"We have arrived back in the realm of the moon your majesty."
"Then bring him to the castle immediately so I can tell him what is going on."
"Are you sure it's a wise idea to tell him right now?"
"Not the part about his family… not yet…"
"Then we shall bring him to you right now." And with that I opened my eyes and I then fell off of the mares back and then onto the ground.
"how the buck is he already awake?! We gave him a strong sleeping spell?!" one of them yelled as I got up and gripped my head and looked around and found myself surrounded by those pony's… in a forest… under an eclipse… shit.
"Where the fucking hell am I?!" I yelled.
"You are in the realm of the moon and-"
"Take me the fuck back!" they looked at me like I was crazy. "I want to be there for my little brother and sister! Take me the fucking hell back!"
"Only her highness can take you back."
"Then answer my questions at least."
"we won't tell you buck!" one of them yelled jumping at me so I just used my powers to create a shield around me as I sat down crossed legged and stared at them as they stared at me with shock.
"Answer my questions or else your queen, king, or whatever will have to wait until I'm dead to meet me." The mare sighed.
"Then ask your questions." She said and I only smiled a little.
"First of all where the fuck am I?"
"You are in the realm of the eternal moon… the counterpart to the realm of the sun and moon."
"That answers the eclipse but now why am I here?"
"Because her majesty has seen it fit to save you from your impending doom from those sun lovers." The mare answered as she laid down.
"Next question. You said counterpart to the other realm… does this mean all of the horses or whatever are counterparts of their other selves are here?" she nodded.
"Then you are being very nice so I suspect that your counterpart is very mean?" she nodded. "Well then I am glad for this now here is my second to last question… why does your ruler want to see me?"
"she will not say now are you bucking done?!" one of the pony's in red armor yelled and he tried to attack my shield only to be electrified and then fall onto the ground spasming.
"And I am not done since I have one last fucking question. Why?"
"explain." She said and I sighed.
"Why is it that you chose to help me now then back when me and my brother and sister were first captured? Why now when you could of saved us all!" I yelled as she sighed.
"Because her majesty never knew the true intention of what the sun lover ruler was going to do with you three. All she told us was that we needed to go through a portal and return with the special human on the other side and bring him back but the spell misfired mid trip and we ended up here instead of in the throne room where we originally came from. Is that all?" she asked and I nodded as I stood up and then got rid of my shield and I started to follow the mare. So basically I am in the land of fucking ponies… which some of them have wings and some of them have a horn… yep… I'm going crazy. I remember when I was kept sane back in the facility whenever Mrs. Solar brought her sister and her daughter to work to meet us and I became friends with her sister and her daughter. But she only acted nice when her sister and daughter had come. Their names were Lia lunar, and I don't know why they have two different last names when they were sisters, wait a minute, that's right one of them may of married, and her daughter's name a Maria sparkle. She was beautiful I should say. Well they all were beautiful. as we continued to walk eventually we made it out of the forest and we walked straight into a town with a lot of ponies walking around and I must say a lot of them looked like they wanted to hurt me and they were rather curious about me. "Not everypony here is exactly like their counterparts." The mare told me.
"What do you mean?" I then asked her.
"well everypony doesn't exactly act like they are supposed to but they will act like that against new ponies in town until they earned their trust, respect, ordered to, or if they are nice to anypony that they meet. I don't know which will happen to you though." She said and I frowned at that but then shrugged. I lost all my friends on the day that changed my life forever so who fucking cares. As we reached what looked like a train station we immediately got onto the train and it started up immediately. "But can I at least know all of your names if we are going to be together for a while?" I asked.
"They won't give their names but I will give mine. I am black flower." She said. Actually kind of fitting.
"Well I am Benjamin Goyle." I said putting out my hand and she put out her hoof and shook it and then I noticed it. "What's that on your flank? Like a tattoo or something?"
"It's called a cutie mark… all ponies get them." She said with a smile and I could see some fangs in her smile and it made me shiver.
"Well humans don't get cutie marks so that's why I asked." She only nodded as I looked at the eclipse. I must say it was beautiful at the most. I wonder if now it most likely won't since this place is called the realm of the night. I was actually never a sun morning person but actually a night morning person. I mean that I always woke up at around 3 or four in the morning to watch the night sky until the sun came up then I would just go back inside and get ready for another boring day. I had actually found out I had powers on the day everything had changed… and it was also the day that… my parents had died… they never actually knew we had powers and neither did we. But that was the past… but I cannot get the memory of what I have done out of my mind. And I wish I could but I would have to live with my guilt. "Do you guys mind if I get some sleep before we arrive wherever we are going?" I asked as they all looked at each other and then they all nodded as I put my head back and I fell asleep.
