Chapter Three
A Crazy Night
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“You want to hear my life story?” All six of the Ponies, Fluttershy, Rainbow-Dash, Twilight-Sparkle, Pinkie-Pie, Applejack, and Rarity, nod their heads at me. I sigh and Begin my story.
Well my name is Dean Yarlo, and I am from another world, I am from a place called Earth and I was walking in the woods in my town and I found a portal and I decided to jump in and see what the deal was with it glowing and stuff, I am from a town called Poplar. I was thrown out of my house for supposedly not trying to find work which is bullcrap because I worked my ass off trying to find a job, There is nothing in Poplar, shouldn’t be called a town. I am 17 years old soon to be 18 in a couple of days, out of high-school and out of a place to live. I thought jumping into the portal would be a better option than blindly walking through the forest and run out of food and water. I am just trying to figure out why the portal brought me here.
I cough a little and clear my throat. "That's pretty much all I can tell you about me, I'm not that special."
"Aww come on now, everypony is special in their own way." AppleJack smiles. I smile back. "Are you wanting to go back home?" "not especially..." "Why not?" "Cause they told me to get lost, and so I did." my voice starts to get an angry tone as I remember back to that night.
'You need to find a damn job son!' I remember Dad saying, 'I'm trying my hardest Dad!' 'Well it's not enough, all you do all day is stay in your room and play that stupid computer!' I got angry with him. 'I don't just play games Dad! I do cons-' 'Oh okay sure, constructive,' he makes air quotes when he says constructive. After a while of bickering he told me to pack my things. I looked at him and said 'Fine! You want me to be gone? I am GONE!' I picked up my bag and slammed the door behind me.
I must've stood there for a few minutes, my hands clenched so tight the color fades in them. "A-are you okay? Dean?" Fluttershy's voice breaks my thoughts and I remember where I'm at. I sigh "Sorry, yeah, I'm okay.." I lie horribly. "What's wrong Dean?" I hear Twilight speak to me. I open my hands which immediately start to hurt, but I ignore it. "I was remembering the night I left."
I explain the night to them, and they nod. "Well you're here now and you can be an awesome friend, cause I like being friends with everypony I meet-" "I'm not a pony, and why do you say everypony and not everybody?" Twilight steps forward. "Nevermind that now we need to get to bed, it's getting late." I notice that it is getting dark. Where am I going to stay, thinking to myself. "You can stay at my cabin Dean."
I look at Fluttershy and she smiles, “I-if you want.” “Sure.” I say happily knowing I have at least somewhere to stay. So we all go home saying good night and I follow Fluttershy to her place. She takes me to a small little cabin in the middle of a small forest. “This place is beautiful Fluttershy!” She smiles at me and takes me inside.
I walk in and the place looks great, it smells amazing, like a new house smell cause of the wood and paint. “This place is amazing Fluttershy!” she blushes a little and smiles “Thanks Dean.” I smile back as I feel a little weirdness in my chest, not really sure what it means. “You can have my bed” she says, “it’s bigger than my couch and you would have a more comfortable sleep.” “No deal Fluttershy, that is your bed, I don’t want to take it from you” "Are you sure?" "Yes."
Before I lay on the couch I smell myself and I about gag on how bad it is. “You got a shower?” She points down the hall “Yep 1st door to the left.” I go in there and notice it’s an open shower. “Don’t you have a curtain for your shower for like, privacy?” She looks at me and says "We don't wear clothes most of the time anyway." "True."
I sigh and turn the water on which isnt really that hot, I take off my pack and lay it down next to the door and then I close the door so I can get some privacy. I shrug at it and take off my clothes and jump in the water and wash off the dirt and scum from today.
I put my dirty clothes back on, I had no choice, my Dad didn't give me time to get more. I walk over to the couch and lay down on it. I grab the blanket Fluttershy left for me and wrap up in it, its chilly in here. After a while it starts to get really cold, and then I remember that it is getting close to winter, but it is so much colder in this world than mine. I lay there shivering myself crazy. I sit up and curl up as tight as I can, I soon fall asleep.
I wake up again still freezing, I look up and notice Fluttershy is standing there. "Agh!" I yelp. She jumps as I do. "Sorry Dean, didn't mean to scare you. Are you okay? Cause Angel came into my room and woke me up saying something was wrong with you." I look down at the bunny, she looks back at me with worried eyes. "She was saying you were shaking crazily." I speak back to her in a stutter due to the cold, "I-It's s-so c-cold..." "Really? Its warm in here to me." "E-easy for you t-to say you have a c-coat to k-keep you warm, all I have is sk-ski-n..." She looks at me and says "Why don't you come and sleep with me, there's enough room on the bed for both of us. I have more blankets for you to use." I nod
We get into the bed and it is warmer, I sigh in relief as the warmth comes over me. "Feel better?" she asks. I smile and nod. She says "Okay Good night." She leans over and hugs me randomly making my heart beat like crazy. Wait, I like her..she's a pony..that's not right. She pulls away and I shake my head as I feel a strangeness come over me. I shrug it off as nothing. I close my eyes and enjoy the warmth of the covers.
I see a shadow walking towards me, in the shape of a pony, but it's male and charges toward me at a fast pace, it wooshes right through me, like a ghost would, I fall back and the shadow appears over me, It's eyes glow bright white and it seems to fade and I feel an energy engulf me...
I wake and yelp loudly waking Fluttershy, "Dean, You okay?" "Y-yeah...Just a nightmare..." I get up mumbling, "it seemed...so...real..." "Dean?" Fluttershy asks. "I'm going to go get some air..." I walk horrified beyond belief outside into the freezing fall air.
I walk around in a circle around the shack, and I hear a familiar voice "Dean!" and I ignore it completely, still terrified by the dream. Rainbow-dash lands in front of me with a frown on her face, which immediately fades when she sees that I am white as a ghost. "Dean? You okay?" I stop and just stand there, Fluttershy comes out of the shack and walks toward us, "He had a nightmare and he won't tell me about it." "Come on Dean, Tell us.." I open my mouth to speak but that's when it begins.......
(end of chapter 3)