New Beginnings

by Hiver

Chapter 4

Day 50

This world make no sense! The sun is not rising! She really control the sun! NothING make SENSE!

Iä! Iä! Celestia fhtagn!

Comments

[Dipti]

OMG THE LOLS!!!!
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Iä! Iä! Celestia fhtagn!

[Shadow-Fox]

oh the lolz mind fuckery. always fun to read.

[Muranuse]

Oh man! Didn't see that coming!

[Kevin Lee]

6270722 AWESOME!!

I think I'm in love....

[The oracle]

6394320 So, we meet again, Bacon Dash.

[Godzilladragon]

Praise be the elder ones.

[Scarheart]

Truly an epic chapter worthy of Tolkien!

[michaldraw]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwHzmPYrROY

[Exio]

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I know who works for you. He fears me. I am the kinslayer,the leader of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the executioner. I am Death.

If anyone gets the reference, you deserve a cookie

[Titan Commander Sebaste]

Hmmm, I'd better have a Magos translate this...

[Rosie Quill]

Read the chapter... Went to google translate to translate the chapter... NOTHING MAKES SENSE!!! WHAT DOSE THIS MEAN?!?!

[BlackWindinSocks]

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It's lovecraftian mythos. Not really meant to make sense.

[Toobert]

6794856 Given that you said Kinslayer, I'm guessing that's a reference to Darksiders 2.

[Dry Wit]

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IIRC, it's from "The Call of Cthulhu", to be specific.

[Shameless Autism]

6270722 HOLY SH!T WHAT THE F**K IT'S THAT

[Stainless Steel Fox]

That was the most succinct retelling of The Mare in the Moon I ever read.

[jxj]

Wow... didn't see this chapter coming.

[CrimsonNight1]

can this even be classified as a chapter???

[fractalman]

My sides hurt! Such a short chapter, yet so funny!

[Queuefka Palazzo]

6837125 It would make less sense if it made sense given Lovecraft's themes and settings.

[IcefireInfinite]

6270722 Celestia was Cthulu all along! How did we not notice it before! It snuck up on us like a, like a pirate! Like a ninja-pirate!

[Warrior Kitten]

Usually not a fan for chapters like this, but this one made a little voice in my head go "heh", which is the most you'll get out of me at this time.

[Texus]

don't like this, in a way I hope it would start to get a bit more like...he would live his live at the moment. (present time I mean...and yes that is to short)

[Just_A_Girl]

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[Gravity012]

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HUZZAH!!!!! We enjoyed this meme immensely.

[Blaze Song]

Celestia waits? Waits for what? That is what "fhtagn!" means right? Waits..

[The Dark Bro]

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^bump

[Esorial]

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“Dreams” might be more likely.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
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In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming

In either case, it would fit the situation, a god-like-being has been locked away by cosmic forces and now wait for its time to return. So you could probably apply it to Luna just as well

[LostArchivist]

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/170283/7/horse-feathers---a-tale-from-the-humans-acting-villainous-verse/chapter-6---sticks-and-stones-bah-amateurs

^^ THAT also toys with this idea. Darn good job of it too (and the picture in the closing author's note is hilarious -- and slightly disturbing).
The TL;DR is that ponies are strongly hinted to be Shoggoth Lords that for some reason decided to become civilized, to the point that they can't even swear, and go around as fluffy pastel horses now. It's not at all the main point of the chapter, since it's a really good HiE with a Displaced of Harry Dresden, but it's a funny-as-all-heck aside.

Guess what Pinkie's umpteenth Great-Grandpa was! Guess, guess, guess!

I’d mostly been thinking out loud, but ‘Yellow’ who’d finally stopped crying, raised a hesitant hoof. “...Um, what is a shoggoth lord?” The girl flinched slightly as I looked her way, and quickly looked around as if looking for escape ways. “...Just never heard about that animal…”

I shrugged slightly without lowering my hands. “These fictional monsters from this book series called the Cthulhu Mythos. They’re basically giant globs of constantly warping flesh, filled with mouths, eyes and organs growing and being re-absorbed at near random. Oh, just for the extra creepy they kill their victims by enveloping the poor schmucks before sucking their heads off.” I couldn’t quite stop a small smile as a few more in the crowd actually fainted. “A shoggoth lord is basically the same, but intelligent as well. So intelligent in fact, that they can disguise themselves as near anybody…”

Yellow’s eyes rolled up into her skull, before the poor girl sank down onto the ground in a neat little heap.

“Fluttershy!” screamed ‘Dashie’ before darting through the air to her fallen friend, pulling the limp girl in question into her arms. She barely gave the fainted girl a single shake before glaring my way. “WHAT KIND OF SICKO WRITER WRITES SOMETHING LIKE THAT ?!”

“...A horror writer?” The snark lord living inside my mind volunteered through my lips in a deadpan. “That tried to be, you know, actually horrifying?”

Dashie jabbed a hoof at me, opened her mouth, closed it, reopened it once more… before giving off a grunt of irritation and refocusing on her fainted friend, ignoring me for the time being.

With a soft pat, Applejack’s hoof met her face.

“I don’t know guys, that doesn’t sound that bad to me. I mean, it even sounds a bit like my great-great-grandpa Tekeli-li.”

Slowly, near every head nearby drifted towards Pinkie. The mare herself seemed to be in her own little world though; letting out a mournful little sigh as she hugged herself. “...I miss him, he just gave the bestest of hugs…”

I didn’t see anything good coming from pointing out that horses simply can’t hug themselves. Not ones with actual bones, at any rate.

[Mr Good Guy]

What, no third person view of what happened in Ponyville, Nightmare Moon and all that? Still good, though...

[Esorial]

Iä! Iä! Celestia fhtagn!

This line alone is half the reason I’m rereading this whole thing.

[Gizmo Gear]

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I had to reread that single line twice. Just wtf does it mean tho?

[novkit]

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That line is in the language of cthulhu.

[3-tap]

What does 'Iä! Iä! Celestia fhtagn!' Translate into?

[Black--Soul]

WtF?!

[Leviathan Splash]

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It's a reference to HP Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos. Essentially, Page is calling Celestia an Eldritch deity. The internet claims the source phrase means "Hail! Hail! C'thulu dreams!"

[Asolem2]

Short, sweet and to the point EMBRACE THE MADNESS

[eL VeeJay]

Heh....Friendship is madness.

Poor guy...

[moltendaniel]

Just started re reading the whole series and had a sudden thought. Page should introduce HP Minecraft for his next book

[Vaguely Demented]

This might be the best reaction to that I have come across.

[DerpTape]

CONFIRMED! Alicorns are Great Old Ones!!

[tsaukpaetra]

Well, except for today. That was rather delayed due to family matters...

[ChakatRedstripe]

Lmao!

[SilverDiamond]

Sun is not rising, time to panic, people. X)

[Kiper]

Iä! Iä! Celestia fhtagn!

Omg. I laughed so hard.

[Animatorsnake]

Wow, I know this story is being written journal entry like style but I did not expect to find a chapter with less than 100 words... you’ve beaten my expectations

[AstralFlare42]

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I think he broke.

[KvAT]

The lead and the punchline was made so perfectly I can't even!

[Teraunce]

Iä! Iä! Celestia fhtagn!

Lol

[umbreon1234]

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Did you mean to say minecraft?