Chapter two: anger and regrets
As I stood there waiting for the arrow, sword, anything in my back, anything, to join me
with my friends and family again. But naught a thing, not even breath came to bear on me.
I waited, and waited, and waited Until heavy hoof falls fell onto the metal and tin floor only
to stop as the came directly behind me, not more than five paces away. As my hands fell
apart from praying, i was turned around by the magic that had been the bane of human
kind. As I was being turned to face the door, I put on the best poker face, that one face I
had been known for, I hid any and all emotions in concrete at the bottom of a lakebed. I
took what my soul was, happiness and other things that made me human, and put them in
there, because I knew, I wouldn't be treated as a human, or as a living thing in. Generally I
chose to be an entity, without feeling or without any remorse. As I finished turning I saw
the Alicorn who started it all. Princess Celestia, the one who brought upon the whole war.
"Well, human, any last word before your ended?" I had a few words, but only one came to
mind. " Congratulations on the genocide, your highness." After I said that, she grew a
small sad face, before she stiffened up. "Guards take him back to the castle. He shall be
placed as a personal assistant to me." She said, looking at the guards who were holding
M1A1 Thompson sub machine guns. They welded the guns to metal saddles and had the
trigger installed in the bite guard for easy access to shoot. As I was about to be led from
the complex, I gave one last look to my general, my step father of sorts, before looking at
the jerry cans, still full of gas. Putting two and two together, I grabbed his zippo lighter and
walked over to the jerry cans, grabbing two of them from the pile, while guards kept their
stolen guns aimed at me. walking back over, I opened up a jerry can and let the gas, diesel and
petrol, soak into his cloths, before praying one last time, before setting him ablaze and
walking out, without a soul, but with a thousand memory's of that day.
Eighteen months later. . .
I've been integrated into the royal life. And by that I mean that I've been the 'slave to
Celestia' as everyone puts it. And I could care less. You see, I've kept my mouth shut for
these long eighteen months, or more likely, a year and eight months. I've been here that
long and I haven't spoken, not once. I sometimes think I forgot how to speak, only to
silently curse prince blue blood under my breath.
As I walk the hallways, going to the princess's room so as to wake her up, I am passed by
a guard, by his bars he's a leftenant, just under lieutenant. He came up to me, rushing with
a scared look on his face. " you there, servant! Have you seen the princess as of late?!" He
questioned me. Breaking my silence I spoke to him, my voice having matured into a light
baritone voice, spoke " no... Why what's the problem?" Asking with the most confused
look on my face. "There's a problem with the princess. She seems to have d- disappeared!" He spoke frantically, waving his forehooves around. "she could have gone
for a flight, maybe she's taking a walk i the garden, who knows. All I know Is that I have to
be by her side for everyday of my mortal life." I spoke dryly, hoping he'd catch my
annoyed tone " we've checked the gardens, front to back, and the royal Pegasus guard
say they have not seen her all morning!" He was now o. His haunches, biting his hooves
like a scared child. " not to mention the fact that it's still night at what WOULD be 7:00!"
He was still sitting there as I contemplated this. Normally I would rise before the sunrise,
as I had grown accustomed to, and go to Celestia's bed chambers and wake her to give
her ample Time to get ready with her duties of raising the sun and lowering the moon. I
grabbed the guard and pulled him to his feet. "Quit acting like a child man! There's not a
moment to waste. Search for her, send small 4 pony search party's to find her, send the
search party's to every corner of equestira." Seeing he wasn't responding, i lightly
smacked both sides of his face. Getting his attention, he responded by saying, " y-yeah,
sure thing. But answer me this, why should I take orders from a dirty human?" Seeing the
questions in his eyes, I decided to respond in kind " the reason is because I took search
and rescue in the vault I was in before I was forcefully ripped from there. Forcefully ripped
from seeing all remnants of my family, from what I called my home. So tell me, who has
more experience in exploration and rescue?" He just stared at me. "I'm 32, and how old
are you anyway?" He spoke authoritivly, squinting his eyes " eighteen. . . I'm eighteen
years old, nineteen in three months. But I've learned more than a teen should know, and
that is something that can be useful." He just stared at me before long he was shaking his
head ' yes' at me whilst turning around to head to the guard Barack's to give a plan 'he'
thought up. I walked to the throne room to stand at my position where I was supposed to
be. Mainly because Princess Celestia gave her head scribe Raven the week off, due to
"family issues" when in all actuality, her father was dieing from asbestos inhalation.
