"Oh look at you, so sad and alone and confused. The whole world just took you by surprise didn't it?"
I had a first person view of something towering above the ground, and staring down from a dizzying height I could see myself staring up at…whatever I was supposed to be.
"You never think about it, no one ever does, you never think they'll go until it's too late. Oh this world can be just as cruel as mine…"
I heard a ghostly whisper begin to pull me out of the dream. "Michael…Michael…" I began to rock as the dream collapsed around me and I ever so slowly opened my eyes.
I had that hazy early morning vision as I rolled onto my back and I saw Twilight trying to shake me awake.
"Urgh…wha…" I muttered in that early morning tone.
"Michael, I want to show you something, come on." She whispered and backed out of the tent.
"Great, even when I'm surrounded by ponies I have to wake up early for something."
So I sat up and stretched out all the stiffness in my back, rubbed the sleepiness from my eyes, and crawled on all fours outside.
As I crawled out I expected to be blinded by the morning sun, instead I was met with darkness. I stood and gazed up to the sky. It was still dark, filled with tiny stars and a brilliant shining moon that gave a slight glow to the campsite.
"This had better be the beast bucking thing in the world if you get me up at this hour Twilight."
"Please just come Michael, and you can't tell anypony else!" She said in a hushed tone as she led me away from the campsite.
"Wait, shouldn't we have…" I got interrupted by a huge yawn that I bellowed out. "Woken Rainbow Dash by now?"
"Are you kidding? Not even an earthquake could wake that pony up."
We eventually came to a small clearing around a hundred metres away from our original campsite. A slow, chill inducing wind blew from the right; it felt like my entire body was being frozen one bit at a time.
"I'll get some firewood again" I told Twilight, looking around for any twigs or leaves.
"What, why would we need firewood nopony else is supposed to know? And it's not all that cold tonight."
"Twilight answer me this" I said as I wandered around collecting a small bundle of sticks and kindling. "Do you see any feathers of fur on me?"
"Well no….But is it really that cold for you?"
"Unfortunately…" I made a small pile of sticks and dry leaves to start a fire with. Or was it more like a clump of sticks…Maybe a bunch?
"So what'd you want to show me?" I asked her. By that time my eyes had only slightly adjusted to the lighting, the only thing visible was Twilight's eyes as almost everything else blended in with the background.
"You always talk so much about humans, but you never say anything. So I managed to sneak something out of Canterlot…" Twilight held up a large scroll that was only now visible with her magic illuminating it.
"So what's that then? Don't tell me you want to open a portal to Earth or something…"
"No nothing like that. This scroll is a telepathic projection scroll that stimulates the Limbic system and the temporal lobes!"
I sat there silent, with a blank look on my face, still trying to catch up to what she had said. Twilight obviously noticed this. "It's telepathy."
"Oh okay. But let's get this fire started, and let's keep it small."
"But…I don't know any fire spells Michael."
"Well guess what" I pulled the sheathed dagger out and slid the blade out of its casing. "You're not the only thief." I said with a smile, but Twilight still jumped back at the sight of the blade. "Oh come on Twilight, it's not like I'm going to gut you or anything, now where's the flint."
"Yes…of course…" Twilight was still afraid of me, I bet they all were, even when I wasn't a monster.
So after a few strikes with the dagger grinding along a flint, I managed to get a small flame going, eventually nursing it into a tiny fire only about half a foot high.
"Okay so how does this work?"
"Wait you're okay with this?"
"Yeah why wouldn't I be?"
"You always say how we shouldn't find out about humans because you're afraid it will do something to us, or start a pony war, or anything else. Not to mention I stole a magical scroll form the most heavily guarded city in Equestria!"
"Exactly, you went through all of that just to find out about my race, I think you deserve an answer at this point. And I think you've been around me long enough to have a little insight, so let's get started!"
"But humans can't use magic can they?"
"Well…let's find out shall we?"
Twilight explained how to work the scroll, not even knowing what would happen. Surprisingly it was relatively simple for a spell as powerful as this one. All it needed was the scroll, a few gems, and a Pegasus feather.
"Wait, where'd you get a Pegasus feather?"
"Plucked it from Rainbow when she wasn't looking." Twilight had a sly grin across her face, the one you get when you try to lie but just fail…really badly. After muttering a few words and casting some sort of spell Twilight told me; "Now put your hooves down here and close your eyes. Now try to clear your thoughts and focus on one scenario."
"Like what?"
