I woke up early that morning, five am to be exact, because I had my first job… well the first one I would remember since the last four days.
“I wonder what Apple Jack is going to have me doing today?” I said to myself as I got my usual self ready, ever since I stayed at Rainbows house I have been living in Twilight’s house.
I have recently began to form a bit of a routine, first, I would shower, next I would comb my mane, and finally I would grab my guitar and head out the door.
I’m not normally home when she wakes up now a days, I like to wake up early and try to get to know some other ponies.
I walked out the door and took off into the dark morning sky and flew towards Sweet Apple Acers.
“Funny, I haven’t blacked out today.” I said to myself.
Unfortunately I spoke too soon and I started to get the dizzy feeling while I flew towards Sweet Apple Acers.
“Come on! I’m so close, I just have to pull through and land!” I shouted to myself.
I managed to land in front of the gates to enter and… well I blacked out.
Thank fully everypony was still asleep.
As I blacked I started to float over my body, as usual, and began to hear that creepy evil voice that I hadn’t herd since I woke up from the accident.
“Why are you resisting me so much!” he said angrily demanding an answer.
“What are you talking about? And who are you?” I asked, angry myself.
“You won’t let me in, did you think these black outs where just random occurrences? Still, you are becoming easier to black out here.” It said.
“Wait, you’re doing this?!” I yelled to the voice.
“Why of course my pawn.” The voice said with a evil laugh.
“If I ever find you, I swear to you it won’t be pleasant… and what do you mean it is much easier now? Did you cause me to lose all of my memories?” I asked with hatred in my voice.
“Yes, that hatred, that anger, it is exactly what I need to take control over you… soon, soon… and no, I actually don’t know how you got here but I’m sure glad you are here, you’re much more powerful here.” It said
“What do you mean ‘here’” I asked suspiciously.
“Oh, you didn’t really think you belong here did you? It said with another evil laugh.
“That’s enough of your lies!” I said in a rage.
“Oh, come now Shadow… or should I say Caleb?” the voice said.
“How could you know my name when I don’t? anypony could just make up a name for somepony… in fact I have several for you.” I said angrily
“Oh, how threatening.” The voice said mockingly.
“That’s it! I’m done with your games, show yourself!” I demanded.
“All in good time, but maybe you will like the treat I will send you later today.” The voice said as he gave a chilling laugh that seemed to fade as I woke up.
“Ok, seriously… what the hell is going on with me?” I asked myself.
“Well, for one, you’re sleeping on the job.” I heard a joking country voice say.
“Ugh sorry Apple Jack.” I said as I got up and walked towards her.
“It’s ok sugar cube, I’ll let it slide today, but just because you look so cute when you sleep.” She said with a cheery smile.
“Thanks Apple Jack.” I said as we walked into the apple orchid.
“So, here’s the game play for today: first, we have to scare off any critters who try to eat our apples; second, we have to buck as many apples as possible and bring them into the cellar, is that clear?” she asked.
“Ugh, yes ma’am.” I said with a bit of an accent.
“Whoa there sugar cube, two things, first since when did you have such a cute southern accent? And why are ya goin around callin me ma’am?” she asked with a confused smile.
“Ugh, I don’t know?” I answered in the same accent, I then blushed a little once I heard the accent myself.
“Well, either way I think it’s cute.” She said with a wink and walked off into the orchid to do her jobs.
“What the hell is up with this accent? It never happened before.” I said to myself.
I worked for several hours until it finally came to 12:00am, lunch time!
Ring!Ring!Ring!
“That must be Granny Smith calling for lunch! Can’t wait!
“Ok, now, y’all gather round and eat up, y’all need y’all strength for today’s chores.” She said in that weird way that only old country mare could say.
“And I thought Apple Jack said y’all a lot.” I thought to myself, “Thank ya kindly ma’am.” I said in that god damn country accent.
“No problem there sunny, so who is this colt here Apple Jack? Is this your new mare friend?” she asked in a semi crazy tone.
“Granny! No, he’s just a friend.” She said in an embarrassed tone trying to hide a blush.
I could have sworn I heard Big Mac say, “I’m keepin an eye on you.” But I don’t know for sure.
“Now, where are little Apple Bloom and her two friends?” Granny Smith asked.
“I don’t know, how about you Big Mac?” Apple Jack asked.
“Eynope.” She said.
Just then we heard three loud screams come from the far side of the orchids closest to the Ever Green Forest.
“Oh no!, Was that Apple Bloom?” Apple Jack asked with a worry tone.
“I don’t know, but we better go find out.” I said as I started to run for the woods taking off into a flight.
“Please help!” Apple bloom screamed.
“Anypony!” Scootaloo pleaded.
“Awww!” Sweetie Bell hollered.
