Attention people who started reading this story before 7/18/13 I want to tell you guys that i have rewritten the first chapter of this story. So go check it out and tell me what you think. Do you like it, do you hate it, or do you think it needs more talking oranges?
Well that felt weird, after I had taken over that one pony and made contact with the other one things went black. The only thing I remember is hearing loud screams of pain and fear coming from all around me. Then next thing I knew I was standing in the prison courtyard in a column of fire. Once it subsided I was able to see Luna and the guards. They all had this look that was like a combination of amazement and terror.
That’s when I noticed they didn’t look giant anymore. I looked at my hands and they were normal, five fingers and everything! Then I looked the rest of me over, yep same impractical out fit and all. I felt a rush of emotion and suddenly I started to laugh and couldn’t stop. Looking at the ponies in front of me all I could say was
“I’m back baby!” I walked towards the pack of ponies and I noticed a few of the guards backed up and cringed as I got closer. Once I got to them I looked at Luna walking up to her I rubbed her head. “Finally the height difference is correct again.” I said.
“Yes it is.” Even Luna was acting weird. “So do you have all you powers back?”
“Let’s find out.” I turned my left arm into a blade. Shape shifting, check. Next test was regeneration, so I raised my blade hand and chopped off my right hand. It grew back almost instantly. That confused me because my healing hadn’t been that fast for at least 634 years, and for that matter I felt better overall than I have in centuries. It was like my body and powers were back to the way they were when I was in still in the double digits of age.
“Great! Looks like you’re back to normal!” Luna looked up at me with a huge smile. Though I still saw that weird look in her eyes, it was like she was afraid of me.
“Sure does, should we head home now?”
“Of course.” She turned to look at the head guard. “Thank you for your help.” Luna then turned and headed for the gates out of the prison.
As I walked by the guards they all backed away from me. When I got to Luna’s chariot she was already in it. I climbed in and sat across from her. As we flew back to the palace she kept giving me these nervous stares and wouldn’t make eye contact with me.
After a while I got sick of it. “Luna, what’s going on? Why are you avoiding looking at me? And what’s up with the weird looks?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“Don’t give me that. Did I do something to upset you? Was it the head rub? Sorry if I messed up your mane.”
“That’s not it. It’s what happened while you were absorbing the prisoners.”
“What are you talking about? What happened?”
“It was terrible to see, you took over that one pony touched another and then it just got a bit worse.”
“Luna what are you talking about!? Tell me exactly what was so bad.”
“Well you turned into this blob thing and then you started to almost, eat them. Those prisoners were screaming in terror, some were even crying.”
“That’s it? You feel bad for some low life criminals?” I rolled my eyes at her.
“They were still ponies, I don’t think they deserved the death they received. It looked awful.”
“Seriously? So you’d rather have a few evil ponies die in prison than have me and Celestia fixed?”
“You don’t get it, but then again you’re a creature that seems to lack any sort of empathy.” Luna then turned her head and looked away from me.
We spent the rest of the flight in silence.
When we got back to the palace Luna didn’t talk she just headed for her room. Freak. I do so have empathy, whatever that is.
Empathy is the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion.
Bob? How do you know that?
I like to keep an up to date vocabulary.
Ok then.
So based on that description you lack even the most basic levels of empathy.
Ok, I don’t see how empathy has anything to do with Luna hating me.
Because, Luna has a lot of empathy. There for your lack of it makes you seem heartless to her.
Ok well any ideas on how I can fix this dispute with Luna?
Hey, I don’t know any more about mares than you.
Wow, thanks.
I guess I’ll just give her some space for a bit. It’s pretty late may as well go to bed. Out of habit I almost walked towards the stair case to Luna’s room. When I got to my room it almost felt unfamiliar. I just climbed into bed and fell asleep.
I slept amazingly. When I got up for breakfast I bumped into Luna.
“Hey Luna.” I gave her a friendly smile.
“Hey.” She said looking to the side of me.
“Luna, this is silly.”
“What?”
“How we’re acting, I mean we had been getting along great for weeks, then one little incident happens and suddenly you hate me.”
“I don’t hate you, I just want some space for a bit.”
“Ok, sure.” I stepped to the side to let her by.
So it’s been three days since I got my body back. I was walking down the hall towards the dining hall talking to Cadence. She was telling me about how she and Shiny were planning to bring their relationship out in the open.
“Aw but that will take away my one method of black mail against you.” I said jokingly.
“Sean, I’d like to think that we’ve become friends over the years. You have no need to black mail me anymore.”
“I know, I was kidding. But it’s about time, I mean seriously you’ve been seeing him for a few years now.”
“Yes but I’ve been worried what other ponies will think about a princess being with the guard captain.”
“Who cares? Tell you what, if any one gives you a hard time about it tell me and I’ll have a chat with them. Especially if it’s Blueblood, I haven’t smacked him around for a while.”
Cadence smiled. “Of course Sean.”
When we got to the dining hall Luna was waiting. “Ah there you are Sean.”
“Hi Luna, so are we on speaking terms yet?”
“Yes. I’ve had time to think about it and realized you had no control over what happened.”
“Ok then, so what do you want?”
“Before lunch we need to go fix my sister.”
I’ll be honest I’m surprised that Celestia has been so quiet for almost a month and a half now, then again that ring on her horn is supposed to do that.
Luna and I were walking through the dungeon until we came to the cell Celestia was being held in. The guards opened the doors and we walked in. Celestia was chained to the wall completely immobilized. When we walked in she looked at us.
“Well look who it is, my traitorous sister and her pet human.”
“What’d you call me?” I glared at her I took a step towards her.
“Sean, don’t let her rile you up.” Luna put a hoof in front of me.
“Fine.” I stepped back crossing my arms.
“Ooh, look at that taking orders from Luna are you? You really are her pet.” Celestia laughed.
It took a lot of self-control to keep from lunging at her. Guess I better fix her before I end up killing her. I walked up to her and placed my hand on her head. I then began to drain the magic from her. Just like my healing it happened a lot faster and easier. When I drained all it out of her Luna walked up to me with a crystal ball.
“Here put the magic into this, we don’t want it possessing you.” I did as she said and suddenly the crystal ball turned pitch black. It even had an evil air around it. It was pretty freaky.
So about an hour after I cured Celestia she woke up. We hadn’t unchained her just in case she was still crazy. She looked around, then at us, she pulled at her chains.
“Luna.” She looked up at Luna.
“Yes sister?” Luna asked nervously.
“Why am I chained to a wall!?”
“You mean you don’t remember?” Luna told Celestia all about her going crazy. Sadly she even brought up me being a lizard and the incident with the children. That got Celestia laughing and there was a bit of mocking. Strangely she left out how I got my body back.
Anyway, after we freed Celestia she tried to stand up. And she nearly fell over, I guess weeks of no movement weakened her muscles. I ended up having to support her as we left the dungeon. Well, seems like everything is back to normal. Finally I can get back into my nap schedule. I just realized I haven’t had lunch yet, I need my daily sugar or else I just feel empty inside.