Nighttime at Ponyville, the only creature awake at this hour was today at the palace, waiting for Princess Celestia to grant him the ability of speech as the princes had promised her student, Twilight Sparkle. Today the little village was sleep with nopony up at this late hour, all eager to wake up for the next day, the work and the excitement that it would bring.

“Oh god what are we going to do?!”

Well, the previous statement is obviously not true. Today Twilight had been feed up with a nagging feeling that she needed more protection, a bigger and probably far dangerous help than anypony would’ve wanted, but one she simply thought was necessary: A human; the most dangerous creature that ever existed thanks to its mind, its capability to adapt and its destructive power, but also capable of feats thanks to its many feelings and its sense of duty and loyalty.

And the only one in Equestria after god knows how long (If it ever existed there) seemed to be in the worst condition.

“Twilight, relax!” Spike forced his friend to remain quiet.

For those that don’t know: Twilight Sparkle is intelligent, capable and quite the leader as well as a good friend and always thinks the best of everyone else. The problem is that she is way too naïve thanks to the lacking of her social skills and that she is unused of her plans not working, in fact her mind is almost incapable of admitting to itself that it has failed and, in this case, she had been running all over her tree house for nearly a minute before her dragon friend, Spike, could stop her.

“Let’s call Princess Celestia, she may know what to do!”

“Celestia?” Suddenly Twilight stopped; a little tear down her cheek as she was still in shock of what she probably had done “Nonononono! Let’s call Luna! Yes, yes, let’s call her! Spike, write this please” She said in a hurried tone.

Spike simply nodded, he had seen his friend like this in a few other occasions, but this time it was serious, not for the breakdown, but because someone was hurt, so he prepared pencil and paper and nodded to Twilight.

“Dear Princess Luna” Twilight began, now calm and collected, at least of the six friends Twilight was the fastest to recover from these… problems “I want to thank you for your help and your counseling in the matter I had at hand when I visited you earlier today. I am sure I will be bothering you right now as tonight you told me you would be mapping the stars, yet I am sorry to say that there has been a problem with the summoning and I need your help. I am still not in the level to know if there is any healing magic, if at all, but as one of the two Princesses I hope that if there is any, you have within your power the ability to help me right now. With my thanks: Twilight Sparkle”

“A bit too formal if you ask me” Spike told her as he sent the message “For once you could cut down to the chase, this is something serious you kno…”

*BURP!*

“That WAS fast” Spike took the new letter and opened it “‘I am teleporting right now, open the door for me please’ Huh?”

*Knock, knock*

At lightning speed Spike was already at the door, opening it for the young Princess Luna to get inside the house with a worried look.

“What happened? How did you manage to pull it off? I was just kidding! I promise I was just kidding! I thought you would pass out as much and then try to call for something different I SWEAR!” She was frantic; the dark colored pony girl was obviously terrified of whatever could’ve happened.

Wide eyed, Twilight didn’t know what to say, she simply pointed at the second level where her bedroom was and where the human was laying still, unmoving but, luckily, breathing now, even if it was a very slow and ragged breath.

Luna ran up the stairs, her jaw hung open when she saw what was in front of her, but soon regained her composure as she got closer, inspecting the human with care. Twilight and Spike, meanwhile, got up again, hoping that they hadn’t been too late on their actions and that the man was indeed ok, though Twilight was sure that at least the human had something broken.

“You… you pulled it off, for real” She said, her horn sparkling with a magic aura that much resembled Nightmare Moon’s hair, something that startled Twilight and Spike even when they tried not to show it “Relax, I am going to check him up, give me a moment”

With that said the blue magic aura, as beautiful and dangerous looking as the sky itself, enveloped the human whole.

“So… cold”

In a blank space, devoid of anything, J float like a lifelessly puppet amongst the emptiness that was… whatever was after life. He felt cold, pain and loneliness all over his whole being, not able to see further away than that fatidic moment when the car, and the scared occupant, went right against his face. A scream, closed eyes and then… nothing else.

