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Equestrian Journey

by DFatman

Chapter 3: Chapter 03 - Aria

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Okay, so it wasn't as awkward as I thought. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy had to go back to Ponyville a few days later for their jobs. To their credit they didn’t want to but a letter from Big Mac got Applejack to go. Sweet Bell’s letter let Rarity know about Hoity Toity wanting her for a new outfit. Being the fashion designer that she is, she hopped right on that and boarded the first train. Rainbow Dash simply had her weather work to do and Pinkie didn’t want to leave Mr. and Mrs. Cake alone to do the store. Which I found odd since they ran the store, right? I guess Pinkie is Pinkie. Fluttershy wanted to make sure about her animals after she left Angel to watch over them. So it was just Twilight and I left in the room. I asked her about the library and she said that she sent a letter to Spike to have him run it till she got back. So she spent most of the time going through book after book for any clues about whatever the hell I am. Since it seems I'm not quite an alicorn, but something different.

"Damn." She said as she moved another book over to the pile and pull out another one. She'd done this about thirty or forty times. Honestly I lost count after 15 or something. So I decided to explain my nonexistent magical prowess. Since being stuck here in the room, I had to have Twilight ask for some beginner’s guides to magic book. She gave me one of these looks that said you drag me away for this looks? When I asked her to do that, but she did so and made sure I had quite a few books on the subject. It wasn’t long before I realized how their magic was written. They used symbols to write down the spells. What really got me was the fact I could read them with ease. It even explained how to start using magic, of course being a beginner’s guide I wasn’t surprised. What did was that it was just concentrating on the magic was what was needed to get the magic to work. But first I had to feel this spark. So I figured I may start with something quite simple. Well simple as in this book said. So I figured Levitation or was it called telekinesis? Who cares? I would see if I could do that. Since by this book it was a foals trick.

“Okay let’s see if I can float that cup over to me.” I said under my breath. Twilight of course didn’t say anything since she was nose deep into another book. I tried to focus my magic which is quite hard for someone who never used magic before. But there it was. It felt like a spark but not an electric one, more a spark of fire. It felt warm. Is this how it felt for all magic users? I started to focus more on the magic itself. That warmth felt bigger till I could see an orange glow around the cup in a fire like pattern. Now I would have freaked but since the wooden cup wasn’t burning I figured I was doing something wrong. I started to float up at a snail’s pace as it moved towards me.

“Come on, just a little closer.” I said with my tongue out keeping my focus on it. Of course that didn’t last long.

"What are you doing?" I heard Twilight said which broke my concentration on the empty cup itself, which dropped with a hollow thud as it landed on the carpet. Good thing I asked for plastic and wooden cups. If that was glass then I would have to pay for it for sure and I didn’t want to mistakenly step on glass.

"Uh." I got out as I stared at the cup.

"Did you just try to use magic?" Twilight said, I nodded quietly. "I didn't even know you knew magic. I mean you never really showed that you knew it. But that could be because of the books I got you. But not a lot of unicorns could use magic right way. It took time for them to tap into it. I mean all I've seen you use is fire but that could because of well what you are."

"And what am I?" I asked turning my gaze towards her as I saw her ears flattened against her

"I don't know." She said

"Twilight it's alright. I didn't mean to make it sound like I was annoyed" I said, granted I lied but I still want to be nice since she is helping me and everything. "I just wanted to be able to do something other than burn places down. Since I can't figure out how to use my fire thing, and I refuse the whole flying thing."

"What is up with that anyway?" She asked looking at me.

"What about the whole flying thing or why I don't won’t be using them much?" I asked.

"Both." she flatly said.

"Because I'm afraid of heights Twilight, I don't like being way up especially by edges. I have a tendency to freak out when I'm close to one." I stated not for the first time to Twilight.

"Really? I still don't believe it."

"What’s not to believe? I couldn't walk well till not too long ago."

"Point taken." She said putting her hoof to her chin. I tried to focus again getting the cup to float up again slowly.

"So about that fire you used." Twilight said as the cup dropped again. Was she trying to jack with me on purpose? I turned and looked at her.

"Yes?" I said calmly. Since this was the second time she broke my concentration on just floating up a cup.

"Were you able to use that fire breath since the dream world?" Twilight asked. Now here is where I would have answered with no but of course as soon as I opened my mouth a belch of ruby red flames shot out and a rolled up scrolled popped into existence. Okay what am I now a mail box? "Oh I didn't know you could receive letters just like Spike."

"Spike?" I asked this not being the first time I asked about him but since Twilight was nose deep in books. I never got my answer about him.

"My number one assistant" Twilight said with a smile. I blinked.

"What?" I said completely confused. Twilight sighs quietly.

"Spike is a baby dragon that I helped hatch." She says looking at me. "Who has been my assistant since then. He helps clean around the library and with my studies" She says. I start to focus quietly on the scroll. I wrapped it in my magic as the scroll floated up in front of Twilight.

"So what does it say?" I ask. Twilight then yanks it out of my magic with her own, which felt like a pop in my head. Just like when my magic had dropped.

