Day 3
I awoke on the cold, clear marble floor as the sun was rising. The reflection of the sunlight being the main reason I'm awake at that moment. I really just wanted to get as much sleep as possible as I have been a bit of a insomniac for almost a year. I would get three to four hours of broken sleep a night, so sleeping from when Celestia woke me to her rising sun is a positive sign for me. I slowly lift my head off the pillow and look around the room. I notice everything is where it should be, except for Luna being asleep on my bed. I got up and walked in to the bathroom to fix up my hair. I took me a good ten minutes before my hair was almost back to the way I usually have it. It would have been a lot easier if I had gel with me but I made do with what I had. When I walked out of the bathroom I looked to see Luna had sturred a light in her sleep and was now facing away from the windows and more importantly the light. She looked peaceful, so I left her there and exited the room, slowly and quietly closing the door after me so she could enjoy a longer slumber. I walked over to Dara's room and knocked on the door a good few times loudly making sure I woke him.
I took him a while to answer the door, but when he did he looked terrible, like he didn't get much sleep. "What" he asked in a drowsy voice and losing some of his balance.
"Jesh, what the fuck happened to you, you look like shit today" I told him putting an arm around him to balance on while bringing him over to his bed so he could say what happened.
"I kept having a reoccurring dream" Dara told me while rubbing his eyes "We where in the throne room. There was me, Luna, Twilight and the others in dark, sound-proof, from our side, orbs. Celestia was sitting looking down at the ground, while you where standing beside a black pony about the same height as you, but you had complete black eyes and there was like a green flame coming out of your eyes. Each time I went back to the dream there was a different ending".
"How many endings where there?" I questioned intrigued about his dream.
"Five" Dara told me while looking at me "each one was weird and had a different effect on the dream the first one you and that other pony was sent to the moon, the second Celestia allowed for you to kill other ponies, the third you took over Equestria with Luna being turned into the other pony, the fourth Celestia was sent to the sun".
"And the last" I asked worried about what he was going to say.
He gulped down some saliva that was in his mouth and answered "You gave Celestia a sword and she decapitated you" He yelled out while looking away from me.
"Never thought she would do that" I surprisingly got out.
"That wasn't the worse part, the pony standing beside you moved me and Luna right in front of you as your head came off your body. The weirdest thing was that you had a smile on your face when it was happening.
"Wow, I know that I can be cruel some times, but I wouldn't think that I would have a smile on my face." I said still trying to get over it my self. I left him on the bed and walked over to the door. I asked two guards one was an almost fully black armoured pegasus stallion who was missing a helmet, with dark blue coat, crystal clear blue eyes, with a dark grey mane and tail. The other was also wearing black armour but was a fully armoured unicorn with a jet black mane coming through his helmet, a gold coat. He also had a scar across the right side of his lip about three inches long. He had a lot of scares all the way down his legs most likely from battle or war which then went out of my mind when I thought were we were. "Hey can you do me a favour?" He turned to me and nodded so I continued "I needed you to get me a glass of water" I asked the latter. Once he was gone I whispered to the other "Can you get me a small blade a inch or two long or a knife if you can't find one of them. If anyone especially Celestia asks why you need that just say that it's for me. Ok" he nodded then flew down the corridor towards the kitchen. I waited for them to arrive with exactly what I asked for,( the blade wasn't blunt at all, it looked like it was brand new) before going back over to Dara with the glass of water in my left hand while sneaking the blade into my pocket with my right hand.
I sat beside him on the bed, gave him the glass and told him "Take some, I swear it's not Vodka" he managed a smile while shaking his head a small bit before taking a sip of the drink "Ok maybe it is" .I brought him over to the bathroom and left him at the sink so he could sort himself out. I took this time to look at the blade perfect length, exactly the size of my wrist on its side, quite sharp and small enough that I knew where I could hide it if I get caught again.
I heard the door of the bathroom open up as I quickly put the blade in my pocket accidentally cutting my finger in the process. I let out a small "Ah" and scrunched up my face as from the unexpected pain.
"That reminds me" he said sticking out a hand and telling me "Blade. It's a fresh start we have here and I'm not letting you ruin it by cutting yourself. Like what would happen if one of the princesses' found out?"
"Yeah, what if?" I stated really sneakily getting a raised eyebrow from Dara. "Coming for a walk?" I questioned changing the subject before he got a chance to say anything.
"Sure, I've got nothing else to do, just let me grab my Ipod" he told me walking over to his bedside table and grabbing his earphones and Ipod. "Ready?" he asked with a raised eyebrow wandering what I was thinking.
"Yeah, I just want to get my Ipod as well. Be back in a minute wait at the door." I told him exiting as he unlocked his Ipod and went on to Itube.
I walked out of the room and hurried to my room. Nothing really changed except for Luna now having a pillow over her head to block out the sun, so I presumed that she was awake trying to go back asleep, so I remained as quite as possible. I walked over my bedside table grabbing my Ipod and beats. Unfortunately Luna was defiantly awake now as a blast of magical energy came from my right hitting me in my upper right arm leaving a black circle and some singed clothes around where I got hit, while sending me against the wall to my left leaving a dent in it.
