Chapter 4: Foreign Soul
My Life as a Hybrid
By ChaosDoomscythe/Doomscythe01
Edited by: Zaleros
Chapter 4: Foreign Soul
Quick warning to all: This chapter will periodically switch between a general third person perspective, and a first person perspective told from Shadow Flare's point of view. Just a heads up.
Silent Shade sat up so fast it jerked the whole bed, which only served to rouse Platinum. He slowly sat up and started rubbing his to wake up more. He looked at the special glow in the dark alarm clock they had and noticed it was only 1:26 in the morning. He turned to his wife prepared to ask why they were awake at this unholy hour only to see she was wide awake and looked to be terror stricken by something.
“Shade? Shade, what’s-“
“Shadow Flare…”
“Shadow Flare? Wha- SHADE!”
She jumped out of the bed and galloped out of their room, heading right for their son’s. “SHADE! What’s wrong?!” He leaped out of the bed as well and took to following her. By the time he made it to his son’s room, he found Silent Shade sitting on the floor with their son, Shadow Flare sitting right in front of her with his eyes only half open, and a blank look in them.
‘No… Not blank,’ thought Platinum, ‘those eyes look dead… but there’s that glow I saw in them before…’ “Shade, what’s going on?” Platinum walked up to his wife, and sat next to her, looking down at his son with worry. “What happened to him?”
“I-I…” She stopped, and nearly choked on her words. Tears began falling down her face. “I don’t know… I just felt it in my heart… It’s like… It’s like he just gave up the will to live; I don’t…” She stopped, took a deep breath to try to calm herself down. It has some success, but she was still terrified for him. “Shadow? Please say something… anything….”
“What is this?” I heard Princess Luna ask.
“It’s the memory of my second day here in this world.” We were getting a bird’s-eye view of the memory from above. The two of us floating directly above my parents and myself.
“…In this world?” She began. “Pray tell, what dost thou mean?”
“My soul wasn’t… I guess you could say born here. My soul, my mind… I’m from another world, Princess. Probably from another universe entirely.”
As we spoke, the memory continued playing. It was showing Shade still trying to get some kind of response from me, only for her to fail. My Father was sitting next to her with a wing around her back, doing everything he can to comfort her, but I could tell he was also thinking deeply about something.
“What happened to tho- you? How did you end up in this world?”
“I died in my own world. Somehow, my spirit ended up here. In this foal’s body. And it took control.”
Luna must have felt the sudden wave of sadness and regret I was feeling, because she turned towards me with a questioning look.
“Princess, this isn’t my body. It’s his. I took it from him. And I couldn’t handle that. I couldn’t handle everything that happened to me. I’d have been fine had it been my body to begin with; had his soul never been there. But as I slept on my first night, I heard his voice in my head. That’s when I realized that the body wasn’t mine. I had stolen it. And that’s when all the horror and trauma of the last 24 hours finally caught up to me. Dying a gruesome death, losing my family and friends, a new family waiting for me in a new world, only to discover that it’s not my family, and that I’ve stolen a newborn foal’s life from him… I couldn’t take it anymore, and my mind just shut down. I had lost the will to live. I had hoped that somehow, my soul would just extinguish itself, so that he would be able to live his life without interference from me. Sadly, that didn’t happen.” I sat down in the dreamscape and sighed, and looked back to the memory. Shade was hugging our seemingly lifeless body and crying, while Platinum was hugging the both of us. “I had often wondered why I hadn’t been traumatized by everything, but I later realized it was the magic in this world that had helped me to adapt to things easier. I’m not entirely sure if I’m happy about that or not though.”
“You would have sacrificed yourself-“
“OF COURSE I WOULD HAVE! I ALREADY HAD A LIFE OF MY OWN! BY ALL ACCOUNTS I SHOULDN’T EVEN EXIST ANYMORE! I WOULD HAVE GLADLY GIVEN MY LIFE FOR HIS!” Luna looked startled at my outburst. She could see the anger in my eyes, and the sorrow and grief behind them. Slowly, the anger petered out of my gaze, leaving only sadness and loneliness. “He was like a brother to me… I would have gladly given my life for his.”
Luna started acting cautious to avoid another outburst. She hadn’t just seen the emotions in my words, she outright felt them. She could tell my emotions weren’t stable. I think she could tell my emotions have never really been stable.
“What happened to the foal’s soul?”
I closed my eyes and nodded my head towards the memory. “Watch and find out.”
She turned back to the memory just in time to hear Platinum speak.
“Shade… I have an Idea… But you won’t like it.” She sniffed, but looked up at him. She looked into his eyes. He didn’t even have to say it, she saw what he meant as soon as she looked into them. “What? No.” She shook her head vehemently in protest. “No. No! I’m not going to create a hive mind with him! I promised myself I would never do that to him!” She turned away from him and back towards Shadow.
