The room was deathly silent. I could feel all eyes on me. I’m still a bit disoriented from being able to move my own eyes, still in pain from moving at all in a thousand years, and I surprised even myself when I blasted the doors down, but at this point I’m rolling with the flow.
Celestia has the gall to look calm, the guards look to be a mix of either pissed or terrified; none in between. The six regular looking ponies that are in the room have a mix of various expressions. This quick survey of the room also tells me a few interesting things. Those six regular looking ponies aren’t normal; They each represent one of the elements of harmony apparently… what happened Celestia? God, just thinking that name pisses me off…
Then one of the guards does something stupid.
“You’ll not harm our Princess!” he yells as he charges me, a spear aimed right at me. Snapping my vision to him, I knock him away with a blast from my eye, he goes flying and hits the wall with a thud that reverberates around the room, his spear impaling itself inches from his head.
Skill shot!
My eye hurts a bit from doing this, but I shake it off. Turning my attention back to the rest of the room, I smile at them. Must have been a creepy smile, because the six ponies start to back away slightly. “Anyone else wanna try something stupid!? This is between me and that bitch right there!” I say pointing at Celestia.
She remains silent and watches me carefully, her hooves and wings twitching in anticipation of anything I might do.
The blue one decides to pipe up. “Oh yeah?! You’ll have to get through us first!”
Ignoring her, I continue to glare at Celestia. Her silence is starting to piss me off. Blasting a chunk of the wall by her head, causing debris to explode from her doesn’t even phase her. “FUCKING SAY SOMETHING! All these years, and you’ve got nothing to say!? Well listen here bitch, I’ve got quite a bit!” blasting the spot just in front of her throne still doesn’t phase her.
The guards all rush me and I back up a bit and wait until they’re all in the doorway I just blasted open, and send them all flying in one huge group. the choke point is always a fucking slaughter.
Walking back in, I glare at the one who imprisoned me. Surprisingly, she finally says something; her voice is a bit shaky, but she doesn’t seem to notice. “What do you want Null.”
The purple pony seems to perk up at this. “Wait… Null? As in that statue from the gardens? I thought that was just a statue!”
“Yeah, she would have you believe that wouldn’t she.” I spat at her. “And don’t remind me of it… god it fucking sucked.”
The blue one decides to try me again. “Yeah, well you’ll be back there soon enough! We’ll beat you!”
Snapping my vision to her, I read her info card. “Rainbow Dash, shut the fuck up. This is beyond you.”
This startles her, but she’s right back to anger immediately. “How do you know my name?!”
I laugh. “I know all your names! Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack! Now shut the fuck up!” I snap, each one flinching as I said their names. Fixing my sight back on Celestia, I decide to answer her question. “What do I want Celestia? I want you dead. I wanna watch this castle burn, and everyone in it, you included. I want to make you pay for what you did it me!” I yell, sending a blast right at her. She brought up a shield just in time, but it cracks a little bit. “You fucking ruined my life! Scratch that, you took it away from me! And I did nothing to deserve it!”
Celestia remains quiet, and Twilight decides to speak up this time. Good thing it’s not Rainbow Dash, else she would have gotten blasted. “There’s no way that’s true, Celestia would never do something like that to someone innocent.”
I feel something break off in my mind. “Bullshit! Tell them what you did to me Celestia! How you turned me to stone all those years ago based on a what if!” her eyes widen a bit after that. “That’s right bitch, I heard everything! All those years, stuck as a statue, forced to look in one spot, unable to do anything! Unable to talk, unable to sleep, unable to even fucking breathe! Wishing I’d fucking die instead of live another day of that fucking torture, constantly teased with the hope of freedom from your sister-” I pause for a moment, thoughts of what happened to Luna catching up to me. “And that’s another thing! Luna was the only one I ever considered a friend here! And you fucking sat idly by while she got corrupted by Nightmare Moon! A fucking shadow! You being the reason she was so easily corrupted, because of your carelessness!”
Her expression shifts from indifference to anger. “Don’t you dare speak of my sister that way!”
I send another blast at her shield, cracking it some more and making her flinch involuntarily. “I’ll talk about her however I damn well please! I was there for her more than you ever were! Countless nights she came and vented to me! I’m basically her fucking diary! And now she’s gone! Because you fucking banished her to moon!”
