Part 18 to the Maybe series Follow the main character thought his newest trails as he tries to better understand the power he possess.
Part 18 in the Maybe series. As our character and Twilight make there journey back home to Ponyville they find our home sweet home is anything but sweet. And as our main character tries to accept it it will change him for the better...or worst.
To old readers I say this...Enjoy this series end and have fun waiting for the next one. To new readers I suggest going back and starting an an earlier part this way you're not confused.
The train lets out a high pitched squeal as it grains its way into the Ponyville station. You give a relieved sigh as the train comes to a complete stop; you turn your eyes from the floor of the train that you have been studying since you left Canterlot towards the window you sit beside. The small town has never looked so nice, the hay covered buildings and friendly talking ponies outside just seem a lot better than the always busy Canterlot streets. You get a smile as you stare out the window and think out loud, “we’re home.”
Twilight picks her head up from the seat next to you where she has been resting, “We’re back already?” She gives a yawn as she looks to the window.
Spike stands on the seat across from you both with his arms crossed, “ya, home…”
You look at him with a little confusion, “I like Ponyville.”
Spike motions to the window, “Oh no, I like Ponyville, but there are no good places to get a good gem salad.” He licks his lips as he rubs his claws together.
You roll your eyes at the comment as you stand from your seat with a stretch of your front legs.
The brown train pony calls from the door, “Okay everypony, you can get off now.”
You wait by your seat as a few little fillies happily run past you to the door.
Twilight hoovers her bag over herself as she stands, “Spike, Rarity wanted us to bring her some things, maybe she will let you get a gem.”
Spike lets out a joyfully sigh as his gaze turns long, “Awww ya.”
As you follow Twilight to the door you can smell the Ponyville air that is seeping in. You never really liked the smell of grass but after being kept in a city for so long it’s nice to get a deep breath of air that doesn't smell like stone.
As you step out of the train your ears are assaulted by a loud banging sound, your world goes sideways as your equilibrium is lost. As you fight to regain your stance there is only one thought running through your head, oh shit flash bang! Quick call of duty has trained you for this. But all of your so called training leaves you as the pink bouncing ball of fluff assaults you in a warm happy, bone crushing, loveable, death grip, “SURPRISE!”
As Pinkies grip tightens her words loosen, “Oh my Celestia! It’s been like forever!” You manage a few words as you try not tripping over your tail as you struggle to break free of Pinkies hug, “Hi…P-Pinkie glad to be b-back.” Pinkie releases you as she springs for Twilight, “sorryIdidnothavetwopartycannonsIthoughtyouwouldcomeoffthetrainfirst.BUTthatsokbecuaseNOWyougetthebiggerhug.”
Twilight puts a hoof between herself and her flailing friend, “Not so tight Pinkie.”
As Pinkie continues to flail her pink legs she talks, “It’s been three weeks, that’s like twenty one days! Did you get my letters!” she taps her hoof to her mouth as she stops trying to hug Twilight, “well I guess you had to get my letters you wrote back.” She points her hoof to you now, “OH! You’re getting better at writing your name! I could read the first two letters.” She gives a happy smile to you.
You nod as you think, first two!? Pinkie please, I wrote that good.
Pinkie gasps as she pulls a cyan blob to her side, “I almost forgot, Rainbow’s here to say hello!”
Rainbow gives a wave to you three as Pinkie gives another gasp and a jump, lunge towards Spike, “And how could I forget my favorite dragon!?”
Twilight’s body tenses a little as she gives Rainbow a hug, “Nice to see you.”
You watch the exchange with a sense of guilt as the thought creeps into your mind, with Discord happening you never really got a chance to talk to Twilight about…you break the thought as you give another polite gesture to Rainbow.
Rainbow talks in her normal tomboyish proud voice, “So, now that you two are back what Celestia got you doing this time?”
Twilight’s body language changes at the question, “Well, when you all left the Princess had me send Discord away and now she…”
Rainbow and Pinkie both give a sharp eye to Twilight’s comment, “she had you do what?”
Pinkie continues to rant, “Ohman,whenDiscordshowedupandturnedustostone IwasafriedIwouldnevereatacupcake AGAIN!”
Rainbow butts in, “Wait why did Celestia have you do it?!”
Pinkie continues to talk but in a lower voice as she realizes nopony listening.
Twilight holds her head up proudly as she answers Rainbow’s question, “Celestia wanted Discord sent to a place where he could not use his magic, and she need somepony with a strong tie to use the magic to send him to.” She pauses at the word, “Human world.”
Rainbow looks shocked as she questions her further, “But…but how could you use a spell like that? Doesn’t unicorn magic only come from like love and friendship? There’s no way you could have done that spell without burning yourself up.”
You swallow back your thoughts as Twilight continues to proudly exclaim her answer.
“The Princess had me training with the human magic because that’s what I needed to use to send Discord away.”
Rainbow now has a look of confusion as she talks, “But, human magic is like unpredictable right?” She points her hoof at you, “He sucked me into a book with it.”
Twilight shifts a little at Rainbows question as she looks at you, “No, it’s perfectly fine.”
Rainbow can see a sign of disapproval in your face as you take your eyes from Twilight. She stops her questions, “okay that’s cool.”
Pinkie hops back into the conversation with an off topic word, “Cupcakes!”
You stare at her in confusion as she continues.
“All that talk about Discord really makes me want to have a cupcake, anypony else want some?”
Twilight gives a sweet smile as she answers, “I have been craving a Sugarcube corner cupcake, I thi..-“
Pinkie springs behind Twilight in one motion as she pushes her across the wood train station floor, “Good, let’s get some.”
Twilight breaks from her assault as she walks away, “We’ll catch up, I need to check on the library.”
Rainbow spreads her wings as she talks, “suit yourself Twi.”
Pinkie smiles, “okey dokey lokey.” She hops away at the end of her sentence.
As you watch the pink ball of fluff bounce away you laugh to yourself, how can she be trusted around food?
