> The chronicles of Gan: A story of un-told mystery > by GanAfterDark > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1.The secret way > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before I begin my story, I have to give you a proper introduction. I am only known as Gan, and nothing more. No one really knows my true identity, but, again, I like to be known as Gan. Nothing else. I am some where in the midst of 20 years old, I lost count after going into business with a secret organization, which discovers mysteries that the rest of the world shouldn't know about. The one bad thing about it is, well, you have to give up your true life and identity to this organization so no one would know who you were, and discover who we truly are. They let you choose a name to give yourself, and it has to be under 5 letters, which I still do not know why. But I chose Gan, and now there's no going back to my normal life. I am now apart of I.F.A.N, and I shall stay apart of them until I do it part, which has now happened, sadly. But my job is finding portals to other dimensions or world, going to the other side, collecting as much information as I can, and close the portal on my way out. And that's how I got to be where I am today, writing down all the info I could, but now I am stuck. Apart from that, I.F.A.N has many different jobs available for people to do, but I chose this one for the life of adventure. I was always and adventurer. Since I was a small child, I always dreamed about going to other places and exploring, and now look at me now! It has always been my dream, but now, I am stuck in a dimension where colored ponies live in harmony. Now this is where my story starts, when I went into some random parking garage in Florida, where I was to find my next portal. We do not get payed for what we do, but we volunteer for it, because without us, aliens and monsters would be invading us. But as I walked down the stair case into the basement where my diomitor was leading me too, I got my first look at this portal. I have found many portals that have been disguised as normal things you see nearly everyday, and I know when one is disguised. But this one, I couldn't spot anything that would of shown any signs of a portal. But as I adjusted my hat getting ready to leave, I saw a glint of purple to my left. "Sneaky," I said to myself, walking toward the purple flash. But as I approached, I noticed something. It just stopped. "This'll be harder than I thought," I said, turning on my heel, but before I could leave, I felt something sucking me backwards toward where I suspected the portal to be. "What the?" I said, never experiencing anything like this before. "Looks like this is the portal after all!" I said, now just letting the mysterious force suck me backwards into the portal. "I should remember this." I said thoughtfully, pulling out my common place book and writing: Portal 16- mysterious force sucks me in. Clue for later. "This could be useful," I said, shutting the journal, and looking up to see the purple portal appear before me. Not saying a word, I just closed my eyes and let it suck me in fully, feeling the familiar dizzy and twisting feeling. "Argh!" I said in pain. Just because I am used to the feeling of going through a portal doesn't mean I'm used to the splitting pain you get going through one. Slowly but surely, the pain started to clear, and the spinning feeling left me as I exited the portal. "Hmm, very colorful." I said to my self, pulling out my common place book and copying down what I saw. I have gotten very used to strange surrounding and creatures that now, most of these places I go to just look normal to me, for I spend most of my time in different dimensions and worlds. "This has to be a dimension," I said, copying everything I said down in my journal. "because everything looks very colorful. I have not yet spotted life, but I seem to be in a dark forest. But, because of my current surroundings, I suspect these creatures to be very colorful and cartoonish as well. "From where I am now, I can see a little shack. And from what I see inside the house happens to be... Animals? Yes, they appear to be animals. All sorts, bears, beavers, mice, a bunny, a moose, a... Sea otter? How is that... Never mind. I will have to investigate further in order to learn more from this world." I finished, putting away my common place book. "Strange... I've never seen such an odd forest." I said, turning in circles looking at everything around me. All I saw were trees, maybe some bushes, but then I saw another shack, but this one was a little bigger and it had to windows, but holes instead. "Hmm... Another one." I said, pulling my common place book back out of my pocket once again. "Another shack. This one looks a little tribal... I see masks, herbs, a big pot, a cauldron, and a... Yes, there's a zebra. I see a zebra. This zebra seems to be a female, for what I can tell from here. And, it's talking? This might be what this dimension has, talking animals. Further investigation." I finished, putting my common place book away once again, for there were so many mysterious yet interesting things. "salmon?" I said, opening my shirt pocket and taking out the small little can of fish. "oh, thank god!" I said, opening the can and eating the salmon raw. I have a very bad condition, and it is if I do not eat fish-salmon, in general-I will die. It is very strange, yes, but i was cursed by a fish king in my 8th portal. After that, I also have seemed to be fond of making tortillas. This job is very dangerous, I am telling you now. But when I turned around to walk towards the animal shack to investigate more, I was surprised at what I saw when I turned around. It seemed to be a small pony, about