I didn’t notice it before, but there’s tears dripping down my face. I ignore them and continue. “Constantly fading in and out of sanity, constant teases for the sweet release of death! When Sombra attacked, when Luna nearly smashed me in a fit of jealousy over you, when Tirek showed up, when I went tumbling down into the ravine! I don’t even know how long its been from that point in time, because that moment completely broke me! She was my only hope, and she was this close to finishing the spell!” I bring my pointer finger and thumb barely a centimeter apart for emphasis.
I stop, and take a few breaths. I wipe the tears from my face, and when I pull my arm away from my face, I notice there’s something red on my arm. Is…. Is that blood? confused, I touch my hand under my right eye. Regular tears. I touch my hand under my left eye. Blood. that doesn’t seem healthy…
Bringing my attention back to the room, the six ponies seem shocked and at a loss for words. Even the blue one has the wind knocked from her sails. The purple one mumbles to herself. “I thought turning ponies to stone was like putting them to sleep…”
I scoff. “It’s nowhere near that humane. It’s comfort for you. Ya’ll think you’re doing things without hurting someone just so you can sleep better at night.” she shys away at that.
Turning back to Celestia, I ask her something. “Let me ask you this Celestia. How old do you think I am? Or rather, was; when you ruined my life.”
She takes a moment to actually ponder this. “I don’t know anything about you, so I wouldn’t know.” she says evenly.
“I was fourteen! I’m a fucking child Celestia! I hope you sleep well knowing what you did to an innocent child! All because of what? My fucking eye? An eye that fucking blinded me when I had it open, and that I didn’t even want!? Do you know how I got this Celestia? How I got here? Because I’m not even from this world! I was trapped in a cave, and I found a blue orb. I touched it, and the next thing I knew, I found myself falling from the sky. I wander for four days, get time traveled three more days by that asshat Discord, and then I get turned to stone by you.”
Taking a shaky breath, I recompose myself, if only a little. “And that’s all I can even remember. I don’t remember what home looks like. I don’t remember my parents faces, I don’t remember if I even had siblings, I don’t remember if I was adopted, loved or resented, or if I even had a family! And now it’s too late to even care, because that was all a thousand years ago, give or take! My family, and everything I knew is dead and gone! For all I know, my world could probably be destroyed by now!”
Sniffling, I fire blasts at her to punctuate each word. “That. Is. Why. I. Want. You. Dead.” I feel blood dripping from my left eye more heavily now, but I don’t care. Her shield is now spiderwebbed and just barely holding up, the six ponies in between us look terrified, and let out a yelp each time I blasted Celestia’s shield. One more blast should break it… then I can fucking end her!
However, I stop when I hear something from behind me that causes my blood to freeze.
“N-Null?”
That voice… n-no, it can’t be.
I turn around slowly look at the source of that voice. Its Luna… it’s fucking Luna!
“L-Luna?”
She seems hesitant, but nods. “Null? W-what are you doing…”
“Telling her I’m trying to kill her sister would probably be a bad idea…”
“You’re trying to kill my sister?!” she exclaims.
“Shit! I said that out loud?!”
She fixes me with sad glare, which is kinda conflicting but she’s somehow pulling it off. “Null… please… don’t do this. We wrongfully imprisoned you, and I’m sorry for that… but don’t go down the same path Nightmare Moon sent me down! Please, I believe in you. I know you’re not evil… I’m your friend, remember? Please… don’t let my trust be misplaced…” she says as a few tears start to build up in her eyes.
Man, she’s really broken up about this… if I do this, then everyone would think Celestia was right about me… but at the same time, I’d finally get back at the bitch! But then I’d lose my only friend… But revenge!
Looking into Luna’s eyes, I see through her vision for a moment. Focusing on Celestia, I notice she’s got a few tears in her eyes as well, and a look of pure fear on her face. Probably worried I’ll kill her sister or something. Cutting the connection from sheer will, and surprisingly not passing out this time, I focus back on Luna. taking a deep breath, I go to speak, but she catches me off guard when she darts forward and does something that I never could have been prepared for. She hugs me. Her face buried in my chest, her tears staining my shirt. She mutters a bunch of pleases and other things I can’t quite make out.
“H-how are you here? I thought Celestia banished you to the moon.” I ask, still in shock.
“...Null… That was over a thousand years ago…”
This throws me for another loop. I feel a rage building up at the prospect of having lost another thousand years to time. But looking back down at Luna, it melts away into a different kind of anger. Anger at not wanting to hurt her. Which is sort of contradictory in and of itself, but it’s my feelings, I’ll describe them how I want.
Internally at war with myself, I find myself frozen in place. Deciding to place my faith in Luna, I reach my arms up slowly and hug her back. “...Alright…”
She pulls away after a moment and looks at me with a teary smile.
