Shadow Darkwing

by Bro-Pony

Remembering

I woke up early for school, in a surprisingly good mood.
“Today feels like it’s going to be awesome, especially since I have six beautiful friends.” I said to myself as I got out of my bed and walked to my shower.
Before I could open the bathroom door, I felt the dizzy feeling that I haven’t had since I woke up from being knocked out for two weeks.
“I thought I was over this.” I said to myself as I braced my body against the wall so I wouldn’t fall.
“It’s time you try to use your magic Caleb, I’m tired of being ignored In your dreams.” The voice said.
“Wow that voice sounds a lot like the red horse’s voice in my dreams.” I thought to myself
“Of course it’s me you fool!” the voice said slightly frustrated.
“Am I going crazy?” I asked out loud, hoping no one would answer.
“No, you just don’t remember me, that’s ok though, I’m a friend…” the voice said trailing off.
“Look… ugh… horse? I’m not magical and I’m not going to continue this conversation with a make believe voice.” I said then just ignored him.
“Well, if you won’t try using magic on your own, I’m going to have to force you to use magic.” The voice said.
I was trying to ignore him but I couldn’t help but say, “Good luck with that.”
“Don’t worry. I don’t need luck.” The voice said, then he was quite for a while and my dizzy feeling stopped.
“Well, I guess I’m going crazy…” I said a bit awkwardly to myself.
I finished getting ready and went down to my garage.
“Today is a truck day.” I said to myself as I proceeded into my truck.
I drove to school and parked in the same spot I did yesterday and noticed the jocks and their girlfriends surrounding some freshmen’s that must have accidentally wandered into our parking lot.
“Hmm, I guess they’re helping the freshmen find their way through the school.” I said as I grabbed my guitar and exited my vehicle.
I walked up behind the group and listened to what they said, they didn’t know I was there but that was ok.
“Look what we have here.” Jeff said motioning to the underclassmen, “Looks like some freshmen nerds got lost and stumbled onto our turf.” He said laughing a little.
“What should we do about it?” Jeff’s girlfriend asked.
“Well, we should probably teach them not to do that again, let’s get em boys!” Jeff said as he and his two friends pushed them to the ground and began to wail on them.
“What the hell are you doing?” I screamed as I ran into the center and pulled the three large jocks off the freshmen who were yelling in pain.
“Were just showing these freshmen that this parking lot is our turf, what are you doing?” he asked a little angrily.
“Pulling you off of these poor freshmen.” I said matching his anger.
“I thought you were cool Caleb, but I guess I was wrong.” Jeff said walking up getting in my face.
He was about as tall as I was but more built then me.
“Ya, well the feeling is mutual.” I said looking into his eyes.
“As he got closer I noticed his friends did the same, there was then a large circle of kids forming around us.
“Shit... I know where this is going.” I thought to myself.
“So, what are we going to do about this?” Jeff asked pointing at me looking at me while looking at his friends.
“Well, we can’t let some nerd in our turf.” Chris said
“Ya, let’s make him not want to come back.” Rick said with an evil looking smile.
“Well, let’s see what this kid can do” he said as he walked towards me.
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Everything began to slow down around me. I looked around and saw that everyone was moving slow except me.
“What the hell?” I thought to myself.
“So, Caleb, do you believe me now? A voice said, it sounded like the voice from earlier.
“You did this?” I asked
“No, you slowed everything down… I just put you in the right situation.” The voice said.
“So… you said you were a friend? What do I have to do?” I asked feeling that I could trust this entity.
“Well, just unleash your anger and everything will come naturally.” The voice said.
“Ok… I hope you’re right otherwise I’m going to get messed up in this fight.” I said to the voice.
“Don’t worry, you can trust me.” The voice said and faded off.
“Well Caleb… time to face these guys… I hope the voice was right.” I said to myself as I concentrated on letting my anger out.
