//------------------------------// // Chapter 59: Digging Through Memories. // Story: The Last Human // by Blackdragn18 //------------------------------// “Just as I thought.” Celestia removed her horn from Twilights head. “What?” Twilight had decided to tell the others about her nightmare this time. “Sean has put some sort of spell on you. It seems he set it so you would see his past.” “Can you get it off?” “I’m sorry Twilight. This magic is far stronger than mine.” Celestia looked at her disappointed. “How is that possible?” Luna looked surprised. “It was put there by Sean.” Patch Celestia spoke. “So?” Normal Celestia asked. “His magic power is ridiculously high. He has had centuries of absorbing magic from the strongest magical beings he could find. He is unmatched in magical capabilities.” “So I’m stuck with this curse on me forever?” Twilight looked at them worried. “Don’t worry, once we beat him you’ll be free.” Cadence comforted her. “Thank you for your hospitality.” Patch Celestia thanked the zebra leader as they prepared to leave the island. “It was no trouble, good luck.” “Well let’s go.” Patch Celestia and Normal Celestia got ready and took off carrying the chariot with the rest of the ponies in it. “Do you think they’ll succeed?” A zebra asked their leader as they watched the ponies fly off. “Yes.” “Shame you won’t live to see if they do or not.” The zebras looked to see a viashino in gold armor, it had a dragon carved into the chest and he had a staff with a dragon head holding a ruby. “Who are you?” The zebra leader asked. “Zirilan. I’ve been sent to punish you.” Then he lifted his staff and the ruby glowed. “What?” Then he heard several roars, he looked in the sky to see at least twenty dragons flying down until they were above the zebra village. “Lord Sean wants this place burned to ashes. Leave no Zebra alive.” Zirilan told the dragon’s before raising his staff and teleporting. Once he was gone the dragons roared and began to fly breathing columns of fire on the village, some flew to the other side of the island. The leader saw columns of smoke all around the island and watched as his zebras and their home was destroyed. “There it is.” Patch Celestia pointed to a cave. “That’s where our army should be taking refuge.” “How’d they know to go here?” Luna asked. “I told them to go to Valkas and find a large cave. Inside there is a door and another large city like the one that was attacked.” “Lord Sean.” Alicorn Twilight looked across the table at Sean, they were currently playing chess like they did every week to help hone her tactical skills and it was his turn. “Yes Twilight?” He took a Rook and took out her Bishop. He then looked at her. “Why did you choose now to attack the zebras? It seems a bit sudden, and for that matter why are your actions so sporadic?” She moved her Queen to take out his Bishop, surprised that he seemed to have made an easy mistake as she was about to beat him. “Twilight, this is all part of a grand design. We are slowly nearing the end game. Soon it will be.” He then moved his Queen behind her forces exploiting the gap she had accidentally made. “Checkmate.” “I may know a weakness of Sean.” Twilight told the group. They had entered the city where they were quickly greeted and offered lunch. “You did!?” Celestia looked surprised. “Yes, in one of those nightmares I saw that he has another Sean inside him that may be able to help if we can wake him up.” “Interesting. So his own little joke may back fire.” Patch Celestia put a hoof to her chin. “And how would we do this?” “I haven’t gotten that far into my plan.” Twilight opened her eyes to see she was in another memory. She had reluctantly gone to sleep to see if she could get more information on the other Sean. Sean was running through a forest quickly looking back and breathing heavily. He looked at his hand which he had pressed against his chest to see it was covered in blood. Then there was a roar, he looked back and saw a manticore burst out of a bush. It saw him and began to give chase. Sean screamed and ran. Then he tripped on a root. “No!” He looked to see the manticore quickly catching up. “I can’t die. Not after I just took control.” Then there was a hiss Sean looked back to see several bipedal lizards jabbing spears at the manticore and hissing. One then stabbed a spear into the manticore’s eye, another tackled it. Once it fell they began to stab it until it was dead. Sean was slowly losing consciousness. The last thing he saw was the lizards approaching him. Sean opened his eyes and looked around. He was in some sort of building, the walls seemed to be made of stone and there were several animal skulls hanging on the walls. “Where am I?” “You are in a safe place.” Sean looked over to see one of the lizards sitting next to him. He realized he was in a bed. He sat up and looked at the lizard. He was green with several spines and next to him there was a wooden staff. “What are you?” “I am a Viashino. We are an ancient race.” “So you live in a dark creepy forest.” “Not by choice. We were forced into hiding centuries ago.” “Why?” “The filthy ponies!” He tightened a scaled fist. “They showed up and slowly began to expand until they came across us. We tried to keep them away but they beat us in numbers and slowly drove us off.” “So you hate the ponies?” “That’s correct.” “My friend, I have a proposition for you.” “Viashinos! Are you tired of the scum known as ponies ruling your land?” The crowd of lizards he had gathered shouted in agreement. “Well, soon justice will be served. I have a plan, a plan to take back your home.” “How?” Someone in the crowd asked. “We will build an army, we will prepare, and when the moment is right we will strike.” The crowd began to look confident. “Why not now?” Another asked. “It’s all in the timing. The ponies are currently trapped in a war against the griffins. The ponies will likely win, but their forces will be severely crippled and Celestia tired from the stress of the war. All I need is your full support and trust, and together we shall bring Equestria to its knees, and begin a new rule. Where the viashino live on top and the ponies are the ones hiding and running.” The crowd began to cheer. Sean climbed into the bed they had offered him. He had felt strange and hoped sleep would offer help. Sean opened his eyes to see he was in some kind of desert. There were several buildings around, it seemed to be some kind of city. “I’m not going to let you do it.” A somewhat shaky voice said. Sean turned to see himself looking at him. “How do you plan to stop me?” Sean looked at himself mockingly. “I’ll beat you in here, then I will take back control and warn the ponies.” He then turned his left hand into a sword and took a fighting stance. Sean noticed he was shaking. “Well, let’s go.” The other him glared and leapt at him swinging his blade arm. Sean dodged and grabbed the hand at the wrist. He then twisted it until it was behind the other Sean’s back and forced him to the ground. “You are so pathetic. No discipline or form.” Sean then put his foot on the others back and pulled at the arm until it tore from the others body and he fell to the ground screaming and bleeding. “I won’t lose.” The other Sean then swept his foot attempting to trip Sean. Sean jumped and landed on his back hearing a crack as the spine broke. He then looked down at his weaker bleeding self. “You aren’t nearly as strong as me. You speak of taking control, but you’re pathetic.” He put more pressure on his back making the other Sean scream. “You are nothing! You are a child, fearing ponies, letting them control you. Now let’s see your true form.” The other Sean began to spark before he shrank and was in his younger body, his usual gloves changed to small fingerless ones, shorts changed to black cargo shorts, a normal shirt, and shorter hair. He looked at Sean with tears in his eyes. “Please.” “You know, I was going to let you live, you could have just been a quiet bit of my subconscious. But no, you just had to try and take control.” He put more pressure on the others back hearing more cracks as ribs broke. “Please, I don’t want to die.” The other Sean trying to push himself up, but in his new form he was far weaker and was easily kept down. “Should have thought about that before you crossed me.” Sean lifted his foot and brought it down full force his foot completely going through the young Sean’s body.