The early night sky still had some color to it. All the reds, pinks and oranges are now being slowly washed away by the light and dark blues of the oncoming night. I have a good view of all of this, since I am currently hanging outside of Twilight’s study window as my bag straps are still trying to wrap themselves around my throat. But still, the view is nice.
It has only been a minute or two since I jumped out of Twilight’s study window trying to escape from her house and avoid being questioned by her along with Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Pinkie Pie. During that time, I had been trying to figure out some ideas on how to escape from being strangled by my bag.
One idea involved me simplify reaching over and trying to dislodging the bag from whatever it is caught on, however for all I could know the bag could be out of my reach and that is not even the worst part, I might have to let go of the strap that my left hand is currently holding onto to try and reach the bag, choking me as I’m trying to pull it out of the window.
Another idea I had involved me using both of my feet and push off the wall so I go horizontal in the air for a second and just slip out of the strap that way. But again there are flaws with that idea. One of the main ones is that it might cause too much noise, while the other is that I might lose my bag if I’m not quick enough to grab it and lastly I might knock myself out once I hit the ground.
Of course I could just emit defeat, call out for help and hope that Twilight and the others hear me and come and get me and just be subdued to their questioning. At least I get to keep all of my stuff… until they try and take it from me that is.
I tried moving my right arm again to see how much movement I had while it is locked in placed over my head. It was not much. I couldn’t move that arm back to reach my bag and like previously can’t reach the bag strap that I’m just barely keeping away from my throat, if I could I wouldn’t still be hanging around here. I would have let out a groan at that pun I just made but I got more pressing matters to deal with. The only thing I could do with that arm is point it up straight into the air. I thought about seeing if I could reach the top of the window and then try pulling myself back up on the window ledge, but it out of my reach. Bloody typical.
However as I tried to reach the top of the window, I started to feel that arm slipping from my coat sleeve and as that happen, a new plan stared to form in my head. If I can slip that arm out of my trench coat then I should be able to slide out of the bag straps since that arm wouldn’t be caught in it anymore. My arm continued slipping down the sleeve until it stopped just as my hand just finished disappearing into it and from what I can feel, it seems that my elbow is now caught on the hole the arm goes through. I tried to move a bit to see if I could dislodge my elbow, but it wasn’t enough. So I started twisting myself a bit to see if that would help dislodge the elbow and it started to work but it still wasn’t enough. In the end I decided to take a small risk and just use my free hand to reach inside my trench coat and pull the arm hole wide enough so that arm can gets free. Unlike the other idea of using my free hand to blindly reach over trying to dislodge the bag at the cost of maybe hanging myself, while in this plan I know where I’m going at least and I going to be quick about it, so I might be luckily that I won’t choke for that long, at least only for a second or two.
I started taking a few deep breaths, while readying myself to do this. I didn’t like this idea, but it is the only one that has somewhat worked so far and again I’m only going to let go for a second, I kept on reminding myself. Taking one last deep breath and letting it slowly out, my left hand let go of the bag strap, causing it to quickly snap against my throat. As soon as the strap hit my throat, my left hand moved to the inside of trench coat to the right side sleeve hole and pulled just pulled it wide enough to for my elbow to fall out. The next thing I know, I started falling.
All that greeted me on the ground is a bunch of bushes and while they did break my fall somewhat, it didn’t mean that my landing was soft as I ended up with about five sticks poking into my back before I properly hit the ground. Since I’m hidden by the bushes at the moment, I decided to just lay there in there for awhile just so I can catch my breath and also to pull the sticks out from under my back.
I turned my head to the side looking towards the window that I was just hanging from not two seconds ago and found my hat and sunglasses next to me on the ground. They must of have being knocked off when I slipped loose, I lazily conclude to myself as I put my right arm back through the right sleeve of my trench coat, which afterwards I started slowly looking around for my bag since I didn’t hear it drop on the ground when I did. However my bag wasn’t anywhere near me and it didn’t take long before I realize where it was. “Son of a bitch, don’t tell me” I mumbled to myself as I quickly looked out of the bushes to see if anyone is nearby, but no one is around and with that I slowly got myself up and out of the bushes with my hat and sunglasses.
Deciding to put both my hat and sunglasses inside one of my trench coat pockets since there is no point in wear them at the moment, I realized that Twilight’s study window is quite high when you’re just able to see into the room but not the floor, especially when only just a few minutes ago I was just standing in that same room with the window ledge was only just about the same height as my chest if not a bit lower. Standing on my tippy toes trying to see the floor near the window to see if my bag has indeed dropped there but still unable to see, I had to jump up and down a few times just to be able to see area I’m trying to look at and in the end it was true that my bag is in there since I just managed to see my bag strap laying on the floor under the window.
All I wanted to do right now is bang my head against the outside of the library in frustration. But in doing so would again draw attention to myself causing everyone inside of the library to come out here or maybe they would think that I’m one bloody large woodpecker who has a grudge against the library for some reason, which in this case I bloody do since it has place has being fucking me over at every turn.
