Story about a guy named Jack and how he eventually comes to love a princess.
Jack has been having a hard time. After yet another failed job interview and getting mugged it's safe to say his day is not what you would call great. Going to sleep to forget the events of the day he is brought to, you guessed it, Equestria! Only thing is was Jack brought there on purpose or was it all a mistake?
Quick note: Just a little heads up: This is the first story I've ever written so let me know how it is and I really hope whoever reads it enjoys it! Also it'd be a great help if you guys could point out any mistakes I may have made or some helpful advice on how to make it better. Now onto the story!
Crazy dream
“Well, that coulda gone better I suppose.” Grumbled Jack as he left the store.
Yet another interview had gone awry. It didn’t help that there were few jobs he was actually able to do, most of the time he’d prefer to be left alone so that too made it difficult to find a job. Fresh out of high school and needing money it wasn’t exactly the best time of his life. Hell most of his friends if not all of them already had jobs which made him feel even worse.
Walking down the street Jack mumbled to himself, “Bad enough I still live with my parents, at this rate I don’t think I’ll ever get a job let alone anything else...”
Sighing Jack continued down the street making his way home. Home wasn’t exactly all that great either, a small apartment that his parents and he had lived at for nearly 3 years, not exactly the friendliest of neighborhoods, and the roads were in a pathetic state. Heck even the buildings could do with some much needed maintenance. It didn’t help that there was a slow increase in gang activity in his neighborhood so if he wasn’t out looking for a job he would stay inside his room and play video games. Basically the place sucked and he knew it all too well.
As Jack made his way home he noticed some garbage here and there. With some reluctance he decided it best to pick it up and at least try to make his neighborhood look a tad bit better. Collecting the garbage he made his way over to the garbage dumpster to throw out said trash. Usually he wouldn’t bother with small bits of trash but since he lived here for so long he might as well do his part to make it nice, least that’s what he told himself anyways.
After throwing out the trash Jack resumed heading home, not that far not just around the corner and a couple feet and there’d be the door to his apartment. Walking around said corner however revealed something Jack simply did not want to deal with.
“Hey dipshit bout time you showed up!” hollered Nick, Local douche and all around moron. He had his 3 idiot ‘henchmen’ with him too.
“Ugh…uhh hey Nick.” Replied Jack in a rather neutral voice.
“Still owe me that twenty bucks ya lil prick.” Nick said as his buddies slowly started to circle around Jack.
‘I am NOT in the mood for this crap!’ Jack thought to himself as Nick and the others now had him completely surrounded.
“What’s the matter lil prick? Don’t tell me you thought I’d forget.” continued Nick as he glared at Jack waiting for a reply.
“Look, I don’t owe you jack squat and you know it. Just leave me the hell alone I don’t have time for this.” Jack snapped as he tried to make his way past Nick and to his apartment.
Holding up a hand and pushing Jack back into the center of their circle. Nick replied in a threatening manner, “Alright Dipshit we both know that’s a load of crap. You and I both know you owe me for getting that damn game you wanted; now either you pay up or my friends hurt you. So what’s it gonna be?”
‘God damn it…’ “Alright fine take you damn money.” Jack spat the words out as he shoved twenty dollars into Nicks face.
“Now take your money and bug off.” Jack continued as he again made his way past Nick.
Again Nick halted him from leaving and said, “Thank you. Now if you’d be so kind as to stand still…”
“Wha- “Jack was interrupted as one of Nicks buddies took a baseball bat and swung it at Jacks head.
Being unconscious sucks in case anyone wanted to know. What sucks even more is waking up and having your head feel like it’s been split open. Slowly getting up Jack noticed there was a few drops of blood trickling down the side of his head. ‘Great, I get beat up and had a messed up interview, what more can go wrong?’ Jack thought to himself as he took a look around. It was getting dark out. Best thing to do Jack considered was to probably just head inside and get his parents to look at his head and see what damage there was. Of course they’d start asking him what happened and that was something he’d rather avoid. Jack wasn’t in the mood to talk to anyone he just wanted to curl up in bed and hope the next day would be better.
Heading inside Jack noticed it must have been later then he actually thought. Entering the living room of the apartment he found all the lights turned off. ‘Guess they went to bed already’ Jack thought as he turned on the hallway light so he could find his way to his room and finally get some peace and quiet.
“Jack is that you?” A voice called out from the other room down the hall. ‘Shit’ Well there went his chance to get some sleep as his mother came out of his parent’s room.
“Uhh Hey mom.” Jack said as casually as he could.
“What are you do- Oh my goodness!” His mother exclaimed upon see Jack’s face.
To be honest he was a mess. Jack’s left eye was swollen and the area around his eye was smeared with blood. Not to mention the blood still dripping down the side of his head and continuing down his neck.
“What, what happened?!” His mother asked very concerned about the state Jack was currently in.
“Oh you know, had another screwed up interview then headed home only to get beat up by Nick and co. Ya know same old same old.” Jack said sarcasm evident in his voice.
His mother rolled her eyes still worried but went to the bathroom to get the first aid kit they kept under the sink. That’s when he dad decided to come out too. Great.
“Hey what’s go- Well hello there kiddo, who’d you piss off?” His dad said in a not so caring manner.
“Oh by all means don’t freak out about the fact that your son just got his ass beat by a couple of a-holes.” Replied Jack clearly annoyed that his dad seemed to never take anything seriously. His mother then came back out of the bathroom.
“Go sit at the kitchen table I’ll be there in a minute.” His mother ordered Jack as she got ready to help treat his wounds.
“I’d really like to get some sleep so could we just do this some other time?” Jack complained as he sat down.
“And get your bed dirty? I think not!” his mother exclaimed as she started to apply some ointment to his eye.
“Shit! That stings!” Jack practically yelled.
“Oh hush you big baby, it’ll only sting for a bit now let me finish up so we can all get back to bed.” His mother told him as she continued to help clean up Jacks head
After a couple of minutes Jack was finally able to head to his room. Closing and locking the door so he couldn’t be interrupted he then went about changing out of his clothes and getting prepared for bed. It didn’t take long for him to fall asleep considering what a horrible day he’d been through. So almost immediately after his head hit the pillow off to dreamland he went.
Or so he thought.
First thought to come to his mind was ‘Woah’. Standing before him was the most beautiful pony he’d ever seen. Her mane seemed to match the night sky perfectly. Her fur coat was a dark blue and she seemed to be wearing a tiara and necklace which only made her that more stunning.
For a while Jack just stood there starring at her until she seemed to finally notice him. A small part of him yelled to find a place to hide after being discovered but Jack couldn’t bring himself to move, he was to awe struck by the beauty before him.
Luna had just finished raising the moon when she noticed what seemed to be just some random magic, probably somepony trying to use magic for the first time but then it started to grow and actually take form. This made her worried for she didn’t recognize the shape this magic was taking so Luna braced herself for what might be a confrontation.
‘I should call for the guards to come help’ was the first thought Luna had as the shape the magic was taking slowly became more alien as the magic was coming to an end. ‘What if this...whatever it is is hostile?’ Luna continued thinking as she weighed her options. One the one hoof she could simply blast this, thing back to where ever it had come from. But what if it was friendly? Surely she couldn’t destroy it without find out more about it.
Soon the Magic began to fade and Luna gazed upon the creature that now found itself on her balcony. It was strange to her. It stood on its back legs and had very little fur if any at all! Also on its front hooves where these strange appendages. The creature’s eye are what got her attention however, they were the most beautiful shade of blue the princess had ever seen.
After Luna’s quick examination of the creature before her Luna decided it best to try and welcome the strange being before her. Slowly raising her hoof to shake she noticed the creature was just starting dumbly at her. Thinking back she recalled her ‘lessons’ on using her inside voice with fluttershy, thinking it would probably startle the creature if Luna used her traditional canterlot voice she asked in a much quieter voice,
“Ahem. What pray tell are thee supposed to be strange creature?”
Still starring like an idiot Jack slowly noticed not only did this beautiful pony have her hoof extended in greeting but she also freaking talked! Since when could ponies talk!?!?! ‘Oh crap I must be dreaming!’ Jack thought as he took in the sight of both the pony before him and the immediate area.
“Are thou capable of speech?” Luna asked as Jack stood there taking in the area before him.
Then suddenly he brought his hand up in which Luna thought it would finally shake her hoof. He then slapped himself. This took Luna off guard unsure why any creature would physically harm themselves.
“Oh my! Why would you do that to yourself!?” Luna exclaimed.
“Huh. Well this has got to be the most vivid dream I’ve ever had.” Stated Jack as he thought aloud. This was both exciting and terrifying, never had he had a dream that felt this…real.
“You can talk? Well then all me to introduce myself, I am Princess Luna.” Luna was trying to be as polite as possible and make sure she didn’t do anything to possibly upset the creature standing before her.
Jack stood there for a minute still distracted by her beauty before finally saying something, “Uhh I’m Jack, nice to meet you, and Princess Luna was it?”
He then shook her hoof with his hand, slightly nervous with this whole experience. ‘Holy crap I’m shaking hand/hoof whatever with a talking pony!’ Jack thought. This must be one hell of a dream! Finally taking a better look at the princess Jack noticed that not only did she have a horn she had wings! Yup a dream definitely a dream.
“Umm if you don’t mind me asking, what are you exactly?” He asked as he continued to look her over.
“We should be asking you that very same question err whatever you are!” Luna replied still unsure of his intentions. Calling the guards was really starting to seem like a good idea.
“Well I’m a human of course. Now can you tell me what YOU are?” Jack answered as he took a seat on a nearby chair.
“We are Princess Luna! And we are what ponies call an Alicorn, a mix of unicorn and Pegasus with long lives and a natural affinity for magic. Oh and what is a ‘hooman’?”
“Alicorn? Really? Well alright Princess now I got another question, why the hell does this dream feel oddly… real?” Jack asked as he realized that none of his dreams were this… detailed to say the least. ‘Wait did she just ask what a human was’?! Jack quickly thought to himself, ‘well this dream is getting weirder by the minute..’
“A dream? Why do you think this is a dream?”
“Umm duh? Ponies don’t talk for one and last thing I remember before coming here I was asleep in my bed.” Jack replied nonchalantly.
“I am sorry to break it to you but this is most certainly NOT a dream, this is thy royal bedchamber in the castle which is located in Canterlot.” Luna answered as she used some magic to alert her guards down stairs that there was an intruder. Better safe than sorry.
“Canterlot? Wait you mean THE Canterlot!? And another thi-” Jack was cut off as two dark looking ponies in ornate armor came out of the shadows it seemed and tackled Jack to the ground.
“Oof! Hey what the hell?!” He exclaimed trying to break free of Luna’s guards.
“Stop resisting! Thou shalt be taken to the dungeons until we speak with our sister and figure out what is to be done with you!” Luna yelled as the guards managed to subdue Jack with magic.
“Let me go! I haven’t done anything! Argh! Worst. Dream. EVER!” Jack complained still struggling against the magical restraints holding his hands and feet together as the guards took him out of Luna’s bedroom.
Luna would have alerted her sister right away but it was the middle of the night. Deciding it could wait until morning Luna took off into the sky to get some fresh air. Clearly the ‘Human’ was agitated and seemed convinced that this was all a dream. ‘Perhaps it was a little extreme sending it to the dungeon like that’ she thought to herself. She found the whole situation odd and could only hope Celestia could help her figure out what this Jack was doing here and why he appeared in her room. That however would have to wait till morning.
Quick note: Alright sorry it took me forever to get the next chapter out but here it is! also I decided that after the story is finished i'll go back through and edit (I'm going to be very busy with college stuff so I wont have much time to focus on this) but for now just enjoy the story!!
Chapter two
“This dream sucks”, Jack mumbled to him as the two guards brought him down to the lower levels of the castle where the dungeons were located. Unlike the rest of the castle the dungeons were…alright they were terrible. It was very dark down there, the only light coming from very few torches or from the two guard’s horns. Plus they whole place wreaked something awful.
After being dragged down a couple flight of stairs they finally reached a long corridor with multiple cells upon either side. Coming to a halt at one of said cells the guards unceremoniously threw Jack into the cell.
Jack grunted in pain, landing on a stone floor is not fun in case anyone was wondering. After that the guards quickly locked Jack in his cell then promptly left.
‘Great, stuck in a cell within a dream for no apparent reason’ thought Jack to himself as he slowly got up to his feet and examined his new surroundings. To be frank there wasn’t much just the bars of the cell door, a pile of hay to sleep on and a very tiny window on the far back wall that let in barely any light.
“Guess I better get comfortable.” said Jack more to himself than anyone else, not that there was anyone else to talk to Canterlot rarely had any trouble makers. ‘I hope this dream doesn’t get any weirder, I don’t think I can handle anything more what with the talking ponies that fly and can do magic.’ He thought to himself as he decided to just simply wait and hopefully wake up soon.
Meanwhile…
“Oh no no no no no! This is bad! This is really really bad!” exclaimed Lyra as she paced around the room.
The spell she used to bring a real live human to her world had back fired. Instead of the human appearing in her hotel room there was a small explosion and no sign that the human had even been brought into Equestria.
“Oh this is bad! What if I killed him on accident? What if he was sent to some random area of equestria!? What if-“
“Lyra! Would you please keep it down I’m trying to… Lyra, what did you do!?” Yelled Twilight as she came into the room and saw what looked like scorch marks all over the room.
“Ah! Twilight I can explain!” panicked Lyra as Twilight was staring daggers.
“By all means do tell why it looks like something exploded in here!” replied a very annoyed Twilight.
“Alright well you see-“
“You tried to summon something again didn’t you!?” Twilight said cutting off Lyra before she could explain herself.
“Well yes bu-“
“No buts! This was supposed to be a simple vacation to Canterlot, not some half-baked plan to summon creatures you know next to nothing about!” exclaimed a now very angry Twilight.
“Now wait just a minute! I do too know something about them!” countered Lyra.
“Oh? Really?” Twilight asked clearly not believing her.
“Yeah! They have hands and walk on two legs!” replied Lyra with a smug look.
Twilight simply facehoofed before saying, “Lyra, you may as well be describing dragons as far as anypony knows! How can you even be sure this creature even exsist!?”
Lyra was starting to get annoyed with Twilight, she was acting just like all the others. She knew they existed and that she possibly summoned one of these creatures to a random spot in Equestria. Only problem was finding the darn thing and finally proving to everyone that she was right and not just some crazy pony!
Making for the door Lyra said, “If you want to act like all the others then by all means be my guest! I’m going to find that creature that I…misplaced.” Slamming the door to their hotel room she went off determined to find it and prove to everyone that she was right all along.
Elsewhere…
*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*
“Tia! We wish to speak with thee!” said a very stressed out Luna.
She had been thinking all throughout the night and early hours of the morning about what to do with the creature that appeared on her balcony. Luna had considered many options as to what that creature named Jack’s fate would be. Mostly ranging from outright banishment, life imprisonment, and just simply destroying it. To be fair however this Jack had hardly done anything except be summoned by an unknown force and just happened to summoned right in front of her. So maybe she was over reacting?
Nah. One does not simply intrude upon the princess of the night, especially on her own bedroom balcony. However it was still necessary to gain the advice from her older and far more level headed sister, before any decision was made.
Luna was about to knock again when one of Celestia’s guards stopped her and stated that she needed her rest if she was to bring forth the sun later in the morning. ‘To Tartarus with this!’ she thought as she concentrated on a teleportation spell. In an instant she disappeared then reappeared inside of Celestia’s bedroom.
“Sister! We need to speak with thou!” Luna exclaimed as she magically pulled the sheets off of her elder sister, much to her displeasure.
“Luna, what exactly ARE you doing waking me at this hour?!” asked a rather annoyed and drowsy Celestia as she reluctantly got up from bed.