"Let's see. Dear F.M. I request that you and my faithful student Twilight Sparkle accompany me in my private study. Please have Twilight show you the way since she is familiar with its location. Signed Princess Celestia."

"Well that’s straight to the point." I said getting off the bed carefully. "So shall we get going?" I hope the answer is a yes. Because being stuck in the same room was its draw back like boredom. I slept and ate in the same room. Granted I had girls here so I wasn’t alone. You miss the outside when you can’t really go outside. Just to make sure I didn’t leave, she even put a shield spell over the balcony just in case I tried jumping off the edge. So I didn't have much to listen to nature which can be fine at times if you know what you’re listening for. I think Fluttershy would know what I’m talking about here since she is with nature a lot. Well from Twilight had told me that is. But besides nature Princess Luna has one of the guards bring me a record player and some records to help pass the time. Which it did help, I was glad to find that they had a lot of the same style of music that I was use to listening to. Rock, jazz, country, and even classical where just some that I could listen to. Pinkie somehow knowing that I was getting a recorder player left some of her own music too. Mainly party style music which was fun to listen to. It really threw me for a loop to find out that some of the records she made with help from a friend of hers. I think her name was Vinyl Scratch or as lot of the other ponies like to call her DJ Pon3. I couldn’t help but find that a little funny.

"Yes let's." Twilight said as she got up, knocking me out of my train wreck of thought. Pinkie must be really rubbing off on me. Leading the way Twilight wrapped the door in her magic making them look like they opened by themselves. The guards outside of the door looked to see who opened them and saw Twilight first, she proceed to show them the letter from the princess. They simply nodded not saying a word. Did these ponies even talk beyond simple phrases? Hell they didn't even say a word to me beyond here's your room. Twilight and I started walking down the white walled and pillared hallways of the castle. The floor was tiled with a one piece of carpet laid on top of it. I had to wonder how they got one giant one piece carpet to fit in here. Right... Magic, totally a dumb ass now. We continued on our way as I saw some suits of armor with spears, bows, swords, shields, and all other sorts of weapons. We stopped at a cross hall area as Twilight turned from side to side like she was checking which way to go. I really hoped she wasn’t lost, granted it would be a bit funny since Twilight was Celestia’s number one student. I took the time while she got her bearings to look at the closest armor to me. The armor itself was gold with jewels embedded in it. The opening for the wings was a simple white material that I couldn't place where I had seen it before. There was also a bit of metal that went on the top of the wing. How was anyone able to fly in theses? Then the sword caught my eye, the bladed weapon itself was quite simple in design. The long sword had a simple steel blade with a golden hilt with a red gem on it. The grip had what I could guess was leather straps and the bottom of the handle had one larger red gem place at the end of it.

"I see you found Sir Wing Guard's armor and sword." Said the voice to my right. I jumped at the sudden appearance of Luna.

"Hello Princess..." my voice died in my throat with that look that said. You seriously forgot? "Sorry Luna."

"It's quite alright F.M."

"So Wing Guard?" I asked turning back to the armor. Trying to hide my total dumb ass moment there.

"Yes Sir Wing Guard was one of my personal guards back before my... banishment." Luna said as her gaze returned to the armor.

"He must have been one of your best guards." I replied venturing a guess.

"He was a very noble stallion. He never failed his duties. The ponies he worked with always had good things to say and was a skilled swords pony." She said. I had a feeling there was a lot more context that I was missing from this but I didn't mind really. Since she was sharing this openly with me. I figured this was best not answered. She stared at it quietly for a few moments as well as I. My gaze turned to look at Luna who had a tear form in her eyes.

"What’s wrong Luna?" I asked.

"Just remembering an old friend." She said then turned to me. I had a feeling she was missing Wing Guard. The loss of a good friend is always hard on someone or in this case some pony.

"Sometimes remembering some pony is the only way they continue to live on. Their bodies may be gone. Their souls pass from this world but they go on living in the hearts and memories of those that cared about them the most." I said simply giving the princess of the night a smile to help her feel better.

"Very true words. So what brings you here?" Luna asked probably wanting to getff of the subject of Wing Guard, understandable to say the least.

"I was summoned to meet Princess Celestia in her private study." I said.

"I wonder why sister wants to meet you there of all places? Shall I escort you there?" Luna offered.

"You don't have to if you don't want to Luna." I said looking at her. She simply smiled and nodded.

"But I want to." She said and started heading the direction to the study which was just passed a certain lavender unicorn. Twilight turned to look at me and noticed Luna, giving the royal alicorn a bow.

"Hello Luna" Twilight said.

"Hello Twilight Sparkle"

"How are you this evening?" Twilight said as she started to talk to Luna. I stayed quiet and looked at the armor waiting patiently. It wasn't till about ten minutes, well I could guess honestly. Luna led the way for Twilight and I to her sister’s study. The door to Princess Celestia's private study was red velvet covered doors with a sun embroidered into it. Luna's horn glowed blue as the door opened slowly to show Celestia having a seat on a rug in the center of the room. She was looking at the fire in the fireplace. The flames there was a vibrant emerald color that danced gently. She turned to see the three of us at the door. She stood up and turned towards us.

