//------------------------------// // The End of Forest Star...or is it? // Story: Forest Star: The pony that cares and hates himself // by Gaylord The Decider //------------------------------// The moon was now in the sky surrounded by the billions of stars that illuminate the sky. Forest Star was still laying on the living room floor looking at the front door as he heard a knocking sound. He slowly approached the door and starts to unlock it and slightly open it to see who was knocking at this time of night. "Forest? It is us. Please let us in." "L-Luna? What are you doing here? Don't you have business to attend to back at the castle?" "We have asked our sister to take care of it so we could come here and see if you were alright." Forest Star reluctantly opened the door the rest of the way and moved out of the way letting his friend into his home. As Princess Luna enters her friends home she is overcome with excitement because it is different from the same old castle that she sees every single day. "I haven't been alright Luna. I have messed up and now everypony thinks that I am a lunatic." Forest Star gets on the floor his head down in his hands as he is about to cry again. He can feel the negative thoughts coming back and he is trying to make them not enter his fragile mind. Princess Luna turns around to see her friend about to cry, but knows that he is trying to be brave in front of her. "Forest why are thou crying? Try talking with us. Maybe we can help?" "Luna, I don't know if I can do that. I don't want to talk about all of my negative thoughts that have made me lay on this very floor and scream for twenty minutes." "Forest may we take a look into your dreams?" "I have to be able to sleep and since this happened I haven't been able to sleep at all." Princess Luna gets up and walks into Forest's kitchen and starts to grab ingredients to create a home remedy that she was familiar with. As she stands there mixing the ingredients Forest starts to get up and walk into the kitchen where his friend is. When he gets into his kitchen Princess Luna turns and hands him the glass of her sleep remedy. Forest reluctantly drinks the liquid and is fine, for a couple of minutes before he passes out, his dead weight body falling to the floor. "Now we can look in your dreams and find out what is causing you these horrible things." Princess Luna sits on the couch and lights up her horn. She is concentrating on getting into Forest's dreams and see what is happening. After a couple of minutes Luna opens her eyes to a dark place in the woods and she faintly hears somepony sniffling. She gets up and starts to walk toward the sound, not finding anything. She does a complete circle around the entire forest and can't find this sniffling pony. Luna stops and stands in one spot, closes her eyes and just listens to help her find the sniffling pony. She soon starts walking again and went a different direction finding Forest Star in the center of a circle of trees. "Forest? What is wrong?" "L-Luna? H-How did you get here?" "We are the Princess of the night and it is our duty to watch over ponies and make sure that they are alright." "Well I am not alright." A pony appears right by Forest Star. The mysterious pony is whispering negative and hurtful things to Forest Star and Forest Star is sitting there crying and holding a gun that the mysterious pony handed him. "You are a stupid pony Forest. It was your fault that Twilight hates you." "Please, stop this. You have tortured me enough." "Oh really? How can your own thoughts torture you?! See that is where you are fucking stupid. You have these thoughts and think that they are a different pony. We are your own thoughts idiot!" "So thou has hurt my dearest friend Forest?" "Oh Princess Luna, how have you been?" "Answer us! Has thou hurt Forest?" "Of course not. He is just a stupid pony that messes up a lot and he hurts himself." Luna looks at Forest with concern from what she is seeing and hearing from this mysterious pony. Why would Forest do that to himself? Why can't he come and talk with us? "He is just an idiotic pony that is a lunatic. He believes that his own thoughts are a real pony that he can talk to." "My normal and happy thoughts are my only real friends..." "Your own thoughts, no matter the emotion, are not real! Do I have to show you?" The mysterious pony draws a diagram in the dirt showing how thoughts aren't real and only a part of the pony that thinks them. "I have to escape this torment! I will do anything to escape this torture!" "Oh shut the fuck up dumb ass. You can't escape your own thoughts. Why must you think thoughts and be a fucking idiot after you do?" Forest Star slowly stands up, his head down and his right arm being lifted up. He points the gun to his head and turns to face his friend Luna. "Princess Luna, my dearest friend. I wanted to say thank you, for everything." Before Luna could say anything Forest pulled the trigger blowing his brains all over the ground and trees in the forest. Luna runs over and wraps her arms around the now lifeless body of Forest Star and begins to cry. As she is crying Forest Star's body is now disappearing. Luna closes her eyes and screams as her dearest friend is now gone forever. Suddenly she feels someone grab her arms and lightly shake her. Luna starts to open her eyes to see Forest Star standing in front her with no gunshot wound and he is very much alive. Luna jumps off of the couch and onto Forest Star with the biggest smile she has ever had. "Hey! What happened with you?" "We went inside your dreams to see what was wrong and we saw thou commit suicide." As Luna told Forest about what she saw in his dreams she was visibly shaken and distraught. Forest hugged her to calm her down a little bit. "I am sorry that you had to see all of that Princess Luna. I get like that sometimes and it sucks because when I am like that I don't talk to anyone and it's always the negative thoughts that make it worse for me." "Just promise us that thou will talk when it happens again. We would be lost without thou as our friend." "Princess