//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: The Truth // Story: Dean's True Life // by Moon_Skritch //------------------------------// Chapter 3 The Truth _______________________________________________________________________________ My mind is gone, it has been blown out of my head, I look at the purple pony like she has lobsters crawling out of her ears, did she really say what I think she said. She looks more closely at me and says “It is you! We have been looking for you! You just disappeared out of thin air at the wedding, making Pinkie really upset, she hasn't stopped crying ever since.” I look at the pink pony and sigh, “It wasn't a dream then...” I say, Twilight looks at me, confused, “What?” she asks, I turn around and look at Alex, he was dumbfounded by all of this, Max too. “Dude I guess you're 'dream' was real, but how?” “I don't know Alex-” I say, but I am interrupted by Twilight “Alex? You disappeared the same time Dean did. Rainbow is pretty upset.” Alex stares at Twilight and says “Wait, I was never there, I think I would remember that if I was there... though... I was asleep yesterday before I went over to Dean's house to say what's up, I didn't really want to tell you Dean, but I did have some sort of dream or something, it's kind of fuzzy right now, but all I remember is some kind of large Fire demon and You and I were fighting it...as pegasus... That's all I remember. Who is Rainbow?” I point to the cyan pegasus who is still out. “Why were you guys knocked out?” I ask. “Well, it took us a while to find out where you went, a couple of weeks actually...” she says. Weeks? It's only been a couple of days since the dream, guess time is different in the worlds... “Once I found out where you disappeared to, I cast a spell on all six of us and it took us here and threw us on the ground, knocking us out, it didn't tickle to be honest.” Twilight explains rubbing her head with her hoof. I look back over at the others and I see Pinkie moving around a little, my heart skips, what will I say to her? How will she react to seeing me as...this...? A simple human... Pinkie slowly opens her eyes and says “Where are we?” and she looks over at me. I want to run up and hug her, but... “Ah, you're up Pinkie!” Twilight says. Pinkie smiles at her and asks, “How did we get here and who are they, I can't see them very well.” “We helped you over here, My two friends and I, we carried you from where you landed to here so you can keep warm next to the fire.” Max says, thank goodness they don't know him, at least I don't think. Pinkie and Twilight smile, “Thank you, it is a bit cold out here.” Twilight says. Pinkie walks up to me, I try to keep my cool as she walks up, “What's your name?” she asks me. I sigh, I have to tell her and show her now. I take a deep breath and walk to the fire. As my face comes into the light, Pinkie's expression change from questioned to shock. “D-Dean?” She asks. I look down and nod, “Yeah, it's me...Dean...” I look back up and see that her face changed again, into a big smile. Next thing I know I'm knocked to the ground by Pinkie tackling me with a hug. “I missed you so much Dean!” I hear Alex chuckle behind me, “Shut up Alex, Just wait til Rainbow wakes up.” I say to him. His face completely changes when I say that. “What do you mean?” he asks, “Oh you'll see.” I chuckle back, Pinkie is still hugging me saying she missed me. I look down at her and see she has tears of joy in her eyes, I sigh and hug her back. “I missed you too Pinkie.” This is awkward for me, because I'm not a pony anymore. I wish I was, otherwise I would be way happier. We sit there as the rest of them wake up, we tell them what happened and tell them who we are. Alex says who he is last, and when he does Rainbow's eyes widen, she runs toward him and tackles him in a hug, he yelps and says “Agh, hey, What was that for?” Rainbow looks at him and says “Don't you remember me Alex? It's me Rainbow Dash, we practically dated the whole time you were there, you stayed at my house.” Alex continues to look at her, not knowing what she is talking about. Rainbow gets off of Alex and shakes her head, “How do you not remember me?” she asks, Alex shrugs and says “All I remember was fighting with Dean, against a huge demon that threw fireballs, that's it, I don't even know if we destroyed it or not.” Rainbow's eyes start to water, “So you don't remember our relationship at all, what we did together.” she says, trying not to cry. Alex shakes his head. Rainbow looks down and walks away from Alex, softly crying. Applejack walks