//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: The Crystal Ring // Story: The Story of My Geode // by The Nintega Guy //------------------------------// Author's Note: You don't have to, but I feel like you guys should listen to this while you look at what previously happened. Previously in the last chapter: My name is Michael The Hedgehog and I became human six months ago and ended up in the Human World. My friends are the best and I couldn't have felt better in this world. I was known to be one of the nicest and caring people throughout the school that it eventually led to me being called The Hero of CHS. Kinda cringy if you ask me, but hey if everyone is happy, I'm happy. My life has been so perfect, what could possibly go wrong? Well guys enjoy Chapter 2!! Things had gone well yesterday for everyone. Flash and I got to hang out at the mall and grab a bite to eat in the process, the Rainbooms practiced their music and ended up getting it through into a song, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders ended up telling almost everyone in the entire school my new title. The Next Day It was just a sunny Tuesday Morning, and we see Pinkie and Twilight walking together and they were just having a normal conversation walking to school... well Pinkie is hysterically thinking of the band performance they have in two weeks. "I'm so excited to perform at the Talent Show in two weeks!" Pinkie said to Twilight jumping all over the place. "Are you excited?! I'm excited! It's on my mind so much that I can't stop myself from-" She was then cut off by Twilight. "PINKIE!" yelled Twilight which got Pinkie's attention. "Look, I know your excited to perform, but it's not until two weeks and three days. For now just focus on school like everyone else okay?" "School...." Pinkie said before that reminded her of something. She then gasped. "I need to make the Crusaders, the tiny banner they wanted for Michael's new title." "New title?" Twilight said confused. Pinkie rushed up to Twilight and grabbed her shoulders. "You didn't know? Michael is now called The Hero of CHS!!!." Pinkie said as she was in Twilight's face. "Hero of CHS? That's a little exaggerating if you ask me." Twilight said with a conflicted look. "Sure, he's helpful and compassionate, but I don't think he would be comfortable with everyone thinking of him like that." "HE'S WAY MORE THAN THAT TWILIGHT!!!" Pinkie screamed as she let go of Twilight. "Okay, Okay.... but are you sure he's okay with that." Twilight said. "He's not someone to deny a kind offer. Mikey wouldn't mind at all." Pinkie insisted. Twilight just shrugged her shoulders with an eye roll as they both were still walking towards the school. In the sky, no one noticed that there was a little blue glimmer of light flying aimlessly about. It was flying and the wind blew it far out over the city of Canterlot. The light then started to descend downwards towards where Canterlot High was and it landed near a bush and took the form of a ring-shaped crystal. No one walking towards the front of the school noticed the ring right next to a bush, that is until Twilight and Pinkie came to the school. Twilight took notice of the ring and was immediately interested in it. Author's Note: Before any of you say that isn't the Crystal Ring from Sonic Adventure, yes I know but it was the only natural blue ring I could find. 'What is that?' Twilight thought as she gestured to Pinkie to follow her. They both came up to the ring and Twilight was just fascinated that she never seen that type of rock before. "Oooh, shiny." Pinkie said looking at the ring with sparkling eyes. "Huh, I've never seen a rock like this before, and I don't even think its a ruby, looking at its texture." Twilight said adjusting her glasses. "Rarity, would probably like something like this. Let's give this to her sand see if she wants to put this with one of our costumes for the show." Pinkie stated. "No Pinkie, this looks like something that we should definitely research, I mean we might have discovered something new for all we know about." Twilight said. Pinkie just looks at the crystal ring in a confused face. "I don't know, it looks pretty normal to me." Pinkie then picks up the ring and it starts to glow. She yelps and puts it back down. Twilight was also surprised at what she just saw. Twilight then picks the ring up herself and it starts to glow again. "This isn't ordinary at all." She said in shock. "Pinkie, let's find your sister Maud and ask her if she can make out what this is." "Oh that's right, Maud can tell what any rock is just by looking, smelling, or even touching it." Pinkie said in excitement. After that, Twilight grabbed the crystal ring and along with Pinkie, they both ran off into the school with it. As they were walking around with it, it slowly started to dim out. Twilight takes notice of this and is immediately surprised. "Huh, that's weird. I'm still holding it and it's now barely making any light." Twilight