Who would of guessed a portal to another dimension would open up in my room no less. Being teleported to a colourful fantasy land of mythic proportions is pretty jarring, let's see where this goes shall we?
ɪ wanted a change of pace. A new world to explore, new possibilities to comprehend. A choice was to be made, to either leave everything I’ve built, the family I have or to completely push them all away for my own selfish desires.
Being sucked into a black hole of a portal wasn't really fun, heights aren't my thing either, seriously, fuck heights! I'm not really sure on who actually planted that portal in my living room, and completely destroyed my rug, but I'm willing to put my bets on that walking mismatch of a bellend.
This alternative world I'm creating has a sort of magic and steampunk merged together. So basically, portals have opened up in the past, but not frequent enough for it to be completely normal, it's very rare for a singularity to open up. So, when these portals open up different things from multiple dimensions/galaxies you name it comes out the other end. And the inhabitants have basically taken these artifacts, pieces from different crash sites and merged it with their medieval and magic-filled kingdoms.
There have only been two life forms that have accidentally fallen into this land and our protagonist was the third and possibly the last one because these singularities are becoming less frequent as the generations come about.
Since coming back to this site after two years I decided to have a crack at writing a fic again, even though the two other stories I had on here and abandoned them without giving the courtesy of putting them on cancelled as a normal writer would.
Anywho, I accept any form of criticism and I'll probably put this story up to get some help with editing and such since I'm not sure how bad my grammar and punctuation is. This story includes a few anime-inspired powers that will lead a bit further on in the story. The main character is Human, whilst the others are Anthro.
And a big heads up if some people don't understand the words the mc has to say, since he's British haha, so I'd advise getting a dictionary out unless the toilet paper twats took that too.
Also! This takes place just after Twilight becomes an alicorn. And it would help a lot if you explain why you’re disliking and liking this story. So I can get better with my writing.
Hope you guys enjoy this story, I'll try to update as much as possible.
Falling, falling is all I could really feel at the moment, the wind violently rushing past me, my stomach churning, whilst my eyes are glued to the incoming ground, I was definitely panicking at this moment, I mean who wouldn't? Whilst flailing my arms and struggling to breathe, all I could see was a bunch of colourful clouds that looked slightly cartoonish in style, looking to my left I could see a massive mountain with a castle, white in colour hanging on the left side of it. Moving my eyes towards the ground again, a little ways passed the massive impending forest, I could see a quaint little town with what looks like a massive tree somewhere near the centre. But that doesn't matter right now because the forest floor is speeding dramatically towards me.
"Whoever the fuck decided it was a bloody brilliant idea to drop a portal in the middle of the sky! If I survive this, I'll make sure that they won't be able to tell the tale of how they fucked up!" I shouted until my lungs couldn't compensate for the lack of air.
Hearing a pop beside me whilst falling was uncanny so I turned towards my right and see a what looks like a humanoid being but a mismatch of different body parts stitched together. He wasn't even falling he was literally stood up mid-air for fuck sakes!
"Ok! I don't think you can understand me mate! But can you use them tiny wings of yours and carry me down before I become a literal human pancake!?" I screamed whilst flinging my arms out in pure desperation.
All he did was give me a big shit-eating grin with a hint of mischievousness and winked then poof, he disappeared along with my hopes of actually surviving.
"YOU BITCHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh"
Seeing the ground is almost upon me I closed my eyes and waited for the inevitable.
It feels as though its been minutes but I know it hasn't, albeit a few couple seconds have passed. I slightly inched one of my eyes open to see if I'm at the pearly white gates yet. And to my surprise, I was surrounded in this light yellow bubble, it looks kind of ethereal yet solid at the same time before it decided to simply evaporate with short white wisps and my teeth then planting the ground. Brilliant.
Before I got flung out of a portal though, I was currently trying to figure out what was next I should draw.
I was alone at my desk my tablet in front of me with my pen in my hand stuck in absolute thought. Scanning the images on Pinterest for different environments to get going with and then building a concept based on some of the ideas I get.
I am a Concept Artist, since College shut down, I've been given assignments left, right and centre constantly drawing environment designs, character designs you name it. It was my passion after all. Leaning back in my chair and putting my feet up was all I could do to unwind, did I mention I was blasting music? Speaking of the assignment I was given, I actually chose the theme, I wanted to create a world of fantasy, sort of like an RPG, old medieval towns, mainly swords and magic, that sort of thing. Because ever since I was a kid, I would have dreams of going to a faraway place and being some sort of hero, and it inspired me quite a bit to always be kind and helpful to people.
As childish as that sounds, I've always wanted to become some kind of protector, till this day I still put on my headphones and daydream of certain situations I like to put myself in, for example, saving a person when they're about to be killed, raging when that someone is killed and going absolutely ballistic, or just generally being an all-around badass.
What I wanted was to disappear from this world and play a different role, instead of being in this boring, mundane life where you get up, you get a wash, you go to your job or University. And then carrying that on for the rest of your life until you’re put in a care home or you abruptly die from something stupid like getting flung mach fucking 20 from a colliding bus that you so happen to run in front of.
I wanted to explore and travel, find new things that sort of thing, meet new people, but being introverted basically narrowed all that down to a big fat no chance. The only places I've gone on holiday to is Greece and Germany, and even then it just didn't sate my taste for adventure. As cliche as it sounds, it's something I've always dreamed of.
I think that's most likely why I read a lot, to sort of immerse myself in another person's shoes and to think what it would be like to actually be there.
Too bad the only chance of a portal popping into my room would be a zero point zero chance within a billion factors to consi-
A loud bang and crackling sound cut my inner monotone monologue short, it reverberated through the entire floor beneath me and I thought the fucking Germans were invading.
I was already on the floor with my glass of water spilt on my desk, but not to close to where I would panic, even though I'm already shitting myself right now.
I look to my right to my beige coloured wall and grabbed my sword and its sheathe (Yes, I was a mega weeb, bite me.) and keeping it hilted to my side ready to be drawn, although I wouldn't, I'd probably threaten you and then run because in this country you would still get arrested for murder if some cunt came into your house and tries to kill you.
Heading down my stairs, nearly slipping on the carpeted steps, I luckily land on both my feet and quietly sneak towards my left wall leading into my living room.
I screamed and then dashed in holding my sword over my head like a spastic only to be left dumbfounded by the scene in front of me.
Clearly, there is a greenish-yellow portal in the middle of my living room, along with my £200 rug that is literally scorched to fuck. Moving closer to get a better look at the swirly vortex of possible doom.
"So..two options, either sit in my room and forget this ever happened or grab my long bloody coat and satisfy my curiosity," I say out loud to nobody in particular.
I quickly rush upstairs sword hanging loosely along my hip hitting every fucking corner of my house, arriving at my room again, I dash towards my wardrobe and open it up, a few shirts, jeans, mainly skinny jeans. And I see my long black coat, a leather trench coat that reaches a little bit higher than my ankles.
I wrap the coat around me in quick haste, then I rush back downstairs again since I left my bag on top of the chair in the kitchen, sprinting across the living room before a shockwave from the portal pushed me towards the wall,
"Well, didn't see that coming what so fucking ever." I coughed.
I went for the kitchen door again only for the portal to make a loud humming sound and then it decided to slowly turn into a fucking jet engine sucking everything into it like a black hole, small things like my dad's chair or a few books, and my 5 foot 8 lanky bloody body along with it.
I was struggling trying to crawl to the door without getting completely sucked in.
I just about made it to the door.
"Come on! I'm so bloody close! Just a little more! You twat!" Nearing the door handle to try and pull myself in, my finger just about grasps it but slips, trying again I reach my hand a little further and as I was about to reach it, the humming increased even more and before I knew it I was already gone.
Picking up my dirtied face from all the shit I just ate, I could hear the birds chirping, water rushing and crashing at the rocks to my right, leaves and such littered the ground from my initial impact that never happened, and a few creatures running around between the woods that littered the entire area, but yet, everywhere looked so vibrant in colour, from the trees to the grass, and even to the luminescent blue water that had a slight twinge of green in it.
Everything looked like it came out of a storybook.
"Well, it's certainly better than sitting at home all day, my town was a fuckin shit hole anyways," I mumbled.
Well, since my face was full of fucking dirt, I may as well take a dip into the river over there. And maybe I can find my bearings as to where the hell I am.
Walking over to the river and looking into my own reflection the water was projecting, I did notice I had a lot of dirt on me, mostly in my black short hair. Usually, if I left my hair to grow, it would get quite curly, since I had a bit of black blood in me.
Even though I'm as white as a fucking milk bottle.
Noticing my dark green eyes and my black coat hanging over me I decided to strip off the clothes I was wearing, my coat first, my long silky shirt, my black jeans and then my scarlet coloured vans.
"Weird, some of my spots are gone, and my skin looks really pristine and clear, almost lively looking." I shrugged and carried on taking my clothes off, as soon as I was completely utter naked I dived into the water with a ricocheting splash. I swam up to the surface with a loud breath.
Unfortunately, I realised that I didn't have my bag or any other shampoo to give my hair a good rinse. Fuck.
Coming to the conclusion that I might be in trouble within a thick forest, knowing that there are unknown possible vicious creatures sends a shiver down my spine, so I quickly got out of the water and tried to dry my self off by fucking jumping around like a crack addict.
The weather was good, almost too good, which was a luxury, seen as though our weather is always fucking miserable. It was somewhat cloudy but with the heat rays of the sun shining through the little openings of the trees like sun shafts making it look like I was in some sort of Ghibli movie.
After getting a bit dry I grabbed my clothes and put each of them on.
As I was about to leave in a random direction I hear a pitter-pattering from behind me, I turn around and notice a small white bunny rabbit sprinting across from where I'm stood but then it suddenly stops and stares at me for a minute or two, noticing the increasing awkwardness, I held up my hand and slowly waved not really expecting a reaction back.
But surprisingly, the bunny waved it's little paw at me and scampered off down a walkable dirt trail. And I, on the other hand, looked absolutely gobsmacked at what I just witnessed. A fucking bunny, waving its arm at me as to say, yes! I understand you mate! See ya later!
Seriously what world did I get sucked into, then again sentient creatures is pretty fuckin brilliant if you ask me. I didn't run after the little thing I wanted to keep my strength when I absolutely need it. So I began walking with my sword on my hip and my coat flowing in the gentle breeze of spring.
Carrying along, I was stuck in deep thought, who was that guy or what was he rather, was he the one that brought me to this world? I didn't know, but, he's definitely a suspect because you don't just pop out at someone mid-air smile, and then just bugger off to who knows where else.
Thinking again, I shouldn't really want to be mad at the guy, because this is what I wanted, but then again, my dad was in work, and it wasn't really a work home sort of job either, his job was basically a nuclear engineer I think, hazmat suit and all, more like Homer Simpson when he goes into that place handling radioactive material. Or Gordon Freeman without the head fuckers and Invading aliens.
I didn't even leave him a note, and the living room is probably trashed completely, and I just simply jumped in the portal with no thought at all, even leaving my sister that just lives down the road from me with my two adorable nephews and her boyfriend, what would she think? That I suddenly ran away? I've said that in the past but never actually had the balls to do it. For all I know I'm completely dead to all of them.
And 6 years ago my mother had died from skin cancer, and for his own son for to just up and disappear, not knowing if he's okay. I'm a horrible person, putting my own selfish desires first rather than his own family is unforgivable.
I stopped walking.
A few single tears ran down my face, recalling the memories I had with my family, the times I would play games with my dad, and the times I would look after my nephews whilst my sister and her boyfriend would go out for a meal, just remembering their cute little faces having fun and laughing whilst I tickled them to death.
And all that..was completely gone, I'm completely alone in this world, and I won't be able to see their smiling faces again. I snapped out of my self-torment and noticed it was already getting dark, I had to hurry unless some sort of predator will sniff out my scent and get on my fucking case.
I picked up my pace and started speeding ahead, running down the dirt path, I nearly slipped off the incoming cliff it wasn't a massive one or anything but it could've definitely fucked up one of my legs if I landed wrongly. Always got to take precautions when in the wilderness, never know when shit hits the fan.
Sliding down the side of the cliff just enough for me not to eat the floor like I did last time, I landed on a patch of grass and noticed another dirt path going to the right of me, so I didn't think anything of it and ran straight for that path instead. Hurrying along I was noticing it was getting quite a bit dark now to become a serious issue and no word of a lie I was getting pretty fuckin scared right now.
So scared in fact that I saw yellow eyes trailing behind me just behind the darkest of the path I just been at. Wait..yellow eyes? Looking behind myself again and I was right!
"Nope! nope nope nope! Fuck this, I am not dying right now, you can get fucked!" Sprinting full force now I could definitely see the yellow-eyed prick being left in my wake, serves it right the mong. Still not taking any chances I kept my speed and ran through the forest like my life depended on it.
And low and behold what do I see? Three more fuckin shapely eyes chasing me just behind the veil of the darkness, two on my right, one on my left.
All I could do was run, what was I supposed to do next, wait a minute, I have a fucking sword, shouldn't that scare them off at least? Oh shit, they're closing in on me now, fuck this, time to fight for your queen.
Turning around, I stopped to a halt, all three of them stopped just about a few yards away from me clearly snarling, and then they stepped into the limelight of the beautiful moon. Three wooden fuckin wolves. Like, what absolute fuck, first I see a mismatch abomination and now I see a pack of wooden wolves.
Bringing up my stance, holding my now unsheathed sword in front of my face ready for a fight. I keep one eye on the main one that's walking quite Intimidatingly towards me. Whilst the other one on my left and the one on my right is trying to flank both sides of me. With no time to react, both wolves dived for me, whilst I did the only thing I could do, was rolled like a pro if you were playing Dark Souls.
But, alas, I failed slightly and one of the wolves nipped my back whilst colliding with the other one in a heap. I stood up as fast as I could and the main wolf I had my eye on also jumped up mid-air as well, so I brought my sword down as hard and as fast as I could completely severing its entire wooden body in two, and falling on the floor into a bundle of green wispy like sticks, and then the glow faded.
Turning around quickly I noticed the two wolves were also up on their paws and ready to attack again, I lost a lot of strength with that swing, I guess I needed a lot more exercise than I thought, but powering through I charged again towards the one on my right waiting to swing.
I made a critical error, I swung and cut one of its legs off but my sword embedded itself into the ground and I couldn't pull it out. The one I struck was whimpering but it bared its teeth at me and swiped it's long wooden claws along my exposed back, screaming in pain I fell down next to my sword with my hands still wrapped around its white handle. The dog-like creature jumped on my stomach ready to rip my throat out.
I was scared beyond belief, all this just to get mauled to death by a piece of wood, wow, what a way to go, here I am thinking I can take on the world and I can't even handle a bit of wood, my family wouldn't even know I died here, no one would've known. I'm going to actually die alone. By now I was gritting my teeth, still trying to get my sword free but to no avail.
But then the wolf dove forward ready to seal my fate.
A whizzing sound flew towards me and all I heard was a yelp and a crash next to me. I gingerly opened my eyes and looked to my left and saw the wolf on its side, it had an arrow sticking right through it, the green light in the wolf's eyes suddenly faded and fell limp, the arrow had some sort of white looking energy seeping out of it before it disappeared.
And then another yelp and a crash sounded, and what I saw was not what I was expecting, a greyish humanoid creature was in fron,t a little bit away from where I was from. From what I could see she had a longbow in her hands, a pretty sick looking mohawk, massive earrings in her ears and metal bands around her arms, she had some wide hips too, so she must be female, and her skin colour was that of a zebra which was most unusual, but then again, I am in a new world.
She was looking at me, whilst the wolf that was literally planted into that tree over there was completely annihilated.
"Heyyy! I know you probably can't understand me but I think I'm bleedin ou-" I couldn't get my last word out as my whole body ran ice-cold, those wounds must have been even worse than I thought, and from what I could see in my peripherals I was pissing out blood, fucking great.
I was fading in and out of consciousness, the women sprung forward and was trying to get my attention, I somehow still had one of my hands wrapped around my sword, not wanting to leave it behind, it was my only item that held a connection to my world, along with the clothes on my back.
She had her hands around the back of my head trying to keep me conscious, but I was already gone, all I could feel at the moment was me being picked up.
I felt something soft, like skin, but a tiny bit fluffier than normal, not like the hair you would feel on the arms of your skin, but a different type of texture I couldn't put my finger on. I couldn't really think, either way, I was awake, but barely in fact. The other sensations I had would be the up and down motions of someone carrying me on their back, and a constant jingle jangle of bottles I couldn't yet place.
I was still in and out of it, the sound of a crackling fire, a bubbling pot and a few consecutive footsteps.
And then, I felt my head being tipped forward a bit and a warm liquid going down my throat. I couldn't feel anything though, I was really out of it. But as soon as my head went back to its original place, I felt a weird sensation on where the wooden wolves attacked me.
Like a sizzling feeling, like putting alcohol on your cuts yet, it doesn't hurt, just brings my entire body into a very comfortable warm buzzing sensation following up my arms. I was in the limbo of being awake and not. I lay there just accepting the inviting kinetic experience.
I'm not sure on how long I've been out of it, it feels as though I've been here for a couple of hours now, and I kind of feel like my mind is just on the brink of slipping anyway into nothingness. I can't feel my body now, I don't think I can hold on much longer to stay conscious, I can't move either, am I paralysed? Am I dying? Oh fuck.
Those were the last sentences I had inside my head before I went completely silent again.
The sound of an IV was what I heard, the constant beeping was giving me a headache, I still couldn't move, the only thing I could actually lift was my fuckin pinky finger. Trying to flex it at a fast rate was not working at all, it seemed like no one was in the room at the moment, just the annoying beeping and a few stray birds outside whistling their tunes.
I could lift about three fingers now, but it still wasn't enough, I needed to get out of this place, I absolutely hate hospitals and If I get a fucking needle then I'll be fucking fuming. By now moving my wrist was getting easier, but I couldn't wait, before who or what comes back to check up on me I needed to get out of here and fast. And if it's one thing I hate about hospitals is the smell, it smells like I'm actually sick and I'm about to die, well, I almost did, but that's besides the point.
I'm trying to roll myself off the bed right now, and I think it's working! Come on just a few more tries! Oh, fuck is that the sound of somebody coming? Fuck fuck fuck! Got to go fast, come on!!! I successfully fell off the left side of the bed, but what I didn't account for was my arms and hands where too slow to catch my face from becoming one with the ground, once again.
"Awh fuck, now that really hurts, but it looks like my wounds have healed thou-"
"Ahem"
Looking up towards the door I saw a very white looking woman, adorned with two fluffy looking ears, and a light pink tail, her hair was the same too. She had a greyish looking skirt and a smart vest with a logo I couldn't really identify on her left breast. Looking closely now I noticed what colour she was wearing underneath.
"Huh, pink" Not knowing that I just said that out loud. She immediately covered the part I was looking at with her skirt and looked like she wanted to throw me through a wall.
"What are you doing out of bed!" Screaming a tad bit loud she rushed to pick me up and as she got a hold of me she set me down right back to where I was before, along with my plan completed foiled. Gutted.
"You should be more careful, your wounds my open up" she stood over me, quite close to my face, in fact. She used one of her hands to slightly peek behind the bandage where the wolf had sliced at my stomach, and to her surprise, she found nothing, only a bit of scar tissue.
"Wow, those wounds you had have already healed! and you only got here around three hours ago!" she was still scanning my torso with a thoughtful look on her face, she was quite pretty in fact.
"Well, to be honest, I'm not sure how I actually got here, one moment I'm having a scrap with a bunch of wooden wolves and next I'm here," I said with a questioning look on my face.
"Well, somepony actually brought you here, now that I remember it was Zecora, she lives in the Everfree Forest, the forest you luckily came out of. Now that I've got a good look at you, you don't resemble one of us, I'm not even sure what those are at the bottom of your legs? Are they claws?" She asked, with a lot of curiosity on her face.
"Ah, you see about that, I'm not actually from around here, uh, I think I kinda slipped into another dimension, yeah."
"Wait so you mean to tell me you're from another world?"
"Well, I think I am, or I could be in a writhing coma having a fit on my living room floor. By the way, I didn't quite catch your name, my names Elliott."
"My names Nurse Redheart, and welcome to Equestria I guess. And from the looks of it, you seem completely fine, I'll just quickly get the documents ready," she said whilst heading out the room and trotting down the hall to the left.
I was left with my own thoughts again, I did, however, think I should just get up and take my chances again but I'm not sure how long those documents are going to take. Wait a minute, when I get out of this hospital, where will I go? It's not like I actually know anyone, ah well, guess I'll just go with it, no point stressing about it.
Nurse Redheart popped her head in comically.
"By the way, there are a few ponies here to meet you," she stated whilst zooming off again.
What did she mean by that? Nobody knows who I am besides the Nurse and that Zecora pers-er pony, wait, are they even ponies at this point? I mean yeah they have a few animalistic features here and there and they're definitely not human, ah well, I'll add that to the list of things to think about.
A knock came to the door dropping myself out of my own musings and I answered by telling whoever was at the door to come in. The door opened and a few of this world's inhabitants stood in the doorway, the first one, however, was of a lightish purple or maybe a Lavender colour?
She quickly grabbed a chair and stood it up in front of my bed with an eager look on her face, I could tell by the shake of her shoulders and the constant tapping of her hoof that she was excited somehow, then again, I would be thrilled to meet an alien in my own homeworld without our government trying to either kill it or rip it open for science.
So I made the first move before it becomes another awkward staring contest.
"Hi, my names Elliott Johnston, what's yours?" I asked, waiting patiently whilst also rubbing my right arm out of anxiety.
"Oh! Uh! Sorry! I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, but all my friends just call me Twilight" she said sheepishly whilst she turned her bag that was on her hip, a pinkish glow illuminated around the bag and whatever contents inside. Quickly rummaging around the bag she pulled out a smallish note pad that looked quite dated from looking at the paper quality.
"Firstly, I would like to conduct an interview if that's alright with you Mr Johnston," she asked whilst still eager to put quill to paper. Wait, a quill? Do they not have pens? That was certainly weird, they have an IV hooked to me but yet they don't use pens. Huh. Weird world.
"Sure go ahead, but what about the others? Don't they wanna come in and ask some questions themselves?" I asked eyeing the door, looking through the cross hatched glass pane, noticing an array of colours from five other ponies standing outside. One of them, the pink one had her face submerged with the glass whilst smiling widely, earning a chuckle from me and a roll of the eyes from Twilight.
"Ah, one second," she said whilst her horn glowed and the door handle swung open, with the pink ones face slid off the door and plopped on the ground like a sack of potatoes, and then the others walk over her, whilst the yellow one picked her up by her shoulders and set her down.
Now they were all around me, a few of them were looking at me with curiosity, whilst one of them was giving me the stink eye, not sure why though. The blue mare had her arms crossed, she has rainbow coloured hair which I find puzzling but sort of cool I guess.
"So! Now that everypony is here, introductions are in order, this here is Elliott Johnston, and these are my best friends. Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Rarity, now let's get this interview going shall we?" Twilight said as the rest of her friends nodded whilst Twilight got her notes ready.
"Okayy, first question, where are you from?" she asked whilst looking up at me with excitement on her face.
"I am from the planet called Earth in a country called England, also if you were all wondering how I got here, I got sucked into a portal somehow." Not even mentioning the fact that I actually was planning on jumping in it anyway.
"Wow! from another world! That's so amazi-" The pink one cut her off.
"Ooo Ooo! Me, me! Me! I have a question to ask!" the pink mare was jumping up and down with eagerness and Impatience.
"Okayy, the pink one, what do you want to know?" I asked with a bit of uncertainty.
"Do you like Parties? Ooo Oo! Do you like Cake? Everypony likes cake! I know what we can do! We can throw you a party!!" With a flurry of words my mind couldn't take in, she quickly dashed out of the room at speeds the naked eye couldn't even fathom much less see.
A few of the mares roll their eyes, with slight grins on their faces along with me. It looks like they've dealt with that kind of behaviour before, to be honest, I don't really mind it, having bubbly people around me heightens my mood, but there is a limit on how much a person can take before they need their brain to recharge from so much social interaction.
"Moving on! What species are you? You sort of look similar to us but you clearly lack the parts." Twilight said whilst scooting her chair closer to get a better look at my feet.
"I'm a Human, a Homo sapien in scientific terms, apparently our ancestors evolved from apes I think," I said whilst propping my arm and hand under my chin to act as a support, whilst Twilight was scribbling down a few things at a very fast pace.
As the others were about to chime in and ask their own questions, Nurse Redheart walked in with a clipboard whilst a male doctor followed in behind her, "Here you go, there is your documents and such, and please sign here at the bottom" she smiled at me and gave me the documents along with a quill.
"Uhh, to let you know, I can't really read any of this, it looks like a random assortment of words put together.," I said confusingly looking at the papers before me, although I did know where to sign, and Twilight definitely perked up to this since I saw her ears twitch towards my direction and her tail swishing a tiny bit, weird.
I signed the documents at the bottom right and handed the clipboard back to the Nurse. I didn't notice the other guy disappearing at all, but he soon came back with my stuff, my long coat my shoes and my sword already in it's sheathe. Feeling quite happy I got up but grimaced a little bit at the aching pains in my abdomen and lower back, but I had the Nurse stabilise me with her hand on my shoulder.
Grabbing my shoes and sitting on the side of the bed I notice a few others wanting to say something, they all had some pretty worrisome looks on their faces.
"What's up, guys? You all okay?" I asked whilst looking around the room.
"Um, pardon me, darling, but do you happen to know how you'll get back to your world? I couldn't imagine being alone in an alien planet, just thinking about it makes me tear up slightly," she said with a slight sign of pity.
"Yeah, it must be terrible for you, without my animals and my friends I wouldn't know what to do," Fluttershy asks in a sad tone.
"I second that partner, without my family I'd be lost without em, you have family back where you live right?"
I hadn't really had much time to think about that, I mean, to be honest, I don't really feel anything at the moment, normally people would be crying their eyes out by now but for some reason, I haven't actually really showed much emotion about it. I mean yeah sure I had thought about it in the forest awhile back but I had to focus on getting out of the forest so I didn't go any further with it.
"I'm not sure, honestly I'm not sure about how I really feel, because when the portal showed up I was quite happy, something abnormal happing in my life? It was like a dream come true, but now that I think about it..." I hadn't realised a few droplets of tears fell down my face, and I couldn't stop myself from silently sobbing, coming to the realisation once again that I truly won't be able to find my way back to see my family again.
The ponies that came to my aid was Fluttershy and Rarity giving me sorrowful hugs, personally I hate having to be pitied but, this was something that I'll have to bare with for the rest of my life, something that I'll later come to regret. But, this is my chance, my chance to change, my chance to get out of my shell and make some friends, starting with these lot, I don't know what but I've only been here for a little bit over a day and these mares have shown something most of the humans back on Earth would consider even doing.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to get emotional, that's something I usually don't do often haha." Laughing a bit eased the tension in the room to a light-hearted one.
"Don't worry Darling, it shows that you really care." Rarity said whilst getting up from hugging me and taking a step back.
"Yeah! And since your a new species an all, if you can lift and do some hard labour I wouldn't mind havin you on our farm to earn some keep." Applejack exclaimed proudly, and honestly, that shocked me. This definitely isn't Earth.
"Really? You would do that for a stranger like me? We've only met like an hour and a half ago." I said still with a bit of doubt in my heart, but it was all for nought since Applejack spat in her hand and grabbed mine and shook it, with a pretty tight grip damn.
"Well, I can tell when a pony is lying or not, and I'm getting nothin but the truth from you, it's no biggie at all, I'd say you've proven yourself already," she said whilst patting me on the back.
"Also! Since you're basically the only Human being on Equs I don't mind accommodating for you until you can get back on your hooves and get your own place." Twilight responded whilst getting up.
Rainbow Dash had been quiet for quite a while now, she's only been looking at me every so often, and I was wondering what gears were turning inside of her head, but she looked more interested in the sword if anything, so I held out my sword and put it on my lap and unsheathed it.
"Here ya go, catch!" I said whilst passing my sword over to the ecstatic rainbow mare, she squeed with joy when she caught it, which was kind of cute.
"Woahhh, that's a wicked-looking blade dude, I've never seen a sword this shape before," Rainbow said with a look of wonder on her muzzle whilst looking up and down the blade and the inner carvings of the handle.
"Well, the blade itself really isn't anything special, I managed to actually find it at a show that closed down a few years ago in my home town, the type of blade it is, is called a Wakizashi, it's a little bit smaller than you're average Katana, the Katana was forged in a country called Japan, pretty far away country from where I live, but they were made and sold like a lot around 100 or 200 years ago. I'm not really certain on much history since I haven't really had the time to dig deep to where it all started but, I've had it for quite a while now, and it was a good idea I brought it with me since I nearly got mauled to death by wooden wolves." Sitting up and standing at my full height, Rainbow was next to me still admiring her blade whilst I talked and explained some of the details with her, I noticed that she was slightly shorter than me, which was kinda funny since she has this tough guy thing going on, but that's what you expect from a tomboy.
I still had bandages around my stomach, and what I found out from the doctor was that they had to cut through my shirt to address my wounds, I'm not sure why because you can simply pull it over my torso, but then again I was like kind of dying so I wasn't that mad, I did kinda like the way I looked right now, it reminded me of Dante from Devil May Cry 3 just without the leather strap going across his nipples. Taking off my coat again to move a few things around since the wrappings were becoming a bit uncomfortable, but the funny thing was that a few of the mares in the room were looking at my exposed stomach with slight blushes on their cheeks.
And to be honest, I never really did exercise, I might go for a run every once in a while but I wasn't some bodybuilder, I never really went the gym, I got forced to go with a friend of mine from college and I kept getting stared at whilst my friend was teaching me some of the stuff so I didn't go again. I think it was because of my age and metabolism I could eat quite a lot and never really put on any weight, I did use to do some running whilst in high school though, but that was because I got peer pressured into doing it.
Ignoring the stares, Rainbow Dash gave me back my sword whilst taking quick glances at my stomach, again. I took off the black cotton-like wrappings and wrapped it around my waist and resheathed my sword and put it through a tiny hole in the cotton band and it kept itself steady in that spot. Then I put my coat back on, the massive ends flapping rather dramatically.