"Thank you for meeting me here." Celestia said. Of course I was going to meet her here. It's the first time I was out of that room in a week. Yeah ,I was going to jump on this one just to go somewhere other than my room.

"Anytime Princess Celestia." I said as I bowed to her respectfully.

"Um, Princess Celestia?" Twilight started to ask.

"Yes my faithful student?" Celestia said in a motherly tone.

"What did you want F.M. here for?" Twilight asked as she trotted closer. I stepped inside the door as well as Luna, who shut the door behind us with a click.

"I wanted to ask for his permission to do something." Celestia said as she turned towards me. I did not like where this was going. A cold chill ran down my spine.

"What would you like to do?" I asked carefully.

"I would like to cast the memory spell and dive into your mind. Just like how Twilight did." She said looking at me.

"No." I said flatly as I gave her a deadpan expression. I wasn't going to let Twilight back in there. What would make Celestia think I was going to let her in?

"You must understand that this is the only way I can tell for sure if you are a threat to Equestria or not." Celestia said in a motherly tone. That is this case annoyed me. But I can’t blame her for it honestly. I came to the same conclusion myself as I figure it was going to come to that. When she said research I figured she was going to find something about what kind of alicorn I was. I did about the same but came up with nothing after the first night in the castle. Besides stuff on Celestia and Luna. So the only thing was left was my remains of my memories to check. What I didn’t like was the feeling that if I didn’t let her in, she was going to force her way in. Which honestly I didn’t like either. Twilight at least let me know and was sort of fine with it. Granted that time I thought it was just a simple memory spell and it would fix my missing memories, not take me down memory lane like it did.

"Princess Celestia. Let me ask you something." I started.

"Of course F.M. Go ahead." Celestia stated.

"If I won't let Twilight back into my mind or memories after what happened last time. What would make you think that I would let royalty in there to have something possibly worse happen?" I asked looking at her. She stopped and thought it over.

"He does make a point sister." Luna said besides me.

"Yes he does Luna. But I can't find any other way to tell. Our library has very limited information about alicorns besides the two of us. Since his encounter with the Timber wolf, Nightmare Moon, and the talk you had with him. I started to wonder if that maybe his lost memories would be the best way to tell." Celestia explained. "If you need reassurance I can handle myself and I won't invade your private memories." She continued. It didn't reassure me because I knew she was lying outright. If any ruler was going to make sure someone or some pony in this case wasn’t a threat they would have to thoroughly go through their memories.

"F.M. Please let her." Twilight said looking at me almost pleading with me. I sighed as I knew this was going to turn out bad. It was just a feeling I had in my bones.

"Two things first, if I am found a threat. What will happen?" I asked.

"I will have to send you somewhere where you won’t hurt anypony." Celestia stated. I saw Luna's ears flatten as if something dawned to her.

"You don't mean?" Luna asked.

"Yes Luna to the moon." Celestia said. Wait... Moon! Why the moon?

"The moon?!" I said as I raised my voice in surprise.

"Yes. It’s the only place I can think of that would put you the farthest away from any pony." Celestia said not looking at me this time.

"And what if I'm found innocent?" I said still a bit shaken from the possibility of being sent to the moon.

"You will be free to go back to Ponyville or where ever you choose." Celestia said turning to me with what I could tell is hope that was going to be the case. I sighed quietly.

"Alright, but I have one condition to all this. If I say to end the spell, then please end the spell." I said stepping closer to Celestia slowly.

"I understand." Celestia said as her horn glowed with a light yellow aura. She places the tip of her horn on my forehead. The world went white and I found myself in the familiar library corridor. I looked around to find Celestia already looking at a few books in front of her. I looked around quietly hoping that the dragon would not show up this time. "You alright F.M?" she asked.

"I'm just worried is all."

"Worried of what?"

"Of the dragon here."

"Ah. Yes the dragon you and Twilight had encountered here. That would explain all the ash around here." Celestia said as she floated the book back into the shelf. Then she started to float a large amount of the ash up to her. Her horn glowed brighter as the ash starts to take a block form. With a blinding light the forms turn back into books. The book itself dropped from Celestia’s magic and slid itself into the shelf. Right then it felt like someone just jammed a spike right into my frontal lobe. Images flashed through my head. Most of them was of that… dream. Does that mean? I started to shake quietly as I turned away from Celestia. "Something wrong F.M?" Celestia asked in a worried tone.

"I'm Fine." I said still shaken and then that’s when we heard the booming stomps from a familiar source.

"I believe that would the dragon you were talking about." Celestia said, I nodded like a dumbass. I turned to see the dragon standing before us. Celestia was looking him over as the dragon was with her.

"Hello Dragon." Celestia said bowing to the dragon. I simply stare at the both of them.

"Hello Celestia." The dragon said in his graveled voice, Celestia's eyebrow rises.

"How do you know of me?" She asks quietly.

