A/N: I can smell a reference to "Of Mice and Men" in this chapter.
godzillafan1: Well, the chapter is up, so you'll find out what happens next in this chapter. But from what I wrote, it'll be a shock. I won't spoil what happens up ahead, but you'll wonder what happens at the end of the chapter.
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The room even had a feeling of emptiness and silence within, like I was trapped inside a single building with no way out to search for. Even the floor was too rock hard, since there were no tools to break it open. "Where am I?" I shouted in the emptiness, hearing my voice echo.
"You're in my world now." A voice said, right behind me. I slowly turned around since I recognized that cunning voice. Lo and behold, with a dark flowing blue mane and the black alicorn skin, it was who I remembered as the Mare in the moon, Nightmare Moon.
"Nightmare Moon?" I asked, quite surprised to see that the Mare in the Moon would be standing her before me. She had a smile on her face that seemed quite vicious, quite like the Season 4 premiere before she went on a rampage. "But I thought the Elements of Harmony defeated you and had you reverted back to Princess Luna."
Nightmare Moon kept her smile and said "They did, but now only a small fraction of me remains. The very fraction that enters dreams and turns them into vicious nightmares, even visions of no escape."
"Is this room a part of your fraction?" I asked, trying not to fool around with her since I was face to face with the villain I first thought I was going to have a crush on, until I realized that it was Twilight that I truly had a crush on.
Nightmare Moon approached me and said "I can read your thoughts and past as well," She approached and I felt extremely uncomfortable when she placed her dark hoof around me. "Tell me Brayden, was this true you thought you were going to fall in love with me when you first watched the show?"
"Y-yes." I said, a bit shaky and worried that Nightmare was probably planning a trap for me in the dream.
The dark mare chuckled and said "Well, it was too bad that you had to fall for that pathetic excuse for a new princess… Twilight."
This offended me greatly and pushed Nightmare's hoof off me. "Don't say that about Twilight, you monster!" I shouted.
"Oh, so now you're defending her to show your love towards you? I can tell you one thing though, she'll never love you once you tell her the truth about where you come from!" Nightmare Moon stated and began to laugh.
"Tell her the truth? What do you mean?" I said, calming a bit.
Nightmare Moon just did a laugh and said "Tell you what Brayden. I'll only answer yes or no questions at this point. Once you ask something that isn't a yes or no question, you can't ask anymore!" She looked at me and waited for a response to come out of my mouth.
"Why's that?" I said unexpectedly without thinking.
Nightmare Moon just let out an annoyed grunt, saying "You just wasted it! You completely blew it! You didn't give the yes or no question one chance and you asked something different!" I could completely understand her frustration at this point of her trying to befriend me. "Alright, that's it. You're on your own Brayden." She turned around and proceeded to attempt to leave.
"Oh come on, give me a chance. Tell me what you mean by, telling her the truth." I said, placing my hoof on her shoulder and watching her turn around.
Nightmare Moon placed her hoof onto my chin and said "Well, it has something to do with you keeping the story back and making it a lie. Once you tell the truth to her, she is going to really disappointed in you for lying to her and she'll hate you for it."
"She will not! She'll forgive me for lying to her!" I shouted, completely in denial for what Nightmare Moon was telling me.
"She's going to be mad… she'll leave you all alone…" Nightmare Moon chanted repeatingly, that got into my brain and I was forced to cover my ears so I couldn't hear her. I could still hear her voice and I was starting to get frightened.
"Leave me alone!" I said, with my frightened state completely taking me over and reliving my nightmares in childhood all over again. The chants continued to dig into me and even I could hear Nightmare Moon laughing. "Please stop! I don't want this!"
There was no escape out of the nightmare, and the darkness of the failed queen was surrounding me with people from my childhood laughing at me and chanting the exact same thing that Nightmare Moon chanted. Even the people from the earlier grades of my elementary school were there, and they were taunting me as well as the school bullies. "Twilight's gonna leave you all alone…" They chanted while laughing.
