//------------------------------// // Introductions // Story: Total Eclipse // by Somedudeatemytaco //------------------------------// Well, as Twilight and everybody (or for the special readers, everypony,) saw me, I was trying my best not to fan girl out, for two reasons: 1. By me doing so, I’d probably creep them all out. 2. I had no idea whether they were in my side or not, for all I know, the six of them could be teaming up with Nightmare Moon to take over our world! But maybe that was my skeptical side of me talking because really, what are the odds of that happening? As I was going through this awkward moment of silence, Rainbow Dash broke it by saying, "You look funny." The look on Twilight’s face was priceless. As Twilight was about to give Dash a scolding, I intervened saying, "It's alright, I’m not offended, besides, I wouldn’t worry about me if I were you, it's not every day in here that this place has three-foot tall pastel ponies." "What do you mean by that?" I hear Applejack question. I reply with, "I think we are going to have a lot to talk about." *** After Twilight introduced me to everyone in the group, (which I already knew) I introduced myself, then Twilight asked of me something that I probably should have seen coming. "Have you heard of Canterlot High?" I had to think for a second, Twilight looked so hopeful, but I didn't want to let her down, nor lie to her. Believe it or not, I actually managed to come up with a pretty good response. "I've never heard of the place, for all I know it could be here, but somewhere far away maybe. This, Canterlot High, seems like another dimension to me, who's to say that where we are right now could be an entirely different dimension altogether?" The answer seemed to please Twilight, while leaving the other five with confused faces. "Enough about that though, “I say, "I want to know this. A while back, one of your, associates, by the name of Nightmare Moon, made my family unconscious and kidnapped my little sister. I thought Nightmare Moon was good now! Can someone please care to explain to me what happened?" Now I’m not sure if Applejack intended to say this or not, but she replied, "Well, we're as much in the dark about this as you are sugarcube." Pinkie continued, "Yup! One day Princess Luna was all fine and dandy, but now she's Nightmare Moon again!" Rarity gave me a puzzled look as she said, "Wait, how do you know about Nightmare Moon being good once darling?" "Umm... just a hunch?" When the girls looked at Pinkie, I knew I dodged that bullet. (Ha! So it turns out that watching Equestria Girls DID pay off in the end!) But I needed to be more careful of what I said, one wrong word, and I could really mess up. Rainbow Dash started the conversation again by saying, "Okay, well, what Pinkie was trying to say is that we have no idea how or why Nightmare Moon is back. Look, I feel bad that you lost your sister, I really am, but you should leave it to us to find Nightmare Moon, we've already faced her before, we can easily do it again." "Let me remind you all that you've never been here before, I've lived here all my life. Without me, you guys wouldn't last a day here." As brutal as I was, it was the honest truth. "Another point is, Nightmare Moon took my sister, do you know how close I was to saving her, and I can't live with myself knowing that I failed her. Don't any of you have any siblings, if you do, wouldn't you be just like me, trying my best to save them?" I already knew that four of the ponies had a sibling, or was a sisterly figure. I just wanted to play the sympathy card. "Face it girls, you're stuck with me." With that, I put the group in checkmate. Fluttershy finally spoke up by saying, "Well, we do need his help." Twilight confirmed by responding, “Fine Hector, you can join us, but for now let's set up camp, we have a long day tomorrow.” As much as I wanted to object, I stayed silent. I already won one argument, no need to get in another one. *** As I was getting firewood for the campfire, I looked up at the moon, remembering the look on my sister's face as she was being taken away. It was so full of fear, and there was nothing that I could have done about it. It felt so awful to let her down. I quickly stop thinking about this, and I head back before I get any more memories. Back at camp, we managed to get a small fire started, and we were all getting ready for sleep, well, everyone except Rarity. She was trotting all over the place, trying to find a "clean" place to sleep in. She was talking to herself; in between I heard words like uncouth and filthy. As amusing as it was to see Rarity freaking out in a forest, I didn't want her to be like this the whole night As I unzipped my backpack, I called out to Rarity, and then asked if she would like to use my sleeping bag for the night. “I simply couldn’t dear, seeing as you already packed that for yourself, but thank you for your offer.” “It’s alright Rarity, I insist, how about you think of this as an offer of my friendship?” “Well alright, thank you ever so much darling.” Just from the look in her eyes, it simply showed that she couldn’t thank me enough, and that made it all worth it. *** At this time, I'm the only one that's awake, while the girls were a small distance away from me, in whatever dreamland they imagined. I was alone with just my thoughts to keep me company, with everything that just happened today, it was hard to think that it started out just like any other day. I started thinking about my family, were they awake yet, how would they react to me basically running away? My thoughts were interrupted when I heard something. It sounded muffled, as if it didn't want to be heard. As I listened more intently, I realized that the sound I heard was somebody crying. Silently I stood up, and went closer to the sound. It was coming from one of the six, but I didn’t know who it was yet. As I approached where Twilight and everyone else slept, it became evidently clear who was crying, it was the pony that I least expected The pony crying was Rainbow Dash.