Screaming…
Yelling…
Running…
What the hell is happening to me mom?
Get calm son!
I can't!
Explosion…
Mom! Dad!
"Wake up!" and with that I snapped awake to find us still on the train but the train had stopped moving.
"Time to meet the princesses." One of the stallions said as I nodded and I followed them all off of the train. The city was beautiful I must say. Like the walls were made of obsidian or painted to look like that and there was gold for decorations and silver it was all just too beautiful as they all led me through the town and towards a giant fucking castle and I must say it was terrifying and beautiful at the same time. Too terrifying to look at, too beautiful to describe it. As we reached some gates the giant doors immediately opened and we were let through only to be encountered by more fucking ponies in red armor all in two lines. One on the left and one on the right. As I continued to walk I was starting to get afraid of what was going to happen to me but it was too late to turn back as they shut the gates and we entered the castle and we walked through hall after hall until we reached a pair of giant fucking doors and the left side slowly opened to reveal it was a throne room on the other side as I just followed the pony's into the room and we eventually reached a throne that actually looked like it was made of obsidian, silver, and gold. "Hello Benjamin." The black pony on the throne said. She had a black coat and her mane and tail looked like they were on fire but they were only orange in the middle and red along the edges and her cutie mark looked like an eclipse.
"How do you know me?" I then asked not bowing when I was hit in my back forcing me onto the ground as I then got up and turned around and picked the stallion that had hit me up with my physic powers and I then launched all the way down towards the other end of the room as he made a splat as he hit the wall and then another splat as he hit the ground. "DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN MOTHER FUCKER!" I yelled as I turned back to look at the mare.
"I apologize for my guards acting this way… they can be quite… defensive on how I am treated. And the reason how I know you is because I watched over your life with my sister due to you being born with something special. Every few hours we watched you for an hour until one day we couldn't see you and then the next you were taken away by my counterpart to her world in a special place." She said.
"Well then can I know why I am here, then why you took me away from my brother and sister, and then finally send me home?" I asked.
"You are here because I had sent some of my guard to go save you from my counterpart. The second question is because… it can be answered later… and the third thing you request would be almost impossible."
"WHY THE HELL THEN?!" I then yelled and I could feel the metal swords come swinging at me from all sides but not my front so I then started to spin around and I magnetized my hands causing the swords to become attached to my hands as I then spun around once more releasing them and also causing them all to go flying back to their users as they all ducked and the swords all implanted themselves into the walls on both sides and I then looked at all the ponies that had swung their swords at me as I then cracked my knuckles and neck. "You all thought you could kill me just for one sentence? Then how about we turn this around except none of you say anything!" I yelled as I charged the one to my left and I then picked him up and twirled around causing him to slam into two of his buddies as they went flying into the wall and as the other three jumped be I then kicked them all into the air and as they came falling back down I kicked the one on the left towards the right as he slammed into the second and then third pony as they all went barreling down the hall and I then turned around and started to walk towards the three unconscious guards when suddenly there was a flash and when I turned around all I saw was a burst of something hit my face as I then was thrown into the wall and I blacked out once more.
"What is the meaning of bringing him here early sister?!"
"She had moved up their tests…"
"You don't mean…"
"Yes I do. But until he is ready he will not find out what had happened."
"Yes sister. But why was he attacking our guard?"
"They tried to kill him after he yelled at me for saying it was almost impossible to go back."
"We have seen his abilities sister… attacking him would mean death."
"But you showed up just in time to save some of the guards from him."
"What the fuck happened to me?" I asked as I shook my head and slowly opened my eyes to see the black mare talking to another black mare but that wasn't what shocked me... It was that they were arguing and I couldn't hear them. Well... Fuck. "Okay first of all are you whispering cause I can't hear shit?" I asked as I stood up and they looked at me amazed. I could see their lips moving but I couldn't hear them. "This better not fucking be a prank." And I then touched my fingers to my ears to clean them out only to pull them away with blood on my fingers... And I don't like the sight of my own blood... so I then fell onto the ground on my back passing out.