“This… sucks” He said between shivers. He was not the kind of guy to fear death, nor welcome it mind you, but he had hoped for more to it than an empty blank space.

However as that thought filled his head he finally felt gravity, falling down to give a loud “UGH!” when his back collided with soft grass and soil and his whole form was enveloped in the chilly breeze that runs at night. When J opened his eyes he was finally dry, somewhat warm and felt good for some reason as his body seemed to relax at the sight of a tree and the beautiful clear sky at night.

“Oh, this is better” he smiled, not really caring to search for an explanation as he got his hood back up and took a nice spot under the tree to lie. Whatever had happened could wait, he felt like taking a nap now that there was no pain and cold.

*Ehem*

A voice caught his attention almost immediately, but he was feeling lazy and he didn’t even try to acknowledge it as a silly smile was plastered in his face. As much as he liked a rainy day, he loved a clear night, so it was normal that he wanted to enjoy it letting his lazy bum side take over, besides if he had bit the dust he didn’t care for whoever was here, there was all the time in the world.

“I said, EJEM”

This time J did give a glance, a small one mind you, as he lifted his hood just enough to see the muzzle of something he did know very well only a few inches from his face.

“OH SHIT!”

In a fast motion, faster than he ever thought possible at least, J got up, got wide eyed as he confirmed what he had saw and then climbed the tree to hide between its leafs and branches from the thing he had just seen. Under the tree, however, Luna was wondering if she had to be amused, laugh, cry or get infuriated at that reaction; she did not foresee that kind of reaction from anypony, much less that language.

“Umm… can you get down, Mr. human, sir? We need to talk” She called as cutely as she could, even giving puppy eyes in case he could see her.

“No way in hell, I thought I was dead but it seems I am either just unconscious and suffering from delirium tremens or I am just NUTS and in coma” J said, sticking his head out for her to see “So no, thank you very much, Princess Luna’s fantasy”

“I am not a fantasy” Luna tilted her head, then went wide eyed “How do you know my name?”

“Of course you are a fantasy, and I know your name because Lauren Faust and Hasbro made you, silly” He said, taking this as the funniest thing ever, probably even losing it a bit as it was obvious his mind had suffered quite a shock “You are in my head, fantasies and such are supposed to know what the viewer knows… or it isn’t so?”

Again Luna tilted her head in confusion “Teeeechnically you are in my mind sir, yours seem to be out of commission right now, it seems you were hit pretty hard, twice to be exact if what I feel is correct” She tried to be gentle saying it, but there was a limit as to how easy you could tell to someone that they were pretty ‘roughed up’ “But that name, Lauren Faust, does mean something, I think I heard my sister say it once or twice since I got back”

It was J’s time to tilt his head, he finally let go of his little fear and reorganized his mind, took a firm hold of the branch and dropped down to the ground right next to Luna, whom now saw that maybe she had been too close to a creature that dwarfed her by quite a lot. In fact right now, in the point of view of J, Luna looked much like it had done in the series, but he saw himself the same, not cartoony or anything, probably it was perception, but what was true is that he was two times taller than the pony.

“You… didn’t look so big before I got in here” She said with a little shy gulp “I suppose I have gotten a bit unused with time”

With a chuckle J sat down “Better now?” Luna nodded “Good, now, can you do something to show me that this is real?”

“I can heal you up and wake you up if you wait for a bit” She tried to smile gently at J even though she was blushing, though it was mostly because of worry and being nervous thanks to the fact that she was in the weakest place possible. If the image of his mind decided to attack her she would have a very hard time.

“Sounds good to me” He shrugged, lying down on the grass again “I am not going to be a frigging cliché and freak out again, as I see it if I am where I think I am then I doubt I have a way to go back”

“Cliché? What do you mean?” She got closer to J “Hmmm wait, I think I can prod on your mind, let me check it out if you don’t mind…”

“No, don’t..!”

It was a second, a single second, but J could see that Luna’s face was drained of color in just that much. Whatever she had done she had seen way too much and way too fast, not only of things he wished NO ONE to see, but of facts that he would’ve wanted to keep hidden if he was really where he thought he was.