Luna jumped into a battle stance and looked at the 'prey' that she thought was going to attack her. Letting out an ear-defining loud speech "Thou think they can harm us. Thou has a nother thing..." She then seen me on the ground on my stomach holding on to my thankfully not broken or cracked Ipod. "I am so sorry about that, I thought you were one of them assassins that tried to kill me and my sister a few weeks ago."
"It's grand, I'm fine" I told her slowly rising off the ground and shaking my head. I looked at my arm and noticed the impact zone of the hit, then looked at Luna's flank, then back to my arm. "You can say that this can be my tattoo" I state as I point to the crescent moon on her flank.
"Oh you mean my cutie mark" she said while looking at her flank. "It show's what I'm best at doing and everypony gets one once they discover a unique characteristic that sets themselves apart from others." she informed.
"Then, I guess you could say that this means that I'm great at getting hurt?" I questioned earning a glare then chuckle when she realised what I ment. "I'm going for a stroll, I leave you to your attempts to hit assassins instead of humans." I walk out the room before I could get an answer off her.
"What took you so long and what happened to your arm?" Dara asked leaning against the wall to the right of the doors.
"Long story short, woke up Luna by accident, got this and learned why they have tattoo's on the ass'" I said really fast as we walked off in a random direction to who knows where.
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It didn't take long until we got hungry, and somehow ending up in front of the dining hall. When we were outside the hall, we were stopped by the same two guards who got the glass of water for Dara and my new blade.
"Sorry sir, but Princess Celestia told us not to allow anyone in" The heavily scared guard told us in a real professional voice.
"Well, Princess Celestia might change her mind if you tell her who's at the door." Dara said in a different kind of voice then he normally would.
"Let me just check" the other guard said walking into the room and came back out telling us, "Ok, go ahead".
"Thank you" Dara said with a sly smirk on his face walking into the room. Ok something is defiantly up with him, I just need one last thing to convince me.
"Yeah, thanks Mr..."I ask trying to find out their name's.
"Dark Streak" The guard who got me my blade answered back.
I then turned my head to the other pony to get a response instead I got probably the most unexpected name ever "Scar". I tried my best to not laugh at now ironic his name was from what I seen.
We were greeted straight away by Princess Celestia, Twilight and her friends along with a white unicorn that had a blond mane and light arctic blue eyes. He just sat away from the group on the very end of the table, where me and Dara sat the first time we went in here.
He was eating a crumpet, he looked at us then double checked and looked disgusted asked "Uh, who else let in the commoners?".
This pissed me off as I walked up to him, standing in front of him and asked "Your Princesses' did".
"Augh, they are always letting commoner dirt into the castle" he said with even more disgust in his voice, not even looking at me or Dara. Celestia just glared at him from her seat, with her horn starting to glow with a golden aura.
"Hey, you posh prick, do want to say that to my face and apologize or do you want to take this outside where I can teach you some respect, you fucking disrespect full piece of shit. Who do you even think you are" I shouted at him while leaning in closer to make my point clear, which ended up with me getting a few different looks around the room. Celestia and the most others looked shocked most likely because of what I said but Rarity gave me a look that was her probably saying 'Thank you'. Dara was surprised at me sudden outburst, he knew that I can get pissed fast if I'm not felling good but, he was the one with ADHD and all the other anger problems'.
But he just looked mortified, the only thing he could do be before running off crying was shrink in his seat in fear.
Me and Dara( the only one who recovered from what I said) decided to sit up beside the group this time, so we walked up to the seats beside Celestia leaving a space incase Luna wanted food. The same waiter as last night came out and asked "What would you like for this morning sir?"
"Oh, pancakes about six for me will do. Thank you" I stated
Then Dara spoke up "Yeah, same for me please".
Everyone was still just staring at me making me uncomfortable so I tried to get their attention. The only one who looked like she could answer was Rarity who had a smile on her face and googly eyes towards me. "Who was that guy anyway?" I questioned still annoyed at his disrespect towards me and Dara, along with the Princesses'.
"That was Prince Blueblood darling. I've never seen someone stand up against 'him' like that." Rarity said looking into my eyes. This was getting creepy fast. She was pretty much giving me the pony rape face now.
The pancakes where out faster than expected, the only weird thing was Dara had got cutlery on his plate, where I had nothing to eat the pancakes with. I was starting to get suspicious if Celestia told them not to give me a knife after what Luna told her last night.
"Hey, wait a minute" I shouted to the waiter as he was almost back in the kitchen. He turned around for me to continue "I need a knife and fork".
He turned his head to Celestia who gave a small nod. "Oh, my apologize sir." He said while heading in to get what I asked for. He came back out, and rushed back in.
