//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: Crazy Dream // by Triv_ //------------------------------// Well here it is Chapter 6! As usual hope ya enjoy reading it! Chapter 6 “Rise and shine Jack!” “…” “Jack, I know you’re awake don’t make me open the curtains!” “Mmm five more minutes...” “Alright you asked for it.” With that Twilight proceeded to rip the sheets from Jack’s body and start opening the curtains allowing the unrelenting rays of the morning sun to shine through, much to Jacks displeasure. Groaning Jack said, “Ugh, Fine! I’m up just don- AH!” Jack wasn’t able to finish as twilight opened another curtain allowing more blinding light into Jacks room. “Damn it wom…err mare! I said I’m up! Now don’t- DAMN IT!” ‘I swear she’s enjoying this.’ “Twilight I swear if you open that last curtain…” Twilight replied with a devious smirk, “Oh you mean this curtain?” With that Twilight had opened all the curtains on all the windows, which resulted in a very annoyed Jack chasing her out of the room while throwing pillows her way. Laughing Twilight quickly left before she got hit with a pillow heading her way, closing the door said pillow hit the door with a soft thump. Grumbling Jack made his way to the bathroom to get ready for the day. Now let’s see how much of a morning person err pony Luna is! The sun, oh how Luna despised the sun right now. Not only did she have to wake up this morning (which is practically unheard of for the night princess) but she had to get ready for her trip with Twilight and Jack to Ponyville. Sure it was always nice going to the nice little town but this early? Nope rather go back to bed. So after getting up (not really) Luna concentrated her magic on closing the curtains around her room so the sun wouldn’t come through. Too bad the sun was coming in no matter what… Celestia was happily walking along on this beautiful morning. Giving the occasional ‘Hello’ or ‘Good morning’ to the guards or castle staff she walked by on her way towards Luna’s room. On the way there she briefly came across a laughing Twilight who had just come out of Jack’s room with pillows flying at her. Celestia merely shook her head and smiled, happy to see her faithful student was getting along well with the Human. Not long after bumping into Twilight Celestia finally reached her destination. The two night guards currently guarding Luna’s room gave a salute and allowed the princess into the room. Opening the door slightly Celestia poked her head in to see if Luna was awake yet, surprisingly, she wasn’t. A smirk made its way onto Celestia’s face as she got ready to wake her dear sister. Luna was finally drifting off into sleep again when she heard the door open. Groaning Luna rolled over to look at who had come into her room, seeing Celestia wearing a smirk she groaned even louder. “Ugh, please five more minutes Tia.” Celestia brought a hoof to her chin in thought, “Hmmm No I think not. Now come on it’s time to get up, don’t want to miss your train do you?” “We are a princess we can simply have the train wait for us.” “Be that as it may I am your older sister and I’m telling you to get up.” “…” “Luna…don’t make me come over there you know what’ll happen if I do.” Celestia’s smirk grew as she started to get near Luna’s bed. “Pleeeeeeaaaaasssseeee just five more minutes! Thou know we aren’t a morning pony!” “That you aren’t, however I am.” Celestia grin got wider as she got even closer to the bed. “We warn thee don’ come any closer!” Luna said while scooting back on the bed. Celestia Just continued to smirk as she finally reached the bed and slowly put a hoof down on top of it. “Tia! Don’t!” Celestia asked innocently, “Don’t what?” “Blast it Tia we mean it! Not a hoof closer!” “Aww but what’s the fun in that?” “Tia- Eep!” Lunging at her sister Celestia managed to pin Luna to the bed and started to mercilessly tickle the princess of the night. “AH! Noo! Stop hahaha stop it please!” “Mmm nope.” Celestia laughed as her sister squirmed under her trying to escape the relentless assault of Celestia’s tickling prowess. “Please! Ah haha we can’t take it anymore hahaha!!” After a few minutes of continuous tickling Celestia finally stopped as Luna begged for mercy. Grinning like a fool she got off of Luna who was now fully awake and still laughing. “Well seeing how you’re awake now I shall be waiting in the dining room with Twilight and eventually Jack as you get ready.” Calming down enough to reply Luna said, “Y-you are a hehe evil pony dear sister!” Celestia chuckled