Chapter 17: Bad Omens
"Unnnnggghhhh..." I moaned as I began to wake up once again. "I've got to quit ending up like this!" I complained as I opened my eyes. I was back inside my room in Twilight's castle, laying on my bed wrapped in my covers. As I sat up and began to look around, I saw that Lyra was in the room as well. She was sitting in a chair on the side of the room reading a book from the small book shelf that was in the room. The moment she heard me stir, she looked up at me, closed the book and began to wake over to the bed.
"Finally awake I see." She said with a smile, as she stood beside the bed. "They said it would be awhile before you recovered from using so much energy at once." I assumed she meant that Twilight told her that this wasn't the first time I passed out like this after using that crazy magic. I was hoping I'd get used to using it soon, cause I was getting real tired of the whole pass out thing pretty quick.
"How long?" I asked.
"What?" Lyra looked at me in confusion.
"How long was I out for?"
"Counting today.... I'd say about two and a half days." Lyra stated. I looked up at her a little shocked by that, but really I was expecting to hear that. Like I said, wasn't the first time. "We was pretty worried about you," Lyra continued. "Even Applejack was afraid something might have happened to you. But Twilight scanned you with her magic multiple times, and told us that all you needed was rest. Even the princesses looked you over and said you'd be alright after some sleep."
"Wait, the princesses are here?"
"Yes. They arrived the day after all that crazy stuff happened." Lyra explained. "They and the others have been in the throne room going over things ever since."
"What else did I miss?" I asked as I sat up so I was sitting on the side of the bed looking at Lyra. I didn't feel weak and I didn't hurt anywhere. I was just totally thirsty and hungry. Like I hadn't ate in days.... which I haven't. "What happened to Gilda?"
"After the princesses showed up, they all had a meeting in throne room over what to do with Gilda." Lyra stated. "Bon Bon and me wasn't able to go in to hear the trial, but Twilight told us about it afterwords. Although Gilda was working for those evil mercs and doing acts against Equestria, Dash wanted to show her a little mercy because of their past friendship."
"Her and Dash were friends?" I asked surprised.
"Yes. She came over to Ponyville a few years back, but at a party they both had a falling out. Something about lameness and being a jerk.... I only heard part of the arguement that day." Lyra said, rubbing her chin while thinking back on the event.
"And what happened next?"
"Well, Gilda went on a big rant saying that her group were the best and they'd come to rescue her any day." Lyra stopped for a moment and shock her head. "But when they told her how their leader left them and what happened to her team mate, all the fight went right out of her. She said she didn't care what they did to her, cause nopony else cared about her."
"Man, that must have been heart breaking for her." I said. Although I did hate her and her partners for trying to kill me, I couldn't help but feel sorry for her. Having your partner die and your leader abandon you must have been rough on her. Espeically when you feel all alone and like the world is gonna crash on your head. "So what happened?"
"The princesses said that although no harm would come to her, she was still going to be punished for her crimes. They sent her to the Canterlot dungeons to await her punishment." Lyra concluded.
"Well, that's good to hear. One less problem to deal with." I said. I was glad to hear they wouldn't do anything to bad to her, but I also couldn't help but feel happy to hear her suffer some form of punishment. That'll teach her to fuck with me. I thought with a smile. But all my real venom and rage was for her former boss, Dark Claw. The next time I saw him, there was going to be hell to pay. And then I think I'll enjoy me some Kentucky Fried Griffon!
We stood silent for a long moment, me with my thoughts on revenge, and her with a strange look on her face as she glance between me and the floor. I knew what was coming... she was going to ask about were I came from and If was really a human. She had asked the girls and me during the battle, but when the mother eel showed up, everything was thrown to the wayside. Now, alone in this room, with nothing to get in her way, she wanted to know the truth about me. I couldn't blame her. She had seen some crazy shit and I did promise I'd tell her later.
Guess now is later... I thought with a sigh.
