//------------------------------// // end of days // Story: my little supernatural // by thepinkparty //------------------------------// The girls were waiting outside a locked room with worried expressions. Fluttershy was cowering behind Applejack as she tried to calm her down. Rarity and Pinkie Pie both had the same sad eyes whereas Rainbow Dash seemed oddly enthused. Twilight walked up to the door and was about knock when another loud crash was heard followed by muffled profanity. "I'm sure they won't be long." Twilight smiled nervously. "They must be running out of stuff to..." CRASH "break." "What's gotten into them?" Dash asked. "I don't know, Doodles just said he couldn't look at me." "Maybe that there fairy circle messed them up while they were pulling up that block." The door opened and Twilight stepped back as she saw the two disgruntled ponies calmly walk out. Sam took a deep breath as Dean cracked his neck. "Okay. Okay, we just had to get that out of our system." Sam said as his brother muttered something under his breath looking away from the ponies. Sam ignored him and continued his explanation, "See where we come from people don't usually burst randomly into song and dance. And, well, seeing you all in that condition made us a bit... uneasy." "Bastard." "Assface." Sam shook his head. "Sorry, we just needed some time to regain our manhood and release some of this stress we're under." "By tearing apart a room?" Dean muttered something else about tearing apart a face and Sam didn't take to kindly to it. "Dude, we agreed to drop it back there." "It's your fault! I wanted to take my chances in the forest!" "If it's anyone's fault it's Castiel's! He dropped us here and hasn't even bothered to come back for us!" "Because he can't find us you idiot!" "He can't find us because he's not looking!" "Now hold on there fellas, this is starting to get out of control." "Stay out of this!" They both yelled at Applejack. "You know Sam it really is your fault. I wanted to stay out of these damn ponies business, but you had to go and act like a freakin' hero." "Oh really, what about back in Nebraska? I told you we should've let Castiel deal with that demon that possessed Jennifer, we wouldn't be here if we had just left Douglasville when I said so. It's not my fault Dean, it's yours, for thinking with your dick all the time instead of your head!" A tense moment followed as the ponies watched in awe as the Winchesters had a stare off. They let slip some information that confused them, and it wasn't just about trying to decide who was Dean and who was Sam. Each of them was right and they both thought it was them. Twilight was about to speak to try to bring peace between them when Dean nodded and said softly 'Alright'. He turned his head as though to walk away but then punched his brother as hard as he could with his curved hoof. Sam flew back and knocked over a table with a vase full of flowers, as the girls gasped Sam stood up and tackled his brother to the floor. Sam started pummeling his brother before Dean rolled him over and headbutted him. Dean took a hit to the nose and stumbled back as Sam turned around and kicked him in the mouth. Rage building up Dean grabbed his brother by his mane and slammed him against both walls before throwing him back out into the courtyard through wooden railing. Sam hit the floor hard and felt the wind get knocked out of him. He opened his eyes and saw spots in front of his eyes, his headache intensified and concentrated on a single point in his forehead. He felt a heavy weight drop on his chest and as his vision cleared he saw Dean sitting on top of him blocking out the sun, pulling back for another punch, blood dripping from his own forehead before a pegasus flew overhead. "Stop this right now!" Sam and Dean both looked up at surprised as Fluttershy floated over them looking very angry. "How dare you two act like this. Get off him right now!" Dean was so perplexed he actually obeyed. "You two are brothers and you're supposed to love and care for each other, how would your mother feel if she saw you two behaving this way!?" Fluttershy put her hooves on her sides and scowled at the both of them. "That oughta straightened them two crazy ponies out." "Yeah, Fluttershy is pretty scary when she needs to be." "I'm not going to sit here and get my ass handed to me by some pussy prancing fucking pony!" Dean shouted as he started to walk away. "Where the hell are you going?" "Who gives a shit!" Dean stormed his way out of the courtyard and shoved several other ponies out of his way. Sam looked after his brother before being joined by the rest of the ponies. "Um, Doodles, Sam? Can I ask what that was all about?" Sam sniffed as he touched his bleeding nose and spat blood on the ground. "It's better if you don't know. Do