It’s barely been twenty minutes since we left the throne room, and I’m already unamused. Standing infront of me and Kaia, are three guards. Three Crescents. all of which I met last night. Behind them is Luna, followed by Skyline.
Of course, the armed guard detail doesn’t do anything to help keep Kaia calm either.
“Alright… I’ll bite. What’s all this about.” I ask annoyed.
“A number of things, actually. I’m assigning two Crescents to your sister, and an additional one to you.” she says evenly.
“Mhm… right. Okay, one thing: Why?” I respond tersely.
“As I said, a number of reasons. One, you yourself stated how important it was to you that nothing happen to her: They will be there to ensure her own protection. Two, civil unrest. You probably haven’t noticed, but there's been a number of ponies demanding we ‘remove you’, to put it lightly. Refusing to even remotely accept anything less.” I visibly tense up, my hand clenching into a fist.
Luna notices this and speaks quickly. “Assigning these guards to you two should act to deter any who would dare to take things into their own hooves, as well as to put the public more at ease. Even if you two are capable of handling yourselves, it wouldn’t do anything to help the public opinion about you if you did. The media would have a field day twisting the events into some horrific tale.”
I nod, unclenching my fist, and look over to see Kaia looking at me curiously.
“Lastly, the same reason I initially assigned Skyline to you. Not much is known about your eye, less so for hers. I trust you, and I want to trust you as well, Kaia.” she says addressing her directly. “But you must understand that we didn’t even know a Right Eye existed, let alone what it's capable of. Given the history of the Left Eye and the nature of it, I’d imagine their origins are similar. Perhaps that can be something for Null to look into later on. That said, this is to protect our subjects as much as it is to protect you.”
“That's… pretty fair. No way in hell would it go like this on Earth. Not even sure if I trust this whole eye business myself.” Kaia says. “Just as long as they don’t cross any boundaries, I can live with this.” Kaia says calmly.
I raise an eyebrow at her, confused at how easily she’s taking this. And what would it go like on Earth?
Luna smiles and nods. “Well, if there’s nothing else to be said, I’ll leave you all to get acquainted.” she says turning and leaving.
After a brief introduction on their part, we all stand there in silence as she walks away. Standing up a little straighter, I clear my throat. “Alright, who’s babysitting who?”
Twisted steps over towards me, and scoffs while the others step towards Kaia. “I ain’t babysittin’ shit, I’m just here to make sure nobody gets killed; What you do with your time beyond that, I couldn’t care less. Unless you’re drinkin, cause then I want in.” he says with a smirk.
“So I’m babysitting you, got it.” I say smirking back.
“Bah, don’t be such a sore loser.”
“In case you forgot, you also lost.” Caiuss chimes in.
“At least I wasn’t first blood.” Twisted snaps back.
“Uh, I feel like I’m missing something here?” Kaia interjects.
“Long story short, the five of us were in a duel last night. Me and Skyline vs those three.” I explain.
“Why were you all fighting?” she asks.
“Originally it was supposed to be just me against them, but your brother there decided to step in with me. As for why, that’s uh… a bit of a long story.” Skyline says with a scratch at the back of his head.
“... and you’re saying this little blue plant caused all that? I’m having a hard time believing all that.” I say while crouched and looking at said plant skeptically.
“To be fair, I wouldn’t believe it either if it didn’t happen. Poison Joke typically doesn’t have that type of reaction with ponies.” the one named Skyline says.
“And for the sake everyone, I recommend you don’t touch it either. Last thing we need is something like that happening with you.” the other bat like pony tacks on.
Something about the story made me question something however. “Wait, you said you forgave Skyline because it gave you a chance to fight… Celestia I think her name was?” I ask Jace.
He visibly tenses up, his fists clenching I notice.
“Yeah, nearly got to kill her.”
“Why do you want to kill her?” I ask, shocked that he actually tried to kill someone.
“Why?!” he snaps, whipping around at me. I flinch and instinctively reach for my knife.
“That bitch deserves worse than death for what she did to me!” he yells.
“You said that before, but what did she actually do to you?!”
“She’s the reason I was trapped in a stony purgatory for two thousand years!”
I go quiet after that, not having anything to say in return.
I sorta thought that might have been what happened, but I didn’t wanna think it was the case… she seemed too nice to do that.
“Yeah, nothing to say to that now, huh?”
I notice Skyline behind him, waving a hoof over his throat, but I ignore him. “But… She had to have had a reason! She did have a reason… didn’t she?”
I notice Skyline facehoof behind him, and for the first time, I see Jace’s Eye light up. It was so jarring and startling that I pulled out my knife.
He glances at it, and I realize my mistake. “Tch… You’re that scared of me? You’re no better than her. No, she didn’t have a reason. Not at all.”
And just like that, he disappears out of nowhere. I look around frantically, panicked that he might have tried to attack me, but nothing happens. Instead, I hear a sigh from in front of me.
“Did you have to pull your knife on him?” Skyline asks.
“Damn, and here I was thinking this assignment might not be so boring. Now we gotta go track down a monkey boy that could be anywhere.” Twisted groans and takes off into the air.
I watch him fly off, slowly putting my knife away. “I’ll talk to him when we find him.” I hear Skyline say as he takes off as well.
I watch until they’re both gone.
“Did she… really not have a reason?”
she feared he was dangerus and made him dangerus. her contunued lack of a public explanation just makes it worse as ponys like skyline just fill in what they know with assumptions and apparently most ponys belive that he was a evil creature that got out and tryed to murder their princess. im just hopeing for celestia to confess or get outed soon
Why is he is jumping around with the answer and won't just answer straight forward and correctly?