Apparently pony's didn't read the human medical research that asbestos can kill if directly
inhaled. As I stood there for the total time of seven minutes forty-three seconds, a set of
guards came in and waved to me with their hooves. Nodding, I walked over to them,
noticing that the head of the unicorn guard, shinning armor. Was there I straightened my
self, right quick. As I entered their ranks, shinning turned to me before nodding in respect.
As I nodded, I noticed that the guards were forming a square around me. "Captan
shinning armor, if I may inquire, what exactly is going on, and why are your guar-" I was
cut off as he took up position at the front of the square of guards, answering my questions
on the way down the main hall to the chariot stable. "we've got reports of nightmare moon
in a small town of ponyville, so if it's possible, we may find the princess there, as for your
second question" we turned to the right through the garden to to chariots that were filled
to capacity with guards, " we were hoping that your presence there might help in some
way, shape, or form. And, hopefully you'll still have your guns, that the princess allowed
you to keep." Boarding the same chariot as him, I nodded in, not only understanding, but
concern. Rumor has it that the princess sent her pupil twilight sparkle down there to help
and check the preparations for the annual summer sun celebration.
The chariot took off smoothly, the guards not once grunting in the process. Flying high into
the sky, I remembered the tactic they were implementing. They were going to go high into
the sky, so as to avoid and AA turrets they forgot to destroy from our siege of canterlot
that may still be active, and after reaching a good hight, they were going to accelerate
downward in a strafing motion, only to land quite hard. But they recently added springs to
the chariot wheels, so as to imitate the human shock absorbers for cars. We were at the
apex of our ascent, when we took a sharp decline and accelerated for ponyville.
Seven minutes later . . .
We took only seven minutes from our rapid decline, only to land sharply in front of the
library. A tree which had been hollowed out and was turned into a library. Ironic that they
have cut-up trees with words on 'em inside of a tree. When I exited, I bumped into
somepony, knocking both myself and whoever was in front of me to fall flat on our ass's,
and allowing 'omf's and 'agh's to be said in the processes I held a hand to my head where
a cut had just opened from this pony, likely a unicorn, had just impacted. When I opened
my eyes after hearing a collective gasp, I found the one and only, twilight sparkle. Who, on
occasion, would allow my to call her twilight or just 'Sparks' as a nickname. I saw her
looking at four other pony's, standing in front of her, while a butterscotch colored Pegasus
just started shaking like a leaf and tended to twilight. "There's a monster, Git it!" Came the
yell of a pony who sounded like she grew up in South Carolina or Texas. As I heard the
war cry to my left, I felt a rope land on me, before being yanked over onto my side as I
was dog piled by multiple mares. One of them, smelling of cotton candy and other
delectable sweets, was nom'ing my shoulder. And to be honest, she made the best kawaii
face possible. Before long I hear the shouts of shining armor, yelling at the mares who
were throwing punches this way and that, biting my arms, legs and shoulders. Soon after
that they stopped, all except for the pink shoulder nom'ing pony, who continued cutely
nom'ing my shoulder, her body and legs defying physics...then again, talking horses,
minotaurs, griffons, parasprites, and other things on this planet shouldn't be alive or real at
all. As I stood up I saw twilight speaking with the guards, looking a tad nervous. When I
walked over to them, the pink pony stopped nom'ing my shoulder, and hopped off, joining
her friends. "Look, miss sparkle, if your going into the forest, I advise you to take a guard
with you and your friends!" Came the sharp retort of captain crossroads, the captain of the
earth pony guard. "We don't need no stinking guards pally! We can do this!" Came a
feministic yet slightly boyish voice, searching for the source of this voice, I found a pony