“Jon…”

“Don’t! Call me that, please” He growled as he shook her up very gently, just enough to make sure she did not have any connection “Don’t do that again, don’t look in there, if I am really in Equestria for some reason I DON’T want my life biting me in the ass, got it?”

“B-but how?” She was bewildered and even I she wanted she could hardly say what she wanted to say “I don’t know what to…”

“Any questions you have I will answer when I am awake, so no prodding my mind again ok?” He said, scuffling away from her in embarrassment “I think I messed things enough by now”

Luna nodded, looking down, unable to utter another word as she let her magic do the trick outside of their minds. They just sat there for a while; it hadn’t been longer than a minute even if for them the time seemed to stagnate in a way that it had been more than a few hours. Luna unable to say anything as she blushed, trying to digest the things she had seen, and J unable to say anything as he was embarrassed of the horrors (to call them something) that Luna probably saw in his mind.

Most people have dark secrets or parts of their minds that they have locked away, J had it all open, and it was the only reason why he didn’t consider himself a good man; He had many skeletons in his closet and many dark secrets that he couldn’t forget. Most people preferred to not look back and to forget what history had to offer, or to forgive themselves and then let go. No matter what you had thought of J before, he did neither of those two things; he had everything he had done always present and he felt bad (to put it mildly) for every ‘failure’ he had.

“So… umm…” Luna finally broke the silence, looking him in the eyes, or trying to “How would you like to live in Equestria?” She tried to offer a sincere smile.

“I would love to” He replied drily, trying to hide his face with his clothes even though he seemed to try a sincere and warm tone with his voice “If you think it is alright after what you probably saw”

“My sister forgave me for some things I did and that you are aware of, I am in no position to judge” She rubbed the ground with the tip of her hoof with a sad look “I know no one is perfect, you only need to control yourself”

At that J looked up “I never went to know what DID happen” He chimed in quite fast “It is a story I would love to know, if you were willing to share”

Luna looked at him and blushed again, this time not by fear or anything, not even thanks to some of the things that she had seen in his mind and that would make even someone older than her and her sister blush! But because it had been the very first time in one thousand years that someone wanted to know what she thought of what had happened, of her side of the story. It felt… warm, it was good in some way she could explain that someone else but her sister would care to know about it and maybe even befriend her finally after so long.

“You want to know my story?” Luna asked, stumbling on her words, J only nodded “I could tell you, but it would take a long time for me to do so and you are almost ready to heal and get out of this ‘dream’”

He nodded, not wanting to press the matter for now, though Luna saw he would do it latter for sure. The man seemed to be inquisitive and she DID know he was very curious; it was part of his being alongside everything else she had seen. Some of what she now knew disturbed her, more than a little mind you, but she knew that this man was very nice deep down, maybe to a fault, and that he tried his best when he needed be. Everyone had a dark side, she knew very well, but the fact that he seemed to suppress it most the time spoke volumes of the young man knowing that if he wanted he could do many things that nopony should feel good with, but that humans would usually be too happy to pull.

“Would you want to come to the castle with my sister then? I could begin my story there, and my sis would need to know about you anyway, she could help you somehow so you are still in your world someway” At that she tried to smile the best she could. She had seen what had happened before J got here and she knew that the man tried to hide it, but he wanted to cry as the only thing he regretted was how he had left his mother “I am sure there will be a way, if you want to try”

“Sounds good” Was the only thing he said.

Again Luna found herself poking at the earth with her hoof while J tried to relax his already troubled mind. This hadn’t been the best beginning for anything, in fact, counting the fantasies the man had, it was the worst thing that could come to mind right now except… wait, forget it, this was worse than most but still not a demolition of his chances and hopes, only a total wreckage.

“I am going to heal your more serious wound, it will be only a minute, see you in the real world” Luna finally smiled genuinely as she said that phrase, a phrase she heard in his mind, but she couldn’t recall from what or why, still it made her smile a bit.