I will definitely talk to you next time this happens. I don't want to hurt my friends and family." Forest stood up and helped Princess Luna up then walked over to the couch where he sat down and let Luna cuddle against him as he turned on the television. They both smiled at each other and Forest started to cry tears of happiness. "Thank you again Luna. I appreciate everything that you have done for me." "Thou are welcome Forest." The two ponies laid on the couch and watched TV until they both fell asleep still cuddled up against each other. Later the next day when Forest Star woke up, he discovered that Luna wasn't on the couch and looked around before finding a note. Dear Forest, We have had to return to the castle so that we could repay our sister for the favor she did for us. It was fun hanging out with thou last night. We wish to do it again sometime. Anyway we have to get to work. Your friend, Princess Luna Forest Star looked at the letter and was smiling. He was a fun guy to hang out with and he now had confirmation on it. "Awesome. I'm glad that she had a good time and i'm truly grateful for what she did. Usually ponies hear that and just leave me alone and don't try to help or offer advice." Realizing his lesson after the ordeal with Princess Luna, Forest Star walks over to the Golden Oaks Library to talk to Twilight. As Forest walks up to the door he sees a sign saying that the library is closed. He frowns a bit and turns right to continue to Applejack's house. As he is walking he hears someone call his name. "Forest!" Forest Star turns around to see Spike waving and yelling at him. Curious he goes over to the baby dragon. "Hey Spike. What's going on?" "I saw you walking by and I figured you wanted to talk to Twilight." "Yeah. I need to talk to her and see if we can put that mistake behind us." "Well she isn't here, but I can write a letter to her for you." "Spike as much as I appreciate the offer I need to do this myself. Just let me know when she gets back." Forest Star turns back around and continues on his way to Applejack's house. Once he gets close he starts to hear some chatting between some ponies so he starts to slow down to try and figure out who is talking. As he gets closer to the house he passes the barn where the chatter was crystal clear. "Rainbow, Ah have something to tell you." "Yeah? What is it?" "Ah am in love with you. Ah have been for a long time." Forest Star instantly blushed as he knew it was Applejack and Rainbow Dash. He didn't want to eavesdrop on their conversation, but he also didn't want to leave and come back at a horrible time. He stayed a few feet away before looking at the apple trees and just started walking in the apple acres. When he came back up to the house he saw Applejack and Rainbow Dash hugging and smiling at each other. "Hey AJ!" Applejack and Rainbow Dash, her newly found lover, turn and look at Forest both in shock that they were being affectionate and someone found out already. "I am glad for you two." The two lesbian ponies started to blush, but shyly smiled at Forest Star. He hugs his friends and smiles at both of them. "Hey uh Forest?" "Yes? What is it guys?" "What happened between you and Twilight?" After explaining the whole story to Applejack and Rainbow Dash, Forest Star was exhausted mentally. He had to tell them the whole long story about a mistake that happened and how Twilight overreacted when he tried to tell her. "Ah'm sorry Forest. She does do that sometimes." "I know that Applejack and that's why I will talk with her once she gets back from wherever she is." "Uh? What now?" "On my way here Spike saw me and figured I wanted to talk to Twilight. I told him yes I did and he told me that she wasn't at the library. I asked him to let me know when she came back so I could talk to her." Applejack and Rainbow Dash stand there with blank expressions on their faces and Forest Star sighs not wanting to explain the whole story again. "Look guys I'm going to go back to my house and just sit down and relax." Forest Star turns around and waves bye to his friends and heads back to his house. On the way back to his house Spike caught him again. "Hey Forest, Twilight is at the Library and is expecting you." "Thanks buddy. Lets go." As they continue to walk they get to the library in what seems like no time and Forest Star sees Twilight outside waiting for him. "Hey Twilight." "Oh hey there Forest. Spike told me that you wanted to talk." "Yes I would like to talk to you in private just us please." Twilight invites him in the library and they both go up to her room. Once there Twilight puts a magical barrier up so Spike doesn't hear any part of the conversation. "I assume you want to yell at me so if you do then go ahead." "Why would I want to yell at you?" "You aren't mad at me for my mistake that I made?" "Oh I'm upset, but I'm willing to talk to you." "Twilight what more do you want me to do? I have apologized to you several times and you have done nothing, but push me away and blow me off." "Oh I was busy Forest. I am sorry and I mistook what you said." "Twilight I know that and I should have told you sooner, like right after I said it, and maybe this wouldn't have happened. Can we just put this behind us and start over with a clean slate?" "I'd like that Forest." Forest Star leans in and hugs Twilight, who hugs Forest back showing that the issue is forgiven and now forgotten. As they come downstairs Forest heads for the door and starts to leave. "I'll see you later Twilight. Don't want to have you breaking the rules now." "Alright Forest. See you later." Forest Star is now walking back to his house and once he gets there he opens the door walking inside and flopping on his couch. He gets comfortable then his body tells him he has to pee so now he groans and gets up to go to the restroom. Once he gets back he walks over to an open window and looked out into the horizon, his eyes full of optimism and hope. He feels ready for anything and is ready for the rest of whatever may come his way. As long as he has his friends then he will overcome anything.