> The Story of J
>  by malfarious
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> Chapter 1:Death and all it's wonderful benefits
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	A/N:I have attempted to get rid of some the walls of text many of you were talking about. I take full responsibility and blame the timber wolves. Besides who thinks straight being chased by a manticore. If you don't like my reason well then. Help me find a better one. Criticism is always noted and appreciated any help is grateful, thank you.

If you are reading this then either I am dead which I hope I am or you simply happened to just find this. This is a warning if I’m still alive and you read this and I find out I’m going to make you wish you were born a eunuch. That being said this is a private recollection of my most personal feelings. Not a diary, I just want it to be known perfectly clear that this is not a diary. Then again it is very similar… never mind it doesn’t matter. This is my journal and what is written here will be too delicate for any ears to ever hear them and I probably don’t trust a soul to any of my secrets but if I don't write these thoughts down I fear that I will go mad. 

"The path I walk is one of cold lonely tears. It is one that I bear to myself. I can trust no one; never again can I allow myself to be hurt in such a sinister way again." I say to myself attempting to assure myself of it. my mind races and I can't keep the wild thoughts at bay. "Maybe if I can just stop feeling all together I can be content." I know that is a lie but it is a sweet one nonetheless. I stand there looking at the chair below me. Wondering who would visit my funeral. My cousin’s maybe, a few old friends, and maybe my sis. No it’s too late to turn back now. Everything that I based worth living for has crumpled before my eyes and I have nothing left to hold onto now. There is no saving for me; either I do this now or forever regret my choice. I check the noose around my neck for the third time and make certain it is secure and won’t break.

I take one last look at my apartment; the apartment appears very empty and has no furniture inside. The walls are a dull gray and the windows are boarded up. The apartment has been abandoned a long time ago and decay has long since started to fade the once vibrant color of the place. What better a place to die then in an abandoned building? I smirk a little at my terrible pun. I get ready for my plunge to death but I feel I should give a few minutes to remember the good in life, even though there wasn’t much. Always knew I was insane. “Well this is it. Off to wherever it is you go when you die.” With the final words I kicked out the chair from underneath me and a snap echoed through the building as my neck broke killing me almost instantly. 

With a gasp I awoke in a forest filled with trees that seemed to stretch on endlessly. I was gasping for air through my nose I reached up and touched my neck to wince in pain as my broken neck was still very much broken. “Ok this should be borderline impossible. My neck is still broken and I have to be alive seeing how I can feel the pain in my neck. The only problem now is knowing where the hell I am.” As I looked around at my surrounding with my crooked neck I could barely make out that the forest was dark as if no light got in. I sighed loudly “guess I better fix the broken neck first.” As I grabbed my neck with both hands I winced painfully at the mere touch of my hands. ‘ Here goes nothing’ I thought to myself as I swiftly snapped my neck in place and was overridden with extreme pain that I passed out right there on the spot.

Not one of my better places to sleep but I certainly didn’t care at the moment and fixing broken limbs is very painfully if you didn’t know and seeing how that was my first broken limb never I didn’t quite expect it to be that painfully. Always thought it was more of those kind of scream out loud kind of pains like being kicked in the balls with a steel toed boot. If I were to explain the pain in my own words it would been more like having a professional baseball player trying to hit a home run with my head. I was certain that if I could speak then that all sorts of vulgar profanity would have left my lips in a crude fashion after cradling my head on the ground. 

I sat there or more or less planked there in a dark haze I honestly remember little to nothing of after that moment. I remember waking up to see the ground in my face. I groaned aloud still wincing as I felt my neck still felt tender and decided against movement for a while. I don’t know how long I sat there but it seemed like an eternity to wait for the pain to die down. I finally got to my feet sluggishly and assessed my ever so dire situation. I looked about and saw the forest seemed to stretch on forever no matter where I looked. ‘Hmmm well doesn’t look like any direction looks particularly enticing than any others’ I thought to myself. I began walking in with no real sense of direction just walking to hopefully find a way out of here. I had only been walking for about an hour or so when I heard a roar behind me. I stopped suddenly and turned around very slowly. I saw a huge manticore growling at me. 

It was then I realized two things. One, there was a manticore roaring at me. Two, I’m so dead. My fight or flight instincts kicked in and I booked it. Now would be an appropriate time to say that I was very much indeed African American, though I was told I could pass as Samoan any day too. I was by no means small, I was a big and intimidating, being just about six feet and weighing just over 280. Right now I would have gladly been anywhere then compared to my current situation. I mutter profanities beneath my breath while running for my life praying to any god I could think of to get me out of this hell hole. As the trees seemed to blur by me I paid little attention to where I was running and more of running away from the lumbering beast that was close behind. 

Suddenly I tripped over a stump that I hadn’t seen, but as I kicked it I could hear a whimper from the stump. ‘Am I going crazy or did that stump just whimper?’ I asked myself mentally. I rolled over to the middle of a few broken trees when I realized they weren’t trees at all. Instead they were more like wolves now circling me in anger from hurting one of the wolves. " Today just isn’t my day.” The wolf looks at me with anger burning in his eyes “Well what did expect was gonna happen when you lay in the middle of the damn road?!” I snidely remarked as I turned to make a quick dash away one of the wolves jumped in front of me snapping at me causing me to jump back to the middle of the circle of growing wolves. “Well I’m sure we can reach some agreement here. I go free and you keep chasing your tails like the dumb little animals you are. Sounds fair?” Attempting to poke fun to ease the sensation that I felt that I was close to reliving myself. A loud growl was all I got and then I heard my rather interesting savior lumber in. 

The manticore looked pissed and I’m guessing didn’t like having his meals snatched either as he grabbed a wolf and used him as a club to beat away the wolves from me. Well the wolves weren’t having that and pounced and jumped all over the manticore in a feeble attempt to kill it. I watched just long enough to see a wolf get impaled by his stinger to bolt away from the fight. I must have run for hours before I finally collapsed in exhaustion. 

I don’t want to go into details of how I survived that month of scavenging and starving in the forest. The horrible experimentation with what was and wasn’t edible in that forest was terrible too and a rather waste of time to write down seeing how nothing significant or important happened. I made a name for the forest; I call it the Forest of Fucks. Pretty nice name if I may say so myself. I eventually found the end to the forest and say a village. The village was vacant at the time and it was extremely late but that was the time most predators were up so I had to move quicker than them. As I approached a large tree house I saw that there was a doorframe and all as if I were a house. ‘Strange’ I thought to myself ‘who would live in a tree?’ As I knocked on the door I didn’t hear a response so I walked in. I noticed the huge shelves of books and concurred that this was a library. “It’s been awhile since I slept in a home a definite change of pace. “ I said aloud then I fell to the ground ungraciously and was sound asleep before I knew it.


A/N: First time writing a HIE story hope you like found a co-author to help me out hopefully he’ll be helpful and we’ll be able to post all the cool stories you like until next time. I got a new co-author to help me out so we should be working faster than ever to give you all the stories you love.
P.S. Forest of Fucks is actually Everfree Forest if you couldn’t already tell.

CA/N: Hope you all like the beginning more is to come from soon plz leave a comment telling us what we can do to make it better and what crazy things you would like “J” to encounter.


> A human among ponies
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“What do you think it is spike?” I heard a female voice say. When I heard the voice it reminded me of a librarian for some reason. The voice just had that kind of feel about it that just kind of screamed bookworm in my mind at least. “I dunno but it sure looks big, maybe he came from Everfree.” I heard a more boyish reply a little sharp sounded like a young boy maybe 8 if I had to guess off of sound alone. ‘Hmm I really don’t want to get up right now but it’s rude to sleep in someone’s house and not say hi, or is it?’ As I debated this I opened my eyes to stare directly into the eyes of a purple horse. I jumped in shock and hit the back of the wall. I stood quickly and crouched into an offensive position to attack at any moment. I noticed that of to the right of the small horse stood a rather large lizard that was almost as big as the horse but the horse barely reached my waste so it must be a pony right? I looked at them both with distrust in my eyes not daring to speak a word. My hands clenched in fists ready to kick some ass.


“I think you scared it Twi.” The purple looking lizard said. “I wonder if it can understand us Spike. Do you understand me?” Twi asked looking first at Spike then at me. ‘Hmm they don’t know whether I can talk or not best to play the fool and see what I can learn from these so should I be the smart primate or the ignorant brute? Best to play it cool with the smart primate, that way I can learn as much as possible quickly.’ I grunted a confirmation to her question and she looked ecstatic to find that I was somewhat intelligent.


“Ohhh imagine the things we can find out from it! I have discovered a new species never before documented in Equestrian history imagine what we could learn from it. There are so many tests to run on it!” Twi was blabbering off acting like a fan girl for Justin Beiber or something weird. When she said she wanted to run tests on me I frowned. ‘No way in hell I'm going to let any mother fucker use me for tests’ I let out the most menacing growl I can conjure up and it scared the shit out of both of them. I think Spike almost pissed himself while trembling. Twilight cowered away from me clearly seeing that I was not up for running tests on. “T-t-t-twi I don’t think tests are so good.” Spike stammered out. His response almost made me want to pat myself on the back for a job well done. “I think so too Spike.” Twi finally managed to mutter very quietly.


With that I sat back down on the ground and picked up one of the books from the shelves and tried to read it. The cover read ‘Mythical and Dangerous Creatures’ and I was surprised that it was in English. I was also surprised to see that the horse and lizard both spoke the same language as well. I was reading the book and managed to spot the Manticore along with the tree wolves, which are called Timber wolves. I was glad to be out of that cursed forest. Twi and Spike spoke with hushed tones and were talking about me no doubt and what to do with me. I wasn’t really paying any attention to them and decided to turn the book upside down to make it look like I didn’t know how to read. Looking at the book very confused Twi saw me and tried to stifle a giggle. I looked up at her with a confused expression on my face and set the book down. “Man I should get an award for best actor either I’m a really good actor or these ponies are incredible stupid”. I then saw the book lifted with a purple aura and jumped back. I saw Twi and noticed for the first time that she had a horn. ‘No fucking way Unicorns exist??Where the fuck am I?’ I thought to myself.


“My name is Twilight Sparkles, do you have a name?” Twilight asked. I had to hold in my giggles as I thought of her name sounding like a prostitute. Her parents must not have liked her very much.’ I thought to myself. I grunted to her that had no real meaning and I think she got the hint, she frowned and said aloud “well I can’t keep calling you It can I?” I grunted more positively as if to say ‘yeah you actually can.’ To which she replied almost astounded “You want me to call you It?” I just nodded and she appeared to make a mental note and started to mumble to herself while trotting off. No doubt to get some pen and paper to start documenting me. Of course to my amusement she came back a minute later with a quill and a lot of paper. “Great I’m going to be here a while, might as well get comfortable.”


I rested my head on the back of the wall and relaxed as Twilight scribbled furiously and started to poke and prod me profusely mumbling and ranting on. I understood her quite clearly but the things she was saying and writing were overly stupid and common sense at least that’s what I thought. They were hardly worth repeating as she started to compare me to different types of animals. I swatted her away when she started to poke me a little too close to my crotch for comfort. I was getting rather bored really quickly so I decided to get out of this place as soon as I could. It didn’t take before I got my chance.


“Alright Spike, I’m leaving you in charge of It so I can get Fluttershy to get her opinion of him. She has experience with animals maybe she knows what it is. It has to be some sort of exotic animal. I wonder what they’re called?” with that she left the place rambling on.


I saw Spike look at me bored and say something about getting a snack and then left for the kitchen. “No better time like now I suppose” I thought to myself. I crept to the door and listened to see if Spike could hear me. He was rummaging through the kitchen rather noisily so I silently crept out while he was distracted and made a mad dash to the forest. Surprisingly no one saw me or rather no pony saw me. I watched from the edge of the forest in a bush the many different ponies go about their day. It was weird seeing them all act like humans would. There were regular ponies, unicorns and winged ones, which could only be Pegisi. I decided that I had had enough crazy for one day. At least in the forest it was simple, kill or be killed. So with that I retreated back to the familiar forest delving in to find my cave. In the month of surviving the forest I had made a lot of progress. Found a cave, made it my own, and improvised many weapons out of wood and stone; though the night I found the house I was scouting out the rather weird looking village that I always saw at night. 


In my cave I had wooden pikes set up at the base of the cave in case I ever had to make a stand. At the entrance I had an almost complete ballista of sorts. It needed a lot of tweaking and the twine I made out of reeds from the river wasn’t strong enough to support the string for the ballista. Still it would be useful if I could get it to work. I walked into the cave to see a few spears neatly set off to the side in case of an emergency need of one. I had had many fights over my little cave and it was always better to be safe than sorry.


I went further into the cave to see my makeshift hammock and next to it my true armory. My armory consisted of dual stone swords that looked like crude scimitars. Next to them was my bow that had saved my life on many of occasions. I had it as a short bow at first for flexibility but scrapped it when I decided that a great bow would be better suited to defend me. The power of the great was always astonishing, I was able to clean a manticore with two shots to the eyes and the bow could shoot straight through a timber wolf. The same twine that was being used for the ballista was being used for my bow, which was more successful. The bow had some stone arrows next to it along with some wooden arrows to incapacitate anything that could serve as bait. There were also a large variety of knives some, which look like they were meant to be thrown others to be gut and a few to fight with. I had only been here for a month but I had barely slept a wink in the forest. The forest had a way of keeping you fully aware and always on your toes. I may be the most feared in the forest but there will always be something out there to try and overstep its boundaries.


I grabbed my scimitars and began to sharpen them with a dull stone. It was always a pain in the ass trying to straighten out them but if anything I could always make them stronger. I sat there honing the blades when I felt a gut feeling that I needed to secure my territory. I have found that in this forest there was always one thing that always stayed true to me. Never doubt the gut feeling.

With that I grabbed my bow and slung it over me and grabbed a few throwing knives, a gutting knife and a fighting knife. Knives were small and weighed little so they wouldn’t hinder my movement like the swords or spears would. I walked out the cave and assessed the area. The forest was too quiet. I quickly climbed up a tree and stopped to listen to the forest. I heard movement to the east from where I came from earlier, the pony from earlier no doubt trying to find me. I quickly jumped from tree to tree as silently as possible make little noise other than the rustling of the tree branches. Most predators would brush it off as the wind. I stopped suddenly when I saw the pony with the dragon with another in tow. This one was yellowish except, darker almost and a Pegasus. I’m not very color coordinated. I overheard them talking to each other.


“Twilight it’s not safe in the forest, I think we should go back.” The Pegasus said quietly, so quietly that I barely heard it. “Well if Spike had actually watched it then we wouldn’t have to find it Fluttershy besides it could be in danger.” Twilight replied. ‘hmm so they are looking for me huh? It might be best not to be seen then.’ “Besides I sent Spike to go get the others to help look for it. So they should be coming soon.” Twilight said reassuringly. Something told me that the one called Fluttershy didn’t want to be here, more than that I could feel her fear much like a wolf could. I continued to observe them as they trekked further into the forest going further away from the town. “Umm…Twilight can we go wait for the others? If you don’t mind that is..” Fluttershy stammered out clearly uncomfortable with the forest. I decided then to let out a deep wolf howl. It was one to show that meant that territory was being trespassed. Don’t ask how I knew, I just knew what it meant. Both of them jumped at the sound of the howl and looked at each other in clear fear.


“I think we should wait for the others too. Let’s go back.” Twilight fearfully said and the both of them galloped away. I laughed to myself as I thought of their faces. “Oh God, that was priceless” I said to myself allowing a small chuckle to escape my lips. With a grin I began to take matters into my own hands and decided to make traps to harmlessly capture the ponies. I set up nets that I would usually use to capture wolves and scattered the dirt over them to camouflage them. I dug a few pits as well and made few branch traps that would cause the branches to hit the tripper that should knock them out. It took me a few hours to finally get all the traps in place and when they were finished I decided to check near the edge to see if the ponies were coming back.


Sure enough as I reached the border of the forest I saw the two ponies from earlier getting ready to trek through the forest. Twilight and Fluttershy were there but there were others next to them that were knew. There was another Pegasus with a blue coat and a rainbow mane. The first thing that came to mind was of course skittles. “Man that sounds kind of good right now.” I thought to myself.


The next was a light orange pony with a blonde mane. This one was wearing a cowboy hat. “What in the world?” I whispered to myself. Next to her stood a white pony with a blue mane that was styled up very stylishly. “I truly have gone mad haven’t I?” I asked myself. The last was a pink one was bouncing excitedly. It was then I noticed the strange markings on their flanks and that all of them were females or whatever the female version of a pony is. Twilight had weird sparkles on hers and Fluttershy had butterflies on hers. Skittles had a cloud with a rainbow lightning bolt. The Cowboy had apples on hers, while the Stylist had gems on hers and Jumpy had balloons on hers. “Where the bloody hell am I?” I said to myself a little too loudly as the girls heard me and looked towards the forest. 


“Did you girls hear that?” Twilight asked looking at the others. There was a silent nod from everyone except Jumpy who only seemed to get more excited. “Do you think that it was the thing from earlier that you lost Twilight? You know the one you said that Spike lost who said he was only distracted but we all really know he was getting a snack to eat. Do you think it loves parties and cupcakes and mmmmmphhh” she was cut off thankfully as Jumpy appeared to be talking erratically and I barely registered all she had said.


“Let’s just hurry up and find this thing I don’t want to be in that dreadful forest any longer than I have to. The last time I was here my mane was awful by the time we left.” Stylist had said going on and on about her mane and what not it was very annoying and I was grateful when she finally shut up. They all started towards the forest and just as they entered I did one final check to see I was ready to make them work for catching me. I waited until they were almost below me when I dropped down in front of them scaring the crap out of them. They all fell onto the ground in pure terror. Stylist shrieked while Twilight was being held down by Fluttershy who was too terrified to do much but clamp onto Twilight and shiver in pure terror. I growled a warning for good measure to add to their terror of me. I grinned as I turned away and leapt away from them. I looked back to see them picking themselves up. I was rather hoping that they would drop this hunt for me now but it seemed I only furthered their resolve as I heard.


“Come on girls we can catch him there are six of us and only one of him. They all muttered and nodded a confirmation. Then i mumbled to myself “Ohh well so much for doing things the easy way. Well then let the games begin.”

A/N: Took me awhile to get this done. I have read the comments and am trying to cut back on the walls of text by a lot. Big thanks to my co-author WrestlingFan1013. He has a terrible username, but he helped me stay on track long enough to finish the story so he isn't that bad. Anyway enjoy the story and criticism is appreciated.

	CA/N: thank you for being patient. hopefully now that I have an account we can can get stories out faster
> Everfree Knockout 
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I needed to pick them off one by one to increase the chances of me losing them in the forest. Cowgirl pulls out a rope out of nowhere and tries to lasso me. Now I refuse to lose so easily and so quickly at my own game. So I let her lasso me up and just when she starts to pull me in I fall backwards sending her flying towards me. It was quite hilarious seeing her fly towards me flailing her hooves the entire time. As she flies towards me I bend my knees back, and as my back hits the ground she almost to me so I kick out my feet and grab her flailing fore hooves and push her over me and directly into a tree. She hit the tree with a loud “Thump”. I kick back onto my feet and untangle myself from the ropes and threw it on my back to loosely hang on my bow. I couched down on all fours. The others were getting near and they all seemed concerned for Cowgirl all except Skittles who was visible pissed at me. She was coming at me fast and left behind the others who were further behind then her.

I jumped suddenly into the trees and used them as a safety net to assure she couldn’t follow me. She proved me wrong as she joined me up in the trees more slowly; dodging many of the flinging branches swinging back as I forcefully made me way through them. I stopped for a minute grabbing a branch pulling it back allowing it to build up maximum tension. Skittles saw a window to catch and picked up speed eager to make me pay for what I did to her friend. “Get back here you’ll pay for what you did to AJ,” she said. ‘Hmmm so that’s her name interesting.’ Just as she was about to get me I casually let go of the branch and smirk. She saw the incoming branch and she tried to slow down to avoid impact but she was going too fast and impacted the branch with amazing force as a loud “THWACK!” was heard. I saw her fly back into other branches softening her landing with the tree but not by much as a “Thump” could be heard.

‘Well then two for me zero for the dumb ponies.’ Clearly more cheerful I made an obvious trek so that the others could still follow me. I reached behind me and grabbed the rope on my bow and gripped it firmly in my hand. The rope was amazingly long. I stopped my visible trail and shifted quietly onto a nearby tree. Just as quietly I landed onto the ground and saw the approaching mares look up trying to find me in the trees. “Where is he? He was just here a moment ago.” A visible concerned Twilight said. I approached them unbeknownst to them from behind and just as I was going to bind up Jumpy a noise interrupted me. “Watch out behind you Pinkie!” I glanced behind me to see AJ and Skittles were back up and trudging after them. Before any of them could react I swept my leg in a long arch underneath them and my hand quickly grabbed the back of Pinkie’s neck and squeezed gently but hard enough to hit the nerve and knock her unconscious and with quick succession I hogtied her up with AJ’s rope. I jumped away just barely avoiding a blast from Twilight and gazed into her determined eyes. Her horn lit up again but before she could do anything my palm was striking below her mouth sending her rocketing in the air to land a few feet away. “Twilight!” they all shouted. 

I jumped back into the trees leading the rest of sore party into the many traps I had laid out for them. I noticed that the one called Fluttershy stayed with Pinkie. It was fine by me less to deal with after all and if they were separated the more easily it would be to take them down. It then occurred to me that I had no plan other than to hurt them and discourage them from trying to chase me. I was unused to these types of situations. Normally I would kill them and just let it be after that choosing to eat them if they were edible. However these mares would be noticed if they went missing and I would feel guilty about killing them. They thought and spoke much like I could. In a way it would be killing another human. A part of me knew that they would only give me trouble and would not let this go. If they went home at all empty handed they would only come back with more ponies to try to subdue me.

For once I was unsure of how to act beyond my basic fight or flight instincts. With a grimace on my face I decided that I’d let them catch me today but not without having some fun on my end of beating them up. I’m rather dark and twisted but I acknowledge that it was a flaw that had kept me alive this far. So it must be good for something I reasoned within myself, finalizing my internal thoughts. I looked around to see where I was in my territory and smiled. The trees were marked by visible cuts in the branch made by a sword of sorts. The mark they made was a shape of a J one that I deemed fit to mark as my territorial mark. I turned around to see some of my traps go off. 

The net perfectly ensnared Stylist and Twilight together, just as the net pulls them up their heads hit dazing them. I pull out my bow and arm a wooden arrow without a shaft and arm it. I pull it back just enough to knock out an average human. Turns out the same applies to ponies as well as I let go and saw Twilight slump unconsciously in the net next to Stylist. I give out my victory shout that would make Chewbacca proud. I allow a moment too much to savor my sweet impending victory, but alas luck is never on my side. Jumpy manages to jump all the way to my top branch she opens her mouth to say something but I don’t give her the chance. With all the speed of a puma I shot out my hand in a downward chop and hit her with enough force to knock out a Timber wolf. To my surprise she just bounces back up. “Well that wasn’t very nice Mr. Monkey hitting people-“she was cut off by my foot kicking her back down. Of course defying all things possible she just came right back up. “Hey that was very rude of you Mr. Monkey, anyway as I was about to say before you hit me. Hi I’m Pinkie Pie and I want to throw you a-“That was all she got out before I kicked her away from me this time making sure she got as far away from me as possible.

As I started to move back to spot who else was around I couldn’t find anyone. Even Twilight and Rarity had escaped my trap then I sensed my error. I let myself get carried away. I abruptly jumped back to avoid the telekinetic grip of Twilight by mere seconds. “Get him Rainbow!” I turned around only to see a cyan coat right in my face tackle me to the ground. The trip down was short but felt like an eternity. Just to get back at Rainbow I kneed her in the get loosening her grip on me enough to rip her out in front of me at the last second and she took the full force of the fall and I used her body to jump off and jump back right into the circle of mares surrounding me.

I looked all around me to find an opening of some kind but rainbow was back up and the six mares were encircling me like a pack of wolves. Except they weren’t swiping at me and they weren’t trying to eat me. Twilight this time successfully picked me up with her telekinesis. “Twilight it’s scared I don’t think using magic on it is a good thing. If you don’t mind that is.” Fluttershy stuttered. She was right I was struggling against her grip and she was barely keeping me afloat and still. I roared at being constrained and it was enough to break Twilight’s concentration to ungraciously drop me on the ground.
I rolled on the floor and quickly found my footing. I saw Twilight charging up another spell but I didn’t give her time as pounced on her and drove me into the back of her neck finding the nerve and hitting it with precision and speed. She slumped in my arms unconscious. The others thought I had killed her. “Twilight no!” they screamed. I tossed her off of me into Fluttershy, only to get hoofed in the mouth by Rainbow. I glared her down unfazed at her pathetic attempt. I saw Cowgirl running up to me and managed to step back just as she attempted to buck me only to grab her hind legs and yank her off the ground. Then I grabbed her midsection and did what I saw in wrestling shows so many times. I supplexed her right into the ground with a frightening crack. I dropped her to the ground and swept my leg across the ground sluggishly. Dazed from the supplex I surprisingly still stood fine albeit sluggishly and slow though. ‘Man that hurt like a bitch and she took the full blow of it’ I thought as everyone except Cowgirl and Rainbow tried to get back up. Rainbow took a couple more swings at me in my dazed state and I swung wildly in an attempt to get her

My punches were wide and she was to fast as she easily swung by them with ease. Then suddenly I felt my legs being kicked beneath me and saw that Stylist had bucked my legs out of nowhere. Then Pinkie pulled out a cannon from behind her. I shit you not I thought I was hallucinating and going crazy. She blasts me with confetti and such and I get was latterly torn off my feet with the force of the blow and landed on my ass a couple feet away from them. “Pinkie where ever did you pull out that cannon dear?” Stylist asked her. “Silly Rarity I always have my party cannon with me in case somepony ever needs a party in a jiffy.” Pinkie answered her. I groaned loudly and they were shocked that I still rose from the cannon blow. My eyes suddenly lost their glow about them and were engulfed in a red glow. I crouched down to all fours and ran at them. They were startled and fell back on their haunches. Rainbow recovered quickly enough to fly in my way to stop me. I swatted her aside like a fly and she flew into a nearby tree. I then pounced on Rarity on started to pummel. Punch after punch landed on her. Her resistance to give up only fueled the rage coursing through my veins.

