Sacred: RB! Get off of your 3DS and get on your computer now! I'm tired of waiting for you to actually get in the mood to start typing... It takes FOREVER!

RB: But Sacred. I've been typing about you for forever now. Can't I get a break?

Sacred: N! Especially not now! It's PAST the one- year anniversary of the story! GoldenPonyBoy can type stories faster than you!

RB: Well he's type about ten or fifteen stories. I've only typed three.

Sacred: Then make that number rise some more. Besides it's the one year anniversary of your story... You need to do something.

Hello, everyone, RBDash here with another chapter that finally goes back to the plot. Unfortunately, I won't be doing any bonuses soon. They appearantly just aren't my thing. I'll take a break from them for a little while and pay attention to the story.
As you saw above, we are apastthe one- year anniversary of my story, and I'm only on Chapter 12. I need to kick it into overdrive. So I'm going to be doing my best to type more often. But I've made that promise before, and look at the gaps that we've had.
Thanks to everyone that has followed my story so far (I'm at twenty. Woohoo!), and thanks to all of my commentors. I can to this without your support.
Finally, a few chapters back I said that I wanted my story to be on Equestria Daily. Well, I finally submitted my story and I'm waiting for a reply. Everypony wish me luck.

Now without any further ado: the next chapter of By your side!

Chapter 12: All sorted out

When I woke up, I was in pain. my head was just about thrusting up against my head and I was lying on my stomach on the ground, I really couldn't remember much. But I didn't even want to think, because my head hurt that much.

Picture yourself having a migraine, hurts right? Now picture something about 100 times worse. Now picture Knives being slowly planted into your head, now imagine… I'm not even going to keep going.

Just know I was in excruciating pain

As all I could do was groan, I had rolled myself onto my back, which made my head hurt even more. But I knew I had to get up to see what was wrong. I started lifting my body onto my four legs, but then, I lost balance and fell… right on my head.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the loudest scream that you'll ever hear without breaking your eardrums.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The amount of pain I had just felt probably couldn't have even compared to that of a victim in a horror movie. Terrible, just plain terrible.

I tried to get up again, after stumbling a few times, successfully got up, but it was a miracle due to extreme dizziness. Now staying up was the problem.

Which I couldn't do because of the pink blur that shouted "SURPRIIIIISE!" in my face, hitting me with enough force to knock me down.

"Urgh," was all I could manage out get out which was unexpected… I wanted to say "What is this pain? Why does it hurt so bad."

The pink blur slowed down and revealed itself as Pinkie Pie, the pony who had thrown the party the previous day.

That's when I remembered. There was a party yesterday. But what was I doing? And how did I hurt myself this badly?

"Pinkie Pie? Why does it hurt so mu- BLURGH!" I couldn't finish my question without unleashing a load of vomit (Or at least what I though was vomit) to the floor. It was disgusting.

"Oh silly. You're suffering from a hangover!" Pinkie said.

"Wha? A hangover?" I asked? I was still in pain, so I had to keep the words to a minimum. Anything that I did would induce pain, so it was best I do nothing at all.

"Yep. A hangover! It's when you drink a lot of beer and wine and alcohol and then you pass out. Then the hangover is the headache and the aftereffects of everything that you drank."

"I was, *hiccup* drinking?" I asked.

"Yep! You got in a drinking contest with a whole bunch of stallions! You were really drunk! Boy did your true colors show, with all of that cursing and swearing and dirty talk, I'm surprised that you kiss your mommy with that mouth." Pinkie explained to me.

"Drinking contest? How bad was it?" I asked.

"You were really into it. I mean you and two other stallions were just chugging away, and you all passed out! You won though since you drank about 47 glasses of beer!" she said. What I didn't understand was how she could say all of that with a straight face, much less a smile!

"FORTY-SEVEN! HOW COME NO ONE STOPPED ME! WERE THEY TOO BUSY PARTYING TO SEE ME JUST ABOUT DRINK MYSELF TO DEATH!?" I shouted in shock

"Nope. As a matter of fact, they all came to watch you. You were killing it too? Everypony was just cheering 'CHUGG! CHUGG! CHUGG!' and when it was over, they all started cheering."

"How?" I said miserably, "How could they all enjoy that?"

"I don't know they do it, but they love it... Now you just sit tight while I go get you some water."