"Because they told me about you princess." The dragon said. Wait... They? Who are they? Celestia’s surprised look didn’t reassure me. This was not good. Not good at all.

"Do you mean?" Celestia asked and the dragon nodded. She looked worried. "How much are they in this?" What the hell is going on?

"They know of what is to happen but have nothing to do with it." The dragons said. Celestia was quiet as the dragon stomped the ground. Then the ground around covers me in a dome, I can't see Celestia or the Dragon. I started to pound on the dome but nothing. I even try bucking it. But not even a scratch. I can make out mumbles coming from Celestia and the Dragon. After a few minutes of this I heard sound that reminded me of a rocket taking off. Then Images started to flash in my head as a headache that is an equivalent of being drilled in the head by a whale with a bulldozer. But one image stuck in my mind. The image of the angry Celestia wielding a sword at a young foal. It can't be true. I mean Celestia did keep me captive in that room for a week but even she can't... What am I kidding I only know her for less than two weeks. There's nothing I can assume at all. That image just won't come out of my head. The dome around me broke into dust and blows away. The change of light blinded me for a few moments. I closed my eyes to let my eyes dilate. Then I noticed the dragon look right at me and Celestia too.

"Um." I said not sure what to say.

"Little One." The dragon said to me.

"I have a name you know." I stated.

"Yes I know both of them."

"Both!" I said surprised.

"Yes F.M."

"Then you know my real name. Please tell me." I said stepping closer as the dragon grinned.

"What's in a name? A rose by any other name, still smells as sweet. So why would it be different for you?" the dragon said. A spike of irritation ran through me. That irritation quickly turned into anger. That orange glow started to appear in the room. I stepped closer to the dragon. That anger boiled in me an inferno that just rushed around. The heat I could feel within every inch of me.

"You will tell me my name dragon." I commanded out of anger. My teeth grinded in my mouth as the dragon looked at me.

"No." The dragon stated. I wanted to hurt that dragon. The only one to know my name and he wasn't talking. I started to breathe deeply.

"That wasn't a request dragon." I said getting down into a fighting stance. I saw my mane on fire this time in the reflection in the dragon’s eye, when he lowered his face down closer to me. He breathed in and I knew what he was about to do. I did the same. He opened his mouth and I breathed fire down his throat. The dragon started to choke on the fire.

"F.M." Celestia said looking at me.

"What?" I said not taking my gaze away from the choking dragon.

"Calm down." Celestia stated. I turned and glared at her.

"Calm down? You want me to calm down? Why?" I asked. Celestia looked at me worried.

"Remember what happened to Twilight." She stated flatly. I remained where I stood as I looked down, the flame that was my mane and tail returning their normal state.

"Celestia please end the spell." I said not looking at her. I could feel Celestia’s gaze on me. My quick shift in demeanor like that must of surprised her as I lowered my head more.

"Alright." she said as her own horn started to glow. The dragon snapped his claw as her glow disappeared. Celestia looked up at the dragon in surprised.

"One thing before you go." The dragon said as he coughed one more time, getting the last of my big of my trickery out of his system. The dragon turned to me. "Little one you need to be careful with what is to come."

"What is about to come?" I said my gaze not leaving the floor

"The Storm."

"The Storm?" I questioned now my gaze raised to meet his.

"Yes, Your storm." he said and then snaps his claw as I opened my mouth. I found myself in Celestia's study again before I could say anything. I growled quietly. A storm... what storm? Damn it. Why all this cryptic crap. First I come in at a fireball from a different world. I cause all sorts of chaos. I fight a timber wolf. Then a nightmare given life, granted I wasn’t the one to finish it off but still. You would think the damn storm was all that. It's one fury of a storm already if you asked me. What's going else is going to come. My thoughts would have ran on till.

"Is everything alright?" Twilight stated.

"Sister?" I turned to see both Twilight and Luna worried. Celestia looked at me for a few moments then her gaze turned to Luna.

"Luna we have a lot to talk about." Luna nodded.

"What about F.M?" Twilight asked.

"Twilight please take F.M. back to his room." Celestia said.

"Good night Celestia." I stated and left. I had a lot to think about and frankly I didn’t want to talk to her at the moment. That image of her wielding a sword at a child ever present in my mind, it worried me and angered me at the same time.

"Good night princesses" Twilight said with a bow then followed me.

***---***

"What's wrong?" Twilight said, not for the first time, back in the room. I didn't say anything. The events of memory lane really driving me nuts. I drew out the book on dragons and started through it again. It was till Twilight pulled it from me with her magic.

"What did you do that for?" I said angrily.

"You need to talk." Twilight said glaring back at me. Why was she cross at me? "Please tell me what’s wrong?" Twilight said dropping her glare and looked worried. I sighed quietly and started to explain what happened. Well not all of it. I left out the image of Celestia wielding the sword at a child. Twilight listened carefully but as soon as I got to the part when the dragon told us that the storm was coming. Twilight started to panic and rush through her books. This both surprised me and worried me. It took me yelling at her in return to snap her attention back to me saying that it was my problem because it was my storm. Of course it didn't detour Twilight as she started to go through books again.

