Good Guy Greg
Someone please shoot me...
"Erm... sorry, I'll come back later", said Daring Do, who was blushing and smiling awkwardly and walked away. The big guy, on the other hand (hoof, whatever...), took a slow and deep breath.
"Twiley... What in the world going on here??", he said when he let go of his breath. His voice was not intimidating as I was thought, but he sounded extremelly confused and angry. Twilight promptly woke up when his voice echoed loudly across the bedroom. Her eyes snapped open and her pupils slowly turned to me, until they met mine. She instantly squealed and jumped about a meter in air. I rolled out of the way instants before she crashed back onto the bed. Neither of us were in our side of our beds, but right in the middle. We crawled out of bed and faced the huge stallion who was still standing by the door. Twilight's face were pretty much glowing red, and I wouldn't be surprised if mine was too.
"Oh my goodness! Brother this is NOT what it looks like!" said Twilight, her voice almost cracking as she spoke. Like he's gonna instantly believe that, Twi... wait... brother?
"Wait... That's your brother??" I asked nervously. I could feel my heart trying to blast its way out of my chest at this point.
"Yes, I am..." he sighed. "And who are you supposed to be?"
"He's just a friend!", Twilight interrupted, "we didn't mean to end up like that!"
"Like... that?", he raised a brow and looked at the bed. Sheets spread all over the place.
"I-I mean me sleeping on top of John-" said Twilight, before I ran over to her and shoved a hoof in her mouth.
"Dear god, Twilight you're making things worse!" I screamed. I took my hoof out of her mouth and continued speaking to her brother. "What she's trying to say is that this is a complete and total accident." I said trying to keep my breathing steady. I didn't want to know how hard Daring Do can kick, and I definitely don't want to find out how hard this guy can hit. "When we went to sleep last night we were on our sides of the bed. This morning I woke up with Twilight over here using me as a pillow, nothing else!"
"Or you can just say that we moved around bed while asleep and happened to end up like this..." Twilight continued. "That was just as bad as what I said, Johnny..."
"I'm still waiting for a simple explanation...", Twilight's brother sighed. "Just be straight and simple: Are you two together or not? Geez, it's not that hard...". We shook our heads quickly as soon as he asked.
"See? Not that hard..." he continued. "Now... Twilight. Who's your roommate?"
"His name is Johnathan Crown, or Johnny Bass for short.", she replied turning to me. "Johnny this is my brother, Shining Armour".
"Can't say I've seen him around before. Where are you from?", he turned to me.
"It's complicated..." I said quietly, still a bit intimidated by his massive build. "Have you heard of a city called Vancouver?"
"...what?", he asked confused.
"Thought so..." I continued. "Let's just say that I'm still trying to find out how I got here, and I'm going to some place Daring Do found in the Everfree Forest."
"Oh so that's why she was here...", Shining said, "and just out of curiosity, you look a lot like a Pegasus I saw in a poster yesterday..."
"Yeah... I possessed his dead body near Ponyville..." I said awkwardly. His face was so priceless it took a lot of effort in my part not to laugh.
"Okay... not going into much detail there..." he said, shaking his head, and turned to Twilight. "you might be wondering why I'm here at this hour...", he said looking at the clock which read 7:00AM, Twilight nodded, and he continued. "Princess Celestia told me you arrived in Canterlot in the afternoon, but I was so busy with managing the patrol groups I had no time to say hello. She didn't give much detail, but she said that you brought a friend and was sleeping in the royal guest room for the time being.". He paused and sighed. "My brotherly instincts kinda kicked in and well... that scene didn't help with my thoughts much..."
"You're not going to control who I sleep in bed with now, are you?", Twilight said. Me and Shining slowly turned our heads to her with brows raised, and she blushed hard again, realizing what she had just said. "No! I didn't mean it like that!"
"Then in what way did you mean it??" I asked just as confused as Shining was, since he pretty much had the same look on his face.
"I'm just going to sleep for a few more minutes...", she groaned and jumped back on the bed. "I'll meet you in the dining room, Shining Armour...". She covered her face with a pillow and held it with both hooves.
After a second or two of silence, Shining Armour spoke, "Alright... I'll meet you downstairs...". He then turned to me, asking me to follow him outside.
