Hey... GUESS WHAT?
I'm really likin' this new, revamped version of 'A Princess' Regret'. It was horrible, now that I look back on it. Aaaaaannnndddd... Um... The one thing I liked about my last version of this, was that it had MANY more reviews, follows, and favorites...
I kinda anticipated that this story would double in that aspect.
Guess I was wrong. Maybe it's the picture? The name? One of the two.
Well...
The one thing I wanted to say, is that when his brain speaks to him, it will be in bold and italicized. When he speaks to his brain, it will be just italicized.
Anyway...
Enjoy...
Jossten...
What.
Jossten...
What.
Jossten...
WHAT? FOR THE LAST TIME BRAIN, THE HELL DO YOU WANT?
He morphed into existence and just laughed his ass off in front of me.
"AAHAHAHAHA!"
"Shut up. Stop laughing. I thought you needed something important. You kind just interupted me from my sleep."
"Aw come on, I'm your brain. I never sleep!"
"Yeah... Lucky you..." I grumbled. I wish I could never sleeeee... NO! I LOVE SLEEPING!
"Brain. You have my pity. Not being able to sleep must suck."
"Yeah... But I made myself a computer and I play TF2 and Blockland and lot's o' other games as well so I always have something to do."
"NOW THAT'S AWESOME!"
"YESH!"
"Well... Do you play any horror games? Like... Ummm... Amnesia? Slender? Corpse Party? ANY of those?"
"Of course! You yourself played those games, so in turn, those memories have been cached in my memory banks."
"Oh... Yeah... Forgot about that."
"Hey... Jossten?"
"Yeah."
"Um. Two things." He said while scratching the back of his head. "Shoot." I said to him.
"Well, first thing, why did you suddenly just... Reject Twilight?"
"I did not!"
"Yeah, you did. You kinda told her to go."
"Yeah... So? I mean..."
"Well, you kissing Luna, kinda set the plot in a way to where you are reunited with them, and leaving Twilight out of the picture. You once loved her, remember? You were her first love."
This left me guilty. He was right. But any chance of trying to access any memories beyond that time, were hopeless.
"Then, when you went to war, Celestia practically threw herself onto you, hoping you wouldn't remember Twilight. And it worked. All the way until the war was over."
"Why?"
"It's because you had a war to fight, to many things were flying through your mind at the time. You had no time to think about her, no offense."
"None taken..."
"And I have finally figured out why you can't remember anything. The night before Celestia... Killed you, she placed a memory lock spell on you, so that when you died, you would die, never knowing three things. 1. You would never know that SHE killed you. 2. You would never know that Twilight was your first love. 3..."
"Yeah?"
"You would never remember anything from this world."
"Would you like to explain why I remember them all?"
"Well, cuz of your little feat you did, accessing a few memories from within the memory spell, caused your body to relive it, but in turn, access those memories."
"What about the others? Can't I do the same?"
"No, you can't. This spell Celestia put on is a spell ONLY she can take off. No matter how hard you try, it won't work."
"Hm. That's a disapointment."
"But even IF she decided to take it off, which I doubt, you still wouldn't remember all of it."
"Why?"
"Cuz she doesn't know ALL of the outlawed/ancient magic spells out there. Memory restoration, is it's name."
"Wow. Sounds cool."
"Acts even cooler."
"What does it do?"
"Are you kidding? MEMORY RESTORATION?!"
"Oh! That's what it means!" I said while slapping my head.
"Anyway, um... Well..."
"What?"
"The only way to break the spell Celestia put on you is..."
"What?"
"Well... She put it this way for a reason!"
"What is it?"
"Hhhhh... The only way to break the spell is a kiss. And that's it."
"FFS."
"Yeah... I feel ya."
"God, really?"
"Yes. REALLY."
"GODDAMNIT!"
"Yeah... I know. I don't like it, and neither do you, but what can we do? Ya want your memory back?"
"OF COURSE!"
