So I know some of you maybe thought that the last part was rushed...
That I brought Luna from a backround character, to a lover in about 500 words.
'Tis part of the point of a plot-twist, though...
Okay. So I decided to make this chapter about Jossten and his step-father. A lot of people, and I know how you feel, wanted to know who he was.
But if you payed attention to the bread crumbs I spread in the latest chapters, you might get an idea who it is.
Breadcrumbs like; 'Sipping glass as he did so.'
Now tell me, who sips glass? Why not he 'sipped his glass'?
Please enjoy...
Chapter 8: An Old Friend
Hmmm...
"Mwha?"
"What?" I said groggily.
I felt the ground below me...
It was soft... And warm...
I opened my eyes to see the sky above me...
'Strange... Is this some dream?'
I got up slowly, still wondering were I was...
"You know, a few ponies were having a parade, today."
I turned around, and something literally forced me to say something I did not wish to say.
"Hello, father."
I looked down, to see I was a bit smaller than I am now...
'Could this be when I was younger? Before my 7 spent years on the moon?'
You see, I have always wanted to know what the surface of the moon looked like, but I never knew how to get back once I arrived there. How I got there? Kinda of a big-ass teleportation spell, if you ask me.
"So I walked over to these ponies, and decided to make it 'rain on their parade'.
"You are the god of chaos, you know." I said again while chuckling a bit.
"Come here, son."
I walked over to him casually before he put his lions paw on my shoulder;
"Some day you become a strong man. With morals, strength, courage, and charm."
"One day, you will grow up, and become a wonderful young man." He said to me, confirming what he said before.
"Really?"
"Yes. You have a special mind. One in a million, I would say."
"Thank you father..." I said while smiling.
"Hah..." I gasped as I woke up quickly.
The soft sound of Luna's breathing made me smile a bit before brushing her mane softly.
"Mmmm... Good morning..."
"Good morning, love." I said softly and kissing her forehead.
'That dream... Father?'
I do not know when... Or how I will ever see my father again...
But I know, I will got to the ends of this planet to find him.
I slowly sat up, positioning myself to get up and off the bed.
After minutes of slow movements and squirming, I maneged to get off the bed, leaving a sleeping angel on the bed.
"It is time for you to wake up now, Luna."
"Five more minutes..." She said while yawning a bit.
'Aww... She looks adorable...'
I walked towards the door, when I realized...
'Tia- I mean... Celestia is here... I hope I'm not intruding...'
I opened the door slowly, and to my surprise, Celestia wasn't anywhere to be found.
"Oh, well then, I shall be off!" I said to myself.
I walked outside, and closed the door softly behind me, and proceeded walking.
Many of the guards glared at me, because I just exited the Lunar Princess' private chambers.
I made it through the hall way and into the throne room, when I heard a familier voice to the left down the left hall.
"He wanted to pass a bill so that he could do what?" She laughed.
'Gotta hide! FAST!' My mind screamed at me.
'Left?! No, she'll see me! Right? No, forward?'
I jolted suddenly, when I heard a familiar voice behind me.
"Jossten? What are you doing here?"
'God. Damnit. All.'
I turned around sharply and scratched the back of my head with my tentacle.
"Ehh, hehe... I uhh, wanted to explore the castle!" I said nervously.
She motioned for her assistant to be off, and walked up to me.
"So what brings you here?"
'Think fast!'
"Um... Oh yeah! You know those three fillies who call themselves, 'The Cutie Mark Crusaders'?"
"Maybe..."
"Well, them and another filly were victims of a kidnapping for ransom..." I said, getting quiet at the end.
"Oh... The poor things... Who got them out?"
"Uh... I-I did..."
"Really? That was brave of you!"
"Last night I brought them here. To the hospital."
"How did you get here?"
"Um... I ran... here..." I said sheepishly.
"You ran here? All by yourself?"
"Yes... I did... In fact..."
