Bionicle: Equestrian Saga
Chapter 8
Previous Chapter Next ChapterWe eventually made it back to the library, I noticed that the town wasn't as crowded as it should be for this time of day, but I assumed that most ponies were probably doing their jobs for the day, we walked inside to find it pitch black, we all stood there confused before the lights suddenly switched on…
"SURPRISE"
Standing in the room were many ponies, decorations hung from the ceiling and walls, a large banner hung from the ceiling that had the words ‘Welcome to Ponyville (and thank you for saving the school)’ written on it, my sight was then blocked by Pinkie Pie.
“Well were you surprised, huh, were you?” she asked.
“Good god, you nearly gave me a heart attack” I said, noticing the look on her face I added “not in the physical sense, yes, I am surprised, what is all of this for?” I asked, gesturing to the decorations.
“It’s yours and Autumn’s welcome to Ponyville party, silly” she said, Autumn seemed confused.
“How do you know my name?” she asked, Pinkie Pie just shrugged.
“Lucky guess?” she said.
“Okeeey” I said, Autumn tapped me with a hoof.
“D’you mind if I get into your bag? I need to take this armour off” she said, I passed it to her and she walked up the stairs into another room, I noticed that all the ponies in the room were looking at me expectantly, I clapped my hands together.
“Right, I’m not good at improvised speeches, so I’ll just say thank you for this, have fun and if you do have any questions for me, please don’t pester me, don’t rush, I shall be walking around saying hi to everyone so you’ll have your chance at some point today” I said, at my words they all started partying, some music started playing, it sounded like 1940’s era jazz music, but a bit more upbeat, I could also hear a keyboard amongst the instruments, but it wasn’t out of place, having nothing better to do, I started mingling, a little difficult, considering I was a good two feet above everyone else, I said hi to several people, got to know them, most of the questions they asked were the one you would expect, ‘where are you from?’ ‘How did you get here?’ ‘what are you?’, that sort of thing, I was standing at the buffet table with a glass of punch in my hand when a brown stallion with an hour glass for a cutie mark walked up to me.
“You shouldn't be here” he said, interestingly enough his voice was a dead match for David Tennant, I sighed, figuring he was probably another xenophobe.
“Look, I would rather go for at least a week without bumping into another patriotic racist” I said, he shook his head.
“Oh no, I didn't mean it like that, I’m sorry if I caused any offence, I meant you as a species, you shouldn't be on this planet” he said.
“How do you know that?” I asked, genuinely surprised.
“My tardis…” he went to say, but I cut him off.
“Wait, did you say Tardis, as in Time and relative dimensions in space?” I asked, he seemed surprised.
“Well yes, but how did you know?” he asked
“Look, Doctor, I know who you are, and what you are, and I have a good idea of what you are probably going to say, but I’m afraid it probably won’t be the best idea for you to send me back to my earth with your tardis” I said.
“Why not? And how do you know all this?” he said.
“Look, on my earth, you, as in the Doctor, and your tardis, are nothing but the focus of a Sci-Fi drama, so from my point of view, you should not exist” I said, his reaction was predictable.
“What? But that’s impossible” came the predictable answer.
“As are talking unicorns and pegasi” I said.
“Ah, point taken” he said.
“Now, as much as I would like to go home, I can’t, for one thing, we might end up in the wrong universe, or cause the destruction of said universe, I would rather not risk it” I said.
“You’re acting rather maturely about universal matters, considering you’re human” he said.
“I’ve seem enough of your show to know what could go wrong from crossing universal boundaries” I said, shrugging “however, I would like to know how I got here, and if there is a way to get back via the way I came here, do you think we could have a look tomorrow, I could show you roughly where I ‘arrived’, plus, I wouldn't mind seeing the Tardis”
“I have been rather curious about how you got here myself, very well then” he said, with that we went our separate ways, I found Autumn, who still had my rucksack with her, she had apparently seen me talking with the Doctor.
“Who was that?” she asked, gesturing to the Doctor, who was now walking out the door of the library.
