"You might need time to accept this. But we never left our human world."
"...What are you talking about? This is the pony world. No humans ever existed to their records. And Twilight gave me a fucking history lesson one day. She would have mentioned humans."
"Ponies can't record what happened thousands of decades before they existed."
"...Huh?"
"Humans had an extreme advancement in the field of science after alchemy. So many thought of creating a new species."
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. Humans tried to create new life?"
"Yeah I know how that sounds. They created creatures like Griffins, Zebras, Ponies, Alicorns, etcetera. But they gave them intelligence and other things so they could live by themselves."
"This sounds so familiar."
"It should. We helped make that life."
"Wow."
"Yeah. Once Discord started to cause many wars we preserved the new life forms in underground bases around the world. So that after the human race died out from many wars the planet would be able to house new life."
"That's just...wow."
"Yeah."
"I feel like there's something else though."
"Maybe there is. One day you will remember."
"So humanity fell then."
"Yes it did. You, Jinx, and I are all that's left of humanity."
"Well then."

He talked more on how we created the ponies. I told him my vague memory of humanity. He told me the gist of everything. Them we just sat there.

A stream of blue particles came from the journal, went around my body, and faded away. I grabbed the journal and opened it.

"What was that about?"
"If the owner doesn't give someone else their permission to use the journal, it won't open."
"That's actually pretty smart. Who came up with it?"
"You did."
"Huh. Might as well return the favor."
"What?"

"You never allowed others to use your journal. You have changed. For the better but you have changed deeply."
"My past sounds terrible. Now let me check something."

I flipped through his pages and found what looked like a part of a big alchemy circle. I opened mine and flipped to the page with a piece of a big alchemy circle. They fit. What?

"Oh yeah, that. You drew that."
"I drew this?"
"Yep. But you never told us what it was for. You just said we would use it when it was needed. Guess now we might never know what past you wanted this to be."
"Strange."
"Indeed."
"Today when we awoke in the hospital, our journals were in blue spheres. Why?"
"If someone tries to open our journals without our permission, it will keep itself in a containment field next to us so the ones who tried to open it wouldn't be able to take it."
"So someone tried to open it?"
"Probably the princesses Celestia and Luna. Discord must have gotten the princesses to be suspicious of us. He always had a way to make people distrust one another. Do you know what he might have told the princesses?"
"Well...Celestia did ask my age."
"Oh...that's how Discord got them to distrust us. How did she figure out your true age?"
"She cast a spell on me. But it's weird since magic never worked on me before."
"Its alchemy you came up with. Until we acquire our designated weapon, only one spell from each species that can cast spells will work on us."
"Two things. What do you mean I came up with and our designated weapons?"
"You made alchemy where magic would only work on humans the number of times a human wants. You never showed us how to do it, but you did use it for all of us. Only once would it work. Until we got our weapons, which for you is a scythe. For me it’s a sword. Jinx will use a bow. And Mirror would have used an axe."
"So the same weapons of our opposites?"
"Pretty much, yeah."
"Back to the topic of distrust. Having Celestia's and Luna's trust on this could help."
"That can be. But how would we get them to trust us?"
"I'll figure it out tomorrow. Until then, we should get some rest."
"Sure boss."
"Boss?"
"You're my boss, remember?"
"Right. Well, we should go to sleep."
"Sure thing."

He left to go find his own room. I just lay down and tried to get some sleep. Today was very, very, informational and interesting. I slowly drifted off into sleep.

I saw myself being rushed somewhere. There were alarms going off everywhere. We must have been in some sort of base. What's going on here? Am I dreaming? I watched as I was rushed to a room and the woman in a lab coat locked the door. A man in a lab coat went to a control panel type thingy. The woman laid me down on a large clear looking coffin. She drew alchemy around the base of the coffin where I was going to lie. Then without warning my body began to glow blue as I used wind to hold her and the man against the wall. Why does this seem familiar?

"What are you doing?!"

I didn't answer. I remember this! But it went differently before..what? I added another circle on the base if the coffin thing. She watched as she seemed to know what I was doing.

"What are you doing?! If you do that you'll fo-"
"I know what i'm doing!"

She stayed silent. I finished my alchemy circle around the base. Next to me I took a gun out of my pants and threw it at her. She managed to grab it.

"It only has two bullets left, what can I use this for?"
"Figure it out, it's not my problem!"

She seemed to realize something. I went inside the coffin as it started to go underground. Just as that happened I saw the door being broken down by Death. My clear coffin thing lowered as I heard two gunshots. I took something from out of my pocket. It looked like a trigger for something. I pressed it as I heard explosions around me. I remembered my dream that was like this, but different. I remembered what happened after I finished my other dream. I remembered why there were two versions of the same scene. I remember! But I will forget. I can't forget this! I was panicking as I knew I was about to wake up. I have to remember!

I woke up. I was hyperventilating. I felt like I just went through something horrible. I tried to remember my dream. I couldn't remember a thing. Wonder what happened in my dream. Must have been a nightmare. I just went back to sleep. Hoping this time I wouldn't have a nightmare.

The Alchemist

by Mr_Hippopotomonstroses

Chapter 21: ...Light