who fit the bill of the voice. A mare with a cyan coat and a rainbow mane who had the
cutie mark of a rainbow colored lightning bolt erupting out of a cloud. "I am sorry miss
dash but I'm afraid, that's not possible, not with the state of the town, we need to at least
send somepony who is armed!" Came crossroads reply, his voice cutting though the din of
yells and screams of pony's panicking, like they always did when something frightened
them. "Twilight, help me out here, we don't need any guards!" Came the reply of this 'miss
dash'
As I walked over I was looked upon by all of them the mares, giving stinging looks, almost
enough that I thought lasers would come out and incinerate me. Well the butterscotch
Pegasus and the pink pony weren't really looking at me the same way. But the white
unicorn, orange earth pony and cyan Pegasus just glared. Very unsettlingly, might I add. "
hello Simon, you need something?" Crossroads asked. He had never really liked me, but
he dealt with me much like how he'd treat a small child. Kind and caring, yet always hiding
something from you.
"Nothing much, just looking for the captain of the unicorn guard is all." I said. Today was a
day were I was replying to more pony's than I'd like to.
"Well if your looking for something to do you can alway help twilight here." Crossroads
suggested, getting himself a few glares from the same three pony's who'd glared at me
earlier. " I'd be okay with that. It okay with you Simon?" Twilight spoke, softly but surly, in
her confident tone. Shrugging as I nodded, I gave the reply. " sure, I'll help." And instantly
after that replies came soaring at us at 100mph " No, twilight, why would you invite a
psycho with us?" " twilight, darling, why would we bring it along with us?" "I don't like this
here idea. Not one bit." In my mind, I was slowly inching t'wards suicide. Just the fact that
a friendly race of pony's, who spoke of love and tolerance, only to have it shoved up my
ass and out my throat and see their anger and resentment to other species. It needless to
say, appalled me greatly. Sighing. I saw no chance, so I turned and walked away hearing
shouts from twilight and crossroads directed to the three, only to lose any sight or sound
of them as I ran into the everfree forest, carrying nothing but my Tokarev and my custom
revolver along side my own sword, which might I add, I built myself in one month under
Celestia's intense watching and instructions from the blacksmith pony's.
20 minutes of swamps and dirty rivers later
As I exited a small riverbed lined with pea-gravel, I walked up to a totally unsuspicious
looking castle. I remembered twilight telling me the day before she was sent to ponyville
about nightmare moon and her return. As I walked up to the door I heard shouts of pony's
directly behind me. When I turn around I see the same pony with the rainbow mane,
standing in front of blackish blue mist in the shape of pony's, by the shape of them, I
figured that the mist was like a hallucination. Thinking that I should help her was definitely
off my list of things to give a fuck about. I turned around and entered the castle doors,
shutting them behind me. I walked around a bit, only to end up next to a staircase that
leads to a certain part of the castle, the name on the plaque that was next to it was
indecipherable and ineligible as well as completely unreadable. Walking up the stairs, I
heard the voices again. Twilight and her friends. Opening the front door. I quickly ran up
the steps. My leather armor, having been made just so I, that last of human kind, can live
through a violent stabbing long enough to receive medical treatment, was completely
concealed. I stopped at the top of the steps entering the throne room. There, in all her
glory, was nightmare moon. A being that could make a filly shit and piss themselves, while
they were asleep, mind you. Just because of how scary she is. " oh this is a new one."
Came her sharp tongued reply " and what, just exactly are you?" I just stood there as her
face grew from interested to completely annoyed. "Well?" She said, impatiently. " you
mean you didn't notice the large planate just above our heads?" I came back wittily.