“We are terribly sorry dearest sister but it could no longer wait! We need your help in dealing with a… delicate situation” Luna replied hoping Celestia wouldn’t be too angry for being awoken so early.
“What do you mea- *yawn* ahem, mean ‘delicate situation’?” asked Celestia as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
“Umm could we speak about it in a more private area?” asked Luna not wanted to have any rumors being spread about the creature she had locked up in the castle dungeons.
Getting curious about what her sister could possibly be hiding Celestia simply nodded before concentrating her magic and teleporting the two of them to her personal library in her private quarters. After arriving there she again used her magic to seal the doors and sound proof the entire room so there wouldn’t be any eavesdroppers.
“Alright Luna now tell me what is it that’s gotten you this worked up?” asked Celestia.
“Well umm… we are not sure how to explain it exactly.” replied Luna suddenly feeling very unsure about telling her sister. Heck she could hardly believe it herself, which made Luna think that maybe Celestia wouldn’t believe her, unless she simply showed her.
“Actually Tia, we think it better to simply show you.” said Luna as she concentrated her magic in preparation for a teleportation spell.
“Wait show me what exactly? Luna tell me what is going on!?“
Celestia was interrupted as Luna teleported the two of them down to the castle dungeon right in front of a certain cell.
Inside the cell was a creature Celestia had never seen before and was quite frankly a little bit disgusted by. It had hardly and hair except for on its head and arms and was covered in the strangest clothing she had seen. Its eyes were hazel and seemed larger than they should because of the glasses it wore. After a minute or two of simply gawking at the strange creature Celestia noticed it was staring at the pair of alicorns and seemed to be trembling somewhat.
Clearing her throat to get Luna’s attention she motioned her over to a corner away from the creature to talk in private.
“Luna, what in tartarus is that…thing!?” asked Celestia with a hint of both annoyance and uncertainty.
“That’s just it dear sister, we do not know. However we do know that it calls its self-Jack.”
“I already freaking told you! I am a human!” exclaimed Jack with a look of annoyance.
Both royal sisters literally jumped at the voice coming from the human. Celestia looked at him in shock while Luna simply stood there unsure of how to proceed. Jack on the other hand was mentally freaking out, last time he talked to the blue one he ended up in his cozy little prison cell. Now there was this white one looking at him and he couldn’t help but feel like something bad was going to happen very soon.
After a slight moment of hesitation Celestia practically shouted, “Guards! Bring this…human up to the throne room. We are going to decide what to do with him!”
Not a second after she was done talking to white unicorns this time magically appeared and unlocked the cell and retrained Jack as they got ready to bring him up to the throne room.
As for Jack he was really freaked out now, he wasn’t sure what was going to happen to himself but before he could protest to being magically tied up again the other guard walked up to him and hit him upside the head knocking him out.
Right before the guard struck Jack had time to simply say, “Aw crap.”
*WHACK*
End of chapter two
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Again terribly sorry for this chapter taking forever, being a procrastinator tends to make me a bit lazy :P 3rd chapter is also going to take a while mainly due to the fact that I’m starting my college classes tomorrow night and I usually write at night….so ya, it’ll be done when it’s done.
“Look up human.” Replied Celestia as she watched the human struggle against his bindings.
Overall she wasn’t very impressed with this human and highly doubted he was much of a threat but just to be on the safe side she decided to have him restrained before being brought to the throne room. Luna seemed unsure about this decision but ultimately went along with it…for now.
“As to why you are chained, well we couldn’t simply let you wonder about while we decide on what your fate shall be.” continued Celestia as she went about her daily routine of raising the sun.
“My fate? Listen, I don’t know what it is I’ve done but clearly there’s been a misunderstanding.”
Jack was getting nervous again and it showed. Here he was in what was slowly becoming a nightmare of sorts, so much for a good night’s rest.
“SILENCE!” boomed Celestia using her rarely heard traditional Canterlot voice. Everyone present visibly shrunk back from the sudden outburst from the Princess of the sun.
‘Wow, fucking crazy bitch…’ Jack thought to himself as he stopped struggling against the chains and waited for Celestia to continue.
Celestia frowned at the human and said, “It hardly seems appropriate to call the pony with your fate in her hooves a, ‘Bitch’.”
Jacks eyes widened in horror, ‘Oh shit! She can hear my thoughts!?!’
“Why yes, yes I can.” smirked Celestia as she started to move toward him.
“Stay back!” cried jack as he jerked around in the chains to no avail.
“No, I think not.”
“I mean it, stay back!” Jack was to put it simply, scared shitless.
As she approached Jack where he was kneeling still franticly trying to get free of the chains Celestia started to focus her magic. On the other side of the room the large double doors slowly swung open to reveal a very odd looking pony.
The most obvious thing about this pony was that she was pink (Yup you know who) and the fact that she had a rather crazed look on her face. Her mane seemed to be unusually straight compared to the other ponies Jack had seen so far. She slowly walked into the throne room, dragging her hooves as she did so.
“You sent for me your highness?” replied that pink pony as a smile slowly crept along her face.
Bringing her head down to Jacks Celestia whispered, “Human, I’d like you to meet…Pinkamena.”
Rising back up Celestia turned to Pinkamena and replied, “Ah yes I would like you to meet my friend here, He was just asking about how you make those delightful Cupcakes of yours. Be a dear and show him won’t you?”
And with that Celestia disappeared with a bright flash. ‘Oh shit shit shit shit!’ Jack practically screamed at himself as he now struggled against the chains hoping against hope that he could somehow muscle through them and break free.
Meanwhile Pinkamena’s smile had turned into a manic grin as she casually walked over to one of the pillars in the throne room and somehow pulled out a rather jagged looking knife. She keeps her knives hidden all over for knife emergencies you see.
Taking the knife in hoof she started to walk towards Jack, her pupils had shrunk to the size of pinpricks and her smile seemed to somehow get even bigger than it already was.
“Ok I’m going to close my eyes and count to three when I open them I’ll be back in my bedroom safe and sound.” Jack was well pass the point of freaking out and was desperately trying to wake himself and get out of this nightmare he had landed in.
“One…”
“Two…”
“Three…”
Slowly opening his eyes he was face to face with Pinkamena, who had the knife raised and a crazed look on her face.
“Boo!” exclaimed Pinkamena.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!” screamed Jack at the top of his lounges as Pinkamena brought the knife down at stabbed at him repeatedly all while laughing like a mad pony.
Back in the dungeon where Jack was being held…….
Night watch was rather bored. Patrolling the prison cells underneath the castle was one of the worst things a Royal guard could get stuck with. Probably didn’t help that he had recently upset the captain of the guard, Shining Armor by making a perverse joke about Princess Cadence.
As he walked down the corridor a black bird came and landed on his back, his pet crow Mormont.
“Hey there Mormont! Come to give poor ol’ me some company?” asked Night watch to which the bird simply gave a nod.
Night watch smirked, if there was one good thing about patrolling down here in the dark was that he was never alone thanks to this bird.
As they continued through the prison Night watch practically jumped out of his armor startling Mormont causing him to fly off. The cause for him to suddenly jump like he’d seen a ghost was the ear shattering scream coming from one of the cells.
“Dang it! That guy has a real set of lungs on em to be screaming like that I tell ya what…Mormont?” Night watch noticed then that his friendly bird had flown off somewhere leaving him alone.
“Darn, oh well, guess I should find out what all the screaming is about…” Night watch continued to talk to himself as he went to investigate the screaming.
Night continued down toward the cell containing the rather loud human that was thrashing around in his sleep. Taking out his trusty baton Night dragged it along the cell bars trying to gain the attention of the human.
“Hey! Wake up you!” yelled Night as he repeatedly struck the prison bars.
Upon hearing the racket caused by the pony at his cell Jack shot upright and looked around for a moment not recognizing where he was.
‘Ugh, what a nightmare. What the? Why am I on a stone floor? And why’s there a pony in armor staring at me?!?!....Oh shit…OH SHIT!’ Jack went wide eyed upon realizing what was going on.
Seeing the human start to back away from the cell door and looking rather frightened upon seeing where he was Night decided to try a different approach.
“Alright mate take it easy y-“
“NO! Shut up! Why am I here!?! Where the hell am I even at?! AND WHY ARE YOU TALKING!?!” exclaimed Jack as his voice rose in volume.
“Shhh! You dang fool! You’ll wake up the whole castle screaming like that.” hissed Night trying to calm down Jack.
“Wait, you said castle? Why am I in a castle?” Jack asked as he reached the far end of the cell not wanting to be near the talking pony before him.
“…Don’t ya even remember what happened last night?” Night asked in disbelief.
“No, I don’t I remember that one minute I’m safe and sound in my own bed then next thing I know I’m talking to a pony.” Replied Jack finally calming down yet still freaked that he was even talking with a pony of all things.
“Alright well I’d stay and help explain things to you but we need to get you to the Throne room immediately, the princesses are going to decide what to do with you.” said Night as he opened the cell door and walked toward Jack with a pair of manacles.
Fearing the worst Jack suddenly sprung up and kneed Night watch in the face sending him crashing into the wall.
“Sorry umm…pony...dude…ugh whatever but I need to get the hell out of here and I have a feeling your ‘princesses’ are the last people I want to see.” Jack said closing the cell door and running down the corridor in hopes of finding a means of escape.
Now to see what Lyra has been doing…
“Hehe this is perfect!” Lyra rubbed her hooves together barely containing her excitement.
It only took several hours of roaming around the city looking for anything out of the ordinary when she finally noticed there was some sort of commotion going on at the castle. Guards were running around all over the place and seemed to be searching for something. See as this was her best lead so far on finding her ‘misplaced’ creature Lyra focused her magic to create an invisibility spell and headed for a less busy part of the castle where she could hopefully hop over the wall. And by hop I mean she got on top of a building and ran across toward the castle using her magic to help launch herself over the wall and crash into a tree.
With a resounding thud Lyra fell to the ground feeling slightly disoriented. Taking a moment to get her bearings Lyra looked around making sure that none of the guards noticed her little stunt.
“Looks like I managed to sneak in, now to find that human!”
Lyra continued on her quest looking for some way into the castle, after a short walk around the nearby tower she found her entrance, a small window that was left slightly open near the bottom of the tower.
“Perfect! Now to get inside and find what I’m looking for!”
And with that Lyra squeezed herself through the window and tumbled down to the floor below. Getting back on her hooves Lyra looked around again making sure no one was inside or heard her fall. Feeling safe for the moment Lyra proceeded to the nearby doors opening them to reveal a very surprised Princess Luna.
Lyra’s eyes went as wide as dinner plates, “Oh buck.”
Heading back over to Jack…
“Argh! Where the hell is the exit!?!” exclaimed Jack running through a ridiculously long corridor.
He had only escaped a few minutes ago and now had a small army of ponies chasing him. It didn’t take long for that to happen either since as soon as he left the dungeon and made it to what appeared to be the ground floor he accidentally tripped an alarm and had been running since.
As Jack continued to run through the corridor he decided to risk jump through one of the many doors that he had been passing and hope it didn’t lead to a dead end. While trying to make a decision a few of the guards chasing that unfortunately were unicorns decided to start shooting spells at him hoping to bring the chase to an end. Spells started zipping past Jack or miss their mark by a few inches as he tried to dodge them. This resulted in many shattered windows, broken vases, and scorched painting.
‘Fuck it, I’m taking a door!’
With that Jack lunged at the nearest door to his left bursting through the double doors and rolling to the side as he entered the main hall of the castle. Not wasting time to admire the collection of art pieces and other priceless objects that decorated the walls Jack quickly slammed the doors shut and grabbed a nearby chair jamming it up against the door to keep it closed.
Soon as he left go of the chair the guards on the other side rammed into the doors causing them to budge slightly yet the chair did its job and held the doors closed. Jack could hear the guards shouting orders at each other as well as him to open the door. Taking advantage of the time he just gained Jack quickly searched the room. On either side was a stair case leading down to the rest of the main hall, further down there was a few set of doors hopefully the second set of double doors directly across from the ones he now stood at would lead to the outside and he could finally escape this crazy place.
Sprinting across the room to the doors Jack was just about the reach out and grab the door knobs when the entire doors themselves were incased in a magical aura. Jack slid to a halt and watched in horror as the doors were swung open to reveal Princess Celestia Look straight at him.
“Jack, nice to see yo-“
“HOLY HELL!”
Jack immediately ran to the side of the main hall and burst through one of the side doors he had seen from earlier.
Celestia merely smirked as she watched him run off.
“You can run but you can’t hide.”
Just as he left the doors holding the guards back burst forth and the main hall was swarmed with guards searching everywhere for the human.
“Princess! You’re not hurt are you?” One of the guards asked as he walked up to her.
“Oh no I’m fine. But our friend seems to have run off toward one of my private rooms…” Celestia trailed off getting lost in thought
“We’ll get him yet don’t worry princess!” and with that the guard ran off in the direction that Jack went the other guards soon following. Princess Celestia was once again alone in the main hall.
Thinking aloud she said, “Hmm…I wonder if he likes bananas?”
Celestia smirked as she focused her magic and teleported ahead of Jack and prepared to lay in wait in the room he would eventually come rushing in.
End of chapter 3
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Well that took WAAAAYYYY longer than it should have to get finished, sorry about that. Now to figure out how this is all gonna go down in the next couple of chapters hehehe.
Okay screw it, kept messing around with this chapter trying to get it right and it's as close as I can get it to being acceptable. Also terribly sorry this took SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LONG to get out, had some unexpected delays which didn't help (Long story short I lost all the data on my pc). Honestly this should have been done back at the start of November! Well it's done now so enjoy!
Chapter 4
“Oh buck.” said Lyra as she was face to face with Princess Luna.
Luna was a bit startled when she had opened the doors to her personal library to find a pony standing right there in front of the doorway. Luna quickly covered up her surprise and frowned at the intruding pony.
“What exactly doust thou think thou art doing snooping about in our castle? Hmm?” questioned Luna as she advanced upon the pony who was backpedaling up until she bumped into one of the bookshelves causing a few books to fall to the ground.
“Well umm, you see that is…”
“SILENCE!”
Poor Lyra let out a pitiful squeak at Luna’s sudden use of the Royal Canterlot voice.
“Now before trying to explain why it is thou art snooping about in our personal library thou shall tell us thou name!” commanded Luna pointing an accusing hoof at Lyra.
“M-my n-name is L-Lyra Heartstrings your h-highness.” came a stuttered reply from a very scared Lyra who was cowering before Luna.
“Very well then Lyra, now tell us why art thou sneaking about our library?!”
“I-I didn’t m-meant to sneak in here exactly, it’s just that I was searching for something that I…misplaced.”
“Oh? And what exactly did thou ‘misplace’?” asked Luna becoming curious as to how this pony before her could have possibly misplaced anything in the Canterlot Castle of all places.
“I…can’t say. Sorry your highness.” mumbled Lyra as she kicked at the floor with her hoof.
Luna frowned and said, “Very well then be that way. We shall take thou before our dear sister and together we shall start getting some answers from thou.”
And with that Luna concentrated her magic around Lyra picking her up and proceeded to leave her personal library and head for the throne room to await for Celestia. Lyra merely gulped know that she had been caught and had to face justice for sneaking into the castle, she could only hope that when she finally did tell the royal sisters what it was she had been looking for that they’d believe her and not think her to be some crazy pony and have her shipped off to an asylum. That thought alone made her shudder as Luna started down the hallway with Lyra in tow.
As soon as they left the library though Luna stopped and stared in disbelief at what was standing before her.
“What in tartarus is going on?!” exclaimed Luna.
Going back about 20 minutes…
“Don’t you guys ever quit?!” yelled Jack as he ran for his life down yet another hallway.
“Halt! In the name of Celestia Halt!!!” shouted a guard as the two beside him shot off another volley of magic towards the human.