saying, “True but you still love me, see you soon!” Luna smiled as her sister left the room allowing Luna her privacy to get ready. As Celestia walked out she noticed the night guards sporting smirks of their own as she left which caused her to smile a bit wider. Back to a still grumpy Jack… After finishing up in the bathroom Jack got dressed and headed out of his room, still rather annoyed about being up so early in the morning. Walking down the hall Jacks gaze drifted to the sun, it was a rather beautiful sunrise today, too bad he wasn’t awake enough to fully appreciate its beauty. As he continued on his merry way Jack bumped into Celestia who actually looked surprised to see him. “Well good morning Jack, nice to see you.” “Mmm yeah morning.” Celestia chuckled at his response, “Not much of a morning person are we?” “Nnnope.” “Hmmhmm just like Luna it seems, she too had some trouble waking up this morning.” “I can imagine. Say princess, if you don’t mind could you show me to the dining room? I’m kinda sorta somewhat lost.” Celestia chuckled again and simply nodded, motioning for him to follow her. On their way to the dining room Celestia continued to greet the guards or staff the came across while Jack simply gave a grunt in acknowledgement. Finally coming to the dining hall the princess and Jack were greeted by a few kitchen staff and Twilight who was just sitting down with her breakfast. Twilight immediately noticed the pair out of the corner of her eye and jumped out of her seat bowing to the princess. “Good morning princess!” she took a quick glance at Jack who was still a tad bit grumpy and smirked, “Morning Jack.” Jack simply grumbled to himself while taking a seat next to where twilight was sitting. Celestia rolled her eyes at Jack before turning to Twilight, “Good morning my faithful student, I trust your breakfast is enjoyable?” “Oh, very much so your highness! As usual the chefs in the kitchen have done an excellent job.” “That’s good to hear, now let us sit so we can all eat hmm?” Taking their seats (Twilight next to Jack and Celestia across from them both) Celestia and Jack placed their orders and the kitchen staff immediately went off into the kitchen to make breakfast for the Princess and her guest. After a few minutes the relative quiet was shattered by the sound of some angry shouting coming from the kitchen. “It’s so cold ya fuckin idiot!” “Yes chef!” “Don’t you fucking “Yes chef!” Me! Get it done right!” “Yes chef!” “You are shit, you’re so far up shit creek you don’t even know what the hell you’re doing!” “Yes chef!” Bursting through the kitchen doors came a rather pissed head chef, heading straight for the princess and her two companions. Jack who had been startled into being fully awake and nearly did a double take when he read the chef’s name tag, ‘Head Chef Ramhay’. ‘No fucking way…’ Walking right up to the Princess the head chef gave a quick bow before apologizing for the apparently delayed breakfast before turning around to head back to the kitchen. Said chef then came out with 3 different salads for the group and again apologizing for the delay. Once the chef was back in the kitchen Jack decided to ask, “So princess couldn’t help but over hear you head chef back there…” “Hmm? Oh yes that, you see he’s one of the best chefs in all of Equestria and tends to get rather vocal when training the new ones.” Jack remarked, “If I didn’t know better I’d say he almost sounded like a drill sergeant.” This earned a few chuckles from Celestia and Twilight as they all began to eat their salads, except Jack who was picking at his. Putting her fork down Celestia turned to Jack with a slight frown, “You know Jack it’s not proper to be playing with your food.” Looking up Jack simply said, “Yeah well it’s my fault for not mentioning it but I can’t exactly eat flowers, rest of its fine just as I said can’t eat the flowers, they don’t get along with my digestive system.” Twilight decided to chime in, “You never mentioned that yesterday when I asked about the different foods your kind eat!” “Yeah well,” Jack shrugged, “Never came up I guess.” Twilight sighed and began to right some quick notes on a notepad that came from seemingly nowhere. Celestia merely smiled and went back to eating her salad. Not long after Luna made her entrance and it seemed like she was ready to just fall asleep right there on the floor but she managed to make her way over to the table and take a seat, right next to Jack of course. Celestia took note of this and smiled to herself