Jason P.O.V.
Have you ever hated someone so much that you can't laugh or even smile in their presence except in extreme circumstances? No, I suppose you wouldn't have. But I do. The problem is, I hate myself with that kind of fury. I won't go into why now, that would take too long. Let's just say that I wanted a new start. So when a blue portal opened in my living room whilst I was watching TV, I had no hesitation to write a note to my parents, grab some food and put it in a bag, along with my Star .45 pistol and .22 caliber GSG5 semi automatic assault rifle. I also grabbed my I.D. and my iPod with earpieces. I stepped into the portal and immediately regretted it. I was engulfed with pain. It wasn't long before i blacked out. What did I get myself into?
Applejack P.O.V.
I sat in the field after a hard day's work as the sun started to set. Suddenly, a white light appeared right next to me. I jumped back and yelled in surprise. The light died down to reveal a creature with four appendages and looked really big. It was wearing blue pants on its hind legs and a black sleeveless shirt on its torso. It was passed out, so I did what I could to get it to twilight's house. I knocked on the door a little harder than I needed to. Twilight came out looking a little annoyed until she saw the creature.
"What is THAT?" She asked.
"I've no idea. It just appeared next to me in a bright light." The creature groaned. It opened its eyes slowly and I dropped his leg.
"Ow! Dammit!" It grabbed it's leg with its forelegs. Twilight immediately engulfed it in her magical aura. It screamed and we saw smoke coming off its body as if it was being burned.
"Drop it!" I yelled. Twilight dropped it and let it get up. It was unconscious so we brought it inside and laid it on Twilight's couch. Twilight made some tea.
"You want some?" She asked. I politely declined. We sat down at her table in her kitchen.
"Alright. "She said, taking a sip of her tea. "Tell me everything." I took the next couple minutes to tell her what happened. Almost as if waiting for me to finish, we heard a groan and muttering. We heard two mechanisms work. We came out just in time to see the door shut behind it.
"We can't lose that thing! You go follow it, and I will get the others!" I said. She nodded and grabbed her book. She cast an invisibility spell on herself and after a flash of purple where she used to be, I knew she teleported. I set out to find Fluttershy because she was the best at dealing with animals. Once I told her the situation, she was eager to help. Next we got Rainbowdash to watch it from the sky. After her we got Rarity so we had communication between us and twilight. We couldn't find Pinky pie. Rarity cast the telepathy spell. She made sure we could all hear her and Twi.
"All right." rarity said through the link. " Where is it now twilight?" Twilight responded through the link.
"It went into the Everfree." We all gasped. "I'm waiting for you girls to come to the edge so we can find it together. I was going to see if there was a scanning spell in my books to see if I could find it."
"That's a good idea" I thought and the others nodded. We had Rarity teleport us to where Twilight was. Once we got there, Twilight cast an invisibility spell on us and then a purple glowing off to my left indicated that she was using the scanning spell.
"I found it!" Twilight exclaimed. She removed her invisibility spell so we could follow her. It was time to find a creature.
Jason P.O.V.
Is it creepy to wander around a forest and find a derelict castle and think of it as familiar? Because when I found the old stronghold, the first thing I thought was 'I'm back'. The second thing was 'why is this so familiar?'. I moved across a rope bridge that looked like it was about to break and went inside. I explored some and came to the highest tower. I heard foot steps coming my way so I hid from them. I looked out on the balcony and saw a purple unicorn walking around. I breathed a quiet sigh of relief. I came off of the balcony and looked to far wall. What I saw made my heart stop. On the far wall was the symbol I had tattooed on my arm. It was the four cardinal directions with a skull in the center with glowing green eyes.
"Da Fuq?" I asked aloud. I touched it and the castle wall started shaking. The wall moved away to reveal a secret entrance with a glowing blue sword on one pedestal and a cloak, dagger that also glowed blue, and sniper rifle with lots of ammo on another pedestal. There was a note on the ground. It said:
'On one pedestal is the choice to be proclaimed a hero. The other is a choice to work in darkness. No one will know you, but you will be feared. You can still interact with the locals, but they can't know who you are for they will betray you. You know which is which. The cloak makes it unable to see your face while the hood is up. You can also blend into shadows easier. I always thought you were the latter. Guess we will find out now hm?
When You Can Kill Me,
Grace.'
"You always knew me so well." I said aloud. I went to the second pedestal and picked up the dagger. It started glowing red but then cooled to green. My favorite color. Red flared on the hilt in the shape of letters. After it died down i read it. 'Melted darkness' i guessed it was the name of the blade. I put the sniper rifle and ammo in my bag. Then i put the cloak around myself. I could hear talking outside the door so I hugged the wall and hoped the enchantment worked. A note appeared out of nowhere next to me.