I kept my ears covered to not hear this, but I could still hear the chanting, even I shut my eyes so I couldn't see what was going on. I couldn't take the taunting anymore and had my focus on the white walls made of white carved bricks. I got up and began running towards it, removing the hands from my ears and getting ready to push it.
My hands were placed onto the bricks when I ran and I could see it tumbling down. Light shone into the white room and began to cover through the darkness that Nightmare Moon spread throughout. Tumbling through the wall, I was falling with the bricks as well. Seeing the light of the outside, I could realize that I was having a nightmare.
"Where do you think you're going, hm?" Nightmare Moon said, trying to poke fun towards me and watching my fall from the room into the unlimited sky of no end. The wind began to blow in my face heavily when I fell from the room and threw myself around to see the room becoming distant in the fast speed that I was falling.
The shadow of Nightmare Moon was flying towards me and she said "Well, you have a fear of falling to your death. Well, I'll make that fear look real!" The shadow was on loom approach to enter my body, but passed by with possessing me.
I flip around to see what she is up to behind me, and I could see land oncoming near the bottom of the sky. "I'm gonna die!" I panicked and shouted. I struggled to try and imagine a parachute bag on me that I could activate, but a force was keeping me from doing so.
At the same time, I could see the moon appearing in the nightmare and could tell by the flash that Princess Luna was entering the dream realm to save me. I kept falling through the sky, and the land below was closely approaching.
I could see the trees approaching fast and the wind began to twist me around so I couldn't see what was happening. Nightmare's laughing was heard faintly while I took my fall, and I was ready to panic when trying to wake up. Moments from hitting the ground, something grabs me and starts flying me to safety. I take a look up to see who it was and could tell by the midnight blue color that it was Princess Luna who took a hold of me.
I climbed carefully onto her back and began to ride as she came face to face with the shadow of her former evil self. "Nightmare Moon, I demand that you leave Brayden's realm of sleep this instant! You are not welcome here!" Princess Luna was shouting in a staredown with Nightmare Moon.
"Ah, Princess Luna… how delightful to see you again. If the Elements of Harmony didn't destroy most of me, you and I together as one could have ruled Equestria and overthrown Princess Celestia!" Nightmare Moon said, in an attempt to persuade Luna to join her again combined.
"Nightmare Moon, stop what you are doing! Think of how long you were banished to the moon!" I shouted to the dark mare. She just shot me a glare and charged up her horn in a way to get ready to attack.
"Never mention my banishment in my presence!" Nightmare Moon shouted angrily before firing a beam of magic towards me and Luna.
Princess Luna fired a beam at Nightmare Moon and said "Be gone Nightmare Moon! Never torment this boy into falling to your deeds!"
Nightmare Moon got hit by the beam in the leg and began falling down silently to the ground she had created. Princess Luna and I kept an eye on her fall and watched her fall limp into the forest ground. Once the dark mare was gone, Princess Luna used her horn to form a platform for the both of us. She landed on her four hooves and closed her wings and I got up off of her.
"Thank Celestia you're alright." Princess Luna said to me sounding very happy to see that I was still alive in my dreams.
I could not think of a simple response, but to approach and give her a hug. I wrapped my hands around the princess of the night and she seemed a bit surprised at first, but wrapped a hoof around my back and both of us shared a gentle friendly hug.
I gently move back from the hug and have my hand on the princess' shoulder when looking at her. "You saved my life Princess Luna… well, in my dreams." I said, relieved.
"I just have to thank myself for entering your dream right on time during the nightmare you went through at the beginning. Did Nightmare Moon say anything to torment you?" Luna asked.
"Well, she told me that if I revealed the truth about me to Twilight, she'll hate me for it." I said, reflecting on what happened.
Princess Luna placed her hoof on my chin and said "Well, if you do tell the truth, I don't think that Princess Twilight will be mad at you. She'll understand."