Glancing over his should Jack had enough time to jump to the side as a pair of magical rays shot forth from two of the three unicorns behind him. As he evaded the attack it singed his shirt, normally he’d just shrug it off but it wasn’t just and shirt they had just burned it was his favorite shirt too! On it it said, ‘Genius by birth, slacker by choice’ in bold black lettering. He liked it because it described him perfectly but now it was ruined. This also sent him a message that while he could probably keep out running these pony guards he was inevitably getting tired and starting to slow down. He’d need to find a place to hide and lay low for a while and he needed to find it now.
Looking ahead Jack noticed another pair of double doors with a picture of what looked like…Bananas.
‘Why the hell is there a picture of bananas on a pair of double doors in a castle?!’
Shaking his head and deciding to not bother trying to find a logical answer as to why that picture was on the door Jack started to sprint further ahead of the 3 guards chasing him and using his should rammed into the double doors sending them slamming into the walls and bouncing back slightly as he entered the new room. Needing to barricade the doors quickly Jack slammed them shut again and scanned the room for something to block the doors keeping them closed. He found a coffee table being better than nothing promptly grabbed it and slammed it into the doors. Jack jumped back as soon as he finished moving the table as the guards chasing him had suddenly slammed into the doors.
Outside he could hear them talking, “He’s barricaded the doors again! Quickly find those dang earth ponies we need them to buck these doors down!”
‘Well that buys me a few minutes’ Jack thanked his lucky stars that the table was able to hold them at bay.
Taking a moment to examine the room Jack saw that there was another pair of double doors across the room with the same picture on them and to his left or right were a single door each that looked fairly normal, for a castle anyway. Unable to think of a further course of action Jack decided to go through the next pair of double doors. Opening them he was to behold the site of…Bananas, bananas everywhere! Mountainous piles of Bananas layer everywhere even the wallpaper in the room was nothing but bananas. Stranger still was the varying sizes of the bananas, some were normal, some where big enough to sit on and there were even a few tiny looking ones spread all across the floor.
“…What in the actual fuck?”
Jack just stared in disbelief, why on earth would there be a room dedicated to nothing but bananas in a castle of all places?!
Before he could continue to try and rationalize why someone would have a room like this he heard the sudden noise of clopping hooves. Jack went wide eyed as he searched the room hoping that there weren’t any guards that had somehow snuck in. Then to his terror Celestia came trotting out from behind a pile of bananas with one in her mouth. As she came into view she saw him stare at her with a look of fear and disbelief, she smirked around the banana. Winking at Jack she started to suck on the banana in a rather suggestive manner. Jack noticed this and turned beet red and promptly spun on his heels and ran out the door thinking, ‘Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope’.
As he ran off toward one of the side doors Celestia removed the banana from her mouth and started to laugh like a little school girl having been successful in embarrassing the poor man.
Going through door number two (he’s still a bit flustered by the way) Jack found himself in a guest room with a door leading back into the hallway. Deciding it’d be better to have to deal with the annoying guards than that…that…whatever she is Jack headed back into the hall and started running like a bat out of hell. As soon as he was out in the hall the guards that were about to break into the double doors he had barricaded notice the door down the hall open and saw the human sprint down the hallway.
“There he is after him!” exclaimed one of the unicorn guards as they all gave chase.
‘huh, you’d think they’d have just used the side doors like I did to get around that barricade I made, heh morons’
Heading down the hallway again Jack took a left turn only to stop after a few steps as he noticed something. There weren’t any guards chasing him anymore. In fact the entire hallway seemed to be eerily silent. Taking a cautious step near the corner Jack leaned over to look back where he came from noticing that all the guards seemed to have vanished.
Deciding it better not to question it he spun on his heel and was about to take off running again only to come nose to nose with Celestia.
She looked at him and smirked, “Hi.”
If he could Jack would have jumped out of his skin, how did she get ahead of him and why was she that close?! Taking a slow step back he never took his eyes off of her fearing what she might do if he looked away for even a second.
“Running is pointless I hope you now that Jack.” She said still smirking.
Jack to another step back which resulted in Celestia taking a step forward. This repeated two more times before Jack finally decided ‘to hell with it’ and bolted back the way he had previously come from. Celestia laughed with glee and gave chase.
Heading back towards the double doors he recently departed Jack made the mistake of looking back to see if Celestia was still there and sure enough she was, with her horn pointed at his rear end. Jack gave a yelp as she lightly poked him which caused him to run slightly faster and unfortunately step on a banana peel (cliché I know) and ended up landing face first with his rear up in the air and slid to a halt at the hooves of Princess Luna.
Princess Celestia came to a halt right before Jack and Luna and tried to remove the smile on her face as Luna frowned at the sight of both of them.
“What in tartarus is going on!?”
And we’re back to the present ta-da!
“Ah sister how nice to see you!”
“Don’t try to change the subject dear sister we demand to know why this…human is out and about in the castle and not in the dungeon!”
“Oh well um, you see…”
“Ugh, Tia you were tormenting this poor fellow weren’t you!?”
Celestia gave a sheepish grin, “Speaking of fellows who’s that you’re carrying about? Decided to play for the same team huh?”
Luna’s cheeks turned red as did Lyra's.
“Tis a lie! We haven’t done such a thing since before the..incident…” Luna trailed off her ears drooping down as she recalled the time of her banishment.
Celestia frowned at the mention of her sister’s banishment due to Nightmare moon.
“Oh Luna I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have brought that up.”
“Tis fine Tia, but you still haven’t answered our question: Why is the human free?”
“To be honest I haven’t a clue” she looked down at Jack who was sitting up and had his back pressed up to the wall “How did you escape?”
“I, uh…um that is, I-I-“
“Come now we don’t bite...much” Celestia muttered the last part.
Jack’s face flushed as he heard that, “I-I umm attacked the guard down in the dungeon when he opened the cell door and said he was bringing me to meet you two.”
Celestia’s attitude suddenly changed from playful to serious, “So you attacked one of my little ponies? And don’t deny it?”
“…yes to both questions, please understand I was terrified of what would happen so I knocked him out and just ran.”
“Yes well we see how well that turned out.”
“Yes well, if thou are done we should continue this in the throne room. We are sure our loyal subjects are wait for the both of us isn’t that right dear sister?”
Celestia groaned, “Don’t remind me Luna, you know I don’t look forward to having to sit for hours on end listening to those up tight high society ponies complain about this or that.”
Luna giggled and turned to Jack, “ If thou would be so kind as to accompany us to the throne room?” she offered a hoof towards Jack who accepted with a slight blush and got up to his feet standing a few inches shorter than her.
The walk back to the throne room was relatively quiet. Until Celestia let out a short gasp, “Luna I forgot all about you friend here, what’s her name and why is she coming along with us?”
“Ah yes this is Lyra Heartstrings, We found her sneaking about in our personal library.”
Lyra simply looked at the floor as she was still floating in the air thanks to Luna’s magic.
“Interesting I’d like to know more once we’re in the throne room.”
Luna simply nodded as they all continued to walk. As the continued Luna found herself constantly staring at Jack. He seemed smaller than he actually was mainly due to the slouch he had and the obvious fact that he seemed rather scared with everything that had happened this morning. She also noted that he was walking closer to her than Celestia; she could only guess what Tia had done to make him nervous of her.
As they walked Lyra didn’t take her eyes off of Jack the entire time and only looked away when he glanced in her direction. In her mind Lyra was doing back flips she knew exactly what he was and knew that while her spell still needed work the fact remained that she was right and everypony that said she was crazy was wrong.
Entering into the main hall yet again the group noticed the guards and castle staff were at work repairing the doors and bringing out new furniture to replace the ones broken when Jack had blocked the door at the top of the stairs resulting in the guards that had chased him smashing both the chair and the doors to pieces. The double doors would take time to replace as they were very elaborate while the chair and some other pieces of furniture were more easily replaced. Heading up the stairs most of the guards present glared at Jack while the castle staff stopped and stared at the odd looking creature accompanying the princesses.
Feeling more nervous than he already was Jack stepped a bit closer to Luna seemingly trying to hide behind her as everyone stared at him. This made Luna uncomfortable and every time she took a step away from him Jack would step closer as he tried in vain to hide from the ponies watching him.
Walking past the ruined double doors and into the throne room Celestia took her seat up her throne and patted the throne next to hers indicating that she wanted Luna to sit as well. Luna gently put Lyra down on the ground next to Jack as they both waited for the two princesses to pass whatever judgment they saw fit on the both of them.
As the pair waited for the princesses to speak Jack looked over at Lyra again as she quickly looked away blushing. Leaning over slightly Jack whispered in her ear, “Hi, names Jack nice to meet you.”
“Oh! Right, Lyra and it’s a pleasure to meet you.” Lyra raised her hoof and he grasped it and shook hands/hoof with her.
Lyra was practically jumping for joy in her head, ‘Ohmygosh! A real human! And he has hands!’ Lyra was so excited that she accidently let out a little squee. This gained a raised eyebrow from Jack and a smirk from Celestia who had been watching the two as they waited for her and Luna to pass judgment. Lyra blushed furiously as she realized what just happened and promptly covered her face with her hooves. Jack merely shook his head and looked back at the princesses. ‘Bit odd but I guess she seems nice’ Jack thought to himself
“Oh-ho! Taking an interest in my little ponies already hmm?” said Celestia with a smirk.
Jack went wide eyed, ‘Shit forgot that she can read my thoughts’.
“Yes and if I were you I’d be careful what I thought.” She said with a wink causing Jack to blush slightly.
*ahem* Well getting to why we are here, Lyra heartstrings you stand accused of breaking and entering our castle snooping about my personal library, do thou deny these charges?”
“No your highness.”
“And you Jack stand accused of assaulting a member of the royal guard and causing property damage, do you deny these charges?”
“No your highness.”
Celestia and Luna shared a brief glance at each other then nodded.
“Very well, Lyra you are hereby sentence to 1 week of community service starting today, this shall be carried out in your hometown of Ponyville.”
Lyra breathed a sigh of relief as Luna motioned for a pair of guards to escort her outside.
Starting to panic Lyra spoke up, “Wait your highness! What about Jack?!”
Celestia merely smiled and answered, “Oh don’t worry about him, and we have something special in mind for Jack.”
Jack gulped fearing what was to come.
As Lyra albeit reluctantly left her mind still racing the princesses turned their full attention towards Jack.
“As for you Jack my sister and I have agreed to move you to a guest room here in the castle instead of sending you back to your cell.” Jack let out the breath he had been holding, “However, there will be limitations to your freedom and you will have to abide by certain rules.”
Jack simply nodded feeling slightly better about the fact that he would have a bed to sleep on tonight instead of a pile of hay.
Celestia was about to continue until a guard came up to her and whispered something in her ear. She nodded and the guard trotted off to where ever he was going.
“Since you are staying here in the castle we have decided that to better understand you we are having the bearers of the Elements of Harmony come and get to know you, your life is going to be in there hooves from this moment on.”
“Uhh Elements of what now?” asked Jack in confusion.
“Elements of Harmony, I’d go into detail about them but we simply do not have the time today, for now Luna here will be showing you the way around the castle and to your new room. Once you’re settled in I shall have my faithful student and bearer of the element of magic, Twilight Sparkle come and meet you, the rest of the elements shall arrive tomorrow.”
After she finished Luna stood up and motioned for Jack to follow her and their business in the throne room was done.
“Guard! You may send them in now.” Ordered Celestia as a guard went and announced that the royal court was ready to begin. All sorts of fancy uptight ponies started to file into the throne room eager to ask Celestia for this or that. Celestia sighed, “So much for my good mood…”
Later with Luna escorting Jack around the Castle…
“And down that hall leads to our wing of the castle.” Luna showed as two of her Lunar Guard stood watch at the entrance to her part of the castle.
Jack just nodded and took it all in trying to remember everything she had shown him of the castle. So far he was fairly confident he could make it to the main hall, kitchen, garden and the ball room without getting lost. Of course there were some areas Luna had told him not to go to such as the training yard, personal rooms of either herself or Celestia and several other places. He still felt odd about all this it all felt like a dream what with the walking talking pastel colored ponies and magic. And he couldn’t shake the feeling of constantly being drawn toward Luna there was something about her that he couldn’t put his finger on…
“Art thou still listening?”
“Huh? Oh! Yes, yes still listening yup heard everything you said.”
Luna smirked, “Oh really? What did we just say then?”
“uhhhh…”
“We thought so, please pay attention so we do not have to repeat ourselves.”
“Yes princess.”
“Please, Luna will do.”
“Ok Luna.”
As they continued to walk they fell into an awkward silence. Jack started to get annoyed at how his gaze kept drifting toward Luna as they walked.
‘hmm, she does look rather attractive...’
Immediately Jack’s hand flew to his mouth as if his thought was said aloud. Luna stopped and looked at him with a slight blush and a frown.
“…Yes well here we are, this is thy room we trust it will me thy needs… We must depart farwell.” And with that Luna galloped down the hall leaving a very embarrassed Jack standing at his door. Sighing Jack pushed the door open and entered his room.
“Smooth Jack now she probably thinks you’re a pervert.” Jack mumbled to himself upset that he forgot the two sisters could read his mind. Flopping onto the very comfortable bed Jack let out a sigh of relief as he let his body sink into the bed. Jack let himself enjoy the feeling of the soft bed as his mind wandered. It was the second time he had any time to actually stop and think about what happened, the first being his brief time in the dungeon.
Jack tossed and turned a bit as he tried to figure out how all this had happened. He was still fairly sure this was just his imagination going wild and that he was still asleep in his own bed in his room. Sadly that was not the case, looking down at his torn shirt was all the proof he needed to know that this was indeed not a dream. Hell he could practically feel it when that guard had shot at him resulting in his now ruined shirt.
‘Need to find someone to fix this shirt, can’t exactly walk around with my stomach exposed.’
Rolling onto his other side Jack tried to catch some z’s and hope tomorrow would be less hectic.
Think it’s time to see what Twilight’s been up to wouldn’t you say?
“Again I’m terribly sorry about the mess in the room.” Twilight apologized for what seemed to be the hundredth time.
The hotel manager merely nodded replying, “Really it’s okay. I’ll have some of the staff come up and clean it up in the morning and you more than paid for the damages so really it’s no problem Miss Sparkle.”
“Well if you’re absolutely positive…”
“For the last time yes! Now please let my people get to work cleaning this up. Also I am sorry to have to say it but we don’t have any other rooms available so you might want to try one of the other hotels.”
“Oh that’s no problem I was going to head over to the castle anyways.”
“Very well then, take care Miss Sparkle”
Waving good bye Twilight started trotting off toward the castle. As soon as she was out of sight she let out a heavy sigh. Twilight was not pleased at all that Lyra had left her to clean up a mess SHE made. As annoyed as she was with her friend Twilight couldn’t help be somewhat happy at the fact that Celestia summoned her to the castle, it had been a while since they last saw each other and Twilight couldn’t wait to see her mentor again.
After several minutes Twilight had finally reached the castle. Upon reaching the front entrance the two guards on duty saw her, gave a curt nod and let her through. Heading up the stairs to the main doors she was greeted by another guard who opened the doors for her allowing her into the castle.
Walking through the main hall Twilight looked around and saw that there were some ponies working on the double doors leading into the throne room. She trotted up to one and asked, “Excuse me sir?” one of the workers turned around to look at her, “I was just wondering, what happened here.”
In a gruff voice the stallion replied, “Oh this? Yeah well apparently some weird lookin creature went running about the castle causing all kinds of trouble. Eventually caused the guards chasing em to crash into this here door so now we’re fixing it. Kinda annoyin too, know how hard it is to make these fancy doors?”
“Ah no I don’t sorry but I have to get going. Thank you for answering my question though!”
