//------------------------------// // New world, new problems // Story: Jack of all trades // by Blacklight Brony //------------------------------// I’m happy today. Seriously, I’m extremely happy because LGPE is today. Why that is important is because it is a competition between schools bands and we are aiming for all excellents in every aspect, aka ones. For a gift on our school making it to LGPE, my mom got me a necklace with a base clef and treble clef. The base clef was backwards so it would make a heart while the treble clef was upside down and connect with the base clef to form a heart. I think of it meaning, music is close to my heart. My two sister’s, my two brother’s, mom’s, and dad’s name was on it to show those who supported me on my music career, or soon to be. I had my book bag on me with all my stuff for school and my sketch book, I had my trombone for LGPE, and finally, my sheet music for the concert. I was walking down the street to where my mom, little brother, and one of my big sisters decided to meat me. They wanted to wait at Zaxby’s so I could at least eat before we head out on an hour long drive to Newton high. I looked both ways before I walked down the street. I saw the three behind a window and I waved to greet them. They waved back with enthusiasm. I walked over with a pep in my step, my necklace dangling under my Bluetooth earbuds. Not even two seconds later I hear the screeching of tires on pavement. I looked over to the right as the world seemed to stop. My eyes widened in horror and I realized that I was moving normally, but the world was still unmoving. I don’t know why I didn’t move, probably because of the prospect of something impossible. I was about to get hit by a large truck with black paint that seemed to shine in the sunlight. The driver had a manic look in his eyes. There were two others with him and they carried weapons. One with an assault rifle and the other had a Pistol, most likely a high caliber. They looked horrified too while one held a bag filled with money. They were robbers, but the two horrified ones didn’t think the driver would do this by their expressions. I was about to take advantage of the slowed time before a black mass pulled me into it. I fell backwards as it pulled me in while there was a flash of light to conceal the black mass which I found was a portal when I hit grass head first. Before I passed out something purple was shown in my view. I woke up with a yawn to signal everyone that I was awake. That quickly changed when I found I couldn’t move my hand or feet. It was really dark and I was really getting scared. Eventually, the dam broke as I began to scream for help. I quiet down to not alert the people that kidnapped me. It took all my will power not so freak out because of the dark. Sweet gathered around my face as panic was settling in. It wasn’t even ten minutes later when I felt something poke me. I would be lying if I said I didn’t scream. What ever touched me was definitely startled because I wasn’t the only one that screamed. I began to shout my questions. “Where the hell am I? Who are you? Why am I tied down? Why are you doing this? Will somebody help me?!” I yelled nearly bursting into tears. If I was going to die early, I at least wanted to see how I died. “Y-you spoke?” The obviously female said scared. “Yes I can speak! Who are you?!” I was furious at this woman. Kidnapping is a serious crime and this woman didn’t even know I can speak. “I’m... Twilight Sparkle.” She introduced herself. “Can I have your name?” She sounded so calm now despite me wanting to beat the crap out of her. She gave me a weird name so I’ll give her my Dark Souls OC’s name. “Blacklight solaire.” I’m literally using my OC’s name I swear if it works. “Hello Blacklight. Nice to meet you.” She was enthusiastic. I really want to face palm right now. “The opposite for me. Right now I want to FUCK KILL YOU FOR KIDNAPPING ME!” I’m still pissed because if I don’t turn it into anger I will have a mental breakdown from it being pitch black. I felt something lift off my wrist and ankles and what ever was covering my eyes. I was caught off guard when I came face tot face with a purple horse. I rolled away from the horse and I didn’t realize I was on a table so I fell off. I sat up and scooted to the wall opposite of the horse. I got a better look at her as it was lavender in color with a horn on its head. It’s mane, I think what its call, was dark purple with a lighter purple and pink stripe running through it. I was standing in front of a lavender unicorn. “W-w-what are you?! Twilight, where the hell are you?! Is this some sort of sick game?!” I shouted in terror. “I’m Twilight. If you try to kill me, you’ll have an entire town after you.” The lavender unicorn, that I now know as Twilight, answered. I pushed my shock aside to redeem myself. “Sorry, I’m terrified of the dark so I had to turn my fear into anger to keep myself from panicking. So that’s why I dead that.” I was sorry as I had no reason to be mad at Twilight. “But, where are we?” That was before I realized something. “Where’s my stuff?!” I didn’t have my earbuds or my necklace. My phone was still in my pocket, but my backpack was gone. “It’s upstairs with the rest of my friends. They’re examining everything. I can take you to them?” She was walking up the stairs when she finished. I looked around for a moment at the laboratory in what was obviously a basement before I followed her upstairs. She opened the door as five other horses were examining my stuff. I didn’t realize the low hanging doorframe. I went face first into the frame. “Fuck!” I yelled in pain. I heard gasping around me. I looked up at the four horses standing around me in defensive positions while one was hiding. I tried to shrink into the floor because of the attention. “Nope, not dealing with this.” I turned around and was about to go back into the basement before a lavender field surrounded me. “Why were you about to leave?” Twilight said with an edge to it. “Do you know what asperges syndrome is?” I questioned. “Ponies have difficulty meeting new ponies. Why?” That wasn’t Twilight but the butter yellow... mare I think it’s what their called. “I’ve got it.” “Oh, it must be so difficult.” The butter yellow mare hugged me... WHILE FLYING WITH WINGS. The cyan one had wings as well. A white one had a horn. The orange and pink one didn’t have either. The field was removed from me and I was released from the yellow mare. I walked to the nearest wall