My very first original story, starring original characters. About a Young 'Being" that has no face only eyes, and most of all no memories
Follow this character on an original story, as he who has no memories, no name, and no face. How will he survive in Equestria without these simple necessities that are given upon birth? With only the ability to talk, and an unusual cutiemark that affects the way he lives. With no one to depend on how will he survive? Unsure if he is truly a pony, though he possesses character traits physically that show he is a pony, a cutiemark signifying he is a pony, however... what happens confuses everypony making ponies wonder what he is exactly, with abilities nopony else has Tumult strives to adapt to this world!
Chapter 1: Who, what, why? The Mysterious Stallion
"This way! I found him! No. I don't know where he came from. I just saw lightning and saw somepony was where the lightning stroked and I just found. him. her? Hold on... YAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! IT DOESN'T HAVE A FACE! I'M NOT KIDDING! LOOK! It’s hard. Like steel or concrete or something. Alright. I'm calm. I’m calm. Hold on. I'll check. I don't want to do it either, but we have to make sure! It's a male! We need to get him out of this rainstorm! Rainbow, can't you cancel the storm? No? Alright then, let’s take him to your place, Fluttershy! Is that okay? Alright, then it’s settled!" *thud*
Slowly vision fills my eyes, my body laying against a wall I see a group of 6 beings in front of me. A purple one... an orange one... a yellow one... a white one... a blue one... and a pink one... wait... there is another being that just walked in... One unlike the others... another purple one. "I think he is awake... Hello there... are you awake?" the purple one asks... I blink to allow my vision to clear. A horn & wings unlike the others who have one, the other, or neither, but this one has both. "Do you understand my questions?" the purple one looks with a face I don't understand... I don't understand any of their faces,I begin to stare at her, I don't really understand her, but I feel as though this is right. "Okay? What is your name?" I do not know how to answer, I stare at her more.
"Uhhhhh I think he's broken. Maybe he needs a new... brain or something?" The blue one states, staring nearly face to face with me. I focus my attention on her, then some pony else.
The yellow one shouted at the blue one,"Rainbow Dash! You are being rude!" All of them speak odd, I can't understand their words, almost as if they are just babbling random noises.
"You must be scared to be in a home you don't know surrounded by strangers," the yellow one states. I look at all the ponies staring at me. " Are you a pony?" I look around the room, seeing a mirror I see an 8th being. A creature who looks nothing like the others, I point at it only to be pointed at back. Staring down the 8th pony I come to realize, that is me. I think. The blue one questions whether my brain works yet again. I seem to be able to grasp what they say... but I can't understand what they say.
"Excuse me sir? But we'd like to introduce ourselves. I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, this is my assistant Spike the dragon, starting left to right that is Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy. Would you mind introducing yourself?" Unsure on how to answer I look down at my hooves. They look odd. Too clean. Very much too clean. The white one holds my hooves stating speaking in gibberish. I look at the mirror again and stare at it. "Can you at least tell us what your cutie mark represents? It looks really interesting!" the purple one says. I look to where she points, then back at her. What does she want? "I have never seen a cutie mark like that before." the purple one stated.
I look and see, something in my mind said ,"He who adapts, a road showing your adventures to be had, forks in the roads to show the limitless possibilities, yet unfinished roads to show that no path is right nor wrong, yet all paths are accessible. The cutie mark itself was completely black. I turn to look at Princess, but do not speak.
"Maybe the poor dear simply cannot speak, he doesn't seem to have a mouth after all darling," the white one said. I felt around my face with my hoof, my face had a strong yet flat texture, I rub the white mares face to compare, but the white mare turned red. Suddenly voices in my head echoed, something was telling me that there was some sort of bad feeling. I look to where its source is, and see the small purple one that looks different than the other 6 staring at me, which suddenly signaled me to stop.
"Oh! I have a book of sign language! I wanted to use it to teach my monkey friends to speak to me more fluently, but I’m sure he could talk without a mouth if I lent him this he might be able to learn enough to talk!" the yellow one states, taking a book from a shelf and giving it to me. I stare at the book for a while then look back at the others. They stared at me, so much I feel as though their looks pierce right through me. I open the book and look through the pages. I don't understand what they want from me. This thing they gave me looks odd. There are some sort of drawings in a straight line. "Oh my... How inconsiderate of me. what if he can't read?" I slowly stand up, only to collapse landing on my face, the worried looks of the ponies as they gather around me make me feel somehow happy however. I go up to the bookshelf and see a book that seems to almost glow to me.
"Adapt." A voice echoes into my head. Maybe it's my own voice. "Choose that road, and adapt." I pick up the book, the purple one questions what I am doing... calling this book a 'dictionary'. Opening the book I am suddenly blinded by a bright light, yet somehow while blinded by this light I am able to see. When the light fades, the dictionary is no longer in my hooves. "A new road has been traveled. Many more roads are now possible" the voice echoes in my head. This time the 'sign' book that the yellow one had presented to me began to glow. Before I could touch it again, I heard the other ponies talking. Wait. I can understand them now. They say my eyes glow and that the book disappeared turning to dust as the dust entered my head. I pick up the sign language book and the process repeats. "A new road has been traveled. Many more roads are now possible," the voice echoes. Now having the attention of everypony again I feel as though I can converse with them.
I wave my hooves signing, “Hello." The yellow one seems the most pleased, but the purple one seems to understand me as well. They talk amongst themselves. Saying its suspicious... that I am suspicious. I get up to stand once more, but fall yet again. Learning from my past fall, I landed on my shoulder instead of my face. I am sat back up by the yellow one, "Thank you." I sign, "Sorry about your books."
The yellow one signing, “It’s alright, are you okay? Can you tell us anything about yourself? Do you have a name?" I sign to her that I have no memories. I have nothing I can say that could possibly help. She explains to the other ponies, they begin to decide about names that I can use. Mysterylicious the purple one suggests, Bullet the blue one suggests, Cameo the orange one states, Dragoon the little purple one suggests, Jizo the yellow one suggests, Quartz the white one suggests, Cream Pie the Pink one suggests, the others all yell no to her. I don't understand why. Her name is Pinkie Pie. Yet I am white. So does it not make sense to call I, whose coat and mane's color similarly matches cream to be called Cream? Maybe they don't want me being a Pie? I am not sure.
Suddenly I see another shining book, the ponies still talking loudly over what to name me. I do not care, but I care for this shining book for some reason. I grab the book and read the title, “All the names of the world & their meaning" my eyes shine. "A new road has been traveled, many more roads are now available." I find another shining book about calligraphy, surely I would need this to learn to write. The words repeat yet again in my head, “A new road has been traveled, many more roads are now available." The mares still arguing I attempt to write, however with no mouth I find it difficult to write with these hooves. Suddenly I see a new shining book "Book of simple Magic Spells" yet again the process repeats for the final time for tonight. After 'adapting' I feel tired. I suppose 'adapting' 5 times a day is my limit. Using magic I write on a note and present it to the girls.
"YAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!" The purple one named Princess talked loudly yet again, "H-h-h-h-e- HE GREW A HORN! HE DIDN'T HAVE THAT MOMENTS AGO!" The ponies and dragon surround me, talking nonstop. Confused as to how this has happened, and who I am. I present to them my letter. Princess reads my letter out loud "As of today I name myself... are you sure?" I nod my head, as she continues to read," I name myself, Tumult." The blue pony states the name sounds lame. But I do not care, I chose this name. Suddenly I fall to the floor. Adapting is so tiresome... I close my eyes and await, whatever awaits me.