In a puff of sparkly dark blue smoke she waved a hoof and left while J only nodded, barely in time for her to see. He wasn’t feeling well, he felt sick, and this feeling would grew as he knew that now there was a huge problem: Luna could read minds, probably something a goddess could do, which mean that Celestia could too. He wasn’t afraid of being banished or anything, but he felt remorse, he would need to lie to everyone else but the two princesses and if he wanted to tell the truth he knew that Luna would recommend against that, the face she gave after that single split second was enough to make him sure of that.

“I feel like shit, again. This is the worst start I could’ve had coming here”

“Understandable” A maybe eerie and yet sensual and feminine voice chimed in “After all, you had your life severed and were forced to a new home without a good reason. Makes you think of something in special, right?”

Turning his face, very slowly, J found himself face to face with one of the creatures that would make this world, this peaceful and lovely place, into a nightmare, and what other name than the fitting Nightmare Moon? No need to be furry, no need to be any kind of naughty, you only needed to see her to think of her as beautiful… and quite dangerous. From the TV to the real thing there was no change, except that in person, even before a human, the ‘demoness’ looked capable of doing anything if she wanted to.

“In your case at least it saved your life. In mine however it was just a torment that lasted more than you may think of” Nightmare Moon sat besides J, the idle chatter almost unbelievable as she was talking of a punishment than most fans of the series had used as an excuse to call Celestia the so common nickname of ‘Trollestia’ “Of course it was our fault back then, Luna and I. Even if I want to say that it was her fault it wouldn’t be fair, I encouraged her to do a few things that stressed her and got us in the position we ended up”

“Pardon me, but I don’t quite understand” J was baffled and halfway speechless, but keeping silent probably wasn’t a good idea.

“Oh dear, don’t act silly, I have seen all in your head unlike my little Luna and I know you are not stupid nor so innocent” The mare smiled, much like a predator “But I will let her tell you about it later, hope you make the right decision later on, ta ta”

“Wait, what…”

*Poof!*

“…decision?”

Suddenly J found himself covered in wet clothes, under the gaze of two ponies and a baby dragon, as well as being wet and cold.

“Fffffff…” He growled “I don’t like being a cliché”

“What are you talking about, J?” Luna wondered a bit worried before she went wide eyed “You were left in my mind when I got out?”

“J? Is that his name?” Twilight cut Luna off, though she apologized afterwards but was the best save J could wish for “Sorry Princess Luna, I was just curious”

“Truth be told, it is Jonathan” J told her as he tried to sit, only to wince as he felt his right arm giving him the worst pain he had feel in years “Something… is not right”

“You had many broken bones” Luna told him, forcing one hoof on him so he would not move “Your arm was the worst and I have little magic left, but my sister could patch you up. Not many ponies do know about healing magic and I doubt there is one in Ponyville”

“Here people like to do everything with their skills, Princess Luna, there is practically no magic in the village” Twilight confirmed “I am sorry though, this is my fault, I had to do the summoning faster…”

“Twilight, I don’t want to be harsh but I have to repeat it: I was hoping to discourage you” Luna cut off of Twilight’s words, knowing she was going to go in a spiral of sorrow for the pain she supposed was her fault “In fact you saved J from a more than assured death with your spell, a spell that you didn’t even know the incantations or runes for, you simply used the basic summoning circle and practically WISHED for it to happen” She offered Twilight a gentle smile “I knew why my sister took an interest in you when I meet you and you helped me, but this only reinforces my theory that you can change many, many things with your power”

Everyone in there knew that this was supposed to make Twilight feel better, but the pony simply looked down in shame. She had messed up either way, she had taken someone that she had not hoped for, and what was even worse! She had done it almost too late. Maybe it was because she had been too paranoid and tried to do something too big for her own good? It was impossible for her to accept that she had done any good with such a mess.

*Thud!*

“Ow!”

J took Twilight away from her melodrama as he tried to get up. The roof of Twilight’s room was way too low for him and he ended adding another bump to his head, but at least that made Twilight give a shy smile as he rubbed this new source of little pain.

