Chapter 2
A Devil in Apple Acres
Sephiroth didn't move an inch the rest of the day. He stayed by Applejack's side as she began to look better and better. Night came and he still stayed by her side unmoving. He promised he wouldn't leave and said that he would stay by her side until she woke and he planned on keeping that promise. During the day the other members of the family including Granny Smith had popped their head in to check on the two of them and found them to be in the same position.
Sephiroth still felt that this was all his doing. He caused Applejack this pain. He began to wonder why his memories came to him so painfully. He wondered why they made this light that engulfed him take Applejack's strength. Now knowing how strong he is he could have taken that for hours. Applejack didn't need to give him her strength. Right now all he wanted to do was give her some of his strength.
Sephiroth's hoof raised after being planted on the floor for hours, he placed onto Applejack's hoof and began to concentrate. He knew that he couldn't give her much of his strength but if could give her just a sliver that would make him feel better. He felt his power running through his body and out of his hoof and into Applejack. After about three seconds of him transferring his energy he stopped and took his hoof away feeling like he had given her enough strength. He wanted to give more but what if that hurt her, Sephiroth wasn't going to take the chance of hurting his friend.
Suddenly Applejack groaned and Sephiroth stood up. He back away a little bit as he watched Applejack rise from the bed slightly. He breathed a hefty sigh of relief. Applejack looked over to Sephiroth and saw him standing there with a smile. "What happened Sephiroth?" Applejack asked holding her hoof to her head feeling greatly exhausted.
"Do you remember what happened earlier today?" Sephiroth asked presenting Applejack with a tray with food and water that Macintosh had brought up a few minutes before. Applejack took the water and drank. After drinking some she nodded her head. "It was all my fault you passed out Applejack I'm very sorry." Sephiroth couldn't ever say how sorry he was. He knew he didn't have the years to make up for this but he would try by any means necessary.
"Aw, you ain't got nothin to be sorry about." Sephiroth looked at her in confusion. Applejack put the water down back on the tray. She looked at it with a strange need, like it needed her to look at it. "I was worried if you were okay to be honest. I don't like seeing my friends being hurt. I'll do whatever I can to help you take those memories. I'll give as much of my strength as you need."
"Thank you Applejack, but I don't want you to do that. It pains me to see my only friend hurt like that." Sephiroth walked over to the window as the moonlight hit his body. "I won't let you get hurt like that again."
Applejack looked at Sephiroth now seeing what appeared to be a different side of him. He looked so different right now she couldn't believe it. Something about the moon hitting his silver mane made him look different. "Sephiroth you don't have to leave here if you don't want to." She said looking back down at her glass of water.
"I don't plan on it Applejack." Her cheeks went red as he looked to her. "Macintosh already said it was okay for me to stay here but he wanted me to tell everyone when you woke up." Sephiroth said to her softly, "I promise that I won't leave unless you want me to. After all I owe you a lot for all you've done for me."
"I haven't done that much." Applejack said blushing embarrassed by his words.
"You've done more for me than I believe any pony would." He held out his hoof to her. She looked at it with fascination. "I want to keep you safe Applejack so that you don't get hurt or have to give me your strength ever again."
"Sephiroth, no matter which way ya put it I'm gonna do what I think is right in my heart." She grabbed his hoof with both of hers. Applejack getting romantic, there's a first I think anyway. "I'm gonna help ya any way I can got it?"
"You have done more than needed and you've even been hurt for it." Sephiroth didn't know what was coming over him but he felt the sudden urge to cry. Tears began to roll down his cheeks. Applejack couldn't believe he was crying about that. "I don't think I have ever cried in my life, this would be my first time crying. I don't know why I need to cry but it just came and I can't stand my friend hurt either."
"Sephiroth please don't get mushy on me it doesn't really suit you in my opinion." Applejack put her hoof on his cheek. She smiled which made him tear up even more. She couldn't believe how much she meant to him even though they only knew each other for such a short time, and it was a very short time.
"I'm sorry but I do not know what mushy means. However you are my only friend in this world right now and I don't want to see you hurt, especially by me. I want you to leave me be when my memories start to come back okay?" Sephiroth was keeping his eyes away from Applejack. He didn't want her looking into them and seeing his fear.
"Listen if you're in pain than I'm gonna do my darnest to help ya no matter what ya tell me!" Sephiroth looked into her eyes and saw the honesty within them. Even though he practically begged her not to help him she was still going to help him.
This caused him to give a slight chuckle. "What's so funny?" Applejack asked taking her hooves away from his.