as they all continued to eat their food. However the peace and quiet was disturbed yet again when Jack let out a surprised yelp as something landed on his shoulder. Looking over the group saw that Luna had fallen asleep and was using Jack as an impromptu pillow. Jack blushed at being so close to the night princess and started to stammer, “I-I uhh, ummm P-princess? A-a little h-help please?” Celestia gave a small smile and nodded, using her magic she lifted her sister up and proceeded out of the room, she stopped just before leaving to say, “I’ll be taking Luna back to her room as you can see she’s not much of a morning pony.” Twilight chuckled a bit and Jack just sat there taking a sudden interest in his food, anything to help him forget about the burning sensation in his cheeks. Alright let’s follow Celestia for a bit! Walking through the halls Celestia with Luna in tow had a big grin on her face. Looking over her shoulder she spotted Luna crack open one eye only to shut it quickly when she saw her sister. Celestia gave a small laugh before speaking, “Come now Luna you can drop the act, we aren’t in the dining room anymore.” Still floating in her sisters magic Luna ‘sat’ up and gave an annoyed look to Celestia, “You could have at least let me enjoy that moment for a minute longer…” Celestia laugh again, “I must say that was rather bold of you, I feel the need to ask though, why did you do it?” Luna crossed her forelegs and looked away pouting (not to mention the slight blush adorning her cheeks), “As we said you could have let us enjoy it a bit longer. And to answer your question simply put, we wanted to know how it felt being…We guess you could say ‘close’ to somepony, err someone.” Celestia looked at her sister for a long moment before a smile spread across her face, “I see, so you want to perhaps make this into a serious relationship someday hmm?” Luna’s blush deepened and she nodded, “Seems to me you are rushing it a bit, here’s some advice dear sister, take it slow, he might not fully understand his own feelings and you had best make sure you understand your own as well.” Luna nodded again seeing the wisdom in her sister’s advice, maybe she did jump the gun a bit too soon. “Well anyways like I stated previously, that was rather bold, did you see how red he got? It was just adorable!” Luna simply rolled her eyes at that. “Oh by the way I’m letting you sleep for a few more hours but you must be prepared for when the three of you need to leave for the train understand?” Luna gave a small squee, if there’s one thing she loved to do more than raise the moon it was to sleep. Coming to Luna’s room Celestia released her sister from her magical grasp who trotted happily toward her bed. With a hop, skip and jump Luna landed on her bed and wrapped herself in her blankets smiling in content. Smiling Celestia said, “Alright, I’ll see you later sister.” Luna lazily waved a hoof at her before going to sleep. Alright back to Jack. After an interesting morning Jack found himself tagging along with Twilight as she went through the royal library. Honestly she was like a kid in a candy store what with the way her eyes sparkled at the site of so many books. Jack on the other hand was less excited but still found a few books that caught his interest, mainly about history, geography and not too surprisingly a Daring doo book. As he was checking out his books with the royal librarian (hell let’s call em Book mark!) at the front desk a sudden shadow as cast over him and the librarian. Turning around Jack’s jaw nearly hit the floor while Book mark simply groaned and let is head drop to the desk with a thud. Picking his jaw back up Jack looked at Twilight with a ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ look, “…Seriously Twilight?” Twilight seemed to notice the giant stack of books she had floating behind her and gave a sheepish grin before replying, “Umm ehhehe, what can I say? I really really like books.” This time Book mark spoke up, “Tell me about it. When you were eight you took all the books and scrolls from the Starswirl the Bearded wing and made a book fort!” Upon hearing that Jack looked at Twilight with a stupid grin on his face before bursting out laughing, much to her embarrassment. “Ah hahahahaha! Oh man haha, wow Twilight I knew you were the book worm type but seriously? An entire wing of books and you made a fort?! Hahahaha!” “Oh hush up! I’ll have you know Fort Book lasted 10 minutes before the guards asked Celestia to come and help tear it down and put