After a few hours, I was still feeling foggy, but I was set to go around town and look for Rainbow or her friends. Pinkie decided to come with me. Now that the party was over, we needed to stop the fun and games and get down to business. We needed to get everything figured out about

A) How Rainbow got to my world
B) How She ended up in my exact school?
C) How to get me back to Earth.

...

As I walked on the streets of Ponyville, I saw that this town was bustling with activity. And the thing that shocked me was that none of the ponies had looked at me strange or with a scowl or anything like that. Back in Atlanta, I had gotten into LOTS of fights... And everyone who saw it looked at me days after with caution or a mad look on their face. I didn't really care much but I still noticed it. And I was surprised with their non reactions.

I turned to Pinkie and asked her, "Do parties around here happen normally?"

"Yep! I have them just about every day, or maybe twice everyday, or three, or four, or fi-"

"I think I got it. *Sigh* I need to find Rainbow or one of her friends and get this entire situation sorted out.

"Hey! Follow me and I can take you to Twilight's Library! Maybe the rest of the gang is there! If not I can go back and get everypony."

"That... would be nice."

Ever see a person/ pony who actually lives in a library? I can add that to a list of things that I've seen here.

Twilight's library was a moderately big sized library with books that I really didn't care to understand. The library was clearly in great condition, as the books looked clearly organized and as hard as I looked, I couldn't find a single speck of dust. Looks like Twilight really takes care of this library. I thought ot myself. Is this what it looks like for people who have a home? Living in Atlanta, I rarely saw many houses. I mostly saw apartment complexes and 5-star hotels (Although I've never been in either).

But anyway, this is a good first impression of being inside a house.

"So Twilight runs this place?" I asked Pinkie.

"Yep. Twilight and heer ADORABLE assistant Spikey-wikey!" She answered. Who names their kid Spikey-Wikey? And other thoughts ran throught my minds as Pinkie went on about Spikey-Wikey (The name just makes me wanna hurl, laugh, and other ridiculous things.)

But my thoughts were cut short when I heard Pinkie give a loud, ear-piercing scream yelling "SPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKEE!"

I had no time to cover my ears with my hooves since it was so sudden and out of nowhere. But not long after the scream, I heard the rhythmic beat of footsteps nearing the stairs that were some distance from me. I would've thought that Twilight would be coming since Pinkie was making so much noise, but I was proved wrongs when I saw a figure walking down the steps that wasn't even a pony.

It was a dragon.

Now, this wasn't the stereotypical dragon that you see when you read one of those God of the Rings books or whatever. This was actually a puny, small dragon. Any smaller and I'd think that it would've been a baby. It couldn't have been any bigger than about between a foot and a half and 2 feet. This dragon was small. And its appearance was really hard to explain. Unlike everyone else that I had met in this place, it had actually walked on only two legs. It was mainly purple except for some whisker-like things on the side of its faced and it's mohawk. It also had some green spikey things on the back of its tail. The center of its underbelly was mostly a tan-ish color. And its eyes (which took up about one- fourth of its height, God those things were big) were green.

By the time it had reached the bottom of the stairs, it had opened its mouth to speak, "Hey Pinkie. Whose your new friend?" He asked, which is voice had confirmed that he was a boy. I had to keep it all in, as I was about 2 seconds away from exploding with excitement. I'd never thought I would see a dragon in my natural life.

"This is Sacred Blaze. He just moved to Ponyville yesterday," Pinie then turned to me,"This is Spike, the assistant that I was telling you about." Spike, makes a LOT more sense than Spikey-Wikey.

"Hello, Spike. Is Twilight here?" I asked the Dragon.

"Yeah... but as always, she's studying. Do you want me to go get her?" He replied.

"I'd appreciate it."

After Spike had went upstairs, I could only hear the repetition of the phrase"Twilight, Pinkie and some new pony are hear." After I heard that a few times, I heard only silence. After a while, I thought Spike was coming back downstairs to say something. But the thought was cut off by a sudden yell from upstairs. What the heck was that? Twilight?

"Pinkie! What was-"

"Relax, Sacred. Nothing's wrong. Spike just got her attention, that's all," she explained.

"But that scream sounded like a distress call." I replied.

"Trust me, Twilight's fine." she confirmed.

My muscles started to relax and I was no longer in adrenalene-high mode. I then heard footsteps nearing the stairs and I saw the familiar face of the pony that I had met yesterday.