"Then..." He said while communicating with his eyes.
"Fine."
"Hey, you better wake up soon."
"Yeah... Thanks brain. Your a life saver."
"Hey, no problem."
"Seeya later!"
"You too!"
And with that, everything faded to white, and then black.
I scratched my head, and opened my eyes, to see that is was morning, the sun almost over the horizon, I looked at the small body next to me.
Oh kill me now.
I then realized that Luna had been watching me, as I awoke. Quite embarresing. My mother used to do the same when I was a baby.
"Good morning... Love." She stated.
"Mm." I grunted.
"Aww, what's wrong?"
"Nothing." I said.
I sat up, and looked towards Luna, and stood up, with her doing the same.
"Do you remember?"
"Remember what?"
"Remember that night?"
She looked down at the cloud when I said that. "Yes." She said.
"Hm. Then you would understand why I am still a bit hesitant about starting something with you."
"Yes... I'm sorry..."
"Sorry won't cut it, Luna. That's too shallow. You need to PROVE, that you are genuinely sorry. Actions speak louder than words."
"Please don't be like this. It has been so long since I have been with you... Please don't."
"Hehe, from what I know, time for you hasn't passed at all."
"What?"
"A time rift was created that night when I died. And just yesterday, I learned that I could use magic."
"Really?"
"Yeah. And it was just last night that the same burst of energy that started the time rift, ended the time rift."
"Wh... This... Is... Interesting."
"Yeah. Figured."
I snapped my fingers and appeared my armor on my body, with little sheaths for my wings
I looked towards the two cities below.
I could visit Ponyville, and go and see Twilight again, or I could roll the dice with Celestia, and hope she would release the spell.
I could visit a friend, or my killer.
Hmmm...
I'll go visit Twilight!
"How will you get down?" Luna asked.
I spread my wings as far as I could, and jumped down, and spun a 180 degree spin.
"WHOOHOOOHOOHOOHOOOOO!" I screamed as I flew down at impossible speeds. Oh man was it ever fun.
Wish Dash was here... Wait, what is that in the distance?
I flew over to see what that was in the distance, only to realize it was Dash!
"Dash!" I called out.
I flew over to her, and silently hovered over to her, only to whisper in her ear: "I found you."
"WAHHH!" She jumped.
"BWAHAHAHA!" I cackled.
"Hey! That's not- Oh."
"Hey there!"
"Oh. Hey." She said.
Um. Jossten?
Yeah?
Ya know... You just screamed just now, right?
Yeah?
And uh... Your wound hasn't fully healed...
Oh no...
Yeah... And uh... You will feel massive pain in about 4 seconds.
I stared into no where, and suddenly felt a HUGE pain in my gut where my wound was.
Well gee, thanks for telling me, RIGHT BEFORE!
Sorry!
"Jossten? You okay?"
"URG! Yeah! I-UMF! I-I'm fine!"
Dear god this hurts.
"You sure your okay?"
"Yes... I am... Fine."
Brain?
Yeah?
Why didn't my wound hurt last night when I screamed at Celestia?
Cuz your adrenaline was running.
Oh.
"I... Decided... To visit... You all..."
"Oh, well we were just about to get ready for a picnic, and Twilight asked me to find a sutible place to have a picnic."
"There... is a nice... place." I pointed towards a pond with a large tree that covered a large shaded area.
"Okay. I'll notify the others."
"I'll go... With you."
"Okay!"
We flew off to the mane... Mane five who were in front of Twilight's door, and smiled and greeted them all.
"Hello." I said while waving.
"Hello again." Rarity said.
"Howdy." Applejack greeted.
"Hey!" Pinkie said while jumping up.
"H-hi..." Fluttershy whispered. Silly thing.
"Hey, Jossten. What brings you here?"
"Well... I had to... choose... Between... Visiting my... favorite pony... Or... Being in... Canterlot... I had to... Choose this one."
"Aw, well gee, thanks." She blushed.