"Alright. I know what you're going to ask..." I began, cutting the silence. "But before we begin, I want to make one thing perfectly clear. What is said behind these walls must stay between us. Nopony else can know the truth about me."
"What about Twilight and the others?" She asked in surprise. She relaxed for a moment, but when I told her to keep everything on the down low she looked confused.
"Twilight, the other girls and even the princesses know, but that's it. Promise me that what I'm about to tell you, you won't tell anypony else."
"I promise." She replied with a firm nod.
"Okay. You see, I'm really a human from..."
"I KNEW IT! I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT YOU!! IF ONLY BON BON COULD SEE ME NOW! I'M STANDING HERE TALKING T....."
"You want to keep it down?!" I snapped, cutting of her rant. "I don't think the ponies in Canterlot heard you yet."
"Oh, sorry." she replied. "still.... a human. I can't believe it. How did you turn into a pony?"
"If you'll quit interupting me, I might be able to tell you. I'm not from here, I come from the planet Earth." I explained.
"Earth? You mean another planet? Full of humans?!" She asked, her eyes beginning to sparkle. When I nodded yes, she squeed with joy before rushing up to me, inches from my face. As close as we were to each other, it looked like we was about to make out. That, and the fact that she had a strange look in her eyes, made me a little nervous. "Tell me everthing."
I won't bore you with the details, but needless to say, I told her the origin of how I got here. Which was again followed by a massive wave of questions about Earth and human society, which she asked before I even got to how I got to the crystal. I swear she asked more questions then the girls did when I told them. When she said she wanted to know everything, she really wanted to know EVERYTHING! I told her as much as I could remember, as I found it was geting hard to recall everything about back home. Some part of my memories were blurry, while others were just blank. It was almost as if someone was taking white out and going through my noggin. Must be from all the stress I had during the fight. I thought, brushing off the worried feeling trying to creep into my brain. It took almost two hours to tell her, but I finally was reaching the end of my story.
"....And after I found the crystal, I was teleported here and turned into a pony. And now I'm a Teenage Mutant Ninja Pony!" I finished with my own little humor. A smile on my face at the thought of me with a red bandana and a katana running around fighting ninja ponies. "And you know the rest."
"So that's why somepony is after you? Because of that crystal?" Lyra asked, amazed by my story.
"Yep. All the magic mojo that was in that crystal went to me, which is how I'm able to use magic and shoot energy beams of awesomeness." I said, thinking back to when I fired a Kamehameha at that mother eel. If I could use that attack, then what other types of anime attacks could I use? I couldn't help but grin as I thought of all my favorite anime attacks. If I can pull off what I think I can pull off, I'm gonna become one badass pony!
Thought she long since moved away from my face, she remained close to me, sitting beside me on the bed. Her eyes still gleamed when she looked at me, and I noticed she was grinning alot while she did. "You've made me so happy." She said with a smile.
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Because thanks to you, I now know I'm NOT crazy. That humans DO exist." She said as she scooted closer to me and looked into my eyes. "Every since I was a foal, I've been trying to find proof of humans still existing. But everypony just laughed at me and called me crazy, saying I was going on about a fantasy. Even Bon Bon thinks I'm wasting my time! And I was even thrown into a mental ward a few times because of it!" Tears filled Lyra's eyes as she explained her troubled past.
"I'm... I'm sorry to hear that." I honestly said. Not sure how else how to respond.
"But now, I finally have proof that I was right, and... and..." At that point she began balling into my chest. I wrapped my arms around her as she continued to sob into me. The poor thing! To have everypony else think your crazy because you think a certain way. That's worse then trolls on Facebook. I thought, as I continued to hold her.
"There, there. Everything's going to be alright. I don't think your crazy." I said, as I rubbed the back of her head. Stroking her mane. As I continued to hold her, I began to feel a warm familiar feeling rush through me, causing me to blush a little. It had been happening more and more lately, especially during my times hanging around Applejack. I didn't want to believe it, but holding Lyra, I knew it's true. I'm starting to find these ponies attractive. At first, I thought it was gross, seeing as I was once a human. But now that I've spent some time as a pony, I wasn't finding the thought so gross now. It made sense! I'm a pony, the girls are ponies, there wasn't anything wrong with us being together.