I turn and look back at Celestia. “I still wish you were dead… but I won’t be the one to do it. I won’t be the evil you saw in me. I also know how important you are for the world’s balance.”
I look around the damaged throne room, at the six ponies who seem to be confused and still scared. At the unconscious guards scattered across the room. Back at Celestia… a thousand years she ran this place by herself. Wherever… this place is… must be that new castle they relocated to when the Everfree took over. “You’re not a bad leader Celestia. Keeping Equestria up and running for two thousand years will attest to that. You’re just a horrible person…”
I see a tear finally streak down her face. “Luna, get me out of here before I change my mind.”
I am very happy.
So his eye is basically like the pre-eternal sharingan? It's use damages the eye?
Ouch, he doesn't see it but the tears show she regrets it. I think she would have let him beat the shit out of her if he was calmer then he was
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Seconded, on all counts, though I hope that Callie at least comes to actually believe him and understand just how wrong she was two thousand odd years ago.
Well, that was intense... Keep up the good work!
that stab in the heart though... 'you're just a horrible person' :X probably worse than death..you know she'll be laying awake at night cause of that.
i'm curious how twilight and the others will react to all this information. literal proof that celestia made horrific decisions for no apparent reason other than paranoia (goodbye to twilights personal pedestal she has tia on)
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2 centuries, and tia is the only one who thinks she was right. 1k years, and she is still the only one.all that time passed, and she was the only one to ever think she was right about it.
Sweet baby Jesus, that pent up anger.
Two thousand years, give or take, is definitely enough to warrant that.
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you'll like 'confrontations' then
This may sound harsh for some, but if it were me I would not forgive her. I agree with the whole hate but not mad thing. However, only after a thousand years have passed at the LEAST then I might forgive her.
then I would say "unfortunately for you, humans don't live that long. "
2000 years worth of closer inbound.
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"It's not enough. Feed me more misery you wretched creature! I WISH TO TASTE PAIN! "
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"Well at least one of us is excited. Really though, it was warranted but I need more justice. Much more. Its not enough. She needs. To. Suffer."
In this one sentence, you summed up my views on Celestia, congrats!
good thing Null's not a Revenant.
As I read I happened to be listening to this remix of Pure Imagination. I don't know, it felt appropriate. The juxtaposition of the song with the scene.
The lyrics and intent of the song fit the 'surface' of Equestria. And the calm tone and same message contrasts nicely with the harsh emotions of the characters, highlighting the character's emotions while soothing mine.
I love it so much!
Honestly, for a chapter title, I'm expecting something along the lines of "A Thousand Years; Too Late for an Apology"
Call me sappy, but thems the works. Enjoyed the chapter! Seeing as how I just now finished it and whatnot. Reading at work is difficult
You magnificent piece of a human being! When I finished reading 1000 Years, I was hooked and I needed more. Now, when I saw that you posted the sequel, I literally squeaked! Seeing how Null tells everything to Celestia and company was priceless! Oh, and Luna! Don't get me started!
I wouldn't be surprised if null broke one of I princess Celestia legs or her nose.
Does null have some of sans powers?
I was kinda hoping he would, demonstrate a bit of his power, because from what I can see, his eye grants him the ability to view the world on a much more basic level, simply put, he can see the building blocks of existence, and move them as well.
AWESOME CHAPTER!!!
I wish he had at the very least punched her in the face. But I'm content i guess. Xd
Cant wait to see what happens next!
Holy. Fuck. YES!
Oh the DELIVERY! That was... glorious! I had to read it again because of how POWERFUL that was! Oh this is going to be so fucking interesting! Thank you so much for writing this!
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I dont think hes forgiven her. So what you said pretty much will happen. Xd
<3
Oof.
Thats the good shit.
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i would say sure? idk much about naruto, but yeah. using it that way hurts him.
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YUS. this is exactly how i wanted people to react!
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eh... its nice? i don't see it fitting, but it kinda could? i dunno...
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no, null doesn't have sans powers. only reason people are sayin that is cuz of the bone comment he made at the end of the first chapter. he won't be turning anyone blue or spawning bones anytime soon.
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um... no... not at all... he can't see and minipulate the building blocks of exsistence, he can only really see information. names, titles, and various other tidbits.
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yush... honestly i was unsure if people would enjoy this chapter. personally it seemed like just a big word dump of shit everyone knew, but i guess people like it! thanks for the enthusiastic support man.