As I awake the first thing I see is a bright light... as a matter of fact I think that light is what woke me up. It's that... thing up there, that is shining... before I know it I hear a voice
"Oh! You're awake..." the yellow one from before states. I raise a hoof, Sign language page 1. Raise hoof for Hello... waving also works... "You seem to be doing well. Do you... remember who I am?" I move my hoofs to signal that I remember. I look around the room, it was a simple room... not much inside, I look out the window. The sun looks high... "Oh well... Mr...Tumult? Is it? Just to let you know once more, my name is Fluttershy... you can call me that...if you...want could you tell me why you chose that name specifically?" The yellow one requests. I feel as though my stare may be causing her to hide behind her hair, but I am not sure. Looking at my hooves I don't think there is a way to sign my name... Maybe I could... make one? I don't see how I could possibly do so... I see a desk... Getting out of the thing I was laying in... I take my stand, but somehow wind up on the floor. The yellow one comes to me, “Are you okay?!"
Bringing me to my feet I fall yet again. I sign at her with my hoofs "Pen" and "Paper. Leave me here." Being given what I had asked for I write on the paper," Tumult: Noun: confusion or disorder. a loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of ponies. This name was chosen, due to all of you ponies." The yellow one looked shocked, stating that I should change my name to something easier to remember, but I shake my head refusing her idea. She then made a face I did not recognize, but then again I can't tell what kind of face she is making at all. "Uhmmm could you... please not stare...if you...would be so kind... if you want..." The yellow one asks.
Suddenly the room becomes loud, and a lot of paper starts falling from the ceiling. "WE HAVE TO DO A WELCOME TO PONYVILLE PARTY! GET OFF THE FLOOR SILLYPANTS TUMULT!" It's that pink one. She threw me onto the... bed... confused as to what is going on and why she suddenly started to yell I stare at her. "Ohhhh lookies! You're all wide-eyed! Well you haven't seen anything yet! Welcome, welcome, welcome! I fine..." She began to sing. Suddenly I am bombarded with confetti as she told me to wait for something. "Awww he's not smiling! SMILE!" the pink one shouts. The yellow one looking asks her to quiet down... "Smileee! SMILE!!! SMILE" Suddenly the pink mare began to shake me... Suddenly I hear a voice in my head, “Adaption. You who needs to adapt... need this most... this pony will not leave you alone, unless you adapt," Suddenly behind myself I see a book shining in a bookcase. I stare at the book, then back at the other mares... it appears they don't see this shining book... or maybe shining books are normal? I look at the cover of the book "Facial expressions. The quickest ways to understanding what a critters or animals face is says." Suddenly my eyes feel like they are shining again... "A new road has been traveled. Many more roads are now possible," The pink pony who had been chatting with the yellow pony began shaking me again.
"SMILE!" her face startled me... Wait... hmmm? I can recognize that she is angry... smile? Smile: a pleased, kind, or amused facial expression, typically with the corners of the mouth turned up and the front teeth exposed... I had no face, but suddenly remembering photos from the book I closed my eyes, in a way to show a smile similarly to the photos I saw... wait... I didn't read the book... how do I remember what was in it? How do I have memories of pages I have no seen... or read? Before I can continue my thoughts the pink one hugged me, "AWWWW YOU MADE PINKIE PIE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY!" The yellow one questioning how she could tell I was smiling looked confused... A face I've seen before, but only now see what it means confusion... I guess this means this is 'adaption.' To survive whatever situation I am in I suppose? But my life wasn't in danger... This can only mean that I don't need to adapt in order to survive. "Waitaminute.... you didn't smile until you disappeared that book!" The pink one states, "What did you do? What was in that book? DID YOU CHEAT PINKIE PIE OUT OF A SMILE?!" I used hand gestures at the pink one and explain to her my theory of my cutie mark... She signed back to my surprise, "Alright. I understand." I honestly didn't think that it was so easy to understand... maybe my explanation was very good? Or maybe she is really smart. “We need to take you to Twilight! Let's go! Up and at ‘em!" Being pushed out of the bed I fall on my face, attempting to stand I fall onto my chin. I am suddenly thrown into a red wagon. "You aren't very good at walking! So you can borrow Gummy's Gummymobile!" the pink one... I think her name is ... Pinkie Pie? She latched a saddle on Fluttershy as I was carried outside the yellow one's home. I should memorize her name as well...
As we were heading to some 'Twilight" Pinkie had signed with me on the way there, she signs really well... Maybe sign language is common in this place... As we arrive at Twilight, Princess opened the door letting us in. Wondering why I was in a wagon, Pinkie Pie explained that I couldn't walk. My legs seem to work fine... so why can't I walk? I look at the Twilight as we enter it, a giant crystal like structure. Seeing many books, a lot of them were shining, some were shining brighter than others. I reach for a book... the one that is shining the brightest, but cannot reach. Suddenly the book that was shining began to glow purple then it was in my hooves. I turn and see it was Princess who gave me the book. I sign to her, "Thank you."
She signed back... maybe sign language really is common. I stare at the book title, "Physical Education: The guide to Hippology: The study of ponies and The Guide To A Healthy Body"... Hippo? According to the dictionary I... adapted to... Hippo is a Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus: a large thick-skinned semi-aquatic African mammal, with massive jaws and large tusks. I don't understand, suddenly my eyes glow yet again... "A new road has been traveled. Many more roads are now possible." Suddenly my legs and hooves began to glow, the glow disappeared rather quickly, but my legs and hooves suddenly felt stronger. Feeling like it is possible I step off the wagon, and stand on all four legs. A little wobbly for my tastes, but I feel better now that I am not falling face first.
"Oh no! My book! What happened to it?!" Princess seemed very upset... I don't know where the book is either. I sign to her my apology calling her Princess. "Oh you don't have to call me that, you can call me Twilight... and it’s alright... I think I have a spare or two of that particular book..." Looking at her in confusion I sign to her, asking why she had the same name as this house... "Oh no, this place is my home, but it has no name as of now. However, as you may recall my name is Twilight Sparkle! Princess isn't my name hahaha." I nod in understanding.
I sign to her what PROBABLY happened to the book. "I am not sure completely. I adapt, using books to become able to walk roads. Right now many roads are available to me, though I cannot see them." I explain to her, “The book disappears, and suddenly I can remember all that is inside the books." Twilight, wanting to test this, brought me a book... a book that wasn't glowing. I read the book title, “Algebra" ... I attempt to adapt using the book, my eyes glow and words begin to echo in my head "This road is too far for you to travel. Turn back, this road is not currently possible,"... Looking at a book that seems to be glowing brightly, I pick it up, “Basic Arithmetic: Pre-K, Grade 1-6 Arithmetic problems and solutions." Suddenly I my eyes glow yet again "A new road has been traveled. Many more roads are now possible." Suddenly the Algebra book began to glow... but other books that seemed to glow grew brighter. I held the Algebra book, and attempted to adapt, suddenly as I attempted to adapt, everything went black... the next thing I knew I was on the floor... again... Twilight & Fluttershy helped me up asking what happened... To which I reply, "I don't think I fit the requirements to adapt," I sign. Looking throughout the bookshelves I notice find a book that had been glowing earlier, but suddenly began to glow very bright, bright just like the previous books. I pulled the book off the shelf and read the title, "Pre-Algebra: The beginning of a long painful journey," the adapting process then began. My eyes began to glow and the words I always hear rung in my ears, "A new road has been traveled. Many more roads are now possible."
