//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Last Day // Story: Dean's True Life // by Moon_Skritch //------------------------------// I AM SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT!!!! :( Chapter 6 Last Day ________________________________________________________________________________ Last night I felt like a bear in hibernation, having slept well. I get up and stretch and look back down at the bed. Pinkie Pie is lying there, asleep, and still human, meaning the spell hasn't worn off yet. I smile at her and look at my alarm clock, it reads nine o'clock. I pick up my shirt from yesterday and smell it, then immediately throw it out of my face. “Whoa.” I say quietly. I sniff the air a bit. It has a bad odor. I start sniffing around more, then I lift my arm up and smell. I gag from the stench that permeates from my armpit. Good lord when was the last time I took a shower. I grab some clothes out of the drawer and head to the bathroom. After I shower, I put on some new clothes, much better. I look in the mirror as I am drying my hair, and smile at the human me standing there. Hanging the towel up, I walk out to the living room. I walk around the corner and see that Twilight and Fluttershy are awake, “Good morning.” I say to them. “Good Morning Dean.” they reply continuing their discussion. I hear a knock on the door. I run up to it and open it to see Alex, Rainbow, Applejack, and Rarity stand there. I smile and let them in. “Where's Pinkie Pie?” Rainbow asks walking in first. I laugh “She's still asleep, hold on I'll go get her.” I walk down the hall to my room and see her curled up in my blanket, snoozing away, I walk over to the bed, and lean down to kiss her lips. She slowly opens her eyes. “Morning Sleepyhead.” I say softly and smile. She giggles and says “Good Morning.” She leans up in the bed and kisses my lips. I am still trying to figure out how she can keep up that taste of sugar cookies. Even in human form, she still tastes like sugar cookies. She throws the covers off of her and gets up. She grabs my hand as we walk into the living room. Everyone smiles when we walk in. We then hear a low rumbling noise. I look over to Alex and he shrugs, “Sorry man, I'm hungry...” he laughs. An idea pops into my head. “Why not go somewhere to eat? It would show the girls more about what humans eat, as well as what they like.” I offer. Frankly I don't think I could cook that many eggs again anyway. “Where would be a good place?” Alex asks. I think for a moment, “Let's try IHOP, they always have good stuff to eat for breakfast.” I say. “Great Idea! That place is awesome!” Alex says excitedly. “Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!” Rainbow Dash says, I guess she is hungry also. We carpool in the same cars just like we normally do now. We drive up the road and I remember the question that was in my head last night. I hesitate a second before asking, “Uh...question. When you girls decide to go back, are Alex and I going back with you?” I immediately feel that I asked a stupid question. “Only if you want to. I mean, That is why we came here, to bring you back. But it seems we've been a bit side tracked. Your world is so intriguing. But we do plan to go back soon, and we'd like you to come with since you two are our friends.” Twilight says. Putting a hand on my leg and smiling, Pinkie adds, “Besides, you have to come back. We are married you know” She then says something that for some reason I had totally forgotten about, “Another reason you have to come back is you will be a father.” I look at her, crap, how could I have forgotten about that? I am such an idiot. I look down at her belly, even in human form, the pregnancy signs are there, how did I not notice them? “I definitely want to go back. I have a way better life there, my life here sucks... I even have a job in Equestria. I have a wife and soon to have a child.” I smile at Pinkie when I say that. I look up in the rear view mirror and smile at Twilight, who smiles back. We finally pull into IHOP. Turning off the car, we hop out. Alex and the others are already standing there, Alex must know a shortcut or something. I smell the food inside just as we open the door, my stomach is immediately growling. The waitress standing at the counter smiles at us when we walk in, “How many?” she asks. “Eight.” I answer. She nods and we follow her to our table, the waitress pulls two tables together so we have enough room for all of us, she chuckles. “We don't normally have eight people coming in as one party.” she says. “No worries.” I say. We take our seat and she gives us our menu's, “What would you like to drink?” the waitress asks. We all order water, because it has infinite refills. Not to mention I don't really want soda with breakfast. The waitress nods and heads to the kitchen. “This is a very nice little restaurant.” Rarity says and smiles. I then hear a voice behind me, “Hey Guys! Who are your friends?” I whip around, and see Max standing there. “Max, you scared the crap out of me.” I say, Max laughs at me. “So who are you girls? You look familiar but I can't seem to figure it out.” He scratches his nonexistent beard. “Max, you don't remember us? Oh that's right you