James’ Dream Realm

James found himself in a pit of darkness. There was nothing to be seen. No lights, buildings, or noises. Just complete and utter darkness that surrounded him. That is until he saw the darkness start forming into an old acquaintance. Shadow returned and he looked very pissed at him. Out of the few times that he had seen the entity pissed was when he was near a state of death. So Shadow, being the ass that he was used this as an opportunity to try and take over.

Shadow could never succeed thanks to Connor always staying near James to make sure that the darkness never took over. Though now that Connor was gone and he ended up near death, Shadow was very certain he could take over now. The human knew what Shadow was planning when he showed up and he wasn’t going down without a fight. He pulled out his knife that was always with him no matter the realm he was in.

“I think it’s about time that you were locked away in your own mind now,” Shadow said menacingly to him as he conjured up a scythe.

“You can try, but you have to fight me for it first though,” James retorted, laughing in the process at the enjoyment that this fight was going to bring.

“You are just a cocky man that has no idea what he is in for.”

“And you are just an apparition that will be able to do nothing because he can never truly be strong.”

“You speak of strength and look where you ended up. You are in a hospital dying of poison because of your weakness.”

“I’m only here because I got too cocky and forgot the basics to knife fighting. Demarco would be disappointed in me for letting that happen.

“Then how would like to see them so you know what the really think of you,” Shadow sounded confident in what he said. It was like he knew what to do and get what he wants.

“Oh yeah and how exactly are you-” James stopped mid-sentence and saw Shadow split into five different figures.

His heart started pounding in his chest as the five shadow figures started to take shape. Then as the shadows took on the final touches of their looks The human nearly screamed at what he saw. The five shadows turned into Demarco, Connor, Jacob, Blake, and David.

“You monster. How can you do something so degrading to good people. They have never done anything to deserve such disrespect.”

“You think this is showing disrespect. You wouldn’t know true disrespect if it bit you in the ass. I’m just doing what you wanted and letting you know how disappointed your comrades are in what you have become,” James could hear Shadow, but not see where he was. Assuming that he was just now an illusion in some way controlling these other five shadows and speaking through his mind, he got ready for the fight that was about to happen.

The five shadows generated knives of their own. Though Demarco being the great knife fighter he was went with dual wielding knives. They looked at each other waiting for someone to make the first move. Jacob came running at him first going in for a slash across his chest, but he easily dodged the attack or so he thought when David appeared behind him and gave a good punch to his side bringing him down to the ground. As he was on the ground coughing, trying to regain his wind again, Blake ran right at him and kicked him in the face hard.

James felt his nose break, but before he could react, Connor came up behind him and grabbed hold of him in a grapple. The human struggled to break free but couldn’t. As he struggled, Demarco came up to him and brought up the two knives. He brought them down in a X fashion, slicing them across his chest. The human howled in pain from the slash and started feeling limp as blood started to pool around his feet.

“Is this it? Am I going to lose to Shadow? Was I truly weak without him? Did I ever truly stand a chance against him?” James had these thoughts of self-doubt that he couldn’t win no matter how hard he tried. He was ready to give in.

“James, don’t you dare give up. I didn’t stand by your side through thick and thin just for you to lose. You still have one trick up your sleeve. Though it is early for you to use that technique it will be the only thing to help you out of this situation.” The voice sounded familiar to him.

The voice almost sounded like Connor. Even with Connor being gone, he knew this voice was right. He could easily take down Shadow and these false clones. He intended to use this technique when he was going to finally banish Shadow to the deepest part of his mind to finally be rid of him. Though he guessed now was a good as time as any to use it.

As Demarco walked over to his limp body, he began to glow white. He got up and his wounds were starting to heal rapidly. He clapped his hands together and from the ground, chains of light appeared. The chains wrapped around the five shadow clones and apparently found Shadow himself. The chains locked them to the ground, sucking them under. For the first time that he has seen, Shadow was truly scared.