I looked at Celestia, while taking my first bite. The pancakes where delicious, as I thought they would be, but Celestia was just looking at me and then away every time I cut a bit of pancake. 'Ok now there is defiantly something going on with her' I thought to myself as I notice Dara was more than half-way done when I was just finished my first.
I looked at Celestia one last time, then at Rarity who was doing the same thing. Ok now I have to say something. "What" I asked Celestia while putting my knife and fork down on the table getting everyone's attention.
Celestia looked surprised and worried, realising that I noticed what she was doing. "S-sorry" she asked getting nervous, probably thinking I would react like I did to Blueblood.
"Why are you and Rarity both looking at me when I CUT the pancakes?" I questioned while gritting my teeth and raising my voice a small bit as I said CUT.
"I don't know what you mean" Celestia said, then she looked at Rarity and a gave her a small shake of her head.
"I think you know exactly what I mean. Now will you say it in front of everyone or will I have to show them what your too afraid to say to the rest" I asked getting a little anxious of what her decision was. Now that I think about it this isn't me. What the fuck is with me today?
Celestia was speechless, which I could completely understand, she is the ruler of her subjects, who most likely feared her and or would never speak to her like this. "Fine, I guess I'll show them" I said. I got out of my seat and got on top of the table while pulling out the new blade I had, as well as taking off my shirt, revealing my severely scared arms that was almost full with cuts except for the tattoo of that had 'Damien' in fancy writing on my left wrist, with the black circular blast I received earlier and my muscular body ( Yes, that is what happens when you do a hundred push-ups a night).
Most were shocked at this, Dara and Celestia both knew of this, but had no clue how intense it was. Twilight and the others just started at my arms and the blade in my hand, which I started to squeeze cutting my hand and drawing blood, allowing it to drop on to the table below me. Then came the weirder part Rarity started checking me over, looking at my arms for the muscle not the cuts, then my abs and finally my upper body while licking her lips.
Thankfully, the situation got more awkward as Scar and Dark Streak, open the door to allow Luna to walk in. 'Shit' was the only thing I could think when I seen her walk in. She had seen me straight away with everybody gawking at me. I quickly got off the table, dropping the blade and walked out the room leaving a trail of blood behind while carefully not to walk into Luna and get more angry at myself.
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I ran straight back to my room. Opened the door and slammed it shut. I lifted everything in the room from the bed-side table to the wardrobe to the mattress on the bed in front of the door not allowing anything get in or out of my room. With now being pissed off I badly needed to hit something or someone. Since there was no one near me, there was only one thing that I could think of that would hurt me and cause me to release my anger. The wall. So I cracked my knuckles while walking up to the wall.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. The second I opened my eyes I swung my left arm at the wall, followed by my right in the exact same place. I repeated this until my knuckles bled, then went harder. I only got two harder hits before a black cloud appeared out of nowhere. I could see hand reaching out for me. I swatted it away from me for it to only get bigger and soon surround me.
I tried to walk out of it but it was going at such force that when my hand was just touching it, it hurt more than the wall. Somehow in this weird place, it was able to speak to me. It spoke in a feminine voice but was deep. "The anger of you is so refreshing, I haven't seen this kind of rage and anger since Sombra", there was then a growl from behind me, almost giving out to the voice.
I didn't know what the fuck was happening so I just said the first thing that came to my head "What the actual fuck is happening right now".
An evil chuckle came from the black vortex I was in, followed by " Your race is so clueless, I am here to help you. I can give you everything you want, all I ask is that you help us". The vortex started to end and revealed four ponies. Two were standing behind the others, they were a pegasus stallion with a black and blue coat, pure black eyes and a blood red mane. He had wings that looked to be made of pure shadows. Along with another pegasus that had a dark grey coat, blue eyes, black mane and a tattoo/ cutie mark of a white, skull broken straight down the middle.
In front of them to were an alicorn, very dark cornflower blue surrounded by a pure black coat, cat-like cyan irises a mane pretty much like Luna's, but was longer, the same cutie mark as Luna but was more purple, with sapphire blue armour around her chest and up her hooves to her knees, she had fanged front teeth as well. Beside her was a dark grey unicorn with a black spiky mane and tail. Unlike the other unicorns horns, that matched there coat colour, are straight and segmented, his was curved, smooth, sharp at the tip and it gradients from dark grey to red. He also had fanged teeth, with red irises with green instead of white with a purple mist emanating from both. He was wearing silver armour on his legs and neck, a crown with horn-like points on his head and a cape covering his back and flank.
"We need your help, we want to help bring 'peace' to the world and you two are the only ones' who can help us" the odd looking unicorn said in a very angry voice almost as if he was commanding me to do this.
"And what if I decline?" I curiosity asked unsure of the consequences of I didn't do what they asked.
"You and your friend, will both die" the large mare said to me. I winced a little but recovered quickly not letting them realise what I just did. Unfortunately that didn't work as a smile appeared on the front two's faces. "What's the matter child, afraid of death?" she asked.