You and Spike follow after Twilight as you start to the library. As you leave the wood station floor your hooves come into contact with the cool dirt for the first time in maybe three weeks, oh sweet…Celestia this feels better than stone.
Your tongue flops out of your mouth as you follow close behind Twilight. But after a few dirty looks from ponies around you, you finally realize how awkward it must be to see a stallion walking behind a mare with his tongue out and his head slunk back a bit.
You straighten your poster a bit as you near the library, Twilight and Spike hurry inside. But you stop outside as you look over the great tree, home sweet home…you smile as your sentence finishes in your head. You take another deep breath before you walk inside.
When you close the door behind you, you again stop to look around; well I still hate the smell of books.
Twilight is to your right struggling to undo the strap on her satchel.
You give a light hearted smile as you stare at her, “need some help?”
Twilight bites at the band with her mouth and tries to talk, “mufffjsjfj.”
You place your hoof on the bag to stop it from shifting as she loosens the band and floats the bag off herself, “Thanks, Pinkie must have pulled the bag when she hugged me.”
You hover the bag from her as you give a playful tease, “oh no a bag, help, help.”
Twilight’s magic overcomes yours as she floats it up the stairs, “Ha ha, I’ll remember that for tonight.”
Your smile fades as your ears perk up.
You hear a knock on the door and your thoughts shift as you hear a knocking behind you, come on Pinkie, we said we would be there.
As you open the door an angry grey unicorn stallion stands in the doorway…well doesn’t really stand, “Um…hi Tombstone?”
The grey pony looks you over before talking in a sarcastically annoyed voice, “Oh, this explains why the library has been closed for the last few weeks, the drunk works here.”
You pause blinking at his comment as you look down at him, drunk?...oh ya.
He floats a book up to you, “Well anyways, here’s your book back. Would not recommend it, does not help at all.”
As he turns to walk away and you close the door. Spike comes up to you, “I got it.” He takes the book from your hoof as you glance at the title, Of graves & roses.
You look to the stairs as you hear Twilight’s hooves hitting the wood, “let’s get to Sugarcube corner before it gets too late, I don’t want to eat dinner there.”
You stare at the crumbs of what look like cake on the plate in front of you. Your sugar high ended a little while ago and now you feel like you’re going to be sick. Why, why! are the sweets here so good!
Spike sits beside you with his stomach popping out, “N-no Pinkie I’m good.”
Pinkie gives a loud sigh as she turns her food filled plate to you. You’re quick to shake your head out of fear of exploding if you eat anything more. Pinkie sets the plate down as she sits across from you next to Twilight, “So how do you like them?”
Twilight stops from taking a bite out of an apple covered in warm caramel to answer her friend, “They are positively delicious Pinkie.”
The energetic pink fluff pokes at you now, “You ok?”
You shake your head with your mouth half open in a sugar daze, the cupcakes and sweets in Canterlot where not as good as the ones here, most of the time you just ended up giving your stuff to Spike.
Twilight looks to the window as she talks, “well, so much for getting back early.” You close your eyes for a moment only to be awoken by a loud thunder crashing sound, “Whoa?”
You look to the window to see outside, but you can’t see anything, “What was that?”
Twilight looks to the window unaffected by the loud noise, “Thunder.”
You stupidly blurt out the first thing that comes to your mind, “It rains in Equestria?” you think to yourself, In all honesty its a fair judgment, you never have seen it rain but you have seen it snow so…never mind you're now invalid.
Pinkie giggled loudly as she points a hoof at you, “Don’t you have rain in your world.”
You give a low nod as she continues to laugh.
Another loud clap is heard from outside.
Twilight places the cupcake back on the plate, “fifty seconds apart, sorry Pinkie we need to go before Rainbow’s rain gets us.”
You again blurt out your first thought, “Wait, Rainbow makes it rain?”
Pinkie again lets out a laugh as she pokes fun at you, “You didn’t know that?”
You feel a little left out as you look to Twilight for an explanation…which she is always happy to be smarter than you, “Pegasus can move clouds and influence the weather using emotions.” She pauses and waits for a moment, “All emotions are magic, just like unicorn magic. It’s just different for each pony.”
You give a unamused nod to her comment as you think, ya ya, magic is emotion and feelings…you dwell on this notion for a moment, all you did in Canterlot was something based on this…but come on all-weather controlled by ponies, that’s still a weird contempt.
You follow Twilight’s lead as she stands from the table and says goodbye to Pinkie.
As you get close to the door another loud clap is heard from outside, as you walk out you stare at the large black clouds swirling above you. Your mind dwells on the thought of having wet fur, you don’t hate it, all honesty it feels nice to have a cool coat, but you have always hated the smell of wet fur.
Twilight walks causal down the road as she looks up at the sky, “We really need to get home, this looks like a big storm.”
Spike walks beside you as he talks, “So are we not stopping by Rarity’s?”
Another loud clap can be heard from the black swirl above you, Twilight squints her eyes at him, “Do you really want to go?”
Spike tries to play off his alarmed face as he nudges you, “Naw, we don’t want to get wet.” With another loud clap you feel a warm wet spot hit your head, you look up, “Well that’s no-…”
Before you can finish your sentence the black clouds let loose its weight in what seems like one second. The warm water now runs down your face and all over your coat as you stand looking up, “..so bad.”
Twilight gives a little squeal as the water pours down her purple mane into her face. She blows some of her mane out of her mouth as she continues to walk with a bit more haste. You on the other hand are laughing; the dirt road has almost completely turned into mud, which feels amazing on your hooves for some reason.
Twilight struggles to gallop on the slippery ground, Spike is now further down the road with a small scream, “I just waxed my scales, come on!”
The rain’s speed has decreased after only a few moments and is now more of a light shower, which again feels strangely great as each little droplet slightly massages your coat, “Can’t run?”
Twilight ducks under an overhang as she whips her drenched mane out of her face, “ugh, I did not want to get wet.”
You give a little chuckle as you stand out from under the overhang; you look up and close your eyes as you talk, “I kind of like it.”