Twilight blasted me back but I was unfazed, if anything I was getting more pissed off. With breakneck speed I was at her side and picked her up by the throat before any of the others could react. I slammed her into the ground with such force that a resounding crack could be heard over the crash of her being slammed into the ground. Eager to instill pain and fear into the ponies I grabbed the nearest mare, which was coincidentally Rainbow. I grabbed her by her leg as she tried to escape my clutch to no avail. I swung her into the nearest tree and punched her straight through it. I jumped through straight for her and twisted my body to where I was behind her in the air. I hugged her tightly and I preformed another supplex this time on her. This one was much worst then the first one I did. I somehow in my rage forgot how small ponies are so instead of her head being into the ground in a bloody mush it was my head that was on that had hit the ground first. The mere force of the supplex created a huge indenture where we were. Twilight passed out from the force of the supplex while blood ran freely from my head. I stood adrenaline pumping me my action. The blood mixed in with my eyes obscuring my view but what happened next would make me cringe now even thinking of it.

Fluttershy had approached me and yelled at me. “No more! No more hurting my friends! You will stop NOW!” With those words came a stare. I didn’t get it at first so I stared back. When I looked into those eyes, I saw every impure, evil wrong thing I had done. My mind raced as I relived every horrible thing I had done and it seemed that now each one seemed more horrible then when I had done them. The animals I killed, the mares I hurt, my death. Everything within me shook with a violent shudder that I was a terrible person and there was no redemption for the sins I had committed.

I broke down right there after looking hard into her eyes. I screamed out in agony at the mental pain that I was experiencing. The more I tried to forget them the more they appeared worse in my mind. Tears streamed from my eyes mixing in with the blood. I tried to reason with the mental battle within me trying to erase it win over it, anything to make the pain stop. All if it was futile. I rolled on the ground in pain screaming and wailing praying for god to help me. If there was he was not there with me in those thoughts and the pain I felt all of it consumed my being and soon I stopped moving. I breathed ever so slowly now and barely felt anything but unworthy of any pity. I blacked out there in extreme anguish and pain feeling as if my soul had been ripped out of my body and ripped into shreds. I felt nothing; no I felt less than nothing. I felt the cruel clasping hands of death hovering ever so slightly, content to see me suffer and unwilling to take me. How I survived such a thing I still wonder.


A/N: Anyone who has ever played FF6 should know that the whole supplex thing comes Sabin. Anyway seeing this pic gave me the idea. This goes to show that Sabin is awesome. Anyway had fun writing this chapter and it took a while for me to get it done but it's finally done hope you all like it!Sabin being a boss

Ca/N: hope you enjoy this chapter probably the best one yet plz comment on how we can make our stories better next chapter should be coming up soon
> Pony Negotiations
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	I felt like I drifted endlessly down a path of murky darkness. It was thick like a fog and I seemed to just drift in it. I took a deep breath and exhaled. Suddenly the fog lifted and it its place a forest surrounded me and where I stood directly in front of me was a large campfire. It crackled softly as the fire consumed the huge logs of wood. I wasn’t there for much longer when I was joined by other people. We all sat by the fire entranced with the way the fire flickered here and there. “You have been neglecting us.” One of them spoke. I couldn’t tell who thy all wore cloaks to hide their faces and clothes. I saw nothing but cloaked men standing around the fire. At least I assumed at the time that they were all men. “Wake up it’s time we get this dreaded meeting over with” the same voice spoke to me again. This time when he finished speaking I snapped awake.

My eyes flew open as I took in my surroundings. I was once more in the library that I had once escaped. The others were all sleeping in chairs or couches or on the floor. All six of them were near me probably making sure I didn’t sneak off again. I tried to get up noticing that I was tied to the chair and the chair didn’t seem to budge no matter how much I shifted. I checked my appearance to see if I was hurt badly. My head felt like someone had been using a jackhammer on it but other than that I was alright. I wore nothing but my tattered pants that were now more shorts than anything. I relaxed myself knowing that in my situation there was nothing else I could do. I closed my eyes and concentrated on feeling everything around me.

I could feel the air around me hear the soft snores of the few mares and the more noticeable one of Rainbow and Cowgirl. I could hear their breathing and noticed that the injuries I had inflicted upon them did not faze them. They were healed or somehow got better in the time I have been asleep and when I had awoken. I took a deep breath and took in my surroundings. The rope was tightly bound and reinforced with magic it seemed. The chair too for that matter felt like it had magic in it as well. I twitched as Pinkie mumbled in her sleep about a party. I opened my eyes to greet the sunrise touching the room. I knew that now that I had been caught that it was either fess up at being more intelligent than I had let on or become Twilight’s new experiment. I shuddered at the thought of her experimenting on me.

It was then I noticed Cowgirl staring at me realizing that I was awake. She saw me staring back at her and we held the staring contest for a minute before I shouted. “Boo!” She damn near jumped out of her skin as did the rest of the girls as they were spooked awake. I laughed my ass off at the sight of them. “Buhahahahahahaha, you should have seen the looks on your faces. Hahahahaha ohh, that was priceless.” I was rocking in the chair laughing so hard tears started to form. “Wait you can talk?” Twilight asked clearly shocked along with the rest of the girls.

“Nooooo, this is all in your imagination and I am merely the little part of you that has finally snapped. Of course I can talk, do you see my lips moving the sound coming from my mouth? One could deduct that speech would be very probably if such sounds come from such a creature as I.” I was clearly patronizing her and she didn’t like it very much looking at her expression on her face.

“No need to so rude about it I was just asking you.” She replied

“And I was just telling you Captain Obvious that you are correct and have succeeded in pointing out the obvious to us all. I’m guessing that common sense is not in any of your dictionaries? Of all the terrible things to happen to me I get the dimwitted ponies. Why have you forsaken me?” I looked to the roof as I asked the last question as if expecting god to come down and say ‘I just like fucking with you man it’s always a riot seeing bad shit happen to you.’

“Ummm, who are you talking to?” Twilight asked,

“Ooh I wanna guess, can I guess?” Pinkie jumped up and down 

“Of course you can guess and if you get it right I’ll give you a cookie.” I responded in a tone one uses when talking to a dog to call it stupid in a bright and funny way as if the dog doesn’t understand it.

“You were talking to the roof huh??” She looked at me expectantly hoping she gave the right answer.

“How did you know, you’re such a smart little biscuit aren’t you?” I said in the most sarcastic way possible. 

“Yeah I am” Pinkie responds puffing up her chest as if she was swelling up with pride. 

“Pinkie ya ain’t a biscuit and a think he’s bein sarcastic.” Cowgirl interrupted.

“Mr. Monkey wouldn’t lie to me would you?” Pinkie looks at my hopefully.

“Damn straight I would and of course I was being sarcastic. You’re no better than Captain Obvious over there, probably worse.” I replied indicating to Twilight with my head when I called her Captain Obvious and she scowled at me, as did Cowgirl. If I didn’t know any better I’d also say that Pinkie’s hair sagged a little at being insulted.

“Hey that isn’t very nice Mr. Monkey!” Pinkie exclaimed. 

“Never said I was nice and why would I be nice after being called out of my name? My name sure as hell ain’t Mr. Monkey and unless you like to keep your mouth you’ll stop or I’ll rip out that little tongue of yours.” I responded evilly. 

“You wouldn’t do that.” Twilight responded. “You specifically tried to incapacitate us and I noticed that you could have killed us at any instant. Why didn’t you?”

“Well to answer your first question how about you untie me and see me rip her tongue out of her mouth.” They all paled a little taking me dead serious. “And to answer the second question.” I answered, cutting myself off intentionally to add to the intensity of the conversation. I didn’t say anything for a while and Twilight got tired of waiting.

“Well?” She asked.

“Well what?” I asked back.

“Aren’t you going to answer my question?” She asked.

“Why should I?” I countered.

“Because I asked you.” She said as if that was good enough reason.

“Well then…” I cut myself because I knew most of their names but they didn’t know that I knew and they didn’t need to know. Keeps them guessing and makes me seem more smart or more like an ass. I really didn’t care what their impressions of me where to be frank.

“Twilight Sparkle.” She said 

“Well then Ms. Sparkle, because you simply asked me to answer your question does not mean that I will answer it. Would you jump off a cliff if I asked you?” I asked.

“No, I-“she tried to say but I cut her off right after she said no drowning out her answer.

“There you have it; you yourself would not follow your own terrible answer. Think about the terrible anarchy that could amount to such terrible and ludacris ideas. Why your fellow ponies could go mad from such thinking. Imagine the horror of having to give away your house simply because somepony asked them too. What would you do? Well the obvious answer is to ask for your house back. Suddenly you have an endless triage of ponies asking for ridiculous things of others simply because all one must do is ask. The anarchy this line of thinking could stir. Why countries would lie in disarray because the workers got tired and wanted a break and all they had to do was ask for it. Then those workers realized that they can just ask for the money because it would be given to them simply because they asked for it. You’ll have children running the streets eating candy and consorting with whores because all they had to do was ask for it. You’ll have animals running amok the population no one to taking care of them, the guards not there revolting the idea of work when they can just ask for more money. Ponies could die get killed, or maimed or injured and hurt badly. All simply because of one idea, all because, Ms. Sparkle thought that anything could be given if it were only asked.” I finished my speech and looked at the many faces the wore of horror, amusement, shock, disgust, confused and disbelief. 

“That couldn’t possibly happen at all.” Rarity answered first shocking me into realizing that a number of them had not spoken.

“And you are?” I asked.

“I am Rarity.” She replied curtly as if she was sticking up her nose to the idea of conversing with such a brute as I. She actually did too the stuck up bitch actually turned up her nose at me.

“Well then, bitch I can clearly see the superior species here seeing how I beat all of your asses out there in the forest. So how about you humble yourself to my level and see that I could have just as easily skewered your ass out there and had some nice cooked pony roasting over a spit.” I told her malice coating my words. I hate the stuck up always have and always will.

“You don’t eat ponies.” She said rather fearful and unsure of the validity of the statement.

“You sure about that? Pony meat can’t be all that bad.” When I said this I saw Fluttershy faint. Wait…No…No, no, no, no. I tried to get out of my binds in terror as I saw her there. She was the reason I would forever be scared. “Let me out!!!! I will not be in the same room as that demon!! Get that demon away from me. As far away as possible, I’ll even answer some questions, just get her away!” I screamed in fear at them. They were all shocked and even more so when they figured out I was talking about Fluttershy who had feinted.

“Fluttershy isn’t a demon.” Rainbow said speaking up for once.

“You didn’t see what I saw in those eyes. The pain and the anguish I felt. Never again, just get her away from me!” I was close to hyperventilating as my body freaked out at the sight of her and I could feel the images surface my mind. 

“Rainbow take her back home we’ll watch over it.” Twilight said.

“But-“Rainbow tried to argue but saw how futile it was. She took the unconscious Fluttershy outside and I started to calm down. It took a minute to regain my calm.

“So what was that about?” Twilight asked.

“None of your damn business” I responded gruffly. 

“But you said you would answer some questions!” She practically screeched at me. 

“I did, you just didn’t like the answer.” I laughed at her scowl but froze at what she said next.

“Maybe we should call back Rainbow and Fluttershy.” She said mockingly. The rest of them giggled a little at the joke.

“I’ll kill you.” I responded coldly and devoid of emotion. "I’ll kill everyone you care about right in front of you before I kill you. Don’t ever fucking joke about that again.” Everyone’s faces dropped and no one dared respond to my threat all of them fearing that I just might do it. It was then I noticed that Spike was there by Twilight’s side. “Yo, Spike how you doin?” 

“I’m f-f-f-fine.” He stammered fearfully.

“Well look you want answers and I want out of this chair and binds, so let’s call a truce and I’ll promise not to harm any of you ponies.”

“Ah don’t know ya ain’t been the most reliable for honesty.” Cowgirl said.

“I gave you my word. That is the most solemn oath any of my kind can ever give. My word is my pride and if I say I’m going to do something and I promise it, you best be damn sure that even if I do die I will fulfill that promise. Maybe you don’t understand that maybe you do but you ain’t getting much out of me in this chair.” I said with a serious tone.

“Well I guess for now that it’ll have to do but I'm going to send a letter to the Princess about this. I probably should have done that sooner.” She says, releasing my binds and finally allowing me to move freely. I stood up and cracked my back and stretched my aching body. 

“J.” I say clearly for all of them to hear.

“What?” Twilight asked. 

“That’s what you can all me. J.” I say again to them.

“Well ah’m Applejack” said Cowgirl or Applejack now.

“And I am Rarity” said Rarity still a little stuck up but not as much as before. I merely harrumphed at her.

“Oh I’m Pinkie Pie and your my new bestest friend J were going to make the bestest of buddies!” Pinkie says jumping up to my face and wrapping me in a tight hug.

“Uhh, I just threatened to rip out your tongue and now your hugging me?”

“Ohh I knew you were kidding your too nice for that, besides the author’s and I have an agreement and he knows better than to break a Pinkie Promise.” She says the last line looking towards the bookshelf as if someone was watching us over there. Yea crazy huh and here I thought I had it pretty bad.


A/N: Two in one day, what madness is this?? This is my way of saying sorry for taking so long to come out with the next chapters. Trying to do better and this one was surprisingly easy to do. The talking takes up a lot of room. Can any of you guess who was wearing what expression? Anyone who gets it right gets a cookie.

Ca/n: hope we didn't keep you waiting, hope you like this chapter, plz leave comments telling us how we can improve our stories thanx for reading
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 	After I introduced myself the girls kept bombarding me with questions. Rarity went on and on about how horrid my clothes were even though I was just wearing tattered shorts. I then said the one thing I would come to regret for the rest of my life. “Well if there so terrible how about you go get me some new ones?” I didn’t know at the time she made clothes. I saw a sparkle in her eyes that warned me that I had somehow piqued her interest. 


“Yes, I could make you new clothes. Clothes much better than that rag your wearing. Ohh I can imagine the colors that would go well with you. A nice shade of brown would look nice and maybe even a dark shade of green. Darling you simply must let me take your measurements. I have to go to my store and get them, I’ll be back before you know it.” She then left and I saw the looks of the others and knew that I had truly and utterly fucked up.


“I fucked up didn’t I?” I asked them in a defeated tone.


“You’re in for mighty long standin’ best ta get comfy now.” Applejack answered me with a smirk.


“Well then can I get some grub before I'm forced into being a human mannequin? I’m starving over here.” I say as my stomach grumbles as if to agree with me. The girls all laugh at me and I scowl. It’s as if starving is funny, women. If there is one thing I learned it’s that with women they’re always right even when their wrong. Don’t get me wrong I'm not sexist it’s just that in my eyes women and men will never be equal. That’s probably why most women back home never appreciated my opinions. To hell with them I always said I’ll speak my mind when I want.


I end up leaving them while they laugh to see what food I can scavenge from Twilight’s kitchen. I rummage through a couple of cabinets finding only plates, mugs and bowls. Then I open the fridge to find some hay on a plate, a plate full of gems and apples. I grab the apples and slam the fridge. She only has four apples so I take them all to devour them. I munch through the apple, like I hadn’t eaten in weeks. Which is partially true, seeing how I didn’t sleep much during the day nor the night, I spent most of the time making weapons to defend myself and traps to kill off the larger prey. I all but inhaled the second, third and fourth apple leaving nothing behind not even the core.


“Were you really that hungry?” Twilight asks me. I’m too busy trying to chew the remains of the apple. They tasted sweet and juicy and for once actually left me full.


“Huh? Ohh yeah been awhile since I last had any food. Timberwolves aren’t edible and manticore’s venom runs through its entire system so not exactly healthy to eat either. Rabbits weren’t exactly in my part of the woods and the only meal I actually had was the chicken snake thing. Best meal ever.” I say thinking on my horrible month in the Everfree. Let’s just say that I hate that place which a passion. I was being hunted all throughout that almost the entire time.


“You ate a cockatrice?” They all paled when they heard what Twilight just said.


“Is that what they’re called? Tastes like chicken to me and after starving for two weeks anything tastes great. I got so desperate I actually tried to eat a Timberwolf.” I shudder visible. “I had a sappy taste in my mouth for weeks after that. Still kind of taste it too.” I start smacking my lips with a disgusted look on my face. It was then that I noticed that the girls started to back away from me.


“You’re a carnivore!?” Twilight all but shouted at me.


“No ya idiot I just ate some apples I’m an omnivore thank you.” I saw that the looks on their faces didn’t change one bit.“Who the hell are any of you to judge me ehh? You chased me through my territory to experiment on me! I will not be anyone’s pet or experiment. You think that I’m evil because I eat meat? Then shame on you all for judging me because of what I eat and not who I am. All of you are no better than uptight nobles looking down on peasants. Don’t ever look down on me. Ever. I can kill you all easily and don’t you dare forget it. I don’t have to deal with any of your shit!” they all look abashed and shamed for their over reactions. Me, I was beyond pissed. I stormed off past them and made my way to the door when Rarity opened the door right on me, slamming it right in my face. She walked in and saw the door lodged in my face and closed the door. I clenched my fists at my sides, my instincts begging that I rip them all apart.


“J, darling I’m-“That’s all she got out before I interrupted her.


“Stop while you’re ahead.” I turned away from her coldly. I walked up to Twilight to see her still standing there looking ashamed. She opened her mouth to say something. “Not. One. Word. Show me where I will be staying; if I do not have a room I swear to all that is holy I will burn this tree to the ground.” From the way her eyes shifted it didn’t look like it. Then her eyes lit up and she led me to the basement. Apparently this is where her lab was and she was getting ready to take it all away, but I had a better idea. “Leave it. I won’t take up too much room and this room is big enough.” It was very spacious, perfect for a lab.


“Are you sure I can just move it all out the way for you it’s no problem.” She was trying to appease me to make me as comfortable as possible. “I can get a bed for you in a week or so if you don’t mind the wait.” She was desperate to get on my good side.


“I will sleep on the floor. I am used to unpleasant sleeping places and being too comfortable is never too good. That will be all for now.” She looked like she wanted to say something but thought better of it and left. I was left there all alone and managed to find some paper and a quill in an inkwell and now I sit here writing this journal. I have been writing for what feels like forever trying to piece all the crazy stuff that’s happened. I had changed so much. That forest changed me into a killing machine. I felt emptier inside than I had when I killed myself. That was a month ago. I clench my fists eager to vent my anger. I knew that I couldn’t though. I have to keep my composure and try to keep calm. I sat in the middle of the room and crossed my legs to meditate. I sat like that for hours just meditating. I cleared my thoughts and opened myself to the world. I could hear the mumblings of the mares above talking amongst each other. Rainbow had returned and I could feel the fear in their mumbles. I concentrated a bit more to hear the town bustling with activity. Then I emptied my mind and focused on my breathing.


I steadied my anger and my heart. I was calm. I focused on slowing my heart rate further and further. My heart slowing down more and more until it was barely moving. The entire world around me became slow and barely animate. My entire body pulsed with energy flowing through me. The world seemed to slow down. As I concentrated hard to keep up this state I began to sweat profusely. I managed to hold that state for a minute before I collapsed on the floor exhausted. My heart felt like it was going to jump out. It felt good, strangely to be so worn and exhausted. I sat down and examined the lab I was in looking for any books. I found a few books here and there some on chemistry, some on stars and such. Then I found what I was looking for blank paper. I eventually found an inkwell and a quill and began to write the events that have occurred to me thus far.


I had become so engrossed in my writing that I did not hear the door open or close. It wasn’t until they spoke that I realized anyone was there. “What are you doing?” I quickly snapped around my hands moving instinctively to quickly kill whatever had snuck up on me when I stopped midway and realized it was just Twilight. I gave a sigh of relief as I had caught myself before I killed her. These ponies will be the death of me, especially if I killed one of them.


“I am writing a log of events that have occurred to me and around me. It is like a journal in some ways.” I responded looking around to see if there was anyone else there. Surprisingly she was the only one down here trying to talk to me.“Where are the others? Surely they would not leave you here alone.”


“Ohh no Rainbow Dash is still upstairs she’s resting though. Everypony else had jobs to get back to. Fluttershy should be coming by later on to check on you.” She says and my eyes widen and I feel my heart skip a beat.


“The Demon! You invited the demon to come back. That one is evil and cursed. She is using you for her own gain. That thing is no pony; it is a demon straight from hell.” My voice rose as I tried to reason with Twilight.


“Fluttershy is no demon! I will not stand here and let you badmouth my friends in my home! You will apologize to her for saying such mean and hateful things. You are lucky she doesn’t remember you calling her that. You could hurt her feelings.” Twilight said trying to make me feel sympathetic towards the demon.


“I will not apologize to that thing. Demon or not I will not apologize for something I do not feel sorry about. Furthermore that demon did something with my mind. That, stare of hers. I say the very fathoms of my soul. The injustices and the wicked things I’ve done. Every bad thing I ever did came rushing back to me in seconds. No, I refuse to apologize to such a evil vile thing that can do such a thing to me.” I say thinking about the memories that I pushed away from remembering. Dwelling on the past would accomplish nothing now.


“You’re not a very nice pony.” Twilight said with a frown.


“Well I guess it’s a good thing I’m not a pony then isn’t?” I say with a grin.


“You know what I mean.”


“Do I? I don’t think I do. Please do remind me of what I have forgotten. I have such a bad memory now-a-days.” I say sarcastically.


“Why do you have to be so difficult?” Twilight asked with a huff.


“Whatever do you mean Twilight? I am not being difficult at all. What would I accomplish in my current position by being difficult?” I say with a smirk enjoying every bit of her frustration.


“I don’t know! That’s what I want to know. You’re so confusing. I don’t get you at all. It’s like you want me to be confused and want me to keep guessing at your true intentions.” As she says this she looks up to see me wearing a wide grin.


“Why Twilight I am totally appalled that you would think that of me. What could I ever gain from your confusion? Maybe I am flirting with you in the way I know best. You are a beautiful mare and I would do anything to please you.” Twilight blushed at my compliment and as I approached her she looked away from me blushing deeply as if ashamed. I put my hand beneath her muzzle and lifted her face close to mine where I could see her eyes. “Within reason of course.” I said seductively closing in on her face watching as the purple unicorn light up a deep red. She closed her eyes in anticipation and just as we were about to kiss I patted her head much to her confusion. It took all my power to hold in the deep laughter that I wanted to let loose. “We should check on make sure she isn’t too lonely.” She was shocked beyond all belief and didn’t quite understand what I said until I began to climb up the stairs out of the basement.


“Wait J. What was that?” She asked curious to know why I had played her along. I knew this but decided to play dumb to entertain the game.


“What was what Twilight?” I asked trying to act as innocent as possible.


“You were going to kiss me back there. I’m sure of it. That’s why you were so close to my face right?”


“Why Twilight whatever do you mean?. I just wanted to pet you because your mane because it looks so soft and cute.” She blushed at that and began to stutter profusely. I laughed at her attempt to say something to which she scowled at me. By this time we had already came into the living seeing Rainbow stare at us. Well more at me suspiciously. “What?” I asked.


“You acting all buddy, buddy with Twi. She may trust you but I got my eye on you buster.” She says trying to appear as menacingly as possible as she floats up to my face putting a hoof to her eye and then at me.


“Why Rainbow Dash your lack of trust in me is despairing. What shall I do now with my life? Now that you don’t trust me I might as well be dead, oh the horror to not be trusted.” I say dramatically adding a fake tear at the end. “What must I do to earn your trust to live one my beautiful friend?” Rainbow blushes at the compliment surprisingly, while Twilight looks at me with a scowl and I could see a hint of jealousy in her eyes.


“Whatever. Your fancy words don’t mean anything to me. Just stay out of trouble or I’ll have to kick your flank.” She said, that however gave me a mischievous idea. I grinned widely as I knew this would be the icing on the cake for my flirting.


“Twilight, Rainbow can you two stand side to side?” They looked at me weirdly but complied, confusion clear on their faces. “Now turn around for me and stand still I want to see something.” I say the grin never leaving my face and again they comply even more confused than before. Then I looked at them both with clear thoughtfulness.


“What are you looking for?” Twilight asks me curious to know what is I wanted to see.


“Ohh I’m comparing who’s flanks are bigger.” I say nonchalantly as if it was no big deal. They both spun around fast blushing furiously. I merely laugh at their discomfort. Maybe these ponies could keep me entertained.

A/N: Man you wouldn't believe how much effort it took me to write this. Not a lot I assure you. I enjoy writing these chapters as I hope you enjoy them. Sorry for the lack of fighting going around but i figure that you have to build up tension with the story before you jump into the action. Don't worry i'll be sure to put little funnies in the chapters to come to get you guys laughing. Anyway changed the picture to better represent J. Could use an artist to draw me a pic if it isn't too much to ask for. Enough of me ranting I have to get writing on the next chapter so stick put for more.  

Ca/N: thank you for patience hope u enjoy it.
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	“I don’t want to die! I’m too young to die! I still haven’t married and had kids yet! It’s not fair!!!!” I overly dramatically shout to no one in particular. Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Applejack were all dragging me. I clawed at the floor and walls futilely in a desperate attempt to escape their grasp. 

“Come on ya varmint just get over there and stand still for Rarity.” Applejack tried to persuade me failing miserable.

“NO! I’ll turn to stone if I stand still for any longer. I’m too beautiful to be turned into rough stone. I can’t bare the pain any longer! I have to move!!!” I struggled against them in a vain attempt to escape the torture of having my measurements taken by Rarity.