"Now... I picked out... A great spot... To have a picnic. Over there." I pointed.
"That seems appropriate." She said happily.
"Yes... I'm... Handy for... Things like that..." I smiled.
"So? Can we go?" Dash said.
"Yes. We can leave."
"From... What I saw... The distance... Is... Quite far..."
"Well, we can walk." Twilight said.
"Indeed." I said while motioning for all to follow.
"He's pretty big, isn't he?" Rainbow Dash asked Twilight secretly, but I could still hear.
"Well, he isn't a pony like us, he's a human. Human's... A-"
"Human's are... Naturally bipedal... At birth... And can grow... To be seven feet... in height." I said to them.
"You heard?" Dash asked.
"Mm. One thing human's have that ponies don't."
"What's that?"
"Intuition."
"Intuition?"
"Mhm. The ability to know things, create things, hide things, speak of things, things like that."
"Um, Jossten?"
"Yes?"
"What happened to your voice? A moment ago your were all like pausing and stuff." Dash asked.
"Don't look at me, I didn't do anything."
"Hhhh... Am I gonna be in major pain this time?"
"No."
"Okay."
"Uhhhh... I don't know." I shrugged.
"Interesting."
"What?"
"Your body is telling me that your wound is 80% healed. And counting."
"WHAT?!"
"Would you mind taking a look at it?"
I looked down and pulled up my shirt, only to reveal a HUGE scar, but not a huge wound. How is this possible? Did something happen when I was asleep? Must have been... Ancient Magic?
"YES!" I said while smiling and thinking.
"Yes what?"
"I know why my wound is healed!"
"So, tell us!" Dash asked.
"Okay. Back in the war, if you remember, most soldier's were wounded because of either magic, swords, and arrows as well."
"Yeah, I think I remember that." Twilight said.
"Um, didn't the war have... Like... A big loss during the beginning?" Dash said.
"Yes! You do remember! Then you all remember!"
"Remember what?"
"The Equestrian War!"
"Yeah, Ah reckon I remember sumthin' about a few weapon caches, but maybe that's me." Applejack said.
"It seems you remember as well."
"Well, darling, how do you know all of this?"
...
That question still haunts me to this day.
"Yeah! Tell us!" Pinkie said.
"I... Would rather not answer that question." I said, going into closed mode. It was a mode where I rarely spoke to any for a long time.
Long time being weeks, or even months.
"Well... Um... What about ancient magic?"
Whoooo... Thank God she asked that. I would've been out of contact or a while. But I only get closed like that when people asked thin gs about the war that included me... And... Her.
Her being... Well, you know.
"What?"
"The ancient magic?"
"Oh..."
"Yeah. Back then we had specially trained ponies, battle medics, used magic that would allow them to heal their victims, on the battle field, in a minute or two. Both sides used this method, even if we used it first. It just prolonged the war."
"When was the war started?"
"About... 2000 years ago."
"Woah."
"The war was started when we tried to come to the negotiating table with the Nightmare Ponies. Seems that they didn't like what we offered them, and instead of telling us they didn't like it, they showed us that they did't like it. So... I'm not sure who caused the war."
"Yeah... The time rift caused time to come to a halt, so 2000 years wasn't any time at all."
"Wow. The war must have been big." Pinkie said.
"The war... Is still alive. It never died. It just calmed down. From what I hear, they have some type of super weapon, which is sweeping throught our defenses like a hot knife through butter."
"What? Our defenses are much stronger that that thing!" Dash said.
"We have literally 7 major defensive barriers left."
"So?"
"We used to have over 200 offensive and defensive camps." I sternly stared into their eyes.
I started walking like a battle-hardended veteran, in which case I am, because I was in the war. I was the superpower that swept through their defenses like nothing was there. There was no escape.
I started pacing back and forth, putting my hands folded behind my back.
"We had over 200 camps. But now that is gone. Beyond those seven camps, are the training bases, and beyond those, the HQ."
"And beyond that?"
