Chapter Five: Two Slenders
I was walking along the outskirts of the Everfree forest, pacing back and forth as the intangible pull it had on me grew in intensity. It had been a few months since Pinkie and I had started dating, and things were going great. Yet... the longer I stayed, the more this forest attracted my attention. I was also hearing the voices that tortured me back when I was transformed. They whispered at first, so faint I couldn’t even make out what they were saying, but as time went on, they grew louder and louder, until every time they spoke I would get a splitting migraine. They demanded that I kill innocent ponies, ponies that I KNEW wouldn’t ever hurt the good… I have been steadfast in my resistance… but I don’t know how much longer I could last…
I looked to my watch (a gift from Pinkie that she even resized to my wrist) and gasped, it was almost time for our date today! I slenderwalked to the restaurant where we had agreed to meet: a modest pizza place with really good fried zucchini. I saw Pinkie come skipping down the road and I could not resist smiling, but was careful not to show my teeth. She sat down in a booth and I sat next to Pinkie and smiled, happy to be out on a date with her. We've been spending increasing amounts of time together and I had even gotten a job as security at the bakery, mostly dealing with kids trying to steal candy and helping keep the place safe to bake in, keeping burglars and recipe thieves out, really helps that I don't need sleep. I looked to Pinkie, the twinkle in her eyes mesmerizing me
"So... um... Pinkie..."
Pinkie smiled and kissed me on the cheek "Yeah Jerry-Cherry?"
I smiled, once again happy I learned to hide my teeth as I nervously fidgeted with my tie "What was the reason you said yes to going out with me?"
Pinkie smiled "Well, I like how nice you are, and you are really cute when you aren't wearing that mask, and-"
I looked to Pinkie doubtfully "You... like my natural look?"
Pinkie nodded "Yeah! It's super cool and strong! And besides," She whispered sensually into my ear "I like my stallions tall..."
I blushed and kissed Pinkie on the cheek, right before the voices slammed into my skull full force
“THE FOREST! GO TO THE FOREST! KILL ALL WHO STAND IN YOUR WAY!”
I slumped in pain as I clutched my head, Pinkie looking worriedly to me “Jerry! Are you okay!?”
I nodded “I… I think I need to go….” The urge to kill was growing, I didn’t want to hurt anypony, I had to get out of here!
I quickly slenderwalked to a random location, finding myself in a clearing in the Everfree, about fifteen miles from Ponyville's border with the forest, I found a large scythe in it’s center, stuck in a dead tree, it was an odd scythe as it had not one, but four blades, each forming a ninety degree angle with the next, and seemed to be made entirely of a pitch black metal, with a red light reflecting off of it, I looked to the ground and saw a giant Slenderman mark as well, along with runes in a language I did not recognize, these runes also running along the length of the blade… I walked to the scythe and grabbed it, screaming in pain as the voices grew to unbearable levels as my suit changed, my tie becoming an ascot and my business suit becoming a duster, and my slendrils became harder, almost chitinous. I began speaking, or more accurately, the voices spoke through me… calling to what I could feel was another displaced. I could also feel my resistance to the voices commands weakening, my vision blurring as a rift opened in front of me, and out fell a female Slendy.
Third POV
Lisa was walking with Twilight and the others back to Ponyville so that not only could she get introduced to the town but also so she could have her party. Fate however, had other plans for her. A portal to the void suddenly opened underneath her, and she fell in.
"SHIT!" Twilight and her friends looked at the portal as it closed.
"LISA!" Applejack dove at the portal just as it closed. She hit the ground in frustration.
"Don't worry Applejack! She's just going to meet a new friend!"
"And how do ya gather that Pinkie?"
"My Pinkie sense!" Pinkie then bounced away like nothing happened. The others just watched the spot, where Lisa disappeared.
Meanwhile, Lisa was falling through the void.
'Wonder who summoned me?' She didn’t have to wait long as another portal opened up and she fell through. When she fell out, she saw who summoned her. It was slenderman.