The gruff pony merely grunted and went back to work as Twilight walked past the workers and into the throne room. Upon entering she found instead of Celestia she found Luna sitting upon the throne. It made sense since it was night time but Twilight was so used to seeing Celestia up there that it was going to take some getting used to seeing Luna up there as well.
Bowing before Luna she said, “Hello princess, it’s wonderful to see you again.”
“Ah, Twilight Sparkle it has been to long since we last met. How do thee fare on this wonderful night?”
“To be honest you highness I could be better. But that’s not why I’m here Celestia said she wanted to see me as soon as possible. You wouldn’t happen to know where she is would you?”
Luna merely nodded and pointed a hoof at the opposite side of the room. Twilight followed the hoof to where it was pointed and was happy to see Celestia walking in.
“Princess Celestia!” exclaimed Twilight as she ran up and nuzzled against the princess.
“Ah Twilight it’s so good to see you!”
After their greeting Celestia motioned for Twilight to follow her down the hall.
“My faithful student I’m sure you’re wondering why I summoned you so suddenly.”
“Oh yes princess! I’m very curious about it since you’re letting didn’t really reveal anything.”
“Yes you see for now I want to keep this a secret until I am sure.”
“Sure of what princess?”
“Sure that he isn’t going to be a problem during his stay here.”
“He?”
By time the finished talking they were already at Jack’s door and Celestia had opened it to reveal the human to Twilight. Twilight’s eyes widened upon seeing the human, she had never seen anything quite like it. Unfortunately she didn’t have time to admire as Jack was thrashing about in his sleep. Celestia notice this as well and quickly nudged Twilight in before shutting the door.
“Twilight I’m going to perform a spell I need you to watch over the both of us.”
“What kind of spell?”
At that Celestia smirked then fell to the ground unconscious. Sufficed to say Twilight’s going to flip the fuck out in right about now.
“Princess! Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no!! This is bad this is very bad!”
Trotting around the room Twilight tried to think of a way to handle the situation.
“It’s going to be okay Twilight! Just gotta keep it together! Keep. It. Together!”
After having a slight episode Twilight levitated Celestia onto the far side of the bed making sure Jack didn’t end up hitting the princess. Shortly after Twilight went back to panic mode which only got worse as Luna came into the room stopping dead in her tracks as she took in the scene of a thrashing Jack lying next to an unconscious Celestia and a very distressed Twilight looking at her with a slight twitch in her eye.
Luna sighed thinking Celestia was playing another one of her games, “Twilight We need thou to watch over us all and if anyone comes by do not let them in. We need to do something.”
And with that Luna too fell to the floor unconscious.Twilight not having a clue how to handle the situation went crazy and ran around the room in a panic for a brief moment before collapsing onto a nearby couch too exhausted to do anything at the moment.
Going into Jack’s little dream world….
As you’d expect from a realm of dreams nothing made ANY friggin sense. However for Jack he had come to expect this whenever he was asleep. Rarely did he dreams make anything BUT sense. Yet this time everything was a lot more confusing than previous times. Looking up in the ‘sky’ were one would typically see clouds Jack saw giant mugs swishing back and forth and spilling their contents as they did. Chances of raining blistering hot chocolate: Imminent.
“Ah hell.”
Jack sprinted off toward whatever shelter he could find. Oddly enough it happened to be a giant shoe looking house.
‘Wow talk about memory lane…’ Jack thought to himself as he headed for the shoe…house…thing.
Upon entering the door Jack found himself inside of Canterlot castle again. However taking a look at his surroundings he noticed where everything used to be very clean and tidy now seemed to be half melted charred and whatever was still intact was and a thick layer of dust on it. Besides the ruined décor it was extremely dark inside the castle.
Having nothing else to do Jack decided to explore the castle. As Jack roamed the unfamiliar halls he noticed the further into the castle he went the more damage he saw. Jack was feeling uneasy as he continued walking through the halls. After a few minutes he came to a door to what he assumed used to be a guest room. Upon entering said room Jack went from feeling uneasy to downright terrified. Sitting on the bed on the opposite side of the room sat Pinkamena who had a sadistic smile as she watched the door open.
“Oh goody! You’re back!”
Jack stood there wide eyed as the crazed pink pony hopped off the bed and took a step towards him.
“So do you want to play again?”
‘Nopenopenopenopenopenopenopenope fucking NOPE!’ thought Jack as he promptly slammed the door shut and proceeded to run down the hallway.
Not a minute after he had closed the door shut it was shattered as Pinkamena came trotting out.
“Wait come back! I thought of a new game we can play!” exclaimed Pinkamena followed shortly by a very creepy laugh.
“Hell no! Stay the hell away from me!” shouted Jack as he ran like a man possessed.
Pinkamena merely laughed as she hopped after him. Rounding the nearby corner Jack continued to run away from the pony from hell. As he ran he noticed on the walls were there was once elegant and one of a kind pieces of art there was now disturbing messages adorning the walls. Things like, ‘Will you play with me?’ or ‘Don’t you want to try my cupcakes?’ were written on the walls in bold red lettering.
Yet again Jack was pretty much scared shitless and found himself running into the main hall of the castle.
‘Huh, déjà vu.’ Thought Jack as he ran up the stairs leading to the throne room.
“Oh I don’t think you want to play That game again mister human!” shouted Pinkamena as she burst into the main hall not long after Jack had.
Ignoring her and still looking for a place to escape from the pink pony Jack flung the double doors to the throne room open…and proceeded to fall through the air.
“FUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK” screamed Jack as the rapidly approaching ground came closer and closer and he plummeted.
As Jack was about to make his peace with god he noticed an odd tingling sensation run throughout his body. Risking a peek Jack opened one eye and found himself hovering several inches from the ground. Looking up he saw both royal sisters looking at him. Celestia wore a small smile and Luna looked at him with worry. Celestia using her magic set Jack down on the ground who gave out a small “oof!” as his was dropped onto the floor.
“Ugh, Little warning next time please?”
Giggling Celestia replied, “And what fun would there be in that?”
Jack rolled his eyes before continuing, “So mind telling me what’s going on? ”
Luna answered this time, “We were hoping you’d tell us. When we found thee in thy room you were thrashing about in your sleep.”
“Luna here thought I was messing with you again since I was unconscious next to you.” Smirked Celestia.
Luna shot a glare at her, “Yes well it wouldn’t be the first time you messed with some poor fellows mind.”
Celestia’s eyes went wide then she looked down with a frown. Jack took note to ask what that was about later.
“Right well if you could I’d like to get the hell out of here before that pink menace tries to kill me…again.”
As if on cue the manic laughter of said pink pony could be heard from up above as she dove towards the trio.
“Umm NOW would be good princesses!” exclaimed Jack.
“Very well then, come stand near us and we will perform the spell.” Said Celestia and she and her sister focused their magic on the spell that would wake the three of them.
Soon the three started to glow as the magic took effect. Pinkamena upon seeing the three trying to escape howled in rage knowing she couldn’t get to them fast enough.
“I’ll get you! You will play more games with me I swear it!” she hollered sending a shiver down Jacks spine as the three of them disappeared and were swallowed up by darkness. The darkness didn’t last long as a blinding light to place of it and soon Jack and the princesses found themselves gradually waking up.
Back in the guest room with a still passed out twilight…
Luna was the first up shortly followed by Celestia then Jack. During their brief time in Jack’s mind they had tossed and turned a lot with Jack ending up in a rather embarrassing position with Celestia. Luna blushed madly upon seeing the two and ran out the door Tia just giggled and put on a seductive gaze looking towards Jack.
“My my, usually your supposed to take the lady on a date first but I’ll let it slide this time.”
“I-I but um uhh” muttered Jack as he jumped off the bed blushing madly.
Celestia laughed, “Oh lighten up! I was only kidding.” With that she left the room.
Luna was waiting outside still blushing but now glaring at her sister.
“That was very rude sister! Embarrassing him like that!”
Celestia merely laughed again, “Oh come now Lulu! I was only having a bit of fun.” Celestia know had a knowing look about her, “Besides I saw the way you looked at him, both when you brought him to his room and again when we all woke up.”
Luna turned an intense shade of red, “Tis a lie! We do not look at him in any sort of way!”
“Believe what you want dear sister I know the signs when I seem them, take care Luna!”
With that Celestia trotted off down the hall leaving a very flustered Luna at Jack’s door. Meanwhile inside Jack’s room Twilight finally started to come to after her little episode.
“Ugh my head…Wait where’s the princesses?!”
“Whoa calm down they just left not even a minute ago. Now would you mind telling me who you are? I’m Jack.”
Jack extended a hand in greeting which Twilight cautiously accepted.
“Umm right, I am Twilight Sparkle and Princess Celestia had originally planned for me to get to know you. We could start now if you like?”
Jack scratched his head as he tried to forget about that damn pink pony before replying, “Uhh if it’s all the same to you I’d prefer if we started this maybe after lunch.”
“Of course I’m pretty hungry myself. Come on! I’ll show you to the dining room!”
With that the pair walked out the door and bumped into Luna who was still standing there. Startled Luna jumped back a bit then made up some excuse before running off somewhere.
After an awkward silence Twilight said, “Well, that was weird. I’ve never seen Princess Luna act like that before, and I think she was blushing too!”
Twilight brought a hoof to her chin thinking for a moment before shrugging and motioning for Jack to follow her. Jack simply nodded and they both proceeded to the dining room. After a quick lunch and some small talk Twilight and Jack returned to his room to get started.
“Alright let me just get my checklist and some paper and we’ll be all set.”
Twilight then excused herself from the room and trotted to the room she had left her bags at. After a few minutes Luna returned to the room. Upon seeing her Jack sat up on the bed and motioned for her to make herself comfortable.
“Jack, before Twilight returns We’d like to ask you about that dream realm we were in during our brief time in your mind.”
Jack rubbed the back of his neck nervously, “Umm sure, what did you want to know about it?”
“Well during our brief time inside your mind we saw some rather...odd things. Along with that strange pony that had been chasing you.”
Jack gulped, “Umm what did you see exactly?”
“Well-“
Their conversation would have to wait as Twilight came back in carrying her supplies and a very long check list…
“Oh hello again princess!”
“Please, just Luna is fine Twilight.”
“Of course, now Jack, I would just love it if you could go over everything I have here on this checklist.”
And with that she let it drop to the floor unraveling itself and rolling from the door and stopping at Jack’s feet across the room. Needless to say he was in for a very long day thanks to Twilight's inquisitive nature. Seeing no way to escape the most likely hundreds of questions she had Jack let out a sigh.
“Ugh alright Twilight let’s get started.”
Twilight let out a squee of excitement as she prepared to start asking Jack questions about himself and where he came from and what his people were like and… well you get the idea.
Now let’s follow Luna for a bit!
Seeing how Jack would be occupied for the time being Luna excused herself from the room and made her way to the throne room to talk to Celestia. She didn’t get far however as she turned down the hallway she nearly bumped into her sister who was leaning against the wall with a shit eating grin.
“T-Tia! Thou shouldn’t sneak up on is like that!”
“Come now Luna it was you who walked into me. I was just standing here minding my own business.”
Luna gave her a look that said she didn’t believe her. Celestia just kept on smiling at her sister.
“So…did you tell him what we saw?”
“N-no we were about to before Twilight came back and started to ask Jack questions about himself.”
“Aww oh well, there’s always next time. But enough about that! Come, our subjects have been wondering where we’ve ran off too and court won’t run itself.”
Luna nodded and walked with her sister to the throne room yet her mind was still elsewhere. Celestia noticed this but decided to let the two of them figure it out by themselves.
OMG Chapter five and it didn't take a month plus to get it out! Huzzah! have fun reading hope ya like it!
Chapter 5
Celestia was bored, like REALLY bored. After her little ‘adventure’ into Jack’s mind with Luna the two sisters had to return to court and finish their royal duties for the day. It didn’t help that after going through the incredibly long line of ponies that had come to see the princesses about whatever problems they had that the last pony to see them was none other than Prince Blueblood. With a heavy sigh Celestia let her eyes wonder, annoyed that her sister had fallen asleep during Blueblood’s speech as her nephew droned on about wanting to have a bigger allowance. If she could Celestia would simply send the brat off to the royal guard’s boot camp, but he would find some way to weasel out of it…like the last 10 times. Blueblood was nearly finished explaining why he deserved an increased allowance when Jack suddenly burst through the doors to the throne room. ‘Finally some entertainment!’
Blueblood was about to complain about being rudely interrupted by the filthy beast before him when Jack walked right past completely ignoring him.
“You,” Jack pointed at Celestia, “you planned this didn’t you?!”
Celestia was about to ask what he meant when suddenly Twilight came skidding to a halt at the entrance to the throne room.
“Jaaaacccckkkk! Come back here this instant!” Twilight yelled while levitating a rather freakishly large needle next to her.
“For the last time no! There is no way in hell am I letting you stick me with that huge thing!”
Celestia suppressed a small laugh at how wrong Jack’s statement just sounded. Twilight on the other hoof was not as amused, she pawed at the floor with her hoof as she prepared to charge at Jack intent on getting a sample of his blood.
“What is the meaning of this?!” Blueblood exclaimed both shocked and annoyed that a pair of commoners would dare interrupt his talk with Celestia…not that anyone else cared.
“This? This is me running from a big ass needle so if you would be so kind as to stand here…” replied Jack as he forcibly shoved Blueblood in Twilight’s path as she ran full sprint at him.
“Wha- Ah! Filthy commoner don’t you dare tou-“ Blueblood was cut off as he let out a very girlish scream as Twilight trying too late to slow down slammed into the prince and the rather large needle impaled itself in his rear.
Luna woke with a start at the sound of Blueblood’s pathetic scream. Her look of annoyance however quickly turned to one of amusement at the sight of Blueblood laying on the floor with a needle comically sticking out of his rear end. Even the guards where having a hard time suppressing the smirks they were all now sporting.
Jack allowed himself a brief laugh at the sight of the two ponies sprawled on the floor but the laugh never came as he noticed Twilight hop back up looking rather angry and having somehow pulled another needle seemingly from now where. She pawed at the floor again as she got ready to charge at him for the second time.
“You’re not giving up easy are you?” asked Jack warily as he took a step in the direction of the exit.
“I told you all I need is a small sample. For science!” with that Twilight charged and Jack ran like a bat out of hell for the exit. Celestia let out a soft giggle at the antics of Jack and Twilight as well as the sight of Blueblood who was still laying on the ground.
“Ahem, yes well I believe that will be it for court today, everyone is free to leave now.” With that the two sisters and the guards began to the leave the throne room leaving a rather disgruntled Blueblood in the middle of the room trying to take the needle out of his ass.
Walking out of the throne room Luna was about to depart for her personal chambers before she was halted by Celestia.
“Luna before you head to your room, would you please come with me there’s something I need both you and Jack to do.”
Luna simply nodded still trying to fully wake up from her impromptu nap in the throne room. As the sisters walked down the halls of the castle it was evident that Twilight and Jack had been here and there, tables would be knocked down in a clear sign that someone was trying to slow down somepony to little avail. There was even a few knocked over sets of antique armor and the occasional scorch mark on the walls. If they didn’t know better the sisters would think someone had fought an epic battle through the castle instead of being chased by a determined pony with a needle.
Rounding a corner the faint sound of someone arguing could be heard in one of the rooms. The door was slightly ajar so as the sisters neared they were able to hear what was being said clearly.
“Come on! Give it to me!”
“For the last time no! I ain’t letting you poke me with that thing!”
“Come on I need it! Please?!”
“No!”
“Come on! Give it to me!
“No!”
“Give it to me Jack!”
At this point Celestia was laughing her flank off while Luna had a deep blush gracing her face.
“Come on…Just. A. Little. Sample!”
“I. Said. No!”
With that Jack managed to throw Twilight off of himself along with the needle that was so very close to penetrating his skin. Twilight Landed on the bed across the room and instantly hopped up getting ready to tackle Jack again. She really wanted a blood sample.