"I guess the two of us are just stubborn." Sephiroth said laughing even harder. Applejack thought a minute on what he said and soon found the humor in it as well and began to laugh just as hard as Sephiroth.
"That's quite the laugh you got there Seph." Applejack said as she calmed down from the laughing. "Seph how did you even get into my barn anyway?"
Sephiroth heard the question but had no idea how to respond to it. All he could do was look at her with a straight depressed face. "I wish I could give you those answers but I cannot give those answers right now." Sephiroth felt like he was about to remember something and was about to burst out the window when Applejack grabbed a hold of his hoof. He looked at her to see the smile spread across her face.
"Sephiroth promise me that you won't leave no matter what." Applejack said as the stinging of tears was felt. Sephiroth watched as a tear fell from her cheek. "When you left, something in me just hurt like crazy. I don't know why but seeing you leave hurt. I don't want to feel that hurt. Please tell me you'll never leave me or this place."
"I don't know if I can keep that promise but I will promise you that I will not allow anyone to hurt you." Sephiroth looked away feeling like he was letting the only pony that cares about him down. "I will try my best to accommodate that wish but I may not always be able to do that. But I will try."
"Thanks Sephiroth," Applejack lay back down in the bed getting comfortable ready for sleep. "Sephiroth maybe y'all should go and get some sleep to. I think I'll take y'all to Ponyville tomorrow. Just don't do anything crazy until then, alright?"
Sephiroth nodded his head to her as he left the room to go and fetch Macintosh. When he found the room that was meant for Macintosh and Cherrilee he found it empty. "Macintosh?" Sephiroth questioned why the colt wouldn't be in his room with his supposed lover. That's when Sephiroth heard the hoof steps from down the hall. He turned to see young Apple Bloom coming toward him. "Apple Bloom?"
"Hey Seph how's Applejack?" Apple Bloom asked looking cheerful. However Sephiroth saw something in the smile that he hasn't seen, well he doesn't remember seeing it. It was despair and then he remembered the word clearly without any pain.
"She woke up for a few minutes but then fell asleep Bloom. Let's let her lie there in peace for a while." Sephiroth then saw Bloom's smile turn into a frown when she looked out a window. "Apple Bloom do you know where Macintosh is?"
"Last I saw of him he went outside with Cherrilee." Apple Bloom said as she yawned and then heading back to her room. "Maybe he's still out there you can go check if you want."
Sephiroth nodded to the young filly and headed for the exit of the house. He stepped out of the home and felt this strange urge to run but he wouldn't hurt Applejack again. He crushed the urge within him using little willpower. Suddenly he heard rustling from the trees to his left. His wing shot out and he took flight hovering over Apple Acres he looked in that direction. The moon favored him because within three seconds he saw Macintosh's red color and flew that way, but he heard something that sent him flying higher but within hearing range.
"You can't do this to us we haven't done anything to you ponies." It was Cherrilee's voice that he heard. He flew over the spot without even flapping his wing. He just floated like a badass. When he came to the spot he saw Macintosh and Cherrilee in front of a group of shady looking colts and mares that wore all black suits and had what looked like swords equipped to their backs. On their hooves were gauntlets that looked to be surgically attached to their hooves they moved as well. There were at least twelve of them. They all pushed the two ponies up against a large apple tree. Macintosh kept in front of Cherrilee ready to give his life for the mare he loved.
"Oh but you live on our king's property, and law dictates that you must pay us a tax, or you and your family will suffer a great tragedy." The one leading them stood on his hind hooves and made a shrugging gesture. His gauntlets made a fist and he slammed it on Macintosh's head. Sephiroth watched horrified at what he was witnessing. "I did tell you that correct?"
"Macintosh!" Cherrilee ran to his side. She turned facing the colts that stared her down. Some of the girls were laughing evilly while the boys seemed to be snickering as they stared at Cherrilee. "Stay away from us you freaks!"
"Oh we're not freaks my dear sweet teacher." The lead colt grabbed at her hair and pulled it up causing her to scream. He then ran his gauntlet hands down her hind hooves. She screamed and yelped even louder as Macintosh was grabbed by three of the other colts and was beaten repeatedly. They soon stopped though because he fell unconscious. "Oh well that's no fun at all." He threw Cherrilee down, "It gives me great pleasure to give you all despair but I must be getting back to my king now. Be happy that it was late you could have gotten lucky sweetheart. Maybe next time."
