All of them stared at me, their mouths hanging open dumbly. I looked back at them, getting more confused by the minute.

"What? Who died? Seriously!" I asked again, not sure if they had understood me the first time. Then Rarity shouted and jumped a few feet off the ground.

"Ha! I told you all!" She gloated. She started doing a victory dance where she jumped from hoof to hoof while pumping her forelegs in the air. Which only made me more confused.

"Am I in the wrong Equestria? Dang it Unity! Well... any Equestria is good I guess." I mumbled to myself. My own thoughts slightly confused me. It's like my thought process was only half mine recently. Twilight stood up from where she was. She trotted over to me, mouth still hanging open.

"A... Are y-you a ghost?" She asked quietly. I frowned.

"What are you talking about? Yeah, I'm dead. Deal with it." Twilight gasped as I spoke. She slowly lifted a trembling hoof up and moved it forward to touch my leg. She poked my armored pants and yelped in shock.

"Y-you're real!"

"Yeah, I'm real. You have a firm grasp of the obvious. Why would I not be real?" Gilda stood up and approached me next. She poked me like Twilight had.

"I-it's not p-possible... I saw you hit the ocean!" Gilda gasped dazedly. My frown deepened, then I realized what she was talking about.

"Ohhh! I see, you thought I... and now... so this funeral... it's mine?" I slowly realized what had happened. Then three pegasi hit me in the gut for a hug-tackle. RD, Shy, and Shadow were all locking their hooves around my middle. I was still standing somehow. In fact, the impact didn't even really knock me back.

"Y-you're alive?!" Fluttershy asked hesitantly. She was looking up at me while hugging my waist.

"Yeah! Wait, why did you guys think I was dead? I understand why Gilda woul-- Wait a bucking second what's Gilda doing here?! Geez! Gone for one day..." I muttered. RD looked up at me angrily.

"One day?! You left us to think you were dead for a whole week!!" I gave her a confused look.

"Bitch learn to tell time. What do you mean a week? I was gone for less than a whole day!"

"What did you just call me?!" RD asked angrily.

"You're ok... you're alive..." Shadow's soft sobbing distracted us. "You're alive Sharky... I thought you were dead... like Blade..."

"Uhh... yeah.. me and Blade... I'm alive... Wow... I'm so sorry guys... I didn't mean to scare you... Explain this 'gone for a week thing'."

"You left us... You left us for a whole seven days..." Twilight spoke up. Her voice was dull at first, but it was quickly becoming angry. "You LEFT me! You left again! I thought it was for good this time!" She was quickly becoming enraged. Spike was happy that she was finally showing emotion, but worried for Sharky at the same time. I saw her anger and quickly pulled the pegasi off my waist and set them down. "Y-y-you... You JERK! You keep making me worry about you! I thought you were dead! You left me forever! Why would you do that?!" She charged at me and knocked me over with magic. I tossed the Buster Sword to the side as she charged so I wouldn't get hurt in the fall. I hit the ground and she jumped on my chest. "You keep leaving me! Why?! Why do you do that?! WHY?!" She started hitting me with little magic blasts across my body. They had the same amount of force as a punch from a full-grown man back on Earth, but they didn't hurt me as much as they should've. Regardless, I sat there and took the beating, letting her wear herself out.

I'm not usually one to understand emotions... I thought to myself as Twilight wailed on me. But something tells me that she's upset and interrupting this would be very bad for me... To my suprise, Twilight was sobbing as she beat me. Tears ran off her face and landed on my chest as the blows gradually slowed down. Twilight finished her rage with one last blow to my face, then she collapsed on my chest and just cried.

"You're alive..." She sobbed. I started gently stroking her mane. Then I heard some happy yipping and a broad grin crossed my face. Fang bounded over to my face and started licking me vigerously.

"Heh, hey boy..." I said quietly so I didn't disturb Twilight. He started rubbing his face against my cheek happily.

"Praise Celestia, for she has brought a lost soul back unto us!" The elderly gray pony next to my coffin cheered. "I simply must tell everypony about this!" He charged off in the direction of the town. Twilight was still crying, but she lifted her head off my chest and was looking at me.

"You're really here Sharky! I missed you!" RD walked up next to me. She was crying too.

"I... I missed you too... I know you don't want us to be sad... but I was really upset... I'm so sorry..." Fluttershy mumbled. I pulled each of the girls in with one of my arms and hugged them close. Rarity popped her head just over me and looked into my eyes.

"I simply knew you were fine Sharky! I believed in you!" I grinned at her and reached up to pull her head down. I pressed he head to mine.

"Thanks for believing in me Rarity. I can't tell you how much it means to me..." Then I frowned. "Wait, did that guy just say Celestia? Hey, do Luna and Celestia believe I'm dead too?" I asked. Twilight sniffled and wiped her eyes. She nodded slowly.

"They were the ones that told us you had died..." She whispered slowly.

"Oh crap! That means Luna problably released a report of some kind that said I was dead! I gotta tell her now!" I reached past the girls to the coin pouch secured at my hip. I reached inside and pulled out my iPhone. I half expected it to not work because it had been wet, but it wasn't really electric, so it worked fine. I hit the Luna dial button, and it rang for a few moments, longer than I'd ever had to wait before, then she picked up the call. Her face faded into view, and she looked pissed.

"What foul gryffin has stolen the calling device of our forme-- No... No, it can't be you..." Luna started off angry, but she quickly turned to shock as she realized who I was.