At this point the two sisters deemed it best to intervene before either of the two got hurt, that and their conversation was rather misleading much to Celestia’s enjoyment and Luna’s discomfort.
“And what pray tell is going on here exactly? Hmm?” Celestia asked as she trotted into the room Luna by her side.
“Princess! Could you help hold him down he refuses to let me take a sample of his blood!”
“I told you that I won’t let you touch me with a needle that big!”
“Jack would it be acceptable if we fetched a smaller needle from the royal doctor?”
Jack paused thinking about it, on one hand he could simply run and continue the chase but that meant he could still get poked by that big ass needle. On the other hand he could just nod and get a much smaller needle which would hopefully not hurt as much. Jack really hates needle in case anyone wasn’t aware.
After considering it Jack finally gave in and nodded, much to Twilight’s pleasure. So with that settled the four proceeded to walk to the medical wing of the castle, Jack and Twilight getting dirty looks from the castle staff that had to pick up the mess they created during their little chase.
On the way to the medical wing the group ran into the doctor who was currently returning from his lunch break.
“Princess’ what a wonderful surprise! I didn’t think I’d be bumping into either of you today, if you’ll follow me to my office we can talk there.”
The group nodded and proceeded to follow the doctor to his office. On the way there Jack couldn’t help but ask, “So I’ve been looking around and it seems you don’t have many sick or injured here, why is that?”
The doctor looked at Jack seeming to notice him for the first time but quickly shook off his surprise and answered, “Well you see the unicorns here have perfected much in the medical field, there’s few illnesses we can’t cure,” he was brimming with pride, “that’s why you hardly see any patients here, which to be honest makes the job rather dull most of the time.”
“But enough about my job, tell me what exactly are you?”
Jack extended a hand in greeting while saying, “Oh! Nearly forgot, names Jack. I’m a human.”
The doctor stared at the hand for a moment before simply hoof bumping it, “Pleasure to meet you Jack, you may call me Doctor but I prefer Doc.”
“Okay then, Doc it is.”
Doc smiled at Jack as they finally reached his office.
“Now tell me what exactly do you all need with me today?”
This time Twilight spoke up, “Well to put it simply Jack here,” she gave him a playful nudge which he returned in kind, “Agreed to give me a blood sample but is afraid of needles.”
Doc looked at Jack with an amused smile to which Jack shrugged.
“So we thought that maybe you had a smaller needle we could use so I don’t have to chase him down again.”
Doc brought a hoof up to his chin as he thought, “Hmm yes, I do believe I have one around here somewhere. Jack would you be so kind as to take a seat in the room next door? We’ll get this over and done with lickity split!”
Jack got up and proceeded to go to the next room and wait while the Doc went about finding a small needle for him. Twilight joined Jack shortly after along with both of the princesses. Unfortunately for Jack they weren’t there to simply watch. 10 minutes and one embarrassingly girlish scream later Twilight trotted out happily levitating a vial of blood that she had been wanting to get for the past couple of hours. Jack sat there rubbing his arm and giving Celestia, Luna and Doc a nasty look.
“Never trusting a doctor again” mumbled Jack as Doc brought a band-aid over and placed it on Jacks arm where the needle went. It had cute little puppies on it.
“Aww what’s the matter? Little Jack want a loli-pop?” Doc teased.
Jack simply gave him the finger much to Doc’s confusion not that Jack cared. Getting up Jack said goodbye and he Left with Celestia and Luna in tow.
Celestia took this opportunity to speak up, “Jack before you head back to your room I have something to ask or rather tell you and Luna as well.”
This caught Luna off guard, what could she possibly have to speak to both her and Jack for? Jack shrugged before stopping and turning around giving Celestia his full attention.
“As we all know, no one has seen a creature like you before Jack so to help you get used to being here I’ve decided that you will go out and meet my little ponies and get to know some of them. Luna, you’ll be going with him as well.”
Luna was surprised and thought to herself, ‘why do I have to go?! Is this some form of punishment?’
Celestia smiled at her younger sister, “No Luna this is not a punishment, you’ve been cooped up in this castle ever since you got back and barely go out. If you want our subjects to be rid of their fear of you you should try to get to know them as well. So starting tomorrow you both will accompany Twilight back to Ponyville and get to know the ponies there.”
Jack wasn’t sure what to think considering the fact that when he first got here he was arrested and put in a cell, how would other ponies think of him? Luna on the other hand was nervous, she felt like she was still getting used to how things were done around here since her banishment and still felt like she had a lot to catch up on. Not to mention the fact that she wasn’t sure how to go about making friends, up till know her only friends had been her sister, her niece Cadence and Twilight.
See how both of them seemed a little apprehensive toward the idea of interacting with others Celestia tried to get them to open up to the idea, “Come now it won’t be all that bad, Twilight will be there with you and she can introduce you two to her friends. Besides who knows? You might have fun during your time in Ponyville, I’m sure Pinke will absolutely love to throw the both of you a welcome party if Twilight’s letters are anything to go by.”
“Mmm I guess sure why not. So long as they don’t freak out at the sight of me I guess I’m fine with it.”
Celestia smiled at Jack then looked back to her sister waiting for her answer. Luna bit her lip still reluctant to go, but if Twilight and Jack where there then maybe it won’t be so bad. With a sigh Luna nodded her head yes and Celestia’s smiled became slightly bigger.
“So it’s settled then, the two of you shall go with Twilight when she leaves tomorrow and will go make some new friends.”
Switching over to Lyra let’s see how she’s doing…
Lyra it would seem didn’t learn her lesson from last time (or did she? Seeing as she hadn’t been caught this time) was sneaking through the Castle again looking for Jack. She didn’t have to look for long because she came across them shortly after his little talk with Celestia and Luna about going to Ponyville. Lyra couldn’t believe her Luck not only would Jack be coming to her home town but had been practically ordered to make friends while there! This was perfect for her, she could introduce herself to him become friends then study him to her hearts content! Not only that but everypony will finally see this real live human and know she was right! Take that Bon-bon!
Lyra rubbed her hooves together as she thought about how excellent this would fit into her plans while wearing a slightly disturbing grin. She was so excited to finally prove how right she had been that she couldn’t wait to get back home. Of course she’d have to get there before they did so she could be prepared to finally meet this human she had brought to Equestria.
Tomorrow will be an interesting day that was for sure.
Well here it is Chapter 6! As usual hope ya enjoy reading it!
Chapter 6
“Rise and shine Jack!”
“…”
“Jack, I know you’re awake don’t make me open the curtains!”
“Mmm five more minutes...”
“Alright you asked for it.”
With that Twilight proceeded to rip the sheets from Jack’s body and start opening the curtains allowing the unrelenting rays of the morning sun to shine through, much to Jacks displeasure.
Groaning Jack said, “Ugh, Fine! I’m up just don- AH!”
Jack wasn’t able to finish as twilight opened another curtain allowing more blinding light into Jacks room.
“Damn it wom…err mare! I said I’m up! Now don’t- DAMN IT!”
‘I swear she’s enjoying this.’
“Twilight I swear if you open that last curtain…”
Twilight replied with a devious smirk, “Oh you mean this curtain?”
With that Twilight had opened all the curtains on all the windows, which resulted in a very annoyed Jack chasing her out of the room while throwing pillows her way. Laughing Twilight quickly left before she got hit with a pillow heading her way, closing the door said pillow hit the door with a soft thump. Grumbling Jack made his way to the bathroom to get ready for the day.
Now let’s see how much of a morning person err pony Luna is!
The sun, oh how Luna despised the sun right now. Not only did she have to wake up this morning (which is practically unheard of for the night princess) but she had to get ready for her trip with Twilight and Jack to Ponyville. Sure it was always nice going to the nice little town but this early? Nope rather go back to bed. So after getting up (not really) Luna concentrated her magic on closing the curtains around her room so the sun wouldn’t come through.
Too bad the sun was coming in no matter what…
Celestia was happily walking along on this beautiful morning. Giving the occasional ‘Hello’ or ‘Good morning’ to the guards or castle staff she walked by on her way towards Luna’s room. On the way there she briefly came across a laughing Twilight who had just come out of Jack’s room with pillows flying at her. Celestia merely shook her head and smiled, happy to see her faithful student was getting along well with the Human.
Not long after bumping into Twilight Celestia finally reached her destination. The two night guards currently guarding Luna’s room gave a salute and allowed the princess into the room. Opening the door slightly Celestia poked her head in to see if Luna was awake yet, surprisingly, she wasn’t. A smirk made its way onto Celestia’s face as she got ready to wake her dear sister.
Luna was finally drifting off into sleep again when she heard the door open. Groaning Luna rolled over to look at who had come into her room, seeing Celestia wearing a smirk she groaned even louder.
“Ugh, please five more minutes Tia.”
Celestia brought a hoof to her chin in thought, “Hmmm No I think not. Now come on it’s time to get up, don’t want to miss your train do you?”
“We are a princess we can simply have the train wait for us.”
“Be that as it may I am your older sister and I’m telling you to get up.”
“…”
“Luna…don’t make me come over there you know what’ll happen if I do.” Celestia’s smirk grew as she started to get near Luna’s bed.
“Pleeeeeeaaaaasssseeee just five more minutes! Thou know we aren’t a morning pony!”
“That you aren’t, however I am.” Celestia grin got wider as she got even closer to the bed.
“We warn thee don’ come any closer!” Luna said while scooting back on the bed.
Celestia Just continued to smirk as she finally reached the bed and slowly put a hoof down on top of it.
“Tia! Don’t!”
Celestia asked innocently, “Don’t what?”
“Blast it Tia we mean it! Not a hoof closer!”
“Aww but what’s the fun in that?”
“Tia- Eep!”
Lunging at her sister Celestia managed to pin Luna to the bed and started to mercilessly tickle the princess of the night.
“AH! Noo! Stop hahaha stop it please!”
“Mmm nope.” Celestia laughed as her sister squirmed under her trying to escape the relentless assault of Celestia’s tickling prowess.
“Please! Ah haha we can’t take it anymore hahaha!!”
After a few minutes of continuous tickling Celestia finally stopped as Luna begged for mercy. Grinning like a fool she got off of Luna who was now fully awake and still laughing.
“Well seeing how you’re awake now I shall be waiting in the dining room with Twilight and eventually Jack as you get ready.”
Calming down enough to reply Luna said, “Y-you are a hehe evil pony dear sister!”
Celestia chuckled saying, “True but you still love me, see you soon!”
Luna smiled as her sister left the room allowing Luna her privacy to get ready. As Celestia walked out she noticed the night guards sporting smirks of their own as she left which caused her to smile a bit wider.
Back to a still grumpy Jack…
After finishing up in the bathroom Jack got dressed and headed out of his room, still rather annoyed about being up so early in the morning. Walking down the hall Jacks gaze drifted to the sun, it was a rather beautiful sunrise today, too bad he wasn’t awake enough to fully appreciate its beauty. As he continued on his merry way Jack bumped into Celestia who actually looked surprised to see him.
“Well good morning Jack, nice to see you.”
“Mmm yeah morning.”
Celestia chuckled at his response, “Not much of a morning person are we?”
“Nnnope.”
“Hmmhmm just like Luna it seems, she too had some trouble waking up this morning.”
“I can imagine. Say princess, if you don’t mind could you show me to the dining room? I’m kinda sorta somewhat lost.”
Celestia chuckled again and simply nodded, motioning for him to follow her. On their way to the dining room Celestia continued to greet the guards or staff the came across while Jack simply gave a grunt in acknowledgement. Finally coming to the dining hall the princess and Jack were greeted by a few kitchen staff and Twilight who was just sitting down with her breakfast.
Twilight immediately noticed the pair out of the corner of her eye and jumped out of her seat bowing to the princess.
“Good morning princess!” she took a quick glance at Jack who was still a tad bit grumpy and smirked, “Morning Jack.”
Jack simply grumbled to himself while taking a seat next to where twilight was sitting.
Celestia rolled her eyes at Jack before turning to Twilight, “Good morning my faithful student, I trust your breakfast is enjoyable?”
“Oh, very much so your highness! As usual the chefs in the kitchen have done an excellent job.”
“That’s good to hear, now let us sit so we can all eat hmm?”
Taking their seats (Twilight next to Jack and Celestia across from them both) Celestia and Jack placed their orders and the kitchen staff immediately went off into the kitchen to make breakfast for the Princess and her guest.
After a few minutes the relative quiet was shattered by the sound of some angry shouting coming from the kitchen.
“It’s so cold ya fuckin idiot!”
“Yes chef!”
“Don’t you fucking “Yes chef!” Me! Get it done right!”
“Yes chef!”
“You are shit, you’re so far up shit creek you don’t even know what the hell you’re doing!”
“Yes chef!”
Bursting through the kitchen doors came a rather pissed head chef, heading straight for the princess and her two companions. Jack who had been startled into being fully awake and nearly did a double take when he read the chef’s name tag, ‘Head Chef Ramhay’.
‘No fucking way…’
Walking right up to the Princess the head chef gave a quick bow before apologizing for the apparently delayed breakfast before turning around to head back to the kitchen. Said chef then came out with 3 different salads for the group and again apologizing for the delay.
Once the chef was back in the kitchen Jack decided to ask, “So princess couldn’t help but over hear you head chef back there…”
“Hmm? Oh yes that, you see he’s one of the best chefs in all of Equestria and tends to get rather vocal when training the new ones.”
Jack remarked, “If I didn’t know better I’d say he almost sounded like a drill sergeant.”
This earned a few chuckles from Celestia and Twilight as they all began to eat their salads, except Jack who was picking at his.
Putting her fork down Celestia turned to Jack with a slight frown, “You know Jack it’s not proper to be playing with your food.”
Looking up Jack simply said, “Yeah well it’s my fault for not mentioning it but I can’t exactly eat flowers, rest of its fine just as I said can’t eat the flowers, they don’t get along with my digestive system.”
Twilight decided to chime in, “You never mentioned that yesterday when I asked about the different foods your kind eat!”
“Yeah well,” Jack shrugged, “Never came up I guess.”
Twilight sighed and began to right some quick notes on a notepad that came from seemingly nowhere. Celestia merely smiled and went back to eating her salad.
Not long after Luna made her entrance and it seemed like she was ready to just fall asleep right there on the floor but she managed to make her way over to the table and take a seat, right next to Jack of course. Celestia took note of this and smiled to herself as they all continued to eat their food. However the peace and quiet was disturbed yet again when Jack let out a surprised yelp as something landed on his shoulder. Looking over the group saw that Luna had fallen asleep and was using Jack as an impromptu pillow.
Jack blushed at being so close to the night princess and started to stammer, “I-I uhh, ummm P-princess? A-a little h-help please?”
Celestia gave a small smile and nodded, using her magic she lifted her sister up and proceeded out of the room, she stopped just before leaving to say, “I’ll be taking Luna back to her room as you can see she’s not much of a morning pony.”
Twilight chuckled a bit and Jack just sat there taking a sudden interest in his food, anything to help him forget about the burning sensation in his cheeks.
Alright let’s follow Celestia for a bit!
Walking through the halls Celestia with Luna in tow had a big grin on her face. Looking over her shoulder she spotted Luna crack open one eye only to shut it quickly when she saw her sister.
Celestia gave a small laugh before speaking, “Come now Luna you can drop the act, we aren’t in the dining room anymore.”
Still floating in her sisters magic Luna ‘sat’ up and gave an annoyed look to Celestia, “You could have at least let me enjoy that moment for a minute longer…”
Celestia laugh again, “I must say that was rather bold of you, I feel the need to ask though, why did you do it?”
Luna crossed her forelegs and looked away pouting (not to mention the slight blush adorning her cheeks), “As we said you could have let us enjoy it a bit longer. And to answer your question simply put, we wanted to know how it felt being…We guess you could say ‘close’ to somepony, err someone.”