I walked outside, Shining Armour was facing the view down below. I was a bit blinded by the sudden brightness of the morning sun in the East but I quickly adjusted. "So how is Twilight treating you?", he asked me, and turned around to face me.
"In what sense?" I asked back.
"Like... the way she is behaving, the way she talks around you and all that.", he said.
"Oh... well, she did seem to get friendlier after my first night in the library." I replied. "Is this where I think it's going?"
He chuckled, and closed the bedroom door with his magic. "Maybe... It's that feeling in my gut saying that. Though I might be wrong. Anything else?"
"Well... she did pay extra just to have my mane glow in the dark a bit... and she didn't even think twice after I asked her not to pay for my dye... I did find that a bit strange."
"Anything else?" he asked.
"Eh... this might be nothing, but she did say goodnight to me in a way that sounded a bit sweet..." I said, "you know, to be nice as a friend..."
"How sweet did she sound?", he asked.
"Um, I don't know, I didn't pay much attention to it." I replied.
"Did she sound a bit like: Good night Johnny", he said, trying to imitate Twilight's voice, in which sounded a lot like her.
"Whoa! Dude that's creepy!" I said. "How did you do that?"
"Hehe, having a sister for almost 20 years makes you learn how to imitate her." he laughed. "I bet she knows how to imitate my voice as well!", he laughed a bit more and continued. "Anyways, did she sound like how I said it?"
"Except that it was creepy, yeah..." I commented. "It sounded a bit sweeter than that though...", in continued. Shining Armour laughed again.
"Haha, yeah...", he paused to breathe a bit, "she definitely has something with you, alright. Just like my wife when she says it to me".
"I freaking knew that hair dye wasn't normal..." I mumbled. "Is this the part where you threaten me and tell me not to hurt her or something?"
"You could say that..." he chuckled. Shit... he's gonna pin me to the wall or something..."Except the threatening part..." Oh... okay...
"But I don't feel the same way like she does for me..." I started, slightly relieved that he's not gonna go big-ass tough guy on me. "I mean... I like her as a friend, but nothing like that..."
"Hey..." he paused, "as long as you don't mess with her feelings, we're okay. Simple right?" I nodded calmly and he continued. "I'm not one to control who she can date or anything, but if they mess with my little sister, they have a thing or two coming...". I nodded not so calmly a second time...
"Good, now that this is settled, tell me a bit more about yourself." he asked. "That first impression was totally a fluke", he chuckled.
"Not much to tell, really." I began, my tension was easing up by then. "I was a famous music producer, had fame and money and a good manager I knew all the way back to kindergarten. And a few days back I was stupid enough to let myself get shocked to death by a wire. Next thing I know I'm in a cloud and got shot down by Rainbow Dash into a dead body..."
"Yeah... that's kinda creepy..." he commented.
"I know right? I almost had a full blown fit when I thought I was re-born as a zombie or something!" I continued. "But Doctor Nikolai down in the med centre assured I'm alive as ever. And now here I am, going into a forest that looks grim as hell with a pony that I barely knew through a book to investigate some ruin..."
"Well... you can count on Daring..." he assured me, "she knows how to take care of herself and others. You can't become a royal Scout out of nowhere." he chuckled. "Oh well. Nice meeting you, Johnny. Hopefully you make it back in one piece and maybe you can start making some music for everypony again." he smiled. "I'll be heading down to the dining room, I'll see you two later!", and he turned around and went downstairs. Suddenly he stopped just before disappearing around the tower's stairs and made that famous I got my eye on you move with a hoof. I grinned nervously before he broke his serious face and chuckled silently.
I went back to the bedroom to pick up my things. In which by "things" I mean my sunglasses, the only material thing I really own right now, really... and even that is borrowed from Twilight. I picked up my sunglasses with my mouth and pushed them to my forehead with a hoof. Then I heard Twilight groan quietly behind her pillow before moving it out of her face.
"Sorry about that...", she said turning her head to me, "I don't know what happened, I just felt this warm thing next to me while I was sleeping and I decided to sleep on it..."
"Hey..." I interrupted her, "it's not a big deal anymore. Me and your brother talked a bit and he's cool with it now."
"What did you two talk about??", she asked nervously, her ears perking up instantly.
"Not much, he was just getting to know me better, calm down." I chuckled. "Now get out of that bed and let's have some breakfast."