"I'm afraid it is. Looks like you're gonna have to put me back on the payroll Luna." I teased with a smile. Her mouth was still hanging open.

"Thou... thou art dead... we saw thou fall to thine death! You were impossible to locate with any magic we tried! H-how?!"

"Yeah we get it. I'm not dead, get over it ya little-- I blame Unity." I answered.

"Wha... but..." Luna started. Then Blaze sneezed and blew my phone to hell. My jaw dropped. I turned to look at him.

"Well bless you!" I said, a tint of anger in my voice. He blushed.

"Uh... sorry... excuse me?" About that time, I realized Rarity's mane was now on fire.

"Oh crap! Rarity! Your mane!" She had already noticed, and she was furiously beating her mane with her hooves to try and put out the fire. I stood abrubtly, knocking everypony away from me on accident. I patted out the flames with my hands, quickly extinguishing the fire.

"No! My mane! My beautiful mane!" Rarity wailed.

"Oh! I'm so sorry miss!" Blaze shouted quickly. Rarity quickly turned on him in one quick move.

"Y.. you... you...! Ugh... I know you didn't mean it..." Rarity slumped down. "My mane... that was my best quality..." She mumbled sadly. Her curls had all burned off, and all that was left was a rough mohawk. I knealt down next to her.

"Now that's ridiculous! Look, you have plenty of other good qualities! Besides, I'm sure a stylist could fix this right up.. with extensions or something, I don't know."

"Yes, were we in Canterlot! Nopony here has the expertise!" She wailed sadly. It actually physically hurt to see Rarity like this. Either that, the pure heartbreak from the past few minutes, the magic beating, or my burnt hands. One of those was definitely hurting by now.

"Look... I still need to take you out anyway right? Look, here soon, I'll take you to Canterlot and we can get your mane fixed. Ok?" She sniffled and looked up at me.

"Promise?"

"Yes. Now..." I turned back to all the ponies I had left behind. They were all looking at me with mixtures of relief, sadness, and shock "Who else wants to attack me or question me or the like? Because I really wanna sleep..." I was purely exhausted from my fight with the gryffins all the way to my running from the Shinra soliders. Interdimensional travel really wears you out.

"Uh... Yeah Sharky..." Gilda spoke up. "Are you on fire?" She pointed to my right hand. I looked at my hand and realized she was asking about the materia in my hand. I grinned.

"No, not on fire. I've just got some magic of my own now... Lemme show you..." I walked away from the ponies a short distance, then pointed at a rock. "Thundraga!" I shouted. Above the rock, thick, black stormclouds instantly formed and flashed towards the rock. Before the rock exploded though, the lightning bolt turned and flew right at Stormy, hitting him square in the head. He flew back a few feet and hit the ground, totally still. I immediately rushed over to him. "STORMY! Are you ok?!" He slowly wobbled up and swayed dizzily.

"Wow... I haven't taken a bolt like THAT in awhile..." He spun a few more times before shaking his head an gaining his balance. "Yeah... I'm fine. Nice to see you again by the way Sharky." My jaw dropped.

"... So... that's it? You just stand back up?" I asked. Stormy nodded.

"Eeyup, pretty much. Why?"

"Dude... boss. Anyway, sorry about that, it worked different in the other world..."

"What? Other world?" Applejack asked. "Fer land's sakes, what are ya talkin' about?"

"Oh, right. Well, the short version is I ran away from some bad guys, a really good fighter saved my life and gave me this magic. Then I grabbed that giant sword and poof I was back here." I pointed to the Buster Sword. "Now f*** off, I'm goin to bed." I turned and started walking towards the library.

"What did he just tell me ta do?" Apple jack asked.

"Hey! Wait! We still wanna talk to you!" Twilight shouted. Gilda, RD, Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rarity all took off after me.

"I'd love to talk some more gilrs, but *yawn* I'm exhausted!" I stooped over and picked up the Buster Sword as I walked. The girls still trotted behind me. "Look, I promise I'll answer any other questions later, but right now... I gotta sleep..."

"Promise?" RD asked.

"I promise. Now..." I walked into the library, placed the Buster Sword in a corner, and curled up next to a bookshelf. In an instant, Fang was curled up next to me. I smiled and scratched his head. "G'night buddy..." I looked up to the girls that had followed me into the library. "G'night girls... Glad to be back..." Twilight was the first to trot over to me. She curled up next to me.

"... I'm so happy you're back Sharky... You still have a ton of questions to answer though..." I smiled.

"Of course... Say, you aren't sleeping too are you? 'Cause it's like the middle of the day..."

"Oh... uh... I haven't been sleeping well lately..."

"Me either..." Fluttershy trotted over and laid down too. I looked to the other girls.

"Well, tell Scootaloo and Sweetiebelle I said hi... and Gilda, tell your dad he can die in a hole while being sodomized by gigantic... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz." I fell asleep in a matter of seconds. I was vaguely aware of the girls talking a little, but I don't remeber much else.

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In what seemed like only a few minutes later, I was woken up by a loud knocking at the door. I grumbled and slowly removed myself from the sleeping ponies and wolf. I don't know why they were still asleep, but oh well. I trudged to the door and opened it. It was dark outside, but I could still tell the day had only just now ended. Outside, a huge group of ponies was waiting for me.

"Look! It's true! He is alive!" I heard a voice shout. Before I could move, I was bombarded by camera flashes and tons of questions. Just great.