Celestia looked at her sister for a long moment before a smile spread across her face, “I see, so you want to perhaps make this into a serious relationship someday hmm?” Luna’s blush deepened and she nodded, “Seems to me you are rushing it a bit, here’s some advice dear sister, take it slow, he might not fully understand his own feelings and you had best make sure you understand your own as well.”
Luna nodded again seeing the wisdom in her sister’s advice, maybe she did jump the gun a bit too soon.
“Well anyways like I stated previously, that was rather bold, did you see how red he got? It was just adorable!”
Luna simply rolled her eyes at that.
“Oh by the way I’m letting you sleep for a few more hours but you must be prepared for when the three of you need to leave for the train understand?”
Luna gave a small squee, if there’s one thing she loved to do more than raise the moon it was to sleep. Coming to Luna’s room Celestia released her sister from her magical grasp who trotted happily toward her bed. With a hop, skip and jump Luna landed on her bed and wrapped herself in her blankets smiling in content.
Smiling Celestia said, “Alright, I’ll see you later sister.”
Luna lazily waved a hoof at her before going to sleep.
Alright back to Jack.
After an interesting morning Jack found himself tagging along with Twilight as she went through the royal library. Honestly she was like a kid in a candy store what with the way her eyes sparkled at the site of so many books. Jack on the other hand was less excited but still found a few books that caught his interest, mainly about history, geography and not too surprisingly a Daring doo book.
As he was checking out his books with the royal librarian (hell let’s call em Book mark!) at the front desk a sudden shadow as cast over him and the librarian. Turning around Jack’s jaw nearly hit the floor while Book mark simply groaned and let is head drop to the desk with a thud.
Picking his jaw back up Jack looked at Twilight with a ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ look, “…Seriously Twilight?”
Twilight seemed to notice the giant stack of books she had floating behind her and gave a sheepish grin before replying, “Umm ehhehe, what can I say? I really really like books.”
This time Book mark spoke up, “Tell me about it. When you were eight you took all the books and scrolls from the Starswirl the Bearded wing and made a book fort!”
Upon hearing that Jack looked at Twilight with a stupid grin on his face before bursting out laughing, much to her embarrassment.
“Ah hahahahaha! Oh man haha, wow Twilight I knew you were the book worm type but seriously? An entire wing of books and you made a fort?! Hahahaha!”
“Oh hush up! I’ll have you know Fort Book lasted 10 minutes before the guards asked Celestia to come and help tear it down and put everything away!”
“Pffft hahahaha! Fort Book! How original! Ah hahahahahaha!!!”
At this point Twilight was a delightful shade of red and had to force back her own laughter as Book mark whacked Jack upside the head with a ruler.
“Ow! What was that for!?”
“You seem to have forgotten this is a Library and as such we can’t have you laughing up a storm and disturbing the others.” He then waved a hoof at all the ponies giving Jack some rather nasty looks for being disturbed.
“Eh heh, sorry about that.”
“Hmph! Serves you right.” Stated Twilight smugly.
After having checked out their books (Twilight took an hour due to the amount she brought with her) the pair left the Library and made their way back to the guest rooms to get ready for their trip to Ponyville.
Jack had a rather easy time of it since all he really had was the books he just got and the clothes on his back. Twilight however was another story. Not only did she have the mountain of books she had gotten but also the vast amount of notes from her talk with Jack about his species, what they ate, what they do, culture, history, you name it they went over it. Not to mention the books she already had with her to begin with as well as a mini lab she had set up for analyzing Jack’s blood (she also managed to get hair and skin samples during their chase but that’s not really important).
As Twilight got her things ready Jack waited in the main hall for both her and Luna, how he hadn’t seen since breakfast which seemed odd to him.
‘Hmm wonder if I should go looking for her. Hope she’s alright she did seem rather tired.’
However this was not the case as in a suddenly blinding light like a flash bang going off followed by a loud ‘pop’ both Celestia and Luna were there in front of him.
Blinking away the spots in his vision Jack complained, “Ah damn, warn me next time would you?”
Both princesses gave a slight chuckle then Luna spoke up, “We are sorry about that. We tend to forget that teleporting often causes minor discomfort to those who may be nearby.”
Jack rubbed his eyes as he tried to get rid of the last spots in his vision but suddenly another blinding light appeared followed by another ‘pop’ sound causing Jack to groan as his eye sight was tampered with yet again.
“Sorry sorry! I didn’t realize I had so much to pack! Oh I hope we aren’t late for the train.”
Looking at Twilight in frustration Jack said, “Never do that again please.”
“Umm why are you looking at that plant? I’m over here.”
Celestia giggled along with Luna at Jack who was temporarily blinded thanks to Twilight teleporting right next to Jack as they had done.
“Great apparently I can’t see now.”
“Don’t worry it should wear off in a couple minutes.” Twilight said quelling any fears Jack might have had right then and there.
Luna stepped up beside Jack and pushed herself up under his arm causing him to jump slightly.
“Fear not fair Jack, we shall guide you to the train and make sure thou don’t fall down, or run into anything.”
Jack once again blushed at the close proximity to the princess but ultimately nodded his head in agreement. Celestia on the other hand seemed to know exactly what Luna was doing but decided to say nothing and help Twilight with her bags.
“Now then shall we depart?”
Jack replied for the group, “Sure let’s head on out.”
With that the group started to head out of the castle, guards taking up position around the group (gotta guard the princesses’ man) and helping open doors for them as they made their way out into the busy city of Canterlot.
You’d think walking through a city full of ponies would be all kinds of awkward but thanks to being temporarily blinded Jack didn’t have to suffer through the gawking stares being sent his way. Still had to hear them gasp or shout something about a ‘diamond dog’ every now and then but hey nothing to be done about that.
Jack hardly paid attention to the remarks sent his way though he was too preoccupied with the sudden increase to his other senses. For example he was painfully aware of Luna who was still under his arm as they walked, he felt every slight movement she made as they walked and how incredibly soft her fur felt, as well as the feathers from her wing that he swore felt twitch every now and then.
As they made their way to the train station Twilight decided to try and break the relative silence, “So Jack, how’s your eyesight coming along?”
Jack sighed before replying, “Well instead of just seeing white I’m seeing…I guess you could say spots.”
With that they lapsed back into silence, Twilight occasionally bringing up small talk like what Ponyville would be like and how her friends would be glad to welcome Jack to town and so on. Not long afterwards the train station finally came into view. On the platform could be seen various ponies boarding or departing the train along with some staff from the castle bringing luggage (basically Luna’s) to the well, the luggage car (go figure right?).
As the group approached a conductor came out of the train announcing that the train would be leaving very shortly. With that Luna left Jack’s side and hugged her sister goodbye. Twilight also ran up to Celestia and hugged her goodbye as well while Jack simply waved in the general direction (He hoped) of the princess before Luna returned to his side and helped him board the train.
After getting only the trio quickly found their seats, Twilight and Luna immediately going for the window seats and opening said window to wave goodbye to Celestia who wore a smile and waved back. Jack managed to find his seat next to Luna right before a sudden jerk caused him to plop into it. The jerk indicating that the train was starting to move, Jack got comfy in his seat as Twilight and Luna continued to wave at Celestia.
As the train started its journey the train station along with Celestia and all the other ponies there gradually became smaller and smaller, Celestia didn’t stop waving goodbye until the train was out of sight. The same went for Twilight and Luna as well. When the station was gone they closed up the window and settled into their seats.
Twilight looked over to Jack and asked, “Hey, eyesight any better now?”
Jack replied, “Well instead of white and spots I see vague colors. Like right now I can kinda see a faint purple, I assume that to be you yes?”
Twilight smiled and nodded, “Yup that’s is correct. See? Told you it was only temporary. Again I’m sorry about that.”
Jack waved a dismissive hand, “Don’t worry about it, not like it was intentional.”
Twilight smiled at that and proceeded to look at the scenery through the window. With not much else to do and his eyesight still not fully returned Jack decided now would be a good a time as any to take a nap while they made their way to Ponyville.
Annnnnnd we go back to dream land!
Jack was floating.
It seemed that this time around in his little dream world that there was nothing random or creepy as fuck going on. Heck it wasn’t even a world at the moment, it was a big load of nothing right now.
And you know what? Jack was fine with that. With nothing better to do Jack ‘swam’ through the nothingness that was his dream.
Sadly the peace and quiet he was enjoying was interrupted by the sound of something metallic being dragged on stone.
Looking around for the noise Jack had little luck, then suddenly like someone turned on the gravity Jack fell several feet before landing on his stomach. Groaning in pain Jack slowly got up and looked around again. Still nothing.
Getting up to his feet Jack brushed off the ‘dirt’ from his shirt. After cleaning himself up Jack looked up ahead of him and saw a faint spark. The sound of was getting louder too. Taking a step forward Jack began looking around again trying in vain to find the source of the noise. Taking another step Jack suddenly stopped when he saw another spark appear on the ‘floor’ this time much closer.
Slightly nervous Jack took a step back, as he did so an all too familiar laugh rang through his ears.
‘Fuck not again!’
As if hearing his thoughts the laughter assaulted his ears again, “Hehehe yes! Again!!”
The sound continued to get closer and it seemed at a much faster pace, Looking around still and taking another step back more sparks appeared and he swore he saw something pink as well.
“Jaaaaaacccckkkkkkiiieee don’t you want to play?”
The sudden voice right next to his ear caused Jack to spin around only to be confronted by Pinkamena. Only she looked a ‘bit’ different. Notably was she hand fangs instead of regular teeth and her eyes were entirely bloodshot not to mention the blood coming out of the corners of her eyes.
Jack stumbled backwards at the site of the pink devil saying more to himself than her, “Holy mother of god…”
Bringing a hoof up to her chin in thought which seemed to actually be scrapping the skin off her chin caused blood to drip down Pinkamena said, “God? Mmmm nope,” She flashed a sadistic smile, “Just me.”
With that she suddenly disappeared.
Jack frantically looking for her almost didn’t notice her save for the spark coming from her knife as she dragged it across the floor with her tail and swung at him, barely missing.
“FUCK!”
Jack spun around screaming and took off. Pinkamena had vanished again but her laugh remained. Running he noticed that the ‘nothingness’ that was his dream had suddenly become a hall with dimly lit candles adorning the walls. Not wanting to stop and investigate his new surrounding Jack kept running down the hall. Rounding a corner Jack came to a halt seeing something he’d never want to see in his lifetime.
At the end of this hall was…himself strapped to a wall with an odd contraption mounted on his head. This other Jack looked up to the ‘real’ Jack and smiled. Jack looked on as Pinkamena reappeared next to the ‘Jack’ strapped to the wall and smiled as well at ‘real’ Jack.
“I told you I was gonna play with you Jackie, this is but a preview of what I have in store for yooouuu.”
With that Pinkamena whipped her tail sneind the knife flying towards a rope that was connected to the device on ‘other’ Jacks head. Jack shut his eye closed as the device suddenly dropped two flat pieces of metal with spikes on each slamming into ‘other’ Jacks head. The sickening crunch that followed made Jack sick to his stomach.
Slowly opening one eye Jack saw what was left of ‘other’ Jack before quickly looking away only for Pinkamena to consume his entire field of vision.
She smiled that same freakish smile before stating, “Next time shall be your turn. Won’t that be fun?!”
Jack screamed.
Back to reality…
Screaming Jack sat straight up in his seat looking around frantically as he woke up from his nightmare. Twilight and Luna wore looks of concern for Jack as he kept looking around as if fearing something was going to pop up out of nowhere.
“J-Jack? Are thou alright?”
Jack snapped to the sound of Luna’s voice and stared at her for a long moment before tearing up and hugging her tightly. Luna was caught off guard but slowly reached her hooves around his back and returned the hug. Looking down at the now sobbing Jack Luna was unsure if she should ask what had happened or to just let him continue until he tired himself out. Looking to Twilight for a suggestion Twilight seemed to know what she wanted to ask but simply shook her head no, best to leave it be for now.
The rest of the train ride went on in silence which was only broken when Jack, still hugging Luna mumbled, “My eye sights back…”
Twilight and Luna looked at him then each other and smiled. After about an hour the train seemed to be slowing down. Jack who had fallen asleep by then was awoken by Luna gently nudging him.
Speaking softly Luna said, “Jack? We’re nearly there you should get up.”
Jack simply nodded and sat up properly albeit reluctantly letting go of the princess. Twilight took note of this and asked him, “That dream you had really shook you up huh?”
Jack nodded again while rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
“Well I know what will make you feel better once we get to Ponyville.”
Slightly curious Jack asked, “Oh? And what might that be?”
Twilight smiled at him and simply replied, “You’ll see.”
Not long after that the conductor came by notifying everypony that the train had arrived and that they should get ready to depart. Quickly grabbing their things the trio got ready to leave the train as it come into Ponyville’s train station.
Waiting by the door Twilight looked up at Jack and nudged him getting him to look down, “Hey, eyesight all good?”
Jack smiled and replied, “Yeah can see great now, thanks for asking.”
Twilight smiled at her friend glad to see him doing better.
Just then the train jerked slightly as it came to a stop at the station. As the doors open everypony made their way off the train and off to where ever they had to go. Upon leaving the train Twilight spotted her friends waiting for them.
“Girls!”
“Twilight!”
With that Rainbow Dash, AppleJack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Spike and Twilight all ran toward each other and had one big group hug. Luna and Jack smiled at the group of friends as the embraced each other.
“It’s great seeing you girls again!”
Applejack spoke up, “Shoot, yah were only gone a couple days sugarcube!”
“I know but stil- hey wait wheres Pinkie?”
Everypony suddenly noticed that the pink party pony was missing from their group even Jack and Luna were looking for the missing pony. Looking around Jack suddenly felt a tapping on his shoulder. Turning to look at who had tapped him Jack’s eyes shrunk to pinpricks. There before him stood the pink demon from his dreams.
After seeing that pink demon in the flesh Jack had ended up back inside his dream world much to his displeasure. To be honest he was surprised she was even real to begin with, that shocked the hell out of him. Looking around Jack groaned as it seemed nothing had changed since he left not so long ago, well except for the ‘other’ Jack was no longer here as well as Pinkamena. Deciding it best to not wait around for something to happen Jack got to his feet and started to walk.
“I know I’m just asking for it but I seriously hope nothing happens,” Jack shivers remembering what happened last time, “…again.”
Jack continued to walk through the darkness (emptiness?) that was his dream world for a while and for once nothing seemed to be happening. He was actually starting to get unnerved by the complete and utter silence not even his feet made a sound as he walked.
As Jack walked he slowly became more annoyed and thought to himself, ‘where the hell are you, ya little pink freak.’
“Who you calling Little?!?!”
‘Speak of the devil.’ Jack sighed knowing some fresh hell now awaited him.
Jack had stopped walking at this point and was looking around trying to spot Pinkamena where ever she might be. It didn’t take long however as a loud thump sounded behind him causing him to jump and turn around. Sure enough there sat Pinkamena sporting that same damn unnerving smile of hers. However looking at Jack Pinkamena seemed to be slightly surprised to see him. Only slightly.
“I must say…you’re back earlier than I expected.”
That caught Jack off guard, she wasn’t expecting him? The hell did that mean?
“What do you mean you didn’t ‘expect’ me?”
She simply smiled, stood up and slowly walked toward him. Jack immediately took 5 steps back as a result. Pinkamena laughed at this.
“I scare you that easily after only a few dreams? Hehehe Oh this shall be so much fun…”
Pinkamena shifted her stance to one that suggested she was prepared to charge at Jack.
Flashing Jack another Fang filled smiled she continued, “However we can’t play…yet. So you must wake up.”
With that she charged at him still leaving her fangs out on display with a look that seemed to say, ‘If you don’t run I’ll bite!’