Twilight pulls you under the overhang, “You’re going to catch a cold.” You smile at her comment as you blow at her, “It’s warm.”
Twilight shakes her head at you as she looks up to the still think black clouds, “it should be over soon.”
You chuckle at her comment, “it’s rain, how can it be over…-“ At this point you notice the sound of the rain hitting the ground has stopped, you look up to the clouds. The clouds dark color has shifted to a dark grey as the rain slows down. You also see some parts of the cloud starting to be broken up, but unlike normal fading clouds instead you watch as different colored pegasus push sections of the cloud across the sky…that’s cool, you think to yourself as you watch the cloud slowly breaking apart.
Twilight nudges you as she starts to walk, “Told you.” Your quick to join her side as you playfully bump her, “Ya, but you said we would not get rained on.”
She rolls her eyes at you. As you near the library the door swings open with Spike in the doorway, “I thought you guys were right behind me?”
Twilight walks past him to the upstarts as she talks, “I didn’t want to get dirty, but now we have to take a bath.”
You give a loud exhale as you talk, “oh come on? We’re animals why do we have to wash dirt off?”
Twilight’s ear twitches a bit as she stops and turns to you, “Animals? No, we are not animals. we are ponies!?”
You and Spike stand dumbfounded at her sharp tone, “um…okay?”
She nods her head as she continues up the stairs, “good.”
Spike looks over his dirty feet, “I don’t have that much so I’ll take the first bath.” Before you can say anything he bolts up the stairs, “Don’t worry I’ll save the hot water.”
You roll your eyes as you think to yourself, no you won’t.
You turn your gaze to the room Twilight went into. You make your way up to the door as you peer in from the threshold, “hi?”
Twilight is staking a few books from her satchel as she exhales, “Sorry.”
You nod your head to her as she places the books on a nearby table next to her bed.
Your mind thinks over the books she just places, “You want to talk about it?”
She again exhales before she talks, “It had nothing to do with it.”
You stare at her for a moment waiting for her lie to falter.
After a few lip bites and a broke eye contact she finally talks again, “ok, maybe I felt it a little. But it was only a moment. “She turns her purple eyes to you as she sits on the bed, “But that’s why we left Canterlot right? So that I could stop using human magic right?”
You look her over before you speak, “No, we left because Celestia wanted you to return and study on the magic of friendship.”
Twilight nods her head as she talks, “Yes, and I can still do that.”
You decide to try a more stern looking face as you think before you speak, “The deal was no more human magic, and I won’t hide my thoughts.”
Twilight blows as she laughs at your comment, “Okay, I understand you still don’t count this...” She motions with her hooves to the room, “…as normal, but you need to stop with the comments.” She slumps down a bit in the bed as she talks, “But obsessively not.”
You give a smile to her comment, it feels more like home in Ponyville then in Canterlot, “I was just saying that next winter I am not going to take a bath when I get snow on my…” you pause at the word while you wet your lips to it, “…coat.”
Her ear twitches again as she brings her head up to you, “Yo- you’re going to stay in Ponyville?”
You chuckle at the comment, not like you really have any other place to go, Canterlot is the only other place you have gone and that’s a death trap, “Why wouldn’t I?”
She smiles to you as she flips her tail a bit on the bed, “Will you stay with me?”
You smile at her low voice, is she trying to be sexy? “Why wouldn’t I?”
She playfully grabs at her horn as she tries to fake a pained cry, “I think you're right…My horn does hurt.” She places one hoof over her head as she peers at you with one open eye, “Want to help?”
Your face is flushed with a heat as you move slowly to her, “Twilight, are you trying to seduce me?”
Her eyes glow as she floats a book back to her, “yes, I read that you’re supposed to do something the other pony likes to do.”
You look over the title as you get closer, Dos and Don’ts. You give another short low chuck as you sit on the bed next to her.
Her happily extended neck slinks down a bit at your laugh, “Di-did I do it wrong?”
You move your hoof around her coat, “Yes.”
She shifts a little at your touch, “h-how did I do it wrong?” Her eyes have a slight sparkle to them as she waits for your response.
“I don’t like to see you hurt.” At your sentence you kiss on her neck.
She giggles as you continue to move your hoof thought the fur of her back. She moves herself closer to you as you continue to draw your hoof around her; you leave a trail of cool damp mud as you continue to rub her back. The purple stared bed now has a brown mud tent on it from where Twilight’s hooves have been resting. You continue to kiss and tickle her neck with your tongue, she squirms each time your lips meet her warm fur of her neck. She whimpers as she talks, “Your…your hooves are dirty.” You ignore her as she continues to bring herself to rest on your lips. She lets out a low giggling moan as you move up to her face, her eyes are closed as you give a quick kiss to her lips.
“Hey Twili…-“
Twilight springs from the bed at the sound of Spikes voice in the doorway, “Sp-Spike!” She is quick to the door as she stammers and stutters with a high pitched shaky voice, “What, what do you need?”
Spike’s voice is dazed as he talks to Twilight, “uhhhh, some ponies are down stairs trying to return some books and I didn’t know where to put them.”
She turns and faces you with a laugh, “I’ll be back later.”
You nod to her as she leaves the doorway.
You look to the window; what pony stops by a library at night? You then look to Spikes bed which is close to Twilight’s and think, oh god we’re in Twilight’s room. You shuffle to the door as you peer out to the stairs, you know you can’t go down there with your current…stance. You dart across the hall to your room as you think, god I hope no one comes up here. You listen to the voices downstairs, there sounds like a lot of ponies…this is going to be a long night. You flop back into the bed with a sigh…I want hands now.
You are awoken by the sound of knocking down stairs, you sit up in the bed half asleep as the sun blinds your eyes, you speak to yourself in a groggy voice as you think aloud, “Who is up early anymore?” You lay back down in the bed as the knocking continues. You give a groan as you think to yourself, half the town was here last night, how can somepony be knocking at the door this early? You look to the window some morning dew on the window helps your thoughts about the time.
