i woke up a few minutes later to the pounding of the cellar door. i ran up the stairs and tried to open it.
"crimson..." yelled dash. "crimson please be alright."
"daddy are you there... daddy please." said scootaloo.
"it's alright i'm fine... do you have dawn." i said.
"yes she is with me." said dash.
"alright dash and scootaloo you need to get out of the house right now." i said. "i don't care if you have to kick a door in or break a window just get out now." i said. i felt a sharp pain in my back almost like claws. i yelled in pain.
"crimson what's wrong." dash yelled.
"you have to get out NOW." i yelled. i could hear footsteps at the door and they grew fainter. that had gone like i told them to. i felt something grab me by the neck and throw me back down the stairs. i writhed in pain for a minute and looked around for some kind of light source. i looked over and saw a lantern . ran over and hoped. i turned the knob and it went ablaze. the cellar lit up like day. i looked around and i was the only on here.
"you think you are safe." said a raspy voice. i whipped the lantern around. "you are week and i will take from you what is mine." i felt a pain in my chest. it felt like a heart attack but worse. i could hear whispers from in the back of my head and they grew louder and more audible.
"ENOUGH" said the voices. something clicked in the back of my head and i fell to the ground. i closed my eyes and i passed out. i woke up in the same room but there was something different. i stood up but i was looking at myself. i looked over and saw the dark pony standing next to a smaller filly sized one.
"what... how." i stammered.
"we need to talk." he said.
"where am i... how are you free." i asked.
"this is not your inner plane this is the ether plane. i can leave to go here whenever i want but must return to you when you summon my power."
"so i'm here too... does that mean i'm dead." i asked.
"unfortunately not." said the demon. "i brought you here so we can talk... i'd like you to meet my son" he said picking up the smaller dark pony. "he is the demon binded to your child."
"i don't get it what's happening."
"foolish mortal don't you understand." he said yelling. the house shook violently and the roof above me started to crack and flake. "when you had relations with that pegasus and impregnated her with your seed you were using my powers for you're own lust and our genetics mixed."
"but how is that possible."
"fool if i tried to explain how that works we would be here for all eternity." said the demon shaking the house again. i heard a loud crash from upstairs and breaking glass. the ceiling cracked again "when you birthed that child of yours my own was birthed and is now under the control of your own child though she uses her powers without knowing."
"so she isn't going to be haunted like me." i said.
"no even though you're praying hurts us and muffles our own power she was the one. not a demon."
i tried to comprehend everything that was going on. the house shook again.
"stop destroying my house." i said.
"the futher my child grows from the living host the more unstable the area around him grows... i would wrap this up if i were you and get out while the house stands." he said
"alright bring me back." i said. he smiled and his eyes glowed a bright white. they flashed and the whole room went white.
"run fast and be strong." i could hear him say and he laughed as i slowly regained consciousness. i looked around and there was crashing all around me. i rushed up the stairs quickly and kicked open the door. i walked into the hall there was debris and pieces of the second floor everywhere. i tried walking through the shaking house but it was like trying to walk during an earthquake.
i managed to get into the living room. i room started to fall apart around me. the ceiling broke and my bed from upstairs fell and landed on me. i yelled in pain to the feeling of a few of my bones snapping. i tried to push the bed off of me but it wouldn't budge.
i tried to slip out but my legs got caught on the springs. i pulled and the springs just cut into my legs. i yelled in pain. i tried to shamble my legs around to free them as the house fell apart around me. i few boards fell from upstairs and landed on my back. the drawer in my room fell in front of me and the dresser next to me.
i pulled my legs again and they broke free. i couldn't move them. they were broken and terribly cut up. i tried to crawl away but there was too much rubble in the way. i tried to climb over it and more debris fell down and crushed me. i could see a small fire lighting in the kitchen. my eyes widened.
the fire hit the gas stove and there was an explosion. i sent me flying back into a wall which collapsed around me. there was fire everywhere now. i had shards of rubble and chunks of wood sticking out of my chest.
