Chapter Three: Never Play Leapfrog
The credits came up, concluding my seventh viewing of Kung Fu Panda, which turned out to be the perfect choice for everyone (good job, Pinkie). There was enough fighting and humour to entertain Dashie and Applejack, with enough well-written dialogue and emotional scenes to stimulate Twilight and Rarity. Even Fluttershy was immersed by the entire movie, I was expecting her to hide under the pillow at all the violent parts; perhaps I had vastly underestimated the ponies’ maturity.
“That was so cool!” said Pinkie, clapping her hooves together.
“Eh, it was kind of cool, I guess.” Dashie yawned.
“It was perfect!” Pinkie screamed.
The two were left playfully arguing over how the film was, while I took the disk out of the TV and put it back into its box and onto the shelves. That was when Twilight approached me, ironically bearing a very unapproachable expression.
“Can we talk, alone?”
“Of course, let’s go somewhere more private.” I replied merrily.
Quickly informing the others that I’d only be gone for a few minutes, we walked out of the room together. I escorted her to Oliver’s room and shut the door behind us so we had some privacy. This would definitely be my best chance to connect with Twilight, I gave the unicorn a warm smile as I sat down on Oliver’s bed and got comfortable.
“So, what’s up?”
Just as I had anticipated, she deflected my friendliness and chose to remain standing, looking me in the eye and frowning.
“It’s pretty clear that my behaviour has taken you by surprise. What, were you just expecting me to act like that ridiculous cartoon? Did you expect this whole ordeal to be a happy little childlike fantasy?”
Trying my best to level with her, I shook my head quickly and shrugged.
“I don’t know what to expect, Twilight. I didn’t even think you were real until yesterday.”
Sighing in response, it was clear that she was trying her best to empathise with me, but was unable to do so very well.
“Do you want to know why I’m so on edge?”
She answered before I could even open my mouth, looking at her own hooves.
“The others haven’t got a clue about what’s going on. They think this is going to be some merry trip around a friendly alien world. But Princess Celestia told me the truth, I’m the only one who knows how dangerous this place is, or what you humans are really like.”
Shutting her eyes and emitting a slow breath, she continued.
“And what’s worse, is that I’m the only one who knows what'll happen if we fail this mission, how dire the consequences are.”
“Okay...” I said slowly, “So tell me, what happens?”
She stared into my eyes and ever so slightly opened her mouth, as though she was just on the verge of telling me, but regrettably, she receded back into her shell and refused to answer. Not wanting to push it, I held back on asking further questions, I’d surely find out what she meant at a later date. For now, she just needed to feel heard. She was right about the potential dangers ahead, but I wasn’t going to just sit there and tell her that it was hopeless, I had to comfort her.
“Hey, it’s going to be okay, Twiligh-”
“No it’s not!” she yelled over me, “We are all in very real danger!”
Another outburst like that and the others would surely panic, if they hadn’t already. I had to shut her up, and so I tried a different approach. Furrowing my brow at the unicorn, I snapped back at her sternly.
“Lower your voice! Are you trying to demoralise the others? Look, you’re absolutely right, and I’m not going to lie to you, the Princess has sent you to a very dangerous place. But she wouldn’t have done so if she wasn’t absolutely certain that you can handle it. Now pull yourself together, okay?”
In spite of her belligerence, Twilight was completely taken aback from my sudden change in attitude.
“Not that you’ll believe me,” I continued, “but your safety is all that matters to me now, and I’ll give everything I’ve got to make sure that you get home with that Orb. Now, there’s no doubt your shouting has put the others on edge, so you need to buck up, and reassure them that everything’s fine, okay?”
Although speechless, she was able to manage the smallest of nods.
“I’m just so afraid...” she sighed after a short silence.
Not wanting to pass on her lowered defences, I placed a hand on her shoulder.
“I know Twilight, and that’s okay. But you’ve got to trust me, I’m on your side.”