"So, are we all ready to go? All my wounds of healed, still don't know how they healed that fast." I said whilst unconsciously stroking the bandages.
"Yes, you are free to be discharged! Follow me Mr Johnston" Nurse Redheart waving over to me to follow her, whilst the rest followed behind me.
"Ohh, er, just Elliott is fine, or El, it's what my friends used to call me, and that applies to you guys as well," I said whilst keeping pace.
Nodding the nurse carried on walking, whilst Twilight sneaked to the front of the line and got beside me giving me a small smile, with that smile though I felt the overbearing urge to scratch behind her ears though, hmm, I should probably ask later, I'm not sure if that would be intimate to do, I don't wanna get bitch slapped like them pussy mc's in anime.
"Soo, Elliott, I will be taking you to my place, it's a massive Tree, which is basically a Library in the centre of Ponyville, and I hope we can become friends," she said whilst giving me an even larger smile, fuck.
"No worries Twilight, I'm sure you'll be a great housemate, wait did you say a tree? Because I could've sworn I saw a massive tree when I was falling out of that portal a few hours ago." I said with a confused look.
"Yes! Do you not live in tree's Elliott?" she asked whilst tilting her head mid-walk, which I couldn't help but slightly laugh at.
"Er, not everybody lives in tree's, especially when I was living on Earth." Chuckling at the absurdity of it all. The others where slightly chuckling at the back as well.
"Hmpf, anyways, there is one more thing I should tell you, Spike lives also lives with me," she said whilst waiting for my response.
"Ah that's okay, I'm just happy you're willing to take me in, if that hadn't have happened I'd be absolutely fucked," I said, hoping these ponies didn't know about swearing, since I'm British I swear quite a lot and sometimes I don't even realise I am doing it, since it's so fucking normal, see! There you go!
From the looks of the faces behind me, I was wrong, they definitely knew what I just said.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to swear, it just happens sometimes, and no I do not have Tourettes either. I'll try my best to curb my language from now on haha." I said whilst rubbing the back of my neck awkwardly.
"Ah, here we are, out through these doors is Ponyville and I hope that you don't return to this Hospital, otherwise I'll have to tell you off" Nurse Redheart joked whilst opening up the double doors with her magic, not knowing how much time had passed since I was immersed in our conversation, whilst the others were talking between themselves giving me looks back and forth, I still don't get seeing magic in front of me, it's a little hard to get used to, but it would be fuckin brilliant if I could learn it.
Taking my first steps outside it was a sunny afternoon day, and I sneezed with the amount of pollen in the air making my nose slightly bit runny. We waved towards Nurse Redheart whilst thanking her for the help. We where still all in our own little conversations whilst I was too busy with looking around the town itself, it was quite colourful in fact, wait is that a shop made out of sweets? What the fuck? How does that even work, let alone go completely off, then again I wonder if I could take a bite out of it.
Deterring my eyes away from the shop I noticed a few ponies walking about doing their daily activities, but some did stop and stare at me whilst we were walking towards our destination, was it the sword? My weird clothes? Or that I was human. I simply didn't give it another thought and I everyone else kept pace with each other. Meanwhile, Fluttershy had popped out of nowhere by my side.
"So um, what do kind of animals do you have on your planet?" she asked shyly whilst her hair covered half her face. Twilights head turned and she basically teleported her notepad and quill again ready to take more notes.
"Well, there are all sorts of animals on our planet, the most I can think of off the top of my head are Dogs, Cats, Lions, massive bears, Giraffes, Spiders and...oh! And Horses!" I said with a bit of excitement in my voice and a few decibels higher in pitch. The others looked at me like they were majorly offended. Like I had just shot their cat in front of them and then burnt the corpse kind of offended. Did I just slip on a landmine?
It was Twilight first to respond.
"Um, Elliott, you look confused so I'm going to take it as that you don't know what that means here. In this world using the term "Horse", especially in front of us is considered a slur, it's a derivative from Whorse and it's wildly known for its uses in the bigger cities." she explained whilst the rest of them had a look of indifference, but Rarity looked a little livid, maybe not towards me, but I could definitely see something happened.
I sighed, "I sincerely apologise, on my world there are animals called Horses, four-legged equines that somewhat resemble you in the biological sense and considering we also have Ponies on our world, but none of the animals on our planet are actually sentient enough to talk. " I kept my arms and hands at my side, I'm not familiar with being in this type of situation so I didn't know what to do. I just hope they consider my apology at least.
They all nodded in unison and looked back with slight smiles. I could already tell that they indeed in fact, accepted my apology.
Arriving at our destinations, the others simply gave me a hug and a goodbye since they all had other things to do, and something about moving clouds which sounded really weird to me. So now it was just me, Twilight and Rarity.
"So Darling, I'm just going to put this out there but, can I please model you sometime? Maybe make you a few clothes, especially for a new race in Equestria! It would be a major challenge for me if you could, I mean I don't mind what your wearing right now, I think it really looks nice, but since you don't look like you have any other clothes with you, I suggest I make you a few new ones to add to your ensemble. Rarity gave me a slightly pleading look that I couldn't really deny.
"No worries Rarity, does tomorrow sound okay? Oh! But I don't really have any of your world's currency, I don't think I'd be able to pay you sorry." I said whilst looking a little down.
"Oh pish posh! Like a said, a new challenge for a mare such as herself, just making clothes for a new species gives me a boost of motivation, free of charge!" she said sweetly.
"Wait really? Are you sure? Well, if that's how it's going to be I am most certainly paying you back when I get the chance, and I won't take no for an answer" I smirked, whilst crossing my arms, I was clearly happy that someone would go this far for me.
"I am the element of generosity love, I always help out my friend when they're in trouble. I'll see you in the morning, ta ta!" Rarity said whilst giving me a quick hug and walking off to finish whatever she was doing before.
"Well, shall we go in?" Twilight said whilst opening the door with her magic and leading her hand out towards the entrance of her pretty sick home. I nodded with a smile.
Walking in a smell hit me, I think I smelt a bit of a cinnamon flavour, was it syrup? Oh! And something quite sweet was wafting in the air, is that pancakes! I love pancakes mate, they're fuckin brilliant, although the ones we make at home aren't exactly the same as the Americans ones, but oh well.
Looking around the entire interior and there where books upon books all lined neatly with oak wood shelves that looked quite clean as well. There were thousands of books all labelled with their alphabet that I still couldn't read. I just hope Twilight has some magic spell that can allow me to read their writing, I wouldn't mind delving into a book or two while I'm here.
Taking the sword off of my hip and propping it against the nearby wall whilst spotting a rack just above it. I took off my coat and simply hung it on one of the pegs, two of the pegs were already taken.
"Spike! Spiiikeee!" Twilight was shouting for her other housemate, whilst ruffling her own feathers and setting her bag that was wrapped around her waist down onto the counter.
"In here! I'm making pancakes!" Spike called from the kitchen, the smell wafting into the room again making me quite hungry, actually, I don't think I've actually eaten since being twatted by those wolves, damn.
"We have a guest, but don't freak out, the pair of you I mean," Twilight said whilst my brow was upturned.
"Why? Who is it, one sec let me just flip these real quick and I'll be there in a chivvy" Spike said from around the corner to what I guess was a kitchen?
Walking in was a small spiky creature that looked like he was four foot something I think, but noticing the sharp-looking spikes on his back and all the way to his head, looked pretty cool I guess. He had a tail too! We both turned to each other a look of wonder in both our eyes for a moment, Twilight, noticing this was taking too long she stepped in.
"Ahem, Spike, this is Elliott, or El for short, Elliott this is Spike, my number one assistant, he's a dragon," she said ever so casually.
"WHAT? HE'S A DRAGON? Holy shit, dragons also exist on this planet, great, that's another thing I'll have to check off the list, what's next Manticores?" I said shaking my head and laughing.
"Well, yeah, Manticores actually exist here," Twilight said calmly.
"For fuck sakes," I said whilst face palming and Twilight was quick to put her hands on both Spikes ears.
"Language!" she said with a stern look on that pretty little face of h- wait...yeah not going there.
"Sorry! Forgot again, a bad habit I guess." I said whilst gingerly fiddling with the pockets of my pants.
"Anyways, Spike, Elliott here is going to be staying here until he can get back on his hooves, er, what exactly are those?" she asked questioningly while staring at my lower half.
"Feet" Whilst walking up towards the little guy, she nodded and walked over to what I presumed was the kitchen.
Kneeling down on eye level with the young drake, I closed my fist, and held it out to him, in a bro fist kind of manner.
"Dragons are pretty cool mate, nice to meet you, friends?" I asked whilst smiling, he simply smiled at me and gave my fist a bump with his claw-like hands.
"Friends," he said whilst offering me to follow him into the kitchen.
Walking into the kitchen, the smell intensified and was absolutely heavenly, it was making my mouth drool quite a bit until Twilight tapped me on the head knocking me out of my blissful stupor.
"Come sit down, and have a bite to eat, I'm guessing you haven't eaten in a while, with all that drool on your face," she said whilst giggling in her hand. I simply obliged and sat down at the table, four chairs surround the table, it was a pretty big kitchen for a hollowed-out tree library. Looking at the stove though, it had some nobs and such but it had some weird runic type stuff where the fire should be. I think everything is powered by magic instead of electricity, I don't think they even have electricity in this world, pretty fuckin cool.
We were all at the table now, and looking at the plate in front of me were three pretty thick pancakes. So I gripped the fork in my right hand and dove right into to eating these awesome pancakes.
After finishing up and putting the plate back into the sink, and washing the excess syrup and bits of pancake leftover. Sitting back down with a glass of water in my hand we were silently chilling when all of a sudden Twilight stood up and looked at me.
"By the way, I need to do a quick check on your body, since you're from a completely different world from ours, I was wondering what kind of effect it was having on your body. Just a quick spell, I promise it won't hurt," she said whilst reassuring me.
"Yeah sure." to be honest, I'm not sure how this is going to go, never really been hit by magic before, and I have a little bit of a feeling but I'm choosing to ignore it for the moment.
Twilights horn lit up with a pink hue, it was a pretty sight albeit a bit bright. She stood forward and laid her head down and pointed her horn on my chest, until I felt a warm buzzing feeling again, the same feeling I had a little while ago, but this had a different feeling to it that I couldn't quite place. And that was that the spell ended, the glow disappeared from her horn, and I felt completely normal.
"Hmm, it seems you're fine, I didn't detect any issues, but something is bugging me, does your world have any magic at all? she asked with a thoughtful look.
"Well, in myths and legends, we believed we had magic at some point, we definitely don't have it now, we mainly use science to solve our own stuff," I said whilst shrugging my shoulders, whilst Spike looked between us both.
"Well, I didn't detect anything wrong but I did detect that you had a bit of magic in you, and saying what you're saying that you usually don't have any magic in your body, is a bit weird, but, it shouldn't be harmful," she said whilst patting my back and sitting back down again.
"Well, I feel absolutely fine so there's nothing to worry abou-" I went to sit back down again and I fell forward, feeling a terrible firey like pain in my body, alerting both people in the room by smacking my head off the table and tumbling onto the floor in a heap, I was breathing pretty heavily and some parts of my body I think where having twitches and spasms. I currently really hear either, all I could do was focus on this terrible pain like I had just been flatted repeatedly and stretched in all directions. But this pain was so hot I couldn't breathe, it felt like my lungs were going to shut down at any moment.
I could feel my body getting hotter and hotter, I think both Twilight and Spike were calling me, shaking me repeatedly, I couldn't do anything but watch in a daze as I was basically having a fit.
"Spike! Quick, send a letter to Princess Celestia asap!" Twilight ordered with an outstretched hand.
"On it!" Spike said whilst grabbing a piece of what looked like parchment on the table, I couldn't really see much, I was blacking in and out and I could smell burning, am I burning alive? It was so hot I think my senses had died to the point where I felt absolutely nothing.
Unbeknownst, the sword that was on the wall, was glowing slightly.
Letting out a curt yawn whilst sitting at my beautiful white table in one of the gardens closer to my own room, clearly, hearing the nobles drone on and on about stolen land or petty arguments such as family feuds tearing each other apart really does impact on my lack of sleep, after a thousand years I think doing Day court to be a massive chore, but I guess somepony has to run this country, I just hope Lulu is fairing better than me.
Hearing a subsequential popping sound right next to me I turned my head and see that Twilight has sent me a message wrapped one of her newly given seal stamps with her cutie mark upon it, thinking back now I used to get messages from a lot of the leaders explaining their troubles and such, so much in fact that I started to ignore them a put them away into a hidden pile, along with Twilights being one of them, I think that's why I gave her, her own coloured stamp, complementary to her skin's colour so that I could identify what to throw out.
Chuckling to myself I opened the scroll with my magic and read the contents.
I'm writing to you in an urgent manner, the creature that fell out of the sky that you spotted along with traces of chaotic magic is here with me, his name is Elliott and I urgently request your assistance at once, it looks like his body has taken to much magic within himself and he looks like he's going into detoxication.
Rolling the scroll back up I got up from my seat and performed an extensive teleporting spell required for long-distance travelling mostly used for an urgent meeting with other rulers of different kingdoms and this new being troubles me so. Remembering to see a weirdly object in the sky falling at a rapid angle towards the Everfree Forest and sensing a slight scent of Chaotic magic in the air really troubled me, so I'm guessing Discord must be messing around again with his tricks and whatnot. Sighing horribly I got ready for the jump.
Twilight's Pov
Running around frantically like a mad mare on heat I was searching every nook and cranny for books that had any sort of information to save Elliott from detoxication, I didn't know how his body was going to take it, he's basically a new species on this planet not knowing what the drastic effects that would place upon the Human. I couldn't find any books that had anything to do with humans, not surprising since he's from another dimension, tripping over a stack of books I rubbed my sore horn and got back up again and carried on my search.
I just wish Princess Celestia would get here, she hasn't replied yet and I'm not sure how long it's going to tak-
A loud popping sound and a tiny fracture in the air of godly like magic stood Princess Celestia in all her glory. Ruffling her wings she walked over to Twilight and quickly hugged her.
"Princess! I don't know what to do! I've tried everything and nothing seems to be working! I've looked at nearly every book about detoxication and I can't find anything that works on Human beings!" I was about to continue my rant before Princess Celestia put her hand on my mouth and calmed her down and allowed her to breathe.
"Did you say, Human?" she said with a small surprise on her face and a tiny grin whilst memories looked like they flashed before Celestia's eyes.
"Princess?" I started waving a hand over my former tutor's face.
"Twilight, have you ever heard of King Arthur?" My eyes were full of confusion but a slight spark of remembrance hit me like a train.
"Oh! Yes, the pony that saved the three tribes in early times? I vaguely remember being told a story by my mother about a pony so strong he wielded a heavenly sword gold in stature and strong as a thousand suns." clicking my tongue, I tried to remember more but couldn't, it was that long ago that story had been told I was basically a foal at that point.
"Yes but, you missed an important detail, the pony I was on about wasn't actually a pony" Celestia chuckling ever so slightly much to the amusement of since I had a pretty dumbfounded expression on my face.
"What do you mean he wasn't a pony? Was he a griffon then? Or something else." I, completely confused, I tried rummaging around in my own head to find any clues or an answer that I wasn't aware of Princess Celestia chuckling to herself.
"No my little Twilight, he was a Human!" Celestia said with a smirk, whilst I, on the other hand, was knocked out of my own train of thought and was completely caught off guard.
"But, but! That can't be possible! Nopony has heard of a Human before, and I would probably be the first one to find out!" I said whilst scampering to find the book that relates towards the subject.
"Because I removed the history to protect my friends wishes Twilight, but there is one book and a few of his belongings still behind the royal vault locked away with a powerful spell only me or Luna can break, besides you're a Princess now, maybe a fairly new one at that but It won't be a problem if I show the book to you as well," she said whilst keeping her warm smile.
Turning around with a wide smile on my muzzle "Really!! You really mean it! Wait!! Elliott is still in bed suffering! Quick we got to do something!!" I said whilst running around the room in a frantic once again. Celestia rolled her eyes and lit up her magic stopping me mid-run.
"Don't worry, this has happened before, Arthur, when he came to this world suffered the same sort of problem, and believe me he was fine afterwards, his body is reacting to the latent magic in the air and from other beings. Since we are solely surrounded and inhibiting magic all the time his body couldn't take the foreign entities so his body is going through a detox phase whilst it gets comfortable with the magic already building up inside of him," she said grabbing me by the hand and teleporting us out of the room and into Elliott's room where he is resting. Noticing that he was okay since he was literally screaming and twitching an hour ago and it was a big shock, I thought he was dying.
Looking at my old mentor she walked over to were Elliott was sleeping and she knelt down and rested her horn just below his chest, a bright light engulfed her horn and almost blinding like the sun itself was there before me, then the light faded and Celestia lifted herself from her kneeling position and looked over at me with her signature warm motherly smiles.
"He will be fine, I just did a quick scan over his body to make sure the detox phase is going as planned, and from the looks of it, it's just about done. I'd say give it a moment." Celestia said whilst levitating two chairs that were at the dressing table on the other side of the room. Celestia sat down and her horn flared up again and teleported a table and what looks to be her favourite teapot set whilst offering me a cup which I took happily with my magic and levitating the tea towards me and taking a long sip whilst we both sighed in comfort.
Elliott's Pov Location Unknown
"Where am I" slowly becoming conscious to the surroundings. I looked around and found that I was in the middle of a thickly wooded area full of trees with a lot of snow. It wasn't a blizzard it was a very silent but calming fall of snow, not too much not too little to annoy my eyes with, sort of like a Christmas night on a very rare occasion of it snowing, thinking back now I do remember one Christmas ago that it snowed like this, just without being in a forest.
It really quite wondrous, I felt like a kid again, because whenever it would snow in my town I would never stop running, I would run everywhere I could go, I wasn't exactly a lonely kid back then, it's just I'd prefer being alone than in massive groups like some people like to put themselves in. That feeling though, it came back full force, the feeling of excitement and the thrill of something new to be explored, I think it's the feeling when you want to explore and adventure, it's something I've always wanted, I nodded to myself and trudged on in the snow.
I noticed it wasn't actually cold or warm either, but I could feel everything happening around me and I was just content in being there. Walking ahead now going passed rows upon rows of trees I spotted a bit of rock sticking out in the distance and a slight gleam like a flashlight or a sniper scope shine of something metal, I'm not sure what it was but I kept going anyway.
Getting a bit closer now, from what I could see it looked like a long sword stuck within the rock itself, but the sword itself was completely clean and was glowing softly within the snows grasp. Looking at it a lot closer now, I could see the intricate designs on the blade, runes that I couldn't read lines all the way down the blade until it stopped at the hilt, the hilt itself was curved in nature, golden in colour and a bit bulky. Looking towards the pommel of the regal-looking sword the handle was a mature blue.
Then it clicked.
"Wait, is this fucking Excalibur??" I shouted in shock to absolutely nobody, taking a step closer to try and touch it, it hummed when my finger got close, it was if the sword was calling to me.
"I'm no King Arthur, so why is this sword here of all places, and I'm pretty sure that was thousands of years ago in my own planet! So what the hell is it doing here?? Hang on, where the fuck is here? Christ this is giving me a headache, please don't be some sort of prophecy or something that would be so cliche." I said whilst grabbing the handle of the sword gently lifting it, but it wouldn't budge.
Well, I'm not surprised it wouldn't move, I'm not some chosen one either.
Let's try and give it a go with more strength into it.
Gripping the pommel even harder than before I struggled really hard to pull it out, but something was calling me to do it, whatever magic or unipotent god wanted me to pull out this sword, well your wish was granted, pulling even harder now cracks and straight electric sparks and a rumble of other things were dispersing out of the hole that the sword was actually being pulled from.
It's working, come on, full power now, this is so going to fuck my wrists up, who knows I may just dislocate my arms in one go.
Come on! Nearly fucking there mate!
Screaming quite loudly whilst massive cracks were forming across the snowy littered rock, my arms were about to give out before a sudden howling and squeal of a nearby horse drew my attention away from the sword for the moment, then out of nowhere something shot passed me and the only glimpse I got was wisps of fire and the sound of hooves running across the leaves.
Okayyy, yep, definitely shitting myself now, I should've known being in an unknown forest is definitely not the place where you think that you're always alone.
I couldn't hear anything at all now, complete silence, it's funny how a wonderful scenery can change, from comfortable and breathtaking to scary and downright terrifying the next. And I was certainly no Fredrick.
Another howl again and the galloping of hooves to my right, then gone, and then back again to my left, it was like it was toying with me, I was scared beyond belief but I held my ground, taking the initiative and toughing up my face I shouted.
"Whoever is out there, stop being cowardly and face me in the dark you big fucking pussy!" exhaling another breath of air and hardening my gaze to whatever might respond, but there was no sound again, really eerie to the point where I just wanted to bolt, but I stood my ground, you can't just call something out for being a coward and then start running away.
Then at that moment, I heard a whistle in the trees and the sound of quick dash from behind me I had only but a split second to react.
OHH FUCK DODGE!
Bending my back to near impossible lengths to dodge a massive axe swing from the assailant, quickly rolling across the snowy ground and on my feet again I faced my enemy and to my surprise and utter dumbfoundedness, there stood the Headless Horseman, how and why the fuck I did not know, but I was well and truly fucked if I was going against this thing.
It was exactly like the myths and legends I read back in class, no head, except he was holding his head in his arm pushed against his side. The head itself was actually a helmet, a helmet design I didn't recognise, a long wide slit going downwards for the eyes to see through and a smaller version of the slit but horizontal to where the mouth was supposed to be, so with that helmet on he would look like one edgy mother fucker, and I would be impressed if I didn't nearly get my head lopped off, thank god for boxing and tons of anime shows.
Black horse check, now flaming head check, axe-wielding twat check, yep definitely the legendary Dullahan, the Headless Horseman, what the absolute fuck. Oh well, may as well be a smartass whilst about to die.
"Oi prick, mind telling me why you've just nearly sliced my fuckin head off?" I shouted towards the silent and still entity of death. So silent in fact it didn't even respond, all I got was a huff from the horse and the OH FUCK HES CHARGING! NOPE!
Running to the left of me dodging between trees screaming nope along the way the horseman was catching up pretty fast, not to my surprise I may be a runner but I can't fucking outrun a horse. I whipped my head around again to get a quick glance and to gauge the distance on my pursuer only to be met with nothing, so I completely stepped to a halt taking a quick look at my surroundings.
My instincts screamed wildly at me to roll to the side, and that's what I did, but I was wrong, I whipped my head to the right and the big fucker was behind me, I tried to move as quickly as possible, but it was too late, he used his horse as a battering ram and sent me flying towards a nearby tree, slamming my back cracking the bark and sliding down till my arse hit the white cold floor.
My back was badly aching and I think I snapped a few things, my breathing was hoarse and I was having trouble catching my breath, bits of blood seeped at the corners of my mouth, coughing slightly I smirked and looked towards my inevitable death. The Horseman stood over me menacingly, I could feel that it had a wide grin on its face, at this point he was off his horse and stood in front of me, he looked about 6 or 7 feet tall, completely in all black, got to give it to him though, the lad has some nice taste in clothing.
"Well, not going to lie, I'm quite honoured to be killed by the famous Dullahan from Celtic Mythology," I said whilst sighing sadly.
As the enemy before me was about to deliver the last blow with his massive axe, looking up I could see the moon wink slightly, and a dot formed getting bigger and bigger before I could see a speeding person with wings and a noticeably large blue arse, holy shit, thighs for days!
The Horseman didn't know what hit him, but a hearing the sound of a sonic boom from a jet from a kick sent the poor bastard barreling towards the left at some pretty high speeds. My saviour in blue and a whole galaxy on her head she stared at me, she was wearing some pretty sick armour, purples and blues mixed together with a large symbol of a blotch with a crescent moon on it, the symbol of sorts was in the middle completely merged with the armour itself.
And I gotta say, she looked absolutely fuckin gorgeous, so gorgeous in fact that I was left staring at her for more than I should have, which made her blush slightly and her massive wings to twitch a bit. Was she nervous? I didn't know. Tearing my eyes away from her in embarrassment I tried to strike a conversation.
"So er, do you come around here often?" I said still not looking at her, whilst leaning my back against the tree to support my self to get up.
"Nay, we do not often come around here," she said whilst chuckling a bit, which elevated my mood since I was nearly killed.
"Well, cheers for the save, but, do you have any idea on where I am, one-moment I'm having a spazz attack on the floor and poof I'm here," I said whilst her eyebrow upturned slightly.
"Thee shouldst know, but if thee doesn't know, then we will explain, this place we art in, is thy dream. And that demon over yonder is latching itself onto thine mind, to stop thee from getting something, but we do not know what." She said with half Old English and modern. Which was pretty cool and cute at the same time.
"Well shit, didn't think this would get even more serious than it was, and by something, I think it's trying to stop me from grabbing that sword," I said whilst pointing south, the direction I ran from.
"Sword?" She said whilst realisation hit her.
"What did the sword look like?" she asked waiting patiently for an answer.
"Erm, it was golden at the guard, blue at the pommel, just basically a holy looking sword and I think I know what it is," I said whilst rubbing my back, checking to see what damag-
Wait a minute, if I'm in a dream, then that means I can do whatever the fuck I want, screw the demon, I could go fuckin full Bankai on his ass, legendary or not.
"Thee needeth get to thine sword and pull it from its place, once done, speaketh to our sister and she will explain everything, we will teleport you now, but before you go, our name is Princess Luna," she said coming closer to me and grabbing my hand, and with a large blue hue of energy surrounding us like a bubble.
"Oh sorry, forgot to mention, my name is Elliott, Elliott Johnston, or you can call me El if you want," I said whilst locking eyes with her again, she smiled and nodded before the bubble surged with electricity and then we were off.
Being teleported was not fun, dream or not, it was definitely really sickly, but gaining back my senses it looks like Princess Luna wasn't with me, damn, she was actually quite nice, pretty badass as well. Spotting the sword where it still was, I dashed towards it and gripped the pommel again.
Tugging harder and harder the cracks grew even wider, and then I heard another howling screech through the forest, but I didn't care, this was my dream and no prick was going to tarnish it by stopping me from pulling this sick ass sword. As soon as I pulled it out, a massive wave of energy exploded outwards, not hurting me or anything around me, kind of like a shockwave of golden energy. Looking in awe of the sword I was like a kid that found an awesome toy in a shop he happened to pass, or a cool looking stick.
Hearing another shrill shriek and hooves running on the snow, I turned and once again saw the Legendary Dullahan, and believe me it looked pissed, but I wasn't intimidated though, this was a dream, and I have a fucking Excalibur in my hands, so guess what,
Imma fuck him up.
The demon charged at me, whilst I did a charge of my own, axe and sword meeting with sparks of steal, clashing left and right, he passed me as I dashed to where he once stood, I could see every movement it would make and then some. I waited for the next strike to come, and when it did, he charged and as soon as he got in a close distance to me, his axe came down in a downwards arc ready to take my head off, I simply parried upwards sending his axe up, he still had his grip on his weapon, but what this demon hadn't thought of, is that I'm practically invincible in my dreams, so I shouted my favourite words.
A swirling of black fiery energy with a tinge of red outlining the edges surrounded the edge of my blade, I held Excalibur over my head and shouted.
"Getsuga! TENSH- the world froze in place, then it started to violently shake, I already knew what was up, and I've never been so disappointed in my entire life. For once in my life, I just wanted to be cool, fuck sakes. The demon was looking at my direction and I simply waved before everything went dark.
Waking up in a cosy bed is a lot better than waking up on a cold tiled kitchen floor. Shifting myself to lean upon the headboard supporting my back, there was still a phantom pain but oh well. Looking to my left I spotted another yet gorgeous women, but complete white and boy oh boy did she have an arse for days. She had a massive wingspan, but what I didn't understand was, why was Twilight smaller and this majestic being stood at 7 foot tall. Crazy.
"Yo!" I said whilst giving the pair a scare.
"Well good morning to you too," Twilight said clearly annoyed at my antics. Whilst the much bigger one gave me a bemused stare.
"Sorry love, wasn't trying to scare, or was I?" I said, I was clearly chuckling at this point.
"So erm, who is this?" I said whilst eyeing up the white mare. She clearly had a bit of muscle on her as well, toned stomach, some parts had golden armour covering her in places, she looked like some royal queen. Wait...I think this is Luna's sister, she did tell me to speak to her, but from just looking at her I could feel a certain pressure of power, it wasn't crushing me it was really welcoming, kind of like a loving mother. This is really weird.
She walked forward after putting her cup of tea down on the table. She had a regal walk in her step, definitely royalty, so I did what I do best, I didn't bow down to her and swear allegiance. I walked over to her looked her straight in the eye and said.
"So, who's your gorgeous looking friend Twi?" using a nickname only broadening my vulgar attempt at flirting with a Princess.
Twilight had her mouth wide open and looked like she was about to faint, the princess, however, had a sparkle in her eye and moved her face a little closer to mine.
"So Twilight, who is this handsome Human you have here?" she said whilst turning her head towards Twilight with a smug grin on her face. I, however, wasn't prepared to get jibed on my own game. Since it made me blush up a storm and stutter a bit in surprise.
Seriously though, wasn't expecting her to reciprocate., I thought she would've shrugged it off and say absolutely fuck all about it.
She is definitely going to be so much fun
Twilight, however, took it really seriously, so serious in fact she was furious and she sped over to me and grabbed my head and brought it to the floor, not hitting the floor of course, but just enough to make me bow. Whilst furiously saying how sorry I was for me.
"Ow! Ow! you're hurting my fuckin head Twilight, it was just a joke love come on!" I said whilst my head was aching from the constant pressure upon it.
"I'm sorry Princess for his incompetence, he's not from this planet so I'd guess he would've known of the customs we have over here." Whilst she stared at my lowered form in annoyance.
"It's quite alright Twilight, yes, he may not be of this world, but that means he's not under my rule until he gets his Equestrian Citizenship," she said whilst putting her hand on Twilights shoulder and giving her a knowing look.
