I stood there in front of the abandon castle that was once my home so long ago; even now when it's falling apart I can still see it as once did. Oh right, forgot that you don't know who I am still. My name is Malcolm Argento, I'm 1024 years old and I used to live in the human world until somehow I ended here in this world of only ponies. Anyway, I walked into the castle; memories of the past filled my mind and I started to see the place for what it used to look like, nothing decaying of falling apart as it was now. I even saw phantoms of guards and maids pass me by as I walked but I knew better than to say anything because they were just apparitions created by my mind, and plus I'd probably look crazy doing it too.
I made my way to Gale's old bed room and saw what remained of it. Most of the furniture had been smashed to bits, and I can probably guess why, but going over to what remained of the dresser I found something I didn't except to survive after all this time, photos from our times together back then, of just the two of us actually. She even had the picture of us a little after we first became friends; it was of us standing in front of the castle with my arm around her neck and her sticking out her tongue and winking. It actually reminded me of when I first came to this world, the time where my life changed so unexpectedly
Flashback 1002 years ago
I was just a normal guy walking home from parent's house to visit my little brother. I made it a habit to check in with him often to make sure that he stayed out of trouble like my dad wanted since he gets his recklessness from watching me before I moved out. But he didn't seem to mind that I came over, that way we could hang out with each other.
I made it to my little apartment and relaxed on my bed, pulled out my phone and started to watch some Blue Exorcist, yeah I'm an anime freak but could you blame me, it's an awesome show and I dare you to tell me otherwise. After a while I started to doze off and called it a night. While sleeping I was unaware of the fact that I wasn't in my bed anymore and felt something soft and warm right next to me. So you know, by instinct, I grabbed it and cuddled it, completely content but after a moment something started to move in the bed and when I opened my eyes I saw the Queen Gale Force Wind looking me in the eye in complete confusion.
Our reactions you might be thinking, simple, we jumped out of the bed completely freaked out, me for having woken up next to a horse, and her for having found a strange creature cuddling her in bed.
"What the hell are you doing in my chambers you vile beast?" she shouted.
"I don't even know how I got in here. How do I know you didn't bring me here yourself you freak?" I shouted back.
Yeah….back then we didn't have the greatest start with each other and my little outburst earned me a powerful knock to the skull. From what she told me, while I was unconscious, was that she made blood gush from the head wound she gave me and panicked, calling for the doctors to help me. When I woke up my head was pounding and there were stiches under my hair, oh and I was in a jail cell with three guard ponies keeping watch.
"Hey, the hairless ape is awake. Go get Lady Gale Force and tell her the news," one of the guards said.
Half a minute later, the Alicorn of wind came along with her two daughters, Celestia and Luna, though at the time Celestia's mane was a rosy hue while Luna's didn't flow with magic as it did now. Both looked at me like I was some sort of animal on display for their entertainment.
"Open the cell and let him out," Gale had said, stunning everyone in the room but the guards listened.
Gale held her head in shame when I came out of the cell.
"Please forgive me for my actions toward you early, it was uncalled for and I almost did something I would surely regret. My name is Gale Force Wind, Queen of Equestria and these are my daughters Celestia and Luna, I wish for us to start over if that's okay." She held out her hoof for me to take, but I was never really one to forgive those who try to kill me.
I slapped it away, letting my anger from what happen earlier be the fuel for the flames. "Fuck you and you're cheap ass apology. I don't give a rat's ass who you or your daughters are; you can shove it up your ass for all I care you bitch," I said.
The Royal Sisters were appalled at the language that I used and Gale was hurt by what I said to her. She tried to convince me that she didn't mean to almost kill me but I wouldn't give the satisfaction of saying I forgive her while I walked out of the jail they kept me and found out that I was in this small town called the Bronco Settlement, a place inhabited mostly by Pegasus, a little ways out from the castle in the Everfree Forest. Imagine the surprise of the town when they saw me walking around their town. They thought I was a monster and tried to kill me on the spot but to my luck the queen and princesses that I just disrespected came to my side and protected me, telling the town that I meant them no harm. To this day I still don't why they did it.
Bringing me back to the castle, they brought me to Gale's room and sat me on her bed, looking over the half-ass job that the doctors did on the wound before throwing me in jail. Gale used her magic to mend it. We didn't talk for a moment; I honestly didn't know what to say really. Thankfully the queen spoke first to break the ice.
"Listen, I know your situation is not what you were expecting considering you came here from your world-"
"How did you know I was from another world?" I interrupted.