Nightmare moons POV
"Well I think I used a stronger spell then I should have." I then said as I walked over to him.
"Yes you did little sister." Eclipse told me.
"You know I don't like it when you call me little sister." I then told her as I then healed Benjamin.
"I do it just to annoy you. How are things going in the sun realm?" She asked me.
"To be honest I came back to find out the reason why you did all of this early. While I was watching from the shadows... I watched Celestia like she was planning on doing something but I couldn't figure out what. At least we saved him before anything bad had happened to him... I wish I could say the same for..." She put her hoof in my mouth.
"He should be waking up soon so don't say anything. I rather that not be the first thing that he asks again. And hard to believe him and his siblings can use magic... He is like the embodiment of his kind of magic. We just need to hope that never changes." She said as I nodded as I looked at him starting to stir. Benjamin Goyle... A human that can use magic... And bend it to his every whim... If only he knew about all the power inside of him but then he would be taken over by all of the power inside of him and he would change... He would never harm anypony intentionally... But that's what made him special. His power that are combined with his emotions. We have been watching him ever since he was born when we felt a new magic being made in the human world. But when his parents suddenly died not even we could see what had happened to them. We watched him as he and his siblings were put through various tests and I knew that Celestia was planning on letting them go but the question in my mind still haunts me. What made her change her mind? I mean she is now back in the sun realm and is trying to find him using as many resources as possible without alarming her subjects. But for now I need to find out what had actually happened to his siblings because I was tasked to watch them and they disappeared while I was watching them. I mean like just as of a few days ago I could no longer see them anywhere. Which means the fact of what had happened to them.
Bens POV
As I slowly opened my eyes I could see the new mare in deep thought as the other made paced around. "Okay this time what the fuck happened to me?" I asked them as the black mare looked at me.
"You touched your hands to your ears and when you pulled them away you saw the blood on them and then you fell over blacking out." The blue wavy haired one said.
"Well I can hear again so that's good. What you use magic on me?" I asked with a laugh as they looked at me with surprise.
"Actually yes she did." The fire like maned mare said and I froze and looked at them.
"Seriously? Holy fuck!" I then said standing up. "Well then while my brain sorts that out may I know both of your names?"
"I am known as eclipse." The fire maned one said.
"And I am known as nightmare moon." The blue maned one said.
"To be honest those sound like good names for you both. But is there really almost no chance that I will ever go home?" I asked as they put their heads down.
"Well this just means that I have a lot of work to do here if I'm going to be here forever. First I am going to need to get a job so I can buy a house..."
"No need Benjamin. We shall supply you with a house in dark Ponyville and you shall meet my student." Moon said as I looked at her.
"Who is your student?" I then asked.
"She goes by the name of midnight sparkle. She and her friends are the elements of disharmony. They can be quite nice when you get to know them." She answered and I only raised my finger and opened my mouth in a 'now I understand' pose.
"While I should thank you for this offer I would feel a lot better if I could get my own house earned with my own money."
"The term is called bits in this world. But unlike the sun lovers our bits are silver instead of gold since gold is rather rare here." Eclipse said brining out a small cylinder shaped coin as I looked at it. On one side was a crescent moon and on the other was an eclipsed sun.
"Thank you for showing me what it looks like miss eclipse." I then said with a bow as they only laughed a little at my gesture. "What's so funny?"
"You are now our friend Benjamin. You don't need to be formal with us." I only smiled at what moon just said.
"Then would you mind just calling me Ben? It sits better in my stomach if a friend calls me that." They nodded as they then smiled.
"For now I shall accompany you to dark Ponyville. I believe you may of passed it on your way here." Eclipse said.
"If it was just a normal looking town then yes I did." I said as she smiled.
"Sister may I be the one to take him there?" Moon asked her.
"You may if you could keep him out of trouble." She then answered as moon smiled with glee. Well that's going to be a fucking problem because trouble finds me. Not the other way around.
"Then shall we be off to the train station?" I asked when suddenly we were somewhere else and I fell onto my knees before I spotted a trashcan and I quickly ran over and vomited into it. That felt just like what I did except a longer distance. "What the fuck was that? It was like what I can do but on such a larger scale." I said as she only laughed a little.