"I've been… making up lies to her though…" I said, sounding a bit regretful for even lying in the first place.
Princess Luna said "Well, then I can't really help with what happens next when you tell her the truth. This is something that is between you and her, so I cannot risk intervening."
The world around us began to ripple like water and Princess Luna was pulled back by the unknown force again when I first met her and she said "Tell her the truth."
I watched the dream ripple away and Princess Luna absorb back to the moon. The dream began to fall apart and I fall through its invisible walls like water. White was the only color I could see at this point.
I slowly began to open my eyes back into reality and could see six different faint colors through my blurred eyes. The vision was clearing quite slowly and the sounds of their voices were growing closer. "Oh, I hope he is alright." I could hear a voice say, telling that it was Rarity.
My vision began to clear and I could see Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie in front of my hospital bed. Their faces are all quite worried about me at the same time, even Twilight had her hoof on my hand and gently rubbing it in hopes that I was alright. I finally took a breath and got up. The girls still had faces of worry, but managed to pull gentle smiles on their faces.
"He's awake." Pinkie Pie said and trotting over to the side of my bed to see me. I felt incredibly tired when I woke up and figured that it must have been the medicine the doctors inserted into the IV to put into consciousness. "Alright Brayden, listen to me carefully. How many hooves am I holding up?" She asked me while holding up only one hoof.
"Pinkie, you're holding up one hoof. But, what are you all doing here?" I asked her and acknowledged the rest of my other friends.
"Well sugarcube, all of us wanted to come n' see how you were holding up since the doctors helped you with your flu," Applejack said. "It's not every day that I see somepony get a hold of it."
Dr. Stable came trotting into the room and approached my bed with the small billboard of my medical records in Ponyville Hospital for the first time. He put his stethoscope into my view and placed it onto my chest. "Breathe." He asked me to do. I inhale most of the air slowly and then exhale what came in out into the free of the room. I repeated this a few more times on each part of my chest that the doctor told me to breathe.
Dr. Stable takes away the stethoscope and looks to Twilight who I could see tapping the back of his shoulder. "Doctor, is he going to be alright?" Twilight asked, have a caring eye on me before looking at Dr. Stable.
"Brayden is going to be fine Princess Twilight. While he was unconscious, our specialized unicorn doctors had placed a medicine into him that could fight off the flu pretty quickly." Dr. Stable said, then turning to look at me. "And by according to his condition, I say that he looks free to go."
I could see Twilight pulling out a pouch full of bits and says "How much do I have to pay you? I mean, I'll do it just to help Brayden out." I made a silent, happy sigh to see that Twilight supporting me.
Dr. Stable just chuckled and said "Well, because he is foreign but different among us, no costs will be necessary Princess."
"Oh." Twilight just simply says, and I turn my eyes to the right of my bed, seeing Pinkie Pie and Rarity offering me their hooves to help me out of bed. I slowly reach with both of my left and right arms and make contact with my hands. I hold on when they help me out of bed.
I felt a bit dizzy when I stand up from getting off the bed. But Pinkie and Rarity managed to catch me and prevent me from falling down. I could see the sunrise from the east in the horizon and could see the whole town of Ponyville alit up-close for the first time in my lifetime. The large mountains kept their shadows short from the rising sun, changing direction with the sunlight streaming through the dark Everfree Forest on such a beautiful sunrise. Only a few tiny clouds could be drifting in the orange colored sky.
I felt soft tapping on my shoulder and I turned my head away from the window, it was Rarity who was tapping for my attention. "Brayden, shall we all take you to breakfast to enlighten you after that incident?" She asks me.
I nodded and said "Sure, Rarity. By the way, you can let go of me now. I don't feel that dizzy anymore." Rarity smiled and she let go, including Pinkie.
I began to walk slowly with the girls to ease myself from the medicine that the unicorns gave me. "The special magic unicorns have." I thought to myself with a smile and continued walking with my six other friends.