“Darling I don’t know why you must be so difficult about this.” Rarity chimed in. she was too good to try to grab me along with the others, something about a hooficure, women.  With one final push I was put back on a pedestal. I resigned myself to the terrible fate that awaited me. 

“Well while you’re up there getting your measurements you can answer some questions about yourself.” Twilight said as if it was a question. She looked at me hopefully with those big eyes.  I almost said no, but when I saw the others also starting at me expectantly, I caved in.

“Fine but I reserve the right to deny answering any question that I don’t want to.” I said with a sigh. Twilight all but jumped in the air like she was Pinkie Pie and to make it worst I heard her girlish squeal. It was kind of annoying and I prayed that I never had to hear that sound again.

“So what are you?” Twilight asked me expecting some sort of great answer from me. 

“I’m the boogeyman.” I said trying to look intimidating and leaned forward a little bit towards Twilight. That earned me a playful snap of a measuring tape from Rarity, with her telling me to be still. I saw that Twilight was actually writing down what I said and all but facepalmed at the failure to get the joke. With a loud and audible sigh I corrected her. “I’m not the boogeyman I just said that to mess with you.” 


“Ohh then what are you then?” she said looking at me crossly for messing with her. 

“Hmmm, it depends who you are asking. People have different names for what my kind are. We are known as humans though. The technical term is homo sapian.” Twilight quickly wrote down what I said and I noticed that the little purple dinosaur wasn’t here, must still be scared of me.

“What do ya do fer a livin?” Applejack asked me

“Well, I am a man of many talents. I am an inventor and a scholar. An actor and a gentleman but above all I am always me.” I said with a bow which earned me a pick from a tack with Rarity again telling me to be still. She’s mean when it comes to clothes. 

“What do you do for fun?” Rainbow asked me.

“Well there are many things I do to entertain myself. I like to read, act and write. I like writing poems and such, something about bearing your soul out with words on a paper without having to say a thing. I love music; I used to play the guitar all the time and I could sing pretty well. I’m an expert with the piano though. Mostly I would spend my time listening to music. “I say with a faraway look. I missed my music the most. I didn’t have my Ipod that I loved and treasured with me. Music always helped me vent out my frustration.

“You okay there sugarcube?” Applejack asked me. 

“I am not a sugarcube.” I say with a little pout. They all giggled at my pout.

“You said you were a scholar what did you concentrate on mostly?” Twilight asks me.

“I am well versed in the art and teachings of intimate love making. It is a sought after subject that many are amateurs at which I teach them.” I said with a grin at my flat out lie but nonetheless it had the effect I wanted it. Twilight poked her quill through the page in surprise and all of them stared at me incredulously with deep blushes. “Hahahahahahaha, ohh you guys are too easy. I was kidding.” I laughed my ass off to which all of them glowered at me.

“Did you have a special somepony?” Rainbow asks me with a blush. From the looks of everyone faces I could see that this was on their minds as well. My mood quickly changed with that one question.

“I don’t see how that’s any of your business.” I say coldly. I could see her flinch at the cold remark along with the rest of them. 

“J are you okay?” Twilight asks me concerned. 

“Ohh I’m just dandy. Never been better.” I say with sarcasm and spite.

“And done, you’re free to go darling.” Rarity says to me as she grabs all her stuff looking at me with concern in her eyes.

“Good I hate standing still for too long.” I say.

“J we’re here for you if you need somepony to talk to.” Twilight says to me trying to get me to open up. 

“Why would I need any of you to be there for me? I made it by myself just fine and I can continue doing so. I can only depend on myself at the end of the day and to trust anyone else is only asking to be betrayed.” I say with malice dripping at my words and the slightest hint of defeatism.

“We would never betray you J! You can always depend on me and I’m sure I speak for Everypony when I say that were your friends and care about you.” Twilight says trying to assure me that they could be trusted. Though I think it was more to affirm to herself and me that she was loyal to her friends. I wasn’t going to be swayed on the matter though.

“Why would I take your word? I don’t even know you. I just barely met you all two or three days ago. I take my friendship seriously and consider deeply who I consider my friends. I don’t consider any of you my friends, your all just weird ponies that I know.” When I said that It looked like I had hurt their feelings and Twilight looked like she was close to tears. I hate it when people cry it only reminds me of how much I want to cry. So I head to the door and yank it open ready to flee to the only place that ever made sense to me in this world, the Everfree 

“Wait J!” I heard a voice call for me but I was already out the door trying to remain unseen by the ponies walking the streets in the middle of the day. I ran quickly into the forest and somehow remained unseen or so I thought. I quickly tracked my way back to my cave. When I arrived I decided to make a little pathway so that when the ponies came they would trip any of the traps I had set up. I gathered a bunch of logs and stones and made a pathway that stretched out halfway to Twilight’s tree house.  It didn’t take long for me to finish that task and when I did I headed back to the cave to find something to occupy my time.  When I arrived back at my cave it was barren of life except me. I picked up a large log and began to carve it into a crossbow. I was halfway through making it when I heard someone creeping up to the cave. It was definitely a pony and she smelled like cake so I knew it was Pinkie. I put down my knife and the incomplete crossbow. When she got closer to me I finally spoke up.

“Yes Pinkie is there something you need?” I asked coldly. I wasn’t quite ready to deal anyone yet and I was still a little pissed off at the naivety of the ponies. My back was still turned away from her.

“Twilight is crying she thinks she hurt you.” Pinkie said downcast at this information. She was quiet too and I could tell she was definitely sad. 

“What do you want me to do about that? I don’t control how she feels and I don’t care either. It is not my problem.” I say coldly trying to send her away from me.

“Why do you try to be mean to Everypony? We all just want to be your friends.” She said

“I don’t need any damn friends! I never asked you to be my friend and I won’t. So just leave me alone!” I yell at her turning towards her with the full force of my anger. I noticed she was crying too and it made me uncomfortable.

“Why do you keep trying to push us away? I know you’re hurting inside so why won’t you let anypony help?” When she said this I flinched away from her. I knew that what she had said was true but I would never admit it. I backed away from her as she slowly advanced towards me.

“Leave me alone, I don’t need help I’m fine on my own.” I say shakily I could feel my emotions tearing at me as I tried to choke away the tears that were trying to fill my eyes. I noticed that Pinkie’s hair look deflated and she was still crying with every step towards me. I hit the end of the cave and tried to back away only succeeding on falling on my ass. Then Pinkie hugged my chest in an attempt to reassure me. I desperately tried to get her off of me to no avail.

“Just let me hug you, please. You need it I can tell. Your suffering and I want to be here for you J.  Please just let me help you.” Pinkie asked me pleadingly. I could tell that she wasn’t going to drop it or let go of me unless I let her try. I sighed loudly.

“Fine, you can try but no guarantees that I’ll open up.” I just knew I was going to regret this. 

“Really you mean it?” Pinkie asked looking up at me and sniffling.

“Yeah I guess so, but no more crying. Smile because your smile looks beautiful.” I say with a small smile. It was my first real smile since being here. Pinkie blushed at this a little and then gasped loudly. I looked at her weirdly before she said what was on her mind.

“You smiled! That was like the first time I’ve seen you smile like that. It looks kinda funny.” Pinkie says giggling, I noticed that her mane was now puffy again and she had stopped crying. 

“I do not look funny while smiling you take that back!” I grappled her and gave her a nuggie while firmly putting her in chokehold.

“Ow, Owie, that hurts J.” 

“Then take back what you said and I’ll stop.”

“No.”  This went on for a while before I tired out and let her go. She rubbed her head while I laid on the ground. We talked for a while getting to know each other. It was mostly her telling me of her past and me evasively not telling her anything about my life before I came here. We had talked for a long time and it was pitch dark before she left to go home. I escorted her to the edge of the Everfree me being the gentleman I am. There we said out goodbyes and departed. I went back to my cave and decided to deal with Twilight and the others later. I sat down on the hard floor thinking to myself of my day. I was a little regretful that I snapped at Twilight and the girls. However I was glad that Pinkie was there to pull me out of my slump. Maybe I could trust these ponies. Only time will tell.


A/N: J's going soft on you guys. Naw he'll bounce back like he always does just have to let him cool off. So far J's made two mares cry. I felt a little bad writing this chapter. Hope you guys enjoy this. 

Ca/n: Thank you for your patience, I hope you enjoy this one, this is so far my favorite there's more to come.
> The Demon
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“You can’t be serious!? Spike to arms we are rebelling against the hive mind! Freedom of the people! Freedom!” I yell while grabbing him and roll into the kitchen. I place a pot on his head and gave him a frying pan. He looks at me with glee. I throw an apron that Rarity made for me. It was completely red with blue words stitched on it that said “Don’t Question the Chef”. I grabbed a towel and twirled it around staring at the door waiting for her to come through.


“J, you really should talk to Fluttershy she’s too shy to talk to you and it’d be nice to see you two as friends.” Twilight says as she walks into the kitchen. Then a loud snap was heard as my towel snapped at her leg. “Ouch that stings, what is wrong with you stop acting like a child!” Twilight yells at me.


“Our attacks our having no effect Spike retreat to the pillow fort!” I grab him while dodging a frying pan being thrown at me with Twilight’s magic. We fall back to my basement and grab the spare pillows and set them into an impressive pillow fort. We set books on the outside to be our moat. Just as we finished Twilight storms through the door to the basement mad. “Arm the catapult Spike. We only have one shot at this, it was an honor to serve the rebellion with you.” I say saluting Spike as he chuckles at my silliness. “Fire!” Spike launches the pillow right at Twilights face. I grab a remaining pillow and charge at Twilight. “LEEEEEEROOOY Jenkins!” I shout to the heavens as my pillow smashes into Twilight. 


“Okay that’s it! You want to play? Then it is on!” Twilight uses her magic to use the pillow of the fort to slam into me from all sides. It was very unfair. I fell to the ground under the endless barrage of pillows from the evil tyrannical control of Twilight. She stopped for a second to see if I had given up only to receive a face full of pillows. Somehow she had converted Spike to her side and he was hitting me with pillows too. 


“Spike you traitor how could you betray me, I treated you like a brother only for you to betray me.” He merely laughed at me as he and Twilight overpowered me and out manned me. Well maybe not out man, maybe it’s more like out pony dragoned me? Anyway they had me defeated miserable and I surrendered under her terms to visit Fluttershy and give her a chance to apologize for giving me the Stare. That made me think that maybe the ponies and inhabitants here held some sort of resistance from the stare due to all the silly magic going around. With much reluctance and dark feelings I agreed to talk to Fluttershy today. Of course Twilight had already invited her over and anticipated my resistance and had made a list of things we could talk about. The list was terrible like she had gotten it from a book. Wait this is Twilight were talking about she probably did get it from a book. She needs to get laid or something way too uptight of course whenever I said that to her she just blushed and stammered out that she wasn’t ready for anything like that. 


“So Twilight when is Fluttershy coming over so I can prepare to shield my eyes from that demonic gaze of hers. Still can’t believe your friends with a demon and you’re in denial about it.” I say to get a disapproving glare from Twilight.


“Fluttershy is not a demon J. You’re just letting your imagination getting the better of you.” Twilight said


“Yeah and I live in a yellow submarine, I’m telling you that bitch is a demony, hell spawn or something. You didn’t see what I saw in that stare.” I shivered thinking about it again.


“J it’s not nice to call others names. Now be nice or I’ll put you in timeout.” Twilight said somewhat serious but jokingly. 


“Time out? Pssh I wish you’d try. I’ll knock down every book of the shelf and steal Spike away so you have to do it alone.” I say threateningly.


“You do realize I have magic and I could just put it all back in a manner of minutes?” Twilight said with a grin. It was that I win kind of grins. 


“Cheater.” I said pouting off to the side and of course Twilight laughed at me and my antics. I think sometimes that she just likes crushing my good moods. Even though I had only been here a week I had gotten along with everyone just fine. With the exception of Fluttershy of course, whenever she came by trying to see me I would hide away until she left. I was a damn good hider too; they couldn’t find me until I wanted to be found. I never took chances with Fluttershy she was a demon pretending to be a pony so that meant that she was a scout or something bad. Don’t get me wrong I wasn’t scared or anything I was downright terrified. I’d rather take on a herd of manticores then have to take on a demon. You don’t hear anything good about demons because they’re evil and demonic. It took me a minute to accept the fact that horses, excuse me, “Ponies” can talk. I still have trouble accepting this as reality. I’ve stopped caring where I am and how I got here and just lived to continue existing. It felt weird knowing that I killed myself only to land up here and try to live now. Some might call it irony. It was now that I retreated to the bathroom to freshen up with my meeting with ‘Fluttershy’. As I stripped myself of the new clothing I received from Rarity which was a black silken pants and a matching shirt. I couched into the short shower and turned the nozzle sideways to turn it on. These ponies only have one setting and that’s hot for the shower. I eventually sat in the small tub letting the water hit my face. I could feel the hot drops flow down my cheeks and I could almost see a woman’s face in the background. I shake my head and instantly focus on the shower, pushing away my memories. I left that life behind and it will only hurt me to think of it.



I turn off the shower and dry myself off. I look in the mirror at myself and grin. My body is well defined ripe with muscles and scars. I have three claws of a Manticore across my chest and claw marks all along my back from Timberwolves that never healed right. I also saw the whip marks that permantly stain my upper shoulders and the jagged cut marks on both shoulder blades. I check my arms and see that my tattoo still lies there, as a permanent reminder of who I once was. The tattoo is a black like wormhole to signify the faction I belonged to. I quickly throw on my pants and shirt to cover up the scars. It’s surprising the girls never saw them. Then again I had caked on dirt from a month’s worth of living in the Everfree at the time.


I step outside the door to see Twilight talking to Fluttershy and I quietly slam the door shut. I take a deep breath in an attempt to calm myself. “Come on J, you got this she’s just a little harmless pony. She wouldn’t hurt a fly.” I take a deep breath and embrace my impending doom with the demon I am to face. My face bore a pained grin as if it hurt to smile. I approached Twilight and Fluttershy my legs shaking as I thought of every unbearable pain she could put my through. “Hey guys how’s it going?” I say through clenched teeth. 


“Eeep” Fluttershy says as she dashes into her mane and me being the manly man I am grab Twilight up and hold her out towards Fluttershy as if offering her up.


“Take Twilight I’d be a terrible meal I'm all gristly and tough and tangy not good at all for a demon like you to eat. Just let me live!!! I swear I won’t take Twilight’s notes and hide them from her anymore!” I say in the most groveling and pathetic way I can. 


“J put me down and HEY! You’re the one moving my notes! Those are important you know.” Twilight says reprimanding me.


“Just tell your demon friend not to kill me please.” I say as I put Twilight down all the while she’s giving me the death glare. I hear a little mumble come from Fluttershy that I didn’t quite hear. “You say something oh mighty and powerful demon?” I ask while bowing before her, to show her that I mean no harm.


“Ummm, I'm not a demon you know. In case you didn’t know, I mean if that’s alright with you.” She says shyly. Then that got me thinking that maybe she really was a regular old pony or maybe she’s possessed by a demon. Definitely feel strongly about the possession theory so all I really have to do is stay on her good side and not piss her off. 


“Yeah that’s alright with me. Sorry just that your stare that you did messed me up pretty bad.” I say nonchalantly quickly standing back up only to frighten Fluttershy more.


“Ohh were you hurt? You’re ok aren’t you?” She says quickly flying to put a hoof on my forehead looking me over to see if I was hurt. I got a mischievous glint in my eyes as I thought of how I could turn this into a more entertaining conversation.


“If you wanted to check me out all you had to do was ask.” I say with a grin. I hear Twilight facehoof at the comment. 



“Eeep!” Is all get out of Fluttershy as she hides back in her mane blushing profusely still hovering in the air. I subtly lean forward into Fluttershy so that I’m near her ear.


“You know if you want to do more than just look I’ll be more than happy to oblige anytime you want.” I whisper into her ear seductively. With that comment I believe I made her heart stop beating as her whole face lit up a bright crimson. Her wings pop open solidly and she lands to the ground with a thud. Her entire body was frozen and it looked like I broke her. I burst out laughing at her reaction. I was actually rolling on the floor laughing my ass off at this. Twilight runs over to Fluttershy to see what was wrong with her only to see that frozen face of amazement on her. 


“What did you do to her? What did you say?” Twilight asks me. I am still laughing uncontrollable while Twilight glares at me trying to look serious, which only further amuses me. I laugh for what seems like forever until I finally climb back to my feet still giggling.


“You should ask her when she wakes up.” I say giggling with every word and when I finish I burst out laughing uncontrollable again. I don’t think Twilight liked that very much as she harrumphed at me and moved her friend away. I was too busy laughing like a madman at the ridiculous situation that had occurred. I have never laughed so much in my life before. The rest of the day I had a sore throat. It was well worth the laugh though. I’m starting to enjoy life for once. Hopefully it’ll last but like all good things this won’t last. Later on that evening Twilight got a letter from Princess Sunbutt or something stupid saying that she wanted to meet me tomorrow. Let me clear up one thing. I hate royalty. This isn't going to end well.

A/N: Sorry it took so long been procrastinating to be honest. Damn my laziness. More giggles for now and in the next chapter a meeting with Celestia!? * Que dramatic drum roll*  So little spoiler there for what to expect. 

Ca/n I really do enjoy working with my friends on these stories hope you all enjoy this one.
> Along came Sunbutt
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	A/N: This chapter contains some swearing and a lot more sexual innuendos. Please do enjoy and like because J is watching you reading his journal entries and is very disappointed that there aren't more likes as am I. So do some liking while I eat a muffin. 





I couldn’t go to sleep after hearing the news. I stayed up reading up Equestrian history to see if I could figure what type of per- err pony she is. It was no easy task as I read through the many books of history there were comparing facts and such. I then found that Princess Luna was also a ruler too but she had was sent to the moon for a thousand years. Harsh treatment for rebellion, then again Celestia is a controlling tyrant. So I found to my amazement that this fact was covered up at first and none of the citizens who came after the revolt were any wiser that there ever was one. I then found a child’s book that talks about a Mare in the moon and suddenly it became clear to me what type of person Celestia is. The rest of that night I went through the entire library devouring book after book of knowledge filling with ideas that would help me deal with Celestia tomorrow. I knew that she would be coming to the library to meet me because me being a human would cause to much of a scene with her guards and the royal stuck up ponies in Canterlot. It was approaching dawn when I had finished reading the last book in the library, it also helped that I was a very quick reader and more so that I’ve had to read more in less time before. I could hear Twilight just waking up as I retreated to the basement to sleep away until Celestia got here.

I was in bed for no more than an hour when Twilight tried to wake me up early to review a book about how to address royalty that she had read in her own room. “Come one J we only have 5 hours to cover everything this book talks about.” Twilight said nagging me with that voice women use when a guy is being difficult and won’t do what she’s telling him to do. I fucking hate that voice. Ugh I just wanted to punch her in the nose just once for good measure. 

“Twilight I swear to all that is holy and divine your more annoying than a Jehovah witness.” I say with as little effort as possible barely moving my lips.

“What’s a Jehovah witness?” Twilight asks. 

“Ugh why are you ponies so lacking in human culture.” I say in a defeated voice

“Well you’re the first human I’ve ever met so maybe that’s why.”

“I’m damn sexy too” I say in a sultry tone to which Twilight just rolls her eyes at me. I didn’t see her do it, it was just I knew how she would react to it.

“Yea you keep telling yourself that.” She says totally messing with my ego.

“You know it too Twilight. You think I don’t notice you staring at me with those dreamy eyes of yours but I do.” I say flatly.

“Wha-what are you talking about? That’s just silly. Heheheh” Twilight says awkwardly 

“It’s ok Twilight all the ladies love these nuts” I say in a manner of a factly tone. 

“What nuts?” Twilight asks clearly confused by my sexual comment. I sigh loudly.

“Your too young to understand maybe when your older.” I say in that grown up voice that everyone hates hearing when their young.

“I’ll have you know that I am a fully capable young mare!” Twilight exclaims to me. 

“That’s what she said” I say chuckling at my own joke.

“You’re not very funny.” Twilight says frowning and giving me the death glare as if that was going to intimidate me but I grab her and drag her into the bed with me.

“Aww Twilight you’re too cute to be intimidating and besides you have the cutest little face when you frown.” I say causing Twilight to blush deeply.

“You’re not very nice you know that. Can’t you see that I like you?” She says saying the last part in a mumble. I grin knowing exactly what she mumbled but me being the ass I am just had to poke fun at it.

“I’m sorry what was that I couldn’t quite hear you?” I ask much to her deeper embarrassment. I seeing her face get redder and redder by the minute as she tries to form words to come out of her mouth.

“I- you- AHHH” Twilight screams bolting out of the room slamming the door shut behind her. That should buy me at least a few hours of sleep. I think to myself as I drift back into a deep slumber. The next thing I know I’m being prodded with a hoof. I know it’s Twilight and decide to play with her a little.

“Hmmm, Twilight we can’t play hoofsies with Spike still here.” I mumble out loud. I can almost imagine her blushing at the comment. Messing with these ponies is so much fun it’s almost like a sport for me. A few seconds later a hoof prods me harder. “Mmm twilight I love it when you wiggle your flank a little it’s so sexy.” When I say that my whole bed gets flipped over and I’m lying on the floor. “Oww, Twilight that hurts.” I say looking up to see a beat red Twilight who looks out of breath and is breathing heavily. 

“G-g-get ready the princess in twelve minutes.” She says somewhat in shock.

“Aww but Twi I was having the best dream ever it was me and you and you were in a school girl outfit and that was sexy right there and I just wanted to take you all right then and there. Twi? You aliright there Twi? Hehehehehe I think broke her.” I say aloud more to myself than to anyone. Twilight is staring off with that dreamy face of hers in a total shock of what I just said. So I head up stair and run a quick shower to get ready. I hop in the shower and hop back out with just a towel wrapped around my waist. I go back down to my room to see Twilight still staring off in shock. I change into the attire I had planned for the princess Sunbutt or whatever and turn around to Twilight to ask her opinion. “ So Twi how do I look? You think it’s too formal for the princess?” I ask Twi comes back to life after hearing the princess to take one look at me and feint. “ Yup definitely the look I wanted.” I say chuckling evilly. 

I wipe a nostalgic tear at the funny times of Austin Powers. Good times, good times. I look down at myself taking in the full image Twilight say. I’m wearing nothing more than a loincloth that hides little from the imagination. I leave everything else bare as if I were a caveman. “First impressions are important and what better way to greet a royal pony than in my birthday suit. Man I can’t wait to see the look on her face.” I say aloud to a still passed out Twilight whom I’m sure can’t hear. I hear a knocking in the front door to hear Spike rush to answer it. I can’t quite make out what their saying but  I take this chance to catch their attention. “Yo Spike send the Princess down to the basement and cook us up some grub to eat!” I yell at him. He’s too young to see me looking like this. I hear the Princess getting closer to the door; the sound of her hooves hit the floor almost majestically. I’m beaming with anticipation as I walk up to the door.   She knocks on the door and I open it for her. “Do come in your majesty.” I say with a slight british accent. I see her as she enters the doors; she is taller than the others at least by a few feet and she comes up to my neck. She is completely white with a flowing mane that has a bunch of bright colors that hurt my eyes to look at. The fact that she’s so white also makes me eyes hurt, not that I don’t like white people it’s just that good ol Sunbutt is about as white as the color. I then close it behind her as she turns to thank me she gasps loudly.

“You’re, you’re.” She stutters out unsure of wait to make of my outfit. I take in the look of pure shock on her face and revel in the fact that even I can break the unbreakable. I shuffle up to her and pat her head as I walk past her all the while she’s gaping at me opening and closing her mouth with no words coming only sounds attempting and failing at trying to say something.

“Well how do ya like me loincloth? I think it shows off the better part of me if I may say so myself.” I say in a scottish accent, while trying my best not to burst into tears of laughter that I’m barely holding back. Sunbutt is now glaring at me finally regaining her composure and not liking my prank.

“Can you please cover yourself up we have many things to talk about.” She says regally and instantly my good mood is killed. Not even her five minutes and ordering me around like one of her servants. I’d call her a racist but I think the proper word would be speciesist seeing how she didn’t know of the different races of humans or did she? Something about the way she’s commanding tells me that I’m not the first human she’s seen just the only one that’s ever been this bold. However I keep my suspicions to myself as I grab some pants to cover myself up and look at the still passed out Twilight and chuckle aloud. “Why is my student asleep on the ground?” She asks in a demanding almost as if she was accusing me of the crime! I get a suspicion that she’s just looking for a reason to lock me behind bars. It’s like the 60’s all over again. Well she’d be spot on about it being my fault but I’m not about to let this uptight bitch get any leverage over me.

“Why it looks like she’s taking a delightful nap on the ground your highness.” I say emphasizing the ‘your highness’ to give her a clue that I don’t like her already. She picks up on it too as she raises her eyebrow. Wait ponies can raise their eyebrows? Ponies have eyebrows? Well you learn something new every day.

“Why would she be sleeping on the floor when she has a bed?” She asks trying to stump me but I’m too slick to be caught by some horse with a horn and wings.

“Well she probably hasn’t gotten much sleep due to your sudden visit to see me.” I say showing her a toothy grin. She just grimaces at me giving me the stank eye. You know, that look someone gives when they don’t like you and can’t stand the very thought of you being near them. Yeah that look. The bitch had the nerve to give it to me! Now I’m a cool guy and very tolerant but, I don’t get down with disrespecting me and I don’t appreciate some funny ass looking horse looking down on me. So let it be known that on this day I declared mental war on Sunbutt ruler of the funny ass horses. So I stared at her giving no ground to walk all over me like I’m her slave. I earned my rights and this funny ass horse doesn’t have any room to judge me. It was at this moment that Twilight chose to wake up groaning and drawing away Sunbutt’s attention from our staring contest. I made a mental note to myself that our staring contest was one of many victories to come. 


