//------------------------------// // Day 5: Waking up // Story: Good, bad, and why me? // by Normalguy //------------------------------// Day 5:??? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mmm, sleep... Now i'm up. Fantasmic... *Caw* Huh? I open my eyes and turn towards the sound, to see a bird? Noticing where I am I see whiteness, am I in a bed? What am I grabbing? Looking at the color and size of what the object is, from what I could tell it's large, soft, and fluffy. Just how I like it. Where can I buy one? This pillow is best pillow. Looking upwards I see a aurora? What kind of giant pillow has a multi-color aurora? Those colors seem familiar, blue, green , purple, and pink? Wait breathing? Where is it? The pillow? I think I know what the 'pillow' is. Pretty sure it's Celestia. That is not good. I release myself from holding her, moving away little by little. Apparently life is a dick. *CAW!* GRZK! Oh god. You know those things that are kinda like a mini heart attacks? Yeah I just had one. I look at the stupid bird and give it the best death glare I can. The bird is pointing? At what? *CLONK* (K.O!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( What happened: Celestia's hoof hit Jon on the head, and now she is waking up.) Celestia rises out of bed to do her duties. As we all know Celestia must raise the sun for all of Equestria. As she rose she looks down at the "sleeping" foal. " I wonder If I could adopt this little one, it wouldn't hurt, with Cadence gone at the empire, and Blueblood being... Blueblood. All I really have is my subjects and Luna. Maybe this one will be different. Celestia thinks. Her thoughts were soon interrupted by a knock at the door. * Knock, Knock...* " Come in.." The door then opens as Luna enters. " Greeting Tia. I have come to wake thee up for the rise of the sun." " I see... Hey Luna." " Yes, sister?" " What would you think of adopting a foal." She says with a faint smile. " I would think, 'another?'. and which one." " What do you mean by, 'another?'?" ( A.N: <--Is that grammatically correct? Just asking.) " Well we have Cadence-" " But she's moved to the Crystal empire." " We also have Blueblood." Luna says in a somewhat sarcastic tone. " But he's Blueblood. Come on this could be different." " I could go along, but you haven't answered to the other question dear sister" " And that is?" Celestia says with a smile. " Which one?" " This one." Celestia gets off the bed to let Luna see the colt. " I will go raise the sun now dear sister." Luna looks towards her sibling and back to the colt. Luna saw the colt and realizes who that colt is. She has sudden questions and wants answers now. " Jon, Jon. Wake up." She says while nudging the golden colt. Her tone is nervous and worried about what to do. she wasnt like her sister where she could be more responsible in this, or hide it away like the real history of Equestria. But there is one thing she does know, that this foal will equal trouble. With how the wake call was going for Luna did not work so well. What made him sleep so deep? Luna being the princess of the night prepares to jump in to the humans brain, but her sister intrudes. " Ah, Luna. So, what do you- What are you doing?" What made Celestia stop? Well the scene of her little sister in a almost diving way towards the colts head. " Well what does it look like dear sister?" Luna replies in her normal tone while holding the pose. " I asked first Luna. Now explain." " Well this colt is the human, Jon and he isn't waking up." " I see- Wait? What? You mean this colt is Jon?" Luna nods while still holding the mid air diving pose. " Well then, hmm, this changes things then." Celestia now has to re-plan this. For her she was going to make this colt the next 'one'. Now that the new information has come in does she have to re-plan? Or could she re-work it? (A.N "Oohhh...") Celestia pushes the thoughts away coming back to reality. " What do you mean, he isn't waking up?" Celestia asks. This causes Luna to come out of the mid air pose and stand to talk with her. " It's as simple as it sound sister. Jon here is not waking up. Calling and nudging has done none to him. Did you do something to him?" "No I have not." " I will use a spell to check if something is wrong. You may have hit him in your sleep." " This again Luna? I told you, I do not hit anything in my sleep, that is ridiculous." " That is because you are not the one getting hit." ------------------------- Flashback ------------------------- Little filly Luna trots over to her sister's room to wake her up. " Tia wake up!" Calls in Luna as she opens the door and enters." It's time for breakfast! Dad says it's gonna be pancakes!" She says excitedly. Seeing no change in her sister's movement she walks over to her bed and climbs up. " Hey, Tia, wake up. Come on Tia." Luna says while nudging her. Little did she know a force so powerful, Equestria's balance would be destroyed if one or herself could harness this power we'ed die. One could even say there was a small whistling that day as the hoof came down. *CLONK* K.O! Luna fell towards the bed out cold, Her sister just seems now to have waken up. Celestia rises out of bed and