//------------------------------// // Old Dreams Die Hard // Story: A Good Share of Lives // by Sea Pony //------------------------------// The man grin down at me as my eyes got wider. ``So surprise to see me honey? I know I have been a bad man letting you alone all these years.`` He said overdramatically. ``You’re not suppose to be here! Dream killed you fourteen years ago!`` ``Thanks for the spoiler, not that it’s a big surprise anyway. It’s just mean everything have go exactly as planned. As for why I’m alive think about it one second, a time traveller who suddenly found himself alive in the future. How could it be?`` He said sarcarstically with his stupid grin. ``I got it you’re the Time Skip of the past, but you shouldn’t have come here. Now I have the opportunity to create a time paradox where my sister grew up with her father and my mom with her husband!`` I touch the tree the and it quickly turn to ice. A part of his leg was being touched by the ice, but he quickly destroyed the ice with a spiritual orb before using his time travel magic to disapear out of view. I gasp in shock when a hand from behind grab me gently by the neck. ``And I through we had something special! Stop trying to hurt me baby.`` He said, I could fell his arroguant smirk behind my back even if I didn’t saw his face. At the worst of moments my fear of male manifest itself when he was so close of me, I let out a pathetic wimper as I felt his hand touching my fur. ``I am a soldier of the Reapers a puppet who is only used to kill anything that stand on the way of Grim Reaper, yet what you fair the most of me is my gender, you will need to defeat those pathetic fears if you want to defeat us one day.`` The time traveller place a hand on my chest before a bright yellow light erupted from my heart. I scream as a electric sensation course my veins and send me flying on the ground. I pant hard as I laid on my back Time Skip said a last thing before he disapear into another timeline. ``What I did today was for Fluttershy and yourself, but don’t think I will come help you anymore in the future. For this moment forth you are alone with your sister against the Soul Reapers.`` With that he disapear in a yellow cloud of magic. I blink my eyes open and tried to stand up, how could this psycho simply disapear like that as if he had done nothing?! I look down and saw that I was taller than before by a few inches. I place a hoof on my head as strange memories pass through my head. I saw Soft Paw being attacked by wolves, Blue Blood in a giant mechanic armor, I saw mom dancing in a masquerade with the host of my memories, and the strangest of all was mom on a bed with suggestive looking socks. I shuddered at the last memory, I really didn’t need to think of mom in that way. A groan from my left interupt my disturbing throughs. Laying on the ground was a pony that wasn’t there a few seconds ago. He had a green mane with black stripes, a grey coat, dark blue eyes and a peace symbol with two swords crossing each other as a cutie mark. Now that I have a good look at the pony apart from the cutie mark he look a lot like me. There was just a few minor differences. For one he was taller and bulkier, it muzzle was more rectangular instead of round and more gentle like mine and finally the voice I heard from the groan was a lot more masculine than mine. So all in all the pony look like a perfect male version of myself. Normally I would be scare by this fact like for Time Skip not so long ago. But for some strange reason I felt like I knew him more than I realised. ``Eh, are you alright mister?`` I ask tentatively. ``Yeah just alright, I have a bucking headache through.`` I grab his hoof and help him stand on the ground. When he got a good look at me the stallion gasp. ``Whoa! You look familiar, did I see you somewhere?`` The stallion ask curiously. ``I don’t think so, anyway I’m Winter Song. What is your name?`` ``I’m Peace Dreamer, happy to meet you miss Winter.`` He shook my hoof eagerly while I stood mouth agap. This was Peace Dreamer? The father of Meek Sky who had killed Time Skip and abandoned mom and sis? In a fit of rage I slap the stallion on his cheek. ``Ow! What was that for?!`` Dream ask with a glare. ``That for abandoning Fluttershy and my sister Meek Sky for fourteen years!`` As soon as I said that it was as if I saw the life of the stallion crumble before him. ``No! I abandon my fiancée, again?! The first time was when I travel in the future and now this! I have to go!`` With that Dream took off in the sky, I scream after him to not dare aproach my family, but he didn’t seem to listen. - - - - - (Dream POV) Fourteen years, I couldn’t believe it, oh sure the last time I had left for two hundred years. But in that time I had the medalion so I could come back. But now I think I lost it that night against Time Skip. How did I survive? I don’t know. The strangest thing is that I have the memories of somepony else, but all of the memory after my ‘death’ are extremely hazy as if it was all a dream I had a lot of difficulty to remember the details. There was a name that always come back in my head, Winter Song. The same name this mare had could this be possible it is her memories? But why would I share memories with her? I land in front of the Carousel Boutique where I knew my fiancée was from the bits of memories I had. I was happy to see the town was still like I remembered, but there was some ponies I never saw before but that was to expect after all those years. I open the door and the jingle of the bell greet me. ``Welcome to Carousel Boutiquere where- Dream?! Impossible!`` Rarity open her mouth wide in disbelief, I would have find this funny in other circumstance but now I wanted to see my fiancée. ``Is Fluttershy here?`` The white fashionesta nod dumbly in response. I slowly trot upstair and push the door where I heard the voice of ponies. This was where Sweetie Belle room was but I imagine she live on her own now. As soon as the door opened two mares and a filly stare right back at me. I slowly walk to the small filly before I lowered my head. ``Meek Sky is that you?