As Bryan was walking through the town to City Hall a few ponies kept asking questions like; "What are you?" "How did you do all that?" etc.
There are times when I like big crowds, and there are times when I don't. This is one of the later moments. Bryan thought, being rather uncomfortable, And I thought I had a zillion questions going through my head during the Shandor Saga, these ponies have got more questions than a beginner mother trying to find a babysitter!
Eventually, he made it and gave a sigh of relief as he was finally away from the crazy ponies.
"Not that I don't mind the attention and would love to answer their questions I NEED to speak to the town mayor right now. I've got a few questions of my own I'd like answered." Bryan said to himself
Bryan turned around to find himself in front of Mayor Mare.
"GAHHHH!!!!" Bryan screamed, "Jesus you scared me!"
"My apologies. I intended to speak to you as soon as you came in but you looked to be talking to yourself so I didn't want to interrupt. I'm Mayor Mare. The leader of this town."
"I'm Bryan Welsh, and as you can guess I'm not from this world."
"You aren't?"
"I'm actually from another world. My colleagues I and just got through dealing with a ghost god that was threatening to destroy our world, but during the blast back to our world I got separated from them."
"I see."
"You seem to be pretty calm despite talking to someone who isn't from this world."
"I've had to deal with a lot in my lifetime Mr. Welsh. Things rarely surprise me anymore."
"I can see that... Why were you going to speak to me anyway?"
"The Town Hall might be far, but I could see everything going on from outside my office."
"Oh... I see."
"I was going to host a celebration for you for saving our town from the Ursa before it could do any real harm, but.... it looks like that might be a bit of a bad idea."
"Ever since I defeated that Minor they've been asking me all kinds of questions and just won't leave me alone."
"They tend to do that when they come in contact with the unknown. It's just natural instinct after all."
"I know but the bombardment is just making me so uncomfortable. If they wanna ask me questions, I'm happy to answer them, but I'd much prefer it to be in a more organized manner than this."
"I could arrange a town meeting for you to do so."
"That would be nice."
I will admit this is not what I was expecting, but then again this is a new world I'm in. For all, I know it could run by a completely new set of rules. If it does? Oh boy, the studying's gonna be more of a killer than it was back in college... At least the idea of the town meeting shouldn't scare me. College pretty much killed me of stage fright. Plus, I'm a Ghostbuster, I can't let myself be scared easily, that just sends off a bad sign to the franchise as a whole! Bryan thought, If possible though I probably should open up a branch here so that I can keep track of my equipment better and make a little cash on the side to work on finding a way back. The other Busters would kill me for doing it if they found out, but right now I've not really got that much of a choice. I need to find a way back, and it looks like that might be my only option if I wanna get closer to home. I'm not really qualified in any sort of other job and this one is the only one I know to do..... mostly. I just hope things don't go too badly here. The last thing I wanna do is become a ghost myself in this world.
"I'll arrange the town meeting for tomorrow morning. For now, you can rest in the Town Hall since it's getting rather late. Don't worry. Town Hall is the safest place you could be."
Usually when people say that bad things happen. I'm willing to bet my proton pack that there's a ghost here in this building. There's just something off about this place that gives me the creeps too much to let this thought slide. I'll need to check when she's gone through and the night's befallen onto the building. The last thing I need is for suspicion to be thrown at me after everything that's happened.
After nighttime hit and Bryan made sure everyone was gone he began his investigation of the Town Hall. He searched room after room but the green spikes kept fluctuating.
"Just like the Spider Queen, it's coming from everywhere and nowhere. Impossible to tell where it's coming from, but there's DEFINITELY a ghost here."
And once again he searched and searched until he found the basement and saw an open black slime portal driving the PKE Meter crazy. He quickly put it out with the Slime Blower Mk II but quickly pulled the PKE Meter back up and found the wings going up slightly and the spikes changing from green to red.
"There you are." Bryan smirked
Bryan quickly followed the trail leading him straight into the Mayor's office.
"What the? Why's the trail going down again? Wait a minute..."
The rookie then went over to an odd looking book in one of the bookshelves and pulled it out, only for it to make a click and go sideways to reveal a hidden staircase.
"Oh boy. It's the library all over again." Bryan went, "Let's just hope there are no Paper Construct ghosts down there."
As he descended the stairs he kept noticing more and more nighttime imagery on the walls and even the stairs themselves. Soon enough when he reached the bottom he found what looked to be a shrine with the words "NIGHT TIME ETERNAL WILL REIGN ONCE AGAIN" over it.
"Someone's lost their tiny little mind..." Bryan groaned
But, he quickly noticed something on the shrine. A book. .... Wait.... book?
"Ray I'm not entirely convinced that this is the best course of action....." went Egon
"Hey! I'll bet you this is a trap!" Ray quickly realized
"Welcome back Ray." Egon commented
That better not be what I think it is...
Bryan went up to the book and breathed a sigh of relief when it didn't spring to life on him. The less he needed to deal with the better. But despite that, he couldn't make heads or tales of what the book was. It was written in weird hieroglyphs, but the illustrations seemed to tell the story of two ponies. One who controlled the sun, and one who controlled the moon. Probably sisters given their physical appearance and joint themes. The sun sister looked to be worshiped by many, but the moon sister was shunned and not given the same love as the ponies slept through the night. The sun sister tried to reason with the moon sister, but let darkness befell her heart and transform into a creature of darkness and vowed to reign eternal night upon the ponies. The sun sister managed to defeat her with the use of six magical gems and banished the moon sister to the moon where the sun sister took up her sister's duties and controlled both the moon and sun for years to come.
"That's an..... interesting story." Bryan went, "But what does it have to do with anything?"
The PKE meter started going crazy!
"What the?!" Bryan went as he looked around with it.
"W-WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!"
Something was coming from the walls. Something black.
"NOOOO GOD! NO GOD PLEASE NO, NOT AGAIN!" Bryan cursed
But, it wasn't black slime. Instead, it looked to be a shadow version of the Moon Sister from the story. Doing a quick scan showed these statistics:
Shadow Nightmare
Class: Class VI Transformed Composite
Weakness: Shock Blast, Stasis Stream
Attack: Melee, Charge
Special: Can teleport
Oh boy...... Bryan thought meekly as he put away the PKE and pulled out the proton stream and switched it on where he switched it to the shock blast and the overlay showed red, That's a good reassurance... I think.
The Shadow Nightmare then made a charge and Bryan braced himself as he used the stasis stream.