For some reason hearing the word despair sent Sephiroth's memories off the deep end. He flew down and his wing drew back into his body. He held his head with his hooves as the pain and memories came back. He remembered all that he did with Masamune. He remembered all the lives he had taken and how he had felt so excited and happy that these lives were gone. He remembered loving the feeling that he gave others when they cried for mercy. He couldn't believe this was who he was. He remembered everything in that one second of enormous pain that had him on his knees. He remembered being human before becoming this stallion. He remembered how he tried to completely ruin the world he used to live on for the sake of his mother Jenova. He remembered the enemies or heroes that had stopped him. He remembered everything from Dissidia. He remembered that he was nothing but a product of science. "So that's what I am, just a creation." Sephiroth felt like he was going to lose it just as he did back on his world but then he remembered Applejack's face and smile.
"If they enjoy it that much maybe I should provide for them." Sephiroth now that he remembered everything knew that he could protect Applejack unlike his mother who was now gone forever. He decided to make Applejack his Jenova only not in the same respect. He could never have his mother back now but he could keep alive what he cared about now. His head turned around as he heard Cherrilee scream.
"You're all sick monsters!" Cherrilee screamed out loud as if she wanted somepony to hear her. "Why don't you all just die you monsters!?"
Sephiroth started walking but not toward Cherrilee as his front hooves became enhanced with magic. He stood on his hind hooves and walked to farther away from Cherrilee and Macintosh.
"Hey boss what do you think that is?" One of the lead colt's asked pointing his gauntlet at a light that seemed to be walking across the dark apple grove. They couldn't see what the light belonged to but they knew it couldn't have been harmful. They knew nothing in Ponyville was harmful even those silly mares with the Elements of Harmony.
"Just ignore it," The leading colt said swiping his arm silencing his subordinate. "Now we'll be back soon for our money so you better get it or we might take it another way." The leading colt licked his lips as he stared at Cherrilee with evil intent. Cherrilee was horrified that these colts would go as far as that just to get their damn money.
"We'll have the money but please don't hurt us anymore please." Cherrilee pleaded because she couldn't take seeing Macintosh getting hurt like this. "Just leave this place we'll get you the money just get out of here!"
"As you wish my dear sweet cherry." The leading colt said as the rest of his crew followed him away from the horrible sight they had created. They left laughing at the poor teacher they had just hurt with her unconscious coltfriend.
Cherrilee wished at that moment that someone would give them the despair that they gave to them. Little did she know that wish was just about to come true. For, Sephiroth laid waiting, his back against a tree, as he heard the oncoming voices of the colts who had desecrated this orchid.
"Did you see the look on the chick's face when the boss slid his gauntlet across her flanks." One of them said laughing like a hyena. "It was priceless, if only that colt had remained awake. I would have loved to have seen his face when the boss had his way with her. Unfortunately we had to return by a certain time or we could have played with her a little more."
"Yes it is a shame that we didn't get to spend more time with the lovely Cherrilee but all good comes with patience my flock." The guy sounded demented and insane which he technically was. "I wish we could have some fun tonight. Oh if only we could cause some despair oh how I want despair!"
"Then I shall provide you with it." The twelve ponies turned their heads and saw a white colt standing there with his hooves at his sides. "So you all enjoy despair huh?" Sephiroth although not wanting to the man he once was thought that he could be that person for these colt s and mares who hurt the family of the one he cared about.
"Who the heck are you freak?" One of them said standing on his hind hooves and drawing his blade.
"I am the angel who shall give you what you asked for. Despair isn't that what you wanted?" Sephiroth spoke with malicious intent and that sent all the colts and mares around their boss draw their weapons and get around him.
"Why would you want to give us despair? Besides we would just tear you to shreds." The boss said laughing as he drew his two long knives.
"So you think that you can defeat me now?" Sephiroth held out his right hoof and the Masamune magically appeared in it. His arm slowly came until the hilt of the blade stretched behind him. "I haven't seen a sorrier looking bunch of fools in a while now. Let us see if you can provide me with some entertainment."
"Oh we'll be giving entertainment alright!" The colt who had first drawn his blade charged Sephiroth ready to kill him. Sephiroth tightened the magical grip he had on his blade. It was like he had his hands around the hilt, he could feel the entire circular length of his blade from the point to its bottom. "Now why don't you just die!?"