The walk out of the Ponyville Hospital was fine. A few times I kept thinking I was going to fall, but thankfully Twilight and Fluttershy was there beside me to keep my balance. I kept my look on Twilight and she was looking at me, I just gazed at her for a few moments to show my appreciation that she could be by my side to have her help me, but at the same time… I still was nervous inside and would have to wait until the right moment to tell her my feelings.
I could feel the dirt path below my feet on our way towards the town of Ponyville. The sun continued to slowly rise over the eastern horizon. In my mind, I kept my thoughts on whether I should just tell the truth to her and the rest of his new friends about where I come from. I just could think of what their reaction would be if I told them the truth. Either Princess Luna will be right or Nightmare Moon proved to me that she was right and was telling me what would happen all along when Twilight heard the words come out of my mouth. I couldn't focus on that right at the moment, but I knew the girls were probably taking me to Sugarcube Corner for breakfast. I'd probably tell them the truth right there.
I walk into town behind the girls and could everypony waving at me in greeting with their right hooves. I couldn't help myself but wave back in greeting them as well. They all must have heard about the 'incident' when I fainted at Twilight's home.
"Come on Brayden!" Twilight calls back to me cheerfully, and I follow along, walking up next to her.
I gently place my left hand around her soft neck gently and caring. I put my other hand around Fluttershy's and walked between the two of my favorite ponies. Twilight giggles and says "You always seem to be that gentle, Brayden… and really sweet no doubt."
A light blush comes across my face and Twilight's giggling once again since she noticed the blush on my face. Rarity intervened and said "Well, we all know by now that this darling here is very special among us, and quite a gentlecolt."
"You both are making me blush." I said, with a soft laugh and a happy smile on my face.
"Well Brayden, we appreciate you for what you are, being always seemingly brightful and happy. And it makes my day even 20% better!" Pinkie Pie said, nudging me softly and playfully.
"That's my line!" Rainbow Dash says in response to Pinkie's 20% better comment. I chuckled softly and remembered the '20% Cooler' line that every brony back on Earth seemed to know.
"Well, your job is to make everypony smile, isn't it?" I said to Pinkie Pie in quite happy reason.
Pinkie Pie said "Well of course, without smiles we'd all be living in complete sadness and that would be a very boring place to live in. I'm just lucky that you didn't grow up on a rock farm like I did."
Of course what she said was true. Living on a rock farm would be pretty boring, it was already lucky for that I grew up in a regular house back on Earth since I was a newborn baby. But I couldn't exactly reflect back on the past to when I was a newborn to infant.
Pinkie Pie does remind me of me when I was younger, being all hyper and wanting to have the most friends. But it all didn't seem to turn out well since the friendships I made back on Earth grew cold and distant, leading me away from them. I became a little bit shy and socially awkward during my middle school days and made very few friends, which did grow short and distant after a year.
I could see the Sugarcube Corner down the street while walking quite peacefully with the other girls and the unicorn Lyra seemed to be approaching me with quite a sad glum look on her face. I stop between the outside of Sugarcube Corner to say hello to the first pony in town that had greeted me pretty awkwardly.
"Hello Lyra." I greeted her to see why she looked so glum. I did expect a bit of 'I'm not in the mood', but what I did not see coming was her wrapping her hooves around me in a hug. I gently hugged her back and in a friendly way, was stroking her mane gently. "Lyra, what's wrong?" I gently said, wondering why she looked sad. I could even feel the tear drops that came down from her eyes land on my shoulders.
"I was so worried about you when you fainted. Please promise me that you'll never faint again. I couldn't even sleep." Lyra said to me with a bit of sniffling.
I slowly let go of the hug and look into Lyra's brilliant gamboge eyes. I had placed my hoof on her shoulder and kept my look at her, with my other hand drying the tear stains from her eyes. "Lyra, I can't guarantee that I won't faint next time. It could be unexpected when it happens. But I promise you that I'll do everything I can to prevent myself from fainting." I calmly said to her. I even made the hand gestures of making a Pinkie Promise to her.