"Either way, I don't mind a bit of banter, it helps me unwind and destress from all the paperwork I have to go through," Celestia said sighing a bit.
"Oh, right, hehe, my bad, sorry Elliott. Are you still hurt?" Twilight said whilst lifting her ten tone hand off of my neck.
"For fuck sakes Twilight, how heavy is your hand? Probably lift a house with that thing." I said whilst rubbing the back of my neck moaning slightly at the pain. Either way, I had better things to be focusing on.
I stood up at my full height, Princess Celestia chin was just above my nose, a pretty well endowed tall ass women, not going to lie or anything but I think I was slightly intimidated. I outstretched my hand to shake hers which she kindly obliged, soft fingers too, no I do not have a hand fetish. Is that even a thing?
"Hiya love, the names Elliott Johnston, just call me El, because I absolutely despise my name," I said whilst smiling.
"My name is Princess Celestia and I welcome you, Human, to Equestria." She said with a sincere smile on her face.
"I thought I slightly recognised you, I met your sister in my dreams, she said I was supposed to speak to you," I asked with slight concern written on my face.
"Ah, so Lulu has met you then, I assume she hasn't yet told you anything on what I'm going to tell you now correct?" Celestia said with a bit of a commanding tone on the last part, which got my full attention since it sounded like it was serious.
"Uh, not really, like I said she only told me to speak to you," I said scratching my neck not sure what was going on at the moment.
"Well, you had a dream correct? What happened in that dream?" She asked giving me a look that meant business.
Scary...
"Well, I was in a forest that looked like it was in the middle of winter, and until I got a little further in I spotted a sword that was in a bit of rock, and after trying my hand in pulling it out, I got confronted by a demon, which in turn was the headless horseman and he literally tried to kill me, until Luna came along kicked him like he was a bag of shit and after teleporting me back and pulling the sword out of the stone, I went for him and then the dream cut out. So yeah that basically sums it up in simple terms." I said whilst folding my arms, suddenly growing a serious look on my face. Whilst to others I looked pissed as fuck, but in my own head, I was just curious.
"So, it looks like it's started. There are terrible forces lingering on the far outskirts of Equestria, but what you faced was not something of this world I'm afraid, it was a test of sorts, firstly a compatibility test, that sword let you take ahold of it and tried to pull it out if it moved at all, then it was a success, then fighting a nightmare being of your own memories, surviving long enough to pull the sword out of that stone means that you've completed that test and gained its trust. " She said whilst lowering her horn to my chest, scanning my entire body with a pulse of magic.
She seemed to be done however, she took a step back with a thoughtful look on her face. But suddenly I fell to my knees out of breath, it looks like something hot was inside my chest, hoping that I wasn't going to go in a coma again, that shit really fucking hurt to the point where passing out was a kindness, it was getting hotter and hotter, like a tiny inferno swirling around in my stomach, if this continues I might as well be confirmed that I'm a literal walking talking bomb at this point.
The two looked at me with a lot of worry on their faces, they were waiting for something, I knew something was up, I, however, was trying to bare it, to push through, so I stood up on my shaky legs, not letting whatever this thing is consuming me.
"What's happening to me?" I said between laboured breaths.
"Your body is going through a detoxification phase, but don't worry you're going to be fine, your body is just getting used to the latent magic in the air and surrounding our bodies, it's in everything you could possibly think of, its the natural pillars of the world that makes up Equs in its entirety. Also, your body is intaking magic at a fast growth rate and normal, which is expected considering you are a being of none magic." She said whilst kneeling down and holding my hand to try and get me through this terrible immense pain.
"Right, well since I came from Earth it kind of makes sense I guess, our planet doesn't have any sort of magic on it besides some stupid tricks that people can pull off at shows or concerts," I said coughing a bit, breathing was becoming a slight problem, it was like the air was thin, but the fire in my stomach was steadily growing, tears started to flow down my cheeks as the pain heightened threatening me to scream out.
"It hurts, so fucking much, is there a way you can nullify the pain? It's slowly becoming unbearable and I'm not sure on what I might do when it does." I said in a low threatening voice, but it didn't persuade her to back off, she simply gripped my hand a lot harder whilst giving me a warm motherly like a smile, Twilight had joined to on my right side, holding my other hand in worry, along with an encouraging smile of her own.
"It's funny, you guys have done more and shown more than any other human has shown to me, pretty inspiring to say the least, I look forward to learning from you all," I said between slight laughs and coughs.
They both smiled and we all waited for it to pass.
About thirty minutes later, the pain subsided and the fire in my stomach dissipated, I was glad beyond belief because that was the worse thing I've ever felt in my entire life. Standing back up, slightly relived I heard a slam somewhere in this place. Celestia, me and Twilight all looked at each other confused, then another slam, and something whizzing down the hallways.
Suddenly the door to our left slammed open and a sword along with it's sheathe came barreling in, it was my sword, and it was suspended mid-air IN front of us like it was alive and somehow sentient.
"So er, that's my sword that I came with, and I'm prettyyyy sure it doesn't have any magic," I said, slightly on edge.
"Then why is it floating?" Twilight said whilst clocking eyes with mine.
Celestia was still staring, and from the looks of it, she was in thought yet again, she was completely composed which had my curiosity quite a bit.
"I have no fuckin clue," I said whilst taking a slight step back.
Then a golden portal opened up and out came the Excalibur I saw in my dream last night, slowly emerging out of the swirly like vortex. Both swords were in the air stood beside each other, then the runes hummed and shined brightly, then a tiny wisp-like dot just little ways in front of the runes on the blade, then the same symbols of the runes where drawn like on paper, once the runes had finished copying itself into the air, the copied runes floated towards my sword and embedded the runes into the curved blade, then the magic dissipated leaving just the weird symbols on my blade.
Then the same portal that brought Excalibur out into the open completely sucked in Arthurs blade and disappeared nowhere to be found. Then the last floating blade and it's sheathe clattered to the ground.
"Soo...what just happened?" I said whilst looking between the two.
"I have no idea" Twilight said whilst bending down and looking closely at my blade.
"Well whatever it is, that was King Arthur's blade and somehow it got out of the vault with it's own magic inside of it. Interesting." Celestia said whilst tapping her hoof on the ground.
"Wait how do you know of King Arthur?" I said whilst scrunching up my face, turning ever so slightly towards Celestia.
"Well, he actually came to this world a thousand years ago, kind of like the predicament you've also found yourself in. But what has really lost me is that sword, he never told me about this, strange," Celestia said whilst picking up my blade, nothing seemed to happen until Celestia chucked it over to me, landing in my palms, on contact it hummed gently, like it was alive, so like anyone else, I rubbed my hand along the blade, petting it like it was a cat. And it seemed to acknowledge this and hummed even more in volume. Grabbing the scabbard from across the floor Immediately sheathed it in place and it grew quieter like it just went to sleep.
"Well, anything else I should know? Wait didn't you say I had magic now? You said that magic in the air absorbed into my body right?" I asked, a little excited because having magic is fucking badass.
"Yes, but, I am not sure about what the effects will be. Since you are so different to us in many ways a lot of things can happen, the only things I did notice when Arthur went through the same Detox, later on, he began being able to use telekinesis, which is the basics of any magic out there," she said whilst Twilight nodded in agreement since it sounded logical.
"Well, back when I was at the hospital, I noticed Nurse Redheart, that didn't have a horn on her head, used telekinesis, the energy itself was around her hands, so how does that work?" I asked, a bit confused.
"Well, to put it simply, there are four races of ponies, well the last one is kind of a hybrid of all three of them but I'll get to that. Firstly, the Unicorn can do magic, with their horn, using an abundance of magic, they have a higher tolerance to other magic, and susceptible to others, whilst Earth ponies have their natural-born strength, but when they choose to dabble with a bit of magic, they can wrap their hooves or hands with magic, increasing their strength, or they can do basic small magic such as lower inferior telekinesis which only can pick up smaller objects and is a lot harder to apply their focus. And pegasi or pegasus can enhance their wings, or their agility, speed and the like, for example, Rainbow Dash can go so fast she breaks the sound barrier creating a magic dispersion of energy like a shockwave through the air and it's quite good with final attacks if used against an enemy." she said whilst taking a little breather.
"Well, that explains it all, pretty bloody interesting I go got to say, I wonder how it'll affect me," I said pacing a little bit whilst taking quick glances at my sword.
"Heyyyy, would it be alright to go outside in your back garden Twilight? I wanna see if I can test if I have any magic?" I asked still pacing whilst taking quick glances at Twilight for the confirmation and Celestia too.
"Well, it shouldn't really be a problem, but if something does happen I don't really want my house being blown to bits," she said. (Queue the foreshadowing)
"Brilliant let's go now!" I said whilst grabbing Twilight by the hand, not noticing the sizeable blush on her face, looking between my hand and me, whilst Celestia followed along, slightly interested in the outcome.
Arriving just outside Twilights place, she had a quaint little garden, lush bushes, flowers and the like, it wasn't exactly fenced off either, so a lot of the civilians that lived in Ponyville would walk by and stare at us, mainly me and Celestia, I mean, one of their rulers is just there in someones back garden for no apparent reason, they didn't stay though, most likely too nervous to come up to us.
"So, how do I channel magic? I've never exactly done this before." I asked, whilst unsheathing my sword again, humming in response to be it's reawaking, it didn't seem that happy, with the low tones if that's any indicator I don't know what is.
"It's quite simple really, just close your eyes, and try to feel what's around you, kind of like a six sense," Twilight said whilst teleporting her note pad to write down the events that are about to transpire. Now I just feel like a test subject.
"Erm, you're going to have to be more specific than that Twilight," I said whilst eyeing her expectantly. But Celestia chimed in to help me out.
"Firstly, sit down in a comfortable position, and try focus on an object, I would focus on your sword, lay your sword flat across your thigh and simply close your eyes and try to feel the energy emanating towards it, feel the flow, get the handle of that flow, and try to synchronize that flow with your own magic inside of you.
I did exactly as she said, clearing my head, focusing on the object in front of me, trying to feel out its energy, after a few minutes I felt nothing, but as it went on I did feel something, but I wasn't getting any other results. Sadly sitting up I looked at my sword in frustration, whilst my sword stayed quiet.
"It looks to me that you're having trouble with feeling the energy," she said whilst in thought. And Twilight finally stopped taking notes, clearly waiting for something else to pop up. Until Celestia looked like she had a light bulb over her head.
"How about this, I need you to get angry, it's possible the magic reacts more to emotions than it does just focusing and clearing your head, like a trigger of sorts," she said with another nod, then Twilight carried on jotting down whatever information she could've got from this.
"I mean, I need something to get me angry, I can't just get angry out of nowhere. Otherwise, it won't be genuine." I said whilst sheathing my sword again.
"Hmmm, maybe this will work," Celestia said whilst a glow appeared around her body like some magical girl from sailor moon. She was adorned with golden like armour, silver trims, and a golden firey like sun emblem in the middle of her chest piece, kind of like her sisters, but her sister's armour was more gothic than anything. She had a massive golden shield about the size of me, and a long golden sword that rivalled the beauty of Excalibur's designs.
"Princess, what are you doing?" Twilight asked whilst gawking at her former tutor.
"Don't worry Twilight, this will be quick, I would stand back if I was you, I want to test something, to see if it will bring out Elliotts power," she said whilst grabbing her sword on her right and her shield on the left.
"Wait what do you mean, you aren't going to-OH FUCK!" I said before she rushed me like a bull.
Dodging backwards from the longish swing from her sword, I unsheathed my sword and pulled it out in front of me in a stance, like I was against those wolves again, the only difference was that I was literally fighting a princess, what the absolute fuck.
"Okay okay! Alright, love, why the fuck are we fighting?" I said whilst hesitating slightly, her pressure had increased, I could slightly feel the heat of the sun from here, it was making me sweat a little.
"So we can draw out your hidden abilities, just trust me on this, I won't hurt you, believe in yourself," she said whilst going in for another charge, but I was ready this time since I could see the sword coming a mile away. Going up for a block from a sideswipe, what I didn't account for was that she actually fainted her swing and shoved her shield forward hitting me in the chest and sending me a few feet backwards. There was a slight crowd now, seeing our throw down, wait, not really a throw down more like a fuckin scrap with me getting my head smashed in.
Taking in a few steps backwards, I was lost in thought for a moment.
"You shouldn't daydream whilst the enemy is in front of you, if this was a real battle you would've definitely perished by now," she said whilst getting ready for another charge, but I was way ahead of her, she wouldn't kill me, so that means I can go all outright?
Hardening my gaze, I held my sword to my right, for a striking stance, and leapt forward a little faster than usual, and connected with her shield, she was a little surprised by my strength, so I kept swing at her defence, not letting her get a chance to get a hit in, with a flurry of blows, I saw her sword trying to come down upon me, so I sidestepped and jumped up using her shield as a footing and leapt over the shield, then I landed and went for her naked back, but unfortunately, she was too quick, she spun around blocking the attack and parrying with her awesome defence leading my sword to go forward a bit, kicking me straight in the solar plexus sending me to the ground.
Regaining my footing again, I stood back in my stance, heaving like a pig on a hot summers day, I was definitely pissed, only because I was being absolutely useless right now, being knocked around constantly with an audience no less, it's quite embarrassing. I could feel it and hear it, within my sword, the humming again, so it must be reacting to my emotions, I just need to feel it, and embrace the feeling, maybe that's how I'll get stronger.
"How did you get here Elliott Johnston?" she said asking a question in a middle of a fight was weird, but I answered.
"I went through a portal because some bellend thought It was funny to plant one in my living room," I said whilst eyeing her up for any weaknesses.
"And what of your family? Do they know that you're missing?" she said, she already knew what buttons she was pressing, she could see it in my eyes.
"I chose, it was my decision, it was either stay there, live a boring mundane life and do something that nobody would even remember you for, or go to a fantasy land, become an entirely different person, and start anew, with new people, yeah I will miss them and I do feel guilty, but it's what I wanted, and I wasn't happy there!" I said raising my voice a few octaves higher, clearly irritated with the question.
"What of your father, your siblings, your grandparents, how would they feel if you just suddenly left them with nothing, no trace of where you've gone, for all they knew you where dead!" she said whilst taking an intimidating step closer.
"You don't know me, you don't know me at all, the shit I've had to go through just to get here, that portal was my only saving grace, the light in my life, yeah some people had it worse off than me, but, everybody has a threshold on how much they can take before they snap!" I was shouting now, my heart was racing and I could hear it in my eyes, just thinking about it now brings even more tears to my eyes, a failure of a son, a failure of a brother, my mother long since passed, but wherever she is, she's probably disappointed in me too.
But what was I supposed to do, sit alone in my room, being antisocial to fuck, speaking to no one other than a group of friends, no socialisation, even before that damned virus I was still the same, I wanted to leave, to start anew, it's what I thought I needed, I could hear the humming of my sword growing louder and louder, my hands trembling, whilst my gripped fist was tight enough for the grooves in the handle to slightly cut my hand from the pressure.
"What about your mother?" she said clearly locking eyes with me now, whilst I had a sudden heat rise in my stomach from the question.
"She's dead and gone, it was cancer, nothing more nothing less," I said whilst narrowing my eyes and clenching my teeth subconsciously.
"Well, if she was alive, I'm guessing she would also be disappointed in you," she said with no emotion on her face, like she's done this before.
"What. Did. You. Say?" I said, my blade now screaming, begging to be let out, black like wisps covering the top half of my blade. I was so pissed I couldn't think, my mind was numb, yes, I guess it was all my fault for going through that portal, and I can guess on what my family think of me now. A coward.
"You heard m-" Celestia was cut off, from the sudden speed and the sudden appearance, she had to bring up her shield otherwise I would've cleaved her in half. Clashing with the shield pushing her back quite a bit, catching her off guard and her footing was slightly off, I brought my sword down again, a blue hue of energy surrounding the erratic like black flames that surrounded my sword, with a flash a crescent blue and black wave of disproportionate and unstable energy hit her shield sending her quite a fair bit away.
The wave of energy dissipated as her shield grew much larger, and an aspect of fire surrounded the shield neutralizing the attack I sent. This knocked me out of my own angry stupor, and I immediately rushed over and apologised profusely. But she simply waved me off, completely dematerializing her shield and sword along with her armaments, walked over to me whilst I was about to apologise again, I flinched when she came in close contact with me, giving me a loving hug.
"I'm sorry for saying those things, I was only trying to bring out your abilities, and it looks like your sword and magic react to your emotions, so these were the only things I could get you to come through," she said again whilst bringing me into her massive breasts clearly choking the life out of me, if I was breathing I'd be in heaven right now, the adrenaline I felt earlier now gone, with a big weight off my shoulders.
"Not going to lie, I kind of needed that, a bit of a rant, cheers Princess," I said whilst gaining some air.
"It is okay my little human, but as far as your powers go, you're pretty strong for just now awakening your abilities, it was quite exciting," she said whilst we both pulled apart from each other, noticing a crowd had been watching the entire time, we both sheepishly looked around, there was minimal damage, but it would be cleaned up with a bit of magic.
"Princess! Elliott! Are you okay!?" Twilight came running towards us in a funny manner. As soon as she got to us, she immediately got between me and Celestia looking at every angle she possibly could find for any injuries we may have sustained.
"Don't worry Twilight, we are both fine, as you can see we have no injuries to speak of." Princess Celestia said as she lit up her horn again and repaired the damage we did to the floor with our scrap.
"That magic you shot out of your sword Elliott was brilliant! Please show me again sometime so I can take some tests!" Twilight said whilst back to scribbling in her note pad. I, on the other hand, went over and give her a good scratch behind the ears and she leant forward in my hand. Damn, really cute.
"Ahem, now that we got that out of the way, I would like to ask you, next week when I'm next available, I would like to have you at the castle, not that I don't trust you but I'd like to get the word out there that you are here in this world, and I will be granting you a completely legal citizenship of Equestria signed by me and Luna," she said whilst I turned with a grin on my face ready to ruin the conversation.
"My my, Celestia are you asking me on a date love?" I said whilst giving her a half-lidded gaze.
"Well, if you want it to be, I wouldn't mind having you in my office to fill out some paperwork" she winked, whilst I got absolutely annihilated again, by my own game, whilst Twilight rolled her eyes at our antics.
"Oh! And before you go, Princess, erm, bit weird to say this but, would you like to be my friend?" I asked whilst finding the ground a lot more interesting.
"Yes! Of course Elliott, but when you get to Canterlot if we are not in private I would like you to call me my given title, as much as I hate it, it's to stop those nobles from being so uppity, and it would give me a lot more of a headache and paperwork," she said whilst a bubble of orange and golden energy surrounded her, whilst the onlookers simply went off to do their own business, me and Twilight waved goodbye.
"I will send you a letter! If anything happens Princess!" Twilight said whilst waving.
"I will see you both in a week, bye for now!" Princess Celestia said until she was there and then not.
Me and Twilight looked at each other, for a solid few minutes.
"So er, wanna go for a drink love?" I said whilst giving my legs a good stretch.
"Yeah, why not, I haven't had a good drink in a while, let's go!" Twilight said as we both walked.
"Oh shit I forgot my sword!" running back and grabbing my sword whilst Twilight shook her head.
Walking besides Twilight whilst she was flicking through her notes with her magic, I, however, was fumbling about with my strap on my hip, part of it was about to snap off at the seams since Celestia must've damaged it with her sword, I might just ask Rarity if she can fix me up a new piece of cloth so I can replace this with the new one.
Twilight was still flicking through her bloody notes, she was so distracted that she managed to walk into a wooden post, I didn't tell her to watch out because I thought it would've been funny to watch her until she gave me a death glare. Walking past a couple of the natives, they were smiling and waving at us, which I didn't get since I arrived here just yesterday.
Either way, I paid no further attention and simply carried on walking besides Twilight, who was also taking quick glances at me and so on. Which, I didn't mind but I could only wonder what's actually happening in her head right now. After the long awkward walk, Twilight's ears perked up once again and she was looking towards an outside cafe, we sat down in one of the available seats. We waited about four minutes before a female waiter came up to us with a note pad ready to take our orders.
"What can I get you both today?" the mare asked whilst her eyes kept on looking back and forth towards me.
"I will have a daisy sandwich and a cup of green tea, please and thank you, Emerald," Twilight said whilst giving her a quick sincere smile. In which she gave one back too, then she moved over to me, she looked me up and down and I gave her a slight smirk.
"See something you like love?" I asked whilst wiggling my eyebrows at her, and she blushed a bright crimson whilst hiding behind her notepad and then Twilight hit me over the head.
"Ow, okay, I was only having a joke, sorry miss, I would like a....do you guys do Coffee here? Or does that not exist." I asked whilst rubbing my head out of pain whilst glaring slightly at Twilight, she gave a huff in response.
"Um, yes sir, it exists, what type of coffee would you like?" Emerald asked whilst she looked between her notepad and me, ready to write something down.
"Er, can I have a cappuccino and er, sorry to ask this I know you guys are herbivores in nature but.." I leaned closer to whisper to the girl whilst Twilight leaned in as well.
"Do you have any meat on the menu?" I said, the waiter and Twilight looked taken aback and looked at each other nervously and I noticed a few of the other people seated a little way from us looking over.
"Don't worry! I don't eat anything sentient, if you don't have any it's fine, I can eat vegetables, but my species relies on protein to survive also, and I can see you guys are uncomfortable, I'll have a-" I was cut off.
"No no! It's fine! Totally fine! Sometimes we get Griffons over here that sometimes want something...a little different, what would you like?" she said whilst waiting for my answer.
"Er, I'll have an egg and bacon breakfast then, cheers love," I said whilst giving her a nervous sincere smile towards the young female.
"Is that all?" Emerald asked the both of us, whilst we both nodded our heads and Emerald wrote something down on her notepad and smiled at us and then walked away to fulfil our orders.
"So, about your species eating meat, are you guys carnivores? Twilight said whilst giving me a curious glance.
"Well, no, we are omnivores." I said whilst putting both my arms over my head to support my neck and leaning back on my chair.
"Well, I guess you're right, I think I kinda missed the opportunity to ask you, either that or Fluttershy would've asked you if she wasn't..you know, shy," Twilight said whilst sheepishly scratching her cheek with her left hand.
"The only reason I asked was that Fluttershy taught me a bit about different types of teeth and whilst you were unconscious in the hospital I got a good look at you," she said.
"Errrr, what do you mean by a good look?" I asked sweating slightly. She was quick to turn her head.
"Nevermind!" she shouted with wide eyes.
"Anyways... now you know we humans are omnivores, we can eat both plants and meat, I certainly don't like killing animals, I love them in fact, but, we need to eat meat to survive, that's just how our race is I'm afraid. If it's any consolation, we don't mercilessly kill for the fun of it, well most of us anyway, we try our best to make it quick and as humanely as possible. And in all honesty, I prefer meat over vegetables, but in future, I'll try my best to curb it around you guys, I wouldn't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable with my eating habits." I said whilst looking up at the light blue sky, deep in thought as the fluffy white clouds pass on by, feeling the wind pass through my hair.
"I still have to go see Rarity tomorrow morning for the clothes, I think after we've seen the Princesses I'll try to find a job around here, wouldn't want to be a mooching off you guys," I said with a smile towards twilight, she didn't hold the eye contact long enough though.
"W-well yes, I wouldn't want you mooching off us either! So you b-better get a job you!" She said whilst pointing an incusing finger at me whilst she was struggling not to blush, in which I found it hilarious and mildly endearing. But before we could continue the same waiter came back with two trays of food, placing both trays down on the table to their rightful owners.
"An Egg and Bacon sandwich, along with a cappuccino. And, here you go Princess, a daisy sandwich with a cup of green tea. If you need anything else, just ring the bell on the window over there and I'll be right with you." Emerald said then Twilight levitated what looks to be her purse and got a few golden coins out and magically handed it over to Emerald. Whilst Emerald was walking away we both dug into our meals.
The bacon and Eggs literally tasted the same as it did back on Earth, and I could only wonder how a daisy sandwich actually tastes like, although, I'd easily guess it would be absolutely fucking terrible. Moving on though, I decided to sate my curiosity, since hearing that two princesses can little wield the celestial bodies outside of their own planet is fucking mind-blowing, literal walking goddesses on this planet.
"Twilight," I said whilst waiting for her to finish what's left of that poor flower.
"Yes Elliott? What's up?" She said whilst staring into my own eyes promptly waiting for my response.
"Well, I have a question, the thing is, how the hell can two princesses move the sun and moon, when scientifically, both the sun and moon are extremely far away from the planet, especially the sun, I'm just absolutely mind-boggled to the fact that you guys can just disobey the laws of physics!" I said whilst slamming my fist down on the table, gaining a few startled looks from our surroundings and Twilight sheepishly saying sorry with her eyes.
"Oops sorry," I said whilst reseating myself properly.
"Well, I can't really give you a detailed answer, because not even I know how they actually perform that feat, all I can do is chalk it up to it being magic and the way this world or galaxy for that matter works," Twilight said with a shrug and a quick unfurl of her wings and back again.
"Huh, well yeah, I guess in future, anything that happens that is out of mine or anyone's understanding I will just chalk it all up to being magic," I said whilst crossing my arms in thought and a slight curl of the lips which caused Twilight to snigger.
"Yes, I'm sure you and Pinkie will be even greater friends when you see what she comes up with," Twilight said whilst trying to stop herself from laughing.
"Yeah you're probably right, that pink demon, who knows what's next, I guarantee she will pop up next to us or something in the next five minutes," I said whilst laughing quite a bit with Twilight. It looks like we've both finished our "Breakfast" if you can call a flower with two pieces of bread a breakfast. Anyways, we still had our drinks, and I don't know about you but other than tea, coffee is the best when drinking in the morning or past midnight, really calms the shit out of me mate.
Taking plentiful sips of my coffee whilst Twilight was just about finished with hers, until I felt something touch my leg, at first I thought it was Twilight but the table isn't that small, it was quite large in length. So I turned my head just slightly under the table, not seeing anything for a second, but as I looked closer, I could just about look under her purple skirt she was wearing, I stared for such a long time I didn't notice the presence next to me.
"Watcha doin Elly?" Pinkie said whilst her head was right next to mine, and staring at what I was looking at. Shitting my self I lifted my head up too suddenly, smacking the top of my head on the underside of the table eliciting a loud yelp after pulling my head from under the table.
"Pinkie!" Twilight said, whilst she narrowed her eyes at Pinkie Pie, whilst she was grinning like a kid.
"Ooopsie! I didn't mean to scare you Elly welly!" Pinkie said whilst rubbing the wounded part on my head.
"Yeah well, give me a heads up next time, fuckin shit meself." I said whilst finding my drink more interesting to look at.
"Sure! But next time I think you would be less scary if you weren't looking at Twilights pa-" Pinkie was cut off as I rushed towards her with one of my hands and covered her mouth and bring her head a little closer to mine, whilst feigning cheap smile towards Twilight, in which she looked confused.
"My wha-" Twilight began.
"Your shoes! Yeah! Your shoes look really nice, I just so happened to drop something and noticed your shoes looked really good on you Twilight! Hahahaha ha haaa.." I suspiciously laughed whilst giving peripheral glares at the pink monstrosity to let her know to follow along or else, in which she did.
"Yeah, Twilight! Really cute shoes! Hahahaha!" Pinkie Pie laughing, Twilight had a hunch she knew what was going on, although she didn't really care at the moment, she'll probably find out later.
Noticing the rising tension between us I quickly chugged the rest of my coffee putting it down, and jumping over the fence with humour like fashion, sprinting as fast I could.
"See ya later Twilight! I'm gunna go see what Rarity doing and how my clothes are coming along! Cheers for the lunch! Talk to you later!" I said whilst panting for breath, still on the trek of Rarity's boutique. From Twilight's eyes and Pinkie's they suddenly see me dart off, hearing some jumble of words and slowly getting tinier as they watched me literally run away.
"What was that about?" Twilight said whilst eyeing pinky in utter perplexity.
"Don't worry Twilight! You'll find out later, I got to go make more cakes so I'll see ya later Twilight!" Pinkie winked and was off with a cartoonish woosh living a bit of a dust cloud in her wake. And then Twilight levitated a book out of her bag and began reading away the migraine from Pinkie being well Pinkie.
Reaching the door handle of Rarity's home, I opened the door with a slight jingle sound coming from the bell at the top of the door frame and that got the attention of the seamstress that was 'in the zone' with sowing a black looking piece of cloth, probably for a shirt.
"Hello, Rarity how are you faring love?" I said whilst making sure there wasn't any dirt or mud on my shoes before I came in here, wouldn't want Rarity here to shove her horn up my arse now, would I?
"Oh! Elliott! I'm happy you came, although your clothes won't be done until tomorrow, what can I do for you darling?" Rarity said whilst lifting her head just over the sowing machine.
"Well, to be honest, I actually ran here to get out of a very awkward situation involving Pinkie and Twilight, not really important but, would it be okay if I hang around here for a while?" I said whilst subconsciously running the back of my neck whilst remembering the events if Pinkie hadn't followed along and simply told Twilight which I expected her to do, it would've become a real big fuckin mess.
"Oh! Of course darling! I don't mind your presence at all, I do like the company, I couldn't ask you to do any of my work, but, would you be kind enough to grab us both a cup of coffee? I'm going to need it since I'll be staying up at night to finish these fabulous pieces!" Rarity said whilst getting back to her work with a lovely smile on her white-coated face.
"Yeah sure, I'll be right back," I said whilst walking to what looks like the kitchen, standing in the cleanly white tiled floor, most of the counters were made of oak, whilst the cupboards where a cool grey colour to them, it reminded me much of a modern type home, although some bits in this kitchen remained as dated kitchens go. But what I did see was three jars of different substances, I noticed one was coffee because of the tiny brown granules in one and the other being raw sugar. Moving over to the middle jar though it looked like tea bags, and in fact, it was, I was beginning to wonder if the only tea they had would be green tea.