'He has such a kind heart...' She thought.
"So... You busy?"
"Do I look busy?" I said while grinning.
"Me neither." She said.
"Ma'am, you have a message for you from Twilight Sparkle." Her assistant said while walking in the room.
"Alright, I'll take that now." She said while grabbing it in her magical grasp.
She opened the letter and read it quietly.
...
...
...
"Hey listen to this, Discord managed to stop the Ponyville school from collapsing. That was nice of him."
...
The name Discord...
... Rang... In my ears...
All the thoughts... Memories of being with him...
Came flooding back like a wave.
I felt to the on one knee, and braced myself with my left on the floor, proping me up.
"Jossten? What's wrong?"
"I... need to get to Ponyville!"
"Why?"
"I just need to!" I said while running towards the large two wooden doors.
"Open this door!" I yelled to the guards.
They opened it up, and I thanked them.
"Thank you!" I said while leaping out the door.
And I kept running and running. For all I was worth, really.
I ran out the Canterlot gates, and back towards the train station.
I saw the latest train leave it, and was 250 feet down the track.
"Come on, Jossten, you can do it!" I said while picking up speed.
I almost reached the train, when I knew I had to leap to catch the caboose.
"AAAANNNNDDD! HUP!" I said while grabbing onto the bars near the back.
"YES!" I exclaimed.
And I rode the train all the way to Ponyville.
...
...
...
But I got off about 300 feet from the train station.
I ran towards the train station, and into Ponyville center.
I looked for Twilight's house, and found it, but it had a note that said;
'If you need me, or any of the Mane Six, we'll be near the lake, having a picnic'.
"Well that explains it."
I walked casually towards the lake, but I couldn't find it, until I saw a large body off water, accompanied by a few ponies and a large, tall figure.
I walked over to them slowly, unsure if this was a trick or not.
"Hey Slender, we were just talking about you!" Twilight said happily.
He looked behind himself for a moment, then turned back, then turned around again, slowly.
He stood up slowly, unsure if this was a trick or not either.
I walked up to him, eye to eye.
"You guys know each other?"
"Father..." I said breathlessly.
"Son..." He said.
"WHAT?!" Twilight screamed.
"Yes... This is my step-father..."
"Soooo, Discord is you step-father?" Rainbow Dash said.
I walked up to the group, and confirmed what she said.
I looked back at Discord again, happy to see him again.
I started to bawl on this spot, when I knew it was him.
"Fa-Father!" I said while hugging him tightly.
"It has been so long!" I said while crying on his shoulder.
"Indeed it has, son, indeed it has..." He said while patting my back with his paw.
After a moment, I recollected myself again, knowing that I did not want to cry, when such a wonderous thing has happened.
You see, I haven't told anybody, or pony, except my father, or step-father, Discord, that I am not just two thousand something years old, I am over tens of thousands of years old, on both this world, and the last.
The last world, Earth, A legend was around, stating that in the woods, the densely packed wood in the far east, there would be a man, abnormally tall, an abnormally tall clothed man, wtih no face, would stalk you, as odd white inscriptions would be stuck on the trees.
Inscriptions like:
'Leave me alone'.
... Yes...
That was me...
...From thousands of years ago...
From when I was bansihed to the moon, when I was first sent here from and by some ungodly reason...
A 300-year-old romance...
The horrible, unfathomable dark side of being on the moon...
A year goes by on the moon, 10 years on this planet...
I just haven't seen her in 300 years...
Said years were spent on the moon...
3000 years past down on this planet...
So when Luna was sentenced here, nopony was told it was only 100 years.
But 1000 years down here.
For the lunar princess still created Nightmare Moon, but the solar princess missed her for so much longer...
"Let me look at you, son." He said to me.
We broke away, and I wiped away the tears.
He studied me for a moment before smiling.
"What was it I told you that day?" He asked.