Whether it was the physical contact, or what I had said, it didn’t matter, I’d overstepped my bounds. Something snapped, and the unicorn glared at me with disgust, viciously shrugging my hand away.
“No, Princess Celestia has told me enough about your kind. I know exactly how twisted your species are. I am never trusting you, no matter how nice you pretend to be. We aren’t friends, and we never will be, you are nothing but our guide.”
Hoofsteps sounded on the wood floorboards outside, and we both went quiet. The bedroom door opened, and Applejack’s head popped around the corner.
“Everything alright in here?”
After flashing me a quick glare, Twilight turned to look at her friend with a fake smile.
“Yes Applejack, everything’s fine. We’re just discussing the mission.” she lied.
Applejack looked at me with a doubtful expression, clearly not believing Twilight. Not wanting to rock the boat, I gave the farm pony a fake smile of my own and nodded with certainty.
“We’re fine, just going over some of the details. I hope the five of you aren’t too bored in there?”
“Nah, we’re good.” she replied, “Just been reading some of those books you have lying around, hope you don’t mind?”
“Not at all.” I happily confirmed.
“They’re really interesting, you humans sure are something!”
“Yeah, they sure are something alright...” Twilight remarked coldly.
I had no idea what Princess Celestia had told Twilight, but my best guess was that she’d exclusively taught her about the worst we humans had to offer; the wars, the slavery, the genocide, there was a certainly an abundance to choose from in the anti-humanity department.
That’s when a jolt of fear ran through me and brought on a cold sweat; I had a recipe book somewhere in my collection, with a fair few of the entries being meat dishes. If they found out that humans regularly ate meat, who knows how they would react?
“Alrighty then, books can be fun, but they don’t entertain forever.” I announced, getting to my feet with a clap, “Let’s find something more active to do!”
Hurrying out of the room and back into mine, I was instantly greeted by the smiles of the other ponies. I couldn’t help but simply grin along with them, just walking into a room to see these characters from my favourite TV show, made me feel so warm and happy inside, this truly was a dream come true.
By the looks of things, they hadn’t found the book I had in mind. I sighed a breath of relief, only to inhale in a huge lungful of surprise as Pinkie jumped in front of me, her nose no more than a centimetre away from mine.
“Are there any games we can play? I’m bored of books now, and I ate all the cake! Let’s do something else! What games do humans play? I bet you have loads and loads of fun games. Can we play a game huh? Huh? Can we? Can we?”
I wasn’t opposed to the idea, not at all, but I hadn’t the foggiest idea of what we could actually play. Other than sports like basketball, rugby, and of course boxing, the only games I played these days involved holding a controller and looking at a screen. Not knowing what to suggest, I decided to take the easy route and knock the ball back into her court.
“Of course! Do you have any idea on what you would like to play?”
The hyperactive pony stopped and froze like a block of ice, she didn’t even appear to be breathing, she was completely motionless. Chuckling nervously, I looked to the others with a look of bewilderment, to which Rainbow Dash giggled.
“She’s just thinking, that’s all.” she told me.
After about ten seconds, the pink pony at last started to come back to life. She bounced up and down in a fashion that was completely identical to her cartoon self, until her head bumped the ceiling, to which the bouncing ceased.
“I know!” she squealed, her mane wobbling like jelly, “Let’s all play Hide and Seek!”
Raising an eyebrow and pursing my lips, I looked to Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack, assuming that they would be a bit too old for such a game. Dashie groaned under her breath and Applejack rolled her eyes and gave me a look as if to say ‘fine, let’s just get it over with’.
“Is that what everybody wants to play?” I asked openly.
“Everybody?” Rarity asked, “Is that the human equivalent everypony?”
I smiled endearingly and leaned against the bedroom wall, deciding that it would be a good time to quickly nip this in the bud before we played.