I just realized that Null's pretty much wearing the Millennium Left Eye. Also, Celestia's an ignorant prick with a tendency of jumping to conclusions... which sadly means that Twilight also learned as well.
I'm fine with Celestia not being physically hurt, him rubbing her self-righteousness in her face is more than enough.
Aw, I was hoping for some real payback but you handled the confrontation well. Maybe Null will unlock some ability that makes Celestia experience all of Null's time trapped in stone or something.
I don't know why, but when Celestia screws up like this, I always root for her suffering a little. I guess when she's shown to be manipulative I tend to want the pampered princess to squirm.
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I was talking about the power to telaport place to place or it's called blanking.
Also does he have the power of ture understand; as in as he see something an can know and understand everything about it.
The emotion in Null's speech as well as that final line tword celestia hit like a freight train to the face.
You are a brilliant wrighter and I happily look forward to the next chapter.
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possibly, but this is also a possible chance for twilight to realize this. will she learn anything from it? who is to say.
damn.
I was confused when i saw the mane 6, but damn, he lost another 1000 years?
Also the emotion with Celestia/Luna was very well done.
Frankly, the potential emotional damage of Twilight and friends knowing the truth of the things that Celestia has done is WAY better than him hurting her physically. Frankly, I want to see her pull out all the stops when it comes to damage control, and then fail miserably when he calls her out for trying to downplay the atrocity she committed. Plus the destruction of trust between student and teacher helps significantly here. The only sad part is that Twilight will be hurt by this, but that's just the nature of the fallout of Celestia's actions.
Man, my breath was hitched when I read this, spit torn between wanting revenge (turn to the dark side of the force) and having the diplomatic approach (its been some time, maybe Celestia has changed and will try to amends for what she has done). I’ll be honest I kinda wanted Null to still be mad at both of the princesses, their both accountable for doing atrocities. Yes I know Luna tried to help set null free, but that really doesn’t excuse it since discord was the one that set the guy free. I’m at a loss to where this will go. What’s a 14 year old boy supposed to do now? Maybe explore in nature? Find inner peace? Eat some food? Destroy property? Should we even consider him to be 14 still? His mindset is kinda 1,000+ years old now, but he hasn’t learned much..... OOO fiddlesticks what a conundrum! I can’t wait for more!
On a side note, really hoping for some awkward conversations with Luna, who knows, maybe they’ll actually develop a good platonic relationship. She kinda does have this responsibility to take care of Null now. It’s just wow the time frame, should it be discounted? We still don’t know how if Celestia is the same person from before, or has she grown a bit from losing her sister for a thousand years?
In my opinion, (please don’t get offended DekaSkittalz, I apologize if you do, just placing my thoughts, I like having debates and converse with different opinions. Don’t let my taste influence on the focus of the story) it kinda felt a wee bit forced when Luna tried to beg for Null to not commit murder. Speaking of murder, WOW! We finally see a little bit on what the eye can do! I’m assuming it’s based on emotion, since it’s his first time trying this new power. Wonder if this will go the Luke Skywalker route where maybe he’ll find a book or a mentor to control this new ability. Or just be Rey who can be amazing at everything.
As for Celestia, wonder why some people have this need to see her head put on a spike? While I get she committed questionable things, We are kinda in the perspective of null so we don’t personally know her character all that well. Who knows, maybe she’ll have a motherly side since she was by her-lonesome for a bit. I kinda have this naivety on not judging a book by its cover, it sometimes comes with surprises whenever any story will go, either by plot twists or going in plain sight. Kinda like when trailers shouldn’t spoil the movie, *insert basic Hollywood movie here*.
How did null know the main six? I can’t remember if he knew the show or not.
Now this was a great chapter. The emotional baggage that was all built up in the first part, came to a great and fantastic release. So much so that i felt i was there cheering him on. Bravo and i hope that null can convince everyone that he is a good guy. Which in turn will drive the emotional nail further into celestia
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i was torn on that too... in the end i decided to do this because i just felt better about it, and all of my brainstorming generally led towards a more good/neutral path. plus i feel i'd make it seem too forced if i went the evil route. too stereotypical and idk how to do that well. apparantly im good at heart wrenching tho! where will this go? thats a good question.... don't entirely know that myself. awkward convo's? you bet thats gonna happen. maybe... subject to change, tho likely not to. felt a bit force for luna to beg null? i don't think so. ya'll don't know where she came from just yet. to null she just kinda popped up; more on that next chapter. but even then, think about it. null is something, now someone, who shes had alot of emotional attatchment over. if she found out she was wrong, and that null hated her and wanted everyone dead? that would fucking destroy her. it would be like dating a guy and he leaves after you bang, and he straight up tells u all he wanted was sex. all the wasted time and thoughts spent on the person. thats just how i view it tho, and me knowing more than anyone else, its kinda unfair to ya'll. not a starwars fan, but meh. the eye isn't based on emotion i dont think? im still touchy on the fine details of how it works. no mentor tho, i can tell ya that right off the rip. this curse/gift is his and his alone. and yeah, im surprised about the "death to celestia" thing too. kinda a weird thing that goes on in my comment section...