I felt a cold presence in me, not the uncomfortable kind of cold but the kind you get when you jump in a cold pool at first, like a shock of energy filling my veins. I felt stronger, faster, and even more confident.
Time began to restore to its normal state and I began to lock on to my targets.
“Get him!” Jeff yelled as he lunged at me with a closed fist.
Instinctively I dodged to my right avoiding the punch then quickly turning around to meet Chris who was moving to grapple me.
“Chris is a varsity wrestler so I can’t let him grab me, but there’s no time to dodge.” I thought processing all my moves.
This seemed to me like all of this thinking was taking a long time but in reality it only took a couple of seconds.
Chris then pounced at me trying to grab me. Unfortunately he managed to get a grip and quickly put me into a head lock as rick and Jeff were walking up to us.
“Hold on to him Chris.” Jeff said as he walked up and put his fist up in a fighting stance.
“As soon as he throws that punch I’m going to drop my weight and luge forward causing Chris to flip over me onto Jeff… I hope he lets go of me or I might be in some trouble myself.
Chris then threw his right fist at me and I quickly dropped my weight and lunged forward, since the move was so sudden, it threw Chris off which made him lose his grip of me and he went flying forward into Jeff.
“Great, now I just need to take out rick.” I thought to myself as I saw him approach me.
“Rick is a soccer player so he is probably much faster than the other two; he will probably be able to dodge any attack I make so I should just wait for him to attack first and then I’ll counter his attack.” I thought to myself as he charged me with his fists up. I was right, he was much faster… but I was ready for it.
He ran up and threw his right fist at me. I quickly threw my left arm up and stooped his right hook punch then focused all my strength into my right fist and jabbed him straight in his diaphragm.
I must have hit him harder than I thought because he actually flew 2 feet back then fumbled on the ground a little.
I was thrown off by the power that I just unleashed on to the soccer player that I forgot about the other two jocks who came up behind me and tackled me…
“Now we got you, you little bastard.” Jeff yelled punching my sides while Chris did the same.
The punches, to my surprise, did no real damage to me, in fact, I didn’t even feel them.
The circle around us cheered for them and I heard six female voices yelling for me to get up, those voices belonged to my new friends and then I felt a new kind of power fill me. Instead of the rush of the cold hatred and anger I had from the bullies, I had a warm sensation fill my body.
As the feeling spreaded throughout my body I felt myself getting up even though I had to large jocks on me. I then threw them both off me with such a force that they flew much father then rick had.
None of the bullies could get up, in fact, Chris and Jeff both suffered from broken ribs. I didn’t know how I knew that but I just did.
The crowd cheered then some people walked up to me and said things like “How did you do that?” or “That was awesome!” then then they disbursed as the bell rang.
“Are you ok?” Jordan asked as she and her five friends ran over to me.
“Ya… just… that was weird.” I said not wanting to talk much more about it.
“Ok, well we should get to class.” She said as she, Sierra, and I walked to class.
The day was annoying from people walking up to me congratulating me on my victory and thanking me for beating up the bullies.
Finally lunch came, this meant me and my friends could go hang out my house for the remainder of the day.
“Hey guys.” I said as I walked up to the spot where we met up yesterday.
“Hey Caleb” they said back as I walked up to them.
“I’m gona head back to my house, anyone wanna come?” I asked.
“They all said yes so we walked to the front office to sign out.
On the way up there I saw the three bullies I beat up and an ambulance picking them up.
“Whoa… I really messed them up.” I said looking at the ambulance.
“You were defending yourself and the underclassmen.” Jordan said trying to make me feel better.
“Ya but… how could I even do that?” I asked still in disbelief.
“I don’t know.” Jordan lied
We all signed out and walked into the parking lot to get to my truck.
As we walked by the ambulance I felt something inside of me feel different, I felt some kind of power go through me but It was a new kind of power I couldn’t even describe the feeling but whatever it was, it helped me hear what the doctors were saying.