“We’re going to be investigating how I got here tomorrow, I take it you’ll be coming with us” I said, she nodded “oh can you pass me my rucksack please” she passed me the rucksack and I walked over towards the stereo system, Pinkie bounced over to me.
“Hey, Vuur, watcha doing?” she asked, bouncing on the spot.
“Changing the music for something more suited to my tastes, you don’t mind do you?” I asked, she shook her head.
“It’s your party, silly, of course you can” she said, rolling her eyes as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, I got my laptop out and plugged an audio cable in, I didn’t play any music just yet, instead I stopped the music that was currently playing, every one stopped and looked at me, I stood up.
“I think we can all agree that this party has been really good, yes?” I said, I received a chorus of cheers as a response “and the music has been good” they all nodded “but I think it’s time to change things a little, who wants to hear the music from my world” they all cheered.
“So tell me, have any of you heard of ‘Heavy Metal’?” a sea of confused faces was the response I received, I grinned, ‘they have no idea what they are about to listen to’ I thought to myself, I selected a song on the laptop and immediately a heavy metal riff started pouring out of the speakers, they now looked even more confused, I started singing along to the lyrics.
“You can’t kill the metal”
“The metal will live on”
“Punk-rock tried to kill the metal, but they failed, as they were smite to the ground”
“Nu-wave tried to kill the metal, but they failed, as were stricken down to the ground”
“Grunge tried to kill the metal, ha ha ha ha ha, they failed, as they were thrown to the ground”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH YEAH”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH YEAH”
“No-one can destroy the metal, the metal will strike down with a vicious blow”
“We are the vanquished foes of the metal, we tried to win, for why? We cannot know”
“New-wave tried to destroy the metal, but the metal had its way”
“Grunge then tried to dethrone the metal, but metal was in the way”
“Punk-rock tried to destroy the metal, but metal was much too strong”
“Techno tried to defile the metal, but techno was proven wrong, Yea!”
“METAL, IT COMES FROM HELL”
The guitar solo finished off the song, the reaction from the crowd was… varied, some of them looked like they enjoyed it, others… not so much, ‘well, you can’t please everyone’ I thought, I put the music onto shuffle and let it play from there, some of the songs the majority of the ponies enjoyed and sang along to in the chorus, other times I had to make a mad dash towards the laptop to skip the song, much to the confusion of some, I also gained an understanding of the musical tastes of some of the ponies that I knew, some of them were predictable, such as Rainbow dash liking the more upbeat and aggressive metal songs, bands such as Disturbed and (god help us) Amon Amarth, some of them were surprising, such as Fluttershy, she actually liked the more melodic metal songs, things like DragonForce and Van Canto and the less aggressive songs by Sabaton, although she seemed saddened by some of the songs, she actually had tears in hers eyes when she heard ‘final solution’
“That was so sad” she said after the song had finished.
“One of the things I don’t like about my species” I said, she looked at me, confused.
“What do you mean?” she asked.
“Sure, humans are an inventive race, but we can be so hateful sometimes, I would rather not resort to violence but if I met one of the ‘Doctors’ the worked in block 10 at Auschwitz, let’s just say it would involve a deadlocked vault and a dozen canisters of Zyklon-B” I said darkly.
“But then you would be no better than the monsters that killed all those people” she said, giving me a disapproving look.
“True, but it’s no less than they deserve” I said “trust me, the things they did are unforgivable” she went quiet at this, after a few minutes I turned to her.
“Say, Fluttershy, you know you look after animals?” she nodded “do you give any out as pets”
“You want another pet?” she asked, somewhere between excitement and confusion.
“Yes, I need a falcon, one that’s really fast, I will need to be able to send messages, and I don’t think Timberwolves have the ability to send messages via fire breath” I said, gesturing towards Scar, who was currently lying at my feet “on my world, we have peregrine falcons, they are officially the fastest bird that we know of, they can reach about 200mph in a dive, got anything like that?” she thought for a moment.
“I think I might have a falcon similar to what you just described, come see me tomorrow and I’ll show you” she said “what other animals do you have on your world?”
