Chapter 31: Hello Again
After a whole minute of staring blankly at the ponies in the doorway my brain finally started to work again. Did Dinky know she had a mind wipe? That can't be true since the reports said she thinks Ditzy is her blood mother, but she would still question her missing memories, wouldn't she?
The other princess was currently clawing at the exit while Celestia tried to pull her away. I remember that other princess, but I never really spoke to her since the whole Jungle Vine thing. It's not that I held a grudge against her, but it's more that she is fucking terrifying when she yells.
Insight was also trying to help the situation by talking to the princess in a calm voice which she responded with her head hitting the door. I hate having to come here, but I don't hate it that much! Finally I decided to walk out towards the exit that the princesses were at so I could get out of here.
"Luna! Would you please just go sit in his office? You don't even have to say anything!" Celestia said to the other alicorn who was currently beating on the door. Stealthily making my way over towards them I tapped on the blue alicorns leg which got her attention.
"If I may..." I said as I used my magic to pull the door open before calmly walking outside. When I got outside I nodded toward Arrow before turning back towards the door. The blue alicorn was looking at me with a baffled expression before a grin crossed her face and she started running out of there.
"I'm not going to ask," Arrow said as he trotted up beside me.
"Let's just say she forgot how to pull open a door," I said as we started walking back towards the train station. Sure, Canterlot had lots of things to see, but I've already seen everything interesting so there really is no point. As we drew closer to the train station something felt off, and I mean more than usual. Normally I feel like I some one is watching me, but this felt different almost like someone was studying me.
Looking around I couldn't find anything out of the ordinary until my eyes fell on a green mare sitting at a table. My heart started to race and I was getting ready to bolt when a pony passed by and she vanished. She wasn't real? Whatever the case she was gone and my heart rate returned to normal before Arrow noticed anything was wrong.
"Once we get back to Ponyville; you want to grab a milkshake?" Arrow asked as we neared the train station. I nodded vigorously until in confirmation when somepony came up behind us. "Good day your highness,"
"Hello again Arrow. Do you mind if I speak with Chance for a moment?" Celestia asked Arrow which he gave a salute to before walking towards the train. I was now alone with the princess. Well sort of alone since we were still in the middle of the street. With a bright flash and a loud 'whoosh' we were in some weird room. "Sorry, but I still can't appear to be a weak ruler,"
"Alright, I still don't understand why-"
"I wish to apologize," Celestia said looking at me with an unreadable expression. Did she really want to apologize to me? Was she going to apologize for the attempted mind wipe?
"About what?" I asked giving her a quizzical look.
"When we met in the everfree you tried to defend Fire Catcher. I was misinformed and thought there was a clear danger towards my little ponies."
"You were just doing what you thought was right. The fact that you're apologizing just shows that you truly believe you were wrong,"
"You're a strange colt, Chance,"
"That's what makes me awesome!" I said while pounding my chest with a hoof. Celestia just gave off a little giggle before charging her horn up for the teleport. I remember when seeing that would cause me to go into a panic attack, but that was before Manehatten. After the teleport we were standing in front of a very confused Arrow.
"What the hell?" He shouted before covering his mouth. "Damn it Chance now I'm saying that!" Arrow cussing? That's hilarious! His face contorted in such a weird way when saying damn, DAMN! For fucks sake he needs to practice his cussing if that's how he looks like while doing it.
"Nice try Arrow, but if you have that much trouble saying that you really shouldn't cuss," I said while patting him on his leg while boarding the train. He had a grumpy expression after that, but didn't say anything else as he also got on the train.
"Hi Chance!" Dinky said as we entered a train car. Looking to my right I saw Ditzy and Dinky sitting in one of the seats. How am I going to talk to her now? I know something that she might have no idea about; how do you talk to someone after that?
"Hey Dinky. You're on your way back too?" I said trying to keep the conversation as normal as possible which is harder than it sounds.
"Yeah. Would you like to sit with me?" She asked which caused her face to turn red once again. Why does it do that so often? She should probably get it checked out because I don't think it's healthy.
"Sure." I took a seat by Dinky and she scooted over closer to me. I was about to say something when our train car's door opened and in walked a white pegasus colt. I tried to hide behind the seat when he caught sight of me and glared.
"Hey, Chance," He said with as much spite as his voice could muster. A mare walked in behind him before she looked at me and also glared.
"Hey, Cold. I'd say more but I have decent company," I said as I motioned toward Dinky and her mom.
"Why don't we catch up? It's only polite since you got everyone to hate me!"
"That's your own fault, Cold. I gave you a fair warning before you threw that punch," I retorted as I got off my seat and stood in front of him when the mare stepped up.
"Don't speak that way to my son!"
"If he starts something I'll say something. Don't act like he has a right to be an a-"I looked toward Dinky, "-angry colt!" Maybe I should cut out my cussing a little.
"Listen to me you-"
"HEY! I recommend you leave," Arrow interrupted her. She was about to say something else when she caught sight of Arrow's guard armor. She slowly nodded her head before turning to leave with her son in tow. They both looked back at me with disdain. Why were they on a train to Ponyville anyway?
"Who were they?" Dinky asked me as I took my seat beside her.
"An old headache," I replied as I sat silently while Dinky stared at he side of my head. Out of everyone I never wanted to see in my life again, Cold breeze was near the top. He war actually right under Jungle Vine if you can believe it.
"He pretended to be my friend," I quietly said. Dinky looked at me with a slight frown.
"I'm sorry,"
"I'm fine now. It's not like he hid it well. Other than Arrow he was my first friend, but he only wanted to use me to impress a filly. Thought that fighting me was a good idea. I told him not to try me and I walked away. He decided that since I wouldn't fight him directly he jumped on my back. I slammed him into a wall for that, and everyone hated him for trying to force me to fight him."
"He really did that?" Dinky asked which I just nodded to. Everyone knew about my ability to use magic back then which is why he tried fighting me. He thought fighting a unicorn who can use magic would make him look cool, but instead it made him look like an ass.
"That was two weeks before I came to Ponyville Actually. I'm happy to say that no one bothered me after that." I said giving her a slight smile. "And since coming to Ponyville I've made plenty of real friends."
She hugged me after I said that and I felt the heat rise in my cheeks. I'm happy to be able to consider Dinky here a true friend. On the way back to Ponyville we kept talking about what we were going to do, and how we were going to do it. I started to have that weird feeling again so I looked around the train car. Nothing was out of place, but something was definitely off.
***The next train car***
"I'll soon have you back, Lucky. I'll destroy that monster that has you trapped in your body." I said to myself as I glared at Lucky's body. I will have my son back if it kills me.