“Two of the boys suffer from broken ribs and are both badly bruised.” One of the doctors said.
“And the other?” the other doctor asked.
“He is knocked out and is having troubles breathing.” The first doctor replied.
“I was right.” I thought to myself.
We all got into the car and I drove us back to my house.
My parents weren’t home but it didn’t matter because I had my own floor to go up to.
I parked my truck and let the girls out, they all went up to my floor but I stopped Jordan and began to talk to her.
“Wait.” I said to Jordan and grabbed her arm to stop her from going up stairs.
“What is it?” she asked a little concerned.
“When we get a chance, I need to talk to you alone.” I said.
“Ok.” She said still with concerned look.
We both walked up to my floor and everyone got conformable.
I saw a note on my fridge so I walked up and read it.
“Dear Caleb, we are going to be out of town for a week but we know you can take care of yourself. Love, Mom and Dad.”
“What’s that?” Ashley asked.
“It’s a note from my parents; they are going to be gone for the week.” I answered.
“So you’re going to be home alone for a whole week?” AJ asked.
“Yup.” I said.
“Won’t you be lonely at night?” Rachel asked
“Eh, I guess.” I said
“Do you want us to stay with you?” Jordan asked.
“Really?” I asked.
“Sure, it will be fun?” Ashley said.
“Ugh… ok.” I said still confused that they wanted to spend the night with me.
“Well, I only have three rooms, mine and two guest rooms, Each bed is a king size so you should be able to fit two in a bed so there’s enough for everyone but one of you will have to stay in my room.” I said
“I will.” AJ, Dash, And Jordan all said at the same time.
“Um… I’ll let you guys figure it out.” I said
“Well, either way it will be a cute girl in my room so I don’t care.” I thought to myself.
Somewhere far away (DarkBlood’s POV):
“With those darn girls there I will never get to correctly corrupt him… I gave him the money, then I tried to give him the jock friends but that back fired… what am I going to do?” I thought to myself.
“Hmm, well, since they’re in human female body’s, they will have the same urges and desires of all teenage females… maybe I can use that to my advantage and corrupt them all!” I thought
“I’m such a genius.” I said parsing myself.”
“Well, looks like there’s going to be a bad hurricane in Florida so they won’t be leaving that house for several days.” I said.
Twilight’s POV:
“It seems Shadow has figured out his powers, I wonder what he wants to talk about with just the two of us?” I asked myself.
“Ever since we left PonyVille, all I wanted was to be with him but now I feel something else but I’m not quite sure what it is yet… I know the other girls like him too but there’s something about him… I just don’t know.” I thought, trying to figure out how I felt.
“So, who’s going to be the one who shares a room with Caleb?” Dash asked.
“I think I should, I mean he did work for me after all.” AJ said
“Well I taught him how to fly” Dash said
“Well I let him stay at my house when he first arrived, I mean he practically lived with me.” I said
“Well I taught him how to have game.” Rarity said.
“I showed him how to have a good time.” Pinkie said.
“Well he taught me not to be so shy.” Flutter Shy said.
“Well… I guess we draw straws.” I said
“Deal.” They all agreed.
“Ok here we go.” I said holding up the straws.
We all picked and Flutter Shy had the shortest straw.
“Looks like Flutter Shy gets to stay in his room the first night.” I said.
“Go and tell Caleb.” I said.
“Ya… there are a lot of things you should tell me…” he said as he walked in the room.
A few minutes earlier (My POV):
“We’ll go discuss who gets to stay in your room for the first night.” Jordan said as she and the other girls walked into my studio which is sound proofed.
“Damn… I wish I could hear what they are saying.” I said.
Then I felt the same power from earlier when I heard the doctors talking.
I could suddenly hear them perfectly fine even though they were in my sound proof studio.
“So, who’s going to be the one who shares a room with Caleb?” Dash asked.