Lyra must have sensed my thoughts or something, because she managed to quit sobbing and looked up at me. As she stared at me with those big, teary yellow eyes, my whole body froze in place as my head felt fuzzy. We we're so close together, one move forword, and we'd be kissing. Which is what was making me nervous! It's not that I didn't mind kissing a cute mare like her, it was the fact that I just met her and to be honest, I think I had feelings for another mare.
GRUMBLE!
The sudden noise made us pull away and look down at my stomach. The pain of hungry was growing more noticeable, as I again became aware that I haven't had anything to eat for a few days. I welcomed the break, as I didn't want things to get weird between us. No way I'd be able to explain things if one of the girls walked in on us.
"Ha ha.... I guess my belly is telling me that my battery is low." I chuckled before getting up off the bed and walking to the door. "Care to join me in the kitchen?" I turned to ask Lyra.
"Uhhhh.... sure." She paused, taking a moment to wipe her face before following me as we exited the room and and made our way to the kitchen for some major grub.
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"My word! I can't believe you ate all that food!" Lyra said as she looked at me in amazment. Once inside the kitchen, I had the cooks whip up a few different meals to fill my belly. Grilled cheese sandwitches, a plate of fried taters and scrambled eggs, and a few apples and grapes. Like I said, I was hunger.
"Ahhh..... I feel much better now!" I said with a smile, as I rubbed my full belly. "So Lyra, where's Bon Bon at?"
"Oh, she's back home doing some chores. She was here during the meeting and all, but after words she said she'd just wait to hear anymore updates from me." Lyra explained.
"Makes sense. I mean, she does have a life to live and all." I agreed. Reaching over the table, I grabbed my glass of iced tea and took another drink."
"Thank you, Mark." Lyra suddenly said. "For everything."
"No problem." I simply replied. "Happy to help out." I said with a smile.
Lyra giggled at that. Looking at me with a big grin on her face. I guess I must have answered that funny or something, cause she kept looking at me with that strange grin. Thankfully at that moment, Spike walked in through the doorway. A relieved look on his face as he saw us in the kitchen, sitting at the table just chilling.
"There you are, Mark! I was looking all over for you." Spike sighed as he walked over to the table we was sitting at.
"Oh, hey Spike!" I said as I waved at him. "Sorry about that. I guess I just woke up hungry."
"It's okay. I'm just glad to see that your up and doing alright. You had us a little worried."
"Yeah. Couldn't be helped." I said as I took another grape from the bowl and popped it in my mouth. "I had to use my powers to take out that mother eel, or else we were all going to end up monster chow."
"I heard about that. Twilight said that you fired a magic blast almost a powerful as when she fought Tirek." Spike said. "I would have loved to have seen that. It sounded like it looked really cool."
"A little." I said, rubbing the back of my head. The anime fan in me was still beaming at being able to shoot a Kamehameha, and jumping with joy at the thought of pulling off more energy attacks. "It was pretty cool."
"Oh! I just remembered..." Spike said suddenly, looking a little shocked. "Twilight wanted me to check on you and see if you were up yet. And if you were, she wanted you to head to the throne room."
"Ahh, to talk business no doubt. Understandable." I said, standing up from my chair. "Care to join us Lyra?"
"Nahh, that's okay." She said as she too raised up. "I got things to take care of back home. But I'm glad that you're doing alright."
"Okay. I hope to see you again, Lyra."
"Oh, you better believe it big guy." She said as she walked over to me, leaned in, and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek. "Catch you later.... Mega Mark."
And with that, she was out the door and gone. Leaving me with a surprised look on my face while Spike chuckled at the scene. "Come on, Casanova. Let's go join the others." He snickered.
