Chapter 4: Voices and Echoes
DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC OR GHOST RIDER. MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC BELONGS TO LAUREN FAUST/HASBRO. GHOST RIDER BELONGS TO MARVEL.
A/N: This chapter will be a bunch of flashbacks from Golden Flames' past. Some memories she's suppressed/repressed.
Golden Flame's POV
After I screamed until my voice was hoarse – no pun intended – I fell unconscious.
Flashback #1 …
?'s POV
"Here he is … the one, the only … JOHNNY BLAZE!" the commentator shouted. I was at the legendary helicopter jump that Johnny was about to perform. I watched as he leaped over the rotating blades of the six Apache helicopters. I hid my face behind my hands and waited for the inevitable crash that always came after one of his jumps. It didn't happen. I then heard a screech of wheels and he shot out of the stadium. 'Where was he going?'
END FLASHBACK #1
Golden Flames POV
'What was that? I don't remember that.' 'Ooh. This is exciting.' That voice was back. I unconsciously whimpered.
Flashback #2
?'s POV
I took my hands away from my face and left the stands. I approached his instructor.
"Hi."
"Who are you? A reporter? I don't even know where he's going if that's what you're going to ask."
"Hmph. Fine." I walked away from him. I walked out of the stadium and unlocked my car remotely. I got in and started up the engine. I drove away from the stadium and on towards my house. I got out, locked the car and unlocked the front door.
END FLASHBACK #2
Golden Flames POV
I finally got conscious and looked around. I was lying down on a couch/bed thing and I looked over to my side. I saw Discord.
"Gahh!"
"Why hullo thar. How ya feeling?"
"Uhh …"
"Oh, come, come now. Please open up and tell me what's bothering you." I gave him the silent treatment.
"Fine. Be all uppity. See if I care. Now," He assumed a business-like composure. "We were talking about these memories that have seemed to surface due to you recent traumatisation."
"Yeah, traumatisation caused by you." He merely shook his head. He then got a hammer from his desk. "What's that for?"
"Oh, this?" He gestured to the hammer. "It's just a little anaesthetic. " He then reached over and hit me over the head.
Flashback #3
?'s POV
I got inside my house and let the cat in. I fed Mr Sniggles and I looked out the window. I saw Johnny, of all people, ride past my window. I ran outside and yelled at him to stop. He didn't seem to hear me. I stamped my foot like a little girl and hurriedly got into my car. I started the engine up and I tore after him.
"OI! JOHNNY!" I yelled over the wind as I got up beside him.
"PULL OVER!" He pulled over and I parked my car behind his bike. When I got out of the car I saw him leaning against his bike.
"Do I know you?" I was a little taken aback at that.
"I'm an old friend of yours. You probably don't remember me. But my name's Melissa."
"Melissa …" He thought for a bit.
"Oh yeah, your that dorky kid right?" Dorky? I'd think I would have remembered if I was dorky. "No, you're a different Melissa. Oh yeah that's right, your Melissa Hart right?"
"Yes I am."
"Why did you pull me over, just so that we could re-introduce ourselves? Or was it for idle chit-chat?"
"Uhhh …" I was a bit shocked. I actually don't have anything to say to him.
"Hey I have an idea," I was open to anything. "Why don't we talk about what we've been doing since we last seen each other, over dinner, all right?
END FLASHBACK #3
Golden Flames POV
'Oh hell. What hallucinative world have I been brought to now?' I warily opened my eyes and saw the centre of the hedge maze. 'Phew.' I sighed in relief. I jumped up to get a glimpse of what's over the hedge and it was a bottomless black hole, again. 'Heh heh heh heh heh …' It was inside my head. I clamped my hoofs on my head when the laughter reached a crescendo and screamed for him to get out of my head. It felt like it would burst from just that one voice. I finally blacked out again from the pain.
Flashback #4
Melissa's POV
I drove up to the front entrance of the Stargazer's restaurant. I parked my car and headed inside. I told the waiter that I had a reservation and he led me to my table. I really hoped that he wouldn't have stood me up.
A few hours later …
I had just drunk my second bottle of wine and thought to myself 'He's not coming. He's stood me up.' I drunkenly walked out and promptly vomited in the bushes near my car. 'Ugh.' It must have been my drunken haze or something weird but I swore I could have seen a flaming skull-head on a bike. It had a few police cars chasing after it. I thought I would follow. I tried to shake my haze off but I just slept at the wheel of the car.
END FLASHBACK #4
Flashback #5
Melissa's POV
I woke up and I had a serious hangover. I moaned and clutched my head. I brought my head up from the steering wheel and realised I had slept in my car. That got me alert. I quickly started the engine and drove home. When I got there I saw that my place had been searched for something. The only way I knew that was because all my jewellery and expensive stuff was still here. I quickly went to my room and I heard a startled meow. I had accidently stepped on Mr Sniggle's tail. I continued on to my room and stared at the place where my amulet was. It was gone. I collapsed on the bed.
END FLASHBACK #5
Golden Flames POV
'Now that was very int-er-resting.' Discord said in my head. I was now crying from the pain and weight of his voice inside my head. I glimpsed through my veil of tears somepony coming towards me. It looked like Starcover. I smiled weakly and collapsed from the pain.
Two updates in one day! Who'd thought that voices could be so painful or so heavy? I sure didn't! I'm still accepting OCs.
List of OCs:
Jamie – DarkDarsi
Lonely Shadow – E
Flame-colours list:
Gold – Able to turn anything to dust instantly
White – Able to repair anything
Silver – Able to see into the past of anypony that gets hit
Rainbow – Able to teleport
White w/Rainbow Sparkles – Able to revive anypony that's been knocked out.
Blue – Able to freeze anything, ever heard of the saying 'so cold it burns'?
Red – Able to unfreeze anything that's been frozen