"Can I get that book back?" I asked feeling my temper defused a bit. Then had the book floated back to me. I did more reading on dragons. There was a lot of interesting factoids on dragons. Now when I was back home I always was fascinated with dragons and dragon like mythos. So finding out that this place had dragons. I had to jump in to a book about them. Just to see what was real compared to the fantasy back home. Surprising enough that some of it was spot on, besides the whole breathing fire part. Dragons here have two main sets, magical and normal. Magical dragons are attuned to an element like fire, lightning, water, and so forth. Now normally dragons have a high threshold for fire. A fire attuned magical dragon can withstand a phoenix fire which a lot of normal dragons can’t withstand. Lightning dragons can take bolts of lightning like they were just static shocks. They can even absorb enough of it and fire a bolt from their mouth just like breathing fire. The water attune can swim a lot faster in water and breath under it just as if it was air to them. They also have the ability to take in a lot of water then release it in a powerful stream. Which I could guess was like water from a fireman’s fire hose. Now each dragon can be split further down into subsets of each one. Then I got the part about their mating habits which lead me to find out that dragons sometimes take pony lovers, to put it nicely. They can mate and with a rare chance create an offspring called a Drony. "Drony?" I asked out loud.

"Drony?" Twilight repeating my question, she then whipped the book over to her and started to read. "A Drony is the results of the mating of a dragon and pony."

"How does that work?" I asked.

"Do I really need to have that kind of talk with you?" Twilight said with a raised eyebrow in a skeptical look.

"No thank you." I said shaking my head. That would be very, very awkward.

"Each Drony as the same abilities but slightly differ depending on the magical dragon parents attunement. All Dronies can use a breath weapon just as a dragon can breathe fire. If the dragon parent is fire then it’s a normal fire breath and if the attunement is lightning then they can channel lightning from the sky into an attack. Just as any other pony, A Drony can be broken down depending on the pony equivalent. The earth pony equivalent has little claws on the hooves. There used mainly for slashing same as a cat's claws does. They can also be used for digging closer to those of diamond dogs. Just like them there claws are out at all times. Their eyes also have the same as a serpent's eyes. There natural eye color set off small glow in the dark." Twilight recited from the book.

"That's different." I said with a raised eyebrow.

"I've never heard of them before." Twilight said.

"Really?" I asked quite surprised

"It’s fascinating" she said looking back at me from the book. I floated book back over to me. I had this strange itch on the back of my head. This was a little too convenient for me. So I flipped to the index and started to scan it. Right there it was. Storm, it was under S. My eyes widened. Could this be it? I flipped right to it but the page was gone.

"Damn."

"What?" Twilight said as she trotted over to me.

"The page about Storms is gone. I thought maybe it would be a clue." I said.

"That’s odd. I’ve never known a book in the castle or castle library to have a missing page. I could possibly have a copy of the book back home.” Twilight said.

"Then all I can suggest is you head back to Ponyville and find out." I said in a polite tone.

"What about you?" She asked worriedly

"Twilight I'm stuck here. I can't go anywhere till Princess Celestia has laid down her verdict for me. So go ahead, It won’t be for long. What’s one day? If she has an answer I'll send you a letter." I offered. She bit her bottom lip the nodded running off with a goodbye. She shut the door behind her. I picked up the book again and started to read again. There has to be more here. A dragon in my head talking about a storm and there’s something about a storm in this book about dragons. It can't be just a coincidence can it?

***---***

Night had fallen as I went through that book a bit longer. I lost track of the page the Dronies were on. So I decided to read about the subsets of dragons. What fascinated me the most was that one of the rarest of magical dragons had an attunement of all the elements. But from what this book could tell me that they were impossible to find if they continue to exist or not. My reading was interrupted from a wrapping coming from the door.

"Who is it?" I asked, my nose still deep in the book about dragons.

"It me." Celestia said "May I come in?"

"Yes you may Princess Celestia." I said continuing to read the book again. The door opened with help from Celestia's magic. She entered the room.

"F.M. First I have to apologize about your confinement."

"It's fine." I said still looking at the book. Celestia stopped and looked surprised. I looked up from the book at her. "What's wrong?"

"I'm surprised at reply."

"Why?"

"Well you did storm out of my private study."

"Yes I did." I said flatly then sighed. "A lot of my responses will be different to the ponies here in Equestria, mainly because I’m not from here or what I could guess this plane or world."

"It's understandable." she said and I simply nodded. There were a few moments of silence between us.

"So what brings you here?" I said breaking the silence between us. I really hate awkward silence like that.

"I have made my verdict." I looked at her more readying myself for my flight to the moon and the spacey death that will follow.

"You've have been found. Not a threat."

"What?" I said as my brain just flat lined for a moment.

"My verdict is to find out not a threat to Equestria." Celestia said. I blinked, then slowly breathed in.

"Okay doki loki" I said slowly. For some reason I had a feeling that Pinkie Pie would have said the same thing.

"Why don't you join Luna and me for dinner?"