I knew I couldn’t get back through the study window since I didn’t have the upper body strength to lift myself high enough to get on the window ledge. Hell, I might have had a chance if I had something to stand up on, like a box or something, but nothing like that was around.
Sitting back on the ground with my back against the house realizing that now my plan on getting back home is now completely on hold and all because of my bloody bag. If I had nothing but pens and blank work / art books in it then I could just abandon it, even the bag wouldn’t be a major loss since I got it for free but that not the case here. It just that the bag holds all of my character modeling work for my job which I can’t afford to lose, my own personal work and stuff that I worked hard to pay for. I actually wish that my bag stayed back in my apartment then that way I wouldn’t be having this problem now. Though thinking more about it, it kind of weird that only my bag, jacket, coat and hat were the only things to come over here, I mean why didn’t my couch come over? I mean I was sleeping on it after all. But to be honest, I didn’t really care at the moment; all I care about is getting my bag and then getting back home.
Ok, think. How do I get my bag back? I asked myself. Well, I could just wait around here in the brushes until Twilight finds out that I’m missing. That way once she knows I’m gone, everyone inside would be out trying to find me and then all I have to do is just get back into the house after they have left and grab my bag. However after re-thinking through it a few times, problems started jumping out in front of me.
The first problem is if someone stays back at the library. Now if Fluttershy was here or even coming around and decided to stay back, then maybe I could of just scare her stiff long enough to grab my bag, even though I don’t like the idea of using her very timid nature against her, it just doesn’t feel right but that not the problem here. What the problem here is that I could end up facing down one of the others from the Main six who are not that easy to intimidate. If it Applejack or Rainbow Dash then they could just take me down by force if they need too and it will likely pop up that I might have already met these two earlier on in the day. If it Twilight, she won’t hesitate in using any sort of magic to capture me but I doubt it will get that far out of hand, she will more than likely try to reason with me or something along those lines and leaving her magic as a last resort. With Rarity, I think she will be in the same boat as Twilight as to what might happen with her, but if I’m luckily maybe I can try and bluff my way through Rarity since she hasn’t seen me yet, but that is unlikely since she might see through it. Then there is Pinkie Pie and I have no idea what she will do if I run into her, maybe she just talk me to death or just give me one of those back breaking bear hugs of hers to subdue me.
The second problem is if Twilight or one of the others takes my bag with them while out searching for me, which wouldn’t surprise me to be honest which means that the only way to get it back is by finding out which one has it and confront them, which won’t end well for me at all.
The third problem is if none of the first two problems pop up, then the only other problem that would stop me is if Twilight casts that same spell on the library as last time it will be trapping my bag inside and preventing me from getting it back.
While the fourth and final problem is in the very unlikely case that all the above doesn’t occur, then I can just go in and grab my bag. But then afterwards I have to figure out how I’m going to get out of town without being seen by any of the Main six seeing me.
I don’t know what to do. Honestly, I’m just looking at four dead ends at this point. I mean, with the bag being still in the library and someone being inside, there will major chance that I end up getting into a fight whether it is with fists or magic, it will happen and I always try to avoid a fight as best as possible, unless a mate of mine is in some type of trouble and needs back up or its in self defence. But still, fighting is not my way of doing things and I don’t like the idea of fighting against women, even though they have an advantage over me at this stage since they know how to use their abilities compare to me. So that’s a bust. The same could be said about one of them taking the bag with them while out searching for me, again the only way I’ll be able to get my bag back is if I use force and since it will be unlikely that whoever has it will just hand it over if I ask them nicely to… yeah that won’t end well for me. As for that “magical lockdown” spell Twilight used last time, there is no way I can get into the house while it is up. Lastly even if none of that happens and I can just grab the bag, I still have to deal with the Main six looking for me around the town, leaving me with no way to escape this town without being seen by anyone of them.
But what about if I hide until they stop searching for me?
I thought about this idea for a bit and to be honest, it does sound like a good idea. Not fool proof mind you, but solid enough that it might work. Sooner or later Twilight will find out that I’m missing and she will want to start a search party to find me. So instead of trying to get my bag while the Main six is out looking for me, I’ll just hide somewhere where they’re not either going to find me or look. Then after the search is called off, all I got to do is wait some more until later on in the night and get in the library before Twilight lock down her house with that spell of hers then just grab my bag and get out before that happen.
But where do I hide though?
I can’t hide on any of the roof tops in town because Rainbow Dash will be able to see me straight away and hiding around the library would a stupid since everyone would start looking around there for clues. Twilight knows about my plan for the train station, so I can’t hide there or the area around it and I can’t get to the Everfree Forest since its too far on foot, plus if I did manage to get to the forest without Dash seeing me, then there is the chance that I could end up being seen by Fluttershy, which if Twilight told her what I look like, she will tell Twilight where I was heading then they won’t hesitate into following me into the forest and the sad thing is that would have been a great place to hide. On the other hand, I could hide out at Sweet Apple Acres in one of it far off orchards away from the Apple family house, their barn and the town, but again it will be just like the Everfree Forest idea, where Dash might see me while she is in the air and I might be seen be someone and it will be more than likely that Twilight will start asking people if they have seen me and if they had, they point to where I headed off to.