"It's called teleportation. Another use of magic we have." I only nodded in agreement as I got at up walked over to her from the trashcan and I started to follow her throughout the town. "Midnight sparkle is how you say very protective of anypony who she thinks as friends and family. So be ready to be hurt once we get there." I only nodded my head as we reached a large dead tree near the middle of town I think and as she then knocked a pony with a very dark purple coat and very dark purple and a very dark pink mane and tail answered and I was soon blasted off of my feet as I then lifted my head from where I had landed. "Ow." I then said as I stood up as she then ran or should I say trotted over and then started to apologize. "It's alright. I would of done the same just a little more differently if something like this happened except quite a bit different." I said as I wiped myself of the dirt.
"I am midnight sparkle. Princess nightmare moons student." She then said sticking out a hoof as I then shook it with her. Why is it that I feel that she doesn't always act this way? Guess it's just a gut feeling. But when I looked into her eyes I could see her soul somewhat. Like she was suppressing it the best she could but she was soon going to lose the battle and maybe lose the war.
"Benjamin Goyle." I then said as I let go of her hoof. "I heard about you and some of your friends about something called being the elements of disharmony?" She smiled.
"Me and my 5 other friends each have something about us that pertains to each element greatly. My counterpart is the element of magic while I am the element of illusions." I nodded at that.
"Well doesn't that sound nifty for parties?" She only laughed at what I said.
"Shall we all go in?" She asked as she walked into the dead tree and I then noticed her cutie mark. It was of three circles all connected to each other but I then noticed that they were made from something spiraling from the middle causing the circles to be made.
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As I entered the dead tree with nightmare moon I looked around to find it was almost like a library. "Welcome to dark Ponyville library." Well that explains that. As I looked at all the books I was amazed at what I saw. Beginner magic, intermediate magic, advanced magic, master magic, realm of night history, realm of night monsters, dangerous places; I will need to look into that one, Alicorn magic, what the hell were Alicorns. "Quick question. What are Alicorns?" I asked and they laughed and I looked at them confused. "What's so funny?"
"You are in the presence of two Alicorns. A rare breed of pony's." Midnight said as I looked at them closely. All I saw was that they had a horn and... Wings... Ah now I understand.
"I should of noticed this." I then said face palming as they both started to laugh. "I am seriously about to go ape shit from being laughed at a lot." They started to slowly calm down.
"So this is the human you have been studying princess?" Midnight said as she walked around me looking at me.
"Yes he is midnight sparkle. But for now he shall need a place to stay until he gets a job to earn enough bits for his own home." Moon told her as midnight walked back over and sat back down.
"He is more than welcome to stay here as long as he promises to be good." She said giving me an evil glare. What is up with this fucking place?
"I wouldn't want to be a bother miss sparkle." I then said as she then laughed.
"I like him." She then said with a flirt like grin on her face. Well I am in deep shit at the moment. She is currently looking at me like a mare does in heat and... Oh.
"Let me guess... You are in heat?" They looked at me surprised.
"Not even I can tell when she is in heat Ben explain." Moon said.
"She is currently acting like mare horses in our world when they go into heat. I used to work on a horse farm for money and after about a month I learned every single sign of a made in heat. Like for instance her eyes are dilated explaining she is trying her best not to show that she is in heat. Secondly her legs are quivering like they need something. And thirdly just you saying that sentence caused me to figure it out." Midnight looked at me quite impressed.
"You are a smart one. My heat cycle should end by midnight tonight so no harm is done." She then said.
"As long as no one gets into my personal space without my permission I'm okay with staying here." She only nodded as moon grinned.
"Then it is agreed that he shall stay here for the time being." She said as we all smiled. "I believe it is almost the time for midnight to show you around town." I nodded before a question came to mind.
"Okay then before we head out is there anything I should expect?"
"Well you should expect vamponys." Vamponys? Ooooh like vampires most likely. "But they try to only drain the blood of their enemies and animals they come across." That is understandable. "Also be careful around the ever free forest as there is a dangerous town in it."
"How do you know about that midnight?" Moon then asked her surprised.
"It's in the book about dangerous places." Of course it would.
"So I definitely stay clear of the forest if possible. Anything else?"
"Nope that's really all there is mostly." She then said as I sighed with relief.
"Then let's go." I said as we all walked out of the dead tree and I followed moon and midnight. "So where to first?" I then asked.
