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// Chapter III 
// Story: The Human Who Protected Me 
// by Mr Blu Shy 
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--------CHRYSALIS--------
After Twilight had just said what she said, Nopony moved for a while. I opened my mouth to say what I thought, but I quickly shut it. I don’t think she meant it, did she?
'Twilight, you didn’t need to mention that.' Said… Ryo?! He… he spoke equestrian!
'How did you do that?' said Twilight, she looked at me and asked if I did it, but I didn’t. Ryo cupped his hand over his mouth and gasped. 
'I have no idea, I’m doing right now, aren’t I?' he asked. Ryo looked at me, so I nodded.
'I don’t know how you’re doing it, but you’re really good at it.' I said. Ryo looked at me once more and leaned closer to me. 'Ryo, are you okay?' I asked. Ryo didn’t seem like he was listening. I repeated his name. He just looked at me.
As I was about to say something else, the others were looking at me, Twilight, Fluttershy, Ryo and Spike. Wait… Why was Spike here?
'Chrysalis, what did you do to them?!' he shouted. Upon seeing Twilight still as a statue, he lost his confidence and backed up a little. I also backed up, but wherever I stood, their eyes followed. 
'I have no idea what in the heck is happening!' I screamed. What the hay was this? They all kept looking at me. After about ten seconds, they all vanished, on the spot. Spike was still there, and so was I.
Spike looked terrified and faced me. But when he saw my face, he seemed to notice something I hadn’t. My face still had two small lines of tears where I had previously been crying. 'What are you doing here?' he asked. I didn’t know how to reply, Ryo brought me here.
'I…' is all I could say. Spike stared at me with such disbelief and jumped at me. I threw a small shock of lightning towards him with my horn. He fell back in to a pile of books. 'Oh, I’m sorry!' I shouted. I quickly rushed over to Spike and tried to help him up, but he pushed me aside.
'Get away from me!' he shouted. Spike tried to run downstairs and get as far as he could away from me. 
I really didn’t mean to, but it was one of those things where I couldn’t help myself. What I did was cry, I started crying again. 'Spike, I’m sorry… I, I didn’t mean to hurt you.' I said. Spike seemed slightly convinced, but then laughed.
'You don’t think I that stupid, do you?' he said. Just as this moment, Ryo appeared again and said something about needing to get home. I was really confused, but after a moment, somepony appeared at the window and then ran off, screaming. I stared at Ryo and we both headed off through the back door to the library.

--------RYO--------
I have no idea what just happened. One minute I was in the library with Twilight and the next I end up in a castle in Canterlot. 
'Ryo, are you alright?' asked Fluttershy. Twilight was also there. But Chrysalis and Spike were not. 
'Fluttershy, I’m fine.' I faced Twilight, ' What just happened?' I asked. Apparently, she didn’t know either.  She was looking around the castle, which seemed strangely empty and the atmosphere was thick. It was like someone was watching us from very far away. 
Twilight walked up to the throne, where Celestia, which was the name of their princess, would usually be sat, with her younger sister, Princess Luna. 
'Princess?' she spoke. No reply came, so she shouted a bit louder.
'Princess?!' I shouted too. Nothing happened for a few minutes, until something appeared. A ball had appeared. It suddenly merged into a strange shape and became another human. 
'Hey' said this mysterious human. He was about my age, and had almost the same look as me, the only difference being he was wearing different clothes. However, he stuck his hand out and smiled.
'Hey there, my name is Buck; it’s nice to meet you. By the way, you need to get home, there is something you need.' 
Buck eh? Nice name. Again, I quickly looked around frantically and shouted for Chrysalis. Buck put his hand on my shoulder.
'Yo, something wrong Ryo?' I turned around, startled he knew my name, but before I could say anything again, all of my surroundings suddenly changed. I was in the library again, Buck was gone, and everything was as it was before, Spike was behind me, and Chrysalis was stood there, shocked. 
I turned to Twilight, 'Do you remember any of that?' but to my shock, she wasn’t there, and neither was Fluttershy. Spike looked me up and down.
'Where’s Twilight?' he asked rather scared. I shrugged, I'm not sure what just happened, but Chrysalis was still here, and so was Spike, so I decided to say something.
'Spike, we need to head to Canterlot castle, it’s—', but before I could finish, somepony looked through the window. Spike gasped, as did the pony outside, who I recognised as Cheerilee. She ran off and started shouting something about changelings. 
I grabbed spike in my arms and looked at Chrysalis. 'We need to go, now!' She, with her magic, opened the back door and we retreated. Spike kept quiet and Chrysalis was guiding us somewhere. I simply followed her for the duration of our escape, until that is, Chrysalis stopped. I turned around and asked why she had stopped. 

