It has been a few days since I was elected and I am doing paperwork at the table in my office, sweating slightly, but not from the work...
Feeling off, I barge into the main hallway of the Mayor Spire thing (which is at the bottom floor along with my office) and see that I am alone in the office. Not that weird, seeing as I only have two assistants and its nighttime already, but that is not what matters. What matters is that there is pain coming from inside my head, and I cannot stop it.
"O-" I hear, popping one of my ears.
"Ob—" A deafening crack runs through my mind... I look up, feeling my ears bleeding, and see my door.
"Why am I here, this is top fl— AHHH!"
I charge into my room, going into my bed, running onto the white cloth sheets used for my bedding.
"Oh, Ben..." repeats in my head over and over, but not in a painful way anymore. I feel like I heard this voice before, so I listen.
Time passes, but no more sound is made. With my ears still bleeding, I curl into a ball and sleep...
"Oh, Benjamin!" a tall woman says to me, her face blurry and indistinguishable to the background.
"Yes, mother?" I say, though I did not say it.
I attempt to move, but my body painfully jerks me back...
I cannot even move my eyes without repercussions.
'I' blink, and suddenly there is a man, dressed in black and green, behind 'my' mother with a knife. I try to look away, and it works. But not in the way I thought...
I see a young boy, covered in blood and sobbing, and a knife in my hand. Sirens are blaring outside, but I do not seem to care. I have to deal with this monster of a child, first. Before I can slit his neck, shotgun shells break through the door, spreading splinters across the living room.
"No, not without him, I ain't going!" I say, jabbing my knife into the child in front of me... but before I could truly truly? kill him, I felt a multitude of bullets pierce my back. I attempt to use what magic I have left, but the bastard child before me has sucked me dry...
I fall to the floor, but, within my last breaths, mercilessly stab the child all over his body... I did this, but then how...?
I see a blinding light above me, a familiar face looking at me with a nice,happy smile, "I am happy you woke up, DREET"
*Dreeet-Dreet!*
"Wha-?"
*Dreet-dreet!*
I turn off the clock, feeling sickly, and get out of bed. Instead of cleaning myself, I just use changeling magic—for ever since the faulty unicorn mayor Reganold, magic-detectors are useless (He kept on breaking them each day).
I head down to my office, silently passing by Juan Daily and Yung Lace, who are both my assistants and the only assistants of the mayor. Their offices are a floor above mine, for some reason.
'Cloudsdale is not a huge city, just a hard one to handle', they keep on telling me when I ask for more assistants.
I laugh hysterically going down the hallway. I laugh, but frown out of fear.
The fear of not knowing who I truly am anymore...
Hours of making decisions of general things pass, but I stop in my tracks when I notice something.
"The Annual Cloudsdale Drift?" I say, reading the heading. Intrigued, I read further.
"Every twenty years, the mayor of Cloudsdale is warranted to move the city to a new location, but only if hte new location is an improvement of the economical stance of the current location." I rub my chin.
I look at my left wall from my desk, and see the large map of this part of Equestria. I move to it. I use magic on the map, for it was in some weird portrait, and watch it move.
"That's both cool and creepy." I say, zooming in to our current location. Right now, we are almost above to a town called Ponyville, which sounds nice, but we are too far inland for any perfect trade. I look to the borders of Equestria, and see something odd. An entire empire within the borders of the country.
"that. That makes no sense, you crazy ponies..."
I look harder, and spot it. The perfect spot.
I zoom in closer to see the landscape to see if any cities were founded there already, but there was none.
An entire forest that grew on its own, like my world, and it was just sitting there... waiting for us to combine our magic with its natural beauty...