“Probably similar to the animals on this world, if we both know what falcons are, and we both have animals called wolves, although our wolves aren't as wooden and magical as Scar” I noticed his ears twitched at the mention of his name “yes I’m talking about you” I said, just as I predicted he lifted his head up and looked at me for a few moments before he lay his head back down.
“It’s a good thing I have an animal that can hunt” I said, Fluttershy looked shocked “what? I’m an omnivore, I need protein as part of a healthy diet, I won’t hunt anything sentient if that’s what you’re worried about.”
“How can you be so carefree about killing an innocent animal?” she asked, looking mortified.
“What about lions, or tigers, or wolves, they need protein in the form of meat, don’t they?” I asked, she nodded meekly “I need protein just as much as a carnivorous predator does, you may not like it, but I need it” she looked downcast, I knelt down and lifted he chin up.
“Don’t worry, I may be many things, but someone who lets an animal suffer isn't one of them” I said, giving my kindest smile, she smiled slightly, I stood back up, eventually the party wound down and ponies started leaving, soon it was just me, Autumn and Twilight and her friends, Twilight cast a spell and everything reverted to as it was before the party.
“I don’t know about you lot, but I think that’s enough excitement for one day” I said, sitting on the floor and absentmindedly stroking Scar behind the ear.
“Ah gotta agree with you there” Applejack said.
“Say, Vuur, you think at some point I could get a copy of the music on that device?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Sure, I just need to get an appropriate recording medium and a way to copy the music” I said, Twilight perked up.
“Oh, we have Crystal Recording Discs” I did a double take.
“Crystal, as in gemstones?” she nodded before levitating a plastic case over, inside was a crystal disk identical in design to C.D.s, I studied the disk closely “how do they manage to carve it so perfectly?”
“They don’t, they use dragon fire to melt the crystal into a liquid, which is poured into a diamond mould, that way nothing is wasted” Twilight said.
“Will it accept M.P.3. files?” I asked
“It’s been enchanted to accept any system of media” she said “it’s the same with disk readers”
“Looks like you’ll be getting copies of the music on the laptop then, Rainbow, anyone else?” I asked.
“Erm I wouldn't mind having a few albums of music, if that’s okay with you” Fluttershy said, trailing off at the end
“I don’t see why not” I said.
“Ah’ll have some” Applejack said.
“Sure” I said, Rarity just ‘humphed’
“That music is unbecoming of a lady, I would rather roll in the mud than willingly listen to that again” she said, pointing her nose in the air.
“Be thankful I didn’t play Rammstein” I said.
“Why?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“they’re a German band, that’s Germane to you, they are purposefully controversial, for instance, people were accusing them of being fascists, so they wrote a song in a military style singing about how they weren’t fascist” I said.
“I’m not sure what to think about that” Rainbow dash said, looking confused.
“try not to think too much about it” I said, we spent the rest of the evening talking but eventually they all had to head home, as Rarity was leaving she stopped and turned towards me.
“Oh, Vuur Koning, I shall be able to finish you cloaks sooner than expected, they should be ready tomorrow” she said, I suddenly remembered something.
“Oh, bugger” I exclaimed, slapping myself in the face, my outburst startled everyone.
“What’s the matter?” Rarity asked.
“I never got myself measured for ordinary clothes, will you have time for the day after tomorrow? I don’t think I will have time tomorrow” I asked.
“That will be fine” she said dismissively, “now I must go, ta ta” and with that, she walked out of the library, leaving just me, Autumn, Twilight and Scar, who was currently dozing.
“Twilight?” I said.
“Yes, Vuur?” she responded.
“Me, Autumn and a guy called the Doctor are headed into the Everfree forest tomorrow to investigate the area I arrived in, see if it can be traced back to my world, whilst I don’t plan on there actually being anything useful there, it wouldn’t hurt to have someone…”
“Somepony” Autumn and Twilight interrupted.
“You knew what I meant, as I was saying, it wouldn’t hurt to have ‘somepony’ who is knowledgeable in magic, you feel up to helping us?” I asked.
“Won’t it be dangerous, going into the Everfree?”