“Well, that was stupid” He tried to offer a gentle smile “But don’t mind that. Twilight, you helped me no matter what you want to think about it: You saved me, even if it was almost too late, you did your best, and I thank you. Whatever you want to ask for that I would try to grant… though I can’t do much” J couldn’t help but chuckle. In Earth he could do many things. Here? Well, here he could do little that he knew of.

At least with that Twilight did smile, even if it was only a bit “Thank you, but I don’t find it fair to ask for anything now. I had hoped to get someone more… barbaric, someone that wouldn’t mind being here, someone more like the legends in this” She used her magic to transport a book by the name of ‘The Most Dangerous Creatures That Ever Lived’ with the face of a human (In a drawing much like the Inca) in gold over the cover “I had hoped for a savage that would be honor bound and happy to live in such a magic place fighting monsters or defending us. I am sorry I messed it up”

“What is done is done, don’t delve on it too much” J had to smile at the irony of counseling he was willing to give, and that he knew was the best, but not willing to accept himself “I don’t know if I can help you how you wished, but I promise to do my very best” However as he said so he tried to move his right arm, groaning in pain “When I am healed of course”

Luna had to nod as he gave a frown of little disgust. She had been, at least partially, evil, but she didn’t like any kind of wound or pain, which was why she was grateful for something that her sister had made after their… little discussion back then. Of course she didn’t know if the human had any magic in him, the fact that he lived in a world of technology didn’t mean he was unable of the magic feats that the wizards of his species could do in presence of real magic.

“So are we ready to go now?” She asked with a bit of a hurried tone. Her healing power had done wonders, yes, but any movement could undo her work and J would be back as how he was when he arrived here.

J nodded, but Twilight tilted her head a bit in wonder “Go where?”

“To the castle of course” Luna smiled gently “J’s bones are weak and need to be mended a bit more. He doesn’t have the protection WE have thanks to my sister”

“What is that you have that I don’t?” J wondered out loud, blushing a bit as he noticed everyone looking at him “Eh… was meant to be a thought, not spoken out loud”

“Since you are new allow me to illustrate” Spike commented getting on top of Twilight’s bed with a big book that read ‘The Many Gifts of the Sun’ “After the war was done and the evil Nightmare Moon (Forgive me, Princess Luna) was banished to the moon, Princess Celestia saw that the pain caused was too much to bear, not for only a goddess, but also for the people and even the monsters. Many died back then, and while it was sad, it was a lesson that had to be learnt so it could give something in return for everypony”

“Back then there were now monsters rampant, evil creatures and diseases” Twilight chimed in, happy to show her knowledge even when Spike simply gave her a look of ‘Dude, it was my moment’ “The Princess managed to create a fast spell to protect everypony and creature from real harm, making knocks, cuts and the like be all but a little pain and never a real wound. She also used a great deal of her power to make every creature vegetarian, or at least partly, which is why there are so many fruit trees everywhere so no monster or creature decides to eat meat again. This is not perfect and sometimes the magic in every creature doesn’t work all their lives, but it is the best that Princess Celestia could ever do to her kingdom”

“So I am in the land of vegan monsters?” J asked with a hint of a chuckle “Seriously?”

“Not really” Luna said with a hint of sadness “A lot of monsters have regained their appetite for meat after generations, but luckily they often fight amongst other monsters and nopony is harmed. The dragons never were affected and the most dangerous and unintelligent prefer meat even over jewels. Luckily the one we have here is very nice” Luna chuckled as she patted at Spike as the little baby dragon blushed “But more about that latter, shall we go now? I don’t know how much your body will remain healed”

Everyone nodded, but Luna asked J to sit down so they all could bundle together easily. Teleport was easy for one, mildly hard for two and very hard for three. Four was hardly possible but with the help of Twilight they could do it easily, more so knowing that Luna could transport huge amounts of people if she wished too. The problem they could face was the human’s size.

“Why would my size be a problem? I still count as one” He said, blushing a bit with Luna in his lap.