"Sure. But I have to send a letter to Twilight first." I said putting the book down on the bed.

"I already have taken care of that." Celestia said.

"Still I did give my word and..." I got out before a burp caused a scroll to appear and land on the bed before me. Celestia raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't know you could receive mail like that." She said. Yup, I'm a living mailbox now. I opened the letter and saw it was from Twilight.

"Dear F.M. I was already informed about your status and still looking for the book. There has been no luck on locating it. So I will be returning to Canterlot once I finish going through the rest of the library. Signed Twilight Sparkle." I read out loud. Then noticed more at the bottom. "P.S. Spike here, I'll try to make sure she gets some sleep before she comes. Trust me I will save you from a headache. Signed Spike." I blinked in confusion at the last part. What could possibly happen with Twilight if she didn’t get sleep?

"Book?" Celestia questioned.

"Oh. Yes, This book to be more precise." I said sliding the book towards her. She picked it up with her magic.

"The Anthology of Dragons and Dragon kind." She read the title.

"Yes. That copy of the book as missing page and Twilight is looking at the library back in Ponyville to see if she had a more intact copy." I told her.

"I see." She said placing the book back down.

"What would you like the chef whip up for you?" Celestia said getting back to the point of dinner.

"A salad would be fine."

"Are you sure F.M? You can have anything you want you know?"

"I figured as much. But I want to play on the safe side and go with something that I know I’ve had before. So a salad is something I use to have back home." I stated. Celestia nodded and opened the door with her magic. As we exited the room quietly, her horn started to glow again and what could be best described as a powering down sound could be heard from the room we just left. I could only guess that she removed the shield covering the room.

"It does make sense." She stated. “Going with something you're accustomed to. But I would suggest expanding your selection on food. I myself enjoy a good daisy sandwich from time to time.”

“Well that the problem with me, back where I come from we don’t eat flowers like here. My brain is still hardwired to a lot of my old world. Well up to a certain point.”

“If you don’t mind me asking, like what?” She questioned looking at me.

“Well it seems a lot of my memories and dreams have… well for lack of a better term ponified. So people I use to know are now ponies in my head. Its either this world is compensating for me changing a lot of my mind to better fit. But not all of it has changed. I remember what I use to look like and I remember about humans so it’s really hard to say what is causing it.”

“Well from what I could guess what caused you to change into the pony you are now had some lasting effects on you. But speaking of differences why don’t you tell me about some of the food differences between your old world and Equestria. I’m quite intrigued to find out about them.”

We continued to talk about food difference between my old world and Equestria. The princess was taken back when I brought up the fact that I used to have meat. I wasn't surprised really. Ponies were vegetarians right?

"Do you miss the taste of it?" She asked and I simply nodded.

"Well I use to enjoy eating meat. Grilling was one of the normal way of cooking back home. But I think the fact is I took a lot of things back home for granted. Things I’m going to miss a lot." My thoughts dropped back down into a depression as I started to think about everything back home. The friends, family, and so forth.

"It's understandable." Celestia said walked closer to me and placed a wing around me. I could only guess that my look gave away where my mind had went, I sighed quietly and looked at Celestia. That image with her wielding a sword at a child popped back into my head, I shuttered. Celestia's raised an eyebrow.

"Shall we go?" I said trying to get my mind off the image. Celestia nodded and we made our way to the dining room. The dining room is what you would expect. Large and extravagant, the checkerboard marble floors crossed the whole room. On the walls there were banners that had both the sun and moon on them. There was a few of six gems on a golden medallion. The windows were in a pattern of stain glass. It was nicely done. The table itself was a large white marble table with golden ornaments and legs around the edge of it. There was large chairs one with a sun and the other with a moon at the end of the table. A smaller chair was placed around the side. I figured they planned on having me eat with them. Celestia and I walked up to the chairs to find Luna already sitting in the large chair with the moon on it. Celestia took her seat and I sat down at mine quietly. There was a bit of silence between the three of us. Really what was with all the damn silence between us? Luna cleared her throat. I turned towards her and saw she was looking at me. I don't know why but I felt unnerved by her gaze.

"F.M." Luna said.

"Yes?" I replied.

"What is bothering you?" Luna asked. Ok did I have a sign above my head saying problem with me?

"Um. What do you mean?" I dumbly said.

"It's not hard to tell something is bothering you. Especially, how you looked when you left." Damn it. She got me.

"There are a lot of unanswered questions that are bugging me." I said as my gaze is on the table itself.

"If you don't mind my prying. Like what?" Celestia said looking at me. I put my hoof on my forehead rubbing a little to get my thoughts straight.

"Well a lot come from our jaunt down memory lane. My storm being a big one. Now I can't figure out what it means yet but as I told you Celestia, the only clue I have is gone because of a ripped page. As for the other things bugging me spawns from your conversation that I could hear between you and the dragon. As in, who are They?" I turned to see both of them looking unsure at each other. They didn't want to share this information with me. I'm not surprised. "I figured as much." I said. Both of them snapped their look at me.

"What do you mean?" Celestia questioned.