“I coming, just hang on!” I yelled as I flew towards their voices.
I saw the three pony’s hiding under some roots, I also saw a large manticore trying to break into the roots to get them.
“Holy shit! You’re a big S.O.B. aren’t ya?” I yelled, trying to get the creatures attention.
It had large claws, larger than anything I have ever seen, well remembered seeing.
“Ok girls, I’m going to distract it while you try to escape, no matter what you see or hear, run back to the farm as fast as you can and don’t stop until you are inside!” I yelled as I dodged a swing from the creature’s claws.
“Ok!” they all screamed.
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“Ok you big pile of shit, let’s see what you got!” I yelled as I saw the three young ones get away.
“Arggggg!” was the creature’s response.
“Take him out Shadow!” I heard Scootaloo scream as they all faded into the distance.
I shouldn’t have looked because once I looked back to see my opponent, I received a claw to the face that seemed to have the force to knock a house down.
This hit, of course, knocked me unconscious. As I floated over my body, I felt that burning feeling also met with the freezing feeling I had when I first went unconscious 4 days ago, my horn began to glow the nice dark blue color with a blackish gray out line around it; I felt stronger, faster, and even more attentive than ever before… the only problem is I was knocked out.
“Ok! I woke up once before on demand, let’s do it again!” I screamed to myself as I used the seemingly unending supply of power to wake myself up.
My body began to float and I was now getting sucked into it. Once I was seeing through my eyes again I released some sort of bright light and my eyes had gone completely black like the color of my mane.
“That was a mistake you will soon regret!” I yelled at the creature as I flew un-ordinarily fast towards the monster.
“This is going to hurt me I can already tell.” I said to myself, “But it’s going to hurt you a lot more!” I screamed as I finally made contact with him.
There was a loud bam noise and we both went crashing down.
“You’re not so tough are you buddy.” I said in a weak mocking voice.
“Rawr!” I heard come behind me.
“YOU have GOT to be KIDDING!” I yelled to myself as I saw another, much larger, manticore approach.”
The creature tried to swing so I closed my eyes waiting for an impact but instead something else happened-
Everything slowed down around me and then-
“I’ll help you this time, but next time it’s on you” I heard a serious voice say.
“What?” I asked.
“No time to explain, use your powers and let me in so I can help you.”
“I don’t know how.” I said as the manticore got closer.
“You fool! You have so much power and you don’t even know how to use it!” the voice said.
“Well, there are a lot of things I don’t know! But I know I don’t need you here right now messing up my concentration!” I yelled as I quickly backed up and ran around the still slowly moving manticore.
Time went back to normal and the larger manticore ended up swinging on the smaller one.
“Hell ya!” I screamed, but the manticores weren’t through.
They both got up and started towards me and I quickly flew up into the sky so they wouldn’t be able to tackle me.
“You need my help Shadow!” the voice said.
“No I don’t, I’m safe up here anyways.” I said
“YOU IDIOT!” the voice screamed, “manticores have wings!” He screamed again.
I quickly looked to them and saw them both flying up towards me.
“God damn it!” I yelled.
“They just don’t give up!’ I said to myself.
As the smaller one got closer to me I instinctively flew to my left and went down wards trying to avoid him.
“That small one is fast, but not nearly as strong as the larger one… hmmm, maybe I can use that to my advantage.” I said to myself analyzing the situation.
As I approached the larger one, I made sure that the smaller one was following me.
“Come on shrimp, is that as fast as you can go?” I yelled to the smaller one trying to piss it off , it worked because now he was coming in full speed down towards me.
“And you, how about losing some wait largo.” I yelled to the bigger one, who was now also flying up towards me.
I then concentrated on trying to slow down time… it was a longshot but It was too late to change my mind now.
Everything began to slow down as I watched some leaves slowly fall from the trees and watched the wings of the manticores flap slowly.
“Well, this is defiantly a handy power.” I said as I moved out of the way and made time go back to normal.
SLAM!! The two manticores hit each other hard. From all of the speed going downwards meeting all of the strength going upwards, the two manticores didn’t have a chance.
(Stop music)
“Not bad, for an amateur… you have so much more potential to be better.” The calm but serious voice said.
“Ugh thanks?” I said in a questioning tone, “Who are you? Are you friends with that other guy?” I asked suspiciously.
“No, ‘That One Guy’ happens to be the reason where in this mess in the first place, be careful when you talk to him, he feeds off hatred and anger.” The voice said.
“Well thanks, but how come you and him are both in my head?” I asked still suspicious.
“It’s more complicated than that, you see we aren’t in your head though we can communicate to you through your “mind” but we actually call it aura.
“That makes no sense, I mean how can-“ before I could finish I felt a strong dizzy moment happen in my head and I blacked out, not like hovering over my body black out, but actually blacked out.