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div style="max-height: 999999px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"Chapter XII p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongHere I am! I'm sorry that this is late, but, being a Boy Scout, I had something to do over the weekend. And by something, I mean becoming a member of the Boy Scout honor society, the Order of the Arrow! To make the occasion, I took a long nap when I got home. I'm not allowed to tell what I did, but I can say it was a lot of work. Anywho, enough of that. THE FIC IS THE THING!/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When Jack opened his eyes, he was back in Equestria alright, but where he was shocked him the most. Instead of the Ponyville town square, the Library, or some other recognizable location, he was in a ruins of what looked like an ancient castle. Fluttershy was nowhere to be found. Which also meant that his task was gone with the wind./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He began walking around, trying to find out where he was. There were no defining qualities that he could recognize. Just rooms. And rooms. And rooms...and rooms...and-/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He stopped at a door that was slightly ajar. Sticking his head in, he saw a large mirror hanging on the wall. Walking towards it slowly, the reflection he saw in the mirror shocked him further. It didn't show the same brown Pegasus that had been walking around for the last few days every so often. Rather, what he saw now was a pure white Pegasus with a blue mane, blue eyes, and gold hooves. His Cutie Mark was still the same, but that was the only thing./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack looked down at himself, and then back up at the mirror. He did this a few times before he saw another figure in the mirror that made him jump, turn around, and kneel down. Princess Luna. "So, it appears that you have discovered the Mirror of Verity, dear Paul." She walked over and put a hoof on his shoulder, causing him to bring his head up to look at her. "Do you understand what you see?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack turned back around and looked at the Pegasus in the Mirror again. "Is...Is that...me?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She smiled and stood next to him, draping a wing over his shoulders. "Indeed it is."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""H-How? I..." He looked down at himself again. "I look like this." He pointed at the mirror. "Nothing like that."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna smiled. "Well, not now you don't."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What does that mean? Not now, not ever."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You were never told? You mother never told you?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Told me what? She can't talk to me because of my father. And he won't let anything be said to me because the guy wants me dead because of-" he looked down and, to his surprise, was still wearing the Amulet, "-this!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""We know too well that he wants you dead. I know also his reasoning for wanting the Amulet."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Yeah, Eternal Life for his Master."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""But do you know who is Master is?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack thought for a moment. "...It never came to mind to ask."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna closed her eyes and, to Jack's amazement, began to shrink. Soon, she was the same size as he was. When this was done, she spoke again. "This is going to come as a shock to you, Paul."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Try me. At this point, I would believe anything."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She sighed. "Okay, prepare yourself. Your mother, Selena, is...a Pegasus."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When he heard this, his eyes shot open. He raised his hoof to his chest, as if he had just had the wind knocked out of him. "Okay...wasn't ready for that. WHAT?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Selena wasn't born on Earth, contrary to what her 'birth certificate' states. She was born, this may be another shock to you, in..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Shock? I've already had a heart attack, so hit me with your best-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...The Crystal Empire."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack hit the floor not one second later. When he recovered, he chocked out. "Now I'm going to assume that your going to say that my father's Master is, like, my grandfather, right?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...Well...actually..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack's jaw hit the floor. "WHAT THE BUCK IS WRONG WITH MY LIFE?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Oh, how many good mares and stallions have said this for less."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He turned to face the royal mare. "Tell me everything you know."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, in the beginning, my sister and I looked down on the chaos that would soon become the glorious land of Equestria. She first dipped her horn in the seas of the Celestial Zone to form-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack lifted a hoof. "If it's not too much trouble, a little more recent please. And...how about something that has to do with me."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She laughed slightly before saying, "Of course. It all started a long time ago..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongFlashback, about twenty years ago in Crystal Empire time~/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Selena, whose Equestrian name is Silk's Touch, was sitting in her room, looking out the window at the city below. Her father had locked her in the tower yet again, hiding her from his guests. He was always ashamed of her and her lack of horn. But that's what he got for marrying a Pegasus. He had a fifty-fifty chance, and luck had not smiled on him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Though, back to Silk. She looked down on the kingdom her father dictated over. The Crystal Ponies' shine had died down to dull and sad. Her own fur coat barely kept its own color, her father treating little better than the ponies he ruled over./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"As she looked, the door opened to reveal another Pegasus, one of the "more liked" servants. "Silk's Touch. Your father has told me to come and get you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She sighed and walked over to the servant. "What is your name?