//------------------------------// // The impossible // Story: Phoenix blood // by Mikoyose //------------------------------// (I am still tired so not much editing just added a few things at the end. sorry) I walk through the castle slowly, to look at the 1800's architecture and to delay my apology to her. A few of the guards I pass give me the evil eye, the rest just continue their 1000 yard stare. As I explore the castle I stumbled upon a large door with a sun symbol depicted on it. There were two guards stationed there, as I passed their eyes followed me even after I had left I could feel their stares. I kept walking ignoring every look and greeting that I was given. The less I speak, the less get hurt. I thought as I sped up to a brisk trot. My stomach growled, I heard a guard yell at me to slow down, I looked over my shoulder and saw him shake his head. I kept up the same pace until I reached a door that was slightly opened. I peeked inside and saw a kitchen. I smiled and pushed the door open, there wasn't a single soul in this tiled room. I searched it for anything I could eat, I found a fridge. I walked to it and tried opening it with a hoof but stopped and scowled, "Stupid hooves." I muttered before biting the handle and pulling it open. Inside I saw everything, from milk to cake, but no meat. "Figures, ponies are vegetarians. At least they're not vegans." I said as I took a large slice of cake. I closed the door with a kick and ate the slice of cake. Halfway through a unicorn entered the kitchen. It was a mare, from what I had seen, and she had a silver platter as a 'cutiemark'. She froze when she saw me, and ran over repeating, "No,no,no,no!" she stopped and gave me an angry look, "That was the Princess' cake." she said, a slight hint of fear in her voice. I returned her anger with an expressionless gaze. "Too late to do anything now isn't it?" I said sarcastically after finishing the cake. Her jaw dropped at what I said, and she watched as I put the plate in the sink. "Who do you think you are!?" she yelled at me. I pushed open the door and evenly said, "That's none of your business." I left and continued my exploration; seeing another door, with a Moon pattern on it. The guards stationed outside of this one looked like vampires: Bat wings, fangs, dark blue armor, slits for pupils, and to top it all off one hissed at me. I rolled my eyes and continued on. My exploring ended with a pair of very large wooden doors, they were opened to reveal what looked like a ballroom. But there was something strange, it was covered in streamers, balloons, childish games, and a table covered in baked goods with a chocolate fountain as a center piece. Pinkie Pie jumped out of one of the plants to the side making me jump back. She giggled and bounced up and down, "Hi Mr. Grumpy mcgrumperson!" she said her cheery self was getting on my nerves. "That's not my name." I grumbled, she giggled again before gasping and hopping into the air, her body floated there for a few seconds before she landed. "You shouldn't be here! This was supposed to be a surprise party!" I rolled my eyes and she gave me a serious look which surprised me, I didn't think she could get serious. I thought as she continued to stare me down, "You're not going to be a meany mean pants are you?" she asked me, Well that didn't last long. I thought before answering. "It depends. If you're an ass to me I'll kick yours." I answered plainly. She shook her head. "I need you to promise, Pinkie Promise. That you won't fight with Dashie." she told me. I scoffed. "She'd probably start it anyway." she narrowed her eyes. "Promise." I shook my head but reluctantly answered. "Fine I promise." "Pinkie Promise." she added. "What?" I asked "You have to Pinkie Promise. Like this: cross my heart and hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye." she said going through some motions, crossing her chest, fluttering her hooves, and putting a hoof on her eye. I sighed and copied her saying it how I heard it on Earth, "Cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye." I said, she cocked her head and turned it sideways. "That's not what I said. That's just weird." she said to me. I rolled my eyes and said it correctly. Her smile returned and she bounced away with a, "Okie Dokie Lokie! Oh! Don't forget to act surprised when the party starts!" "I'm not going." I said under my breath before leaving. ------------------------half an hour later----------------------- I had stopped looking for Dashie when I made that promise. I was sitting in the garden watching the sun set, I saw the Princess in a balcony where I had found the door with the sun insignia on it. On a different balcony, not too far away, another large being stood, it was around where the 'moon door' was. I watched the moon rise as the sun set on the other side of the sky. Interesting, this place is different than Earth. I saw a few lanterns ignite, lighting up the streets. I stood up and got ready to leave when I heard three pairs of flapping wings. Turning around I saw three pegasi wearing tights they landed in front of me, "Hey aren't you the pegasus that jumped off Canterlot?" the one in front with orange hair appearing like a flame said. I nodded and the blue maned one said. "See Spitfire? I told you this was him." 