“Hellooooo?” Is anypony up?”
You listen to the faint voice calling from outside, oh Celestia its Rarity…we never dropped the soap off. You pull the pillow over your head as her whine can be heard from outside of the tree house. I didn’t get enough sleep for this.
Twilight starts to stir next to you with a low annoyed groan.
You almost stop breathing as she moves, one thing you have found out in the last few days is that Twilight no longer likes to walk up early…you smile at the thought, she is starting to become normal.
You slowly inch your way from the bed as you plant your hooves on the wood floor; with a yawn you slowly walk to the door. For some reason your legs are a bit stiff and it takes you a few seconds to remember how to walk…and not trip over your tail.
As you make your way to the door you try to remember where Twilight put the bag of soaps…great no idea guess I’ll wing it.
“Hi Rarity.”
Rarity holds her hoof up to her mouth as she looks you over, “Oh. I’m sorry I didn’t think you would still be asleep.”
You give a shrug as you think, ya and I can’t believe how important fancy soap is.
Rarity now talks in a more proper voice as she straightens her posture, “Well, I was just nearby and thought I would stop by and pick up my stuff from Canterlot.”
You open the door a little wider as you talk, “Okay.”
As she walks in your ears are assaulted with a high pitched defining sound…Sweetie belle, “YOur back!” She hugs onto you as she continues to talk, “We all thought you were going to stay in Canterlot.”
As you’re ringing in your ear stops you nod your head.
Sweetie jumps in the air as she talks, “Would you like to come with us to get our cutie marks today?!”
Your eyes widen as her voice rings through the sleepy library, “Not so loud.”
Rarity laughs to herself as she talks, “What are Twilight and Spike still asleep?”
You nod your head at her comment.
She gives squints at you, “Well you really have corrupted her haven’t you?”
You give a friendly smile as you brush her comment off, “I’ll go get your bag.”
You quietly make your way to Twilight's room to grab the bag, you stop and stare at the purple dragon still snoring in the big bed, he doesn’t even sleep in his bed…well never mind. You float the bag next to you as you walk down the stairs.
Rarity takes the bag from you as you near her, she gives a girlish giggle as she looks in the bag, “Oh, I cannot believe I forgot these when I left.”
You nod to her as you keep your thoughts about flaming soap away from the front of your mind.
Rarity dips her snout into the bag as she grabs a book, “well, I don’t…” She pauses as she reads the title.
You reach your hoof out to the book but she quickly move it from you, “ummm, this is looks like one of Twilight studying books. I’ll just keep it so it doesn’t get lost.” Her faces blushes a bit as she looks at you with a fake ha ha laugh.
Your ears droop a bit as only one title from last night runs you mind.
Sweetie chimes in to break your thought, “Rarityyyy I told the girls I would be back by the time they would leave, can we go now?”
Rarity rolls her eyes as she finishes her sentence, “Honestly Sweetie, you will get your cutie mark when you’re ready.”
Sweetie’s face turns sour at her sister's words.
Rarity looks to you quickly, “um, would you mind taking Sweetie belle over to her friends?” “uhhhhh.”
Rarity smiles as she talks, “Please? I’ll tell Twilight you left?”
Sweetie now shakes her head at you with a big grin, “Maybe you could get your cutie mark today too.”
You smile at the thought, if I get my cutie mark today it had better be a badass dragon or sword or something that I can’t flaunt to Twilight’s piece of shi-, “Ya I’ll do it.”
Sweetie pulls on you as she squeals, “You’re going to have so much fun today.” Rarity waves to you as the door closes, but her faked happy smile only gives you an uneasy feeling as you think about the last time you went with the…cutie mark crusaders…dang I forgot my cape. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You follow Sweetie for most of the walk just nodding and giving small notions that your listening to here, “uh hu…..ya….ya.”
As you near the end of the road you spot three familiar ponies you know pretty well.
“HeY girls look who we got today!”
Sweetie runs to her friends as they turn to you.
You look to the cyan pegasus that burst out laughing as Sweetie belle drags you closer to the group, “I think you need more friends.” You think about the comment for a minute, she was here before I was...”Hi Rainbow.”
Scootaloo has a happy smile as she cuts Rainbow off, “Are coming with us?”
You look to the excited filly’s expression as you nod your head.
Scootaloo flaps her wings as she points to a saddle draped over Apple bloom, “Oh, show him the map!”
Apple bloom brings an old yellow piece of paper from her bag with her mouth, Scootaloo quickly grabs it as it nears her. She unfolds the map in front of you as she excitedly points to X on it, “This is where we are going!”
You look over the map…man I wish I knew what Lunar Cave meant, “Okay? What are we doing there?”
Apple bloom steps in front of Scootaloo as she talks, “We’re gonna get our cutie marks in cave exploring today.” She smiles brightly as she waits for you.
You look to Rainbow for a sense of approval as you hoof the map back to the eager fillies. Rainbow throws her hoof at you as she talks, “Don’t look at me with Twilight's disappointed face, there is nothing dangerous in caves.”
Apple bloom smiles at you, “Ya, yesterday we tried zip lining again.” Sweetie lets out a sigh, “We were doing good till the line broke.”
You give a squint at the comment, why do they try crazy things? And didn’t they already try for a exploring cutie mark?
Scootaloo looks over the map as she heads down the path, “Come on girls.” Applebloom and Sweetie belle follow after their friend with a laugh.
Rainbow waits for you to start walking before she follows after them, “So, happy to be back in Ponyville?”
You nod your head as you keep your eyes fixed on the ponies in front of you.
Rainbow continues to talk in her normal tomboyish voice as you walk, “Did you get caught in my storm last night.”
You ignore her comment as you watch the three ponies playfully running, “How come their parents let them do this stuff?”
Rainbow laughs as she bumps you.
You stare at her in confusion.
She losses her smile a bit, “Oh, well Sweetie belle’s parents dump her with Rarity most the time and Scootaloo is a herd pony.” She pause as she thinks, “Applejack doesn’t really talk about her parents.”