weren't there when we changed into humans.” Twilight says. Max looks puzzled, then his eyes widen, “Wait, weren't you po-” he starts to say, but is cut off by Alex. “Shh, don't say it too loud, we don't want people to know.” Alex says. Max nods his head, “That's awesome!” he smiles. Are you here alone?” I ask “Why don't you join us?” “I ate before you came in, but I guess I can hang for a bit.” he says, grabbing a chair to sit at the table. We open our menu's, after a while of looking we all make our choice, the waitress returns and gives us our water, then takes our orders, we tell her what we want and she smiles and goes off to the kitchen again. "Mmmm, it smells great in here!" Pinkie says excitedly, her pink hair bouncing around. "Yes, it does smell quite divine" Rarity says as she sniffs the air, then smiles. Just then the waitress returns with a cart, with our plates on top. We all ordered practically the same thing. It comes with Eggs, Waffles, Hash Browns, and Sausage, but the girls said no to the sausage. The waitress sets down our plates and refills our water cups, “If you need anything else, please ask.” She says with a smile, I nod and say, “Thank you.” She walks off to help another customer that walked in. Everyone else has begun eating; the girls seem to like it. We eat in silence, mainly because we are super hungry. I hesitantly eat my sausage, better enjoy this while I can, because once we go back I won’t be eating this anymore. After a while we finish our plates, it was a lot of food. “So what do you want to do today?” I ask the girls. “I wish to learn more about the human’s history. Do you have a library?” Twilight asks. I nod and she smiles. “Um… Dean?” I hear Fluttershy timidly say. “Yes Fluttershy?” I ask. “I… was wondering… if... we could go to the park and see the animals? I wanted to see if I can get along with them…” She suggests. I smile and say, “Of course. I'm sure you could get along with them no problem.” She blushes a bit and smiles. “Do humans make sweets?” Pinkie asks me. “Of course we do, it would be weird to not have sweets.” I reply smiling. Pinkie giggles, “Can we try some? I think everyone would like that. Everything else we have tried here is great. So the sweets must be good too!” She says. The others laugh. “That would be a great thing to try out while we are here.” Rainbow says. “Sure thing we have a store in town.” I say. “Speaking of trying out…” Twilight says, looking at my plate, which still has a whole sausage left on it. “I have been curious this whole time we have been eating, I want to try meat, just this one time. I mean we are humans, so it isn’t bad for us.” I break a piece of the sausage off, “You sure you want to try it?” I ask and she nods. I put the piece on her plate. She looks down at it. She stabs her fork into it, and holds it up to her face to examine it. “Here we go…” she says a little nervously and takes a bite. She chews on it and slowly her face changes to one of disgust. She quickly grabs the napkin and spits it into it. “Oh come on Twilight it can’t be that gross.” Rainbow Dash says laughing as she grabs the other piece off my plate and takes a bite. She chews on it a bit and her face does the same thing, she grabs her napkin and spits it out as well. “Ugh, that is the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted in my entire life…” Rainbow says quietly trying to not cause trouble, and then takes a long drink of her water to wash away the taste. “I guess we are ready to go then?” I ask. Everyone nods and we stand up, “I’ll pay for this you go on ahead.” I say to them and walk up to the counter and pay. I see Max getting into his car as I walk out, “Hey, Max! You can hang with us if you want!” I call out. “Cool!” He says, getting back out of his car, then walks over to us. “So what do you girls want to do first on your last day of being human?” I ask them. Pinkie starts bouncing up and down, “Sweets! We should try the sweets!” she says excitedly, and starts giggling. “Well what are we waiting for let’s go!” Alex says. We all hop in our cars, “Just follow us Max.” I tell him, he nods. We turn on the cars and head to Downtown, I look over at Pinkie Pie, she looks super excited to try out our candy. “Oh I cannot wait! I bet its super-duperlicious!” She says. This is why I love Pinkie so much; she is so random and so cute I love her personality. Every time I am around her I am happy. We arrive at the candy store named “Kerry’s Sweets” and walked inside; the smell of candy hits all of our noses. Even though we just ate, my stomach seemed to make room for some candy. Pinkie has that look of that she is in heaven or something. “So Pinkie what do you want to try first?” I ask her. She looks around and sees a stand that is next to the cash register, which has assorted sweets on it, she grabs my hand and pulls me with her. I look behind me at the others and shrug. They laugh a bit and separate from each other to look at the sweets in the shop. “Ooh! This looks delicious!” Pinkie exclaims loudly, surprising me a bit. She points to a pink, for some reason, rather large cupcake. It’s bigger than any normal one, almost like an actual cake but its cupcake shaped. It has pink frosting