'Spitfire' laughed. "I guess you were right Soarin." he smiled smugly. "You owe me a pie." he told her. Even though she was wearing her goggles I knew she rolled her eyes. The last one just shook her head. I turned and started walking away. "Wait up!" Soarin said trotting up next to me. I grunted and kept walking as the other two came up along side me. "We were wondering. What happened after you went into the Everfree?" Spitfire asked. I looked at her then to the others. They were nodding. "Well I crashed into a tree and broke my wings." Their jaws dropped and I continued, "Then I escaped a Manticore, met up with a Zebra, and went to Ponyville, where I had my legs broken to where they would be considered paralyzed." I said nonchalantly making their jaws drop. I saw Spitfire staring at my working legs and wings. "But you look fine." Soarin said, disbelief clear on his voice. "That's my curse." I said. I could feel their stares, accompanied by a fourth pair of eyes. "Well a pink pony from Ponyville is hosting a party here for you." Soarin said. I didn't stop walking as I answered. "I'm not going." I said, they shrugged. "Suit yourself. But I think you should at least make an appearance if you're just going to skip it." Spitfire said. I sighed, "I'd rather not, I'm not the partying type." They exchanged looks. I stopped and lied down. They looked back, "I'm going to sit here for a while, you go on ahead." I said waving a dismissive hoof. They looked at me one more time before leaving. I watched them enter the castle and I rolled onto my back, wincing as I rolled over a wing, Wings are really sensitive. I thought as I heard a set of hooves hit the ground nearby. The Moon was at it's zenith, and stars littered the sky. I looked over to see Dashie looking angrier than ever. I ignored her and took a deep breath, the night air was cold and calming. "You meet Spitfire, leader of the Wonderbolts, and the first thing you say is you broke your wings and legs!?" Even this night couldn't stop thinking Isaac would probably be saying the same thing if I met Chuck Norris and said that. She was still irritating me. She narrowed her eyes at me the longer I stayed silent. "Well?" she said. I snorted and stood up using my wings to push my body up to a sitting position. "Well what?" "Where's the apology you're supposed to give me?" she asked "Really?" "Come on." she smirked. I sighed. "Fine, I'm sorry Dashie for being such an asshole." I apologized. She raised an eyebrow. "That's the best you got?" she asked. "That's the best you'll get." "I'll accept your apology if you take me to the Wonderbolts." she said crossing her fore hooves. I waved at the door. "They're going to Pinkie's party, you can go there yourself." she rolled her eyes. "I'm making you go to Pinkie's party." I stand up, "You can't make me go. Just because I promised her I wouldn't start a fight with you." I said, she smiled smugly, as if I had just said something that would've gotten me killed. "Well you can't break a Pinkie promise, under any circumstances." I tilt my head. "So?" She stepped closer to me, "So unless you want me to start a fight and get you in trouble with Pinkie, you're going." "I'm not going and she can't do anything." "She'll annoy you until your eardrums break." she said, I shrugged. "I've been through worse." "No. You haven't." her tone wasn't threatening but more of a cautious, warning tone. It can't be that bad can it... Then again, she can do things no-one else can. I should listen to her this once. "Fine, let's go." I turned and started walking towards the door she followed. I opened the door and let it close behind me, I heard her grumbling under her breath, the only words I heard were 'jack flank, ass colt, and prank'. She herded me back to the over decorated ball room. We were greeted by Pinkie jumping into the room from behind us, shocking me slightly. Rainbow giggled and I pushed past her and entered the room. Twilight trotted up to me along with a few others. "Ah James, how'd the talk with the princess go?" The Doctor asked as his assistant was chewing on a muffin. "She really likes muffins doesn't she?" I asked him as she finished off the muffin in a bite before holding up a second. She nodded when she heard my question, "Blueberry muffins are my favorite!" she said eating said muffin. I raised an eyebrow but shook away the question forming in my head. I saw Dashie fly to the table covered in food, the lavender unicorn meanwhile came up to me. "Hello 'James'." she greeted me with a smile, I nodded and looked at the Doctor, seeing Twilight's eye twitch slightly in my peripherals. "The talk was okay, I still have my blood, my cursed blood." I snarled at the last three words. He patted my back. "Don't worry James, this is Equestria! There are no more vampires." he said convincingly. I walked over to the food table and took a sandwich. I bit into it and froze before looking at the contents between the bread, daisies. This is surprisingly not half bad. I thought as I took another bite. "So James, how did your blood alone keep you alive for that long?" Twilight asked me. I finished off my daisy sandwich before answering her. "Well Twilight, I have a very, very rare blood type known as ABZ in my world." I reached for a candied apple and got it stuck to my hoof, "Stupid hooves." I muttered as I started eating it off my hoof. I saw the white posh unicorn wince. Twilight used her magic to grab an apple fritter and took a bite. "Is all their blood so volatile?" she asked. I shook my head and pulled the leftovers off my hoof and scraping the excess caramel on the tile, I heard Rarity gasp and saw her faint. "Is she going to be okay?" I asked, Twilight looked at her twitching friend and rolled her eyes. "She'll be fine James." "Okay, well any other questions can be answered by the Doctor." I said before walking off. I heard him approach. "Don't drop her on me. You have more experience with your own blood." he said before grabbing his assistant, Ditzy, "And I'm a little busy." he said before turning to his assistant, "Ditzy would you care to dance?" he bowed and held out a hoof, she smiled and took his hoof in hers, "Okay Doctor." Together they left as I saw Pinkie pull a unicorn from behind a turntable, she was white with a lightning streaked blue mane. "Come on everypony! Let's get this party started!" the Pink pony yelled before