May 1st
When I awoke, I checked to see if my eyes were better.
Nope, they were worse.
Also new was the fact that my hair had begun to look bluish. I was a bit perturbed, but I still had to get dressed. As I did, I looked around myself and my clean room.
“How boring.” I said to myself and proceeded to take some clothes and throw them around a bit.
“Eh not a bad start.”I thought
After getting dressed I looked in the mirror. I looked like a tie dye factory blew up! Catching myself, I looked at my room.
“Why is it a mess?” I thought I had cleaned it, I was sure I did. After cleaning the mess of clothes around me and changing into something less colorful, I went to my kitchen to make something to eat. As I munched down I was thinking towards tonight, what with Alex's birthday I wanted to treat him pretty well. After all, it is only once a year that we can celebrate our birthdays, and me and him have known each other since high school and have been rivals in everything but with only friendly competition. What's funny is that some people thought we were gay for each other, fighting like we did and laughing afterwards. (Yeah my school was full of rednecks who couldn't figure out one plus one is two and not eleven and anything that even remotely looked suspicious was branded as gay.) But no we're friends and that is it.
By noon it seemed as if my eyes were finished with their strange tricks and my hair was strangely shorter yet longer in some parts, and had turned into a purple hue. At first I was questioning it, that was when I decided to look it up on google and see if I couldn't find anything about what I was sick with. I searched through every medical database I could find, and with a huff gave up and went to the bathroom.
After doing the business I had to take care of, I looked in the mirror and hung my head. Out of the corner of my eye I saw that my reflection didn't follow, I looked up and made some faces, turned my head around and saw that it followed me, Then as I turned my head left for a profile I saw my mouth say
“My, my, what has Discord done to me?”
I jumped back, I don't think I said that, did I? It sounded like me.
I looked at my reflection but nothing strange happened. I quickly left the bathroom and walked back to my computer. That was when I had a sudden urge to watch the last episode of My Little Pony (don't ask why.) The story opened up with a shining moon and then panned to the ground. It was here that I saw the whole ordeal. I was sitting by the old oak waiting for Discord to show up, wondering why he had invited me. Then the next scene showed us fighting, me being the voice of reason, (Ha! Think of it a draconequus, being the voice of reason. How silly!) Then the next scene was myself on the ground beaten to a bloody pulp. (How did that get past the censors?) Then it showed Entropy dematerializing in the mists of the forest. Then the opening credits showed up with their normal banter, and the episode played out like normal. Discord tossed Celestia into the pit, went after Luna and Twilight then Shining then the others, and finally it showed Discord over the map of equestria, laughing hysterically then looked at me saying,
“I won, as I said I would!”
Then it cut to the ending credits. My blood felt like it was boiling with anger, and fear for someone, like I was scared for their safety. As if! I am Entropy I don't need anyone else I just need to get back at ….
What the hell am I thinking!?!
After that little episode I decided that some sweet tea was in order, and after chugging down two glasses of the liquid sugar and plant leaf concoction famous in the south, I had my wits back with me and noticed that it was about 3 in the afternoon. Boy, time sure flies when you’ve lost your mind, but I still had a party to go to and besides without my parlor tricks, how could Alex even get any girls to feel bad that he isn't as smart as me? But that's why I am here, to make sure she got flustered trying to get girls, besides ol' Spaz has one thing he is good for and that's for a good show when shes trying to entertain the ladies. But I still need to think of what to get him perhaps a good book after all I know she likes his dirty secret of romance novels. or perhaps I need to get her a date book so as to keep the dates planned out. Nah I don't think so. I find it fun to see Alex go around like a chicken with its head cut off.
I was about to leave when I looked at myself in the mirror again, this time staring it down saying,
“I don't know what happened but it will not happen again!”
And as I left I thought I heard myself saying
“Ha! That's what you think Ed.”
May 1st ,2020
Alex's POV
“FRACTAL!”
