Cofffins? Check.
Creepy mask? Check.
Voice of my brother? Ch- Waitiwaitwaitwait! Whaaaaaa!?
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE MY BROTHER WAS SENT HERE AS THANATOS!? Gaaaahhh!!! I'll never get answers!
"Uh... This looks bad, doesn't it?" He asks.
"Orpheus? Is t-this a friend of y-yours?" Dinky asks, shaking.
I'm too stunned for words. I do manage to get one word out.
"A-Adrian?"
He perks right up as he hears his name.
"Yes but... Wait... Jake!?" He spits out.
I nod. He rushes over and throws himself onto me.
"I thought I lost you until that creepy merchant guy sold me a mask that looked like this one..." He sighed.
He lets go.
"The next thing I know is I'm stuck in this world. Who's the kid?" He asks.
"Dinky Hooves. Saved her from a fire." I explain.
"I see." He says, his tone sounding like he's smiling.
I guess he's in the same can't-smile-or-frown boat.
"So, What now?" He asks.
I shrug.
"I've got to take care of the kid here. You can go do... Whatever." I tell him.
Juuust now noticed how thanatos' eyes stare into my soul...
"What makes you think I just want to go do... whatever?" He says.
"I dunno." I laugh.
He laughs along we me and dinky looks at us in confusion.
"So... You two are friends?" She asks.
"More like..." I start to say.
"Brothers." Adrian finishes.
Dinky remains silent for a bit and stares at us both then shakes her head.
"I can see how that's possible... But I don't see the family resemblance." She states.
We both get a laugh out of that.
It's like old times...
"It's Ov'ar hare!" AppleBloom's voice echoes again.
"Oh crap!" I yell.
If she got who I'm thinking... Me and Adrian may be in biiiig trouble.
I lean over to Adrian and whisper "Run."
I quickly run soon after telling him that and try to get as far as I can in to the forest.
"W-wait! What's going on?!" He yells.
I look back to see a purple laser shoot through the forest.
"Oh god! They got the Twily out!" I shout.
"Twily?!" He shouts behind me.
"Twilight Sparkle!" I shout.
A voice from back in the forest shouts something that sounded like "Who's there?" But I was too focused on running and not tripping with these long legs.
ATLUS! WHY DID YOU GIVE ORPHEUS SUCH LONG LEGS!
"Hold it!" The voice of a certain Rainbow maned pony shouts.
I hear the smack of glove on metal.
"You mean that unicorn on that show you always watch?!" He shouts.
"Eeyup!" I give in my best big mac impression.
He started to scream in frustration when it started to turn into a scream similar to the real Thanatos's. That made all of us freeze.
"What. The. Heck. Was that?" I ask him.
He's shaking a lot.. Maybe he scared himself?
He eventually stands up... but something was wrong...
What is up with his eyes!?
He lets out a scream and charges at me.
"Oh snap!" I shout, jumping out of the way.
"Adrian! What the hell is wrong with you!?" I shout at him.
He screams again. He suddenly stops and flashes a grin at me, freezing me up.
I'd recognize that skill from anywhere... Evil Smile... Has a 25% chance to inflict the foe with terror... It's truly terrifying when Thanatos does it however...
I feel my muscles locking up, preventing me to move. I truly am terrified, not because of the skill, because of this whole thing.
"Grreaaaaoooooouuuuughghhh!" He shouts again.
The sky turns dark and I feel my strength leaving me.
"G-ghastly... Wail..." I moan.
Didn't expect I would end so soon...
"STOOOOPP!"
I turn my head to see Dinky and AppleBloom running through the mane 6.
"You two are brothers aren't you?" She says.
"Than why tha hay are ya fightin'?" AppleBloom asks.
This causes Adrian to slow down. He eventually lets out a scream that soon turned back into a normal one.
"J-Jake?" He mutters and falls to the ground.
I run over to see in he's alright.
Why did he go berserk like that? Or as Teddie would put it: Bear-serk.
"AppleBloom!"Our favorite southern drawled earth pony shouted.
"Ah'm sorry sis... Dinky asked fer mah help... Ah wanted t' get a helpin' cutie mark..." She sighed.