said. "Maybe, it likes the Sun." Pinkie said with a grin. "Eh, I kinda doubt that." Twilight just stated shrugging her shoulders. Pinkie and Twilight eventually found Pinkie's sister Maud Pie inside one of the empty biology classrooms in the school. Maud had pure gray skin, purple hair and wore a dark blue dress. She is indeed very different than Pinkie Pie than I would expect, but I'm not here to try to say she's weird. When Twilight and Pinkie gave the crystal to Maud, Maud gave them an answer they were not expecting. "WHAT?!" yelled Pinkie in huge shock. "I said I don't know what this crystal is." Maud said in her monotonous voice. "But, you have to know.... I thought you knew everything about rocks Maud!!" Pinkie said as she was in her sister's face shaking her shoulders. "Are you sure this isn't a normal gem by the looks of it?" Twilight asked. "Yes." Maud simply responded. "It's color is similar to sapphire or turquoise though." "Hmm... then there must be a logical explanation of what this is." Twilight muttered to herself taking a closer look. Meanwhile, Pinkie was in the corner of the room hyperventilating over the fact that her rock scientist sister couldn't find out what the ring shaped crystal was. "Pinkie come with me, I think I may know what this is." Twilight said turning towards her. Pinkie was trying to calm herself down by breathing in and out of a balloon. Twilight just instead grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out of the room. "I won't forget this day Maud!" Pinkie yelled to sister as she was being dragged by Twilight. Maud just blinked at the comment and didn't say a word. Twilight takes Pinkie to a Chemistry room she often uses for her random science experiments and she locks the door and puts a cover on the door window so no one could see them. "Pinkie, I think I may have a theory on what this is, but I may need some time to analyze it." Twilight said. "Oooh, are you going to do any sci-ency stuff with the ring?" She asked excited. Twilight chuckles. "Not exactly." She then pulls out a hammer from one of the desk drawers in the room. She also grabs a lab coat and protective goggles. "Then what are you doing?" Pinkie asked with curiousity. "Stand back!" She warned. She then brought the hammer up. Pinkie then dashed under a chair and closed her eyes for impact. Twilight tried to crush the ring with the hammer and the hammer top fell off at impact flying across the room. Twilight then caught the top using her telekinesis magic to prevent anything from being broken and sat it down on the table. "Fascinating!" She said. "Did an explosion happen yet?" Pinkie said as she still had her eyes closed under a chair. "No, Pinkie you can look now." Twilight said. Pinkie then instantly appeared behind Twilight much to her surprise to see what the outcome was. "This thing doesn't even have a scratch or a dent in it, so it must be as strong as diamond." Twilight got an idea in her head to make another test. "Pinkie, can you grab any piece of food you can-" Just as she was about to finish, Pinkie instantly had a cupcake right in front of her face. "Um.... okay, now I need you to use your magic on it and explode it next to the gem." Pinkie used her geode to cause the cupcake the shine and she put it down right next to the ring. After a few seconds, an explosion of pink dust covered the entire room and both Pinkie and Twilight were covered in icing. They looked down to see if anything happened to the ring and............................. nothing happened and it wasn't even covered in cupcake icing. Pinkie was just jaw dropped at how indestructible the ring was while Twilight just smirked and folded her arms. "I thought so." She said. "What is this thing?" Pinkie asked surprised. "There's only one possible explanation to this." Twilight answered. "Equestrian Magic." "Eh, not to surprising when you say it like that. It's not like we haven't seen Equestrian Magic before." Pinkie said. "True, but she definitely tell Sunset about this, maybe she can ask my counterpart what this strange crystal is." They didn't notice me walking past the room and the ring suddenly started to glow again. "And what's causing that shiny glow?" Pinkie asked with confusion. "Beats me, but she should keep this hidden in case anything happens throughout the school with it around. We don't want to put our school in danger.........again." Twilight said with a fearful voice. "Hey, if Rainbow Dash taught us one thing, its that we can put to 'anything' that's a party pooper!" Pinkie said with enthusiasm. "Yeah.... your right." Twilight said regaining confidence. She then noticed that it was 30 seconds before the bell rings and went wide eyed. "We've got to get to class, I don't want to ruin my perfect attendance!!" Pinkie saw what she meant and they both dashed out of the classroom. After School Sunset and Twilight were walking of the school and Twilight mentioned to Sunset earlier that she wanted to show her something. "Alright