Meeting Twilight and her friends.
Spike groaned, slowly moving his body in an upward sitting position. He had just woken up from his peaceful sleep, and was not ready to go out with his daily plans. He looked around his room that him and Twilight shared, noticing that she wasn't in her bed. Spike eye's grew wide, he didn't see any signs of here in the room. Spike began to panic. He didn't know what to do, that was until he remembered that Twilight had found the young creature outside their library, hiding behind some garbage bags and what not.
Spike sighed with relief, knowing that twilight was downstairs with the creature, and not somewhere else horrible. Spike was about to go back to sleep, and go back to his peaceful and wonderful dreams, when he noticed something felt wrong with his body. A part of his body felt dry, Extremely dry. He soon discovered the source, it was located at his throat. Spike gave out an annoyed sigh. He couldn't go back to sleep just yet, he needed to get rid of his dry throat, by getting a glass of water.
Spike got up from his small basket, and started to make his way downstairs. He found his way to the top of the stairway ,craving the water for his dry throat. He was on the first step, ready to get down the stairs, when a thought came to him, he looked down into the dark abyss, he thought for a moment.
Hmm, Maybe I should go and get a candle so I can see better. Spike thought to himself, as he turned back to go get a candle. He looked through his box of item's, knowing that he had a candle in there at one point. He soon found the candle, and lit it up with a small flame coming from his mouth. It was not easy, even for a small flame, due to his dry throat, but he managed to do it anyway.
Spike made his way down the stair's, with his newly lit candle. When he got to the bottom of the stairs, he started to make his way to the kitchen, but stop to look at the couch that Twilight and the creature were sleeping on. His face turned from grumpy and annoyed, to a warm and soft expression.
He saw Twilight cuddling with the young human boy, both had very warm smiles on their face's. Spike remembered when Twilight would do that to him when he was younger , before he wanted his own bed and Twilight gave him the small basket. Spike, still with the new smile on his face, went to the kitchen to get his water. As Spike grabbed a cup from the cupboard, he thought back to when he was younger, memory's of after he hatched by Twilight nearly ten year's ago, he remembers almost everything from then. He remembers when he was first considered Twilight's number one assistant, five years after he was born. He lived with Twilight, always being there when she needed him the most.
He remembers when princess Celestia had sent the letter to Twilight, telling her to go and make new friends in ponyville. It has only been a few month's since that had happened, and ever since then, Twilight had he amazing friends with her, always being there for her, and never giving up.
Spike finished his deep thought's, as he got the glass of water that he so much desired to have ever since he woke up. Spike put the glass up to his lips, letting the cool water make it's way down his throat. With his dry throat now satisfied, he started to make his way up the stairs, looking back at the human and Twilight, both still had those warm smile's stuck on their faces.
I wonder if we will be able to keep him. Spike wondered to himself, making his way back up the stairs to finally go back to his long awaited sleep. However, he didn't notice the young creature's smile, turning into a frown.
Inside Zachary's dreams
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Zachary called out, the fright in his eye's being very real. He was in a very dark place. He didn't know why it was so dark. He didn't know whether he was awake or not, but he did know one thing. He was not alone here. Zachary's blood went cold when he heard the sharp whisper's coming from inside the darkness itself.
"He-hello?" Zachary called out, and then all those sharp and harsh whisper's had stopped. Zachary could not see anything, but he knew that they were all watching him. The monster's from his nightmare's.
Ever since the second week that he moved in with his foster parent's, he had these nightmare's. Every single night was like this for him. He would wake up in the dark world, he would here the whisper's. and then, what would happen next, was a very dreadful thought to think about. However, during these moment's, Zachary would always forget he was dreaming, it was like a repainting cycle> Every time he was there, he would forgot about the last time that he was there, and when he would return to the waking world, all of those memory's from the other nightmare's would come back.
Zachary hated being in here, why did he have to be the one to have these nightmare's? Why did he have to have such a horrible life? Why couldn't anyone ever help him? He tried telling his school counselor about his nightmare's, but she never seemed to care about what he had to say.
Zachary was just standing in the dark world, waiting. Waiting for something, anything to happen, but all that happened, was the memory's of earlier that day coming back to haunt him. Zachary felt water coming out of his eye's, as he dropped to his knee's and began to sob.
"MONSTER!" Zachary heard someone call out, before, again, getting hit with different type's of fruit's. All from apple's, to orange's, to almost any type of fruit you could think of, he even got hit by some rocks
"GET OUT OF HERE! YOU DONT BELONG HERE OR ANYWHERE ELSE! YOU DESERVE TO ROT!!!!" Zachary could here them shouting the same thing that they said earlier that day. All Zachary could do, was cry some more, as all the different type's of fruit and rocks being thrown.
"ENOUGH WITH THESE NIGHTMARE'S!" A loud, commanding voice boomed. "LEAVE AND NEVER RETURN!!!" Zachary could see a blue light consume the darkness around him, before being replaced by an open field. It looked like the field he came through, after being chased by those wooden creature's. All Zachary could do, was look around the beautiful field that was all around him. He smiled, as if he hadn't just had a nightmare about being mistreated and having things being thrown at him. "Hello, young child." A voice said from behind.
Zachary turned around swiftly, only to see a dark blue alicorn. Her main had small, whit dot's in it, and looked like it was flowing, it looked like she had silver, shoe things on all her hooves, and she also had what looked like a picture of a half moon on her chest. Zachary backed up in fear.
"Please!" Zachary shouted, the fear evident in his voice. "Don't hurt me!"
Luna was taken aback by this. Why would this child think she would want to harm him. Then, Luna remembered the dream he had. Did he have a bad first encounter? Luna asked herself, when an idea came to her head. Did he have a bad first encounter with ponykind? Luna wondered, before returning her focus on the young child, who was now curled up in a ball, crying a bit.
"Shh, it's okay, young one." Luna said in a soft voice. "No need to cry anymore." Zachary looked up at the alicorn princess, and no longer felt fear, but comfort with her presence. Zachary stood up, standing on both of his legs. "What is your name, young one?" Luna asked the young child, who put his hands together, looking down at them, nervousness filled all of his senses, as he replied.
"My... my name is Zachary... Zachary Baker." Zachary said, still being nervous. He never really had any friends during school, so he always got nervous when it came to meeting new people.
"It's nice to meet you, Zachary." Luna said. "I am the Princess Of The Night, Princess Luna." Luna said, looking down at the child, who was still looked very nervous.
