//------------------------------// // Chapter 8: Answers // Story: Dean's New Life // by Moon_Skritch //------------------------------// Chapter 8 Answers ________________________________________________________________________________ ”So you are looking for answers?” I hear a voice coming from the Darkness. I ask the darkness, “Yes, I am looking for answers, I would like to know how I turned into a pegasus, and my sole purpose of being here.” The voice is silent, then it says, “I know not of the reason of you're being here, but the reason of you and Alex changing into pegasi I do know.” I get excited a bit and say “Can you inform me?” The voice replies, “Yes, the reason is...” The voice fades and I try to listen, but the words are muffled. Then I hear another voice, “Deeeaaaannn! Wake up!” I open my eyes to see Pinkie Pie jumping on the bed, “Good morning Pinkie.” I say groggily. “Morning my hoof Dean, It's breakfast time.” I jerk up fast, which gives me a head rush but I just shake it away. “What time is it?” I ask. “About eight.” She answers. She gets down off the bed, standing in front of me she puts her hooves around me and pulls me into a “good morning” hug and then kisses me. – Alex is awoken by a kiss on the lips by a cyan pegasus. “Wake up Alex.” Rainbow says shaking him. Alex opens his eyes and sees Rainbow Dash standing above him. He sighs and asks “What time is it?” “About eight.” Rainbow says glancing at the clock. “Come on, we need to go get breakfast, Pinkie invited us over.” Rainbow jumps off of the bed and motions for Alex to follow. Alex gets up and they go out the door and fly down to Sugarcube Corner. – Pinkie and I head downstairs to the dining room for breakfast, I can smell toast and eggs in the air. The smell is divine and it makes my stomach grumble. We sit down at the table and Mrs. Cake peeks her head around the corner of the kitchen and asks, “Is Alex and Rainbow coming?” just as she says that we hear a knock at the door. “I'll get it!” Pinkie Pie yells and bounces to the door, after a few seconds she bounces back in, followed by Alex and Dash. I nod to them and 'brohoof' Alex, they sit in the other seats next to us. Mrs. Cake brings out a cart with plates of eggs and toast, plus some fruit. We grab our plates and dig in. “Thanks Mrs. Cake!” I say, she smiles and nods. We eat the delicious breakfast, clean up, and then head outside. I look over at Twilight's house and remember my dream, I stop and look at my hooves, “You know, I've been thinking, how did we end up as pegasi?” I say. Alex shrugs, “No clue bro, I wish I knew.” “Maybe Twilight knows.” I wonder. We walk over to Twilight's house and knock, Spike answers, “Twilight's been looking for you guys, where were you?” I point to Pinkie and Alex points to Rainbow, Spike nods and Twilight walks up behind him, “There you two are, I've been searching for you.” We all go into the living room and I ask Twilight “I'm just wondering, but do you happen to know how we changed into pegasi, Alex and I?” She shakes her head, “I wish I knew too.” she says. “Maybe Princess Celestia knows.” I look at her confused, “Princess who?” She looks at me like I have lobsters crawling out of my ears, but then fades cause she realizes that I am not from here, so I have no idea who anypony is still. “Princess Celestia is the goddess of the sun, and Luna is the goddess of the moon, they each raise and lower them to pass each day.” Twilight explains. I nod. She continues to explain about each Princess and how she is Celestia's “Faithful Student” and how Luna was “Nightmare Moon” before they used the Elements of Harmony to revert her back to her original self. “Can we go ask her?” I say interrupting her long speech. I hear Alex sigh in relief, which makes me laugh a little. “Sure why not? I don't think she will mind us visiting. Spike?” Her little dragon assistant walks up, “Yeah?” “Can you write a letter to Celestia asking If we could ask her a question at the castle?” she asks him, as he grabs a quill and scroll and begins writing. He finishes his last word and then rolls it up and takes a deep breath, then blowing a green flame onto the paper. I watch as the green smoke floats up out of the window toward Canterlot. “Wow that was awesome.” Alex says, “How did you do that?” “It's something I could always do.” Spike says. After a minute or so of dead awkward silence, Spike's mouth bulges and he burps and scroll flops down on the ground. I stare at it, “Ew, doesn't that hurt?” I ask him, “Not really, unless Celestia sends like a hundred of them at one time, like she did when Discord was here.” he looks over at Twilight. I don't bother asking. Twilight picks up the letter and reads it, “Dear Twilight, I would love to answer any question you may have, you may come over to Canterlot when you are ready. Sincerely Princess Celestia.” I think to myself, did she have to read that last part? I laugh and ask, “So when are we going?” “Well, none of you guys have plans, do you?” Twilight says. We all shake our head. A knock is heard on the door, Spike walks over and answers it. “Come on in ladies.” Spike says as Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity walk in. He smiles