'How the fuck am I going to get out if this situation' I thought to myself, but I knew I had to answer or the will realise that I'm hesitating. "No, not at all. If it gives me another chance to see my dad, why don't you do it now, in-fact can I help?" I questioned, knowing that I maybe too valuable to them that they wouldn't actually do it.
"I like this one" one of the pegasus behind them said to the other.
"Then why don't we kill the one that came with you?" the unicorn asked to the alicorn beside him but keeping an eye on me to see how I react.
"Touch him and I will kill you all!" I yelled at them the thinking 'Fuck now got something over me' as three of them smiled, while the other just kept a blank expression. One of them drew back there bow waiting for me to honour that.
An evil chuckle was let out by the alicorn, who walked up closer to me and whispered in my ear 'Temper, temper, wouldn't want to get yourself hurt now would you. I'll make you a promise, I will not touch him, if you help us get back to our full power'.
"Who are you anyway?" I asked as the vortex started to happen again.
"All will be revealed soon, chosen one" was the last thing I heard before I found myself back in my own room, but everything back to the way it was before.
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I look at the door and it's still closed, the wardrobe is back in its place along with all the other furniture and the mattress. The only thing different was the sun was lower and that the balcony door was open a light, most likely to air out the room. That was my thought until the bathroom door opened up.
"Ah, you are finally out of your trance" a familiar voice came from the bathroom, one that I knew would have went after me, but I thought they might have done it sooner.
"What do you mean?" I ask bringing a hard to my head, from a bad headache I just got.
"You have been standing there looking into the unknown for about three hours now. What happened to you in the dining hall, why did you do that?" Luna questioned while walking over to me, and bringing me to the bed for me to sit on.
"I just thought that since Rarity knew, that they should all know that I cut and Celestia was acting really weird when I used the knife, to cut the pancakes, I got annoyed being the centre of attention and I 'defiantly' wanted to show off my washboard abs" I told her, putting sarcasm into the last part of my sentence, while looking her in her eyes, not to seem rude or anything. I was thought better by my dad. He thought me that you should always threat women better than you think you should, never lie to them and always look them in the eyes when your telling the truth. But above all the number one rule with women - THEY ARE ALWAYS RIGHT.
"My sister would like to apologize for making you react like that, I will get a guard to notify my sister that your minds back on Equestia" she tells me while walking over to the door and gave her the order to get her sister and the others. "They should be here in a moment or two, so would you care to tell me what you were thinking about?" She politely asked giving me the puppy dog or in this came pony eyes while blinking about ten times to emphasise how much she wanted to know.
"If you don't tell your sister this time, I will" I told her making her stop the puppy/pony eyes because she just nodded with a smile on her face.
"As long as it doesn't have anything that will leave equestria in a war or anything like that I won't" Luna said while shaking her head at how ridiculous she thought that was.
"Promise" I ask.
"Promise" she answered.
"Alright, I had a wierd dream like thinking. I was hitting the wall then surrounded by a black vortex. Once that ended I might have been greeted by the assassins you thought I was this morning, along with a pony about your sisters height, but look a lot like you and some other pony with a backwards horn and she called me ' the chosen one' " I told her while looking in her eyes again, I started to get worried when her smile was gone and was now looking surprised.
Her expression ended when there was a knock on the door. Celestia, Dara, Twilight and her friends all entered the room.
They all walked in a straight line, Fluttershy on the right and Spike on the left, with Celestia in front of the group just a little, while Dara walked over to the bed.
She had her mouth open and was about to say something, but I stopped her by telling her. "I'm sorry". This made the group look confused especially Celestia who closed her mouth.
I went down on my left knee, with my left arm in front of my adjacent leg and my head looking at the ground. I continued on with "I'm sorry for how I reacted. I was not raised by my father like that. You have nothing to apologize for, it was my fault for over reacting, I was still mad at Blueblood and I took it out on you, but I'm not angry for showing you the truth".
To say that they were shocked, would be an understatement. The girls all had gaped mouths and surprise looks on their faces'. Celestia was the same, along with Luna. They both had their eyes' and eyebrows raised. They all looked like they could have a heart attack from how shocked they were.
I stayed like this until Celestia walked over to me and put her wing under my chin, lifting it and my glaze of the ground and up to her. She had a smile on her face and told me "No, it is me that needs to apologize. I was worried with what my sister said, I should have respected your privacy".
"How about we just say that we were both wrong?" I asked, in my own way I was accepting her apology.
Celestia brought me into an unexpected hug which turned into a group hug with everybody but Dara involved when pinkie yelled that out, somehow appearing in between me and Celestia.
The hug lasted about a minute then Luna spoke up "If you girls don't mind, I would like to have a word with our humans' with my sister". They all nodded and left the room. Once all of them were out Luna turned to her sister and told her "We have a huge problem. Sombra and Nightmare Moon have returned and they are after Alex".
Celestia's face went from one of happiness to one of fear from when Luna spoke till she finished. "What!" she exclaimed, looked over to me and Dara who decided to get his lazy ass of the bed and walked over beside me.