Drawing my sword, I got into a battle stance as she looked through the missing ceiling at
the currently visible planet that was enchanted to have a slip space in between planets,
just for pony's to go to and from. "Huh, when did that get there..." She trailed off as I ran
straight at her bearing my sword, running at her like a moth to a flame, only more stupid
and completely defenseless. She charges up her horn and fires a bolt of pure energy
through my body, paralyzing me for her to follow up and blast me with offensive magic,
strong enough to send me, and my sword, flying. A flash of light and out popped twilight.
Along with her was five balls of cement, with what looked like emeralds in each one.
Although I will admit, I am unlucky at times, twilight came EXTREMELY close to
impalement on my sword as it came down, stabbing itself into the stone at her hooves.
She jumped as it struck the ground.
When she landed she looked at me with worry in her eyes as she looked at the burn mark
on my armor, which was now visible, thanks to her highness over there, burning a hole
trough my tunic and onto my leather armor. Propping myself up by the stairwell as she
looked over at nightmare moon. I heard hoof falls on the stairs as I finished propping
myself up. And honestly I didn't hear what was being said between twilight and nightmare
moon.
I soon must have passed out, because all I could see was green fields of prairie grass for
miles. "Simon?" Came the most beautiful voice I had ever heard. "Simon, where are you?"
As I turned to face the voice, my eyes befell a woman. Looking like an anthropomorphic
pony, she was facing me, but I saw no face. She was a midnight blue, with a beautiful
flowing hair that looked like she had stars in her hair. She called again, her face not being
any more visible. "Simon, please answer me." I walked over to her hill. Only to get stopped
by a skeleton wearing a black robe and carrying the scythe. I instantly knew who it was. It
was death, death incarnate in a form of a pony, only he still wore the pack of cards in his
tattered robe pocket, waiting for some arrogant fool to bet their life for one more chance.
'You really had to do that, didn't you' death spoke, without ever moving his jaw once. "
do what? Piss of an alicorn? I'd say my bucket list is fulfilled" I said , moving my arms to
intersect with one another 'Simon Belmont, I'd say your insane but just being stupid,
will get you no where fast.' He said as his scythe moved to his back and was strapped
into place. " true, but I'm madder than a hatter and just as good at being both stupid and
mad." I retorted. *sigh* Simon, I would take your soul, like you'd want, but fate has
another plan for you, that not even I know of. And that's saying something.' He said,
slowly getting frustrated by the moment. "So what? Am I, like, getting a 'get another life -
free card' or something?" I asked, dreading the outcome ' unfortunately for you, yes, yes
you go back to life. And another thing. Tell the princess of the sun Tartarus and hell
are to damn crowded because of their crusade against all of humanity.' Death said
passing me a box of cigars. ' those are for you and no one else' I smiled a little. He gave
me hammer and sickle Berlin Wall No. 2 cigars. Along with a cigar cutter and zippo lighter.
Smiling I said "thank you" in the quietest voice ever. He patted my back and caused me to
go forward ' go to her. She'll be your night-light in the dark abyss of life.' Was all death
spoke to me before disappearing, the same way as how he arrived. I continued on my
walk uphill to the faceless woman. As I reached her, she turned to me and offered me her
hand. I hesitated before looking into her faceless face and took hold of her hand. I then felt
both warm and cold. As well as a feeling of wires in my arms and the continuous beeping
of a heart monitor. I looked around a bit, and, seeing I was in the royal medical wing of the
castle, I promptly began to get up, before I realized I had a large scar in a circle on my
stomach. Laying back down, I looked around, before spotting the get well cards that I
have never once in my life received, before quickly spotting a bottle of vodka 80% straight
from Russia, and my box of cigars. Both of which, were by my bedside and had a skull
and scythe's on the inside of the deceiving outer card. Reaching over I opened the box
and snipped the front and back of one of the cigars and promptly began to light it. After
lighting it i layer back as I enjoyed my cigar that tasted of hay, greasy-oil like stuff and full
copious amounts of smoke and nicotine.
{hey guys I did a thing! : )}