"Where are we?" The child asked, still being confused after Luna just made his nightmare go away, just like that.
"Your still dreaming young one." Luna said, smiling warmly at Zachary. "As Princess Of The Night, it is my duty to help young foals in their sleep, to make sure that no nightmare's are to ever come to them." Luna finished. Zachary's jaw nearly dropped. How could anyone ever do that? Then again, he was talking to a pony, not a person. He knew that it was impossible for another person to go into another dream. Well, in his world anyway.
"That's cool!" Zachary shouted quietly, a little smile forming onto face.
"May I ask, what kind of creature are you?" Luna asked.
"My parent's told me that were called human's, I think..." Zachary said quietly.
"A human?" Luna asked, shocked. She never seen what a human looks like before, but she knew that human's are very different from pony's
"Um, yeah... is that a bad thing?" Zachary asked, getting a little more nervous.
"Oh, don't worry, young Zachary." Luna said reassuringly. "There is nothing wrong with you being a human here."
"Other's don't seem to think so..." Zachary said, a look of sadness look creeping up on face. Luna noticed this, and asked him.
"Whatever do you mean, Zachary?" Luna asked, stepping closer to the young child.
"When I got to this world, I woke up in some forest, I think it was called the... Everfree forest, or something like that." Luna gasped, as Zachary continued. "After I woke up, I got chased by these wooden monster things, I have no idea what they were, but I knew that they were dangerous, so I ran away."
"I was in a open field, just like this one, but I saw no houses, no home's yet, so I kept looking around." Luna was interested with Zachary's story, and continued to listen. "I Then found a little cottage> So, I went to go see if there was anyone there that could help me, but I found a note on the door that said that the pony living there wasn't home, I think her name was "Fluttershy?" or something like that." Zachary explained, but then lowered his head, not wanting to tell Luna the next part.
"What happened next?" Luna asked, raising one of her eyebrow's.
"Then... I made my way to a town that I saw in the distance, I think it's name was...Ponyville." Zachary said.
"Oh, I know of Ponyville." Luna said. "All the pony's there should be really friendly, right?" Luna asked, as a flash of pain flashed on Zachary's face.
"That's... not true. For me, any way's..." Zachary said, rubbing his shoulder, tear's threating to escape his eye's. Luna's face perked up with both concern, and curiosity.
"What exactly happened next, young one?" Luna asked in a serious tone.
"Well, when I walked into the town, all the pony's looked scared by me... and when I walked further in the town..." Zachary was now beginning to sniffle a little. "They, started to throw fruits at me. I tried to tell them that I didn't want to hurt them... but they wouldn't listen to me." Zachary's head was down, a few tear's leaking out of his eye's. Luna's face contorted into anger. Pure anger. If she was in the waking world, she could of turned into Nightmare Moon if she wanted too, but she composed herself.
"Please, continue." Luna said.
"And then, I just started to run off in a random direction. I didn't know where I was going, but I was still getting chased. Then, I crashed into something." Zachary said, most of the nervousness gone from his voice. "My sight turned red, and I fell to the ground, I don't really remember what had happened next, but I do remember waking up for a few seconds, see a purple blur, but that's it. That's my story." Zachary finished his long story, before looking up at Luna again.
Luna looked like she was deep in thought. She was thinking about both what she would do to the pony's, who were cruel enough to throw fruit at the young boy without even asking who he was. She was also thinking about what the purple blur could have been. It could of been Twilight, but she didn't know yet.
Luna was about to say something, but then she could feel the dream fading away.
"What's going on?!" Zachary asked, panic washing over him.
"Your waking up now, dear." Luna said, reassuringly.
"What happens now?" Zachary asked, the fear was as clear as crystal in his voice.
"You will be returning to the waking world. If your still in ponyville, then I will come to find you to make sure that your safe. I must go and lower the moon now. Goodbye, for the moment." Luna said, before disappearing along with the rest of the dream.
***
Zachary began to stir slightly in his sleep, and began to open his eye's. He had woken up a few moment's after his talk with Luna had ended. Zachary's vision became clear now, he sighed.
Was it all just a dream? Zachary wondered. Dang it! Why doesn't anyone want to be my friend? Heck, even PONY'S don't want to be my friend! Zachary thought, tear's once again threaten to escape from his eye's, but then, he noticed his surrounding's. He saw that there was a lot of bookshelf's, it looked like the walls and floor's were made out of tree bark. He saw stair's, that looked like they were leading up to a bedroom. He could here someone snoring from upstairs.
"Who's house am I in?" Zachary whispered to himself quietly. That's when he noticed the amount of warmth he felt on his back. He turned his head around, and gasped at what he was seeing. There, sleeping on the couch with him, was a lavender colored unicorn, with a purple mane and tail. Zachary's eye's had fear in them, not knowing why he was next to the unicorn.
Zachary wondered how he got there. Did he just come in here without remembering? Did the unicorn bring him here just to be a slave for her? Whatever the case was, Zachary wasn't sure if the unicorn was friendly or not. He WAS attacked when he got to the town, so why would this unicorn want to help him? Zachary thought that the reason that she brought him here was just so he could be used as a slave, as a tool.
Zachary thought on how he would get out of here. He could try to slip out quietly, but there was one major obstacle in his way. The lavender unicorn had her foreleg around him. Was she hugging me the entire night? Zachary asked himself in his thought's, but then shook those thought's away. No, No, she probably just has her leg around me to make sure that I don't go anywhere. Zachary thought, but wasn't so sure, she could be really nice for all he knew, but that wouldn't stop him from making a attempt to escape.
Let's do this! Zachary thought, determination being his strongest emotion at the moment. He started to crawl out of Twilight's grasp slowly, but carefully. He was thinking about what would happen if he was caught. He thought that if he got caught, he would be put to work immediately, or getting smacked, just like with his foster parent's. He was almost out of Twilight's grasp, when he heard her stir in her sleep.
Oh, no Zachary's eye's were panicked, as he saw the unicorn open her eye's, and then she saw him, and gave him a warm smile.
"Good morning, how did you sleep?" She asked. Twilight didn't know if the creature would be able to understand or not.
"GAH!" Zachary shouted, falling off the couch, and backing away from Twilight. "PLEASE DONT HURT ME! I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, JUST PLEASE LET ME GO!" Zachary shouted, the fear slowly eating away at him.
Twilight was taken aback by this, though, she had half expected this. After all, the pony's just mindlessly started throwing fruit at the poor thing, so it was understandable why he was so afraid of her. Twilight heard someone walking, and looked up the stairs to see Spike on the top step of the staircase.
