//------------------------------// // Holes In The Floor Of Heaven (Condenced and Updated // Story: Walkin' With The Sun // by CountDerpy //------------------------------// And with that he fainted...... "Darrell.....Wake Up!" Celestia nudged the unconscious human form that lay upon her bed. "Hmm... Tia I don't have to be at work til 6, lemme sleep 5 more minutes." "I would but you've been out for a week." Darrell shot straight up in bed. He looked around the room. This wasn't his room, this didn't even look like New York anymore. Everything was too.............animated. "Umm, Tia. Where the fuck are we." He said as he turned towards his....love? He stared at the alicorn standing in front of him. "Dear God, I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore." "No your not in Kansas....or on Earth for that matter." "So I am dead. Well that explains why I'm talking to a fucking talking winged pony...er... unicorn thing." Especially one that sounds exactly like Tia. Celestia sighed. "First off, I'm an alicorn. Secondly, you are not dead. Finally, the reason I sound like Tia is because I am Tia." Darrell looked up at the alicorn, and his eye widened at the sight of her.It was a 4-toned mane consisting of a light cerulean, a light turquoise, an extremely light cobalt blue and a pale purple or heliotrope color. It was beautiful, but still not as beautiful as her grayish-magenta eyes. "Holy shit!" Darrell shot up and smashed his head straight into the ceiling above him. "Tia...where the fuck are we and what kind of drugs did you give me." "Three things. First, your in the land of Equestria, and yes most of it's inhabitants are ponies. Secondly, I did not slip you any drugs, you we're hit by a bus so I brought you here to keep you from dying. Third, your going to have to forgive me for this." No sooner did the words leave her mouth did her horn begin to glow a light yellow color. A warm feeling washed over Darrell's body as he was enveloped in the same yellowish glow. He began to levitate several inches off the ground, the room growing larger around him. But it wasn't the room growing, he was shrinking. and his body became more and more compact. His limbs folded in with little pain, almost as they were made of putty.No sooner did this feeling began did it pass, leaving him lying crumpled on the floor. "Interesting, that worked better than i had thought." "Tia, what the hell was that?" Darrell inquired as he tried to stand, finding himself unable to reach a bipedal standing position. "Take a look." Tia levitated a floor length mirror in front of Darrell, who's jaw slammed into the ground upon seeing the image reflected upon it. A dark grey unicorn with glowing silver and blue swirls of fur appeared in the mirror. His mane and tail were a rusty silver color with several streaks of burnt orange weaved into it, his eyes were a deep electric blue.The horn on his head glowing a faint silver. Resting on either side of his flank was the image of a black 12-pointed star resting inside of a glowing electric blue radiation symbol. "Holy shit!" He screamed jumping back and tripping over a small coffee table. He scrambled back onto his hooves, an awkward and somehow instinctive feeling. "I'm a....I'm a....." "Yes you are, and a very good looking one at that." Tia giggled giving one of her famous "knockout winks". No matter how pissed he ever got with her, the wink always calmed him down. Today this was not the case...... "What the fuck is going on here! Tia I don't know what kind of sick twisted game your playing here, but i'm tapping out of it. Please just change me back and take me home." Celestia sighed and gave him a stare of unwavering power and grim sorrow. "There is no way back." "Tia, I'm serious. Stop fucking around and end this please!" "DARRELL, THERE IS NO WAY BACK!" She shouted in a voice that Darrell was certain no human could ever hit. The glass objects in the room shattered and the land itself seemed to shake with fear at the power behind her voice. All he could do was stare at the alicorn in front of him. He was paralyzed by just her voice alone. She calmed down a bit, a few tears escaping from the edges of her eyes. " You died for real Darrell. That's the only reason i brought you here. If you would have survived it this place would just be another myth faded into you society. But it's not. I had to Darrell. I couldn't watch you die, I couldn't watch your life end so suddenly." He stood there motionless. His mind was buzzing with emotion as he tried to come to terms with the information relayed to him. The unwavering power behind her eyes and her voice assured him of one thing that he did not wish to believe. She was telling the truth. The songs of his world sometimes say that a grown man shouldn't cry, but had their writers ever been thrust from their world out of death and thrown into another? Had they ever lost it all and took the time to reflect on what they had lost? Darrell collapsed, his new form folding down into a natural position as his tears poured from the deepest recesses of his mind. He had lost everything. He lost his job, his life, his New York flat, his equipment. Everything. His tears began to slow as the alicorn mare laid down beside him on the floor, resting her head on the back of his neck. He could feel his fur becoming cold and wet as her own tears feel upon him. He gently raised his head and brought it to her eye level, his own electric blues reflected in the bloodshot whites of her grayish-magenta eyes. His mind shot into a sharp realization that he had not lost everything, and everything he had lost was just material. He still had her and that is all that mattered to him as he nuzzled against the side of her neck instinctively as if he had known what to do all his life. He didn't know if it was right or wrong, nor even how she would react, but his mind settled s she returned the gesture. The two alicorns sat in silence for what seemed like hours, neither one making a move until a low growl echoed through the room. Tia laughed as a reddish color swept across her face. "Sorry, guess I'm a bit hungry." Darrell stood up and chuckled with a smile. "Well, I think that makes two of us." "Well then." She said as she stood up, her fur was visibly matted and wet from tears, but the reddish color receding from the whites of her eyes. "Let's go get something to eat and I'll try to explain everything as best as I can. I mean, I do rule this country after all." "You rule this country..." "Well they don't call me Princess Celestia for nothing." And with that he once more fainted.......