felt extremely hot. "Uhh..."

"What's wrong, your not sick are you?" Pinkie said as she lifted my hair up,. She then touched her forehead against my own.

Did she really have to check my temperature that way? I felt steam rushing out of my ears. I pulled my self away from her. "I'm perfectly fine Pinkie, and I can sleep on the floor!" I said as I tried to hide my red face from Pinkie.

"Well if you say so."

*Phew* My face started to cool down.

"Here you'll need this." Pinkie said as a blanket covered my face.

I pulled the blanket off my face when I heard her say "Oh and these!"

I saw Pinkie throw a barrage of pillows at me. They all hit me in the face with a *thump*. I fell to the floor.

"Oh no, Jason! I didn't hurt you did I?"

"Pinkie you know what this means right?"

"Huh?" She said as a pillow hit her in the face.

'War!" I yelled as I crawled under the bed.

Pinkie started to giggle. "Bring it on!" She said as she jumped off the bed.

I crawled out from underneath the bed to the opposite side, a pillow in my hoof. "FOR THE MOTHERLAND!" The pillow flew out of my hoof and smacked Pinkie in the face.