Grabbing both the jars, and a spoon from the drying rack that was already clean and dried, along with two cups both suited for a good cup of coffee, this would be my second one today, but who could say no to coffee? If you did it in my presence I would've spin kicked you so fast you'd turn into a literal tornado. Anyways, I grabbed the two cups and placed them gently on the counter, and then grabbed a teaspoon full of coffee and put it into both cups, doing it two more times until they were both evenly matched, then the same with the sugar, not too much not too little. And then I realised something, where the fuck is the kettle? Looking around for the metal contraption I eventually gave up.
"Rarity! Where the absolute fuck is your kettle?" I shouted across the room albeit a bit too loudly.
"Language! It should be under the sink! Just when you put the water in it close the lid and touch the engraved rune and it should do the work for you darling." Rarity shouted, although I was a bit curious as to what this rune was and how it would work. Wait a minute, who the fuck puts a kettle under their sink? Jesus, I really am in pony land now aren't I. I said whilst face palming, allowing myself to recollect my thoughts and carry on what I set out to do.
Looking under the sink I grabbed the kettle, black in colour with silver linings down the sides. What I did notice was a weird looking rune just below the lid of the kettle, the bottom of it had a rubber-like material meaning that it should stop some of the heat from burning whatever surface it's placed upon. I placed the kettle under a running tap with the lid open, filling it up to a point I thought was okay for both cups.
Placing the lid back on the kettle again, and hovering my index finger towards the weird-looking rune, placing my finger on the rune it glowed a light red, then the silver linings lit up as well with a slight humming sound to the kettle, then the sliver lines were being filled with a steady flow of red ones indicating that its either a timer, or it shows when it's done boiling the shit out of the tap water. A slight concern was at the back of my head thinking this thing might just explode in my face, but I ignored it.
Once the water was done boiling I emptied the contents into both cups steaming my face slightly. I then walked over to what looked like a fridge, and open it with my right hand, spying the milk I grabbed the cold container and placed it on the counter and unscrewed the cap, grabbing the spoon again, I put the spoon into one of the cups and began stirring whilst grabbing the milk with my left hand and pouring it in at the same time. Doing this for the second cup I allowed for both beverages to cool, and then I grabbed both cups and walked into where Rarity was working and placed her cup alongside her on her table.
"Here ya go Rarity, hope it isn't too bad, haven't made a cup of coffee in a while to be honest." I said whilst taking a sip of my own. In which she quickly nodded.
"Its fine darling don't worry, I think I'll practically drink anything right now to keep me awake. Oh! That reminds me I need to take your measures so I can get the exact dimensions of your physique." She said whilst lighting up her horn and a glow surrounded my body, then I was suddenly floating towards the back room.
"You know I could've just walked?" I said, slightly a bit miffed of being manhandled, with...er magic.
"Oh sorry, dear." She said whilst the glowing faded and I landed on my arse. Standing back up though I was in a room with lots of curtains and I mean lots, much be some sort of storage place I think.
"Now, I would like you to stay where you are and take off your clothes for me please." Rarity said whilst grabbing a measuring tape from fuck knows where, probably some pinky shit.
"Errr, is my shirt okay?" I said whilst eyeing Rarity with a bit of embarrassment.
"Oh heavens no darling, I need the full measurements, your waist, legs, torso and so forth, I can't have your clothes getting in the way, so I require you to take them off." She said with a sway of her tail and the darting of her eyes to the floor and wall.
Fuck it may as well, what's the worse she could do.
I began taking off my shirt, lifting it up and over my head exposing my stomach and chest to the white mare, although I could sworn I saw a bit of drool. Now I don't have much muscle, and I definitely do not have a six-pack, but I will admit my stomach and my shoulders and arms were a bit defined than usual, even my thighs too. Grimacing at the fact I have to show my boxers to an adult mare that may or may not be eyeing my torso up and down. I mean, let's be honest, if we all went to another world, and the inhabitants looked a little bit human, especially with thicc thighs who wouldn't want to smash that, you'd have to be fuckin gay for fuck sakes. So, In my opinion, I don't really see a problem with seeing a few attractive qualities in these mares. As cartoonish as they come they are quite pretty.
Finally removing my pants and the constant leering of Rarity's eyes made me feel a tad more uncomfortable as time went on, stepping out of the constricting clothing, I did have a quite noticeable bulge, and whatever you're thinking I definitely do not have a boner, it's just Im slightly bigger than you're average human, still didn't get a girl though, probably because I spent most of my time either reading or doing art plus gaming. I lived a degenerates life and I was fuckin proud of it!
Fuck you normies!
Rarity's eyes were a little closer than I thought, in fact she had shifted quite close to me without me knowing, she began wrapping the tape around different parts of my body, before going lower, and lower, and lower, to the point I was sweating actual bullets as she wrapped the tape around one of my thighs which were pretty close to where my dick was, and I definitely saw she was switching her gaze between the pair.
There's two possible ways I can go about this right now, get a boner and smack Rarity in the face, or running out of the boutique, except I didn't do any of those, Rarity got a little to close and just narrowly skimmed the rim of my private area and I suddenly freaked out and grabbed her horn and a bright flash emitted the entire room and then we were screaming and falling, right through a fuckin tree library, the Golden Oaks Library to be precise, breaking through multiple branches and hitting the actual roof of the place and falling straight through, along with Rarity on top of me, which I kinda liked, and finally slamming my exposed back onto the wooden like floor causing a loud tremor and all the books from each shelf to fall like dominos with a fumin Twilight in the middle of it all, and a Spike that looked like he wanted to cry simply because he knew he would have to clean it up.
I think I felt my back snap in multiple places, oh fuck, also the weight of this white unicorn on me is not helping! Jesus! How much does she fuckin way? Ohh...better not mention that otherwise she’ll probably stitch herself a human dress and wear me like a coat.
Gathering my senses and then lifting myself up I looked at a still fuming Twilight, it looked like she had caught fire actually, oh wait no, she is on fire. Huh. I lifted Rarity off of me and placed her gently down on the wooden floor. And looking at Twilight again, she seems to have calmed down, although she was sadly looking at the ground and sighing like a pubescent teenager. Then again I did just like, fuckin petrol-bombed Twilight’s place of living, whilst Spike on the other side of the room was brushing up the mess we did and along with putting the books away.
I did feel a bit guilty, and unfortunately, I forgot I was still practically naked, only my boxers covered of what’s left of my manly hood. I walked over to Twilight while she was still looking at the floor, I simply grabbed her and gave her a hug nestling my head between her neck and shoulder. She looked up at me now noticing I was basically half-naked she was blushing up a storm, I still hadn’t caught on. Until I felt a breeze that shouldn’t have been there.
“Er, why is it so cold in here? Twilight do you not have any central hea-” Looking down at myself two words were spiralling around my head at that moment.
Oh fuck.
“Ahh! Shit sorry!” I said whilst jumping aback a fair bit away from Twilight whilst she couldn’t look me in the eye. I noticed a piece of cloth big enough for my stature so I grabbed it by its smooth textured corners and draped it over myself. I mean, I have no problems with showing my bare chest, but when you’re literally a hair away from revealing yourself it is slightly uncomfortable.
“N-no its okay Elliott, can I ask why you’re basically naked?” She asked, still not looking at me, but she had her gaze fixed on something else, maybe the wall.
“Well, I don’t really mind darling but can you tell me why you grabbed MY HORN?!” Rarity shouted whilst rubbing the top of her horn, said horn was sparking a little bit, kind of like electricity, but magic... Heh, It’s like a penis.
“Sorry but, you were really really close to my crotch, and I freaked out. Didn’t expect to get teleported though! It was fuckin cool!” I said whilst crossing my arms and smirking at her with a jokingly look in my eyes.
She wasn’t impressed, although I did kind of find it hilarious. Surprisingly though I noticed that my back wasn’t in pain anymore, surely I would’ve at least had a bruise on my back from falling such a height, along with another person on top of you applying the force of the impact, I should of sustained more than just a bruise actually. But yet I’m completely fine. Weird.
“Well it wouldn’t have happened if you didn’t stop fidgeting and moving whilst I was trying to measure your proportions,” Rarity said with a huff and a flick of the tail, the emphasis on proportions was strangely strong on her tone. Twilight, however, was losing her patience with the pair of us, she looked up at the ceiling of her library and grimaced, realising that she will have to fix the hole that we through. I was more than willing to help, of course, seen as though it was somewhat my fault but then again it was more Rarity’s fault that it was mine. Not that I didn’t dislike it though.
“Sorry Twilight, would you like me to help you fix that?” I said whilst tiredly smiling at her in the hopes that she isn’t too mad at me.
“No Elliott, don’t worry, it’s easily fixable,” Twilight said as her horn lit up with a purple like aura, and bits and pieces from the ceiling that were lining the floor also glowed a bright rose colour and steadily lifted up floating all the way up to the roof of the library, all pieces came back together like a jigsaw puzzle which surprised me of how accurate it was, and multiple cracks of every individual segment where being resealed until it looked brand new, Ikea couldn’t top this shit at all. Fucking shit flat packs, why don’t they realise that nobody likes flat-packed fuckin furniture.
"Well that's neat, wish I could do that. Oh! By the way, what day is it?" I asked looking around slightly for a window to see where the sun is so I can determine what time it actually was.
"It's a Friday, and also since you have magic now, it shouldn't be too hard to perform a spell, although, since Princess Celestia said your magic responds to your emotions then it might be a little bit hard before you can get the hang of it," Twilight said whilst thinking deeply for a moment before she put it all to the back of her head for next time a conversation like this would arrive.
"Well, I've got all your measurements for now, so I'll be going. Oh and Elliott, please be at my boutique pretty early tomorrow, I have another order to get to afterwards, see you later Twilight, Spikey Wikey." Rarity said whilst walking out of the door. Spike, however, was giving Rarity a peculiar look on her way out. Looks like he isn't so sad about the mess that was now cleaned up.
"Soooo, Twilight, not to nag you or anything but, where would I be sleeping?" I said whilst fidgeting my hands in my pockets, a slight tap of my feet out of anxiety whilst waiting for her answer.
"Oh! When you woke up and had that little...fight with the Princess in which I'm still mad about, by the way, the room you were unconscious in is just up the stairs and down the half on your left, and on your right, the bathroom is there in case you need it." Twilight said, whilst she put her left arm over her head and her right on top of it to stretch, and I couldn't help but look.
"Thanks, Twi! I'll see you later, you too spike, I'm off to sleep, a bit of a mental day." I said whilst climbing the stairs, the exhaustion of everything, in general, has caught up to me, I could feel my legs and ankles buckle under the stress, I guess that's what you get when you go to another world, fall through the sky, nearly die, then nearly die again in a dream, then fight a princess after being unconscious. I could already tell the future ahead is going to absolutely scary but exciting, wait a minute.
Oh, fuck! I've gotta go see the Princess tomorrow! Ah well, fuck it, don't care, going to sleep, that's future me's problem.
"Good night Elliott! Oh! And if you need an extra pillow it's in the wardrobe in your room!" She said calling up to me as I traverse the steps of hell, which is making my legs burn even more, christ.
"Night dude!" I heard Spike shout.
Heading down the hallway, everything was literally made of wood, pretty expected since it's basically a hollowed-out tree library, reminds me of a place in Harry Potter or something. Walking through the hallway, I noticed Twilight's room, I slightly peaked my head around the door just to sate my curiosity. I let my own curiosity get the better of me and now I'm inside her room, looking around it was actually quite spacious, probably the next biggest room in this place. peering to the left of me and then the right two big bookshelves stood on both sides, a wooden oak table just to my left.
Looking a bit further to the right I noticed a little opening and another set of stairs, arguably smaller than the last one I climbed up from, walking into the centre of the room and behind me just above the bookcases was where the second staircase led to, it was Twilights bed, purple in colour, it looked quite smooth and silky from down here, I don't think Twilight minds if I'm in here, it's not like I'm going through her draws and peeking at her underwear or anything.
Walking up the little staircase I was now at the foot of her bed, a circular window placed just to the next of it covering the already night sky with billions of stars that you wouldn't normally see if you were on Earth, most of it was blocked by light pollution. I could see the beautiful shine of the moon just overhead and slightly out of sight no matter how much I rear my head to get a better look the glass would get in my way. Thinking back about Luna, Twilight said both Celestia and Luna are the rulers of this land, and both move those celestial bodies like it's nothing, but for some reason, my interest lied with Luna, was it her colours? The infatuation with the moon perhaps? I didn't know.
Leering just slightly to the right, I looked towards Twilight's bed again, looking closely at the intricate and original designs of the quilt really did impress me with its craftsmanship, really beautifully designed, and the different purples and the star-like logo really does go well with each other. It was slightly smaller than a king-sized bed, complete wooden bottom, I'm not sure if there where slats underneath it for the mattress, then again, I'm in an alien world so I'd guess it's completely different to ours.
I was about to walk away when something else caught my eye, I didn't notice it before but it wasn't exactly hidden either, there on the floor was what looked to be a pair of panties, white in colour with a few aesthetic like seams around the edges just a slightly different colour to the actual piece itself making it stand out even more. And my curiosity and slight perverseness got the better of me, again.
Picking up the panties, it had a tiny logo just on the right corner of it, if you'd look once you would probably not notice the logo but now looking a lot closer it looked to be Rarity's logo, the one that's on her arse. I could feel a slight bubbling inside me, the same feeling you get when you're doing something you shouldn't that is perverted in nature, the feeling you get when you're about to do something with a girl, was it nervousness? Anxiety? It was definitely a warm feeling. Maybe it was the fact that I was holding someone's underwear in fear that I could be caught at any moment. and cause a pretty embarrassing situation.
Thinking of it now, Twilight is a very beautiful gir- mare, then again they all look quite human, just a few characteristics and features show them that they are in fact now human, even the other five looked really beautiful in their own right, hell the princesses are absolute goddesses and even the inhabitants that walk around this town are nothing short of the word hot. It's like living in a world full of supermodels and I wasn't sure I was fit to be in it, I mean I have below-average looks, I've struggled to get myself a girlfriend, although that would be my own fault for not going out as much, but even then, I can't help but think that I might not be able to ever find one again, who's to say that the females of this world would even look at me if Earth women didn't then who's to say the people of Equss would?
As depressing as it is, I was completely alone in this world, no one of my kind, although it makes me feel special I don't really really like it either. Suddenly hearing hoove steps coming up I knew I was in trouble, looking between the entrance downstairs and the undergarments in my hand I threw the panties on the better not even taking the time to stash it away, I slipped behind the staircase that led up towards her bed, and just as I heard Twilight walking in here, it sounded like she was mumbling to herself, she sounded tired, although I am absolutely shattered right now, I needed to escape and fast, otherwise suffer this embarrassing situation that I could never talk myself out from and be labelled a pervert and a creep.
Shit if I'm caught here I don't think I'd be able to even be around Twilight anymore, this is bad.
Okay, all I have to do is wait until she goes towards the other stairs, that gives me enough time to quietly drop myself down from the edges of her little bedroom.
Twilight started yawing, she turned off one of the lamps just downstairs on the table I had passed, floating away some books to their respective places whilst she dragged herself along the floor ever so slowly, she must've of been really exhausted, I know I am. As she just about climbed her second stairs I quietly and stealthily moved to the left, making my legs go first towards the floor, it was a slight drop, but if I pull it off properly I shouldn't make a sound, lifting my self down with my fingers just on the edge ready to drop my self off to freedom.
Twilight walked past where I was before, if she looked a little close enough to the right she may be able to spot my fingers clinging on to the edge like a baby clinging to its mother. Thankfully she didn't, she went right past me, and went to her nearby desk, by the window I was once at, she was rubbing her eyes constantly meaning she was just about ready to go to bed, but when she turned around and strolled towards her bed she stopped in thought, her ears twitched and perked up like they've heard something.
Oh shit oh shit oh shit, if she finds me I'm dead! How the fuck did she hear me?
But I was wrong, she didn't hear me, I slightly moved my head to the surface to see what she had stopped at. And she was looking at her bed in confusion, she was looking at her panties, slightly crumpled on the bed, at this point in time I was white and lifeless, I felt my soul ready to leave its vessel, the cold shiver down my spine brought me back to the situation at hand. I was so fucked. Maybe if I just stay here until she goes to sleep?
"Huh, what's this doing here, I could've sworn I left it on the floor..." Twilight said suspiciously whilst rubbing her chin with her hand in deep thought. I, however, was struggling to breathe, the last of my strength was being zapped away from the pressure and weight whilst keeping myself from falling, quieting my breath ever so slightly so I wouldn't be detected, I thought everything was fine until she suddenly looked towards my direction.
I was rapidly failing to keep my grip, I could fall at any minute now. As soon as I fall, I knew it would be all over, and I'm going to be labelled a perverted creep for the rest of my existence, I'm going to be officially labelled a perverted creep on my Equestrian Citizenship forms. Signed by Ms FatassIliketoeatcakeallday and the blue reincarnation of feminism from the year 1903. Scratch that, either get chased out of town or placed on a wooden cross with stakes not through my hands and legs but through my balls instead.
Slightly was just a feet away, but suddenly, she stopped, and then I saw her turn around to pull over the colours, use her magic to turn off the lamp next to the window and then jump into bed with a grateful hum of approval and a turning of her right side with heavy breaths. Okay, now is my chance to make my move, it was dark but my eyes weirdly adjusted pretty quickly to the darkness, shifting my weight a little bit, I waited a few more minutes before hearing Twilights breathing slowly, even more, to let me know she had fallen asleep.
I dropped, I landed on my toes, as stood there for what it felt like years, but actually it was about three minutes. I didn't hear any movements or sounds from Twilight, so it looks like I was in the clear for now, just got to get to the door very quietly. tiptoeing towards the door very quietly, I heard a noise and a ruffling of the quilts, so I waited a few more seconds, I was so close to the door I could probably grab the door nob to the stairs and fly down the stairs like I was on crack. I waited for a few more seconds.
Reaching the door nob I slightly pulled on it's called surface, pulling towards my chest ever so slightly, the door creaked open, luckily not so loud. As I took my first step on to the boards of the stairs, the light switched on, I was stuck, frozen like a deer in the headlights, should I bolt?
"Elliott? What are you doing?" Twilight said standing where I was last at, she was looking at me questioningly.
"Uhhhh, hiya Twilight, uh, LOOK OVER THERE IT'S PRINCESS CELESTIA!" I shouted.
"What? Wher-" Twilight was cut off as I slammed the door, I bolted down the steps as fast as I could into the hallway I was in before, darting towards my room and opening the door then closing it with less force than I did the other one. I sat on the side of the bed with my hands in my face waiting for any sound to indicate that she was coming to confront me. Three minutes had passed, then five minutes, then a full ten minutes had gone by, it looked like I was in the clear, so I stri-wait a minute, I was still in my boxers.
What the fuck?
Awh fuck this mate, I'm going to sleep, Jesus this floor is slippy even barefoot, be a shame if I sli-
"Elliott what whe-" Twilight said since she opened the door so quickly, I slipped on the smooth floor and whacked the back of my head and knocked myself out.
Where the fuck was I now? I know I was in a dream, I'm no really new to the whole Lucid Dreaming thing, I use to do it a lot when I was on Earth, I got to a point where I could keep my Lucidity long enough for about half an hour or so, I did suck at creating characters out of thin air, but I definitely didn't suck at blowing up shit, and dry humping anything I could get my hands on, it was an...experience.
Right now It would appear to be that I am in my own dream and for what dream it was, it wasn't exactly bizarre like most dreams, this one, however, was, quite, normal-looking like a blank slate, white everywhere making it seem like I just died and I'm waiting for the man himself to appear in front of me before I can stick my foot so far up his arse that he'll be tasting my ethereal leather shoe. That's if spirits even have shoes or even feet for that matter.
So, I started to look around, I even created a few objects in my hand so I can further confirm that this place indeed is a dream, it wasn't anything fancy, just a regular old cube, making it disappear, I had a nagging feeling that I wasn't just here on out of a whim, It feels like one of those things that you get called for and you want nothing to do with it. And hey ho, I was right, the whitish realm darkened ever so slightly making way for a moon to slowly rise up into what I assumed to be a sky, then the moon grew in a gigantic size a flash and then nothing, but then I saw Luna cascading down with her normal like grace than before.
It was a nice sight.
As the princess herself landed on the void like floor the scenery quickly turned into a lush blue field of grass, with the moon back to its normal size and just slightly overhead with its ray of wonder shining down on us both, the starts dotting themselves across the night sky making my breath almost hitch in my throat from the amazement. And if it's one thing, is that I always prefer the night rather than the day, sure the day is nice, peaceful and beautiful, but it just couldn't compare to the galaxies stars on any planet for that matter, I'm just lucky I landed on a planet with a moon or a sun.
And even a slight breeze came into effect, wafting through my hair cooling me slightly, it was quite heavily in fact, I just sort of soaked everything in so much in fact that I ignored Luna trying to get my attention.
"Ah! Sorry, was just taking everything in, how's it going Luna?" I said whilst turning my head towards her with a small smile on my face.
"We are faring well Elliott, if thee were wondering why we have called thee here, it is because our sister wanted to remind thee of the meeting taking place tomorrow afternoon." She said whilst moving a line of hair out of the way, not sure how that works since the hair itself moves on its own.
"Also, thee will be accompanied by one of our guards, particularly from our own regiment. Just a fair warning, she is of the bat pony race, so I'd advise thee to not be alarmed." She said whilst taking a look towards the sky moving her hand around for a few moments making some of the stars in my dream disappear and reappear in different locations.
"Oh, didn't know there where bat ponies, not that I mind its kind of cool." Moving my hand towards my cheek scratching a phantom itch away whilst looking towards the sky to admire Luna's handy work, she was really experienced in this type of work it kind of makes me feel envious a little bit.
"Good, now that is out of the way, thou should be waking up, also, we saw your predicament and we found it hilarious!" Luna was laughing at your misfortune, what was worse? The fact that you basically got caught with Twilight's panties, or the fact that you slipped on the floor, shrieked like a little girl and knocked myself unconscious, again!
"Yeah yeah, laugh it up you great bloomin p-" You stopped your sentence before Luna gave you a stern stare as if to say, 'If you continue those words you'll be eating through a fuckin straw' but I didn't care, I continued because I knew the dream was about to end. So what did I do? I basically imagined I had a plasma grenade from Halo in my hand. And what did I do with said grenade? Watch this!
"Yo Luna!" I shouted as the dream was about to collapse, she looked over.
"Catch this!" I threw the glowing blue grenade towards her, it stuck on her hands, as she caught it though, she looked in absolute confusion then she started waving her hands erratically to get the little blue ball of death removed from her now pulsating hands, not even her magic would remove it.
"Elliott! Thou will tell us what this thing is!" She shouted over at me whilst I was laughing my arse off, I knew I was going to get in shit for this, but it was fucking worth it, I've always wanted to do this. Then it exploded in her face, which made me laugh even harder, the world was on its last straw and looking over to what I had done. The smoke dissipated and a furious Luna was stood.
"Thou Art Dead!" Luna said her wings slightly scorched and she erected them upwards ready to take off and pulverize the shite out of me. She was just upon me before the world shattered entirely and I immediately woke up with the image of Luna's enraged face.
I'm so dead when I get to Canterlot.
Getting up from my bed it looks like I was in my room, good thing they didn't put me in the hospital again, I wouldn't want Nurse Redheart getting all uppity and the fact that I hate hospitals with a fuckin vengeance. Looking towards my table on the right side nearest the window, a bundle of clothes were placed on top of the surface, moving on over towards the neatly folded pieces of material.
And it was my clothes that I left at Rarity's yesterday, thank god they didn't take my fuckin underwear, looking outside the window it was pretty early, the scenery had highlights of blue, like those winter mornings we would get. The sun hadn't even come up yet. Either way, I wasn't going back to sleep, when shit like this happens such as my body waking me up early than it should have I could never go back to sleep, no matter how tired I was I just couldn't. So the only solution would be to down some coffee like a proper legend.
After putting on my clothes again in which I felt really appreciative of since I was sick of running around half-naked. Opening the door and seeing the bathroom in front of me I then sniffed my armpits and noticed that I did in fact stink a little so I decided to get a quick wash. Moving into the bathroom the actual shower was slightly smaller but nothing too uncomfortable, either way, I shouldn't be taking Twilight's generosity for granted, hopefully, when all this shit is done I can get a job and start making my way around here, I may have been a lazy cunt living with my dad but here, definitely not, it's time I should be pulling my own weight and become a new person.
I was in the shower now, the water trickling down my entire body was a nice feeling I couldn't ever forget, I use to have long showers specifically around an hour simply because I would be in my head most of the time, just thinking, it was one of my places I'd spend my time relaxing whilst the water splashed through my hair making my body warm and cosy, it really made my mind drift away most of the time.
Lathering up my hair and hands rubbing my scalp not too harsh but just enough to let the shampoo seep into my hair follicles. The shampoo bottle itself was kind of like the one we had on Earth, but for some reason, I could read it now, maybe because I now have magic inside of me? Oh well, thoughts for later.
Rinsing my hair out and waiting for the rest of the water to drain, this shower wasn't like any shower, it seemed everything was powered by magic, and from the looks of it there were two runes etched artistically into the tiled wall, one for hot and one for cold, whilst a massive shower head was above me and a arcane circle just left of the other runes and if I put my hand in the middle like I'm clasping an invisible handle that you turn from left to right, slow or fast, it was pretty convenient despite how intricate the runes looked I kind of wanted to get myself in exploring this worlds magic.
Stepping out of the shower I spotted a towel, well, most of the towels looked the same, all of them were lavender in colour, the same mark that's on Twilights arse cheek, the only reason I know is that she was wearing a moderately short skirt yesterday. Grabbing the towel and wrapping it around my waist I grabbed my clothes in one arm and walked down the hallway, I knew I was naked this time, however, I was pretty confident nobody would be stupid enough to take it off, and I'm pretty sure that Twilight was used to my bare chest anyways so I couldn't really careless, to be honest.
Walking down the wooden steps I nearly slipped because of how wet my feet were from the shower, rubbing them slightly got them to dry themselves up pretty quickly and removing any worries I had of falling. Getting to the bottom of the stairs I inhaled the lovely fragrance of coffee, it looks like Twilight was down here because I could hear her talking to herself, Spike didn't seem to be around otherwise I would've heard his voice by now, walking towards the kitchen, I saw Twilight seated at her table with a book in hand and a cup of warm coffee in the other, not even using her magic, her wings splayed to her sides whilst she had a pair of reading glasses on, she was quite focused on what she was reading and didn't even notice me come in even though I walked passed her.
Hmmm, ah well, I guess I'll leave her be, I'll make myself some coffee.
Walking to the fridge I opened it quite quickly, grabbing the milk from the right-hand corner and placing it on the counter next to the dish rack, grabbing a mug from one of the cupboards just above me it even had Celestia best princess on it, looks like someone has an unhealthy obsession, I've only been here about a day and a half and I can already see she's a bit mental for her goddess, then again who wouldn't be? I mean just imagine those white thighs, I don't know about you but I'm a thigh kind of guy.
Putting the required contents into the mug and putting it over to the hot water rune filling up my cup whilst picking up a small teaspoon and swishing the ingredients enough for it all to mix properly. With my coffee completely done I moved over and seated myself in front of Twilight, I wasn't sure if she had known I was already here or she simply so oblivious she was in her own dimension or something.
Just sipping my coffee whilst thinking about stuff was really relaxing, with tea yeah it's nice and all but when I drink coffee I just feel a lot better, tired or not it really does its fuckin job. Switching my eyes back to Twilight for a solid two minutes before she noticed I was actually sat right in front of her.
"Oh! Sorry! I didn't know you where there Elliott, you could of just tapped me you know?" she said whilst placing her book down, her attention completely on me, I did, however, notice her eyeing my chest but I ignored it.
"Well, you looked so into your book that I didn't want to disturb you, I was just making myself some coffee. Either way, I understand, I love reading too." I said whilst looking at my none existent watch on my left wrist.
"Ah well okay, did you know it's nearly time for you to head over to Rarity's? It is 9 am after all," she said whilst putting her cup down with her magic. she was trying to slightly gauge my reaction, I, however, took a bit more time to react than I should of.
"FUCK! Sorry Twilight! Gotta go love! See ya in a bit." I said whilst grabbing what's left of my coffee and downing it in one gulp like the last time. I quickly dashed through the kitchen into the library with the towel still wrapped around my waist, I could hear Twilight chuckling in the kitchen, moving my way upstairs and launching myself down the hallway and into my room I quickly grabbed my clothes, pulled off my towel and let it fall to the floor.
As soon as I got all of my gear on I saw my sword against the wall next to the window, and my coat hanging just behind my door. Grabbing both my coat and weapon, typing my sword to my waist and wrapping the leathery coat around my entire body I was now ready to tackle the outside world.
I was at the door ready to pull the handle before Twilight shouted from the kitchen.
"Elliott! Make sure you meet me at the train station! Rarity will be coming with you so she will show you the way!" Blimey, that girl can half shout her lungs out, I'm only like a few steps away from the kitchen.
"Okay! No worries! I'll see ya later then!" making my way out of the door Twilight gave me a quick bye and I set off towards the boutique.
Walking through Ponyville was nice, it's a quaint little town, pretty peaceful, just walking through and noticing so many people with slight smiles on their face is kind of astonishing to see, you wouldn't see that anywhere on Earth, most people just look at you funny, or get angry, it's a really pleasant change of pace. I would walk by a few of the locales and they would way or say hi to me, I would, of course, return it. For some reason, it warmed me ever so slightly, I think I'm going to like it here.
I was at the boutique, opening the door with a slight push and again the bell sounded just above my head. Walking through the boutique I quickly gathered that Rarity wasn't near her sawing machine like last time, so I decided to call out for her, she must of at least heard the bell.
"Hello! Rarity! I'm here!" I said whilst taking off my coat and hooking it on one of the holders Rarity had placed just on the left past the door.
"I'm in here darling! Come see your new wardrobe!" she shouted letting me know where her exact location was, and it was in the same place where I nearly got touched up, nice.
Walking into the back rooms of Rarity's measuring room, she was currently levitating a handle of clothes, mostly cool like colours but what stood out the most was two leather belts, that was attached to a smallish looking side bag, or pouch, with a zip along the top for easy access. Was that mine?