Jack not wanting to have his face ripped off turned around and went sprinting the other way not daring to look back. Pinkamena simply laughed at his attempt to flee, her laughter seemingly coming from all around him.
“Better hurry and wake up~” she said in a singsong voice.
Jack didn’t know what the hell to do so he simply ran harder as hard as he had ever done. Didn’t help much. As he ran Pinkamena’s voice seemed to come from everywhere and as soon as he heard it from one direction it was fade away and come from another direction echoing across the darkness.
“Wake up…” she said nothing else put those two words.
“Wake up…” Jack’s legs were screaming at him for pushing them so hard but he didn’t care her voice continued.
“Wake up…” Why was she doing this? Jack simply wanted to yell at her to stop but knew that wouldn’t work so he closed his eyes and focused solely on running and nothing else.
“Wake up…” This time Jack came to a halt her voice right in his ear that time. Jack forced his eyes open not sure what to do next. In front of him she stood head tilted to the side ever so slightly still smiling. She ran at him bringing her head back up right she opened her mouth to speak but Jack wasn’t paying attention to that. Her eyes had changed, instead of the light blue they usually seemed to be they were now teal. Unfortunately for Jack as he lost himself in his observation Pinkamena was nearly on top of him. Realizing he had been standing there like an idiot with barely a second left before she tackled him Jack threw his arms up in a feeble attempt to protect himself. In that second everything seemed to slow down as a sickening crack could be heard coming from Pinkamena.
She was seemingly suspended in the air when the crack was heard. She even looked as shocked as Jack did but it only lasted a brief moment. Suddenly blood started to pour out of her head as a straight line from top to bottom could be seen on her face. With another crack her face split open. Jack wasn’t able to see what was there he had shut his eyes in horror as her face gave way to whatever was beneath it.
It was now she spoke up again her voice sounded completely different than from before, “I. Said. WAKE. UUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!”
She screamed the last part as Jack sunk to his knees petrified by the sound of her new terrible voice, it scared him so much so that he did exactly what she want. He woke up.
Back to the waking world we go!
Pinkie sat next to Jack’s unconscious body as she and the others tried to get him to regain consciousness. Unlike the others however Pinkie was very upset, not only did she scare her new weird looking friend but this also meant the party for said friend (plus the princess) would be delayed! She was very excited about it too, even brought her renowned party cannon to start the celebrating early.
While the others tried various ways of getting Jack to wake up (Applejack poked him, Fluttershy ever so quietly asked him to please wake up, Rainbow Dash lightly slapped him a bit and Twilight did the same as Fluttershy only a bit louder) Pinkie suddenly jumped up and gasped loudly before running off, she had the perfect plan to wake Jack up.
After Pinkie left the others just chalked it up to Pinkie being Pinkie and resumed trying to wake up Jack. Not long after she left though Pinkie returned…with a megaphone. Walking up to her friends Pinkie nudged them out of the way as she stood in front of Jack’s unconscious body, taking a deep breath Pinkie turned on the megaphone and yelled, “WAAAAAKKKKKKEEEEEEE UUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The result of using a super powerful megaphone? Messed up hair for everyone including Princess Luna (seriously that thing was strong enough to make her hair stop flowing, even if it was for a short amount of time), the train tilted to the side as did a few buildings in the nearby area due to the force of the megaphone. And of course Jack woke with a start and jumped up into the air about a solid 5 feet before landing on his butt with a thud. All while giving a girlish scream. Yup, totally manly moment right there.
Also think it’s safe to say that Pinkie Pie’s megaphone is a lot stronger than the Royal Canterlot Voice.
So after being woken up Pinkie pie style Jack immediately sat up looking around frantically. Then he spotted Pinkie with her megaphone and sporting a pretty big smile standing right in front of him. Upon seeing her part of Jack wanted to run away screaming like a little girl the other part was scared stiff. So what does he do? Absolutely nothing, the part of him too scared to do anything won over the part that wanted to run away. So he sat there eyes shrunk to pin pricks and a bead of sweat making its way down the side of his head. Hell he was actually starting to tremble slightly! Risking a glance to the side Jack saw the other girls from earlier along with Luna standing there with the most bizarre hairdos (Manedo?) almost like they just went through a wind tunnel. They also seemed to be somewhat out of it, Twilight had her hooves covering her ears as did Fluttershy while the rest were just rubbing there’s trying to get the ringing to stop (Good job Pinkie, practically made your friends deaf!).
Looking back to the Pink menace in front of him Jack was still too afraid move, which is until he heard a faint, “Hey!”
After about a minute or so it got louder, “Hey!!”
Now he could hear the sound of hooves rapidly hitting the ground, “Hey! Over here!”
Risking another glance to his side Jack was surprised to see the mint green unicorn from the castle come running head on towards him. Before he had time to say anything the unicorn lunged at him and grabbed him in a bone crushing hug.
After a brief tumble the mint green pony jumped off of Jack and smiled at him, “Hey fancy seeing you here!”
Jack glad to have something to distract him from his fear of Pinkie replied, “H-hey nice seeing you again as well…Lyre was it?”
Lyra giggled at him, “Heh close its Lyra with an ‘a’ at the end! Anyways what brings you to Ponyville? Could have sworn you were staying at the castle with the princesses.”
Jack stood up and shrugged, “Yeah well Princess Celestia thought it would be a good idea for me and Luna over there to come and get to know the ponies that live here, make some friends as it were.”
Lyra smiled at him and brought a hoof to her chest and gave a slight bow, “Well allow me t-“
Pinkie decided now would be the perfect time to push Lyra out of the way, “No! Allow Me to be the first to welcome you to Ponyville! Woohoo!” with that Pinkie pulled out her party cannon aimed it upwards and let it rip.
BOOM
Confetti, confetti everywhere. That and balloons, gotta have balloons. Oh! And cake can’t forget the cake! Oh oh! And streamers those are a must!
So after Pinkie fired her cannon the entire train station was transformed into a ‘Welcome to Ponyville Princess Luna and Jack!’ party.
While that happened Jack just sort of stood there slightly confused, ‘she’s not attacking me? Or tormenting me?! What the? A party? Why’s she throwing us a party?!’
Jack brought a hand to his forehead already feeling the headache that was to be coming in right about…..now.
“Ugh.”
Nearby Luna who had managed to fix her mane and clear the ringing sound from her ears noticed Jack’s confused/upset expression but before she could take a step toward him Pinkie appeared in front of her a smiled widely.
“Hi there Princess!”
“Umm, greetings Pinkie Pie.”
“So do ya like it?”
“The party?”
Pinkie Jumped up and down in excitement, “Of course silly! I mean it is for you and Jack after all!”
Before she could respond Twilight came up looking none too happy, “Pinkie! I thought we agreed you’d stop using that megaphone!”
Pinkie brought a hoof to her chin in thought before simply shrugging, “Hmm must have slipped my mind! Oh well!”
Pinkie proceeded to go into a fit of giggles as Twilight simply glared at her before shaking her head and heading off to join in the party. As Twilight left and Pinkie somehow managed to disappear Luna looked to where Jack had been standing to find the space now vacant. Looking around the station she almost didn’t notice him as he turned around a corner leaving the party. Deciding to see if she could help in some way Luna focused on her magic and teleported to where Jack had left and went after him.
Over to Lyra for a bit now!
The party was in full swing now quite a few ponies had come and Pinkie seemed rather happy about it. Lyra on the other hoof was busy watching a certain human as he made his way away from the party. Curious Lyra went after him. He obviously didn’t know where he was going, how could he? It was his first time in Ponyville after all. As she followed Jack they took numerous turns eventually coming to town hall. Keeping a safe distance Lyra watched as Jack stopped at a nearby bridge he seemed to be troubled but by what Lyra hadn’t the foggiest.
Lyra was about to leave her hiding spot to try and help Jack when of all ponies Princess Luna appeared out of nowhere and she too seemed troubled, probably concerned about Jack. So for now Lyra kept to the shadows and watched.
Now to Luna!
Following Jack had been a bit tricky for the princess. If she hadn’t known any better she’d had thought he knew she was following him and was trying to lose her but that was not the case. Eventually he came to a stop and from her bird’s eye view (Yeah she was flying in case you are wondering) Luna could tell just as Lyra had that something was up. (hehe up, casue you know… she was flying and…yeah I’ll shut up.)
Deciding it better to walk up to Jack instead of landing practically on top of him (hah on top…ok I’m done I swear!) Luna landed behind a nearby store. Walking around said store Luna did her best to stay as quiet as possible so as not to scare Jack. Getting closer Jack seemed to be entirely lost in thought so Luna upon reaching him cleared her throat to gain his attention. The sound of someone clearing their throat startled Jack out of his thoughts and he spun around to see who had disturbed him. Upon seeing Luna Jack’s face went from slightly irritated to relieved when he saw her.
“Oh hello Luna, you really startled me there.”
Luna grinned, “We can be stealthy when we want, we are the princess of the night after all.”
Jack chuckled, “Indeed you are!”
“Jack we didn’t come here to simply sneak up on thou we are curious, why did thou leave our party?”
Jack’s face turned into a frown at her question, “I…I just need some time to think is all.”
Luna wasn’t buying it, “Thou hesitate, tell us why did thou really leave?”
Sighing Jack looked away, “I just found out that a pony I have only met for the first time since I came here has been Haunting my dreams since I came here.”
Puzzled Luna tried to press him for more information, “Pray tell who is this pony that torments thou so?”
“Pinkie.”
“Her?! But she such a delight! She’s always so happy and fun how could such a pony haunt dreams?!”
“I don’t know! But whenever I have a dream she’s there always tormenting me and…just forget it I don't want to talk about it.”
Luna scowled at Jack, “We most certainly will not ‘just forget it’! You’ve alrea-“
“Hey Jack! Oh and princess Luna! What a pleasant surprise!”
Both Luna and Jack turned to see who had interrupted their conversation surprised to see none other than Lyra (Ohmygosh! Who would have thought!).
Jack who was actually glad for the interruption spoke up, “Hey there Lyra, seems we just keep bumping into each other huh?”
Lyra grinned, “I know right? Well I was just on my way home when I spotted the both of you over here” Liar you were stalking!, “and thought ‘hey why don’t I give em a tour of Ponyville!’”
Luna glared at the unicorn not one bit pleased at the interruption to her conversation before decided to speak up, “That shalt be necessary we were just about to rejoin the party.”
Before she could make a move to bring Jack along back toward the party Lyra jumped up and grabbed Jack’s arm, “Oh but I insist! I promise it won’t take too long!”
Think ya’ll can guess what happens next.
Luna not backing down grabbed Jack’s other arm, “Really tis not necessary! We can do it some other time.”
This resulted in Jack being slight pulled back and forth between the two ponies in a tug o war of sorts. Looking to either side Jack was assaulted by the cutest puppy dog eyes ever as Luna and Lyra looked to him for his decision.
Back and forth, back and forth. The two mares continued to pull Jack in between themselves. Jack let out a sigh; the two mares had been playing tug of war for a few minutes now with him being the rope.
‘My arms are starting to hurt…’
“Girls? If you would be so kind as to unhan-hoof me, my arms are starting to hurt.”
Both Lyra and Luna looked up to Jack before reluctantly letting go. Now that Jack had his arms back that was one less problem to deal with, now to figure out how to get out of the next one.
Luna seemed very eager to return to the party almost like she didn’t want Jack and Lyra to be near each other. Lyra on the other hand (hoof?) seemed very eager to spend as much time with Jack as possible which was evident since she seemed to really want to show him around town. Now the question is how to get out of this predicament without pissing off a possibly new friend and a princess. What’s a man to do?
Well obviously we compromise!
So Jack trying to be a diplomatic as he could said, “Alright ladies I can tell you both want me to do something with you both but sadly I can’t be in two different places at the same time,” Turning to Lyra he continued, “Lyra, would it be possible to do a rain check on that tour? Don’t get me wrong I’d love to take a look around town but don’t you think it’d be rude to ditch the party pinkie threw together for both me and the princess?”
Lyra looked down and kicked at the ground with her hoof before replying, “Y-yeah, I guess you’re right.”
“Good now le-“
“But tomorrow you better let me show you around!”
Jack chuckled, “Yes I promise I’ll let you give me that tour.”
Lyra wasn’t convinced, “Pinkie promise!”
'Pinkie promise? How do they do that they don’t have pinkies! Hmm maybe they do it with their tails? Oh well might as well ask.’
“Umm Pinkie promise?”
“Yeah you know? ‘Cross my heart and hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye!’”
She even went through the motions without poking her eye! +5 skill!
Amused Jack nodded and said, “Heh alright, ‘Cross my heart and hope to fly stick a cupcake in my ey- AHH!”
Jack receives -5 skill.
Both Luna and Lyra chuckled at Jacks expense when he poked his own eye. Happy now Lyra smiled and motioned they follow her back to the party at the train station. As they walked back to the train station Jack leaned over to Luna and whispered, “Hey, not that I mind going back to the party but why were you so dead set on going back earlier?”
Luna frowned just a bit before replying, “We…don’t trust her. We’re not sure if thee saw it but she had a bit of a crazed look in her eye when she asked to show us around. We think she’s up to some-“
Suddenly Lyra sneezed causing both Jack and Luna to jump. Looking back at them Lyra asked, “Hey you two aren’t talking about me behind my back are you?”
They both replied at the same time, “Um, nooooo?”
Liars the both of them!
Lyra stared at them for a moment before shrugging it off, “Hmm well let’s get go we’re nearly there!”
Trotting off Luna and Jack gave a sigh of relief before looking to one another for a brief moment then laughing a bit. As the continued towards the train station a loud explosion was heard followed by somepony shouting, “Pinkie!” apparently she somehow managed to shoot herself out of her party cannon and went flying straight into the cake. Poor cake didn’t stand a chance as she devoured it whole. Jack, Lyra, and Luna were just turning the corner when Pinkie let out a very loud belch earning a few nasty glares from the ponies at the party, she didn’t care much though since after that she spotted the three almost instantly and ran up to them.
“Ooooh hey guys welcome back!”
Jack took a few steps back from her trying to hide behind Luna, Lyra didn’t notice and walked up to Pinkie, “Hey yourself Pinkie, did you really just eat the entire cake?”
“Yup! Sure did and it tasted super amazing! Oh oh! Gotta run, Dash looks like she needs help with a prank! Bye!”
Lyra simply shook her head at Pinkie’s antics and proceeded to join the rest of the party goers. Meanwhile Jack let out a breath he hadn’t realized he was holding as Luna looked at him with concern.
“Thou sure thee art all right?”
“Y-yes I’m fine I think it best if I avoid Pinkie for now though.”
Luna nodded before going to leave the party but stopped suddenly and turned around to face Jack.
“Don’t forget we still have a discussion to finish.”
Sighing Jack replied, “I know Luna, I know. Just… give me till tomorrow afternoon alright?”
Luna seemed to accept this and proceeded to join the party. Meanwhile Lyra had seen the whole exchange and couldn’t help but wonder what Jack seemed to be hiding.
Jack walked through a group of ponies that were dancing and made his way toward the snack table. Picking up a cup he poured himself some punch, downing the drink in one go. Pleasantly surprised by how good it tasted Jack had several more and then promptly passed out. Apparently someone can’t hold their liquor…did I mention that the punch had been spiked? (Terrible terrible joke I know)
The rest of that evening went by quickly as Luna, Twilight and friends all came to Jack’s side to see what had happened. It didn’t take long to figure out that Pinkie and Rainbow had spiked the punch in the hopes of getting Jack drunk enough to make a fool out of himself, little did they know that Jack and alcohol do NOT mix well. So after a brief lecture from Twilight about being careful with their pranks the group brought Jack to the hotel he and Luna would be sharing during their stay (because staying at Twilight’s is too mainstream).