Sephiroth looked at him and smiled as he raised his blade blocking the colt's attack with little effort. "Is that the best you have, because it won't be enough to truly give me the entertainment I seek from you ponies. After all you find joy in despair so you should enjoy my gift to you." Sephiroth said holding his blade with both hooves. He charged slicing at the colt's head but truly just knocking his blade away from his gut. He sliced across the colt's waist line making a clean cut. The colt stuttered for a second but as Sephiroth whipped his blade getting rid of the blood from his blade the body fell blasting out blood. It oozed from the body as it lay there now in two pieces.
The gang that he was a part of saw what had just happened. How did that stallion just done that? "Well it looks like we'll have some fun now won't we my flock? Let's show him a good time everypony!" The boss said looking excited to finally have some excitement.
All the ponies that worked for him surrounded Sephiroth pointing their swords at him. He just looked ahead of him as he heard three of them come at him. He twisted his body to the left blocking the first incomer, he turned holding his blade up straight blocking the next incomer. He knocked the mare back with a simple swipe of his blade as he swung around slicing the next incomer's head right off. Blood sprouted from the place where the head used to be like a fountain. That for some reason only got the boss of these creeps even more excited. His gang kept going at Sephiroth, but his movements flowed as if they were a dance as he wasn't even touched once by a blade or hoof. He jumped into the air and forced some of his magic into the blade and headed straight for three colts. He sliced three times for the first killing that one, then proceeded with two more slashed cleaving the next colt into three pieces, the last one he sliced into the air and proceeded with three more slashes sending blood everywhere except toward Sephiroth.
Sephiroth landed on the ground in front of the slaughter he had given to five of this crazed man's ponies. Their bodies bleeding from the wounds and cuts he gave them. Sephiroth stared at the boss and his six remaining ponies. He held the Masamune pointing it at the gang. Suddenly his body gave off a strange aura as he flew past the group forcing his blade through one's gut. He tore his blade from the victim slicing his body into three pieces like most of his fellow allies. Sephiroth was enjoying himself, he enjoyed giving others the suffering they gave to others especially when he got to use his blade. However Sephiroth quickly reminded himself that he was doing this for Applejack and not for his own fun. He just made it sound like that. Something in him felt different, he felt a greater strength than he did when he was with his mother. Just thinking about Applejack gave this power to him. He liked how it felt but at the same time it felt like a poison to him because he had never felt it before.
Sephiroth paid no mind to it as he turned to slice another two fools who thought they could get him from behind. Sephiroth had not one drop of blood on his person or clothes. He stood there only his blade soaked in the liquid of blood. Three more lackeys stood behind their boss looking horrified. Sephiroth gave a single chuckle as he got ready for another charge. They all looked at him as he glowed with this red like aura that surrounded him like a flame. His blade glowed with a purple sheen. The three lackeys ran at that point leaving their boss, but Sephiroth promised despair and he would give it to all of those who had given it to Applejack's family. He leaped into the air and slammed into the middle of the three causing the ground to heave and come up as if it erupted sending the three of them into the air. Sephiroth didn't slice them into pieces like he did the others no, he gave small gashes on them as they began to fall down back to the dirt. He swung his blade not hitting anything which propelled the three lackeys to the ground.
Their boss stood there in awe of this stallion's power as it looked like he floated gently down to the ground. "Well that was a bore that I wish I didn't need to go through." He said putting his arms at his sides not even looking at the boss. "Well I hope you can give me more fun than those fools did."
"Oh I can give that to you sir but I must ask where all that strength came from?" The boss laughed as he held his knives like a psycho.
"From my beloved mother, who is no longer here with me anymore." Sephiroth felt a pain in his chest well it was always there but for some reason it hurt less than before. He didn't know why but he accepted it for what it was. Any less pain was good to him. "Now can we stop talking and get to the main event?"
"Lets!" The boss jumped at Sephiroth connecting his two knives with Sephiroth's blade. He giggled a little and then jumped away. "Oh you are powerful this will be delectable." He jumped into the thicket in the orchid and vanished. Sephiroth wasn't worried though he stood there unmoving his blade at his side. "Peek a boo-GAH!" The boss jumped out at him but was stopped half way as he now hung on the end of Sephiroth's blade.
"You are just as pathetic as your foolish helpers." Sephiroth was done toying around with this monkey and his peons. His wing blasted out from his back as he threw the boss into the air who screamed bloody like as Sephiroth cut and cut at his body. "You asked for despair so I shall provide." Sephiroth's blade glowed green this time as he leapt into the air above the boss. He came down thrusting his blade threw the colt's gut. He didn't waver from his path as he darted toward the ground with the mad boss at the end of his blade. "Now you will see my promised land, say hello to my mother." Sephiroth landed causing the ground around him to go with him creating a crater in Apple Acres. The boss now utterly dead completely obliterated by Sephiroth's Hell's Gate attack.