“Princess Celestia you’re here already?” Twilight asks almost panicing as she looked over to me sighing in relief that I was at least somewhat dressed in more than my loincloth. ‘Maybe next time a thong would be more appropriate.’ I think to myself.

“Yes my student there’s no reason to worry I’d like a word with your friend alone if I may.” She says warmly. Yup she’s definitely speciesist or maybe humanist? As she says this Twilight nods leaving me alone with Sunbutt. She then glares at me before saying. “My name is Princess Celestia and the only reason your alive is because my student cares a lot about you. If it wasn’t for that I would have had you killed on the spot. . I know of the human race and how evil they are. Your kind is always evil and malicious and never any good. If I get word that you hurt any of my little ponies I will kill you myself.” She says to me snarling. I am such a smartass. 

“Ohh and who are you to judge all of humanity hmm? You think that just because your some princess that gives you the right to judge an entire species? Who the fuck do you think you are getting off all high and mighty!? According to you it’s perfectly fine to judge all ponies the same way you just judged me. Are all ponies this hostile to its guests? They must be according to your diluted close-minded logic. You’re nothing more than a talking horse in my world a myth. You don’t intimidate me and if you’re going to threaten me then you better off just killing me because I don’t sit well with threats.  The next time you judge an entire species I suggest you do your history first.” I rant to her pissed off to no end and ready to personally gut the bitch for badmouthing an entire species that she really knew nothing about. She at least has the decency to look ashamed of herself and I was getting up to leave her when she spoke up.

“I’m sorry I really have no right to judge you so harshly. It’s just that the last human that I knew was very evil and killed many of my little ponies and I just assumed that you would be like that. “ She said trying to make up for her actions. Pssh its too bad that I don’t forgive and forget. I hold grudges and I don’t let go. Something’s just don’t change and people or ponies get stuck in a certain mindset, however I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.

“Just don’t look down on me again Sunbutt respect is earned not given and you haven’t done anything to deserve any of mine. If anything all you proved is that you fuck just as much as everyone else and that you have to work extra to earn my respect or trust. Anyway you got things to do and I have sleep to catch up on so see yourself out of my room and close the door.” I say falling on my bed. She walks away and I hear the door close before I fall into a deep slumber.




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> Cupcakes
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	“All I want to know is who you are. Can’t you see that the more I know about your kind the better I am able to help you in case you get hurt?” Twilight said trying to get me to see the bigger point in her obsession with learning more about my species. I swear that this mare tries to know everything about everything. If I told her about spaceships and airplanes she’d just about have a heart attack at the impossibility of it. Don’t even try to bring up electricity in the matter. No, the way I figured it I’m entitled to keep my own secrets. The only thing that they knew about me was that I was a human and I came from a different world, hell maybe even different universe. Still this mare never stopped trying to pry this information out of me. It’s a wonder that she hasn’t tried to probe my mind. Hell I wonder why Sunbutt didn’t try either. This means either they were being polite or they don’t know how to. I’m going with option a here, seeing how I’ve read a book about how to do it. The way Unicorns do magic is pretty odd. According to them all one needs really is a way to channel the dormant magic that lies with in all ponies. Anyway I’m thinking this through all the while Twilight is talking to me trying to get me to see reason. I finally notice that she’s glaring at me waiting for an answer.


“Well you see Twilight when a man tries to argue with a woman they just don’t win. Want to know why? It’s simply because a woman is a woman. Nothing more and nothing less. I’m sure it’s the same complex here too. When a stallion argues with a mare, the mare wins because she is simply female and believes that they are in the right whilst the male is in the wrong.” I say as if lecturing a group of kids pacing back and forth. “Now you might be thinking what this has to do with me telling you about my past and all of its many exciting principles then you were just too stupid to read in between the lines and figure out that I just threw you a bone.” I say ending my little speech with a bow. I look up to see a confused Twilight and I smile knowing I lost her on a while ago. I turn to leave when Twilight speaks up.


“That made no sense at all and that’s sexist. Stallions don’t lose arguments over mares just because mares are mares. Also you didn’t throw me anything much less a bone and why would you throw me a bone? Are you trying to imply that I am a dog?” Twilight says trying to make me seem like an ass, which she would be right.


“You know I’m feeling mighty bored in this library I think I’m going to go introduce myself to the mare ahead of schedule.” I say with a yawn clearly bored with Twilight’s talking. This only infuriates her even more.


“No! You’re going to ruin the whole schedule I planned out for the entire day!” Twilight yelled at me as if that was going to make me listen to here. Sadly for her I really didn’t want to get my ear chewed out by some purple unicorn for the next three hours waiting for when we were going to meet the mayor. So I did the most logical thing ever. I stood up and walked right out the tree all the while Twilight was ranting so much that she didn’t even notice that I left until much later. As soon as I stepped out of the tree the light outside all but blinded me. When you’re stuck in a tree for a few days you’re not use to the brightness of outdoors. So I stood outside the library my hand over my eyes trying to get use to the brightness when I hear some screams close to where I am. I’m still dazed as I turn to see ponies screaming incoherently about me. It was quite funny some called me giant some ape and others more or less just ran in pure terror. I saw everyone duck into their homes and barrage their doors. It was quite amusing seeing how terrified they were.


As soon as I got used to being outdoors I looked around to see the small village clearly. They were a bunch of medieval looking houses and there seemed to be a town square. I walked around the place looking to and fro at the different ponies cowering behind their windows; let me tell you I could feel the love going out to the different species. I approached a shop that looked like a gingerbread home and I felt a little hungry. I approached the door and bent down to open the door. I squeezed through the door and heard a little chime of a bell. I looked up to see the beaming face of whom else other than Pinkie Pie. Now bear in mind that I haven’t had a real chance to really get to know Pinkie so I wasn’t prepared for the sudden hooves grabbing my face at that second. My brain could not register the fact that Pinkie Pie in all her law bending manner was one second at the counter of the shop smiling at me to gripping me in the most impressive bear hug I’ve ever been given.


“OhmygoshJitsbeensolongsincewelastsaweachotherandiwaslikeimissmyspecialfriendwhoactuallygetsmeformeanddoesntjudgemeliketherestoftheponiesanddontgetmewrongthegirlsarecooltobearoundbutyoumakemefeelsospecailandhappyandwantedandloveditsjustsodreamyyouknowwhatimean?” Pinkie said to me. At the time I couldn’t understand what she had said. It was surprising that she said all this in one breath and moved her hooves around while at the same time hugging the crap out of me. I reached up and tapped her on the shoulder and pointed to my red face that wasn’t getting any oxygen in it. She let go with a cheesy smile that could melt butter away. I coughed and gasped for air greedily as I never appreciated air more than that moment. I finally manage to reply to her.


“Pinkie I didn’t understand a single word you said there and wait are you doing here?” I ask with curiosity in my voice.


“Oh silly filly I work her at Sugercube Corner don’t you know that?” Pinkie responds as if I knew this.


“No of course I didn’t know that you pink devil.” I say pinching her getting a giggle and a blush from her. “Anyway what did you say to me earlier I couldn’t hear you?” I ask curious to interrupt the babble she had spoken to my surprise she blushed deeply as she responds


“Ohh, nothing.” As she looked at the ground pawing it bashfully I could tell it was something embarrassing. That made me grin as I approach her slowly.


“Oh really, then why are you looking at the ground? Don’t tell me you’ve fallen for me already? It’s only been a couple of days since we’ve known each other or am I just that alluring?” I ask seductively and as I say the last word I pull her towards me lifting her head up to see into her eyes. I bring close to me as I if we were going to kiss and her pink mane is now a deep red as she blushed furiously at me. I lightly brush my hand against her mane and I can feel her body all but melt into my hand. I suddenly walk past her and grab a muffin behind the counter and start to munch on it. “This is a damn good muffin my compliments to the chef.” I say with my mouth full. Pinkie bounces right next to me saying


“Those are Derpy’s muffins she usually makes them for herself but she made extra today. You should try one of my cupcakes. Their super yummy!”


“Uhh I’d love to but cupcakes aren’t really my thing their way too sweet for my taste.” As I say this I feel the entire room go cold. I look at Pinkie to see glaring at me. It was as if her eyes were stabbing me. “You know what who am I kidding I love cupcakes their pretty damn awesome, yeah.” I say awkwardly knowing that if I said otherwise there’d be hell to pay. Pinkie suddenly beams at me handing me dozens of different cupcakes to try and so begins my journey of cupcakes. With each bite of these strangely decorated cupcakes it was as if I was chewing on nothing else but sugar. I choked down the first bite, as I felt ill the minute I put it in my mouth. I looked at her face as it just lit up her world to see that I was eating her cupcakes and knew that I couldn’t stop. I mean a regular Pinkie is manageable; a depressed one is hell on Equestria. I didn’t want to hurt her feelings which striked me as odd because I could give a rat’s ass less about anyone else but her. Something about her just made me want to protect her and make her happy. Pinkie kept getting me more and more cupcakes to try. Vanilla flavor, chocolate, pecan, fudge, strawberry and so many more all filled with ungodly amounts of sugar. I couldn’t stop eating them for fear that I would upset her. Dozens turned into to hundreds and hundreds into thousands. I don’t know how there were so many there just was or how I ate them all. I was more than full when Twilight came bursting through the door looking for me. I saw her angry face and almost rejoiced that I had been saved.


“Where have you been? I can’t believe that you just left me talking to myself at the library. I am so mad at you right now. Well what do you have to say for yourself?” Twilight asks. I got up and wobbled over to Twilight while she looked at me her eyes actually somewhat concerned as I said.


“I don’t feel so good.” I fell to the ground choking down on the bile that was rising. I couldn’t hold it anymore and just barely turned away from Twilight as I threw up on the floor and myself. I felt all the cupcakes I had eaten forced out of my system back out onto the floor leaving a disgusting taste in my mouth of sugar and bile. All I could think before slipping into unconsciousness, ‘I fucking hate cupcakes.’

A/N: So trying to get into the habit of writing a chapter once every week. It's working out pretty well. So critique is wanted and desired, I can't fix what I don't see wrong and your opinion matters to me. So leave me some comments and i'll get to ya. 

CA/N: now that we got this pattern going we should get alot more done thanx for all comments and opinions
> Test Drive
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Darkness was all I saw. It was as if there was no color as if there was an absence of everything. Then I heard it as if it was everywhere at once. “My child it has been some time since last we spoke.”  It spoke yet I could not see it but I felt as if it was all around me. I knew what it was and I trembled in fear of what it might want.

“My master, I live to serve and am humbled by your presence.” I say trying to bow and make myself look as small as possible. This was my deity, The Void. It goes by many names but I never dared to call it anything besides master. I gave my soul to serve The Void as did anyone else who serves it. I never knew whether it was a man or a woman and somehow I always felt like it was neither. 

“Ahh it has already passed that time I see.  Be wary of the Alicorn child she must not die, she plays a vital role here and you are the only I trust to protect her. That is your mission. I will send to you companions to aid you in your mission. Through dark or light, to the heavens or hell, you will serve.” It says reminding me that my body and soul belong to it and I am forever indebted to it.

“Forever will I serve The Void and nothing shall deter my path to collect the souls for his work. The death of the righteous and the damned are souls that I hunt. Allow this humble servant to serve you in the eternity to come my master.” I say speaking the ritual words of agreement. 

“Good try not to forget anything anymore; it’s becoming more and more of a hassle to just let you find out on your own.” As my master speaks his last words I looked up confused by what he meant only to find myself looking up to see Twilight staring at me very intently. 

“You know it really creepy waking up to see you staring at me like that.” I say to which Twilight jumps back in surprise and fumbles to the ground awkwardly.

“You surprised me. I was just about to wake you when I noticed how weird you slept and decided that it might’ve been better to study you while your asleep.” Twilight answers sheepishly. 

“I didn’t know you were such a creeper Twilight if you wanted sex all you had to do was ask.” I say nonchalantly as if it were no big deal. Ever dependable Twilight blushes at my statement and blubbers incoherently. “So why did you wake me up so early anyway?” I ask changing the topic to spare her from blubbering on some terrible sounding apology.  She suddenly gets very serious as she says.

“There’s a lot of smoke coming from a nearby mountain and we think it’s a dragon. Celestia has asked that we get rid of it.” Twilight says looking at me expectantly.

“A dragon huh, well I guess I can be the extra muscle in case all else fails.” I say actually looking forward to fighting something that big. You know what they say; the bigger they are the harder they fall. Twilight looks at me incredulously.

“You can’t fight a dragon they’ll actually kill you, nopony has ever taken on a dragon single-hoofed before!” Twilight all but screamed at me.

“Oh and what do you plan to do, just ask it to leave?” I ask curious to see what plan she came up with.

“Well that was the plan.” She shoots back at me while I facepalm at the stupidity of the plan. Twilight is amazingly smart but incredibly dumb at the same time. 

“Well then I’ll be insurance for when your plan fails miserably. So bear with it Twinkle butt.” I say mocking her cutie mark.

“Well at least I’m not an oversized monkey.” Twilight shoots back 

“This oversized monkey has more class and intelligence then you and need I remind you that I don’t creep on some people while they sleep either.” I say making her blush in both embarrassment and anger.

“Well at least I have a reproductive organ.” She shoots back terribly and effectively winning the little argument we had. She realizes her mistake immediately after saying it. “Jay I didn’t mean.”

“No. That was low even for you Twilight. I applaud you; you have won the argument and proved to be more of an ass then me. So congratulations enjoy it while it lasts.” I say leaving the room as I say those last few words. I stop at the door on the way out and say to her “please do try to keep this to yourself. It is a personal matter and I’d rather no one knew about it.” I could hear her sobbing a little bit as I close the door and I couldn’t help but wonder why. If anything I should be the one crying, I can’t have kids much less sex, but I learned to never let my emotions get the better of me. I jumped in the shower and got dressed in some dark attire and made my way outside where I saw that all the girls had prepared bags for the journey ahead.

As soon as we set off Twilight tried to apologize but I quickly dodged her and went ahead of the group to lead them to the caves. They at least respected my desire to be left alone and let lead on at a comfortable distance. When we reached the mountain I started to scale the wall making a nice pace. When I looked over I saw pinkie hopping up the mountain. “Fucking Newton.” I say under my breath as I knew that such feats were not in my repertoire.  I say the others walking the trail looking up at me weird as if I was crazy. 

I was the first to make it to the lair after having to jump a small ridge to transfer over to the other mountain. I swore I saw Pinkie hopping beside me one minute to see her down there with the rest of the girls. She scares me at times, the way she defies nature itself. But as I looked around to spot the girls I saw that they had just reached the ridge to the other mountain which meant they were still pretty far behind me. I decided to scope the area around. I checked in on the dragon and could tell that the horde he had was immense. I could see weapons and such scattered around the room some shining brightly others humming with intense power. What had me the most piqued was the size of the dragon. He was slumbering but even asleep his body was huge. His scales were red like the color of blood. If the books were correct then dragon scales had the ability to reflect almost all magic and could suffer extreme temperatures with ease. The scales are really what I came for. They were renowned to be one of the toughest materials in Equestria. So such scales would definitely strike me as desirable. I then scoped out the entire cave quietly to formulate a plan on how to best kill the dragon, afterwards I went back outside and waited for the girls.

As I waited I could hear the sound of a rockslide that had me a little worried about them. They eventually found their way up to the lair. Rainbow Dash was looking at Fluttershy as if she had pissed her off or something. The others looked ragged and worn down, as if they had went through a rock slide. I sat there looking at them nonchalantly giving them a loud yawn as if to say ‘about time you got here’.  Rainbow came next to me grumbling about scaredy cats or something under her breath. “Have fun on the way up I see?” I say mockingly 


“No Fluttershy’s been weighin us down since we left Ponyville, we shoulda just left her.” Rainbow complained. I could see that she was irritated with Fluttershy. I just shrugged my shoulders to say I really didn’t care.  Then came the speech. Twilight tried to give us some sort of prep speech that was supposed to make us feel better about asking the dragon to ‘please go away’. I laughed at their plan and sat back to watch it all fall apart. The funnier part was when Fluttershy told them she was afraid of dragons. I laughed so hard when she said that, I felt like I couldn’t breathe for a minute. 

“Your only shot at asking the dragon to leave is afraid of them, hahahahahahahahaha. You’re so stupid it’s hilarious.” I say laughing my ass off at them while they scowled at me.

“Well then darling what do you plan to do? Shoo it away?” Rarity asks with a chuckle.

“No I’m going to kill it.” I say dead serious with a smirk. They all turned a little green at the thought of killing anything. 

“How uncouth.” Rarity says as if that would dissuade me from killing it. 

“At least he won’t be smoking all over your town then.” I say internally chuckling at the thought of a dragon smoking a cigarette. 

Afterwards they all tried to approach the dragon with their own methods of trying to get the dragon to leave. When Twilight tried to be diplomatic I laughed my ass off as the dragon blew smoke clouds at her. She glared at me but didn’t say anything knowing that I hadn’t forgiven her for this morning.

When Rarity tried to smooth talk him out of those jewels I had to admit the way she swayed her hips did remind me of a woman’s ass although it was a bit hairy and with an interesting view as she went into the cave. Rainbow chuckled as she whispered to me indiscreetly “I see you checking her out J”

“That is a nice ass” I say causing Rainbow to look at me weird. “Oh you guys probably call it flank I guess, humans call it ass.” I say causing all the mares around me to blush as I say this rather loudly. Just before anyone could say anything Rarity darts out of the lair complaining about how she didn’t get anything.

Then Pinkie dressed up in a weird looking gift wrapped scuba diver or something. It was weird. She was going to try to get him to laugh to leave I guess. It failed miserable. 

Then Rainbow got hot headed and decided she was going to kick his ass and that would make him leave. I saw her speed in only to get knocked right back out and crash into the other girls. I saw the dragon come out and breathe smoke on them and knew that it was probably too old to breathe fire anymore. “Time to go to work” I say cracking my neck. 

I rushed the dragon dodging and weaving out his attacks. I then tackled him into the cave, surprisingly the dragon wasn’t as strong as I anticipated. We rolled into the cave as I punched him square in the mouth knocking out a few teeth. He roared in rage and pain as he redoubled his efforts to kill me. As he tried to swipe me I rolled underneath the blow and punched upwards with all my might at where his elbow seemed to be, a resounding crack could be heard as I broke his bone. The dragon roared at me as I saw him pull back his head to build up his fiery breath. I was ready for him just before he unleashed his flames upon me I jumped up to his mouth and held his jaws together. Smoke rose from his nostrils as his own flames were engulfed within himself burning his innards. The dragon writhed in pain not used to having his inside set ablaze and in fury that this creature dare make him choke on his own flame. However the pain proved too much as the flames died within him the dragon felt drained of energy and could only flop on the ground defeated but still alive. J put his right hand on the dragon and it glowed black with intense power. “In the name of the Void, my master I claim this soul as tribute.” J said as the dark energy washed over him and just as quickly as it was there it was gone. Though the dragon looked devoid of life, his scales a dark jet black his eyes held no color. It was as if he had his soul ripped out of him. That was the day I killed a dragon bare handed. 

A/N: Got some action in there for all you. Hope you enjoy the chapter it only gets better from here on out.

CA/N: I hope you all like this one thanx for all the comments more to come soon
> Reflection
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I stood there contemplating how to best move the dragon and it’s horde down to my place in the Everfree or whether to make this lair another safe house to use. I had sent the girls back down some time ago and had been up here weighing my decisions. As I was starting to come to some conclusion I felt a ripple of energy behind me. I turned to see a dark hole leading into what seemed like an eternal void of nothingness. As I tried to look into the hole a person comes through to my surprise. As I jump back in anticipation for him to strike he merely cracks his back with a loud pop. “Man 1000 years in the void gives you such a crick in the neck.” He then proceeds to cracking all his bones leaving me speechless. “Oh forgot to introduce myself there. Sorry about that. Seeker Glib reporting for duty sir. I’m the backup boss man said about.” He says snapping a lazy salute and then looks around me to see the dead dragon. “Man you took down a dragon bare handed? Commendable, I guess that’s to be expected when you’re a legend like yourself.” Glib said well rather glibly. I guess that’s why his name is Glib. Then I caught onto what he was saying.

“Wait, I’m a legend?” I ask uncertain of what he meant. I could see the fear and dread set on his face. Oh I haven’t described him really have I? Glib was a lanky fellow tall and skinny. He looked to be Caucasian and had a hint of an American accent that sounded a little southern.  If I had to gander a guess I’d say Georgia. He had brown hair and hazel eyes. His face had no noticeable wrinkles his age, 26.  His fingers look calloused; he was a hard worker then most likely farmer however he should have more of a drawl in his accent then, unless he went to college and moved down north for college. His hands and fingers look too coordinated to that of just a farmer; he played lots of video games in his free time. He was lanky though so it meant that he had fast metabolism and had no care for what he ate. He wore Black slacks and a black shirt which meant that he preferred darker colors. Therefore he did not get out much and preferred to be inside rather than outside. His hair was very unkempt which only reinforced my thoughts of him being a video gamer. All in all he looked to be a slacker. 

“Oh I must be thinking about someone else.” He responded shiftily. He was hiding something from me. I could tell by looking in his eyes it wasn’t something I should know but was common knowledge where he came from. He turned around and closed the hole that led him here and a question popped in my mind.

“Where did you come from and what was with that hole.” I asked curious to learn from Glib.

“I came from the void where all those connected to The Void belong. Very few of us are allowed out of the void and even fewer can exist outside of it. You see the big boss man owns all of our souls and with that he pretty much owns us. So we aren’t technically alive we exist off of the big man’s essence which he places in us to subsidize for our souls. But in order for us to live on the outside of the void we feed off of other’s souls.  That’s all there is to know really.” He said as if it was common knowledge.  It explained a few things but I guess there must be exceptions to those rules as there always is. I looked into Glib’s eyes and could tell what he spoke was true. There was power in him that was hidden away that he did not openly show. I smirked and held out my hand to shake his. He looked ecstatic as he grabbed my hand. Without any words said we had both agreed to our partnership. There was more to Glib than just appearances and if my previous life taught me anything then it was to never let anyone close. 

“I thank you for answering my questions, but next time answer my questions truthfully or I can promise you feel my wrath.” I say with a neutral tone. All of what he said were half-truth’s and there was a lot he was leaving out. He looked at me nervously understanding that next time he hid the truth from me I might not be as forgiving. 

“Sorry it’s just that, I’m not allowed to tell you. The Boss man wants you to remember it all on your own.” His eyes widen as he notices he slip. Unable to do anything now he noticeably slumps to the ground hitting himself. “Stupid, stupid, stupid.” He says punching his head as if that would make the problem go away. 

“Well your first task is to move this all from here to my cave back in the Everfree. The dragon will be the biggest problem. See if you can skin it, also make sure you keep the bones and teeth too. They will prove useful later on. For now I have to head back to the library. Stay out of sights from everything. The ponies especially, I’d rather hide your existence for now to use as a trump card later on.” I say thinking out the different strategies to hide Glib and both get closer to the ponies. If I play my cards right I should be able to play it under the radar. I don’t want Celestia breathing down my back, the racist bitch, nor do I want Luna getting curious of me. If it’s anything to go by Luna is old fashioned and has less tolerance for a unique species like me. My thoughts are interrupted as Glib starts to complain about his task. 

“Aww but I wanted to pet the pretty ponies and get my Welcome to Ponyville party.” He says but the minute he does I pick up on the subtler words he doesn’t say. 

“You know this world.” I say making him freeze on the spot. 

“Uh I guess you could say that. The Boss man told me where I would be going but I know it better from the show it’s called.” He says hesitant to say too much. I decide to let him of the hook for now. No need to bear on him to roughly. He is my ally and he will make a valuable asset if everything goes to shits. I needed to be one step ahead of everything. Rarely does everything go your way and even with my master backing me up there is only so much he will do.

“Then I shall meet you tomorrow, Form out a tactic and figure out who you are and what your good at.” I didn’t give him a chance to talk after that as I make my way down the mountain. My mind racing as make the descent down the mountain. I know for a fact that I have to protect Celestia. She plays an important enough role that my master would send me here and has also promised me help.  Glib is here but, I think that I should expect someone else as well from my master.  My usual attire and weaponry  aren’t available to me, so it makes it harder to actually protect her properly.  Still I have to find a way to get closer to her without raising suspicion. As much as I hate her I have to stomach her. 

“Still I’ve just arrived here and she already hates me. She knows something about humans or she wouldn’t hate me so.” I say aloud to myself as if trying to unsolved a mystery. I hate being at a disadvantage. She knew that I was human and had a general idea of how dangerous humans can be. So she’ll be keeping a close eye on me. Hmmm, Twilight is her student so I can’t trust her or any of the other elements of harmony. Not that I would actually trust anyone. Still have to keep up appearances. 

I was so lost in my thoughts that I had just realized that I had reached the bottom of the mountain. I looked up to the descending sun to see that it would be night time soon. The walk back to the library was uneventful.  By the time I reached Ponyville it was already nighttime and everyone had already gone home. I silently climbed up the tree and opened the window to Twilight’s room creeping in there without making a sound. She wasn’t in there so I assumed she was downstairs wondering where I was.

I closed the window and made my descent downstairs to see a pacing Twilight waiting impatiently by the door. “It would be pointless to walk through the front door if I didn’t want to be seen.” I say walking behind the unsuspecting Twilight.

“Sweat Celestia J!” Twilight shouts surprised at my sudden appearance. I give her a cocky smile that she doesn’t seem to appreciate. “Where were you!? You told us that you were giving a burial for the dragon but you took forever.” She says still believing the lie I told them. I told them that the dragon deserved a burial from one warrior to another. Of course they believed me on the spot , them being so gullible is proving useful yet annoying at the same time.