“What are you doing to me you dirty bastard?”

“I’m locking you away inside my mind. I originally was going to use this as a permanent way to banish you, but I guess I will just have to do this now. I know that you will be able to break free from this imprisonment since I wasn’t able to keep it hidden long enough to make it strong, but know that when you return, I will be ready for you and I will win next time.”

“You may think that all you want but I promise when I return, I will kill you faster during that time so you can’t use any more of your dirty tricks.”

“And I will be ready for you. I will banish you permanently even if it costs me my life,” at that last sentence all of the shadows were pulled under and the dream world started to collapse upon itself.

Ponyville Hospital

James woke up in his little hospital bed sore. He looked to his right arm and saw that it was bandaged up just like his chest was. He felt little pain where the scratches were, but not much. He chalked up another point to magic for its wonderful healing powers. As he was looking around the hospital, he heard someone at the door. He waited in his bed thinking it was a doctor or nurse that was just coming to check up on him. When the door opened, he was surprised to see that is was the golden mare that he saved earlier.

Ponyville Hospital Spitfire

Spitfire sat in her bead waiting for the nurse to finish her healing spell on her wing and foot. She was getting a little impatient though because she wanted to go say thanks to the stallion that saved her life. The nurse coughed a little to get her attention.

“Okay, Ms. Spitfire, your wing and foot are healed, but I would recommend staying on the ground for a bit until the wing is fully healed,” Spitfire couldn’t stand being grounded.

Like most pegasi, she loved to fly high in the sky without a care in the world. She looked over to Lightning Dust who just finished up her procedure and was looking also displeased with being grounded. The nurses said that the mares were allowed to leave at their own leisure. Taking the opportunity, the pegasus spoke up.

“Excuse me, nurse, but do you know where James’ room is located at?”

“Why yes, I do. I will lead you there if you’d like?”

“I would like that very much, thank you,” Spitfire followed the nurse down the hall to where James was laid up in.

She took a few minutes to think about the thanks she would give. After deciding on how to thank the stallion, she opened the door. To her surprise though what she thought would have been a stallion was some strange, but attractive creature. She could feel a blush forming on her cheeks because she didn’t think her savior would be so handsome.

James’ Room

James just sat in his bed looking at the golden mare, waiting to see what she would do. After several moments of awkward silence, the mare began to walk forward swaying her hips very seductively and her tail swishing back and forth. His mind quickly raced at the dirty thoughts going through his mind as he looked at the mare. When the mare reached him, she put a hand on his chest gently, slowly pushing him back down on the bed. Once he was lying on the bed, the mare got on top of the bed and straddled his abdomen.

She looked at him with half lidded eyes while leaning very close to him. As the mare got closer to him, he could feel her heated breath on his face. He began to blush furiously and couldn’t help but notice that the shirt she was wearing was skimpy enough to show off her breasts a little. He could feel himself getting hard and tried to suppress it. She got close enough now that she was just an inch away from his face.

“The name is Spitfire and I would like to thank you for saving my friend and I,” She whispered seductively not helping the situation he was in.

“It was not a problem. I was just glad that I was-” he was cut off as the mare pressed her lips to his in a passionate kiss.

He wanted to pull away but couldn’t. The kiss just felt too right for it to be bad. He felt her tongue prod at his lips asking for entrance. He parted his lips to allow her entry. As she slid her tongue the two muscles began to wrestle for dominance. Though as the kiss started to get heated the door was slammed open. The pegasus quickly turned around to see that standing in the doorway was a lavender unicorn, Rarity, a cyan pegasus, a cream colored pegasus, and a pink earth pony.

Twilight arrived at the hospital after sending her letter to the princesses about what the doctor mentioned. The princess replied back saying that they will arrive in a week to have a discussion with him. The unicorn grabbed most of her friends that were able to come to visit the human. When they arrived at his room, the lavender mare opened the door to the sight of the Captain of the Wonderbolts on top of the human, kissing him.