Suddenly my eyesight grew dark. Total darkness had enveloped my eyesight. "OH NO! HE COLLAPSED! Pinkie, Fluttershy, help me get him to the hospital! Put him on the wagon!" Twilight's voice echoed... Why? Why did I black out? Maybe... I thought I can adapt Five times? Maybe I was just lucky? Wait... no that isn't it... I failed to adapt to that Algebra book. That must mean that I only get five attempts a day... Maybe I can only learn from books that have been glowing the way the books I adapted to were glowing... But why did I faint? Maybe if I adapt 5 times I wind up fainting like this... So 4 is the amount I can adapt before collapsing... I suppose these are my requirements to survive... These are my requirements to live... Twilight's voice begins to become a lot more quite... "There...No pulse...help...take..." I... I can't hear her anymore... I'm sleepy... so, so sleepy...
"WATCH OUT!” That voice sounds so familiar... Where have I heard it before? "You're gonna be alright! YOU HERE ME?! The medics are on. STAY WITH ME." Her voice sounds so familiar. So familiar that it bothers me. Almost as if these words would make me see something, as if... No I can't remember. Wait. there's another voice.
"Do you wish for another chance? Then accept this body that I have created! Walk the many roads no _______ has ever walked! Oh. and don't think this body is just like any pony else... but if you want to live, this is your only choice! Mwahahaha, you'll thank me later... I'll be keeping an eye on you! After all, life has been such a bore lately!" Huh? What. what is a ____? Why can't I say ____? It doesn't matter. The real problem is... Why am I hearing voices?
Wait. I can hear something else now? It's the sound of birds. The sound of birds chirping. I open my eyes, blinded by the lights, “Twilight! He's awake!" The small purple one called for Twilight then began talking to me, "Hey, you okay? You were asleep for nearly a whole day! 20 hours to be exact. You either sleep too long, sleep to little, or you were just too tired." Come to think about it I blacked out for a while when I adapted 5 times the day before didn't I? I ask the little one where I was, but it seems he doesn't understand sign language. After being given a quill and pen I begin to write out my thoughts. "Oh. We're at my house, Twilight's as well. I was watching you when you were doing your magic thing and you just suddenly collapsed. It reminds me of kinda what happens when you blow out a candle." I write to him that it I don't know if it's magic, but I call it "Adapting," I then explain how it works. "OH! Wait here lemme get something... “He runs out of the room then back in, “OH! My name is Spike by the way!" He then runs out of the room again, but re-enters with a book, “Take this one! I wanna see! I wanna see if you can 'adapt' using this book!"
I look at the glowing book and read the title, “Dragon biology, All Information Currently Available by Twilight Sparkle." I look at Spike who stares at me with hopeful eyes. I flip through the book... its hoof written... or magically written using unicorn magic. I suppose Spike wants me to learn about him? I'm unsure of his intentions, but since I have 3 more adaptions after this available. 3 without causing me to faint anyway I decided. The glow of my eyes startle spike, but my eyes are too focused on the book to really pay attention to him, suddenly my eyes stop glowing and the book is gone. "A new road has been traveled. An unusual road can now be made." Uhhhhh... Made? That's unusual. All the other times... The voice had stated that many roads were already made... So why can I create one? I feel as though I have gained odd knowledge...
"So Have you learned anything?" Spike asks looking disappointed. I explain all that I had learned from the book, to which he states, “Wow that is so useful. HERE try this!"
Spike forced a book with pictures of boxes with circles and ponies in them, without even meaning to do so, I heard a voice “A new road has been traveled. Many roads are now possible."
"Cool the comic book is gone," Spike laughed while clapping. "Oh hey what did you learn? What did you gain from 'adapting?' “Thinking really hard I began to remember everything in the comic book... morals... I learned many morals from that comic book... A hero stands up for those who cannot protect themselves! Not every pony can be a hero, but anyone can save others! As I explained to Spike all the morals I learned from the comic book Twilight had walked in " Oh hey Twilight," Spike said, waving at Twilight who was at the door. I turn to the door and get out of the bed.
"You don't need to push yourself," Twilight states, but I shake my hoof, letting her know I was fine. "So Spike, I see you had him... 'Adapt' to that book of dragons I wrote... The only. Copy." Spike shrugged and left the room humming a song, stating he had chores to do. "So now that you are up, if you were up for it I thought I would show you around Ponyville. Here, take this quill and notepad in case you you need to talk to anypony." I nod my head and follow her out the door, after taking a type of satchel holding the quill and notepad onto my back. The moment I step out the door suddenly I'm blinded by some sort of light. Rubbing my eyes I look to see a young colt holding a camera. The little colt ran off after taking the photo. "Oh sorry. That was the Free Foal Press. They are often doing school newspapers, and ponies are usually buying them since they tend to have interesting stories, but keep in mind they are still young so their material may not be grammatically accurate. or nice. However buying them not only helps fund the school, it also encourages them and build character. I recommend buying the paper whenever you have spare bits lying around. As I walk around town I have come to notice something... Every other pony seems to have a mouth, and a nose. I guess that my face really is weird. The book I read about ponies bodies really didn't say anything about features like mine. Suddenly the sounds of whispering filled my ears. I look around and see that I am being pointed at. "I'm sorry," Twilight began to explain "They all mean well, they just... aren't very used to strangers. Especially if they look different. But they are all actually very nice ponies!" I reply with a nod, until suddenly I hear a familiar voice.
"Oh! Why hello dear Twilight I see you are bringing the nice gentlecolt around town I take it?" It’s the white one. I think her name was Rarity? She was wearing a hat... A tall shiny hat... It was a blinding purple color. "No wonder every pony wasn't looking at my hat! They were too busy paying attention to you Tumult." I signed to her that I thought the reason no one looked at her hat was because of how blindingly bright it was, but Rarity stared at me in confusion. Twilight seemed to find Rarity's confused face funny, I can see her giggling. Suddenly I feel something wrap around my neck ,"Here you go darling~ Now you have something to grab the attraction of all those ponies, now they will be too busy looking at your fabulous scarf rather than your... Er... Well... Plain face..." Twilight seemed a little worried about my feelings...
I begin to think to myself what kinds of books I should 'adapt' to. Like maybe a book of Laws of this world, that way I don't wind up in trouble. I look at the scarf that Rarity had given me, it’s so long, that I have to wrap it around my neck twice to prevent it from touching the ground, but even then it still barely hovers off the ground. The black color looks rather... slick? I suppose the slickness is just the silk material it is made out of. I'm not sure how to express my thanks, suddenly a word from the dictionary I adapted from made me think of a word, “Hug: Noun: To squeeze (somepony) tightly in one's fore legs, typically to express affection." I'm not sure if this counts as a proper time, but the word must have come to mind for a reason, I lean in and hug Rarity.
"Whoa! Thaaaaat's kinda creepy dude," a voice from the air came around, I look up to see the blue one," When you hug somepony, you're supposed to smile... Or say thanks, but I guess you can't talk huh?" Twilight and Rarity gave her a mean look, "What? Its true isn't it?" Rainbow Dash asked in confusion.
"Well I appreciate the gesture Tumult," Rarity stated with a smile. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to smile at this time. I give the best smile I can possibly give with my eyes. "Oh my darling smile you have! It’s so original~ though I'd think some eyeliner, and make up could really spruce up your face. Though I do envy your complexion." After touching my face she asks," Oh my, your face is so smooth, how in Equestria did you get it like this darling?" Twilight and Rainbow Dash suddenly started coughing and started shaking their heads, after they got Rarity's attention. "Oops. My apologies dear."