“Well excuse me when’s the last time you picked up something more than triple your size? Hmm never, that’s what I thought.” I say mockingly to her trying to tease her to let go of the subject. 

“The girls are all mad at you for killing that dragon you know.  Fluttershy is terrified and furious at you. Applejack wanted to give you an earful too. Rarity is appalled with your actions and I agree with her.” She says as if I really cared but I notice she left out two names.

“What about Rainbow and Pinkie?” I ask curious to see their reactions. 

“Rainbow said she wanted to talk to you but she didn’t say what about. She looked really worried about you though. Pinkie also wanted to talk to you but she seemed really down about it. I don’t know J, were all still shaken up at the way you killed the dragon.”

“Hey I was looking out for all of you there.” I say lying through my teeth. “ I didn’t want anyone to get hurt so I did what came first to me and protected you all.” I say and though I intended that to be a lie I feel that it holds some truth to it. I scowl at my weakness of wanting to protect  others to which Twilight takes differently. 

“I know J it’s just a lot to take in.” Twilight responds looking defeated as if she were the one to take on the dragon herself. These ponies were weak and naïve. I smiled at her and pulled her close for a hug. 

“Hey its ok now. It’s all over now.” I say to try to defuse the situation before it gets out of hand. I hear her sigh and hug me back. I could feel her warmth emitting from her body and it feels like she wants more from me. I pat her head and let go of the hug. I could see the disappointment in her eyes. “Go get some sleep you’ll feel better in the morning.” I say reassuringly with a smile. She nods her head and goes to her room. The smile leaves my face quickly as she exits the room. I pull out a book full of maps from one of the shelves and retreat to my room. There I plan out the best way to use Glib while I’m stuck here.


> A Dream?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Blood, it is everywhere. I’m holding a woman’s body in my arms almost lifeless. Her body breathes in pained gasps. She isn’t dead but the pain that she is in she must want to be. I can feel my stomach churn at the sight of her. My arms are shaking with rage, my eyes barely noticing anything else around me. My body trembles with untold rage that’s at its boiling point. The woman in my arms reaches out her hands to touch my face, but I don’t feel her anymore. My eyes go unfocused, my arms tensing up as I ball up my fists. My breathing becomes erratic as it can only be described as feral. The woman says something that doesn’t register in my mind. I focus my eyes long enough to see the damage done to her. Her eyes are gouged out and blood seeps from them. Her legs cut off leaving bloody stumps of its remains. Her teeth lie on the ground in a bloody mess. Her left arm that is touching me is mangled and has hand prints engraved in them. Her right arm is broken dangling in a sick fashion. Her fingers twisted backwards with the bones sticking out. My rage cannot be held check any longer. I let out a bestial roar letting go of all reason and letting my anger rule over me.

“Ahhhhhh!”  I shout awakening from the dream, drenched in cold sweat. My heart pounding and my hands balled up into fists. My entire body shaking with rage as the scene replays over and over in my head. I put a hand on my chest to steady my breathing but my hands still shake with anger. I breathe in and out slowly to steady my nerves. Slowly I stop shaking and my breathing returned to normal. Suddenly Twilight barges in the door along with Spike.
“Are you okay J?” She asks her voice full of concern. I barely catch my hand as it snaps behind me for the stone dagger by my pillow I sleep with. I almost snapped the dagger at her out of instinct but thankfully my hand stops just short of the dagger.

“Yeah I’m fine just had a bad dream. You were cooking.” I shudder at the thought of Twilight cooking. Quickly destroying the mood, Twilight glares at me while Spike laughs at my joke. 

“I hear ya, never letting Twilight cook ever again.” Me and Spike both laugh while Twilight stares us down. Spike quickly getting the hint shuts up while I remain defiant by still laughing.  She silently storms away sending death glares at me every few steps. Spike smiles at me as he leaves and once again I’m alone. The scene flashes through my mind and I clench my fist again. Then I feel warm tears falling down my face. I quickly shake away my feelings and wipe my tears away. I find my bag full of clothes made by Rarity and pick out the darkest ones without any gems. There weren’t that many of them that didn’t have any obnoxious gems. I made a mental note to ask for a sweatshirt, I missed not wearing one. It was still early and I decided to take a late shower to relax a bit. After the quick shower I returned to the basement not really feeling in the mood to do much. I laid back down on the mattress that only half my body could fit on. The blanket was rather small too. I quickly rolled over to the wall and leaned against it. I draped what little of the blanket I could on me. I stared out into the dark basement thinking nothing as I waited. Slowly I fell back to sleep.

“Do you think we should wake him now?” asked Spike. I heard from outside the basement.


“No I think it’s better to let him rest for now. He looked really pale when he woke up from that nightmare. After hearing this I was unfortunately wide awake. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and begrudgingly got up.  I climbed up the steps quietly and snuck up to Twilight reading at the table. I decided to play with her and tapped her shoulder and quickly sidestepped to her blindside. She whipped her head back surprised at the touch then went back to her book with a frown. Spike saw what I was up to and was about to say something but I put a finger on my lips towards him. He just shook his head and gave Twilight the pancakes he had just finished. Just as she was about to dig in I blew lightly in her ear. She whipped around to see if anyone was there but all she saw was the library. I took that time to quickly snatch her plate away. “Spike did you leave any windows open last night I just felt a breeze.” She said as she was turning back to her plate of pancakes to find they were gone. “Hey! Where did you put my pancakes Spike?” she asked a little irritated that Spike had taken her pancakes. 

“What do you mean Twi? Man Twi, I didn’t know that you were that hungry to eat the plate and the pancakes” Spike said smirking and sending me a sly wink that wasn’t very subtle and Twilight saw through it.

“Who are you winking to?” She turned around to see me with half a pancake in my mouth. “J are those my pancakes?” She asked with a sigh.

“Nph, I fphnd iff.” I said with a mouth full of pancakes, looking around the library suspiciously on purpose. I  swallowed the rest of the food in my mouth and set the plate down in front of Twilight.

“No it’s fine you go on and eat that I’ll just have Spike make me some more.” She said in a defeated tone. 

“Ohh I see how it is too good to accept food from me because I’m black huh?” I say to her playfully. 

“Huh?” she responds clearly not getting the joke. 

“It’s because I’m another species that you won’t accept food from me. That’s pretty racist of you Twilight I expected more from you.” This time I said in a serious tone as if I really was disappointed in her. 

“What? No I’m not racist at all it’s just that you already ate off that plate.”  She stammers trying to recover herself.

“Ohh, because I ate off the same plate you're too good to eat after me now? Racism at it's finest.”  I say to her in a condescending tone. Twilight looks at me flabbergasted as she tries to say words out of her mouth.

“I- you- but- stop messing with me J” Twilight replies angrily embarrassed. I smirk at her as she takes the plate away and starts to eat the pancakes. I quickly snuck out of the library while they distracted. As I closed the door I looked to see all the ponies nearby stop what they were doing and stare at me. It was then I noticed that I hadn’t been introduced to the town yet. I silently cursed underneath my breath at my brashness. I counted the seconds that went by before the inevitable would happen. One… two… three. 
“Monster!!!!” came the cry from one of the ponies. It was then they all scattered like cockroaches. I have to say it was pretty amusing to see them all scramble for home and barricade themselves inside. Almost made me want to bust in to see what they would do then. Sadly I knew nothing good would come if it and decided to go to Sugarcube Corner. I had already walked around the town at nights to see where everything was beforehand so I knew exactly where I was going. I took quick brisk steps towards the shop and before long I was there. The place looked like a gingerbread house. I could see Glib trying to eat the house if he ever saw it. I opened the door and a little ting of a bell welcomed me into the shop. 

“Be with you in a minute” came a voice from the kitchen. It was one I had never heard before. Knowing this new meeting wasn’t going to end well I stood calmly by the counter waiting for the pony.  “So what can I get for yo-…you’re…you’re a-“ came from the small plump pony staring at me.

“yeah don’t finish that. I’m here for the small pink one calls herself Pinkie Pie, kinda crazy, never shuts up. You know her?” I ask in a bored tone. She nods her head clearly flabbergasted and unable to talk. “Go get her and tell her that J is here for her will ya?” I ask to which she nods again and speeds out of the room. With a sigh I sit down at one of the tables and rub my eyes. I look up to see Pinkie staring at me with those giant eyes of hers with a huge grin. I sighed deeply before responding to her presence. “Yes Pinkie you wanted something?” I ask eager to get this over with.

“Hi J how are you?” she asks me instead of answering my question.

“You didn’t answer my question.” I say a little more than irritated. 

“You didn’t answer mine.” She replies with a big grin. Only further annoying me. 

“I do not have time for games Pinkie either say what you want or I’ll leave.” I say in a defeated tone. 

“You’re no fun J.” she says with a frown. I silently stare at her for her to get the hint. “Why did you kill that dragon?” she asks me in a serious tone. I looked at her still face and could tell that she was needed to know this.

“I killed him before he killed you.” I say in a neutral tone. My face an unreadable mask and my arms crossed across my chest as if challenging her to say otherwise. 

“Did you have to kill it though?” she asks quietly that I almost didn’t hear her.

“Would you rather be dead and it still alive? What if it killed your friends too? Would rather it take all your lives just so it wouldn’t die?” I ask her. She looks at me unsure of what to say. “You have a life here and are needed here. Don’t let it bother you, I’m the one who killed it and I will take responsibility for it. I do not regret my decision and neither should you. People depend on you so smile, and let it go.” I say to her. She sits there unsure of what to say and I leave her like that. I quietly leave the shop and walk back into the town. The ponies are still inside their homes and the town almost looks barren. I make my way to the park to see if Rainbow is there. Sure enough I see her rainbow tail on a cloud above the park. I snatch a random stone on the ground and flick it at her with amazing precision. 

“ow, who did that!?” Rainbow asks flying away from her cloud to see me. “Oh J, it’s just you.” She says as if dreading the moment when we would have to talk. 

“You know I could just leave if you don’t want to talk. I get the feeling that I’m not wanted around her and I do have other things to do so we can talk another time or whenever.” I reply hoping that she would drop it and leave me be. Unfortunately things have a tendency to not go my way, at least with social interactions. 

“Wait, can you teach me to fight like you?” Rainbow asks me.

“No” I respond with lack of any feeling.

“Why not?” she asks angry at me denying her.

“Are you willing to kill another being?” I ask her in a serious tone.

“No.” she responds appalled at the idea.

“Then I cannot teach you to fight like me nor will I.” I reply almost annoyed at her response.

“Why not?” she asks yet again. I sigh and explain to her.

“I fight to kill. If you don’t wish to kill then teaching you otherwise would be a moot point. I don’t have time to be wasting on trying to teach you something you won’t do. Is that all?” I respond.

“Wait, can’t you teach me something?” she asks desperate for something. I groan audibly.

“Fine I will teach you one thing.” I say. She lightens up after that and looks at me hopefully. “Stay hydrated. That is all.” I say concluding her one and only teaching. She looks at me incredulously. I take that moment to slip away into the forest. I quickly find the path to my cave that I made for the ponies. As I approached the cave I see Glib playing with one of the traps I made. Deciding to surprise him I snuck up behind him and tapped his shoulder. 

“Ah!” he yells out surprised setting off the trap and getting a slap to the face with a branch. He looks at me with contempt in his face as I laugh at his blunder. “Ha ha laugh it off while you can. It was a bitch to move that dragon, so I had to break it off into pieces that I could actually move. Remind me to never work with you again, freaking slave driver.” He says to me mumbling the last part.

“come on we have to check out the borders of Everfree, its best to know your surroundings. Oh before we go what kind of weapons did you find in the horde?” I ask curious to see what new objects I might have gotten.

“Well I know for certain that you got this really big red sword that’s pretty long. Everything else was either gold or red but you got lots of swords and a few axes. Other than that not much other than a weird looking earing. I wouldn’t touch it if I were you I tried messing with it and it almost lit my whole hand on fire.” He says with a shudder. I decide to check the weapons that he is referring to which are just off to the side in the cave lain haphazardly all over the floor. I see the sword he’s talking about and notice that it’s a claymore that is rather taller than normal. The weapon already has a sheath but it’s about as tall as me. I decide to take the blade with me and strap it on to my back. I toss another golden claymore at Glib to hold on in case we get in trouble. I see pair of silver gem studded knives and decide to take those along as well. Glib looked happy to be doing something and kept jumping around looking at different things. I swear he’s worse than Pinkie. Hopefully we don’t find anything too dangerous in the forest. Little did I know that soon I would be fighting for my life.

> The Face Off
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------


I slowly open my eyes to see everything move past me slowly. I think I’m flying in slow motion right now. There’s  too much adrenaline pumping through me right now to focus on anything. Why am I flying in the first place anyway? You then notice  the lack of vision in your right eye.  You reach up to touch an empty socket and strangely feel calm. Then I feel a sharp pain on my right side, where  a huge chunk of flesh is missing. I could see my ribs and how a few of them are digging into what might be my lungs. This should make me feel panicked and distressed but there is a strange sense of calm washing over me. I close my eyes to see a thick darkness covering me. It feels like time has stopped like it no longer exists when I’m in this darkness, but I feel something dragging me back away from the darkness. I slowly open my eyes and my body slams into a tree at the same time snapping me away from my reprieve. Suddenly I remember what happened.


30 minutes ago

We were scoping out the forest for a better understanding of our surroundings. We had been making a good pace and we were far into the Everfree. It was about three hours away from Ponyville when Glib stared to make his 156 attempt to make me laugh. It was failing, yet the kid had perseverance. We knew little about each other, by that I mean that Glib knew a lot about me. It was rather creepy, almost stalkerish, yet I didn’t know much about him. I’m not one for idle talk however and took a silent reproach to his loud and boisterous behavior.   It was around midday when we heard a shout for help. “A damsel in distress! Don’t worry fair maiden I shall save you!” the idiot says aloud. 

“No, you idiot, don’t go running off!” I yell at him but it was futile as he ran in pursuit of the scream. However I held some suspicion about who could be this far out in the forest. Sadly being forced to help the idiot I chased after him. As I hurried to catch after him I heard a loud snap near me that sounded similar to the sound of breaking bones. Shortly after a body comes flying towards me that I barely manage to sidestep, only to catch a huge claw to my right side. I manage to spin my body with the blow to reduce its power however the claw managed to take a chunk of my side. I turn towards the attacker to see a huge creature that stood well above me. Its fur was whiter than snow and had menacing claws on both its hands  and feet that looked it could rip apart anything. Blood dripped from its mouth as I could see it eating the chunk of my flesh off its hands. It was beyond repulsive. I snap into focus and pull out the giant sword attached to my back. My right side is bleeding badly but I don’t pay it any heed. I tightly grip the handle of the sword and charge the creature.

I move quickly and swing my sword at its head for a quick kill, but as my sword digs into its flesh it stops suddenly in the creature as if the muscles itself were stopping  the sword. I clinch my teeth and put my entire into the cut to quickly end the battle, however fate is cruel. My sword only goes a little further into its neck when the creature yanks the sword out its neck pissed. As strangely as that was the wound heals up quickly leaving no mark. The creature then rams into me pushing me away from it only to claw my face, I bring up my sword to block but I’m too slow and it tears out my right eye. I grimace at the overwhelming pain that’s racking my body. The creature is testing me and I can’t afford to lose. I swing my sword in quick succession, trying to stay on the offensive, but the creature is too quick. It moves swiftly in between my blows and I’m swinging at air. Suddenly it slams me into the air. 

This is where I am now. My sword dropped somewhere in the fray and all I have left are my silver daggers. I take them out and twirl them around a little. I look at the approaching monster that eyes me warily, unsure of what to make of the daggers. I move them constantly to distract myself from the pain. I suddenly rush the beast and it brings its claw down on me, however the beast only hits air. With quickness that is beyond comprehension I circle the beast in a circle cutting it wherever my knives can reach. I cut its cheek, left leg, hip, right arm and all across its chest before it could even defend itself. I notice that the cuts I make hurt it and do not heal up immediately. I move even quicker as I slash its hamstring making it fall to the ground. I dig my knives into his neck and twist it around to add to the beast’s pain. I cut it open from its stomach to its chest and ram my knives into its eyes. Rage builds in my as I rip its chest open and pound on its insides. Mercilessly I beat upon the beast, cracking its ribs and beating its lungs to a bloody mush. 

The creature is misfortunate enough to still be conscious enough to feel the daggers being rammed into its eyes and screams in pain. It whimpers as it feels each mighty blow I deliver it and is powerless to do anything. Slowly the once proud Wendigo falls unto a sleep it will never awake from again.

I feel nothing. Each punch I give seems to take forever and this rage building up inside me is taking over. Why am I so mad? I’m usually so calm and composed, but this anger raging inside of me. It’s not like I hate the creature but it’s like I want to destroy everything around me. I feel a hand touch my shoulder. I growled and turned to see Glib looking at me with a worried look. It takes all my willpower not to raise my fist at him. I control my breathing long enough to feel the adrenaline starting to wear off of me. I stand up away from the bloody mush that was once the creature that attacked me, only to fall down next to a tree.

“You alright there? I mean I wanted to beat the shit out of the thing too, but you turned that windigo into a pile of mush man. You just went apeshit on it. One minute your over there getting your ass handed to you the next minute you’re flying all over it cutting it up like you’re a butcher or some shit. Then your eye went all red and you’re ripping it open with your hands beating the crap out of it. I was all like ‘damn’. The more you were beating him though the bigger you got. Then when I came over to snap you out of it you growled at me like you were some sort of wild animal. Almost thought you were gonna beat me next. Kinda glad you didn’t, do you know how hard it is to get this face looking like this? I don’t because I don’t do anything special with it but you know I rather like my face on my face, or is it head. What do you think?” Glib says going on and on. I was too busy calming myself down to pay him any mind.

“I think, that you talk too much.” I say grimacing in pain. I look over to Glib as he pulls out a lighter. “What are you doing?” I ask.

“Finishing it off. Have to burn a windago to ashes for it to die and not come back. Damn thing will just chase you down to the ends of the earth if you don’t.”  He says actually looking serious for once.

“How the hell you know it’s a windago and why didn’t you tell me earlier?” I ask.

“Well I took a nice concussion and didn’t actually think about it till now. Besides I think good ol Snokey here will make a nice bonfire.” He says smirking to himself, as he pulls out a lighter from seemingly nowhere. He then strikes it a few times until a small flame rises from it. “See you in hell.” He says turning away. Then he tosses the lighter behind him at the mush that’s left of the wendigo only for the fire to die out before it even hit it.

“hahahahaha.” I laugh at his stupidity. “Did you actually think it would just burst into flames if you said a cool catch phrase?” I ask him laughing at him at the same time. He looks to me with a disappointed face.
“Yeah kinda.” He answers, which only makes me laugh harder at him. It’s so funny that its painful. Probably because my lung was punctured by my ribs but I can’t help but laugh through the pain at the sheer stupidity of him. This only causes him to frown with displeasure at being laughed at. “You’re never going to let me live that down are you?” he asks.

“Of course not. I mean how stupid do you have to be to actually think that you would actually set fire to something like that. Oh god, I can’t believe you did that.” I say still laughing at him. “You even did the lame catch phrase, did you think that you were a badass or something. Start a small fire dumbass and then use that to burn it. Dumbass.” I say still chortling at him. After setting fire to the beast I start limping back the way we came. “Let’s go home.” I say. Glib comes up and supports my side to I don’t fall. Just like that, after a hard day of kicking ass, we were walking through the forest. It was quiet, but silence like that doesn’t ever last.

“So you beat that monster into a mush ehh?” Glib says raising his eyebrows ever so slightly.

“Yeah I did, beat the shit of that thing.” I say wincing at my wound. 

“You beat that thing up really good huh? Cough cough, wink wink, nudge nudge.” Glib says.

“I told you I-….You sick bastard.” I say shaking my head at the perverseness of my companion. 

> Stitched Together 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

We couldn’t move fast through the forest like how we had arrived. I was seriously wounded and bleeding out. I used my tattered shirt to stop the bleeding as much as possible, wrapping the whole shirt around my body to cover the injury I had received from the windigo. Still it took us four days to arrive back at my cave. I had passed out multiple times from blood loss along the way and I very nearly didn’t make it. On the fourth day my body couldn’t take any more. I felt my eye socket flare with pain as if there was a blazing inferno where my eye used to be. I fell to a soft cushiony mat. I opened my eye to see that I had somehow fallen on a gurney of some kind with Glib pushing me.  Somehow Glib had put me in a gurney that came from seemingly nowhere and was racing me back to the cave. I was breathing erratically and I could feel my lung starting to collapse. 

“Stay with me buddy! We won’t make it to the cave in time, by ordinary means.” I was about to ask him what he meant when all of a sudden strange shaped rockets poked out of the gurney and propelled us forth at extreme speeds. “Yehaw! Nitrous on a gurney! That should speed things up a bit don’t you think?” Glib asked however I was unable to answer. The pain racking my body was overwhelming and I could barely understand his words over the roar of the rockets and how fast we were going. I looked at Glib to see him wearing some kind of doctor outfit and smiling at me as if he was crazy. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was. He then pulled out a syringe from seemingly nowhere and injected my thigh with it. 

“Don’t worry the morphine I just gave you should knock you right out, in a few seconds.” He said with confidence. I could feel the drug in my body numbing the pain quickly. However I was worried about the dosage of how much he had given me.

“How much?” I managed to slur very difficultly. I was barely holding on to consciousness.

“Oh, only about 6400 milligrams, I think. What’s the standard dose again?” He said more to himself than to me. I looked at him worriedly, it wasn’t that I didn’t trust him to save my life, it was just that I really didn’t trust him to save me at all. He saw how worried I looked and looked down at me and smiled.

“Don’t worry I’m a professional! Always wanted to say that.” He said making me worry all the more as I finally lost hold of consciousness. 
I’m falling into the dark. A tiny light shines above me getting smaller and smaller as I fall further and further away from it. I reach my hand to the shimmer of light that’s left but it is pointless and stops nothing. Around me images blur and a sense of regret washes over me. It feels like I’m reliving my life all over again except someone put it on fast forward. Then suddenly the images stop and I’m forced to remember a memory that sticks to my conscious like a bee to a flower. 

There was fire everywhere. I remember this scene vividly as if I just happened yesterday. I’m standing in a school, where little kids go. The fire was roaring with intensity that no one could control. I stood there helpless in the room as I looked on in horror as the little children burned away. They screamed for their mothers and their fathers. They yelled for anyone to come save them. I couldn’t do anything, but cry. That day I felt truly powerless and weak, and have never been able to forgive myself. As hundreds of kids were sacrificed for one man’s death, I tried to reassure myself that it wasn’t my fault, but I was the one responsible for burning that school to the ground. So that it would look like an accident. By the time the fire fighters got there everyone had long since been dead. Nothing in my life had ever made me cry until that event. 

Now here I was reliving this tragedy once more. once more I’m forced to look on as the kids are set ablaze, forced to smell the foul stench of cooking humans, forced to remember the price of one man’s life. Tears quickly ran down my face as I hear their screams. It feels like those screams echo around me, tormenting me, driving me to the brink of insanity. Then suddenly the memory falls apart.

Beep
‘Where am I?’ I think to myself. My eyes refuse to open and my body doesn’t want to listen to me. I lay there immovable for a few minutes before I hear multiple footsteps. It sounds like the doctor’s coming to check on me but it feels off for some reason. 

“The patient still appears to be sleeping doctor.” Says a feminine voice sounding nervous. I assume she’s talking about me.

“Hmm, it has been asleep for three days now. It very nearly died during the operation. It should be lucky that it has similar anatomy to Griffon’s or we wouldn’t have been able to save it.” The doctor says arrogantly. He sounded really stuck up and kept calling me it. It was very rude and I felt like getting up and punching him in the face. Instead I did the only thing I could do growl at him. They both were startled and gave cries of surprise. 
“Maybe we should let it be Doctor Feelgood?” said the female. I couldn’t help but crack a smile at that. If I could I’d be laughing my ass off at the ridiculousness of the situation. It was a little sad that I had thousands of different puns in my head and no way to say them, unless they understood grunts and growls. 

“Well Nurse Redheart I think that you may be right.” Dr. Feelgood says as they both leave the room. I sit there listening to the steady beeping of the heart monitor. It slowly lulls me back to sleep.


Red decorates my vision. Everything is a bright red as if everything were bleeding around me. My hands feel heavy, and I’m breathing haggardly as if I ran across the world twice. I’m on my knees staring down at what was once a face. Now it is nothing more than a bloody mush of brain matter and flesh. I feel hatred for this person in front of me.  You take in your surroundings to see dozens of other bodies beaten and hacked away. It looks like a battlefield had occurred. You see most of the bodies skewered with swords, pikes, spears and any other weaponry known to man. Then as if the world was against you, you began to fall through the air rocketing downwards to earth. Before you could hit the ground all you felt was rage at something you lost. Try as you might you couldn’t remember what it was that you lost that made you so mad, but whatever it was made you feel like losing yourself to the rage once again. You screamed in anger against the world just before you hit the ground.

With a loud gasp you shoot up in your sick bed. Only to regret moving so quickly as your body aches with the sudden movement and your side feels like it’s on fire. I could hear the heart monitor next to me beeping loudly as my heart felt like it was going to leap out of my chest. I punched straight through the thing and threw it at the wall in anger. It stopped the infernal noise at least. It was then I noticed that I could move my body again. I rubbed my temples as I tried to forget the most recent dream that was still running through my mind. My body was covered in cold sweat leaving my clothes damp. I noticed that I was now wearing a hospital gown that was far too small and barely covered my crotch.