"By the way, before you go with the rest of your friends… can I touch your hands again?" Lyra asked me. I answered her question with a simple nod and placed my hands onto both of her hooves. She held onto them for a few seconds and then said "Well, that's all. I really need to catch up on my human project."
She trotted by me waving goodbye and I waved back in response. "Brayden! Come on!" Rainbow Dash shouted to me, sounding a bit bored of watching me and Lyra do a brief talk.
"Coming!" I shouted, running over back to the girls. The girls seemed to look quite happy.
"Brayden, Ah didn't know that ya could cheer an innocent pony like that." Applejack said, giving me a pat on the back.
"I had to do that. I couldn't just let her remain that sad." I said, sounding quite confessing.
Me and the girls came towards the wooden steps of Sugarcube Corner and could see the stable-like doors and had an idea. "I'll open the doors for you girls." I said, walking up the two steps and holding open the wooden stable-like doors.
"My, what a gentlecolt." Rarity said, trotting past me first. I smiled at Rarity's comment and helped to let the other girls in, with Twilight being the last. I close the doors behind the girls and enter into the room.
Mrs. Cake trotted in from the kitchen with a fresh batch of whole wheat bagels on her head, balancing it and saying "Morning girls. Oh, good morning to you as well Brayden, I wasn't expecting you to come in since I heard that you got the flu."
"Oh yeah, about that… it was quite dizzy." I said, scratching the back of my head.
"Well anyways, I've got fresh hot bagels out of the oven for breakfast. I'm just about stacking them into the glass counter." Mrs. Cake said, placing the tray of fresh bagels into the counter. The smell of bagels in the morning at the right time just about filled my mouth with a little bit of saliva.
"Ah, we were just about to have breakfast." Pinkie Pie said, pulling out a couple of bits for me and the rest of the girls.
Mrs. Cake said "Well, if you say so. One for each of you." She watched Pinkie place the golden bits onto the counter and Mrs. Cake took them and opened up the register, placing the small loonie like bits into the machine and closing it gently. I watched her move underneath the glass counter and reach for seven bagels, one for each of my six friends and one for me. She grabs the bagels and places them each into a bag.
Being a gentleman to my friends, I let them grab their bagels first and then I took the bag with my bagel in it last. "Enjoy your breakfast, Brayden." Mrs. Cake said to me.
"I will." I nodded and said, walking over to the table to join my other friends. There was an open seat next to Twilight, so I called to have the chair as my seat silently and sat down on the wooden chair. I could see most of my friends eating their bagel, with Rarity eating as a respected lady as I could always see of her when it came to drinking tea. Everypony else just ate differently, so I just ate how I usually ate. Keeping the food in my mouth and not talking.
"Did you girls manage to take care of the fire ant problem that Zecora was having?" I asked, taking out my bagel and finally biting into it.
"Yes Brayden, we did. Those fire ants did not like our sudden welcome to their nest, but luckily good Fluttershy managed to talk to them and told them that Zecora needed those plants for her alchemy. But at first, they did not take it too well." Twilight said, looking at me.
"Oh my. I hope you girls weren't hurt." I said, a bit surprised by the story.
Rainbow Dash raised her arms and said "Well, we managed to take those fire ants out one by one!" She seemed like she had attacked them.
"No we didn't Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy asked if we could talk to the fire ant queen." Applejack said, giving a stern look at Rainbow Dash after her joking.
"And what did she look like? It must have been the same kind of ant, but bigger!" I said, listening in on the story.
"Well, yes Brayden. And she wondered why we disturbed her during her nesting stages. Fluttershy talked to her about how Zecora, the zebra didn't want to lose her plants she needed and convinced the queen and her drones with 'The Stare' to move out of the nest." Twilight said, pointing to Fluttershy and sounding quite proud of her.
"You did good Fluttershy." I said to the yellow Pegasus and she smiles with the 'squee' sound heard. I smiled back and got back to eating my bagel.
