Blessed

by Sonicbrony66

A Warm Welcome

A/N: Sorry for the long wait. Wasn't able to get on and had to re-write this a few times. Also edited the past few chapters so that Rainbow doesn't have some completely random ability I put in because I'm lazy, all the girls are there, and Rainbow isn't staring at Dat Flank. I'll try to make these take less in between.

I awoke to see that the sun had finally risen. I blinked away remnants of sleep and looked around. The green aura that was Mahogany was gone from the entire structure, so I guessed she had woken a while ago. I studied the area. I hadn't been able to properly examine my surroundings in all the excitement. Everything looked....Cartoony. I looked down at my body and saw that it looked like I was in a 3D cartoon. I stared at my legs for a few more moments before shrugging.

I looked around and saw Mahogany's aura swirling around a floating book. I raised an eyebrow and trotted over. I stood directly behind her and watched as the book opened and the pages started turning. I walked up to her and watched. Well are you just going to sit there and watch or what? She asked. I simply poked the book, not surprised. She was the tree I was walking in after all.

"Small object manifestation, created by focusing your aura on the object?" She quickly coalesced back into the form of a pony. She nodded her her head slowly.

Yes...How did you know that? I shrugged. Periodical bouts of insanity left me unsurprised by many things and gave me many ideas. And it was a pretty simple concept. Mahogany simply shook her head. You wanted to hear the Song that Twilight and her friends heard yes?

Yeah I'd like that." Mahogany nodded her head. Her aura slowly deformed into a mist and started floating towards me. I couldn't help but step back in apprehension. You would too if a formerly pony shaped green mist started to engulf you. I calmed myself and inhaled.

I was immediately assaulted with many sensations at the same time as I lost my sight, smell, and hearing. I could now feel so many things.. I felt hooves clopping on wood -my body- and wind blowing against my.....I don't know what to call it. I felt so many things my mind couldn't comprehend. The only comparison I can think of now would to be living as a boy for five years in the stone age and then suddenly finding yourself to be a thousand years old with strange technology keeping you alive and feeding you. Except worse. I felt myself slowly focusing, but not by much. I still felt all these strange things, but many faded into the background, while a few others became more focused. I found I could now see. I saw Twilight's horn glowing, and the girls were watching somepony -me- lying on a couch snoring along.

I didn't see it from just one angle though: I saw it from more than a hundred. From the left, the right, above, below, and so many other areas. Everything was overlayed and I saw it all at once. My mind still struggled to handle everything I was seeing. From several different views I saw an overglow be added to Twilight's horn as she closed her eyes in concentration. A second overglow was added, and the rest of the girls shielded their eyes. I felt yet another strange feeling, but my mind knew this one, somehow. It was a shift in the magical energy. I had felt this once before, but much less intense. I couldn't focus on that, as my mind was still attempting to handle the information. The sensations focused further, with many completely vanishing. I saw a bright beam shoot out of Twilight's horn and land on my body. My body began to glow as I absorbed the energy. The glow stopped and I saw Twilight frown, Rainbow lower her hoof from her eyes from above, and Fluttershy cower behin a book,

My body suddenly thrust forward and suspended in midair. My eyes shone with a bright light as musical notes started flying out of my stomach, centered around my heart. I heard the sound of a car door slamming and then music began to play. After a few moments a man started to sing.

Suddenly I was back in my body. I was lying on the ground. I felt an immense pain in my head and brought my hooves to my temples. I shuddered and rocked back and forth. My mind completely rejected the new memories. They contradicted everything it had formed, and when your mind refuses something you have lived through, it is very painful. I must have sat there for nearly an hour before the pain began to recede. My mind was methodically attempting to understand each second of memory. After several more minutes, the pain became bearable. I stood up slowly and saw Mahogany standing in front of me. "Ugh...Next time warn me before you give me the memories of a tree..."

I apologize. I did not know a mortal mind would react so violently.

"How do you handle seeing so much at once? It's just...." Another pulse of pain hit me and I lowered my head.

I could ask you the same. How do you survive only being able to see from two eyes pointed directly ahead? I chuckled. I heard foo-hoofsteps. Need to get used to that...I turned to Mahogany and she returned to her book. The book floated up and the pages slowly began turning. I heard a yawn and looked up to see Twilight walking down the stairs.