"Anything, a town or a field or on top of a mountain."
We sat and I placed my hands in the middle, Twilight had her hooves on either side of my hands.
It was harder than it sounded, trying to stop your thoughts from wandering or cutting off seemed almost impossible. Every time I focused my thoughts just semi focused on something else. But from pure practice I managed to finally get it right. Lots and lots of practice…
I didn't even have to react when I was pulled out, there was barely any warning that it would happen. The only sign was a loud rushing noise like I was skydiving and plummeting towards the ground. All of a sudden it cut off into silence.
I slowly opened my eyes and saw that the entire forest was gone, every tree and blade of grass was replaced with a thick fog spreading off into all directions. I was standing over some sort of glass that was so clear, it was practically invisible.
"Twilight!" I shouted into the blinding fog.
"Michael…" I heard a voice echoing from somewhere, but it came little more than a whisper. "Where are you?"
"How should I know, was this meant to happen?"
"No…It didn't work…Try something else…"
"Like what?"
"Something simpler…Try an empty room."
"This world just keeps getting weirder." I sighed to myself. So I closed my eyes again and tried to imagine a simple room, no furnishings or windows, but still a door.
What happened was like something out of a dream, when you suddenly snap from one place to the next but never really questioning how you got there. Once again opening my eyes I expected that nothing would have happened, or at least very little, but it was the opposite.
"Michael, I thought I told you to just make something simple."
"Why what's…Oh." Instead of a simple room, somehow we ended up back in the middle of ponyville, the marketplace to be exact. But no ponies were roaming the streets, nopony had their lights on in their houses, and there was no wind at all in the town. But it was still night in this version of ponyville.
"Oh well, at least we're out of that fog, good work Michael. At least we know you can control this world."
"Wait, world, how does that scroll thingamajig work?"
"It put's anypony touching it into a sort of dream state. And the pony controlling it, that's you, had god like powers over the world. But it can't alter the physical world because this is all just a shared dream. What I don't understand though is how you managed to make a completely identical ponyville from scratch; I've read that these kinds of worlds are always distorted."
"Dreams never look unusual until you start to question things, and if you don't question it you never notice…Like that over there." I pointed out a familiar pink pony that was moonwalking across the street singing "I'm Pink and I know it!" With event he beat following her as she backed into an alleyway.
"And that…" Behind us I pointed out Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were fighting with lightsabers on a thin tightrope connected to two rooftops. Eventually they backed off onto the roof and out of sight.
"Oh yeah, and that." I pointed to a cardboard box right in front of us that shuffled across the road with the mission impossible theme suddenly coming on.
"Okay, okay I get it! A lot weird things can happen!"
"Exactly, so what did you want to know?" I lead Twilight in a walk to the library. There we would be warm, comfortable, plus it would be recognisable and familiar surroundings.
"Well you always say that humans know so much that we don't" she noted as we walked through the door. "So go on then Michael, show me something I don't know."
We both sat down on pillows by a table in the centre of the room. "Okay let's …What to do, what to do…" I eventually settled on showing Twilight the universe, from what I'd read in books the ponies didn't know about other planets, they had named them of course but it didn't look like they knew about the solar system very much. Plus Twilight wanted her mind blown right?
"Alright Twilight, you want to see the world as I do? Then here we go…"
I tried to cut off the lights, and with a little practice, did so. And with even more focus, managed to make a hologram of Equestria.
"So I'm guessing ponies know about the solar system?"
"Yes, of course we do."
"Oh in that case, I can speed it up a bit…" I took in a massive gasp of air, even though I probably didn't need to, with it being a dream and all, and rushed through: "Equestria spins on an axis while orbiting the sun also while the moon orbits Equestria, the same happens for all the other planets in the solar system. But then every solar system is part of a billion other solar systems in the galaxy which all contain their own planets, then the universe is all part of a never ending universe all around us."
"Wha- can you slow down a bit?"
"Nope, sorry. Anyway if we zoom all the way back in and take a tiny hair from your tail, then zoom in a million times, we can see the millions of particles, these are all made up of thousands of atoms, which are all made up of tiny sub-particles. The whole universe is an enormous clock working towards the sole purpose of keeping itself ticking. If you said the biggest number you could possibly imagine, and kept repeating it for a year straight, it still wouldn't be enough."
Twilight sat there blankly, looking like she was ten minutes behind everything else. I cracked up laughing at how shocked she looked at all of that, she tuned out less than halfway through. But before I could enjoy my victory too much, someone burst through the door.