“We need him to wake up, Shade!” Platinum gripped her by her shoulders, forcing her to look him in the eye. “This may be the only way to figure out what’s wrong with him!”
“No! I won’t do that to him. He would lose his free will! I can’t!”
“You told me he would only lose a part of his free will not all of it.”
“That was before he was born! It’s different now!”
“How is it different?”
“Because he and I already have too strong of a connection as it is!” She looked rather angry at that, and Platinum backed off for a moment.
“What do you mean you already have too strong of a connection? I thought-“
“I thought so, too! But when he woke up in the forest, I could…” She stopped.
“What, Shade? What was it?” Platinum was worried now. Very worried.
“I could… I could hear a faint voice. At first, I thought it was just whispers of the forest. You know how we can hear them from time to time. But as we kept walking, the voice got a little louder, and louder still, so I got curious. I turned and looked back at him, and saw he was awake. I saw the curiosity in his eyes. But the more I looked at him, the stronger the voice I heard became. And that’s when I realized we were already connected by the hive mind in a small way as it was. I got scared. I had hoped that wouldn’t happen to him. If I solidify that connection now… he’ll lose his free will entirely.”
Platinum looked shocked at that. “Well… T-there must be something we can do! We can’t leave him like this!” Now Platinum was on the verge of panicking.
Shade looked down at her son. Aside from very small breaths, he was completely unmoving and unresponsive. She thought to herself, ‘There has to be some way to help him… but how? Wait! That’s it!’
She slowly set Shadow back on the ground before getting up and trotting out of the room. Platinum looked at her curiously.
“Shade? Where are you going?” She didn’t respond. He looked back down at his son and couldn’t help but frown. After a few moments, Silent Shade came back into the room with her eyes aglow, and 3 book floating behind her in her unique red and green magical aura. She sat back in front of Shadow and the three books floated in front of her, right above the foal.
She flipped through the books until she landed on specific pages. Platinum looked at her as she studied the books, before his curiosity got the better of him. “Okay, I give. What are you doing?”
She looked apprehensive at what she was about to say, like it was something she wasn’t supposed to be doing in the first place. But when she saw her husband's concerned face, she knew she couldn’t lie, or even keep this a secret from him. “I’ve been... dabbling in soul magic…”
“Even though the Princess has made that illegal. Why?”
Shade was honestly surprised. She expected him to shout at her for doing something that was made illegal due to soul magic’s rather volatile nature. Instead, he had calmly responded to her, and not even bothered judging her for it. She stuttered for a moment before she managed to respond. “Um… well, I had been studying it in case something like this happened. Well… not like this, but… it was in case Shadow needed us and we weren’t there for him. I had been developing a spell that would connect our souls to each other, so we’d always be there for each other, whether we were physically there or not. We’d be able to communicate and express ourselves through-“
“A family bond that would be nigh unbreakable. I knew I fell in love with you for a reason.” She couldn’t help but smile and blush at that. “But…”
She lost the smile and the blush in an instant. “But… the spell is still incomplete. If I use it now to try to figure out what’s wrong, it could have horrible side effects on us later. But I want to save our son. With luck, I’ll be able to complete the spell later, and I’ll be able to fix any damage. There’s also the chance the spell could go wrong or fail, and I could end up doing far more harm than good, I could-“ a silver claw covered her mouth shutting her up.
“Shade, do it.”
“What?” She looked up at him in shock. Despite the risks, he just told her to perform an incomplete spell and hope for the best?
“I trust you, and I have faith in our child.”
“Nice to know they had faith in me.”
Luna looked at me when I said that, but said nothing in response and kept viewing the memory.
Shade nodded at Platinum and turned back to the books. For the next ten minutes, she looked focused on them, and studied them, until finally… “Okay. I think I’m ready.” The books closed and stacked themselves next to her. She grabbed Shadow’s head, closed her eyes, and touched her forehead to his. After a few moments, she opened her eyes, which were glowing with powerful magic. One eye glowed red, while the other glowed green. Shadow’s eyes both began glowing as well, and once her magic hit peak power, there was a flash of light, and everything within the memory went dark.
“What happened?” asked Luna as the both of us looked around.
“Don’t know… To be honest, the memory should be continuing… I don’t know what- AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!” I doubled over in pain clutching my stomach. It felt like there was a fire trying to burst out of me.
“Shadow!” Luna rushed over to me, to see what was wrong. Honestly, I’m surprised she still cares about me at all considering I tried to, you know, off her sis and everything, but I guess she still cares on some level.
She didn’t get to me fast enough though. My body began glowing a bright white before it exploded into a nebula. Literally, my body exploded into a nebula of stars and galaxies. I don’t think Luna had ever seen anything like that though because she was dumbstruck at it. Honestly, I was too, but for a different reason. I could still feel myself even though my body was… well… exploded.