I screamed as I jolted up right, panting gasping for breath. I don't really remember my dream, but obviously “fractal” was important, most likely it was a nightmare about math again. I looked at the clock on my bedstand, it was only 5:00 in the morning, “Well Alex you're not getting any more sleep.” So I got up, and got ready for my birthday. Thankfully due to my mother always teasing me I knew my exact time of birth, which was twelve hours from now, and that meant 12 hours of being 24 still. I had the day off so I could celebrate my birthday, but that still meant work tomorrow and it was going to be a doozy of a day what with ten parties going on.
After I made myself something to eat I hopped in my car and headed towards the beach. Yeah, Pensacola has the whitest sands anywhere along the Eastern seaboard of the United States, but the beach is more of a giant stationary sand bar with little to no vegetation, but it still is the best place to see a sunrise. After paying the bridge toll to get across, I wound up near an area called the Maritime Forest. it's here that normally you will find underage drinking,couples kissing under the moonlight, and the like but thats only at around midnight. By the time I got there the sun was just about to banish the shadows of the night. I quickly went to the waters edge and sat myself down in the famous white sands of pensacola and watched the sun rise. With the clouds around you can't help but remember that old mariners proverb “red sky at morning sailor take warning, red sky at night sailors’ delight” but with the clouds a crimson red with pink and blue and a few hints of orange in it, I could not help but think,
~My, Celestia must have been bored to come up with this masterpiece.~
What did I just think? I shook my head and when I looked out the sun already was just above the water so getting up I went to my car to head back home.
It was a little past 2 pm when I walked into the already packed club, and throughout the day I felt off, beginning when I woke up, and intensifying when I saw the sun come up. But I pushed it aside, it was my birthday and I knew that when Ed showed up our little tradition would begin, he would show off his magic tricks to girls and I would try to figure his magic out and in turn get the ladies. So far this form of pick up has back fired more than I care to mention(admit?), but I still try because occasionally I get his little magic act right and he has to admit defeat. It only happened one time though, and that was because he messed it up. Speaking of Ed I found him already at a table shuffling a deck of cards he was wearing sunglasses though for some reason and his hair had slight purplish tint that could be from the lighting, but why he had on sunglasses I could not tell.
“Ah if it isn't my dear friend Alex” Ed said in his sing song voice
“Hey Ed, what's with the glasses, you know its going to be dark in there”
“Just wanted the cool factor” he said as he grinned his teeth looked strange yet normal like something was off. What is it with me today?
“What ever you always were a little loony when it comes to off work”
“Well what can I say I am Entrop-ic, yeah that’s the word, entropic” I eyed him suspiciously, something seems off with him like he's hiding something, while his guard is down I swipe his glasses off his face, what looked back at me was the weirdest form of lazy eye mixed with jaundice. If I didn’t know any better I would say,
“Your high aren't you!” I accused him.
“I am not high! I woke up this morning looked in the mirror and BOOM crazy eyes were what welcomed me”
“Well keep the glasses on you'll scare off the chicks”
“Don't lay an egg Alex, I’ll keep them on.”
It soon was 4:55 and Ed had showed his mastery of magic, with me again as the dumb guy . I was never able to explain his tricks, that is until when one of the girls asked him to try and hypnotize me.
“I can't do that I can only mess with physical things” Ed said, trying to back away from the challenge. I was thoroughly smashed by this time. (Seville’s flaming hurricanes are probably to blame for that.) but I myself wanted to see if he could hypnotize me.
“Come on Ed(hic)dy try it.” I dared. At this, Ed then proceeded to take his finger and place it front of my eyes I watched closely.
“follow my finger back and forth” he said as his hand moved in the direction he said,
“left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right, lef...”
~ The first thing I feel is loss.
“Fractal!”
I scream into the tumult of ponies. Houses were flipping around in the air, and chairs were chasing ponies and animals alike. Above us, laughing his head off, is Discord,
“Fractal where are you!?!”
I scan the crowd again but I can not see his trademark green mane nor his almost hypnotic cutie mark,
“FRACTAL!”
All of a sudden, my head swims as I am lifted up by my barrel like I was a toy in some claw game. As I twisted around, I saw the devil himself with his twisted and sadistic grin.
“Oh my look what I’ve won!” Said Discord as he grabbed me nearly crushing my body. The pain was intense I stared at him.