"Twilight, oh crap this is bad!" I turned and saw another human running over; he had cyan hair with a black shirt, around my own age. "Sorry Twilight," and with a click of his fingers Twilight disappeared in a flash of light.
"Now listen to me Michael, you can't show her any of this, ever again." He turned and pointed at me. "This is very ,very bad for everything. Whatever you do you can't let anypony find out about this at all, or anything else about humanity got it?"
"What why-"
"Actually you're lucky to still be here, I'd have thought you would have collapsed by now."
"What are you-"
"Listen to me, something is coming, I don't know where or when, but it is coming, and what you just showed Twilight made it worse!"
"Wait what's coming?"
"The impossible will come, and when it does, the choice will have to be made. If it isn't made, the world will burn" And with another snap of his fingers, I was back sitting in the forest.
The sights and sound came flooding back in all at once, my head was struck with pain was I was forced back into reality.
"Michael, what was that? None of that could be real at all, we're the only planet in the sky with any life on it, and we can't see any others. But how does Equestria spin around the sun, it's always been the other way around, and what makes it turn? What did you show me?"
"You wanted to see the world as a human, so I made sure that you did."
I stamped out what was the remains of the fire, a few smouldering embers. As I do so Twilight asked "why did the scroll suddenly push us out so fast? I don't think it' ever done that before, maybe it has some sort of time limit on itself."
"Yeah it must have." His words still rang in my ears, the impossible coming, the choice being made, what was all that about? And who was he? Whoever he was he was strong enough to break into my dream world….thingy place and throw us out…Actually he looked like-
"Michael, let's get going, we still need to get back to camp." Twilight waved me over through some nearby bushes.
The choice…
We all awoke early the next day, Luna admitted she was surprised I hadn't run off somewhere in the night and woken up in a tree. Nut much happened on the short walk to the ruins of old Canterlot, but I spent my time questioning everything that had happened. How did I get kicked out of my own dream, and what was he talking about impossible? After what I've seen the very word had lost its meaning.
As we broke out some cups of…Well it's like a pony version of beer I guess, for breakfast, I noticed that Rainbow was drinking a lot more than the rest of us; she was drinking like Pinkie would eat cupcakes. "You sure that's a good idea Rainbow?" I asked.
"What?"
"You're sculling that stuff down like you just got out of a desert." I walked over and leaned down, going into a whisper through closed teeth. "And we both know what happened last time."
"Ah don't worry 'bout it, I'll be fine."
Five minutes later…
"Told ya…" I had Rainbow up on my shoulders now, high above the other ponies.
"Ah shuddap, you don' know noshin'!"
We were quick on our feet- I mean hooves, to get to the castle, reaching it in little over half an hour. Even that went agonisingly slow though, step we took look liked it repeated itself as we went cantering through the never ending forest.
"We're here." Luna said as we stepped through the tree line "my old home." But it didn't look anything like it did as the stories described it, it was old and decrepit and crumbling, entire walls missing that had fallen to rubble. "Urgh, I guess a thousand years has taken its toll."
We walked up eroded cobblestone stairs as we reached the main entrance to the castle, the doors had been stripped away and most likely taken to the new Canterlot. We walked inside and an eerie feeling came over me, the kind you get when walking through a cemetery at night, like something's watching you.
The main entrance chamber was completely UN furnished; only moss now lined the ancient walls for decoration, where masterpieces of art once would have hung.
"So where's the dragon den then?" I asked, then realised a better question "actually, new question, where's the biggest room in the castle because a dragon of this age is going to need a lot of space."
"As I can remember that would be the throne room" Luna said.
"Alright then, let's go find the place, Luna you lead the way."
"So we're just going to walk right in? Have you seen a grown up dragon?" Spike said.
"Don't worry, dragons don't attack unless you try to take some of its treasure, dragons can be greedy like that."
"I thought you said that humans didn't have dragons." Twilight remembered.
"Well there's always myth isn't there? And now I get to see the truth behind the myth. Anyway let's get going, and Rarity can I have that diamond back please?"
With a groan Rarity gave me back the gem; I guess she hoped I'd forgotten about it. We walked through the halls in a fitting silence; the only sound was hoof beats echoing through the halls. All of the doorways we went through were missing their doors, so I guess they weren't doorways anymore they were just...ways?
"My old throne room should be right around this corner" Luna said. We saw a huge doorway with the door, same as always, missing. A low growl crept out of the abandoned arena of a room, its source being a gigantic red scaled dragon.
