//------------------------------// // Special Chapter // Story: The Great and Powerful Centaur // by Viper Pit //------------------------------// Shortly after Trixie has left for her date with Lyra, Moseby had brought the young human Jake to Jackpot's and Amy's room. He was still shaken up by what had happened in the lobby and will probably have nightmares for weeks about that moment. Well, he and almost every other creature that witnessed Lyra's short-lived yet truly destructive rampage. After dropping Jake off, Moseby went back to the lobby to clean up the mess. He was still the front desk manager and he had to keep the lobby clean for guest after all. "Take a seat, Jake. We have much to talk about." Jackpot welcomed the small human as he went and got his wife who was currently beating her head against a wall for falling for Lyra's tricks to get her to let Trixie out on a date. Maybe it was the stress of the day or the fact that Equestria was so open with its relationships statuses but Amy still felt like an idiot. "Wow, this place so... so cool," Jake said as he looks around with sparkling eyes of amazement and child-like curiosity. He begins to run up to anything shiny and touches them as if seeing if he were really there. "Thank you, Jake." Amy's voice said to him scaring from the vase he was currently looking at. Jake turned around his jaw dropped when he sees Amy being that she was, in fact, the tallest creature he had seen ever since he woke up in Equestria. Amy was taking the staring well for about a minute anyway, taking second to clear her throat to get him to stop staring. "Thank you, Jake, now While my husband brings back something to drink why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself?" she asked him as she took a seat. "Oh, umm, Okay, I like the Power Ponies and ice cream. The chocolate kind, not the vanilla." He quickly specified. "Oh, Oh there was also my Nintendo 3DS." That caught Amys' attention, she had never heard of this 3 des item before. "Jake, what year was it on earth when you arrived?" A little hint of worry could be heard in her voice. "It was two thousand nineteen, why?" He casually replied, tilting his head as he asks the question for the reason why Amy asked his current timeline. The woman mouth gaped open after she heard the boy's reply. Amy had to sit down and as she sat down she thought Had it really been twelve years on Earth? B-But how? I've been here for twenty years here. Is time slower over there? "Are you alright miss?" Jake asked as Jackpot came back with the drinks and some snacks since he thought it would be nice. Amy still in a little bit of shock just numbly nods as she picks up one of the cheese crackers her husband brought. As she anxiously nibbled the cracker, the room's ambiance got a little bit awkward as Jackpot was more of a hardworking pony than a social one. It is a wonder to him how he married Amy sometimes. "She will be fine she sometimes does this when she remembers how long she has been here." Jackpot said as he gave Jake his cup. "So Jake how did you meet Trixie?" "I saw her show in Ponyville but a lot of mean mares where ruining the fun for everypony," Jake explained as he took a swallow of the tea. "Not enough sugar," Jake said flatly. "I'll be sure to remember that," Jackpot quoted and then went back to the kitchen to get some sugar cubes. It was about this time Amy snapped out of her stupor when the scent of her husbands' high-quality tea reached her sensitive nose. Noticing his beloved shaking nervously and in a trance, Jackpot levitated a cup of tea to his lovely wife, who gladly accepted it with a gentle smile, however, her clammy hands trembled, spilling some bits of the cup's contents. "Thank you, Dear." She complimented her husband, taking a small sip and releasing a relieved sigh. She looked back at Jake, who seemed to be gorging on the treats like a hungry beast, rather than observing his surroundings. Does his lesbian... I mean, ugh, fillyfooler foster pony mother not properly feed him before arriving in our hotel and abducting my only daughter unannounced? She slightly shook her head disapprovingly as to not be noticed before she gave a loud fake cough. "Ahem... Excuse me, Jake dear. Can you tell some segments of your daily life in... what do you call that place again?" "Huh? Oh ummm... I live in a tiny town called Ponyville, Ma'am." He nervously answered, dropping his shameful action and feeling a little embarrassed that he messed up his basic manners. His mother will enforce etiquette lessons from Octavia all over again. "What do you want to know exactly, ma'am?" He asked as he wasn't sure how to answer the adult human woman's vague question. "Oh, anything will do. Maybe an exciting event that happened recently will suffice." Amy's nerves seemed to slowly soothe at ease as she continued to sip her tea and sophisticatedly ate the treats. "Well, there