I also took notice of the different coloured shirts, some long-sleeved some short-sleeved, most were either black, white and grey, mostly moody colours, it looks like she already knows me quite well. It's not that I don't like other colours, hell I like yellow for fuck sakes, even purple, but this is a start, who knows, I'll probably change the way I dress a little later down the line if I can be arsed. She also had a few jeans, a few softer looking pants for me to doss about in and even underwear, which I was a bit squeamish about.
"Hello, are those mine? Because they lookin fuckin brilliant love. Especially the leather double belt." I said with a lot of appreciation.
"Oh! Thank you, darling! I'm glad you like them, I thought it would be better to carry your sword with a little more style rather than a loose piece of cloth. Be a dear and try it on, since we are running on a schedule for the meeting at Canterlot it would be absolutely dashing if you wore it." she said with a flick of her curled hair whilst magicking it over towards my open arms.
"Yeah sure, I'll do that right now, I think I'll replace my shirt though with the black sleeveless one, feels, even more, silkier than mine," I said whilst taking my shirt off and replacing it with the other much higher quality piece of work. Slipping it over my head and then wrapping the double belt to my waist and clamping the belt buckles tight but not too much to cause discomfort.
Huh, I do look pretty 'dashing' in this.
"Now it looks like we are getting near enough to our deadline to meet everypony else by the train station, so I'd advise you to leave some of your stuff here and I'll teleport the rest back to Twilight's place when we all head home darling," she said whilst grabbing one of her diamond-coated satchels from one of the dressing tables to my right and slipping it over her petite form.
"Yeah sure, let's go then," I said whilst laying down the rest of the clothes on said table and walking out of the room along with Rarity behind me.
Grabbing my coat and sword from the wall, putting my sword through the little tight gap the two belts made keeping it sturdy and flexible enough just in case something happens. Flipping my coat over my body but this time making sure it's completely stuck to my body without putting my hands through the armholes leaving the cuffs hanging by its sides.
We were both walking through town again and I saw a few coloured specks in the distance one blue one flying a little bit obnoxiously doing loopy loops and such. Probably Rainbow Dash. They were all grouped together and as we got closer to them they started waving us over in a hurried manner.
"Quick! The train is about to leave you, idiot!" Rainbow Dash screamed at the top of her lungs along with a flick of her and tail in annoyance, to everyone's dismay their ears where slightly ringing. Me and Rarity nodded to each other and decided to slightly sprint, much to Rarity's misfortune since she's so 'ladylike' and shouldn't be seen running like a hooligan.
Eventually, the rest of the group had already got on after Rainbow had shouted, so the train was slightly moving ready to depart. We both sprinted enough faster now, and I was generally thinking of carrying her and bombing it down the bloody path. But, we both made it and quickly jumped in the train before it left without us.
"Well, it looks like we made it," I said whilst giving Rarity a rather coy smirk, she, however, huffed in response and a slight grin along with it.
"Yes, indeed, it would've been terrible if we missed the train, disastrous even," she said whilst walking past a few seats that were somewhat full. We both looked towards the other cart because that's where most of the noise is coming from, looks like we have a private cart, considering there wasn't anyone else in the carriage with them. A few of the locals or rather the locals of other areas since I hadn't really seen these people before, then again I haven't been out that much either, but they were wearing some really expensive 1920s clothing, some top hats, a few what looked to be fedoras, long waistcoats.
Is it really that obvious that I look different to everyone else? Then again, pinkish skin may give them an idea, either that or word has already got out that I'm basically an alien.
Is that the alien everypony is on about?
Yeah, it looks like him, I saw it on the Canterlot Sun's newspaper this morning.
Look, he's got a sword, scary!
'Well, there you go. I knew this would happen sooner or later.'
Moving past the prying eyes of everyone else on the cart, me and Rarity went through the doors that connected to our friend's seats, walking through the rather small wooden door I opened it wide enough for Rarity to step through.
"My what a gentlestallion, or rather a Gentleman in your case, very smooth." she laughed behind one of her hands and carried on walking. I simply gave her a sharped tooth smirk. Everyone perked up at our arrival, smiles on their faces and a very big one from Pinkie Pie, as usual. Me and Rarity seated ourselves next to each other.
I would say about 20 minutes had past and we hadn't got closer to Canterlot from the looks of it, slanting my head a bit to look outside the window at the massive fuckin castle on the side of a mountain, it felt as if years were going by, by just sitting here bored out of my mind whilst Rainbow Dash naps on one of the seats whereas the rest of the group was either talking or in Twilight's case, reading a book. Two options, either read a book like a normal person or move outside of one of the cabins doors to the guard rail and sit myself up on top of the roof of the train.
Fuck it, the roof it is! Because I'm a fuckin legend!
"Where are you going, Elliott?" Fluttershy looking my way whilst everyone's eyes were on me, even Rainbow Dash was awake looking at me confusingly.
"The fuckin roof!" I said with a joyful laugh and a shit-eating grin. Everyone else was wide-eyed, some even wanted to stop me, but failing because they were pulled back. Rainbow Dash, however, thought it was fuckin cool so she asked me if she could join me in which I obliged. Just stepping outside of the jostling train going at a somewhat decent speed I saw a ladder right past the window that leads to the roof, giving Rainbow a knowing grin, I walked over.
wrapping my hand around the bars of the ladder, I pulled myself up, whilst I held out my hand for dash to take it since, at this speed, any pegasi's wings will get flown from the train. Helping her up and on top of the train we both sat next to each other, she was on her back having a good ole time. Whilst I was sat cross-legged looking towards the mountain. We had gotten quite closer now but it looks like it's going to take until nightfall for this train to arrive, so I decided to lay back with dash, she had already fallen asleep so I chose to fuck off to sleep too.
Waking up to the sound of a train horn and the bustling of a massive city, I could also hear a few other voices amongst much louder sounds that were going on all around me. I was half asleep, however, a soft but harsh hand kept tapping me, trying to stir me awake but unfortunately, I was too groggy to care and slowly lifted my head back on the cold metal of the train cart. Until I was slapped awake by a certain Rainbow.
"Ow! What the fuck? Okay, I'm awake, bloody hell Rainbow!" I shouted, recoiling slightly whilst glaring up at the smirking form of Rainbow Dash herself.
"Come on idiot, if you don't get your hairy little flank off this train you're gunna get a fine," Rainbow said whilst pointing towards the angry conductor and an apologising Twilight, along with a disappointed Applejack, Rarity giving me the stink eye along with a blush? Pinkie being Pinkie, and a grinning Fluttershy. Spike, however, was carrying loads of stuff for Rarity and I was definitely surprised on how much he was holding, strong kid.
Rolling my eyes at the situation I put my arms and palms to the train itself lifting my legs a bit higher and using the momentum to spring myself off the train like an absolute mad lad, landing on the floor whilst everyone else watching. A lot of the onlookers also stopped during their da-wait it's actually night? Damn, how long did I sleep? And are those bat pe-ponies? Actually, I think every single one that is milling about are bat ponies, huh, thoughts for later.
"Well? Let's get this show on the road lads!" I shouted whilst walking towards the massive castle just a little ways down the road, I could somewhat see the gate entrance with purple and black armoured soldiers armed with spears, they kinda remind me of roman soldiers actually just without the massive muscles and such.
As Twilight cut off with the conductor with an apologetic bow and a stern glare at me in which I gave a grand cheeky smile at, we all started walking, it looks like the others are completely fine with all the bat ponies roaming about, a lot of them just simply stopped and stared at me, some with white glowy eyes some with red, yellow, gold and silver you name it, every sort of metal like colour, it was actually really interesting, I could also clearly see their fangs as well and that definitely made them a lot cuter, their tales and hair and coat, and a variety of colour in a monochromatic way, witch was fuckin awesome.
Moving past many establishments ranging from restaurants, hair salons although dated and a few weirdly looking antique shops, and that was just one road! There are plenty of alleyways and other streets expanding out from each other from every angle the eye could possibly see. Looking down one of the alleyways just on the right corner hand side I noticed another establishment, named The Half Moon Tavern.
It didn't even look run down or anything it looked actually quite pristine and clean with a lot of glowy looking ornaments donning the area giving it a somewhat eerie vibe but that all cleared my doubts when I heard a hail of laughter emitting from that area and clinking of drinks and mugs, definitely a place I'll visit after sorting this shit with the Princesses, need a drink after all the bullshit I've just gone through.
We were already at the gates waiting to be let in, just looking at the castle up close and personal it's a really breathtaking sight, the absolute fuckin size of the building is mind-boggling. Noticing the guards looking at me funny but as soon as I looked their way, they stiffened up and turned into stoic statues.
Laughing slightly, I walked up to one of the guards inches away from the guys stone looking face. Then I started making funny faces and whispering sweet nothings in his ear to get a reaction.
"Hey, serious question, what do you prefer, Celestia's massive arse, or Luna's thick thighs?" I said snickering like a highschool kid who thought it was funny to say penis out loud. The guard, however, raised his eyebrow slightly whilst the second guard had one of his eyes on us, clearly curious about our secretive one-sided conversation. And then he answered.
"Uhh, Luna's thighs all the way man, no doubt about that," he said giving me a sideways grin whilst I smiled even bigger threatening to burst out laughing.
"Ah! I see you're a man of culture yourself! Great choice mate! Same here! I'm a thigh man myself!" I shouted declaring with absolute honesty.
"Mare, actually, the names Amaris Virtue, and I'm one of the 12 Virtues of Aristotle, and I believe you are the new alien on this world, there's not many ponies out there that would willingly go up to a guard and speak about the Princess like that, and for that, you deserve a beer, there's a nice bar I know, somewhat quiet, most of the time, and since I have a bit of time later, you wanna go for a drink? I'm also your escort by Princess Luna's orders," she said whilst taking her helmet. She had somewhat curly hair too, although it was a lot straighter than mine, however, noticing her ears they were curved in a way with little cute edges on the top. She had blueish grey coat along with almost hypnotizing orange bright eyes. I was captivated.
"Well, not sure what enchantments you have on your armour so I'll apologise for calling you a guy. And I guess Im the only Human hear that has the balls to do it. And I'll gladly take on your offer, Princess Luna mentioned I was going to be escorted, by a bat mare no less, cute even." I smirked giving the mare a sparse view of my teeth. In which she snorted in a little bit of laughter.
Her eyes gleamed a little brighter at that comment, I wasn't sure if it was the moonlight or my mind playing tricks on me.
"Yo dude! If you are finished flirting, your gunna get left behind!" Dash shouted whilst the rest of the group was already walking through the gates.
"Yeah yeah, Im comin" I shouted back to her, looking towards Amaris again I nodded whilst she tagged along right besides me whilst another guard came past us and stood in the same station to take over.
Walking through the halls of the castle was beautiful, the pristine marbled walls to the marble pillars and multiple glass stained windows with different depictions of a certain group of mares. It certainly was a breath of fresh air compared to home.
"By the way, I hope you don't tell Princess Luna what I said, it mayyyyy cause some problems," I said whilst giving Amaris a nervous smile.
"That depends, I have to report everything to her, so no promises." Amaris winking in my direction. I knew I was absolutely bollocked if Luna finds out she's either going to be absolutely flattered or my arse is gunna be a new ornament next to the fallen enemies she has crossed paths with.
This one is dangerous.
We finally landed ourselves right in front of the massive big double doors, although I could clearly see the gold trimmings in the edges of the door, however, the darkness covered everything in a dark blue-lavender colour. The colours of the castle interiors at night definitely compliments the guards and decor brilliantly, even the few torches that line the halls with their blue fire flickering in the shadows makes everything a more mystical feeling. Then again, I haven't seen what it's like in the castle at midday, probably too bright. There where even massive banners lining the double doors with Luna's mark on them with a dark blue colour to the silk.
The two guards took notice of us and both pushed really hard against the tough exteriors of the thirty-foot double doors. Most of the group went silent upon entry. Whilst Amaris grabbed me by the hand and brought be forth with the group behind us. Celestia and Luna were seated at their respective thrones, six guards laid about the place, two nearest the door on both sides, two lining the middle, and finally the other two closest to the princesses.
However, me being me, as always I did a stupid.
"Yo! How's it goin your majesties!" Waving my hand rather obnoxiously and walking even further than Amaris wanted me to.
The group behind me was in somewhat a considerable amount of shock, but I wasn't bothered, Twilight, however, tried bringing myself to a stop, trying to make me neal, not knowing what I was doing I struggled slightly and was stood up despite how much Twilight was exerting her magic. Then the guards chimed in, multiple guards circled me, I think it was because I oh so nonchalantly walking up to them. I was about to neal to appease Twilight until one of the guards nicked me on the cheek with a noticeable small gash, with a tiny bit of blood trickling from it.
The princesses, however, was having none of this as they both got off their thrones to call their guards off, but being hit by a guard even in my fault, I was still fucking angry.
"You touch me again mate and I won't hesitate to force-feed you your own colon through your oversized barrel you call a nose. Prick." glaring in my peripherals to the guard, with a furiousness evident on my face. He, however, shit himself, because unconsciously, I was exerting some killing intent, like gravity, it weighed down on everyone in the room, the princess's where obviously unaffected and surprisingly Amaris too, along with Twilight, although they could feel it. It was a normal reaction, to be struck for something you didn't know about.
My sword at my side was silently shaking and vibrating at my side, I knew I had to calm my emotions since they were doing their job.
My emotions went back to normal, everybody in the room sighed and the guards went back to their positions, although the guard that struck me was a little afraid of me now, but I wasn't too arsed about that. However, I will try to speak to them later, wouldn't want any unnecessary enemies now would we? The princesses waved her hands for the doors to be closed and she lifted her hands once again for all of us to stand up.
"Guards leave us at once, this is an important matter." Luna stated with a stern look upon her face. But one of the guards hesitated.
"B-but your highness! we need to-" The guard started but was heavily cut off by a crack of Luna's hoof hitting the marble floor, cracking it into many spider-webbed tiles.
"We said, At ONCE!" Luna shouted, evidently a lot louder to create a small gust of wind to hit us and then the guards like a shockwave. The guard that stammered pissed himself and ran along with the others quickly, but giving me a sideways snarky look before he left.
So much for no enemies.
As Luna calmed down Celestia put a comforting wing over her sister before perking up at us once again.
"The reason we have brought you here is that not long before Elliott here arrived, we noticed a disturbance in the planets natural magic, once we investigated we eventually found out that it was chaos magic," Celestia said waiting for our reactions, I, however, was slightly surprised.
"You mean to tell me, that walking mismatch is actually the one that created the portal to my world in the first place?" I asked. The others turned toward me.
"You've seen him??" Twilight shouted, the group switched their gazes towards me.
"Yeah, I was falling when I came into your world, he teleported in front of me and then gave me a smirk and disappeared, remind me to thank him and then to pulverise his head into some concrete." Folding my arms with a huff.
"Sounds just like him, but, how did you survive the fall if nopony was there to save you?" The others nodded to each other in agreement whilst Rainbow Dash flew in front of me with confusion evident on her face whilst she jogged my memory.
"Oh! I forgot to mention that I nearly became a Human pancake before a gold sphere surrounded me just as I was about to hit the floor." This, however, got the attention of Celestia and Luna.
"That golden sphere, did it have weird runes on it as well?" Princess Celestia asked in almost earnest.
"Yeah, now that you mention it, I did somewhat see swirling runes for a split second, until I face-planted the ground," I grumbled.
Stupid walking mismatch, just you wait.
A few of the girls giggled at this, pouting at the ground and all that. Princess Celestia, however, had more words to say.
"Continuing on, I guess I'm going to have to have a stern talking to Discord. I'll try to see if he can send you back home, your family must be really worried for you Elliott," she said, whilst motioning for her sister to write up a scroll and quickly send it to Discord's dimension home.
I, however, stayed silent, no one else took notice to my stillness so they all carried on talking to each other. I wasn't going to say on what I felt about that. I didn't think I wanted to deal with it either. The prospect of leaving here? Even if it's been two days I kind of liked it here.
Nobody batted an eye, no one pressed Princess Celestia's statement.
I need a bloody drink.
"Well, it's getting pretty late, It's time for you ponies, and Human, to get some rest, we have much more to discuss." Princess Celestia informed, however, three of the girls didn't seem happy about it.
"Uh, I beg yer pardon, Princess Celestia, but uh, I ave a family to get back to, and more apple buckin in the mornin" Applejack giving a slight scratch to the back of her neck in awkwardness.
"Yeah! It's cool and everything staying in a big castle stuff but I've got some Wonderbolt stuff tomorrow as well." Rainbow Dash giving Princess Celestia a sheepish smile, Applejack turned towards Rainbow with a knowing grin.
"Oh really? Well, I heard from a little birdie that you actually wanna skip trainin and nap somewhere, Rainbow!" Applejack giving Dash the stink eye, whilst Rainbow looked between Princess Celestia and AJ with multiple droplets of sweat could visibly be seen coming off of her.
"Don't worry, you all deserve a break from what you've all been through, and I have a feeling you're all going to need it. I've taken the liberty of telling your family back at home Applejack, and you will be payed for the lost labour. However, Rainbow Dash, if you feel as if you don't want to be here, you don't have to if you don't want to." Princess Celestia said with a loving smile making Rainbow more prone to sweating buckets whilst everyone else looked at her.
She caved in.
"O-okay fine! I'll stay!" Rainbow said something else under her breath, something uncool something, that was all I got from her.
"Good, now, it's time to turn in for the night. Off you pop, all of you." Princess Celestia said whilst walking off with Princess Luna. The others agreed silently and followed.
As we got outside of the massive doors the two Princesses split off with a sisterly hug and went down both halls to two different sections of the castle. The girls however somehow knew where they were going so some followed Luna, some followed Celestia, me and Amaris however..
"I'll see you all in the morning, Amaris here promised me a drink, so I'm gunna get absolute smashed, I fuckin need it to be honest," I said whilst having my left hand in the air waving as me and Amaris walked towards the ending halls of the first doors we came in from.
"Are you sure you'll be fine Elliott?" Celestia stopping on her trek and craned her head towards me with worry clearly on her face, I could understand what she meant, what with me being the only Human on this planet and it could possibly be dangerous but I am literally 20 so I can take care of myself.
"Don't worry Princess, I'll be fine, if it's any consolation, I have Amaris with me. But if er, if I knock on any of your doors to let me in, ignore me." Walking even further ahead, the others looked at me with a curious yet confusing gaze but carried on to their rooms for the night.
After walking for what felt like hours, we finally made it to the somewhat outcasted pub that looked quite nice if it wasn't in a dark spooky alley. After giving a sideways glance at Amaris she gave me a grin and lead on towards the rawrs of laughter emanating from inside the tavern.
Amaris obviously headed in first, I trailed behind; I felt a bit antsy going into a place I didn't know anything about other than the fact that it's a bloody pub. Passing through the wooden flaps making an audible sound having all heads turn towards us, mostly towards me. As fuckin usual.
Ignoring the onlookers, Amaris sat at the front bar, sitting next to her one of the high stools I waited for the Bartender seen as though I could only see one attending to a group of mares, specifically bat mares in the corner of the room, I eyed them until their eyes snapped towards me, that wasn't the creepy part, it was the fact that their eyes shot towards me at the same fucking time like I was in some sort of horror movie.
Turning back towards the bar, the bartender was already in front of me in which I nearly fell out my seat because of how fast he crossed from A to B; A being the creepy mares and B being the actual counter. Fuckin ell.
"Hello, what can I get you on this fine night?" The Bartender asked; He was wearing a for what looked to be a pretty expensive suit, like a butler, sort of. Me and Amaris locked eyes again and she spotted my vicious grin, realising what I meant with just eye contact I turned my head towards the bartender again and asked.
"Hello, can me and my friend here have the strongest you have? Thanks." Amaris giving me a cocky sideways grin that made me chuckle a little bit, we are gunna get absolutely plastered.
The bartender nodded and grabbed a silver-like bottle on one of the top shelves with his magic among the literal millions of other drinks. Then he grabbed two rather modest glasses, clearly been cleaned and I could see my own reflection in them too. Then the bartender levitated over two pretty large chunks of ice, circular in shape, a bit rough around the edges but that didn't matter.
Putting them into both glasses he grabbed the bottle with his left hand and poured the contents into both glasses at the same time balancing them out to a half waypoint.
Both of us grabbed our drinks and clinked them together and down it all in one go, however, with this kind of drink we didn't know that it was a griffonion liqueur that was near enough the strongest gin in all of Equs. Almost enough to probably give me alcohol poisoning. I wasn't sure about Amaris though that was a complete mystery.
A few seconds passed, me and Amaris were aimlessly staring at our empty glasses. And then it all hit us both with a weight of a billion tanks all piled on each other. We had very sleazy looking grins on our faces.
Thirty minutes had passed and we were already out of the doors walking the streets, we were clearly hanging on to each other, the ground threatening our feet to collapse. We where nearing up the street towards the castle, a fair bit away I might add, either that or I was so pissed the castle might as well be floating. Amaris wasn't fairing any better, I think she was worse than me, flailing about, and what I did notice is that she's changed noticeably.
Her eyes where now slits but almost uninterested in looking at anything for more than a few seconds, they shone brighter than ever before, her coat was somewhat darker and her ears on the top of her head where also twitching back and forth, I did also notice the slight tuffs at the top that wasn't there before. Is this some sort of true form when she's not paying attention?
Oh well, she's fit as fuck mate, I couldn't really give two flying fucks right now. I'm completely off me head at the moment!
"Eyyyyy Aris, w-wanna, wanna go to Lula lands bedroom? Andz scare the absolute piss out of her yeah? Sounds good lez go love." I clumsily grabbed one of her hands and tried to run in a straight line towards the castle, failing miserably I slammed myself into a nearby dumpster bin with Amaris on top of me clearly dazed. Amaris shook her head to gain a semblance of cognitive function to get up.
"I thwink if I fly you up theres it w-would be faster yes? no? yes? Kwl." Amaris lazily grabbed just under my arm and shoulder lifting me up out of the shit piss and rubbish bags that littered just next to the massive bin. I was too confused to comment on what was happening because Amaris had decided to just lift me over on to her shoulders like I was piggyback riding her and then we were suddenly in the sky about a thousand feet.
We were literally above the clouds and just a tiny bit higher than one of the towers to the castle itself. She flew at speeds my brain couldn't comprehend, I could now hear voices right beside us.
I was right because there were two other pegasi screaming at us to lower our altitude and to clear away from our directory, that was the castle. They also tried a few manoeuvres to guide us away from the palace. I couldn't see Amaris's face because I was too busy trying to keep my stomach contents from not escaping out of my mouth and landing down below on someone.
I, however, decided to leap on to one of the pegasi guards on to their shoulders and somehow, grabbing hold of part of her wings made me realise I could literally stir her like a fuckin plane like I'm Remy from Ratatouille. In complete control of the guard now I somehow managed to dive bomber like I'm some sort of kamikaze suicide bomber ready to take out Canterlot. Smashing into one of the pane glass windows, unbeknownst of the fact that the pane glass windows with Twilight and her friends on it were completely and utterly disintegrated into tiny shards of sharp glass.
The guard was screaming, Amaris was pissing herself laughing having a jolly gay ole time and the other guard however was dumbfounded, but then again he had a slight grin curling at the corners of his lips. Me and this guard were in a heap against one of the walls. I thankfully got up just in time to see a squad of more guards just down the hall, one of them signalled and one of the others pointed.
"Halt! Stay right there! Don't even move!" I heard one of the guards say, I clumsily picked up the semi-conscious guard not knowing if he was a she since all the guards have some sort of illusion spell that makes them all look the same. However her helmet was off and her true form was also revealed, she was quite cute as well, dark red hair that curled at the bottom at a funny angle. I apologised very quickly and grabbed Amaris arm and pelted it down the long ass halfway with a bunch of guards on our tail.
The guards were screaming for us to stop some even took flight to catch up, but apparently my human magic-filled body unconsciously heightened my running speed for a duration of a few minutes. So now Amaris was piggybacking me whilst I sped around corners thinking I was drifting or something. Hell if I did a slide whilst absolutely half brain dead it might actually fucking work.
The guards were gone now, somehow we lost them in the chase. And hell we even arrived at Luna's door, and for some reason completely unguarded. Noice.
We both giggled to each other like a bunch of teenagers, well, to be honest, I hadn't actually asked on how old Amaris actually was but I was too drunk to give a shit.
"Rwite, heres the plan love, we are goin to run in there yeah? And den we jump on her yesss? You in?" I asked, whilst Amaris was taking all the information in, it finally clicked and she nodded. We both got from each side of the wall and we waited for any noise, any sound that would come from the room, the walls weren't exactly thin either, they were made of some sort of thick marble. Either way, we waited for a few more seconds.
"Three.....two.....one!..GO!" I shouted.
"Three.....two.....one!..GO!" Amaris shouted.
We both stormed in, the door was unlocked surprisingly but that didn't cross our minds, we were now inside Princess Luna's bed chambers. We could both just about see in the dark. I could obviously see the glow of Amaris's cat-like eyes. We could somewhat see the rising and falling form of the Princess herself.
We both created quietly towards the bed, we were at both sides ready to pounce.
And we did, but we expected to feel the mass of the women, but instead, all we felt was air pass right through us, it was a cold breeze, but suddenly we heard the door snap shut, a clear sound one of the latches locking as well. Among our drunken stupor, we were slightly scared of what was to come.
Hearing a sly chuckle from what echoed all around us, a misty purple haze surrounding us like a storm. my voice hitched in my throat, I wanted to cough but I couldn't, it was like I was suffocating, Amaris looked like she wasn't fairing well either, but she looked panicked, super panicked! I was still in my drunken state, only barely keeping enough conscious thought that was roaming my mind at a really high speed.
But then I saw an evil grin, sharp teeth that looked like it could tear through fucking steel beams with just one bite. I don't know about you but I was fucking shitting myself. I also felt a pressure on me, I tried to go for my sword but I couldn't it was like a hand was stopping me but there wasn't anything there.
And that's when another chuckle sounded.
Teal like eyes, the same as Amaris but more predatory looking peered just outside of the darkness.
The pretty tall figure walked out, only half of her body was shown and if it weren't for my fear and constant weight upon me I would've popped a massive boner.
"And what do we have here hmm?" the unknown figure purring with delight as her eerily gaze switched to the both of us, mainly me.
Yep, definitely death by snu snu, as far as the evil and scary ruler look goes, she definitely looks the part at least, hot as fuck as well. But, I have a feeling she’s not here to just ‘have some fun’ she’s already baring her fangs at me and Amaris, I clearly could feel my heart in my throat. My body was making it apparent that It’s either fight or flight at this point. Whatever choices I make now could either be the death of me or I manage to somehow pull a fast one on her.
All those choices were out the window.
“Soooo, you come around here often love?” I asked whilst looking around for an exit whilst keeping tabs on any of her movements. Amaris, however, was still stuck in place.
“Well, since you’re here I wouldn’t mind coming around here...more often.” She said whilst noticeably licking her lips, I grew a tad bit uncomfortable, but whilst darting my eyes to the window, to the door and her fuckin hips and tits I couldn’t help but wonder if this is a bad thing?
Amaris was still stuck in place, she hadn’t made a move nor had she spoke one word since we got here. Her gaze was still stuck onto the absolute pillar of beauty and death in front of us. I tried to wave a hand to wake her to see if she would react, but she didn’t.
I turned towards the pinnacle of raw sexual power.
"What did you do to her?" I asked the tone in my voice was clear that I was slightly fuming and somewhat scared at the same time.
"Look for yourself, little colt." Ignoring the last bit of her sentence I moved towards Amaris again and tried to touch her, but as soon as I did she crumbled like sand in the wind. There were no words to describe what I felt. I had only known her for a day, and yet, seeing someone die in front of me wasn't what I had expected.
I was trying to grab at the rest of the dissipating sand that continued to disappear. The last of her remains were on the floor. Tears threatened to fall, in fact, they were already falling.
I was a mess, a complete utter pathetic mess on the floor. Turning towards the instigator herself I snarled at her showing the canines of my teeth, my hand already on the hilt of my sword ready for the draw of fate. She only smiled in response, a rather disturbing one in fact. She moved closer and closer I didn't have any room to simply move out of the way and get the fuck out of here so the only way I could was through her. Breathing slowly, slightly seething, I breathed out a large quantity of air, grasping the handle of my blade, I drew.
Within a split second I was but a blur, the crackling of the floor that I just had leapt from, the sudden shift in temperature of the room making it apparent to my foe in front of me. I was mid-air, about to strike, to the dark form of the women she saw the pure unadulterated rage in my eyes, my eyes were reduced to pinpricks, the veins could be seen spreading out to the inner corners of my eyes like the roots of a tree.
I had struck something.
But it wasn't her, it was the dark flare of a purple like blade, it was a scythe.
Pushing against her blade I had pushed her back quite a bit, her smile fueling my desire to kill her even more. Swinging wildly my blade wasn't exactly coordinated, you wouldn't exactly think straight when you see a friend you've just made get turned to dust in an instant. My blade hitting all her defences pushing her back more and more until she took a step back and twirled her weapon above her head bringing it down on me, I hadn't had the time to react.
The long crescent blade went through my sword like it was made of printer paper, severing my wrist along with it. Surprisingly though, I hadn't felt the pain of getting your right hand completely cut off, or was it the shock and trauma that simply desensitised me to that point of not feeling anything yet.
Grabbing the remnants of my blade with my left hand I drove it into her shoulder, she only looked towards the puncture and didn't even have a care in the world, she used the butt of the scythe driving me back into the wall at a speed I couldn't fathom. However, I still had the broken blade in my hand, the scythe was embedded now into my left shoulder keeping me in place against the stone-cold wall.
I pushed myself even further tearing through the muscles and skin in my shoulder, it wasn't a pretty sight, blood and bits of bone spilling everywhere, strangely I didn't feel the pain, almost as if this wasn't real, surely the pain would've hit me by now, I was still pushing through the sharp thick edge of the blade.
I was violently struck in my abdomen making my entire body crumble through the wall behind me, but weirdly enough, the entire scene had changed, I should've fallen towards my death since we were in a pretty high tower but I crashed in a dimly lit hallway of sorts. I had no weapon to defend myself.