As time passes I become more accustomed to the town noticing that every pony seems to be very unique. Though there are some that are similar they all seem to give off some unique feature that makes them special. Though I suppose that is obvious due to the cutie marks. I couldn't keep the other pony's eyes off me though, so I tried covering the bottom half of my face with my scarf, but it didn't work out. Ponies still wound up staring at me. One thing I noticed however is that there are a lot of mares in this town, I think there are like 8 mares to every 1 stallion. While I'm lost in thought I realize that I had in fact lost Twilight, Rarity, & Rainbow Dash. A familiar voice did come around just as I noticed the mares were missing, “Why if it ain't that Tum fella!" I turn around and notice that the orange one from last night had been attending to a stand. An apple stand. "In case ya don't remember, my name is Apple Jack! Good to see yah Tum." I look at her in confusion. Tum? I try signing her, but she stared at me in confusion,"Uhhh I don't understand. Are you hungry?" Hungry? Come to think of it I don't think I ate these last few days, suddenly something in myself began to rumble and a groaning sound could be heard, "Whoo wee. You sound hungry alright. Here! Have an apple, these babies will get you ah hungerin' for more! At Sweet Apple Acres, my home, we grow the best apples in all of Equestria!" Applejack states throwing me an apple. Something about the apple just looked really nice and alluring, as I put the apple to my face Applejack suddenly screamed, "AAAAHHH!!! Wha?! I was wonderin how you were gonna eat it, but golly lookit that mouth!" With no mirror or such to see my reflection I ignore her yelling, and the ponies gathering around to watch me eat, and chew the apple as they gasp. The apple was very delicious, suddenly I feel a tug on my scarf.
"Mister are you a monster," A small yellow filly with a ribbon in her hair asked. Applejack scolded the filly, but I waved to signal that it was fine. I have no feelings after all. Suddenly a white filly, and an orange filly approached me, pulling at my scarf looking at my face, "Wow you got no nose mister! And no mouth? But how did you eat the apple? I missed it! Can you eat another? I'll buy it for yah!" The yellow filly's accent reminded me of Applejack, who pushed the filly aside and apologized to me. "My name is Apple Bloom! And these are my friends Sweetie Belle & Scootaloo! We are the CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS! We are looking for our cutie marks!" Apple Bloom explained to me for a while what they often did and what they had tried, as well as why they wanted their cutie marks so badly. I don't remember being a colt so I don't think I ever had the needs to find a cutie mark. "Hey Mister, what does your cutie mark represent?" Apple Bloom asked, I grabbed a quill and notepad Twilight had given me earlier and began to go into detail about how it’s about adapting and the roads I must walk. Their eyes suddenly began to sparkle and I had suddenly felt as though I had done something bad, “What if OUR cutie marks are in adapting too? Let's go to the Everfree Forest! We can probably adapt to that environment too!" Suddenly the fillies began to run off, Applejack yelling at them to come back.
"Oh no! Uhhh Tum! Can yah please go bring those fillies back? The Everfree Forest is too dangerous for little fillies or for anypony at all! I can't leave this cart until I pack it up! I'll get my friends and follow you in there ASAP," Applejack requested. It seemed to be my fault that they ran there in the first place so I start following, but those fillies sure ran fast. I lost sight of them once entering the forest, I ran through the forest for nearly half an hour. No sounds could be heard but the cries of random critters. Suddenly hearing screaming I chase down the noise, only to see a parrot which had been screaming. This is bad. I can't find the fillies. If they die this will be my fault. Searching through what seemed like miles of running I finally found small hoof prints. and large paw prints. I don't know what is going on, but something tells me I have to follow these tracks fast.
Chasing down the tracks I finally begin to hear the cries of help. I found them! Many wooden creatures surrounded the fillies, their stances being low, something from the comic book I had absorbed had told me that they were about to attack just from the way those creatures were crouching. I dive down in front of the fillies, taking them by surprised they all shout in relief of my presence. The fillies began to scream, as the wooden creatures began to snarl at me. The image of grabbing the fillies and running come to mind, but suddenly as I begin to turn my head to grab them a phrase goes through my head, "A hero never runs in the face of danger! Especially to protect the weak! A hero must stand strong to defend the weak, even if it means fighting to the death." As the phrase goes through my head I turn to the wolves then back to the fillies. I'm no hero, all I am is a stallion who will die if I don't run away with these fillies. Suddenly another phrase goes through my head, "A hero isn't determined by survival, riches, or even the glory he is given to others, but determined by the bravery he displays from helping others! Any pony brave enough to help another is a Hero in their own way!" Bravery... Running away is cowardice... But to stand up and fight is bravery. Why does it matter whether or not if we run or fight as long as we survive? Why is it that I am standing my ground against them still?
Suddenly the girl's screaming became mute. The snarling looked less threatening. I glare at the wooden creatures that suddenly begin to snarl and howl at me, causing more to show up. Seeing as fate is not on my side I whisper to the fillies, "Run." The moment I finish my one word sentence I leap forward, causing all the wooden creatures to lunge at me, biting me from all directions, I feel as though my whole body is being punctured. I turn my head the best I could with a wooden creature biting my neck, and saw the fillies escaping safely. as far as I can see. I did a good thing. Suddenly the pain of being bitten from all directions starts to sink in. I really am in danger. How am I going to survive this? "Ngh... I can't die.Not yet. I only just started this road," With so many of these wooden creatures on me it’s hard to move, but I don't need to move. As I cast my spell, suddenly I'm right next to pile of wooden creatures that were sinking their teeth into me... The only problem is about 5 had come with me, but seeing as that is an improvement to the many more I saw before me, I take advantage of the low amount atop of me, slamming my knee onto the wooden monsters biting at my hooves, their heads splitting in half as if I were cutting wood with an axe. I hit the wooden monster biting my neck grab it smashing it into the ground, then kick the last two off my legs.
Alright I'm finally free! Suddenly I limp. I'm too injured. With all these wooden creatures will I be able to survive this? I can't do this. There are more than 20 in counting. I only gotten rid of 5 of them and I’m all injured. Another wooden monster lunges at me, many of them lunge at once, without even thinking I ran underneath them, and kicked them where they landed. 2 more down, but still more to go. As I kick however 2 more of them bite onto my shoulders. Suddenly I find myself being bitten by many of them all over again. I think i'm losing blood fast, there is so much all over the ground, it's hard to believe its all mine. I'm going to die if I lose too much blood. If only I could adapt to something. Anything. Suddenly a bright light shone in my eyes, the area around me feeling hot, and the wooden creatures had gotten off of me. I look around to see what happened, but all I see is fire. A voice echoes in my head, "You have done more than walk a path, you have gone off path and created your own road. Limitless roads can be created."
The wooden creatures, now looking scared started to huddle together, destroying each other. Finding this too odd I do not move. Something is about to happen. Those destroying themselves is too convenient. Just as I finish the thought, the dismantled corpses began to glow, they floated into the air and came together, and one giant wooden creature nearly 10 times my size formed, and roared at me. The wooden giant raised its paw and swung down on me, but nothing happened. Before I myself could even notice, my hoof had blocked the hit, the ground beneath me destroyed as the wooden giant's paw hits my hoof. Looking at my own hoof I see something different. Scales. My hoof had grown scales. Before I could think about why this had happened the giant wooden creature leaned in, snapping its jaws at me. Jumping backwards with great speed another thing came to vision. Wings. What is going on?! No. I can figure out what has happened after I deal with this monster. Wait, this thing is the monster? Something about this is humorous. " If you're a monster... That can only mean that I'm a bigger monster than you are" I say to the giant wooden monster. It must have understood me because it gave a mighty roar, shaking the ground.