“Several things, one, she’s a Special-Operations guard” I said, pointing to Autumn “two, I have a weapon to defend myself, three, the Doctor is more than capable of handling himself in dangerous situations and four, you are an Alicorn who has the power to potentially move Celestial bodies, I don’t think it will be a problem.”
“If you say so, but I’m teaching you some spells, you need to be able to look after yourself” as she said this she levitated a basic spell book over, she then began to teach me various spells, such as levitation, offensive blasts, which set anything they hit on fire (much to my shock and Twilight's panic), I also learned a basic quick travel spell, it was like a teleportation spell, except it had a vastly reduced range and only worked if I could see the destination, the upside was it was low cost to use, it also worked with a snap of the fingers, as opposed to a clenched fist with levitation, or jerking my hand towards the target whilst extending my fingers for the offensive spell, I gave back the books that I had borrowed earlier in exchange for several spell books, I was now prepared for whatever we might face when we went into the Everfree.
I awoke the next morning to the alarm on my laptop blaring out, I looked at the time on the laptop, ‘I hate mornings’ I thought as I silenced the alarm before slamming the laptop screen down, because simply pressing the button on a touch screen doesn’t really compare to slamming your hand on an alarm clock, Scar was currently laying at the foot of the bed, giving me a ‘what the hell, it’s too early’ kind of look.
“Come on, I need you by my side today” I said, he grumbled slightly before scratching his ear and jumping off of the bed, I got out of bed and put all of my armour on before walking into the library, Twilight and Autumn were sat at the table, the latter reading a newspaper, she noticed me walking over.
“Guess who made the paper?” she said, turning the newspaper around so I could see it, the headline read: ‘visitor from far off land saves school’ I quickly read through it, it told of how I fought off the pack of Timberwolves, it also claimed that some of the citizens of Ponyville were nervous because of the fact that I had befriended Scar, ‘he could set it on us at any moment’ claimed one, I stopped reading at that point.
“guess you can’t please everyone” I said, before walking into the kitchen where Spike was once again at the stove, cooking pancakes in a pink apron, I made more of the mocha before sitting back down at the table with a mug filled with the mixture, as well as a flask filled with the rest of the mixture, I sat there, on the verge of falling asleep, sipping the mixture, Spike then walked in with a plate full of pancakes, he nearly dropped them when he saw Scar.
“What is that doing here?” he said, pointing to Scar.
“He is called Scar and he happens to be my new pet, didn’t you read the newspaper?” I asked, one eyebrow raised.
“I must’ve missed that” he said, placing the plate of pancakes on the table and sitting as far away from Scar as possible, I grabbed a couple of pancakes and started eating, I noticed the look Scar was giving me, I rolled my eyes before grabbing a plate from the kitchen and placing it on the floor with a couple of pancakes on top
"Once we start traveling, I won’t tolerate you begging, if you’re hungry, you’ll have to hunt for food, and that doesn’t mean you go after Autumn or anyone else that will be travelling with us" I said, he whimpered slightly before giving me ‘the look’, you know the one, big eyes, tilted head, tongue lolling out,
"That doesn’t work on me unless you’re a puppy" I said, he became annoyed at that "nice try though" I added, he just huffed before eating the pancakes, we mostly ate in silence, I had just finished eating when Spike spoke up.
“Hey, Vuur Koning?” he said.
“Yes?” I asked.
“At the party last night, you referred to some of the music that you played as ‘Heavy Metal’, what exactly is heavy metal?” he asked, I thought for a moment, trying to come up with the correct description.
“Heavy metal is a genre of music that developed from rock, each band usually consists of 4 band members: the singer, the lead guitarist, the bass guitarist and the drummer, it’s obvious what the singer does, the lead guitarist is the one with the guitar tuned to a higher pitch and adds tone to the riff, they also perform solos, which essentially are a chance for the guitarist to show what he or she can do, the bass guitarist is the one with the deeper sounding guitar and adds that little extra ‘punch’ to the riff, the bassist also works with the drummer to keep everyone else playing in time, so they tend to play the same set piece of guitaring over and over during the song, however, you don’t always get the standard 4 members, it sometimes varies depending on band, sub-genre, I’ll go into those in a minute, and weather they have a guest in a song”
“What do you mean ‘guest’?” Autumn asked.