everything away!” “Pffft hahahaha! Fort Book! How original! Ah hahahahahaha!!!” At this point Twilight was a delightful shade of red and had to force back her own laughter as Book mark whacked Jack upside the head with a ruler. “Ow! What was that for!?” “You seem to have forgotten this is a Library and as such we can’t have you laughing up a storm and disturbing the others.” He then waved a hoof at all the ponies giving Jack some rather nasty looks for being disturbed. “Eh heh, sorry about that.” “Hmph! Serves you right.” Stated Twilight smugly. After having checked out their books (Twilight took an hour due to the amount she brought with her) the pair left the Library and made their way back to the guest rooms to get ready for their trip to Ponyville. Jack had a rather easy time of it since all he really had was the books he just got and the clothes on his back. Twilight however was another story. Not only did she have the mountain of books she had gotten but also the vast amount of notes from her talk with Jack about his species, what they ate, what they do, culture, history, you name it they went over it. Not to mention the books she already had with her to begin with as well as a mini lab she had set up for analyzing Jack’s blood (she also managed to get hair and skin samples during their chase but that’s not really important). As Twilight got her things ready Jack waited in the main hall for both her and Luna, how he hadn’t seen since breakfast which seemed odd to him. ‘Hmm wonder if I should go looking for her. Hope she’s alright she did seem rather tired.’ However this was not the case as in a suddenly blinding light like a flash bang going off followed by a loud ‘pop’ both Celestia and Luna were there in front of him. Blinking away the spots in his vision Jack complained, “Ah damn, warn me next time would you?” Both princesses gave a slight chuckle then Luna spoke up, “We are sorry about that. We tend to forget that teleporting often causes minor discomfort to those who may be nearby.” Jack rubbed his eyes as he tried to get rid of the last spots in his vision but suddenly another blinding light appeared followed by another ‘pop’ sound causing Jack to groan as his eye sight was tampered with yet again. “Sorry sorry! I didn’t realize I had so much to pack! Oh I hope we aren’t late for the train.” Looking at Twilight in frustration Jack said, “Never do that again please.” “Umm why are you looking at that plant? I’m over here.” Celestia giggled along with Luna at Jack who was temporarily blinded thanks to Twilight teleporting right next to Jack as they had done. “Great apparently I can’t see now.” “Don’t worry it should wear off in a couple minutes.” Twilight said quelling any fears Jack might have had right then and there. Luna stepped up beside Jack and pushed herself up under his arm causing him to jump slightly. “Fear not fair Jack, we shall guide you to the train and make sure thou don’t fall down, or run into anything.” Jack once again blushed at the close proximity to the princess but ultimately nodded his head in agreement. Celestia on the other hand seemed to know exactly what Luna was doing but decided to say nothing and help Twilight with her bags. “Now then shall we depart?” Jack replied for the group, “Sure let’s head on out.” With that the group started to head out of the castle, guards taking up position around the group (gotta guard the princesses’ man) and helping open doors for them as they made their way out into the busy city of Canterlot. You’d think walking through a city full of ponies would be all kinds of awkward but thanks to being temporarily blinded Jack didn’t have to suffer through the gawking stares being sent his way. Still had to hear them gasp or shout something about a ‘diamond dog’ every now and then but hey nothing to be done about that. Jack hardly paid attention to the remarks sent his way though he was too preoccupied with the sudden increase to his other senses. For example he was painfully aware of Luna who was still under his arm as they walked, he felt every slight movement she made as they walked and how incredibly soft her fur felt, as well as the feathers from her wing that he swore felt twitch every now and then. As they made their way to the train station Twilight decided to try and break the relative silence, “So Jack, how’s your eyesight coming along?” Jack sighed before replying, “Well instead of just seeing white I’m seeing…I guess you could say spots.” With that they lapsed back into silence, Twilight