She turned to me and said "Morning Terra..." She looked and sounded tired. She still had her bed-head and her eyes were half close. She saw the book floating in the air and blinked a few times. Her eyes suddenly opened wide at what she saw. "What am I looking at?" She asked.

"Mahogany's possessing a book to read it."

"How?"

"Pretty sure it's because she focused her aura around it and has minor control over it."

"And you know this how?"

"She told me."

"Right...Can I speak to her again?"

"I dunno, it's up to her-" I stopped speaking as another spike of pain hit me. I instinctively raised my hooves to my head, only to fall to the floor. I groaned quietly and got back up. Twilight was looking at me worriedly.

"Are you ok? What happened?"

"It's...It's nothing. Just a little morning headache." And I smiled to show her I was fine. I don't think she believed me though.

"Alright then...Well we need to get going."Huh?

"Huh?"

"We're going to Sugarcube Corner."

"We as in you and purple-dragon guy-" I heard a distant 'Hey!', "Or we as in I'm coming too?"

"You're coming of course. We-"

I cut her off with a loud shout of "Yay I'm included! Lesgonow!" and ran out the door. She stared at the open doorway for several moments before I came back, now severely blinded. "I don't know where that is and the sun decided to be evil today. Please lead." She shook her head and trotted out the door. I stepped out of the tree and, when my eyes stopped burning, beheld the glory of Ponyville. I could see a few buildings, many of them houses. We trotted for several minutes, her pointing out shops and me nodding and smiling at few random ponies that we saw. Many of them recoiled at the sight of my eyes, however. When we reached Sugarcube Corner, a short two minute walk, several ponies had hidden from me. I simply rolled my eyes.

I walked in the door in front of Twilight, as she had stopped to examine a flower and told me to go in. I was greeted with a swift change from the brightness of morning to a pitch black room. I looked around for a second before holding up a hoof to my eye. I couldn't even see that. "This shouldn't be possible. The light from the door should-" The three things happened. First, the lights came on and all the ponies jumped out and shouted out 'Surprise!' Second, I was shocked enough to jump and begin to shout "Sweet baby Jesus!" Third, I was unable to finish after 'Sweet' as a large rock rose from the floor spontaneously and forcefully, thus driving me through the ceiling. My head popped out the floor on a second floor room.

I closed my eyes in pain. And I had just gotten rid of my headache..."Well. That hurt." I tried to pull my head out of the hole when I realized my forelegs were stuck in the floor. "Uh...Help?" I said. I heard the sound of somepony running up the stairs and the door was thrown open. I tried to turn around, but was stopped by the wood holding me in place. I felt a hoof grab my mane and I was suddenly standing on top of the hole. I shook my head in confusion. "But how...Oh right." I turned and saw Pinkie Pie. "Obviously..." I said to my self.

"Ohmygosh are you ok? I saw that you were surprised and you jumped in the airandthenarockcameupbelowall'Rumblerumble'andthenyoushotintheairandgotstuckinPumpkinandPound'sroomandIranuptomakesuretheywerestillasleepandyouwereinthefloorsoIpulledyououtandareyouokbecauseyoulookokexceptforyoureyesohwaittheywerelikethatalreadysowereyousurprisedhuhuhuh?" I blinked. I understood the first part but only heard a few snips of the rest.

"Uh..I'm ok....Who are Pumpkin and Pound, and yes I was surprised." She smied wide and grabbed my arm. "Uh what?" She suddenly ran off and my head was thrown back my the sudden speed. Within two seconds I was in the middle of a crowd of ponies looking at a rock. "....What just happened and why is there a rock in the middle of the floor?"

"Was hopin you could tell us that." I looked to the left and saw Applejack. "Pinkie surprised ya and ya jumped up shouting somethin and a rock popped up an pushed ya. Mind explainin that?" She said with a suspicious glare.

I stared at her. "...I unno. Felt something push me up. Must have been something triggered by my 'Fight of Flight' response."

"Your what?"

"Fight or Flight response. Natural thing when placed in a foreign situation. Your mind briefly studies the situation and then decides whether you can fight or you should run. Comparable to someone surprising you and then you buck them in the face." I looked around for a moment and spotted a snack table. On it were a pile of candies, cupcakes and muffins. Chocolate chip muffins. My stomach rumbled and I said "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go get me some muffins!" I began walking towards the table when I saw a blur moving towards it. It was grey and yellow. "No." I began running towards the table, determined to grab at least one. I reached it at the same time as the blur and bit the muffin tray at the same time as my opponent. I stared eye to eye with Derpy Hooves, the Muffin Mare.