"Should most likely meet blood pie first." That does not sound like a friendly name for a friendly person or pony in this case. As we walked and walked I could tell that we were almost there cause we were walking straight towards a restaurant I think? As we reached it midnight held the door open as me and moon walked into the room. "Who's there?" A voice yelled from the back when a blood stained dark pink pony, and I guess she was a normal earth pony, and her cutie mark appeared to be a bloody cupcake as well, popped her head out. "Ooooh a new customer!" She then yelled as suddenly she popped up in front of me holding a plate with a cupcake on it.
"What dafuck?" I then said.
"New customers always get to try one of our best sellers." She then said as I picked up the cupcake and looked at it before taking a bite and then spitting it out. It had fucking blood inside of it!
"What dafuck is this?" I asked trying to get the taste out of my mouth.
"You don't like it?" She then asked cocking her head.
"Of course I don't like it!" I then yelled.
"He's in trouble." I heard midnight say as I looked at her.
"YOU WILL LIKE IT OR DIE!"
Ah shit...
*gong*crash*thump*
Nightmare moons POV
"Well he was asking for it!" Blood pie said in her defense as I face hooved.
"Well he is a human and they have different taste then any of us." Midnight then said poking him as he only moved when he was poked but I could see his chest rising and falling so that was good.
"At least he didn't die from that hit like most of the others did." I then said as blood pie looked at him with one big eye before she raised the pan in her mouth but before she could swing downwards I grabbed it with my magic. "Do not harm him anymore. He had a very rough life before he was brought here."
"Oh yeah? How rough?" She then asked me.
"He had lost both of his parents and me and my sister do not know what had happened to his siblings." They both looked at him with pity and worry. They only just let him and they already consider him as a friend. Or at most an aquatint. As he started to stir he then opened his eyes.
Bens POV
"Let me guess... Aluminum pan?" I asked as blood pie then nodded. "I knew it. I cannot detect aluminum."
"Explain." Midnight asked me.
"One of my powers includes detecting steel, iron, gold, silver, anything except for aluminum as long as it's a metal." I answered as moon looked at me.
"Then maybe you could find a job with some miners." Moon suggested. That sounds like a good idea. I mean I could use my powers to help at least.
"That actually sounds like a very good job. I will have to look into it. But for now I am quite hungry." I then said.
"What do you eat first of all?" Blood pie asked me.
"We eat meat and vegetables. But since you are all pony's I suspect you do not have any-" *slam "-meat." As I looked at the big steak she had slammed down in front of me smell alone made it delicious.
"Consider it on the house for me almost killing you. 'Even though I wanted to'."
"What was that?" I asked since she muttered the last part.
"Nothing!" She then said as I was then given a knife and a ford immediately I started to dig in.
"I haven't had meat for three months in that fucking place." I then said savoring the juiciness and the flavor.
"Well then let's get introductions over with. Ben this is blood pie, the element of insanity." Gee you don't think?
"Well nice to meet you blood pie."
"Nice to meet you two, now eat up weak sauce." Blood pie said to me.
"Hey you surprised me with that pan. I couldn't sense it!"
"Blah blah blah." I just ignored that as I started to eat once more and after about 30 or so minutes I had finished eating and I thanked blood pie for the food as she then walked back into the kitchen and I soon left with midnight and moon.
"So where to next?" I then asked midnight.
"Maybe black rage next." Now she sounds even scarier than blood pie. I better not get fucking knocked out this time at least. As we walked we soon got near the forest and we soon found a path and we walked on it until a dead tree home had been spotted and as soon as midnight knocked three times on the door the door opened to reveal a yellow Pegasus with a black mane and tail show herself. "What do you want midnight?" She then asked and I then saw her cutie mark and it was of a frowny angry face and I then noticed midnight trying to signal her with little head jerks towards us and when she saw us she was amazed. "Princess nightmare and a strange creature! Come on in." She said as we all walked in and I found it was like a sanctuary except the animals in here almost all quivered in fear when she got very close to them.
"Ben this is black rage, the element of rage." Yeah like the name wasn't a dead giveaway.
"Nice to meet you." I said putting out my hand as she left looked skeptical at first but then she shook my hand with her front left hoof before I let go and she walked towards what looked like a kitchen area and she started to prepare some drinks as I looked around the house some more. All the furniture in the house looked like they were made from the same tree as they were all actually in the real tree and just were made to look like real furniture. After a few minutes she walked over and placed a tray of drinks on the table and I found it was of tea and as I lifted my drink but before I could take a sip I stopped. "You won't be killing me today black." I said and she looked at me amazed.