The woman silently walked out of one of the shadows that lined the halls.
"Any more bright ideas human? Her armour clinking with every step she took echoing through the halls with its dull sounds.
"To be honest I didn't think I'd get this far." A bit of blood seeping at the corners of my mouth, it looks like my injuries have finally caught up to me, there wasn't any pain though. 'Am I dying? No, I'd definitely know if I was dying or not.' I looked to my surroundings as she crept even closer towards me with her intimidating yet sexy strides. Her swaying hips was also a big factor of distraction but I pulled through, it was one of those moments when you're in a dream, then you realise that you're in one, so it's either you get excited and wake up, or you stay calm and use your reality checks.
One of them was sticking a stretched out index finger through my palm, so I did exactly that.
The had stopped, she was still moving, chest breathing ever so slightly, she was fixated on me, the only reason she stopped though was the fact that I am now lucid, and I have control of this dream. I knew truly well that she couldn't hurt me now.
I also realised that Amaris wasn't, in fact, dead and I was pretty relieved over that fact, I think it's the same feeling you get when you see someone you care about, or just started to care for, for them to literally die in front of you but only to wake up and realising it was all a dream, either that or an actual nightmare and you hadn't got stabbed multiple times and shot in the face.
As the realisation had set in, the scenery around me shimmered and wobbled like waves in the pacific ocean. The blood I felt trailing towards my chin at this point simply evaporated along with any pseudo like injuries. I stood up slowly eyeing her up intensely.
The anger I felt earlier left me, I guess wildly swinging your attacks actually does nothing to help the situation you're in and instead, making you look like an absolute twat.
"So you finally figured it out hmm?" she still was stood there not moving an inch at all towards my position. "The average stallion would've taken a considerably longer time than what you've achieved, quite impressive I suppose," she said aimlessly looking around before her striking slitted eyes fell upon me.
"Can we skip the bloody poetics and would you tell me who you are? You look like Luna, although a bit more...well endowed " I was literally moments ago trying to kill her but if you think she isn't fuckin fit then you're absolutely gay. At least I know Amaris is going to be okay, just got of mess around with her for a bit then wake up.
"You dare take that tone with me peasant? If I had my real body right now this all would have been child's play. I'll ignore your earlier comment because I am quite pleased you find my body more attractive than dearest Lulu. And as for your request, my name is Nightmare Moon." Nightmare said all that whilst casually giving her fingernails her attention rather than me.
"I mean not going to lie love but I think other pe-pon.. you know what fuck this worlds mannerisms; I think other 'people' wouldn't deny that fact. And by the way, before...how did you know I was Human?" my eyes once again travelling over her body, her form was a bit different than Luna's although her coat was a lot darker and her accents were slightly exaggerated; Hell, the way she talks is completely different to Luna's without the old English and shite.
"We are in your mindscape, a lot of things are laid out bare for all who seeks the truth. that's how I know what your species is and some of the atrocities they've created. However, there are other memories, that are locked behind a strong barrier, and you can guess what kind of memories they are." She said whilst finding the wall quite interesting, a look of forlorn and despair on her face, she looked deep in thought.
"So, how did you get inside my head anyway?" I asked not sure about what her answer was going to be.
"After your little drunk episode with the guards, I was in the mirror in Luna's room confined to her very reflection, Luna didn't know of course but I was there, slowly gathering enough energy to break out. That's until you came bursting in like a bumbling idiot, as soon as you and your friend decided it was a good idea to jump on poor old Luna you startled her and you were in the way," she said slowly looking up at me.
"And after that?" I asked.
"I was getting to that, impatient little worm." she spat angrily.
Oh alright, fuckin bite my head off why don't you, acting all bloody tsun-tsun.
"Funnily you got kicked through her wall and went unconscious from the force of the kick, most of the impact of the wall, the drunkness and terminal velocity were what did the most damage, however, I took a quick peek and saw that your body was unharmed, so she must've healed you. Your friend was the one that caught you.
"Bloody brilliant, then again, it was my fault that I decided to get drunk and suggest that idea to Amaris. Fuck sake." Rubbing the back of my head in deep thought, I didn't know how it was all going to go down when I wake up from this fucked up situation. That's going to be great at breakfast.
I was about to ask another question until a brief flash of one of the windows in the hall had a light glaring past it creating a crescent glow on the floor, like a spotlight at a prison searching for a prisoner Nightmare noticed this and looked over, whatever she was thinking was now gone and throw at the back of her mind.
A sudden realisation upon her face got me curious.
"Oh? It looks like dear Luna has caught on," she said whilst turning back towards to me with a sly grin.
"What do you mean?" Standing up to my full height I didn't know why I had been crouched all this time, I guess I was too deep in thought to notice.
"It means that she's finally caught on to something that may lead to finding that I'm alive."
I looked at her confusingly and followed her trail of attention and saw that it was past the window way up into the sky the rather large moon was overhead. The moon itself had what looked to be a looming shadow of two bright white eyes causing more light than usual to be displayed upon the landscape.
"It looks like dearest Luna is trying to decipher on what's going on with you, it looks like I'll have to cut this short. You're very lucky. If she hadn't suspected anything I would've taken over your body and regain my strength." She showed her rather sharp teeth, and if it wasn't for that fact that she was all 'Im evil, I probably have a terrible back story' trope then I would find her gnashers quite endearing and confusingly sexy.
"Yeah, like I'd let you! You may be really fuckin pretty and all but! You will not prevail! Who's going to stop me from telling everyone aye?" I said grinning with absolute victory, only for it to shatter to a million tiny bits.
"Because if you do I will hunt down everything you've ever loved and turn them to dust and throw them into the wind." Nightmare said without any hesitation.
"Okay prick, we'll see about that!" I shouted whilst dashing forward, sword already materialised with blue wisps into my hands. I was in swinging distance and I swung my sword overhead straight between her collar bone. Unfortunately, she had already met me halfway, palm striking me in the stomach sending me flying down the hallway.
Tumbling from the force I planted my sword down and through the floor to stop myself skidding across the hard marbled ground. I looked up slightly dazed.
"What the fu-" I started before I was cut off by the sound of a spinning tornado.
"You're lucky I don't take you right now, if you weren't an avid lover of the moon this would've ended a lot earlier than expected.
"We shall meet again mongrel," she said whilst a spinning blur of black shadows that encased the corners of the dimly lit hallways circled around the body of Nightmare Moon and then she dissipated.
I was left in utter confusion, and also the inner turmoil of the fact that if I tell anyone else about what happened here, people are going to die. I was conflicted for sure, I didn't know what to think or do. She was really fuckin strong as well. I felt like an ant in comparison.
The world shook, the moon had gotten a lot bigger, the halls that I was in had simply vanished in thin air, I was outside looking towards the ever-growing moon, just think of Saturn right next to your planet and boom that's how big it fuckin looks. Bloody hell.
It continued to grow, and shine to an almost blinding ray of light. Then completely nothing.
Being knocked out constantly was a recurring thing I've done since coming to this world, either way, at least it has been interesting than my old life. I had already woken up, I was in a quite comfortable silky bed, white in colour, birds chirping rather loudly through the open window near the right corner of the room.
The room I was in was simply amazing, that and it's fuckin massive!
To its pristine walls and the architecture of the ceiling, absolutely breathtaking now that I'm fully awake. And then the biggest migraine I've ever had hit me.
"Ohhhh fuck, bloody hell, my fuckin head! Definitely not drinking that shite again." I said bringing both my hands to my head in pain.
Moving my way off the bed I noticed I was completely undressed, boxers too, now that was giving me major red flags, whoever took off my clothes definitely got a good look. I noticed a pile of casual clothes on the other side of the bed, so I picked them up and headed towards the bathroom.
After having a rather hot and steamy shower I stepped out of the bathroom fully decked out with my casual clothes on, teeth brushed, and not smelling of shit, piss and disappointment. Christ, I feel like I'm Shane MacGowan. All we need now is some really shitty rainy weather and you've got yourself a fuckin shit hole in your entry.
I noticed my coat and sword were also against the bed stood up, the coat was hanging on the handle whilst my double belt was looped and locked around it. For some reason, I couldn't find my other clothes, the clothes I came to this world with, along with my shoes, so it looks like I'm going to have to go barefoot seen as though my socks were no were to be found. Fab.
Guess I'll leave my stuff here, as much as I love wearing my coat and sword on my hip, it definitely wouldn't go well with these new clothes, especially the colours. Walking towards the pretty large door I grabbed the golden ball handle and twisted it enough for it to click. As I was about to open the door my left hand shot up in reflex towards my ear, I realised that I've had my piercings on this entire time, through nearly falling to my death, nearly getting mauled to death by wooden wolves and a fight with a literal aspect of the sun.
I had two black circular piercings, slightly smaller than spaces, but the hole for the two pins to go in was small, I actually wanted to stretch my ears at one point until a few people told me not to since it could destroy my ears, you know, drooping pretty low and all that. I actually knew a person who had torn their ears and had to go to the hospital.
Anyway, leaving my room I noticed that there were no guards present in the hallway. All there was, was the ray of sunshine that shimmered down, the dust particles in the air clearly showing, moving in different directions. And the silence that burys my ears.
It was quite nice actually, the severe headache from last night was still there, but I could easily deal with it, although I’ve never been ‘that’ drunk before.
“Fuckin ell, this fuckin headache is going to drive me up the fuckin wall,” I said clutching my head again with slight gasps of pain.
I ventured down the hallway trying to find my way around this massive place, the halls sped outward in multiple directions and before I knew it, I was lost. Bloody brilliant.
Who could blame me though? I only visited the castle once! And that was for like...half an hour? In the fuckin throne room no less. I haven’t had the time to have a gander around these maze-like halls with not a guard in sight! I doubt I’d see Amaris again since well, it’s quite easy to put two and two together that bats, in general, are nocturnal. So she’ll probably be sleeping right now, and rightfully so since last night was fuckin hect-
Oh shite, I’ll have to keep what happened last night a secret. Fuck sakes.
I walked down the next turn into a different but same looking hallway, my mind was going a mile a minute on thinking what had transpired last midnight.
I hadn’t noticed I passed Luna’s room, from what I could hear was some slight construction working going on inside the open door. I felt a metal hand tap me on the shoulder. It was Amaris.
“Yo! I was about to go get you, you’re a little early to be awake though, how’s your head?” she said giving me a half-hearted smile, I could tell by the bags under eyes that she was also fucked like me. Minus the part where I apparently got ploughed into a wall by a moon goddess.
“Ehhh, I’ve got a raging headache and I feel like I wanna spark someone out, you, madam look the same way as me,” I exclaimed with a slight chuckle. She simply rolled her eyes at me.
“Yeah well, that’s what we both get when we down a bottle of Griffonian alcohol, and it’s their most powerful batch yet!”
“Ye ye, fuck that mate, never again love,” I said whilst running a weakened hand through my hair, It felt like I could feel the headache through my fingers like vibrations across my wrist.
“Remember anything from last night?” she asked, her eyes showing a bit of enjoyment and a slight turning of the corners of her lips, she was clearly trying to suppress herself from laughing. I deadpanned.
“Ah, yes, not that I remember but a little birdy did tell me I got kicked through a wall, everything else I sort of remember but some parts are fuzzy, I can’t believe I rode a guard though, wonder who it was,” I said clasping my right hand to my chin in thought.
“Yeah! Not gonna lie that was pretty funny! I'm not sure who she was, I hadn’t seen her around or at the training grounds.”
“Hahahaha, oh well, you only live once right? I should probably track that mare down and apologise to her, no doubt I fucked up her night, hope I didn’t get her in trouble either.” I said rubbing the back of my neck.
“Oh by the way,” she said looking at me.
“Hmm?” I responded. I wasn’t sure what she was going to ask.
“Who told you? Because you were knocked out for the majority of the night, whilst Luna healed you. I was stood by of course in case anything happened.” she said in a sympathetic manner.
Oh, bollocks! Fuck me! how do I explain that? Shit shit shit shit!
“Uhhh, Luna told me whilst I was dreaming, yeah that’s what happened,” I said avoiding my eyes from her, she looked suspicious for a moment before her eyes lit up.
“Oh okay! Just to let you know, down the hall into those double doors, it will lead you to the cafeteria, breakfast is ready so you can order whatever you want, I’ll come with you for a bit but I’ll have to go back to sleep since I got a shift tonight, weeell, almost every night heh. Your friends should be there too.” she said whilst I smiled and nodded.
I gave her a quick hug, her hard metal exterior cold to the touch was a little awkward, she was a bit startled at first but she gave in and returned the hug.
Walking down the hall again I waved my hand in the air whilst my other was in my pocket. I looked back to her and gave Amaris a toothy grin.
Turning to my left I spotted the double doors at the end of the hall, with surprisingly two guards stood at both sides symmetrically. The two guards spotted me, their expressions didn’t change, I simply nodded towards them and they nodded back opening the doors for me.
Walking in I noticed the entire cafeteria was packed, not enough that it felt like Mcdonalds in London kind of packed, it was somewhat okay to move around in, I saw that a massive table housed my friends, Celestia and surprisingly Luna. I already knew this was going to be awkward.
The others noticed me.
“Yo! Big guy! Come sit here!” Rainbow Dash uncharacteristically shouted. I however weakly smiled and obliged.
Sitting down I noticed that Luna was trying to avert her eyes but failing miserably, Celestia was a different story, she had a slight grin but also a stern look to her, I couldn’t read her properly at all. It was kind of unnerving.
“So, how are you all?” I asked to break the ice since it was getting awkward. The others turned their heads.
“Pretty good”
“Splendid darling”
“Mighty fine, thank you.”
“Is your head ok? Elliott?”
Some of them answered, most of them nodded, one of them questioned. I stuttered a tiny bit, not really noticeable to some, but definitely to one.
Celestia had asked that question, she definitely knew, I could now see it on her face, the stern look now increased, the smile gone, almost like stone. Yes, she definitely knew. I had to answer either way.
“Right okay, I can see that you already know, I did get absolutely smashed with Amaris, I rode a guard into one of your windows; Me and Amaris did go into Princess Luna’s room and decided it was a fuckin brilliant idea to jump on her, only to end up with one of us being bounced into Narnia from the force. And I really am sorry for doing that. I take full responsibility since I did coax Amaris into my little stupid plan.” I said without breathing, I was slightly gasping for air after that paragraph of words I had to spew out.
Princess Celestia’s face hadn’t changed, she was still giving me that stern sorry. I knew I had fucked up but there wasn’t anything else I could say, all I could do was sit there and eyeball her until the heat death of the universe. It felt like minutes passed, then hours, then months, then years. My mind and body and soul was waiting for the inevitable.
Death by hanging!! Raaahhhhh! Guards quick! Kill him for treason. Fuck me sideways I am so absolutely fucked, can I go back to living in my shit hole of a house in a shit hole of a country run by a literal twat named after a storm, fuckin Boris, the nob jockey!
Celestia’s stern glare and small frown had elevated as quick as it came. I was literally partying in my own little head at the thought. I may as well open my arms out to hug her, and I actually did go for it before a hand stopped my face, albeit gently.
“Well, seeing as though you have confessed for your atrocities against another pony, and co-ruler of Equestria,” she said waiting for the big finish, my brain had bugged out, I was frozen in shock, I was definitely dying inside at this point.
“Your punishment is!” she said whilst dragging it along for an extra second for dramatic effect. I had slammed my head on the desk out of despair.
“Death,” I said.
“Training with the guards for a month!” she exclaimed loudly for everyone to hear.
“What?” I said.
“What?” she also said.
Both of us stopped for a moment. Few of the others stared, even some of the background characters of this story stopped what they were doing. Most of them were guards from Celestia’s division.
“I thought I was in some deep shit?” I swore, flipping my arms in the air to match my attitude at the moment.
“Heavens no! Maybe a thousand years ago but definitely not now. You’re our friends and you’re to be protected since you are the only Human in Equestria, I wouldn’t sentence something like that, they are resumed for the most evil individuals and even then I’d either send them to Tartarus or the sun.” she said chuckling at the last bit.
Bloody hell, remind me not to get pissed and jump on her of a night, I’d probably get absolutely twatted to the sun.
“So, training with the guards for a month aye? Sure, I’ve been meaning to do some training, I wanted to practice with my sword a bit more and find out about magic and see what that’s all about.” I said resting both my arms around my head whilst leaning back on my chair. The others chuckled and smiled between themselves.
“Good” Celestia nodded whilst the others looked like they’re waiting for something to happen.
“So, when do I start?” I asked, consciously peering around the room to look at everyone's expressions.
“NOW! GUARDS! ATTACK POSITIONS!” Princess Celestia shouted. Princess Luna pinched the bridge of her muzzle. All the guards in the room turned towards me and darted.
“WHAT!?!?! OH FUCK ME!” I screamed jumping over the table.
More and more guards basically jumped at the chance to get a hit on me, I didn't have my sword on me. I was completely defenceless. The hall itself was actually pretty big, so there was a lot of room for me to dodge and weave in. But, their only problems I was going to experience are the fliers, Pegasi and the magic users, well actually most of them could use a bit of magic from what I could see.
I was definitely on the defensive, trying to get as much distance as possible on the many assailants. Princess Celestia was enjoying this. The rest of my friends as well. Bloody Bellends! just you wait! I will have my revenge! One of the guards slipped past me, almost grazing my left cheek with his wrist. The reason I could tell it was a he was because I noticed different proportions on the guards. Female guards did look a bit bulkier than the normal mare, probably from the training.
However, the illusion on their armour was slightly throwing me off. Hell, I could dodge and accidentally grab someone's tit and get backhanded through a wall.
A few more came in to take me down. I'm by all means an inexperienced fighter, but, I didn't do running for nothing! I'm actually pretty nimble when it comes to dodging and getting away when shit hits the fuckin fan. I wasn't really a sporty person, but, I was only good at running on my highschools massive running track. I think the only reason why I did any of that was that I had nothing to do during those times. No goal to speak of, I simply hated Highschool all together, I think it was the only exercise I actually got, besides skateboarding with friends.
So I guess my stamina is finally paying off. And since I've basically just been enrolled into the fuckin guard courtesy of Sun butt herself I'm going to have an absolutely fuckin long month ahead of me.
And I already dread it.
Moving out of the way from another guard trying to take a swipe at me a few more came at me at three different directions, the guard that I managed to escape from turned around ready to take another chance. I, however, ricocheted off the same guard sending him into one of the others.
I had gained quite a bit of distance from the rest of them. Celestia and the others were still watching, some with interest, hell Rainbow dash was literally clawing at her seat from the excitement. Again, weird.
I made a grave mistake.
One of the guards had snuck up behind me, and from what it looked like a hand outstretched straight into my back, kind of like a palm strike but instead the whole hand was glowing a darkish red with lighter red highlights swirling around the entire forearm.
I had a split second to react.
I spun around and pulled both my arms to my face, but, it wasn’t enough, the blast grew in size hitting me straight on sending me flying through the air.
I saw a flash of shock and startled faces of the others, my body felt like it was cindering at the moment, I also caught a glimpse of who attacked me, and what I did see was the same guard I met the other night, the one that nicked me in the face. He had a malevolent grin on his face.
Yep, so much for enemies.
Flying through the air like a ragdoll, I tried to correct myself. The hall was a pretty large place after all and the blast knocked me quite high, just enough for me to redirect my body.
I flipped my weight so that my feet were facing the ground, wouldn’t want to knock myself unconscious again now would I? I mean, how many bloody times have I knocked myself out for? Maybe three or four times? Ah, whatever.
Landing on my feet I skidded from the amount of force that attack gave me, along with a few first degrees and second-degree burns on some parts of my body, my new clothes were absolutely battered as well mate. What a fuckin melt.
Skidding to a stop the Princesses had already been up in the guys face, the other guards as well surprisingly.
Whatever that bloody fuckin was, it definitely took its toll on my body. It felt like my body was lifting five times more than my size all at once.
Slowly getting up and slightly wincing at the sharp pain that goes through my body I trudged further towards the princesses, the others quickly ran towards me, Rainbow dash under my left arm and Applejack under my right. Twilight was really worried about me, she kept saying a lot of things I couldn’t understand.
Mainly because my ears were ringing and all I could hear where shouting and other bits and bobs in the background. Everything was muddled up into white static, so I simply smiled and patted her on the head.
Luna, however, was pretty furious, more than Celestia was, Celestia was like the disappointed mother, but Luna was another story, more like an angry drunk Scotsmen, just without the proper English, old Shakespearian language mix with a few modern terms.
She then dragged the guy that attacked me with just the flick of her wrist out of the room. Celestia visibly sighed, although I was still a bit dizzy and shakey but nothing too serious I suppose. Celestia quickly turned around towards my slightly broken form comforted by Texas and Skittles over here.
She flew towards me in a very fast manner, she stood right in front of me and gave me a look over, her horn lighting up in a thin but yellowish glow, I felt a slight buzz all around my body and then nothing. I simply looked at her confusingly but then I felt something.
It was just a tiny bit of euphoria.
Then, a warmth travelled from my feet to my head as quick as a bullet travels from a gun barrel to its target. What I really would describe it as a mothers hug, warm and fuzzy yet content. A massive sigh escaped me. I noticed I wasn’t dizzy anymore, I could definitely hear everyone now which was good.
Twilight was crying into my brand new T-shirt, I'm not sure what Celestia did but her magic completely wiped out all of the injuries I sustained as well as my clothes. My clothes wherein literal rags but now they’re entirely new. Magic is pretty cool, I'm definitely going to learn a bit more in the future.
“Good thing I had many arms up, I’d probably be in a lot worse of a condition if I didn’t. Heh.” laughing slightly Twilight didn’t look amused, she put her head into my chest, surprised by her action I hugged her out of instinct.
“I thought you had died!” Twilight shouted looking up at me with her pretty eyes, slowly trickling with tears. I hugged her tighter.
“But I didn’t, nothing like that could ever hope to bring me down,” I said with confidence in my voice.
Twilight nodded her head and moved back to the others, Celestia gave me a once over to check to see if everything was all good.
“So, I'm guessing that wasn’t part of the little skit you had planned?” I said giving Celestia a slight smile.
“Definitely not, I told my officers not to discharge any type of magic, especially at that kind of level, it was a mear game of tag, not a deathmatch,” she said with a slightly angry shake of her head. I wonder what Luna was going to do to him? Oh well, you reap what you sow.
“You’re also going to be put into the guard tomorrow morning, and you will also be meeting your new commander and trainer,” Celestia said whilst levitating a few pushed over chairs and upside-down table back to their original places.
“You will also be switching between night and day, meaning, one week you will be training with my division, then the week after, you will be training with Luna’s division, and back and forth. It’s a very gruelling process and me and Luna have thought it over.”
“Well, I know it’s gunna be fuckin mental, but, on the bright side I get stronger and some proper exercise for once,” I said shrugging my shoulders.
We all got back to our tables and ate our breakfast. The day went pretty fast, to be honest, I'm not so sure on the correlation of Earth and Equs’s day and night cycles and how long they’re from each other. After quietly eating and feeling the phantom pains from the situation before, I decided to stand up. The others looked at me with confusion evident on their cute little faces.
“I'm gunna go to the courtyard, I think I’ve seen some of your guard's training out there, mind if I get a bit of exercise in?” I said looking over my shoulder towards Celestia.
She nodded in approval.
I gave dash a fist bump whilst ruffling Twilight’s hair, she gave me a glare but it soon turned into a sweet smile.
Moving over towards the big double doors again I turned my head slightly to look at Celestia, she also caught my stare. Then I grinned and she immediately knew what my face was saying.
“See ya later girls, I’ll be back in a few. Bye...Celly!” I said whilst giving her a playful wink, the others, as usual, were shocked, along with the guards that still littered the place, apparently, one should always be respectful in front of Royalty, especially when they’re one of the rulers of the land. For an unknown ‘creature’ to be so bold and comfortable with the highest known authority of this kingdom.
Celestia’s face was of an o expression. Until it turned into a sinister grin like she had found a secret that nobody knows of, and I can only wonder on what she had in mind.
“Okay, have a good day...Elly!” she said giggling slightly behind her hands, I blushed a bright crimson, she noticed and started howling.
“Two can play at that game,” Celestia said with a proud smile. Whilst tilting her head up slightly to imitate a stereotypical snob.
“Just you wait, I’ll get you back,” I said directing my index finger at her in fake anger.
She nodded, then giggling slightly again in which made me sigh, before turning around and walking right out the doors.
Twenty minutes later I arrived at my room. And again, no guards in sight. Normally I would see quite a few adorning the halls nearly everywhere I’ve been to. Huh. Pulling the golden door handle to my room, I was about to head in before I heard a tiny bit of movement from down the hall.
Leaning my head just over the cover of one of the pillars that lined each and every wall in a symmetrical pattern, I noticed nothing unusual so I pulled my attention away and decided to head in. And as I did so I heard another scuffle of hooves down the same hall again.
Pulling my head to the same position it was in I saw a silhouette cast in the sunlight just behind one of the pillars, just standing there all stoic with their piercing blue eyes and short white hair, said hair at the back cascaded into a long silver like a river, except, it was just silky smooth hair that went to the back of her knees.
She was wearing a maids outfit, to the collars, to the white frills and the short skirt that also have more frills on them. Everything else was just black. She was staring with a stoic expression. I couldn’t tell what she was thinking, but what I thought was.
Why the fuck is a maid just standing there behind a pillar staring at me? Am I about to be murdered?
Seeing this situation was weird and slightly eerie I decided to move into my room once again, tearing my eyes away from her again another shuffle sounded and Immediately back peddled with more speed than I was supposed to use making me trip slightly.
She’s gotten even closer! What the absolute fuck?
She was behind yet another pillar, a lot closer than before, same piercing blue unemotional eyes, stoic expression, extremely still movement, hell she wouldn’t even fucking blink the twat. Although getting a closer look at her she also was not hard on the eyes, why was every fuckin creature that is sentient on this planet hot as fuck? Wait, why haven’t I seen that many guys? The only few I’ve seen is through Ponyville, a few of the guards and spike.
Heh, harem kings dream. Bloody brilliant that is.
But sadly I have morals, and I don’t date more than one person unless people consent and agree collectively together, in fact, I don’t even date at all, much less drama to be fairly honest.
We had pretty much a long 10 minutes of staring at each other. But then, a miracle happened.
She finally fuckin blinked! She’s real! Fuck me!
“Sooo, are we just going to stare at each other until Celestia’s sun burns out or are you going to speak?” I said whilst crossing my arms with confusion written all over my face, even a bit of impatience since I could be out on the court field by now actually doing something.
She cutely enough cocked her head to the side. She was still stoic as fuck and then I saw a long-ass tale curl into view ever so slightly, just enough for me to see it, it has red smooth scales. Now that I see her face properly I also saw one or two red scales on the right side of her cheek, riddling most of her neck with them.
Wait...so is she a dragon? She can’t be! She looks nothing like Spike and to top it all off, her eyes weren’t even slitted from what I could see.
“Hmm, I’ve got to go now.” the unknown weird half-dragon hal- fuck it, can’t be assed naming all the multiple possibilities of what she actually is. This world is weird mate, I swear to god. She slowly turned around and walked down the hall, I happen to not see she was carrying a silver platter, up until now of course. I guess I was right, she was a maid. Her body type was petite, nice around the curves and such, a bit of a big waist, small bust, her height was slightly taller than me, scratch that, definitely taller than me, she was somewhat six foot.
I get the feeling that everyone I come across, sentient or not, they’re going to be taller than me and I absolutely hate it. Fuck sakes.
Shrugging and walking inside of my room again, I took a nice big breath of fresh air and spotted my gear still in the same spot where I left it. The double belt and my satchel still hanging on my sword. Grabbing my coat and quickly wrapping it over me, but I couldn’t be bothered to put my arms through and if needed I could try a quick draw, I probably couldn’t do it properly though, since I have no real experience besides a scrap and a few pieces of living breathing sticks. But then again, there’s magic, but even then I still don’t know how to activate that shit. I’ll figure it out later.
Strapping my two belts around my waist and thigh I slipped my sword through the loop and quickly did a once over and headed straight out of the door. I also saw that the door locks behind me. Must be magic I guess. I would probably know if someone was in here.
Making sure nothing else was watching me, I dusted my self and walked down the hall the pretty but weird stalker had been stood at. It was an incredibly long hallway, so long in fact that it took me at least thirty minutes to reach the courtyard, and not a guard in sight still. I soon found out as to why that is.
Because nearly every fuckin spot outside is bloody TAKEN! Like there’s got to be at least a hundred and something sun guards out here. I'm not sure why I don’t see any bat guards, maybe that’s why they sleep during the day and do their shifts during the night, yep, that explains it. But what it doesn’t explain as to why there is a fuck ton of guards blasting away at targets, doing push-ups, or even wing push-ups, most of them sparring each other, either with swords, magic, and other shit.
I was out in the open, I was literally on the steps leading downwards to the actual massive field itself. Most areas where full of grass, and others made of a stone I couldn’t recognise. Whilst the sparring areas also had some sort of secluded ethereal barriers around them, there where only a few dozen of them and two absolutely massive ones, probably for large scale combat testing or something.
They also had timers and names just above them, even a point system. It was really quite interesting to see magic being used like this. Would’ve been fuckin mental if we had shit like this at home.
As soon as I took my first step down the marble-like stairs, I caught a few eyes on me, from this distance it was hard to tell if they where male or female, but smaller stature in height and hip size should easily tell the difference between them. Moving slowly down the steps as my coat flows in the slight breeze and my belts clinking from the sudden motion, most of their eyes were on me, nothing new there I suppose.
Getting to the bottom of the steps I walked past many of the onlookers, I ignored them because I was actually looking for a little spot for myself to exercise at.
I finally found one, it was a little further out just on the edge of the overall courtyard, past a few bushes that somewhat secluded me in which I enjoyed because I wasn’t a fan of people watching me whilst I do my own shit. Throwing my coat from off my shoulders and onto a patch of grass I wasn’t worried that it might blow away into the wind since there wasn’t much of a breeze but only slightly. Drawing my sword from its sheath and keeping it steady at my side, I did a few test swings to limber up my wrists and shoulders, widening my stance I lunge forward at a decent speed clipping the air with the blade.