“Because I want to take you directly to my sister’s room, a room that is not used to such large guests” She replied cutely “Now stay put”

“Are you calling me fat by any chance?”

It was late, very late, but Celestia could hardly feel the need to sleep today, so she simply shipped some tea instead, reading a book under the gaze of the stars. Today felt a bit too weird for her taste, much like a foreshadowing very long ago, one that sent the world she knew into darkness so fast that she had made the worst mistake of her lifetime, and that was saying a lot. Right now she only felt the need to call her sister and hug her, but as the first tears began to roll down her eyes she advised herself against it.

‘It wouldn’t be right, we already cried enough’ She thought bitterly ‘I don’t want to mess it up again’

*Poof!*

“Fat?! HAHAHAHAHA!”

Celestia had to spit the tea she had in her mouth as she saw her sister appear in front of her, not alone by the way as her faithful student, Twilight Sparkle, and her pet and assistant dragon, Spike, were there too. Luna was snorting and laughing at some joke she didn’t understand, nor could she even if she wanted, as an enraged scowl took place in her face as she saw who had her little sister on its lap.

A human.

There he was smiling and blushing a bit like if he was an innocent creature with Twilight and Spike at his side, probably not getting whatever joke as Luna had done, but laughing nonetheless. However for Celestia whatever had happened meant nothing, there was only one thing she was concerned and it was that a human WAS-TOUCHING-HER-SISTER.

She was a goddess, and the goddess of the sun, so it was not anything to laugh at when it is said that she could move at blinding speed to place the tip of her horn right against the human’s throat.

“Leave-my-sister-on-the-ground” She said with a deep hiss that Luna hadn’t hear in almost a millennia and that neither Twilight nor Spike had ever heard from the usually collected and regal Princess of Equestria.

A stunning moment, a flashing light and an action she was unable to understand, but Luna had pushed her, her own sister, away from the human. It had been a simple spell and she had been all but prepared for the shockwave that her little sister had thrown at her with force just enough to ensure that her magical (and very sharp) horn was away from the throat of the human.

“Luna? Why are you defending him?” Celestia asked, unable to understand what had happened.

“Sis, he is ok” Luna said wide eyed thanks to her sister’s reaction before “Relax, please”

The Princess couldn’t believe what her sister was saying, much less after so much time. Surely one thousand years was not enough to forget about…

“Please sis? I took a peek in his mind, I know you made me promise not to, but I had to” She tried to smile cutely even when her face turned to worry “He has nowhere to go and his body is damaged, please sis heal him”

Grumbling Celestia sat, yet her gaze was still on the human before her “If you say so, sis”

There was silence for a while after that. Luna moved away from J with Twilight and Spike following suit, only to ensure that Celestia didn’t think something was wrong yet again as she finally decided to use her magic to slowly mend J. What was really a few minutes looked like hours as the only thing that broke the silence was an occasional cough from J (Whom was still quite cold mind you) or a quite loud nudge given by Luna that almost throw her sister on the side as she was caught in surprise.

The reason for Celestia to take so much time (And not notice her sister) was that there was a little talk that had been going on even without any of the present realizing it. She had connected with the human’s subconscious and was dwelling deep within his mind. She had made sure to practice such an art that she did hate herself, but that she thought would come in handy some day. It was not that she did not believe in the words of her sister, it is that, want it or not, Celestia was more mature and after so many bad moves on her part she had come to get used with deception or any kind of hidden wild card in anypony.

