Apple Leaves
Chapter 8: Flaws
Previous Chapter Next ChapterWe all sit down on some chairs gathered around a round, wooden table in Twilights tree house. Currently, we all sit at it, as I and Jest are explaining what happened with him, my disappearance and why he is here.
Finally, I get to do what I wanted to in the first place: Ask her if she knows anything about this.
“So…Do you know anything about humans in Equestria or how Jest got manipulated here? Isn’t Discord imprisoned into Stone?” I question the whole round, but only Twilight doesn’t look totally confused.
“Not directly, I can only tell you what I believe. Since Discord is a magical being of great power, he maybe communicated with Jest in some way.
But that is just a theory.
About the superpowers you mentioned, I think I have a book here that involved something about dimension portals and what happens if somepony comes from somewhere else into Equestria.”
She steps away from the table, and goes into her library. Only a few seconds, she reappears with a book flying above her head. She puts it on the table, and we all get behind Twilight to get a better look at it.
It seems pretty old, and she opens it carefully so it doesn’t break.
“Okay let’s see what we got here.”
“It hopefully brings us some answers. After all we had ‘super powers’ for no reason why…” Jest says, as he looks at me and then to Twilight Sparkle.
She opens it up, showing us ancient letters, which I can’t decode.
“This is a book about different dimensions, that Celestia gifted me a while ago. I think I read something about humans in here, but I’m not sure anymore what it was.”
She only peeks at the sites to see their topics. Every site has a picture and a very detailed description, but even if I could read the letters, it would be too fast for my eyes.
“Alright, Humans in Equestria… Let’s see, humans usually live in a world called ´Earth´, which is a very huge planet in another dimension that revolves around. It is said, that their planet is rich of water and animals, but humans seem to be the only intelligent race on this planet.” Twilight tells, as she is reading at the same time.
“That doesn’t help, I can tell you general information about the earth myself. And yes it is true, there are actually no smart creatures but us humans, ponies are actually pretty huge and there are no pegasi or unicorns.” I tell her moderately
“Sorry, I’ll skip this.” She replies as she reads on.
“Here we go effects of dimension traveling on humans! Let’s see…Dimension traveling isn’t usual for humans, since they don’t know magic in the current century, even though there is still some left. In the medieval times, there were magicians which created some portals into different dimensions, testing their skills and experimenting around.
They ended up because the new king Arthur didn’t want to let magic fall into the false hands, so he banished any kind of it that ever existed. It seems like he missed out on some portals, which would explain how you came here.”
She speaks on:
“Since magic got banished, there were no more magicians in the next centuries, and it has been forgotten. As some people still used it, even though it was forbidden, Earth got cleansed from magic almost completely as one of the greatest magicians, Merlin, gathered all of his power to vanquish all magic from the planet.
Many people only know it as legend or stupid fairy tale, even though it is very true.
Yet there still are people who have secret powers left in them, which can’t be unrevealed as they are hidden deep inside of them and can only be unlocked by going to a magical place.
If a human would travel into another dimension, and has some magic inside of him, he would be available to unchain enormous amounts of power, unbelievable for neither human or pony kind.
Since every pony has a little magic inside, it would theoretically mean that if a pony visits the earth, it would become a human as well. A human however can become a human in Equestria, since he isn’t limited to any bonds here.
That is what stands here.” Twilight finishes reading, while looking at me.
Jest is staring at me angrily…I wonder why, but my thoughts get interrupted by other thoughts.
I am kind of flooded with thoughts at the moment…So a pony would become a human in my world, but even though a human becomes vise verse a pony, he can be a human in this world?
But how could I turn into this? I mean, this might come in handy from time to time, also who wouldn’t like to have super powers? Also…Why was Jest able to cast spells, and had a scythe as a weapon, while I had a sword?
“Okay…All of this is very strange, yet very interesting. Is there nothing about…You know…How to transform while you’re inside of Equestria while you are a pony?” I glimpse at Twilight, but she seems disappointed.
“Sorry, that’s all about humans that I’ve got. But…Why do you want to turn into a human, anyway?”
“Super powers are pretty useful and would help with a lot of things like farm work or helping someone at doing something.” I reply while thinking about what I said.
To be honest, I just want to have those super powers because they’re cool. Next to being in Equestria, having super powers and fighting at lightning speed with special attacks and stuff is my biggest dream, even though it almost got me killed. But I don’t really care. It would be a nice thing to have but not a must. I live in Equestria, I should be thankful to Merlin.