While I ate my bagel, I begin to think about telling the truth in front of Twilight and the rest of my five friends. But at the same time, something keeps telling me that if I do, horrible consequences will happen. I looked very troubled by this decision and was kept in my thoughts for this few moments.
"Brayden, is everything alright?" Twilight asked, seeing my face of feeling troubled at this decision.
I snap out of my thoughts quickly to listen to Twilight and what she said, and I placed my hand onto her soft hoof. "It's… well. It's…"
The rest of my friends began to lean forward to focus on what was going to happen, whether it was me going to tell Twilight that I had a crush on her or something completely different. "It's hard to explain, but it's something that has been bothering me since I first met you girls."
"Well, what is it you want to tell us? You just have to speak out." Applejack asked, sounding like she was about to find out something through the lies I made.
I looked at all the six of my friends and just made a sigh of giving up and beginning to confess. "You see…" I was able to get out until I heard Pinkie Pie do a very loud breath in. I remembered now in Equestria Girls that she told everything about Twilight when she came into the alternate world and the same thing happened at the end of the movie. She was about to release every detail about me coming to Equestria.
"You're from another world called Earth that has your kind and Princess Luna came and took you from when you were on the verge of being killed by a group of bikers who wanted you dead for a small little mistake you did to their leader's motorcycle. When you ended up here, you never knew it was Princess Luna who saved you the whole time, and sent you here for a special purpose to learn that friendship is magic even though you know about already since you watch something with us on moving pictures that are us in your world according to the humans known as 'bronies' who live in the same world as you. And Princess Luna thought you were worthy of living in Equestria for some reason even though you wish it was someone else from that world that could've been here at first, but she picked you since she saw how kind you were through her eyes and felt bad about your gift born with you and took you here to stay." Pinkie Pie managed to say without even stopping to take a breath and finally started to catch her breath.
My mouth was wide open along with the other girls who were unbelievably shocked about the news that Pinkie released about me that were actually true. I couldn't believe it, I was about to tell the truth and somehow Pinkie just released the facts about me that quickly. "She knows everything." I thought to myself in amazement.
"You're from another world?" Rarity said, sounding quite excited.
Fluttershy said "Wow. I didn't know that you liked us all this time when you were in that world," She got off her chair and trotted over to me and started giving me a rub on the back. "I'm so proud of you for telling us the truth."
Applejack got out of her seat and trotted over to my other side between me and Twilight and looked at me, saying "Well, Ah could tell ya were hiding something and now it's all out. You have nothing to be ashamed about."
Rainbow Dash still had her mouth wide open and finally she said "From another world distant from ours? That… is… SO AWESOME!" I smiled at bit when she said the trademark 'so awesome' line in front of me. She of course makes a 'squee' sound.
I turned to look at Twilight, and she seemed to be shooting me some sort of look that could tell she was probably disappointed in me for lying to her. My fear inside of course started to get the best of me. "Excuse me girls, but me and Brayden have to go outside to talk alone, just the two of us." Twilight said to her friends and her voice sounded a bit stern and disappointed. I slowly get up off my chair and Twilight gets up off of hers and both me and her start to walk out of the room.
I let Twilight out first since she was a female and I had respect for them to be treated fairly. I take a look back at my other friends and back how Twilight spoke out, they seemed to be a bit worried about what would happen outside between me and her. I could swear that I heard Pinkie say "Uh oh…" when I opened the swinging stable-like wooden doors and went past them.
I could see the mulberry colored Twilight sitting on the wooden steps, with both of her hooves on the bottom of her chin and her wings closed. I could tell that I must have set her off. I move a bit forward and lower myself down to sit down beside Twilight, but not close to her. I could hear her sigh a bit and she turns to look at me with a mild stern face.
"Brayden, I can't believe that you would do something like that and just lie to me about where you came from. Why didn't you just tell me right away when you first met me?" She asked me and sounded a bit mad at me.
