//------------------------------// // Revelations, With A Side Of Troll. // Story: When Scars Heal // by gelorum //------------------------------// “Busy are we Jordan?” The old alicorn asked. “Just thwarting an assassination attempt.” I said with sarcasm. “”I assume that means the griffins failed?” “So that’s who it was, and yeah they failed but they sure messed me up.” I told her, remembering they had shot clean through my left arm and embedded the arrow in my collarbone. “And your arm, can you repair it?” “Of course, it wasn’t badly damaged, so repairs will be minimal at best. Now I don’t really know, so who are you.” “My name is Aurora, and I am the creator of this planet, former ruler of Equestria, and... she paused... Your mother. I fell to my knees, and sat there stunned, “My mother!” I said as the revelation sunk in. “Yes Jordan, and I am so happy to see that you survived in a different world.” She said. “Yeah about that, I didn’t survive, I mean until I was 18 yes but not any longer after that.” “Well thats a nice age to die at I suppose.” “No for a human that’s horrible as we usually live till our early, to late 80’s!” “So then how did you get here?” She asked completely straight faced, I know that face. “You know it’s considered rude to troll your own family, right?” “Oh fine you caught me, I knew you had died already.” “So how did I end up here?” I asked somewhat annoyed I had been trolled. “Oh I just found that I could transport seeds that I had planted back to Equestria, and you appeared when I tried so, here you are.” “So I didn’t really die, you just shipped me home, right as I died?” “Yeah pretty much.” “Well that’s different.” I said. “You should probably wake up and see if your sisters are okay, try and get Celestia to have some fun as well.” She said as I woke up. “How is he doctor?” I heard Celestia ask. “Well other than a fractured collarbone, he’s fine, but he is going to be out cold for a while.” He said, oh this is going to be loads of fun. I sat up in the bed and started talking. “So Doc how long did you say I would be out for?” I asked my voice dripping with sarcasm. He started to stutter and trip over his words, and I barely held my composure. “How dare you lie to royalty, you could lose your job like that, you know?” I lost it, and began laughing like a hyena till I had a coughing fit from laughing so hard. “I’m just kidding Doc, I would have been out longer, but I met Aurora and she made me get up.” “You met my mother?” Celestia asked surprised. “Yes I did and she is really nice.” I looked around to make sure no one else was there, and when I felt it safe I motioned for them to come closer, which they did. “She said I’m her son.” I said, and the stunned looks they had couldn’t have been more hilarious. “I trust this is in your patient client privacy code, yes Doc?” He nodded in understanding,scribbled something on his clipboard, and left with his things in tow. “You know I could hold court for you one day, to you know give you a break, I mean that is if you want to, Aurora just suggested I get you to take a break?” “Well I thank you that you care about my well being, and for letting me know that my mother is worried about me as well, but even if I let you hold court you cannot lower the sun, and I always grant the last petitioner the chance to watch me lower it.” “Then let me try tonight, and if I cannot do it, then I will rest my case, in the meantime can we eat?” “Sure, you don’t mind if Luna joins us do you?” “I can’t wait to meet her.” I said my eyes lighting up. We left for lunch, sadly Luna was still sleeping and didn’t join us, Celestia was curious about what it was like growing up on earth so we decided to talk about it over the meal. “So what do you want?” “I want a triple whopper with cheese, bacon, bbq sauce, mayo, ketchup, mustard, onion, with a side of french fries and a large soda.” I said just watching as a confused look grew on Celestia’s face. I sat there thinking for a second when an idea hit me, “What if i could will it into existence.” I thought. I began to concentrate when I smelt the food that I wanted, as I opened my eyes the food I craved was right in front of me. “That’s what you wanted?” She asked surprised at the amount of food I could eat when I was starved, “It smells horrible.” She stated, scrunching her face in annoyance. “Well thats cause its made for my carnivore side, while I am an omnivore I really like meat, and before you go all willy nilly on me, I don’t eat pony meat thats just disgusting.” “Very well then,I will not hold it against you.” she said seeming somewhat relieved. “So what kind of job did you have?” she asked wasting no time as she waited for her food. “I didn’t really have a job, I did things here and there but really I just tried to make sure we stayed alive.” “We?” “Oh sure there was a few of us left when I came here, let’s see, there was me, Captain, Josh, and my adopted daughter Amy.” “Oh and what is she like?” “Well she used to sit and read for toddlers at the library, oh and boy did she have talent, when it came to your tech you couldn’t find a better person.” “Why do you say all these things in past tense?” “Because right before mother shipped me here, she was sent to