“Well, we don’t have any sentient pony races on this planet, so a word like everypony would be a bit redundant, don’t you think?” I pointed out, “Here on Earth, we use everybody, it’s simple and universal.”
Emitting a simple ‘ah’, Rarity’s eyes darted around sheepishly, clearly feeling a bit of an idiot. Wishing not to make similar mistakes in the future, she inquired if I could teach her more humanisms.
“By all means.” I confirmed.
For a good while, I taught the girls the various differences in vocabulary between our worlds, such as hooves to hands and feet, stallions to men, colts to boys, mares to women, and so on. The ponies were amazed by the small but significant changes in the dialect, despite us speaking the same language.
I was about to ask if they had any further questions, when Pinkie started to jump up and down.
“Hey, are we still going to play Hide and Seek?”
“Oh come on then, let’s go.” I laughed, playfully rolling my eyes.
Although we had only agreed to play Hide and Seek for Pinkie’s sake, it actually became quite fun for all of us once we got into it. As predicted, Twilight chose not to partake, and instead sat alone in her tent, reading more of my books.
We had played for a little over an hour, and I’d actually come to really enjoy myself; I was certainly the hardest to spot, thanks to the girls having the disadvantage of being so brightly coloured.
“Let’s set Callum a challenge!” Pinkie yelled, “All five of us are the seekers, while Callum hides!”
“Challenge accepted!” I announced proudly.
Once the girls all covered their eyes, they started counting to thirty. With five seekers on the hunt, I decided to utilise my favourite hiding spot on the land, as I was certain that they’d never find me there. I ran over to the ironwood tree that was close to the house, and climbed to the very top, they’d never suspect me to be up so high.
“Twenty one! Twenty two!” Rainbow Dash called.
I absolutely loved being up in this tree, the ironwood’s branches were almost impossible to break, so I always had confidence in scaling to the top. I could get a whole view of the land, not to mention the farmland beyond it.
“Twenty three! Twenty four!” Applejack shouted.
Looking down towards the house, I suddenly started feeling homesick. The childish feelings from playing began to subside, as the realisation crept up on me that I’d never be coming back here again. I was leaving my whole life behind, my laptop, my games, my friends, and my beloved dogs, Chilli and Archer. And for what it was worth, I was also leaving behind my family, whom despite their utter malignancy since my father’s departure, I still loved, especially my brother; Oliver was a product of the environment we’d been forced to grow up in, but deep down he was good, I knew that.
“Twenty five! Twenty six!” Rarity yelled.
My attention drifted back to the ponies as they counted, and the previous feeling slowly began to wash away. Who was I kidding? Everything I had in life now could never be half as good as this opportunity; I was about to travel with the Mane Six, on a worldwide adventure to find the fragments of a sacred relic, created by Equus’ very gods!
“Twenty seven! Twenty eight!” Fluttershy squeaked.
And to think, if I actually succeeded in helping the ponies recover this Orb, I would be revered in their world as a hero. The name Callum Horncastle would be found in the Canterlot Library’s history books, thousands of years from now, describing a human who gave up his entire life to help keep their world safe. Who in their right mind wouldn’t seize such an opportunity?
It was worth it, it was worth it all.
“Twenty nine! THIRTY!!!” Pinkie Pie screamed at the top of her lungs.
All five ponies scattered across the four acres, the hunt had began!
I sat there in the tree, grinning, watching them search for me.
A gentle mid-summer breeze blew against my face, lightly caressing it. I closed my eyes, and for the first time, I felt happy, truly happy. Never before had I experienced such a true feeling of mirth, I felt it deep within my core. At last, I felt genuinely whole as a person. I had found a purpose in life, a true calling, and it was wonderful. Dipping my head and grinning widely, I allowed the tears in my eyes to flow and drank in every ounce of the feeling.
I had zoned out for some time, simply relishing in such a wonderful mood. That was when I suddenly felt a hard, smooth object gently nudge my arm.