"Twilight, I…" I struggled and managed to get out, but the rest of the words were hard to push out. In fact, I didn't know what to say to her since I did like her in 'that way'. But she clearly seemed angry with me. "I wanted to, but…"
"But you had to lie that you had come from the Everfree Forest and not Earth. I am very disappointed in you Brayden, and I think you know much better than to lie to other friends." Twilight said, seeming a have a bit of a glare of truth in her eyes.
I sighed softly and looked to her. "I'm sorry." I said, and I sounded very hurt just like when someone back on Earth made fun of me and constantly threw every insult at me to get me to cry.
"Well, I'm not ready to accept your apology Brayden. I want you to think about your mistake of lying to me. Give it some thought… but don't come up to me until you've thought about what you've done completely through," Twilight said, and then finally moved up, standing on her four hooves once again. "Now, if you'll excuse me… I have to finish my morning bagel."
I turned to watch her enter the Sugarcube Corner and the swinging doors just swung a bit after she came into the building and I just sat there with both my hands on the sides of my face. "Twilight's mad at me…" I thought to myself, and finally a moment of realization struck me and tears started to form in my eyes. "Twilight… hates me."
I could swear while the tears formed in my eyes that I could faintly hear the laughing of Nightmare Moon. It was the kind of laughing that told me "I told you that she would hate you for telling the truth." Nightmare Moon was right all along, and I only believed in it slightly.
I get up off the wooden stairs and begin running with the tears streaming down from my eyes. I don't care where I was running off to, all that I knew was that the pain of Twilight being mad at me had affected me and knew she had rejected me in the way of being disappointed.
This had been the first time that I had ever cried in Equestria and everypony who saw me was about to greet me at first when they saw the tears on my face and the soft crying I did and they all were starting to wonder if I was alright. I could only just run with the bare feet now touching the rocky tiles and the speed I was acceding had gone past a few known faces in Ponyville that I knew.
"Are you okay, Brayden?" I could hear Scootaloo saying when she was riding her scooter. I looked down with tears and I sobbingly said "No." but with the volume of my voice being much louder. I ran off past Scootaloo, and couldn't control my sobbing.
"Wait, Brayden! Come back!" Scootaloo called out to me, but I probably by now had run a couple of paths out of town. I could hear the echoes of Scootaloo's call from afar, but it was too late to turn back now.
My feet started to grow tired from running and I began to slow down a pace with the tears continuing to go down of my face. My running would slow entirely to the point when I was just only walking slowly, but sadly. I never even bothered to raise my head to look back at Ponyville becoming distant. I could see a small clear blue pond by me that I started to walk over to.
I looked at my reflection in the pond and could see myself looking very sad. But I could also see the pond start to change and it seemed to show the hopes that I had been expecting between me and Twilight the whole time. It seemed to be a moving image in my head of me and her hugging warmly in a dance and me kissing her cheek gently. A teardrop from my eyes poured itself onto the image and the ripple caused the image to disappear and show me being sad once again.
Just like back on Earth, I was going to be really lonely here and I could feel it coming onto me like it was a nightmare that was changed from a happy innocent dream. I closed my eyes and tried to wake up, but remembering that Princess Luna placed me here, I gave up entirely.
"Brayden! Wait!" I could hear the voice of Pinkie Pie calling me. I turn around and could see her, Rainbow Dash and Rarity galloping from the town to see me and try to cheer me up probably. "Don't go!"
I just lower my head and said "It's too late though… Twilight hates me." I sounded very hurt when I said this and Rarity trotted up to me and placed her hoof on my shoulder in worry.
"Don't talk like that Brayden! She doesn't hate you," Rarity said. "In fact, Applejack and Fluttershy stayed behind to talk to her about you."
