//------------------------------// // The Griffonia Kingdom Part 3 // Story: A Good Share of Dreams REWRITE // by Sea Pony //------------------------------// ''Tell everybody I'm on my way! New friends and new places to see! With blue skies ahead yes, I'm on my way! And there's nowhere else that I'd rather be!'' I sang loudly for everyone to hear. ''Dream shut up or I'll punch you!'' Sonata warned with a growl. ''Tell everybody I'm on my- OW!'' ''I told you to shut up!'' Sonata replied angrily before quickening his steps and walked ahead of me. ''For someone who want to make music for the rest of his life you sure don't seem to apreciate it.'' I said with a frown. ''I'm fine with music. But singing like a idiot is just asking to be whisked away in a heartsong. Do you know how annoying and embarasing it is to be caught in a random choreography?'' I looked at him as if he had grown a second head. ''Wait those things are real? I though that only happened in cartoons!'' Sonata rolled his eyes. ''Well unless you didn't noticed our universe is kind of based on a cartoon called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.'' He said the title with disgust. Can't say I blame him. Kinda hard for a warrior to be taken seriously when he come from a world based on a cartoon for little girls. ''And Harmony in his infinite wisdom.'' He continued sarcastically. ''Decided that heartsong should be a aspect that the magic of our world enforce.'' ''Wait people are aware that they come from a fictional universe isn't that awkward?'' I asked him He only shrugged in response. ''Nah not really. The Elders are many things but they don't have enough imagination to create millions of worlds by themself so they borrow a lot of ideas from fiction. Our world is based on fiction but we're not a fictional world. We still have free will, we are not contolled by a writer so don't be surprised if things are different than in the show. Also even if you don't know it there are very good chances that the world you came from is also based on a fictional work.'' So my life could be based on a fictional work too? It seem a little hard to believe to be honest. My world doesn't seem interesting enough to be based on something fictional. Then again since I was probably not the main protagonist it would explain why my life was so boring. I was probably just a background character. ''That doesn't make sense thought if you really have free will how come everyone from the show still exist? Wouldn't the chances of their parents ending up together in each worlds be incredibly slim? Not only that but this world seem a lot older than the show how could you build an entire civilisations when the show is only seven years old?'' Sonata sighed. ''You really are one curious pony huh? Normally I would tell you go read a book on the subject or something but since we're on the road we might as well kill time be explaining I guess.'' ''Look when I said we had free will it wasn't a lie but it wasn't entirely true either. Each of us including you are control by a destiny. We can break free of that destiny if we want to and do something else. But people rarely do that going against destiny is like going against a primal instinct it feel wrong for a long time when you do it. Really the only instinct stronger than destiny is the instinct to survive.'' ''Also didn't you say you didn't remember your human life how do you remember the show is seven years old?.'' ''...I don't know it seem like the only things I forgot are about my personal life I remember a lot of other basic things about fictional work and how my world work.'' ''That's weird.'' Sonata replied but he didn't ask for more. ''Anyway it's true that the show isn't that old and yet our world has existed for more than ten thousand years. The reasons for that is that Harmony is a oracle he can see things far ahead in the future that's how he keep the balance in different worlds.'' ''So does every single fictional works have a world of their own?'' I asked eagerly this could be interesting. Sonata shook his head. ''Nah the Elders made worlds for most fictional world but they have strict rules to not make certain type of worlds. The Elders are not allowed to create worlds that is based solely on the suffering of living beings, like post-apocalyptic worlds or horror stories. but apart from that everything is fair game.'' ''Why are they so fixated to base their worlds on fiction anyway?'' I asked curiously. ''Well they're many benefits to base worlds on fictions. For one like I said they don't have to think of a world from scatches since a lot of the works has arleady been done by authors. It also make it easier for the multiverse to adapt to a new world appearing when we know what that world is all about. But also it make nerds like you happy so the tourism industry go around.'' ''Hey I'm not a nerd!'' I replied with a huff. Sonata snorted in amusement. ''Please, you're a human that was ready to abandon his own species just so you could visit the land of magical ponies. You're probably the biggest nerd I ever met and my brother is a scientific for the Queen.'' I wanted so hard to think of a inteligent reply to make his smug face go away, but I couldn't think of anything. With a huff I walked ahead and Sonata snickered behind my back. - - - - - We had walked all day. We didn't encountered any town. We realised that the journey would take more than a week if I didn't learn how to fly. So that night we stopped for the day and practiced flying. ''AHHHHH- OW!'' I faceplanted for what felt like the hundredth time. Sonata guffawed like he usually did. I groaned remind me again why I wanted this jackass to travel with me? ''What am I doing wrong I flap them exactly like bird!'' I shouted angrily. Sonata rolled his eyes. ''Sorry to break your bubble but you're not a bird, Dream. Pegasi wings are too small to fly the normal way you need magic to lift in the air.'' ''I don't know how to make magic!'' I replied in annoyance. ''Well I can't say I'm a expert in magic and all but I had a Unicorn friend once. He said the most important parts about magic is imagination, will and knowledge.'' ''How am I suppose to have knowledge when this is the first time I do this?!.'' He only shrugged in response. Thank