You’re stuck on her comment, “Scootaloo is a what?”
Rainbow looks at you a bit confused for a moment but then talks, “Oh ya, keep forgetting you’re not a normal stallion, she’s a herd pony. Basically her mom takes care of her and she doesn’t get to really see her dad.”
“That’s normal?”
Rainbow stretches her wings as she talks, “Duh, a lot of mares are into that herd thing.”
You swallow as you ask her, “Wh-what does that mean exactly?” Rainbow stops for a moment as she tries to find the words, “Um, it’s like stallion sharing.”
Your eyes widen as you think about.
Rainbow is quick to speak again this time in a lower voice, “Well, it’s not really sharing it kind of only happens on.” She clears her throat as she talks in ashamed voice, “Hearts and hooves day.”
Your body shifts a little, “okay.”
Her wings sprawl out as she picks up on your shift, “Hey, listen th-that’s not why I did that, I’m not into that herd stuff.” She stiffens her wings as she talks, “I can get a stallion.”
You nod your head kind of wanting the conversation to end, but she continues, “Di-did you and Twilight ever talk about it?”
You shake your head.
Rainbow seems a bit surprised at your action, “What? Why not?”
You search your thoughts as you talk, “well, so much happened that day, we…we never got to talk about it. She was sick in the morning and she was having some trouble with.” You pause at the word as you try to hold back the feelings about it you have had for the past few weeks, “Magic.” Rainbow folds her wings as she talks, “She still getting sick in the morning?”
You shake your head, “Not every morning.” You give a chuckle “other times she just wakes up in a bad mood.”
Rainbow continues with a newfound sense of confidence, “Twilight was probably fine with it anyways, after all she is a herd pony.”
You blink at her, “What?”
“Ya, Twilight’s mom was into herd stuff.”
You think over it for a minute, well that’s why she looked nothing like her dad.
Rainbow laughs a little more, “You know before you showed up Twilight never even had a…-“
The sound of Scootaloo screaming in excitement stops Rainbow from continuing. You both look in front of yourself to the cave opening.
You look over the rock outcrop, it’s a huge cut out in the side of a mountain, other than the abnormally large opening it has dirt and rocks…looks like a cave to me.
Rainbow darts up to a nearby tree branch as she looks down and talks in a sort of commander voice, “Ok everypony lets not mess around you ponies need to get your cutie marks.” She stares at Scootaloo now as she talks, “Just don’t fall in a hole…got it?”
Scootaloo give a sheepish salute to her as the three fillies run into the cave.
Rainbow lands next you and continues to talk in a commander yell, “Why are you not in the cave yet?”
“Yes commander Rainbow.” You laugh as you slowly walk into the cave, I can’t believe I said commander
You look over the cave with an uneasy feeling, “So nothing happens in a cave right?”
She pushes past you and flicks you with her tail, “Not in less you want it to.”
Your ears poke up as her soft rainbow colored tail bashes your face.
“You coming with us?”
You nod your head as you walk a little faster to get in front of her.
You walk next to Sweetie belle as you look around the cave; you look up as you try to see the ceiling but it’s too high up to see. Weird it’s bigger on the inside then on the outside, you laugh to yourself, time lord logic…it’s also colder, you give a shiver as you continue down the dark tunnel.
“Why is it daRK in here?” Sweetie’s high pitched voice bounces off the walls as she talks.
Thee voices seem to mash together as the cave gets dark a small tomboyish voice is heard next you, “Ugh, I told you we should have brought the lantern.”
“Applejack said she don’t want me playing with fire anymore. OW! Sompony pony stepped on my tail.”
You jerk back a bit as you realize Apple bloom’s voice is directed towards you. You give a faint call back to her as you quickly move your hoof, “Sorry.” You brush up against a wall as you back up, the room you’re in is almost too dark to see, which makes you ask yourself, why did you agree to go into a cave if no pony had a light…what could I burn?
Sweetie calls out again in a whiny voice, “I caN’T see!”
Scootaloo gives an annoyed huff as she talks, “Fine we’ll leave. Rainbow where did we come in at?....Rainbow?”
You squint your eyes to see in the dark area, “Rainbow?”
Sweetie continues to whine a bit as she talks, “Where's Rainbow dash?”
“Oh, wait I have a flashlight.” You listen to Apple bloom’s voice as a light clicks on, “eydfdvg.” Her words are cut off as she holds the light in her mouth.
You look at the light in the dim room, I don’t even care how that light is working.
Scootaloo looks around for a moment, “Rainbow?”
You hear sweeties high voice now as she talks, “Maybe she’s down here.”
You turn around and look behind for her.
“Ahhh!”
You quickly snap your head to the scream, “Scootaloo?!”
The scream turns into a cry of laughter as look up to see Rainbow messing Scootaloo hair up as she holds her, “Thought you lost me squirt?”
The playful act doesn’t last long as you hear another scream, only this time it’s Sweetie belle.
Rainbow’s eyes go wide as she searched for Sweetie belle, “Sweetie? Where did you go?”
You gallop down a winding rock wall toward the sound of the scream, why did she go so far off!?
As you make a turn your eyesight becomes less stringed, Sweetie stands in the middle of a dimly green lit rocky area, you look around the room for a second to try and find the source of the dim green light but you can’t find it.
A smile comes across your face as you notice Sweetie belle is ok, “You alright?”
She is covered in some kind of green goo which she tries to fling it off of her use to be white coat, “WHy do I always get the gross stuff?”
You hold your smile as she continues to try to fling the slime off of herself, you take a moment to look over the room you’re in, it looks a lot like the area the dirt slide dropped you in, in the Everfree forest, but a lot bigger.
Apple Bloom walks close to her friends as she enters behind you, “You okay Sweetie belle?”
Scootaloo now calls out with a laugh, “ha ha, what’s all over you?”
Sweetie’s voice is whiney again as she talks, “I walked over here because I saw a light and thought it was a way out, but when I touched the wall I feel I sUNk into it!”