"Ugh, what's going on-" Spike was cut off when she saw Twilight putting a hoof up to her mouth, telling Spike to be quiet. Then, she pointed her hoof over to Zachary, who was now against the wall, curled up in a ball. Twilight gave the small creature a sad smile, and walked up to him, while Spike was just up the stairs, not knowing exactly what to do. Zachary looked up at Twilight, ready to be put through hard work and suffering. At least I already know how it feel's to suffer.Zachary thought, thinking that his last chances of living a good life were gone.
Zachary was shocked at what happened next. He felt Twilight hugging him. This was the last thing he thought would happen, since he has been through too much suffering for a six year old.
"It's okay. Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you." Twilight said, still hugging the fragile creature in her hooves. Zachary, no longer feeling fear or panic, but feeling happy. Happy, just because he knew that he could trust this unicorn.
"Thank you." Zachary whispered. Finally, someone, or somepony, had accepted him. Twilight broke the hug, still smiling down at him.
"Do you have a name?" Twilight asked.
"My name is.... Zachary Baker, ma'am." Zachary answered, now standing up, holding his hands together, looking down at them.
"I like your manner's, but you don't have to be so formal with me." Twilight said, giggling a little. "I'm Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia's personal and prized student."
"Who's Princess Celestia?" Zachary asked , curiously.
"Oh right, I forgot to tell you, sorry. Anyway, Princess Celestia is one of the ruler's of Equestria. She raises the sun here, and her sister raises the moon." Twilight told Zachary. Zachary was about to say something , but stopped when he heard his stomach growl. Twilight giggled.
"It looks like you're hungry." Twilight said, while Zachary slowly nodded his head, embarrassed. "Come on, Spike can make us breakfast." Zachary titled his head. He hadn't met Spike yet. "Oh, yeah, Spike is my Number 1 Assistant, sorry." Twilight said, rubbing the back of her head. First, she forgot to tell Zachary about Celestia, and now she had forgotten to tell him about Spike. Speaking of Spike, he came down the stairs right at that moment.
"Good morning, Twilight, And good morning to you too." Spike greeted as he reached the kitchen, and he looked at Zachary with a curious look. "I don't think I ever got your name, My name is Spike. I'm a baby dragon, and I'm Twilight's number one assistant!" Spike said cheerfully, glad to have met someone who wasn't a pony. Not that there was anything wrong with that, it was just that he was always surrounded by ponies, and never really got the chance to met any other kind of species that could talk.
"O-oh, um, hi... My name is Zachary baker." Zachary replied. Spike could tell that he was nervous, so he tried to make it less awkward for him.
"You don't have to be nervous around me. I'm a cool baby dragon." Spike said, holding out a claw. Zachary took his hand, and put it in the dragon's claw, slowly shaking it.
"It's- it's nice to meet you, Spike." Zachary said, still nervous. Twilight spoke up.
"Hey, Zachary." Twilight said. Zachary looked up at her, then she asked.
"Would you like to have some pancake's for breakfast?"
"Oh, um... sure, if that's alright with you." Zachary said in whisper. Twilight smiled at his adorableness, and looked at Spike.
"Spike, you wouldn't mind making pancake's for breakfast. would ya?" Twilight asked Spike.
"Of course I wouldn't mind, I'll get started right now." Spike said, as he ran to the cabinet to get some batter. Twilight looked back at Zachary, who was still nervous.
"Will you come sit at the table with me? I would like to ask you a few question's." Twilight asked.
"Um, sure... I guess." Zachary said timidly. Zachary began to follow Twilight to the kitchen table. A look of concern and worry was noticeable on Twilight's face. He's been hurt, very badly I can tell. Twilight thought. She looked behind her, and saw Zachary following her, while looking down at his hands. But who would want to hurt such a fragile creature like him? Twilight thought as they both reached the table. Twilight used her magic to pull out two chairs.
"Come, sit." Twilight said softly. Zachary was shocked that she was using real magic to pull the chair back, but then he remembered that she was a unicorn, so she probably could do a whole lot of different magic.
"O-okay.." Zachary said, sitting in one of the chair's that Twilight pulled up. Twilight wanted to get to know everything she could about this new creature, studying was something she was really good at, after all.
"I want to ask you a few questions, if that's okay with you." Twilight said.
"Sure... I'll try to answer them the best I can." Zachary said, looking down at his hands.
"Okay, so the first thing I wanted to asked you was what kind of creature are you?" Twilight asked him.
"I'm a human, that's what my mommy and daddy told me any way's." Twilight gasped at his response. She had read about humans before. Nopony has ever seen one before, everypony thought they were a myth, but, everypony was wrong. Twilight could barley hold back her excitement, but regained her composer as she remembered that this human was very fragile. She had to ask question's slowly and one at a time, as to not scare him.
"Alright, do you know were your from?" Twilight asked, and Zachary flinched at this a little.
"I don't want to remember where I'm from, but I'm from a place called the United States." Twilight was confused. No, not by the place he said he was from, but at the fact that he didn't WANT to remember where he's from.
"Wait, why don't you want to remember where your from?" Twilight asked.
"I... don't want to talk about it." Zachary said, turning his head away. Twilight felt sad for him. She would need to know the reason why he didn't want to remember anything from his place, but she didn't want to push it right now.
"Do humans have any hobbies?" Twilight asked.
"Yes, we have some hobbies, mine is to play the piano on a key-" Zachary stopped as he remembered that he had his backpack in him since he first got here, but now it was missing. "Twilight, did you happen to see a backpack next to me when you found me?"
"Oh, you mean this?" Twilight asked, lifting up Zachary's backpack with her magic. Zachary let out a sigh of relief, as Twilight handed him his backpack still using her magic.
"Yes, you found it! Thank you." Zachary thanked Twilight, as he put the backpack down next to him.
"Well, that's all the questions that I have for you right now, Zachary." Twilight told Zachary. Twilight knew that her friends would be coming over to help "look for him" but luckily for them, they wouldn't have to look very far. "Also, I should probably tell you something." Twilight said.
"Huh? What is it?" Zachary asked.
"Some of my friends will be coming over soon." Twilight explained. "I think you would be very happy to meet them. Their very nice, and I think that they would love to meet you as well." Twilight finished. Zachary took some time to think about it. He didn't really want to meet anypony else, due to yesterday's little "circumstances" but he thought that if they were Twilight's friends, and if they were as nice as they were, then meeting them shouldn't be that bad, right?