He looked around at the slaughter he created and snapped his fingers. Flames rose from the dead corpses as they were reduced to nothing but ash. The wind took their ashes and blew them away from Apple Acres. Sephiroth swiped his arm and Masamune disappeared. He headed back to see if Macintosh was alright and found that Cherrilee still stood there over him crying as if he were dead. Sephiroth approached on all fours still a little excited from the fight.
"What happened here?" Sephiroth asked trying to sound oblivious. He didn't want to have to explain what he just did. He didn't want Applejack fearing him. He knew now the fear he could pose onto her. He knew now what he was capable of. He couldn't believe what he was before this. He didn't want to be that person again, because it would mean that Applejack would die and for some reason that hurt him. He only allowed the darkness in his heart to come out for those creeps who had hurt Macintosh and Cherrilee. Now it was all a matter of self-control.
"Sephiroth!" Cherrilee rushed to him holding him like he was about to die which will probably only happen if he kills himself but we'll see. "It was horrible the debt collectors came and Macintosh tried to get them to leave but he was knocked out cold. Oh my dear Macintosh." Cherrilee's tears had this strange effect on Sephiroth, he felt sympathy which something before this world he found to be nothing but an obstacle between he and his mother's future. Now he wanted to feel every emotion again. He wanted to be human and not the monster he knew he was.
"We should get him back to the house." Sephiroth held out a hoof and a blue glow surrounded Macintosh as he floated into the air and was placed on Sephiroth's back. Cherrilee looked at him in astonishment. "Why are you looking at me that way?"
"I've never seen a pegasus, nor an earth pony use magic before but you're the first to use it and I cannot deny what I just saw." Cherrilee was baffled at how Sephiroth was able to use magic without being a unicorn or an alicorn. It is unheard of in Equestria that a pony could use magic without being a unicorn or alicorn. That was about to change.
"Yes that was magic that I possess. I use it normally for my own means but now I have other uses for it such as helping you with this colt. In will do whatever I can to make up for the trouble I have caused you up till now." Sephiroth wasn't exactly lying but he wasn't telling the truth either. Sephiroth really was sorry but he knew after what he had just done would cause more trouble for the family and he would one day have to show everypony what powers he really had. For now, though, he would try and keep it as down low as possible.
They reached the home within minutes of leaving the orchid. "Sephiroth I have to ask you, did you hear all that screaming a few minutes before you got to us?" Cherrilee asked which stopped Sephiroth in his tracks. He stood there with Macintosh on his back as he tried to think of a response. He couldn't tell her that he caused those screams then he would have to leave Sweet Apple Acres and Applejack would kill him for that. Well she would try and kill him anyway. "Sephiroth are you alright?"
"Huh? Yes I'm fine." Sephiroth didn't want to lie to her but it was to keep Applejack from crying again. "I'm sorry but maybe you were hearing things because I never heard any screaming from the orchid."
"Hmm, well it could have just been my imagination. I guess it was so you don't need to think about it anymore Sephiroth." Cherrilee said smiling at him. What she didn't know was that Sephiroth was saying to himself in his head that he would have to find a way to explain the crater he caused in the orchid down a ways.
"Thank you remembering things hurts right now so I'm trying to do less of that." He hoped there was nothing else to remember but then he realized that the heroes that stopped him back on his world, their names he forgot especially the one he toyed with the most. He didn't want to remember them, but he began to think what if they were here to? What if they found him, would they try and eliminate him or would they try and see the good in him that he finally saw. A good found by Applejack and no one else.
They got inside the house to see Applejack and Apple Bloom out of bed. They had worried written all over their faces. Applejack ran over to Sephiroth and wrapped her hooves around his neck. His breathing stopped as he felt this warmth in his chest. He had never felt this way nor has this feeling ever come to him before. Why now? He thought repeatedly, why did it happen with this pony?
"Thank goodness y'all are alright." Applejack said but then noticed Macintosh on Sephiroth's back. "What happened to Macintosh?"
"Those debt collectors came by again. Macintosh tried to stop them from harassing us but they only knocked him out." Cherrilee had tears running down her cheeks. Sephiroth felt horrible because he couldn't tell the family that he had taken care of them but he knew eventually that more would come so he thought it best to not mention the subject. "If only somepony would teach them a lesson. I bet you they would stop harassing us if we did to them what they do to us."