so much Sonata you're so helpful. I though sarcastically - - - - - We walked all day once again. Today nothing much happened. But my legs were killing me by the end of it. We stayed in front of a lake for the night. This time we practiced flying above the water it was a lot less painful when I fell from the sky. I learned that pegasi feathers are waterproof though I'm not sure if it's because of natural oil like ducks or if it's magic. I was begining to get the hang of flying. The trick was not to command my magic to fly, but instead I needed to think of myself as weightless as a feather. Tomorrow we would begin to fly instead of walking all the way. - - - - - Thus far we made a lot more progress than we ever would on hoof. The sensation of defying gravity as the wind rushed through my mane and tail was like nothing I ever felt before. I take back everything I said about being a pegasus instead of a earth pony sure it would have been easier at first but nothing could beat the rush I was feeling right now. This is the excitement I had been looking for all my life! Sonata turned at me with a smirk. ''This is pretty good for your first time flying. But you're still pretty slow if you were experienced we could go double the speed we're going right now.'' We passed multiple towns that day some smaller than the village I had find Sonata some bigger but none were as big as Griffonstone. Our travel were interupted when we heard a pack of wolves howling in the distance. Soon enough we saw four wolves and they were chasing... A cat? But that wasn't the strangest thing about the scene. ''Is that cat holding a knife in it's mouth?'' I asked baffled. ''Well the animals of Equis are pretty smart compared to the ones in human worlds.'' Sonata replied. ''Then we can'ty let the wolves eat that cat!'' I replied with conviction. The griffin rolled his eyes. ''Why do we care what happen to that cat it will respawn anyway Beside we shouldn't mess with nature if we defend every prey the predators will starve over and over again.'' ''Well griffins can do what they want. But I'm not letting a poor animals get killed on my watch.'' With that I charged at the pack. Sonata groaned behind me. ''Ponies.'' He muttered under his breath. I landed with a loud thump on the head of the leader of the pack. Unfortunately since I'm a pegasus I didn't weight that much which meant I only managed to enraged the wolf. They all growl at me forgeting their old prey instead focusing on the much bigger and meatier one. Sonata rolled his eyes and began to play his violin before the leader could bite my face off he was struck by a bolt of lightning and died instantly. The other wolves yipped in shock and ran away with their tail between their legs. Sonata landed beside me with a angry frown. ''You're an idiot you know that? I know this body is stronger than your old one but it doesn't make you invinsible only a fool would attack wolves without a weapon!'' I rubbed the back of my head in embarassment he was right on all account, what was I thinking? I just saw a innocent cat and charged without thinking, ''Thank you for saving me they would have rip me apart.'' A small feminine voice said behind me. I looked back and only saw the cat. Who was talking to me? To my surprise the small black cat extended her paw. ''My name is Soft Paw nice to meet you.'' ''Y-you can talk?!'' I cried in shock. ''Yeah I get that a lot.'' The cat replied drily. I turned to Sonata. ''You said animal are smarter in this world but do cat usually talk?'' Sonata shook his head he looked as confused as me. ''I can talk because of my old master.'' Soft Paw replied. ''He was studying how the shards of life could affect animals I was his first test subject. But before he could finish his notes the Soul Reapers barged into his lab and just killed him.'' The Soul Reaper again? ''What is a shard of life?'' I asked Soft Paw. The cat looked at me as if I had grown a second head. ''He's from the Gaia branch.'' Sonata explained helpfully. Understanding flooded her expression. ''Well that's a long story maybe I'll tell you another time. So! As I said I lost my old master and all. And since you just save me I'll make you the honor of becoming my new servant.'' Soft Paw said with a air of royalty. Sonata snickered at me. Meanwhile I was stuck between being offended and finding her adorable. Finally the adorable side won and I hugged the small cat. - - - - - Soft Paw looked down. That was a mistake, the cat yelped and I had to hold her tighter to stop her from falling. ''Soft Paw relax or you'll fall to the ground!'' I screamed over the rushing wind. ''I never agreed to this servant! Put me on the ground this instant!'' ''If we don't fly it will take forever before reaching Equestria!'' I replied. ''I don't care put me down!'' It continued like this for a few hours until we reached a new town. Once I was in town I had to separate myself from a few of my precious bits in exchange for saddlebags. Once we were outside the store I putted Soft Paw in my saddlebags and our flight resume. She still didn't like flying at all. But she was okay as long as she didn't see the height we were at. We continued our route for the rest of the day until the sun disappeared and made way for the moon. I didn't notice yesterday but the moon was normal. No shape in the form of a mare. Which meant we were after the events of the first episode I wonder where we were on the timeline. I knew there was seven seasons but I seem to not remember anything past season two. Maybe it meant anything past that didn't happened yet in this world and Time Skip didn't want me to have knowledge of future events because of course the asshole wouldn't give me any advantage. Mmmh now that I think of it everyone are aware they are based on a show here I wonder if the mane six watched it and if they did does this mean they all know what's coming in the future? I shook my head let's not think about all that. Maybe I will be able to ask them once I arrived in Equestria. I can't wait to get there. I've been eating grass for two days and it doesnt taste as bad as I remembered as a human but it wasn't amazing either I couldn't wait to eat real food. With that thought I fell asleep eager to continue my journey tomorrow...