"Don't be mad, but I did peak into your mind while I was healing you and saw your life. I'm sorry," she said. Okay, a bit of an invasion of my privacy.
"It's alright; look do you think you can send me back home? I really just want to forget about this day," I said. They exchanged looks between them which actually scared me.
"We actually don't possess that kind of power to send you home, and if we tried to use that much magic on your body the effect will ultimately kill you. We're so sorry," Celestia said.
It seem didn't real to me, I could never go back and see my family. If I tried then I'll die from an overdose of magic. Was I being punished for something, did I piss off God in some way to deserve this kind of punishment? I wanted to scream, to punch something to let out the anger growing inside my body, anything to make the pain of not getting to see my family again stop.
"This might not help but we are here for you sir we will help you in your hour of need," Luna said.
Little did she realize or any of them for that matter, was that that statement helped me and I could help but hold them close to me. "Thank you."
End Flashback
It's funny really, that felt like yesterday but when you're in banishment time doesn't seem to matter to you. Taking the photo before leaving, I went next door into my room and saw little to no damage in here, just a few busted windows and a bit of ivy spreading out on the walls.
"Why the hell did I even come back here anyway?" I asked myself.
'It is the only place that you are familiar with my young immortal, the world around you has changed so much you more than likely wouldn't recognize anything,' said the voice of the darkness. It was feminine, old, but sounded so beautiful to me.
During my time in healing I always heard her voice whispering sweet nothings to me in my ear while she mended my broken mind and it always felt so enticing, if not, slightly addictive. In all that time I needed to call her something so I came up with a name that we both agreed on, Midnight Nebula, but I tend to call her Nighty for short.
I couldn't stand here anymore for there was nothing left for me here now; time to see how much of Equestria has changed since I've been gone.
"Nighty, where is the closest town here?" I asked.
I could feel the dark magic at work. You see, all darkness is connected for it is one entity, where ever there is the tiniest bit of shadow, the darkness is there watching you when you least expect it.
'The closest is a town about two miles east from here. Perhaps you should go there first," she said.
"Wait, I think that's the Bronco Settlement. Never would've guested it was still there after all this time. Alright, let's get going." Opening the window, I let my starry night wings spread and took off to the open sky.
It felt wonderful to be in the sky, feeling the wind under my wings and through my hair was the ultimate form of freedom and I understood why Pegasie loved it so much. For a moment I lost myself and let the wind carry me. This was actually one of the first steps that Gale taught me when she started to teach me wind magic, which is that you can't control the wind, for it is a force of nature that you must respect. If you don't, it will let fall, but if you do it will always hold you.
I'm rambling too much sorry; anyway, the town came in my sights and it was in an uproar when they saw me land. The ponies crowded me quick and bowed to me for some reason and stayed that way until I told them it was okay to get up.
"Hey everyone, what's up? It's good to see the Bronco Settlement is still standing after all this time," I said, gaining some confused looks from the crowd.
"The Bronco Settlement doesn't exist anymore," said a purple unicorn that came from the crowd.
"That much I kind of figured. By the way, why are there barely any Pegasie around? This is supposed to be their territory," I said.
"The Pegasie were pushed into Cloudsdale by the Earthponies from Stallion Valley who was also fighting the unicorns from Steed Forest in the Equestrian Civil War."
That was a lot to take in for me. I had friends from all three tribes; to know that they had to kill each other is a civil war just made me feel alone and guilty that I couldn't help them when the fighting started. Five more mares came forward and pushed pass the unicorn.
"Excuse me sir, but let me and my friends be the first ta welcome you back home to Equestria and ta thank you for savin' us from those extremists last night that ruined our celebration," said an orange earth mare wearing a Stanton.
"Yeah, it was so awesome how you didn't even have to raise your hooves to them. Just one snap and they were out cold," said a cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane.
"Um….no problem I guess, just glad I could help out," I said, having no clue what they were talking about but just went with it for fear of sounding like a fool.
"Excuse me, but I need to talk to you about something important, so could you please follow me?" asked the purple that seemed to be pissed for pushed aside.
She seemed eager to talk, so I agreed to follow her to this Oak tree that was hollowed out and made into a library that was a mess with books all over the place and there was a baby dragon walking around cleaning up the place. When it spotted me it dropped the books, like it couldn't believe that I was standing there. No sure if that was good or bad.
"Whoa, I thought you just a legend. But to actually see you is a different story all together," he said. The unicorn just rolled her eyes at him and floated a scroll up to him.