“So...This is it? We now know that magician tales were true, and that’s it? Well nice waste of my time, I’m out of here.” Jest said as he stands up and opens the door.
Quickly I walk after him, shut the door again with my right hoof and tell him: “Could you please be grateful? Twilight just helped us and didn’t charge anything for it! So say thanks at least if you’re going to go!”
He turns around slowly, and glimpses at twilight only letting out a very quiet Thanks. Then he goes out while grunting a little and shuts the door very loudly.
“Geez, what in tarnation is wrong with him?” Applejack throws in the room.
“I…Have no idea…I’ll go see after him, and ask what this was about.” I say as I go outside and run after him.
He is already far away and I can only barely see his black skin in the distance. He is walking seemingly upset, and stomps his hooves very heavily.
The closer I get to him, the louder I hear his stomping. I catch up to him in front of the spa.
“Jest, wait for me! Jest!” I scream and continue: “Jest, seriously, what is wrong?”
And suddenly he disrupts me, looking very mad: “What is wrong? What is wrong?! You really have the nerve to ask me that?”
“Wow, calm down! What made you so upset?” I try to soothe him, but he still yells at me: “You have your wonderful life here, have Applejack as a pony that loves you, have friends all over the place, and you didn’t even look for me? You didn’t even try to do anything to help me?”
“I had amnesia, I didn’t even know you back then, neither did I know anything about me nor did I know anything about my old life or humans at all. All I remembered is that all this here isn’t real at all, but yet it is. I got to know it as a parallel universe! I had other problems, and seriously, you are jealous of me having Applejack as a special some pony?
>ou were always the one that didn’t really care for love or having any company at all, you always told me ‘It’s ok to be alone sometimes, but it’s better to be accompanied! So why?!”
He just grunts as he looks away from me, talking on in the same upset voice: “Like I would tell you anything real about my love life…I never got to know real life, nor did I ever get close to anyone. I only knew one thing, and that was friendship.
But that you didn’t care for our friendship…I thought otherwise about you.”
“I’m sorry I guess…”
“You guess?! YOU GUESS?!”
He totally snaps now. His eyes turn blacker and blacker, as his limbs start to move randomly, making him fall down to the ground a few times. Suddenly, one of his hooves turns grey and finally forms fingers, as his feet do the same thing.
A black light covers him and surrounds him, and becomes bigger and bigger, until it even devoured me into it. I am in a big, black void of nothing.
I fade away…I seem to fly…I don’t feel any of my hooves…I feel like this for only a few seconds until it ends, yet it felt like minutes until it was over.
I wake up lying on the ground, just where I stood a few seconds ago.
I slowly open my eyes, seeing something big and in a black leather jacket infront of me.
Oh no…Not again…Discord got the upper hand above him!
“Stand up, mortal. I would like to have some fun if you’re a human anyway. And don’t even think about calling your little pony friends this time. Last time, this body barely survived the power you put into your attacks…”
He snips his right hands fingers and his scythe appears in it.
I slowly stand up as I look onto him: He still has long hair, even though it turned white. His eyes are completely black, and show no slice of a soul at all. His body is humanoid and about one head taller than mine is. He wears a black jacket, and black trousers.
“So…You really want to do it this way again? But let me ask you one thing, discord…Why can you manipulate people to make them fight for you?”
He grins, and laughs crazily, for almost a whole minute long. He doesn’t stop and makes weird noises while he is at it.
“Oh…Oh my. You still haven’t figured it out, have you? I can’t just manipulate people…I need to convince them to be mad, to show their chaotic side…And if they get weak, I get them far enough to fuse with them, to control them completely.
Your friend didn’t have anyone to help him as he got into this world. He knew everything…He remembered everything…Your “big friendship” and that stuff, but I convinced him to give up on you.
And now, he is mine to use and I stand here to fight you, the only human able to do anything about it…Sadly, when I turn into this shape, I can’t control the crazy amounts of magic, so I have to let it flow outside…Which means you turn into a human as well.
It is fine for me, since I know exactly what to do with this power, and I will have some fun after all.
Now…What are you going to do? Kill your best friend, or let me take over this world as you know it? Mwahaha, It’s not like it would make any difference but I’d love to see you struggle desperately against all of this! Oh, what a wonderful day will await me!
Arturo Durazo, let us initiate the beginning of the end! Mwahahaha!”
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