Yes, I said exploded, deal with it.
“That… hurt….”
“Shadow? Are you alright?”
“I think so-Whoa! Sweet. The stars all light up whenever I talk! This is actually pretty cool.”
“This is… so beautiful! We have never seen anything like it. Hmm…” Luna walked over to a random star and poked it. The effect was immediate.
“EEEEEE! PRINCESS! PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE!”
“What’s wrong? Did that hurt?”
“No, you just touched me in a very, VERY private spot. And I would rather you not somehow manage to touch another one.”
“OH.” I’m pretty sure she got the message based on the blush I saw on her face. “F-forgive us. We did not- I mean, I did not-!”
“It’s okay, just… no touchy-touchy. Agreed?”
“Agreed.” Her look turned pensive. “Though, I am curious. Are we not supposed to be viewing your memories? Why did this happen to you?”
“I Think… And I’m not entirely sure about this, but… I think this is my soul… which would mean that the memories are in my soul, and not my mind. That would be my best guess.”
“This is your soul? But why does it look like this? I’ve seen a pony’s soul before, and it looked nothing like this.” Luna looked around in amazement. I think she was astounded, and probably joyous by all the stars and the galaxies she could see.
“Well, it’s probably because down at my core, I never was a pony. Likely because I’m a-“
I was cut off as I watched a small foal run through the stars right at Luna.
The foal was Shadow Flare.
The real Shadow Flare.
Luna and I watched as he ran right past her into the hooves of Silent Shade, bawling his eyes out. We watched as he was blubbering out some nonsense that Shade wasn’t able to understand. She spoke to him, and he calmed down enough to speak full sentences. He pointed in the direction he came from, and Shade nodded. Shadow led Shade back the way they came. They waked maybe 6 hoof steps each before they disappeared.
Luna looked around, trying to spot them again. “Shadow? Where did they go?” I didn’t respond. I almost couldn’t. Luna spoke again. “Shadow?”
“I’m….. Remember… ing……..”
Luna looked visibly concerned at how weak my voice sounded there. “Shadow, art thou well?”
“I…. hnnng….”
Shade and Shadow suddenly reappeared. Shadow was cowering behind Shade while pointing at something. Shade and Luna both turned and gasped at the same time. What they saw was me. The real me. My human self. I was sitting against a wall in my soul, legs bent at the knees and my arms wrapped around them, my head laying in the crook of my left arm.
Shade slowly and cautiously approached me. Or, the human me. I looked like a wreck. The black shirt and blue jeans I was wearing were torn so badly. The jeans themselves looked like they were barely holding themselves together, and the shirt was missing the entire left half. I guess it’s supposed to represent how I felt then. Torn away from everything that was important to me, and tearing away something that’s important to them.
Once Shade got close enough, we watched her say something to me. I don’t know if I said something back or not, but we saw shade say something again. This time, I lifted my head enough to see my eye and the tears flowing down that side of my face. My eyes had a dead look to them. So dead, that both Shade and Luna shivered when they saw it. Shade said something again, and this time I saw my jaw moving, so I know I replied with something. Shade gasped and put a hoof to her mouth. Whatever I said must have stirred something in Shadow Flare, because he slowly stepped out from behind Shade and approached me. He asked something. I responded to it. He walked up to me and leaned u on his hind hooves, placing his right forehoof on my knee. He said something else, and my entire body jerked when my head snapped upwards. There was pure shock in my eyes, and I watched as I stuttered something. Shadow moved up on the very tips of his hind hooves and hugged me as best as he could. Then he said something in my ear. I don’t know what it was, but for a few moments I was frozen stock still.
Shade walked up to the both of us smiling, and said something to me as well, before she hugged the both of us. I don’t know what she said, but it must have been what broke the dam, because I broke down and hugged them both, crying harder than I ever had in either life. Shade looked up, and for the first time since this soul memory started, Luna and I heard something.
We heard her whisper, “Please… let this work…” then her eyes began glowing, before she closed them. Then her body began to glow, followed by Shadow’s and my own. There was a blinding flash, ad the images faded. Suddenly, the nebula that was me collapsed in on itself, and in another flash of light, I was reformed in my hybrid body, but in my hybrid form instead of my pony form. Looking almost identical to my foal body, the only differences were the fangs being larger, and the fact that my wings were larger, and though they looked exactly like a dragons wings, they were made entirely out of the same membrane of a changelings, just colored a dark grey.
Neither Luna nor I had a chance to say anything before the regular memories came back.
Platinum was holding both Shadow and Shade in his arms. She jerked awake, apparently the spell having taken her out of her own body. She immediately looked down at her son. He slowly opened his eyes to see that it wasn’t just Shadow in those eyes.
It was both Shadow and the other creature’s soul. There were two colored eyes. One green, and one blue.