But what about the Cutie Mark Crusaders club house?
If my time line of this universe is correct, then it should abandoned at the moment since Applejack hasn’t shown it to them yet, so only she would know about it, so it is unlikely that she wouldn’t think that I’m hiding out there since she doesn’t know that I know about it. Hiding there would rule out some of the risks of hiding at Sweet Apple Acres since whoever sees me going there, won’t know that I’m head for the abandoned tree house, although now there is another problem takes it place since I don’t know where the tree house is within the apple orchard.
What about Applejack’s truck?
From what I saw of it, the back half is covered pretty well so all I have to do is lay down in the back so I won’t be seen and if there is stuff in the back that I can use either to hide under or behind, the more the better. Plus as an added bonus, if Applejack drives off for some reason to go somewhere then I can catch a ride with her in the back increasing the chance of not being found. The only two flaws I can see with this plan is if I get seen by someone when I’m hopping into the back of her truck or if Applejack looks in the back and sees me, that’s if there is nothing to hide behind or under that is.
But now here is the million dollar question, how am I going to go about getting into the back of the truck? I thought. I haven’t heard the study door open yet or heard any loud sounds either that could have sounded panicky, so I guessing that it is safe to say that Twilight doesn’t know that I’m missing yet and that they are still in the main room of the library… maybe, for all I could know they might be in Twilight room or in her basement. But that’s not the point I’m trying to make here. What the problem here now is that if they are in the main room then they might see me walk out to the truck from the front windows as I did earlier with Rarity.
As I sat on the ground, I notice that the bushes that I’m hiding in seem to go all the way around Twilight house, plus the brushes are quite high as well, maybe reaching about three feet or so in height. I could use them to sneak around to the front of the library, just as long as I crawl through the bushes I should be alright; I just need to avoid making too much noise once I get out the front, but if I’m heard then maybe they’ll pass it off as a small animal or something, it should be common enough that Twilight hears small animals moving through either the bushes or higher up in the tree.
If I start crawling toward the front of the house from where I’m currently sitting, I’ll end up being on the front side of the truck and not the back like I wanted, plus I got to add in that the truck is parked across the street, so I got to cross the street and then walk around to the side of the truck that is facing away from the library and hop into the back that way. So its better off that I go around to the other side of the tree so that all I need to do once I reach the front on that side is just get across the street and quickly jump into the back of the truck.
Deciding to go with that plan, I quickly got up and just managed to reach in through the window and quietly closed both of them since Twilight would have remembered that her study window was closed or not. Once that was done, I got back on the ground and started crawling around to the other side of the library. It wasn’t difficult to crawl along the ground and I managed to quietly move any branches out of the way as I crawl through them and I am kind of thankful that I have my trench coat on, as it prevented me from getting stabbed or cuts from the branches that I passed.
Once I got to the back room window that I tried opening earlier, I decide to have a quick peek inside just to see where the Main six are within the library. However for some reason though, the doorway to the back room has half a bookcase blocking my line of sight into the main room which wasn’t there before. If I had to take a guess, then I bet that the back room can be closed off from the main room of the library. Because of this I could only managed to see Rainbow Dash, sitting down in one of the wooden chairs, rocking her chair backwards and forwards, while Applejack is leaning up against one of the bookcases, close to where Dash is sitting. Everyone else through, I won’t hazard a guess and say that Twilight, Rarity and Pinkie Pie are in the room with them somewhere, seeing how Dash is looking pretty bored at the moment.
After peeking through the back window, I continued onward with my brush crawling. It didn’t take me long to get to another window, this one being closer to the front of the library giving me a good view of the back end of Applejack truck and being way lower than Twilight’s study window.
“—you need to start explaining what is going on and why you felt the need to lie to us into come here!”
Was that Rarity just now and what this about lying?
“Yeah and you said that Hatter is here, so where is he?” Pinkie Pie asked.
I think that question was directed at Twilight there.
The bushes that I’m currently hiding in seem to go just a bit higher than the window ledge that I’m under. I could try and take another glance inside and see what exactly the Main six are doing at moment, plus it will also help figure out when is it the best time to get in Applejack’s truck.
God, my knees are going to hate me for doing this, I thought to myself since the only way I could see through the window without being seen, is by kneeling on them. Moving as quietly as humanly possible and keeping every part of my body concealed by the bushes that are around me. By using my fingers, I made enough space in the bushes around my eyes so I could clearly see what is going on in the library, but keeping myself well hidden at the same time.
“He is here, just he is, uh… indisposed right now” Twilight answered Pinkie Pie, standing behind table that I recognized as the table that has my scorch mark handprint on it currently hidden by the encyclopedia… that I forgot to take with me, damn you Rarity.
“That might answer Pinkie Pie question bu-- ”
“No it doesn’t Rarity; Twilight still hasn’t said where he is yet I need to talk to him!” Pinkie interrupted who is at the moment standing next to next to Rarity who is sitting down in one of the chairs, while Applejack and Rainbow Dash are still in the same place as last time when I checked through the back window.