into a upwards sitting position. She looks at her sister and has a mere thought. " Oh my sister is here? She must of snuck in at night to sleep with me." she thinks with a soft smile. ------------------- end -------------------- Luna casts the spell over Jon to see if their is anything wrong. she waves her horn around like a metal detector. After about 30 seconds Luna finishes. " Well?" Celestia asks. " I got pain radiating from the head area." Luna replies following up with a sigh." Care to explain?" Celestia has a neutral expression. " Well Shouldn't we focus on waking him up?" Celestia say hoping to divert the way this is going. " Fine, but we have to talk about it later. Okay?" " Very well, now how do you think we should go about waking him up?" " How about a healing spell and then nudging once again." " Lets get started." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- one healing process later. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- \ Jon has now woken up. Still in a daze he talks differently you could say. " Jon can you speak?" Asks Luna with slight worry. " Ahigamuhifl jufleepy, eh?" Replies Jon. ( I'm fine, just sleepy, why?) Even to Jon this didn't sound right so having a attempt to fix this he shakes his head. " Sorry, I mean i'm just fine, why?" " Nothing, so how did you get here?" " I can answer half of that sister." Interrupts Celestia." He seems to have teleported from somewhere and and appeared in the royal bath." " Do I have to answer the other half?" Jon asks. The two royals nod. " Well how detailed? The part when I got here of before that when I woke up, or how it all started?" From this reply the two sisters got confused. " Why don't you start from how it all started." Answers Celestia for the both of them. " Okay, so it kinda started when I died and-" " What do you mean by died?" Asks Luna. " You know, Deep sleep, uh game over, out of time, mm, ah bit the big one, Ok last one. Went north to buy a farm." The two princesses still seemed to be confused by Jon's 'explanation'." Six feet under?" Still puzzled. " Okay then. I choked or something and I died." For some reason that go through to the princesses. " I see carry on." " Fine, so after that..." =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- one somewhat not detailed explanation later. ==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (Pov change back to Jon.) " So I then I came here." I say finishing the story. Feels like something is missing. Definitely not Rarity, this time. I look to the two others and guage there faces, Luna has one of shock, while Celestia on the other hand looks neutral." So wheres Rarity?" " Rarity? We do not know." Answers Luna. " But she got arrested for Foal abuse or something along the lines of that." " We nevered called for a arresting. Did we? Sister." " I haven't called one either." Says Celestia. " Where would criminals be taken when arrested?" I ask. It's the dungeon, right? " The dungeons." They both say. Their eyes widen. Didn't know they could go that big. " Should we go there?" They both nod. I start walking towards the door only to walk into a wall. Okay if there's a door here and now its a wall it must been teleported. something along that. " OW!" The two princesses snicker at me. " Why didn't you tell me we were gonna teleport?" I ask. " Were in a hurry." Says Celestia. Yeah sure, I see that smile. " Fine, now where's Rarity?" The two princesses look around for her." Split up!" I say and run off in a direction my gut tells me. " Iris got any Ideas?" " Turn left." " Fine." I say out loud. I turn left and met with something unpleasant. "Whoa!" I met a giant ledge. " I wouldn't have died for sure but it would hurt a lot. Maybe not even able to walk. I see some cells down below. "RARITY! ARE YOU DOWN THERE!" "Sparky?" It was faint but it's definitely her. " I'm coming! Hold on!" How can I get down there? "Iris?" " Take a leap and i'll take care of it." I hate this. I take a look down. Not good. Now looking at the cells down there they seem to be glowing blueish. Putting that aside I walk back and take a running leap. " CANNONBEEF!!!"(A.N Cookies to anybody that know where this saying came from.) It didn't take long for Iris to take action. Wind swirls around making just a soft landing. Couldn't land on my four legs tho, with all the wind swirling around it made my legs sprawl out in a star like fashion. "Thanks Iris..." " No complaining, I got you down here didn't I?" " Good point." " Rarity! Where are you?" I call out. " Oh dear,um Over here darling." Rarity calls out. I trot over to the cell and talk. " Hey gurl, wassup in the crib?" I say in a heavy accent. I don't have to explain this one. " I beg your pardon?" She says with confusion. " Hehe, nothing. Look i'm here to tell you the good news." I try not to laugh. Really wanted to say fo-shizzle though. " Well what is it?" She is not amused. " I'm here to get you out, got it?" " Why?" " Why? You say. Well your innocent and... That's it." " I see you will explain this later." " Sure." Maybe. " How are you going to get me out." " Stay here and i'll go over there and think, K?" " Ummm. K..." I walk over to the wall, cliff thing