'i knew it. The cloak won't activate until you leave the castle. Welcome back Jason.'
Well shit. Sure enough, the unicorn came in and saw me. It made a magical bubble around me but didn't touch me. That told me something. She was smart. The magic burned my skin so she didn't use the same method again. Four other ponies materialized next to the first one. One Unicorn, two pegasi, and a regular pony. To my surprise the purple one started talking.
"Rarity, you hold it for a minute. I want to look at the note on the ground." The other unicorn made a force field around me and the purple one let go. She read it aloud. The orange one spoke up.
"When You Can Kill Me? Why does it say that?" I decided to speak.
"It was special to me and her. Like a greeting. Or in this case a farewell. Now her ghost helps me occasionally. By the way, can you move the force field so that I can get to the other wall? I need to read the words there." They were so suprised they did what I wanted without question. This message was a lot longer than the last one. It was also in a different language. I could read it. Once I knew what it said, I scrambled back in fear.
"No, no, no! You said this wasn't real! This is too far Grace! Send me a message that you can hear me! I know it isn't Halloween yet but you have to answer for this! Please tell me it's a mistake!" The ponies were snapped out of their stupor to look at me in surprise and then look at the message.
"What is this language?" The Purple one asked. I shook my head to show her I didn't know. I was too scared to form coherent thought.
"Well, what does it say?" She asked.
"Only Celestia can hear this message." Then I realized what I said. Apparently the ponies did too, because they stated at me wide eyed.
"How do you know the princess?"The one with the blue mane said. She had a really posh accent. I noticed her magical aura was the same as her mane.
"You know, this is not normally how someone would ask something of a stranger. I don't know any of your names. Mine is Jason." The purple one paled. If that was even possible. Her horn glowed purple and the next thing I know we are in the house I woke up in. The purple one looked like she was in between wanting my autograph and wanting my head on a silver platter.
"SPIKE!" She yelled. A purple dragon jumped off a ledge and landed next to the couch.
"Yes? What do you- holy shit." It said as it saw me.
"Write a note to Celestia" I said. Spike looked to the purple pony to ask for permission. She nodded. I could tell she was fuming. The dragon looked at me expectantly.
"This is what I want to say." He nodded. "I'm back. I hope you know what that means. I will see you soon. Send guards if it makes you feel better. All you will do is lose some men. When You Can Kill Me, Jason." The dragon blew on it and it turned to smoke and it made its way towards the capital. The others stared at me as if I had poured lava down my throat and said it was too cold. Less than a minute later, I heard the pounding of hooves and chariots. I made sure my .45 was loaded and stepped outside. Low ranking guards circled the tree. There were two chariots. A colonel stepped forward. He had what some would say, a royal Canterlot voice. It was a load of bullshit and we both knew it.
"We are here-" I cut him off with a wave.
"I know why you are here. Take me to Celestia now." The guard blanched.
"Of- of course." I stepped into one chariot and the others stepped into the second. They took off and we soared towards Canterlot. The bulk of their military was surrounding my chariot, much to my amusement. After a couple of hours we arrived at the castle. The chariots were taking to long to land, or at least I thought it did, me being the impatient one. Finally thinking "fuck it", I jumped off the chariot. I landed with a thud on the marble of the runway and I'm pretty sure I bruised a couple of bones, but I didn't cry out. The last thing I needed was for my quote unquote captors to see what they would probably interpret as weakness. I didn't wait for the other chariots to land and I went inside. I walked around for a few minutes before i came to the throne room. I burst inside to see Celestia talking to a younger looking Alicorn with a Navy blue mane that almost looked like it had stars in it. There was no way could it? Luna? I made sure my hood was up. When I came in, the two stopped talking and looked at me in surprise. They both stood up and moved next to each other as they moved down their staircase to meet me. I made a point of kneeling in front of Luna to make sure it was known that I served her. The other five plus one pink regular pony had come in and saw me bow to Luna. I stood and looked to Celestia who looked at me with no emotion whatsoever. I pulled down my hood and Luna and Celestia gasped and backed up.
"Celestia! What a nice surprise!" I said with a sadistic grin. "You have some explaining to do."
Authors note:
Well well well! that happened! yes, i know that some of the people who know me in real life will laugh at me but frankly, i don't care. As a side note, i have a Facebook page for my books called Bloodycyclone. hard to miss actually. until next time my friends!
Bloodycyclone, signing off!