Suddenly I feel heat swelling up in my stomach. If it’s a roar of monsters, than surely I have one as well. Feeling my body become hot from the heat I inhale air, almost as if I'm feeding the heat or maybe even cooling it down, with no mouth to show I shout at the top of my lungs. An ominous roar shaking the ground I question if this roar is really coming from me, but the shattering of the ground beneath me shows that I am the cause of this. Flames all of a sudden sprouted all over the wooden creature’s body as it yelped in pain. Flapping my wings I dive into the creature flames blazing from my hooves as I tear through the wooden giant. Before I know it the creature burst into multiple wooden monsters, back to the size that had attacked me in the beginning.
My wings and scales suddenly disappeared, the flames disperse, but the smoke remained. "That's probably not good for the environment." I say to myself. Looking around the forest that I nearly burned down and destroyed, the terrain was either burned or smashed, the smell of burning wood filling the air. Suddenly the sky comes to view along with the smoke from my fires. I had fallen onto my back. As I lay on my back I see something running towards me, my vision being blurry from the impact of landing on my back suddenly because vivid as the 3 fillies come to vision and cover my body with theirs. All I can hear are apologies, and crying filling the air. "Fillies sure are a handful aren't they?" I think to myself chuckling a bit.
"Lookit all these holes in his legs, and his neck, and his back! We have to get the adults!" Apple Bloom had shouted. Almost as she said it the group of mares all came together.
"What happened here?!" Twilight had shouted, she was most likely shocked by the terraforming of the Everfree Forest.
"Never mind that!" The small white one shouted, “We need to bring this stallion to the hospital! We can talk later!"
The others agreeing with them, I am picked up by Rainbow Dash. Feeling fainter than ever, I close my eyes and finally rest. It’s so odd. When you're sleeping time is irrelevant. You could be asleep for an hour and have spent years in a dream world. But what had happened was no dream. Staring into the darkness a spotlight from nowhere reveals a figure in front of me. Having no clue who it was, I walk around him. Wait. That's the scarf Rarity gave me. This scaled creature is me. I look like some sort of dragon. My wings have some sort of horns coming out of the tips, my hooves giving off some sort of flame, and my unicorn horn still seems to be there. As a matter of fact it’s glowing. This must be what I became. But why did I become this creature? The creature covers the bottom half of its head, the area where the mouth would usually be and a voice is heard, “It’s time for you to wake up..."
I open my eyes and all I can see is white, my blurry eyesight becoming vivid I see that I am staring at a roof. Ugh. I feel heavy. I feel like spots of my body are heavy, I look down to see the 3 fillies from earlier laying on top of me, sleeping. Looking around I see a white curtain surrounding this bed I'm in, and a silhouette of 7 ponies. I hear the sounds of a stallion talking, “Quite honestly I have seen nothing like this. His face has some sort of line going around his head in a vertical line up the side of his head, you just have to move around his coat and you can see it. You say he grew a horn, but his horn looks as though it has been there all his life, the x-rays don't even show his skull or bones. Also his mane shows no signs of being singed at all despite his scarf obviously looking as though it’s been set on fire. The wholes from the teeth of those Timberwolves should heal in about 2 weeks. I don't know how he did it, but he should feel lucky to have escaped a Timberwolf pack attack, much less a Dire Timberwolf attack. I'm sure those stories you were told about him turning into a dragon was just the children's overactive imagination, due to the traumatic shock they were put through. If anything he is indeed a hero... Or a monster hahahaha."
Suddenly I hear the door close and the curtain is opened, all the mares from earlier were here. "Oh you're awake. I hope you don't mind those little ones, they all were very worried about you," Twilight explained. Looking closer at the sleeping fillies, their faces were wet with what I assume were tears. Even the blanket around their faces were wet. I try to sit up, but I feel none of my muscles cooperating, using magic I write with a nearby pen and paper stating that I couldn't move, and that I wanted to know where I was. "You are in the Ponyville hospital. Can you tell us what exactly happened to you?" Twilight asked. Grabbing the pen with my magic again I begin to write. The pen however ran out of ink. Suddenly remember talking to myself in my dream I use magic to cover my bottom half of my face with my scarf, and suddenly I became able to talk.
"I chased down the fillies, just as Applejack asked. When I found them, they were surrounded by what you call Timberwolves. I couldn't let them attack the fillies so I dove into them and gave them time to run away. I had no clue they were watching from afar," I explain. Twilight asked about why I was now capable of talking," I had a dream that I was talking to myself, and the me I talked to covered his mouth with a scarf to talk. The Timberwolf attack was so. Weird. I was scared. I thought I was going to die. If it weren't for Spike I think I would have died," I explain. The mares look at each other in confusion and ask about why Spike was the reason for my survival. I reply, “He gave me this book on dragons. The book Twilight wrote, I think when I used that book to 'adapt' it allowed me to somehow transform, when all hope was lost. I became a dragon yet a stallion at the same time. It was so weird." The mares talked among each other confused about my "transforming" and the story, but I don't blame them.
"If anything we owe you a very large debt of gratitude to you Tumult. You saved those fillies. You saved our sisters," Rainbow Dash explained, rubbing Scootaloo's head, but turning red once the other ponies began to giggle. "I mean you saved the little fillies... Ahem... My number 1 Pupil I mean. And you did it in a totally rad way too! You should show me this 'transformation' sometime!" All the other ponies agreed, they all seemed interested in the transformation. I don't even know if I can do it again, much less control when I can do it.
Suddenly I hear groaning, looking down I see the fillies on top of me of me yawning and waking up. I admit if there were a word to describe this I would say adorable. All 3 of them seeing me all at once their eyes grew wide, as well as their pupils, "Malty!" They shouted. Suddenly being dived at pain and confusion surge through my body. Shouting in pain from the areas I was bitten, it takes a while but I finally calm down. Asking about why they were calling me "Malty" Scootaloo responded, “Your name Tu-Tum-Tumul.... ARGH! We can't even say it! We heard your name and the last part sounded like 'malt' you know, like a milkshake or something. So we decided to call you "Malty" since calling you 'Malt' seems weird, and your real name is too hard for us to remember. Is that okay?" I wanted to say 'no' but their big eyes had already sealed the deal to my response. I agreed to let them call me 'Malty.'
"Okay my little ponies I think it's time to let 'Malty' sleep," Twilight announced. Rainbow Dash and Applejack began to chuckle because of the name, while Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie awed. I for the first time in my life, feel embarrassed.
"Wait! This could be the perfect time for us to try and see if we can get a nurse cutie mark!" Apple Bloom shouted as Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle joined in, raising their hoofs. "Cutie Mark Crusaders: Nursing is a go! YAY!!!" Being shushed by a passing by nurse, they whispered "yaaaay...." Twilight levitating them, began to walk out with them out the door, but I told her it was fine for them to stay if they really wanted to. Twilight and every pony but the "Crusaders" were against it for some reason, but I stated that if they wanted to stay it would be fine... Hours later I see why they were so against the "Crusaders" staying with me.
"I'm sorry, but I can't do it. You aren't the one..." I hear in the darkness a darker shadow outline of a being talking to me. What is it that you mean? "I love someone else. I'm sorry. What? Wait! Where are you going?! WATCH OUT!!! You're gonna be alright! YOU HEAR ME?! The medics are on their way. STAY WITH ME. “It’s that familiar voice from the night before, so this is a dream? Is it some sort of memory? Wait. I think this is the whole memory of the dream I had the night before. I hear another voice. I think. I think it’s my voice?