i tried my best to get up but i couldn't i was too hurt and there was too much debris everywhere. the house shuttered horribly and finally collapsed. i rolled over onto my back and covered my head. the house fell on me and snapped almost every bone in my body. one piece of furniture fell on my right wing and crushed it.
i yelled out in pain a the house fell on top of me. i was buried alive and it was dark. i tried to concentrate to use my powers but i was too weak. i felt something sharp sticking into my chest. i looked down and saw stuffing everywhere. i made a bit of a pocket of living space in the debis. i shifted around a bit and saw my cross sticking into my chest.
i ripped it from my chest and blood spurted out of it. i held it close and did the only thing i could think to do which was pray
"deum salvum me" i said. it was "god save me.". i repeated that phrase over and over until everything went black. i fell probably dead. but when the darkness passed there was a light. i awoke.
i was in a hospital... in my world, this was real. i looked around i was human. i was also horribly injured. there were wrappings all over my body. i looked around. this can't be real i thought i'm dreaming. i moved my hand along the covers of the hospital bed and it felt real. i started to tear up. the door swung open at the end of the hospital room and a doctor walked in. he looked at me and stepped back.
"you're awake... thank god." he said. "you've taken quite the beating Mr. Wesson. how are you feeling." he said looking over a few things in his clip board.
"what... where am i..." i rubbed my head. "what happened." i said.
"you're at mercy hospital." he said "when you were at work you suffered an accident involving the government funded dream arch... it malfunctioned and exploded. before it destructed it sent out a wave of energy and sent you out of the blast radius and into a wall. you've been in a coma for just a bit over a year." he said.
"what... no this...can't be real." i said. he smiled.
"it's not." he said. the room went black again and i went numb. i was abit shocked to see things change but i was confused the most. why did that just happen. that couldn't be real i... i can feel everything. the pain, the pleasure, and the laughter of my friends... this is real, and i won't let it be taken from me.
i opened my eyes i was in my destroyed house being crushed by a ton of wood and debris. i tried getting up and i couldn't. i was getting angry and i don't know why. maybe i just wouldn't let myself die. i could hear a voice in the back of my head.
"HAHAHA mayhaps you are a worthy host... i unlock for you my full power use it wisely... many a mare and stallion have fallen to it. i know i have." i closed my eyes and i felt a great power wash over me. my eyes glowed the darkest of black. i grit my teeth and the sharpened into fangs and my tongue split and became forked.
my body was covered in darkness and my wounds healed. my body took shape to a more evil form. spikes jolted out of my body and my mane turned into some kind of shadow that moved like fire. my ears were pointed and my muscles became more dense. i took a deep breath and exhaled. the air around me burned and became burning hot.
some of the darkness had started to leak off of my body and pool on the ground. i pushed up on the debris above me and got onto my own hooves. i bent down and pushed up. the debris on my back had flown from on top of me and light soon flooded around me. it was morning. i must have been out for a while.
i extended my wings and they were as big as two ponies each. i flew up from the pit of debris and roared into the air. i looked down and saw my own pool of shadows start to spread like a virus. i looked over and there were ponies with water buckets putting out fires. they stopped when they saw me.
there were ponies pulling debris from the destroyed house. they stopped when they saw me. and there were my friends standing and worrying. they stopped when they saw me. i stopped when i looked at myself. what have i become.
i gently flew over to the crowd of ponies and over to the edge of the rubble. they all back up. i looked over to dash. she was awestruck. she was holding my child. my little dawn knew it was her daddy. she smiled and tried to reach for me. i let the power drain from my body. the shadows fell away and you could see all the damage done to me. in an instant all the pain caught up to my body and i fainted.
i hit the ground and everything went black again. i figured that when i woke up i would have a lot of explaining to do. eventually i did wake up though but not entirely. i could just make out everything around me but i could not open my eyes.
"what happened." i heard a familiar voice say. i made it out to be twilight.
"i don't know we were sleeping in bed and the baby started crying downstairs and somethings lead to another and i guess there was some trouble with a demon or something." said dash. she seemed to be crying.
"do you think it has anything to do with his own demons." i heard rarity say.