oblivion.” “You don’t seem too upset about it?” She said coldly. “Your wrong its very painful, you just don’t get all mopey after all your blood related family dies, it takes a toll on your emotions, when they all die at your feet one by one and all you can do is watch!” She stopped eating and just sat there, staring at me like a 12 year old girl who’s just been told her puppy died. “I’m sorry I shouldn’t have raised my voice, I didn’t mean to upset you.” I said as I started sipping my milkshake. “How did you deal with it, all that pain, the empty void that had to be left?” “Because My grandparents were amazing people, who taught me how to be a real man rather than some fool. They taught me that life will not stop when you are physically dead, you just pass the chores to someone else.” “And the void?” She said nearly in tears. “I packed up my gear, called Captain, went to his house and played pool, then I went on a vendetta.” “Did you get them the revenge they deserved?” “No I got captured, that’s when they made me their guinea pig.” I said as I pulled out the i-list and took a scalpel from it, and started stripping the resin off my left arm. “Doesn’t that hurt?” “No, My left arm is made of metal and just has a covering that looks like skin so it doesn’t bother most people that see me.” “So where are you staying at the moment?” “I slept at Twilight’s house last night, but that’s the last time..oh my goodness, you sure taught her well.” “What are you talking about?” “Twilight said she didn’t mind hosting me, if I could sleep on the floor, but as soon as everypony left, she said she couldn’t stand having a guest in her house in less comfort than herself. So I had to sleep in the same bed so she might get some sleep, only to be so creeped out that I couldn’t get any, only to now remember that she had a spare bed, cause she had a sleepover when she first moved there, Celestia you have created a first class troll.” She had slowly been losing her composure during my rant and right when I finished she fell out of her chair laughing, and rolling on the floor. “I’m not amused.” I said only causing her laughter to grow till she was coughing from lack of air. “Oh thank you for that, that has made my day.” She said as she righted herself in her chair and I finished fixing my arm. I finally got to eat my burger and we finished talking, right about time go back to court. “You mind if I stay and watch, since I really don’t have anything important to deal with, and should probably try to learn how you hold court if I’m taking it over sometimes?” “I suppose that would be a good idea, if you truly are determined to relieve me of my post once in awhile.” We were just about to round the corner near the throne room, when low and behold. “Auntie!” The white unicorn stallion basically whined. “Please tell me that’s not who I think it is.” “Oh yeah that’s him alright.” “Then this is going to be fun. I said, an evil grin spreading across my face, I stood on the opposite side of Celestia and waited for my nephew, to start bugging her with his rants most likely to be over Rarity not wanting anything to do with him. “Auntie, we need to talk about the Rarity issue.” Wow this guy has a one track mind. “Why but Blue blood, whatever issue could you have with me?” I said having hid behind Celestia’s tail long enough to morph into the mare in question. “Well since you are already here then, would you like to join me in my suite?” He asked giving me the ‘Bedroom eyes’ as they call them. “I walked up, flicked him with my tail and turned around to begin running and faked hurt. “You disgusting ruffian! I yelled, Have you not an ounce of decency!” I began sobbing and ran away in dramatics, baiting him for a chase, which he did. I rounded a corner and waited till he could see me, then teleported back to Celestia. “That Stallion is going to learn his lesson one way or another.” I said “I didn’t know you could shapeshift.” “Jamie Roja’s. She was one of the Humans killed to turn me into a weapon, and the one gifted of the shapeshifting. “Now onward to court?” She asked. “Alon-sy!” We rounded the corner and walked to the doors,the guards swung them open and we strolled to the throne. “I would tell you to sit but there isn’t a seat.” “I wasn’t going to sit in view anyway, or can I?” I mused to myself. I morphed into a tiny puff version of a pony, I was brown with a black mane and tail, then I hopped over and sat right next to Celestia. “Thats a cute form ‘little’ brother.” “Not amused sis, not amused.” “Bring in the first petitioner!” We sat and listened to many, bring their troubles before the court, from corporate windbags with complaints, to ponies with actual problems, of all shapes and sizes. When the last pony came he didn’t want to stay, and so I didn’t have worry about being seen. “You can lower the sun now ‘little’ brother.” She picked. “Alright I am so not using that form again, I hate being called little.” She chuckled at my annoyance as I walked over to the balcony, lifted my head and close my eyes to concentrate on the sun. Somehow I felt the sun become smaller, as if it were a toy to be played with, I poked at it with a finger and it started to move, I kept at it till I had lowered it to the horizon. “It seems that I can in fact move the sun, eh sis?” She just glared at me knowing that I had fully proven capable of giving her a break. “See you at breakfast sis.” I said with a yawn. “Have you noticed you don’t have a shirt on?” I froze in my tracks and began to feel around, my shirt was gone, my shoulders weren’t hurting and I was improperly dressed in front of a lady. “Holy chopsticks!” I shoved my hand in my pocket, ripped out the i-list and found some clothes. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner you troll?” “I didn’t think it would bother you.” “Eh whatever goodnight sis.” “Goodnight Jordan.” During lunch Celestia had given me a room to stay at in the castle, so I went in to get cleaned up for bed and found it quite nicely furnished, having a king size bed, vintage writing desk, and balcony. “Now where is the bathroom?” I thought to myself. I looked around for awhile and still didn’t find any doors, then I saw a small section of the wall littered with gemstones and when I got close to it found that they were arranged to spell a word. “Oh I am such an idiot.” I said as I read the gemstone sign that said ’Restroom’. I took out a shaving kit and some scissors and proceeded to clean myself up, when I noticed a pair of light brown wings flapping slightly behind my back. “Is someone there?” I said as I turned around and looked for the intruder. Seeing no one present, I looked back to the mirror and turned so that I could see my back, what I found surprised me. “Well these are new.” I said lightly testing my new found appendages. I went ahead and shaved and cut my hair, as it was near shoulder length and that was far longer than what I liked. “Well that’s much better. Guess there is no time like the present to test these babies out.” I walked to the balcony of my room and spread my wings, I find the feeling hard to describe its like a second pair of arms, but their extremely sensitive and I really don’t know how to explain it any other way than, they feel amazing and just looking at them makes me want to put them to use. I crouched down close to the floor, then shoved off the balcony and thrust my wings down as hard as possible, gaining quite a bit of distance. It then occurred to me that I couldn’t stay in the air without adopting a steady pace, so I began to steadily pump my wings at a slow even pace, and found it relatively easy to stay in the air. “Heh, well since I’m up here let’s see, I always wanted a mountainside view.” I said to myself as I scaled a little further up the mountain, I found a nice flat area with a small treeline and thought it was a perfect spot to sit and sing for a while so I did so. “Now I know exactly what song I should sing, now the trouble is finding the dumb thing. I should probably organize my song bank.” I said to myself as I pulled out my tablet, put my favorite headphones on and let loose with the song. Personal chambers of Princess Luna: 7:30 PM. “Oh goodness why must these royal affairs be so dreadfully grueling?” I said to myself while sifting through the desk full of papers. “At least I don’t have to hold court tonight, though I think I almost prefer it to the amount of paperwork involved with, finances.” “I know you’re somewhere out there, somewhere far away.” “Would whoever is singing please lower thy voice I am trying to balance a budget!” “I want you back, I want you back.” “I said be quiet thou loon!” “My neighbours think I’m crazy, but they don’t understand, you’re all I had, you’re all I had.” “Who dares to ignore me!?” “At night when the stars light up my room, I sit by myself.” “Hast thou no consideration?!” “Talking to the moon, trying to get to you, in hopes you’re on the other side, talking to me too!” “Or am I a fool, who sits alone, talking to the moon?” “Oh I have had quite enough of this.” I stomped to the balcony and searched for the source of the annoyance. “I’m feeling like I’m famous, the talk of the town,they say I’ve gone mad, yeah I’ve gone mad.” “Here I come you fool.” I figured out the annoyance was coming from somewhere further up the mountain, and flew as quickly as I could to reach the spot where it was. “But they don’t know what I know, cause when the sun goes down, someone’s talkin back, yeah their talkin back!” “Aha thou foolish loon, at last I have come to put an end to your annoyances!” What I saw surprised me to say the least, a human of which I have not seen in ages, stood before me on this ledge belting his heart out in song. “At night when the stars light up my room, I sit by myself, talkin to the moon.” His voice was a mix between a tennor, and baritone, his hair as dark as my night itself and he wore a pair of what I recognized as large headphones, Vinyl had once shown me a how a pair would keep all other sounds out, so that the user would not be disturbed while they worked. “Guards arrest this loon for disturbing the peace.” My guards appeared on call and arrested him easily, as he didn’t put up a fight, which I found most interesting. “Now back to work.” I said as my stomach growled. “Maybe after breakfast.” Do not sing loudly if you are in public as someone can have you arrested. This has been a public service announcement courtesy of yours truly.