Insert Witty Title. · 3:44am Jun 7th, 2015
Sorry y'all. I wanted to get a chapter out this weekend, but life got in the way. Incidentally, I'm a motherfucking uncle now. My sister is already preparing the inevitable rant for when I get my greasy mitts on that little kids mind...
I do, however, have a bit of a preview for you. Enjoy.
”Neatly done,” a dry voice with a Trottingham accent said from directly behind her left ear.
Twilight whipped her head around in shock, and not looking where she was going, she ran head first into a post. The wood, thought it was strong oak, gave way quite easily under the force of her impact, but it tripped her and she tumbled roughly head over hoof, gathering an impressive collection of scrapes and bruises that were already starting to heal when she found her hooves again and skid to a stop.
“Who's there?” she called quietly into the night.
”An interesting question, but you aren't ready for the answer just yet,” the voice said again, from exactly the same place, freezing Twilight. ”Suffice to say that I am a friend, and that you should duck- now.”
Instinctively, Twilight ducked, and a blast of Luna's silent, lightless combat magic narrowly passed over her head, searing a deep mark in the ground. Twilight spared a single moment to glare the offending mark and wonder what it would have done to her head, then she bounced away again and lost herself in the streets and alleys of Ponyville.
'I've finally gone insane,' she thought as she ran, 'voices and all.'
'Not quite,' the voice replied, this time from within her mind. 'I am quite real, and you are quite sane, if rather damaged.'
Twilight didn't outwardly react this time, instead finding a place to hide and quickly throwing a veil around herself. 'The voice in my head would say that if I was insane,' she thought.
'Oh please. I am not some part of you that is suddenly aware and communicative.'
'Then give me a name!' Twilight thought back harshly, straining her ears to try and catch Luna's inevitable approach.
'It would mean nothing to you. She's above you by the way. Two steps to the left should do.'
Twilight obligingly took two rapid steps to the left, and a heartbeat later Luna crashed down. For a moment, Twilight saw the Princess look utterly confused, as if wondering where her pupil had gone, and then Twilight drove her front hooves like hammers into the alicorns side. A quick stomp to the head, driving her opponent briefly senseless, gave her just enough time to teleport away.
'Okay. So, you can be pretty helpful,' Twilight thought as she materialised, 'but so can lots of things. Even demons usually start out friendly.'
'A demon? I am by no means malevolent. I'm here to help you.'
Twilight threw a rock across a street, where it landed with a dull thud, then she waited. 'A demon would say that, too.'
The voice snorted in vague annoyance. 'Very well then. I'll be here when you come to your senses.'
Congratulations on unclehood!