"Spike, send this letter quick." Spike did as he was told and burned the scroll in his fire, letting the smoke go out the window.
Not sure what this was about so I just stood there and waited patiently for whatever was supposed to happen. It was pretty awkward to say the least, until there was a sudden flash outside the door and the Royal Sisters entered. I looked at them then to the unicorn mare in anger.
"You set me up," I shouted, letting my archaic runes glow to life, ready to make a quick escape but Celestia held out her hoof for me to stop.
"No Malcolm, she was only following instructions that we gave her to contact us is she saw you in Ponyville. We wish to talk, please, if not then just listen to us for a moment," she pleaded.
I stopped my spell but kept the runes glowing and at the ready, incase if this is a trap.
"Then talk and don't waste my time," I snared at her, catching the unicorn off guard.
"I know we can never begin to understand the torment that you through by yourself Malcolm, but you are home now and we can help you readjust to the changes that have happened in your absence and maybe try and help you forget the pain you endured," Luna said, slowly making her way over to me.
"I don't what your fucking help; I'll do just fine figuring things out on my own and it's your fault that I went through the torment Luna," I said.
"Wait, it said that in the legend you willingly took the darkness from Luna and her place in banishment. Why are you blaming her for your choice?" the unicorn asked.
"He did take it willingly Twilight, but none of us thought that he would survive the amount of power that the Elements of Harmony used on his body. He got the idea that if he died in the process the darkness would be forever trapped, and his corpse would serve as a permanent prison. It would appear that his being adapted to large doses of magic due to constant practice and study without anyone even knowing," Celestia said.
Twilight looked at me in astonishment, like she couldn't believe that I was that powerful to survive something like the Elements of Harmony. Then again neither did I; when it happened I thought that I was as good as dead, but I guess life had other plans for me instead.
"And it was that negligence that resulted in this happening. Malcolm if I had known that you were still alive and suffering, I wouldn't have come to your side and held you through it, to keep you company and try to rid you of the burden that I damned you with. I know this is my entire fault for even letting myself think that I was alone and let the darkness take a hold on me, but please know that I am so sorry. Please forgive me; there wasn't a moment after you let left where I wasn't thinking of you and how much I wished for us to be together, for you to be my prince," she said, standing on her hind legs and front on my chest, staring deeply into my eyes.
"I will never be with you and I'm sure as hell not your prince," I said.
"But we want to change that," Celestia said. It caught my attention quick. "You have done the royal family and Equestria a great service for your courage and sacrifice. As a proper reward, we wish to make you a member of royalty and to sit upon a throne alongside us and rule Equestria."
See, anyone would jump at the opportunity to become a ruler of a powerful nation. No one questioning your authority, your word always being law and have thousands of subjects following you. But it didn't mean a goddamn thing to me. I started to laugh in Celestia's face, confusing everyone in room.
"You honestly think that by giving me a position of power that I'll accept it and just forget everything that happened, welcome you back into my life, take your emotionally unstable sister as my mate then rule a nation I have no idea how much has changed. Yeah, not happening," I said.
I was about to walk out of the library until Twilight said something that I really wished she hadn't.
"What would Lady Gale Force say if she saw what you are doing now, I bet she would be discussed with you," she said.
I turned and shot her a look of warning from proceeding with that statement.
"For her to see her student disrespect her daughters in such an awful manner, I don't honestly know what Luna sees in you or the others for that matter but what I see is a horrible person."
"You better shut your fucking mouth if you know what's good for you," I warned, anger starting to take hold.
Twilight just kept going. "You don't deserve to even be in the same room as the royal family, let alone be taught by her majesty, you deserve to be trapped on the moon so that Equestria wouldn't have to deal with a monster like you," she said.
"I SAID SHUT THE HELL UP!" both me and Nighty shouted. I swiped my arm and a slash of wind zipped past her head and blasted a giant hole in the wall behind her.
"You don't understand the first thing about me so don't you dare speak ill of me, and you especially use Gale as a way to hurt me. You are nothing but a weak maverick in comparison to her and me, so you watch yourself before you disrespect me again."
Twilight was still in shock at what just happened and was trembling at the power I wielded. Before leaving the library I looked over my shoulder to speak. "Do yourselves a favor princesses, just leave me alone so I can live out the rest of my immortal life because the Malcolm you knew is gone, and he'd never coming back."
I left and walked out in the streets of Ponyville, with the hopes of having a normal life again, one that didn't involve them in it as well.
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