up to my lower chest, and it's mane was a pinkish color, and it's body was yellowish. But before I could say or do anything, the pony gasped and stepped back, hiding behind her mane. "I don't mean any harm," I said, kneeling down so I could see her face. "what's you're name?" I said softly. "M-my names F-Fluttershy..." she said, so soft I had to hold my breathe in order to hear her. "Why, hello Fluttershy, my name is Gan, and only Gan." I replied, standing up a little taller. "And I am here only to visit. Sow here do you live?" I asked, then standing to my full height. "ai have something important to do." > 2.To many "now's" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, Gan here again. Before I go into my first chapter now, I would like to explain why there are so many "now's". The reason for this is that I.F.A.N wants us to know that there is no real later, there is no past for us, but there is only now. Only the moment that you are doing what you do is later or the past, and the only time is really "now". What I mean to say is that now is forever, and hopefully you understand. But here I am now, following a shy little Pegasus into the animal shack. It's very strange, this pony seems to be afraid of everything, but she seems to be afraid of this forest the very most. She keeps looking around, as if there are evil ponies lurking behind every tree. So now I decide to take out my common place book to write this information down, and she flinches when I take it out. Is everything dangerous to her? "It's only a little journal." I tell her, trying to calm her down. So I write: Yellowish Pegasus, very shy, afraid of nearly everything, especially the forest I am in now. She seems to be the one who lives in the animal shack. Investigate further. Journal entry stop. -Gan "W-what are you?" she said shyly, not daring to look me in the eye. "A-are you an a-animal?" she finished, now stopping in front of me. "Well Fluttershy, the fact is, we are all animals. But my species happen to be one of the most intelligent species to exist. But I do not come from you're... Plasticy 4 year old world, I live in something called 'the solar system'. Do you know what that is?" I ask gently. "I'm not an idiot you know... N-not that I'm saying you are! Oh, I'm so sorry!" she said, cowering below me. "I apologize for making you seem less intelligent than you truly are, but I was only wondering. I live on a planet called Earth. What planet is this?" I asked, looking down at her again. "I-I don't know... I do know that we are in Equestria, but I don't know what a 'planet' is." she said gingerly, getting back up to continue to walk to her house. "wait, if you know what the solar system is then how do you not know what a planet is? You know what? Never mind. Let me introduce myself. My name is Gan." I said, keeping a steady pace behind her. By now I was able to see nearly everything inside her house, and the city beyond her house. "Umm... Gan what?" she said, opening her door and letting both of us in. "I only go by Gan. I cannot tell anybody what my real identity is, because I am in a sec- never mind. If I tell you this I will be giving everything away. But I am a secret agent, and I work for an organization called I.F.A.N. any other questions?" I finished, for by now I was sitting on her sofa making myself a cup of tea. "Y-yes I do! What's I.F.A.N, what race are you, where did you come from, You'll give away what, and what does 'anybody' mean?" she said, serving herself some tea as well. "I shall answer each of your questions one by one, then. I.F.A.N is a secret organization, the name is secret. I am called a human, we have these freaking awesome thing called fingers," I said, wiggling my fingers to show how cool they were. "I came from Austin, Texas, America, The U.S, the Earth, the solar system, and the universe. I didn't want to give away what my mission was, and the word 'anybody' means any human, or person in my case." I finished, making some salmon tortilla roll ups with what I had. "Everything's confusing and mysterious, and that's why I joined I.F.A.N. So I could find out the mysteries of the world." "I guess that makes sense..." she said thoughtfully, sipping her tea. Now I got my first look at this room. "Excuse me, I apologize, but I need to take notes of your... House. Will you allow me to do so?" I asked, but before awaiting an answer I was jotting down nearly everything I could see in her living room. "Hmmm, animals. A lot of them. Very nice rug, wooden floor. Everything seems very soft and peaceful. Two storied house, but I shall let the little Pegasus have her privacy..." I said, writing down the information. "Fluttershy dear, is someone there?" I heard from up the stairs, a very suspicious and sneaky sounding voice. "Yes, I found somepo-thing in the Everfree forest. Would you like to meet him?" she suggested, finishing off her tea. "He seems very curious about everything!" "Hmm... I guess I'll meet him." he said grumpily, walking down the rest of the stairs. "Why hello there! I've never seen something quite as magnificent as you! May I ask your name?" the creature said, awaiting an answer. "My name is Gan, and Gan only. That is all I like to go by. Maybe Fluttershy can explain the rest to you, but my my, I've never seen anything like you either! Actually, scratch that..." I said, pulling out my common place book, taking note of all this strange creatures features, excuse the rhyme. "Oh, I apologize. And you're name is?" I said, putting away my common place book. "Why, my name is Discord. It was a pain to leave my past, but the rest of Equestria depended on me being good. But you wouldn't care about my past, would you?" he finished, putting his hand behind his head and laying