When Spitfire turned around she quickly blushed and got off of the human. Twilight had a slight blush on her face but was able to hide it easily. Though the unicorn looked over to Rainbow Dash and she looked ready to kick the human’s butt. Rainbow couldn’t believe what she saw. Not only was Spitfire, Captain of The Wonderbolts kissing the human, but that she wasn’t the one to kiss him first. The golden pegasus took the hint and quickly left without saying a word. The lavender mare looked over to the human who held his hands up defensively.

“I can totally explain this,” James said, nervous that he was about to be beaten by five angry looking mares.

“I really hope you have a good explanation or else you will be confined to that bed longer,” Dash threatened him, letting her jealousy get the better of her.

After an hour of explaining what happened the girls seemed to have calmed down enough so that he could leave the hospital and not stay any longer. The sun was starting to set and everyone went their separate ways. James and Twilight returned to the library without ever saying a word to each other. They went to their separate rooms and fell asleep for the night.

The next morning held a surprise for the human. For the first time in his life after joining the military he slept in. He concluded that since he was alone in his mind for a while he could relax better. He got up out of bed and showered. He grabbed the shirt with the six pointed star on top of another star and put it on. As he exited his room he saw Twilight practicing a new spell on Spike. She gave the drake a mustache that looked pretty damn amazing.

“Dude, that mustache is just amazing.”

“I know, right? I really think Sweetie Belle would like it.”

“I don’t know, Spike. This is Rarity’s sister after all. You remember that Rarity likes to act high class and so some of her mannerisms might have rubbed off onto Sweetie Belle.”

“That may be true, but you never know until you try.”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right. Well good luck with that then,” Spike smiled up to him happy with the vote of confidence.

As they smiled at each other there were fireworks that went off. They notice all the ponies gathering around where the fireworks were coming from and decided to check it out. As they got close they saw a caravan and an azure colored unicorn on stage.

“Good morning everypony. The Great and Powerful Trixie is here to show you feats of amazing magic.”

“Humph. Twilight is the one with the strongest magic here out of everypony.”

“Spike be quiet. You know that I don’t like to brag to anypony about my magic.”

“Yeah, but you could easily cast spells around her in seconds,” James just let them bicker back and forth.

He was more interested in the magician pony that was doing simple magic tricks. These were the kinds of tricks that he saw back at home. The magic then was all about optical illusions so that it seemed real. Though Trixie was able to combine both optical illusions and real magic together to make it look spectacular. He watched in awe at the feats that were being performed. Then apparently his other friends showed up, challenging Trixie to prove her magic. Applejack went up and got hog-tied by her own rope.

He held back a giggle that was forming from the sight of Applejack hopping around. Next up was Rainbow Dash who was spun around by her own rainbow that she created then zapped on her butt by lightning. Rarity was last and was humiliated that her indigo mane was turned into a swampy green. After embarrassing the three mares Trixie told a tale of how she vanquished an Ursa Major. He had no idea what that was, but from the look of the fireworks that made a picture of the creature it looked pretty menacing.

After the show was over he couldn’t help but notice two colts talking to each other about showing off Trixie’s great powers. He ignored it though believing that these two couldn’t be that dumb to go disturb such a creature. He followed Twilight back to the library who just kept being bothered by Spike about not upstaging that unicorn. The unicorn kept telling the drake that she didn’t like to show off and James could understand where she was coming from. He decided to help the mare with some of her spells since it would seem that Spike wanted to go show off his mustache to Sweetie Belle.

“Not trying to say you are right or wrong, Twilight, but Spike does have a point.”

“He may have a point, but what is the point of showing off if it’s just going to make my friends hate me?”

“I do understand where you are coming from, but if they are truly your friends then they would be happy that you showed off your magic especially if it was to help defend them.”

“Maybe, but I’m still kind of new to this whole friendship thing. I just don’t want to risk it.”

