//------------------------------// // Chapter Sixty-Nine // Story: A Journey Unthought Of // by Hustlin Tom //------------------------------// “Ok,” I sighed, “I guess that explains that. This is Earth, but how do you explain the Hydra, Timber Wolves, or any of the other strange creatures here?” “I think I might know something about that,” Lyra whispered. We all looked at her expectantly. “When I was still asleep, I had a dream where humans were here long ago.” “Humans in Equestria?” Rarity asked. “But how?” “No history books have documented evidence of humans here,” Twilight asked with a perplexed expression, “Remember Lyra? I looked in both the Ponyville library and Canterlot’s Royal Archive.” “You said the records only went back 700 years. Besides, the Doctor did just point out that this is Earth. We were created by the humans. A lot of the species on the planet were created by humans.” “But there's no way that could be possible.” Twilight stared at Lyra in stunned disbelief. As a matter of fact, so was everyone else. “Humans experimented on horses in the past by exposing them to some hole in the sky that changed them into what we became today; probably that Void hole that the Doctor is talking about. Our ancestors were the first experiments of the humans!” Twilight shook her head, “Lyra, there are hundreds of years of documented evidence and stories passed down for generations that in no way validate your dream! Maybe it was just a dream anyway. Stranger things have happened. This is just too farfetched to be the truth.” “I don’t think so Twilight,” Rainbow Dash jumped in. “Before Adam got captured, he was with me, and we were exploring Spectre Howe, remember?” “Yeah, so?” “So, we discovered some musty tombs, and we saw a green glowing human ghost!” “And let’s not forget,” I wanted to get my two cents in as well, “you ponies have many human tools and holidays. Maybe what Lyra thinks is true. But I got to ask,” I looked to Lyra, “how did this just come to you in a dream? That’s too uncanny if you ask me.” Lyra became nervous, and she started to twitch her tail. She let out a sigh, “You’re all going to think I’m crazy, but I dreamt that Discord told me all this. But he wasn’t a dream; he said he hadn’t escaped his prison, but that he would eventually.” “Tha’s impossible,” Applejack shook her head, “We sealed’em away in stone with tha Elements of Harmony. There’s no way he could’a gotten out!” “Isn’t that the way he was when he escaped last time?” Lyra retorted. Twilight sighed, “Even if somehow he was inside your head, why would he tell the truth? He lied to the six of us when we tried to stop him. He doesn’t have a reason to tell the truth.” “Wait, I’m sorry, but who is this ‘Discord’ everyone’s talking about?” I asked. “He sounds like the Devil or something.” Pinkie Pie cocked her head and looked at me strangely, “What’s a ‘Devil’?” “Ummm, general bad guy of my world. No one believes in him anymore, but he was a supposedly a snake or something that help bring about the downfall of man. At least, that’s how the story goes.” Lyra’s eyes widened, “ ‘I am the Serpent, and I am the craftiest of all animals,” she muttered. “What did you say?” the Doctor asked. “Discord called himself the Serpent, along with a couple other names, like, uh..Loki! And Entropy!” “Loki? Now that’s a funny name!” Pinkie Pie commented. “What’s a ‘Loki’? Is he another funny make believe person?” “He was an old primal god of Chaos certain humans believed in,” the Doctor said, “He was sometimes depicted with a helmet that had two horns on it.” “This is getting even more bizarre by the minute,” I finally spoke up. Rainbow Dash shrugged, “Guess there’s only one thing to do; let’s go get some answers from the green ghost lady!” I shrugged, “I guess we had to anyway. We have to return to Spectre Howe.”