I start to sit up only to regret the action as my body protests greatly aching from the stiffness of not moving for at least a few days. I groaned audibly as I stretched my body slowly getting the kinks out of my body. After I was able to finally get up I searched the room for my clothes. I found some spare clothes that looked like Rarity had made them in one of the dressers in the room. I searched for the less sparkly clothes and luckily found one set of clothes that managed to look somewhat good, meaning they weren’t covered in gems or overly fancy. I put on the new clothes and ripped off the overly small gown. I noticed that there were stiches covering my side where I almost bleed out to death. They seemed pretty well done for amateurs. 
I covered myself up and made my way out of the hospital unnoticed by the doctors and nurses completely. As I snuck outside I was greeted with the bright rays of sunlight. I squint my eye, noticing with great anger the loss of one of my eyes. I frowned as I walked through the town noticing that the ponies weren’t running away from me this time but were whispering amongst themselves about me. Rather loudly too as I heard much of their conversations.

“What’s with the hairless ape walking through town?” one said to another.
“Ape I thought it was a monkey?” the other replied.
“Mommy can I pet the big monkey?” a child asked his mother.
“No dear it looks like it might bite.” A mother said nervously.
“What is that strange thing walking around town?”  A lady said gossiping.
“Maybe it’s an exotic creature from a far off land?” Another lady said continuing the gossip.
“Or worst, it could be from the Everfree!” The last lady said finishing the gossip, making them all shiver as the imagined that possibility. My frown deepening to a scowl with each remark I heard. I continued my unheeded walk scowling as the ponies continued to gossip about me only furthering my desire to throttle them all. I clenched my hands in rising anger. Then suddenly as if knowing that I was close to boiling over in anger a pink blur tackles me to the ground immediately dispelling my anger.

“OhmygoshJiwassoworriedaboutyouandwheniheardyouwereinthehospitalithoughtyouweregoingtodiebecauseiwasoverthinkingeverythingandyourtheonlyonewhohaseverunderstoodwhoireallyamandhowireallyfeelandididntwantyoutodiebeforeitoldyouabouthowifeltforyou-“ I cut off Pinkie before she could say anymore already feeling a headache coming on from hearing her talking incoherently. 

“Pinkie you have to slow down if you want me to understand you. I’m fine anyway so don’t worry about it.” I say nonchalantly trying to brush off the subject. Pinkie simply cries onto my chest awkwardly clinging to my sides. I grimace in pain but she doesn’t notice and only squeezes harder much to my chagrin.

“Don’t scare me like that again. I was so worried.” Pinkie says still crying on me as if I was handkerchief. I dislike crying people, especially children. I feel bad for them and I feel guilt tripped into helping them. All I could do here is simply pat her head as she bawled her eyes out trying to reassure her. It drew attention to us both and I hated direct attention towards me. The whisperings grew louder as they gossiped more about me. As I got up to leave Pinkie grabbed my shirt tightly. I looked at her as she looked at me with those big eyes.

“Don’t leave me again.” Her eyes and her voice were so compelling that I was moved to compassion. I hated every minute of the unfamiliar feeling. I shifted awkwardly under the unwanted attention. However Pinkie was oblivious to my uneasiness or she just didn’t care as we lay there in the middle of the road gaining more attention to us. I could feel my cheeks blush a little as my embarrassment increased with every second.
“Pinkie can we do this somewhere else? We’re getting a lot of unwanted attention. That way we can have a little of privacy and I can breathe.” I say feeling like passing out from the pain. I manage to get up with Pinkie still holding tightly onto to me and drag the both of us to Twilight’s library for some privacy. As I waltz in to the library I hear Spike calling from the other room that he’ll be right there. I find a couch and sit there trying to catch my breath. I feel my eyelid get heavy as I feel drained of strength. I look down to see Pinkie sleeping peaceful still clinging to me. Then my savior came in the form of a baby dragon as he yells out “J’s back!” He then runs up to me and hugs me. I hear the clacking of hooves as Twilight runs downstairs to embrace me as well. This only added to my pain as more weight is put on me.
“You had me worried sick J.” Twilight mumbles into my shirt

“Yay Group hug!” Pinkie yells out squeezing us all in. It was painful and I felt like my stiches would rip any moment. Thankfully they didn’t sadly we stayed in the hug for a while. When they finally got off of me to breathe they immediately wanted to know what happened to me.
“Fell down a flight of stairs?” I ask trying to act coy about the situation. Twilight looked at me disapproving as she could see through the lie. Pinkie laughed at my response.
“What really happened we found just outside of the Everfree bandaged up. You were still losing a lot of blood though it’s surprising that you’re alive.” Twilight says looking crestfallen as she recalls the event. 
“I tripped.” I say as if that would totally explain everything. Both of them stared at me as if I was crazy to actually think that they would buy that. “I’m kinda hungry, do you have anything to eat?” I ask evading the question now. 
“Why won’t you tell us what happened to you?” ask Twilight as if I would actually give her a straight answer.
“I told you already I tripped end of story nothing more needs be said.” I say trying to end the conversation there.
“J you’re missing an eye and you were bleeding out that doesn’t happen from tripping! What is it that you’re hiding from us that you don’t want us to know?” Twilight snaps at me trying to get a truthful response.

“It’s none of your business, if you don’t believe me when I tell you that I tripped. What do I have to hide from any of you?” I say smugly knowing she isn’t going to get a straight answer from me. Twilight realizes it too as she sighs overly exaggerating the sigh. “Now if you don’t mind I have to go back to my cave.” I say in a serious tone. I was caught off guard and almost died because of it. I was a fool to let my guard down. It won’t happen again. 

“But you just got back J and you’ve only just gotten out of the hospital! Did they let you out? They didn’t did they?” Twilights says it more like a statement than a question.

“Maybe they wanted to give him a surprise party and let him go so he could be surprised when he came back.” Pinkie always thinking of a party.

“Yeah let’s go with that.” I say hoping to brush the subject off.

“J you are not going to just brush this off!” Twilight yells at me. Now I’m a pretty laid back guy, but if you yell at me you best to expect to be yelled at as well.

“And who are you to say what I can and can’t do!? You will not control my like your slave Spike! I have a mind of my own and can think for my own damn self.” I yell getting more and more riled up by the second. I see Pinkie flatten her ears as she sees this starting to go out of control.

“Spike is not my slave! Stop changing the topic we’re talking about you!” Twilight yells back only degrading the situation.

“Can’t we just get along guys?” Pinkie says trying to defuse the situation to no avail.
“He might as well be one with the way you treat him! You lock him indoors and force him to shuffle around this library doing your bidding! Your over protectiveness is suffocating him. One day he will run away from you at this point from your ignorance.” I say clenching my fist. I could care less about Spike but slavery left a bad taste in my mouth. This was more of my anger at my loss of an eye and the injuries I sustained from my lack of preparation. 

“So he can become as reckless as you and hurt himself severely!? So he can lose a limb or even an eye like you J!? You are impulsive, stupid, brash…” My rage had reached its peak and within seconds I was in front of Twilight. I took a knee to look her straight in the eyes with my eye.

“Continue that train of thought, I dare you.” I say with malice dripping with each word. Both Twilight and Pinkie shivered at my voice and Twilight trembled in fear at what I would do to her. “I refuse to controlled by anyone. I will not sit there and let you insult me any further.  I have better things to do than listen to you prattle on and insult me.” With that I leave the library quickly. Neither of them dared to follow me in my current mood. 

I quickly made my way to the cave and found Glib playing with a huge looking pistol humming a familiar tune. I shook my head as he started singing.
“Hey look buddy, I'm a badass, that means I solve problems. Not problems like, "What is love," because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. For instance, how am I gonna get my gun to blow off your head? The answer is with extreme precision. And if that don't work, use more bullets. Like this custom made .308 gun thought by me, made by me, and you'd best hope.... not aiming at you.”
I smirk a little at the words. “Don’t suppose that song comes with a wrench and a few turrets?” I ask just for the hell of it.

“Now where would the fun in that be?” He asks jovially.

“Could’ve used that gun earlier when I was getting mauled by the two ton hulking yeti.” I say a little irritated that he wasn’t more helpful. 

“Not my fault, little Snuggems has a mind of its own.” He says caressing the gun lovingly.

“You named the gun Snuggems? I don’t even want to know. Next time use the damn thing.” I say shaking my head at the situation. “Anyway we need to gear up and train ourselves so situations like that don’t happen again.” I say. ‘Never again will I be so ill prepared’. I vow silently to myself.

> The Silent Night
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It was something about this day that made me feel sick to my stomach. I had a bad feeling about tonight. Something was coming and the forest seemed more agitated than usual. I clenched my long bow tightly in my hand. I felt the wind blowing strongly yet I could still hear the beating of wings right above me. I let them think I was unaware of their presence and grabbed one of the dragon tooth knives in my free hand. I concealed the blade in my sleeves and waited until the person had settled right behind me. Almost as quick as lightning I turned and held the dagger at my stalker's throat. To my surprise it was an Alicorn with a midnight blue fur. Looking at her I felt my blood stir and clenched the dagger tighter. 

"Luna I presume. It isn't nice to creep on people." I chimed in with controlled anger. I wasn't really angry that she crept on me, no I just hated her almost naturally. It was weird, that I couldn't really say why I hated her only that I hated her very existence.

"We were just out enjoying the night when we came upon thee staring off into the night. We decided to meet thee for thine self." She said almost proud and indignant. She had a crescent shape of the moon as a cutie mark. Seeing her cutie mark made me clench my teeth as I could feel my anger rising. 

"Well you've met me now. Now leave me be I have better things to do than prattle on with an lonely pony." I said with hostility, making it known that she wasn't wanted. Sadly she didn't move.

"We aren't lonely! We have many friends to talk to." She replied stubbornly. If she wasn't going to leave me in peace then i'd give her the worst first impression of me.

"Your servants don't count and neither do your guards that you ditched. Your alone with no friends and no one to talk to. Furthermore you're probably supposed to be working right now but decided to ditch work because it was boring. You should act a little more responsible, for a princess you sure are irresponsible and brash. No wonder the ponies don't like you." I say coldly containing my anger with the harsh words towards her. I looked at her to see tears in her eyes and a scowl on her face.

"That isn't true!" she replies weakly more like she's trying to convince herself than me. I smirk as I see the perfect way to send her crying back home. 

"Face it you're not needed at all. All you do is take up room and cause problems for everyone around you. Even your own sister banished you to the moon because of your actions. I bet you she's too afraid to give you anything important because you might ruin it and mess up your sister's perfect reputation." I say adding more coal to the fire.

"Celestia trusts me! You're nothing more than a liar!" She says angrily getting more riled up by my words. She then glares hatefully at me as if that will hurt me.

"I may be a liar but i'm not the one who caused an entire civil war killing hundreds of ponies in the process." I say ending the debate and breaking her will to continue to argue. She openly cries and flies away as if realizing that all the deaths of those ponies were her fault for the first time. I smirk as I watch her fly away feeling successful in making a princess cry. 

I turn back to the forest to see that its calmed down and has its same ominous feeling as usual. I turn to see a few wolves looking at me from a distance respectfully appraising me as the better hunter.  Here in the forest its simple, the animals in it all respect one another as either prey or hunter. As long as you don't impede on another's territory hunters go along their way. I see a dark green plant that I can use for later and quickly grab it and stuff it in my pouch. 

I hear a howl suddenly further into the forest and see the timberwolves race past me to join their pack. However i'm more on alert than before because that was a howl of attack. Curious to see what's going on I jump into the overhead trees and jump between trees quickly to the scene. Once there I see a huge pack of wolves fight black looking ponies. A better look confirms that they are actually bugs. They has to be at least 50 of them fighting of 35 timberwolves. 

I decided to watch the fight to see how these bugs fight. The wolves are faster and separate a single bug before pouncing on it and tearing it apart. I admire the pack leader's strategy. I see the alpha sitting of to the side barking orders to the pack every now and then. The wolves are ferocious but the bugs outnumber them. Suddenly I see a few bugs horn's light up and shortly afterwards they fling fireballs at the wolves. The fireballs are extremely effective and kill a dozen dogs quickly. The alpha the orders the retreat and they slink away into the woods giving up the fight.

The bugs shuffle about for a minute and then they start to move once more towards Ponyville. I arm my bow with three arrows and quickly let them fly. As soon as I see the three bugs drop dead I quietly jump into another tree. I see the bugs scramble about trying to find me but i'm well hidden. I arm five arrows this time and let them fly into five different bugs in flawless precision. Each arrow burrows deep into their head and I quietly jump into another tree. I arm my bow with another five arrows and five more bug drop dead. I jump into another tree and then decide to play with my prey. I let my body fall back into the dark and let the darkness envelop my body as I become one with the darkness. I land softly on the ground and leap to the cluttered group of bugs. There are 35 bugs left, perfect enough to warm up.

I grab the nearest bug and twist its head cleanly off. I then grab two daggers in each hand and jam them into the the throats of the two nearest bugs. I slice the necks in half and jump onto the back of another stab his eyes out. The bug's scream was exhilarating and made me more excited to slice the rest of them open. I twist the daggers further into his skull as he dies and launch off of him into another bug. I cut his forelegs off in one quick sweep of my blades and throw him into a group of his allies. I twirl around in a whirlwind of blades slicing up the four nearest bugs to me. I then throw the daggers at two random bugs and throw two more at two fleeing bugs. I quickly grab my daggers off the nearest bodies and dance around the bugs killing them quickly. Soon all that's left is a weeping bug in front of me. The bug has already shit himself and is trembling before me. It has a crooked horn like a unicorn but no cutie mark.

"Do you know why I kept you alive?" I say with no remorse. The bug looks up at my pathetically sniveling and mumbles something I can't understand."I can't hear you." I say as I reach to grab its horn to snap it off but it changes into a manticore. It raises its paw to swipe at me but I quickly punch its nose and it reverts back to its original bug form with a bloody nose. It screams and moans in pain. "What are you?" I ask with little patience. It's still crying over its bloody nose so I grab its horn and snap it clean off and its shrieks were loud enough to wake the whole forest. "I asked you a question if you don't answer the next thing that goes is an eye." I say with malice. The bug looks up at me and pisses itself. 

"I'm a changeling please don't hurt me anymore." It begs me pitifully.I look at it in disgust and grabbed the knife and its head and pushed the knife right next to its eye.

"Who is your ruler?" I ask eager to plunge the knife into its eye. 

"Queen Chrysalis please just let me go." It continues to plea desperate to live. I however was not moved by its pleas and plunge the knife into its eye and fish out the eye and pop it in my mouth munching on it. It's squishy and juicy but has a slimy taste to it. The bug wails as its eye is now missing and it's future looks more grim.

"I've had better. What's your name? Never mind i don't care i'll just call you Steve. Now Steve tell me your new name." I say putting the dagger by its other eye waiting to pop the other one out. It cries from its one lone eye as it stammers.

"Mmm- my name is sss- Steve." 

"Good Steve now tell me how you communicate with the hive and don't stammer this time I just might take the other eye if you do. So take a deep breath and say it clearly." I say smiling at the tortured bug as if to give it hope that I might spare it. Steve takes a few deep breaths trying to calm itself down.

"We talk through telepathy with our horns." It manages to say clearly. Though just for good measure I punch its muzzle and a tooth flies from its mouth. 

"Now where were you going Steve?" I ask it playing with the dagger in my hand.

"We were heading to Ponyville to scout the area for food. We use the ponies to feed off of because we eat their emotions." Steve says to me. The last part was actually interesting but it sounded inconvenient to eat emotions.

"So your Queen decided to try and steal subjects from Ponyville and replace the citizens with sleeper agents hmm. Smart planning but you changelings lack any power at all and you don't weigh much either. Still nothing magic can't help with right. Can all of you use magic?" I ask it curious to find out as much as possible about them. Then I grab the changeling and use the holes on its leg to nail it to a tree.

"What are doing to me?" It asks not wanting anymore pain. I backhand Steve hard enough for it to spit out more broken and chipped teeth.

"I asked you a question Steve and you didn't answer me. It's rude not to answer a question someone has asked you. Continue to be rude and I may forget my manners and start hurting you more.

"Please don't. Not all of us can use magic, very few of us can only the Queen's guard can. Everyone else is either broken down to either a worker or a soldier." 

"Good Steve now that wasn't so hard now was it? Now playtime is over it's been fun Steve it really has." I say and before it can open its mouth I grab its throat and painfully rip him off the tree making it near impossible to stand up on his own. "Now go and warn the Queen that a beast will rip apart any changelings that stray into the forest." As I finish up what i'm saying I see Steve painfully stand up and open its wings and fly away. 

I grab all my knives from the dead bodies and the tree and quickly make my way back to the cave in high spirits. Today looks like it just might be a good day. I stop by a creek to wash off the blood of me and I notice that the changelings blood is green just like a bug. Afterwards I head back to the cave and find Fluttershy waiting by the entrance to my surprise.

"Well isn't this a pleasant surprise what can I do for you today Fluttershy?" I ask not really caring what she wanted.

"Well umm J I was talking to some of the animals in the forest and umm they told me that you lived here and umm I wanted to apologize to you and umm say that i'm sorry for giving you the stare." Fluttershy said meekly and almost too quietly for me to hear. 

"ok" I say curtly trying to end the conversation quickly.

"Ohh and Applejack and Twilight wanted to talk to you also. I guess i'll go now." I quietly watch Fluttershy walk away and retreat into my cave when she's finally gone. I then drop off my bow and arrows and most of my knives and change into better clothes. After changing I start to walk to Twilight's guessing that she wanted to apologize.

As soon as I arrived at Twilight's I stood in front of the doorway and knocked. I waited a moment and then turned to walk away to see Twilight looking up at me with a bag full of paper and ink. She smiled up at me as if pleasantly surprised to see me.

"Hey J looking to check out a book?" Twilight innocently asks me.

"You know damn well that you told Fluttershy you wanted to talk to me and sent her to my cave. You could have just went to see me yourself you know." I say a little irritated that she sent Fluttershy of all people to my cave.

"Well i had to pick up a few things and Fluttershy was going to head out into the woods to check on the animals anyway so I asked if she could check on you too." She says as if that would make it alright to send Fluttershy.

"So i'm an animal now that you have to check up on every now and then to see if i'm behaving?" I remark sarcastically.Twilight then opens the door and we continue the conversation inside.

"That's not what I meant J and you know it, stop trying to change my words around."She says already seeing through my plan to mess with her.

"Anyway where is Spike?"I ask kind of missing the small dragon.

"Ohh he's hunting for gems with Rarity." she says dismissively. 

"So we're all alone are we?" I say with a devilish smirk.

"Yeah I suppose we are, why?" She asks cautious of my question.

"Well you look a little tense there Twilight you should relax a little." I say as i walk up to Twilight and grab her.

"Wha- What are you doing J?" She asks worried about what i'll do to her.

"Shhh just accept it Twilight." I whisper to her in her ear.

"We can't do that J! I mean i've never done anything like that before with any pony iv'e never even had a special somepony before and-" She starts to panic and babble on as well as turning her entire coat red.

"Calm down Twilight i'm just going to give you a massage but if you want to get more intimate then who am I to say no." I say playfully in Twilight's ear. I then nibble on her ear for good show and she moans just as the door barges open. In the doorway stands Applejack with a shocked expression and then a mischievous smile.

"I reckon y'all want some alone time." Applejack says haughtily. Twilight's whole body turns violet red.

"It's not what it looks like Applejack!" Twilight yells 

"Sure it ain't" Applejack responds dryly.

"You jealous Applejack?" I ask teasingly. Suddenly Spike runs up out of breath.

"Fillies in trouble in the Everfree." Spike says. Suddenly everyone is running out of the door and on there way to the Everfree. I go at a full sprint and don't hear Twilight or Applejack telling me that we should go in all together. 

"Stay out of the forest you'll only agitate the creatures let me handle this." I say and don't wait for them to respond as I sprint quickly past them and rush into the forest.

I stop for a second once inside the forest and open up my ears to any noises. I hear a scream and I bolt in the direction of the scream. Soon after I see three fillies huddled up by a tree scared out of their minds and looking behind me pointing at something. As soon as I turn around I regret it. Standing high above me is a hydra and it roars at me.

"Today must be a Monday. I hate Mondays." I say to myself.
> Five heads is always better than one right?
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 I stare intently at the hydra and the hydra stares warily. We both start to circle each other waiting for the other to strike. I keep all five heads of the hydra in my site while I think of the best way to handle the situation. I have three daggers on me and I can see in the distance one of my pitfall traps. So were closer to my territory I could lead him to the pitfall to stumble him and then finish him off but the fillies are watching us.

"What are you doing still here your in my way! If you don't leave I can't promise that you'll live." I shout quickly to them and it's enough to get them running towards town.I Turn back to see one of the heads launching at me to make quick work of me. Seconds before the head reaches me I pull my daggers out of my sleeves and cut upwards in a whirlwind of attacks slicing the head into pieces. Blood drenches me and I grin like a madman. I can feel the blood pumping through my veins as the sight and smell of blood starts to excite me and I can feel time starting to move more slowly. I let the blood rush fill me with boundless energy and jump quickly to the next head.  Just as the beast roars in pain I've made my way to the next head and in three lightning quick arcs the next head falls to the ground. I jump off the neck of the second head and cut through the rest of the heads long necks the other three heads join the others. As I jump away I see their necks start to bulge and get bigger. Then suddenly two heads pop out of each dismembered head. I then get into a defensive stance with my daggers and make slow wide arcs around me, breathing slowly. As the heads start to lunge forward at me my hands became a blur of movements as the wide arcs around me form a whirlwind of blows acting as a barrier. As the heads try to eat me they get chopped to bit quickly and my reach amazingly gets longer. A hunger glints in my eyes as if i;m getting stronger from the chopped parts of hydra. Just like the first time more heads pop out and try to kill me. Only to get sliced up into pieces. This process repeats several times to which my body has changed with the blood frenzy. My muscles start to bulge notably and my movements become more fluid and rapid like a undying rapid.

"Time to end this charade!" I shout at the beast and launch forward straight through the hydra. Body parts go flying and blood is falling down like rain upon the gruesome mess. I wear a maniacal grin that shows my obvious delight in killing. I start to laugh while blood from the hydra continuously  pours down in torrents. "Hahahahaha!" I'm filled with adrenaline pumping through my veins and in the afterglow of the battle it almost felt like time was standing still as I laughed uncontrollably into the air. 

Suddenly I hear the rustling of leaves and I jump towards the sound ready to kill whatever dare approaches me. To my surprise its the fillies staring wide eyed at me in clear fear. It was then I noticed that I had my knife right next to one's neck. I back away slowly as I carefully look at the fillies. There's three of them one yellow with a auburn mane, she had a ribbon in her hair. Another was white with light purple and pink mane with a horn atop her head. The last one was orange with a solid purple mane. They looked weird almost. To me they seemed almost fragile as if I could touch them and they'd break. 

Suddenly i'm reminded of the burning building with children stuck in it. A tear rolls down my eye as the memory still haunts me. The blazing inferno is in front of me and the wailing's of the children could barely be heard over the roaring flames. I see their faces pressed against the windows and the doors looking for a way out. Desperately trying to survive to no avail. All I can do is sit there with a sad look on my face. My hands start to shake violently as I try to reach out to save them. 

Suddenly the fillies all scoot back away from me breaking me from my flashback. They're huddled together as if that would protect them. I want to comfort them and tell them that it'll be ok. I never was one for words though and seeing the little fillies huddled as close as they can get to each other almost breaks my heart. Almost but I hear the sound of Twilight and her friends nearby calling out.

"Applebloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, where are you?" I hear Twilight yell out.

"Help us! Hurry quick before the monster gets us!" I hear the orange one shout. I grimace noticeably being called a monster and they all see it and start to cry out in panic. I turn away and hide in the shadows of a fallen tree while they cover their faces up.

"Girls we're on our way, we'll save you!" I hear Applejack yell. It doesnt take them long to reach them and when they do the fillies are all crying and sobbing how the monster almost ate them. It isn't until the girls start to describe me do they realize that I was the so called monster. 

"Look as much as i'd love to hear how J kicked major flank can we do it outside of the Everfree?" Rainbow Dash asks a little wary of the dangers of the forest. They all quickly agreed to meet at Twilight's and they depart quickly. I take a deep breath and wait a few minutes and hear the howling of wolves. Sounds like I might have to tail them for a bit. I quickly jumped in the tree above me and quickly hop from tree to tree to catch up to them. I'm glad I did because as soon as I caught up to them they appeared to be surrounded by a pack of timberwolves. They were at least 30 of them surround all of them. 

"Ugh Twi, I think we're surrounded." Applejack says as the wolves start to circle around them judging their strength. 

"Thank you once again Captain Obvious." I say sarcastically making my voice echo all around the wolves and the girls. The wolves look around warily trying to spot me and the girls attempt to do the same. I jump down on a timberwolf and snap its neck in one fluid motion. I jump off the wolf and land in the middle of the circle with the girls. Of course i'm still covered in blood and makes me look more intimidating so the girls all jump when I land nearby but visibly relax when they notice its me.

"Hey sexy you come here often I ask the wolf while looking directly at Rarity. Of course she assumes i'm talking about her and blushes.

"J darling while I appreciate the compliment now is not the time for that." Rarity says in her posh voice. 

"Silly Rarity I wasn't talking about you, I was talking to Sir Woodsalot over there. I say pointing at a random wolf. She looks at me partly flustered and partly unsure of what to respond. Though so do the rest of the girls as they're not sure whether or not i'm serious. "So you make me find some fillies in the wood and then walk straight into a wolf den on the way home hmm? I swear i hate Mondays." I say calmly. Just as I finish my sentence 5 of the wolves try to overwhelm me quickly. I of course draw my dagger and cleave through all 5 of them in a single swoop of my small dagger. Then grabbing some of the teeth from one of the wolves I throw them killing the wolves that tried to get the girls while I was busy. Green like sap comes from the wolves wounds however this does not send me a blood rush it almost sickens me.

I jump back to the girls and find a perfect spot for me to both protect the girls and kill more wolves. I stall for a minute trying to find the alpha of the pack and quickly find him pacing in the back of the group of wolves. I growl menacingly and the wolves understand that I have challenged the alpha. They quickly make way for their leader as the alpha has no choice but to accept the challenge or risk his own pack abandoning him. 