“Umm, excuse me? I found you...”
I whipped around to find Fluttershy sitting calmly on the same branch as I, lightly prodding me with her hoof; I jumped slightly and almost fell out of the tree altogether, how had she crept up on me so efficiently?
She really was the quiet one...
“How did you find me?” I asked.
“With my eyes...” she replied, sticking her tongue out.
I couldn’t help but burst out laughing, I had never expected in a million years for Fluttershy to give such a sharp and witty reply, especially seeing as I was still somewhat of a stranger to her.
“It’s nice up here isn’t it?” I asked, still chuckling.
“It’s wonderful,” she replied, “trees are beautiful, and you can always get such a wonderful view from the top. To be perfectly honest, sometimes I’d quite like to be a tree...”
I giggled as I drew a likeness to a very similar quote she had once said in the cartoon. It seemed that Fluttershy had warmed to me already, she had totally relaxed in my presence. Next step, Twilight.
“Well,” I said, “let’s go and tell the others you found me.”
Fluttershy slowly climbed down using her wings for support, while I simply jumped after sliding down a couple of metres. As I hit the ground, I performed a roll so I didn’t hurt anything, and used the momentum to spring back up to my feet; I stood up to see Rainbow Dash staring at me with raised eyebrows, clearly impressed.
“Did you just jump from up there?” she asked.
Giving a casual shrug and a nod, I didn’t overly want to show off about it, I had been climbing trees from a young age and had fallen from enough of them to know when a landing was safe or not.
“Ooh, my, I would never dream of jumping from up there.” Fluttershy murmured.
“Uh, Fluttershy, you have wings!” teased Dashie, nudging her playfully.
I chose to interrupt before Fluttershy could respond, after seeing the episodes ‘Cutie Mark Chronicles’ and ‘Hurricane Fluttershy’, I knew well enough that she was sensitive about her wings.
“So, where are the others? I imagine they’re still looking for me?” I asked.
“Yeah, Fluttershy went off on her own and I decided to follow her.” Rainbow Dash replied.
“I’ll go look for them.” Fluttershy squeaked.
Once again, I couldn’t help but find myself smiling, this time at Fluttershy’s voice, it was just so adorable; whenever I had heard it in the show, I received a feeling of comfort and security, something I’d always longed for. But now, hearing it in real life, I felt like I had to return the favour, as though she were a child of mine.
I had to keep her safe, I had to keep them all safe.
Fluttershy trotted away as silent as a mouse, leaving me and Rainbow Dash alone. Believing I could get some further information about Twilight from her companions, I decided to branch out.
“Hey Rainbow Dash, do you have any idea what’s going on with Twilight? I understand she’s nervous of being here, the whole lot of you must be, but I don’t think she’s telling me the whole story. Do you know why she’s being so cold and standoffish with me?”
Rainbow Dash responded with a disgruntled sigh.
“Dude, I wish I knew. She started acting like this a few days before we came here, just after Princess Celestia gave us this mission. She took Twilight away to have a private talk with her, and she’s been really touchy ever since. It’s like she’s become a completely different pony, she’s always on edge now. Sometimes she gets up in the middle of the night and walks around, only me and Applejack know about it.”
The plot thickens, so whatever was getting to Twilight had something to do with Celestia, and it was making her restless on a daily and nightly basis. At least some of the girls were aware of it, I’d need their help in getting her to spill the beans.
“Huh, odd. What do you think the Princess said to her?” I asked.
She only shrugged, and was about to share her thoughts when the others came along.
“Where in tarnation were you? We looked everywhere!” Applejack exclaimed.
Before I could answer, Fluttershy pointed to the top of the ironwood tree with a ginormous grin on her face, ruffling her wings in prideful delight; I presumed that she’d rarely won these sort of games, which hardly surprised me.
“I found him up there.”
“Wow, I would never have guessed. Nice one, Sugarcube!”