"Equestria." I said while snapping a map to life, as well as a table. I slammed the piece of paper down, and unraveled it. I had a deep voice. Imagine me having the voice of Kyle on Dead Trigger 2. That's the kind of voice I have.
"They will sweep through Fillydelphia, then Manehatten, as well as taking strategic positions there." I said while pointing.
"Though, I wonder why they've been so dorment?"
"Then?"
"Then they will converge on this town, seeing as it closest to... Canterlot."
"Ponyville?"
I clapped my hands, and grabbed the map, as the table disappeared.
"What's wrong?"
"Ponyville... Canterlot..."
"What?"
"Oh shit!" I said gruffly while clutching the map and running through the town, and then leaping as I flew into the sky.
I flew faster and faster, until I heard a loud BOOM behind me.
I had broken the speed of sound. I kept flying, until I reached Canterlot, where I flew up to the guards, and said:
"Guards, I have vital information that may change the war in our effort. Open these doors."
"Do you have a written con-"
"NO! OPEN THEM NOW!"
They jumped, and then opened the door, and let me in. I ran at impossible speeds, as I tried to remember where the war room was...
"Okay... Right, left, forward, and another right." I remembered.
I got to the war room, and looked at the guards, nodding as I walked towards the door.
"Halt. State your name and business."
"Heh... My name is Prince Jossten, The Lionheart. Prince of Equestria, and battle-hardened veteran. Now open these doors, now, if you please."
They looked at each other, and slowly opened the door, which I nodded respectfully at them, before walking in.
"We just don't have all the t
"Sirs and ma'am's, I have some information that maybe useful to our military conquest." I said, walking in as big as life. Though... I didn't realize that Celestia was in the room.
"Who are you? And what are you doing here?" A general said.
"Ah, General Hardnose. Figured you to be the one to say that."
"Who are you?"
"Prince Jossten the Lionheart, Prince of Equestria, and it's liberator."
There jaws seemed to drop whence I said this. But it was true, I was their liberator. From the Nightmare Ponies.
"P-P-P-Pri-"
"Spit it out, man!" I said while getting back into my old self. My English self.
"Prince? You? I thought he died!"
"He died, and rose again. And here he stands before all of you." I said in my english voice. I am 3/4 English, anyway.
"What business do you have here?"
"Well, sir, take a look at this map I happened to find."
I rolled it out on the table, and had them gather round. Even Celestia gathered, but I notice her.
"Now, I've heard that the jolly 'ol folks are dorment? Now, I would believe one bloody word of that nonsense. Now, look here." I said while pointing to Ponyville.
"You see, what is the best way to move troops, and still, be uncover?"
"Camoflauge?"
"Look again. The Everfree forest. I believe the Nightmare Ponies' larges division is centered inside the Everfree forest, sorting out formation, rank, and organizing their troops so they con ambush Ponyville, and seize it, so they have easy access to Canterlot, where we stand now."
"Think of it. The Nightmare Ponies conducting strategies in this very room."
He looked towards me, and dropped his pipe, before nodding towards me.
"You!" I pointed at a guard.
"Y-Yes sir?"
"Send a evacuation party to Ponyville, now!" I barked.
"Yes sir!"
"And you!"
"Yes sir?"
"All of you, come with me."
They walked out, and the guard I called came to me.
"Yes sir?"
"Round up as many troops as you can get your bloody hooves on."
I snapped my fingers and a crown, large enough for my head, appeared on my head, along with a suit identical to the one Richard the Lionheart wore, I walked with the group, with Celestia observing my moves intently, I pulled out my longsword, and said:
"Were going to war."
CHAPTER END
There you go. I take great interest in King Richard the Lionheart, so I modeled Jossten in this story off of him. I just love the way he said: "Were going to war." In his english accent.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this new chapter, and thanks for reading! If you like what you read, leave a review! If you want to read more, a favorite or a follow would be nice!
Buh-bye!
-LunarChrome