“Sometimes a band likes a song from another band, so they make a ‘cover’, they usually play it similarly to the original, but change certain things, like the singing style, the tuning on the guitars, or how the drummer plays, sometimes a singer or guitarist from the band that did the original song will make a guest appearance, if it’s the guitarist they might play the solo, or if it’s the singer, they might sing in duet with the singer from the band that makes the cover, tonight I’ll show you a couple examples, anyway, if I recall I was about to go into sub-genres, there are various sub-genres, they often get labelled as such because they play in a style that’s too different to be classed as just metal, but not different enough to be classed in a totally different genre of music.”
“Metallica are a group classed as Metal and are what most people think of when they think of normal Metal, deep staccato riffs, bassey drums, less than tuneful singing, that sort of thing.”
“Sabaton, the ones that sing about war, are classed as power metal, slightly less heavy sound, higher tempo, fast drumming, fast guitaring, flowing solos, often have two ‘kickers’ on the bass drum, slightly more tuneful singing, DragonForce are classed as ‘speed-metal’, insanely high tempo, long, fast and frequently changing solos, they have two lead guitarists and one bassist as well as a key board player.”
“Disturbed are debated upon as to their exact genre, some argue that they are ‘hard rock’, but if you listen to their Indestructible and Asylum albums, they are, in my opinion, more like heavy metal, they have a deeper sound and Asylum specifically has much darker overtones and lyrical context, the albums namesake song is about trying to move on from losing someone you love, you feel like you are trapped in an insane asylum, unable to escape from the memories, yet you also return to the memories from your time with them for comfort, that song has a special place amongst my collection, but I won’t go into why as it’s a personal matter” Autumn went to say something but I cut her off.
“I said it’s a personal matter, maybe one day I might tell you, but now isn’t the time” I said, giving her a look that said ‘drop it’, I was about to continue but we all heard a knock at the door, Twilight went to answer the door, when she opened it I saw that the Doctor was standing there, as well as a pegasus mare that I didn’t recognize, she was grey with a blonde mane, the talked briefly, though I was unable to hear what they were saying, before Twilight turned to look at us.
“The Doctor’s here for you, Vuur Koning” she said, me and Autumn stood up “you’re coming as well, Spike, I need somepony to take notes”
“I’ll play you some of the songs when we get back” I said to Spike as we walked out of the library, I got my sword out of the rucksack before placing the rucksack on my back, I quickly turned to look at Scar, who was still sat by the table “Come on, we need you with us” he huffed before standing up and plodding over to me, I saw Spike jump onto Twilight's back.
“So, Doctor, Where to?” I said.
“The Tardis is this way” he said before walking around the back of the library, I soon saw it, that unmistakable blue box, I couldn’t help grinning like a maniac, I held back, wanting to watch the others reactions, Scar sat by my feet, looking at me, confused.
“Wait for it” I said to the wolf in a knowing tone, I saw Twilight and Autumn walk into the tardis “in drei, zwei, eins” I counted down in German, just as I reached 1 they both back-peddled out of the Tardis and began looking around the outside in confusion, they then ran back into the Tardis, we quickly followed them inside just in time to hear them both say.
“It’s bigger on the inside!”
“You don’t say” I deadpanned, before shutting the doors with my magic, Scar seemed to be having a similar reaction, except he didn’t run out of the tardis, he just looked around the console room in a stupor, the Doctor was stood by the controls, looking rather smug.
“Welcome to the Tardis, that’s Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, it’s a time machine, if you can think of a time and a place, chances are this can got you there, with the exception of Vuur Koning, which is why we are headed into the Everfree” he then got out his sonic screwdriver and started scanning me with it.
“Trying to get a lock on any residual energy from my world” I asked, he looked at me in astonishment.
“you catch on pretty quick, you came through a crack in the fabric of reality, there should be enough energy, be it background radiation, radio waves, or something else, seeping through the crack for the Tardis to trace back to the tear” he said, slotting the screwdriver into a socket in the controls, Twilight looked confused.