"Gimme." She said, and pulled on the tray. I have no idea how she said that with the tray in her mouth. She had a high pitched, almost childish voice. I shook my head and pulled back on the tray.

"I haven't had anyfin to eat in....Well I haven't eaten in a while!" My voice was muffled by the tray but hers wasn't. We began a tug of war for the tray. The tray was slipping when I had an idea. I grabbed a muffin and put it in front of her face. She opened her mouth and snapped at it. I dropped it and she dove for it. She smiled in victory before she saw me running away stuffing muffins in my mouth.

"You win this round!" She shouted after me. I simply cackled. I turned around with a smug grin and ran into something. Whatever it was knocked the wind out of me and I turned to see Fluttershy jump in the air and bolt. I blinked a few times before sighing. I followed her path and saw her hiding behind Applejack not to far away. I trotted over there and saw they were huddled and whispering. I quietly walked over and leaned my head in.

"Did you see that girls? He summoned a rock to propel him away!" Twilight said. "He shouldn't be able to do that! Earth Ponies can't use magic. No offense."

"None taken." Replied Applejack. I felt a poke on my shoulder. Pinkie was standing next to me.

"What are we talking about? I got lost a while back." She said.

"Pretty sure we're talking about how I called up a rock. Right Twilight?"

She nodded. "That's right Terra. We're gonna confront you about it after the party, now could you be a bit more quiet? You might hear!"

"Sorry!" Twilight shook her head in annoyance before she saw the rest of the girls staring at me in shock. "What? What did I do?"

"How much did you hear?"

"Pretty much all of it. If you've got questions, you could just ask. I'll answer almost anything."

Almost immediately, Rarity asked "Where did you get such a bland necklace? It's boring, ugly and dismal." She yanked it off my neck with her magic. My eyes widened as I stared at it. The rest of the girls turned to it and looked at the glass. There eyes widened as they realized what was inside.

"Rare-" Applejack began.

"I simply must know who made it so I can tell them just what I think about their horrible design!"

"Rarity-" Twilight spoke up.

"And the sand inside is just horrible! Who would put sand inside a necklace?" She asked. I shivered slightly from the anger that was building up.

"Rare i think-" Rainbow Dash tried.

"Not now Rainbow, Terra must tell me who made it!" She stared at me, not seeing my anger. My face lacked any emotion by that time and I felt something stirring.

"If you must know, I made it. If you would have looked more than once, you would have seen that it isn't created by some sort of fucking jeweler. You would also have seen the fact that the glass container holds ashes, not some sort of sand. It's the ashes of my grandmother, and I made this so I wouldn't forget how she died, you fucking asshole." The girls around me opened their mouths in shock.

"I'm sorry I didn't...I didn't think-"

"No, you didn't. And I would appreciate it if you gave it back." I snatched it back and her magic dissipated. I put it back on and closed my eyes. 'Calm yourself kid, she didn't know. You don't need to yell at her.' I told my self. I slowly calmed down and opened my eyes to see all the girls staring at me, except for Twilight. She was staring at my tail like it had spoken to her. I looked back at it and saw nothing wrong with it. I hung to the floor, and was simple. No style, no special color, just a long tail the color of my mane. I looked at the girls and sighed. "Sorry but you're the first one to do that."

"You don't need to explain." Said Applejack. I looked at her to see a look of understanding in her eyes.

I nodded. "So, back to my interrogation. As long as nobody asks about my necklace, I'm fine."

"Where ya from?" Asked Rainbow.

"Coltifornia."

"What's your business in Ponyville?"

"Got teleported here, as you already know, and I'm gonna leave soon."

"Are you a spy for Discord?"

"If I was, would I tell you?" She opened up her mouth to ask another question when it happened. I was hit by a massive wave of.....Something. I didn't know this at the time, but it was Chaos. Pure energy twisted into a form fundamentally against itself. All I knew was that it felt wrong. This was pure energy, to be used however the user saw fit. Or, at least, it used to be. Now it was corrupted, full of Chaos. I burst out the door and saw a bubble. A literal bubble, but one that kept shifting shapes, changing colors and filling with some substance. The bubble settled directly over Ponyville, and then it burst. Bolts of lightning began to fly in all directions, changing the landscape. I knew three things at that time.

Chaos had arrived in Ponyville.

I had to stop it.

And I didn't know how.