"What do you mean?" Midnight asked me.
"She had put some small metal materials in my. Meaning instant death for me. I almost didn't notice them until it was close to my lips."
"Nopony could ever figure that out." Black rage said as I only smiled.
"Well I can sense any kind of metal as long as it's not aluminum." I said as I put the drink back down onto the tray.
"So black how have you been the past week. I haven't seen you for a while." Midnight asked her as I watched then both take a sip and for some reason I could only watch as moon looked around the house but I then turned my attention back to black rage. "It has actually been good midnight. I wish this new creature could of died so I could of studied it." She said as she looked at me and I froze. Her soul is showing that she is always angry for some reason and she isn't angry at the moment. Or at least I think so. "But where do you come from?" She then asked me.
"Well I first came from my own world where the day and night revolves around the planet and then apparently I was in what you all call the sun realm and now I am here." She gave me a big frown.
"Are you sure we can trust this creature princess?" She then asked as she squinted her eyes at me.
"He was being tested on by my sister's counterpart." She then got word eyed before looking at me.
"Then you are alright in my book!" She then said with a smile.
"Well then that's good. I was already knocked out for a few minutes by blood pie by a fucking aluminum pan so at least I didn't get hurt this time." She then smiled an evil grin.
"Then just you wait." She said and I gulped. I. Am. So. Dead. Right. Now. As I just sat there worried soon moon and midnight finished their tea and they stood up.
"Thank you black rage for accepting us into your humble home." I said as I stood up and she smiled as we left her home. "So where to next?" I then asked midnight.
"How about scarity next." Now that name is fucking creepier then hell. I mean really scarity? That's a name you give to a baby that looks kind of like a demon. As we walked through town I could still notice a lot of the ponies watching me as I quivered in fear a little at what they were thinking of doing to me as we reached a small clothing store or so it appears and midnight knocked three times before the door opened to reveal a gray coated and very dark purple curly mane and tail and she was a unicorn. "Yes midnight?" She said and I then noticed her cutie mark was three blood diamonds. Now those fucking things are rare in my world.
"Ben meet scarity, the element of greed." Okay got to be careful around d this bitch. If its greed she will do anything to get what she wants.
"Come in come in." She said as she pulled us all in and closed the door behind us as she pulled me onto a little circular podium.
"What the fuck is happening right now?" I asked.
"I need your measurements so I can make you clothes in the future." She said. Should I even trust her? Well its fucking too late now. As I just stood there raising my arms and legs whenever she told me to soon wrote down all the measurements onto a scroll with a quill before she placed it onto a desk. "So what can I do for you princess nightmare?" She asked moon.
"We are only showing him around d town and having him meet midnight's friends." She nodded.
"But I still don't think it was necessary for blood pie to pond my face in with an aluminum pan" scarity laughed at that.
"So you survived her. Now that is a rare feat." She then said.
"Well still." I then said as she walked all around me eyeing me.
"So this is the creature that you have spoken of midnight?" She then asked.
"I am a human thank you." I then said.
"Yes this is the creature." She only eyed me a bit more.
"Who has he already seen?" She then asked.
"Blood pie and black rage and you." Moon answered.
"And black rage accepted him?" She then asked as they both nodded and she only smiled. "Then pleasure to meet you Ben." She said sticking out her hoof and I shook it. Well that equals about what 7 new friends today. "Well then is shouldn't keep you all night here so you can all go." She said as I followed midnight out as moon followed me.
"So who's next?" I then asked.
"How about rottenjack?" She then said and it made me shiver. Now that's a name that I would not let any of my family near no matter what. As we walked through the town I began to notice a streak of black, purple, dark indigo, red, and orange in the sky but it all soon disappeared so I just shrugged it off as we entered under a sign that read sour apple acres. Well it's a good thing I like anything sour. As we continued to walk eventually we reached a farmhouse that reminded me of the farmhouse that I had worked on. As we stopped in the middle of the clearing I heard grunting as I spotted several pony's all walking with a cart of apples. One was large and a dark red with a regular orange mane and tail, another had a dirty blond mane and tail along with a dark orange coat and then there was a smaller pony that was a dark yellow and had a red mane and tail. "Get these apples into the barn pronto." The dark orange mare said as the little pony and larger pony started to walk straight there as she trotted over and as she trotted over I saw her cutie mark and it was of three apples all with a few worms popping out of them. "Well howdy there princess, midnight, and strange creature." She said with a tilt of her hat.