back. "I would be very interested in your past!" I said, pulling my common place book. "Oh! Well then, where do I start!" he said, grabbing a bucket of popcorn. "It is a VERY long story..." > 3.The one part everyone was waiting for > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once again, Gan here. Are you bored of this? I certainly am, but do not worry, or leave at this matter, for we have finally gotten to the action. So it turns out that not everypony is as nice as Fluttershy and Discord, and, sadly, I found that out the hard way. Though, it's okay, because I'm used to running away from police and criminals and giant fish. "Goodbye Flutters, bye Discord!" I called to the house, glad at all the new information I had gotten from such little of things. "Now, let's take a night out on the town." I said to myself. It's amazing how many colors you could see in such a small little place. Like I said before, it's almost like plasticy and cartoony. But, out of no where, three cop-ponies came from behind one of the buildings-which funnily all of them had moustaches-and where pointing batons at me, yelling, "There he is! Man, I thought Lyra was on drugs or something, but there it is! Come on!" "Aw, what the fuck." I sighed, and with that, I was running the opposite direction, trying to keep my hat on my head. Have I ever described what I looked like to you? I haven't? Good, let's keep it that way. But anyways, without thinking, I was running as fast as my long legs could carry me-I'm 6'1, I'll tell you that bit-towards wherever would be a good hiding place. "Holy horse apples! That thing's fucking fast!" the middle cop yelled, slowing down a little to catch his breathe. I also haven't told you this, but I've gotten so used to running from danger that my leg muscles nearly doubled from their normal size, just from running. I.F.A.N has taught us very well in the art of disguise, but right now I couldn't find any disguises, or anything to disguise as. It's funny, because you'd never expect something that looks as innocent as ponies to be so harsh. They were still yelling at me when I turned a corner into an alley, and soon enough, more cops were coming in and I was surrounded. But in I.F.A.N, we have learned that self defense is only needed in the most desperate of situations, and that the best way was of out running and disguising. "It's over freak!" one of the 9 cops yelled as they started to close in on me. "We got you surrounded!" another one yelled. But when I thought all hope was lost, I heard something that I never thought I would've heard. "Hey, you need some help?" something called out from above, and then like that, I got swooped up from the ground into a big ass mail cart held by 2 pegasi. "You're lucky kid." the brown one with a moustache said, eyeing me. "Are you okay?" said the pegasi that saved me, brushing her mane back to reveal her other eye. "Umm, yes I'm fine." I said, grabbing my breast pocket. "No... God damn it NO!" I yelled, grimacing in horror. "salmon..." "Huh?" the pegasi said, obviously confused to why I said 'salmon'. "I don't know what that's about, but my name's Ditzy Doo! Or, some ponies used to call me Derpy Hooves because, well..." she trailed off, pointing a hoof to her other eye. "I think you know what I mean." she finished sadly. "I was born with this, and a lot of fillies used to make fun of me." she said, looking away. "What am I talking about! I want to talk to you first. What's you're name?" she said, gesturing a hoof to me. "Well, again, I am only known as Gan. I get pretty tired of introducing myself to everybody, you know?" I said. "It's funny too, because you didn't freak out or anything because I'm a human. And about that salmon thing, it's nothing. I mean, I just have this thing where if I don't eat salmon, I'll, you know, die and stuff." I said, as if dying was nothing. "And I do not mind you're eye. I've seen many things in my life, and that's nothing bad. This might be wierd to ask some random pers- um, pony, but do you happen to have salmon?" I asked nicely, getting comfortable on the boxes on mail. "Maybe!" she said, looking through her bag. And sure enough, she pulled out a tin of salmon. "Oh my god you're a life saver! Literally!" I said, digging to the can of fish, solving the soreness in my ribs. "Thank you so much!" I said great fully, hugging the pony. It was wierd hugging a pony. It's like hugging a horse, but a very small one. Oh yeah, that's exactly what it is. "Aw, it's nothing!" she replied, breaking the hug. "Anyways, where did you come from?" she asked. "fwooh" I sighed, laying back. "how many times do I have to explain?" I complained, adjusting myself again. "Well, here we go," I sighed out, before explaining everything I had to explain before, which if I described me explaining it to Ditzy Doo would surely bore you, so I shall skip it. "And that's how I came here!" I managed to get out, gasping for breathe after such a long talk and from answering so many needless questions. "Woah! I always thought Lyra was doing some pretty fucking hard crack, but I never thought she was lying!" Ditzy said, apparently fascinated from my story. From this I had to laugh, finding it hard to believe a pony doing drugs. "that sounds really weird, yet funny." I explained. "Ponies doing drugs? Really?" I said, gasping for air from laughing so much. "Well, I know some people..." Ditzy said, glancing back at me. "What!?" I sputtered, finding it hard to believe such a sweet pony would do drugs. "I was joking silly!" she said, now both of us laughing. "You're funny, you know that? You're cool." I said. "Bro hoof?" she said giggly, putting up a hoof. Without having to ask though, I made my hand into a fist and bumped it against hers.