Upon reaching said hotel they were surprised to see it was one of the fancier hotels in Ponyville, not that there many hotels but still. Of course as is to be expected as soon as Luna stepped inside the hotel the staff where in a frenzy trying to make everything as nice an shiny as they could. Gotta make it look pretty for the princess ya know. And so after several minutes of trying to calm down the staff (to little avail) the group made their way to the room Jack and Luna would be sharing during their stay in Ponyville. Upon reaching their destination Luna levitated the still unconscious body of Jack from Twilight’s grasp and on to her own back.
Opening the door the group let out a collective gasp, the room Luna and Jack had been given was nice enough to rival anything from Canterlot castle. Walking inside Pinkie, Rainbow and AppleJack decided to explore the place while Rarity gushed over how ‘marvelous’ everything was. Luna proceeded to tuck Jack into bed and walked back into the living area where Twilight had taken a seat.
“Well this hath been an…interesting evening wouldn’t thou agree?”
Looking over to the princess Twilight replied, “Oh yes very much so! I had such a nice time at the party yet I feel bad for Jack, seems he’s quite the light weight.”
Both mares chuckled at that but jumped as they heard something break from one of the other rooms.
“Whoopsie! My bad!”
“Dang it Pinkie yah best help me clean this here mess up!”
Just then Rainbow came flying into the living room nervously rubbing her neck.
“Yeah um you might not want to use the bathroom over there, Pinkie and AppleJack somehow managed to break the shower head and its spraying everywhere!”
Twilight sighed practically reading Rainbow’s mind, “Alright I’ll go help them.”
Rainbow smiled at her friend, “Great! Knew I could count on you Twi.”
This left Luna alone in the living room, however she gasped as she nearly forgot to raise the moon and stars. Trotting over to the sliding glass door leading to the balcony she opened it and went outside and concentrated on her magic to bring forth the night. As she did this the others after fixing the shower in the bathroom decided it best to leave, Twilight left a note saying what fun it was at the party and hopped that both Luna and Jack had a good night.
Fast forward about 20 minutes.
Jack awoke to see it was night time out, throwing the covers off himself he shuffled his feet over to the bedroom door clearly exhausted but curious as to the sound he was hearing almost like it was someone panting. Opening the door and poking his head out Jack saw Luna Standing on the balcony on shaky legs. Concerned Jack shuffled his way over to her; apparently she was too focused on whatever it was she was doing to notice him. Taking a closer look Jack saw that she was indeed panting, she looked dead tired and her horn was glowing. Trying to get her attention Jack waved his hand in front of her face to no avail. He even called her name and still no response. With nothing else to do Jack tried to shake her which caused her to jump with fright and look around frantically. Seeing Jack she relaxed somewhat and smiled a tired smile at him.
“Hey Luna, you alright? Looked like you were about to collapse.”
“We are fine…We have something we would like to show thee. Come, look to the sky!”
Casting his gaze upward Jack and uttered just one simply word, “Whoa…”
There were shooting stars, dozens of them flying across the sky. It was amazing; Jack had never seen anything like it before. Sure he’d seen a single shooting star before but this many? Truly a sight to behold. Looking over to Luna with his still amazed expression he saw her with a bit of a smug look.
“Did you…?”
“Cause the shooting stars thou see on this most wonderful of nights? Indeed we have!”
Clearly Luna took much pride in her work. Her expression turned to one of embarrassment though and she looked down at the floor and kicked with her hoof slightly before looking at Jack again and saying, “We…we figured it would be a suitable ‘welcome to Equestria’ present. D-do thou think it adequate?”
Jack simply looked at her dumbfounded; his welcoming gift for coming to a strange new land was this?! Jack stared at her for a moment and swore he saw her blush but paid it no mind as he embraced her in a hug.
“It’s wonderful; no one’s ever done anything like this for me. Thank you, Luna.”
With that he let go of her and looked up to the stars flying across the sky. Luna was definitely blushing now and smiled as they both watched the stars. However it was short lived as Luna suddenly collapsed; Jack rushed to her side asking what was wrong as he helped her up.
“I-it is nothing; we are merely tired from moving so many at one time. It is…taxing to say the least.”
“Well we should get you to bed can’t have a princess passing out, out here now can we?”
Luna simply nodded too tired to talk anymore and let Jack help her to the bedroom. Climbing into bed Luna lay still as Jack tucked her in, expecting him to get in as well she was surprised when he moved to leave the room.
“Wait, where are thee going?”
“Hmm? Oh well I just thought that-“
“Don’t you dare think to sleep on that couch! This bed is much more comfortable and big enough for the both of us. So come to bed!”
Now it was Jack’s turn to blush yet being tired himself Jack nodded his head and moved to get under the covers as well.
‘Ok no need to freak out you’re only sleeping in the same bed as a princess who not only rules a nation but also moves the stars as a welcoming gift! Not to mention she’s cute as well.’
Trying to get comfortable Jack turned on his side facing away from Luna to conceal his turn red face.
“…Did thou forget we read minds?” Luna asked with a smirk.
“Oh come on!” Jack flung his arms up in frustration.
Luna decided to try and help calm Jack down so he wouldn’t feel so nervous around her so what did she do? She hugged him.
‘…Brain permission to freak out?’
‘…’
‘Uhh Brain?’
‘Error 404 Brain not found.’
'Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!’
Luna giggled at Jack’s inner dialog yet continued to hug him. Eventually he seemed to relax a bit an slowly tuned to look at the princess.
“Umm princess?”
“Please we are friends thou do not need to used titles with me just ‘Luna’ will do.” Luna stated with a smile.
“Ok umm, Luna? Why are you still hugging me?”
“We figured it the best solution to help get you to relax around us, everyone is always so prim and proper when addressing us. It gets tiring after so long…we would like to have our friends to be comfortable around us so please, just ‘Luna’ will do.”
As she talked Luna seemed a bit sad, it seemed even her friends were always prim and proper when around her and never really relaxed and acted like an actual ‘friend’. Seemed she just wanted one true friend (maybe more given time hmm?), someone that would treat her as Luna the pony not Luna the princess. Looking her in the eye Jack smiled and returned the hug.
“Ok, Luna I think I understand.”
Luna smiled again, “Good.”
Luna gave him a slight squeeze and ended the hug, saying their goodnights the pair fell asleep quickly thanks to their exhaustion from the party/moving the stars.
Sometime later…
‘Ooo! Is it that time again?! I can’t wait to show you the game I have perpared for you…’
‘Ooo! Is it that time again?! I can’t wait to show you the game I have waiting for you…’
Looking around Jack found himself in a dimly lit room and it seemed he was strapped to something limiting his movement. After giving a few experimental tugs Jack accepted that he was stuck and that trying to escape was completely out of the question, for now at least. Looking up Jack saw Pinkamena sitting just a few feet away from him staring at him with a sadistic smile that promised pain soon to come.
“Shit.”
Getting up Pinkamena walked up to Jack who was pressing himself into the wood he was strapped to hoping that he’d somehow be able to stay away from her unfortunately all he managed to do was make his back a bit more stiff than it was to begin with. Pinkamena saw this and her smile widened just a tad, he was afraid of her and she was enjoying it immensely.
“Sooo Jackie, are you ready to play my game?”
Jack shook his head back and forth rapidly.
“Aw that’s too bad…you get to play it anyways!”
Bringing up a knife that she had brought with her she held it up for Jack to see. It was a very dull and jagged thing that by all rights should have been thrown out but Pinkamena thought it suited her just fine.
“So since I have you undivided attention let me tell you about our little game! It’s called, ‘what body part do you need the least’. And these are the rules; I win if you beg me to cut something off! You win if you correctly guess why I’m doing this! Won’t that be fun?!
Jack looked at her like she had grown another head (which for Pinkie (insane or otherwise) wouldn’t be that surprising in my opinion) and realized she was serious. His fear which already had a firm hold on him now had an iron grip and was shaking him like a rag doll yelling at him to get the hell out before it was too late.
“So let’s start our little game Jackie!”
Jack in his fear responded with a pathetic, “P-please…”
Pinkamena tilted her head to the side like she had seen something completely alien before giving him an evil grin, “Please what? ‘Please don’t hurt me?’ Hmm? Is that was you were going to say?”
Jack nodded dumbly as tears started to form in the corners of his eyes. He tried to put on a brave face regardless but it was just pointless at this point, she had him by the balls and he knew it.
“Aww you poor baby. ‘Please don’t hurt me I’m just a scared little boy, please don’t hurt me please please!” Pinamena mocked Jack as she brought the knife closer to his neck causing him to stiffen as the cold jagged metal touched his skin.
Leaning closer toward his face Pinkamena said in a hushed voice, “Refuse to play and I kill you anyways.”
Jack let out a choked sob as the dam, which was already crumbling started to fall apart and tears flowed down his face. After a few moments he composed himself enough to talk albeit in a very shaky voice.
“Y-you doing t-t-this bec-cause…” Jack thought for a brief second hoping he got it right the first time, “because…b-because you want me to suffer.”
Pinkamena brought a hoof to her chin in thought, “Hmmm, nope.” with that she brought the knife to his arm and slowly made a cut down one side of it.
“GaaaaAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Painfully agonizingly slow she brought the knife down the side of his arm all the way from his elbow to the wrist enjoying the pained look on his face as he squirmed in his restraints hopelessly trying to escape the rusty knife cutting his flesh. After reaching his wrist Pinkamena stopped and withdrew the knife from Jack as he stood there still squirming unable to move thanks to his restraints. After a few minutes Jack settled back down as he tried to fight through the pain which was ever present in his finger he shot a glare at Pinkamena as she approached him again.
“Done crying? Good. It’s your turn again.”
Through clenched teeth and tears running freely down his cheeks Jack began to guess again, “gah damn it! You’re doing this because you hate me.”
Pinkamena laughed this time as she brought the knife to him again, “Are you that stupid?! Hahaha!! Wrong again!”
Bringing the knife down on his arm again she dug into the previous cut with her knife and opened the wound just a bit wider while slowly pushing deeper inside.
“aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! PLEASE NO MORE!!!”
Pinkamena gave a sadistic grin, “More you say?! Well aren’t you the glutton for punishment!”
After reaching the wrist again, which took far longer with Jack thrashing about wildly trying to get away but it was no use he was stuck and all he could do was scream. Pinkamena then started to bring the knife up from his arm and toward where his neck and started to press down on it.
“PLEASE STOP! PLEASE! PLEASE STOP! PLEASE NO MORE PLEASE I BEG YOU!!!!!!!”
Pinkamena ignored his pleas and in a strangely serious tone which was a stark contrast to her usual manic and chipper voice she said, “Say please one more time and I cut something precious off,” She smiled at that point, “Did you know I enjoy twisting and warping your dreams and watching you squirm as I make you suffer? It has nothing to do with hating you, honestly I don’t care abo- GAH!”
Pinkamena was cut off as a blinding light washed over the room she and Jack were in and a booming voice spoke out.
RELEASE THY GRIP ON OUR FRIEND FOUL SPIRIT! BEGONE FROM HERE!!
Pinkamena growled and attempted to shout back but was denied that as she was forcibly removed from Jack’s dreamworld. However this didn’t stop her from dragging her knife along Jack’s neck as she was dragged out kicking and attempting to scream.
Jack let out a silent scream as the knife dragged across his neck. His vision soon started to fade to black, but not before he saw a pony running towards him with glowing eyes. She seemed to be yelling something at him but he couldn’t hear it as he was enveloped in darkness.
Back to the Real world…of sorts.
Waking up Jack tensed up as he quickly became aware of something holding him in a firm grip. Behind his closed eyelids he could see a very intense light which caused him to only tense that much more. Risking a quick peek Jack opened one eye just a bit and was shocked to see Luna, still lying next to him yet now she had a death grip on him and her eyes were a blinding white while her horn was giving off an intense blue aura that seemed to be twice the size of her horn. Trying to move proved useless as Luna gripped him even harder, her eyes narrowing as beads of sweat started to fall from her forehead.
Unsure if she was sleeping or something else Jack tried to get her attention as he whispered in an urgent tone, “L-Luna! Psst Luna! Wake up please! You’re starting to hurt me.”
Then as if a plug had been pulled the glowing light from Luna’s eyes flickered and faded away revealing her teal eyes that quickly focused back on Jack. Thankfully her grip slackened as the light in her eyes faded as well as the intense glow from her horn. As soon as Luna’s magic faded away she started panting like she just ran nonstop from Canterlot to Ponyville. Regaining her senses she found herself holding Jack rather tightly still, a small blush spread across her cheeks as she sluggishly rolled over to face the other way on the bed.
Speaking through gasps of air Luna asked, “A-are *inhale* thou alr-right?”
Jack sat up rubbing his neck feeling a dull throbbing coming from it before replying, “I-I think so…not too sure at this point.”
Luna rolled back over to look at Jack still trying to catch her breath, “L-let us rephrase that. Are t-thou in one piece?”
Jack did a quick scan of himself then looked back to the princess and nodded.
“Good.”
Mental however a completely different story, in his mind Jack was was flipping right the fuck out. Why were his dreams constantly tormenting him? Why was Pinkamena so dead set on seeing him suffer? Why the hell did she look like Pinkie Pie?
`What the fuck is going on?!’
Luna looked over her shoulder at him with a frown, “Language!”
Jack was a bit startled by that and blushed out of embarrassment, “S-sorry Luna. Forgot about the whole mind reading thing you do.”
Luna smiled at him, “Apology accepted Jack. We know thou art worried about these dreams thou receive nightly, but thou must be patient while We try to figure out why these nightmares keep occurring. Thou art lucky we slept so close to one another, yours was the first dream I entered upon starting our nightly task of ensuring all our little ponies sleep soundly through the night.”
“Is that why your eyes were literally glowing and that aura around your horn was so huge?”
Luna nodded, “Indeed. Though We must admit We did not think it would require so much energy to free thou from that horrible nightmare. It was…quite taxing to say the least.”
“So I can tell. You look like you just ran a marathon.”
Luna raised an eyebrow at that, “Indeed?”
Using her magic once again she summoned a small mirror from the bathroom to see for herself. There was a pause as Luna stared at her reflection. Getting curious Jack tried to look over her shoulder to see what her reaction might be.
He stopped however when Luna spoke up again, “Jack…We don’t think you’ve woken up just yet.”
That confused Jack, weren’t they already up? Looking around he saw the same hotel room that they fell asleep in, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. He felt like he was up so what did she mean that he hadn’t woken up yet?
“Luna what are you talking about? Of course I’m up!” pinching himself for good measure, yup pain.
“We mean that this is still the dream world, we’ve just switched from one location to the next. We have seen this happen many times in other ponies’ dreams; they would switch from one place to the next like scenes from a story.”
Jack felt his heartbeat pick up a tad, if he was still dreaming that meant she might still be around.
“S-so if I’m still dreaming does that mean Pinkamena is still here?”
Luna didn’t answer but she did tense up suddenly.
“Luna?”
She started shaking violently.
Jack reached over to try and grab her but as soon as his hand touched her back it fell through her and onto the bed. Quickly removing his hand Jack looked at Luna to see that as soon as his hand left her body she started to slowly disappear, her body forming into a starry mist before it vanished completely. As she vanished she cast an apologetic look at Jack.
Before she vanished entirely Luna called out, “I’m sorry my friend! I shalt return I swear it!”
With that she was gone and Jack was alone again in the hotel room. His heart beat had started to pick up more as he sat there figuring out what was going to happen and how he was going to escape it.
His thoughts were interrupted as something pulled at the covers of the bed. Looking over Jack saw the one pony he did NOT want to see at that moment. She laid there on the floor the lower part of her face covered by the bed as she starred at him. She smiled, the corners of her mouth were seen as it stretched almost painfully across her face.
Jack didn’t dare move all he could do was stare back unblinking.