She spoke softly, “Can you hear me?”
The foal looked up at her. “Yes… We can…” There was a dual tone to the foal’s voice. She knew what it meant, but Platinum couldn’t understand the sudden change He also couldn’t understand how he was now speaking perfectly, instead of it sounding somewhat foolish like a few hours ago. When he spoke again, there was only one tone to the voice. “Thank you, Shade…”
Shade smiled down at him. “Don’t call me Shade, little one. Call me Mom.”
The foal’s eyes widened again. Before he let out a long yawn, and closed his eyes. He spoke again. “Okay…” Then the two tones came back. “Goodnight… Mom….”
She smiled wider as the foal went to sleep. She managed to gather enough strength to move forward and kiss the foal on his forehead before she collapsed in Platinum’s arms unconscious. The Spell had taken a toll on her, and it was even harder to cast on the foal because of his resistance to magic. Platinum looked down at the sleeping creatures in his arm before he lifted them up carefully, and took them to his shared room with his wife. He laid them both down, climbed in after them, so that the foal was in between the two of them. He wrapped his wings around them both and fell asleep next to them. The memory faded to black.
Luna turned back to look at me, but gasped when she saw how utterly exhausted I looked. She quickly moved to my side so help me stay up and steady.
“Princess... I…. I feel… tired…..” Luna had to catche me when I fell over. She slowly laid me down on my back as my eyes were drifting closed.
“Your mind is tired. Rest now, Shadow. We shall speak more tomorrow.”
As my eyes drifted closed, I managed to get out a few more words before my mind shut down completely. “Can I… go back to… calling you Luna?” I didn’t get to hear the response before everything went dark.
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I had such a splitting headache when I realized I was conscious again. First words out of my mouth?
“Oooooooooooh, fuck, that hurts like hell!”
“Shadow! You’re awake!”
Oh, Luna! Why did you have to yell! My head!
I slowly opened an eye to see Bones standing above me. I could feel the worry coming off of him. “Are you okay?!”
“Oh, Please, stop yelling! Headache!”
“Opps, sorry… but seriously, are you alright?”
“I feel like I got bashed in the head by a freakin’ boulder… two hundred times…. Aaahhh!” Fuck, that is painful. “Do you have a hangover spell? Or a painkiller spell? Something? Oooohhhh…”
I felt pity coming off of him. Pity? “Sorry, Shadow. When we combined our magic, it completely drained me. You’re on your own for now.”
“Well, fuck me!” And f**k my resistance to magic! You’re as helpful as you are hurtful!
We both heard the doors to the dungeon open, followed by the unmistakable sound of metal on cobblestone. “Sorry,” Bones whispered. “Going incognito. Don’t want them thinking I’m a zombie or something.”
I couldn’t help myself, despite the pain. “Aren’t you though?” A light tap on my head served to increase the pain I was already going through. Dick.
Bones quickly retreated to the corner I first found him in, and right after, he literally fell to pieces. The hoof steps were now right at the cell bars. I heard them slam open, creating a rather loud echo and further aggravating my headache. Then, one of the two guards that had to be there decided to say in his normally stoic, but loud as f**k voice, “Princess Luna demands your presence.”
“Oh, creator! Please, not so loud! I have such a headache right now!”
Of course, the guards basically said ‘f**k you’ when they picked me up by my front hooves and began dragging me out since
it was obvious I wasn’t walking anywhere. The constant bumps from the uneven ground, once again, served to further increase my ongoing agony. I couldn’t help but mutter under my breath.
“Stubbern…stoic…stupid…jackasses…” I felt a shiver down my spine at the last comment, and looked up. Sure enough, there he was.
The same donkey ghost guy from before. This time, he had a piece of straw in his mouth he was chewing on like one would a toothpick. Remembering the last encounter, I quickly said “No offence.”
And just like last time, he responded, “Nnnnnoooooooooooooooooone taken.”
Both of the guards stopped moving, and turned to look behind them. The donkey had disappeared. The looked back at each other, shrugged, and kept walking. One of the guards broke his stoic nature and said out loud:
“Weird.”
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another very good chapter.
i can't wait to read the next chapter.
*picks up microphone* I HOPE YOU GET THAT HEADACHE AND GOOD CHAPTER MY FRIEND!!!!!!!!
3327031 I swear I heard you say that before... OH WAIT!
I DID!
3327315 OH GOD!!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!!! WHY-HY-HY-HY?!?!?
super good chapter this time i wont eat your pancakes..... instead i'll eat youre cookies mwahahahaha '' evil sweets eater''
3327350
i try to keep it simple.
3328554 Indeed!
3327625 Those cookies be mine! GIVE 'EM BACK! lolz
Dude. This is awesome. Totally loving it.
3328962 Glad you like it!
Pretty awesome so far.