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""My...name?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I trust that you have one."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...It's...Sleight. Sleight O' Hoof."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Silk lowered her head. "I'm so sorry, Sleight. If there was a way I could help you, I would."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...Thank you...now, if you could come with me."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strong~Present~/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack had a confused look on his face. "Sleight?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna laughed at this. "You are surprised?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, a bit. I mean, that and the fact that...well...twenty years in Crystal Empire time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""It does not include the time in which it was missing from the face of Equestria."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""But...It only appeared again last year."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Paul, what do you think happened to any of the Crystal Ponies that were outside of the Empire at the time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well...I assume that...they continued living like anypony else. But that would make me a couple thousand years old then."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, in a sense, you are."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Pardon?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""When your mother gave birth to you, it was right before the Empire disappeared. What happened was any of the Ponies that were outside the Empire at the time were sent away from this dimension and trapped in time. You believe you are...how old?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Sixteen."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You are closer to the age of one thousand sixteen. I suppose that, when you were sent from the dimension, you and your mother were taken to Earth. It was there that she named you Paul and met your 'father.'"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Wait, if I was born before she met my father, then...who is my real father?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You cannot guess? There is a reason I told you what I did."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack put a hoof under his chin and thought a moment. Then, one name stuck out in his mind. "Sleight!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna smiled. "You are correct."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How do you know all of this?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""We should be the one asking you how you do not know."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""We looked into your thoughts. More importantly, your memories."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How can that be in my memories if I wasn't even around at the time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You are special beyond any belief, my dear Paul. Both your father and your grandfather are powerful unicorns, yet you are a Pegasus."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""It sounds like bad luck actually."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Oh, but do you remember your task to make the potion?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How did...my memories, right. Anyway, yeah."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, Zecorah sent us the bottle of your blood."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""That's just...kinda creepy."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Actually, it confirmed our suspicions. It glows with a purity that nopony can equal. And, it alone has magical properties. I will allow you to know that, at one of the hospitals, we had a patient that had a disease that we could not use even magic to cure. We sent a small vial of your blood there and, we still don't know how, your blood cured it."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack's eyes opened wide when he heard this. Then, he held his head up high. "Look out, Chuck Norris! There's another badass in town."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna tilted her head. "What?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Oh, uh...never mind. So, I have magic in my blood, but no horn to direct it with. How am I supposed to use it?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""We shall worry about that later. But for now, you know all you need. Your next task is back on Earth."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Okay, so my task here was to listen to you?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Not exactly. But that was part of it. The other part we will get to when you are ready."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""When I'm ready? You told me that my mother is a Pegasus, my real father is a unicorn, I'm one of the most powerful ponies in history, and told me that my grandfather..." His eyes shot about when he connected the dots. "...is SOMBRA?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I truly am sorry about that, Paul. If it was different, none of this would have happened."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""My father's Master...my grandfather...is Sombra..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I really am sorry."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack took a moment to register everything that was going on. "So... Sleight is my real father... he and my mother are from Equestria... namely the Crystal Empire... Sombra is my grandfather... the guy I've been calling father hates me because of several reasons, but is not my real father... is there anything else I'm missing?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""That is all we know for now, Paul. Again... I am sorry for your misfortunes..." She gently kissed Jack on the cheek, causing him to glow./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongChapter Complete. Well, when I come back, I make a comeback. And who saw any of that happening? I guess I can't make one good guy without him being connected to the bad guy somehow./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongIf any of you have any friends that have accounts, suggest this story to them. I need OC's and tasks like no one's business. RR AND ADIOS!/strong/p