Merrily trotting up to the buttery pegasus, Applejack put her into a gentle headlock and ruffled her mane; we were all praising her and merrily conversing until Twilight came along, instantly generating an uncomfortable atmosphere.
“Playtime’s over, can we get a move on now? Or do you all need a few more minutes to act like foals?”
The others were speechless, as was I. Twilight was really pushing it now, her blunt demeanour was expected at this point, but blatant rudeness? It seemed that I wasn’t the only one who thought so, as Rainbow Dash stepped forward.
“Alright, that’s it, if nopony else is going to call you out, then I will! I’ve had enough of this Twilight! What the heck’s gotten into you? I don’t give a flying feather what Princess Celestia’s told you, I am sick of you being so rude to us!”
Twilight glared back at Rainbow, holding her ground.
“Rude? Rude!? You have no idea what’s at stake here! Nor do you have a clue about the danger we’re in! Do you understand that you might never see home again? You could die here! All of our lives are at stake, and all you care about is fun and games!”
It seemed the gloves had come off, there was no sugar-coating the situation now. I looked to the others with caution, and as expected, they were now strife with fear; Fluttershy was hiding behind her mane, and Pinkie was hiding behind Fluttershy!
“Jeez, overreaction much? There hasn’t been a single day on this mission where you haven’t been uptight, preaching your doom and gloom. I could deal with you being a grouch, but now you’re just being a total bitch!’’
Even with the high tension, I was not expecting swear words. Rainbow Dash and Twilight edged closer and closer to one another, their noses no more than a few centimetres apart, teeth bared. Twilight looked as if she were about to strike her friend; I rushed forward and stood between the two of them, using my deeper voice and larger size to establish dominance over them.
“That’s enough! I will not have you fighting amongst yourselves! Come on, we haven’t even left my house yet! Twilight’s absolutely right, you’re here on a dangerous mission, and I am to be your guide. Tomorrow we will try to pinpoint the first piece of the Orb, then we decide exactly how we’re going to fake my death, and then we’ll set off, okay? Now will the both of you calm down? I don’t want any further hostility from either of you!”
All the ponies were speechless, my first impression had given them a ‘gentle giant’ image, so my sudden change of mood and booming voice had shocked them all, even Twilight was taken aback; poor Fluttershy was cowering in fear.
Without uttering a word, Twilight stormed off to the shed to remove herself from the situation.
I took a frustrated sigh, had I overdone it? Applejack walked next to me and thankfully dispelled my worries.
“Thanks for breaking that up, I’m not sure what the Princess has told her, but it’s gone straight to that mare’s head. I’ll try to go calm her down, take the others inside, I’ll be along in a bit.”
She walked past me and trotted after Twilight to the shed in attempt to reason with her. The others all looked around awkwardly, clearly embarrassed and unsure of what to do. Approaching Fluttershy, whom was still trembling, I knelt down beside her and spoke in a calm, gentle tone.
“Hey, it’s okay now Fluttershy, it’s okay.”
Slowly looking up at me, she blinked away the tears which were blurring her vision.
“Tw-Twi... Twilight said we’re all going to die!”
“No...” I sighed, shaking my head slowly.
Tilting my head and smiling with compassion, I placed a hand on the pony’s mane and combed my fingers through it, gently stroking past the back of her ear.
“Twilight is scared, just like you, and fear very often causes one to exaggerate on a situation, and Twilight is coming up with the absolute worst possible outcome. Look, I know we’ve only just met and that you’ve got little reason to trust me yet, but I am going to protect you, Fluttershy, all of you. Against all and any threat we may face, I vow to keep you safe, no harm will come to you, do you understand me?”
I’d never really thought that I was good with words, but whatever I had said had done the trick; the pegasus lifted her head and her shaking steadily came to a halt.
“Okay... I believe you...”