"O..okay, I guess." Zachary agreed, making Twilight to give him a warm smile. She couldn't help but to feel that she had some sort of, connection with him. It feels like that they were always going to meet one day, and nothing would've been able to change that.
"I'm sure you'll like them, Zachary." Twilight said, as Spike came to the table with the pancakes that they were waiting for all morning long.
"Breakfast is served! I hope you all like pancakes." Spike said, passing a plate to Twilight and Zachary and himself, as they began to eat. Zachary couldn't remember the last time he had eaten anything. He couldn't eat anything when he first this world, due to the fact that everypony here treated him like some sort of raging monster. It also didn't help that his foster parent's rarely fed him, so he ate as fast as he could, getting syrup over his face in the process.
Twilight and Spike stared in shock at how fast he ate the pancakes. Zachary took notice of this, and blushed slightly from embarrassment.
"Sorry, must've been hungry." Zachary said with a guilty looking face. Twilight chuckled lightly, finding it cute that the young human was that hungry.
"It's all right, why don't you go and wash your face in the bathroom. It's up the stairs to your left." Twilight said. Zachary nodded in agreement, and hurried up the stairs to the bathroom. Twilight looked at Spike, who looked like he was trying to hold in his laughter, but once Zachary left to the bathroom, Spike let all of his laughter out.
"What's so funny, Spike?" Twilight asked, raising one of her eyebrow's.
"Ha Ha, no-nothing, it's just that, he looked so funny when he was eating!" Spike said, letting out some more laughter. Twilight did have to admit, he did look silly while eating those pancakes. Twilight let out a small giggle, but then stopped when a dark thought came to her head
Zachary only got here yesterday, He was probably hungry, sure, but was he that hungry? Twilight thought to herself, remembering the letter that Princess Celestia had sent her, and she remembers one part of the letter. and he might of been abused
Those words kept repeating in Twilight's head. No, they couldn't have done that. Nopony has ever abused their young foal before. Twilight shivered as she came to another realization But their not pony's. There humans. Did they... starve him to? Twilight felt a wave of sadness wash over her. She felt sorry for Zachary. Her thought's were interrupted by Spike.
"Twilight, are you okay?" Spike asked, wondering why Twilight looked so sad. Twilight jerked her head up, and looked at Spike.
"I'm fine! Of course, why wouldn't I be fine?" Twilight asked, giggling nervously. Spike gave her a suspicious and a 'I know your lying' type look, but decided to shrug it off, for now.
"Okay, if you say so..." Spike said, continuing to eat what was left of his delicious pancakes. Twilight ear's perked up when she heard knocking on the door. Twilight, knowing who it was already, got up and went to go answer it. When she got to the door, she opened it, and just like she suspected, she saw her five other friends. However, also standing there at the door, where the two Princess's, known as Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna. Twilight quickly bowed down to the two Princess
"Princess Celestia, Princess Luna! What are you doing here? Um... not that I don't want you here, it's just a little.... unexpected, that's all..." Twilight chuckled a bit nervously at this. The two Princess's smiled warmly.
"No need to bow to us, Twilight." Celestia said, warmly. "Where here to help look for the missing child that Luna has brought to this world."
"Yes, and we visited his dreams last night." Luna said, a look of sorrow appeared on her face. "We figured out his name to be Zachary Baker, and the young child had a horrible nightmare last night. We need to find him ASAP." Twilight had a look of concern on her face.
"What happened in his nightmare?" Twilight asked, both with concern and curiosity.
"He had a dream where he relived thou event's that had happened earlier that day." Luna responded, her look turning worrisome. "And something tells me that this isn't the first time he has had nightmare's like this before." Luna finished. Twilight's face became even more concerned.
This further proves that he has been hurt in some way, I need to find out how he was hurt, and why. Twilight thought. She would have to get him to talk about his past somehow. Twilight pushed her thought's aside, for the moment, and gave all a warm smile.
"Don't worry, there is no need to go looking for him." Twilight said, causing everypony around her to gasp in disbelief.
"Wait, why the heck not?!" Rainbow dash intervened, getting to close to Twilight for comfort.
"Yeah, shouldn't we help the poor little wittle guy?" Pinkie asked.
"Well, that's just it, girls." Twilight said, a brighter smile formed on her face. "I've already found him." Everypony looked like they had a shocked.
“When did ya find him?” Applejack asked, curiously.
“I found him last night, after me and Spike left sugar-cube corner, I found him behind some trash bags on the side of the library. He was covered in mushed up fruit from that the town pony’s threw at him, so I cleaned him up, and well, here we are.” Twilight finished her explaining, and looked at her friends and the two princess’s
They did not look happy. They were all upset on how Zachary got treated.
“How could those idiots do something like this?!” Rainbow dash shouted angrily, flaring her wings out.
“I don’t know, Dash.” Twilight sighed. “We’ll give them the proper punishment they deserve, but right now, why don’t you come inside at meet him.” Everypony agreed to this, and walked inside the library. When Twilight and here friend's got inside the library, Twilight noticed that neither Zachary or Spike were down stairs.
"Where are they?" Twilight asked herself, looking around the library. Everypony in the room was giving Twilight a confused stare. Twilight was about to say something, but stopped when she heard two voices coming from upstairs. Twilight ear's perked up, trying to get a better hearing on what they were saying.
"So, you play the piano?" A voice, who sounded like Spike, asked.
"Yeah... I have a keyboard, it's kind of like a piano, I guess...." Another nervous voice, that sounded like Zachary said.
"Come on, girls." Twilight said. "Let's see what there up to." Twilight said, as her friends and the two Princess's nodded there head's. Twilight, along with everypony else, was walking quietly walking up the stairs. They made it to Twilight's bedroom. Twilight saw Spike, who was standing next to Zachary, who was setting up his keyboard, getting ready to play a song.
Twilight's bedroom didn't have any door's, so they managed to sneak in quietly, without Spike or Zachary noticing them.
"What type of piano music is it?" Spike asked. Zachary gave out a light hearted chuckle and said. "You'll see."
Twilight noticed this. This was the first time he had shown any sign's of happiness since he first got here.
Maybe he's finally starting to warm up here. Twilight thought happily, but her thought's were soon cut off by the sound of Zachary's voice.
"Are you ready to hear some music from my world?" Zachary asked Spike.