“What exactly are you doing?” she asked.
“Imagine Vuur Koning’s world as an airtight container filled with water, and this universe as the room the container is located in, now imagine that there is a crack in the side of the container, what do you think is going to happen?” the Doctor said, they looked like they still didn’t understand, I sighed before explaining.
“The water will start to leak out, and at the same time air will start to get in, think of the water as background radiation, we are searching for the water to find the crack” I said.
“Five points to Griffindor” that Doctor said, whilst pointing at me, I did a double take.
“Which regeneration are you?” I asked
“technically 10.5, when I ended up in this universe, the crossing caused my body to partially regenerate, finding the closest match to my previous form, my personality did change slightly though” he said, the console started beeping, he looked at the results on the screen “I think the Tardis has locked on” he said, flipping various switches and turning dials, I turned to the others before saying.
“I would hold on if I were you” they took the hint and held on to a handrail for dear life, I noticed that the grey pegasus was just sat on the chair, seemingly oblivious to the mayhem that was about to unfold, I heard the Doctor flip a switch before shouting.
“ALONSY” and then all hell broke loose, I had to quickly wrap my arms around the glass tower stretching up to the ceiling to stop myself from being flung across the room due to the violent pitching and rolling.
“Good god, Doctor, you should really teach your companions how to fly the Tardis so they can help you” I said, I took note that the grey pegasus was still sat on the chair, smiling away as if nothing was happening.
“We don’t have time for this, flip the red switch” he said, I did as he directed before saying.
“In that case then” I said, before inhaling and shouting at the top of my lungs.
“GOTT MIT UNS” I then burst out laughing.
“You’re insane” Twilight shouted at me over the rattling and shaking of the tardis.
“I’m the one that has to follow him around the world for the next 10 years, how do you think I bloody feel” Autumn Shouted back.
“What’s the point of being grown up if you can’t act a little childish sometimes?” I shouted to them, the Doctor looked at me with a shocked expression on his face.
“You stole my line” he said, his attention was then diverted by the console beeping “hold on, THREE, TWO, ONE” the tardis then shuddered to a halt, sending me sprawling to the floor, laughing.
“I can now scratch two objectives off of my bucket list” I said, Autumn walked towards me, a little unsteadily.
“And they would be?” she asked.
“Travel in the Tardis, and find an excuse to use the phrase ‘Gott Mit Uns’” I said, chuckling, she just rolled her eyes before walking towards the door, she opened it and poked her head outside before quickly withdrawing it, an awestruck expression on her face.
“We’ve moved!” she said.
“What?” Twilight exclaimed, quickly running over and looking out the door herself, before withdrawing her head, a similar expression to Autumn’s was on her face, I rolled my eyes before walking over to the door and looking out, it was the clearing that I woke up in when I first arrived here.
“Oh, so we have” I said, feigning disinterest, before quickly going back inside and looking around, searching for Scar, I spotted him and Spike, holding onto each other for dear life, shaking like a leaf in the wind, I chuckled slightly whilst shaking my head.
“Hey, Twilight, come look at this” I called over, she looked over and had to cover her mouth with a hoof to suppress the laughter, she lit up her horn and Spike was enveloped in the same aura, she eventually managed to pry him off of Scar with my help, they were still frozen with fear “I think we broke them” I said, before slapping Scar across the muzzle, snapping him out of his fear induced stupor.
“Come on” I said, standing up and walking towards the door, Scar following meekly behind, I walked outside to find the doctor and his assistant looking around, he noticed me walk over.
“Well, all things considered, you could’ve ended up in worse parts of the Everfree forest” he said, I nodded in agreement before turning to Autumn.
“I would suggest wearing your armour, better to be safe than sorry” I said before placing my rucksack on the ground, she nodded before jumping in and returning a few minutes later, fully decked out in her armour, except this time her tinted full-face visor was lifted up, giving a clear view of her face, with that we started searching around, the Doctor was scanning around using his sonic screwdriver, I then noticed that the grass was flattened, but all in one direction.