"She also knows about the prophecy" Luna tried to whisper to her sister.
Dara over heard this and polity asked "What prophecy?" while raising an eyebrow towards the sisters.
Luna looked at Dara, who for once in his life seemed interested in more than just football, and at me noticing that we were leaning in and waiting for her to tell us. "Well, there may have actually been a reason why we brought you here" Luna said while putting on a huge grin.
Celestia continued for her "A thousand years ago, there was a prophecy that a creature not from this world would save ours" Celestia told us, now this was a lot to take in. "When the end of the sisters rain is near the tree will be your warning, for only a creature from an unknown world will stop this dark king. The enemies will unite to corrupt a soul, they will use them to take Alicorn blood while under their control."
"Hold up, what are you talking about? What is this 'Tree' you speak of? and this 'Dark king' as well?" Dara questioned trying to find out more about what is going on.
"That is not important at this minute" Celestia said trying to get back to where she was going with the story before getting interrupted.
"Wait a minute, this is important since we have know clue about any of your history and so your telling us that the assassins' you were talking about are trying to get your blood so they can have a new king? And that this evil will take over one of us?" I asked confused at the whole situation.
"I will tell you later about our history, and yes we suspect so" Luna said the first to me and the second to the both of us.
"Did they say anything else about their plans?" Celestia asked me, trying to find out every bit of information I knew.
"Yeah she said that 'all would be revealed soon' then she called me 'The chosen one'" I told her while reciting her very words to the others' in the room.
"Why did she say that to you, your not even the chosen one, unless she doesn't know which one of you are the chosen one" Celestia thought aloud.
"Wait, so Dara's the chosen one not me?" I questioned her trying to get their attention back to inform us.
Thankfully Luna heard me and answered my query, "Yes, Dara is the chosen one, but I still am trying to understand why she said you were the chosen one" Luna thought aloud.
"Can I have a word with you?" I ask Dara pulling him to over to the balcony so I could interrogate him for a few minutes. I pushed open the balcony doors, let him walk out a little then closed the door so I could give out to him. "Ok, tell me did you or did you not know that you were the chosen one and what happened when Luna came to see you in your dream before you woke up here".
"First off, no I didn't know and I'm as shocked as you are, I had no fucking clue so back off, alright" Dara told me while fixing up his shirt before continuing "Secondly, Luna came into my dream with Celestia and told me that my life was going to change, I didn't believe her, but here we are. She told me that I could bring a few things I couldn't live without and I said I wouldn't go without you. Luna understood and left me and Celestia together and went off to see you. She said that she thought you would get angry or confused at this, and she said you said the almost same thing I did". This was news to me I had no idea about any of this, I was thankful he said the same thing, but no longer had to feel like I was the reason we were here. It was both our choices and so far we chose correctly.
While I was thinking about that looking at the land before me not even realising that Dara had gone back inside and the girls had now entered back in room.
I lost my concentration when Luna walked over to me and put her left ring around my body. "Amazing view is it not?" Luna asked, but I had no words to reply with, I was still trying to understand what happened earlier today. Why did she call me the chosen one when it's Dara, and why did she need my help, I'm not even here three days and this happens. I wonder what will happen by the end of the week. I turned to walk away, but I was stopped by Luna asking worried "What's wrong?"
I give a fake smile and was about to lie to her, but when I looked her in her crystal, blue eyes I just couldn't do it. So I paused for a minute to think about what to say before answering with "I don't know, I just know something is going to happen to me by the end of the week and I don't want it to hurt any of you. I should leave, Dara is the one you want to protect youse not me, I'm just a guy who can take a lot of pain and enjoys it".
Luna now looked upset with my answer and tried to calm me and give me a good reason to stay. "If you do go, what would happen to Dara? He asked for you to be with him his very words was "I won't go without my brother". He needs you and you need him, like the way I need my sister".
'Damn, she has a good point' I thought to myself. 'I have to tell him and her what I would have done if I didn't come here'.
"Luna, you won't understand why, but I have to go back, I need to see his grave" I told her walking out from under her wing, over to the guard rail.
"Who's grave?" Luna questioned while walking up to me to see tears in my eyes.
"My dad's" I answer while sniffling and with the back of my left hand wiping away the tears before they fell to the ground below. "I go almost everyday, and I need to see it especially tomorrow"
"I can take you back for a few hours tomorrow to allow you to show your respect. If is it okay with you, may I come with you?" She asked.
'Now this is weird' I thought to my self, she wanted to come with me to the human world, full of war and gore, death everyday and she was a talking horse with wings and a horn, she would defiantly blend in if she wanted to me shipped to America and experimented on then, somehow they would get into that world and take over everything with our advanced technology and nuclear weapons.
"I don't think that would be a good idea" I honestly answered.
"But why?" Luna asked not knowing anything that just went through my head.
"Well lets see, you're an alicorn PONY princess asking to go to the HUMAN world" I answered butting emphasis on the different species.
