//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: Crazy Dream // by Triv_ //------------------------------// Chapter 7 ‘Annnnnd its dark again, fuck…’ After seeing that pink demon in the flesh Jack had ended up back inside his dream world much to his displeasure. To be honest he was surprised she was even real to begin with, that shocked the hell out of him. Looking around Jack groaned as it seemed nothing had changed since he left not so long ago, well except for the ‘other’ Jack was no longer here as well as Pinkamena. Deciding it best to not wait around for something to happen Jack got to his feet and started to walk. “I know I’m just asking for it but I seriously hope nothing happens,” Jack shivers remembering what happened last time, “…again.” Jack continued to walk through the darkness (emptiness?) that was his dream world for a while and for once nothing seemed to be happening. He was actually starting to get unnerved by the complete and utter silence not even his feet made a sound as he walked. As Jack walked he slowly became more annoyed and thought to himself, ‘where the hell are you, ya little pink freak.’ “Who you calling Little?!?!” ‘Speak of the devil.’ Jack sighed knowing some fresh hell now awaited him. Jack had stopped walking at this point and was looking around trying to spot Pinkamena where ever she might be. It didn’t take long however as a loud thump sounded behind him causing him to jump and turn around. Sure enough there sat Pinkamena sporting that same damn unnerving smile of hers. However looking at Jack Pinkamena seemed to be slightly surprised to see him. Only slightly. “I must say…you’re back earlier than I expected.” That caught Jack off guard, she wasn’t expecting him? The hell did that mean? “What do you mean you didn’t ‘expect’ me?” She simply smiled, stood up and slowly walked toward him. Jack immediately took 5 steps back as a result. Pinkamena laughed at this. “I scare you that easily after only a few dreams? Hehehe Oh this shall be so much fun…” Pinkamena shifted her stance to one that suggested she was prepared to charge at Jack. Flashing Jack another Fang filled smiled she continued, “However we can’t play…yet. So you must wake up.” With that she charged at him still leaving her fangs out on display with a look that seemed to say, ‘If you don’t run I’ll bite!’ Jack not wanting to have his face ripped off turned around and went sprinting the other way not daring to look back. Pinkamena simply laughed at his attempt to flee, her laughter seemingly coming from all around him. “Better hurry and wake up~” she said in a singsong voice. Jack didn’t know what the hell to do so he simply ran harder as hard as he had ever done. Didn’t help much. As he ran Pinkamena’s voice seemed to come from everywhere and as soon as he heard it from one direction it was fade away and come from another direction echoing across the darkness. “Wake up…” she said nothing else put those two words. “Wake up…” Jack’s legs were screaming at him for pushing them so hard but he didn’t care her voice continued. “Wake up…” Why was she doing this? Jack simply wanted to yell at her to stop but knew that wouldn’t work so he closed his eyes and focused solely on running and nothing else. “Wake up…” This time Jack came to a halt her voice right in his ear that time. Jack forced his eyes open not sure what to do next. In front of him she stood head tilted to the side ever so slightly still smiling. She ran at him bringing her head back up right she opened her mouth to speak but Jack wasn’t paying attention to that. Her eyes had changed, instead of the light blue they usually seemed to be they were now teal. Unfortunately for Jack as he lost himself in his observation Pinkamena was nearly on top of him. Realizing he had been standing there like an idiot with barely a second left before she tackled him Jack threw his arms up in a feeble attempt to protect himself. In that second everything seemed to slow down as a sickening crack could be heard coming from Pinkamena. She was seemingly suspended in the air when the crack was heard. She even looked as shocked as Jack did but it only lasted a brief moment. Suddenly blood started to pour out of her head as a straight line from top to bottom could be seen on her face. With another crack her face split open. Jack wasn’t able to see what was there he had shut his eyes in horror as her face gave way to whatever was beneath it. It was now she spoke up again her voice sounded completely different than from before, “I. Said. WAKE. UUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!” She screamed the last part as Jack sunk to his knees petrified by the sound of her new terrible voice, it scared him so much so that he did exactly what she want. He woke up. Back to the waking world we go! Pinkie sat next to Jack’s unconscious body as she and the others tried to get him to regain consciousness. Unlike the others however Pinkie