I turned away from the orb, anger and fear rising within me. Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings have been lying to me...suddenly, her disapproval didn’t weigh as heavily on me as before. I left the room, and traveled down the corridor, thinking to myself. Should I escape? Should I stay? After thinking long and hard, i reached my door and opened it.
I stepped in and picked up my sword, there’s nothing I can learn here with Chrysalis that I can’t teach myself. I strapped the sword to my side, and left my room. I walked down the corridor, the pain in my chest had all but gone away, though I was sure I'd still have a few bruises for a while.
“Where is Queen Chrysalis?” I asked a drone. It started leading me farther through the castle and to a hall that stretched far down, but no doors were on the sides, only one at the end of the hall. I walked to the door and knocked.
“Come in…” I heard Chrysalis’ voice from inside the door. I opened it, and walked in. She was sitting on a bed, I could only assume this was her room. I shut the door.
“Please, sit down.” She said, but I stood in front of her.
“What happened at The Wedding?” I asked her. She was clearly surprised, she hadn’t expected me to learn about this.
"W-What do you mean, Novy? What have you gotten into?" She said with a slight shake her in voice.
"Don't fuck with me, Chrysalis. No more lying." I said firmly.
“How do you know about the wedding..?” She asked, still surprised.
“I’m not going to tell you, Chrysalis. Why have you been lying to me? Why would the ponies fear you, if you were driven out by them?” I asked challengingly. She stood up, and closed her eyes for a second.
“Tell me what ha--” As I was talking I felt a force slam into me. I flew back against the wall and landed on my feet.
“I had big plans for you, you know...you were going to rule by my side…” She began, but I didn’t want to hear it. I drew my sword and ran out of the room. I ran through the corridor as quickly as I could.
“Attack Novy, my children, he is of no use to us anymore!!!” I heard Chrysalis' booming voice from her room. The hall filled with Changelings, I ran through them, slashing and cutting, and stabbing. I had to escape, no matter the consequences. I got thrown backward by a changeling that dived at me, I stabbed it, and green blood spewed out, slapping my face and clothing. I slashed open another Changeling and punched it, knocking it into a Changeling that was flying by. I ran through the entrance to the castle and leaped off the stairs, trying to save time in escaping.
I ran into the Everfree Forest, and didn’t stop until the castle was out of sight. I stopped, breathing heavily.
"So, I escaped The Changeling Castle...but now what?" I asked myself. I needed to get out of that forest…
I heard a rustling off to my side and I got my sword ready, I made it this far, I could handle anything this forest had to throw at me. Out from the bushes stepped a large wooden wolf with glowing yellow eyes.
“Holy...shi--” The wolf pounced at me and I dove out of the way, I ran through the forest, dodging branches and the wolf. I took a sharp turn and jumped onto a tree, pushing myself up with m,y feet and grabbing a branch, I pulled myself up, and climbed onto it. The wolf snarled under me and growled. There was a loud noise from the direction of the castle, and the wolf let its guard down, I leapt off the branch and landed on the wolfs back. It threw itself about, trying to get me off it.
I drove my sword through the back of the Wolf’s throat and it let out a loud, shrill whine as it fell to the ground. I got off of it, and sheathed my sword. After I caught my breath, I walked through the forest for who knows how long until I came to a familiar green pasture.
I saw the patch of black dirt where I’d awoken. I walked slowly over to it. The grass had already started to grow around it. I looked up from the mark, and saw the town from before. I stumbled toward it, being my only option. I walked into the town, passing ponies by, who ran away from me, or were paralyzed with fear. I came to the conclusion that Equestria has never housed a human before...I walked through the town for a while, and stopped in front of a large tree that had been made into a...home? I walked up to the tree and knocked on the door, silently praying the resident wouldn’t slam the door in my face.
The door swung open and Twilight Sparkle stood there. Her face was something of complete and utter shock.
“What...are you?” Twilight asked, her mouth wide open.
“I’m Novy...I’m a human...i know who you are too, Twilight Sparkle.” I responded.
“I have something you need to know...may i come in..?” I asked. She stepped aside and shut the door with her magic after I walked in.
“You remember the scorched grass you and your friends found? I made that…” I continued to explain to her everything that happened in The Changeling Castle.
“So, you have no memory of what happened before you came to Equestria?” she asked.
“No, I don’t.” I answered.
“Give me one second, Novy.” She said as she walked out of the tree house. I walked over to one of the shelves rowed with books. This must be a tree library… I pulled a book off the shelf. “History of Equestria” was the title of the book. I flipped through the pages, I read about Nightmare Moon who is now Luna, I read about Twilight and her friends being the Elements of Harmony, and much more. I heard the door open, so I shut the book and put it back on the shelf. When I turned around, all six of the multicolored ponies I’d seen in the orb stood before me.
After the rest of the 6 were up to speed, I was loaded with questions.
“So, no one can fly where you’re from!? That must be terrible!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash.
“Do people have parties where you come from?” asked Pinkie Pie.
“How can we be so sure this...thing...isn’t still on Chrysalis’ side?” asked Rarity.
“You can trust me, I swear!” I tried to convince the ponies, this was my only hope.
“I think...we can trust him…” said Fluttershy, standing next to me. Twilight walked over and stood with Fluttershy.
“I agree with Fluttershy.” said Twilight. The rest of the ponies seemed to hesitate, but eventually came to the same agreement.
“I suppose if you all believe him, then I do too.” said Rarity.