Great, now I'm in my room thinking about the events that just occured. Discord arrived and we defeated him, that's normal, that's what's supposed to happen. What was not in the plans is to learn that the Book is in fact a Chaos Artefact and that I was gifted with Chaos Magic all this time. I don't know how this works, why didn't Celestia warned me of this earlier ? Wait is it earlier if we are in the past ? Mindfuck guaranteed.
I'm laying on my bed realizing my job got quite a bit harder. The Mane Six knows about the Book now, normally that would be a good thing, but the fact that I'm a Chaos User, just like the dude that we just defeated doesn't give me any points. Not helpful at all. Trust is something hard to gain and easy to lose, I'm pretty sure I lost most of my trust points with them in a few sentences. Now I will have to explain them the situation. The problem is, I can't really explain everything. I can't say that Future Celestia will travel to another dimension to bring a human to defeat a demon that he created himself by giving him an unknown artefact. I think I will have leave out some details. I think whatever I come up with, most of them will most likely believe it. I have one major problem though, Applejack, the Element of Honest, she's a walking lie-detector. I'll have to hope that omit some details doesn't count as lying. At least, I sure hope so.
I can't keep my mind from thinking about this. I would like to relax, preferably sleep a little bit before going there, but apparently, my body doesn't seem to agree with me on this. I read some book that I took from Twilight's Library, of course, I asked her beforehand, I'll give it back when I'll have finished it. It was called Daring Do, kinda reminded me of Indiana Jones in a lot of ways. It's fun and entertaining, at least it keeps my brain occupied for half an hour before I put the book away.
The sun starts to go down on Ponyville, I look outside. This city has just avoided a major disaster once again. When is this town finally going to get peace, not right now that's for sure, the worse is yet to come. Man, at the point I arrived here, season 8 was announced but still hasn't aired yet. So when we will get to that point, I would have to face the unknown, hopefully I will be already out of here and back in my world by that point. Which could take years. Oh yeeeah, I feel my depression coming back, just what I needed right now. Boy, I even start to miss my annoying little brother, never thought I would see the day that happened.
I go out in the streets, if I remember well, we agreed to meet at Twilight's house. So that's the direction I take, I make sure to take my good time, appreciating the temperature and the wind. Man, even if they are shorter her, dusks are amazing. I hurry up a little bit. I knock before entering her house. What ? That's the polite thing to do. I enter to see, what a surprise, everypony staring at me.
- '' Thank Celestia, you sure took your dang time. '' Says Applejack, sounding annoyed.
- '' Yeah, we started to think you ran away, not that you could have ran far with me on the chase. '' Adds Rainbow.
I shrud.
- '' Nah, it's not really in my interest, and what kind of friend would I be if I left you all hanging ? ''
- '' What kind of friend hides that he's a chaos user ? ''
- '' Touché ''
We all sit in the room, Spike comes with some tea. I take some instance to bring my ideas in order in my head, to make sure that my story is believable. They will may not have the fully story, but they will have the basis of it. Twilight is the one that speaks first.
- '' So, I think we can all agree that you have a lot of explanation to do, Grey Ink, if it's who you truly are that is. ''
I take a breathe. Hoping that nothing I would say would be considered a lie.
- '' Yes, my name truly is Grey Ink, I didn't lie on that. I really studied in journalism and it really is what I want to do. What I am as a person never was a lie. But there is that part that I wasn't ready to reveal to you, but I was planning telling you guys someday, but at the end, today or in two years, it doesn't make a real difference. ''
A take a sip from my tea. I must say, Spike makes really good tea. Now that I think about it, he would make a great butler. It must be the years of being Twilight's assisant I suppose. Anyway, everyone seems to be really focused on what I have to say. I look mostly at Applejack's reaction. For now, it seems to be fine.
- '' Here's the part where it gets weird, one day, I was just minding my own business, writing stuff when I had a strange vision, a bright light blinded me and there was this voice. I think it was female voice, but I can't really remember well. Anyway, she warned me from dangers that will threathen Equestria, gave me this book and told me to find the Elements of Harmony. ''
I once again look at AJ from the corner of my eye, she seems more hesitant, I guess she did see that I hide something but can't really say what. I guess it's to be expected, it's better for them to know the half-truth than to be aware of everything going on. They don't need to be aware of other realities right now. Even less the fact they are probably the product of my imagination.
- '' That's it ? ''
Once again, it was Rainbow Dash, who was laying on her back, bored. I look at her, surprised by her reaction.
- '' What do you mean ? ''
- '' At least if you were a spy, you would have an awesome story, but this was just generic and boring! ''
- '' Well, excuuuuse me Rainbow for not exceding your standards. ''
Twilight stands between us, trying to disarm the situation.
- '' Calm yourselves, both of you. Arguing won't lead us anywhere. ''
Rainbow sits herself down, frustrated. Twilight looks at me with a serious expression, I'm not really sure what to add to my story. I don't know if it's believable, but it was the most I could twist the truth without techincally lying.
- '' Do you really mean all of this. Are you sure you are not deceiving us for some other purpose ? ''
- '' I can't convince you of anything, because I don't have any solid proof for anything I just said. Why don't you ask your friend Applejack, I am sure she can say if I'm truthful or not. ''
I know, it's a risky gambling. She could very well just straight say all I said was complete bullshit and I'd get thrown out of Ponyville faster than Rainbow can clear the sky.
- '' Well, it's hard to say. ''
Well, that doesn't help my cause very much. I facehoof. They all stare at the farmer, looking for clarifications.
- '' Applejack, dear, what do you mean by <<hard to say>> ? ''
- '' Well, the story in itself doesn't seem to be a lie, but there's something that bothers me about it, but I can't put my hoof on it. ''
I stay put, looking at all of them, looking at their reactions. They all seems to bit at least a bit suspicious, except for Fluttershy, who really didn't seem to want to be involved in this and Pinkie, who couldn't care less either way.