was very upset, not only did she scare her new weird looking friend but this also meant the party for said friend (plus the princess) would be delayed! She was very excited about it too, even brought her renowned party cannon to start the celebrating early. While the others tried various ways of getting Jack to wake up (Applejack poked him, Fluttershy ever so quietly asked him to please wake up, Rainbow Dash lightly slapped him a bit and Twilight did the same as Fluttershy only a bit louder) Pinkie suddenly jumped up and gasped loudly before running off, she had the perfect plan to wake Jack up. After Pinkie left the others just chalked it up to Pinkie being Pinkie and resumed trying to wake up Jack. Not long after she left though Pinkie returned…with a megaphone. Walking up to her friends Pinkie nudged them out of the way as she stood in front of Jack’s unconscious body, taking a deep breath Pinkie turned on the megaphone and yelled, “WAAAAAKKKKKKEEEEEEE UUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The result of using a super powerful megaphone? Messed up hair for everyone including Princess Luna (seriously that thing was strong enough to make her hair stop flowing, even if it was for a short amount of time), the train tilted to the side as did a few buildings in the nearby area due to the force of the megaphone. And of course Jack woke with a start and jumped up into the air about a solid 5 feet before landing on his butt with a thud. All while giving a girlish scream. Yup, totally manly moment right there. Also think it’s safe to say that Pinkie Pie’s megaphone is a lot stronger than the Royal Canterlot Voice. So after being woken up Pinkie pie style Jack immediately sat up looking around frantically. Then he spotted Pinkie with her megaphone and sporting a pretty big smile standing right in front of him. Upon seeing her part of Jack wanted to run away screaming like a little girl the other part was scared stiff. So what does he do? Absolutely nothing, the part of him too scared to do anything won over the part that wanted to run away. So he sat there eyes shrunk to pin pricks and a bead of sweat making its way down the side of his head. Hell he was actually starting to tremble slightly! Risking a glance to the side Jack saw the other girls from earlier along with Luna standing there with the most bizarre hairdos (Manedo?) almost like they just went through a wind tunnel. They also seemed to be somewhat out of it, Twilight had her hooves covering her ears as did Fluttershy while the rest were just rubbing there’s trying to get the ringing to stop (Good job Pinkie, practically made your friends deaf!). Looking back to the Pink menace in front of him Jack was still too afraid move, which is until he heard a faint, “Hey!” After about a minute or so it got louder, “Hey!!” Now he could hear the sound of hooves rapidly hitting the ground, “Hey! Over here!” Risking another glance to his side Jack was surprised to see the mint green unicorn from the castle come running head on towards him. Before he had time to say anything the unicorn lunged at him and grabbed him in a bone crushing hug. After a brief tumble the mint green pony jumped off of Jack and smiled at him, “Hey fancy seeing you here!” Jack glad to have something to distract him from his fear of Pinkie replied, “H-hey nice seeing you again as well…Lyre was it?” Lyra giggled at him, “Heh close its Lyra with an ‘a’ at the end! Anyways what brings you to Ponyville? Could have sworn you were staying at the castle with the princesses.” Jack stood up and shrugged, “Yeah well Princess Celestia thought it would be a good idea for me and Luna over there to come and get to know the ponies that live here, make some friends as it were.” Lyra smiled at him and brought a hoof to her chest and gave a slight bow, “Well allow me t-“ Pinkie decided now would be the perfect time to push Lyra out of the way, “No! Allow Me to be the first to welcome you to Ponyville! Woohoo!” with that Pinkie pulled out her party cannon aimed it upwards and let it rip. BOOM Confetti, confetti everywhere. That and balloons, gotta have balloons. Oh! And cake can’t forget the cake! Oh oh! And streamers those are a must! So after Pinkie fired her cannon the entire train station was transformed into a ‘Welcome to Ponyville Princess Luna and Jack!’ party. While that happened Jack just sort of stood there slightly confused, ‘she’s not attacking me? Or tormenting me?! What the? A party? Why’s she throwing us a party?!’ Jack brought a hand to his forehead already feeling the headache that was to be coming in right about…..now. “Ugh.” Nearby Luna who had managed to fix her mane and clear the ringing sound from her ears noticed Jack’s confused/upset expression but before she could take a step toward him Pinkie appeared in front of her a smiled widely. “Hi there Princess!” “Umm, greetings Pinkie Pie.” “So do ya like it?” “The party?” Pinkie Jumped up and down in excitement, “Of course silly! I mean it is for you and Jack after all!” Before she could respond Twilight came up looking none too happy, “Pinkie! I thought we agreed you’d stop using that megaphone!” Pinkie brought a hoof to her chin in thought before simply shrugging, “Hmm must have slipped my mind! Oh well!” Pinkie proceeded to go into a fit of giggles as Twilight simply glared at her before shaking her head and heading off to join in the party. As Twilight left and Pinkie somehow managed to disappear Luna looked to where Jack had been standing to find the space now vacant. Looking around the station she almost didn’t notice him as he turned around a corner leaving the party. Deciding to see if she could help in some way Luna focused on her magic and teleported to where Jack had left and went after him. Over to Lyra for a bit now! The party was in full swing now quite a few ponies had come and Pinkie seemed rather happy about it. Lyra on the other hoof was busy watching a certain human as he made his way away from the party. Curious Lyra went after him. He obviously didn’t know where he was going, how could he? It was his first time in Ponyville after all. As she followed Jack they took numerous turns eventually coming to town hall. Keeping a safe distance Lyra watched as Jack stopped at a nearby bridge he seemed to be troubled but by what Lyra hadn’t the foggiest. Lyra was about to leave her hiding spot to try and help Jack when of all ponies Princess Luna appeared out of nowhere and she too seemed troubled, probably concerned about Jack. So for now Lyra kept to the shadows and watched. Now to Luna! Following Jack had been a bit tricky for the princess. If she hadn’t known any better she’d had thought he knew she was following him and was trying to lose her but that was not the case. Eventually he came to a stop and from her bird’s eye view (Yeah she was flying in case you are wondering) Luna could tell just as Lyra had that something was up. (hehe up, casue you know… she was flying and…yeah I’ll shut up.) Deciding it better to walk up to Jack instead of landing practically on top of him (hah on top…ok I’m done I swear!) Luna landed behind a nearby store. Walking around said store Luna did her best to stay as quiet as possible so as not to scare Jack. Getting closer Jack seemed to be entirely lost in thought so Luna upon reaching him cleared her throat to gain his attention. The sound of someone clearing their throat startled Jack out of his thoughts and he spun around to see who had disturbed him. Upon seeing Luna Jack’s face went from slightly irritated to relieved when he saw her. “Oh hello Luna, you really startled me there.” Luna grinned, “We can be stealthy when we want, we are the princess of the night after all.” Jack chuckled, “Indeed you are!” “Jack we didn’t come here to simply sneak up on thou we are curious, why did thou leave our party?” Jack’s face turned into a frown at her question, “I…I just need some time to think is all.” Luna wasn’t buying it, “Thou hesitate, tell us why did thou really leave?” Sighing Jack looked away, “I just found out that a pony I have only met for the first time since I came here has been Haunting my dreams since I came here.” Puzzled Luna tried to press him for more information, “Pray tell who is this pony that torments thou so?” “Pinkie.” “Her?! But she such a delight! She’s always so happy and fun how could such a pony haunt dreams?!” “I don’t know! But whenever I have a dream she’s there always tormenting me and…just forget it I don't want to talk about it.” Luna scowled at Jack, “We most certainly will not ‘just forget it’! You’ve alrea-“ “Hey Jack! Oh and princess Luna! What a pleasant surprise!” Both Luna and Jack turned to see who had interrupted their conversation surprised to see none other than Lyra (Ohmygosh! Who would have thought!). Jack who was actually glad for the interruption spoke up, “Hey there Lyra, seems we just keep bumping into each other huh?” Lyra grinned, “I know right? Well I was just on my way home when I spotted the both of you over here” Liar you were stalking!, “and thought ‘hey why don’t I give em a tour of Ponyville!’” Luna glared at the unicorn not one bit pleased at the interruption to her conversation before decided to speak up, “That shalt be necessary we were just about to rejoin the party.” Before she could make a move to bring Jack along back toward the party Lyra jumped up and grabbed Jack’s arm, “Oh but I insist! I promise it won’t take too long!” Think ya’ll can guess what happens next. Luna not backing down grabbed Jack’s other arm, “Really tis not necessary! We can do it some other time.” This resulted in Jack being slight pulled back and forth between the two ponies in a tug o war of sorts. Looking to either side Jack was assaulted by the cutest puppy dog eyes ever as Luna and Lyra looked to him for his decision. Annnnnd we stop here for now. End of chapter 7