--------CHRYSALIS--------
As I turned the next corner, I slammed my hooves onto the ground to prevent me going any further forward. In front of me was a huge crowd of ponies. Ryo came up behind me and bumped into me.
'Yo, Chrysalis, what’s the hold-up?' he asked. Oh, what the hold-up he asks?

I could see the forest straight in front of me, but the mob was in the way, and Ryo turned and gasped, I hadn’t noticed before, but he was holding Spike. I quickly tried to think of a plan, or an escape route, or something. As I turned around, it was too late, there was another mob, and they quickly formed a circle around us. Ryo looked down. I looked at the crowd and spotted Applejack, one of the mane six, as they call themselves. 
Across from her was Rarity and Rainbow Dash, I couldn’t really see Pink— whatever her name was. 
'You were banished!' shouted Rainbow Dash. Rarity suddenly enclosed a bubble on me, but Ryo or spike, but me.
'Why have you come back here?' asked Applejack, in her southern-like voice. I gulped and felt ashamed for some reason. I panicked and reformed into Twilight. 
Applejack’s head dropped slightly as she pulled an annoyed, angry face. 'That’s not gonna help ya!' she said. I turned to Ryo, but I couldn’t hear him. Applejack told him to be quiet for the moment. 'I’m gonna ask ya one more time, Chrysalis, why are ya here?'
I closed my eyes, panicking as I felt myself transform into several different ponies I commonly transformed into, and ones I had only seen recently. This happened quickly and because I was scared and panicking. 'Uhh… I…' I mumbled and curled up into a ball. Still transforming rapidly, I kept repeating two words in my head. “Just wait”.
I covered my eyes with my hooves, and covered my front legs with my wings. I really wish I wasn’t here.
Suddenly, the ball vanished and Applejack told everyone to stay where they were. I heard hoof steps approaching me and I didn’t move. I felt like at this moment, everyone would laugh at me, and I would fall into unconsciousness, like in school, before the war.
I did not dare move. I felt something on my back, so I had a quick glance, and it was Ryo, he was trying to get me up. I put my face against his shirt and began to feel really embarrassed. Applejack and Rarity were telling ponies to leave. Rainbow Dash flew over to us, and sat down. 
'So, I'm guessing it's not a good day?' she asked. Ryo shook his head and got up, leaving me on the floor. I slowly turned to the cyan Pegasus and wiped my entire face. She seemed to be trying not to laugh.
'Don’t you dare!' I said quietly, I was not going to let anyone laugh at me, it didn’t matter how sad I was, it was not happening.
Applejack came over, with Rarity and asked Ryo what was happening. 
'Well, Twilight and Fluttershy might be in trouble, and to be honest, I think the princess' might be too. At the castle, in Canterlot.' She rubbed her chin, then looked at me.
'And why're you so important?' she asked in a very confident voice.
'I'm not. Ryo just helped me out. Saved my life.' She looked at Ryo, and he nodded.
'Rainbow, Rarity, I need you to go let everypony know they need to stay safe, me and these two—', Spike raises his claw, 'Hmmh, no, Spike, I need you to stay here for now.' Spike growled and walked off. 
'Well, we need to see Zecora before we do anything, she told Applebloom yesterday that she wanted to see me, so it might be important.' She pointed at me, 'You're coming with me.'
Applejack told me to be in front, alongside with Ryo. We began to walk into the Everfree forest, which is where I had previously lived. I seriously hope that we don’t see any of my young ones. As we moved over a patch of weeds, each of my four hooves suddenly itched. 

--------SPIKE--------
Applejack can't just tell me I'm not coming, if Twilight is in trouble, what if it becomes my responsibility to save her, on my own, what if I get caught?
Anyway, I still want to go save her, and Fluttershy, Twilight is like my mom, she did hatch me, and raise me. I looked over to Applejack walking into the Everfree forest, following Chrysalis and Ryo. I waited behind a corner until they had gone into the forest and was out of view until I began to follow them. 
As I approached the entrance to the forest, I saw the weed patch, which is where Zecora grew her poison joke. She made some weird potions with it. Anyway, I saw them in the far distance, and when they had left that, I edged around the patch and ran quickly after them. I giggled, realizing they had touched poison joke.

TBC, there are still two ways for this story to go, sad or mystery, despite the fact I think I have pretty much worn out the sadness, in the intro.
Anyway, the story can still go… three ways now, mystery, action or adventure, in that order.
Sorry if that makes no sense, but tune in next time folks, cuz in chapter {SPOILER}, one of the main characters will die, and I don’t mean Ryo, because that’s going to happen anyway.

Bye bye.