“I think I should, I mean he did work for me after all.” AJ said
“What? I never worked for her.” I thought to myself
“Well I taught him how to fly” Dash said
“Fly? What the hell is she talking about?” I thought to myself
“Well I let him stay at my house when he first arrived; I mean he practically lived with me.” Jordan said.
“Wait… what does she mean when I first arrived?” I asked my self
“Well I taught him how to have game.” Rachel said.
“Please, I always had game.” I said to myself
“I showed him how to have a good time.” Ashley said.
“I only knew them for a day what are they talking about?” I asked myself.
“Well he taught me not to be so shy.” Sierra said.
“Again… I only knew you for a day.” I said to myself
“Well… I guess we draw straws.” Jordan said
“Deal.” They all agreed.
“Ok here we go.” She said holding up the straws.
“Looks like Flutter Shy gets to stay in his room the first night.” Jordan said.
“Wait… did she just say Flutter Shy?” I asked myself.
“Go and tell Caleb.” Jordan said
I walked up to the room and opened the door and said.
“Ya… there are a lot of things you should tell me…” I said as I walked in the room.
Present time (My POV):
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“What are you talking about Caleb?” Jordan asked slightly nervous.
“I heard everything.” I said not falling for the innocent act.
“How could you hear us, we’re in a sound poof room.” She said trying to change the topic.
“It doesn’t matter how I heard you, now somebody better start talking.” I said getting angry
“What do you want to know?” Jordan asked.
“For starters, why did you call sierra Flutter Shy? That’s a cartoon characters name.” I said
“Ugh… it’s a nick name we gave her because she acts so shy.” Jordan lied.
“Ok, but what did AJ mean by I used to work for her? What did Dash mean by she taught me how to fly? And most of all, what did you mean by when I first arrived?!” I yelled as it all became more confusing than before once I said it out loud.
“Well… um… you see…” Was all Jordan could say.
“I want the truth now!” I yelled.
“Ok… but it’s a pretty crazy story.” Jordan said.
“I don’t care, talk!” I demanded.
“Well, it started about 2 weeks ago.” Jordan said, she filled me in on the whole story from when I first woke up in Equstria all the way to when they got to my house yesterday.
“So you’re telling me I’m some special element barer that has to choose from two paths? You’re saying I went to a fictional land and you are all the six stars from a kids cartoon? You’re telling me I’m supposed to stop some kind of ancient evil?!” I yelled not wanting to hear anymore lies.
“It’s true!” Dash yelled.
“Ya … maybe you all should leave.” I said angrily.
“Will you at least drive us home?” AJ asked.
“Ya sure, but after that I don’t want to see any of you again.” I said still angry.
At this point some of the girls were sobbing a little, but to be honest, I didn’t care. They played as a fool thinking I would fall for some lame ass joke.
“Let’s go.” I said as we started towards my door, but before we could open it a loud thunder was herd and it began to rain extremely hard.
“Looks like we’re not going anywhere tonight.” I said as I put my keys back down qnd flopped back down into my couch.
“Look, we didn’t mean to scare you, but it’s the truth.” Dash said as she sat next to me. The others were still sobbing so I guess Dash was the stronger of the bunch.
“Look, I don’t want to hear it. Do you know how crazy it sounds that I was a pony and I could fly?” I asked.
“Well, it does sound weird but we all were, in fact, in our world you were quit the stud.” She said looking at me
“Well, I have been known to charm the ladies, but still, there’s no proof. For all I know, you could all be pulling a joke on me.
“What if we can prove it?” Dash asked getting excited.
“Then I’ll believe you.” I said doubtfully
“one sec.” She said and ran to the other girls.
The talked for a few seconds then all rushed over to the couch next to me.
“Ok, so we are going to try and bring your memories back.” Jordan said a little more happy then sad.
“Ok, how do you plan on doing that.” I asked curiously but still doubtful.
“Easy, we will each get some time alone with you and try to bring back your memories by talking about things we did.” Jordan said.