"You don't want to tell me about them because it's a secret between you two." I stated the look on their faces told me enough. The surprised I would ask, the worry of what would happen if I knew, and the unnerving feeling that they want to tell but can’t. After dealing with the people I used to deal with you learn to read some signs. No granted this doesn’t work all the time but how they were presenting it on their face it wasn’t hard to tell.

"Please understand that we cannot tell you for very special reasons." Celestia said.

"I do understand. But that leaves me with something that I saw when I was trapped in the dome."

"What is that?" Luna asked.

"An image of you" I said pointing to Celestia as my gazes harden. I wanted an answer to this. Celestia raised her eyebrow.

"Of me?" she asked.

"Yes, of you wielding a sword against a child." As soon as I finished saying that her eyes shot wide.

"Sister?" Luna said seeing her sister’s reaction.

"But how... Could you... That book!" Celestia said looking like all the pieces fit into place and didn’t like the outcome. "So that’s what he meant when he said the past." I sighed rubbing a hoof on my forehead.

"Can someone... err. Somepony please tell me what is going on?" I asked.

"That image you saw was one of my memories. The dragon copied one of my memories and gave it to you as punishment for me interfering."

"Interfering?"

"Yes. There seems to be a lot more to you being here then by chance."

"Destiny is in play here." I said remembering what the dragon said before.

"I believe you're right." Celestia said.

“That still doesn’t answer my question.” I said looking at her. Celestia looked quietly at her sister for a few moments then returns to me.

“There is a lot of context you need to fully understand. But to really summarize it, that child was not really a child. There was an old unicorn mage called Grim Wand. He was very skilled in magic but towards the end of his life he wanted to last long so his knowledge would last beyond the ages. Normally Alicorns are the ones that have longevity like he wants. But unable to ascend to become an alicorn, he tried other ways. The one he found and used a lot was called soul transference. A very black spell in nature.”

“Necromantic magic right?” I questioned a guess.

“I see you're aware of it.”

“It was a subject in books back home. But as far as I knew not a really possibility there.” I said

“Anyway it took me two hundred years to find him again. Since then he went on to transfer his mind and soul into children to prolong his life and his knowledge of the darker magic’s. When I found Grim Wand, he had just transferred into another foal. You must understand when he transferred his mind and soul he effectively kills the one he moves his soul into too. So what you saw was my last confrontation of Grim Wand. The only thing I knew that could slay him was a special sword.” She went on to explain. This really unnerved me just hearing about it. The act of killing children like that was unspeakable and over two hundred year. That just sent a shiver down my spine, now that I had context to that image I can understand it.

"Now that I understand that memory now. What do we do now about my other issues?" I asked.

“Unfortunately right now. There's nothing we can do, till we have more information. By the way where did you find that book about dragon kind?." Celestia asked.

“It was laying on the table with a bunch of other books Twilight had laid about.” I answered.
“That’s quite interesting because that book is not in the Canterlot library. When you’re done with the book mind if I have one of the guards bring it to me?" she asked.

“Well as far as I figure it’s your book so I don’t see why not.” I said pointing that out.
“Alright. So in the mean time we should be prepared for anything." The server brought out the food for all of us. I got the salad I had requested even had some cheese on top of it. Celestia got some kind of frozen sorbet and Luna had a sandwich. I floated the fork up carefully, getting a better grip on my magic and started to eat. I still had the storm to worry about. What did he mean my storm? I must of zoned out because after sometime.

"F.M?" Luna asked. I snapped out of it.

"Yes?"

"I can I have a word with you in private later?" I blinked like a dumbass.

"Of course."

"I'll see you in your room after my duties are done." I simply nodded, then finished my salad and one of the guards took me back to my room. It was then I saw the shield over the balcony was gone. I walked over to it and stared out into the night. Well it was more night turning morning. How long did it take to eat? I had the feeling of losing time. It felt... Weird. I picked up the book again and started to read out loud.

"Dricorn, the Drony version of a unicorn. Their horns are covered in scales making it harder to break and more attuned to magic. There face has a discoloration close to a zebra’s stripes but here marking closely resemble claw marks, two on each side of their face. The color normally takes the same as there mane color but not always the case. There magical aura around their horns take more of an element nature. It depends on what type the dragon one of the parents was. If the dragon was attuned to lightning even how rare they are. The magic the Dricorn is closer to lightning sparking off the horn. As one attuned to fire, the glow is closer to fire surrounding the horn itself." I stopped, thinking about that for a moment. I lit up my horn and watched the orange glow off my horn is closer to fire surrounding it. I find it funny that just making the aura has gotten easy. I still have a hard time lifting things. A book was starting to get easier but I still couldn't get anything bigger than a potted plant. I let the magic fade as I looked at the book. Not really reading but just looked. I shook my head and used my magic to close it. Leaving it on the table I made my way to the large bed in the room. After I climbed into the bed, I just laid down tucking my forelegs under me and just stared quietly out of the balcony. I didn't want to go near it at the moment. A thought started to creep its way into my head. "Aria" the thought was. That beautiful tan coated and brown mane mare that I had a dream about. That named tugged at my heart strings. I believe that dream was a memory. It didn't really click when I had the dream. But after Celestia repaired that book and slide it in. It flashed in my head. Just like Celestia's memory did. It had to be real right? But I knew she wasn't a pony. Neither was I technically. But being here had does something to my head. Was the magic in Equestria messing with the fabric of my mind, changing it so it fit better with this world? And what about Aria? If it was true and she special to me. Then...