“What have you done to my Fractal!?”
“Fractal?” Asked Discord “I know no one of the name”
“Quit playing tricks you snake!”
“My, my, what spice. What hatred towards me. I can not allow that type of mare to be in my new kingdom, don't you think, Spaz?”
How did he know my name? Either way I spat in his eye.
I quickly fell about two stories, shattering my already cracked ribs. Gasping for breath, I prepared to fight this madpony. All he did was take out his eye, take a cloth out and wipe my spit from it. After replacing his eye, he glared at me and slapped me against a wall leaving me a bloody mess on the ground. Somepony tries to help me, but Discord turned him into a ball and threw him out of the way. As he walked closer, I could hear him say something, but my mind raced with only one thought.
“Fractal I hope your okay”~
May 2 2020
~Oh dear God Almighty someone shut the sun off!~ I thought to myself, by the fact that my eyes hurt like hellfire, I knew first off that I was hungover. Beside my bed I found a note written by Ed
“ If you are reading this then that means that you have predictably over slept. But no worry, I called Janet and told her that you had one too many flaming hurricanes. She understood and she says to consider this a present.
Signed, Entropy Ed”
Oh great that's what I need. I got up and went to my kitchen. When I got in there I saw Ed making some coffee, after a greeting I grabbed a cup of joe. But after the first taste of the brown pick-me-up my stomach instantly rejected it, causing me to rush to the bathroom.
After emptying the contents of my stomach, I was resting by the toilet and looking over the mess I made when I spotted something on my hip. Focusing my will power, I nudged the jeans down to show me what it was.
“Oh that Ed is dead!” I said.
As I looked at the offending tattoo I will admit it was of decent make, and who ever did it, did it well. Because I did not feel a single thing. The tattoo looked like one of those cartoon twisters, kind of like when they were in a rush to do something, and turned into a whirlwind. I looked at it and called out,
“ED YOU WENT TOO FAR!”as rivals we always try to out prank each other but this went into overkill territory.
“What hath I done?” Ed asked.
“You come here and see what!” I walked out of the bathroom as he walked into the hallway. That was when I noticed something, his hair had gotten longer on one side and shorter on the other, also it was more purple now, and his eyes now had a look of “complete madness controlled”, and he seemed taller and walked on his toes alot but he didn't seem to notice.
“You will pay for the laser surgery to get this tattoo off of me.” I showed the whirlwind to him. He produced a magnifying glass from somewhere and started examining it,
“I would gladly undo this. If it was me that had done it in the first place Spaz. But this is not a tattoo as you can see,” he poked it .“It doesn't hurt like a normal tattoo.”
I looked at Ed with malice, because it was bad enough that he did this when I was drunk, but its even worse that he won't confess to it as well.
As we argued back and forth he kept calling me Spaz and Alex interchangeably, but he went too far when he used words like he and she interchangeably as well,
“Will you stop that Ed!” I finally cracked.
“Stop what, defending my honor that I did not do such a low ball trick as to put a cutie mark on you?”
“Stop calling me Spaz and calling me a girl!”
“I have done no such thing, Spaz”
“There you go again” at this Ed stopped closed his eyes and thought about something
“Also what is a cutie mark ? Some sort of sick twisted name for a tattoo?”
He still had his eyes closed, as if planning what to say next.
He opened his eyes again but now they were normal and almost begging for help. My anger was lost at the sight. As he blinked again, they returned to their old state, and he sat down asking for me to sit down as well and said,
“Spaz-er- alex you need to listen to me, something is happening to me, and apparently it is happening to you as well.” I asked him what it was.
“What was your last memory last night?”
God I don't want to remember it, the loss of it, the hurt, the pain. I don't want to remember or recount it. but I told him it
“What I thought and feared” he said
“I too have had a dream like that as well but it was much more gruesome.” He looked at me and said “As for the entire explanation I have a feeling that you're going to need to watch a show that I watched. and don't laugh because it might clear up some things for you as well.”
“And what is that?” i asked
“My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!” he said in a flourish
I looked at him like he just turned into a pink elephant.
“You're joking.”.