“Ok, I guess it’s worth a shot, who’s first?” I asked
“FlutterShy, or sierra.” Jordan said. “She was the last one with you.” She finished.
“Ok, let’s go into my room.” I said and led the way into my room.
“Ok.” She said following me.
We walked in, I shut the door, and we sat on my bed.
I started by saying, “So, what do you have to say?” I asked.
“Well, you stayed in my cottage after you went crazy with power, then my pet bunny hit you with a frying pan and sent you back into the hospital.” She said.
“… That sounds ridicules, is there anything else you can tell me?” I asked.
“Well, you were really nice to me, you even sang a song to me because I was talking bad about myself and you asked me to sing you a song.” She said.
“Wow… doesn’t ring a bell.” I said.
“Anything else?” I asked.
“Not really, you didn’t stay long with me because you got sent back here.” She said.
“Ok…” I said
We sat there for a few awkward minutes then she spoke, which made things more awkward.
“You flirted with me a lot in our world…” she said quietly
“Ok, well I think it’s time for the next contestant.” I said blushing a little.
“sorry I couldn’t help.” She said quietly and walked back out and sent the next girl in.
It was Rachel, who was still pretty as could be as she walked in. Too bad I was mad at her because it would be awesome to get her in my room alone for other occasions… but I was mad at her so I would have to wait to try and drop a move.
“Hello dear.” She said as she walked in.
“So, just for giggles, who are you supposed to be?” I asked
“I AM Rarity.” She said emphasizing on the “Am” part.
“Ok, so tell me something about us then.” I said ready to hear something outrages as before.
“Well, You stayed at my house for one night, I made you breakfast, um, I took you clubbing with me for your first time and I showed you how to have game.” She said. “Also, you played at the show with the other celebrities, and one of them had a thing for you… but pretty much all the girls had a thing o you from our world.” She said
I couldn’t help but flirt a little with the gorges girl that sat in front of me so I said,
“Even you?”
“Well, a girl can’t give all of her secrets away, but we did kiss.” She said.
“Wait, I kissed a pony?” I asked feeling a little embarrassed.
“Well, you were a pony and just like we have hormones of a human it was like wise for you in the transaction.” She said
“So since I was in a horse body I like the appearance of a horse?” I said still not wanting to believe it.
“Yup, and I have to say, in that form you were attractive and it is likewise in this form.” She said.
“Well, I can say you look good yourself, in fact, all of you girls do.” I said.
“Well, thank you, but Twilight said that we should reenact our experiences with you to help bring your memory back, so maybe we should kiss again?” She asked.
“I don’t know…” I said. Don’t get me wrong, she was extremely hot with a good figure and some nice curves, but I knew I would feel weird if I kissed her.”
“Are you sure we kissed?” I asked
“Believe me, your kiss would be hard to forget.” She said.
“It’s just, it’s not something I would do on a normal basis.” I said.
“Well, when you kissed me, you weren’t quiet yourself, you were using some dark magic and enchanted yourself.” She said.
“Well, that can’t be good” I said.
“Well, you were quite the charmer when you did it.” She said.
“Ya…” I said trailing off.
“So, let’s just see if it brings a memory back.” She said and leaned in for a kiss.
“Oh jeez… i hope I don’t regret this later.” I thought to myself and leaned into the kiss.
“When our lips touched, I felt a cold jolt of electricity spark through my body, I felt confident like earlier in the fight. The kiss felt so good that I pulled her in closer until she was on top of me.
I knew where I wanted this to go but there was still something on my mind that didn’t want this to happen. “Whoa, you’re eyes just turned to like an amber color.” Rachel said.
“Well, that’s not the only trick I can do.” I said as we made out some more.
“We then rolled to where I was on top of her, that’s when I felt like everything I was doing was wrong, as much as I wanted to stop I couldn’t.
“Are you sure you want to do this?” Rachel asked.
“I mean after all, this isn’t like you.” She said.
