//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: Crazy Dream // by Triv_ //------------------------------// Chapter three “Argh my head…” groaned Jack as he came to. “Well you certainly took your sweet time” “Who’s that? And why am I chained?!” “Look up human.” Replied Celestia as she watched the human struggle against his bindings. Overall she wasn’t very impressed with this human and highly doubted he was much of a threat but just to be on the safe side she decided to have him restrained before being brought to the throne room. Luna seemed unsure about this decision but ultimately went along with it…for now. “As to why you are chained, well we couldn’t simply let you wonder about while we decide on what your fate shall be.” continued Celestia as she went about her daily routine of raising the sun. “My fate? Listen, I don’t know what it is I’ve done but clearly there’s been a misunderstanding.” Jack was getting nervous again and it showed. Here he was in what was slowly becoming a nightmare of sorts, so much for a good night’s rest. “SILENCE!” boomed Celestia using her rarely heard traditional Canterlot voice. Everyone present visibly shrunk back from the sudden outburst from the Princess of the sun. ‘Wow, fucking crazy bitch…’ Jack thought to himself as he stopped struggling against the chains and waited for Celestia to continue. Celestia frowned at the human and said, “It hardly seems appropriate to call the pony with your fate in her hooves a, ‘Bitch’.” Jacks eyes widened in horror, ‘Oh shit! She can hear my thoughts!?!’ “Why yes, yes I can.” smirked Celestia as she started to move toward him. “Stay back!” cried jack as he jerked around in the chains to no avail. “No, I think not.” “I mean it, stay back!” Jack was to put it simply, scared shitless. As she approached Jack where he was kneeling still franticly trying to get free of the chains Celestia started to focus her magic. On the other side of the room the large double doors slowly swung open to reveal a very odd looking pony. The most obvious thing about this pony was that she was pink (Yup you know who) and the fact that she had a rather crazed look on her face. Her mane seemed to be unusually straight compared to the other ponies Jack had seen so far. She slowly walked into the throne room, dragging her hooves as she did so. “You sent for me your highness?” replied that pink pony as a smile slowly crept along her face. Bringing her head down to Jacks Celestia whispered, “Human, I’d like you to meet…Pinkamena.” Rising back up Celestia turned to Pinkamena and replied, “Ah yes I would like you to meet my friend here, He was just asking about how you make those delightful Cupcakes of yours. Be a dear and show him won’t you?” And with that Celestia disappeared with a bright flash. ‘Oh shit shit shit shit!’ Jack practically screamed at himself as he now struggled against the chains hoping against hope that he could somehow muscle through them and break free. Meanwhile Pinkamena’s smile had turned into a manic grin as she casually walked over to one of the pillars in the throne room and somehow pulled out a rather jagged looking knife. She keeps her knives hidden all over for knife emergencies you see. Taking the knife in hoof she started to walk towards Jack, her pupils had shrunk to the size of pinpricks and her smile seemed to somehow get even bigger than it already was. “Ok I’m going to close my eyes and count to three when I open them I’ll be back in my bedroom safe and sound.” Jack was well pass the point of freaking out and was desperately trying to wake himself and get out of this nightmare he had landed in. “One…” “Two…” “Three…” Slowly opening his eyes he was face to face with Pinkamena, who had the knife raised and a crazed look on her face. “Boo!” exclaimed Pinkamena. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!” screamed Jack at the top of his lounges as Pinkamena brought the knife down at stabbed at him repeatedly all while laughing like a mad pony. Back in the dungeon where Jack was being held……. Night watch was rather bored. Patrolling the prison cells underneath the castle was one of the worst things a Royal guard could get stuck with. Probably didn’t help that he had recently upset the captain of the guard, Shining Armor by making a perverse joke about Princess Cadence. As he walked down the corridor a black bird came and landed on his back, his pet crow Mormont. “Hey there Mormont! Come to give poor ol’ me some company?” asked Night watch to which the bird simply gave a nod. Night watch smirked, if there was one good thing about patrolling down here in the dark was that he was never alone thanks to this bird. As they continued through the prison Night watch practically jumped out of his armor startling Mormont causing him to fly off. The cause for him to suddenly jump like he’d seen a ghost was the ear shattering scream coming from one of the cells. “Dang it! That guy has a real set of lungs on em to be screaming like that I tell ya what…Mormont?” Night watch noticed then that his friendly bird had flown off somewhere leaving him alone. “Darn, oh well, guess I should find out what all the screaming is about…” Night watch continued to talk to himself as he went to investigate the screaming. Night continued down toward the cell containing the rather loud human that was thrashing around in his sleep. Taking out his trusty baton Night dragged it along the cell bars trying to gain the attention of the human. “Hey! Wake up you!” yelled Night as he repeatedly struck the prison bars. Upon hearing the racket caused by the pony at his cell Jack shot upright and looked around for a moment not recognizing where he was. ‘Ugh, what a nightmare. What the? Why am I on a stone floor? And why’s there a pony in armor staring at me?!?!....Oh shit…OH SHIT!’ Jack went wide eyed upon realizing what was going on. Seeing the human start to back away from the cell door and looking rather frightened upon seeing where he was Night decided to try a different approach. “Alright mate take it easy y-“ “NO! Shut up! Why am I here!?! Where the hell am I even at?! AND WHY ARE YOU TALKING!?!” exclaimed Jack as his voice rose in volume. “Shhh! You dang fool! You’ll wake up the whole castle screaming like that.” hissed Night trying to calm down Jack. “Wait, you said castle? Why am I in a castle?” Jack asked as he reached the far end of the cell not wanting to be near the talking pony before him. “…Don’t ya even remember what happened last night?” Night asked in disbelief. “No, I don’t I remember that one minute I’m safe and sound in my own bed then next thing I know I’m talking to a pony.” Replied Jack finally calming down yet still freaked that he was even talking with a pony of all things. “Alright well I’d stay and help explain things to you but we need to get you to the Throne room immediately, the princesses are going to decide what to do with you.” said Night as he opened the cell door and walked toward Jack with a pair of manacles. Fearing the worst Jack suddenly sprung up and kneed Night watch in the face sending him crashing into the wall. “Sorry umm…pony...dude…ugh whatever but I need to get the hell out of here and I have a feeling your ‘princesses’ are the last people I want to see.” Jack said closing the cell door and running down the corridor in hopes of finding a means of escape. Now to see what Lyra has been doing… “Hehe this is perfect!” Lyra rubbed her hooves together barely containing her excitement. It only took several hours of roaming around the city looking for anything out of the ordinary when she finally noticed there was some sort of commotion going on at the castle. Guards were running around all over the place and seemed to be searching for something. See as this was her best lead so far on finding her ‘misplaced’ creature Lyra focused her magic to create an invisibility spell and headed for a less busy part of the castle where she could hopefully hop over the wall. And by hop I mean she got on top of a building and ran across toward the castle using her magic to help launch herself over the wall and crash into a tree. With a resounding thud Lyra fell to the ground feeling slightly disoriented. Taking a moment to get her bearings Lyra looked around making sure that none of the guards noticed her little stunt. “Looks like I managed to sneak in, now to find that human!” Lyra continued on her quest looking for some way into the castle, after a short walk around the nearby tower she found her entrance, a small window that was left slightly open near the bottom of the tower. “Perfect! Now to get inside and find what I’m looking for!” And with that Lyra squeezed herself through the window and tumbled down to the floor below. Getting back on her hooves Lyra looked around again making sure no one was inside or heard her fall. Feeling safe for the moment Lyra proceeded to the nearby doors opening them to reveal a very surprised Princess Luna. Lyra’s eyes went as wide as dinner plates, “Oh buck.” Heading back over to Jack… “Argh! Where the hell is the exit!?!” exclaimed Jack running through a ridiculously long corridor. He had only escaped a few minutes ago and now had a small army of ponies chasing him. It didn’t take long for that to happen either since as soon as he left the dungeon and made it to what appeared to be the ground floor he accidentally tripped an alarm and had been running since. As Jack continued to run through the corridor he decided to risk jump through one of the many doors that he had been passing and hope it didn’t lead to a dead end. While trying to make a decision a few of the guards chasing that unfortunately were unicorns decided to start shooting spells at him hoping to bring the chase to an end. Spells started zipping past Jack or miss their mark by a few inches as he tried to dodge them. This resulted in many shattered windows, broken vases, and scorched painting. ‘Fuck it, I’m taking a door!’ With that Jack lunged at the nearest door to his left bursting through the double doors and rolling to the side as he entered the main hall of the castle. Not wasting time to admire the collection of art pieces and other priceless objects that decorated the walls Jack quickly slammed the doors shut and grabbed a nearby chair jamming it up against the door to keep it closed. Soon as he left go of the chair the guards on the other side rammed into the doors causing them to budge slightly yet the chair did its job and held the doors closed. Jack could hear the guards shouting orders at each other as well as him to open the door. Taking advantage of the time he just gained Jack quickly searched the room. On either side was a stair case leading down to the rest of the main hall, further down there was a few set of doors hopefully the second set of double doors directly across from the ones he now stood at would lead to the outside and he could finally escape this crazy place. Sprinting across the room to the doors Jack was just about the reach out and grab the door knobs when the entire doors themselves were incased in a magical aura. Jack slid to a halt and watched in horror as the doors were swung open to reveal Princess Celestia Look straight at him. “Jack, nice to see yo-“ “HOLY HELL!” Jack immediately ran to the side of the main hall and burst through one of the side doors he had seen from earlier. Celestia merely smirked as she watched him run off. “You can run but you can’t hide.” Just as he left the doors holding the guards back burst forth and the main hall was swarmed with guards searching everywhere for the human. “Princess! You’re not hurt are you?” One of the guards asked as he walked up to her. “Oh no I’m fine. But our friend seems to have run off toward one of my private rooms…” Celestia trailed off getting lost in thought “We’ll get him yet don’t worry princess!” and with that the guard ran off in the direction that Jack went the other guards soon following. Princess Celestia was once again alone in the main hall. Thinking aloud she said, “Hmm…I wonder if he likes bananas?” Celestia smirked as she focused her magic and teleported ahead of Jack and prepared to lay in wait in the room he would eventually come rushing in. End of chapter 3 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Well that took WAAAAYYYY longer than it should have to get finished, sorry about that. Now to figure out how this is all gonna go down in the next couple of chapters hehehe.