was that one time a giant dragon appeared up a mountain near Ponyville." He nonchalantly informed. This caused Amy to flinch in surprise and intensified her nervousness. "O-oh, I see. He must have there for a temporary visit." "Well, we weren't sure about that." "How so?" Amy leaned closer towards the boy with curious eyes. "Well, from what the other ponies were gossiping about, a giant dragon arrived there unannounced, took shelter in a mountain's cave, and took a long snooze." Amy shook her head. "He must have made a lot of noise that kept everyone awake." "Well, yeah... And also he made a lot of black smoke that blocked the sunlight under Ponyville." He once again casually answered as if it didn't make him scared. "He poisoned our water supply, burned our crops, and delivered a plague into our houses." Amy and Jackpot concurrently let out audible gasps. "He did?" "Nah, I just wanted to make that reference." Jake let out a childish chuckle. "No, it was just annoying everyone and stopped most of the jobs that day." "How did this problem got resolved?" Amy asked before chugging an entire cup of tea and refilling it. "Oh, Fluttershy and her friends went up the mountain and negotiated to go somewhere else for his nap. You know, a usual Saturday morning episode in Ponyville." "Episode?" Amy was confused by that statement, even though she should be more panicking on the answer. "Yeah, weird stuff like that usually happens once a day, specifically thirty minutes or more on a Saturday morning. Basically, a new episode in a cartoon TV channel." "Oh dear, That's news to me." Jackpot said when he returned with Jake's new sweeter tea. "Here you go." Jake nodded in appreciation. "Amy has told me a lot about televisions and what kind of shows they show in these tiny metal boxes. But for specific reasons, what is this show exactly about?" "Yes, I'm curious about that as well." Amy inquired further. She was quite curious about the fact that there was a modern show about talking ponies. She remembers the similar show that she watched when she was growing up but this world was nothing like what she remembered. "From what I remember from the show, it had... I dunno, I think about nine seasons and an a-okay youtube series based around the ponies' human versions going to high school and doing normal teenager stuff with a magical twist. " Jake then takes a drink of his tea. "This tea tastes so much better. Thank you, mister." Jake smiled as he took another drink. "I don't really watch them myself and forgot what the title of the show was but some of my friends do and won't stop talking about them." The magic stallion, Jackpot was completely enamored by what the boy explaining about the things in his modern human world while his human wife, Amy was feeling the complete opposite. She thought of the boy's statement as a sick joke on the reality where she and the boy were captivated in. She began to silently think to herself. Nine seasons and another one about pony-human counterparts. Has human fiction writers always been this accurate when it comes irony? The Lord must be testing my resolve and mentality on how I'll handle this news but this is nothing. The boy must be mistaking the show's concept. The characters must resemble ponies or something. The boy is still young and mixing reality with fiction. No matter, I should be focusing more on entertaining my young guest instead of prying information from him. "Well, it has been a nice chat we have, little Jake, but I think we should head outside and look around Las Pegasus," Amy said, finishing her tea. She rose up from her seat and approach the door. "Dear, could you please clean up the table?" Jackpot nodded as he began to levitate the entire tea set back to the kitchen. "Really? We just got started." Jake whined, feeling confused that their tea time was cut abruptly. "I know but we can continue our chat after exploring around Las Pegasus," Amy explained. "Unless you want to stay in here and wait for my daughter and your..." She turned around so that the boy can't see her roll her eyes. "... your pony mother to come back and pick you up?" "No no, I want to look around with you, Miss." Jake happily exclaimed as he ran towards the woman. "It is my first time here in Las Pegasus and I'm not sure when I'll get the chance to come here again." Amy opened the door. "Well, then let's go watch one of my husband's subordinates' show." "Just make sure we head back before my mom gets back otherwise she might go berserk and wreck your hotel again," Jake replies as he heads out the door. He looked anxious, meaning his statement was serious and that there would be another expensive incident. "I will keep that in mind," Amy said, taking a nervous gulp. With that, the trio went to go watch a magic show downstairs and when they come back, Amy decided they will play a board game or two until Lyra comes back to pick up Jake.