By the way, it's Tuesday the 21st of January. Just thought you'd like to know.

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"Are you a ghost come back to this world?"

"Maybe he's a zombie! Would you happen to be a zombie Mr. White?"

"Nonsense! I was told he was an angel! Mr. White, can you confirm reports of you being an angel?" The reporters flooded me with questions, but when one of them asked if I was an angel...

"BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! ....no. I am not an angel." The reporters had been still asking questions, but as soon as I started talking, they all went silent. "Also not a zombie and not a ghost. I am just alive."

"Well that's exactly what we'd expect an angel to say!" The same reporter shouted.

"No! Look, I'm not an angel! Not a zombie! Nothing but a normal human!"

"Are humans immortal Mr. White?" One of the reporters asked.

"No, I can die fairly easily."

"Then how do you explain falling from a thousand feet in the air and surviving?" Another reporter asked right as I finished talking.

"Uhh... I was transported to another world instead of dying..." This statement was met by a huge flurry of questions and camera flashes.

"You expect us to believe that Mr. White?" One reporter asked sarcastically.

"Yeah! Do you take us for fools? What are you Mr. White? If humans die easy, what does that make you?"

"Are you SURE you're not an angel?"

"I don't expect you to believe it, but it is the truth. Yes you are all fools, I don't think you're fools, and I am a human! No, I'm not an angel!!!" I responded. Another flurry of flashes.

"Why did you change your voice Mr. White?"

"Why are you suddenly acting cross with us?"

"Are you really sure you're not an angel?! You do heroic deeds all the time and you can't die!"

"Why are you holding out your arm Mr. White?" I raised my arm and pointed off a short distance away at a bare patch of land.

"Thundraga!" Stormclouds formed instantly and the ground blasted away as the lightning struck. The reporters all screamed and shut up really fast. The camera flashes and questions came to an immediate halt. "Now, please stop this... I'm not an angel, I'm not immortal, and I'm not worth this kind of attention! Please, just leave me alone? Or I'll blow your freaking heads off." The reporters screamed and ran off. I scratched my head in confusion.

"Sharky! Why would you threaten them like that?!" Twilight yelled behind me. I turned around, and her and Fluttershy were staring at me in confusion.

"Huh? What do you mean? I just asked them to leave..."

"Yeah! Then threatened to kill them!" I tilted my head in confusion.

"I didn't say anything about killing them... No, I did." Twilight jumped and gave me a confused look.

"Sharky... what's going on?" Fluttershy asked with fear in her voice. I frowned.

"I wanna know the same thing! Why is everypony acting so strange around me?"

"We're acting strange?! Sharky, you just threatened to blow those reporters' heads off!" Twilight countered. I frowned.

"What are you talking about? I would never say something like that! He's right. I would." Twilight and Fluttershy began to look even more confused.

"Sharky... Something is wrong..." Fluttershy said timidly.

"Damn right something's wrong, you're still here. Well I wanna know what's going on! Why are you two freaking out!?" Fluttershy flinched and shrank back.

"W-why would you say something like that?" There was pain in her voice.

"Hold on Fluttershy... I have a theory..." Twilight mumbled to her. She turned to me. "What's your name?" I frowned and tilted my head in confusion.

"I'm Sharky! You know that! Well, you should already know me Twilight... It's Steven." Twilight gasped and started backing away from me.

"Oh no... this is bad... this is very bad..."

"What? Why did he say Steven?" Fluttershy asked. My frown deepened.

"Wait, how do you know about Steven?" I asked. "He only shows up in my dreams... Unless there's a pony Steven that I don't know... but why would you be talking about a pony Steven?"

"Oh no... no no no no... What have I done?!" Twilight yelled.

"What? What's wrong Twilight? Finally realized you lived as a loner your whole life?" Twilight flinched.

"Watch it Steven!" She chided. I frowned.

"Why are you calling me Steven? I thought you agreed to call me Sharky?"

"Twilight... Sharky is scaring me... what's wrong with him?" Fluttershy asked quietly.

"How am I scaring you Fluttershy? Not that it's hard ya cowardly--"

"I think I released Steven from Sharky's mind!" Twilight interrupted. I was getting tired of frowning.

"What are you talking about? How do you know about Steven? What's going on?" Twilight flinched and slowly turned to me. She inhaled deeply and sighed.

"Sharky... I have a confession... I went inside your dreams... and I think I released Steven..."

"............ YOU WHAT?!?!? WHAT DID YOU SEE?!" I wasn't mad, just extremely worried about what I might have exposed her to.

"Oh... uh... nothing much... I just talked to you and Steven... and myself..." I let out a sigh of relief.

"Don't go into my mind Twilight. I'm not mad this time... but Celestia knows what you'll find in there... Wait, why were you in my dreams anyway? What do you mean released Steven? Bitch stay the fuck outta my head or I'll kill ya!" Both the girls flinched at me. "Well geez, I just said I wasn't mad..."

"Sharky... Steven can talk through you now. He keeps saying mean things... I think it's my fault he can do that..."

"Wait... Steven is all my bad qualities... and he talk through me? Oh my god..." I fell backwards and smacked into a wall. I leaned into the wall and sank to the floor. "So... every time somepony was freaking out and saying I said something bad... Oh no... What do we do?!? Damn right it's your fault! Thanks for releasing me, now I can finally have some fun!"