“Autumn, go fly up there and tell me what you see” I said, pointing to the sky “you too Twilight, I need you to verify with her”, they both nodded before taking off, going up about 100 feet or so, as it was a large clearing, I saw them exchange glances before descending to the ground.
“Well, what did you see?” I asked.
“It looks like there was an explosion near the centre of the clearing, all of the grass is flattened in a circular pattern” Autumn said.
“Shockwave caused by the tear opening perhaps, Doctor?” I said.
“Trans-universal tears do tend to cause a large shockwaves when they first open” he said, walking towards the centre, with his assistant in the air directing him towards the rough location, once he was close enough he started scanning, the screwdriver suddenly went from its steady whirring sound to a beeping.
“Aha, bingo” he said, I quickly ran over, he then picked up a stone that was lying on the ground and threw it forward, it suddenly stopped in mid-air, caught in a wall of arcing electricity, the air itself felt electrified, the stone then disappeared from existence.
“Err, Doctor, what just happened?” I asked, uncertainty showing in my voice.
“A pebble just got into the fish tank” he said, smiling, I then turned to the others.
“I’m just going to have a quick look, I’ll be right back, I still haven’t traveled round the world yet, so I won’t be gone for good” I said, before hesitantly walking towards the portal, electricity was still arching around the entrance, a raised a hand to touch the opening, I was immediately overcome by crippling pain as the electricity arced onto my arm, I screamed out I pain.
“AH SHIT, HELP!” I shouted, Autumn flew over and tried to pull me away from the portal, but I could feel it pulling me in, eventually pulling us both in, I blacked out from the pain before I even hit the ground on the over side.
I woke up to a hoof shaking my shoulder, I opened my eyes to see Autumn looking at me with a worried expression.
“I think we have a problem” she said, looking behind me, I followed her gaze to find that we were in a colossal hall, like, Lincoln cathedral proportions, there were various different beings, I could recognize minotaur’s, griffins and dragons among others, at the far end of the hall there were three Alicorn, two females and one male, one of the female Alicorn’s spoke up, she was white with a rose coloured mane.
“We have been expecting you, Vuur Koning, or should I say… Luke?” she said, a neutral expression on her face, I did a double take.
“H-how do you know my name, my real name?” I finally asked once I had gotten over my shock, I actually saw a hint of a smile grace her lips briefly, before she regained her neutral expression.
“Please, come closer” she said, I could feel the eyes of hundreds of different beings focused upon me, but I did as instructed, she was a lot taller than Celestia or Luna, about 15 feet tall “I know more than just your name, I am Fantasia, Equestrian High Goddess of imagination and creation.”
“You’re a goddess!?” I exclaimed, I noticed Autumn bowing besides me, whispering prayers, I saw a griffin stood off to one side of the three Alicorn’s walk towards me, looking rather annoyed, he leaned in to my face.
“Most beings would have the common sense to bow in the presence of gods, you should show respect” he said, I’ll admit, I was metaphorically shitting bricks at that point.
“Stridskämpe, please control your temper, there is no need to frighten the mortal” Fantasia said, the griffin snorted at me before waking back to his place.
“I meant no offence, it’s just that, well, where I come from, there isn’t exactly concrete proof of gods” I said, I heard murmurs throughout the hall.
“I am well aware of the gods of your world, they have neglected their duties, instead choosing to bicker amongst themselves like children, you have caused me no offence” Fantasia said, she then stood up.
“Please, follow me, we shall go somewhere more private” she said, walking down the hall, I nudged Autumn with a foot.
“If you’re quite done, we’re headed this way” I whispered, she got up and we both started walking after Fantasia, we walked down tall hallways for a while before we ended up standing on a balcony, it was looking over a land mass I didn’t recognize, Fantasia sat there, looking at the view.
“Do you know why I have brought you here?” she said, still looking at the view.
“To tell me that I can never go back to my world?” I guessed.
“No, you will be able to return one day, but now is not the time, you must complete your destiny first” she said.
“And that would be” I asked.