"I found him." Spike proclaimed as we walked into the throne room. "He was in the kitchen eatting like a starved stallion."
"MARK!" The girls all exclaimed as they got off their thrones and ran over to where we were, before we even got halfway over to them. They all covered me in a huge group hug, while Spike just rolled his eyes at me. I noticed that princess Celestia and Luna watching from where they were, with small smiles on their faces.
"I'm so glad you're okay, Mark!" Fluttershy said, giving me a quick nuzzle before her and all the girls released their hold of me.
"I argee, dear. You had us all so worried." Rarity replied.
"What in tarnation were ya thinking?!" Applejack said as she lightly smacked me on the side of the head. "Putting yourself in danger like that? Ya could have been killed!"
"Hey, I didn't have choice." I answered as I rubbed my head. "I had to help my friends. Besides, those jerks needed a good ass whooping."
"Yeah! Besides, did you see the those moves he pulled off? It was so awesome!" Rainbow Dash said while hovering in the air.
"Mark is so cool! He's like a superhero now." Pinkie Pie said as she hopped in place. "Mega Mark. Think of all the merchandise!"
"Right....." Twilight rolled her eyes as she walked past her to face me. "Anyway. One's thing's for sure, your magic has gotten much stronger then last time to take out a mother eel."
"Indeed." Princess Celestia said as she and Luna walked towards us. Their faces displaying a serious tone. "It appears we much to talk about. For things have come to our attention as of late that we think are related to all this."
"What kind of things?" Twilight asked.
"Dark magic." Luna replied.
"What do you mean?" I asked, puzzled by the statement.
"I believe I can answer that...." a familiar voice chuckled. We all looked around the room for moment before a flash of light showed Discord leaning on the side of the wall, wearing a orange Hawaii shirt and wearing a pair of shades.
"Discord!" Fluttershy said as she ran over and gave him a quick hug.
"Hey Flutters. Good to see you again." He replied as he returned her hug. He then snapped his fingers and the shades & shirt disappeared. He and Fluttershy walked over to where we was standing, while giving Celestia a little nod. "Tia."
"Right. Anyway, we sent Discord a few days ago to investigate strange magic readings coming from the mountains between Neighagra Falls and the Crystal Mountains." Celestia explained.
"So that's where you went the other day." Fluttershy said, putting the pieces together.
"Indeed. After Leaving Canterlot, I headed towards the mountains to inspect the magic readings. The energy was much like dark magic, which had me quite curious. But as I was drawing closer to the source, I suddenly felt surge of strange magic coming from Ghastly Gorge."
"That must have been me." I said.
"Yes. The sheer force of your energy could even be felt by us at Canterlot. Even as short as it was." Luna stated.
"To say that it surprised us all, would be an understatement." Celestia said. "It wasn't until about an hour later did we get a letter from Twilight telling us what happened."
"So I returned to Canterlot to learn what was going on. And learning that such a force of power came from the human turned pony was surprising to say the least." Discord explained, giving me a strange look. "But by the time I returned to investigate the mountains, the dark energy readings there went cold. Which could only mean one thing...."
"That whoever is behind all this must have went into hiding." I finished.
"I'm afraid so. And until he makes his next move, I fear all we'll be doing will be swinging in the dark." Celestia stated.
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"Super fighting pony..... Mega Mark!"
The whole time I was writing this, that old Mega Man cartoon theme was running through my head. lol
4841901 Dark king using dark magic radiate with dark energy that Celestia felt and said she can't swing in the dark to find said person because said dark presence has gone dark. Puns?
4842650 why not puns are punny
How many pies can a pie hold? the ansver is... Unlimted... Dun dun DUUUUN
Might want to check your word use a bit, kept putting hunger instead of hungry, other than that you need to watch your wording a bit to make for better sentence structure.
Holy black on a POPO, Mark is Goku. Who is his Chi- Chi then?
4916565
Probs Applejack.