"Yeah, I'm ready." Spike responded. Zachary put a piece of paper on the keyboard in a standing position. He put his finger's on the key's, and began playing a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9HqmLQQtGo
Silent hill 2 Theme of Laura Reprise, by myuuji
As Zachary began to play the song, Twilight, along with her friends, Spike, and even the Two Royal Sister's were shocked. They never had heard any thing this before, and especially from a six year old kid. Sure, he might be a human, and he might have finger's but still, he was really good. Heck, even Rainbow dash was shocked.
Once he was completely done with the song, Zachary just sat there, finger's still on the piano. Everypony, including Spike, was speechless. It was a full minute of silence, before Rainbow silently flew up to him.
"THAT WAS ASWEOME!!!!" Rainbow dash shouted, causing Zachary to fall back in his chair with a "GAH!" Zachary fell to the ground, along with the chair that he was sitting on.
"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight shouted with annoyance. Rainbow rubbed the back of her head, embarrassed. Rainbow looked down at Zachary, who was now on the ground, rubbing his head.
"Hehe, sorry, kid." Rainbow dash said, lending out her hoof. "Need a hoof?" Zachary, who still in a bit of shock, raising his hand shakily, and put it on Rainbow's hoof. Zachary was startled on how fast she managed to pull him up. "There ya go." Rainbow dash said.
"Uh, th-thank you...." Zachary thanked Rainbow nervously. It was only then that he noticed all the other mare's in the room, along with Twilight. They all still had a look of shock, Zachary could tell just by looking Into their eye's. "What's wrong?..... Did I do something bad........?" Zachary asked, looking worried at all of them. As Zachary looked at them, he spotted one that he remembered seeing in his dream's, the one who saved him from his nightmare's.
"Are you....?" Zachary didn't get the chance to finish his question, as the dark blue alicorn walked up to him.
"Yes, young one." Luna said, looking down at him with a warm, gentle look on her face. "We are the one's who visited your dreams last night, and don't worry, you are not in any trouble, young one." Zachary's jaw dropped.
"B-but... How?....." Zachary asked, the shock rising within him.
"I am The Princess Of The Night, I can go into any dream that one can... well, dream of." Luna said. Zachary was still in shock. Zachary managed to shake it away, and looked up at the Princess with a bright smile.
"Thank you, P-princess Luna." Zachary said, happy that he knew somepony else that he could truly trust. However, he wasn't so sure about the other ponies. They seemed friendly at first, but... that's exactly how his foster parents were when he first arrived there, and, well... we all know how that turned out. Twilight noticed his sudden change from happy, to nervous again. She walked up to Zachary, and placed her hoof on his shoulder.
"It's alright, Zachary." Twilight said, with a happy smile. "My friends would love to meet you, and they're all really nice."
"A-are you sure, Twilight?" Zachary asked timidly, and Twilight giggled lightly and said: "I know so."
"Yeah, there the best pony's you could ever have as friends." Spike said.
Zachary nodded his head, and got up, and walked up to the pony's, rubbing his arm nervously. The pony's, who were gathered in the entrance to the room, were all showing him bright smiles, especially the pink one, who probably had the biggest smile out of all of them. She bounced over to Zachary, with her soft fluffy mane, and those weird balloon things on her flank. She stopped right in front of Zachary, smiling so big, that if she did it any harder, her face would probably split into two
"OHMYGOSH!YOURSOCUTE!WHAT'SYOURNAME?MYNAMEISPINKIEPIEANDILIKETOTHROWPARTY'SOH!OH!IHAVETOTHROWYOUAWELCOMETOEQEUSTRIAPARTY!ITWILLBESOFUN!WILLHAVECUPCAKES,BANNERS,AND-"
"PINKIE!" Twilight shouted, finally stopping her from her chatting rant. "Slow down a bit. He's still a bit shy, remember?" Twilight asked pinkie, as pinkie remembered Twilight saying something about that earlier.
"Oh, right. Sorry Twilight." Pinkie said, then looked back at Zachary. With a calmer, less hyperactive voice, she re-introduced herself.
"Hi! My name is Pinkie Pie! What's your name?" Pinkie asked, though, she already knew the answer to that.
"Zachary.... Zachary Baker. It's nice to meet you, Pinkie..." Zachary said. Pinkie, SOMEHOW mange to smile a little bigger, and pulled out a cupcake that she had hidden somewhere, and gave it to Zachary.
"Here you go! Have a cupcake!" Pinkie said with gleam, as Zachary accepted the tasty treat.
Thanks, I'll save it for later, if you don't mind...." Zachary said,, before getting interrupted by Pinkie.
"No need to worry, little buddy! I understand! It was really nice to meet you!" Pinkie shouted happily, before running very quickly back to the group of ponies, stile having that happy smile. Next up, was Applejack. She walked over to Zachary. She could notice that Zachary still looked a bit shy to meet everypony. Applejack thought on how she could him feel like he didn't have to be shy around other pony's. Her solution was to just be as friendly as she could possibly be. She looked enthusiastic to meet the young feller.
"Howdy there, little guy." Applejack greeted, taking her hat off, and putting it up to her chest. "You must be Zachary Baker, my name is Applejack, it's nice to finally be able to meet you." Applejack held out her hoof, and Zachary just shook it lightly.
"Yeah,... it's nice to be able to meet you too, Applejack...." Zachary said, not being able to get this nervous feeling off of him. Applejack gave him a guenon smile.
"A'h own an apple farm with ma' family, you should come visit us sometime, if ya' wanted too." Applejack offered.
"That sounds fun.... I mean, if it's really alright with you..." Zachary said. Applejack put her hoof on his shoulder, and said.
"Of course it is, sugarcube." Applejack said. "A'h even have a little sister named Applebloom that is around the same age, maybe you two could be friends."
"I.... I never really had any friends before I came here, all I had was me keyboard." Zachary said, pointing to the keyboard. Applejack felt bad for Zachary. How could he not have friends. Applejack realized that Zachary wasn't telling them something, but she figured he wouldn't want to talk about it right now.
"Well, ya do now." Applejack said in a soft voice, patting him on the shoulder. Everypony in the room had a warm smile, but they all knew that Zachary was trying to hind something from them. Next to come up, was a white unicorn with a purple name, and we all know her name to be Rarity. Rarity came up to Zachary, just like with Pinkie Pie And Applejack, and gave him a friendly greeting.
"Hello there, darling. You must be Zachary. It's nice to meet your acquaintance." Rarity greeted. Everypony could tell that Zachary was getting less, and less nervous.
