//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Crazy Dream // by Triv_ //------------------------------// Quick note: Alright sorry it took me forever to get the next chapter out but here it is! also I decided that after the story is finished i'll go back through and edit (I'm going to be very busy with college stuff so I wont have much time to focus on this) but for now just enjoy the story!! Chapter two “This dream sucks”, Jack mumbled to him as the two guards brought him down to the lower levels of the castle where the dungeons were located. Unlike the rest of the castle the dungeons were…alright they were terrible. It was very dark down there, the only light coming from very few torches or from the two guard’s horns. Plus they whole place wreaked something awful. After being dragged down a couple flight of stairs they finally reached a long corridor with multiple cells upon either side. Coming to a halt at one of said cells the guards unceremoniously threw Jack into the cell. Jack grunted in pain, landing on a stone floor is not fun in case anyone was wondering. After that the guards quickly locked Jack in his cell then promptly left. ‘Great, stuck in a cell within a dream for no apparent reason’ thought Jack to himself as he slowly got up to his feet and examined his new surroundings. To be frank there wasn’t much just the bars of the cell door, a pile of hay to sleep on and a very tiny window on the far back wall that let in barely any light. “Guess I better get comfortable.” said Jack more to himself than anyone else, not that there was anyone else to talk to Canterlot rarely had any trouble makers. ‘I hope this dream doesn’t get any weirder, I don’t think I can handle anything more what with the talking ponies that fly and can do magic.’ He thought to himself as he decided to just simply wait and hopefully wake up soon. Meanwhile… “Oh no no no no no! This is bad! This is really really bad!” exclaimed Lyra as she paced around the room. The spell she used to bring a real live human to her world had back fired. Instead of the human appearing in her hotel room there was a small explosion and no sign that the human had even been brought into Equestria. “Oh this is bad! What if I killed him on accident? What if he was sent to some random area of equestria!? What if-“ “Lyra! Would you please keep it down I’m trying to… Lyra, what did you do!?” Yelled Twilight as she came into the room and saw what looked like scorch marks all over the room. “Ah! Twilight I can explain!” panicked Lyra as Twilight was staring daggers. “By all means do tell why it looks like something exploded in here!” replied a very annoyed Twilight. “Alright well you see-“ “You tried to summon something again didn’t you!?” Twilight said cutting off Lyra before she could explain herself. “Well yes bu-“ “No buts! This was supposed to be a simple vacation to Canterlot, not some half-baked plan to summon creatures you know next to nothing about!” exclaimed a now very angry Twilight. “Now wait just a minute! I do too know something about them!” countered Lyra. “Oh? Really?” Twilight asked clearly not believing her. “Yeah! They have hands and walk on two legs!” replied Lyra with a smug look. Twilight simply facehoofed before saying, “Lyra, you may as well be describing dragons as far as anypony knows! How can you even be sure this creature even exsist!?” Lyra was starting to get annoyed with Twilight, she was acting just like all the others. She knew they existed and that she possibly summoned one of these creatures to a random spot in Equestria. Only problem was finding the darn thing and finally proving to everyone that she was right and not just some crazy pony! Making for the door Lyra said, “If you want to act like all the others then by all means be my guest! I’m going to find that creature that I…misplaced.” Slamming the door to their hotel room she went off determined to find it and prove to everyone that she was right all along. Elsewhere… *KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK* “Tia! We wish to speak with thee!” said a very stressed out Luna. She had been thinking all throughout the night and early hours of the morning about what to do with the creature that appeared on her balcony. Luna had considered many options as to what that creature named Jack’s fate would be. Mostly ranging from outright banishment, life imprisonment, and just simply destroying it. To be fair however this Jack had hardly done anything except be summoned by an unknown force and just happened to summoned right in front of her. So maybe she was over reacting? Nah. One does not simply intrude upon the princess of the night, especially on her own bedroom balcony. However it was still necessary to gain the advice from her older and far more level headed sister, before any decision was made. Luna was about to knock again when one of Celestia’s guards stopped her and stated that she needed her rest if she was to bring forth the sun later in the morning. ‘To Tartarus with this!’ she thought as she concentrated on a teleportation spell. In an instant she disappeared then reappeared inside of Celestia’s bedroom. “Sister! We need to speak with thou!” Luna exclaimed as she magically pulled the sheets off of her elder sister, much to her displeasure. “Luna, what exactly ARE you doing waking me at this hour?!” asked a rather annoyed and drowsy Celestia as she reluctantly got up from bed. “We are terribly sorry dearest sister but it could no longer wait! We need your help in dealing with a… delicate situation” Luna replied hoping Celestia wouldn’t be too angry for being awoken so early. “What do you mea- *yawn* ahem, mean ‘delicate situation’?” asked Celestia as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. “Umm could we speak about it in a more private area?” asked Luna not wanted to have any rumors being spread about the creature she had locked up in the castle dungeons. Getting curious about what her sister could possibly be hiding Celestia simply nodded before concentrating her magic and teleporting the two of them to her personal library in her private quarters. After arriving there she again used her magic to seal the doors and sound proof the entire room so there wouldn’t be any eavesdroppers. “Alright Luna now tell me what is it that’s gotten you this worked up?” asked Celestia. “Well umm… we are not sure how to explain it exactly.” replied Luna suddenly feeling very unsure about telling her sister. Heck she could hardly believe it herself, which made Luna think that maybe Celestia wouldn’t believe her, unless she simply showed her. “Actually Tia, we think it better to simply show you.” said Luna as she concentrated her magic in preparation for a teleportation spell. “Wait show me what exactly? Luna tell me what is going on!?“ Celestia was interrupted as Luna teleported the two of them down to the castle dungeon right in front of a certain cell. Inside the cell was a creature Celestia had never seen before and was quite frankly a little bit disgusted by. It had hardly and hair except for on its head and arms and was covered in the strangest clothing she had seen. Its eyes were hazel and seemed larger than they should because of the glasses it wore. After a minute or two of simply gawking at the strange creature Celestia noticed it was staring at the pair of alicorns and seemed to be trembling somewhat. Clearing her throat to get Luna’s attention she motioned her over to a corner away from the creature to talk in private. “Luna, what in tartarus is that…thing!?” asked Celestia with a hint of both annoyance and uncertainty. “That’s just it dear sister, we do not know. However we do know that it calls its self-Jack.” “I already freaking told you! I am a human!” exclaimed Jack with a look of annoyance. Both royal sisters literally jumped at the voice coming from the human. Celestia looked at him in shock while Luna simply stood there unsure of how to proceed. Jack on the other hand was mentally freaking out, last time he talked to the blue one he ended up in his cozy little prison cell. Now there was this white one looking at him and he couldn’t help but feel like something bad was going to happen very soon. After a slight moment of hesitation Celestia practically shouted, “Guards! Bring this…human up to the throne room. We are going to decide what to do with him!” Not a second after she was done talking to white unicorns this time magically appeared and unlocked the cell and retrained Jack as they got ready to bring him up to the throne room. As for Jack he was really freaked out now, he wasn’t sure what was going to happen to himself but before he could protest to being magically tied up again the other guard walked up to him and hit him upside the head knocking him out. Right before the guard struck Jack had time to simply say, “Aw crap.” *WHACK* End of chapter two ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Again terribly sorry for this chapter taking forever, being a procrastinator tends to make me a bit lazy :P 3rd chapter is also going to take a while mainly due to the fact that I’m starting my college classes tomorrow night and I usually write at night….so ya, it’ll be done when it’s done.