Rarity sighed before continuing “But the point I’m trying to make is that I was lied to by Twilight to come here for whatever her real reason is and I assume that I’m not the only one that she lied to, correct?”
Hello, this is starting to get interesting.
Twilight moved her left hand up to her forehead and started massaging around that area for a bit before she started speaking again “Look, there was a very, very good reason for me that I had to lie to you all”
The room is silent. Twilight is still massaging the same area, maybe trying to carefully plan out how to explain all of this. Rarity is looking dead on at Twilight, waiting for an answer from her follow Magi and friend. Rainbow Dash is looking a little bit more interested in what’s going on in front of her then before. Applejack is looking like that she is ready to step in and break up anything that might happen in the few seconds between her friends and lastly, Pinkie Pie seem to be a little lost by what’s going on.
“So Hatter… he isn’t here, is he Twilight?” Pinkie Pie asked her Magi friend.
“He is, but he jus—“
But just as Twilight was about to answer Pinkie’s question, Rainbow Dash decided to interrupt her “Okay, who is this Hatter guy that Pinkie keeps on talking about? Heck she was shouting his name halfway down the street for Celestia sakes, so who is he?” directing the question at Twilight and Pinkie Pie.
“Oh… well” Pinkie took in a deep breath “Hatter is just some guy that Twilight and I just met this afternoon. I assume he is new in town since I never met him before this afternoon but I haven’t gotten to know him yet since I had to finished up work but I had to come around here to borrow a cooking book from Twilight that Mr & Miss Cake needed to finish off an order for one of our clients and that when we met him just as I was about to leave the library” Pinkie finished explaining in her usual fast pace matter. “But Twilight should be able to fill in the blanks about him since he stayed back with her after I left” Pinkie added.
All the sudden all the eyes in the room are now focus on Twilight as they’re waiting for some answers.
Okay Twilight, how are you going to explain this to everyone? I thought to myself about the situation that Twilight is now stuck in.
Twilight, like Pinkie took a deep breath before she started explaining “Well to answer Rarity’s question first. The reason I lied to everyone was because I knew that none of you would believe me about what happen after Pinkie left and if I even try to explain it, any of you would just tell me that it just my imagination or something along those lines… I just thought that if I managed to get everyone to come around here, then I could just show you all and explain from there… hopefully” she finished with a hint of doubt in her voice.
So, Twilight lied to all of her friends to get them here and all because she thought that no one would have believed her story about me existing? This would have left me a bit puzzled me if I didn’t see where this was going. That actually does make some sense when I think about it, seeing how the only other Avatars that are alive are Celestia and Luna. So I guess that if Twilight told any of her friends that she just met another Avatar, let alone a male Avatar who just appeared out of the blue. Plus she does have evidence that there is another Avatar around or at least she did until he went out the window, I let myself smile for a minute, until I remembered that she does still have my bag, I stop smiling once I realize this. Although most of it is useless especially my laptop without my password to log in, other than that most of my things should be able to blend in or be passed off as common everyday things that they have, but this is me going off of what I have seen from pasting by those shops earlier. Though if they look hard enough they might notice that my stuff is not the same brand or style as their universe counterparts.
Applejack then spoke up, looking over at Twilight “Ok Twilight, if you wanted all of us here, then where is Fluttershy at? Because if she waiting at her house for me and Rainbow to deliver this order of –“
“I was telling you the truth when I called you” Twilight interrupted Applejack “I couldn’t get in contact with Fluttershy, otherwise she would be here with us” It looked like that Applejack was going to ask something else but Twilight looks to be a step ahead of her “And before you ask Applejack, no I don’t know where she is at this point in time, if I knew where she was then I would of gone and bring her over”
“Honestly, I think we should just sticky tape her cell phone to her hand. At least then she will have it on her then.” Rainbow Dash commented jokily, however it seems that no one really cared for her joke which she managed to pick up. “Oh come on, you know what I’m talking about. You all know that Fluttershy can’t keep an eye on her cell phone and you would think with all animals she looks after that it should be easy as”
I kind of agree with Dash here, but this also explains why Fluttershy isn’t here and why no one can reach her either. God she reminds me of Jim. Whenever anyone needs him for something and we call his phone and what happens, he doesn’t pick up. Every time this happens I used to go up to him and threaten him with the same treatment as what Dash suggested and he always have some sort of reason why he didn’t have his phone on him, such as it was changing, the battery was dead or whatever else he came up with. Other times he just left his phone lying around the house which I always used to find. Unlike him, I always have my phone on me whether it’s in my pants pocket or on my desk if I’m working. Still what can you do, his is my younger brother after all.
Hearing Twilight letting out a sigh, I focused back on everyone in the main room. “Look, what I am about to tell you is million times worse than Fluttershy missing her phone or Applejack not making her delivery” she stated to everyone within the room.
After saying this, everyone within the room just stared at her. “After Pinkie left, the guy we both just met”
“She means Hatter” Pinkie loudly whispered.