Just then I saw a flash, I had a memory of me in a bed, it was like I was in a hospital room and there was another larger figure talking to me, She said.
“You are using dark magic, it isn’t you.”
I remembered that moment. It was the moment when Luna was telling me about dark magic and good magic, that’s when I broke the dark enchantment.
Rachel was beginning to take off her dress but before she could I said.
“Wait, I remember something.” I said and got off of on top of her.
“Really?” she said.
“Yes, it was when I broke the dark enchantment that Dark blood tricked me into casting on myself.” I said.
“Oh, so… it wasn’t from the time we just spent with each other?” she asked a little embarrassed
“No, and I’m sure what might have just happened would have been great, but I’m afraid that if I did that, I would fall back into the dark enchantment.” I said,
“You’re right… sorry.” She said.
“No, it’s ok… so when I was in your world… did I have any kind of relationship with any of you?” I asked a little embarrassed myself.
“It’s hard to say, you spent time with all of us, and to be honest, we all have some kind of a feeling for you.” She said.
“Well, that’s kind of weird.” I said.
“Ya… you won’t tell any of them about this right?” She asked a little worried.
“Of course not, and hey, maybe once I can control my power, we might be able to do something like this.” I said
“Well, I will be looking forward to that.” She said and walked out the room.
“Why did you say that?” I asked myself, “That was just stupid.” I said to myself.
I then walked outside to the main room where the rest of the girls were sitting.
“That was a long time, did you get any progress?” Jordan asked.
“Yes… I believe you now.” I said
“Really! So do you remember everything?” She asked.
“No, in fact, I only remember one little thing, which was when I broke the dark enchantment on myself but that’s all I need to remember.” I said.
“So, you don’t remember any of the good time you spent with us, or all the fun you had with us?” Jordan asked a little sad.
“No, but that’s not what’s important right now, Darkblood has been contacting me, I have a feeling he was the reason I fought those bullies and he’s the reason i used magic, This storm is probably his work trying to stop us from going somewhere… whatever is going on with this storm, me being sent back to earth, and him trying to get me to use dark magic, can’t be good. I need to find out what he wants from me so it’s better if I stay here for a while, but I can send you all back to Ponyville if you want.” I said.
“No way, we’re in it with you so we’re staying, besides, we can’t lose you again.” Twilight said.
“Ok, well let’s just get some things straight. First, if things get dangerous you leave me, I don’t want anyone to get hurt. Second, it’s important for you all to remain under the radar. And third, don’t trust anyone outside of this group.” I said.
“Ok” they all agreed.
“Now, I’m going to try and contact Mist and see how Ponyvill is doing, everyone else get conformable because I have a feeling that this storm has just began and we may be stuck here for a while.” I said and headed off into my recording studio so no one could interrupt my concentration.
I concentrated on Mist’s face and tried to imagine I was next to him. Soon, everything around me turned white until I was in a completely white area where I was basically just floating.
“I see you have found out about who you are.” Mist said
“Kind of, I only remember who you and Darkblood are that’s about it.” I said
“Well, that’s all you need to know for now.” He said.
“I wanted to know how Ponyvill is doing.” I said.
“It’s doing fine, but mow that Darkblood knows you remember things he is sure to do something to force you to use your magic.” Mist said.
“Well can’t I just use good magic?” I asked
“That magic is much harder to access; dark magic is easier because it is easier to corrupt things then to purify things.” He said.
“I see.” I said.
“Well just keep an eye on things for me ok?” I asked.
“Ok, and make sure you keep an eye on the elements of harmony, they will be a vital part of your destiny and it is best to keep them at your side if possible.” He said.
“I think I have already found that out.” I said.
Then the room began to go back to normal and I soon walked out of my studio and found that most the girls were asleep in their rooms so I decided to go into mine and see if Fluttershy was already asleep.
She was in there asleep but there was room for me on the bed so I carefully got in the bed and carefully slipped the blanket over us and we slept.