//------------------------------// // Chap 11 // Story: Shivering entrance // by Hkh4 //------------------------------// After spending a few minutes of fully processing, Brent abruptly asked while trying to have a non aggressive tone. "Why the hell were you even invading my mind in the first place? If my nights of waking up with headaches were any indication, it was clearly trying to keep you out." "Well, it started with Cadence asking me to look in to you, but after that it was because of the challenge your mind presented." Luna replied looking to Cadence and Brent did the same but with a betrayed look. Cadence felt the guilt she had almost entirely forgotten overwhelm her at this plus Brents anger sent her over the edge, she closed her eyes and yelled. "I'm sorry I just wanted more information." Tears were going down the sides of her face. Brent stood put his fingers together to snap and then did so and just disappeared from the dining hall. None of them could get a read on where he was, when a few moments later a note floated out of a small portal. "You should have asked, instead of invading me, and I'll be gone for a few days need to calm myself and let you all get your collective shit together." Discord seemed overall pleased with how things had gone he particularly enjoyed the panic from the moments before and after Brent snapped. "They were expecting you to act on your anger." "I do my best to be non confrontational basically expected of me my whole life." Brent replied "And thanks for letting me stay here a while." "Oh it's no problem at all as a fellow being that has chaotic magic your welcome here." Discord replied. "Alright, I'm going to try to sleep feel completely drained." Brent said. "That would make sense since you brute force your way into here and your chaos magic isn't infinite. One night here should charge you back up." Discord replied waving goodnight to Brent while still watching the dining room. He had a bizarre amalgamation of a dream that made zero sense even to him, was like a gmod animation on crack, Discord, the sisters, and the heavy were all in it. No clue what was happening but it was enjoyable nonetheless, some point heavy exploded and reassembled himself as pyro who then started chasing Celestia and doing something that warranted The sun being spawned on him, the ashes became the demoman who started chasing Luna while firing pipes. And Discord was just watching the insanity on a lounge chair. Occasionally laughing. Brent woke up feeling energized for the first time in a long time, he checked his phone for the time but it was just an error, still had the dull sensation of anger as well as hunger. "Could you or let me pop out to get some food? Don't know how you manage those portals, really." "Why bother going out?" Discord asked as he snapped a new bowl of what Brent assumed was a popcorn mix appeared. "Well the snapping to make stuff still feels weird even more so the idea of making something i'm putting in me. Not like you in that your body doesn't follow any rules. I'm still just a fragile flesh bag even with the magic." "Oh alright, I'll open a portal and you can get something." Discord replied sounding exacerbated. He snapped and a portal just large enough for Brent to go through opened. He appeared in an alleyway Of an unfamiliar market, it was warm so no where near the crystal empire and there were a lot of gryphons, "Must be in another kingdom." when he emerged from the alley, the street was rather crowded, this gave Brent the beginning of a panic attack when he remembered he was taller than everything else. Not as much as with the ponies but still rather noteworthy. he smelled cooking meat and immediately started looking for the source. Being very careful to not run into any of the gryphons and keeping a hand on his satchel and clipping its, flap afraid of pickpockets. he eventually found the source beginning to lose his worry none of the gryphons really cared that he was there. He pulled a few bits from his bag and gave them to the stand owner, getting a few sticks of various meats in return. He was beginning to feel tempted to move here, away from the royals that feared him for some reason, and around beings that couldn't really care less that he was different, but he preferred the look of the ponies to the gryphons. He found his way back to the alleyway where a portal opened for him the moment he entered, he walked right in to find Discord out of his lounging position and sitting up, watching something intently. Brent didn't ask and instead made a chair in the corner of the room sat and ate his meat sticks while reading with his left hand. "So how many days has it been back in the real world?" He asked Discord "Oh about 1 and a half, you haven't missed much." He replied. So that confirms it, time is very different here. Brent thought. He still didn't want to return to equestria still feeling angry at Cadence and Luna. "I would recommend you blow off some steam." Discord said with a sympathetic tone. "Less you go proving them right when you inevitably return to Equestria. Don't want you going the route I did. If you do, I won't stop you as long as you don't hurt Fluttershy." After a few minutes or what he assumed were minutes Brent took Discord's advice going out of his house and conjuring up a field of the mannequin soldiers from Fmab and started snapping various elements appearing to destroy the Mannequin's. He finished it off with a flaming whirlwind which incinerated any remaining soldiers. He felt much better afterwards and heard clapping coming from behind him. "Bravo, quite the show." Discord said. Brent just smiled feeling relieved. He was still angry with Cadence and Luna, but he no longer felt the aggression. "Think I would like to go back home now." He said. Discord just nodded and opened a portal leading into Brents living room. He walked through and it started to shut behind him. "Could you send a message to Luna for me, if she enters my mind again she may not return this isn't a threat it's a warning." He said then the portal closed.