Scootaloo walks over to the side of the room and mocks Sweetie belle, “Like this?” She gives a laugh as she kicks with her back legs into the wall, but instead of hitting the way like she thought her back hooves disappear into it, “What the hay!?”
Scootaloo struggles to pull her legs from the wall, “What…are…you…WALL!” AS she pulls them from the wall they are covered in a green slime like Sweetie’s coat.
You stare at the wall for a moment, it looks like a regular rock wall like everything else…as you stare at the wall you notice it start to shift, you back up as you look at the wall continue to shift.
You hear a heavy breathing like a sneeze or something as the wall’s color starts to fade into a see-through blue color. The rock…err what you thought was a rock starts to quiver with a continued sound of heavy snoring.
“Uh…Rainbow what is that?”
You turn to Rainbow who is frozen in a fear with her pupils as tiny dots in her eyes.
Her look gives you a heavy uneasy feeling as you whisper back to her, “Rainbow…What is it?”
A gust of wind blows from behind you as a sludge of green slim sticks to your coat, what the fuck!?
Sweetie is again covered in the goo as she screams, “Oh ComE on!”
The now dark blue shaded wall gets two bright yellow and orange circles opening a good ways off the ground, a faint growl can be heard echoing through the room…you stare at the wall for a second you feel your heart drop as you think, that’s not a wall…
Scootaloo and Apple bloom scream as the rush past you. Rainbow pulls on you, “That’s an Ursa minor! We need to get the buck out of here!”
The blue wall now takes the look of some kind of fur as the eyes blink open with an annoyed sleepy growl.
The room around you now takes on a bright blue glow as the creature starts to awake. As you start to move to the hall you came through your mind is brought back to your current area as you hear Sweetie yell out, “I’m stuck!”
Her face screams terror at you but you quickly gallop over to her as you pull her lose from the what you now know is creature snot. As you push her from the ground the eyes focus on you. As you push against Sweetie one last time to free her, the creature lets out a roar at you. The room now is very brightly lit and as the creature roars at you a few strings of spit fly from its mouth and slap against the floor. You freeze up as you stare down the throat of the yelling beast. You feel dazed as the yell stops ricocheting off the walls; it feels like a surreal dream as you continue to stare down the red throat of the animal. A large blue paw comes crashing down next to you and some dirt and rocks are flung at you, but your still to frozen trying to move.
You’re snapped back to reality as Sweetie belle grabs hold of your back lag in fear. You quickly move the both of you out of the way of the second paw comes swiping at you.
You push Sweetie to the threshold of the tunnel as you scream, “Run!”
The bear like creature swats again around the room and this time hits very close to Sweetie belle. She lets out a crying high pitched squeal as she freezes in fear.
You feel your adrenaline take over as you do what you do best…you run your body into the creature’s arm as you again call to Sweetie to run.
The creature is now fully awake as it lets out another loud yell, the rocks above you shift and a few fall to the ground around the room.
Sweetie moves slowly as she stares at the big blue bear. The bear again throws its large paw towards the little white filly; she closes her eyes as she lets out a yelp.
As the paw swings through the air you close your eyes while the tingling sensation comes over your body. When you hear a low poof behind you and feel the extra weight on your back you quickly break into a gallop towards the tunnel that the bear lifts his paw from.
You rush through the cave as Sweetie holds onto your neck. You don’t even feel yourself breathing as you dart through the large opening towards the bright daytime sun.
As you burst from the cold damp cave, you finally give yourself the moment to breath. But the feeling doesn’t last long as Sweetie tightens around your neck, “THANk you Thank you thank you!”
Rainbow quickly flies over to the two of you as she hugs you, “We thought you two were right behind us!?!”
You breath deep with a little shake as your adrenaline high starts to leave your body, “Ya…nothing happens in a cave.”
Rainbow smacks at your face with her hoof as she hugs you, “Not funny.”
Your moment of reprieve doesn’t last long as a roar can be heard from the cave behind you.
Apple bloom looks to the cave in fear, “Can that thing get out!?”
Rainbow grabs Sweetie from your back as she flies to a bush, “Everpony get over here!” You gallop behind the bush as the roaring gets louder, after a few moments the huge beast appears at the threshold of the cave. At first it looks too small for it to pass through but your thought is quickly dismissed as you watch the bear like creature almost faze through the rock like it was a ghost or something. You hold your breath and dip down into the leaves as the bear stands in the clearing sniffing the air.
It stays in front of you all for only a few seconds but it feels like hours. The bear shakes its head as it continues to walk away from the cave.
Scootaloo whips her head as she whispers in a shaky voice, “That was close.”
You breathe a sigh of relief as the creature continues to walk further away.
Rainbow still has a solid face as she watches it walk, “…Oh buck! It’s heading towards Ponyville!”
Your eyes widen as you stand up from the ground, “What!?”
Rainbow grabs hold of you as she shakes you, “Teleport us to the library.” Your head is rattled as she shakes you, you think, Ssstoppp shacckkking mee.
Rainbow lets loose of you as she talks in a high pitched voice, “Twilight put that thing in the cave once before she can do it again! You need to teleport us there.”
You close your eyes as you try to picture the library…
“What are you doing?”
You open your eyes up with an annoyed voice, “I’m trying Rainbow.”
You close your eyes as you try to picture the library, but it’s kind of hard to get over the fact of seeing a huge bear just try to kill you. You feel a slight tingling sensation come over you as you focus your thoughts, well fire or library.
“Well, that’s a different way to come home.”
You open your eyes to Twilight's voice, “Twilight!-…”
Before you can talk Rarity cuts you off with a squall, “Sweetie belle what are you covered in!?”
Sweetie and the two other fillies all talk in an inaudible unison voice.
Rarity stares blankly at them, “You what?”
Rainbow puts her hoof in Rarity mouth as she calls out, “Twilight we woke up the Ursa Minor!”