"Good to meet you, Rarity." Zachary said, starting to warm up to everypony. Rarity took a close look at him, and realized that his cloths were dirty and torn.
"My goodness, what happened to your cloths?" Rarity asked, not being able to believe that he would wear such a worn down clothing.
"Oh, um.... this happened to me when i was running from all the other pony's, um, Rarity......" Zachary said, looking down at his hands. Rarity (Already knowing parochially why he had to always wear cloths, because the only fur he had was on top of his head.) decided that she would have to do something about this.
"Well, you should come over to my carousel boutique later on today." Rarity said. "I can make you a new set of clothing, and you could also meet my little sister Sweetie Belle." Zachary thought about this for a moment.
"Oh, no, I couldn't possibly ask you to make some cloths just for me..." Zachary said, while rarity just shook her head.
"You don't have to worry about it, darling. I'll be happy to do it." Rarity said, looking down on him. "Besides, your cloths are all torn up and filthy, you simply must allow me to make you some new one's." Zachary just smiled.
"Thank you." Zachary said. No one had ever been this kind to him before, except for these ponies, these were the only one's who had ever been this nice to him in a long time. He was grateful.
"Your welcome, dear." Rarity said, before walking back to the group of ponies. Next up, came a bright yellow Pegasus, who looked like she was both shy an happy to meet Zachary.
"Hi, I'm Fluttershy.... and you must be Zachary.....right?" Fluttershy greeted, her nervous nature almost matching Zachary's.
"Hi Fluttershy, yeah, my name is Zachary." Zachary soon remembered the note he found on the door of that cottage. and the pony who left it was also named Fluttershy.
"Hey Fluttershy..... Do you live in a cottage next to a forest?" Zachary asked. Fluttershy was shocked at this. How did he know where she lived?
"Um, yes, i do..... I live next to the forest, so that i can take care of any injured animal that needs my help, but how did you know that i lived there?" Fluttershy asked.
"When i first woke up here, i was in that forest, and after a while, i found my way out, and i found your cottage, with the note you left on the door too." Zachary explained, while Fluttershy felt a bit guilty for not being home at the time.
"I'm very sorry that i wasn't home at the time, could you forgive me?" Fluttershy asked.
"Of course i can forgive you." Zachary told her. " It wasn't your fault that you weren't there at the time, i forgive you." Fluttershy gave out a smile.
"Thank you....." She said, before going back to the group of ponies. Suddenly, a cyan blur, with a rainbow trail zoomed right in front of him. Zachary saw the same Pegasus that scared him after he got done playing the song on his keyboard
"Heya kid! The name's Rainbow dash, the Fastest Flyer In All Of Equestria" Rainbow dash greeted Zachary, who was again startled by her, but not as much this time. "You must be Zachary Baker. That name is like, 20 percent cooler." Rainbow dash was trying to make a good first impression.
"Thank you, it's nice to meet you too, Rainbow dash." Zachary said. "Are you really the fastest flyer in all of equestria?" Zachary asked, causing Rainbow to chuckle a bit.
"I can fly across ponyville in ten seconds flat!" Rainbow dash said, looking down at Zachary with confidence on her face.
"Wow, that's pretty cool." Zachary said.
"Thanks kid." Rainbow dash said, before hovering back over to the group. The last pony was a tall, white one with a flowing mane, that had the colors of light blue, pink, and green. She was known as Princess Celestia.
"Greetings, young one. I am Princess Celestia, The Princess Of The Day, and leader of Equestria, along with my sister, Princess Luna." Celestia lowered her head. "It's an honor to be able to finally meet you." Celestia held out her hoof.
"Uh, thanks Princess....... it's nice to met you to." Zachary replied, grabbing her hoof, and shaking it. Princess Celestia giggled at how cute he looked while doing the action. He still looked a little nervous, but not as much as before. Twilight walked up to Zachary, with a warm, happy, smile glued to her face.
"I think I'm speaking for everypony here, but how did you learn how to play the piano like that?" Twilight asked. Zachary tensed up a bit, before saying.
"I.... Learned it from my parent's. I started practicing it ever since I was three years old....." Zachary said, not really wanting to talk about his parents. Twilight noticed it, and looked around to all the other ponies in the room, a look of concern evident on her face. She looked back at Zachary, the look of concern was replaced by a happy smile.
"What was that song called?" Twilight asked him curiously, not ever hearing anything like that in Equestria before.
"We are very curious," Luna said. "we have never heard any music that has been in your world." Zachary gave out a smile, before going over to the keyboard to get the music sheet. He handed it to Twilight, who picked it up with her magic.
"Silent Hill 2 Theme of Laura Reprise Piano?" Twilight read out loud. Everypony, including Spike, was confused on the title. They never heard a song titled that before, but then again, they never heard any music like that before. "What's Silent Hill? And who is Laura?"
"Oh, well, Silent Hill is a game series franchise from my world, and this is one of the songs from the second game." Zachary explained. Everypony in the room seemed to take interest in this.
"What do you do in this, "Silent Hill" game?" Luna asked. In all the time she had been alive, she had never heard of anything like Silent Hill. Zachary went on to tell them the basic story of Silent Hill, how Harry Mason lost his daughter in the ghost town of Silent Hill, How there was a thick fog covering the town, and how there was a siren, that whenever it went off, the town would turn into the "Otherworld" and that the monster's you would encounter would get scarier as you go along.
Everypony was shocked after he got down explaining, and also explaining how humans played silent hill in his world.
"Aren't you a little too young to play a game like that?" Twilight asked.
"My parents...... well they never let me play the game itself, but they did let me listen to some of the music that was in the game, and they let me read the story of the game." Zachary said, a nervous grin accompanying his face. Twilight still wanted to know about his past, but again, her mind told her to not push the subject right now.
"Did you girls have breakfast yet?" Twilight asked her friends, and they all shook their heads. "Well, Spike baked some pancakes earlier, so why don't we go to sugarcube corner, if that's alright with you, Pinkie."
Pinkie bounced over to her friend. "Of course it is, silly! The Cakes are away right now, so we don't have to worry about them seeing Zachary!" Pinkie shouted with glee. Applejack walked up.
"But what about the rest of the town? Ah'm pretty sure that they aren't ready to see Zachary again..." Applejack said. Twilight thought about this for a moment, before an idea popped into her head.
"I can just teleport us there, maybe not all the way there, but close enough where we wont get seen." Twilight said, then Princess Celestia and Princess Luna stepped in.
"We will help you, Twilight." Luna said.