I jumped down. Celestia and Luna are somewhere, right? They should be. " Hey Iris, got any Ideas?" " Why don't you call for help?" " Good idea it's like you read my mind. Wait a minuet... Iris did you... " No, now call." One day, one day... " CELESTIA !!! LUNA!!! I FOUND HER!!! BRING THE KEYS OR SOMETHING!!!" After about a minuet the two sisters appear with a teleportation. Both of their eyes widen. " Why are you here?" Asks Celestia with urgency in her voice, only way I could describe it. " What's wrong?" I ask. " This is a very bad place for anypony to be in." Says Luna. " So what's the simplest you could make it. To explain it." " Any kind of magic is negated here." Celestia says. " So how do we get out?" " We can't, The only way is for somepony to push the switch to activate the stairs." " So who has the keys?" Both of the sisters look at each other, and too the floor. Right there is a shiny iron key. " Now what?" " Somepony has to pick it up the old fashioned way." Says Luna. I prepare to ask them why but it seems like Iris has something to say. " Jon, before you ask, think about it. Where would a pony with no levitation or any kind of other magic is negated?" " The mouth?" " Correct. It seems that the two others know that two." " Let me guess, we have to use are mouths." I ask hoping that's not the answer. " Indeed/Correct." They simultaneously say. " Cant you use your hooves to grab it? I can't use mine, never really figured it out." " Hooves also use magic." Says Celestia. " Oh come on! How?" " We we'll explain later." Chimes Luna. " So which way do we turn the key?" " Too the right, why?" Says Celestia. " Cause I hate locks and keys." I walk over to the key and lover my head. As i'm doing this I question Iris. " Could you use the wind to do something here. Please?" "I'm sorry but a simple wind would not work. It would take a strong gale to just lift up the key, even stronger to turn it. But I can help you get out of here." "Great..." I slowly open my muzzle to bite the ring part of the key. Stopping just before my mouth touches the floor I bite on the iron ring, taste like bloodish. I lift my muzzle up and maneuver it to put it in my mouth. Looking to the ceiling I let the key fall deeper into my mouth, my mouth now has the whole ring part in it. at least the hole in the ring makes it easy to breath, kinda. I walk over to Rarity's cell and turn my head left.so the teeth of the key point down. Slide it in, clench harder then a C-clamp, and turn my head to the right. The lock goes click now indicating it's open. I push myself away from the blasted key and spit out any metal particles that might have broken off. Rarity walks out of the cell. " Thank you darling." She gives me a hug, i'd hug back but I don't. We then got interrupted by a 'ahem'. " So how do we get out?" I ask. I already have a solution. Just wondering if they have one. It's like asking someone a really dirty question and then feigning innocence. It's kinda evil,but it's fun evil. " We can't with out pressing the switch." Says Celestia. " How about Discord?" " It's around 9:30 in the morning, so he won't be awake till noon at least." Says Luna. " Who has the most powerful kick here?" I ask. " Well my dear sister does." Says Luna. " Luna!" Replies Celestia, embarrassed? " Why are you embarrassed about it?" I ask. " Yeah sister why don't you tell us your story on how you can kick so well." Says a smiling Luna. " We can focus on that later. For now I have a plan." The three grown mares listen to my plan." Okay so since i'm the lightest one here right?" All nod." So the plan is simple, Celestia, you need to kick me up there." Let the talking begin. " WHAT!" they all say at once. " No, That is a terrible plan. I will not kick a foal." Celestia argues. " I know it's stupid but do you have a plan?" I argue back. " No, I don't but it will not resort to kicking you like a hoofball." Hoofball? Hoof = foot(kinda), football? " Fine throw me, do what ever it takes." " NO! I will not hurt a foal in any way." " I am not a foal though. I am a human turned foal." " To me you're foal..." " Fine I get it. This plan is rubbish. Do you have a plan though?" " No..." " Luna?" " No neither do I have a plan." " Rarity?" " Sorry." " How about flying?" " Magic." Says Luna. Looks like now is a good time to ask Iris. " I'm going to think of another plan that won't get anyone hurt, why don't you three have a chat or something." The three mares have looks of worry but listen to what I have to say. " Hey Iris, is now a good time to get me out?" " Yes it would, but why put out that first Idea?" " Don't know, if you weren't here I probably would use that though." "*sigh* I guess it's a good thing to have me here." " Hey I just got another Idea." " Better but your coordination sucks and it's too high still, and you'd be a couple inches short." " Well at least there's no nagging feeling this time so you gonna do it?" " Yes, got anything to say?" " Beam me up Iris." " Can't there's a fly in the way. Get ready doing a running start and jump when I tell you too." "Got it." I say aloud but quietly. I see the mares chatting it up over there. it seems like it's a good conversation, Rarity