and sprinkles in the shape of little stars. “Is that what you want Pinkie?” I ask, squeezing her hand a bit, she smiled a cute smile and nodded a little. I look to the store clerk; she looks at me and says “Yes? May I help you?” “Yes, I would like to get that pink cupcake, the larger one.” I say. The clerk then smiles and she opens the stand from the back and pulls out one of the cupcakes with both hands. “One Gratifying Galaxy Cupcake coming up!” She puts it on the counter. “That is a big cupcake…” I say wide eyed. No wonder it has the word Galaxy in the name. I look to Pinkie; she looks as if she wants to eat the cupcake right there. I feel a tap on my shoulder, I turn my head and see the others standing there, empty handed. “We couldn’t find what we wante-…” Alex begins to say but then looks at the monstrosity on the counter. “That, is the biggest cupcake, I have ever seen…” He says mouth agape. Max and the girls then look at what he is looking at and their eyes widen. The clerk begins to giggle a bit, “It sure is a big cupcake huh? It’s our most popular sweet!” she says. I nod and pay her, I didn’t expect to be cheap but that’s okay, this is their day. We take the GGC outside, “You guys can have some too!” Pinkie says happily. We all smile as we take pieces of it. Pinkie takes the first taste, her eyes widen and she smiles as she takes another bite. “It’s Delicious!” she says mouth full of cupcake. We eat the large cupcake and toss away the trash. “That was the most scrumptious cupcake ever! Thanks so much Dean!” Pinkie Pie says, she then pulls me into a big hug and gives me a kiss. I smile as I hug her, “You’re welcome Pinkie.” I say. “Well where to next?” I ask everyone, Pinkie still embracing me in a hug. “Can... we go to the park?” Fluttershy asks quietly. I look to everyone else for their approval, they nod. We hop in the cars once more and head off to the park. As we are going, Pinkie thanks me again for the cupcake. I smile, “It’s no problem. It was worth it.” I say, thinking about the hug and kiss. We arrive at the park, the only park in Poplar. We get out of our vehicles and Fluttershy sees the squirrels running up the trees, she smiles a little bit. We walk onto the path and follow it around the park. It is a rather nice park. We see a squirrel next to a tree eating an acorn. Fluttershy stops and says “I- I’m going to see if I can talk to them.” We smile as we watch her walk slowly up to the furry little creature. “Hey there, my name is Fluttershy, what is yours?” The squirrel stopped chewing on his acorn and looked up at Fluttershy. Fluttershy moves a little closer, the squirrel ran toward a tree, “Wait, I won’t hurt…you…” she says and sighs. She gets up and looks down at the ground. Rarity walks up to her and says “Oh don’t worry darling, this is a totally different world compared to ours, and these creatures are not enchanted like the ones back home.” Fluttershy lets out a smile, “You’re right… Different worlds…” she says. We walk the whole path around once; the girls seem to admire the nature in our world. We reach the parking lot and I look at my watch. Four o’ clock, wow, time sure does fly. “Where do you want to go to now girls?” I ask them. “Well, um, do you have a library?” Twilight asks. “I think we do.” I say and look at Alex and Max. “Yeah we do, remember Dean?” Alex says. “Oh yeah, duh, I know where it is.” I say. We hop back in the cars and head toward the library, Twilight seems very excited to go. We arrive at the parking lot of the library, the building is not really big, but not really small either, it is pretty much your normal sized building. As we open the front doors, the smell of old books enter our noses. I’ve haven’t really gone inside the library before, so I don’t know what to expect. The main lobby has two entrances to the left and right, they both lead to the main library. The lobby also has a long desk against the wall, behind which has librarians ready to check out anybody that brings books they want to rent. We split up into three groups, I go with Twilight and Pinkie, Max goes with Fluttershy and Rarity, and Alex goes with Rainbow and Applejack. Pinkie and I follow Twilight into the main room. She walks in and sees all of the bookshelves lining the walls and some in aisle formation. Her eyes widen at the amount of books, she tries to speak but can’t, she is too awestruck to speak. Finally she says, “How are there so many… I didn’t know humans wrote so much…” She continues to look around, “This is more than double than what I have in my library…” she says. She turns to me, “How are humans able to write so much?” “Well, back then we didn’t have as much, until the invention of computers. They tend to make writing a little quicker.” I explain. She looks at me, confused, “What’s a computer?” she asks. I then remember, they don’t have technology in Equestria. “Hold on, let me get something.” I run to the front desk and ask the clerk for a computer pass, “Do you have a library card?” he asks. “No, I haven’t gotten the chance to get one yet.” I say. “Don’t worry it doesn’t take much time to get one, here.” He says and hands me a paper and a pen. “Sign those places marked with the X and you will be good