“I don’t like what I see” She finally said, relaxing her expression “But I cannot say you are the worst I could imagine. I am, though, disappointed that my own sister gave my student such a prank like counseling and that my student didn’t know better” She was not harsh, but Celestia made sure to let everyone know that she was not pleased “But I must commend her on saving you. You don’t seem like a bad man but you do have quite a dark side that I wish not to see in my kingdom again”

“I am sorry” He said meekly, not daring to get his voice louder than Fluttershy, in fact Celestia had to admit that the man had spoken even in more a whisper like way than the yellow Pegasus mare “If there is a way you can turn me back to where I was then I would be happy to, I don’t want to worry my mother”

“Even wanting to, I can’t” Celestia had a bit of a sad tone, but she still showed her serious face “You are bound here by the one that summoned you until your task is complete and you want to go. I can, however, create a copy of you in a few days to send it to your world to make sure you have no reason to… convince my student to return you”

This time J looked at Celestia with something that everypony could decipher as pure hate. It was obvious that what Celestia had implied was something that J hadn’t liked, at all, something understandable as even Luna and Twilight were looking at Celestia practically speechless.

“Do you think I could do what you suggest?” He asked with his tone darker than any of the mares (and dragon) present could imagine, except for Celestia who seemed to be pleased at the outcome “I suppose I could do what you think then? I suppose humans are regarded as the worst creature in existence if the book Twilight showed me was truthful in what I suppose it says. I can guess it goes easily with tales of how we can easily betray as well as how we can be the most loyal creatures in existence” Celestia simply nodded and J smiled grimly “Which means you hadn’t believe squat from what your sister told you and decided to take a dive in my mind. I am correct again?” Again another nod “Then tell me this Celestia: What do you want to know?”

“What would make you snap and how to end it” Celestia was blunt and quick.

“Sis?” Luna tried to nag at her sister “What do you mean?”

Not taking her eyes from the human Celestia began to speak “In his youth he saved his younger sister, I am sure you saw that with a little poke at his mind, Luna, but you didn’t saw that he had to kill a lot of animals by himself to support his sister and himself until they were found” Celestia was blunt and descriptive as she told it “Nor did you see, I am sure, that as he grew he tried to become nicer, and maybe a bit different if you want it mildly put, but deep in his memory there are many fights and many victims of his rage. When someone he held dear suffered or someone annoyed him to the point of exploding in rage he was very, very dangerous to anypony near him. The worst case was when he was eighteen and a bully got him nine months straight, making fun of him until he exploded, sending him into a coma with most his bones broken after a fight. The young man took half a year to come back and be able to move” Her look was of utter disgust and she didn’t even try to hide it “Under too much pressure, or faced with danger to someone he loves, he is ruthless and efficient in what he has been trained to do since he was young”

“Nice of you to tell it all” J groaned, ashamed “But if you know what would make me snap, then why ask?”

At that Celestia got up, still a serious look on her face as she paced around the man very, very slowly, not missing an inch of his form to see his reaction to whatever she said.

“Because you have a dark side inside of you that only erupts when you want to defend those you hold dear, or that invades you when you have been pushed too far” She said, making J cringe in a way she seemed to enjoy as the young man obviously HATED that fact “You could kill anything, maim anyone or destroy whatever was in front of you if that dark side of yours got hold of you. The best intentions usually make the worst things happen. I know about that first hoof”

“Does it have anything to do with the tale I wanted your sister to tell?” J tried to change the subject, and even though Celestia gave him a glare that could kill, she nodded “Then why not share it? At least a bit of it. If you say you have dark within you and you don’t like mine, then I want to know about it firsthand myself”

“Just because my sister promised you and because you did swear to help the one that invoked you doesn’t mean I will share my tale with the likes of you” She spat, quite angry “While I admit that you don’t seem to be the worse your kin has to offer you still aren’t welcome here as far as I am concerned. If it wasn’t because my sister seems to think you are good and that my student has your word, a word I know you wouldn’t break, I would end your life now no matter how nice you could be, so don’t stretch my kindness too far”

“Sis” Celestia turned to her sister, whom was now almost crying “Stop, please, be nice. You promised me it was all in the past. He has nowhere to go and you know it. Offer him a pact if you don’t believe in him but please, stop, you are scaring me”

Celestia sighed, nodded and took ink and paper with her magic as she sat beside her sister. It didn’t take long, but the furious movements of the pencil as Celestia wrote were a bad sign for any that knew her. She had been obviously quite angry at the sight of a human and even with now three figures quite afraid of her, or at least reluctant to talk to her, she had only worsened her mood thanks to her previous actions.

