"Not to be rude, but uh who are ya?" Applejack asked the grey colt after the black monster had left. He turned and faced those who remained. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie all seemed curious to hear his answer.
"I'll explain soon, for now we need to get inside." He trotted towards the Library only to be cut off by a rainbow blur.
"No you're going to explain now. With you and that guy coming out of nowhere and all that's happened I'm not letting you inside till we get some answers!" The Pegasus was glaring down on the pony blocking his way as she hovered over him.
The new arrival didn't seem interested in talking. "Look I know you don't have much reason to trust me but you're going to have to. All you have to know is that I can help and in truth, I'm your only chance." He pleaded his voice however retained its stern commanding tone.
Rainbow glared down on him but relented and floated aside. "Don't try anything." She warned before flying inside ahead of him.
The pony seemed satisfied and walked in followed by the rest of the group, Applejack tailing the rest with a hesitant look outside before closing the door.
Luna was laid on the couch opposite of her wounded sister, and while she was still conscious she was clearly exhausted as she couldn't do much more besides raise her head to watch the new pony enter the house. Without missing a beat he walked over to Celestia ignoring Twilight and Rarity completely.
He looked from the dark burn on her chest to the rest of her body. "Was she hurt anywhere else?" He asked without looking around. When no one answered he turned and faced the group all of whom were watching him with confusion except Rainbow who watched from above like a hawk. "Well?"
Luna finally realized the question was for her. "No, he only struck her the once." She answered. "Who are you?" She asked.
"Soon." He repeated. "First I need to take care of her. The colt stepped to the couch and lifted up putting his fore hoofs on the princess' side, much to the surprise and anger of Twilight.
"What are you doing?" She demanded, her magic grabbing his tail and yanking him to the ground with a grunt. "She needs a doctor! You can't just go putting your hoofs anywhere you please!"
"What are you trying to pull, mud head?" Pinkie pie interjected.
The brown manned colt paused before looking at Pinkie and shaking his head as if dismissing the new and somewhat insulting nickname. "Look, she's hurt. I'm no doctor but I promise you I can help her, you're going to have to trust me." The whole group seemed a little unsure, no one wanted to put any faith in this rather forceful stallion they didn't know, but Fluttershy was the first to nod. Her act was followed slowly by the rest save for Rainbow and Twilight who held the males gaze. "Well, can I help her now? She is in a lot of pain." He asked staring back at the purple unicorn.
Twilight finally huffed and released the colt. "Don't hurt her." Twilight warned.
"Wouldn't dream of it." He replied.
The colt shook himself before placing his fore hoofs on the large white mare again. His eyes closed and his breathing changed. A deep golden glow emitted from his coat and hoofs spreading over the princess, her face changed as if he was causing pain to her. Twilight was ready to rip him away when she saw the black spot on her chest change. The black fur melted away and the blood faded and vanished reveling more of the white coat. The wound seemed to magically repair itself before their eyes as the glow faded and fell back to the grey colt.
With a heavy sigh he fell on his flank. "That should help her with the pain and the blood loss. She still needs to be looked after for long term, but for now she'll be fine." He explained as he rolled to his hooves. No sooner was he on his feet than a pair of purple forelegs wrapped around his neck.
"Thank you so much!" Twilight thanked the colt, her eyes showing the beginnings of tears. She didn't see it but the colts eyes were wide and his face flustering quickly.
"Uhh it's nothing, really." He said patting her head and thankfully she released the hug and stepped back seeming a little embarrassed herself.
"But wait how did you do that? You're not a unicorn." Rainbow Dash pointed out.
It was true, the colt did not have a horn on his head nor a set of wings on his back. He was an earth pony.
"And how did yall make that shield outside?" Applejack question as well.
"And how do you know that brute from earlier?" Rarity added to the questions.
The grey colt sighed and sat back. "The answers are . . . complicated. It's a very long story." He said defeated.
"We need to hear it." Twilight declared, sitting down on her flank to stare at the new arrival. "If you know anything about this Darkside, we need to know so we can fight him."
"I know everything about him." The grey colt said with a deeper voice, his eyes were on the floor and for once he didn't hold the same commanding air.
"Why don't ya start with a name, yer name." Applejack sitting down as well.
"Or I'll keep calling you mud head." Pinkie said in her own encouraging way.