"i would guess so. but why hasn't this happened before." i heard a bit of whimpering and noise. it sounded like... dawn.
"did y'all really think it was a good idea to bring your baby here." said applejack. i guess i really was hearing dawn.
"she cries constantly when he isn't around i don't know why she is so attached to him. it scares me sometimes." said dash. i wanted to say something but i couldn't. i tried to get up but i only shuffled in my bed.
"oh i think he's conscious." said twilight "crimson if you can hear us do something." she said. i couldn't open my eyes or speak but i grit my teeth and shuffled again. "alright i think he is conscious." i tried to speak but i just grunted.
"i'm afraid of him." said fluttershy. she seemed distant. "can i please go."
"you saw him he's the same guy." said applejack.
"yeah but now he's super duper scary and stuff with big wings and fangs and pointy spike coming out of his back." said pinkie.
"pinkie you're not helping" said twilight. "and fluttershy were his friends we should be here. he is obviously in a lot of pain right now." she said. i wasn't actually in pain but my whole body was numb... but i'm sure that won't last long.
i felt something lean against me it was soft and warm. i think it was rainbow dash. i could feel her hot breath against my chest and her tears on my stomach. she was obviously troubled. i can't blame her... i'm the worst husband. although i'm sure that all of this will end soon and we can put it behind us
"oh crimson." she said. she didn't sound sad. "i don't know what to do anymore. this is a lot to take in and i'm so confused... why does this happen to you... i'm not afraid for us i'm worried about you." she said. "i know as long as we're with you everything will be alright for us but i'm concerned that someday you're not going to get up from the wreckage and my children will be without a father."
"dash don;t say that."
"i'm not mad at him... he loves me and i love him too. sometimes i scare myself when i think about what i would do for him... and he does everything he can for me."
"we know dash... y'all are going to be alright. he's going to survive. he always does." said applejack.
"it's kinda funny." she said giving a little snicker. "how things can change in a heartbeat... you keep your head in the light when everything important happens in the shadows behind your back."
i tried to say something but i just grunted and moaned again. i could feel the numbness fade and a faint pain grew over my body... it grew until it was extreme and i grunted and shook from the pain.
"oh baby... why do you do this." said dash. i tried my best to speak and i got a few words out.
"because i must." i said in a whispery and raspy voice. i fell back down and let the pain wash over me until it became natural.
"oh celestia he is awake." she said. "crimson can you hear me say something."
"dash he's not that awake... those three words alone must have burned like hell." said twilight.
"crimson can you hear me... i have your daughter." said dash. i felt small hooves on my chest and it hurt. the trotted around and she laid down on my stomach... that didn't hurt as much since i don't have bones in my stomach but i probably had a few large gashed. i imagined i was covered in bandages since i couldn't actually feel her.
"i felt my stomach grow warmer and warmer. the warmth traveled up through my body down to my hooves and up to my head. i filled me and i opened my eyes. i looked over to see my friends sitting over me smiling. most of them had tears in their eyes. especially dash.
i felt like all the pain had washed away and there was only warmth. i looked down to see my baby girl sleeping snugly on the bandages wrapped around my stomach. i looked at myself i was a wreck.
"oh thank celestia you're awake." said dash.
"umm the doctors weren't able to fix you completely." said twilight pointing to my arm. i looked over and cringed. it was compound fractured and you could see the bone sticking out of the arm. how could they ignore that. i ignore it however too. it didn't hurt.
i grabbed my baby dawn and picked her up. she woke up and smiled. she reached out to try and hug me and i pulled her into a hug. as i bent my arm there was a crack in my elbow and i grunted and grit my teeth. i didn't want to yell in pain right in my baby's ear.
"maybe you should take it easy." said dash.
"i'm fine..." i said. i patted my baby on the back and put her down on my stomach again. she crawled her way over to my face and smiled. she tried to climb on top of my face but fell back over onto my chest. she giggled and laughed. she was so innocent. it was cute. whenever something happened she would giggle, laugh and smile. i wish things could be just that simple.
"she really is your daughter." said twilight. "she's fearless and fun at the same time."
"i guess she is like her father." said dash.
