//------------------------------// // Chapter 16: Somepony Is Missing // Story: Person In PonyLand // by Z-A-C //------------------------------// It has been a few days since I visited Rarity and by now I had received the two new outfits, I also helped applejack on her farm as well as some other jobs and earned a nice little amount of money and I was thinking about taking Fluttershy out to eat. I'll admit her and I have gotten a little bit closer in the last two day (and no I don't mean sex!). Today was like any other day recently. It was sunny and a little warm but it was nice all the same. I went to the park and sat on the bench under that tree, it reminded me of the first time I met Rainbow. I laughed because now we were friends not very close mind you but friends still. A little filly came up to me along with her mother and both looked very familiar. "Hello again mister!" "Oh hey kid and.....Ditzy Doo! How are you?" "I'm fine, nice day isn't it?" "Yep. So are you the kid's mother?" "Yep! Say hi Dinky." "But I already did." I laughed. "Wait I thought that other mare was your mother?" "Nope! she was just my babysitter. she comes by when mommy has to deliver far away." "Shes a mail um...mare?" "Sure am!" "I see. That's interesting, you have many long deliveries?" "No they don't come by that often." "I see. That's good though right? You get to spend more time with your filly." "Yep. I like when mommy is home sometimes we make muffins!" The filly interrupted. "And that's mommy's favorite, right?" "Yes mister! how did you know?" "I'm a monster remember?" I laughed. "I have amazing powers." "Nuh-uh mister." "Yep. Sure am. See?" I waved my arms and rawred much like the first I met Dinky. We both laughed. "Well we'll be going now we just stopped to say hi." "Oh alright. bye, oh I almost forgot." "What did you forget mister?" Dinky asked. "To tell your mother that I'll be working on a muffin recipe much like my cookie recipe." Ditzy looked at me with an excited smile. They said good bye once more and left leaving my to reflect on recent events. Which was both good and bad. --------------- "Why does master keep think about parents when master hates the so much?" Said Shadow as he formed next to me. "I don't know. I think I'm glad we didn't kill them but at the same time I can still remember how it felt before we went back and saved them." "So does Shadow......not best feeling." He said almost sounding sad. It was kind of hard to tell because of his voice. "No it wasn't but the memory of killing them makes me feel.....powerful." "Masters not going to use shadow for bad like skeleton man, are you?" "What but I thought he said his powers were neutral?" "What he said was true but he used me to give you headaches and blackouts." "So he.....wait....he didn't did he!?!?" He read my thoughts. "Yes he made me attack moon pony." "That bastard! I thought he was on my side!" "Hes gone now master is safe from skeleton man." "And I am very glad about that." There was a short silence. "Say Shadow? What do you think of this place?" "Shadow likes pretty ponies they're nice to master." "Yeah I like it hear too but they weren't always nice to me though." Shadow looked at me. I never really noticed how red his eyes were. "Why not?" "They were afraid. Here I am, a creature they haven't seen before coming from a forest they are afraid of and then all-of-a-sudden living in their town? They thought I was evil but I showed them otherwise." "But everything's ok with ponies right?" "Yep. Well a few still aren't sure about me but that's fine." "I like this park." That was random and off subject. "Yeah so do I. It reminds me of the park I went to on earth." "It reminds me of park hobo died in last year. Stupid skeleton man made me give him a heart attack!" "I see.....he made you do a lot of things you didn't want to do didn't he." He didn't respond. "I'll take that as a yes." I nervously laughed. "Is wise of master to not press questions." "I thought so. But your with a better being now." I didn't like to call myself his master. He is a companion. Not a slave. "Shadow knows this and Shadow is grateful." I saw a white coated pony walking in this direction. "A pony is coming Shadow." "Yes master." and he disappeared. "Whoa dude that was some freaky magic had had going." "Shit! You saw?" "Yeah man but it ain't no big deal. I found this in my house and I think its yours." She pulled out an MP3 player out of her saddle bags. "It has a name etched in the back and the only Ezekiel I know of is that human that been walking around here and since that must be you here you go." She floated it over. "Thanks!" "No problem. I hope you don't mind but I listened to it and I liked what I heard so I used it for a gig a couple nights ago and, I also added some of my own mixes into it." "That sound excellent!" "Sweet I'm DJ PoN3 by the way and I already know how you are." "DJ PoN3?" "Well that's my stage name, my real name is Vinyl Scratch." "Makes sense. Nice to meet you Vinyl." "Same. Well I gotta go prepare for tonight's show." "Awesome where you playing?" "At Pinkie's party. you going?" I forgot about Pinkie postponing the party for I think almost a week now or maybe a couple of days. "Um..yeah I think that was my fault sorry." "Naw man its cool. Well hope I'll see you there." "I'll be