"So how are we going to do this?" I asked in a whisper to the others.
"Dragons can be very deep sleepers, it shouldn't feel a thing if you're quick." Twilight told me.
"Wait if I'm quick? So nobody is coming with me?"
"You are the one with the knife Michael" Said Luna.
"Wait how did you- ah never mind!" I gave up on trying to argue with her, it wasn't getting us anywhere. I carefully put Rainbow down and continued into the room.
I crept into the massive room trying to make sure that not even I could hear my own steps. The dragon snored as puffs of smoke came pouring out from its giant nose. Masses of treasure lay around it forming a nest of gold and jewels. I noticed the way the dragon came in as I tilted my head up to see a colossal hole in the ceiling of the chamber.
In the back of my mind was a nagging thought to just run up, grab the scale and bolt out of this forsaken castle. But I couldn't help myself to be attracted to a rolled up map resting on a pile of coins. I unfurled the map and saw something all too familiar. The landmasses of Equestria were completely the same as ours! America, Russia, England, China, Japan, Spain, every country was here with the exact same shape to it. All expect for New Zealand and Australia.
I stared as dozens of questions rushed through my head, then realised that a dragon a thousand times my size was sleeping nearby. I gently put the map back to its original placing because if our legends of dragons were true, dragons hate to be cheated or stolen from.
I slid the plain dagger from my pants and slowly edged towards the dragon, then I realised that today was most defiantly not my day, probably the opposite of my day in fact. Because as I drew closer, a rumbling sound came from above, looking back up I saw a pile of bricks that had newly fallen from the edge of the gaping hole in the roof, tumbling down on top of the dragons head.
So with a loud growl it stood and almost instantly spotted me, petrified I dropped the tiny knife I held. It lowered its head to inspect me, I didn't know if dragons could speak but I could see the surprise in its eyes, seeing a human for the first time. I just couldn't stare into those eyes so I turned away, down to the floor.
What took me by surprise was that after all this time, after everything I had become; I had finally found something that I couldn't look into the eyes of. I could stare into the eyes of ponies filled with fear, the ones that hated me and thought me a monster, and even the princesses themselves, that could do whatever they wish with me.
But before I could spend too much time worrying over it I saw an old, cracked picture frame lying by my feet. I bent down and as I picked it up an aggressive growl came from the dragon. It housed an old and torn picture, well over a hundred years at least. A small red dragon, still only a baby, and a dark blue Pegasus with flaming orange hair, I realised the dragon in the photo was the dragon before me but who was the pony…If this picture was as old as it looked then this pony was long dead by now. Then I remembered a perfect example.
Twilight and Spike…
My voice was caught in my throat by fear but I managed to say: "Oh look at you, so sad and alone and confused. The whole world just took you by surprise didn't it? You never think about it, no one ever does, you never think they'll go until it's too late. Oh this world can be just as cruel as mine…"
I looked up and the dragon no longer had an aggressive face on, it was replaced with a face that asked a thousand questions.
"So is that why dragons do it then, is that why you all lock yourselves up? You grow up with someone that you love and look up to, like an older brother or sister…And then one day you just out grow them, you fly off and eventually…You outlive them."
The dragon turned to sadness now, looking back into the forbidden memories of his past, all those loved and lost. "Everybody knows that everybody dies, but the whole sky will turn dark if for one moment, everyone accepts it." He stared down to the stone floor because he knew I was right, but he dared not look back out of guilt.
"But anyway…The deal is that I need one of your scales for a special potion." He looked up at me in question. "But I know dragons are hoarders so…" I plucked the recently found diamond from my pocket. "You can have this for a scale; I don't think one scale will make much of a difference anyway."
He leaned down and in close to appraise the shining jewel. After looking at it from every possible angle he made a quick nod in reply, I guess dragons are sentient.
"Alright then" he held out his claw and I placed the diamond into it, I could just feel Rarity in shock as I gave away a priceless gem. I bent down and picked up the small knife, he swung his tail around and I started to cut through one of his end scales.
"Dammit this is taking a long time" I said a full minute later, I knew that dragon scales were hard but these were supposed to be weaker on the end of the tail, and I'd barely gotten half way through. After what felt like an hour of cutting and regretting I hadn't taken a saw, I finally cut through. "Finally…Okay thanks then…" I waved the dragon farewell, how do you say goodbye to a dragon after as something as weird as that anyway?