and slammed my head agents it as hard as I could. I heard a crack and a gasp when I did so. When I remove my head I saw lots of blood covering the wall where my forehead made contact with it. I felt something warm drip down my face so I moved two fingers to it. I removed my fingers as I began to smell copper. I looked at my fingertips and saw blood. “Well I’m not dreaming.” I said turning to them. The white and yellow one fainted, the pink ones hair deflated like a ballon, the orange one covered her mouth with her hat, but I still saw the horrified expression, the cyan one threw up, and Twilight covered her mouth with her front hooves. “I’ll collect my things so you can point me back to Jackson.” “Y-you fell out of the sky when I tried to summon the most dangerous creature in the world. I-it was supposed to be a child of that creature.” Twilight explained. My eyes widened in shock and horror as I began to know what she was implying. “So y-you mean...” I couldn’t even finish my sentence before I was hit by a wave of nausea. “You’re stuck here. And it seems that spell I used to keep you held down is taking its affects.” It was silent except for my blood dripping from my chin on to the floor. I looked at all my stuff that was sprawled across the floor. I found my sketch book and took it up before bolting out the door. I heard the four still conscious mares yell for my name, but I ignored them. I ran through the town until I found a secluded hill. I opened the book and began to draw the landscape. This was how I would get my mind off things when I felt sad or angry. I have no way home or anyone to help me. I will never see my family ever again. I will never play with my band ever. I will never be able to enlist or join two steps to hell. I will never get to do the things I want to do. I finished the drawing the land scape and I forgot to grab my color pencils so I couldn’t color it. It looked good either way because of my shading. I was still huffing from my running but it turned into loud sobbing as the thoughts ran through my head again and again. It got louder until my throat felt a burning sensation as I knew I had a sore throat now. I felt a warm embrace from all directions. My blood dried up a while ago. I looked up to see the six mares with sad expressions. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to take you away from...” Twilight began before getting cut off by me. “I-it’s fine. At least I got to meet you six.” I said trying to make them feel better. They let go of me with smiles that were definitely infectious as I found myself with a small smile. “Wow! You did this?” The pink one said looking at my sketch. “Ya, it helps me think. I have a lot more. Than that.” I said as the rest went to see. They had slack jawed expressions when they saw the drawing of the castle. “It’s beautiful.” The yellow one said quietly. “That’s an insult to it Fluttershy. It’s marvelous!” The white one shouted. “It’s not that good.” I countered. The white one glared at me which I shrunk. They look at the rest of my drawings while gawking before stopping on one. It was my mother’s present for mother’s day. I wrote my name in cursive and wrote ‘Happy Mother’s Day’ as well as a drawing of a rose. “Was this-“ The pink one began before I cut her off. “Yes. I was so excited to give it to her, but I held off. I practiced regularly once a day to get better, but that drawing started it all.” I answered calmly. “That’s my actual name, but please call me Blacklight. It was my OC in a video game that stuck with me sense the first Dark Souls game came out.” They nodded before admiring the drawing. “This, playing my instrument, and playing video games are my favorite things to do. I felt around my neck. “But first I need to get my necklace.” A field surrounded my sketch book and pencil as it was floated to me. I put the pencil behind the rings as we left back to Twilight’s house as it was decided I would stay there. “Spike, take a letter.” Twilight commanded. A small lizard that came up to my knee ran over with a quill and parchment. He had purple scales on his back with a green under belly and snout. He had green spikes coming out of his head, down his back, and to the end of his tail. “Dear Princess Celestia, Today I met a new friend that isn’t of our species. He showed he would do some dumb things, like smash his head into the wall,” I grumble in response. We cleaned the wound and rapped it in gauze before she began this, “he shows compassion, sorrow, forgiveness, fear, and anger. You might like him because he’s a jack of all trades. This shows that even somepony you just met, can become your friend, no matter how much of a rocky start you had. Your faithful student, Twilight sparkle.” She concluded with a content sigh. “Wait, let me draw you guys to show the Princess. It would be a gift to her for having such friendly subjects.” I suggested taking my book out. They got together so I could begin drawing. “There. I even colored it.” I slipped it into the parchment as Spike blew fire sending it to the princess. “I’m glad this day’s over. Now where’s my necklace.” I looked around for a second before I found it on a table. I put it on and held it in one hand. “I love you all.” I said looking at all the engraved names on the necklace. “Hey, Blacklight, Rarity will make you new clothes tomorrow.” Twilight said making me turn to her. I looked at my all black concert attire. It was a black dress shirt, black slacks, a black belt, and my black ROTC shoes. “Okay, I need something other than my concert attire. If I may, can I get cammo pants and a white shirt. I plan on doing PT at Five am. I want to get into that.” They cocked their heads and I found it cute. “P...T?” They asked in unison. “Physical Training.” They looked horrified. “Why at five am?!” Rarity screeched. They introduced them selves on the way back. “Well I normally get up at four thirty am, so it will help me get fit. I’m a twig.” I’m not weak by any means, but I’m not strong either. I remembered a word my family used to describe not being strong or weak. “I’m strunk.” Pinkie, Rainbow Dash, and I fell on the ground laughing. I recovered quickly as I saw the rest confused. “It means I’m not strong or weak. Weaker than most but stronger than others. An equal balance.” Realization dawned on them as I yawned. “Love to chat, it I think it’s a little late. I’ll stay in the basement.” I walked down stairs as I set an alarm on my phone to wake me up at four thirty as I fell asleep.