He looked between them all briefly his eyes falling on Luna as she sat up. "Please, we need to know."
He sighed one more time and shook his head violently. "Your right, you do need to know. We don't have time for my problems." He settled himself down on his flank and glanced over his audience.
"To start, my name, at least the name I've used for some time is Lloyd. I'm not from your world, where I'm from we don't look like this." He raised a hoof and looked it over briefly before rubbing his snout and neck. "We are humans, we stand on our back legs, have hands, live very differently from you." So far no one stopped him so he continued. "I was a writer in my world, and a damn good one. I wrote tales of all kinds but I was great at creating fictional worlds and characters.
Once, I decided to create a villain for my latest work. The greatest villain to ever be put to paper, that villain was Darkside." Pinkie Pie gasped and Fluttershy and Rarity both covered their mouths with their hoofs. "Yeah, I made him. I didn't know what I created when I made him but soon he changed from a simple idea to something else, some evil spirit that flew from the pages one day. He became a real thing, I'm still not entirely sure how but he became real and started destroying my world. Nothing could stop him, he was just too strong, too cunning, too much of a monster, and I made him that way." Twilight, sitting closest to him was the first to notice the shine of tears in his eyes.
"I managed to fight him though. Whatever brought him to life also gave me powers. I fought against him, my friends backing me and I managed to beat him, at least I thought I did." His head hung low. "I tried to seal him away if nothing else; using the book he came from. Turns out that book let him jump to other universes."
"Wait, you can just jump in between worlds? Just like that?" Twilight interjected. Lloyd nodded. "But that kind of magic is unthinkable, it's never been done before."
"Well I guess me and Darkside were the first ones to do it. I told you, I don't fully understand all of this myself. When I beat him, I sealed him back in the book he came from and I guess when I did I accidently sent him to another world. Once I realized what I did I knew my home was safe, but I couldn't let him run rampant somewhere else, so I followed him. I chased him through the book and into another world. Since then we've gone to two other realties, each different than the last." He gave huge sigh and fell on his stomach. "And now he's come here. He's set his sights to corrupt and destroy this world like he tried in all the others."
The group looked on as the grey colt finished his tale "So . . ." Fluttershy said quietly scrapping her hoof on the floor. "You can beat him right?"
Lloyd slowly shook his head. "No, I can't." He said almost as quietly as the yellow Pegasus.
"Why not?" Rainbow Dash accused from above. "You said you beat him before."
"Yes and you defeated him in the other worlds as well right?" Rarity added.
"In my world, I didn't beat him. I fought him to a draw and managed to seal him in the book, well I thought I did. He's stronger than me, he always has been. He could have killed me a long time ago if he really wanted to."
"Well, not to be rude, but why didn't he?" Applejack asked.
Lloyd clenched his teeth and stared at the floor. "He chooses not to because he's been having too much fun with me. Ruining everything and making me watch." The whole group was a little shaken by his sudden dark tone but he seemed to come out of it a second later. "Sorry. It's not been a good time. The only good thing is that my powers have followed me through the worlds, so I've been trying to at least contain him as much as I can, but I don't know if we can really stop him."
"We'll beat him." They all looked away from Lloyd to Twilight who stood firmly from her place. "We'll beat this monster, I don't care if he is dangerous we'll beat him like we did Discord and Nightmare moon."
The whole room nodded in agreement except Lloyd. "Darkside is worse than any of them, he is the very essence of evil." He stood as well and looked at Twilight. "At this point, I suppose we don't have a choice. He's already pulled you all into his game so if you want this to stop, we have to stop him. I would love the help." He stepped forward and held a hoof out. "If anyone wants to back out, you can still do it now."
Twilight placed her hoof over Lloyd's, Pinkie and Rarity following suite. Applejack placed hers on top with a smile and Fluttershy gently topped the pile. All eyes fell on Rainbow Dash as she slowly descended to the floor. Silently and never taking her eyes off Lloyd, she placed her hoof over his.
Lloyd smiled and the group all pulled back. "Alright, then we need to move and move fast."
Well that's the third part and the reveal of who these OCs are. Believe it or not that story with Darkside is actually how he came to be, just switch out the destroying world part for a dream. As I always do, I beg for reviews and say goodbye. Please tell me what you think of Lloyd's name and his and Darkside's origins.
Aaaaand I'm outta stuff to say. Bye.