After several hours of helping the unicorn figure out some new spells the sun had already set giving way to the beautiful moon. He looked up at the giant star and just smiled. He never really took the time to look at the moon here in Equestria, but it seemed really beautiful at this moment. He was snapped out of his trance though when he heard screaming. It sounded like two colts and a mare. There was a second scream that was loud and sounded close to that of a bear. He knew that if it was a bear then those two colts were more stupid than he thought.

“Those stupid little bastards.”

“What is it James? Do you know what it might be?”

“I have a hunch, but I really hope that I am wrong about it. I overheard two colts talk about bringing in an Ursa Major for Trixie to vanquish, but I just thought they were just blowing smoke. Apparently they were dumb enough to do that,” after explaining that to Twilight, he heard another roar and got tired of standing there.

He quickly ran down the street towards the noise. When he arrived he saw Trixie’s smashed caravan and Trixie on the ground crying. He acted quickly by picking up a rock and throwing it at the Ursa before it could do any damage.

The Ursa looked at the human that threw the rock at it and let loose a loud roar of anger at being attacked. The Ursa charged him, but he was able to side step the bear made of stars that looked interesting to him at the moment, but he needed to keep his attention focused. He knew that the large Ursa could do serious damage to him if he got hit even though its attacks were heavily slowed thanks to its size. James pulled out his knife knowing that it wouldn’t be able to do much, but he was hoping to scare it away. The Ursa charged him and he went left, slicing both right legs. Apparently the knife did nothing but phase through the bear.

“Well shit, looks like I am totally screwed now,” James said to himself until he saw a giant water tower being brought over in a lavender aura.

Then he heard music that was soothing, making the Ursa sway left and right. As the bear started to slump down it was encased in another lavender aura and picked up off the ground. He saw milk enter the water tower and given to the Ursa who drank it happily. As the Ursa nodded off to sleep it was sent back into the forest. He turned around and saw that everyone was cheering for Twilight. The unicorn mentioned that the creature that she just got rid of was not an Ursa Major but an Ursa Minor.

“A baby. A god damn mother fucking baby did all of this and only because it was woken up from its nap,” James thought to himself.

Though he didn’t have much time as all the ponies that had gathered started blaming Trixie for this. The azure unicorn tried to defend herself but she was ignored. He saw someone pick up a chair and throw it. He quickly got over in front of the mare to take the hit. The human grunted in pain from the chair that hit him.
“Why are you defending that bitch?”

“She brought an Ursa to our town and endangered our foals.”

“She needs to be run out of town before she can hurt anypony else,” James had enough of what they were saying and decided to speak his mind.

“ALL OF YOU JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP. SHE IS NOT THE ONE TO BLAME FOR THIS INCIDENT. SHE JUST CAME HERE TO SHOW OFF MAGIC AND ENTERTAIN SOME PONIES AND BECAUSE SOME SIMPLE MISTAKE WAS MADE YOU ARE ACTING CRAZY!” James was furious at all the ponies for trying to chase the mare out of town. He looked down to the unicorn who looked at him with tear filled eyes. He hugged her and began stroking her silver mane as she started to cry her heart out.

“Trixie, would you like to stay with me in my room until your caravan is rebuilt.”

“Trix- I would like that very much,” James led the azure unicorn back to the library, looking at Twilight who just nodded at him and allowed him to return back to the library.

Once there he led her to his room and showed her the shower. The mare looked at him and smiled at his hospitality. She gave him a small peck on the cheek as she went to go shower. He blushed a little at the kiss but played it off cool. He went downstairs to the living room. He was tired and needed to get some sleep from this crazy day.

He laid on the couch and closed his eyes. After ten minutes though he felt something next to him. He opened his eyes and saw Trixie lying next to him. She looked comfortable and happy and after what she went through, he wasn’t going to kick her away. The human just closed his eyes and fell back to sleep.

Author's Notes:

I would like to give out a shout out thanks to ErikTheSoulReaper for his help on making the Trixie idea work.