I keep staring at my brother, who was now unconscious on the ground.
"Adrian..." I mutter.
I'll get to the bottom of this... Yet.
I look up to see the lavender unicorn Twilight Sparkle walk towards me.
"Uh... Excuse me?" She asks.
I look at her.
"You two are brothers correct?" She asks.
"Yeah." I mutter.
"Then I'm curious as well.... Why WERE you fighting?" She asks again.
"I... I don't know... He's never violent... well like that." I tell her.
"Interesting..." She mutters.
The last thing I remember before being sent here was being sold that Evoker so... That means that creepy old guy sent me here! But if he did even send me.... He sent me based on what I was cosplaying as... How did Adrian get sent here as Thanatos when he was dressed as the P3 Protagonist?
"Uh, Mister?!" Someone yells where my ears should be.
I yell out in shock and face the speaker. I might just have a heart attack..
HECK YES HECK YES! BEST PONY UP THE HOUSE!
I'm reaaallly fond of Pinkie Pie...
"Whew! Finally got your attention! I was asking what kind of party you wanted back in ponyville!" She says.
"I get... To have a Pinkie Pie party?!" I ask.
"D-do you not want one? I mean... " She started to sigh. Her mane starts to loose some of it's curl.
"uh! No! It's not like that! I'd love one." I tell her.
Her mane poofs back up and she bounces up in the air.
"Yay! The first ever Welcome to Equestria-slash- Ponyville-slash- Sorry we tried to hunt you down-slash- Brother reunion party!" She cheers.
"Wait, you knew all that?"
Jake? Just don't question it.
"Duh! It says so in the script!" She tells me.
"Right... Your awesome fourth wall powers..." I mutter.
"Yup! It also says here I-" She starts to say before gasping.
"What?" I ask.
"SPOILERS!" She shouts before running off with a big grin on her face.
"Uh... Just excuse pinkie..." Twilight sighs.
"It's no trouble..." I tell her.
"Uh guys? It's starting to get dark." Rainbow tells us.
"R-right. We should continue this chat in the library." She says, dragging Adrian in the air.
I nod.
Five bucks says that party will be waiting for me in Twilight's Library.
I laugh a little at this thought.
We arrive at the library shortly after. I'm not surprised that there were no ponyvillians out today, er, tonight. Twilight flicks on the lamp and suddenly there was a huge boom.
"SURPRISE!" The ponies who managed to crowd themselves in the room shout.
I swear my jaw had just broken off and dropped.
"Were ya surprised!? Huh!? Were ya?!" Pinkie asks.
Stupid face with no way to smile...Wait, HAHA! SOMEONE OWES ME FIVE BUCKS BACK HOME!
Her mane starts to droop.
"Aw... You weren't surprised..."
"P-pinkie... I am surprised.. I just can't show it right." I tell her.
"You are!?" She shouts, happy again.
I swear, she's bipolar.
I nod.
"Then lets get this party started!" She shouts, pulling out her Party cannon.
I see out the corner of my eye Twilight taking my brother down to her basement. I quickly follow just in case...
"Opheus!" Dinky calls out.
"Oh I forgot about you, dinky!" I tell her.
"I want to introduce you to my friends!" She tells me.
I nod and follow her to the place where several fillies are dancing.
"Hey guys! this IS Orpheus!" She says.
The two colts in the corner of the group, Whom I recognize as Snips and snails, are wide eyed and open mouthed.
"Coool!" They say at the same time.
I wave to them in a kind of circle fashion.
"Hello. I am Orpheus. Dinky's personal.. Erm, new guardian." I explain.
The three fillies in the middle, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and AB accordingly, are shocked, Not so much AB.
"Wow!" Sweetie squeaks.
"Awesome! But not as awesome as-" Scootaloo starts to say.
"Rainbow Dash, Raight?" AppleBloom finishes.
"Right!" Scoots says.
I laugh a little.
Dinky introduces the few colts and fillies in the group, whom I knew most of well. Just as she got done "Introducing" Twist mocking laughter started up.
"Oh hey, If it isn't the blank flanks!" I'd now that little stuck up voice anywhere.