the unicorn's horn glowed and music blasted out of the speakers, I had heard this kind of music before. I wasn't a big fan but this sounded relatively good compared to some of the composers back home seemed like amateurs compared to this unicorn's talent. I found my head bobbing slowly as I grabbed an apple pie on the table, being careful so I didn't accidentally smash the pie in my own face, Twilight was still following me, "You didn't answer my question." she stated. I groaned and put the pie down before answering. "I'm not going to talk about my condition so stop asking." I kept the pie on the floor and craned my neck to eat it. I heard a voice behind me. "Where's the pie!? I saw an apple pie here!" it was Soarin. I lifted my muzzle from the pie and wiped the crumbs and filling off with a limb. "I ate the pie." I said biting the pie tin and holding it up. His face fell, "Aww! I was going to eat that!" he said, I shrugged. "Well it's gone now... Sorry." He sighed, and I felt teeth bite my tail and pull me back. I looked and saw Dashie had pulled me away, she looked very angry, "What are you doing! You can't just steal Soarin's pie and apologize! You..." she emphasized 'you' by prodding my chest, "Have to get him a new one." she said. I shook my head. "How about I take you to Spitfire. I'm sure Soarin would know where she is." I said, somehow calming her down some. "Fine." she huffed. We approached the table with Soarin eating a new pie that was placed there. Probably by Pinkie. I thought as we sat on each side of him. He was happily eating away at the pie. I put my hoof on his shoulder and shook him slightly, "Hmm?" he looked up, apple filling dripping from his mouth. He swallowed and smiled, "Hi... you." he said to me before looking at Dashie. "Oh you're the pony who saved my pie at the gala." she returned his smile. "Do you know where Spitfire is?" I asked Soarin. He pointed to the far side of the ball room, I thanked him and we left him to finish his pie. We flew over the several ponies I didn't know and landed close to Spitfire, who was talking to Shining armor. I heard her tell him what I said, and he replied by saying my legs were crushed and shouldn't be usable. "Yeah they broke but I'm still here." I said as we walked towards them. I heard Dashie start to breathe quicker, I didn't have to look at her to know she was excited. "I'm going to leave now." I said leaving Spitfire to speak with one of her fans. "Why don't we join you?" Spitfire asked from behind me. I didn't answer I just kept walking, hoping that they'd leave me alone. They didn't; instead they both followed me. I passed Twilight and she walked up close. I moved away before she came too close, "I still have some questions you never answered." I could hear the irritation in her voice. "Anything that happened to you before, you can tell me. I'm a friend." she gave me a genuine smile. "I told you. I don't want friends." I said but she didn't leave me alone. "Everypony needs friends. I'm sure you'd be happier with some. I have many friends..." She continued but I ignored the rest of her lecture. Until I heard her say 'It doesn't matter what Isaac has done.' when she said that I turned on her. "Isaac never did anything! Don't talk like you know him!" I yelled making her cringe and back away. Dashie ran in front of her friend. "Don't yell at her!" she yelled back as Spitfire came up next to her. I look away and fly out of the ball room as quickly as my wings would go. I flew around for a short time before landing on a cloud, like I had seen other pegasi doing. It was amazingly soft and comfortable. I laid myself down it and muttered, "Why the hell is she so much like him?" I asked myself before shifting position to lay on my side. I looked at the sky, "I'm sorry Isaac. I shouldn't have done it. I shouldn't have done it." I muttered, fighting back the tears but unable to as a tear fell on the cloud. I curled up on the cloud, and slept, unknowing of the multicolored pegasus floating underneath my makeshift bed. She then left, with a look of pity mixed in with confusion. She went back to her lavender friend, who was wondering what made me get so angry. "Hi Rainbow dash, where'd you go?" she asked Rainbow dash. "I followed that asscolt, he's on a cloud outside." Rainbow dash answered with a glance at a window. "Hey Twilight" Rainbow dash called her friend from above. "Yes Rainbow?" she answered. "Can you use a spell on him that'll show us his memories of Isaac?" "Yes, but why do you want to know Rainbow Dash?" "I think that's the reason he's so angry." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow dash carried Twilight on a cloud up to the one I was still sleeping on "I'm stilil not sure about this Rainbow dash." said Twilight looking back at her cyan friend. "It's the only way we can find a way to at least make him less of a jerk." Rainbow replied. They slowly approached, Twilight's horn glowing softly. When they came within a close distance Twilight hesitated before she placed her horn tip on my forehead and they backed away as a large mirror like portal appeared revealing a scene from my earlier years. (Can't think of anything to put here, sorry.) They watched many memories of Isaac ending with his bony body on the machine saying those words, "kill me." Twilight and Rainbow looked at each other "Rainbow dash, he hates you because you remind him of his brother!" she said. Rainbow dash stayed floating in the air. "So? Shouldn't that be a good thing?" she said getting irritated and uncomfortable with knowing I wasn't a pony my whole-long- life. Twilight shook her head. "I think he blames himself for what happened to his brother. And he's taking it out on you." they look at me shortly before closing the portal to my memories and leaving. I adjust my position on the cloud and continue sleeping.