to go.” I sign the paper and hand it to him. He types on the computer and gives me a card and the computer pass. “There you go sir, enjoy.” He says. I nod and walk back to Pinkie and Twilight. I hold up the two cards and Twilight asks, “What are those?” I explain the use of the library card and how it keeps track of peoples check out history and stuff. “Ah, that’s very useful.” She says. “And the other card is used so we can have access on the computer.” I say. “Follow me, I’ll show you where the computers are; I think I know where they are.” I say. We walk to the back of the library, spotting a row of computers against the wall. We go to one of the open computers on the end. Twilight examines the machine, “So, how does it work?” she asks. I answer her question by pressing a button on the metal box and the screen flickers on. “Whoa.” She says, startled by the sudden flash. “So what can you do on this?” she asks. I explain the function of the mouse and the keyboard to her. “Interesting…” She says. Feeling a tap on my shoulder, I whip around to see everybody else in our group standing behind us. “Can I try it Dean?” Twilight asks. I happily stand up and let her sit, she tries to copy my movements with the mouse and keyboard. I step back and let the other girls watch her as she tries to figure out the contraption. Alex is trying hard not to laugh, I nudge him with my elbow and whisper, “Hey, they are new to this…” “I know it’s funny though…” he says. I shake my head and chuckle a bit. I look at the screen and see that they are still on the desktop screen. “Ugh, how do you use this thing?” Twilight says in frustration. I chuckle as I walk up next to them, “Need some help?” I ask. “Yes, I have no idea what I am doing.” She says, frustrated as ever. I see the internet and I decide not to show them that, what is on the internet they do not need to know… I see that the computer has Microsoft Word on it. I click the icon and the document opens. “What’s this?” Twilight asks. “It’s one of the main reasons why there are so many books in this library.” I say with a laugh. “So what does it do?” she asks me. I show her by typing on the keyboard, which makes the words appear on the screen. “Whoa so when you press the buttons, letters appear? That’s amazing. Humans have the easy life with these around.” She says, really excited. “Heh, easy life…” I say to myself. Easy my ass… Twilight starts to type on the keyboard, trying to write a sentence, and it is not working in her favor, she is starting to get more frustrated. “I will succeed in writing a complete sentence before we leave here.” She says as she starts to hit the buttons hard. I look at the screen and see a bunch of random letters up there, no spaces. I reach over and tap the space bar. “What did that do?” she asks. “It puts spaces between your words, like when you are writing.” I explain. Twilight looks down at the keyboard and pecks at the letters, “I think I am able to do this now.” She says, sounding happier and less frustrated. We stand there for a little while as she is typing, she is starting to get better. As we stand there I notice something about Twilight, about all of them to be exact. I look at Pinkie, who smiles at me when I look at her, her skin, is starting to grow pink hairs on her arm. Oh no… The spell… it’s wearing off. I look at the others and their coat is coming back too, including Twilight’s, for some reason they haven’t noticed yet. Pinkie notices that I am a bit worried, “What’s wrong Dean?” she asks, her head to the side. I point to her arm, she looks down at it and her eyes grow wide. The others look over and see Pinkie looking at her arm and they see her coat is growing back, looking at their own arms they see their coats are growing back also. “Uh Twi, we got a problem.” Applejack says. “What?” Twilight asks, not taking her eyes off the screen. “Well, remember a couple of days ago, you cast a spell that turned us into humans for a couple of days?” Applejack says. “Yeah, what about it?” Twilight asks. Applejack leans closer, “I think it’s wearing off…” she whispers in a worried voice. Twilight looks at Applejack and notices the coat growing back, her eye twitches and she gets up real fast, making quite a bit of noise. People begin to look at us, with puzzled looks. “We need to go… Now.” Twilight says. People are starting to notice that their coat is growing back. “Let’s run.” I suggest. Everybody agrees by taking off towards the doors. People stare at us, wondering what the matter is. I toss the guy the computer card back and we run through the doors and take off to the cars. We stop at the cars for a breather, “That, was a close one…” I say out of breath. Everyone else is out of breath also, the cold isn't helping matters any either. Just then a flash of light comes from each of them, consuming them as it slowly morphs them back into ponies. “Well thank goodness that didn’t happen in there; that could have been a bad thing.” I see people starting to come out of the library and they point to us. “Oh crap we need to go; they just saw you as ponies.” I say. We hop in the same cars we came in as fast as we can and we tear out of the parking lot and onto the road. (end of chapter 6)