We left the dragon to reflect on its past as we made our way outside to the now overgrown garden, with Rainbow riding upon my shoulders once more. The grass was dark green and the walls and statues outsides had vines that surrounded them. The early morning sun made the whole garden glow as the warm sunlight reflected off the dew.
As I took in the beautiful scene I noticed that Luna was standing a bit too close for comfort, staring at me.
"Uh…Need something?" I asked, stepping back a bit.
"I was only getting a closer look. Humans are very strange creatures." She stepped forward again to evaluate me.
"Uh…Yeah I guess so…Anyway what do we need for this potion thingy again?" I asked to anypony.
"Let's see here…" Twilight pulled out her book and studied it for a moment. "Well we have the dragon scale; Luna has the magic, now we need to find the river."
"I shall lead the way!" Luna offered as she suddenly lost interest in humans. She led us through the cool garden covered with morning dew, and hidden behind a thick layer of tree's we came to a crystal clear, flowing river. "Here is the river, it served as a place for me to summon the moon in the old times."
Spike gathered a jug full of water and reported back, "Got some, now what do we do?"
Twilight looked at me with an apologetic look, "sorry about this Michael." In the instant before it came I could only think 'oh that's bad…'
I felt a surge of pain go through my arm and become more focused near my shoulder. "Aarrgh!" I yelled out of pain. Looking at my arm I saw that something had made a big gash along my arm, like someone had slashed at me with a knife, one of my sleeves got slightly ripped from the attack.
"What the FUCK WAS THAT!" I yelled at Luna who was holding the bloodied knife in hoof.
"Well how else were we going to extract blood?" She asked.
"You have all this magic and the best you could come up with is using a KNIFE?"
"Apparently…"
"Well at least the pains not as much now…" I silently thanked the werewolf half of me. Who knew that being a werewolf meant free morphine?
"Now to mix the potion" Luna summoned a cauldron out of nowhere. She poured the water in and started to cast a spell of some sort of it.
"This part will take a while, so let's leave her to concentrate." Twilight lead us away from Luna as she prepared the potion. When we were safely out of earshot Twilight began to lecture me.
"What was that Michael? How could you be so rude to the princess after everything she's done? Are other humans always like this?"
"Rude? She stabbed me with a knife and locked me in prison! I don't care if she does rule Equestria, she just plunged a dagger into my arm!"
"That still doesn't make up for the way you've been acting all this time!"
"Well why don't you try being me then? You're a unicorn, so use that magic of yours to take a look inside, take a look at what we did!" By this point we were both screaming at each other, no insults were slung surprisingly, but the argument rose in volume with each passing second.
"Okay, fuck this then!" I dropped Rainbow from my shoulders and she crashed to the ground with a thud "I'm going!"
"Going where?"
"Somewhere that makes sense!" And with that I stormed off through the huge maze of a garden.
"Who the hell does she think she is?" I muttered to myself as I tried to walk off all the hate that was bound up inside me, even if it felt like I had been walking around for over a year, it still did little to help.
"I wouldn't be surprised if I woke up in a mental hospital after this…" I was caught off guard by a sudden flash of light and I found myself back at the clearing, standing beside Luna.
"It is done, drink this." Luna handed me a small bottle with a purple liquid inside.
"Wait that's it? No big magic show? No flashy lights or special effects?"
"No…It is just a potion…"
"Well…That's anti-climactic…"
I swung my head back and began to chug down the small amount of liquid. It tasted sour, really sour, and sour enough that it was horrible to drink. I also tried to ignore the fact that I was drinking my own blood, luckily it was all over quickly though.
A rough and load cough escaped my throat as I finished the horrible potion. "Let's hope I don't have to do that again! But how long will this take to take effect?"
"Little over an hour."
A purple flash came from the side as I saw everypony standing there.
"So can we go back now?" Rainbow asked with a groan, "I have a headache…"
"Oh you're sober now…good." I shot a quick glare at Twilight, a little hate still burning within me for her. "Anyway what are we gonna do n-"I was interrupted by a loud bang, a bright flash, and earth rumbling beneath our feet…Well hooves I guess.
We all looked at each other, and in silent unison, decided to go take a look. As we reached the edge of the tree line that lead to the river, we saw something shuffle out from behind one of the trees and lean against it in exhaustion. Almost instantly I acknowledged it as the pirate that had been stalking me for so long.
