//------------------------------// // Chapter 8 // Story: Becoming one with the Moon // by ParaNomaly //------------------------------// "Fuck fuck fuck! Twilight! Why the hell did you leave just as they were about to arrive?!" I thought to myself as I desperately struggled against my restraints, trying, in vain, to break free of the chains preventing me from getting the hell out of dodge. I didn't have a single clue as to where Twilight decided to fuck off to, but it better be damn worth it in the end. "If Twilight isn't here to calm their fucking tits and convince them not to punt me to the moon, then I'm screwed" No wait, I won't be just screwed, I'll be royally screwed! See what I did there? I shook my head and continued my struggle to free myself from the chains, but they simply wouldn't budge, whatever these things are made off, it couldn't have been steel, hell, I punched a hole straight through a steel dumpster! Although, maybe the chains are enchanted with some magic spell thingy, and the dumpster may not have been made of steel.... God, I can be such an idiot sometimes. Okay, maybe most of the time. "Come on, come on! Break you useless pieces of sh-" I was interrupted mid sentence by the sounds of the chariots, they must be getting close now if I'm able to hear them. "There was to be someway to get out of this da-... Wait, Twilight teleported a bunch of times! Maybe if I think of teleporting, it'll work! Just like the levitation thing!" I took a deep breath, closed my eyes and started imagining the surrounding the surrounding environment; then I imagined myself slowly disappearing for a quick moment, and reappearing on the other couch. My horn shined Brightly for a second, but it seemed to falter a few times, before resuming its natural brightness, that's strange, almost like if something blocked it for a second, like a wall. I didn't get much time to dwell on the subject before I suddenly felt myself being teleported to my selected destination. It felt weird honestly, almost like if I was torn apart into tiny pieces, and put together in another, yet I still felt as a whole, no pain whatsoever. I didn't know a lot of science, but getting torn apart and put back together is supposed to be pretty painful. Deciding not to question magic any more that I already had, I opened my eyes and looked to my right, and surely enough, there was a long chain, the one that had me restricted, now in a pile, with the ring that laid on my horn next to it, little cracks on its side. "Maybe I can make them believe that I wasn't here... They'll go looking for Twilight!" Satisfied with my plan, I quickly grabbed the chains and the ring and stuffed them underneath the couch before quickly dashing upstairs. Big mistake. Since I wasn't very experienced with running on all fours, I acted as If I was using two legs instead of four, causing miscalculation with my legs and making me trip and fall face first onto the step above it. "AHH FUCK! SON OF A- " Before I could finish my sentence, I heard the chariot noises stop, and the sound of hooves stepping on the ground begin "Shit, they're here! I need to move my ass, fast" With the pain in my face completely forgotten, I made my way upstairs quickly, careful not to trip and fall again. I reached the upstairs and then ran to the nearest door I could find, I then opened the door and was greeted with a bedroom, obviously belonging to Twilight. Wasting no time, I dashed under the bed and pulled the covers slightly down, enough so that they cover the small space separating the floor and the bed completely, concealing me from plain sight. "Alright, I'll have to rely on my good ol' ears for this one.." I controlled my breathing, which had been a little too loud, and laid there, on the floor, waiting for them to come inside. I heard the door open, and sounds of hooves hitting the wood floor all the way up here, I couldn't hear any talking, so I assumed they hadn't said anything. Then I heard Twilight, presumably outside the tree house, saying a something, along with another pony, one with some southern accent, say a few words as well. "Oh thank god, Twilight you beautiful fucking horse, I could kiss you right now!" I let go of a breath I didn't know I was holding in with a long, relieved sigh, with a small percent of my courage restored, I slowly got out from under the bed and started to make my way to the door. As I approached the door, I started hearing other voices, one that sounded exactly like mine, and another one that sounded incredibility familiar, almost if I've heard it countless times before... "Nah, it's probably just a similar voice to someone I can't remember right now." As I reached the door, I noticed that I had left it slightly open, not that I mattered now, thankfully. I took a deep breath and opened the door slowly, I took a few steps out the door and looked to the right, down to where I thought the voices were originating from. And sure enough, there were four ponies. Twilight, an orange one with a cowboy hat, one that looked like an exact copy of my current body, and one with a long, Rainbow colored mane that waved in an invisible breeze, similar to mine and the other one that looks like me, a brilliant white coat, and was noticeably taller than anyone else in the room. And they were all staring at me. I forced a smile, cleared my throat, and said the first thing that came to mind. "Have any of you heard that the bird is the word?"