"So... Steven is Sharky? Or Sharky is Steven? I'm sorry... but I'm confused..." Fluttershy interrupted.

"Steven was a part of Sharky. I accidentally let him talk through Sharky. I don't know what we can do!" Twilight started pacing.

"So... Why can't I hear Steven?" I asked.

"I don't know! I messed up! I don't even know if this has ever happened before! I basically gave you magic multiple personality disorder!"

"... Oh well, guess we just roll on." Twilight and Fluttershy both gave me looks of disbelief.

"What do you mean?! We can't just ignore this!" Fluttershy flutteryelled.

"I don't see why not. All he can do is talk right? Then we just tell everypony about him and ignore him when he talks. Problem solved."

"B-buh... What about ponies you don't know? You'll freak them out!" Twilight countered. I shrugged.

"Oh well. Little bastards can get over it or GTFO." Both the girls jumped slightly. "Steven just talked didn't he?"

"... Yes... We need to get rid of him." Twilight said firmly.

"Ok, if he's that big of a deal... Well, what do we do?"

"I... don't know... I could look for a spell..."

"A spell to cure MPD? Good luck with that... Well... What do I do until then? Is it safe for me to go around like normal or is Steven really that bad?"

"If you don't mind me saying... He's really bad Sharky..." Fluttershy offered quietly.

"You better take that back ya little bitch!" Fluttershy curled up and put her forelegs over her head. "Wow, I guess he's really that bad... So does that mean I'm stuck in the library?" Twilight nodded.

"For your own good, you should stay here... We don't want you freaking everypony out after all..."

"... Well crap. That doesn't sound very fun... Oh well... It'll give me time to polish up the Buster Sword I suppose..."

"Yes, I've been meaning to ask about that... Why do you have a giant sword? If you don't mind explaining..." Fluttershy asked.

"Well, I guess that means we're done talking about Steven. I got it in the other world I went to. It used to belong to a... to a great hero... Anyway, I think it would be a legendary weapon, so it'll help me when I have to hunt things like Ursa Minors." Twilight had already magically pulled a few books off the shelves and was reading, but as soon as I said 'hunt', she ran over and got really close to my face.

"No! No leaving! You aren't hunting any more! I won't let you leave me again!!!"

"I do what I want. Sorry Twilight, but I have to keep hunting. That last Ursa almost destroyed a whole town! If I can even save one more pony's life by fighting monsters, I'll do it! Don't try to stop me."

"I won't let you! You can't leave anymore! I won't lose you again!"

"You won't! Twilight, I'm much stronger than I was before!"

"You don't know that! How could you get stronger in such a short time?!"

"Easy, I now have a giant sword, some minor magic steroids, and oh yeah, I can make lightning."

"... Oh... well... that doesn't mean you can't die! I still don't want you risking your life!"

"Too bad! I have to Twilight! It's for the greater good of Equestria! Luna and Celestia themselves said I'm one of the few knights able to fight these monsters!"

"That doesn't mean you can go and die! You don't even know these ponies you risk your life for! Why do you do it?!"

"Because they all mean more than I do!!" I shouted back at her. She jumped back in shock. Tears started running down my face.

"W... What kind of nonsense is that?!" Fluttershy interrupted. "You mean just as much as anypony else!"

"No, I don't... You girls don't understand... I have nopony girls... Everypony out there... they have family, homes, lives they need to be a part of... I... I lost it all... If I were to die for real right now, in a short time everypony would be over my death. Unity wouldn't remember me, Fang would be fine... he's a tough wolf. You girls... I'm your friend... but in reality you'd get over my death soon enough..."

"Sharky... What do you mean? We all love you! Of course we'd miss you!" Fluttershy trotted over to me and hugged me.

"Yeah.. maybe for a little while... but it wouldn't matter in the end. Get the fuck off me! My life... I would trade it to save anypony else's. Humans... they aren't the same as ponies girls. I feel like I'm a corruption of this world as it is..."

"That's crazy! If humans are all like you, they're great! I don't see why you think so little of yourself!" Twilight argued. She moved forward and hugged me too.

"Twilight... humans are terrible. Not all of them no, but a good majority... To put it in perspective... We've made an art out of killing each other. " Both the girls gasped and looked up at me.

"What?! That can't be true!" Fluttershy said.

"Oh yes. A long time ago it used to be a sport actually. We don't do that anymore, but there are still huge fights and wars and destruction..."

"S-sharky... no... well... you aren't like them! I know you! You aren't like that! You are one of the best ponies I know!" Fluttershy countered. I laughed.

"Well thanks girls... but it doesn't matter... I've got to fight for ponies. I can't just sit back and let them die... Even if I hadn't lost everything, I'd still fight for them! They mean so much to me!"

"How can they be worth your life?" Twilight asked. "Wait, what do you mean you lost eveything? Oh no... you don't want me to send you back do you?!" I laughed again, harder this time.

"Just the opposite Twilight... I never want to go back. Never. I would much rather die."

"Why would you say that?" Twilight asked. "You keep saying you never want to go back, but you always seem so sad when you talk about it. Why?" Both the girls looked at me expectantly, waiting for an explanation. I searched for a way out of answering the question, but I couldn't think of anything. I sighed deeply.

"Ok... I think it's time I told you girls what happened to me before I came here... It's... a bit sad..." They both looked at me determinedly. I sighed again. "Ok... here we go..."