and Celestia is talking but Luna just seems kinda in there mostly listening. Seems like the current topic might not be her conversation expertise. With Luna probably thinking on her own she notices me getting ready. I walk about 30 steps away and run. The others notice and watch. Running, running, running, runni- " JUMP!" I leap with mighty strength. Don't know what Iris is doing but, to me all i'm doing is thinking about my position. Mid air, peak of my jump, and probably being stared at by them and there all thinking, "He's an idiot.". " Iris what are y-" A blast of air rockets me upwards. Oh, I got her plan now. If you didn't know her plan is making a concentrated place of air rising up, pushing me upwards. Since I can't move in the air, a running jump gives her a angle so I don't have to move. This is a good plan. " WHOOOO!" I say as I'm pushed up. As I look at the ground the three, wait two mares look in disbelief, but Rarity is shouting something along ' My mane!' or something. The view quickly disappears and my face is now looking at the floor. Not good, not good at all. " Ow! Dammit!" I face plant the dungeon floor. " Um, are you okay?" Ask Celestia with concern. " Just fine!" I yell back." What does the switch look like and where is it!" " It should be too your left and on the wall." Left and wall. I push myself only to see a small pool of blood under me. Shit it's all over my coat. I get off the damn floor and turn left. I look up and down along the wall to see the switch. It's too high. Son of a bitch. " Jon, use plan D, i'll help you." Plan D? I never made a plan D. if she was referring to my thought that wall jumping up would of been cool then yeah. That's what she must of meant. Since the hallway is narrow enough it could be wall jumped. Seeing the switch it's kinda high, high enough that I couldn't reach it by standing. Going to the side of the switch I dash and jump at the wall, pushing off the wall. I can't reach it. Luck sucks. " IRIS!" A strong blast of wind pushes just hard enough, but a little too hard. The gust pushed to strong and to fast resulting me to smash my whole body against the switch. I think I pressed it. A rumbling sound appears, I assume it's the stairs. I fall to the ground in more pain. " What the hell Iris? " I'm sorry Jon, I blanked and, and... I'm so sorry." " It's fine, don't worry about it. The rumbling seems to have stopped. Clopping hooves come up. " Jon are you okay?" I turn around to see the three mares come up. the one who spoke must have been Celestia. " Yeah I'm-" " Oh my, that is a lot of, oh dear." Rarity interrupts. A lot of? Oh yeah, blood. " It's okay I-" " This is not 'okay' we must take you to first aid come." Says Luna. I push my self up and stand, My legs are a little shaky, but I can walk. " Fine let's go." Everyone just stops for some reason as I slowly limp ahead. " Well?" I ask as I turn back to speak to them. " You are in no condition to walk Jon." Says a worried Celestia The two others agreed. " Well I know that." I say this then Celestia opens her mouth to speak but I continue. " But I can't let you carry me on your back or something." " Why not?" She says. " I'm covered in my own blood. Now let's go." I then turn around and walk again. I'm now floating, great. As i'm floating i'm moved to Celestia's back. " Oh come on, now I got my blood over your back." I say. " It's fine Jon, it's the least I could do for you getting us all out of there." Celestia says." Also you don't know your way around the dungeons around here." Challenge accepted. " Iris?" " Got it. Okay so it's forward for ten meters, turn right go forward five meters turn left and finish by turning right again, then go straight to the door. Finished." " You have to go forwards for about ten meters, turn fight go forward five, turn left for another five, lastly turn right, boom door." " So it seems you do have a grasp on the dungeons. It seems your first trip here left quite the impression." Celestia says in a somewhat mocking tone. " Oh har de har har. Very funny. So Rarity, why were you all the way down there?" I say for changing the subject. " Well when I got arrested, the guards took me too Blueblood. It seems he sent a undercover guard to spy on me. When the guard saw what happened Blueblood wanted me to become his mare. The Dirty bastard then threw me in here for refusing! Can you believe that?" " What!?" Both sisters say. Wonder who Blueblood is, Cool name tho. " So the guy was stalking you?" I ask. " In a way yes darling." " We will have to talk to him." Says Celestia " Indeed sister, for going behind our backs and..." Luna starts. " Arresting and threatening." Finishes Celestia. Oh shnap. " So what now?" I ask." I'm hungry. I want food..." I say lazily. " Seeing as that took up the whole morning, shall we go to lunch?" Says Luna. " But I still have blood over me. Should I go get washed up or something? Play dead? I dun know..." I trail off speaking random things. " Good idea." Says Celestia." We'll stop by my chambers and take a bath." Oh yeah. One of them would be nice. " Showers?" " No Jon, it's the royal baths." " Ooohh...So were going in one at a time, right?" " No were not, why?"