Like:
She was a stupid bitch who was scared of her own shadow and later did a similar thing to her sister.
She doesn't age and has a stereotypical god complex
She thinks that she can outlive/outwait problems and others, when they die from old age.
She is a snake and manipulator, don't trust her.
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Dude you seriosuly sold me on changing my story. I always forget she thinks she can just outlive her problems.
A darker thought that just occured to me that you may find interesting.
Is what if one of the reasons she banished Luna...WAS to change the culture!
Shes immortal so. What better way to win the war then to erase everything. You ever loved and have ever known.
With your unavoidable return the whole world had conviently forgot you existed.
Rather fun thought, no?
I do have to ask qhen Jace is going to throw Skyline in the garbage like he deserves to be. Them being "friends" at all doesn't make sense at all, given the pony intentionally poisoned him and never showed actual regret or repented at all. Him cozying up to people who are hostile to him screws up the character dynamics, if he's going to do so to other ponies there's no reason for him to have any conflict with Celestia and not do whatever she wants.
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Because, as the author itself said, common sense is forbidden in lay of the need for petty drama rather than extension.
Wait 2 more chapters, Skyline is probably going to get the Middle Finger, then we can have 2 more blackponies
I just wanna say... thanks for making these even if you don't recieve recognition and such for it.
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Hmm, What if keeping Skyline as a "Friend" is doing more harm than just throwing him in the Trash? I mean the more Null keeps Skyline around the less popular Skyline will be with the General public. Honestly in his profession, the less the Public trusts you the less ability you have to do your job.
Also the Reason why Celestia hasn't informed the Public is because she would have to admit her mistakes and I think she is hoping that if the Public decides to go Vigilante and Null Reacts like we all know he will to protect himself then she can just neatly throw him in a cell and toss the Key away. Poof problem solved in her mind.
Or seal him back into stone, either or.
Just give in to the hatred, let it flow through you. It's time for him to get his revenge, plotting, planning, make her turn into day breaker and make her the real enemy. Let everyone finally see celestia as the lying manipulative bitch she is in this story.
I want to read more! I am having a little trouble with who is talking to who like I can't tell if it's sister's talking or the brother.
Take your time dude, I enjoy whatever you write. Xd
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Time my brother all we need is time
Maybe a story board?
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I don't need my room lookin like this. or any spaghetti document either. cheers for tryin though!
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Lol just a thought, it's what I used to do when writing furry stories. All the ideas and plans got put on the board. Surpriseing what came out of it. Also good for doing D&D campaigns
I appreciate the update as well as the transparency on how the writing is going. However you choose to deal with the actually writing, I look forward to future installments. I hope you’re doing well.
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He had two thousands years to plan anything at all and yet he came in blasting
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He is slow in the head
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This always slightly annoys me when I see it. I'll admit, I base the way null thinks on a logical standpoint (at least I like to think I do.) Mind the wording, I did not say null thinks logically, but I decided how he would using logic.
Now, does this sound logical? Dedicating a whole 2k years to planning a revenge when you've already given up any hope of coming back, when you've already dipped in and out of sanity so much that you don't even understand the way you think yourself anymore?
Now let's stop being generous and introduce logic (and a couple facts). 1, he did not have a whole 2k years to plan. He had less than 1k because he was unconscious for the second half of his imprisonment, and because during the first half, he was fading in and out of consciousness for years at a time. And for when he was "conscious", time was passing by so slow and fast for him that he doesn't notice entire months or even years going by. So let's be a LITTLE generous and say a rough estimate, he had about 500-650 years to "plan" a revenge. But, there's still an issue. He never did because he gave up hope of getting out. When when he was given small bits of hope in the first story, he always took it with a grain of salt, never expecting much of it, and more focused on the prospect of being free than what he'd actually do if he ever was.
But let's say he was that hell bent on getting revenge. Let's say he did sit there and do nothing but plotting and scheming what he'd do. Any idea he'd ever come up with, would have faded into the obscurity that is his 500-650 year old head. Sure, I don't doubt he'd have toyed with the idea countless times, but after x amount of time, he'd clearly forget it, and probably think of similar if not the exact same plans a hundred times over. But it wouldn't matter if he can't even remember the exact details of his revenge plan past "get revenge", if he remembered he planned at all.
So I ask you. What makes more sense? Being confused, emotional, and irrational in your first waking in a perceived 1k years? Or reacting on pure instinct and emotion, going straight for the one thing you've been itching to kill but haven't given much thought on how past "kill it in the most horrible way possible".
I don't get how anyone can think null could possibly be this cold, calculating, perfectly level headed sane individual if they gave a little bit of thought to what he's actually been through and what it does to a person. What he went through was worse than hell. It was practically a literal purgatory. Shit like that would destroy a normal person. And guess what? That's what null pretty much was. A normal kid. He wasn't anything special, he wasn't a 1 in a million who beat the odds and managed to endure it all without a single bit of trauma. He ain't like master chief calmly walking through and taking out an army one by one, he's just a human child who never got the chance to grow.
Maybe my opinion is a hot take, but it's my story. I'll take other people's logic when it makes more sense, but other than that, nah.
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he was pissed off after the whole nightmare moon ordeal and basically skipped 1,000 years after that and woke up with the whole luna was banished by celestia fresh in his mind so he just started blasting in a fit of rage
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This post just reminds me how much thought goes into some authors stories, Thanks for the read looking forward to the next chapter.
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Yes, you do. You want this... You can feel the need! Admit it! Give in to the search and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete!!
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Ah, some tension. I like it.