"You will?" Twilight asked, before Celestia walked up to her with a smile on her face.
"Of course we will, teleporting with nine others can be hard if one pony to handle." Celestia said.
"But what if it doesn't work on Zachary? I'm just wondering....." Fluttershy asked, before Twilight walked over to her with a reassuring smile.
"I can levitate him with my magic, so teleporting with him should work just fine." Twilight said. Fluttershy nodded her head, before turning her head in the direction of Zachary, who hadn't teleported before. She walked up to him, and put a hoof on his shoulder.
"Teleporting can be weird at first, but I wont let anything bad happen to you, alright?" Twilight asked him reassuringly.
"Yeah.... I think I'll be able to handle it." Zachary said.
"Good." Twilight replied.
"And Twilight."
"Hm?" Twilight wondered what he had to say.
"Thank you for letting me stay the night here, I'm really happy you found me." Zachary thanked Twilight, who in return, gave Zachary a hug.
"No need to thank me, I just was doing what I thought was best for you." Twilight said, causing everypony, including Spike. Twilight broke the loving embrace, and turned back to Everypony else that was in the room.
"Okay everypony, gather around." Twilight said. Her friends, the two Princess's, Spike, and Zachary all gathered around her, as she, along with Celestia and Luna started to cast the teleportation spell. Zachary got nervous, but when he saw Twilight giving him a reassuring smile, he wasn't that nervous.
In a flash, they were outside sugarcube corner, with nopony walking around the area, due to it being closed at the time. Twilight, along with everypony else, snuck in through the back door. When they got in, Pinkie looked at Zachary.
"Do you eat muffins?" Pinkie asked Zachary. Zachary looked at her with a happy expression.
"Yeah, I love muffins! And chocolate is my favorite flavor to go with muffin." Zachary said. Pinkie's smile increased, as she said
"Okie Loki poky! I'll get you all your favorite type's of muffins." Pinkie said, as she dashed behind the counter. They all found a table to sit at. Pinkie came back with ten different plate's, each one having a muffin on it.
"Let's eat!" Pinkie pie said, as she sat down with her friends. They were there for about thirty minutes, chatting about stuff, like what Zachary had in his world, and what everypony had in their world. They talked about what Zachary was interested in, like music and what not, and they also talked about what the mane 6 had accomplished in ponyville, like getting the elements of harmony, and defeating Nightmare Moon, How they defeated Discord when he made ponyville the capital of chaos.
As their conversation went along, Twilight began to feel like Zachary was starting to trust her and her friends more as they got more involved in the conversation. She felt this was the best time to ask Zachary about it.
"Hey, Zachary..." Twilight said, nervously.
"Yeah, Twilight?" Zachary asked.
"How come you don't like to talk about your parents?" Twilight asked. When she asked this, it caused both Zachary and Luna to flinch. Zachary flinched, because he still wasn't sure if he was ready to talk about it, and Luna flinched, because she already knew why he didn't want to talk about it.
"Yeah, how come you haven't said anything about them yet?" Rainbow asked, hovering over them a bit. Zachary shrunk down into his seat a little bit.
"Yeah, sugarcube. We wont won't judge ya." Applejack said, with a reassuring smile on her face. Zachary sighed, realizing that he wasn't going to get out of this.
"I guess I should tell you, it's just..... not easy for me to talk about......." Zachary's voice trailed off, before he got it again.
"You see, my mommy and daddy were really happy when they had me. We would do so much together, those were the happy times." Zachary smiled at the memory's he had with his parents, but that smile quickly turned into a frown. "But one day, after I was finished with my pre-k class, some people came and told me my mom and dad didn't want me anymore....." Everypony at the table gasped in shock. Zachary held back a sniffle, as he continued his story.
"They told me that they would find me new parents, people who wanted me, and they did. They did find new parents that wanted me, but for the wrong reasons." Zachary said, letting a tear fall from his face. "They only wanted me for the money and for me to be their slave. I know this, because they would tell me this every night, while they would beast me, like a doll."
Zachary eye's couldn't hold back the tears any longer, and he let them all out. Everypony around the room gave him a sympathetic look. Twilight felt guilty for making Zachary talk about such a sensitive topic. She levitated a napkin with her magic, and used it to wipe the tears away.
"Zachary..." Zachary looked up at Twilight, who had a sadden look on her face. "I'm so sorry I made you talk about that. That must of been really hard for you..." Twilight said. Zachary gave her a sad smile.
"It's okay, I had to tell you guys sometime, I'm just glad I don't have to see my foster parents ever again. Rainbow dash flew up to him slowly.
"Don't worry kid, you wont, and if you or I ever see them, then I promise you that I'll give them a good punch in the face for ya." Rainbow dash said with a kind, but serious face. Pinkie bounced over to Zachary
"Yeah, and if I ever see those no good mean mc meanie pants, I'll give them a taste of MY PARTY CANON!" Pinkie pie said, pulling her party canon out of nowhere, and blasting it off in a random direction. Applejack was the next one to come over to Zachary's side.
"Ah'm the element of honesty, and ah can say that those mean foster parents of yours will get what they deserve if they ever come to equestria, ah promise." Applejack said, putting her hoof around her shoulder. Rarity was next to speak up.
"Those ruffians can't hurt you, as long as they stay in that world of yours." Rarity said, while patting him on the shoulder with a warm smile on her face. Then, Fluttershy came up.
"I'm really sorry to hear about your foster parent's. I'll try to help you cope here in equestria, if you want me too, that is....."
Then, Celestia and Luna spoke up.
"We will guard over your dreams in your sleep, young Zachary." Luna said, and then Celestia spoke up too. "If you want or need anything, just send me a letter." Spike was the last one to speak up.
"I'll be here whenever you need me, dude." Spike said. Zachary looked at Twilight, who was still smiling at him said
"I'll make sure you don't get hurt by them, or anypony else, okay? I promise." Zachary smiled at them all, tears of joy streaming down his face.
"Thank you all so much." Zachary said, while they all got into a group hug. "Thank you...."
Back in the human world
John was sitting on the couch, drinking, while watching The Walking Dead on the TV. His wife, Melissa, was in the other room, dusting and cleaning the house. Normally, they would have someone, who was only considered as a slave, clean the house, but while giving that slave a punishment for being home late, he just disappeared out of thin air. It was weird, but they didn't care about him. They could just get another one from the foster care system.
Melissa stormed into the room where john was watching TV. She glared daggers at him.