I would definitely need a trainer, there's so much you can learn from just watching other people train before you actually need the first-hand experience if I wanted to improve that is. I have a feeling Celestia and Luna aren’t telling me everything though. They were a little too keen on me training or joining the guard for that matter. But its fine, I’ll find out soon enough.
I recalled back to when Celestia taught me how to resonate with my weapon and since it has magical properties now I decided to sit down cross-legged on the surprisingly soft grass. Putting my sword just across my lap I closed my eyes and concentrated, trying to go deeper and deeper to find what I was looking for. However, I couldn’t get a single reaction out of my sword. It was bloody frustrating, I tried to go even further in but nothing was working. The only way it could possibly work is if I use my emotions.
But I just couldn’t get angry, or sad even. I tried to fake it but it just wouldn’t work. I think it only works is when I'm in a situation of peril. God, it’s so fucking frustrating! One thing I can’t do and it’s essential if I want to get better. Why is it there’s always one stupid obstacle that always gets in my bloody way! Okay! It responds to anger so let’s give it some! Getting nicked in the cheek from that stupid bellend of a guard that was getting a little bit too antsy, just like the police back on Earth. That was a fuckin douchey move, wasn’t it?
And then getting blasted in the back by the same fucking guard because he shit himself from getting chewed out from Celestia and Luna, fuckin stupid cunt. Ruined a new pair of bloody clothes as well the nonce. I mean, they may have not been my type of clothing colour wise, but for fucks sakes, I only had them for like what? An hour or so? Christ...
And now I can’t even get this stupid magic to work, why couldn’t it have been as simple as reading a bunch of words in a book and then boom! Fuckin done! Jesus, another thing my father would call me useless at. ‘Yeah, I wanted you to do something else, because more money!’, ‘Why would you go with art? Why not a doctor or an engineer? They get more money in the field!’, ‘Even if you go to University what are you going to do for money after that?’, ‘Why are you so useless?’.
Useless Useless USELESS!
CRACK
Opening my eyes suddenly to the sound of vibrating, a high pitch screeching noise, shocked gasps from an audience that without my knowledge had surrounded me where I was sat, the grass from where I was crosslegged was billowing outwards like a shockwave of energy constantly pulsating as it grows, my sword wouldn’t stop screaming, it was that feeling, that feeling I needed, the feeling I had to hold on to tap into my hidden powers, I needed to remember that feeling. The build-up and the end. The sudden surge in adrenaline that filled my core, If I could describe it the magic inside me was a weird prickly feeling, hot yet it wasn’t burning, and the same sensation as wanting to release when you need a piss.
I noticed there was a fair group of people surrounding the area I was in, most-watched with bated breath, the air was trickling with magic, sort of like an invisible gas, or aroma in the air sating it with static electricity. I was breathing quite heavily actually, my outburst had long since faded, but yet the feeling began to grow, my senses began to heighten, tunnel vision had now set in place, my breathing was erratic, I could feel the skin on my bones tighten, the pores of my skin producing more sweat. My ears were blaring, all I could see was the faces of awe and the oddly peculiar look on a female maids face.
Wait, that stalker girl is here? Sudden
Looking back at my sword again it was still screeching and trembling in my lap, the runes glowing a bright yellow, my breathing had quickened almost to the point of me having an anxiety attack. I was beginning to have an intense migraine clutching to my sore head the pain wouldn’t stop, neither the heat nor the constant rumblings and the pressure in the air continued to blanket the entire area with its intense presence.
I was so deep into my own head I didn’t realise the large feathery white wing covering my back with its comforting warmth. Everything up until now had simply left my shoulders and all of my stress along with it. Looking up completely out of my own bewilderment was Princess Celestia, she had that same motherly smile whilst embracing my left side as the other onlookers watched in curiosity and surprisingly happiness.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to get so enraptured into my own thoughts like that. I didn’t realis-” Celestia stopped me with a shake of her head her smile never wavering.
“Do not worry young one, it wasn’t your fault, we all have these thoughts that consume us,” she said with a slightly trance-like tone of voice. Enough to make me listen.
“Did I hurt anyone?” I said looking around the area to see if I damaged anything or anybody. But I found nothing.
“No, there are wards around the castle and some areas of the towns and settlements that have wards in place that notify me and Luna, plus the rest of our divisions whilst containing the source of the out of control magic,” she said whilst offering her hand to pull me up from my seating position.
Grabbing my sword and sheathing it whilst taking her hand and she then pulled me up.
A few people from the crowd were walking over, noticing it was a few of my friends, Twilight first, rushing towards me along with Fluttershy with a medkit in her grasp and a living breathing pride flag along with her. Fluttershy was a lot faster, however.
“Oh my gosh! Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”
“Fluttershy I'm-”
“Tell me where you’re hurt.”
“Fluttershy I'm fin-”
“What about her-”
“Fluttershy!” this got the attention of the ecstatic pegasus.
“Oh! Sorry! I'm used to taking care of animals and I just reacted.”
“Are calling me an animal?” I said with a slight smirk.
“Oh gosh no! I wa-”
“I'm joking Fluttershy, I was only teasing. I'm fine though, thanks for caring.” patting the buttery pegasus on the hair scratching slightly from ear to ear, she leaned into my touch obviously enjoying the feeling. However, Twilight got jealous and grabbed my hand and placed it upon her head. Fluttershy clearly grinning.
“I want head rubs too!” Twilight said pouting because Fluttershy was getting all the attention. Celestia giggled slightly at this, whilst I furrowed my brow smirking slightly.
“What are you four?” I remarked but obliged anyway.
“And I'm twenty-two actually, you’ve never told me your age before?” She asked cocking her head slightly, the others around me obviously curious because they leaned in slightly.
“Huh, that did slip my mind, oh well, I'm actually twenty.”
“What! I thought you were younger than that?” Twilight said in a surprised voice, she looked a bit nervous actually which was strange.
“Yeah, my birthday is on July the twenty-second, sorry that piece of information was lost to me, probably the whole new world thing and I just forgot. Heh.” Laughing slightly I noticed the crowd earlier has dispersed with one person left behind, it was that stalker maid again, or was she some sort of pony reptile hybrid?
“So er, what happened whilst I was, you know, out of it?”
“Well, you see it went like this..” Twilighted started.
Gradually a shattering earthquake sounded, getting slightly more erratic as the minutes went by, Twilight, and Princess Celestia along with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were talking amongst each other when it had appeared, the others were somewhere else on their own little adventures. As the rumbling sound and slight magic dispersion had been heard and seen the group responded, Princess Celestia had used a teleportation spell in close proximity of the disruption. From what they could see was a mass grouping of the guards just a little further down the massive courtyard, where the trees and bushes ended on just the outskirts of the actual courtyard were the actual disturbance was.
Twilight and Celestia nodded to each other and spurred on whilst the two others followed on behind, as soon as they got there though, they noticed a peculiar but dangerous sight. It was their alien friend, Elliott, who was sat down with his sword on his lap, the grass swaying outwards like a force ripping through the grass, shockwave after shockwave, the expression on their friend's face was a scary sight, as soon as anyone got close enough they would get blown back, they didn’t know what was going through Elliott’s head at this point.
The shockwaves and the ground constantly shaking turned up a notch once again and now the pressure came barreling down on them all, somewhere slightly arched over like gravity had gotten heavier than normal. Some had laboured breaths, Celestia and Twilight weren’t effected, neither Fluttershy nor Rainbow Dash. As soon as Princess Celestia tried to approach the sword cried out, screeching loudly almost bursting everyone else eardrums. She moved closer only for electricity to arch out striking the floor in front of her, she moved closer again with the same result narrowingly missing her by an inch as if to say ‘back away, otherwise I’ll hurt you.’ this didn’t detur Celestia at all, she had the power to easily defend against these attacks.
She moved at a quicker pace the electricity growing wilder and wilder as she drew closer, some barrages actually hit her but only her magic defence blocked the flowing current from reaching its mark. As soon as she was beside him, the others called out, trying to reach him but he couldn’t hear the outside world because he was so deep into his own issues that the outside world was but white noise.
Everyone watched Princess Celestia with fear and worry until her left-wing touched Elliott’s shoulder, the energy dissipated almost instantly.
“And that’s how it happened.” Twilight finished.
“Well shit, didn’t think I’d get so into my head that I’d cause such trouble, I really am sorry,” I said with a regretful look on my face.
“As I said earlier, do not worry, there was no harm done, you just need a bit more help with controlling the magic inside of you,” Celestia said whilst lighting up her horn making the air more breathable, she must have dispelled whatever was in the air from my outburst.
“Oh! Can I teach him! I have so many books that could help you out! We could go to the castle archives and have a study session! Ooooo! This is so excit-” Twilight was cut off.
“That won’t be necessary, I could have one from the 12 Aristotle to help him with that.” She said whilst Twilight turned on the deadliest weapon known to the entire universe, the puppy dog eyes! I couldn’t look away, I was stuck in a trance, I couldn’t say no.
“I wouldn’t mind getting more reading in, and since Twilight knows a lot about magic I wouldn’t mind, why not both?” I bargained, Twilight, however, jumped for joy whilst a certain cyan pegasus rolled her eyes mumbling eggheads, and Fluttershy silently smiling.
Princess Celestia nodded in thought, “Yes, that is okay, it is for your benefit after all, and it looks like my times up, I have to go back to my office to file out more paperwork for tomorrow. If you need me or Luna you can flag down a guard and they will show you the way. Have a good evening Elliott.” Celestia finished with a slight wink and teleported away with golden wisps left behind to disintegrate in the wind that had now started up again.
“So er, what do you guys want to do now? After that er...situation, I'm a little tired, I wanted to get some training in but oh well.” I said rubbing the back of my neck.
“I think somepony wants your attention.” Rainbow Dash said whilst nodding her head in the direction of someone that was stood there for at least ten minutes. Followed her indication and inwardly sighed.
“So are you gonna go over there or are you just going to stare at her?” Rainbow dash impatiently shouted down my ear.
“Jesus, you don’t have to fuckin scream down my ear...” Walking ever so slowly towards the pretty watcher whilst rubbing the inside of my ear with my index finger with irritation across my face.
Stepping just in front of her she eyed me curiously as I did the same. It took a moment before she spoke.
“I’ve been watching you for a while, Mr Johnston,” she said whilst staring intently into my eyes.
’Really? I didn’t bloody notice!’
“So I’ve heard, also just Elliott is fine, no need to make me sound like my dad.” I grimaced at the use of my last name, it makes me feel old.
“Apologies, Mr-” she began.
“No need for formalities, I'm not Royalty, far from it actually.” I slightly chuckled whilst alternating my weight between feet out of impatience and since I hate standing for too long.
“Do you need to pee?” The maid asked whilst tilting her head down and then back up to me.
“What?? No! Never mind that! What are you here for exactly?” I asked half shouting anxiously, she then eyed my sword on my hip.
“I would like to test your abilities in one of the duelling domes you passed on your way here,” she said whilst pointing to one of the massive areas fit for thirty-plus people to fight against each other.
“Wait wait wait, why do you want to figh- and you’re ignoring me,” I said whilst she had already grabbed me by the wrist, pulling me along I decided to dig my feet into the ground to stop her advancement but after another tug, she was literally pulling me through the fucking ground.
’How fuckin strong is she!?!?’
She continued to drag me away, making my arm feel like it’s going to be torn off. Whilst the others followed behind, Rainbow snickering with Fluttershy and Twilight surprisingly glaring a hole into the newcomers head.
‘Jesus Christ! Twilight help me! I am beginning to NOT feel my arm!’
Reaching out my other hand towards Twilight in a desperate attempt at wanting to be saved, thankfully though, Twilight acted like a true waifu and teleported me out of Hulk-chan’s grasp leaving my wrist to be a bit sore and raw.
“What do you think you’re doing? Corporal Boreal Fafnir?” Twilight said getting in the maid’s face. I went to stop her but I was cut short by the others.
“Apologies your majesty, I forgot to ask for our young master's consent; I was merely interested in his abilities and I simply wanted to see for myself,” she exclaimed whilst also having a staring battle with Twilight, clearly she wasn’t going to back down. But before it could get out of hand I intervened.
’Did she just call me master? Heh, Another thing I'm going to check off on my mental list of things I’ve wanted a girl to say to me.’
“Twi, don’t worry about it, I’ve been meaning to have a bit of training and from my earlier outburst, I’ve wasted enough time as it is,” I said shushing her up completely with a show of my teeth, she looked away.
“Boreal was it?” I asked, looking for confirmation. This got the attention of the stoic maid.
“Yes, Corporal Boreal Fafnir; One of the Twelve Virtues of Aristotle, I am the second virtue, Temperance. And also your superior and trainer starting tomorrow morning, young master,” she said with a slight bow of her head, the cuteness making me smile slightly. And a certain someone huffed.
“Well fuck; It looks like I'm going to get annihilated tomorrow then, hell even right now, never bloody mind tomorrow. But what the hell? I’ll take you up on that offer love, but don’t expect any surprises out of me.” I declared with a cocky grin on my face. Twilight and even Fluttershy went to protest but I held out my hand to stop them.
“Don’t worry, It’ll be fine, if something bad happens we will stop, won’t we Boreal?” I said giving the maid a sideways glance.
“Yes, do not fret your majesty, I will stop if our young master here can’t take the ‘heat’ as the youngsters put it.” Boreal said whilst eyeing me again with her icy stare.
‘You know, I can never read her, and that’s saying something.’
I gave Twilight another smile whilst rubbing the top of her head, Twilight was slightly taller than me making me having to arch my wrist slightly, but I managed. Giving her one last pat on her head I pulled away and she looked disappointed. I walked past Boreal and headed to one of the appointed ‘battlegrounds’ as I would’ve put it. Then Boreal followed behind me. Most of the guards were back at their respected spots of training and exercise.
“So, how does this work then? What are the rules?” I asked whilst we both stood on the edge of the forcefield in front of us. Most of the guards took notice of this and slowly the others that hadn’t noticed had now begun to turn their heads. Twilight and the others had caught up with us and were waiting to see what was about to go down, Rainbow Dash looked like she could hardly wait, anticipation and excitement were literally dripping from her. I, however, was a bit nervous, other than a quick one-sided fight with Celestia and now I'm going against possibly one of the strongest in this damn castle.
“Anything goes, there are three rules, no killing, no fatal blows, and to stop when either one has had enough or collapses,” she said whilst motioning her hand towards a small floating board just above the magical barrier, and it had the list of the rules she had called out. Along with it two empty boxes for what looks like names, but I'm not sure on how they’re going to get them, probably just chalk it up to magic.
Boreal Fafnir entered through the ethereal wall itself, like slimy water wrapping around her form before rippling off after she had completely step fo- hoofed? Yeah, not gunna go there either. After she had entered I also went in; now the feeling of going through a magic barrier is like if you’ve gone through a wall of slime or water and it was oddly soothing but yet really fucking cold. I wonder if fire barriers are warm?
Upon entering the duelling ground itself it was quite expansive, somewhat smaller than a coliseum but just enough to give anyone the movement space without worrying about the barrier walls themselves. As we both entered the giant space, most of the guards crowded again just on the outskirts of the walls. As Boreal Fafnir got to a decent enough distance we both waited for something. I didn’t have a clue on what we were waiting for but I stood still for but a moment.
Then a bell sound toned throughout the area making us look up to the board once again, our names and faces along with rank had appeared on both sides of the whitish hologram, although it was just magic, nothing to do with technology. My rank, of course, was zero, whilst Boreal’s had an impossible amount of wins and points. Now, this scared me because she had since stopped looking at the board and was staring straight ahead towards me again but with a different feeling, and intense one. This did make me take a slight step back and Boreal did somewhat notice because I saw her eyes dart to my feet and then back up again.
But like last time, against the wolves, then the Princess, I steadied my breath, if it was one thing I was magically good at, was to keep calm in really bad situations that could be proven fatal if I made a misguided step. Or if I simply hesitated. Now I knew she wasn’t going to kill me, but, since I know she’s going to be my superior and trainer starting tomorrow, I have a suspicious feeling that she’s going to be really hard on me.
’This wasn’t going to end well, I could feel it.’
I stared back with a ferocious stare of my own, the clouds looming over giving the surroundings a grainy look to them as shadows danced across the grass. Seeps of light had escaped and gleamed off of everyone's armour. Until the clouds finally covered everything within a thin blanket. My sword trembling in anticipation. I had my right hand just ready to draw at the handle. My left thumb just under the guard to flick it open at fast speeds like a trigger.
My breathing was apparent, adrenaline had now coursed through all my veins, my eyes locked on one being at all times, looking for different body languages to know when an attack would come.
’Wait a minute...she doesn’t have a weapon on her!’
’I can’t fight someone who is completely defenceless!’
’Oh, wait, her strength! So she doesn’t think I’ll do much so she won’t use a weapon on me? You shouldn’t underestimate someone you haven’t fought.’
“Sooo, where’s your weapon? I don’t feel right fighting a girl that is clearly unarmed.” I shouted over.
“Don’t worry, I have my weapon, you will see at the start of the match,” she said although a little quieter than me she still didn’t move an inch, just in the same posture with both her hands to her side and no stance either.
“Suit yourself,” I said getting back into my stance.
Then the timer started.
It started at ten seconds. Then moving on to nine seconds, then eight, then seven, my breathing got quicker, the adrenaline now rushing through my entire body. Then six. My grip on my handle had gotten tighter, and I started sweating. My heart had started racing within the confines of my chest. Then five. I had leaned forwards slightly out of instinct, my eyes completely trained onto her composed yet stoney expression on her face. Then four. The same tunnel vision had started up once again, like a fish eye camera lens, the areas in my peripherals had darkened and blurred slightly. Then three. I still had my thumb just under the guard ready to fire away. My feet were in a position of getting ready to launch myself at her. I definitely knew that even if she hadn’t had a weapon I most certainly can’t be relaxed around her. Then two.
My sword had now begun screeching again, not enough to irritate my ears but very noticeable to the sizeable crowd that had now gathered. Even Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Applejack had arrived and was now watching. There where some other faces I didn’t recognise, but they did have unique appearances. I also did recognise one, Amaris was even awake and was watching. Then one, after checking the corners of my eyes my focus was now back on Boreal. And what I noticed was her tail was completely out, rather than covered just at the back of her skirt. A bit of what I think was energy pressure or magic pressure I hadn’t deduced what it was yet had now begun to stir and seep out of my body, most of the audience and Boreal herself had felt it but none showed any reactions because I was too focused on the task at hand to take a look. Then zero.
It was an eerie few milliseconds, it felt like hours had passed, it felt like I was in slow motion, then it happened.
DING!
‘START!’ The announcer roared over the deafening silence.
My body reacted on its own, I dug my heel into the ground and launched myself across the battlefield. My sword was already drawn ready to strike. The wind whizzing past me. She hadn’t moved one bit, I guess that’s what you get with the unfeeling type.
I was finally upon her.
Swinging my sword from the left, I aimed for her right shoulder.
CLING!
The sparks of metal had dispersed, I had hit something very hard.
What blocked my attack was a great sword. The sword itself was almost the same size as her in the height! The sword had intricate designed etched into the blade itself, yet, spikes adorned the pommel and guard as if it was made from a dragon. Most parts of the blade had black and bits of purple mixed in to create an obsidian colour. There was also a bunch of runes etched somewhat similar in design to mine along the actual blade length.
I couldn’t budge her defence at all.
I tried to push even more but she wouldn’t move. Pulling back slightly she saw this, but I was too sluggish to react. She had slipped just under my guard and swung her back left hooved leg into my stomach sending me skidding backwards. I just managed to balance my weight from falling over. But I was in so much pain I didn’t register her already coming at me with her massive blade.
Bringing my sword up and bracing for the impact, she then swung. It hit my blade head-on and the strength was too much to handle so she sent me flying yet again in a different direction. My back hit the barriers walls. And I coughed out a bit of blood from the striking pain I felt at the bottom of my spine, my lungs were already burning and my legs were already shaking threatening to collapse at any moment. Taking another breath I readied myself and persevered forward.
Most of the others behind the barrier where shouting to end the match and that it was dangerous, but I didn’t listen, for the sole reason I was doing this, was to prove myself that I was of worth.
Firing myself at her again, I went for a feint, bringing an overhead swing down upon her, I stopped myself short when she went to block the strike. I ducked down at the last minute and kicked out my right leg and spun aiming for wherever her shins would be. My side sweep did contact, but unfortunately, it didn't have an effect on her at all. Actually, it did more damage to me than it did her.
‘What the fuck is she bloody made of? Steel?? Chri-’
My mental arguments ended when she brought down her sword on my semi laying form in which I performed a back step with her sword slightly grazing my arms. I managed to get some distance from her, I wasn’t so sure when she’s going to attack again. It’s more of she’s waiting to see what I’m going to do. It’s probably because she thinks I'm not much of a threat. It pisses me off just thinking of being underestimated.
’There’s that feeling!’
I took hold of that emotion and intensified it, my sword’s rattling increased dramatically, whilst the pressure in the air thickened. Most of the watchers recoiled, some were coughing but eleven newcomers plus my friends looked like they were having no trouble with dealing with it. I sprung forward again with slightly more renowned speed than I was used to. Going for her left, I span around mid-air for a three-sixty strike. She went to block again and when I had made contact with the berserker like sword I pushed forward a bit of energy in my blade unconsciously making a trail of yellow energy following behind my weapon, and with a clang her blade actually got lifted up slightly from the force, giving me enough time to send in a kick of my own into her solar plexus sending her skidding backwards, the dirt ripping up from her hooves that had dug themselves into the ground to stop her movement.
The crowd roared with surprised shouts which gave me a bit of a boosted ego, although it didn’t last really long because Boreal was in my face yet again.
I brought my sword forward to meet hers, sparks and flashes of metal and energy colliding with consistent strikes and the speed ever so gradually turning up. I alternated with left and right strikes like a flurry of blades from all angles, she blocked everything I threw at her. She swung from my right and I just so narrowly ducked from the impeding buster like sword, slashing my sword upwards she backflipped out of it before running at me again.
I quickly rolled to my right from her overhead swing making the ground shake from the impact and bits of stone flying in multiple directions like shrapnel. It appeared to me that her weapon was stuck in the ground just about halfway making me wish I hadn’t had taken this fight. As I looked up again she had disappeared, but her sword was still in its position; I looked around at every bloody angle but she was nowhere to be found. She just simply vanished into thin air.
Looking back at where she once stood, I saw that there was a gaping hole just big enough for her to jump into. My eyes widened. A rumble shook the ground beneath me then two hands came out of the floor and took hold of both my ankles and with just enough strength I couldn’t even push myself backwards. I didn’t know what she had hoped to accomplish with this tactic but nothing good could come of it.
Her sword that was still deep into the soil had glowed a bright crimson and then it dug itself out of the ground and turned towards me, the blade’s end pointed at me whilst it hovered slightly in the air with poltergeist-like tendencies. I was stuck, completely fuckin stuck. Then it hurled towards me, I brought my sword up but I knew it wouldn’t save me.
I closed my eyes once again for the inevitable.
Another metal sounding noise reverberated through the entire area, screaming could be heard from the barriers, even some surprised gasps were also heard, the pain I felt was excruciating, I felt it between my left shoulder, I felt like I had a bucket full of warm water thrown over me but only on my left side. Crying could be heard, it sounded like Twilight. I then heard chains, rattling chains, chains that were being pulled at a constant rate.
The pain had numbed considerably, I couldn’t feel my left arm, I knew that wasn’t good, I think most of the adrenaline had helped with that. I snapped my eyes open and what I saw shocked the shite out of me. My sword was in front of me, but my left arm was up in the air like it had been blocking something, although at the end of my arm and to my hand a red like dagger was in my palm, no, the weapon looked more like a smaller version of a cleaver crossed with a tanto. A red like ribbon was also wrapped around my wrists up until it stopped at the top of my shoulder, and from what it looked like, it was actually keeping more blood from spurting out.
Although the damage was already done and I was heaving pretty badly, I wasn’t used to this much damage, hell, if I am honest, getting stabbed by a tiny flip knife is miles better than getting a whole fuckin 6-foot tall sword through you, although it didn’t go through my shoulder it merely went through a few top layers of skin missing any arteries or nerves, thank fuck for that. But from the pain it was unbearable, it was like a searing white-hot pain, I actually wanted to cry my eyes out like a little bitch but definitely not in front of all these people, Twilight was still banging on the barrier, I'm surprised she hasn’t gone ape shit and blasted the thing.
A charging up sound hit my ears from behind me, but my left arm had already spun myself around fast enough to slice through not one but two small red energy blasts that at speeds the eye couldn’t hope to see. After stopping both attacks the weapon itself cracked all over and exploded into shards of energy tendrils and then ceased to exist, along with the ribbon that had covered my wounds. Said wounds had now started to spill out with blood again. No sounds could be heard. My feet begged for the floor to meet them. In fact, my whole body did.
How did I just do that? I didn’t move my arm at all, especially at that fuckin speed! It’s like I got fuckin dragged!
If it weren’t for this mind-numbing pain that I'm in I would’ve thought that was fuckin sick.
From the slightly raised eyebrow of Boreal Fafnir made me think that she too was surprised at what I just did, although I still couldn’t fucking tell or not. Her left arm and hand were outstretched with four fingers also pointing outwards whilst her thumb was curled into her palm. Her right hand had gripped her forearm. The end of her fingers and whole hand was smoking, probably from the excess discharge.
‘I may be fucked right now, but at least I looked fuckin cool doing it’.
Hacking up my lungs again, I would’ve fallen flat on my face if it wasn’t for Boreal to race forward getting just under me so I could put my weight on top of her. Heh, on top.
Boreal Fafnir lifted me up, she got under my shoulder and walked me across the somewhat torn battlefield, I couldn’t pinpoint where her sword was left, she must have dispersed it or something. The board at the top in the corner of my eye had displayed winner, with Boreal’s face on it. But looking at my name on the ethereal board, I also acquired some points, I went from zero to fifty real quick. Looking at Boreal from my left I gave her a smile.
“Soooo, how did I do?” I asked laughing and then falling into another coughing fit.
“I smacked you around for the first few minutes, but at the last moment, your true abilities shone through. Not only did you block a direct hit from my Hrotti and managed to direct it away from your body, but sliced through two of my Ciras Rebrum’s, which was very impressive,” she said with the first smile I’ve ever seen on her face.
’Damn, when she smiles she’s really pretty.’
“So er, was I at least cool?” I asked pretty tiredly.
“Cool? Well, you’re certainly red hot at the moment young master,” she said with a cute turn of her head.
I mentally facepalmed.
“N-never mind, just take me to a medical wing or something,” I asked lowering my head. We moved past the barrier and we both got hit with a wonderful ray of people. Twilight was the first obvious one to come to my side, whilst giving death glares to Boreal, although she remained oblivious.
“Elliott! Look at your arm! You’re bleeding!” Twilight screaming in my right ear giving me a bit of earache.
“Oh, really Twilight? I didn’t know! I thought my arm was pissing out HAPPY JUICES!” I shouted sarcastically whilst throwing up my one good arm into the air dramatically. Twilight didn’t look pleased, as per usual.
“Don’t worry Twinkie Twonk, I'm going to get patched up and I’ll be fine. I think.” I said whilst booping her on the nose. She went crosseyed and gave me a glare.
“My name’s not Twinkie!” She shouted angrily, whilst the others behind us laughed at her expense.
“Yeah yeah, whatever you say Twatter Flatter” I could literally see that she was screaming inside of her own head whilst the others were already on the floor pissing themselves.
Our group moved through one of the many halls of Canterlot Castle, we were all on the way to the medical bay to get me looked and sorted out. My bleeding had stopped, not sure how since I didn’t have any regenerative abilities. Boreal did point that out off-screen. I was dipping in and out of consciousness but Boreal and Twilight helped with banging my head to keep me awake. I had lost a lot of blood so I felt a little fuckin high, to be honest.
“Sooo, Tinkie Winkie, when I'm finished with my medical issues is there anywhere I can get a good cup of coffee? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. And I'm dying.” I said with a sad smile. Twilight rolled her eyes at my comment.
“I’ll get you some coffee when we drop you off at the medical bay, and some food too because you haven’t really eaten anything all morning, and it’s six in the afternoon! and I'm just going to ignore that first comment otherwise would you like for me to buck up your other arm?” she said sweetly with a maniacal grin that scared the shite out of me but also slightly warm.
“Yep yep, okie, I’ll shut up now,” I said whilst making a motion with my hand to indicate that I was zipping my mouth shut. She got the picture.
We finally arrived at the Medical bay, and as hospitals go, everything is always fucking white, boring, and it had that weird hospital smell. Walking in, Boreal still had me under my arm. And I was still in pain, although for some reason I was numb, probably magical bullshit again. And I just realised something.
“Oh bollocks! I forgot me fuckin coat!” I said throwing my head up with an exasperated groan, and flinching slightly whenever my wounds hurt.
Rainbow Dash perked up to this and got into my line of sight.
“Would you like me to get it for you? I can do it lickety-split!” she asked excitedly, which had me confused since it was a bloody coat.
“Yeah sure, cheers love, remind me to owe you one later,” I said whilst her eyes lit up with a suspicious grin on her face, the others already knew what that face looks like and looked at each other anxiously.
“Sure! I’ll hold you to it! Catch you later!” she said with a salute and then she was off, already down the long ass hallway and out of sight.
We moved past a few rows of beds, it was completely empty but we wanted to find someone that could help me sort out this wound, and maybe I could get some sleep since I got up early this morning and I still have a slight hangover from last night’s adventures.
Although I’d probably do it again though.
We did actually find a doctor and low and behold it was finally a guy! And he looked just about ten years ahead of me so he wasn’t practically young.
“Yo!” I shouted towards the doctor who is currently looking through some files from behind one of the curtains, his head popped out with a startled expression on his face, his head actually smacked the top of one of the machines.
“Oh! Sorry! I was a little preoccupied!” he said quickly walking over but as soon as he got a look at my arm he immediately moved from the right side of me whilst ignoring Twilight. Which was slightly funny to see since she had a pouty lip and everything.