"I guess this is how it ends. Being a ____ that hasn't gotten the chance to be loved before dying. I think I knew I was going to die like this. I don't think she can hear me. Maybe i'm not even moving my mouth. Maybe these are my last thoughts. Awww man. Being a ____ that has so many hobbies, I have so many regrets dying like this. I never got to see how my favorite show ends, how my favorite game series ends, or even what types of technology will be available for the future I wanted to live long to see all that. I wanted to live long enough to at least be loved. Why am I dying anyway? Oh yeah. Got hit by a... Yeah. *sigh* If I knew this would be the reason I would die, I guess it would have been better if I had never learned to love. I wouldn't be dying right now. I guess if I could have done it over. If I could have another chance. I'd wish that I could never fall in love." The voice stopped. Was that really my voice? No. I don't know. I can't remember. If only I could talk. Wait I can talk. Then is that voice mine? I can't remember it. I suddenly hear another voice.
"Do you wish for another chance? Then accept this body that I have created! Walk the many roads no _______ has ever walked! Oh. and don't think this body is just like any pony else's. if you want to live, this is your only choice! Mwahahaha, you'll thank me later. I'll be keeping an eye on you! After all, life has been such a bore lately!" It’s his voice. That guy from the other night.
Suddenly that guy's voice ends and yet another new one rings in my ears... Sweetie Belle? "Hey! He looks like he is in pain! Wake him up! He must be having a nightmare! Hey Malty! WAKE UP!" *Thud* Waking up on my head hurts, and quite frankly I have the familiar feeling of that only the floor could possibly provide. It seems I have fallen to the floor... Again. And here I thought those days of lying face first on the ground have ended. "Oh my, are you okay? Hehehe you landed funny. Come on crusaders help me get him to bed," Sweetie Belle sang. Standing to my feet I feel way better than yesterday. Looking down at the 3 fillies Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, & Scootaloo, I nod at them and walk out of the door. "Wait! We are in charge of your health!" Sweetie Belle had shouted at me. Wait. They are in charge of my health? Suddenly the thoughts of what happened last night made me shiver. Shaking my head attempting to forget the travesties of the night before I continue to walk the door, with the "Crusaders" following me. "Wait! We have to check you out of the hospital," Sweetie Belle had explained, but it seems like too much trouble... So I think i'll just walk out the front door.
A gust of wind hitting my body, lifting my scarf making it float into the air as it is weighed down from being tied around my neck, as the door opens and the sun shine blinding me, I see many ponies staring at me... Its not a good feeling... I pull up the scarf to cover the bottom half of my face. Walking through town aimlessly I hear ponies all around talking about me, "I hear he fought a whole pack of Timber wolves. I heard that he has no face, look! You can see it under his scarf! I heard that is actually a mask. He must be a monster, that's why he hides behind a mask" I never knew that ponies could be so mean. I have only been showered by the kindness of Twilight and the others.
"Lift yer ears up Malty! Don't let those bullies... Well... bully you!" Apple Bloom had commanded. I didn't even notice my ears were flopped. I guess this just means that I really do have feelings. I feel a little better at the thought of having emotions. Thankful for Apple Bloom's kind words I pat her on the head, which caused an argument among the crusaders. Something about not being fair. By the end of the argument I end up patting all of their heads. Fillies are a hand full. "Where are you goin anyways Malty?" Apple Bloom asks. Thinking to myself I suddenly question myself, Where am I going? I ask Apple Bloom where Twilight is, then suddenly Apple Bloom jumps. "Oh! Twilight said to take Malty to Twilight! Let's get Malty there safe and sound! Cutie Mark Crusaders BODY GUARDS! YAAAAAY!!! We will protect Malty from all the bad ponies that try to bad mouth him!" The trio suddenly shouting deafen me, but I can't exactly complain with them thinking of my well being.
A couple hour pass, I suddenly find myself at the front of the hospital I had stayed at last night. We had gone in a circle. Come to think of it we wound up doing anything, BUT go to Twilight. We chased a random squirrel, we ate lunch at their club house, we went swimming, I got CPR performed on me after nearly drowning. Yeah. We did a lot of things, but seeing Twilight or the others was not anywhere on the list. I ask the crusaders what exactly is going on, then suddenly Scootaloo jumps, “OH YEAH! We were supposed to bring you to Rainbow Dash!" What? Rainbow Dash? No we were supposed to go to Twilight. I begin to ask them again, but they stare at me for a good minute, before Scootaloo suddenly shouts, “RAINBOW DAAAAAASSSSHHHHH!!!" In the blink of an eye, maybe even quicker than that Rainbow Dash appeared out of nowhere, landing beside us from the sky.
"What's up shorties? And not so shorty," Rainbow Dash greets looking at the crusaders then at me. I pull up my scarf to cover the bottom half of my face again and face Rainbow Dash asking her to take me to Twilight to get some books to adapt to. "Got it!" Rainbow Dash states, going through her saddlebag. "Here you go! My very own self- made copy!" Grabbing a shining notebook from Rainbow Dash I look at the cover... There is no title... "It's my very own book I wrote to help Scootaloo with wing exercises to try to get her to fly! It has everything that could ever be needed for a filly Pegasus up to a full grown Pegasus like me to become the best flyer they can be! Like yours truly of course. Just in case Scootaloo did become a famous flyer from my book I made sure to make multiple copies so that I can rake in the dough! Heh. Ponies will practically shower me with diamonds to get a hold of this book!" Rainbow Dash is kinda egotistical isn't she? But there is something charming about that. Opening the note book I find it hard to read, the sun probably being so bright that I can't read it properly.
"A new road has been traveled. Many more roads are now possible," the familiar voice states. The notebook I had held was no more... I didn't even know I could adapt with notebooks, I guess there are a lot more things that I don't know about myself. Suddenly hearing screeching noises I turn to see the Crusaders.
"M-M-MALTY IS A PRINCE?!" the Crusaders shout at once. What are they yelling about?
"WHOA! YOU! HOW?! WHAT?! HUH?!" Rainbow Dash babbled, not making any sense. What exactly is every pony making such a big scene about?
Suddenly seeing Twilight finally I wave to her, her eyes widening, and one eye twitching. "HUH?! You're a PRINCE?!" Why is every pony saying that suddenly? I sign to her that I have no clue what she is talking about. "What? Look in a mirror! Look there!" Twilight requested. Looking behind myself I saw a tinted glass that showed my reflection.Ah, So that's why every pony was freaking out. I have a horn, and wings now. Wait. What?
"M-M-MALTY IS A PRINCE?!" the Crusaders shout at once. What are they yelling about?
"WHOA! YOU! HOW?! WHAT?! HUH?!" Rainbow Dash babbled, not making any sense. What exactly is every pony making such a big scene about?
Suddenly seeing Twilight finally I wave to her, her eyes widening, and one eye twitching. "HUH?! You're a PRINCE?!" Why is every pony saying that suddenly? I sign to her that I have no clue what she is talking about. "What? Look in a mirror! Look there!" Twilight requested. Looking behind myself I saw a tinted glass that showed my reflection. Ah, So that's why every pony was freaking out. I have a horn, and wings now. Wait. What? Suddenly words start flowing into my head, my mind must be forcing myself to define and explain myself the situation using the books I "adapted" to. Alicorn, only few in existence, immortal, almost ageless, and the most powerful form a pony can possess. A sign of royalty. As the words finish explaining I suddenly hear screaming and shouting.