Twilight nodded her head “Yes, him but you see, that’s not his name”
“Then why did he give you that name and not his real name?” Applejack asked Twilight.
“It was Pinkie Pie that called him Hatter in the first place, not me”
“Well duh, I didn’t know his name and he didn’t say it either, so I thought that I’ll call him Hatter because of that weird black hat he was wearing” Pinkie answered the cowgirl.
“Hold up now, black hat you say?” Applejack questioned Pinkie.
Oooooh… shit, I don’t like where this is going.
“Yep, oh also he was wearing a reeeeally long black coat along with it” Pinkie added
“Did he also have a small bag and was really tall to boot?” Applejack asked Pinkie Pie, but Twilight answered her this time.
“Yeah, how do you know what he was wearing?”
“Because I met Vincent earlier on today” The cowgirl answered Twilight.
And there goes the cat out of that bag.
There would have been silence in that room, if Pinkie Pie haven’t spoken up, “So Hatter’s real name is Vincent huh. Well at least I found this out before I started making stuff for his party huh” she happily commented.
“Wait a minute Applejack, how did you know his name?” Twilight asked her.
“He told me his name when I found him today”
“You found him! When did that happen?!” Twilight asked Applejack sounding surprised to hear this.
“Well, I was just walking around the apple orchards that are closest to the main road, since recently we had some of the apples go missing from the trees when they’re close to being harvested. I had Winona tagged along in case she gets a whiff of those apple thieves” Applejack explained to everyone.
Well that explains what the both of them were doing out there when I got there.
“So how did you find Vincent?” Twilight asked.
“Winona and I had just finished checking around the last of the orchards near the main road and the two of us were just heading back to the house”
“Not to wanting to go off topic Applejack, but could it be those apple trees are just simply having a bad harvest this year?” Rarity inquired to Applejack.
“I thought so too. That was until I saw the broken branches on some of those apple trees. My guess is that some Avian punks are stealing them, since there weren’t any footprints around any of the trees with the –“.
Twilight loudly clearing her throat interrupting Applejack “Sorry, but can we get back on track please?” she asked.
“Oh… right, sorry about that sugarcube” Applejack quickly apologies before she continued. “Anyway, on our way back home, I saw some feller quickly walking towards the fence. He stop walking once he saw the both of us and then all the sudden, there was a loud snap and Winona took off after him, I tried to stop her but she chased him all the way to the fence which then he just leaped over it like it was no problem. At that point I thought he was the apple thief I was after since only Avians could only clear that jump like that so easily”
So I did just jump over that fence, I got to know how the hell did I managed to do that.
Applejack continued on “Once I caught up with him, he was laughing for some reason and smelled mightily strong of alcohol”
“Hatter didn’t look drunk when I met him” Pinkie Pie said to Applejack.
“You mean Vincent?” she answered back.
“Oh, right sorry, I kind of committed that name to memory… anyway, Vinnie didn’t look drunk when I met him” Pinkie corrected herself
“I have to agree with Pinkie here, he wasn’t drunk nor acted like it from what I seen” Twilight commented.
“I don’t think he was either, but I could smell some type of alcohol on his breath and clothes, I thought that he must of being on bender of some sort last night and I didn’t really want to question him about it” Applejack stated to everyone.
“Hang on a second!” Rainbow Dash loudly yelled. “Why was it that last time I was drunk and slept in your barn that you went off at me until you were blue in the face and yet you did nothing to this guy who you found walking around the orchard?” she questioned Applejack.
“Well firstly Rainbow Dash you didn’t even ask to sleep there before you did and secondly, you crushed through the roof of said barn!” Applejack shouted back at Dash.
“But he could be the apple thief that you been are after” Dash stated.
“If he was, then Winona would have smelled our apples on him and tried to take a bite out of him, which she didn’t.” Applejack countered.
“But that still doesn’t answer why you didn’t question him about how he got there!” Dash countered back to her
“I didn’t question him because whatever happens when we are drunk should just stay to ourselves… unless the guards get involved.”
“Oh, just like the time when you were drunk and you decide to do the can-can on top of the bar at the Punch Bowl while at the same time you were kicking off other peoples drinks” Pinkie exclaimed.
“Yes… just like that one” Applejack said sounding embarrassed about that story.
The room fell into silence, but after a minute or two, before Twilight broke it. “Well, he did mention that he was out with friends last night, so he might have been drinking as well. Did you ask him why he was in your apple orchard? She asked Applejack.
“He just kept saying that he didn’t know how he got there and he didn’t know where he was, I just guessed that he blackout from the drinking. I even offer him to come back to the house for so some chow to help him settle down and help clear his head, but he kept on saying that he had stuff that need to be done today and headed off towards town, that was the last time I saw him.” Applejack finished.
“Then he must have headed towards my house.” Twilight stated, “But before we continue, has anyone else met Vincent.” she asked looking at both Rarity and Rainbow Dash, possibly trying to get an answer out of them. In the end Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and raised her hand.
“I might have run into him.” said Dash.