"What are they doing now?" Twilight asks unsure of whats going on. 

"Well I reckon its got to do with J and the big timberwolf." Applejack says looking for an escape for the fillies.

"Don't bother trying to escape yet. The pack will tear you to shreds. Let me take care of Sir Woodsalot and then we can leave." I say slowly never taking my eyes off the alpha. We circle each other gauging each others strengths and weaknesses. The alpha moves first as he tries to pounce me a quickly sidestep and drive my knee into his snout. A large crack could be heard as i break his snout and green sap starts to flow freely from it. He howls in pain but I quickly leap to the offensive. I shove my dagger in his left eye and send a low kick to his right leg. Just as the kick meets the leg it breaks off falling and turning into a pile of twigs.  The wolf writhes in pain as his mobility has been cut off severely and looks up at me pitifully as if asking me to spare him. I pull out my dagger and cut into his neck, sap spouts out of the wound like a geyser, causing the wolf to gurgle out sounds that make no sense. I looked down coldly at the dog as it spent its dying moments drowning in its sap.

As I back away from the alpha the wolves bow their heads to me and leave respecting that I have won. I hear puking behind me and turn around to see all of the girls either puking or looking at the scene in horror. I wipe off the sticky sap that has covered my dagger on the grass and sheathe it. "Now get out of here." I say with a barely controlled whisper. The girls didnt need to be told twice, they quickly gather themselves and leave the forest.

I look back down to the wolf and spit on it in disgust. Now I have to deal with the fallout of this. The girls are too naive and soft. I was unaccustomed to putting up with naive people or ponies in this circumstance. Any other time I had a problem with someone I just killed them. Something deep inside me tells me that killing them would not go over well. They play an important role. I slowly sat down next to the dead bodies. I looked up into the sky, the trees blocked my view but it was a peaceful scene nonetheless. I felt fatigue fall upon my body as exhaustion started sweeping in from the lack of adrenaline. I look at my left hand and rubbed my wrists.  The dirt on it slowly wiped of as number appeared on my skin as if they were branded there a long time ago. The number's read 661. I grit my teeth as the numbers reminded me of the past. I grabbed some more dirt and smeared it over the numbers again to cover up the disgrace of a number. I could feel my anger rising and used it as fuel to lift up my weary body. I slowly made my way to the closest river that I could find.

There I stripped off my clothes and washed off the blood and sap from both encounters. The river seemed to bleed as I cleaned both my clothes and myself. When I was done washing I put my clothes in a nearby tree to dry. I grabbed my dagger and sat in the tree waiting for my clothes to dry. It wasn't long until I heard a familiar voice. 

"H-hello?J?" I heard a faint voice say. As I looked for the source of the voice I saw Fluttershy make her way closer to me. She hadn't seen me yet in the tree and I didn't feel like talking to her at that moment. However as soon as I turned around I heard another voice louder and more boisterous.

"Why are we even out here anyway? He's a monster Fluttershy did you see the way he took down those timberwolves like they were nothing? I mean yeah it was bad ass but when the big wolf started to fight him it felt like he was just playing with him." Rainbow Dash said flying slowly so as not to leave her friend behind.

"J isn't a monster he was just defending us." Fluttershy said trying to defend me.

"That guy is bad news and I don't trust him anyways. I got a bad vibe about him like he doesn't care about anything. No, I could see it in his eyes, he had the look of a killer. " Dash said shivering as if she could feel my gaze upon her. Which i'm sure she could as I glared down at her with a cold unfeeling look. 

"I think he just needs someone to be there for him, someone to open up to." Fluttershy said as if saying she would be the one to be there for me. 

"Well he seems like he can handle himself alright if you ask me." Dash said trying to get Fluttershy to agree with her.

"I don't think so when I looked at him it seemed like he was all alone with no one to turn to." Fluttershy replied almost indignant.

"You know its rude to talk about others behind their back." I finally announce. They look around to see where i'm at Rainbow Dash looking on edge and Fluttershy looking shocked. 

"Ohh i'm sorry J, we just came back to see if you're alright." Fluttershy said with hope in her voice. 

" I have seen worse. I don't need any help nor desire it from either of you." I say harsher than I intend to be. Fluttershy flinches as if I slapped her. Rainbow Dash however gets angry.

"Hey we didn't have to come back here to see if your sorry flank was ok. The least you could be is grateful." She says with righteous anger almost.

"No you didn't, and why should I be grateful you all froze up in fear when you were surrounded by the wolves. I killed them for you, protected you and this is the thanks I get."

"Well you didn't have to kill them you could have scared them away or something." Rainbow Dash hotly argues back at me.

"You didn't have to make him suffer. He was in so much pain. You didn't have to do that!" Surprising me completely Fluttershy yells at me. 

"You are naive. All creatures appreciate strength and if there is someone stronger than them they leave them alone out of fear. I showed those wolves strength they needed to see to never mess with me again. Not everything can be resolved peacefully. You are stuck in your own beliefs but one day the time will come where peace is no longer an option. Would you rather die than give in to violence?" I ask still remaining hidden from them both.

"Come show yourself you coward! If you're gonna take big then do it to my face." Rainbow Dash said challenging me.

I quickly shove on my pants and jump in front of them scaring them. When they see my body both of them gasp loudly as their eyes see all the scars on my body. Fluttershy tries to rush to me thinking I was injured but I hold her aside.

"These are my scars I have no wounds for you to treat, these scars will stay with me my entire life. It is not something you can fix." I say addressing Fluttershy. Then I turn to Dash and respond to her threat. "I am many things but I am no coward. If dead bodies is all it takes to upset you then you should be grateful that you were sheltered from such things. I do not have the leisure to be naive nor coddle you. So if you don't like me then go fuck yourself, I don't care. Don't go preaching to me what is right and wrong, not everything is in black and white, Good or Bad." I respond hotly to her. Then I start to put on my still wet clothes. Both of them are deadly quiet even as I say goodbye they don't say anything. 
> 661
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

 	

As I made it back to the cave I noticed that I wasn't alone. I slowly slipped the dagger in my right hand ready to strike at a moments notice. My eye slowly adjusts to the dark and there sitting there is Pinkie Pie. She looks up at me remorsefully and full of pity. "J, why?" She asks simply.

"Why did I kill them or why did I torture him?" I ask feeling my resolve weaken just being around her. She reminded me so much of her that it was almost overwhelming. 

"Both." I sigh loudly as I try to find the right words to say.

"They would have killed you otherwise. By myself I could have killed them all in seconds. You were all there paralyzed with fear. If I hadn't then..." I trail off letting the thought stay in the air for a few minutes before talking again. "I tortured the alpha to show the pack that stood no chance against me."  I finish coldly expecting her to scold about how precious life is or something stupid.

"I understand." She says simply. I look at her and her eyes tear up. I can see she's hurt by my decision but she knows that I won't change. I reached over and patted her head. She gives me a smile in return. That simple smile felt pure and unreserved, it reminded me of someone.  Deep down inside me I felt some once of guilt for killing in front of them, maybe because they were so innocent. "J why do you kill?" Pinkie asks me in a quiet whisper. 

Maybe it was sincerity of the question that made me answer honestly. "I grew up in an orphanage never knowing my parents. The orphanage was to poor and couldn't care for us all so there were many of days we could not eat. It was not uncommon for me to have to steal for food. More often than not the others would get caught and reprimanded accordingly. I saw a lot of them starve to death, the orphanage would just make another tombstone and bury them as if it were no big deal. I suppose in a way it wasn't uncommon for people to die. However the church we stayed at became so poor that the needed to sell some of the children in order to keep the orphanage running. I was 7 I believe at the time when me and several others were sold to a potbelly of a man who reeked of garlic and spices. He was a cruel man with a strange name. He called himself Adith the Opportunist. He took us to a settlement he owned and we were sent to work." I paused realizing that what I had began opening up to her. I hesitated for a moment before continuing. 

"He had us branded with numbers so as not to confuse the slaves with the servants." I lifted left hand and showed her my wrist. I could feel her eyes stare intently at my wrist as if she could burn a hole through the numbers that stained my skin. In blood red letters 661 branded my skin reminding me of the slave I once was.





On a hill rests a small boy with black hair that rests on his shoulders. His skin the tone a light shade of ebony that almost reflects his innocence. A small frown aligns his cheeks as he looks towards the sunset. He has seen the gorgeous orange and purple decorate the sky and it's truly a beautiful scene. The boy stands shaking his fists at the sun cursing it for its weakness as if his words would make the sun reconsider setting. The small boys voice trembles as the sun still continues to set. Then the boy falls to his knees and begs for someone, anyone to save him from the hell that awaits him. His cries of anguish are left unheard as the night takes over leaving him without the light of the day to save him. 

The boy sniffles and wipes his tears away. A look of determination lights the boy face and holds the dirty pair of scissors he stole earlier from the kitchen.he stuffs them into the sleeves of his shirt out of sight. He then walks back towards the farm where he lives. His small feet march strongly to his destination. It was Adith's main office. He was told to come after the sun set for his 'night lessons'. The boy was one of Adith's favorites and would teach him night after night. He had started these night lessons two months ago. At first the boy resisted his training. Then Adith cut off his manhood in an example of those who resist. He was then tied to a flag pool naked to show off his new eunuch self. The boy clenched his fists tightly at his sides. He had waited for this day letting Adith have his way with him, letting him believe his resolve was broken. Today he would have his vengeance.  

The boy knocked on the door twice, waiting for the reply that awaited him. The boy's hand shook and trembled in fear and excitement. Soon after calming his breathing and stopping his trembling he hears a voice on the other side of the door.

"Come in boy, its about time you got your filthy ass here." Adith replies in his usual disgusting manner. The boy opens the door to see a pot bellied man behind a mahogany desk. Adith is a fat glutton only his greed matched his hunger. Adith was a slave trainer that sold most of his slaves to brothels. He took a sick pleasure in training his slaves before he sold them. He wolfs down chicken and grapes. It only reminds the boy's stomach  the last decent meal was years ago. The boy bows to the floor before Adith to please him, hiding his anticipation.

"I am sorry master my duties kept me from you. I live to serve you." The boy says to placate him.

"Harumph be lucky that I am in a merciful mood. Now service your master." He says dropping his pants and indicates for the boy to come to him. A silence fills the air as the boy rises from the floor to see his flaccid cock dangling in the air. The boy licks his lips eager to make a move. Every step seems to slow down as revenge becomes more and more clear with every step. Soon the boy is in front of the smiling Adith clearly not understanding the situation until to late. 

With a quick flick of the boys hands the scissors appear in his hand and with a quick thrust forward the scissors bury into Adith's cock. His screams of anguish were like music to the boys ears. The boy kick his knees from under him and he falls forward pitifully. He raises his hand and opens his mouth to say something but as quick as lightning The boy cut off his tongue. He wails in a terrible screech as he grabs his face in disbelief. Then the boy slices his carotid artery and blood shoots out from his fat neck. The blood bathes him in a red glow but some part of him has stopped caring all together. The boy jumps on his fat body and slashes away in a frenzy. Red fills the night as the flames of revenge engulf the house the boy lived in until that day. Now that vengeance has been met a single name makes its way towards the boy clearing away the bloodthirsty look in his eyes. That name escapes his lips "Elise" as if the name is spoken the burning house crumbles in the distance destroying the slave he once was. The boy looks at his wrist as the number are still there as if taunting him, the numbers 661.




" 661 was my number. I had heard rumors from the other slaves and servants that Adith had strange tastes. When I inquired further I was told he had an acquired taste for younger boys on the cusp of puberty. I remained a slave in that settlement for 3 years before Adith summoned me before him. I knew what he would want so I carried a sharp rock with me at all times in my pants." I could feel my fists clench as I remembered that day. " I killed him. I killed everyone that was there and burned down that settlement. I kill because that is what I am best at." I looked at her as she silently cried beside me. I could tell she wanted to comfort me. As she tried to hug me I shook my head and held her away from me. 

"Why?" she asked simply looking crestfallen by my denial for a hug. I looked her in the eyes and wiped away a tear from her muzzle. She nuzzled into my hand with a content smile.

"Whats done is done and no amount of hugs will fix that. I do not regret my actions that day nor will I ever. If that makes me a monster then so be it. Keep this to yourself I have other things I need to do now. I have taken far too much of your time already." I say dismissively trying to drown out the flood of emotions in me. I stood up and patted Pinkie once more on the head.

"Its ok, I'm your friend J so you can always talk to me." she says cheerfully. I look at her absently as I think on her words.

"A friend huh?" I say underneath my breath. 

"You say something J?"

"No, I have to go though why don't I walk you back to Ponyville?" I ask evasively to which she nods eagerly. I decide to walk her all the way to Sugarcube Corner, ignoring the stares and whispers from the other ponies. As I walked through the streets absentmindedly I suddenly hear from behind me.

"Watch out below!" As I turn to see the commotion a blue blur crashes into my stomach causing the both of us to tumble into the ground. I instinctively slam the blur into the ground and grab a dagger and just before I can kill the assailant I realize who it is. " Oww hey what's the big idea!?" Rainbow Dash yells in my face. Then she realizes that my dagger is my hand and at her neck she looks at me with an expression akin to a trapped animal. I quickly sheath the dagger and get up dusting myself off.

"Its quite rude to crash into people your lucky I didn't just kill you." I say aggressively still mad at her. 

"Why didn't you?" She asks quietly as if she was embarrassed about it. 

"You aren't worth it. It'd be like taking candy from a crippled baby." I say evenly keeping my anger in check as I realize others are staring at us argue.

"I don't what you said but it sounds like you're making fun of me." She says while glaring at me hotly.

"Now why would I make fun of you" I say snidely.

"I don't like you, or your attitude" She then gives me the points her hooves to her eyes then at me. I shrug and walk away. Trying to clear the anger of the three numbers still haunting me to this day. 

"I am no one's slave" I mumble to myself. 
> Cavern of Blood
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

	Something seemed off today. I awoke in my cave as usual to see a humming Glib with an apron on attempting to cook. It was horrible as the smell of burnt food quickly filled the air. I covered my mouth with a hand and walked past Glib without saying anything but of course he wouldn't just let me leave like that. 

"Wait i'm cooking breakfast for you J, don't you at least want to try?" He asks me with a smile.

"I'd rather not risk it, throw out that burnt crap while you're at it." I swiftly retort hoping to get as far from the burnt cave as possible. 

"Won't you at least try to eat it?" He asks pouting at me.

"No, thank you." I immediately answer. I grab some clean clothes and some daggers just in case. "Why don't you clean up the mess you caused while I wash out that terrible smell in the river." I  wave behind me to Glib and ignore his last comment on sticking to making grilled cheese. It was a short walk to the river so I enjoyed the brief walk by singing softly to myself  a familiar tune. I was so lost in the tune that I didn't notice I had an audience until I finished and the sound of hooves clopping together shocked me from my reverie. I turned to see that I had reached my destination and there by the river sat Fluttershy smiling at me. 

"Fluttershy, what a pleasant surprise to see you here. What brings you to my neck of woods?" I ask feigning a smile. 

"Oh I was just walking Angel when I heard you singing it was very beautiful by the way." She compliments me with a smile that could melt butter. 

"Why Fluttershy flattery will get you just about everywhere." I reply with a toothy grin as I slowly advance towards her as if she were my prey. "Such a compliment deserves a reward. How about we bathe together?" I ask as I finally approach her and slowly circle her while gliding my fingers across her wings. Her face turns scarlet from the comment and the attention to her wings. I see her wings flutter weakly enjoying the attention my fingers gave. "I could wash your wings for you, or maybe something more sensual perhaps." I end my statement with pushing down gently on her wing receiving a sharp gasp from her. I then feel teeth dig in to my finger. I look to see a small white bunny hanging on my index finger.

"Angel you shouldn't bite others." Fluttershy chides him and pulls him away before I could turn him into bunny stew. "Oh i'm so sorry for Angel, J he's not very good with strangers." She apologizes for her bunny her face still flushed as she bows her head meekly.

"No harm done I suppose, now if you don't mind a certain river is calling my name." I say as I take off my shirt and throw it on a nearby tree. I turn to see Fluttershy still staring at me her eyes glued to my chest, her face turning a deep scarlet. "Unless you want to join?" I ask teasingly.

"eep!" is all I hear as Fluttershy dashes off back into the woods. A shame I could use help cleaning my back. I quickly take off the rest of my clothes and jump into the cold river. I take my time cleaning myself of dirt and grime, relishing in the cold refreshing water. When i'm done I grab my clothes and clean them in the river as well. Hanging up the wet clothes and finding a tall branch to nap on I quickly find myself dozing off.





"Jay you'll protect me won't you?" I hear a small girlish voice ask me. I turn to see a little girl no older then 9 looking up to me. Her fair skin seems to glisten in the sun, she's wearing a red dress that almost touch her ankles. Her hair is in ponytail and a necklace of a Cheshire cat hangs from her neck. I can feel the tears in my eyes build up just from seeing her familiar face.

"Of course Elise, no one's gonna hurt you as long as i'm around." I say with a shaky voice. Then suddenly she smiles at me as blood slowly pours down her head ruining her fair face. The tears come down my face in a constant stream as she speaks again.

"Why didn't you protect me Jay?" She says as her legs slowly start to fade away slowly to my horror. I fall to my knees and hug her close to me. Sobbing loudly now unable to hold in the torrent of tears. 

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I wasn't strong enough." I say weakly trying to hold her tightly in my arms.

"Sorry isn't good enough Jay." She replies hurting me more than any wound i've suffered. "You failed to save me." Her statement rang true in my ears as she faded away from my grasp leaving me wallow in my greatest failure. 

"Elise!" I scream to the heavens in anguish. I pound the ground with balled fists with hatred at myself. Pain fills my body as I curl into a ball and mumble her name over and over again. I hug my knees to my chest unable to reason with anything. I can almost feel her cold limp body in my arms. I could almost see her face of sorrow as she died in my arms. I can feel her blood on my hands as she slowly drifted away to death's embrace.




"Elise!" I scream as I awaken with tears in my eyes and jump to my feet. Forgetting that i'm on a branch I swiftly fall to the ground and lay there trying to forget her pale eyes staring at me. I slowly rise from the ground and allow a single bloody tear to fall from where an eye used to rest. I wipe away the tear and redress myself. I make my way to town in a solemn mood unable to suppress all of my conflicting emotions. Instead of going to the nearest bar like I want to I instead go to the park. There I sit on the bench and with a pained expression on my face I try to forget the dream with little luck. Suddenly I hear someone shouting.

"J!" I turn to see Spike running towards me with desperation on his face. I wait till he's near to hear what he has to say. "Rarity ponynapped by dogs" He finally manages to wheeze out. Perfect this is just the thing I need. I sigh and tell him to lead the way. He leads me to the Everfree when I tell him to wait. He looks at me impatiently as I walk to a hallowed out tree and move the bark to revel a hidden weapon cache. I take my recently finished repeating crossbow. The crossbow is wooden with metal plating and has a cylinder drum that holds the bolts. Each drum holds 15 bolts.  It shines in my grip, still unused. I grab four drums and a black falchion that I looted from the dragon's horde. I strap it to my belt and cover the tree again. 

I turn back to Spike and pick him up and run towards the caves. It doesn't take long till we get there. I see holes all over the clearing. I set Spike down and look him in the eye. I can see he wants to come with me. 

"I'm going in there alone." I tell him strongly leaving no room for debate. 

"They said they were going to make her work digging up gems for them. If I didn't run they were going to make me their slave too." He says sadly as if trying to defend himself. However one word stuck out that made my blood boil.

"Slave?" I ask my voice wavering slightly trying to control the hatred I felt coursing through my veins. 

"Yeah." he says simply but it was enough to set the flames burning within me.

"Go get the others and wait for me outside the cave. I will save Rarity first then I will make them pay." I say menacingly. 

I turn away from him not hearing his response. I walk to the entrance and slip into the shadows hiding my presence from everything. I silently walk down the cave for a minute before I hear the padding of footsteps. I walk further to see the path split into three separate directions. I stop and wait for the enemy to approach me. It isn't long before I see a mutt turn the corner its a tall bipedal dog wearing crudely dented armor and wielding a spear. My anger gets the better of me as I grab my falchion and before the dog knows it impale him in the gut. I drag my sword upwards and grab his intestines ripping them out violently. The dog howls in agony making me smile dementedly at him. I give in to my bloodlust and shove his intestines down his throat forcibly choking him. His muffles of pain are like music to my ears. I leave him there to bleed out painfully or die from lack of air. 

I continue down the path the dog came from sheathing my sword and opting for my crossbow instead. Before long I reach what appears to be the armory as two dogs sit down near a table and talk unaware of my presence. One wears a helmet and has a sword while the other only has leather armor.

"New pony so loud. She hurt ears badly." says the one with armor.

"She bad news better off killing her." replied the one with the helmet. 

"Boss wants her for matin I hears." By then I had heard all I wanted to hear. I aim at the one with only armor and with a tug of my finger my arrow finds his skull. He falls to the ground dead. Before the other can say anything i'm on him. I punch his throat with a quick punch ensuring his silence. I follow up by grabbing his head and kneeing it hard enough to daze him. I aim the crossbow and shoot his left arm. He screams silently and I pick him up and force him to look at me.

"You will lead me to the prisoners and maybe i'll let you live." The dog quivers beneath me in fear and I can hear the sound of tinkling alerting me that he's pissed himself. He nods quickly and I let him up. "If you think of leading me anywhere else.." I trail off and grab his balls and clench them in my hand. "I will chop off your balls and force you to eat them, you understand?" I say. He nods his head furiously eager to escape my grasp. I let go of his filthy sac and rub my hand on his fur. "Lead the way." He quickly leads me down several different tunnels to which we surprisingly don't run into any dogs. 

Finally we reach the cages holding numerous prisoners. I hear grunting nearby one of the cages and I tell the dog to stay by the entrance and not to move. I hear the slapping of flesh on flesh I dig my nails into my palm as I quietly stalk forward crossbow in hand and what I see next disgusts me. Several of the prisoners are crying softly to themselves and covering their eyes from the sight of a dog raping a mare in one of the cage. Rage blinds me as I toss the crossbow aside and grab the dog and toss him to the other side of the cage. It disorients him long enough for me to grab his head and bang it against the bars over and over again. Then I shove my thumbs into its eye sockets crushing his eyes. The dog wails in pain. Then I grab its still erect member and rip it off its body. The dog screeches in pure agony then I shove it down its throat violently. Still lost in rage I stomp on the dog's face repeatedly until it's nothing more than mush beneath my feet. I breathe heavily trying to regain my control. I walk over to my crossbow and pick it back up and call the other dog.

"Unlock the cages. Now!" I yell at the dog delivering a swift backhand when he didn't move fast enough. The dog yelps and swiftly unlocks the cages. The ponies hesitantly walk out of their cages. An earth pony approaches wary of me. This pony has a dirty blonde mane and a cutie mark of a silver crest.

"Who are you?" She asks me in a girlish  voice.

"Your savior and you are?" I ask slowly calming myself. 

"Silver Crest of the Royal Guard." She salutes me.

"Good then your in charge of them. They'll listen to you more than me anyway. Dog lead them out of here and run as far away from here as possible." I say turning around.

"Wait aren't you going to escort us out of here?" A cerulean pegasus asks me.

"No i've got slavers to kill and you are?" I ask again not really caring about they're names.

"Misty Haze at your service and we need your protection to get out of here alive." She replies looking at me defiantly. 

"I'll lead you to the entrance no more." I say giving in to the mare's demand knowing that she isn't wrong. 

We slowly make our way out into the confusing tunnels. The dog leading us quietly and the ponies following silently. I grip my crossbow hoping to find more enemies along the way unfortunately fortune has different ideas in mind. I hear one of the ponies approach me and pay it no mind until she decides to speak to me.

"So you never did answer who you were." I turn to see that Silver is addressing me I pretend to not hear in hopes that the question will be dropped. However i'm not so lucky. "Hey, i'm talking to you, monkey." How immature insulting someone because they don't answer a simple question. I stop and glare downwards at her. She returns my glare as if challenging me.

"It's bad luck to insult your savior." I say continuing on intent on ignoring the pestering mare.

"What's the worst that could happen?" She replies jinxing all good fortunes and asking for something bad to happen. Suddenly a howl fills the air as I turn to see a dog alerting his pack mates of trouble and receiving a bolt to the face for inconveniencing me.

"Speak of the devil and he will appear." I respond glaring at the mare who could only give me a sheepish look in return. "Hurry to the entrance! It won't be long till reinforcements come." We hurry to the entrance that's just ahead of us. I hear another howl that sounds to close for comfort. I stop and prepare to face the oncoming wave. 

"Aren't you coming!?" I hear from a rather irate Silver.

"No I still have someone else to look for a unicorn by the name of Rarity." I reply hearing the padding of multiple feet getting closer.

"I heard they had her at the throne room." Silver tells me something useful finally.

"Looks like I get to have some fun then. Go and bring some guards by the time they get here I should be done." I say arrogantly. I turn and shoot the first muzzle I see turning around the corner and slowly walk forward embracing the tidal wave of dogs. I grab the nearest dog with one hand and fire off four bolts in quick succession each finding a different dog. I then snap the neck of the dog I have in my hand eager to kill more. Three dogs try to bum rush me only to find my leg sweep the three of them away into another group causing chaos among the dogs. I take advantage of the chaos to empty out the rest of my drum on the dogs and pull out my falchion when it empties. With a crazed smile I hack away at the onslaught of dogs cutting off limbs and heads and ripping out guts and intestines along the way. My lone eye fills up with a familiar red glow pumping adrenaline and blood through my veins at an increased rate. I let the rage and blood lust consume me in a blood frenzy hacking away with near impossible speed and zeal. As the bodies build up around me I laugh maniacally as blood fills my vision and body. Soon enough there are no more dogs left alive, my shirt is torn into shreds and scratch marks and bite marks fill my body but it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

I roar in triumph and step over the dead dogs untiringly still feeling the rush of battle I charge onward following the scent of more blood yet unspoiled by me. I quickly pop the empty drum of my crossbow and replace it with a fresh one while running. Soon I come into a large room with a throne in the middle. A big dog sits on the throne with a leash in his hand. The leash belonged to none other than Rarity looking pitiful with her disheveled mane. Upon seeing me she looks hopeful and disgusted. 