at Rarity, and she smiles back, what a crazy dragon, I laugh. “Howdy everypony.” Applejack says. We all greet them, and Rarity asks “Who's the note from?” “Oh Dean is wanting to ask the Princess about how they changed into pegasi.” Twilight says. “And why.” I add in. “When are y'all going?” Applejack asks. “Right now actually.” Twilight says. “Do you ponies want to tag along?” They all say “Sure”, and chuckle at the fact they said it in unison. “Come on everypony lets head to the Station and get on the train.” We all walk out of Twilight's house and head to the train station. We buy the tickets and get on board. I sit down next to a window and I feel Pinkie sit next to me, I turn and look at her and smile, she grabs my hoof and leans into me. I love Pinkie, she is so loving, maybe a bit clingy, but it doesn't bother me, I've never had a girlfriend, marefriend, that actually cared for me as much as she does. I lean my head on hers and sighs of happiness. Alex and Rainbow sit in front of us, Rainbow leans her head against Alex, he puts a hoof around her and she snuggles him. It's funny how me and him come out of nowhere, from a totally different world, turn into pegasi, and fall in love, in less than a week, wow it's only been a week. The train lurches forward and starts to Canterlot, Spike is sitting next to Rarity, chatting her up I bet, Fluttershy is next to Applejack, and Twilight's by herself reading a book called “Spells and Magicks”. I look at Pinkie and her eyes are closed, she's sleeping. I let go of her hoof and slowly put my hoof around her and hold her. I close my eyes and let them rest for a while. I don't see the Darkness which kind of worries me, I am in the middle of Ponyville and it is destroyed, there is houses falling down as I stand there, somepony taps me and I turn around and I see Alex standing there, scared. “What's going on around here? What happened?” I ask him, he just shakes his head and motions for me to follow him. I follow him to a strange little shack, everything is destroyed. We walk in and I see everypony that I know in there, scared out of their wits. “What happened?” I ask almost yelling. Twilight walks up to me and says, “There's an evil coming, and you and Alex have to stop it.” I feel a lurch forward as the train comes to a halt. I open my eyes and Pinkie wakes up also, I pull my hoof back and she gets up, she looks at me and notices that I am a bit disturbed. “Are you okay Dean?” I shake my head and say, “I had a dream, or a vision, I don't know which, it seemed so real...” The others walk over and see my face, “Bro you okay?” I hear Alex say. We get off the train and I still have the face of terror, “That dream seemed so...real...” Pinkie looks at me worryingly, “Dean, tell us about your dream.” she says. I sigh and tell them my whole dream. Everypony looks at me like I have told them their dog died. “It's just a dream though...” I tell them “It isn't going to happen.” they all sigh, “Come on everypony lets go ask the Princess about Alex and Dean's changing.” we all nod. We walk through Canterlot, it's magnificent, it reminds me of a large city back home like New York. I try not to think of the dream, or vision, I think I will ask Princess Celestia if she knows anything about it. We stop at a small diner and grab some food and continue our walk to the castle. We eventually arrive at the front doors of the castle where guards are posted. We are allowed inside, escorted by a guard, the castle is huge, lots of expensive decorations, I see paintings on the wall of a unicorn using his or her magic on a large dragon, it's pretty epic. I continue looking at other paintings as we walk. We finally arrive at the throne room doors and the doors open and we see a very tall pegasus, wait...unicorn, wait...she has both? “Hello Twilight and friends, I heard you have a question?” “Yes Princess, well not us, them.” Twilight says and points to us, Alex and I hesitate. I clear my throat and tell the Princess everything about what happened to Alex and I. “So you say you were a human?” Celestia says, she has to have the most amazing poker face because she is not fazed at all about what I told her. I nod and say “Yes your highness, and I am just wondering if you knew why we turned into pegasi.” She stands there and thinks for a moment, or what seems like an eternity. “Well from what I can gather, when you arrived into our world the magic of the world was trying to figure you out, since you were the only humans in existence, and the world did not recognize you so it tried to morph you into the most dominant being. Did you touch anypony, like a hug or something?” I look over at Fluttershy and she smiles a little, Alex looks over at Rainbow. “I hugged Fluttershy when I was a human, it was for warmth though, because it was a cold night.” I say and then I look at Alex. “I don't know when he touched a pony.” Then I remember the hug Rainbow gave him a while back to make him feel better. “Oh yeah, Rainbow hugged him to make him feel better when he first arrived.” I say. “It seems that it took the magic of the pegasi and used it and made you into pegasi.” I sigh now knowing how, but then I say, “Another