“Might have? What do you mean you ‘might have run into him?’ ” Twilight questioned Rainbow Dash
“I don’t know. Just from how everyone has describe this guy, I might have run into him today… before I headed over to Applejack’s” Dash stated
“Hold on their partner was this the same guy that you said crashed into you on the phone?” Applejack asked
“Uh… yeah.” Dash answered her.
Bullshit, she crashed into me!
“I don’t believe this!” Twilight stated out loud “He left you two out of his story.” she said as she looked both at Applejack and Rainbow Dash.
“Twilight what are you talking about?” Rarity inquired to her.
“Vincent told me the whole reason as to why he came to me in the first place and throughout that story, he never once mentioned either Applejack or Rainbow Dash to me” Twilight told everyone.
“And what reason would that be Twilight?” Rarity asked “We are still waiting for your explanation as to why we are here” she finished.
“Okay fine just let me explain.” Twilight stated “The short version is that Vincent came to me and ask for my help.”
“And what type of help would that be Twilight?” Rarity asked her
Twilight took another deep breath before she started talking again “To get back home.”
“I don’t see the reason why you had to lie to us yet Twilight.” Rarity
“But that’s the thing Rarity. For the whole reason Vincent came to me the first place was that he thought that I could send him back home to his universe!”
The whole room fell back into silence.
And there goes the other cat out of the bag.
“Let me get this straight” Rainbow Dash started “This guy, Vincent, came to you today and asked you to send him back home, which is in another universe!”
“Well… yeah” Twilight answered
“He’s a nut” Rainbow Dash quickly stated bluntly.
“Oh, oh, what type of nut is he?” Pinkie asked Dash, while hopping up and down excitedly.
“It doesn’t matter what type of nut this guy is Pinkie. He’s is just nuts!” Dash loudly stated to everyone.
Rarity looked from Rainbow Dash to Twilight “Twilight, you can’t seriously believe this Vincent’s story do you?” she questioned
“Not really...” Twilight shifted her shoulders “He did try and prove it, but all it was some fake ID’s and money”
That lying bitch! The thought burned in my mind. All I wanted to do right there and then is stand up out from the bush and slam open the window and have a go at Twilight for lying to my face earlier when I was freezing over. However by doing this, it will create more problems that I would have to deal with. Just let it go, I told myself, she is not worth it, while trying to calm myself down and for some reason; I started feeling hot all of the sudden. Honestly, me being hot should be the last thing on my mind, but maybe it just my jacket and coat that is making feel like this, but it doesn’t matter, once I get into the truck I’ll just take them off to help cool down.
All the sudden the sound of a chair being pulled a crossed the floor hit my ears as I realized that Rarity just got up and started walking towards the door, with Rainbow Dash following suit. Damn it, what just happen?
“No wait, you don’t understand! He’s an Avatar!” Twilight plead to them.
And there goes the last cat out that bag, bye bye cat.
Rarity had her hand on the door when she stops suddenly almost causing Rainbow Dash to run into the back of her. Both of them turned back around facing Twilight.
“This is why I couldn’t say anything over the phone, because of this.” Twilight said “With none of you believing me and leaving me to deal with this on my own.” she finished.
“Twilight, we will always help you out.” Applejack said to her “But this is one heck of tall tale to deal with.”
“Yeah, I mean Nightmare Moon and a full grown dragon are one thing, but this Vincent guy who thinks that he lives on a another planet –“
“You mean he lives in another universe, Dashie.” Pinkie Pie cut in to correct her.
“Whatever and thinks that he’s an Avatar to boot? He still nuts in my book.” Dash finished
“I must agree with Rainbow Dash, Twilight. The stories make little to no sense as it is.” Rarity declared to her.
“But I saw his wings as they materialized right in front of me, just as he was telling his story about him being from another universe, which I still didn’t believe in.” Twilight said
“What did he actually say about this story he was telling you about.” Rarity inquired to Twilight
“He was mostly saying that in his universe, there is no magic and no one is able to fly since they don’t have wings but can still fly with the assist from machines.”
“No magic and no wings huh? Sound like a kind of boring universe if you asked me.” Dash commented, but Applejack thrown a glare at her, probably about her comment about Earthens being boring since they don’t have magic or wings either.
“But if this Vincent fellow is from this universe that he claims to be from, then how is he now an Avatar?” Rarity asked.
“I don’t know! I didn’t know that he was one until he almost set this table on fire with his magic while we were arguing about him being a Avian, I mean look at this scorch mark that he left here when he got angry about it.” Twilight said as she lifted the encyclopedia off of the blacken handprint.
All of them leaned or came forward to examine the black handprint.
“You know Spike could have done this right?” Rainbow Dash questioned.
“OH, I know how he did it. Was he trying to stop himself from sneezing fire and tried to cover his mouth but he just missed it and sneezed onto his hand causing this scorch mark to appear!” Pinkie said really fast.
“Err… Pinkie if that was the case then wouldn’t there be an outline out his hand here and not this handprint?” Applejack asked
“And Spike couldn’t have done it, since he was assisting me this afternoon at the boutique” Rarity stated to Pinkie Pie.