occasionally bringing up small talk like what Ponyville would be like and how her friends would be glad to welcome Jack to town and so on. Not long afterwards the train station finally came into view. On the platform could be seen various ponies boarding or departing the train along with some staff from the castle bringing luggage (basically Luna’s) to the well, the luggage car (go figure right?). As the group approached a conductor came out of the train announcing that the train would be leaving very shortly. With that Luna left Jack’s side and hugged her sister goodbye. Twilight also ran up to Celestia and hugged her goodbye as well while Jack simply waved in the general direction (He hoped) of the princess before Luna returned to his side and helped him board the train. After getting only the trio quickly found their seats, Twilight and Luna immediately going for the window seats and opening said window to wave goodbye to Celestia who wore a smile and waved back. Jack managed to find his seat next to Luna right before a sudden jerk caused him to plop into it. The jerk indicating that the train was starting to move, Jack got comfy in his seat as Twilight and Luna continued to wave at Celestia. As the train started its journey the train station along with Celestia and all the other ponies there gradually became smaller and smaller, Celestia didn’t stop waving goodbye until the train was out of sight. The same went for Twilight and Luna as well. When the station was gone they closed up the window and settled into their seats. Twilight looked over to Jack and asked, “Hey, eyesight any better now?” Jack replied, “Well instead of white and spots I see vague colors. Like right now I can kinda see a faint purple, I assume that to be you yes?” Twilight smiled and nodded, “Yup that’s is correct. See? Told you it was only temporary. Again I’m sorry about that.” Jack waved a dismissive hand, “Don’t worry about it, not like it was intentional.” Twilight smiled at that and proceeded to look at the scenery through the window. With not much else to do and his eyesight still not fully returned Jack decided now would be a good a time as any to take a nap while they made their way to Ponyville. Annnnnnd we go back to dream land! Jack was floating. It seemed that this time around in his little dream world that there was nothing random or creepy as fuck going on. Heck it wasn’t even a world at the moment, it was a big load of nothing right now. And you know what? Jack was fine with that. With nothing better to do Jack ‘swam’ through the nothingness that was his dream. Sadly the peace and quiet he was enjoying was interrupted by the sound of something metallic being dragged on stone. Looking around for the noise Jack had little luck, then suddenly like someone turned on the gravity Jack fell several feet before landing on his stomach. Groaning in pain Jack slowly got up and looked around again. Still nothing. Getting up to his feet Jack brushed off the ‘dirt’ from his shirt. After cleaning himself up Jack looked up ahead of him and saw a faint spark. The sound of was getting louder too. Taking a step forward Jack began looking around again trying in vain to find the source of the noise. Taking another step Jack suddenly stopped when he saw another spark appear on the ‘floor’ this time much closer. Slightly nervous Jack took a step back, as he did so an all too familiar laugh rang through his ears. ‘Fuck not again!’ As if hearing his thoughts the laughter assaulted his ears again, “Hehehe yes! Again!!” The sound continued to get closer and it seemed at a much faster pace, Looking around still and taking another step back more sparks appeared and he swore he saw something pink as well. “Jaaaaaacccckkkkkkiiieee don’t you want to play?” The sudden voice right next to his ear caused Jack to spin around only to be confronted by Pinkamena. Only she looked a ‘bit’ different. Notably was she hand fangs instead of regular teeth and her eyes were entirely bloodshot not to mention the blood coming out of the corners of her eyes. Jack stumbled backwards at the site of the pink devil saying more to himself than her, “Holy mother of god…” Bringing a hoof up to her chin in thought which seemed to actually be scrapping the skin off her chin caused blood to drip down Pinkamena said, “God? Mmmm nope,” She flashed a sadistic smile, “Just me.” With that she suddenly disappeared. Jack frantically looking for her almost didn’t notice her save for the spark coming from her knife as she dragged it across