there." "Sweet." and she was gone. "Not much else to do Is there. I guess I'll go home." ------------------- "Fluttershy!? you home!?" No response. "Ok then. Not home I guess." I sat down and well just sat there there. I couldn't think of anything to do. And the boredom was kind of painful. After an hour of sitting, Pinkie knocked on the door. "Hi Pinkie whats up?" "Oh not much. Just came to tell you the party its time for the party! Come on lets party!!" "Yeah I kinda owe you heh heh. Lets go." And we left for the party. we made it to the party, it was in the park and the whole town was there. There was a stage and DJ PoN3 was setting up her equipment. I went over. "Hey quite the rig you got here." "Hey Ezekiel thanks. Glad to see you made it!" "Wouldn't miss even think of missing it." "Cool. I think you'll be impressed. Have you listened to my mixes yet?" "No i'm so used to not having my MP3 player. I honestly forgot I had it." "Ah ok well then you might even more impressed then." "Well PoN3 I look forward to seeing you perform." "Glad to see you interested." I left and let her finish setting up and went over to the snack table. Pinkie Pie appeared out of nowhere. "I'm so glad you finally made it." "Yeah sorry all the other parties Pinkie." "Oh its ok silly. Enjoy the snacks!" "Ok?" but she was already gone. Applejack and Twilight came up to me next. "Howdy!" "Hello Ezekiel." "Hey guys." "Its gearing up to be one heck of a party." "Yeah looks like it." "How have you been feeling lately Ezekiel?" "Pretty good why do you ask." "I was wondering if I needed to make more medicine for you." "No I'm still alright. I think." I looked around. "Wheres Rarity?" "Shes busy working on a new line of clothin'." "Oh I see." DJ PoN3 started playing. "Well guys I'm going to check out the DJ I'll catch you later." "Alright bye." They both said and went to do they're own thing and I went over to the stage. Vinyl came up to me. "Hey Ezekiel?" "Yeah?" "I had an idea can I have your MP3 for my set tonight?" "Sure sounds interesting, here." "Sweet! You're going to love this!" She opened up with Rhinestone Eyes by The Gorillaz mixed with what sounded like one of her own mixes. and it sounded awesome! -------------- Three songs in and half the snack table gone the party was still going strong and I would have been drunk by now if there were alcohol in Equestria. I was fine with that though. The whole party I couldn't help but notice Fluttershy wasn't here, and from what I understood no matter how she was she always came to Pinkie's parties. I was starting to get worried. And I wasn't the only one. "Hey Ezekiel have you seen Fluttershy recently?" Twilight asked. "Um.....no how about you?" "Not since earlier today." "Hmm.....do you think we might a problem?" "I'm not sure? She said she was going to Froggy bottom bog. She should be fi..." She cut her self off. "Twilight I'm not liking the look on your face." I said with much concern. "The hydra!! She could be in terrible trouble!!" "Hydra?!?!? You have those here as well?!?!" "Only in certain parts of Equestria. But that's not important now!!" "Right. Go get the others, I'll go get my weapons, we'll meet back at the town center ok?" "Ok, try to hurry." "Twilight.....right now I'm lightning." She looked at me confused. "It means I'll be as fast as I can be." "Oh ok. Now get moving!" She went to gather the other and I went over to DJ Pon3. "Hey hold on to my MP3 for another night ok? Something came up." "Not problem dude." "Ok good nice set so far by the way." "Thanks." I nodded and then sprinted towards Fluttershy's house. It didn't take long for me to reach the house in a full blown sprint but I was a little worn out, which wasn't favorable. I went to go upstairs when something started thumping on my foot. I looked down and it was Angel with a concerned look on his face. "You worried about her?" He shook his head. "So am I Angel, So am I. I'll find her don't worry." I went up stairs, changed, put all my gear on and left. I did have my concerns about leaving now though, it was getting dark and from what I've heard a swampy area mixed with darkness is not and never has been a good idea. When I arrived at the town center it was darker than it was when I left the house and all the others except for Rarity were there. "Wheres the fancy one at?" I asked "Rarity sends her concerns but lil' miss clean an' proper doesn't want to get dirty." Applejack answered. "Figures. So Twilight how are we going to get there?" "We'll teleport!" "I'm not a big fan of teleportation But ok. When do we leave?" "As soon as we make sure we have everything we need." "Well I have all my stuff, so I'm good." "I brought enough apples for everyone." "And I brought some cake and cookies for everyone." "I know I have everything I double checked before I got here." "Alright all set?" "Yep!" they all said at the same time and Twilight's horn started glowing and in an instant we were in Froggy Bottom Bog. "Applejack?" "Yeah? "I think its a good thing Rarity didn't come along" "Whys that?" "Because the stench is horrid and knowing her she'll complain about it." "I think you might be right partner. Its for the best." I nodded my head and looked forward pitch black and I didn't have my Night Vision Goggles. Great. And so begins the adventure in this hell hole.