“Mmmmh” Pinkie let out “Okaaaay, what about this! Spike did sneeze into his hand causing it to go super duper hot and then without thinking, his puts that hand down on the table causing the scorch mark to be put there. He then tries to hide it by putting that book over it then left for Rarity’s. That way when Vinnie moved the book and then without seeing it, he put his hand down covering it hiding it from view and when that happen, Twilight smelled the burning wood for the first time, thinking that Vinnie did it!” she concluded, sounding like she had just solved some great mystery case or something.
“Pinkie Pie, Vincent did this. I personally got that encyclopedia from the bookshelf and gave it to him so he could read it and that table was completely clean before even you or him had shown up.” Twilight told Pinkie.
Pinkie let out a sigh “Okay fine… but my theory was better.”
Twilight continued “Not only did almost set the table on fire, but he also almost froze himself solid when he started panicking after he found out that he could use magic.”
“Hold up now, what this about him almost freezing himself now?” Applejack asked Twilight.
“He just started panicking which started the freezing process, through I have been thinking about this on the way back from grabbing Pinkie and I think he might know the basics of Elementalist magic, it would explain a few things that has happen.” Twilight said to everyone.
“And what does him being an Elementalist have to do with anything. So he tried to use a fire spell and the ice spell backfired, big deal, I mean it nothing that you guys can do right?” Rainbow Dash asked both Rarity and Twilight, both of them looking a little unease about something.
Rarity spoke up first “Actually Rainbow, I’m not knowledgeable in Elemental magics.”
“Well, Twilight would know how to throw fireballs and make snow cones, right?” Pinkie Pie asked Twilight.
“If you are asking if I know how to use Elemental magic… then no I don’t, sorry.”
“Hang on a sec, the Princess was your teacher so why didn’t she teach it to you?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Princess Celestia wasn’t my only teacher that I had at the time and even then, I had a choice of what fields of magic’s I wanted to learn to use and Elemental magic’s was one that I thought I didn’t need to learn since that field of magic is mostly considered in the offensive class of magic. But I did study the theory side of things though.” Twilight explained to them.
“So what does Vincent being an Elementa-whatever he is mean Twilight?” asked Applejack
“It means we should be careful the next time we are around him and try not to upset him in anyway. Since as he is an Elementalist, he can use his magic in two ways, the first is normal way any Magi can use magic through a casting instrument and the other is by having his emotions activating his magic and these emotions would have to be powerful in order for it to materialize as an whatever element is to that emotion.” Twilight finished explaining.
Everyone looked at the table with the scorch mark, before Rarity spoke up.
“So then, what emotion was he feeling when Vincent left that mark?” she point her finger at the table.
“Anger.” Twilight simply said to her
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“And what cause this amount of anger to appear all the sudden?” Rarity asked Twilight.
“Vincent was again trying to prove that he was from another universe and was setting up his laptop that was in his bag, while I was trying to tell him he might have had his memories altered and that they are fake” Twilight emitted.
“Really smooth Twilight” Dash commented.
“Well what was I suppose to say to him Rainbow?” Twilight shot back to her.
“Oh, I don’t know, maybe not that, for starters!” Dash countered.
“It doesn’t matter what I said, what done is done. Plus what was I supposed to do, just believe in him? There is no proof in any of books I read that supports what he said about this other universe that he was talking about, let alone anything about male Avatars!” Twilight stated.
“What about Nightmare Moon, she was just a story and yet she showed up a few months ago. So why can’t there be anything about male Avatars?”
“That’s a different case altogether since Nightmare Moon was a part of history before she became a scary story for children and even then there was books about her. Where with Vincent case of the other hand, there is nothing in any book I have seen that even or study that talks about male Avatars and at most if there was any information about them it is properly lost by now.”
“All right settle down now, there is no need for this to get out of hand or for anyone to get worked up.” Applejack pointed out to the two of them.
“Anyway as I was saying, after with what happen with the table he started panicking and ice started freezing over his body. To prevent him from being frozen solid, I had to cast a stun spell on him… which then thrown him backwards into a bookcase… and knocking him unconsciousness” Twilight pointed over the bookcase that have some water in front of it left over from the ice earlier.
I heard Pinkie Pie let out a grasp before she started bombarding Twilight with questions “Is Vinnie okay? Where is he now? Is he awake? Can we go and see him?” she finished sounding worried about me.
“Pinkie Pie you need to relax. The last time I check he was fine and right now he is in my guest room sleeping it off. As for him being awake I doubt it since he received a hard knocked to the back of his head and lastly we should wait until he is awake to see him.” Twilight finished answering Pinkie’s questions.
Pinkie let out a sigh of relief “That’s good to hear he is alright… sooooo what happens now?” She asked.
“Uuuuuhhh… I have no idea.” Twilight stated.
“WHAT?!?” Everyone else shouted in the room, before Twilight started talking again, maybe trying to explain herself.
“Look, this was the main reason why I called all you around here, so you could help me figure out what to do with him.”