"Ben meet rottenjack, the element of deceit." I now have to make sure that whatever she tells me isn't a lie... Of course.
"Names Benjamin Goyle. Pleasure to meet you." I said sticking out my hand as she then instantly took it and shook it.
"Nice to meet ya Ben." She said before she turned to look at midnight and moon. "So what brings yaw here?"
"Just showing Ben around the town and meeting out friends." Midnight answered.
"Has he met?"
"Blood pie, black rage, and scarity." Moon answered.
"And he passed blood pie and black rage? And he survived? Now that makes him okay in ma book." She then said hitting my back causing to get knocked onto the ground as my face took in a face full of dirt as I spit it out and stood back up cracking my back in the process. "Now that hurt and felt good at the same time." I then muttered.
"Now ya got a pretty strong back. We could use your help around the farm." She said.
"Well let's see if I can get a job as a miner first." She just started to laugh as well as the other two as I just looked at them. "Now what's so funny?" I asked them.
"Anypony can become a miner it's just that mining is a lot of hard work trying to find actual materials." She then said.
"Well I'll prove you all wrong." I then said and shit then got serious.
"Oh yeah?" Rottenjack said getting all up in my face.
"Yes!" I then yelled at her as we all stood there in silence and I swear tumbleweed blew past us as we stood there.
"Then I will hold ya to that." She said with a smile.
"Good." I then said.
"Yeah got guts pardner. I like that " she said with a smile.
"Well we best get going so we can try and find shadow dash." Midnight said as we said goodbye and we started to walk throughout the town.
"So what can you tell me about shadow dash?" I asked midnight as the three of us walked throughout the town.
"She is very gutsy and is only loyal to her friends and nopony else. She is very eager to become a shadow bolt as it is her longtime dream to become one."
"What's a shadowbolt?" I then asked to hear a gasp an over me and as soon as I looked up I was knocked onto the ground with two things on my chest keeping me down.
"What are shadowbolts?! What the buck is wrong with you?! They are the greatest performers in history!" A Pegasus then yelled and when I looked it was a dark cyan coated and her mane was black, purple, dark indigo, red, and orange and her cutie mark was of a black cloud with a thunderbolt coming from it. "Shadow dash!" Midnight snapped as she got off of me and I stood back up and then cleaned myself off of the dirt. "Ben this is shadow dash, the element of disloyalty." Okay expect a back stab in the future from her. Just great.
"Who the buck is this midnight?" She asked eyeing my face really close.
"This is Ben. The princesses had him saved from the sun lovers as they were all testing him." She didn't seem to believe that as she continued to fly around me like there was something wrong with him.
"Are you sure this is true midnight?" Shadow then asked.
"I am here to make sure that it is true." Moon then said as shadow got wide eyed.
"All right then!" She said holding out a hoof as I shook it.
"Well I got to go. Today was one of those rare clear days we have and for the next week its rain." She said before flying off.
"Well she seems nice." I said in a sarcastic tone.
"Well for now it is getting kind of late so I suggest we all go to bed. You need to do anything tomorrow Ben?" Midnight asked me.
"If you could show me where the mines are that would be great after the rain is gone." I then said as she and moon laughed.
"Nonsense you will go out tomorrow. You must grow an immunity to the rain here if you want to survive." Moon said and I sighed.
"Fine. Well are you off to the castle?" I asked moon who frowned and nodded as we reached the library. "Well then I shall see you later." I said as midnight walked into the library. "Can I tell you a few things?" I then asked moon as I saw that nobody else was around.
"What is it Ben?" She asked.
"I wanted to say thank you for becoming my friend and for brining me here even though there might never be a way for me to get home." She got a little teary eyed. "And also permission for a good bye hug?" I asked and instantly she hugged me.
"No need for permission." She said as I hugged her back and we were like that for what about maybe 30 seconds before we let go of each other and she nodded with a smile before she teleported away and I then walked into the library to find midnight brining down a pillow and a blanket and as I thanked her as she walked back up the stairs I picked a spot and I laid down the blanket and then laid the pillow at the end and I laid myself down and as soon as I closed my eyes I fell asleep.
