Return of the head...
Nothingness...
It is all that surrounds me.
I feel as if I am broken, but never meant to be fixed.
I hear screaming, I hear it coming from inside my own head....
'My... head...'
I get up from my sorry excuse for a bed, for it appeared to be a destroyed rock, and walked towards my head.
'Hello old friend...'
I put on the head, but as I do so, a large amount of something wrecked into my 'mind'.
[~]
"What have I done...." I say, looking at my hands,"there... is no excuse for what I've done..."
I watch as the color of my hands slowly change...
My blood red hands slowly became an odd shade of blue. I just stare in absolute shock as I feel something creeping into my being.
My entire SOUL is being filled with SOMETHING, but what is it?
I stare blankly as a voice, more female than the last, enters my 'mind', reverberating along my remaining strands of sanity.
"Human..."The voice said,"I feel your hatred towards yourself, and I have a way to fix it, but I need your 'help' on something..."
I gulp, out of something...fear? Is this what fear is like? Am I experiencing an emotion other than madness? How am I...
"How am I... feeling right now, voice?" I stutter to the voice in my head, fearing for what may come back.
"With me by your side, guiding you along, your curse will be gone for good. You will be able to feel again, you will be able to speak to the ponies, and you may even change their way of life entirely... What do you say?"
I just stood there, immobile, for I was concentrating.
'If I accept, I will have to go on another quest by a new being, but I will get better life things with 'her'(?)'
'What will happen when Discord returns to me? Will he be angry? She said I would be safe...'
I cock my head, nearly making it fall off.
'I hope she is right...'
"I agree to your offer Ms...?"
"Just call me Mother, my child, for I will protect you like my own." Mother said in a voice so calm, so peaceful, that I nearly forgot my own problems.
"Mother.. What is your task?" I ask, my head's expression changing from 'serious' to a expression fitting my emotion.
My emotion as of right now felt as if I had a whole lot of security in my body, as if my body was free of its shackles.
I was joyous, not out of anything evil either, just joyous.
"I will tell you that much later my child, for now though, you must go to a pony city north of here, for there is large chance of you being accepted."
I stopped in my tracks.
'I cannot control myself around one pony.... but a city full of them? Is Mother crazy!?'
"I know you are questioning my reasoning in your head, but please, go there for your Mother." She said in such a convincing tone.
"Yes, Mother, I will go to this city up north,but... this cave will always be my home in the end." I said as I started getting up.
I was starting to pack my extremely small amount of stuff, listening to Mother's plan.
"You will go there, saying that you are a cursed being, but you wish to live in peace."I nodded,"You see, the people in this town are very accepting as of late. They have four teen-age dragons living there, and they are as much loved as everyone else."I blinked,'Dragons? why is that word so very chilling to me...',"This will be the last you will hear of me for awhile, my child, for I have a job to do..." I smiled.
I actually smiled.
"Thank you Mother, you have granted me gifts that I could never repa-"
"You will never have to repay your own Mother my child! I love you too much for that. I will fight the insanity in you for you, while you try to live. Try my son..."Mother said as her voiced trailed off...
'Love?'
'What is love?'
'I will find out how to love, as with other emotions, but this one... scares me. Love, which I feel to be the most needed emotion, scares me.'
'....' My mind is blank for a second.
'I will find a way to love.'
With that finale, I tripped over something.
A book.
'How did I never notice this?'
I open the book, and inside the cover is a weird looking writing utensil, a monocle, and a ring.
I pull out the ring, but before putting it on, there was a light shining off the book.
The shine on the page formed slowly, spinning around slowly, and finally forming one thing.
Words.
Words that I could understand.
They read, 'The ring in your hand allows you to channel the magic within, and use it as easy as pointing a finger. You will instantaneously learn the basics, but the harder spells will be much harder to learn. The more you learn, the more pages in this book become available.'
'What?'
I put on the ring, entirely oblivious to the fact that instant learning, albeit seeming fun, is painful.
Pain.
That is a new feeling.
My body and minddo things for awhile, but before I could even scream in the agony, I blacked out. Alone. In a ca- no... in my home.
[~]
You are my puppet for life...' an echoing voice said...
'You shall follow me to the end...'
'You are the last hope for my cause...'
'Discord has handed your soul to me, for he is weaker than I...'
'Follow me, my friend, for you will-'
"No!" a chilling voice screamed.
"Thine here is the child of mine. He is no puppet for you to control, you damn hum-"
"SILENCE! No one is allowed to speak of my origins..."
"We are both Lord Gods, and because of that, we will play a game."
"The 'game'?... That sounds alright."
"My son will live in this world as he pleases, but we all know the rules of the game..."
"Mother?" I ask, my entire soul watching two gods fight... not as cool as I once thought,"What is the 'game'?"
I see her, her magnificent build, her dark helmet and armor, and her smile.
"... when did thou get here..." Her face being one of absolute confusion.
"I was here.... since that being spoke to me..."
She looked at me as though I had done something I never should have.
"Remember my son, that mommy will always love you... but this bet I have made wagers your being.
"..." 'WHAT!?'
"The 'game' is when we bet a soul between Lord Gods, Gods who have ascended to near-Omnipotent levels, and the rules are as follows..." My face takes the appearance of an insane lunatic...
"Mother.... you bet my entire being.... my entire life AND afterlife... to an insane god?"
"I do not deny my insanity."
"...."
"Wake me up now." I say in a monotone voice.
"But..."
"I am not mad at you mother.... I just do not want to be by you for right now..."
"..."
"Okay.... my child..." Her face becoming sad.
I did not care.
"Wake me up Now!" I beckoned, surprised at my voice level.
*Sniff* "Okay son.. okay.... have a good da-"
"Bye pitiful human" the insane god said, as he hit me in the head with his shoe(?), knocking me out... or is it in? I mean I am waking up....
I shouldn't over-think this, or else my new sanity may break....
[~]
The sun rises, making everything in the world smile.... except one man...
"..." I rise from the floor, going to my 'bathroom' to fix up my pumpkin.
'I can trust no one... not even Lord Gods...'
I try to remove my head to clean the blood out of the mess that is, in fact, my insides...
but I felt as if, for once, I could not lose my head.
'Great... how am I gonna clean my in-'
I stopped thinking entirely as I looked upon my body.
Yes. My body, not armor, but an actual body!
'Is this what the ring does!? Makes me weaker? I really hate this ring!'
I look at the book that was on the ground since yesterday, walked over to it, than opened it.
A shiny light emitted from the page reading,
If you want your armored body, your pumpkin head, and your cold stare, to reappear upon your body, you must chant these words; Ave Fatum-
'That sounds stupid.'
-for it means to 'Hail Doom', the more you stay in the pumpkin armor, the more 'He' consumes you...
Umm..... what?
... but that is only if you accept the insanity that comes from the pumpkin body. If you just like the form, you can stay in it as long as you like... but the insanity will be harder to fight...
The words just become a whole bunch of mumbo-jumbo after that, so I rise off the floor (that I was laying on to read for some reason) and say the words.
"Ave Fatum!"
I felt my body erupt into another series of painful strengths... why is it that the gods like to watch me like this?
'I try my best, but it is just not there...'
I walk into my bed, wishing for a normal slumber...
"NOPE! GAME RULE!" A loud voice beckoned.
I fell into a nightmare so evil, so devilish, for I was watching myself do more murderous things!
I laughed!