I hide a growl in the back of my throat. It's Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
"Leave us alone Diamond." Sweetie Belle tells them.
"Or what?" Diamond taunts.
"Or I'll step in." I threaten.
They shrink right away in my shadow.
God, I really am that big now.
"Uh We really have better things to do than see your ugly little flanks." Diamond said, backing away.
"That's what I thought." I mutter.
I turn back around to see the fillies and colt staring at me in wonder.
"Wow!"
"Cool!"
"Amazing!"
"Where can I get one of these?!"
I look down at Dinky. She's laughing and having fun despite those two.
The party ends and me and the Mane 6 get straight to brass tacks. Dinky is asleep on the couch beside me.
"So, your name is...." Twilight starts to say.
"Orpheus." I tell her.
"Orpheus.... I see." She says, nodding in understanding.
"So what are ya?" Rainbow asks, who was just lazily floating in the air.
"Rainbow!" Twilight scolded.
"What? I bet that's what you were thinkin'." She said.
"I'm sorry about Rainbow Dash. We should introduce ourselves. " Twilight said.
Not nessesary.
"I'm Twilight Sparkle." She said.
"This is Rarity," She said gesturing to the white unicorn we all know and... can't say I like her.
"The Pegasus in the air is Rainbow Dash," She said, pointing to Dash.
"Sup?" She said.
"Applejack is the sister of Applebloom, Whom I bet you've already met," She said, pointing to Applejack.
"Howdy!" She said, tipping her Stetson.
"You've already met Pinkie Pie," She said, pointing to the party pony.
"Yep!! Me and Orphy are gonna be best friends!" She said, hopping around.
"Riiiight.. moving along. The Pegasus over behind Rarity is Fluttershy. She's... kinda shy." Twilight said, pointing to a lump of blanket behind Rarity.
Fluttershy pokes her head out and quietly says "H-hi... Eep!"
She quickly ducks her head back down.
"J-jake!?" Adrian's voice echoes from downstairs.
"Up here!" I shout.
There's the sound of creaking stairs as he ducks under the doorframe.
"I thought this was some bad dream..." He mutters.
I smile as he walks over.
"I should introduce my brother." I tell them.
"This is Adrian... Or Thanatos. Depends on what name he wants to go by." I explain.
He waves his hand. Rainbow dash hovers over and starts looking at the coffins that are floating above him.
"So, are these wings?" She asks.
"Huh? I dunno. I just arrived in this world today." He says.
"Wait, you're not from this world?!" Twilight shouts.
"... I wonder what set you off..." I deadpan.
"I guess that was kinda obvious..." She says with a sheepish smile.
"But... May I ask you a few questions?" She asks.
I look up at Adrian and he shrugs.
"Sure."
"Ok, First of all..." She said, levitating a checklist out of the bookshelf.
"She had that prepared!?" Adrian shouts.
"That's twilight for you." I whisper to him.
"Yeah, Didn't ya know?" A voice comes from the top of the stairs.
Spike soon walks down the stairs, munching on an emerald.
"Twilight is a total bookworm." He states.
"SPIIKE!" Twilight shouts.
"I'm right here." He deadpans.
"Oh... Uh.... Can you get me a new pot of ink?" She asks.
Spike sighs and walks back up the stairs.
"Right I'll just ask the question that's been on everypony's mind: What exactly are you two?" She asks.
"Uuhhh..." I look up at Adrian.
"Uhh... It's all up to you dude." He says.
Thanks alot...
I look at twilight and gulp.
"We once were Human... but I guess we're personas now..." I tell her.
"Hoo-man?" Twilight asks again.
"Yeah, Kinda..." I try to think of a way to describe humans without giving them the wrong idea.
"Bipedal apes." Adrian says.
"Yeah something like that." I include.
Spike runs up with a new ink pot and twilight quickly levitates a scroll over.
"Welp, We better go. Twilight might as well be sittin' here all night with that scroll and quill." RD says trying to take off.
"Hold it Mrs Feisty hooves!" AJ yells, grabbing RD's tail.
The room is fills with lively chatter as they ask various questions to me. I laugh a little.
"Adrian? I think we're going to be just fine here..."