----------Third Person POV-------------
Rainbow had decided immediately that she didn't trust Terra. She didn't trust him for a few reasons. One, he had appeared out of thin air. Two, he had creepy eyes. Three, Applejack couldn't tell if he was lying or not. When the mares had gathered together, that was what they had talked about. Since Applejack was the Bearer of the Element of Honesty, she had been able to tell when anypony was lying. With Terra, she had said that there was, "Somethin blockin her senses" from him.
That was not the greatest reason she didn't trust him. When Rainbow looked into somepony's eyes, she could see what emotions they were feeling. She saw it as a certain color from the rainbow filling the sclera, the white of the eye. Red for anger. Yellow for curiousity. Orange for happiness. Green for calm. Blue for sadness. Violet for bravery. She had never seen anything indigo, though. When she looked into Terra's eyes she saw.....Nothing. She couldn't see any emotion at all in his eyes. When he was explaining himself, his face had looked confused, but his eyes were empty.
So she and the rest of the girls had decided to meet up to find out what was with him. She looked down and saw Twilight's library. She slowly winged down and landed in front of the door. She knocked three times, and before she had finished the third knock, the door had opened. Twilight beckoned her inside, and shut the door quietly. Rainbow looked around and saw the rest of the girls nod at her before looking at the colt on the couch.
"Alright Rainbow, Terra is asleep." She whispered. "You're the last one to get here."
"Ok Twi, now I want you to cast a memory reading spell on him."
Twilight gaped at her in shock. They knew Rainbow didn't trust Terra, bit this was to much. Invading someponies mind? That was terrible! "Rainbow! I will NOT invade someponies MIND! That is just.....just....Wrong!" She whispered furtively.
"But Twi, it's the only way! Without Applejack's lie detection, we can't tell who's side he is on!"
"I know it might be wrong Twi, but it's the only way we can find out about him." Applejack said. She didn't trust Terra, as nopony had ever stopped her from detecting lies. Even Discord hadn't been able to.
"I agree." Said Rarity. "We simply must be sure. He seems harmless but we have only just met the colt."
"But...But...."
"Um...I'm sorry but...I think you should cast the spell too." Twilight turned and stared wide-eyed at Fluttershy. She had expected at least the Element of Kindness to protest.
Twilight was in a big predicament. On one hoof, if she didn't cast the spell, he might have been a spy and her friends might not be able to beat Discord because of him. On the other hoof, if she did and he WASN'T a spy, than she would have needlessly invaded his mind. There didn't seem to be a way out.....'Unless...' It hit her. 'Would it?...Yes! It can! "Rainbow, I refuse to read his memories." The girls started to protest but she cut them off, "However. There is a spell that could help us."
Rainbow tilted her head and gestured with a hoof, telling her to go on. "It is a spell recently developed by Princess Luna herself. She calls it the "Song of the Heart" and it is a spell that plays a song that represents who the pony that it is cast on is, at their core. It will tell us if he is a good pony, or not, without invading his privacy!"
Rainbow rolled her eyes and simply gestured again. The rest of the girls leaned in and listened intently. They had trotted over to where Terra was sleeping. Twilight turned to his unconscious form and said "Here goes..." Her horn started to glow, faintly at first. Then the light grew and grew, until she was sure Terra would wake....
--------POV Terra-------------
I opened my eyes and found myself to be lying in the Void once more. I stood up and saw Gaia in the distance. I walked over to her, finding that I had my human body again. When I got near her, she turned and smiled at me. "Ah hello Jack, or should I call you 'Terra'? Nice choice of name, by the way."
I smiled and nodded. "Yep. Terra, Latin for 'Earth.' Only thing I could come up with on the spot. Now, could you explain why I saw a green ball of gas calling itself Mahogany? And why I was the only one?"
Her eyes widened in surprise. "You saw Mahogany? Your powers are developing rather quickly..."
"Yea, and my cutie mark-" I was cut off by Gaia laughing
"Your WH-HA-HAT?!" she asked, laughing.