“What to do with him? We should throw him into an insane asylum that is what we should do!” Rainbow Dash stated to everyone “He is clearly a nut case and soooo far gone, that he thinks that he is an Avatar.”
“Hold up there Dash let’s not be too hasty here. I reckon we should write the Princess a letter saying what we might have found and let her sort it out from there.” Applejack counted.
“But by doing that, we might just end up wasting the Princess time with no proof that this Vincent fellow is an Avatar.” Rarity counted Applejack “I say we wait until he is up and about and if what Twilight said is true about him being an Avatar, we report it to the Princess.” she subjected to the group.
“Well I think we should---“However the door open, cutting off what Pinkie Pie was about to say next to the group and in walked in a young boy with green hair.
The best way to describe this kid is suited up three ways from Sunday with him dressed in a purple suit jacket with matching suit pants, other than that I could only just make out him wearing a black tie and I think I see a dark colored vest, but that is hidden due to his suit jacket buttoned up. The kid looks normal, from a distance you would think that he is the same like everyone else, were it not for his ears. They are like elf ears but not as long, maybe they are medium sized and they not stuck to the sides of his head. Other than that this kid green hair is short in length and most of his hair is patted to one side with a few chumps of hair sticking together to form some spikes pointing in the same diction as he patted his hair.
I double check everyone else ears in the room just to see if this kid is one of them but everyone else has normal ears like I do.
“Err… hey Twilight what’s going on, why is everyone here?” The green hair kid asked out to Twilight.
Twilight looked a little shocked for some reason “Spike what are you doing outside, I thought you were up stairs in your room.” Twilight asked him
Spike?! This kid is Spike the baby dragon? Get the fuck out of town I thought to myself. This kid wasn’t that tall maybe at five feet tall at most, maybe aged at either between 10 or 13 at my best guess on a good day, which this isn’t. This kid didn’t even look like a dragon in any way, shape or form. No claws, no scales from what I can see or any dragon wings on his back. Although from what I know about dragons from stories, games and movies from what I have seen, it might be possible that he just changed his form from his normal dragon body to that of a human being. But if he can do that then why have those type of ears? I asked myself.
Spike looked a little confused now since he didn’t know what why everyone was over for and maybe didn’t know what Twilight was going on about “Twilight what are talking about, I haven’t been here all afternoon and I only just got back from doing a job for Rarity” After mentioning her name, Spike finally noticed that Rarity was in the room and looked like he went off into a daydream.
“But didn’t you read my note that was addressed that I left for you!?” Twilight asked him.
Spike snapped back to attention and stopped looking at Rarity, “What note?” he asked her “Look if it just another list of chores, you didn’t need to leave me a another list of them to remember to do them”
“But if you didn’t take the note, then who---“But Twilight stopped all the sudden before turning around to where the guest room is.
She finally figured it out.
Twilight moved quickly to the guest room and opened the bookcase door, while everyone else just stared at her
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“Vincent gone but how is that even possible?” Twilight shouted out, causing everyone to move to the doorway of the guest room.
Realizing that this is my one and only opportunity to get into the back of Applejack’s truck while they are occupied by my disappearing act, I decided to take it. Quickly, but quietly moving out of the bushes. I started speed walking my way over to the truck and let me tell you, my knees are hating me at the moment due to the time I spend on them, which in turn caused me to wobble a bit when I first started walking again, but this quickly disappeared.
Once I got to the back end of the trunk and performing one last check to if anyone saw me, I climbed into the back of the truck. After getting in, the back was filled with stacks of hay “Finally something is going my way for once today.” I mumbled to myself as I started moving some the stacks out of the way, so I could get near the front the truck. Once I got to the middle, I decide that here was good enough and moving the stacks of hay around so I could still sit down but still be hidden from view by the stacks of hay that Applejack and Rainbow Dash had placed back here.
I could have killed sometime and played with my 3DS for a bit, but that is still in my bag which is still in the bloody library. I let a out sigh as the only few things I have are whatever are in my pockets which are; house / car keys, my wallet, phone and lastly my hat and sunglasses, which nearly all of them are now useless. I took out of phone and look at the time, since that all this thing is going to be for mostly for the next few hours. It is 5:48pm.
After a few more minutes rolled by, I heard a front door slam open.
“Alright everyone knows what they are doing?”
Everyone else answered yes in some way.
“Remember if anyone sees or thinks they see him, sent a text message of his location to everyone and keep your distance from him until we get there, for the last thing we want is to lose him again.”
With that, the truck door on the right side open and shut quickly and not before too long the truck started up and started moving.
I stayed where I am, on the left side of the truck and still hidden from view.
After a few turns, I took a peek out of where I am hiding knowing that we are far enough away from the library and noticed what road that the truck was going down, which from what the Cutie Mark Crusaders had told me while on their tour of the town leads down to the Everfree Forest.
“Mmmm… looks like I’ll be getting my bag back after all.” I said out aloud. I wanted to let out a small and quiet mocking evil laugh if the truck didn’t just hit a bump on the road, causing the tall stack of hay sitting opposed of me to fall on top of me.
It’s only a small setback, I told myself Just remember that.