`` I ask bot sad and happy to see her, happy that she grown up to be so beautiful and sad that I missed her entire foalhood. ``Y-yes but who are you?`` She ask unsure, this broke my heart but I should have know she wouldn’t recognise me. ``My name is Peace Dreamer I’m your father I guess, that is if I still deserve to be called that anymore.`` Fluttershy slowly trot in my way as if she was scare that a simple brusque move would make me disapear. I put her in a tight embrace. ``I’m sorry for leaving you shy-shy.`` That did it with that she broke down sobbing like a filly. I had a few tears of my own, this was all my fault if I didn’t fough agaisnt Time Skip I would still live with her and I would have raise Meek Sky. ``M-mom is this really dad?`` Fluttershy nod and immediatly the small teenager gave me a (somewhat) fierce hug. ``I hate to bring this heart warming reunion, but who the fuck is that?`` A mare interupt, Fluttershy took a while to form a coherent response. ``T-This is my fiancée Peace Dreamer and your brother.`` Wait what? ``What? But you said Winter Song was the reincarnation of my brother! How could he be here?! I can’t have two siblings!`` ``Wait you’re my sister? You mean... Jessica is that you?`` I rush to her and gave the tightes hug in the world. ``I through I would never see you again!`` ``Ok calm down one fucking second Sam, firstly I’m not sure if it’s really you and if it is answer me this.`` I nod slowly. ``Why the fuck did you chose to live in a land of magical ponies!`` She scream at the top of her lung. ``Ow! Because I like that place okay? I was alone and there was no way to go back home where else could I go?`` ``I don’t know maybe a place with humans?!`` ``I’m sure at my place you would have go to one of those world full of vampires you like so much like the world of Buffy the vampire hunter, or worse Vampire Diaries.`` She roll her eyes at me. ``Well at least they are cool not like these ponies`` She said pointing a hoof at Fluttershy. ``Hey it’s my fiancée you’re talking about!`` I glare angrily. ``You where going to marry a farm animal?! Don’t tell me this is your kid too, that just disgusting!`` She point at Meek Sky who visibly shrink at the glare my sister gave her, oh no she didn’t just said that. ``Leave.`` ``What?`` She raise a eyebrow at me. ``Leave right now Jessica, I don’t know what happen to you sister but if you can’t accept my family we have nothing to talk about. I through you were better than that but it’s seem like the years have transform you into a bigot.`` ``You can’t kick me out, I’m your sister!`` ``GET THE FUCK OUT!`` I roared at her, her eyes widden before she ran out of the house. As soon as my anger vanish a wave of guiltyness hit me, she may have become a bigot but she’s still my sister. ``Dream you shouldn’t have scream at her like that, I know what she said was wrong, but she came from the Gaia branch and not every humans coming from a mortal world are as open mind as you.`` Fluttershy said with a frown. ``I know, I guess I got defensive but nopony have the right to talk about you and Meek Sky as if you were simple farm animals.`` The door open once again, I was about to apologise to my sister but I saw that the one who open the door wasn’t Jessica. ``Hey mom I saw the weird mare of earlier galloping out of the boutique did something happen?`` The mare from earlier ask, then she look at me. ``You again? How dare you come back here after abandoning everypony!`` I tried to create a spiritual shield to protect myself but I felt no power at all coming from me. Fortunately Fluttershy put herself in front of me and the mare stop her charge immediatly. ``It’s ok Winter, it’s not his fault that he was gone.`` ``Of course it his fault! He took the chalenge of Time Skip even through he knew he would probably be killed just because he wanted to play the hero!`` I wince at that. ``But you have to understand that Time Skip- wait how do you know he provoke Dream in duel? Even I didn’t knew that.`` Fluttershy ask with a strange expression. ``Well since he came back I have these strange memories in my head that tell me what he did before I was born.`` The mare version of myself respond. ``Wait how did you come back?`` Fluttershy ask me surprised she didn’t ask earlier. ``I... Don’t know I have some memories of Winter Song too but I don’t remember everything.`` Fluttershy turn her attention back to Winter who rub her head nervousely. ``I may have kinda ran into Time Skip he didn’t hurt me per se but I think he touch my spark in a strange way and before I know it this guy was there laying on the ground.`` Winter point a hoof at me when she said the last part. ``You ran into Time Skip?! You could have been killed! I would not be able to handle losing neither of you again!`` ``He wouldn’t have kill her.`` I interupt Fluttershy who look at me as if I was insane. ``Time Skip saw in me or more precicely in Winter Song a way to protect Equestria from the Soul Reapers, that why he attack me all those years ago. He wanted to test if my powers was really able to fight them, when he saw I was able to defend myself he provoke me in duel. ``He wanted me to kill them since the begining. I think he couldn’t handle being chased by the council and working for the Reapers. So he took the easy way out. But for a reason I never knew Fluttershy was really important for him and he choosed you and Meek Sky to protect her and the rest of Equestria. ``And that when you were born Winter, Fluttershy took care of you, I think most ponies think you were still me but as a filly. But they are wrong you are not me at all. Even with the little I know of you I can tell you becamed your own pony and it would be wrong to say you’re suppose to be me.`` ``Eh, as If I need you to tell me that, of course I’m not you I’m way too awesome to be related in anyway to a human in Equestria.`` ``Hey! That not how you respond to a emotional monologue!`` Meek Sky and Fluttershy both giggle at our display. Me and the mare where soon to join them, I will have to do a lot to forgive myself for having abandoned my family, but right now it felt like nothing could go wrong.