"Hey, I didn't name it! It is what the ponies get when they find their special talent. Now, as I was saying what-"
"Ah Jackie! Good to see you friend!" Goddamnit Borealis.
"Hi Borry. Now as I was sayi-"
"BORRY?! I vote we make that his permanent name!" When did Rudra become a childish girl? "Hey! I am not childish!" Oh yeah, the whole mind-reading thing....Hate my stupid memory system.
"I second that motion." Am I being completely ignored now? And Gaia, you two? "Yes." Aw Christ...
"Motion carried. Now, you were saying something, Terra?" Thank you for being semi-mature Agni. "Rudra told me to lighten up." 'And you have to listen to your wife if you wanna get some.' Why in my mind...WAIT WHAT?!?
"What is it, Terra?" Rudra asked. She couldn't hear Agni? "Hear Agni say what?" SHIT!
"Yes, Terra, Rudra is my wife."
"O-Ok.....Now if we can get back on track please? What does my cutie mark mean?"
"Your WHAT?!" Agni, Rudra and Borry asked, laughing as well. Agni looks....creepy while laughing. "Hey!" Sorry.
"Goddamnit, not this again... It's a tattoo a pony gets on their ass that symbolises their talent. Mine was an oak tree with the Earthbending symbol carved on it." I get kinda swear-y when I get impatient. Or surprised. Or mad. Or really any emotion. "And I could see a ball of green....stuff...that formed into a pony shape and called itself Mahogany. She talked to me and I freaked her out and-"
"Did the 'Stuff' look like an aura?" Can I please finish at least four sentences?
"Yeah, sure whatever. Now what does that mark mean?"
"You said it was an oak tree, right? And it had that...Earthbending symbol, was it? was carved onto it?" Yes. "No need to get irritated now." When did you all become so immature? "When we sent you to Equestria. It appears some of its essence merged with us. So now we are like this." Ok....Wait, off topic! What does the effing mark mean?! "Probably that you have control over the earth and all things connected to it." .....Wat.
Rudra giggled. Seriously. She giggled like a fucking anime schoolgirl. It pissed me off, and turned me on at the same time. "Thank you." Gotta learn how to shield my thoughts... "Yes. Yes you do." Fuck. "And yes, you have control of the earth when in that form." Earth, capitol E? Wait form? I have more than one?! "No, yes." How many.
"Four, last time I checked. It turns out that, instead of merging all the blessings into one body, it distributed them each to a separate form." Thank you Captain Fire-Face. Agni gave me a deadpan glare.
"So I have one form for your blessing, one for Rudra's, one for Borry's" He glared indignantly at me. Hey, just because they are being immature doesn't mean I can't, "and one for Gaia's?"
"Eeyup." Borry is now Big Mac. All votes?
"I." The rest of The Four said. Motion carried.
"Ok so I-AAAAGH!" I cried out, feeling a sudden pain in my chest. The Four all jumped to me side and stopped me from falling over. I had felt this pain once before, only in a....lower area. It was unbearable. I somehow was able to form enough coherent thought to think 'The Walls!'
Alright, I said I would explain the Walls, right? Well, you know how everybody has their way of coping with loss, right? Well after the...incident....the Walls came up. They are my way of coping with loss. They are a series of, well walls, that block out any and all emotion. They also keep in any real emotions. I can put on my happy face, my sad face, and my agnry faic, but I can't really FEEL them. I shut down when the walls came up, or, at least, it looked like it.
When the Walls first came up, I spent all day playing games, reading, or getting on the Interwebz. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was just trying to remove myself from the world. That is why fantasy novels are my favorite. They take place in some fantastic different world where-off track. Sorry. I was also looking for a little something to give me the happiness I needed to survive. I kept on looking at things like Memebase, and eventually found their new site of My Little Brony. I decided to try the show and it provided me that little bit of happiness needed to keep the Walls strong. Eventually, the Walls became more than just a coping mechanism. They became physical entities. I could literally FEEL the Walls when something 'hit' them. Should I read something sad enough, I could literally feel them shattering.