question, What is our purpose? Why are Alex and I here? In my opinion there is a reason for everything.” Celestia stands there for a moment and says “I'm not sure, but you will probably find out sometime.” I look at the others and notice their marks on their flank, “What are those marks?” I ask. “Cutie Marks, they show what your skill is.” Twilight says. I turn to look at the spot and see nothing, “Will we get ours?” Alex asks. “Eventually, everypony gets theres.” Twilight says with a smile. “Even if we are not part of this world completely?” I ask, Twilight looks to Celestia, “I believe that you will eventually, because you are pegasi.” Celestia says. I immediately feel better but then another thought pops into my head, my dream. I start to go ghost faced at the thought of the dream again, I look to the Princess again, “Um, Princess, I have another question.” I hesitate and everypony looks at me. “I had a dream earlier today, on our way here, but I'm not sure if it's a dream because I have seen things in my dreams lately, like when Alex came, I saw him arrive in my dream, or when I transformed, I had a dream with a shadow overtaking me.” I stop and take a breath. “This dream I had earlier was on the train ride, it showed Ponyville...destroyed...” I explain to everypony my dream, I look at Celestia and her poker face is still present, which amazes me. I finish explaining and Celestia says “Do you think this is going to happen soon?” She looks interested in what I am saying, “I'm not sure, I just had this vision, but I don't think it will happen though, it could have been just a silly nightmare, I get those sometimes.” I fake smile, and they smile back. I sigh on the inside, I am never bringing up that dream again, it scares them too much, besides it can't be real, I mean we have a large winged unicorn protecting us. I look out a window and notice that it is becoming late, it looks to be about six thirty or so. I look over to Twilight and she looks out the window and says “It's getting late, we should probably go back home while there is still time.” They all bow to Celestia and Alex and I look at each other and hesitantly bow. “Thank you your highness, for answering my questions, I feel a whole lot better now knowing what happened and why.” I say. “You are very welcome Dean and Alex.” We walk out of the palace and head back to the train station, thank goodness for Round Trip tickets. We get back into the same seats we were in when we first got on. Pinkie asks me “Do you feel better now Dean? Now that you've asked Princess Celestia?” I nod and she smiles, “So you will stop worrying?” I nod. She giggles and hugs me, amazingly she still smells sweet, like sugary sweets. She lets go and leans into me and I put my hoof on hers. We don't fall asleep on the way back we talk most of the time, she told me about her pet alligator, gummy, who has no teeth, figure that one out. She also told me about how to make cupcakes, I can never make them cause I am a horrible cook. We continue to talk until the train reaches Ponyville. We get off the train and everypony heads home, I tell Twilight that Alex is staying over at Rainbow's and I'm staying at Pinkie's, she nods and says “Okay then see you tomorrow.” I smile and we head off to our marefriends' houses, I 'brohoof' Alex before they take off and I follow Pinkie back to her place. We go upstairs and I notice that I reek, I haven't bathed in a while, too bad I'm not like Pinkie and can smell awesome all the time. I head to the shower and clean my self up to the best I can, I come out smelling better than I did before, so that's a plus. I dry off and go to Pinkie's bedroom to find her asleep, I get in bed quietly and I face toward Pinkie, who is facing me eyes closed, I smile and she opens her eyes. She sniffs the air, “You smell good Dean.” she says. “Yeah I did kind of stink earlier.” she cuddles closer to me and kisses me, this time a bit different, she puts hoof around me and pulls me more closer to her, I close my eyes and enjoy the moment, then I feel something slip into my mouth, she is french kissing me. We continue to make out for a while and eventually she pulls away, I sigh and she says “I wish we could do more, but I don't want to make too much noise.” She giggles. “Maybe later...” I smile and she says “I'm glad you found our world, you are an amazing stallionfriend to have.” she nuzzles me and I feel my heart pumping, I really love this pony. I close my eyes and we fall asleep holding each other. – Alex walks into Rainbow Dash's house and she goes to bed while Alex takes a shower. After Alex takes his shower he gets into bed also, he lays back and thinks about the day when suddenly Rainbow leans over and starts to kiss him, Alex smiles big and kisses back, Rainbow gets on top of him and...(well we aren't going to go into detail of what happens next cause I would like to keep this story pg-13...ish.) After happy fun time, they hold each other, “You know Alex, you an amazing guy.” Rainbow says to him, “Thanks Rainbow, you're awesome also!” they cuddle some more and fall asleep. – (end of chapter 8,) (by the way that does not count as clop cause there were no details! So don't start! :P)