"F.M? Are you alright?" I heard coming from the balcony. My notice snapped back as I focused on Luna who looked worried. I stood up and didn't realize till then I was shaking. Not for the cold but from my thoughts.

"Yes." I lied. I didn't want to go into this right now, just anything else but this. I know it's stupid of me to lie to one of the princesses but I really needed my mind elsewhere.

"You’re lying." Luna said calling me out on it.

"Yes. I lied but I really don't want to talk about it. Please?" I stated to her. She closed her eyes.

"I understand." She said then reopened her eyes.

"What did you need to talk to me about?" I questioned as I sat down on my hunches.

"Well it was more a request honestly." Luna said.

"Go on?"

"I want you to go back in the realm of dreams with me. The sword was left there."

"And you think it's not safe for it to be just laying around for anypony or anything to find it?" I questioned. She simply nodded. This seems like an easy job to do. Having the princess that governs over dreams there with me, what could go… wait. Just to be safe I should finish that thought.

"We can go whenever you’re ready."

"Then let's be off." I said stepping closer to Luna. Her horn started to glow as the world washed out in a sea of blues. We found ourselves back in the same room with that altar. The altar itself had changed. It towered over us covered in a black stone. Almost like someone charred normal stone with fire. At the top of it the sword was sitting there. After a short climb both Luna and I got to the top of steps. The top of it was wider than I expected and even more unexpected was the pony that stood there. A tan coated, brown manned mare stood there, her back towards us with the sword between her and us. The sword itself stuck in the stone. Like it was waiting for King Arthur to come by and pull it from the stone. Luna looked at me as I stared at the mare past the stone. I was shaking again, this time I was really shaken. Closer to standing out in winter without anything but boxers on. Of all ponies to be here it was her.

"It's been a while hasn't it." The tan pony said. I couldn't get a word out of my mouth. My voice decided to leave me when I saw her.

"Who might you be?" Luna asked. The mare let out a small laugh.

"Why don't you ask F.M. there?" She asked still not turning to look at us. Luna turned towards me and I finally said something.

"Aria" I said as my heart skipped a beat so bad that I didn't even notice the sword between us was gone.

"Aria?" Luna questioned for a moment then it clicked. She turned to the tan mare who Luna realized was Aria, My Aria from my memories.

"Yes. It's me." Aria said.

"But..." I started to say.

"But how? Well honestly I don't know. Since that night so, so long ago. I have been here. I've seen so many things. Back from home to things here. Like Luna's return to Equestria." Aria answered.

"How is that possible?" Luna asked puzzled.

"Like I said. Princess Luna I do not know. But there is one thing I do know." Aria said.

"What would that be?"

"That F.M. is pathetic." She said as my heart sank. "I died to save this weak useless coward. Who can't even get his own head in order to understand the simplest of things. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten himself killed for his unintelligent actions." Aria said.

"What right do you have to say that about him?" Luna said as her horn flared.

"The right I hold was one of love Luna. I knew him far better than ether you or himself." Her words pierced right through me. But it wasn't just that, was it? I felt something wet run down my foreleg as I started to have a copper taste in my mouth. I looked down to the crescent moon hilt right up to my chest, the blade plunged deep within me. I opened my mouth but all that came out was dark red blood. The edges of my eyes had started to turn black. I looked back up at Aria looking at me with those empty eyes. No eyeball, no nothing. It was like someone removed her eyes and left her like that. What was left around the sockets started to sink in and fade into the darkness. Her teeth curled into a creepy smile with each tooth rotting away. A few of them had holes into them. Each a little window into the black mouth she had. I heard something coming next to me but it was too far to make out what it said but it sounded like Luna.

"This is your karma for getting her killed." the voice in the back of my head said. It was wasn't it? I felt a small chuckle leave my mouth through the blood. I stood there in front of that car and she saved my pathetic life at the cost of her own. That chuckle started to grow into a laugh. That laugh getting louder and louder. I saw Luna looking at me panicking. This was so fitting wasn't it? Getting killed by the one that I got killed. It was perfect karma and I deserved it. This must be how it is for people going insane. The world started to break around me as everything went back. The voice in my head echoing. “Your Karma” over and over again. I was out right manic laughing before I felt the ground to my side.

"My Karma.” Was the last thing I said before everything numbed away into the darkness leaving me… alone.

-End of Chapter-

Author's Notes:

I want to once again thank Daniel Allred for helping me fix my massive amounts of screwing up on grammar and spelling on these chapters.

That being said, I would love to hear everyone's opinions on what is to come up in the next chapter.

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