I felt that same type of pain right now, except maginified. Something, or someone, was breaking down the Walls as I slept. "Send me back!" I gasped out. I figured that the Four could send me back, or just wake me up. I opened my eyes and saw Rudra in my face, looking at me worriedly. I stared at her pleadingly, and felt myself...passing out? Wierd.
I opened my eyes and quickly closed them. There was a blinding light in my eyes, and I felt something receding from me. It felt like when any one of the Four had exited my mind. I opened my eyes, slowly this time, and found that the light was receding. When I could see clearly, I saw Twilight standing in front of my with a sheepish grin on her face. Surrounding her were all of the girls staring at me in shock and...pity? Guilt? Something like that.
I blinked the sleep from my eyes, before saying "Uh....Girls? What are you doing..." 'Mahogany, wake up!' I saw Mahogany's aura start to sluggishly form into a pony-shape again.
Twilight blinked and her eyes widened. She stood on her hind legs and moved her hooves around in circles, saying "I am not Twilight. We are not the girls you know! You're dreeeeaming this!" My brain simply ceased to function for a minute and I just sat there blinking.
I shook the grogginess from my mind and thought 'Mahogony, would you kindly tell me what the fuck just happened?' I get swear-y when I'm cranky too. "Not that I'm ungrateful for the place to sleep Twilight, but why the fuck did you wake me up? And pardon my swearing, but I get kinda cranky when I wake up at midnight."
She frantically looked around, realizing her trick hadn't worked. Her eyes fell on something behind me and she shouted out "My book! I left my book on the couch and wanted to get it back! Yep, that's exactly why I woke you up. Ehehehehe..." She is a worse liar than Applejack!
I gave her a deadpan look before turning around and picking up the book. "'The Dresden Fillies: White Night'?" Holy shit they have Dresden! How would that work though....whatever. Ponies. I tossed her the book saying "Good book." She caught it with her magic and gave me a brief smile before running up the stairs. I looked towards the rest of the girls who were frantically searching for something to use as an alibi. "And I suppose the rest of you just gathered around for a surprise sleepover?" And suddenly the room was empty. Well except for Pinkie and Fluttershy. Fluttershy was hiding behind a book while Pinkie simply tilted her head in thought.
"OOH a surprise sleepover! That sounds like a great idea! I should use that sometime! Thanks Terry!" Then she grabbed Fluttershy and ran out the door. Oh god I have two nicknames now. I simply shrugged and trotted over to the couch. I jumped on and lifted my head. I lifted my head up and looked for Mahogany. I saw her standing in the center of the room and whispered "Hey, what happened?"
She turned to me and said 'We should probably keep the conversation to your thoughts, Terra.' I blinked, and realized she was right.
'Alright. What happened? Why did they wake me up?'
'They didn't mean to wake you up. They were casting a spell on you.' Now I'm scared.
'What spell?! What did it do?!'
'It was a spell recently developed by Princess Luna. When she was asked when she thought of it, she said "A friend gave me the idea." Afterwards, nopony could get the name of the friend. She named the spell "The Song of the Heart." Fitting name if you ask me. Now what the spell does, is it plays a song in the caster's mind that represents the targets very essence.'
"So they heard a song that described my essence? Well, she's fucked." Mahogany tilted her head inquisitively. "I'm a fucked up kid. The 'Song of my Heart' was probably some random mash up of various shit." I had lost my ability to think very clearly, so I decided to speak.
'Are you sure about that? I heard it. It isn't like that at all.' She heard it?
"Play it for me tomorrow. To sleepy to do shit right now." I yawned loudly and saw Mahogany nod and slowly disperse. I plonked my head down on the pillow and closed my eyes. 'You shouldn't swear so much.'
"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck." I will always have the last word. I slipped into blissful unconsciousness a few minutes later.
---------------------------------
Twilight looked down the stairs to make sure Terra was asleep. She trotted back to her room, thinking of the song. She sat in her room and called up the spell. She strained to remember the exact sound. She blinked, and it came to her.
'Poor kid...'