"Oh hello! Now who might you be?"
[1st person POV, Jeremy]
I staggered a little, my eyesight still blurry as I looked to her, a black mist rising from my body. “I...I’m Jeremy…” I felt the voices recede in their killing mantra “Why aren’t the voices telling me to kill you? I don’t want to hurt anyone, tell me how to get these voices to shut up!” I grabbed my head in pain with my left hand, my right still holding the scythe “Th-they won’t shut up! They tell me to kill good ponies! I DON’T WANT TO HURT INNOCENTS!”
“Oh, so the voices have already started for you now huh?” I nodded.
“Yes, have they for you?” The Slender Woman nodded.
“Yeah, a long time ago. I eventually found a way to get them to stop.”
“How?”
“Self solitude. I sealed myself in a cave for a hundred years, building up resistance to the voices and mastering my abilities.”
“Self solitude? For a hundred years?”
“Yep although, I’m guessing you don’t have that kind of time do you?” I shook my head. “Thought so. Hmm, well there is one other way.”
“What? Tell me! I’ll do anything.”
“I need you to get mad.”
“WHAT?! WHY?!”
“So I can beat your inner Slendy into submission.”
I sighed before focusing on my memories from before I became slendy, the things I had lost, the people and loved ones I would never see again. My mouth appeared, and so did my dark Slendrils. Now, I could only watch as my body moved on it’s own. My body charged and threw a punch. The new slendy just dodged the punch by moving her head to the left before leaping to the right to avoid my scythe/spear, I think I’ll call it a meta scythe
“By the way-” my body threw another punch, which she dodged by moving her head to the right, “my name’s Lisa.” My body roared in anger and started to use my Slendrils to attack. She just dodged the attacks effortlessly. Her movement was lightning fast. I couldn’t even see her move as she dodged. My body swung my scythe again, and one of her Slendrils caught it.
“Planning to attack me with your little farmer’s toy? HA, cute.” My body just got angrier as it slammed my scythe on the ground. Upon doing so, black cracks formed in the ground, and spread out to the forest. I could suddenly feel the connections of three different beings, and they rushed to help my crazed body. When they came out of the bushes, I saw that they were timberwolves. My body barked an order through the new connection, which worked like a hive mind. The wolves then leaped at Lisa, and I thought she was about to eat it but she just backflipped into the air. Using her tendrils of darkness, she shot them out at the ground, allowing her to not only impale the three timberwolves, but also to balance herself in mid air. She positioned herself so she was looking at the ground, but she also looked like she was standing on air.
“Aw, trying to attack me with your little wolf proxies. That’s so adorable!”
My body roared as giant arms made of slendril material grew from the ground, swiping at Lisa and grabbing her by the limbs as I began to change further, my bodies rage growing further as I fought for control, while my body was fighting Lisa I was wrestling with my inner Slendy in my mindscape I began to overpower him as I screamed in rage “I WILL NOT LOSE MY BODY TO YOU!”
Lisa started to notice her opponent was slowing down.
“Hey, if you’re fighting your inner Slendy right now you need to stop! It’s not beaten into submission yet! Besides, I’m having fun!”
I stopped. She was having fun? I watched as my body brought her to the ground, but she slenderwalked just before she hit the ground. My body stopped, confused.
“Boo.” Suddenly, one of Lisa’s Slendrils burst through my stomach. My body’s head slowly turned to look at her. Even though she had no facial features, I could swear I saw a creepy smile on her. “Had enough yet? I mean, look at you. You tried your hardest but I beat you senseless without even trying. Now, this is just your body Slendy. I hate to see what the person that’s in control could do to your mind if you kept at this. And if you’re not afraid of that, then think of what I could do should he let me in.” I could feel my inner Slendy retreat into my head, and give me control. Lisa pulled out her Slendril, and I fell to my knees, gasping for air.