"I would become a man. A man with strength, courage, charms, and morals. I remember it to this very day."
"Yes... I remember now..." He said, smiling at me for a moment.
"So, I heard you saved the local schoolhouse here."
"Well, I was just doing the right thing." He said in monotone.
"Hm."
"Hey, I found this really old book in the Canterlot Library. I would like you to read it." Twilight said while levitating it in my magical grasp.
'Twas a very old and frail looking book, a book...
A book...
"Where did you get this?"
"The Canterlot Library."
I looked at her for a moment, seriously.
"I... Uh got it from the back though..." She said sheepishly.
"Hm..." I said while walking over to a nearby tree, leaning on it, and reading the book.
I heard the seven over talking about me as I proceeded to read the book.
"Soooo, what's he like? Inside?" Rainbow Dash asked.
'This book... Has no title... Only one book has no title...'
'The only book I know of... Is the book of outlawed spells, and old legends and lineages book...
I looked at the first page, and it read:
'Immortality spell.'
'Holy shit...'
I flipped through many pages, all saying things like;
'Earthquake spell'
'Race Transformation spell'
And one that caught my eye,
'Memory spell'
'I wonder if this would work with me...'
You see, I don't remember anything from the last world, except stalking and killing humans...
But...
Maybe there was more of that?
More memory than just that?
...
Maybe I even had a life.
Maybe...
I was a human?
"No..." I said breathlessly...
I looked down at the wording, and realized something didn't think was possible.
"This... Was written... By... A human?"
The wording is a bit awkward, like a humans, but...
That's not possible...
Right?
I looked down at the memory spell again, to read the inscription.
"Hm..."
I flipped through the pages to see old legends and past lineages.
'There was once a Prince of Equestria?'
'His name was Prince Jusstenian?'
'What an interesting name...'
'He ruled the Kingdom with the Lunar and Solar Princess' by his side...'
'Lunar and solar princess'? Luna and Celestia?'
'Once upon a time, two ponies, Prince Nebular and Princess Galaxia, had fallen for each other, married each other, and became King Nebular and Queen Galaxia. They then had two daughters, Celestia, and Luna. After a while, and they had grown older, and more mature, they had developed a relationship with a man named Jusstenian, and became a Prince. He then ruled with the two princess' at his side, but only for a few years, because the forces of darkness, King Sombra, Discord, and Nightmare Moon, banded together to defeat him, he sacrificed himself to save Equestria, and to keep Equestria the safe place it is now...'
"*Sniff*, that was heartfelt..." I said slowly.
I looked back at the memory spell again, and decided if I had any memories I couln't remember.
"Just for my curiosity."
'Wait, some of the worst choices were because of curiosity...'
"Hmmm..." I said while pondering this verse.
"Old will become anew, and lost will become found... Memories forgotten... Shall be remembered...'
I read the from the old spell book, and some very strange things started to happen.
For one, my hands started to heat up a bit, two the book closed all by itself, and three my head was on fire.
"Aaaaagghh... What's happening?" I said while gripping my head.
I fell to my knees as memories flashed through my mind as my world was spinning around me.
'Yes, I do, Tia...'
"Slender? What's wrong?"
"No, what? Why is this happening?!" I yelled.
'Leave me alone? The hell is this?' Another thought flashed through my mind.
After an excrutiating amount of pain, my body eventually started to shut down.
"Slender? SLENDER!?" Twilight screamed while rushing to me.
"Jossten? JOSSTEN!" Discord yelled.
"Help me..." I whispered to them.
And I passed out...
Chapter End
Well, how'd you like that for an interesting new plot twist?
I decided to add some interesting fact about who Jussten, or Jusstenian is.
But if you think you know who Jussten is, PM me or leave a review, I'll definetly include you in the next chapter note.
And what other story do you want me to work on next? This one? Or another. PM me.
But anyway, I hoped you liked this new chapter!
Buh-bye!
-LunarDarkness