“Awh, cheer up Twi cry, I’ll give you a present later,” I joked.
“I am not crying! You’re lucky you’re arm didn’t get ripped off!” she shouted The doctor gave us both a look before heaving my body on top of one of the beds, and I gotta say, they were fuckin shit! Like it was one of those beds that had line indentations in them so they would stick into your back.
“Listen, I am really happy you care so much Twi, but don’t worry I’ll be absolutely fine,” I said whilst yawning slightly. Twilight huffed but calmed down considerably, it was cute the way she always did that. Teasing her is my new best hobby.
“I don’t know about you lads but, would it be alright if I could just go to sleep right about now? I'm exhausted.” I said yawning once again, I stretched instinctively and my left arm flared up in pain again making me cry out in pain. Twilight was on me like a panther.
“I hope you get better soon...Mr Johnston.” Boreal said with slight amusement in a voice, but barely detectable.
’Did she really just make a joke?’
“I'm going to ignore that.” The others looked concerned but nodded and went off to do there own thing, I simply gave Boreal a nod whilst she quickly bowed and walked off.
Rarity actually was the last to go, and she was pretty quiet up until now, even Pinkie was, I don’t think I mentioned that her hair looked straight, normally it’s curly.
“Well, I have to be off darling, I do hope you get better, although it is not as serious as it was before. And I’ll have to make new clothes for you. Because the ones you’re wearing right now are in tatters love.” she said looking me up and down. I followed her gaze.
“Well shit, didn’t even know my clothes were literally half obliterated with slash marks and scorch marks. Cool.”
“Quite. Anyway, I’ll see you later! Take care!” she shouted whilst leaving, I simply waved her goodbye.
‘The only people that were here now are Twilight the Doctor and, wait... Fluttershy? Jesus, she’s already asleep one of the chairs, what the fuck was she doing today? Damn. Well, I wanna follow suit.’
“I’ll see you in a bit Twilight, okay? I'm fucked after all.” I laughed slightly, she gave me a smile and a giggle.
“You and me both, I’ve been running around for the Princesses all day until I heard the commotion. You go ahead and get some rest, I’ll be here when you wake up okay?” she said giving me a hug on my good side.
“Yeah must’ve been tiring. Good night. Twi.” I said putting my head on one of the pillows and closing my eyes.
“Night,” she said whilst walking out of sight. The doctor had gone to check up on a few things, they’ll probably sort out my wounds whilst I'm asleep, they might not be bleeding, but they have closed up enough for it to not be a major issue. So I was good enough for a nap.
‘Finally, I can fall asleep without getting knocked out, seems like a running trope around here.’
‘Oh well, on to the next chapter of my bizarre life I guess.’
I had woken up pretty late, not in the middle of the night mind you but, it was around ten or nine according to the moon just about reaching a quarter of the sky. The second thing I laid my tired eyes on was a vacant chair with one or two pink strands left where the person once sat; Fluttershy must’ve either went to bed or is somewhere else with the others.
Soft breaths and a rising and falling weight were on my stomach, it was Twilight’s head and arms wrapped in a cute fashion. Her arms supporting her head whilst the rest of my body added to the cushiony like feel. I could stop my hand from placing itself up on top of her head to slightly pet behind her flappy like ears making sure my appendages stay clear of her horn. Honestly, back at home, I would be looked at weirdly for patting a girl on her head like a cat, but this isn’t my world, this is a world nobody has ever seen before and I am determined to scour the entirety of it. My sense of adventure beckons me so.
I'm not sure what had happened but both her ears and tail started moving, her tail swishing from side to side on the left side of where I was situated. Her ears were also twitching, her head leaning towards my palm. If I heard correctly, I could hear a slight sound emanating from her, murmurs and whispers completely undecipherable but cute in its own way. This carried on for the next ten to fifteen minutes, I was simply lost in thought.
My thoughts ranged from the earlier parts in my life, flashes of a nine-year-old kid jumping up for a balloon in my nan’s house. The age was just an estimate, I didn’t actually know how young I really was at the time, but it was a simple time nonetheless. It makes you wonder really, how life can simply be a flash and suddenly you’re twenty years of age waiting to go to University and then suddenly being whisked away to an unknown land hurdling across space and time if it were nothing. For all I know my family could have long been gone by now. Time here could be vastly different from what I was used to.
I didn’t even know if Earth was still there beyond the stars in that tiny little galaxy we call the milky way. For all I know the planet may have been ravaged by disease and chaos, or war and disorder. Hell, probably both knowing the human race they would’ve already wiped themselves out a millennium ago. It’s sort of sad really, if we had pushed aside our differences for the betterment of our race and future then we would’ve possibly been among the stars by now.
Reminiscing about the past is a bad habit of mine, it usually depresses the shite out of me on most days. I'm not sure why I do it either. Thinking too much or thinking too little is also a habit I’ve attained over the years. One day someone could say something and It would mean absolutely nothing to me but then the next day comes around and something else has been said and I become irritated. Probably one of the bad qualities I have but you know what? I'm glad to be imperfect, no one is perfect and that is probably true across all life.
I'm not even sure why I'm getting bloody deep in thought about all this, I haven’t had much time to think to myself lately. And to be honest I’ve only been going with the flow since I first landed myself here. And I'm not sure how I really feel yet, I don’t think I’ve fully taken everything in, and I'm probably still processing everything that is happening around me.
Looking towards Twilight’s sleeping face again a weird like warmth filled me, enough for me to really genuinely smile at her resting form. I had realised something, I may have left everything I have ever known behind me, but this wouldn’t stop me from making something completely new and worthwhile, I have a whole vast world to explore! Creatures to meet, kingdoms to see, friends to accompany. And it all starts here and now. I have a chance to change myself for the better, better than I once was. A chance to be a different person.
This was the start of a new adventure, a new life. And I couldn’t have been more excited but scared at the same time. It pervaded me with excitement but along with a sense of dread for the future. I had been smiling whilst rubbing the tuffs of Twilights hair whilst scratching behind her fluffy like ears.
This, however, awoke the sleeping princess. Slowly her eyes began to open, her ears moved towards my direction, her tail had long since stopped moving. Her head whipped to mine and as soon as her gaze hit my eyes she smiled making me smile along with her.
“Morning sleep head, how was your nap?” I said giving Twilight a cheeky grin showing a slight amount of teeth. She didn’t seem bothered by it since you know, they’re mostly herbivores.
“I should be asking you the same question Mr Lazybones,” Twilight retorted with her own cheeky little grin of her own. In which it gave me the sudden urge to pat her head again.
“Yeah yeah, whatever you say sparkie.” I laughed to myself, whilst Twilight was giving me the pouty look. But she giggled into her hand straight after.
“You know, I don’t know how you come up with all the silly names you give me, and I can’t even think of one!” she said finally getting up from my chest. I hadn’t realised that my wounds had been magically healed. “It’s because I'm just so awesome,” I said whilst giving Twilight a thumbs up in which she rolled her eyes at. But suddenly I saw a gleam in her eyes and a snidey grin appear on her face, and a look I knew all too well.
“Well, there’s one that I’ve recently been made aware of by the others...” Twilight said slowly moving her eyes towards me with mischievousness intent. And I slowly dreaded it. Because I knew what was coming. And I couldn’t stop it.
‘Please don’t say it.’
“Oh, what was it now? Hmm, I wonder...Oh! It’s Elly!” she shouted whilst falling backwards in laughter whilst I only grimaced and cringed a the use of that nickname.
‘Fuck sakes’
Right now I was strangling Twinkie with my mind. I couldn’t even remember who told who about that name. Must’ve slipped my mind, most likely.
“Yeah yeah, laugh it up you little lavender devil you. Before I bounce you off a curb.” I smirked giving Twilight fake evil eyes, she didn’t seem phased at all, probably because she knew I wouldn’t do anything to hurt her. She quickly reseated herself on the chair Fluttershy had been sitting on.
I noticed Twilight’s eyes linger on the small coffee table to the right of me and her ears and tail perked up again with a mind of its own. I saw there was a medium-sized cup on top of it. It was the coffee I asked Twilight to get, although I noticed the lack of food.
“Oh! I completely forgot about your food and coffee!” she said immediately getting up and rushing over to the right side of me alerting me on how fast she was when she gets slightly worked up. “Don’t worry about it Twilight, we can simply get some more at the cafeteria,” I said trying to wave my right hand in front of Twilights now anxious face. This didn’t work, however, because she quickly ignored the appendage trying to get her attention.
“But you haven’t had anything to drink or eat! You must be starving!” she said grabbing the now cold cup of coffee and she was about to dash out of the room if I hadn’t leaned over and grabbed her tail and pulled her back almost spilling the cup she had in her hand. She gave me an annoyed stare but I simply smiled in which calmed her down from having a panic attack over the lack of food her friend has had.
“Listen, I’ll be fine, look, my wounds have healed and we can go to the cafeteria when the doctor checks me out of this place,” I said pointing at the bandages that wrapped some parts of my shoulder, hands and stomach, probably from that kick Boreal gave me to the solar plexus, in which hurt like a bitch.
‘Either way, I got to get a glimpse of her underwear with that kick, so I say that was an absolute win. Heh.’
“But! Bu-” Twilight tried to rant a little bit more but I stopped her with a finger to her lips and they were surprisingly soft and just a tiny bit fuzzy. Weird. But not unpleasant.
“Right, love, do me a favour and go get me the doctor so I can get out of here and we can go get something to eat, okay?” I said pushing my finger a little bit further making Twilight go crosseyed in which made me laugh a little at how silly she looked at this moment.
“Okay...I’ll go get the doctor, but no getting out of bed just yet! I want to make sure you’re okay!” She said before scampering off to find the only male I’ve actually seen in this place, I couldn’t really tell the guards apart, many of them could be either female or male and I have absolutely no clue.
I was back in my thoughts again, but they weren’t as depressive as the last, I think that’s my only problem I know I have, is that I think too much, I stay too long inside my own head to a point where it becomes an obsession of doing it, kind of like daydreams, you listen to some music, it inspires you and maybe gives you ideas and feelings and suddenly you’re lost in your own little world unknown to anyone. Heh, that only started during the earlier days of Secondary, well, Highschool for you Americans.
I would always lose my self in my own thoughts, haha, I was actually at the back of the class looking outside the window most times just like those cliche anime protagonists. But I think that’s what sparked my creativity, daydreaming and music turned into drawing and playing music, I was actually in a band for sometime when I was sixteen before all the drama kicked off. I still am pretty decent at playing the guitar. Although I wouldn’t say impressive but just enough.
Before all that though I was an avid reader, I would constantly stay up all night with a book and lose my self in those stories. Or mostly fanfictions and original works on my computer until my eyes started to give out on me. I was about to delve even deeper within my memories before I was knocked out of my self induced stupor.
Twilight was already in front of me waving a hand at me trying to get my attention, I saw that the same doctor that was here before was stood to my right side. I didn’t even see him come in. The doctor had grabbed something from one of the little pockets he had on his long waistcoat, it was white in colour with a few red and gold accents. The object he grabbed was some sort of long rectangle like object that had a few gears and intricates into its design. It actually reminds me of the inventors back in the Victorian era would make, either that or steampunk.
The gears that were basically apart of the entire contraption were turning and clinking along with each other, the end of it had some sort of light but it wasn’t a lightbulb, it has some sort of swirly like white and yellow magic in it I couldn’t explain nor feel. Usually, when I'm near anything magical I can somehow feel a slight pressure, Celestia’s had a godly warm feeling to it when she showed it. Luna’s, on the other hand, I hadn’t had a chance to truly see or feel it but what I did notice was that it was cool but icy at the same time, truly interesting.
“What are yo-” I was cut off by the doctor putting his hand on the left side of my face and prying my eyes open whilst surveying the little magic-powered gadget from left eye to the right eye, I wasn’t freaking out or anything but I was giving Twilight concerning look and then back to the doctor.
“Don’t worry sir, I'm just scanning for any issues from your earlier fight with Ms Fafnir. But from the looks of it even without any tools or magic screenings you seem to be a bit out of it and confused, probably a mild concussion. You should be fine though, but...” the doctor turned towards Twilight, “I’d suggest Princess that you keep an eye on him if any more problems arise.” he said whilst turning towards me again.
“Yes, I will be here for a month so that wouldn’t be a problem, we will both be going to the cafeteria to get something to eat and drink. So if you could check him out we’ll both be on our way” Twilight said rather diligently, the doctor nodded in response and quickly pulled away from scanning my eyes with his little doohickey thing. But I had a question to be asked.
“Twilight, what do you mean you’ll be here for a month? I thought you’d be going back with the others whilst I ‘train’ with the guards as punishment,” I sarcastically added the last part although I don’t think anyone noticed.
“Oh sorry, I forgot to tell you, I actually got stopped by Princess Celestia on my way back here, she wanted me to teach you on the customs, history and magic and other things to get you finally situated with staying here on Equs. Since you don’t know much about this world she thought I was best suited for the task, I must prepare all my scrolls and equipment for this test! Ooooo, what am I going to do?!” Twilight was now panicking again, she kept pacing about the room whilst the doctor looked on in mild amusement.
She was still pacing, talking to herself about tests and failing and princess duties and all that jazz. I rolled my self of the bed taking the covers with me. The doctor stared at me incredulously whilst my head popped up just higher than the bed with annoyance written all over my face.
“I meant to do that,” I said whilst pulling myself up and walking straight to the dishevelled and panicky Twilight. I stopped her in her tracks, grabbing her shoulders at both sides immediately stopping her from pacing any further. She looked into my eyes for what felt like a long time. Blinking a few times albeit cutely. I didn’t have any emotion on my face, it was stoic, kind of like Boreal but less impressive.
“Twilight..” I began with the quietness of my voice whilst the doctor stared on curious as what was about to transpire.
“Ye-” Twilight was about to reply but I cut her off with me shaking the absolute shit out of her, her head bobbing back and forth whilst she was comically shouting ‘Ahh’ every time her head would go the opposite direction.
“Chill, the fuck, out!” I shouted stopping my barrage of shakes. Twilight looked dizzy but she pulled through. She had calmed down considerably and it looked like whatever I just did had actually helped. Cool.
“Okay okay, let’s go get something to eat then,” she said nodding over to the doctor, making him walk over to us. I inched over ever so slowly to grab her by the shoulders to shake her again. Twilight noticed very quickly.
“Wait! Not aga-” she was cut off once again with my arms grabbing her by the shoulders and violently shaking her a second time to make sure she isn’t having a panic attack, but at this point, I'm probably going to induce one if I don’t stop. So I did.
“Sorry Sparkie, was just making sure,” I said with a huge grin on my face. But my head was sharply turned downward because Twilight had bonked me on the head with mild indignation.
“Okay, I deserved that, sorry.” I slightly laughed rubbing the back of my head. Twilight only hmped in response and grabbed the doctors quill and paper board with her magic and written what looks to be a magic signature, the board itself and even the quil looked pretty vintage, but that’s what you get with a medieval fantasy-like world I guess.
“Okay, it looks like everything is in order, Mr Johnston, you are discharged, please take care of yourself, don’t get into any more fights.” He said whilst straightening out his jacket/coat, bowing slightly to Twilight and a quick nod to me before departing out the door.
“So er, wanna go now? I'm starving,” I said impatiently, the grumbles and growls of my stomach getting louder from the thought of food.
’I wonder if they have something similar to Pepsi in this place, I could use a fizzy drink right now.’
“Yes, let’s go, oh! And before I forget, your coat, belts and a new pair of boots and socks that Rarity had made for you are in your room, she didn’t want you walking around completely bare...er, foot?” Twilight said although the last part of her sentence sounded more like a question rather than a statement.
“Oh! Great, another thing I owe her for, I really hope this guard training means I'm getting paid as well, I don’t think anywhere else would want a freak like me in their staff, haha.” Laughing I set the covers that hung loosely on my shoulders and around my hips on top of the bed I was in.
“Hey! Don’t talk about yourself like that!” Twilight shouted a little bit loudly which startled the shit out of me causing my head to snap to her.
“You’re not a freak, although you look different from us, lot’s of species are accepted here and all have jobs. So don’t you dare talk down to yourself like that, you’re a handsome po-person, now come on let’s go,” she said rather quickly, stuttering at the last parts of her sentence. I followed behind her.
“Thanks, Twi,” I said rather quietly, she didn’t take notice and carried on walking towards the entrance to the maze of halls.
We eventually arrived at my room, and looking down the hallway one or two guards were either traversing through on patrol or standing guard at a few doors that would seem to be either VIP or where the important people stayed. Turning the golden nob, we both let ourselves in. Upon entering everything was how I left it, besides the bed and a few things had been cleaned, meaning someone had entered beforehand and blitzed the place.
Turning towards my bed I saw my coat hanging on one of the polls of the actual bed itself along with my belt wrapped around it quite neatly. Now what I saw definitely was my style. Although I'm not used to wearing boots but I definitely love the look. The boots themselves that were placed on top of a few long-sleeved shirts, upon closer inspection the shoes appeared to be made out of leather, now, seen as though the inhabitants are herbivores and don’t eat or supposedly kill animals for materials then I'm not sure why or where they would’ve got the materials. Unless they’ve got something similar that doesn’t require killing anything.
The boots themselves had two belts wrapping itself around the entire top part of were the ankle should rest. And as usual, the laces are thin but looked to be in good quality. Grabbing one of them I looked towards the back part I saw that it had a weird looking symbol, a rune of sorts. Either that or a shitty logo. Twilight saw what I was looking at and immediately scampered over. She was looking intently at the rune with a thoughtful look on her face.
“This is an enhancement rune! And it's a tier two-stage enhancement so it’s pretty expensive, especially on clothing. Rarity doesn’t delve in this sort of stuff. Weird.” She said rubbing her chin ever so slowly.
“So does this mean that it’s more durable then?” I asked a little confused since I still don’t know how magic works here.
“Durable? If those shoes exploded let’s just say there wouldn’t even be a scratch, although higher tier magic will definitely damage them,” she said then turning around and heading towards the bathroom.
“Hope you don’t mind me using the restroom, I need to wash my face,” she said shouting slightly because of the distance.
“Yeah no problem, I'm just gunna try on the new gear I was given,” I shouted back whilst unclasping one of the belts and then the second one. After about a few minutes I managed to put both socks and boots on.
I was still wondering about a lot of things, the Nightmare moon situation seen as though I haven’t heard from her in a while, and I'm kind of getting paranoid from it. And now I’ve got to figure out who put this rune on my boots, because it wasn’t Rarity, I’ll have to ask her next time I see her just to clarify.
I heard what sounded like tabs finally stopped running, and then a slightly wet face and haired Twilight pop out of the bathroom and holy shit, I had to avert my eyes because I believe that some parts of her white blouse. Or was it a shirt? And I think she hasn’t noticed.
“Um, Twilight?” I asked waiting for her response, whilst scratching my right side cheek out of nervousness. She looked towards me.
“Yes? What’s up?” she responded with a bit of curiousness on her face.
“Er, just to let you know before we leave, you may want to cover up a bit at the top, your shirt or whatever is kinda see-through,” I said laughing slightly, not because I found it funny, but because I was trying to not look and failing miserably. When she noticed by looking down at her self, it took a few seconds for her to react and then she did. Her face went a bright red, I could’ve sworn I could see steam coming out of her ears. I mean, the front part of her long-sleeved shirt was basically showing the world her bra. Now, you’d think aliens on another planet wouldn’t need these types of clothing but oh well.
She made a sound that would be described as an ‘Eeep’ before running back into the bathroom again. Whilst I proceeded to walk over to the wall and unironically bang my head repeatedly on the hard cobble like panel. As soon as Twilight came back out, the front part of her shirt was now not see-through and had actually been dried. Probably magic.
“R-right, that is all sorted, let’s get going shall we?” she said pretty quickly, she then looked down towards my new ‘equipment’ and her eyes lit up. “Oh! They definitely suit you! Kind of reminds me of an adventure’s boots in a way, but more...forward shall I say.” Twilight was taking too long, I had to snap her out of it when she continued to stare.
“Okayy, let’s go, I'm bloody hungry,” I said taking the lead, I grabbed my belts quickly clasped them around my waist and putting my sheathed sword in its place on my left hip. I then draped my coat over me, but this time putting my hands through the actual armholes this time. I gave the room a once over before walking out of the door and back into the hallway. Twilight soon followed suit.
Ten minutes had passed.
After turning so many lefts and rights we finally arrived at the cafeteria, and surprisingly enough barely anyone was there except a few Lunar guards and none other than Princess Celestia and Princess Luna talking to each other, me and Twilight looked at each other in thought before heading in.
As we were walking towards the two regal sisters, they took notice of our presence and waved us over with their wings. They were both drinking from a rather expensive looking tea set that would probably cost more than my dad's mortgage. After getting just a bit closer I noticed the tired look Celestia had on her face.
“You okay Celestia?” I asked whilst Twilight was glaring at me in her peripherals. Celestia perked up at my question.
“Oh! Yes, I'm fine, rest assured, I'm just tired from Day Court and a few other things, I’ll be fine when I get some sleep.” she said whilst taking another swig of her beverage. The smell from the tea wasn’t actually tea, it was coffee, I'm pretty sure you shouldn’t drink coffee before you go to sleep because it would defeat the actual purpose in the first place, either that or she just likes it.
Me and Twilight sat down at the table.
“Soooo, where’s the waiter? I'm bloody starvin” I said getting another growl from my stomach earning a few chuckles from the girls on the table. Celestia clicked one of her fingers and almost instantly a maid with a silver platter and a silver rounded lid that had steam coming out of the crevices was in her grasp balancing on her palm with outstretched fingers. And as soon as I looked up to see who this person was, low and behold, it was Boreal Fafnir, the one that kicked my ass a few hours ago.
“Ah, thank you, Boreal,” Celestia said whilst Boreal bowed in response and making me and Twilight confused. I mean, we haven’t even ordered yet, and I kinda forgot Boreal was a maid even though I’ve only seen her with those clothes.
‘God I am a bloody idiot.’
Boreal Fafnir placed the massive tray on top of the table we where sat at, she pushed it a little towards me and waited to gauge my reaction. Both Princesses had a slight smile on their faces, even though Celestia’s face looked like she had gone ten rounds with Ip Man. Pretty devastating, but I guess that’s what you signed up for when you become one of the leaders of an entire country.
Before Boreal could open up the massive lid, the doors opened once again, and it was pretty loud this time.
“Aunty!” I heard a very whiny voice cry out and everyone's expressions even the few guards that dotted the place had a look as if they sucked on a lemon. Some signed, some actually got up to leave, mainly the guards though. I looked towards the person who I am just so eager to meet. As is everyone.
“Nephew, you shouldn’t shout, if you need something either ask one of the guards or maids,” Celestia said, already looking worse than she did before, Twilight next to me looked somewhat visibly angry. I’d after ask her about it later. Upon closer inspection of this person, he was a slightly overweight pretty boy but said pretty boy having a burst couch as ahead, like he has the hair, and eyes and whatever cliche features these types of people have, but oh god, the amount of chub this guy had on his cheeks was uncanny.
Either way, he practically screams rich, spoilt, and a mega cunt to me.
“But Aunty! They won’t listen to me! Every time I try to get them to do something they simply either tell me to go to you or find whatever sorry excuse they can come up with to avoid me. But it’s fine, I’ll have them removed from their jobs, and jailed for their insole- what is that creature at my table?!” He shouted looking towards me with an outstretched finger. I simply stared back at the little dike. I'm wondering on how far I can actually punt this fuckin kid.
Ohh, I better not, Celestia as much as she seems to hate him, I might actually get in trouble for attacking a prince.
“Er, this creature has a name, and I’d like to be called such. Prince” I said with a slight bit of venom in my tone, Twilight looked at me with a slight smile, whilst Luna wanted to laugh. Celestia had an eyebrow raised with what I could tell from here, is that she had a tiny curl at the corner of her lips. She seemed somewhat pleased but was really good at not showing it.
The Prince scoffed at the fact that me, an unknown creature would dare to be so uppity in the presence of royalty. Yeah, my fuckin arse.
“H-how dare you take that tone with me! Creature! You should be locked away in the dungeons without a key, you vermin!” He aggressively shouted rage littered his fat little face.
“Blue Blood! That is enough!” Celestia said immediately pissed off whilst I was silently laughing in my own head, Twilight went back to being angry again. Probably a personal issue. In fact, Twilight looked mega fucked off right now, her wings started to twitch uncontrollably and if I hadn’t noticed her horn was steadily growing with light around her horn. But that sorta stopped when Celestia gave her a knowing look which calmed her down considerably.
“He is new here, and he isn’t just some creature, he has a name, and It’s Elliott, I would like you to remember that since he will be joining our guard divisions tomorrow.” Prince Blue Blood looked like he didn’t like the new information. And he stomped the ground like an actual spoilt child.
“B-but Aunty! He looks like a commoner! He shouldn’t be allowed to sit wit-” His tiny rant interrupted by Celestia’s fist slamming the table bending the material inwards since it was made out of rather durable material, did I mention it had runes on the furniture as well?
Boreal looked on at the situation, she looked torn between doing something to deescalate the situation or just simply stay by Celestia’s side. She chose the latter since she hadn’t said anything.
“I said ENOUGH!” Celestia had shouted, I was a little scared because she hadn’t raised her voice up until now of course. Luna and Twilight didn’t seem phased at all, probably a frequent occurrence. This made Prince Blue Blood actually quite mad, his face sort of puckered up with his fat cheeks bulging out kind of like a chipmunk. Twilight had actually been grinning after Celestia’s outburst. And the royal prick noticed the expression on her face, so he immediately turned towards her.
“Don’t worry Princess Twilight, I’ll have your stupid incompetent of a brother bare the consequences by me relieving him of his command. I can do that you know since I outrank him even with money.” Twilights eyes had widened considerably, as did everyone else's, from what I could see, there were tears forming at the corners of her eyes, she was on the verge of crying. But he continued “Oh! I do recall that your family were once poor until my Aunty had brought you in. You’re lucky she had ever laid her eyes upon y-”
“Shut the fuck up,” I said, Twilight was in tears right now, Celestia was again, enraged and was ready to defend her. Luna looked like she wanted to put the stupid cunt on a pike and be done with it. As soon as I said those words, all eyes were on me. And the guards that remained had been listening, completely transfixed on the situation.
“What gives you the right,” I said rather calmly. Blue Blood looked confused.
“Wha-” Blue Blood was cut off from the sound of the table being easily pushed aside like a piece of cardboard, most of the dishes, including tea set and still hot food was thankfully saved from Luna’s magic. I had already rushed forward in a burst of speed. The little prick didn’t have time to react before I had my left hand secured around his neck increasing in intensity whilst he gagged for air and his eyes slightly popping out rather comically as he was being choked closest to passing out.
“I said, what gives you the right? You fat blue balled bellend.” I shouted whilst everyone else in the cafeteria looked in shock. Celestia soon recovered from said shocked and immediately intervened by being at my side and laying another one of her massive wings on my side. Im so not telling her that instantly calms me down, I should probably ask Twilight to do it. It’s intoxicating.
“Let him go Elliott, this isn’t the way, I know how you feel, but please, let him go,” she said with a pleading but sad look on her face, I felt somewhat guilty so I released my grasp on his slightly purpled throat letting him drop to the floor hacking and coughing up a storm. I kneeled down towards him, whilst he attempted to drag himself away but I stopped him by grabbing him by his jacket.
Leaning in closer I said a few words.
“If you hurt her, or her family, I won’t hesitate on breaking your legs and horn. So watch yourself mate.” I whispered in his ear, fear definitely evident on his face. Celestia had definitely heard what I said but said absolutely nothing. Blue Blood got himself up and quickly exited the room.
Upon getting up I was hugged from behind, it was Twilight crying into me again, like when I got blasted halfway across this very room. That was fun.
Scratching behind her ears again, she leaned in and I gave her a grin in which she returned with a smile of her own. Celestia’s wing had left me. And I suddenly felt really tired.
“So er, anyways, I feel pretty tired after that, and I don’t think I'm in the mood to eat now, mind if I take the food to my room? I need a good nights rest after all this bollocks.” I said yawning and stretching my neck and back. Luna had already set the table back to where it was.
“Yes that’ll be alright, you need your rest, after all, especially tomorrow, Boreal Fafnir will be escorting you to the training grounds. Also, after you have finished training with my division I would like you and Boreal to visit my office. I have a few things to discuss with you both and something else.” She said levitating the silver tray over to my hands. I easily caught it.
“Yeah sure no problem, I’ll see you guys tomorrow, sorry for ruining the night,” I said with a bit of guilt on my face. “Nay, thou should’eth not worry, thy actions twas most excellent, we found it very amusing.” Princess Luna said laughing behind her hand, whilst Celestia rolled her eyes at her sister's antics.
“Well, I’ll be going now, you coming Twilight? Or do you wanna stay here?” I asked. Twilight still hugging me whilst her head was just on my shoulder, she seemed pretty upset after what Blue Balls had to say. She nodded her head from side to side giving me the response I needed.
As I was about to leave Celestia stopped me.
“Instead of you both walking our endless halls I’ll teleport you to your rooms, would that be okay?” Celestia said. Lighting up her magic in preparation.
Me and Twilight looked at each other again and nodded. Then Celestia charged up her magic. “I’ll see you in the morning Twi, have a good night, don’t worry about what that arsehole said. Princess Celestia would never let that happen to your brother. Okay?” I said giving her a big toothy smile.
“I won’t, I'm okay now, I was just a little upset is all. Have a good night Elliott, see you in the morning,” she said giving me another tight squeeze before both of us where covered in a yellowish-orange glow and then suddenly I was back in my room. The sudden transportation made me nearly lose my balance, and I did still have the dish in my hands so that definitely could’ve been a problem if I had fallen.
Placing the dish down next to the dresser my room had, I took off all my equipment, clothes, socks until I was in nothing but my underwear. Throwing myself onto the bed and under the covers, I closed my eyes for a night of proper restful sleep.
I had a few thoughts still left in my mind as I neared unconsciousness.
‘I still haven’t heard anything from Nightmare Moon, she said she was inside me or something. But is she really here?’