"J!" she shouts happily at me but is quickly silenced by a tug from the alpha dog on the chair."Quiet slave!" He yells at her. I aim a bolt and shoot the chain breaking it and shoot another hitting the alpha in the right eye. He roars in pain and Rarity quickly runs over to me.

"Get out of here take the first left you can and go straight from there that should lead you out of here. No time to say anything more GO!" I yell at her and slap her flanks making her yip and take off. With her gone I can fight freely. However the alpha seems pissed now and now him and the hundreds of other dogs I somehow didn't see running in here look ready to kill me. If only they knew who they were dealing with. "So who's first?" I say haughtily eager to begin the bloodshed. The alpha roars and charges at me. I unleash the rest of the drum on him each bolt finding its mark with deadly precision riddling the dog full of bolts. He falls right at my feet and I stab the falchion into his thick skull ending him permanently. 

That was all the motivation the other dogs needed surging forward I yank the sword out of the dog and put myself in a wide stance. As soon as the first dog reached me I began my dance of death. Bobbing and weaving in and out of dogs slicing and cutting anything within range. Every time a dog almost hits me I duck into the blow and end the dog and never stopping for a breath and moving erratically. Blood fills the ground and I start to get creative as I start throwing limbs and organs at the ceiling making it rain blood. I even started throwing head at the ceiling so that the splatter of blood and brain matter leave a nice coating for the next inhabitant of the cave. Soon enough there's only one dog left standing. He looks at me covered in head to toe with blood and starts to run from me. I laugh and chase after the dog enjoying the thrill of the chase. I quickly load another drum into my crossbow and shout out tauntingly. 

"Come back and die look a good doggie!" Laughing all the way as I chase the dog to the entrance. I fire off a few bolts so they graze him and scare him into running faster. Just as he runs out of the cave into the clearing I shoot two bolts into both of his legs causing him to crash into the ground. There are dozens of ponies standing there in golden armor spears at the ready when they see the dog. However when they see me emerge from the cave most of the start to hurl at the grotesque sight of me covered in blood and stomach acid. The dog crawls to the ponies hoping they will save him but I reach him first and stomp on the bolt in his legs causing him to howl in agony. I stomp on the wound repeatedly with zeal stomping harder and harder with sick pleasure. Laughing as I do so enjoying his screams of pain. I hear more ponies heaving at the sight unused to such things. Just as I about to end its miserable life I hear a voice.

"Enough! You have proven your point to it." I look up to see Celestia looking at me with disgust. 

"Have I? I don't think I have, slavers deserve a fate worse than death." I say with a scowl and stomp on the dogs head squishing it beneath my feet with a satisfying crunch. At this the guards who weren't puking were now and those who had suddenly found room for more puke. Celestia looks at me with a disappointing frown unamused by my execution. "What can I say old yeller needed to be put down." I say with a disturbing smile.
> A meeting with royalty
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	" We need to talk." Celestia says glaring at me the entire time. I get the feeling its one of those talks i'm not going to like already. The way she's glaring me down also makes it look like there was no room to deny her request. I look back at her defiantly and raise a bloodied hand near my mouth. I lick some of the blood off with a smile directed at her to unnerve her. This only makes her scowl at me in disgust.

"Sure not like I had anything better to do anyway." I reply stepping closer to her. All the guards then react surrounding me and pointing their spears at me. However I can feel their fear for me as many of them are holding their weapons unsteadily and a few even openly shaking. Their fear feeds my inner desire to kill more, I ignore the urge but I don't suppress the bloodthirsty grin on my face that almost challenges them to attack.

"Stand down." Celestia says to which they all lower their weapons but still look on high alert. I slowly inch my way to Celestia until i'm right in front of her staring into her eyes. Her eyes are full of hate and malice as if begging me to attack her and give her a reason to kill me. The tension is enough to drive any normal person back. I start to breathe heavily as my blood boils in anticipation to the possibility of battle. " Let us talk back in Canterlot where my sister and I will decide what to do with you." She says formally to break the silence. I snap from my reverie and look at her calmly. My body urges me to fight this dangerous foe. I ignore my urge and give a nod of my head. I follow her back to her carriage and join her in the confining box. 

While it is certainly big enough to fit us I can't help but feel uneasy in confining areas. The entire flight to Canterlot is in complete tense silence. Neither of us say a word to the other and I make it more awkward by licking up the blood on me. I groom myself almost like a cat would licking myself all over lapping up the blood. I commend her for not puking herself but the look of utter disgust she gives me is getting a bit old. By the time we get there i've cleaned most of the blood on me. I exit the carriage to find that we have landed in the gardens far from any prying eyes. I look around to familiarize myself with the place and mark in my mind possible escape routes.

"Follow me." Celestia says forcefully. It almost looks like there is something in the gardens she didn't want me to find out about. I make a note that some of the statues aren't really statues but actually have life stored in them. 'So this is what she does to the ones she thinks are dangerous no doubt' I think to myself. To be trapt in a stony prison for who knows how long. So she is a tyrant, controlling those she doesn't like with force. My face starts to scowl as the further we go to the castle the more statues I see, and the more I come to a realization that their fate is what awaits me if I don't play my cards right.

Celestia walks in front of me with her head high. She walks with a unwavering confidence that comes from centuries of experience. Her hair a beautiful variety of colors that mesmerize all who look at it. On her flanks her cutie mark rests just like the sun, bright and regal. Though my experience in dealing with royalty tells me that she's the controlling, manipulative type. She's likely a reserved chess player, relying on defense to overwhelm her opponents. That's important as she most likely would fight like so and command her troops in such a way. She probably is self-righteous as well, believing that what she does is for the betterment of pony kind. 

"We're here." She says to me drawing me out of my thoughts. I look up to realize that we are in front of huge doors. I look around to notice that we've been walking inside the castle for some time now. The guards open the door for their goddess. She walks ahead while I stall a little behind making last minute checks of the 13 hidden daggers I still have on me, in case things get rough. I look to see that Celestia is sitting atop a throne with Luna right next to her. The guards have me surrounded in a half assed formation that has plenty of gaps. Still I walk slowly forward until one of the guards tell me to stop.

"Bow before the Princesses." He orders me sternly. I look at Celestia and Luna to see that the expect me to comply with this demand. A grin forms on my face and for a second I can't help but laugh at them all. My outburst shocks them all as I laugh loudly for all of them to hear.

"Is something funny?" questions Celestia. Her face set in a sneer as if knowing she's not going to like the answer. Luna lost as if a private joke was said that she doesn't quite get. 

"You are if you think i'm going to bow to either of you." I say with a smirk. Luna looks outraged at my comment while Celestia scowls deeply in dissatisfaction.

"Watch thine tongue knave if thou wishes to keep it." Luna replies hotly. 

"Who are you to demand that I bow before you? You are not my princess nor are you my ruler you are simply an over glorified pony sitting atop of a pedestal erect from others hard work. The ponies may bow to you but I owe you nothing." I say indignantly 

"That may be true but while talking to us drop your disguise so that we may look at you clearly." Celestia says in a menacing tone. However it isn't the tone that catches me off guard its her words.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." I say rather weakly. At this point i'm sweating bullets, I know exactly what she's talking about.

"If you won't drop the disguise then I will make you." Celestia replies coldly. I see her horn charge up for an attack of some kind.

"Wha-" Is all I have time to say before a white light engulfs me painfully. My very skin feels like its boiling and my body feels like i'm trapped in a furnace. I scream loudly in agony as my body forcefully changes. Flesh starts to peel off me like someone's taken a potato peeler to me and is trying to skin me. My body glows darkly as strange symbols appear all over my body. My clothes seem to all but fall off my body as if to escape the agony i'm writhing in. I fall to my knees naked and barren of all clothes, except for the eye patch that stays secured to me. The symbols glow faintly one last time before they lose there luster and fade. 

Everyone gasps at what I have become. Where once I stood proudly, a sickly pale creature takes my place. I'm panting heavily aloud still trying to find my bearing and overcome the agony churning in my body. I stood slowly on weak legs and both Celestia and  Luna gasp again seeing me fully. I look half starved and practically devoid of life. My ribs show painfully and my arms and legs look like bones with saggy flesh attached to them haphazardly. A ominous and strange air radiates around me. 

Strange marking cover my body on my face a single bloody tear near my left eye is etched into the skin. On my neck a chain wraps around thrice as if to rob me of live, at a closer look both sister could swear the chain was still wrapping around my neck as if it were alive. On my right shoulder a beautifully dark raven with pristine feathers, holding what looked like a book in his claws, and  his wings folded into the front of his body as if praying, Luna could swear the raven winked at her though she looked again it was still so she thought nothing more of it. On the left shoulder  a darker than night owl with his back to them but his head turned all the way around to still see, Celestia swore the owl was glaring at them menacingly but cutie marks don't glare so she ignored it for now. In the middle of my chest a heron stood on one leg with what looked like red splotches falling off of it but at a closer look it definitely looked like the color of blood, One of the guards swears that the blood was falling of it and screamed in alarm.

"I think i'm gonna be sick" the guard says and then proceeds to run out the room in a hurry. The other guards looked on nervously. Near the right bottom of my chest was a deck of cards but only two cards could be seen. One card held a beautiful clown with a deep frown set into his face who was dressed in nothing but blue with a crimson flower in his ear while hopping on his left leg pointing to the other card. The other card held a jester who's smile seemed like it couldn't get any bigger and was adorned in all white, holding a stick with many bells on it that went with his hat that seemed to have a never ending amount of bells on it as well, he was hopping on his right leg pointing to the clown beside it. For a faint second everyone swore that the faint jingling of bells could be heard. 

"Argghh make it stop! Make them stop!! The bells are tolling, the kingdom is burning. The fire is churning, the water is yearning. Please make it stop!!!" Another guard ran out the throne room yelling and screaming words that made no sense. All the guards were now shaking in fear at the unknown that was me. Hesitant to stay but unwilling to leave their princess alone with me. The guards were torn between the fear of the unknown and their undying loyalty to the Princesses. 

" Leave us for now." Celestia commanded. The guards were all but eager to comply however a few appeared hesitant but after a look from Celestia they nodded and left. Leaving us completely alone. One guard looked at me one last time before leaving taking note that many strange runes and glyph's covered the rest of my body but on my back rested what looked like a scorpion made out of strange symbols. The guard was curious but knew better than to defy the Princess and finally closed the door leaving me and the Princesses alone at last. " What did you do to my guard?" Celestia demanded. I looked up to her and when she saw my eye she flinched. My one good eye was devoid of life and looked at her blankly. 

" I did nothing. What he heard was an echo of madness." I say as if she knew what I was talking about. Celestia and Luna looked at me confused.

"What dost thou mean?" Luna asked her interest piqued. However I just shrugged my shoulders earning me a wrathful glare from her. Just before she could reply Celestia cut her off.

"Why do you have so many cutie marks?" As soon as she asked this she swore the clown scowl grew deeper and locked eyes with her as if she insulted it. She shivered and when she looked closer noticed that its hand was now pointing at her. She gasped but when she looked again it was normal she waved it off as her nerves getting the best of her. 

"They're not cutie marks." I respond with a scowl equally insulted that she would ask such a stupid question. 

"Well what are they?" She asked to which I just shrugged again. Now both sister's looked like they wanted nothing more than to tear off me head.

"There's no point in me answering any of your questions now. I owe you nothing."  I say eager to conclude our meeting. " You have two choices before you either kill me now or..." I say trailing off adding tension to the already tense room.

" We should kill thee for thine insolence knave." Luna says hotly. However Celestia holds her back with a wing.

"Or what?" Celestia asks eager to end this without conflict. I give her a grin that sends shivers down both of their backs.

"Or you could hire me." I say giving them another grin.

	  
> The Price of Service
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	"Hire you?" parroted Celestia. The confusion apparent on her face. I grinned at the way things were going. They would probably ask me to think it over for a night or so. It was the typical response. 

" Why should we hire thou? Tis clear you a danger to all ponies." proclaims Luna. She looked irritated at my proposal. She no doubt wanted to kill me and be done with it. Suddenly the room got darker and colder. As if there were no heat to be had in the room. Shadows along the wall began dancing wildly in a frenzied panic. Both sisters immediately took a battle stance and their horns started glowing softly.

"I believe my offer was very simple, either hire me or kill me." My voice echoed around the room and my body was oozing a transparent dark substance that began coating my body. " It would be in your best interests to hire me. I am an instrument of my employer's will. Do you need a pesky pony snuffed, or maybe a criminal killed? I work for a price and everyone has a price that can be paid. I can turn governments into anarchist societies, I can calm raging sandstorms and even freeze over voracious volcanoes. If you are willing to pay then I am always willing to work." I finish off presenting myself with a flourish and bowing almost mockingly.  Both looked on at me warily as if waiting for me to attack. An awkward silence descended upon our meeting. The silence was beginning to unnerve them and it caused my grin to grow deeper.

Luna squirmed nervously feeling the room suddenly drop in temperature. Her face looking annoyed at what she heard from her sister. It was clear they were talking telepathically to each other. I could feel their emotions swirl in a chaotic frenzy. Celestia looked calm and collected, but i could feel her wariness of me grow with every passing second.

"How can we trust you?" Asks Celestia hoping to find my ulterior motive. Luna looked more like she wanted to start firing off lasers in my direction at her sister's comment. It was then I noticed that inside Luna rested a darker presence. It was weak and subdued but it only made me more curious about the supposed goddesses. 

"Thee is a vermin of the most vile kind. Mercenaries can never be trusted dearest sister, they always betray you in the end. All that thine seeks is to better line thine pocket with gold. Thou art truly despicable." Luna responds, slandering my good name. I could see that she was trying to get a reaction out of me and that in my anger I would strike her down. Two can play at that game.

"So says the betrayer." I say earning me a shocked look from Celestia and a furious look from Luna. " Are you really in any position to judge me? After all you were the one to betray your own sister just because no one would recognize you for your hard work. I bet it was so degrading never being good enough for anyone to care what you did." I say adding venom to each word I said. Luna looked beyond pissed off. All it would take is a few more words to push her over the edge. I could feel her other half growing in strength with her anger and hatred. 

"Shut up!" She yells shooting a blast near my feet as a warning. Celestia raises her wing in front of Luna before she can continue. A soft hum began to radiate from me that was to low to be heard. It sounded more like a soft buzzing to anyone else but me. I was ready to attack at a moments notice. It was hard to notice but my left leg seemed to meld into the floor, sending wispy dark smoke from the lack of physical form.

"He is playing with your emotions. Control yourself sister. What you did so long ago has already been forgiven. You do not need to prove yourself to anyone." Celestia hugs her sister, calming her significantly. I scoff at the touching scene and roll my eyes in disbelief. She then looks at me with a neutral expression. "You did not answer my question. How do we know we can trust you?" She asks again. It was clear then that Celestia was the true ruler, and that she controlled her sister much like her kingdom.

"You don't know. Either I am your ally or your enemy." I respond and shrug uncaring. I sit down and cross my legs. " So what'll it be?" I ask eager to get on with it. Both sisters look at each other uncertainly, unsure weather to take the gamble of hiring me or take the risk of trying to kill me. I was prepared for the worst case scenario and had planned already five possible escape routes.

"Can we think on it?" Celestia asks the question I've been anticipating. I smile widely at the response I've told so many others. I hold up my right hand with all my fingers outstretched.

"You have 5 minutes to decide. By the way the telepathy thing you got going on is convenient but don't think i'm not aware you're doing it." I say flippantly. They gasp in shock and stare at me in surprise. My grin grows wider as once more I've caught them unaware. It almost feels like a game of sorts to see who is the better player. I could see the two of them staring at each other intensely. Debating over my offer, Luna was scowling as they both looked towards me.

"We have made our decision."  Celestia said calmly. Luna glared at me in disgust and contempt. From her look alone I could tell what she was going to say. " We have decided to employ your services with the Royal Guard. There you will-"  I cut her off before she could continue anymore.

"It doesn't work that way. I don't play well with others, and quite frankly I want no part of your incompetent guard. I work separate from everyone and I choose the payments depending on the job you need me to do." The room got brighter as all the dark substance pouring from my body was absorbed back into me. " I expect to hear about a job by the end of the week." I say arrogantly earning me a look of annoyance from Celestia. Turning away from them and slowly walking away.

"Wait we have a lot of questions for you to answer."  She presses me trying to gleam as much information from me as possible. I stop and turn back to the sisters with a look of annoyance. 

"And I have many answers, you shall have to wait yet for them. I have things I must accomplish, I shall return in three days, then you shall have your answers." I boldly tell them, leaving no more for argument. I promptly vanish into shadows after having said my fill  and ride the shadows. The dark blur of shadows moving swiftly as I deftly maneuver my way back to my cave.  One task lies ahead of me that I will need outside help for. As I reach the depressing cave entrance, there in front of it playing with a harmonica was Glib. 

"Hey yo boss, got something interesting to do? Just been shooting potatoes at evil bunny's." Glib jokes to me, though knowing the strange oddball I don't doubt that he actually was doing just that. I shake my head not trying to understand my strange companion. Instead I look at him fiercely before I open my mouth.

"Can you open a portal back to Earth? There are some things I need to pick up." I ask knowing the answer.

"I sure can, but wouldn't you rather want to go to candy mountain? Just think about all the candy there. A mountain of candy waiting to be ravished and eaten." Glib then starts to drool and mumble under his breath with a dreamy look on his face. 

"There are more important things on Earth. I need you to open a portal to there and close it after I make it over. Then tomorrow I want you to open a portal back at 0700 Earth time. Now this is of the utmost importance you must do it at that time and at the same location. Do you understand Glib?" I ask the oddball making a serious face to show how important his task was.

"Anything for you boss, so can I come with? I always wondered how Earth looks all covered in white." Glib says wistfully. However his words cause me to me to look at him with a dangerous glint in my eye. However I don't have time to argue with him as is. Its around the afternoon but I would need all the time I could get. 

"Just open the portal, you can't come with me either. Just be sure to open the portal tomorrow at 0700 Earth time." I snap at Glib ready to move on to my task. Glib then moves his hands in a circle and starts speaking a strange incantation that makes his whole body glow with a dark purple glow that drains the light around him. Then he throws his hands forward opening a rift in space creating a dark blue portal, the inside of the portal reveals a frozen tundra before me.

"You might feel a slight tingly sensation as you cross over, remember to keep all hands feet and other shadow related appendages inside the designated tunnel of space. Most importantly have a good trip over boss." I don't pay much attention to Glib as I slowly enter the portal but I hear behind just before the portal takes me away. "See the real you when you get back boss" Before I can think on what he's said the portal whisks me back to my home. As I fall through the rift in space I see varying creatures of various color and appendages that look like living Nightmares. They try to reach out to me or tempt me to go towards them but I ignore their pointless endeavors.  

Finally I exit the rift and as my feet touch the ground I sigh in bliss. All around me the landscape is covered in ice and snow. Tall glaciers and mountains of snow cover the once vibrant and lush grounds of earth. Now all that's left is the frozen barren wasteland that I call home.  "It's good to be home." 
> Where dead memories lay still
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		I have forgotten how cold this place was. The icy wind bites into my spectral form making it hard to look solid. I hold my chest and still my body. My body searches for my host. *Badum....Badum* There I feel the barely beating form of whom I am searching for. I pick the direction of the beating form that only I can hear. I look up at the sky to see the frozen husk of the sun still there, making it even colder at all times of the day.

I have been walking the frozen tundra for an hour now and have reached a strangely shaped building that connects multiple houses together. I can feel the beating of the heart more strongly here. I melt in the shadows and move about the strange faux mansion with ease. Finally I reach a single door that looks like it hasn't been used in years. I slip under the door and materialize on the other side. There I see a form sitting on a chair sitting in front of a self made shrine. The candles have frozen over who knows how long ago. There are pictures of a small girl posing in all of them. There sitting in the chair rests the cause of the cold world. A broken man with no hair, his ribs profusely making known his emaciated form. His arms and legs more akin to thin twigs. The clothes on him no longer fitted for his form look like large blankets. 

"Hey how long are you gonna sit there feeling sorry for yourself?" I ask myself. 



 

"Hey how long are you gonna sit there feeling sorry for yourself?" I hear a voice ask me, the first one I've heard in years. I slowly and stiffly turn to see who it is to see my shadow standing over me, looking at me with disgust. " Isn't it time to move on and try to live again?" It asks me with pity in his eyes. I try to respond but my vocal chords refuse to used after a century of not using it making me cough roughly and then shrug my shoulders with indecision. "Look you sad sack of shit, while you were here with your pathetic pity party crying away the universe, I have been searching for a new employer for us. Now I know you can't ever forget what happened but I refuse to waste it doing nothing when we could be out there killing, massacring and stealing souls for The Void or have you forgotten your duty?" I feel a slight indignation rising in my chest. A fire burn within me reigniting the stiff joints all over my body.

"I serve The Void in all his endeavors and am the instrument in which fuels the Balance of all life. I will restore Balance where chaos reigns, where harmony blooms abundantly and where I am needed. In death as in life I shall serve." I whisper almost croaking from the misuse of my voice. I slowly stand causing all my bones to pop and realign themselves slowly. A low grumbling comes from my starving stomach. "I am famished." I state amazingly feeling hunger for the first time in some time.

"Its a good thing I come prepared then isn't it." My shadow throws a small canister of some golden substance. Inside the canister resides a soul that's been trapped. I can feel the soul inside it writhing for freedom. I quickly pop the canister open and devour the soul inside. I glow a dark glow as energy floods my body and quickly is put to use in repairing my body. I feel my body expand and fill out more making me look less starved and more fit. 

"Thanks Xado, you're a lifesaver." I grunt my thanks. I flex my renewed body trying to feel out the stiffness still left in me. My clothes fit me better but are still a little loose. I look around the room and go towards the bedroom. Inside are weapons and armor stacked on the wall in an orderly fashion. I reach for the black smooth armored suit of to the left side of the room. As I slowly put on the armor I hear Xado grabbing equipment from the second room adjacent to current one. "So whats the details?" I ask my dark companion eager to hear what mischief he's dragged me into. 

"Well some things are better seen then told." He chuckles as he tells me. " However this time we're working for a princess." He states across the room. All the while dragging out heavy cases and filling them loudly. " We've been hired by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna her sister. Keep in mind its a diarchy ruled by the two sisters!" He yells over the clattering of the equipment.

"Great royalty, just what I wanted to work for. You know how I detest the self privileged and self entitled. So this is either good enough to warrant a chance or something about them is different from the usual rabble." I say to him as much as I state aloud. I finish putting on the armor, the armor was made from essentially from volcanic rock. It was a shimmering black color that reflected the light shining on it. The armor was covered in pouches and hidden compartments that had a hidden crossbow and a wrist blade. The armor could also withstand a great deal of temperature and even adapted to the temperature. It was a bit loose but I would fill into it later. I browsed my weapons and decided to stick with knives and blades for now. I grabbed dozens of knives and stored them in the my many pockets. Then I grabbed the compound bow and a quiver filled with arrows. I turned around to see Xado dragging several large black crate's that looked like that had plenty of equipment in them. I looked pointedly at the crates he was dragging. 

" What? We still need a lot of shit for future and better that this equipment doesn't go to waste anymore." He shrugs and goes back to packing more equipment. I look around and find a spools of fine thread used to silently assassinate targets quickly. I grab a few dozen spools and place them in one of my pockets. I also grab some C-4 and motion sensors for the road. I look at the time and see that it is 4:00. I hum thoughtfully as I judge how far the walk is. " Oh what time is it by the way?" Xado asks while hurriedly packing all the gear we can bring. 

"Its about 0400 why?" I ask uncertain of what time restraints we have. I hear Xado curse loudly and quickly finish his packing before quickly slipping the crates into his shadowy form. Though it looks quite comical seeing a shadow stuffing himself full of huge crates and cases. I chuckle softly at him.

"Shit, we should head out soon then, the rendezvous point is about an hour away so we should make hast returning there. A portal will open at 0700 to take us to our new destination, where our current handler." Xado proclaims abruptly finishing his task and looking at me expectantly.  I finish grabbing a few items including a music box that was on the shrine and leave behind the home that I had known for so long.

"So what are the natives like?" I ask eager to hear of the new world that awaits me. 

"Hehehe, you'll see." Xado laugh mockingly at me. I frown from the lack of response.

"Pssh asswipe, i'll find out on my own then." I say in mock anger only to hear Xado laugh harder. I have a sinking suspicion i'm not going to like whatever it is Xado has planned. Still bound to serve by one who I have given my word to serve, even if it was not me who actually agreed. My reputation was at stake and demanded that I follow through with all my commitments.

It took us roughly an hour and a half to reach the destination and I grew increasingly more worried about the unknown of what kind of place would this planet be. We stood there for all but 10  minutes before a sudden portal opened up before me. Xado slipped easily behind me making me and my shadow whole. 'Well no time like the present' I thought and stepped into the portal to a whole new world. What awaited me on the other side was a strangely dressed man in maid outfit looking expectantly at me. 

"Welcome master, may I be the first in welcoming you to the beautiful lush lands of Equestria?" Glib spoke like a maid trying to seduce her master however the name didn't register at first and the vibrant colors that attacked me through the portal made me feel uneasy. Then as I realized the name of the place and moaned loudly.

"Oh What the fuck!?"