I had expected it to take days for Fluttershy to so much as talk to me, let alone put her faith in me; I certainly wouldn’t betray such a fragile trust, this was a commitment for life, and I intended to stick to it. Looking to the others, it seemed Pinkie had also calmed down. In fact, it appeared as though everyone had returned to normal; Rarity smiled warmly at me, while Rainbow Dash was absolutely beaming and making no attempts to hide it, I couldn’t help but smile back at such an adorable face.
“What?” I asked innocently.
“Well, it’s just that Fluttershy’s never warmed up to anyone that fast before, not since meeting some colt ages ago. You might not be a pony, but still, I just didn’t expect her to get so close, so quickly.”
At Dashie’s mention of “some colt”, I noticed that Fluttershy very sheepishly combed her mane over her face to hide her blushing cheeks. Fluttershy, having a boyfriend? Surely not. While it wasn’t impossible, I highly doubted that Fluttershy had the confidence to engage in such a relationship, but then again, what did I actually know about these ponies?
It would have to remain yet another mystery, alongside the Twilight Sparkle conundrum.
“Can we go back inside now?” Pinkie piped up unexpectedly.
“Yeah,” I replied, “I suppose we need to discuss plans for our journey.”
I headed towards the house, and the others followed suit.
{What the bloody hell did Celestia say to Twilight?} I kept thinking to myself as I walked.
Twilight was obviously the leader of this expedition, and I needed her trust. Being able to work alongside her would surely help us stay out of trouble. But how, just how, could I earn her trust with this current behaviour? I’d have to do something pretty damn spectacular.
Opening the back door, I held it open for everypony just like before. I was about to follow them inside when I noticed Applejack appearing from behind the shed, hopefully she’d managed to calm Twilight down.
“You four head upstairs, I’m going to wait for AJ.”
Applejack noticed that I was waiting for her and went into a trot as not to keep me waiting. Observing her as she approached, I found it interesting how the girls were all bigger than ponies on Earth, they stood at around chest height for me, with a rough estimate, I’d say they were all about four and a half feet tall. Rarity was definitely the tallest, it would be interesting to measure them all and know for sure.
“Y’all right sugar cube?” Applejack asked, bringing me back from my thoughts.
“Yeah, fine thanks. How’s Twilight?”
Sighing heavily, the farm pony itched her brow with a foreleg.
“She’s blowin’ steam over there. Hay, I don’t know what’s gotten into that mare, but it’s somethin’ sour.”
Humming, I shrugged.
“Well, we really need to plan out this whole expedition, and there’s no good doing it without her. So she needs to calm down and get her arse back indoors.”
Nodding with acknowledgement, Applejack turned around and began to head back to the shed.
“Wait.”
Turning back to face me, she raised an eyebrow with confusion.
“Head on in, I’ll talk to her.”
“Uh, you’re kiddin’ right?”
I shook my head, and started heading over. After some brief thought, I had a rough idea of what I was going to say and it would sound best coming from me directly.
“Well, it’s your funeral...” Applejack tutted, going into the house and disappearing out of sight.
Trudging over to the shed, it at first appeared as though there wasn’t a camp at all, that was until I spotted a little silver ball attached to the shed’s outer wall, glimmering faintly, it was no bigger than a peanut. Out of curiosity, I went over and prodded the gem-like object, and was amazed to witness three tents and a fire-pit materialise out of thin air, it was like something one would see in a sci-fi movie.
The camp itself had been really well set up, the tents were all perfectly stitched, (I presumed it was Rarity’s work), the fire-pit was gorgeous, with curved stones all around it which were all white as marble. The fire was still burning, even though there was no wood in the pit, clearly a work of magic. The whole setup looked excellent, these ponies knew what they were doing when it came to camping, I was impressed.
In the mouth of the tents, I happened to notice some odd-looking bags, these must have been their travelling backpacks, although the straps appeared to go around one’s waist, indicating that they were more like saddle-bags. Each one was a slightly different shade that matched the colours of the girls, complete with their cutie marks stitched onto them for a personal flourish.