"Well, what If I can do this?" Luna wondered while a midnight blue aura surrounded her entire body lifting her of the ground by a foot. When the aura was gone, there stood the most magnificent girl I ever seen. She had the same eyes, but everything else was different about her. She had shoulder length black hair, an all natural Caucasian skin colour, about five foot six inches tall, not wearing make-up, but she did have rose red lipstick on. She had a pair of navy jeans and a lighter navy t-shirt with her cutie mark in the middle of her t-shirt. She had black high-heels on. She literally was the definition of the word: Beautiful.
I stood there looking at her, wide-eyed, mouth wide open at her beauty, I even had an awkward boner now, which thankfully she didn't notice
"Well what do you think?" the human form of Luna asked with a slightly higher voice how but almost un-noticeable.
"Woah. I mean. Woah" I was somehow able to say.
"Do I really look that good?" Luna asked while now hiding a blush behind her hair.
"Yeah, you look like a supermodel, but you wouldn't fit in" I blatantly told her.
She now raised a brow and asked a little annoyed "Why would I not fit in?"
"Honestly, you look to old for me, your too great looking to fit in, especially if you're walking around with me, you're out of my league" I told her, most likely being the most truthful sentence I could say.
"What do you mean by saying that I am 'out of my league'?" She asked, now this is starting to turn into twenty questions.
"I maybe decent looking about a seven out of ten, but you your an eleven out of ten, in my world I would be considered a God if I landed you, you literally get a modelling career without even trying." I said while looking up and down her new form.
"Should I change this appearance a little?" She questioned while looking down to the ground like she was ashamed of her beauty.
"Hell no, this is you keep it as yourself, all I'm saying you are you and you it should stay like that" I tell her while walking up to her and move her hair out of the way to see her beautiful face, while putting a hand under her chin and lift her glaze to meet mine.
There was that awkward silence that usually end with it either having them kiss or to have someone come up behind them as they are leaning in to kiss. Thankfully Luna decided to change before one of us would lean in to kiss.
And of course the second she had fully changed back to her ponyself, Celestia opens the balcony door with Dara beside her and asked "I think that it might be a good idea to give you two a tour of the castle, just to make sure you don't get lost or anything".
'Thank God that didn't go to where I thought it was going' I thought to my self before answering "Yeah sure, that would defiantly help out a lot".
So the four of us all left the room and preceded right while the others when left to go do their own thing. The tour started from the bottom upwards. Then we were shown the underground archives of canterlot. We took a good ten to fifteen minutes just look around with me thinking 'I got to remember how to get back down here' as I came across a section completely blocked off. Curiosity over took my body as I decided to check it out. The whole area was blocked off with metal railings blocking it with thankfully just enough of a gap for my hand to fit in. I managed to grasp the nearest book to me, the hardback cover was black and extremely dusty. I blew of the majority of the dust and cleared the rest with my hand. It read 'Dark magic for the weak minded'. This now was so far the best title of a book I have ever read and I was hoping that it would be better than all the big name novels that I spent my younger life reading. I placed the book in a place I wouldn't forget and went to meet up with everyone waiting for me patiently to finish.
After that we went to where the guards train and eat. There were a few that looked at us as they trained with wing-ups and having a few hoof-on-hoof fights to show who was stronger and more agile. I had the feeling that some of them were just trying to show off to their employers'. 'I think I've got the perfect way to break them' I thought in my head as I thought of countless ways to see just how tough they really are, most ideas' involved me doing one of these with me taking over there training, make them do ten laps around the whole castle, then make them do push-ups and finally a good old fashion hits to see if they can take an actual hit.
We then went to the gardens with plenty of trees and I was willing to put a bet on that Dara was thinking 'Why did I not bring the football'. Anyways as we were walking around the outside of the castle, we came across a large maze. I just looked at it in awe as I now had a new way of ending the training for the guards. Luna must have known I was doing this as she pulled me my collar with her wing to get me back on track while gaining a smile at my expense, because I fell on the ground and received a little giggle from Luna and Celestia, while Dara laughed his ass off. "Ha, ha, ha, that was so funny" I said sarcastically.
After that incident we decide to go back in the castle to continue the tour which led us to the actual library Luna and Celestia use. It was larger than the archives as it has two floors. I had a quick wonder trying to find the same book as I though 'If it was there maybe it would be here as well'. Unfortunately I was mistaken, instead there was a whole section dedicated to some random pony called "Star Swirl the Bearded" with a book in a glass container that looked important, but since he was most likely famous for some weird reason and I doubt that he would have anything to do with dark magic, so I joined with Celestia and Luna who I thought was waiting for us before continuing on to one of the final stops, but instead they were talking to Twilight.
"Hey" she said waving a hoof in my direction as I nodded in reply. I then walked outside the library and moved the beats up to my ears and started to listen to something I haven't listened to in what felt like ages. That was 'Without me' by Eminem. Of course I was listening to him he's almost the only person I listen to. I didn't take long until Dara was out and we were on our way to one of our final destinations as a group.