I looked to her as the voices became silenced and my wound sealed itself “I can’t thank you enough…” I then stood up and looked to my claw scythe, wondering who left it there… I then looked to it quizzically, wondering how the hell I was supposed to waltz into town with this bloody death dealer in tow, but right as I began to wonder that, it disappeared! It was as if it was a keyblade from kingdom hearts! I then willed it back, and it just reappeared out of thin air!
“No problem. I had fun kicking your inner Slendy’s ass anyways.”She then noticed me making my claw scythe appear and disappear at will “Huh, interesting weapon.”
I looked to Lisa “Umm… mind if I go with you? I’d like to learn how to use my slendy powers better…” I looked towards ponyville regretfully “I don’t think I should go back yet… I almost hurt Pinkie…”
Lisa nodded. “Yeah that’s fine. Your inner Slendy should stop bothering you from now on. If it does, hold this up.” Lisa held out her hand. In it, was a black marble, with a circle that was crossed out on it. I took it, and held it up to my face. Upon doing so, a message played.
Hi! My name’s Lisa, and I’m the Slenderwoman! If you ever need someone to help take out your enemies, or just a cool girl to hang out with, just throw the marble at the ground and I’ll arrive shortly.
I smiled “If you ever need my help, take this and call my name: Jeremy Farkness.” I let the crimson material flow from my hands again, forming a crimson red medallion in the shape of the slenderman’s mark. I handed it to her and it’s message played:
“ Greetings, child, press my symbol into the ground, and I will come to thy aid, but beware, if wickedness lie in thy heart, I shall strike thee down…”
“Ooo, went for a Luna style huh? Nice.” Lisa tossed the item behind her, and a portal opened and swallowed it up. I looked at her quizzically. “What? Oh, I have a friend that can control portals. Whenever I get a token, I just toss it and a portal puts it into storage for me.”
I nodded and waited for a bit, trying to think of what to say “Ummm…. you wanna go meet my world’s Pinkie? She’s really cute.”
“Sure, I could always go for meeting a new Pinkie.” We began to walk to Ponyville. As they did, I spoke up.
“So how in Arawn’s name did you dodge me so fast?” Yeah, I worship Celtic gods, deal with it.
“Huh? Oh that. It’s a trick I developed called Slender Dodging. Basically, I’m not actually moving that fast. I’m just slenderwalking a short distance. Small enough so it’s instant. That, combined with me changing positions to look like I’m dodging, makes it seem to my opponents that I’m a lot faster than I really am.”
I nodded before I realised something and facepalmed “We could of just slenderwalked to the restaurant in front of sugarcube corner… God I’m dumb.”
“Eh don’t worry about it. I barely use my slenderwalking unless I have to. I prefer to actually walk everywhere. Gives me a good exercise.”
I nodded as we reached the restaurant, only to find that Pinkie was not there, I looked around to find Applejack running towards me. I waved to her only for her to run up and try to punch me. Lisa however, caught the punch.
“And why is Applejack attacking?”
I shrugged “Maybe she thinks I’m a tree?”
AppleJack whinnied in rage “I don’t think y’all are a tree! Y’all are a two timing Varmint who went n’ made Pinkie cry just so y’all could get with this whore!” Lisa took offence to that.
“Okay one, I’m not a whore. That’s just rude. And two, had he not left he could have killed Pinkie.”
I looked away in shame as AJ looked blankly to me “Wha? Wh...why?”
I teared up, black liquid dripping from where my eyes were supposed to be “It was my inner Slenderman. I… I ran away so I wouldn’t hurt her…” Lisa put an arm on my shoulder.
“Yeah, had he not left, a lot of ponies would have died. He called me up so I could beat his inner Slendy into submission. Now it’s under control.”
AJ looked to me in shame “I’m sorry I nearly decked ya.” Lisa giggled.
“Yeah, that looked like it would have hurt. Luckily his big sister Lisa was here to protect him.”
I paused a moment, thinking of how we basically were related, both by our new bodies AND by our fast growing friendship. I then smiled and nodded “Thanks, nee-chan, let’s go see Pinkie… hey, mind helping me practice something for Pinkie, Lisa?”