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div style="max-height: 999999px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"Chapter XII p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongHere I am! I'm sorry that this is late, but, being a Boy Scout, I had something to do over the weekend. And by something, I mean becoming a member of the Boy Scout honor society, the Order of the Arrow! To make the occasion, I took a long nap when I got home. I'm not allowed to tell what I did, but I can say it was a lot of work. Anywho, enough of that. THE FIC IS THE THING!/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When Jack opened his eyes, he was back in Equestria alright, but where he was shocked him the most. Instead of the Ponyville town square, the Library, or some other recognizable location, he was in a ruins of what looked like an ancient castle. Fluttershy was nowhere to be found. Which also meant that his task was gone with the wind./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He began walking around, trying to find out where he was. There were no defining qualities that he could recognize. Just rooms. And rooms. And rooms...and rooms...and-/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He stopped at a door that was slightly ajar. Sticking his head in, he saw a large mirror hanging on the wall. Walking towards it slowly, the reflection he saw in the mirror shocked him further. It didn't show the same brown Pegasus that had been walking around for the last few days every so often. Rather, what he saw now was a pure white Pegasus with a blue mane, blue eyes, and gold hooves. His Cutie Mark was still the same, but that was the only thing./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack looked down at himself, and then back up at the mirror. He did this a few times before he saw another figure in the mirror that made him jump, turn around, and kneel down. Princess Luna. "So, it appears that you have discovered the Mirror of Verity, dear Paul." She walked over and put a hoof on his shoulder, causing him to bring his head up to look at her. "Do you understand what you see?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack turned back around and looked at the Pegasus in the Mirror again. "Is...Is that...me?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She smiled and stood next to him, draping a wing over his shoulders. "Indeed it is."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""H-How? I..." He looked down at himself again. "I look like this." He pointed at the mirror. "Nothing like that."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna smiled. "Well, not now you don't."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What does that mean? Not now, not ever."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You were never told? You mother never told you?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Told me what? She can't talk to me because of my father. And he won't let anything be said to me because the guy wants me dead because of-" he looked down and, to his surprise, was still wearing the Amulet, "-this!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""We know too well that he wants you dead. I know also his reasoning for wanting the Amulet."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Yeah, Eternal Life for his Master."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""But do you know who is Master is?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack thought for a moment. "...It never came to mind to ask."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna closed her eyes and, to Jack's amazement, began to shrink. Soon, she was the same size as he was. When this was done, she spoke again. "This is going to come as a shock to you, Paul."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Try me. At this point, I would believe anything."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She sighed. "Okay, prepare yourself. Your mother, Selena, is...a Pegasus."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"When he heard this, his eyes shot open. He raised his hoof to his chest, as if he had just had the wind knocked out of him. "Okay...wasn't ready for that. WHAT?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Selena wasn't born on Earth, contrary to what her 'birth certificate' states. She was born, this may be another shock to you, in..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Shock? I've already had a heart attack, so hit me with your best-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...The Crystal Empire."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack hit the floor not one second later. When he recovered, he chocked out. "Now I'm going to assume that your going to say that my father's Master is, like, my grandfather, right?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...Well...actually..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack's jaw hit the floor. "WHAT THE BUCK IS WRONG WITH MY LIFE?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Oh, how many good mares and stallions have said this for less."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"He turned to face the royal mare. "Tell me everything you know."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, in the beginning, my sister and I looked down on the chaos that would soon become the glorious land of Equestria. She first dipped her horn in the seas of the Celestial Zone to form-"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack lifted a hoof. "If it's not too much trouble, a little more recent please. And...how about something that has to do with me."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She laughed slightly before saying, "Of course. It all started a long time ago..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongFlashback, about twenty years ago in Crystal Empire time~/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Selena, whose Equestrian name is Silk's Touch, was sitting in her room, looking out the window at the city below. Her father had locked her in the tower yet again, hiding her from his guests. He was always ashamed of her and her lack of horn. But that's what he got for marrying a Pegasus. He had a fifty-fifty chance, and luck had not smiled on him./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Though, back to Silk. She looked down on the kingdom her father dictated over. The Crystal Ponies' shine had died down to dull and sad. Her own fur coat barely kept its own color, her father treating little better than the ponies he ruled over./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"As she looked, the door opened to reveal another Pegasus, one of the "more liked" servants. "Silk's Touch. Your father has told me to come and get you."