After that we then headed to one of the towers and were then told that it was the observatory. It was a large room that I suspected must be one of Luna's favourites because it was a slight bit dark, quiet and had most constellations from the human world and new ones from this world all over the walls. It was like the walls where space themselves. There was a telescope looking off in some random direction at the last constellation viewed in this room. There was ten bean bags and pillows all over the room in a circular fashion. I was happy to know that had something that reminded me of home.
We went out to the balcony and there were two other towers that were close by. "To your right is my bedroom and Celestia's is on your left" Luna informed us, but I could probably guess it was theirs because there were a telescope in the room to the right and black out blinds, while on the left had plenty of glass and was somewhat easy to look into.
"Well this concludes our tour of the more important parts of the castle" Celestia informed.
Dara's stomach started to growl as he asked "Does that mean that we can go get food because I don't know about you but I'm starving".
"Your always hungry, I'm still surprised that you're not fat from all the food you eat" I informed him finally getting an insult in against him. It felt like ages since the last time I had said something to him.
Unfortunately he took it more as a compliment than an insult because he just said "So what the food here is good, besides it's better than ordering a curry or pizza every night".
"Yes, we could also do with some food" Luna answered Dara and proceeded to leave the room alongside her sister with Dara not too far behind. I stayed for an extra few seconds to look around the room before leaving to join up with them, who were now just at the bottom of the spiral staircase that led to the observatory room. I quickly caught up to them and we made our way to the dining room.
When we got there, the two previous guard ponies from this morning where outside the door. When they saw us approaching they took action and opened the door for us to enter. We thanked them as we entered to see Twilight and her friends sitting waiting for their food to arrive, along with that posh prick Blueblood sitting away from the girls. When they all saw us entering, all but Blueblood greeted us mainly the princesses.
But the best part of the day so far is that I get to see him squirm as I decide he should apologize and I would as well. So when we were walking up to our seats, I stopped and whispered in his ear "If you don't say sorry to Dara and I for calling us commoners before you leave, I will gut you, pull out your intestines, hang you and then slit your throat open, but if you do I will let you live". It would be an empty threat but still did its job as a threat that would never have him mess with either of us again. Of course I wouldn't have done it, he maybe a huge prick but he was still a prince at the end of the day.
He gulped and then started to shiver as he tried to remain calm, he must have heard about what I did when he left because his face showed nothing but utter fear. I then walked to the one remaining seat and sat down with Dara to my left sitting beside Celestia and Luna on my left with Twilight beside her and waited for the waiter to ask for our food.
When he came out he went straight over to Celestia and asked "The regular your majesty?". She nodded and he headed then to Luna and wondered "And what would you like tonight miss Luna?"
"Just a simple salad with extra tomatoes for tonight please, good sir" She instructed.
The waiter then went to Dara and questioned "What would you like sir?"
Dara replied with "Just a plain pizza please"
Finally I was being asked "And you sir?"
I thought for a second before thinking 'Is there anything that I actually eat that isn't meat?'. Luckily there was one thing that I used to get in an Italian take-away near my old house. "I would love to have a few bruschetta's" Since the soup last night was delicious, I had high hopes for these.
I just put on my headphones and waited for the food to arrive while putting my arms in a folded up position and placed head on top of them to relax. It took around ten minutes for the waiter to come back out with the food. Celestia's and Luna's where out first as they where simple salad's with a cup of tea with Celestia's food and a glass of red wine with Luna's. Then mine and Dara's food where out in after another minute with a small glass filled with a tan coloured liquid half filling the glass. I moved the headphones down to my neck as I prepare to eat. The pizza looked cooked to perfection and the brushettas where exactly how I remembered them, golden brown bread, slightly cooked diced tomatoes covered in olive oil to add additional flavouring. The first bite was absolutely divine, I had devoured the first two without even taking a second to savour the flavour that made my taste buds dance. I just wished that there where more than just four of them on the plate because I always felt like I could do with another or something else when I finished them. But ironically for one when I had finished the fourth, I was actually surprised that I finished it. The flavour was one out of this world. I decided to taste the drink to at my pleasure tasted like whiskey, but not any whiskey, no it tasted like Jack Daniels. I never stopped as I downed the drink, the only thing I could think was 'Amazing food, whiskey and I actual feel happy since before my dad's death. Maybe Dara was right, it can be a new start'.
We all were finished within another couple of minutes with the waiter taking in all our plates at the same time and thankfully coming back out with a larger glass with more of the same liquid this time.
Blueblood who must have been thinking of what to say after I told him that finally had the decency to apologize to me and Dara. "Uhmn, it seems that I may have said offense words towards our guests earlier and I would like to be the bigger stallion and apologize to you both" he spoke with a bead of sweat dripping down the left side of his face showing how nervous he was.
"That's okay Blueblood, apologize accepted" Dara spoke up breaking the ice before I accept it as well.