I leaned in and whispered into her ear “I want to go steady with her…”
“Aw,” she cooed, “my little baby brother wants to get intimate with his crushy-wushy!”
I blushed and gently slugged her “Jerk, just tell me if this ring looks good….” I was about to take out the ring, but Lisa stopped me.
“Wait! Pinkie is looking our way so don’t pull out the ring! I don’t want her to think you’re proposing to me.”
I stiffened up and looked around until I saw Pinkie, sitting at the steps to Sugarcube Corner, her hair flat and her eyes dripping with tears, I slenderwalked to her, “Pinkie, I’m so sorry! It’s not what you think!”
Lisa walked to us. “Yeah, I’m not dating him. He had to leave to protect you.”
Pinkie sniffled cutely “R-really?”
Lisa nodded. “Yeah, if he hadn’t left, you might have gotten seriously hurt by his inner monster. But don’t worry, I beat it into submission. Now you two don’t have to worry about it!” Lisa gestured for me to kneel down.
I nodded then kneeled and took out a ring box, unveiling a ruby ring with Onyx and Marble overlay, bringing to mind my personage. “Pinkamena Diane Pie, for as long as I’ve known you, you’ve made me happy. You were the first one to accept my true form, and you liked me for who I was. We’ve spent only a few months together, yet I already need to know the answer to the most important question in my life. Will you do me the honor of becoming Pinkamena Diane Farkness?”
Pinkie began to tear up all over again, this time from joy I hope “Y-Yes! Yes I will marry you!” Lisa began to cry too, but she had actual tears.
“Oh my god my little bro is getting married!” Pinkie jumped into my arms and hugged me. I hugged her back, and Lisa just added to the group hug.
“I know I’m supposed to let you two have this moment, but I just can’t believe my little baby bro is getting married already!” We all separated and laughed. Lisa started to panic.
“OOOOH! I have so much to do! I need to find you two a place to get married, then make invitations, then invite people, then get the ceremony ready, then get the after party ready, find someone to do the marriage, get gifts, plan a bachelorette party, get a location for your honeymoon. I have so much to do in so little time!” Lisa ran off, probably to Twilight’s house, and Pinkie and I just laughed at her antics. There was a bright future ahead. One, that involved Pinkie.
It was then that I realised MY predicament, Pinkie looked to me happily as I smiled to her ‘Damn…. Lisa is doing all the work… I feel like an ass…’ I then brightened up “I know! I can hire entertainment for the wedding!” I looked to Pinkie and beamed “Who would you like to play for our wedding?”
Pinkie thought a moment, rubbing her chin “Well… I do like DJ pon-3, but Twitch and Living Tombstone are great too… Grr! I am terrible at choices like this!”
I nodded, it seems the brony communities ponysonas exist in this world, to an extent, maybe just the famous ones? I decided to ask a risky question “Well, how about we hire Ken Ashcorp? He has a voice like an angel.”
Pinkie nodded excitedly “Yeah! I love his singing!”
I set her down reluctantly, having enjoyed the feel of her against me, I then decided to check something I have been dreading for a VERY long time “Pinkie, I’ll be right back… I gotta..erm… check myself…” I slenderwalked to the Everfree and took down my pants while pulling up my duster, seeing that I did indeed still have a dick! “YES! WOOOHOOO” I then pulled up my pants and let my duster down and slenderwalked to Ken Ashcorp’s house, which was in Manehattan, next to Donut Joes place. I knocked on the door and waited, Kenny eventually answering the door with soda in hand, doing a spit take when he saw me. He looked like his ponysona from the 20% cooler music video, but wore a dj’s outfit, an unzipped hoodie with headphones hanging off the neck over a black T-shirt and jeans with holes at the knees. I smiled warmly, careful again not to show my teeth “Hi, I was wondering if you would be interested in singing at my wedding? I am prepared to pay in bits.”