The True Me

by lightningman


Chapter 3 - Finding a Home

I was walking around ponyville, looking for a place to live. I had not managed to find a place to sleep yet and I was tired. I sighed and saw a large clump of trees. I walked towards them and saw that in the center of them was a large, comfortable place to sleep. I smiled and walked inside. It was easy to look out of. But you would need to be right next to it, to see inside. I gathered up all of the soft things and cleared a place to sleep. I fashioned the soft leaves into a pillow and laid my head on it. It was really comfy and I slowly fell asleep. By this time a lot of ponies were clearing out of Town Hall. I couldn't have chosen a better place to sleep. It overlooked the busiest place in Ponyville and it was private. I finally fell asleep. Suddenly I was back on earth. But everything was frozen. I saw the portal and me jumping into it. I walked around the area before I heard a voice.
"Missing home, Are you?" asked a voice behind me.
I sighed and said. "Yeah, I guess I am Luna," I said as I looked behind me. She looked shocked as if she couldn't believe I knew her name. Either that or she couldn't believe that my costume came into my dreams with me.
"Hmmm. So you know who I am." I guess it was the first reason. "But who are you?" Ok, it was both reasons.
"Can't you look into my mind? I thought you would be able to do that if you can look into my dreams."
"I can. But I don't out of common courtesy. Most people, don't take too kindly to me looking into their memories."
"Oh, Ok." I then take off my mask and said to her. "My name is Damyon Chapman. I'm currently 15 and I've had my powers for a few years."
She was staring at me questioningly. "You look like Devon."
I then remembered and facepalmed myself. "Damn it, I forgot to ask Rainbow about that."
"About what?"
"Is the Devon, your talking about Devon Exceon?"
She stared at me in surprise. "Yes! How did you know?"
"My little Dashie was true then," I said to myself but loud enough for her to hear.
"What are you talking about?" She asked me
"There's a story about what happened to make Devon, Rainbow's father. It's split up into two parts. 'My little Dashie' and 'Who am I'. The first one was written by RobCakeran53. And 'Who am I' was written by Devon himself.
"But... How did you read it? He's been here for the past 3 months!"
"If I knew that, I would try to talk to him that way."
She was still looking at me weirdly before nodding and saying. "Well, hopefully, you enjoy your dreams. I know for a fact that someone else is dreaming of you right now."
I widened my eyes in shock "Wait, What?" I asked her urgently
"Goodnight, Damyon."
"HEY! YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE ME LIKE THAT!" I yelled at her as she flew away. I suddenly woke up. I had actually taken my mask off in my sleep. Ponies were looking around for the source of the noise but they couldn't find me. I quickly put my mask back on and fell silent. Soon enough they went back to their lives. I picked myself up and dusted myself off. I came out of my hiding spot and started to walk around. Everyone was staring at me and I felt a little subconscious. But I eventually got used to it.
I decided to go to Twilight’s library to get a book on the history of Equestria. I was soon there and I knocked on the door. I suddenly heard hurried whispering and the door opened up soon.
“Oh, Hi. What are you doing here?” Twilight asked as she looked at me.
“I wanted to get a book on the history of Equestria. May I come in and grab it?”
“No!” she almost yelled. “I mean... Um... No, just wait here and I'll grab it for you.” she then closed the door and hurried off.
I heard more whispering and I leaned against the tree. Soon the door opened again and she pushed the door into my arms without a word before closing the door again. I shrugged and started to run back to my home. I started to jump and I passed the window of the library. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted Rainbow Dash and Twilight..... KISSING!! I was so surprised that I crashed into a tree. I was knocked out.
A few hours later I woke up in the Ponyville hospital. I groaned as I rubbed my head. I then started panicking as I realized that I didn’t have my mask on. I saw my backpack and costume nearby. I hurried to it and realized that my costume had scorch and tears everywhere. The mask was relatively unharmed though. I put it on and started changing into my street clothes. As I was finishing the nurse came in.
“What are you doing up already?” she asked amazed.
“What do you mean?” I asked, “I don’t have super healing or anything.”
“You were knocked out for only a few hours. Your friends just left to grab some food and then they would come back.”
“Well. tell them that I’ll be at Rarity’s place using her sewing machine.” I said as I straightened up.
“I can’t let you go yet. We have to have a final check up on you before you leave.”
“I don’t have time for this.” I groaned as I went to the window and opened it.
“HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!” yelled the nurse.
“When they come back tell them where I went,” I say as I jump out the second story window. I landed and did a safety roll. After having to do one after all of my jumps I was quite skilled at that move. Of course, I usually did it in my costume, but it barely made a difference. Ponies were staring at me and I started running toward the boutique.
Once I was there I opened the door and saw a sewing machine. I took my costume out and started working on it. I didn’t know what these new threads that were on the machine would do to my costume, but I took the thread that looked closest to what was ripped and started working. It was a half hour before Sweetie Belle came downstairs and asked
“What are you doing?” she said as she sat down beside me
“Working on fixing my costume. It’s in bad shape,” I said without looking at her.
“Um... Did you ask Rarity, before you started?”
“No, but I figured it would be ok,” I say as I turned off the machine and looked at the finished costume
She then looked out the window at the six ponies running toward the boutique. “There they are. And they all look kinda mad.”
“What?” I asked as I looked out the window. They did indeed look angry. All of them except for Fluttershy who looked like she had been crying. I wondered vaguely why she was crying. I didn’t dwell on this too long before I changed into my costume and stuffed my street clothes into my backpack. I then opened the window and jumped out of it. Just as I jumped the ponies came in and asked.
“Where is he?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“He just went out that window.” She said
“Damn it, Sweetie Belle.” I thought before I began running as fast as I could to my hideout.
“There he is! Hurry up, girls!” I heard Applejack yell.
I began dodging into alleys to lose them. Eventually, I lost all of them except Rainbow, who was just at the end of the alley I entered. I dodge her from tackling and see my hideout. I see that Rainbow is recovering and not looking at me, so I dive into it. She looks around and can’t find me. My heart is pounding even harder than a jackhammer. I’m surprised she can’t hear it. I’m also surprised she doesn’t notice the flamboyant costume in the middle of these green trees. Then again the trees are brightly colored, so I wouldn’t be surprised. I try and keep calm as she passes right by the trees. I head into the tent that I set up before I left for Twilights quietly.
“Where did he go Rainbow?” Twilight asked urgently.
“I don’t know! I tried to tackle him, but he dodged me. And when I got back up, he was gone!” she said angrily. Not at the others but at herself.
“Well, He can’t have gone far. Where do you think he went?”
“I don’t know. Everywhere I would have been able to see him go except for behind these trees!” She said as she pointed to the trees covering my hiding spot.
“Or if he went into the trees!” Twilight exclaimed with realization
“SHIT, SHIT, SHIT!!!!!” I thought. “Don’t come in here, don’t come in here please!” My heartbeat was getting faster. I then thought of something. I wrote down something very quickly.
It said. “Leave me alone and I won’t tell your friends about you and Rainbow.” I waited for her to come into the trees. As soon as she did I handed her the note. She was about to yell until she read the note. She widened her eyes in shock and looked at me. She couldn’t read my expression because of the mask, but she knew I was serious. God, I loved this mask.
“H-He’s not in here.” she said her voice shaking a little bit.
“Are you sure?” Rainbow asked her outside of the trees.
“I’m sure,” she said as she came out. I then noticed her wave Rainbow down behind her friends as they were walking away and Twilight showed Rainbow the note. She read the note and widened her eyes and looked into the trees.