Sephiroth felt another sting at his chest because the truth he wished to tell couldn't be told for their sake. "I see so they went and beat up big Mac huh? Darn those varmints why do they always have to mess with us? Why do they constantly pick on us and no one else?" Applejack asked to no pony in particular because no one would have the answer.
"Applejack I am sorry. If only I had gotten there sooner maybe I could have dealt with these debt collectors." Sephiroth wanted to tell Applejack the truth but he couldn't bring himself to say it. Why was he so afraid to tell a girl what he had done? He just didn't understand any of it.
"No Sephiroth if you were there you would have been hurt to. I would have been devastated if you were hurt as well. I mean I'm already torn that they did that to Macintosh but for some reason if you happened to get hurt than I would have lost it." Sephiroth felt honored to hear those words come from Applejack. He needed the push I guess. "The next time they come here I'll deal with them. Then they won't be messin' with us."
Sephiroth knew that would never happen not until they were told, demanded not to come back here. However, he wasn't about to go and search for them. He had no idea where to look, sure he could level a town with the power his body had now but he wasn't about to make a scene that would get Applejack hurt. No, the only way he found that could get him the information would be if one of their idiot puppets said where it was.
"I think we should get Macintosh to bed before we do anything else." Sephiroth said heading up the stairs with the rest of the group following close behind. He got to Macintosh's room and used his magic to place him on top of it. Applejack saw the use of magic but no horn on Sephiroth and was absolutely astounded by it.
"Thanks Sephiroth I'll take over from here you go and get some rest. That goes for everypony here now." Cherrilee didn't want to have anypony in the room with her right now. She wanted to be alone with her cherished love for the rest of the night. She didn't want anypony seeing her cry for hours.
Sephiroth nodded and left the room with Applejack following. "Hey Seph how did you use magic back there?" Applejack asked feeling like Sephiroth wasn't being completely honest with her.
"I can't explain it right now, but all I can say is that I can use magic. I just don't feel like going through one of those headaches again." Sephiroth said telling the truth actually. He remembered who and what he used to be but he didn't remember every attack or spell he knew.
"Well if that's how ya feel then alright. I won't go pryin where it's not wanted but Sephiroth I don't care what you are or who you were. You're who you are now and that's all that matters. You're a dear friend of mine now, one that's close to my heart. I don't want that friend feeling like he can't tell me everything." Applejack's eyes pierced Sephiroth's as for the first time in his life he blushed. Yes everyone he blushed.
Sephiroth had never felt such a warm feeling on his face before. This feeling he liked it and his chest seemed to be on fire. Why did his chest feel this way? If only someone could tell him. Maybe someone or somepony down the road can tell him, but for now he's just happy to know that Applejack cares about him. "Applejack I promise you if I find myself in a hole I'll come to you first." Sephiroth knew he wasn't keen on promises but he planned on keeping this one. "You should go and get some sleep now. You still need to recover from what happened."
"I know Seph. Just please don't get yourself hurt because of something stupid alright?" Applejack said at random for some odd reason.
"Are you saying that I'm likely to get into trouble for being myself?" Sephiroth asked feeling a little hurt by that statement.
"No that's not what I meant. To be honest I don't know where it came from. I may just be over worrying myself." Applejack ran over to Sephiroth and wrapped her hooves around his neck for the second time. Sephiroth's eyes widened as she held him in her arms. Applejack said nothing as she let him go and headed for the room to get some rest.
She shut the door and breathed deeply. "Why did I just do that?" She asked herself as she got back into bed. She began to mull it over as she began asking herself a bunch of other questions. She knew that Sephiroth was her friend but she was never that quick to react to anyone when they were in trouble. She didn't hesitate she just acted. Normally she'd think it through before doing anything. At least that's what I have seen. Then she remembered the pain she had when Sephiroth tried to leave. Why had she been ready to cry then?
She soon remembered when the girls dealt with Macintosh's love problem. The way Cherrilee gets when Macintosh gets hurt she looks ready to die. The way they she constantly worries about him. "Wait am I in love with Sephiroth?" Applejack whispered to herself still finding it hard to believe but it was the truth. "Well I guess I'll find out when we go to Ponyville tomorrow. I hope Sephiroth is okay with that?"
Sephiroth walked over to the room that they had placed him in when he was unconscious. He pulled himself onto the bed and lay down. He began to think of the day and how he had become a part of this new world. He didn't understand how he got here but he was happy that he did. Now he had something to protect and not something to destroy. He would protect Applejack with his whole being even if that meant going to the devil inside of him.