Twi, what's this new and amazing thing you wanted to show me?" Sunset asked with curiosity. Twilight dug in her backpack and at the right time, the ring was glowing as she pulled it out. "This!" Sunset was jaw dropped at what she saw and was already intrigued. "What is that?" She asked shocked at what she was seeing. "I don't know, but I've ran some tests and it could possibly be another piece of Equestrian magic." Twilight answered. Sunset immediately wasn't surprised. "How many times are we going to find something that belongs in the Equestria and finds it way here?" Sunset said slightly annoyed. "I don't know, but this ring glows at random times and I don't know what's causing it, which is why I thought you could message Princess Twilight to see if it's a dangerous signal or not." Twilight proposed. "I guarantee you it will just be the usual 'this is another piece of Equestrian Magic' blah, blah, blah thing." Sunset said with an eye roll and a smirk. "Princess Twilight knows everything................... well, maybe not everything." Sunset went into her backpack and brought out a book with a half shimmering sun and half purple crystal symbol. Her and Twilight then sat down next to the four mirrored pedestal and Sunset started writing to Princess Twilight about the new and usual crystal ring. Two hours later Sunset and Twilight were waiting patiently for their message from Equestria. Sunset was playing on a handheld game console while Twilight was reading a math book. Eventually, Sunset's journal started to glow indicating her message, both of the girls saw this and instantly looked inside, only to find a message they were not expecting. Sunset, I know its been awhile and I've missed you a lot, but I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. I've looked in all of the Equestrian library and apparently what you and your friends found isn't Equestrian magic. I don't know what this "Crystal Ring" is or how it got to your world, but I can tell you to just keep an eye out for anything unusual happening in your world. I'm sorry I didn't have an answer to your problem and I hope you'll be able to figure out your situation soon. Your Friend, Princess Twilight Sparkle After reading the message, Sunset was in shock at the fact that they for once didn't find Equestrian magic. "How is this possible?" She asked in shock. "I thought at first glance that there was something magical about that thing, but for it to turn out that it isn't Equestrian magic is just........................weird." "Could it be... we've discovered something new?" Twilight asked. "Most likely, but so far nothing out of the ordinary has happened, so I say we just keep it until further notice. Keep it in your locker, as a hiding place." Twilight nodded and placed the ring back in her backpack for the night. She zipped it up and both her and Sunset started to walk home for the day. As they were walking home, Twilight didn't notice something. Inside of her backpack, the ring started to glow again, but this time it was blinking as if it was trying to send a signal to someone. In fact, it was trying to send a signal to someone..........................................me. Meanwhile at my house Rainbow Dash and I were playing a soccer video game and Rainbow kept losing to me. "Dude, how are you so good at this? It's like you know what I'm doing." Rainbow Dash said slightly angry. "I don't know, I just play this game a lot." I simply said with a smirk. However, she was right I did know what she was doing by peeking at her controller. "Best 6 out of 11?" She said with determination. "If you insist." I said with a cocky grin. We played another match on the console and this time halfway through the match, Rainbow realized how I was winning and she instantly hid the controller to her side a few times so I wouldn't see. She then all of sudden won the round and cheered to herself about how awesome she is. I just smirked and rolled my eyes. "You only won once you know." I said. "Whatever." Rainbow said. "At least I beat you." I just chuckled and looked at the time. It was almost midnight and it was a school night. Rainbow saw this as well and got her backpack instantly. "I better head home before my parents, kill me. See ya tomorrow Michael." "I'll see you tomorrow Dash." I said as she ran home. I went upstairs and changed into my PJ's which was a black T-shirt with a golden ring background and some yellow shorts. As soon as I got changed, I hopped in my bed which was blue sheets with a red blanket with a white stripe across and white pillows. When I got under the covers and turned my light off, I took a look out of the window and far away in the night, I saw the beautiful lights of Canterlot's city. 'Man, I wish I could run through that city similar to Radical Highway back in my world.' I thought as I dozed off. As I was sleeping, a blue aura glowed around me for a moment before fading inside me. It was soon enough that the next day will be full of surprises for me.