With a final movement the pencil lied on her table and the once beautiful room dimmed in light, soon turning almost dark except for vibrant lights that seemed to come from everyone present. Celestia had a bright sunny glow, Luna a dark stellar bright, Twilight had sparks of magic floating around her and Spike seemed to glow multicolor as gems would if a batch of them were washed with light. J, however, seemed to be circled perpetually by a black and light glow, dancing in tandem around him.

“Read it out loud” Celestia commanded in a gentle, yet strong tone as she gave J her writing.

“As you wish, Celestia”

By each second he was less happy about being here, in fact this was going halfway to hell, if it wasn’t because at least some of the ponies seemed nice to him. However he supposed at least a bit of information would be given if he complied. He got up and tried to act dramatically enough.

“By the deal presented to me I give my word to serve thee
that whom has given me what I seek is the one who holds my very self
in this day I swear the law uphold for my benefactor my life holds
I will not break my word for any reason for my life ends if I commit treason
with these words I make my promise that only for the sun and the moon my will rise”

“Done, now what?”

There was no time for an answer it only took a moment for everyone to realize that the lights came back and that J was enveloped by sparkles much like those that Twilight had just a moment ago when the lights had faded. He didn’t even have time to curiously touch the sparkles as all of them, five in total, flew a slight distance away before slamming against his head, arms and legs with such force that he didn’t even felt pain. Everything in his body was numb.

“Ugh… what kind of train hit me?” He groaned, looking at the ceiling as the world around him spun.

“Sister!” Luna cried out “I said a pact! What have you done?” However Celestia didn’t say anything.

“Princess… wasn’t that a bit too hard? Why did you give him something that would hurt him now?” Twilight, practically silent until now, couldn’t comprehend how her teacher was being so… so nasty for a lack of a better term “I have never seen you like this. What happened for you to hate someone so much? You have always been kind, to the point of crying for a few days when Princess Luna came back for what you had to do, and I didn’t even get to hear the story. Tell me why, please…”

The pleading look on Twilight made Celestia finally crack, but she didn’t change her firm tone.

“It is all in the story” Celestia said openly “And much like in his world; story may not always be truthful to everypony. Dark things are buried deep within its cracked walls; such an important thing should not always be told. Sometimes it is for the best to forget, in others it is the worst thing possible, but I will begin the tale tonight so you all begin to understand what happened”

Celestia got up and, with magic flowing from her horn, left her hair envelop the whole room as J came back to the world of the conscious. Soon the veil that had formed of multicolor sparkle turned into a solid pink color of translucent, crystal like, appearance.

“One thousand years ago things were very different than today, in fact, they were unlike any you would ever imagine my faithful student” She began, her tone back to the sweet angelical voice that Twilight had ever known and that of which her sister had gotten used to “However it was not in any kind of good sense. There were problems and it was as much my fault as it was the fault of something else. No matter that I was younger, it is no excuse for the mistakes I made, however I made them and that is what is important, yet to this day I don’t fully understand how it came to happen”

An image formed on the veil, a form covered in metal that had a visor in the face from which red eyes looked at the ones present with hate. By its side soon many kind of creatures, monsters of all kinds, congregated to look towards what once had been the castle of the two sisters.

“Whatever the case, the monsters had rallied under one single banner many years ago, when a crisis was hitting our nation with nearby factions having problems and some needing our aid. The reason why I hate your kind” Celestia looked at J with teary eyes “Is because if it wasn’t for them leading these creatures, the pain that everyone would’ve had to bear would be much less excruciating and me and my sister would be happy today with many more species than the ones that exist now”

The metallic creature took away his helmet and showed a jovial young man with red short hair and blue eyes, though the helmet still had the red eyes and black mist pouring from it. He took one hand to his side and patted the flank of a Manticore, it nodded and the monsters all moved away with the young man.

“So let me illustrate you all; let me give you a lesson in history, how the worst day of Equestria began”