//------------------------------// // Chapter 10-Magical Battery // Story: Not On Earth Anymore // by Jack Jester //------------------------------// Purple crystals everywhere. Some were small, others as tall as a building. Most were just above my height. The tiniest that formed a floor crunched under my feet as I walked over them. The taller ones formed a maze of sorts that led my path. They were beautiful structures that reflected the bright sunlight back out as rainbows. I looked around me to admire the scene. Behind me though, the crystals were black where ever I had stepped. I reached my hand out and poked a taller one with my finger. Black poisoned it, twisting its form. Once the sun hit it, more black light reflected through it and poisoned the rest without my help. "Jadec" A voice whispered. "Whose there? Whats going on?!" I danced looking for the answer to my situation. "Jadec" It voiced louder this time. "Wait...I know that voice. You're the one from before!" I looked to the sky. A black river flowed from the direction I had previously walked. Noticing this, I ran into the purple ones. Not only the river followed me, but the crystals around me turned that dark shade as well. The sky darkened, clouds blotted out the sun. The crystals began changing color and form even faster than I was running, shooting ahead of me. "Jadec! You know how to fix this!" It shouted. The world and everything in it was black again save a few crystals. The river flowed faster and faster; droplets of the gunk hit my skin. The sensation made me shiver and it was beyond chilling. I reached my hand out to grab the last healthy crystal just before I was enveloped in the liquid. "JADEC!" I jumped up and fell out of my bed in a frenzy. Nurse ponies ran in to restrain me, a difficult job it was. Not as difficult as it used to be though. My strength seemed to have all but faded. My stomach hurt a great deal and I felt every rusty joint I felt before I came here. I was alive though. "Where am I?!" I managed to shake one of me and climb into the bed. "Hold it thar par'dner!" A lasso wrapped around my arms and constrained my movement. Without the balancing abilities my arms granted me, I fell back out of the bed and onto the floor. Applejack. "I...I...Im in..." I closed my eyes and thought. "I'm in Equestria." My heart sunk as I said those words. "Thas raght Jadec. Now calm down afore you pop a blood vessel wit' all yer screamin'." She sounded at me. I stopped my struggling. The loud beeping from before also seemed to slow as well. I looked to my chest and followed a small wire up to a heart monitor. A hospital. "How'd I get here?" I asked, looking around the room. to analyze all the features. "You barged into a noble's carriage." Said a soft but assertive voice. "It was so cool! Well actually it was kind of scary...but it was cool what you did! That foal told us how you pushed them and yelled at them! Well when I say it like that it sounds pretty mean but they made it sound really heroic!!" Pinkie Pie hopped into the calm room yelling. Her bright colors contrasted the dull gray of the upper walls and the green tiled floor. "Its a miracle you survived." Twilight told me. She explained to me how the ponies had pulled me down and rushed me here. The doctors knew nothing of my "physiology" and couldnt use traditional means to me so they used healing spells. Obviously the effects were null but over time, my body healed on its own. She told me that while I was out, she brought her own machines in to check the levels of magic inside me. "I wanted to see if your body was simply repelling the magic or storing it somehow." As it turns out, my body was storing it. The magic was pure though and had lost any sense of the spell it was once shaped in. She deduced that my person picked up the energy and used it to power itself. That explained my recent abilities and the healing. I asked why I didnt heal right away after the carriage. "You must have used up most of the magic doing other things. Your body didnt have enough to heal you until the doctors used spells on you and in a way, charged your batteries." "So I can die then..." I looked down to my feet. It would have been nice being immortal but at least I have the next best thing. Looked like I needed their magic after all though. After everything I went through to get away, after all I risked, I still needed them. I felt insulted in a way. Fluttershy noticed this and shrunk away. "You mean this happened before?" Rainbow asked. I looked to her. "Oh, thanks by the way." She looked to her friends in confusion. "By the way Jadec," Twilight added. " I've a arranged a meeting for you with the Princesses. "The what nows?" I asked. Princesses? As if this world could get any more prissy, save for the monstrous animals in the forest. "Oh thats right, you're not from here! I'll have to tell you ALL about them!" She smiled so big her teeth almost fell out. She took a big breath of air and began talking. And talking. And talking. And talking. And talking. And talking. What monster had I unleashed on this poor unsuspecting world? Later I dawned my torn cloak once more. It covered the embarrassing hospital gown almost entirely, since there was a gaping hole in the back and all. I would have left the gown there if it didnt mean my only article of clothing would be the cloak itself. After I finished getting dressed we walked to another carriage. I hesitated getting on. "Is there a issue?" A guard asked. My eyes followed the long golden plank of wood nailed onto the side. It tapered into a point near the front of the flying box. "Um...no. I'm just a little...afraid of heights." Is there a phobia of being impaled? There should be. "Dont worry, we wont let you fall." He pushed my inside next to Twilight. I took my seat as we started to lift. The city was so...white. Not be racist but dang, it was all white. The only colors were the gold trim and the pastel ponies! It was as if there was a law against color! "Enjoying the view?" Twilight asked. "Or something like that." I halfheartedly answered her, still in awe of the complete lack of color. We flew for maybe a entire minute before we landed. "Wait if we were a block away then why did we fly here?" I asked. My question was ignored of course and we simply continued walking. The doors to the castle were HUGE! The guards standing on every step of one of the two stair cases leading to them looked minuscule in comparison. I giggled. Inside, the hallways winded. We hiked for what must have been miles until we came to two more large doors. They were decorated with a gigantic orange and yellow sun. Under it was a quick painting of a white circle with some black smudges around it. Before even opening the doors, I could feel the superiority emitting from behind them, like something larger than life stood on the other side. Even the stories Twilight told couldnt compare to this. I wondered what I would feel like once I got to the inside. The doors must have read my mind because they opened seemingly on their own to reveal two gigantic ponies, white and blue, each with flowing manes that blew in a imaginary breeze. One was dark blue with a dirty butt, save for a big white spot. Her mane was lighter blue and looked as if it had stars flowing through it. The other was somewhat taller and looked although not as wise as the other, more warm. Her mane was a mix of light blues, greens, and pinks. Even her eyes were soft. Despite this, she still seemed to stare right into my soul. "These are the princesses?" I asked Twilight. She nodded. "I think I need a chair." I told her.