- '' So what do we do now ? We're not much more advanced. ''
- '' I say we talk about what we're going to do with him. Let's all go in my room ''
She then looks at me.
- '' You better still be here when we get down. ''
I shrug.
- '' No problem, I had no interest in going anywhere else anyway. ''
They all go upstairs and I let a gigantic sigh. How in the world did I got myself into this mess ? Discord of course, that's the main reason. I would find the fact that I'm using chaos magic awesome if it didn't royally screwed me over.
I realize the only one left in the room was Spike that was half the time watching me, the other half he was reading his comic book. We sat in silence for a few awkward minutes. I coughed.
- '' What are you reading buddy ? ''
- '' Power Ponies, it's about this awesome team of... wait, why am I talking about this to you, I don't even know if you're a good guy ! ''
I laugh at little bit and I smile, trying to make him feel a bit more confortable. If all the girls decides that they suddenly hates me, I still want to have at least one friend left.
- '' Good point, but what kind of evil plans would include buying a comic book ? ''
He thought to himself for a little bit, before laughing too.
- '' Fair enough. ''
For a while he talks to me about the Power Ponies, their adventures and comics in general. I'll be honest, I really liked the Power Ponies episode from the show, so if I have the time and money, I'll probably go get some issues in a book store eventually. These looked like awesomes stories.
After maybe 10 more minutes, the girls came downstairs. Not looking much more confident than earlier. I feel myself shaking a little bit from nervosity. I take a few breathe before looking at them.
- '' So, what conclusion have you made ? Come on, I'm dying to know, not litteraly. ''
- '' Well we did decided you can't really be trusted... ''
shit...
- '' But you haven't done anything to make us act on our distrust...yet. ''
That's better than nothing I suppose.
- '' So, what are you planning to do exactly ? ''
- '' That's what we were trying to figure out. We can't exactly let somebody who can possibly be a threat run around town, I hope you understand that fact. ''
- '' I do, but this causes some problems, will I have to find another place ? ''
- '' Yes, you will have to go back into upstairs guest room until new orders. At night, I will magically lock your room so I know that you won't go away. ''
- '' That seems a bit...excessive, but okay, I won't complain. What about my job ? ''
She cringes a bit, okay, I'm not liking this.
- '' Unfortunately, since you will be investigated by myself and most probably by the Princesses herselves, you will have to step down as the head of the journal, and it will probably be suspended for a while. ''
- '' Wait, what ?! You can't do this, it's not fair ! ''
I get up immediately in outrage before being forced down by Twilight's magic.
- '' Calm down, but surely you can understand the reasons. ''
- '' Yeah, I get for my part, but you don't have the punish the others, they have done nothing wrong. ''
- '' I understand, we will assure they are compensated for the salary lost. Remember, it is only suspended, not closed down. If you are cleared by the Princesses, you will be able to resume your operations. ''
I grumble, very unhappy about this turn of events.
- '' Yeah sure... who's gonna buy a newspaper run by a suspected threat to the nation ? ''
I retake a bit of my composure, I look at the others, a bit frustrated and angry. It looks like they feel bad a bit, but they still don't know what to think about me.
- '' So, what are you planning to do now ? I can only guess you will talk with Celestia about the recent events. I'll also assume, the subject of this discovery will come into that letter. ''
- '' Of course, I'll ask Princess Celestia what she knows about your artefact, she'll probably know better than me what it is. ''
- '' That's a good idea, myself I am really curious to know more about it. I get the basic idea of that thing, I write stuff in it, stuff appears. It seems to be using my magic for that. So I guess it makes me a chaos user. ''
Twilight looks at the clock and yawned.
- '' Yeah, but this is on tomorrow's schedule, right now, I think it would be best for us to all go to sleep. ''
They all agreed and started going for the door, Fluttershy was already pretty much sneaking towards it, she must have felt very unconfortable throughout this whole evening. The poor thing. Applejack stopped near Twilight to talk to her.
- '' If you ever need any help with him, yah know where to find me. ''
On that, she exited the house. Rainbow, her, stopped near me, way too close in fact, she was pretty much in my face, she was trying to be intimidating.
- '' You, if I hear that you have harmed Twilight in any way, I am sending your flank into the ground until you reach Tartarus, do you understand ? ''
I raise my two hooves into the air. I'm not doing that shit, I already screwed up enough. Now's not the time for sarcasm.
- '' Yeah, doing harm to anypony is not in my plans anyway. So don't worry about that Dash, I'll stay in line until we have all of this mess sorted out. ''
She then make her exit, after that there's another awkward silence. Twilight and I just avoiding looking at each other for a while. I turn my back and starts heading towards the guest room.
- '' Grey... ''
- '' Don't worry, I know the way, good night Twilight. ''
This came out way colder and angrier than I wanted to, but I couldn't help it. This is how I felt right now, I took a last look at Twilight before entering my room. It looked like she had a bit of regret, seeing her face, but I wouldn't bet on it. She made her choice. I hear her using her magic outside my room, locking it.
Okay, this went terrible. Not me getting arrested terrible, but me losing my job terrible. They all are suspicious of me and soon all of the town will be too. The only real friend I have left is Spike. It's not a bad thing, Spike is awesome, but I would like to have more than one ally right now.
I'm laying on my bed thinking about what's next to come. Probably some more danger. Meeting Celestia will be pretty cool though, she will surely have some answers on what the Book is. I have that to look foward to. But not much else.
Tomorrow is another day though, I am sure we will find a solution. Right now, today's events really comes back to me as I feel horribly tired as I feel my body going numb, my eyes closing and soon enough, I was entering Luna's realm.