//------------------------------// // 3. The big reveal. // Story: The Forbidden Hybrid // by CrazyFantasy //------------------------------// I was sitting inside of the town hall, My scales shivering with nervousness. Sooner or later I was gonna go out there and tell them my story. I was just waiting for Twilight to call on me. The mayor was already informed about me, and she didn't seem bothered by it. She said that if I were evil I would just have flown over the town and set it on fire. She made a valid point. I just hope it works this time. Last time I did this it didn't go so good. It was 3 years ago now. I went to canterlot doing the same thing I was doing now. The princesses had gathered the whole town. They told them all about me, but when I stepped out on the stage everypony started throwing stuff at me. Tomatoes, apples, hay somepony even threw a torch causing the hole stage to catch on fire. I haven't spoken or even let anypony see me since, Too scared of what they would think. That's why this is so important. if I fuck this up its over, I'm forever doomed to hide. "Knirk" I heard the door open. I looked over expecting to see Twilight, but instead I saw a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane and butterflies as her cutiemark. Fluttershy. of course it was Fluttershy I bet twilight sent her over here to comfort me. " can....I come in?" She said standing in the door. "Sure." I said hesitate. She walked over to me. " are you okay?" She asked softly. " if by okay you mean completely overblown with nervousness, then yes I'm okay." I answered looking away. " so it's that bad." Fluttershy said shyly. I nodded in her direction. The yellow Pegasus walked around a bit, trying to find something to make me feel better. After a while she turned around facing me. Only she wasn't looking at me but the pen and paper in front of me. I met her gaze. " oh that.....I tried to write a speech for myself, but my tail was shaking to much.....it's completely unreadable." I gestured toward the paper. Fluttershy came over and looked at it. Just a bunch of scribbles. She sat down opposite of me. " I know how you feel." She said awaiting an answer. I didn't give her one so she just continue. " all those ponies steering at you waiting for you too prove yourself good. It must be horrible." If that was ment to help me, then why did it only scare me more. I looked up at her with a worried expression. ".... But it will be fine. Twilight have set up a force field around the stage so nopony can throw stuff at you. And she's gonna amplify your voice so everyone can hear you. All you have to do is make a good impression." She said cheerfully. " besides there's no way you're evil since you haven't even preformed any schemes yet.....right?" She looked at me worried. I nodded " couldn't hurt a fly....even if I wanted to." I said disappointed. We sat there for awhile. Me trying to pluck up my courage while Fluttershy just kept me company. I heard the door open again. I looked over and saw Twilight standing in it. She waved her hoof at me signaling I should follow her out. I looked down took a deep breath and stood up. " good luck!" Said Fluttershy to me as I walked out the door. I knew ponyville had many ponies, but not this many. The whole town square and a bit more was filed with ponies. This made me very nervous. Me and Twilight moved forward on the stage, I heard ponies mumbling some even tried to throw a tomato at me, but the force field blocked him. Twilight stomped her hoof in the ground, killing the mumbling. " everypony meet Shivers Scales." Twilight said calmingly. They all looked up at me, eyes steering just waiting for me to do something. Twilight bobbed her head in my direction, signaling it was my time to speak. I steeped forward and cleared my throat. ".....hi everypony....my name is Shivers Scales....., but you allready know that......I'm a longma....you know that too." I struggled. I looked at the crowd, closed my eyes, took a deep breath and started over. " I have a cave just a few miles from here. so if I wanted to hurt you I would have done that a long time ago." I stopped letting them take in my words. " I could have just went in here and stolen everything, or burnt this town down to the ground. But I didn't, and I won't do that. When I came here to ponyville it wasn't because I wanted to trick you, no it was because I had nowhere else to go. Where else could a town accept someone like me." The crowd started mumbling again. "I asked the princess of friendship here, to present me because I wanted everypony to have an opportunity to understand me without any misconceptions." I said pointing my hoof toward twilight. " all I want is a chance. A chance for you to see me with blank pages. Be loved, respected and appreciated. I could never hurt anyone, I've seen enough destruction to know that that's bad. And I know I look horrifying, but I can barely even use any magic or fly. My social skills might be bad, but the princess and her friends promised to train me so that I could do good with it." I took another breath. " I hope that whenever I'm done with this presentation that I'll have the opportunity to get a house, get a job and for everypony to at least try to accept me." I said ending my speech. Everypony was steering at me, mumbling. I could hear stuff like " this can't be real.", " she must be lying.". I was about to walk back into the town hall again when I just remembered. " oh and about that cave I have..... Inside of it is a large treasure filled with gold and gems and bits." I said awaiting there response. Everypony looked up at me. " if any of the poor ponies in town is willing to follow me to it and give me what I told afterwards then I'll be willing to give my treasure to them. If not I'll throw it all into the river." I said. The crowed oh-ed and aw-Ed at this. " how do we know that this is safe?" Somepony asked. " you'll just have to trust me." I answered confident. If they didn't believe me now then they will after we were back. " step forward if you want to come with me, but you have to have good intentions for that money." I said. " and don't try to fool me I know who is poor and who isn't." I added. When I had to steal for a living I learned myself a spell who told me what something or someone was worth. It was very useful when deciding who to steal from and who not. Always the rich and greedy who had no better to do than do get more money. And it is very useful now. I looked out at the crowd waiting for someone to step forward. The crowd got quiet, just a few ponies mumbling about whether to take the offer or not. A blue Pegasus stallion with a raggedy unkept brown mane and tail, his cutiemark being a microphone, stepped forward. My horn started glowing as I looked at him. " I will." He said proudly. " what will you use it for?" I asked. " to buy myself a place to live and start doing comedy again" He said confident. I nodded. He passed, looked poor and I could detect that he hadn't had a real meal in days unless you count garbage. A more ponies steeped forward. and Before I knew it a big crowd of ponies stood there right before me, waiting for me to lead them. And they all passed everyone of them was either poor, money crisis or was simply in depth. " any more?" I asked out in the crowd. A brown stallion wearing a white dirty cape, black mane clearly gelled but still messy, stepped forward. " me." He said with confidence. I lit my horn letting my magic analyse him. I found something peculiar. " you're not poor...you're rich...filfy even I would never bring you there. You have enough wealth and a talent for making more of it I see." I said shocked. Somepony came forward and stole the cape of off the brown stallion, reviling a cutiemark of moneybags. Some of the crowd gasped. " well it was worth a shot. Really I was just testing you kid." He said turning around and running back into the crowd. I nodded. Looking out at my crowd. " twilight will you open the force field?" I said looking in her direction. " are you sure?" " yes" "Okay." Twilight said lilting her horn and lifting the purple barrier around the town hall. I waited for something to happen, something to get thrown at me, but nothing happend. My crowd was waiting for me to start leading them. " I'm gonna need someone to guard us." I said nodding towards rainbow dash and Appeljack. " of course." Answered Appeljack. " I'm in" answered Rainbow. " let's go." I said walking down from the stage, and on to the path. A crowd of poor ponies following behind me.