"He grew wings! He really is a monster! Run!" A pony in the crowd that formed in front of my face had shouted. "But didn't Princess Twilight grow wings?" Another had asked. The crowd began to talk all at once standing before me. "He can't possibly be a pony, could he? He isn't like us..." Feeling the weight of their words my eyes feel heavy as my neck begins to sink. Twilight running to my aid had held my shoulder and before I knew it the two of us were at her home once more. Looking around I saw nopony else, it was just us two. Feeling distraught I laid on the floor not wanting to move. It was bad enough that the local ponies were gossiping about me, but now they are fully convinced that I am a monster.
"We need to get you to Princess Luna & Princess Celestia, Spike take a letter!" Twilight had commanded, speaking to Spike, almost instantly the dragon wrote, lit the letter, and then belched a new one. Such strange magic. I wonder if I can learn it. But then again I have no mouth... Or do I? I did eat that apple somehow. As Twilight opened the letter a flash of light blinded me, possibly them too. By the time my eyesight came to, I was in an unfamiliar place with Twilight who was now wearing a crown of some sort & Spike, in front of a purple Alicorn and a white Alicorn. "Princess Celestia & Princess Luna, this is Tumult, he has a strange ability to absorb books, and inherit knowledge, some books have even changed his body," Twilight began to explain to them ,"He was originally an Earth Pony, however due to him absorbing, or as he calls it 'adapting' to a book of simple magic, he grew a horn. He was incapable of writing, and understanding us until he 'adapted' to certain dictionaries. After just now adapting to a book about flying, written by Rainbow Dash which was meant for a flightless filly Pegasus, he had grown wings. Although I have yet to see it, we had heard he also had transformed into a dragon pony of some kind to defend 3 little fillies from Timber-wolves."
The white one, I am assuming is Celestia began to get off her throne and walk towards me, her gaze looking intense. "You are quite the anomaly... What was your name young stallion?" Celestia had confronted me. I had stated that my name was Tumult, “Tumult... Twilight Sparkle, call Discord." Twilight looked at Celestia with uncertainty, but nonetheless began to make her horn and crown glow. With a big flash of light a creature that I had never seen before appeared before me. The creature 'Discord' began dancing about hugging every guard and Princess he saw, and patted Spike on the head. He began making fun of my face, when he saw me until Celestia got his attention. "Discord, I will ask you this once and only once, did you bring this stallion here?" Celestia asked angrily.
"Why now why would it be ME?! I have never seen this face in my life! And I don't quite enjoy being blamed for something I didn't do!" Discord argued back. Celestia however was not convinced, she stated that my name was a synonym for Discord, and that it was too much of a coincidence. Twilight then explained why I chose my own name, Celestia still didn't seem convinced. Discord however began to chip in his own thoughts, “Well looky here, I'm telling the truth, and you don't believe me, I suppose we are at an impasse." Celestia had looked angrily at Discord, yet Discord still didn't back down. Discord must be some sort of even plain to be able to stand up to a princess the way he is. Discord then stated, "Alright I'll tell you what! I'll try to peer into his head and see what is up." Celestia agreed, and Discord pulled out a chainsaw, I began to run, but I was already tied to a 2 ton dumbbell I had not been chained to before. Celestia calling out to Discord to stop playing around Discord tapped a single lion paw onto my forehead. Feeling myself becoming lost in my own conscious Discord suddenly lets go of me. "Oh my," He stated, “This is rather more serious than I thought it would be, this stallion here. His whole body is emanating with some sort of chaos magic, just like me. His powers feel more restricted than mine though." Celestia and Luna began to look at each other in concern, but Discord wasn't finished talking ,"The only thing I found very odd though is that I couldn't see into his memories, his heart is locked away, somepony must have locked it, buried the key, then built a house on top of the key and moved in. As my dear FRIEND Pinkie Pie would say. But I can tell you one thing, he is no normal Alicorn. He merely has the body parts of a unicorn and Pegasus. Unlike you princesses that have all that magical Alicorn power, he simply seems to have the flight of a Pegasus and the normal magic of a unicorn. "
Princess Celestia, Discord, Princess Luna, and Twilight began to talk amongst each other. I was left out of the conversation though I was the topic, so naturally I felt left out. Looking to my side I saw Spike who was reading another comic book, "What?" Spike asked looking at me in confusion, "Ah this always happens, so I bring a lot of comics so that I don't get bored. They'll probably just dissect you or something to get to your heart, and find out about you," Spike suggested. I felt uneasy, I could have gone without hearing that. WHY did he tell me that?! Spike then pushed a comic to my face, "Here, you can read it just don't make it disappear like the other one. “I look at the comic book and read the title 'Ponypool kills the multiverse.' "You see this hero is an Anti-hero, people love them! They are heroes that do heroic deeds in non-heroic ways! In this issue he kills all the super heroes and villains because he thinks he can finally die if there is no one else alive. He has this healing factor thing that lets him survive anything! He can even survive death!" I began to read the comic, and I got to say I enjoyed it, though it seemed rather... Dark.
Suddenly a flash of light appeared and another Alicorn was brought, "Princess Cadence is now present!" The pink Alicorn stated with a smile, walking towards to Twilight. They do some sort of weird dance, and begin talking. After a while Princess Cadence walks towards me," I hear you have some problems? My name Is Cadence, you must be Tumult. That's a lovely scarf you have there," the princess began to make small talk with me, she was probably trying to get me to feel more comfortable, which was a nice change of pace. "I'm going to do a little spell that will allow us to find out who you are okay?" Princess Cadence stated. I nodded my head in agreement, and he horn began to glow a pink heart of magic suddenly formed and it floated until it touched the tip of my horn. I began to hear a voice.
Before I knew it I was saw a door, through the door's keyhole I can see a glimpse of images, but I can't see what is really going on. Suddenly the heart shaped magic appeared, as it touched the door, the door burst open. I had suddenly covered my face. No. I don't want to see it. I think I know something, my mind doesn't know it, but my body is telling me not to look. No. GO AWAY! My eyes turning away from the door I see a sentenced formed across some sort of screen.
"You knew I loved her right?"
Turning away from the door I crouch and hold myself feeling as though I'm in a nightmare. Before I know it I start hearing voices echo, “Cadence! He is in pain! Stop!" That's Twilight's voice! I find myself on the floor, yet again for how many times in a week? I don't know why, but I feel maybe the floors are in love with me, which is why I find myself on it so often. The floor was very wet. Cadence began rubbing my face with a napkin and apologized to me. Twilight began explaining, “At first you were just staring into space, then you looked like you were scared of something, after that you just laid there on the floor shaking like a leaf, begging for something to go away." Cadence apologized once more, Celestia had suddenly appeared before me, apologizing as well.
"Perhaps you aren't quite ready to face whatever lies beyond that door. We shouldn't force it, and I truly apologize for it. Anyhow with those wings and that horn all we can really do is make up a story, saying you are some sort of prodigy and that you had become a prince. That way you won't be seen as a monster" Looking at Celestia, I look back at Twilight, who explained to me that she had told Celestia about the gossip that was spreading around Ponyville. "It's the only real way to explain the wings and horn, unless of course you can hide it? After all you have to live with that body, and who knows what others may think," Celestia explains.
Hours pass and I find myself inside a guest room of the Canterlot castle. Twilight being next door to me, had suddenly come in, most likely to talk about what is going to happen. "So how do you like your room?" She asks. I state that it's much better than the hospital bed's room. "Are you excited to become a Prince tomorrow? All my friends are coming to congratulate you," Twilight says. I sign to her that I feel that I may have cheated in becoming a prince, and am undeserving of the title, Twilight then explained, “Well maybe someday you will earn the title, then you won't feel so bad about it. You aren't really a prince, you are just, pretending so that the others won't hate you." Twilight is right I suppose. Suddenly I noticed something Twilight was looking at me a lot, then at something else, then back at me. I ask her if she had a question, due to Twilight's shocked face I assume I was correct and ask her to tell me the question. Twilight then asked, “What was it like, when Cadence put you under that spell?" Gathering my thoughts I prepare to tell her.