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"She sighed and walked over to the servant. "What is your name?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""My...name?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I trust that you have one."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...It's...Sleight. Sleight O' Hoof."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Silk lowered her head. "I'm so sorry, Sleight. If there was a way I could help you, I would."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""...Thank you...now, if you could come with me."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strong~Present~/strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack had a confused look on his face. "Sleight?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna laughed at this. "You are surprised?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, a bit. I mean, that and the fact that...well...twenty years in Crystal Empire time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""It does not include the time in which it was missing from the face of Equestria."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""But...It only appeared again last year."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Paul, what do you think happened to any of the Crystal Ponies that were outside of the Empire at the time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well...I assume that...they continued living like anypony else. But that would make me a couple thousand years old then."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, in a sense, you are."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Pardon?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""When your mother gave birth to you, it was right before the Empire disappeared. What happened was any of the Ponies that were outside the Empire at the time were sent away from this dimension and trapped in time. You believe you are...how old?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Sixteen."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You are closer to the age of one thousand sixteen. I suppose that, when you were sent from the dimension, you and your mother were taken to Earth. It was there that she named you Paul and met your 'father.'"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Wait, if I was born before she met my father, then...who is my real father?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You cannot guess? There is a reason I told you what I did."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack put a hoof under his chin and thought a moment. Then, one name stuck out in his mind. "Sleight!"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna smiled. "You are correct."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How do you know all of this?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""We should be the one asking you how you do not know."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""What?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""We looked into your thoughts. More importantly, your memories."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How can that be in my memories if I wasn't even around at the time?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""You are special beyond any belief, my dear Paul. Both your father and your grandfather are powerful unicorns, yet you are a Pegasus."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""It sounds like bad luck actually."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Oh, but do you remember your task to make the potion?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""How did...my memories, right. Anyway, yeah."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Well, Zecorah sent us the bottle of your blood."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""That's just...kinda creepy."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Actually, it confirmed our suspicions. It glows with a purity that nopony can equal. And, it alone has magical properties. I will allow you to know that, at one of the hospitals, we had a patient that had a disease that we could not use even magic to cure. We sent a small vial of your blood there and, we still don't know how, your blood cured it."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack's eyes opened wide when he heard this. Then, he held his head up high. "Look out, Chuck Norris! There's another badass in town."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Luna tilted her head. "What?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Oh, uh...never mind. So, I have magic in my blood, but no horn to direct it with. How am I supposed to use it?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""We shall worry about that later. But for now, you know all you need. Your next task is back on Earth."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Okay, so my task here was to listen to you?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""Not exactly. But that was part of it. The other part we will get to when you are ready."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""When I'm ready? You told me that my mother is a Pegasus, my real father is a unicorn, I'm one of the most powerful ponies in history, and told me that my grandfather..." His eyes shot about when he connected the dots. "...is SOMBRA?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I truly am sorry about that, Paul. If it was different, none of this would have happened."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""My father's Master...my grandfather...is Sombra..."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""I really am sorry."/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"Jack took a moment to register everything that was going on. "So... Sleight is my real father... he and my mother are from Equestria... namely the Crystal Empire... Sombra is my grandfather... the guy I've been calling father hates me because of several reasons, but is not my real father... is there anything else I'm missing?"/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;""That is all we know for now, Paul. Again... I am sorry for your misfortunes..." She gently kissed Jack on the cheek, causing him to glow./p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongChapter Complete. Well, when I come back, I make a comeback. And who saw any of that happening? I guess I can't make one good guy without him being connected to the bad guy somehow./strong/p
p style="max-height: 999999px;"strongIf any of you have any friends that have accounts, suggest this story to them. I need OC's and tasks like no one's business. RR AND ADIOS!/strong/p
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