Twilight stands from the table in a shocked and fearful fashion, “YOU WHAT!” She rubs her head as she thinks out loud, “How could you wake it up!?” Twilight paces around the table as she thinks aloud, “Okay think Twilight think…”
Rarity spits Rainbow’s hoof out from her mouth, “Honesty Rainbow EW!” Rarity then rushes to Sweetie belle with a big hug, “Are you ok? Ugh you’re all sticky what is this?”
Scootaloo taps her, “You don’t want to know.”
“…I got it! Spike bring me my book on charms.”
Spike who has been sitting at the table jumps from the seat towards the library.
After a few moments he returns with a large brown book. Twilight hoovers the book up to her as she reads a spell, “A persuasion spell, that should work.”
You give a huff as you think, persuasion?! It’s an animal! “Twilight, maybe it’s not even coming into town?” At the end of your sentence a roar rocks the library.
Twilight looks to Rainbow as she talks, “I need you to distract it so that I can get the spell to work, okay?”
Rainbow dart salutes her, “Got it!”
Rarity pokes her head at Twilight, “What do you need me to do darling?”
Twilight look over the three frighten fillies, “stay here.”
Spike rubs at his head nervously, “You should just stay in here, it should get bored and go away.” Rainbow takes up off the ground as she is quick to the door, “No time! Twilight lets go.”
Twilight and Rainbow bolt out the door, you follow after them, a little unsure on how you could help.
As you run out you can see the big blue bear standing in the center of town even this far away, god that’s a big bear!
Twilight floats the book beside her as she hoofs to Rainbow, “OK just keep him busy.” Rainbow dashes toward the bear.
As you watch Rainbow flying past the bear the ponies that are running out of the town in every direction.
Twilight’s horn takes on a purple glow as she closed her eyes and takes a stance to focus.
You turn your gaze back to Rainbow as she continues to zip past the now pissed off bear. It blindly swings its arms towards the Rainbow trail that follows after her.
Twilight lets out a huge bolt of purple magic towards the Ursa Minor, you watch as the bolt stuns the oversized bear.
Twilight pants as she looks at her bear’s far off gaze, “i….I think…that ….should work.” The bear sways a bit before shaking its head and giving out a loud growl. Its big orange eyes now focuses on the library as it makes its way towards you both.
Twilight's eyes shrink as she watches it, “OH Celestia...” she continues to pant as she thinks, “…Maybe...one more?”
Rainbow lands next to you both with a slight painted yell, “Why didn’t that work?”
Twilight looks over the book and quickly tries to speak, “It-it must be too strong for a simple spell.”
Rainbow talks in a bit more nervous tone as she asks Twilight, “okay now what?”
Your heart starts to skip beats as the menacing yellow eyes start to get closer to the three of you, “Twilight?”
Rainbow now shifts back to the oncoming creature, “We can’t just go inside, it would just level the town!”
Twilight shifts a little as her thinking starts to falter, “I- I don’t know what to do, no pony can defeat and Ursa Minor! Thats why I put it to sleep.”
Rainbow flaps her wings, “well keep thinking.”
Rainbow again bolts towards the bear, “Ok ugly, try and catch me!”
The bear stops for a moment as Rainbow again zips around it. The Rainbow trials make you a bit dizzy as you watch.
Twilight continues to search the book for an answer.
You shift your head back to the occupied Ursa, but as you watch one of its heavy paws swap the air the rainbow stream shifts, “Rainbow!” You call out her name as she comes crashing down not too far in front of you two. Rainbow sits up from the ground and shakes her head.
Twilight drops the book as she runs towards her friend, but instead of stopping she runs past her towards the Ursa Minor…Your heart pumps as it gets closer to her. You start to gallop after her as she stops, “Twilight?!”
As you run towards her you watch as her horn glows a bright purple, as you near her you stop and watch as the Ursa Minor becomes clouded by her purple magic. You help Rainbow to her hooves as you watch Twilight’s horn becoming a larger darker shade of purple. The Ursa Minor begins to float from the ground with flailing kicks.
Rainbow cheers as the bear is now clouded by Twilight’s color. But your face goes cold as you watch her magic turn a green tone. Her horn now glows more intensely and the soft chime that usually comes from the magic is a louder more annoying ring.
The magic completely engulfed the creature as it starts to fade from sight.
As the green magic flashes around it eventually fades completely with a soft poof sound…
Rainbow shakes you as she cheers, you smile as you take in what you just saw. But not a moment after a smile appears on your face Twilight falls to her front knees. Your world spins as she falls to her side in a fetal position as she holds her sides.
You gallop over to her, “Twilight!”
She shivers on the ground with her eyes closed and her horn sparking green and purple sparks. You place your hoof on her as you try to stand her up, there is a vibrating sensation under her coat that makes you take your hoof off of her. She shifts on the ground as she continues to hold her stomach.
Rainbow is now standing over Twilight as she looks to you, “We need to get her to Ponyville hospital!”
Your shaking as you try to lift her with your hooves, you know its pointless because you can’t walk on two legs but you still try.
Rainbow gently pushed you aside as she scoops her friend off the gourd, “Follow me I know where it is.”
Rarity and Spike now run from the door to where you both are.
Spike has tears in his eyes as he looks at Twilight, “Is she ok?”
Twilight mumbles as Rainbow holds her. Rainbow flaps her wings a little harder as she struggles to hold her, “Meet me at Ponyville hospital.”
Rainbow is quickly in the sky as she takes off ahead of you. Spike turns his sad eyes to you as he talks, “Wh-what….”
You don’t wait to talk as you follow after Rainbow dash. Your hooves are shaky as you run on the dirt road after her. You feel queasy and like you’re going to faint. You keep trying to calm yourself as you play Twilight’s voice in your head over and over again, “I’m fine.”
Rainbow was faster than you thought as you can now only follow in the direction of where she was flying. How far is this place!
After a few more moments you see a big building down the road with what looks like a cross on it. You’re panting hard now as you reach the building.
You compose yourself as best you can as you open the doors to the large building.