"It felt... as though my heart was being torn apart over and over again. As if my heart was just one big object that can be torn so much, yet still be torn no matter how little or weak it got," I explain. Twilight looked sad and leaned into me with a hug. I don't know why, but suddenly I felt something in my chest hurt. Her kindness was hurting me, yet I didn't mind. It was nothing compared to the pain I felt in that. Heart of mine. Feeling my face getting wet I looked up at the ceiling to check the leaking roof, but there was no hole to be found. Touching my face I see that I have indeed shed a tear or two. This wet hoof of mine shows my first ever memories of shedding tears, which are only shed during happiness or sadness. So why do I feel like i'm feeling both?
Hearing a scream I wake up, little to my knowledge I have come to find that I over react to being spooked as a wakeup call, I open my eyes flailing around to the scream and fall off the bed. "Good morning floor. So we meet again," I think to myself. Getting up and brushing myself I see Twilight on the bed I was in. "Why were you screaming," I ask her. Twilight's face has grown rather red, as I recall from the book I adapted to it's a normal sign that she is either mad, embarrassed, or can't breathe. So I approach her and feel around her face and neck to make sure she can breathe, but am immediately shoved only to fall to the floor once more. "Oh floor. I know you'll always be there to catch me," I think to myself. I think I have been developing a better sense of humor ever since I adapted to those comics. Getting up once more, I see the face of a very red princess. I suppose Twilight fell asleep in my bed, from the look of her face it's more likely she is embarrassed. She however had walked out of room, after apologizing to me anyway. Almost instantaneously as Twilight leaves a serpent like creature slithers into the room... Discord.
"Why hello Tumult. I'll be honest, I never quite would have thought that I'd run into one of you here," Discord sang with a smile. He seems to know what I am. But why didn't he say anything before? I ask him myself, and he responds," I know not of who you are, I merely know what you are. You are just like me. An embodiment of chaos. The only difference between you and I are our bodies, I was born like this, but you... You were created. You were created from chaos, and you yourself are chaos. I can only imagine the reason why you have horns and wings is merely because you chose to have those traits." I grew confused, why would I want to be an Alicorn? "It was reported that you turned into some sort of dragon that was merely because you wanted to become a dragon because that was your only idea of defeating a Timber Wolf. A little dramatic for my tastes if you ask me. The only reason why you can transform like so, because you are chaos just like me. Chaos is wild, unpredictable, and most of all impossible to truly understand. Others may become jealous or angry that you became an Alicorn, but you could easily change that couldn't you? You know normally a unicorn wouldn't be able to teleport simply from reading a book about basic magic. But because of the chaos inside of you, you somehow seem capable of pulling off magnificent feats. I look forward to hearing more."
I become a sponge soaking in his words as he speaks. Could what he is saying possibly be true? Do I know full well what I am doing? I turn to ask Discord questions, but he is out of sight, his words audible but his body invisible," I can't wait to see what kind of chaos you bring to this world! Oh what fun," he had sang in joy.
I look out the balcony from the room I am given, and nothing but the town is visible. Suddenly from behind myself I hear another mare enter the room, Princess Cadance. "Hello. I just came to check up on you. How are you feeling?" I stare at the pink mare, remembering what she had done to me, I spread my wings and stand off the balcony ready to jump, my scarf flapping in the wind, I cover my mouth and ask her what she needs. "No need to be threatened! I'm not going to cast a spell on you or anything. Promise," Cadance states. I lower myself from the balcony, but stay beside it in case I need a getaway. "I don't know what happened entirely yesterday, but I felt a small part of your pain. You had-" interrupting Cadance I hold my hoof up, asking her not to talk about the situation any further. In an attempt to change the subject she asks me," Are you excited about being a prince?" I state to her that Princess Celestia clearly stated I'm faking being a prince, but Cadance explains," Maybe so, but in exchange of doing this you are going to have to perform a lot of royal duties. You'll have to learn proper etiquette, public affairs, and a whole lot more." Cadance, hearing about my power earlier when Twilight explained gave me a book about royalty etiquette, "Twilight and I used this when we first became princesses. Now I think it could help you," Cadance explains. Staring at the book I feel bad that such a book would disappear, but she prepared this book knowing that it would happen. Touching the book it suddenly disappears, and the same voice as always tells me about the paths that have become available.
This sounds like a bigger pain than it's worth. I look at my back and wiggle my wings, then look up at my horn. If only I knew how to hide one of these away, or maybe even both. As Cadance and I began talking the sounds of trumpets went off, and that was my Que to go and confront the public, for the announcement. Hours pass as I have to listen to Celestia's speech about me becoming a prince, I know she is doing this to help me, but I was so bored I began reading the books that I adapted to, inside my head. Flipping through the dictionary, I got through to the L's by the time Celestia finished talking. Suddenly I am introduced, the crowd does not cheer, and they only stare at me in murmurs. Suddenly I hear a noise go off and confetti fills the air, seeing Twilight, Spike, Pinkie Pie, and the others clapping for me, the rest of the crowd slowly claps, then the pace picks up, until eventually ponies began to cheer. I feel that I don't deserve this cheer, but regardless I wave, as Cadance gestured me to do. I don't know how, but I'll be sure to make sure that I serve ponies, since "A royals duty is to their subjects."
That night I had three more books I could adapt to, so I was led to the castle library. Feeling that as a fake Prince, I should at least learn more to help others, I adapted to a book stating all laws. After that I grabbed a book of mid-class magic, and high class magic. Adapting to all these books I feel my mind being expanded, as though knowledge itself had been implanted into my head, yet that is pretty much what I was doing. Looking through the library I try to decide what to grab for later, but I wasn't sure what to grab. Though I was told to ride the train, I flew to ponyville that night, I followed the tracks. For some reason flying came to me really easily, maybe it was because Rainbow Dash's book was just written that well... Though I can't imagine Rainbow Dash being very intelligible, even if it's in writing a book that involves her life so much. But I guess maybe it was just easy because I was flying, and not doing any of the tricks she had written in the book, frankly I was too scared to try them, I never flew higher than 4 feet off the ground. After all, heights are pretty scary.
It was only until I got to ponyville it was late at night, I had then realized something... I have no home to go to, where am I supposed to go? Curling up with my scarf, I find a nearby tree and lay under it, though I have a scarf and fur the blowing winds were still cold. Should I go to one of the ponies I know? No it's too late at night, it'll probably bother them. Shaking I wrap my scarf around my neck more, covering as much as it can. The cold eventually went away, I was actually so cold that I became rather hot, becoming tired from the temperature I was feeling I fell asleep.
"You'll catch a cold," a familiar voice tells me. It's the voice of a female. I yell at her, and she disappears. As I wake up I see yet again the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
"Malty? What are you doing here?" They ask almost simultaneously. Standing up from where I laid, I slowly begin to walk, something is wrong, my balance feels off. Suddenly my mind begins to race and the book of hippology opens up inside my mind. The pages telling me that I have accumulated a sickness, and I came to a realization. These books only come to my mind, when I make them, or if something related to what is happening to me comes around. So because last night I wasn't already sick this hippology book didn't warn me that I could have gotten sick. I suppose everything has its flaws. Suddenly as I walk the girls' voices begin to echo, my eyes close, and I hear the sound of something heavy hitting the ground...