"you have no idea." i said quietly. dawn rolled around on my chest and then got back up. she looked over to her mother and smiled. she crawled over and dash picked her up. "does she really cry when i'm gone" i asked.
"not just when you're gone but when you're hurt too." said twilight.
"when they were carrying you away from the wreckage she kept trying to reach for you... she almost fell out of my arms. when i pulled her back she cried. she loves you the most."
"no no baby she loves you too." i said. "she just doesn't want me to get hurt... she didn't cry when i left for the store... or when i went outside with scootaloo... or when we went to bed." i said.
"i guess you're right... this baby is something special." said dash holding up her baby. dawn smiled and wiggled her arms. she brought the baby closer to her and kissed her tummy. dawn giggle and waver her arms some more. i couldn't bring myself to telling the others what really happened that night in the cellar.
i figured that i could let these things unfold and reveal themselves in time. and when they do everything will be alright. i looked around me and i could feel a few minor waves of pain rushing back over my body. i stretched my arms and i hit the bone sticking out of my arm on the bed. i grit my teeth and yelled.
"maybe we should get the doctor." said twilight.
"nah i just need some rubbing alcohol and a cloth and i can fix it." i said.
"crimson i'm not going to give you those things." said twilight.
"found em" said pinkie popping out of nowhere with a bottle of clear rubbing alcohol and a cloth.
"thanks pinkie." i said grabbing the alcohol and cloth from her. i took a swig of the rubbing alcohol.
"are you fucking crazy." said twilight.
"hey... my baby is right there, watch the language." i said "and to answer your question, yes... yes i am." i said. "now if any of you a squeamish and or don't want to see a grown stallion cry i suggest you leave." i said.
"what the hey are you doing." said applejack
"don't worry i've done this before on the battlefield." i said "but without the alcohol." i bit down on the rag and sunk my teeth into it. i grabbed the edge of the bone and grunted in pain. i forced it down and aligned it with the rip in the skin. i yelled in pain and tears rolled down my face.
"alright stop this." said dash. too late. i shoved the bone back into place and it was no longer sticking out of my arm. i yelled in pain and proceeded to bleed. i took the rubbing alcohol and poured it on my arm. i yelled in pain and the baby started crying.
i spit out the gag and reached for the baby. i looked at her.
"don't cry my little dawn. daddy's alright."
"you're fucking crazy." said twilight in a mundane voice
"hey language." i said. "and look it's getting better." i said pointing to it. my shadows had started to cover my body and fix the wounds. "see everything is alright."
"alright but you're still insane."
i know." i went to get up but dash pushed me back into the bed.
"promise me you'll stay in the hospital this time and heal normaly." she said.
"dash why would i do that when i can heal like myself." i said. she just stared at me with a concerned face. "oh my god... you're afraid something else is going to happen." i said.
"no no it's not that." she said.
"yes it is..." i said getting up. "you think that wherever i go pain and misery follows. you're afraid that something IS going to happen."
"crimson please it's not like that." she said.
"dash i can't be mad at you but i can't help but feel hurt that you would think this." i said. i meant every word. " alright... i'll take it easy for a while until things fall into place."
"listen to me..." she said with tears in her eyes. " i don't want you to go...thats what i've been trying to say...if you go out quickly you'll only get hurt again and wind up back here... or worse." she said. she started to tear up. little dawn looked over her shoulder to hr crying mother and frowned she tried to grab the tears falling from her mothers face.
i was acting like an asshole...the entire time, i was selfish and reckless. maybe it's time to calm down. i walked over and hugged dash. i few tears escaped my face too.
"i'm sorry dash... alright i'm not going to stay in the hospital but i'll settle down and be the father i should be."
"thank you." she said.
"i think you two need to get home." said twilight. "and you should get some rest." she said to me.
"alright..."i said looking at twilight. i turned back to dash."at least let me fix the house."
"celestia had heard what happened and she fixed the house..."
"that sounds a little too convenient." i said.
"well everything that was not made in equestria couldn't be fixed but not all of those things broke." she said. we started walking out of the door and down the hallway.