the floor with her tail and swung at him, barely missing. “FUCK!” Jack spun around screaming and took off. Pinkamena had vanished again but her laugh remained. Running he noticed that the ‘nothingness’ that was his dream had suddenly become a hall with dimly lit candles adorning the walls. Not wanting to stop and investigate his new surrounding Jack kept running down the hall. Rounding a corner Jack came to a halt seeing something he’d never want to see in his lifetime. At the end of this hall was…himself strapped to a wall with an odd contraption mounted on his head. This other Jack looked up to the ‘real’ Jack and smiled. Jack looked on as Pinkamena reappeared next to the ‘Jack’ strapped to the wall and smiled as well at ‘real’ Jack. “I told you I was gonna play with you Jackie, this is but a preview of what I have in store for yooouuu.” With that Pinkamena whipped her tail sneind the knife flying towards a rope that was connected to the device on ‘other’ Jacks head. Jack shut his eye closed as the device suddenly dropped two flat pieces of metal with spikes on each slamming into ‘other’ Jacks head. The sickening crunch that followed made Jack sick to his stomach. Slowly opening one eye Jack saw what was left of ‘other’ Jack before quickly looking away only for Pinkamena to consume his entire field of vision. She smiled that same freakish smile before stating, “Next time shall be your turn. Won’t that be fun?!” Jack screamed. Back to reality… Screaming Jack sat straight up in his seat looking around frantically as he woke up from his nightmare. Twilight and Luna wore looks of concern for Jack as he kept looking around as if fearing something was going to pop up out of nowhere. “J-Jack? Are thou alright?” Jack snapped to the sound of Luna’s voice and stared at her for a long moment before tearing up and hugging her tightly. Luna was caught off guard but slowly reached her hooves around his back and returned the hug. Looking down at the now sobbing Jack Luna was unsure if she should ask what had happened or to just let him continue until he tired himself out. Looking to Twilight for a suggestion Twilight seemed to know what she wanted to ask but simply shook her head no, best to leave it be for now. The rest of the train ride went on in silence which was only broken when Jack, still hugging Luna mumbled, “My eye sights back…” Twilight and Luna looked at him then each other and smiled. After about an hour the train seemed to be slowing down. Jack who had fallen asleep by then was awoken by Luna gently nudging him. Speaking softly Luna said, “Jack? We’re nearly there you should get up.” Jack simply nodded and sat up properly albeit reluctantly letting go of the princess. Twilight took note of this and asked him, “That dream you had really shook you up huh?” Jack nodded again while rubbing the sleep from his eyes. “Well I know what will make you feel better once we get to Ponyville.” Slightly curious Jack asked, “Oh? And what might that be?” Twilight smiled at him and simply replied, “You’ll see.” Not long after that the conductor came by notifying everypony that the train had arrived and that they should get ready to depart. Quickly grabbing their things the trio got ready to leave the train as it come into Ponyville’s train station. Waiting by the door Twilight looked up at Jack and nudged him getting him to look down, “Hey, eyesight all good?” Jack smiled and replied, “Yeah can see great now, thanks for asking.” Twilight smiled at her friend glad to see him doing better. Just then the train jerked slightly as it came to a stop at the station. As the doors open everypony made their way off the train and off to where ever they had to go. Upon leaving the train Twilight spotted her friends waiting for them. “Girls!” “Twilight!” With that Rainbow Dash, AppleJack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Spike and Twilight all ran toward each other and had one big group hug. Luna and Jack smiled at the group of friends as the embraced each other. “It’s great seeing you girls again!” Applejack spoke up, “Shoot, yah were only gone a couple days sugarcube!” “I know but stil- hey wait wheres Pinkie?” Everypony suddenly noticed that the pink party pony was missing from their group even Jack and Luna were looking for the missing pony. Looking around Jack suddenly felt a tapping on his shoulder. Turning to look at who had tapped him Jack’s eyes shrunk to pinpricks. There before him stood the pink demon from his dreams. “Hi there!” Jack fainted. End of chapter six.