Rainbow Dash landed beside me and placed her hoof onto my hand. I looked at Rainbow Dash and she had a look that she had felt bad for me. "When you ran off, we all became so worried. We had to come after you to talk to you about what happened. Please Brayden. Tell us… we're all your best friends, but to me…" Rainbow Dash said, sounding like she was trying to do her best. "Well… I'd consider you my best friend and I care about you. In fact, all of us do care about your safety."
"Please just leave me alone." I said sadly and gently pushed Rainbow's hoof away from my hand. I continue walking down the path and I could hear Rainbow Dash saying "Poor Brayden." when I was walking away from them. I kept walking on the dirt path.
"Brayden, please… don't leave." Pinkie said when I kept walking. I tried to look at her, but I didn't have anything more to say. I just continued to walk for some time and by the time I had realized I was far away, I was right in front of entering the Everfree Forest.
I could see a small river flowing out by its side near the entrance and walked to the side to reach the small river. The river looked quiet and calm with very little rushing in the water. The occasional water snake did glide slowly across the calm water and twisting its little head to see what was around. It was only me who was approaching the river. I take a step back and hop over the river and hoping to not get wet, only my feet get wet when I made the jump and I look at the lone rock by the river.
"I… cannot believe this. I thought Twilight was too forgiving to be disappointed in me. She's going to wish that I never came to Equestria in the first place and send me into the depths of the badlands." I said softly. "I know what I could do to escape this… I'll just live in the Everfree Forest. None of my friends would dare to find me in there and I can live alone like I've always been. I'll go away."
I sat down on the rock with the tears still coming down my eyes, I wasn't really sobbing anymore but I felt lonely and sad. Out of my head, I could see a figure coming out of the forest that looked like a unicorn mare.
Out of the Everfree Forest was the figment of my imagination. It was none other than Nightmare Moon herself with the wings that I didn't seem to notice. Her eyes were in slits when she looked at me and she seemed quite stern. I thought she loved it in night time, so it was surprisingly to see that figment appear in daylight.
When she opened her mouth and spoke, it was in my own voice. "I told you and told you that Twilight was going to hate you for telling her the truth. I even spoke what happened if you did tell her and I was right all this time, but you had to listen to Princess Luna, didn't you?"
"Because I've always trusted Princess Luna when I first came here." I said to defend myself from Nightmare Moon.
"You never even tried to keep lying," she went on in my voice. "She's been respecting you since you first came to Ponyville and now that you've told the truth, she'll hate you now. Why, if she had the biggest amount of crushing on somepony… she'd give it to another lucky stallion worth her time."
"I know, but…" I said, but the figment of Nightmare Moon raised her hoof to silence me.
"All this time she could have continued to learn about everything and live the good life of a princess worthy to Princess Celestia. But no, that's when you came in and had to disappoint her," Nightmare Moon continued. "She had to be friends with you and you had to have a crush on her."
I stood up and said "You know what Nightmare Moon? You were right this whole time! But it is too late for Twilight to forgive me. I… think I'll enter the Everfree Forest and never come back."
"Go right ahead! Twilight will live the better life without you to bother her and lie to her." Nightmare Moon scolded with my voice. "But you'll never enter though, you'll just stay and keep irritating her until your day's end has come."
"Oh really?" I said, walking towards the Everfree Forest. I knew it was probably my gift fooling with me, but I knew how to outcome it sometimes. "Well, I'm going in. Twilight will never need to be bothered by me ever again!" I shouted to the figment, causing it to disappear out of my sight.
I take a look at the long stretch of dangerous forest and look by its sides. Fluttershy did prove one thing about finding me here and I started here, so that meant I could live here. I could hear voices calling my name to my right and hid behind one of the trees and poked my head around to see four ponies that I knew looking for me. It was Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Each of them called out my name and I continued watching until they came galloping back to Ponyville.
I somehow felt a little bad and took a look into the Everfree Forest. It looked dark inside and uncomfortable to live in, but it would do. I took my final look at the distant windmill of Ponyville. "Goodbye cruel world." was the only three words to slip out of my mouth before I walked right into the dangerous forest.
I never once turned back.