Although I was fascinated by the camp, my attention was drawn to a single tent in particular as I detected an odd sniffing noise, it took me a couple of seconds to realise what it was, it was the sound of someone crying.
“I should probably write up a last will and testament, but hey-ho...” I quietly muttered to myself.
Approaching the tent, I parted the entrance and peered inside to find Twilight sitting there with her back to the entrance, loudly sniffing to herself.
“Twilight, are you okay?” I asked.
“Go away...” she breathed, almost out of earshot.
“C’mon, Twilight, I just want to help. Please tell me what’s going on?”
“I said, go away... You are the last individual I would want to speak with right now...”
Kneeling down, I reached forward and gently placed my hand on her outer shoulder in attempt to comfort her. This turned out to be a bad move, and before I could react, she whipped around and punched me square in the mouth. I fell back and sat there in disbelief. Holy shit, Twilight had just hit me! And she could actually punch pretty hard, my lips felt like they were on fire!
“I said go away!” she yelled, glaring at me.
Wiping my lip to find it was now bleeding, I remained expressionless and stared at her in shock. The mare blinked at me rapidly and her lips quivered, she looked genuinely sorry for a moment.
“I... I didn’t mean to...”
Shaking her head slightly, her sorrow faded, and she simply studied my face in silence.
“I don’t think I deserved that.” I uttered blankly.
Taken aback and somewhat unnerved by my state of calmness, Twilight froze, to which I continued.
“Now then,” I started, licking the blood from my lip, “I can see that a lot of stress and a lot of responsibility has been bestowed upon you, an unfair amount, is that safe to say? I could help you manage that, you know? But you’ve got to tell me what the Princess shared with you in private. Nothing is going to be resolved until I can understand exactly what’s going on here.”
“How do you know that the Princess talked to me alone?” she sniffed, recovering from her tearful state.
“It’s no secret that she spoke with you privately after the mission briefing.” I replied.
“The others told you, didn’t they?”
Without needing me to answer, let alone giving me the chance to, Twilight recoiled away from me and scowled.
“It’s none of your business, all six of you! What I saw is for me to know, and me alone!”
There was clearly no breakthrough in sight for now, Twilight was far too distraught. Not wanting to push it any further, I emitted a defeated sigh and gave up.
“Suit yourself Twilight, if you want to keep it to yourself and pretend it’s you against the world, then do. But whenever you’re ready to be a team player, feel free to open up. For now though, we need you in the house, we’re trying to make plans on how to find this Orb of yours.”
I stood up and walked out of the camp before she could respond; if there was one thing I’d already gathered about Twilight, it was that she loved getting the last word in. There was no doubt in my mind that she would eventually stop pouting and follow me indoors. As I walked back to the house, I couldn’t help but smile, just a little, and I wasn’t quite sure why.
Stranger still, was that despite the utterly foul behaviour she’d been displaying thus far, I felt drawn to Twilight; there was something about her, something about all this tumult and hostility that I could relate to. Was it because of my rough living situation? Perhaps Twilight’s bitterness brought me some sense of familiarity, amid this new and outlandish chapter of my life?
Although I couldn’t fathom exactly how, I felt a strong connection to Twilight, and even if we never became friends, I would protect her until the day that I die...
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NYOOOOOOOOOOM interesting story, yes yes
Callum you have a stronger will than me i would have either cried or hit her back
This story is really interesting so far.
But, why is Callum such a doormat?
Like, seriously!?
My favourite pony is being ruined.
I dislike this.
I dislike you.
But I'ma keep reading...
I think there's more than meets the eye here...
Too bad they didn't watched Jurassic Park.
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Twilight’s my favorite pony too.
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Nao Fluttershy is best pony
This is how you do good hero protagonist. He is utterly devoted to doing what is right and needed, and he asks others to place their trust in him.