over to comfort Rainbow. I look at Alex, he sighs and says “I'm sorry, I wish I knew, cause I believe you now, but my brain doesn't remember anything except that one thing.” I sigh and say “I think we should head to bed and worry about this tomorrow, it's...” I glance at my watch, “...four o'clock and I'm tired.” I look at the tents, and back at everybody and pony, not enough tents, “Maybe we should head back to the house, since there is not enough tents for everyone...and pony.” Alex says. I nod and we pack our stuff in the car's trunk, trying to fit all of the tents in. We get the stuff in the trunk, “Hop in.” I ask the ponies, who just stare at me, even Pinkie is confused. Twilight goes up to it and inspects it, she puts her hoof on it and asks, “What is this thing? Even I haven't seen or read of this before.” “It's a car, it takes us places, kind of like a wagon, but motorized, you don't want these in your world, trust me...” I say. Alex gets in the front seat and starts it making all of the ponies jump, Fluttershy yelps and hides behind Rarity. “Come on, it's not going to eat you.” Alex says, chuckling a bit. Rainbow laughs and says “I'm not afraid of some car!” she jumps in and sits next to the window. “Nope it's not eating me, it's safe!” she says. I hold the door as the others jump in, amazingly they all fit in the backseat, though they are quite squished, I close the door gently, but hard enough so it closes. I move up the front seat and sit in the middle seat, Max coming in after me. I whisper to Alex “Don't go to fast, we don't want any hurt ponies.” he nods. He puts the car in gear, all six of the ponies watching him, the car starts to move down the road, the ponies watching the scenery go by through the windows, “This contraption is simply amazing, why in Celestia's name do you say we shouldn't have this in Equestria?” “Two reasons, One, It would be very hard to drive it since you do not have hands. And Two, They are horrible to the environment, remember that smell that came about the air when Alex cranked the car? Yeah that stuff is not good...It's pollution...” I explain. “Then why do you humans have them? If they are bad to the environment?” Twilight asks. I shake my head, “I have asked myself that question also, our world is so filled with filth, it's insane.” I say. We keep going down the dirt road in silence. I look back at them, I can't really see them, but I can tell they are tired. We finally break out of the forest, and pull up to the back door, thank goodness I have a key for that door, I don't want anybody seeing them and thinking strange stuff is happening. We all get out, except for the ponies, then I realize they can't open the door, I open the door for them and they hop out. I walk up to my backdoor and unlock it and open it, the ponies go in then Alex, Max, and I. I close the door, lock it behind me. “Why do you have to lock your doors?” Pinkie asks me. I sigh and say, “Because human's are horrible creatures, we want the other ones that we don't know out of our house, you ponies don't have to worry about that, because your world is full of happiness, as our world is chaos.” We all go into the living room and they stand there in the middle of the room, looking around at everything. They are so curious of our world, I don't blame them, our world is complicated. “I guess you can all stay here for the night, I have chairs and sofa's for you to sleep on. I think I have enough blankets, but I can turn on the heat also.” I walk over to the thermostat and set it for eighty degrees, should be warm enough. The heater kicks on and I walk back in the living room, “Heat should be coming in soon.” I look over at Alex and Max“Hey man we're gonna head out, to get some sleep. See ya later.” they go out the backdoor, I go over and lock it. I have this odd feeling they won't come back, they probably want nothing to do with this. I walk back to the living room to find all the ponies laying down on the couch and chairs, eyes already closed, I smile and walk over to the closet and count the blankets I have stocked, just in case of guests. I have six blankets, thank goodness, I pull them out and lay them in the middle of the living room, I put a blanket on each of them, they snuggle their blankets. I can't help but smile, they are so adorable. I walk into my room and lay in the bed, I lay back on my pillow, So it wasn't a dream, it all really happened, I could not be happier than I am right now! I cuddle my blanket and close my eyes. I hope tomorrow will be a great day, like this one was. (end of Chapter 3)