As you enter the building you’re overcome by the smells of disinfectant and medical equipment to your left is a reception desk and to your right seems to be a waiting area, but your eyes focus on the Rainbow mane in front of you. Your voice is dry as you talk, “Where is she?”
She seems a bit startled as she turns, “They took her back already.” She points to a hallway. You don’t blink as you walk toward the hall.
As you get about halfway down the hall a feminine voice calls out from behind you, “Stop.”
You pause for a moment as a white mare with a white hat with a Red Cross emblem darts in front of you, “Earth ponies are not allowed down the unicorn wing.”
You snap at the comment, “Oh ya try and stop me.”
You push past her but she again cuts your path off, “No, it’s dangerous.”
You shift anxiously as you stop again, “Why?”
The mare speaks in a low voice, “You’re here for the mare that was just brought in right?” You nod your head restlessly to her comment.
“…Well her horn is having some form of magical discharge and we can’t let any pony see her but the doctors until we find out what is causing it…it’s for your own safety incase it’s a bad spell.”
Your breathing is heavy as your thoughts over the last few weeks start to weigh heavy on you.
Rainbow comes up from behind you as she talks to the pony, “We will wait out here.”
Rainbow leads you back to the door as she talks, “They’ll let us back there soon.”
You silently nod as you try to contain your thoughts. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Your hooves hurt as you continue to pace back and forth on the hard tile floor. Spike with his legs hugged by his arms as his eyes still half a watery shimmer to them.
Rainbow and Rarity both have a worried expression as the sun starts to set outside.
You have studied the tiles for most of the day, trying to fight the urge to let your worst thoughts get the better of you. Your head throbbing and pained hooves are meaningless as you continue to wait for somepony to tell you, you can see Twilight.
The sound of different hooves hitting the tile breaks your mind battle as your dry hard eyes look to the white nurse pony while she talks, “I’m sorry but you four have to go, visiting hours are no longer allowed.”
Rainbow stands from her seat with her wings flared out as she talks in a cranky tomboyish voice, “WHAT?! How is she?”
Spike clutches his legs tighter as everypony waits for her response, “I’m sorry only the doctor can talk about it.”
Rainbow exclaims in a high pitched voice, “You can’t say anything?!”
The nurse backs up a little at her tone, “Um, well she is up but thats all I can say.”
You swallow hard as you hang your head down to the ground, you struggle with a deep breath as you let that bit of good news calm you..
The nurse pony walks away as she finishes her comment.
Rarity help Spike to the door as he starts to tear up again, “We’re coming back tomorrow right?”
Rarity pats his head as she talks, “Of course, and tomorrow Twilight will be her old self again.”
You follow silently behind them as you leave the building.
As you leave the hospital grounds Rarity falls back to your side, “Spike is going to stay with me tonight…are you okay darling?”
You nod your head not really caring what she had to say.
She looks over your hard face as she talks again in a sweet voice, “We’re all worried, please don’t beat yourself up over it okay?”
You give another silent nod as you walk. She gives you a hug before her and Spike go the opposite way.
The cool dirt road feels nice on your worn hooves as you and Rainbow walk to the library. As the library comes into view you get a sick feeling in your stomach.
Rainbow nudges you as you walk, “Do you want me to stay tonight?”
You look at her soft pink eyes, you shake your head as look away.
Rainbow flaps her wings as she picks off the ground, “Alright, I’ll see you tomorrow…try to get a good night's sleep.”
You nod to her comment as you continue down the path alone. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cold night air only fuels your feeling of loneliness as you near the darkened library. You pause before you open the door to the house. As the door closes behind you, you stand looking around at the dark building… The quiet is almost screaming at you as you walk up the stairs.
As you near your bedroom you freeze at the threshold like as if there was a barrier holding you back. It’s a this moment you can no longer stay silent…you burst out a light sob as you lean on the doorway…”It’s always something...”
You study the wood of the ground as you talk to yourself, “Why in the fuck does something always happen!?” Your yell hits the empty walls but you continue to talk as if there was someone with an answer listing, “Does somepony have something against me or something!?”
You stop your yell as you realize what you said, you give a light laugh as you talk again, “I’m not even a pony.”
You look over your fur coat as you walk slowly to the bed, you whisper to yourself as you sit on the bed, with a laugh you continue, “Oh ya, I’m anything I want to be.” You rub your face as a few tears roll from your eyes. Your stomach and your head both pound as you pull the bed back to climb in, “Well you know what I want to be?! I want to be home.”
You settle in to the cold bed as your mind continues to race, the cold bed might as well be stone. You sit up and again rub your restless eyes with your hooves. Your mind races with a question, why do I feel so shitty! You plop your head back on the pillow as you try to toss and turn to get comfortable…You know you’re not really tired you just don’t want to be up right now…you want what you use to have, the sweet release from the world you use to get from sleep that you have somehow lost…but you know this will be a sleepless night…Again you toss and turn trying to turn your mind off.
After a few wasted minutes you sit up in bed and look to the empty spot in your bed, it only just now dawns on you this is the first time you have slept alone in a long time…you stare at the empty bed, your mind and stomach finally settles on a thought, you look over the spot as you think, home...You swallow hard as you give a smile, I am home. You feel a bit of conflict in yourself as you stay on that thought so you try to convince yourself, “I am home.” Your stomach and mind start back up with an uneasy pain as you continue to fight against your thoughts, “I do like it here” You now realize your mind is fighting against your stomach as you settle on a thought, “I like it here...because I love you...” You whisper these heavy words to her spot as you lay your head back on the soft pillow.
You feel a warm tear roll from your face onto your snout as you finally allow yourself to accept this fact; you have known this for a long time but this is your first time you have been completely honest to yourself…and to her…and the worst part about it is that she’s not even here…Your moment of reprieve ends as you cling to that thought…she’s not even here. You hold your head to her spot in the bed, as you make a solid promise to yourself and to her, tomorrow, tomorrow you will finally admit it. You turn your stare to the ceiling, preparing yourself for your sleepless night of worry and hope.