"Hello Sacred, I'm sorry for the wait, I was studying and I had-"

"Yeah, yeah, you were studying. I get it." I interrupted.

"Oh, well, I'm sure you're here for something. What do you need?" she asked.

"Well, I just thought we could get this giant mess sorted out. I'm really lost on this whole Equestria thing. So I had some questions I had to ask you and Rainbow Dash." I told her.

"Fine by me. To be honest, I'm sort of confused on this whole situation too," Twilight had turned to Pinkie," Pinkie, could you go out and get the rest of the girls?"

"Sure, alright. I'll be back in a Jiffy," the Pink Devil said as she literally sped out of the door.

She... is totally ADHD...

Not long after she left, Pinkie Pie was back with Rainbow Dash and the others. "Thanks Pinkie, I owe you one." Twilight thanked her.

"Isn't that what friends are for, silly-gilly?!" Pinkie replied with a noogie to Twilight's head.

"Twilight, what didja need us for? I was in the middle of practicing this new trick that's gonna be tatally AWESOME!" Rainbow had complained to Twilight.

"Donchya say that about every one of yer tricks, Rainbow?" Applejack addressed Rainbow.

"Every one of my tricks IS awesome, but this one is different. This one is my one way ticket into the Wonderbolts," Rainbow answered.

"I'll believe it when I seei-"

"Girls, we can discuss that later. But for now, we need to get everything sorted out," Twilight interrupted the two in the middle of their conversation.

"Why, whatever do you mean darling?" Rarity had asked.

"I mean the whole situation with Rainbow and Sacred. None of us exactly know what happened. So we need to get every piece of it figured out." Twilight replied.

"First off, I need to know how Rainbow got to my world. And how to prevent something like this from happening again. Plus we need to find out if there's an alternate solution to getting me back to my home," I then shot a glare at Rainbow. "And I'm gonna need ot have a personal word with you for leaving me at that party last night, but we'll worry about that later."

"We also need to find out why Sacred found her and how she got to his specific location. And how exactly he got her back." Twilight added.

"We're probably gonna have to start from the beginning. Do any of you guys know how she got here?" I asked. But I didn't really get much of an answer. Just a shake of heads from everyone. "Rainbow? Do you even know?"

"No... Not really. All I remember before waking up and seeing you was- it's kinda cloudy let me think-" she paused for some time, "Me and AJ's arm wrestling contest, Rarity using me as a dress subject... GOT IT!" Rainbow shouted with a giant grin. "I remember going into the library because she needed me for something," her smile quickly turned into a frown as she said, "The next thing after that was me waking up with you."

"Rainbow went here for something? Twilight? Would you happen to remember what?" I turned to ask her.

"Umm... I think I had asked Rainbow over to do me a favor or- That's right! I wanted her over so that she could be the test subject of my new spell." She explained. I thought I was actually getting somewhere. "And then?" I asked.

"Hmm- She left and that was really it... Sorry but I honestly don't remember anything else."

Crap... This sucks...

"Does anyone else remember anything?" I asked as I was starting to get frantic.

"Nope, nuthin'" Applejack answered

"No darling. I was probably inside making new dresses at the time." Rarity replied.

"I'm sorry, I was inside making Angel bunny something to eat," Fluttershy said.

"Nope. I don't even remember what I was doing."

I had lost hope in knowing what had happpened when I heard a voice.

"I think I know about all that happened, Dereun Seika, and I think I may be able to assist you in your situation."

CHAPTER FINALLY DONE! I'M BACK IN BUSINESS BABY! Now that Summer has actually started, I think I'm gonna have more time to type between playing pokemon, drawing, and making music. Anywhay, this is my attempt at making a cliffhanger. I'll get better over time.

In other news, I'm gonna be working on the other stories that I wanna release, including the sequel to this story which is gonna be called "We're all in this, Together". I'm thinking for a better name, so I'm turning to you guys for help. Put your thoughts on the name of the sequel in the comments adn I'll consider your opinions for the name of the new story, who knows? Maybe your name will be the name of the new story?

But anyway, the next chapter is coming on an unspecified date, but I'll be working on it no matter how hard it gets. I WILL GIVE YOU PEOPLE SOME GOOD READS! Thanks everyone, Favorite, Rate and Review, do whatever you want. And Until next time, and until the be at peace!