god this is such a sporadic reply, but you took the time to write out the full thing, so i felt it would be fair to do the same.
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Aw thanks! It genuinely makes me happy about you wanting to return the favor with my lengthy replies!
I often take the time to check if my comment makes sense by submitting the comment, then highlight on what I wrote and play text to speech to hear if it makes sense. If it doesn’t I often edit on my comments and add more to the comment, thus becoming lengthy.
My phone often makes autocorrect mistakes, not to mention I ain’t all that good at english literature and grammar, going to take some classes and study to get better tho!
As for the story, sorry about bringing up the eye thing and what it technically does, didn’t mean to upset you. And for Luna, makes sense and I get it, it would kinda suck if it went to that extent and would seem a bit 180. And true, I guess it makes it unfair that I don’t know about what will happen, but that what makes it fun ya know? Trying to guess what will happen and discuss with readers who are fans of the fimfiction write on their thoughts. That’s why I write these kind of opinions, I sometimes get a variety of replies, some on guessing on where the story will go, others vent or rage on what they emotionally feel should happen in the story.
What I often don’t like is readers or fans ask or beg for the author to change their story, I.e ships, action, smuts, lemons, etc. In some instances, it’s good to go along with the audience, but most of the time it just loses the focus on what the author originally intended to write. If the author doesn’t want to ask on what the audience would like to happen in the story, then we should respect on the choices the author will make for the story. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t comment what you feel, it’s your right by all means.
Whatever the author will do in this story, I’ll still enjoy it. And will read future projects ,since DekaSkittalz’s stories are quite nice to read.
Read chapter 2 with this music:
It's sad. It's pitiful. It's sorrowful. It's Tragedy
Wishing physical pain is so, unimaginative. The harm he's done her on a emotional and social level far outstrips anything he could have done to her mortal form. In particular, because he could have hurt her, he certainly had the will to do so. But by walking, he claimed a moral high ground that Celestia assumed, all those years ago, that he could never posses.
So now Celestia has to face the fact that her assumption damned a fourteen year old child to two thousand years of madness. And to add another layer of joy to the cake, she's going to have to explain all this to Twilight, who's just had her faith in her beloved teacher shattered.
HAHAHA Celestia got yelled at! Purple dumb also has to deal with the fact her mentor is a cruel evil cunt of a person
couldn't have hoped for better
I am shocked and in awe of your masterful literary work!
Seriously, moved almost to tears after reading through all his suffering and then his final words to celestia...... perfection.
HOWEVER! You have plot holed yourself by giving him emotions once more after all the previous emotionless build up. I'm kinda hoping you already thought of this and its something as simple as him being unused to the MASSIVE reactions to the chemical cocktails running through his veins and brain. You can be as emotionless and rational in your thinking as you want but add a massive dose of adrenaline that comes with the amount of rage and hatred he has and all bets are off. This would explain a lot and lead to other weird or awkward situations where he is trying EXTREMELY hard to be rational and emotionless, yet his teenage hormonal body and 2000 years of sensory deprivation will skew his reactions in radical and usually unproductive ways.
Well done. Here come the test results: "You are a horrible person." That's what it says: a horrible person. We weren't even testing for that.
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It appears that Discord put his mind back together, more or less, in addition to releasing him. By his own recollection, Null had sunk into numb catatonia shortly after Luna's first banishment.
This chapter caught me as I was preparing for bed and I gotta say I don't regret reading it at all. I'm torn heavily by a desire to consume this as quickly as it's released and letting it build up so I can bing it.
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You made me remember portal games and for that i shall love you
So what’s the deal with Discord’s release in season three? Did they just not think to try using the Elements to free Null?
If this was a show, this would be the song for credits after each episode.
I wonder if there going to be any legal actions against Celestia....
A trial would be fun.
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Maybe it's because of Luna's research that they could do it....