me a favor and a get a rubbing off that block while I go clean up." Sam said before also walking away. The girls watched in silence as he made his way down the hall they had both fought down and past the room they destroyed before disappearing around the corner. "Anyone bring any paper?" Twilight asked. …... Several hours had passed since the confrontation and the gang had retreated to the library to assist Sam and Twilight in finding Sunburst's Atlas. They found it sometime after noon as well as several older language textbooks for reference. Sam proceeded to tear pages out of it and build himself a nest much to Twilight's distress. It didn't take long for Rainbow Dash to lose interest in the whole thing and took off with instructions to call her when they were done. Rarity also didn't take long to find an out, she decided she would assist the castle decorators with the decorations for the party later on. Pinkie followed her out. Applejack and Fluttershy stayed just long enough to get all turned around and upside with history lessons and endless essays written by important ponies she had never heard of before. Fluttershy wasn't faring well either but the tipping point came when Twilight decided to recite Starswirl's essay for the Visionary Future of Magic and Alchemy which filled up enough pages to create a small novel. Applejack excused herself along with Fluttershy claiming that they would only slow them down in their research. So Twilight and Sam were left alone in the empty cavernous room, their only company a solitary librarian who sat in the middle of the room. Every so often their silent meditative study would be broken by the sound of book stamping. Twilight counted thirty stamps before she worked up the nerve to ask Sam about his fight. It was then the doors were thrown open and a familiar bruised figure walked through the doorway. Dean stopped short of Sam's nest and looked at it, slowly turning his way from one side of the wall to the other. Twilight held her breath. "There's not a drop of damn liquor in this hellhole. So what do you got?" Sam nodded and started filling him in. "Okay, uh, well we deciphered the words 'danger' 'close' something that sounds an awful lot like 'chaos' and surprisingly 'love'." Dean raised an eyebrow. "Anything else?" "Uhh, no. We just basically hit a wall with that." Dean grunted and turned to Twilight. "Say have you ever heard of Horseshoe Jack? "Yes, Horseshoe Jack was a blacksmith who went mad one day and started writing horrible stories. Why do you ask?" "Start looking for his entire collected works." "But Horseshoe Jack was a madpony. I don't think anyone's been able to make sense out of his rants. The only reason his stories were even published was because princess Celestia commissioned them as part of a historical reference of ponykind." "Trust me on this one. I went to pay a visit to our dear friend Trixie." "You went without us?" "Yeah, I stopped by on my way over here. Start looking." "We don't need to look. I know exactly where that book is." Twilight led them to the back of the room past the rows of modern pony literature and behind the Starswirl section. They kept walking until they found and old dusty bookshelf propped up against the back wall. Twilight brushed some of the dust clinging to the plaque. "Here it is, 'Tales of Shock and Awe.' This bookshelf contains every scary story not even grown ponies want to hear about a campfire. But what can a scary story tell us about this?" Twilight said as she pulled down a dusty old book with a tattered cover. "Horseshoe Jack wasn't just a madman. He was a prophet." "A prophet? Here?" "Yeah. Just look for the story called 'The Witch Queen' Prescence'. And start near the end, we don't need to hear the rest." Twilight flipped through the book and found her place. "...And she will take to the hearts and minds of the ponies. Her might will be eternal and her life everlasting as she draws from the pure and unspoiled. All the powers of evil will follow her in her rise to power and her presence will grow like a shadow over the land, settling the world in darkness until the light of love shall banish her." "Flip back a couple of pages. Look familiar?" Twilight flipped back and found a similar drawing to that of the rubbing she took from the courtyard. "That's the same seal we saw outside, only it's not just a seal, it's a calendar." "A calendar?" "Like the Aztecs, they foretold about the end of the world and so did Jack." "So if it's like the Aztecs that would mean that Horseshoe Jack knew when Nightmare Moon would come back right?" "Not just that, Trixie figured this thing out a long time ago, Nightmare Moon is back, that was the next to last thing on that calendar." "What was the last thing?" Twilight asked as Dean smiled. "The end of the World."