"Yeah, there was no need for that" I tell him while trying to hold back a chuckle, but couldn't help give him an evil smirk.
"Thank you, I will see you all later" he said as he turned and exited the door.
As soon as the doors were closed behind him, I couldn't help burst out laughing to be soon joined by Dara and Luna, followed by the girls and a light giggle from Celestia towards us all, but soon became suspicious and asked wearily "Alex, what did you say to my nephew to make him do that?"
"Oh, I told him that if he didn't say sorry that I would gut him and hang him by his intentions then slit his neck to make sure it was over with, Why?" I asked with a sly smirk knowing that would traumatise anyone in the room, especially Fluttershy who had sunken into her seat and almost not seen except for her mane and her eyes looking on in horror at me.
Celestia just looked with shock in her eyes and her mane had frozen in pace for a few seconds before she replied "It's just that Blueblood has never apologized about saying something wrong before"
"Well if you ever know your right and he's wrong, you can always say that I need a word with him, if that doesn't work just get a guard to come get me and then see him cry his heart out saying sorry to you" I informed them all, but mainly towards Celestia and towards Rarity.
I finished off what remainder of whiskey in the glass, I got off my seat and went to where the waiter had brought out our food and decided that I needed a refill if not the bottle instead.
When I walked in there was an amazing aroma of spices and flavours that will the air. The kitchen was just as big as the dining room, able to fit in around a hundred pony chiefs and not hit off each other or off the pure white marble covered countertops. The reflecting shine off the clean floor was almost unbearable.
I managed to find the waiter pony rushing around preparing something most likely desert for us. "Hey, you" I called out.
He stopped and put a hoof to his chest and ask "Me?".
"Yes you" I replied before continuing "Can you give me the bottle of the drink that was in my glass?".
"Yes, It's over there" He replied while moving the hoof from his chest over to the bottle that was a quarter empty.
"Thanks" I told him while going over and grabbing the bottle before heading back to take up my seat.
Just as I push open the doors the entire group just started to laugh for a reason unknown to me. Most people would have asked something like 'What's so funny' or something along that lines, but not me. No I just took my seat then poured out another glass for myself.
Celestia finished laughing which was more like a chuckle to herself about what was just said and asked me "You like that drink that much?".
I replied simply with "Yeah, it tastes like my favourite drink back home"
Dara, who didn't taste his drink yet, raised a brow and asked "So this taste like Jack Daniels?".
I gave him a simple smile and told him "You tell me".
Dara raised a brow and then chugged down the drink. Once the drink was completely gone he loudly placed the glass on the table and answer my query "Yeah that's whiskey".
Luna then raised a brow at that statement. She didn't know whether that was a good or a bad think Dara said, so she asked "Is that bad?"
I decided it was best to answer in the one way I knew I had to. sarcastically. "No not at all, unless you want to carry me back to my room, it's not" I replied while slightly chuckling.
Luna went a little quieter and then made me the quite embarrassed when she replied with "As long as you don't snore, I will".
I was now red in the face as Dara thought it was best to jeer and start to slag me saying stuff like "Don't forget the plastic" and other embarrassing things to me. But I was to mortified to really care about what was said by him, because if I said the one thing I was thinking, there would be an all out death match killing the other and anyone who got in our way. But thankfully I didn't say it.
The only thing that made this worse was the fact that Luna was now smirking in victory and looked like she was gloating about saying this. She couldn't take her eyes off me and I couldn't take my eyes off her. That awkward silence between the two off us was going to last a long time. I had to think of something to make it an even playing field, but the only thing that came to mind was what the pony from this morning told me.
So I had a little bit to say but not enough for me to come out on top of this situation. Then it came into my head on how to answer her.
So I did what I had thought up by taking the glass into my hand, down the drink and replied with "I won't, if you don't go all Nightmare Moon on me", while placing the glass back on the table, then with a smirk I turned my head and just look at her expression.
She now looked like she wanted to do what Dara would have, if I said what I was thinking. She had horror and disgust in her wide open eyes. She had sat up straight but now leaning over towards me ready to speak. She just kept looking at me, about to just jump off her seat and kill me with one of her spells.
"Don't you dare say that again" she challenged me.
"Or what" I asked now putting my forehead just under her horn waiting for her reply.
Unfortunately it wasn't the one I was expecting. She kicked the chair she was sitting on away from her and pointed her horn at my chest. The same spell of magic she used accidentally on me earlier was used, hitting me in the chest and flinging me across the room into the part just between the window and the wall. My head and back where the first to hit the wall with my left arm collided with the window shattering it and dislocating my shoulder.
Luckily as I fell from the wall towards the hard ground with glass covering the floor, I was engulfed in a golden magic aura, slowly being brought back over to the gasping ponies. Dara was now on top of Luna holding her down with his arms not allowing Luna to get up and finish me off. I was slowly blacking out from the pain I was suffering from as I felt something roll down my head and my back.
The last thing I heard was Celestia yelling "LUNA". Then everything was black.