"so what was lost." i asked.
"mainly you're old stuff and a few of the potions you made."
"so everything is pretty much the same." i asked.
"pretty much." said dash leaning against could lean against me now because she wasn't so big as from when she was pregnant. we walked out of the hospital and i tried to stretch my wings out but they were completely numb.
"maybe we can just walk." i said.
"that sounds wonderful." she said. before we could leave my other friends came outside.
"are you sure you'll both be fine." said rarity. dash looked down to little dawn who she was holding in her wings.
"yeah we'll be fine... i think the worst is over."
"alright." said applejack. "you two take care ya hear." she said tipping her hat and walking away. the others followed her except twilight. she walked over.
"now that they are gone i have to talk to you about something." said twi. she reached into her bag and pulled out my wifes cross.
"my cross." i said.
"everypony said that all of that stuff would have killed you...but it didn't. and after we started sifting through rubble we found this under a pile of burning wood. it was covered in blood and completely untouched."
"how is that possible." said dash. "that's from your world not ours it shouldn't work here."
"i have no idea what sort of omniscient being you've been talking to but he's listening. an he is quite powerful."
"that being you're referring to is god." i said taking the cross from her hoofs. it radiated with some kind of power.
"you know i've been lying i haven't actually read that book you gave me the first time we met... i thought it was a whole bunch of nonsense... but you may have something here."
"alright twilight you do that." i said we turned around and walked away. but i turned my head one last time. "and twilight remember...it's a true story." i said smiling and me and dash left. we walked down the street and back to my house. it was good as new. i walked in and everything was new.
it was clean it was roomy and neat. it felt like home. i walked over to the living room and i was bombarded by my other child scootaloo. she jumped at me and i caught her. she smiled and i smiled back.
"daddy you're back." she said
"yes sweetie i am." i said. i rubbed her head and let her down. "now daddy's tired and in pain as well so i need to get my rest... why don't you go play with your friends." i said.
"alright daddy." she said. she ran out the door.
"be home by eight." said dash. no response. "she'll be fine" she said turning her attention back to me. i had already made my way up the stairs. she quickly walked up besides me. i got a stitch in my leg and almost fell down the stairs but dash caught me.
"thanks baby." i said. we made it up the stairs and into the bedroom. i got on the bed and laid down. dash got in the bed next to me and laid down. she was still holding baby dawn.
"i love you." dash said to me.
"i love you too dashie" i said giving her a kiss on the cheek. little dawn started to make a few giggles and cute baby noises. she crawled away from dashes wings and crawled over to me.
i pressed my stomach up to dashes so she could cross. she crawled over onto my stomach and fell down on my belly. she made a cute little grunt and laughed. she rolled onto her side and started to suck her hoof.
"how has she been." i said.
"she's been good. she eats sleeps and soils herself like a regular baby but she feels different."
"she's different because she inherited it."
"i wonder who from." said dash smiling. she leaned her head against mine and we watched the baby sleep.
"i wish my life could be as simple and carefree as a babies sometimes." i said.
"that would be a nice change." said dash. she looked up at me and smiled. "you know we still have yet to be married." she said.
"i think i know what our next big adventure is." i said.
"when can we start." said dash smiling.
"tomorrow we can start looking for a wedding planner." i said grabbing dashes hoof. i closed my eye's
"if you're going to go to sleep let me grab dawn so you don't roll her over." said dash.
"alright" i said. she picked up dawn and put her over her shoulder. she carried her out of the room and i slowly closed my eyes. i started to drift off to sleep. i felt something else move into the bed. it was probably dash.
i could feel cold hooves wrap themselves around me and the soft tone of a beating heart. it was dash... i knew the sound of her heart from anywhere. it was strong but peaceful at the same time. it slowly put me to sleep and i was out like a light.
-Authors Note: alright guys stuff has happened... and to be honest I've only got ideas for the next chapter then it's nightmare night. so really guys if you have any ideas for chapters or want to suggest something please do so. i'm burning myself out here. the wedding chapter is going to be short and with few dialogue... i'm working on sort of a romantic approach for this one.-End of Note.-