"Why aren't you helping me clean this filthy house?!" Melissa asked angrily, and John replied with a grunt. "Do you even care about the condition of were you live?" john got up, annoyed that his wife was bothering him during his favorite show
"Cleaning, is a job for women and people you get to work for you." John said. When he tried to get to the couch, his wife put her hand and his shoulder, and turned him around.
"You sexist son of a...." She had no time to finish her sentence, as she felt herself being pushed back into the desk that was behind her, which also caused a small little box to fall of it.
"DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME SEXIST, WOMEN! I AM THE MAN OF THIS HOUSE, AND YOU WILL RESPECT ME THAT WAY!!! John yelled with fury. He noticed that the small box that felled to the floor after he shoved Melissa to the ground, and he also noticed his great-grandfathers pocket watch fell out.
"Oh, great! Now look at what you have done!" John shouted. Melissa threw her head up, and looked at John, with an ever growing rage in her eye's.
"ME?! YOU WERE THE ONE WHO SHOVED ME INTO THE DESK!!!!" Melissa shouted. John ignored her, thinking that he should deal with her later. When he went to go and pick up the pocket watch, his face flipped from anger, to confusion.
"What the....." John couldn't even finish his sentence. Melissa walked up to him
"What's wrong?" She asked, noticing his sudden change of mood. She looked down at the pocket watch, and gasped. It was glowing. john stood up, and walked out of the room. He noticed that it was getting brighter. Melissa followed him, still shocked at what was going on.
They glowing pocket watch lead them out front, in the same exact spot from when Zachary disappeared. It was glowing brighter than ever at this point.
"John, what's going on?" Melissa asked, confused and scared. John turned around to face her, but before he could say anything, a white light started to wash over them
WHAT THE--" John screamed but was cut off by the light. They were gone.
In Equestria
The white light slowly began to dim. John looked around his surroundings, along with his Melissa. They were in some sort of forest, a forest with very tall and dark tree's. Melissa looked at John, and then walked up to him, getting ready to shout at him
"JOHN, WERE ARE WE? WHAT DID THAT POCKET WATCH DO TO US? WHA-" Melissa was cut off by John, who put a finger up to her mouth.
"I don't know." John said. "I don't know, but we should probably go find out where we are, so that maybe we can find a way out." Melissa could only nod her head I agreement, as the two made their way down the trail. They made it to an open field with no trouble at all. The only clue that told them where they were, was a sign that they passed, saying "Beware, The Everfree Forest.
The husband and wife walked down the open field, only to find a cottage. Melissa was about to go up to the cottage, but was stopped by John.
"It doesn't look like anyone is home at the house, and besides, we should try to find something like a small town or somewhere more populated." Melissa was about to argue, but sighed when she realized that there was no point, and continued to follow John down the path.
They eventually saw a few buildings up ahead, and they both sighed out in relief, but as they got closer to the town, they felt like something was off. They didn't know what it was, until they saw it. The towns inhabitants. They were ponies.
"What the- why are ponies in this town? Where are the people? What is going on?!" John had to calm his wife down.
"I don't know what is happening, but what I do know is that these "ponies" have probably never seen a human before." John said. Melissa thought about there options.
"Should we go introduce ourselves to them?" Melissa asked. John thought, but decided it was a bad idea.
"No, we don't even know if they speak English or not, and we don't know if there friendly or not." John said, making his wife a bit frustrated.
"Then what are we supposed to do, then?" Melissa asked, as John instantly came up with an idea.
"We'll sneak around the town, and see what we can learn about them. Maybe one of them will leave us a clue on how we can get out of here." John said. Melissa, seeing no other options, reluctantly agreed. They got to one of the towns buildings, and started to sneak around the town.
They would spy on ponies that they thought had information, but they couldn't find any, that is, until they found a library, that looked like a tree. There was a window opened on the first floor by a bush, so they decided to hide in the bush, while also looking inside the library. What they saw shocked them both. They saw what looked like six normal pony's, two with wings, two with horns, and two with neither. They saw two tall pony's, that both had horns and wings. They saw a baby dragon, and they saw a Human child. They almost immediately recognized the child. He was their slave, Zachary. They peeked up to listen what they were talking about.
"Okay, so Pinkie, you got out all the invitations to everypony, right?" Twilight asked the bouncing earth mare.
"Uh, yeah, of course I did, Twilight!" Pinkie said, now bouncing on her tail.
"Good." Twilight said, and looked around at everypony. "I'm sure you all have business to attend to, so I'll keep Zachary here until then, ok?"
Everypony nodded their heads in agreement, and said goodbye before they left.
"See ya at the party, little dude." Rainbow dash said, flying out the front door.
"I've got to go and get the party ready! I'll see you there little wintle guy!" Pinkie said, before bouncing out of the front door.
"Ah've got to go to, to get some apple pies ready for the party, see ya there." Applejack said, before she too left.
"Oh, my! I should make an outfit for you, but I don't have time. Next time, I guess, I'll see you all at the party." Rarity said, before trotting out the front door.
"I will see all of you at the party." Fluttershy said, before she left too. Twilight looked up at the two princess's
"We must be going too, royal duties. We'll see you three at the party." Celestia said, before teleporting away. Luna looked down at Zachary and said "We shall see you at the party as well." Luna said, giving out a warm chuckle, and teleporting away.
"Well, I'm going to take a nap before the party, so goodnight." Spike said, heading upstairs, leaving the unicorn and the child alone.
Twilight looked down at Zachary, who was rubbing his arm.
"What's wrong, Zachary? Nervous for the party?" Twilight asked. Zachary looked up at her.
"I just... feel like somethings wrong, that's all.." Zachary said. Twilight put her hoof around his shoulder
"Don't worry, I wont let them or anypony else hurt you. I promise." Twilight said.
"Do you like to read?" Twilight asked, and Zachary just nodded his head.
"Yeah, I like to read some books, why?" Zachary asked.
"It's going to be a while before the party begins, so I thought we could read one of my favorite book series called daring doo." Twilight offered, and Zachary nodded his head. The two spies, who heard everything, were now sneaking out of the town.
"I can't believe he has manage to befriend one of these pony's, how did he do that?" Melissa asked, and John just chuckled.
"What's so funny?" Melissa asked, while John looked at her
"Well, remember when that lavender unicorn told Zachary that she would protect him?" John asked. and Melissa just nodded her head.
"Well," John started, pulling out the handgun that he always carries around. "Not every promise can be kept." John said, laughing darkly, as he and his wife went to find a place to stay until it was their time to strike........