With a loud cough he looked down at his hands and his eyes lit up with amazement. He stood there looking at himself for a few seconds before looking back at the tree line, as if trying to piece a puzzle together.
He shot our gaze over to us, and then quickly locked on to me in particular. The amazement in his eyes turned to fear as we took a tiny step backwards.
"I'm…real…And you're here…But if I'm real then does that…No…Oh no this is bad! Really, really bad!"
"Wh-who is that Michael?" Fluttershy managed to stutter out.
"Wait you can see him this time!" Fluttershy gave a gentle nod in return. "IN YOUR FACE TWILIGHT! You thought I was going crazy didn't you? Well I probably am but still…"
"But…how? I thought you just made him up…"Twilight said in awe at the new human standing before us. "You did make him up didn't you?" I shook my head. "But if he's real then…How did we not see him before?"
He jogged over to us, causing everyone else to step back, especially Fluttershy. "So are you real?" He put a hand on my shoulder "oh yeah you're defiantly real…But I'm not real I can't be real…" He walked away a few paces and began to talk to himself aloud. "I can't be real, I was never meant to be real…Unless…" He knelt down and inspected the ground closely for a moment. "Oh no…no, no, NO, NO, NO!" She went running back in the direction of the river and through the trees.
I ran to follow him as the others stood dumbstruck by what had just happened. Dashing through the trees I caught up with him, he was kneeling and looking at the ground. He ripped up a small handful of grass and stared at it. "Oh it had to come to this…Well I guess it always had to come to this…no matter what decisions you made…"
"Okay so you're real now, and the others can see you…Why! Aren't you just in my head, why keep following me, and who are you anyway!"
"Oh I'm much more than an illusion of your imagination..." He said, not taking his eyes off the grass. "Well technically I am just an illusion and inside your head, but trying to explain it is really confusing…"
"Well I don't think we could get more confusing than this, so you had might as well go with it. Are you something to do with my werewolfism?
"Nope, I've been around before you got 'infected', in fact I've been around since you were born, always stored away in your head." He dropped the handful of grass and stood up to face me.
"Lolwut?"
"Short answer: I'm one of your emotions that came to life through magic when you got thrown into this world of ponies. Long answer: I'm a conscious thought that became an impossible entity through the ripples of time, space, breaking of the universal laws, and breaking of the forth wall. An entity that became a physical being."
"…Okay short answer is good enough. But if you really are somehow an emotion that suddenly came to life, wouldn't we have like telepathy or something?"
"Well we do share a bond; didn't you ever wonder why no one else could ever see me? Why no one else could hear me, and how I knew exactly where you were and what you were doing and thinking? Everything that goes on up there in your head, I know about."
"But…then what emotion are you? You did threaten to kill me with a sword. Then emotionally tortured me. What the hell kind of emotion is that?"
"Take a guess…" He let me think over it for a moment or two before continuing. "The only reason I did that is because I like to get things done fast, I was also afraid because that was the first time I saw the outside, and my master."
"Master?" He stared at me and let me figure it out, after a second the wire connected in my head. "Oh…"
"Anyway thanks for getting rid of that werewolf you had swimming around in your head, it made it pretty cramped in there and stopped me from even communicating with you." He past me, a lot more calmly this time and called back to me "okay let's get going."
"What no questions? No threatening? No sword?"
"Didn't you hear me? Everything you know, I know, that's how it works when you live inside someone's mind for thirteen years." He continues walking back towards the wrecked castle.
"Another thing" I ran to catch up to him. "What about that other guy then?"
"Other guy?"
"Yeah, cyan hair, plays the flute, got into my dreams twice…"
"Um…Oh yeah, that guy! He's like your overall personality; we don't get along very well…It wasn't only me that came to life when we came to Equestria; a lot of others came to life as well. But only we decided to step out into the world."
"…WHAT! How did my emotions come to life? That doesn't even make any sense!"
"Well what did you expect? Humans were never meant to handle magic, that's why you have all those side effects whenever Twilight casts a spell on you."
"Hmm, I guess so…By the way, that blue haired guy said something about a choice that I'll have to make." He froze in his track, in mid step actually. "You know anything about that?"
"N-no, w-we don't talk very often s-so I wouldn't know…"
"Okay…So how do you know all this?"
"Well when we came into Equestria, the magic from this universe got absorbed a bit, but only a tiny bit of it. I got a sense of how magic works, and you lost your memories…Not really a fair trade but what's done is done…"
"…Did I drink too much beer or something?"
"Probably!"