“I’m afraid even Tempus, who controls time itself, cannot fully predict your destiny, all we know is that afterwards, life will never be the same again” she then looked me in the eyes, showing full emotions for the first time, she seemed, sad “I understand why you long to return to your world, I too know what it’s like to be separated from those I hold dear.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Celestia and Luna are my daughters” she said.
“Is that why they have the power to move planetary objects?” I asked, she nodded.
“I still don’t understand what makes me so special, or why you dragged Autumn here as well” I said, jerking a thumb towards
the aforementioned pegasus, who had her eyes closed and was muttering prayers yet again.
“Not even I know why you were chosen, as for Autumn, she got pull through when she tried to pull you out, we did not intend for her to be here” Fantasia said, before turning away from the balcony “come, it is time for you both to return to your realm”
“Wait a minute, if you are gods, does one of you control the afterlife, and souls of the dead” I asked, walking beside her, Fantasia turned her head to look at me, a sympathetic look on her face.
“I already know what you are asking for, but I’m afraid it is impossible for mortals to visit the underworld” she said, Autumn looked at between us, confused.
“Can’t visit who?” she asked, I looked at her, before sighing.
“My father, he died last year, I would do anything to be able to say goodbye to him one last time, to have closure, the last time I saw him alive, the last words I said to him were ‘see you later’” I said, sadly.
“Do you want to talk about it?” Autumn asked.
“Later” I replied.
“I never said you couldn’t actually say goodbye” Fantasia said, a hint of a smile on her face, before turning off from the main corridor, we eventually reached a door, she stopped and looked at us “we must be quick, I normally wouldn’t allow this to happen, but in your case, I will make an exception.”
“Thank you” I said, I then quickly looked at Autumn “can Autumn come too? I would like for her to meet him”
“If that is what you wish” Fantasia said, nodding, I took my helmet off.
“Right, I’m ready” I said, mentally preparing myself, the door opened, revealing a white room that seemed to stretch on into eternity, we all walked in and the door shut behind us, after a few moments I saw a person fade into existence, ‘Holy shit, it’s really him’ I thought, he was exactly as I remembered, except he was wearing a white robe.
“Dad, i-it’s me, do you remember me?” I asked.
“Of course I do” he said, oh, I had been missing that voice for so long “why are you here? You’re not dead, are you?”
“Apparently I’m ‘destined for greatness’ or something, hence the armour, I’ve also been sent into a world full of magical talking ponies” I said, he burst out laughing
“Ha ha, it’s my job to tell the bad jokes” he said.
“Hey, Autumn come over here” I said, she walked over, looking slightly nervous, I’ll admit, I was pretty smug at that point
“Dad, I would like you to meet my friend, Autumn Skies. Autumn, this is my Dad."
“It’s nice to meet you” Autumn said.
“You weren’t bloody joking were you?” he said to me, he then looked at Autumn “it’s nice to meet you too.”
“Please, time is short” Fantasia said quietly, I sighed, my Dad looked confused.
“What is she talking about?” he asked.
“I don’t have long, I came here because I never got to say goodbye” I was starting to feel tears running down my cheeks “oh god, I have missed you so much” he walked up to me and embraced me, I rested my head on his shoulder, I didn’t even try to fight the tears that were now streaming down my cheeks.
“Hey, it’s ok, I’ve missed you too, but don’t worry, everything will be fine” he then held me out in front of him “you go back out there, make me proud and have fun, live your life to the full like I did, just don’t go dying in a crash like I did” I couldn’t help laughing despite the current situation.
“You always did know how to make light of a situation” I said, smiling sadly.
“What do you mean ‘did’, I still do” he said, rolling his eyes.
“I’m afraid we must go now” Fantasia said, I nodded, before hugging my dad one last time.
“I will see you again” I said “I promise”
“Don’t go killing yourself just so you can see me” he said.
“I won’t, I don’t even think they would let me die anyway” I replied, before taking a step back “Goodbye, Dad” I said, he nodded to me before nodding to fantasia, her horn lit briefly and he disappeared, back to where ever spirits go, I turned around and was immediately embraced by Autumn.
“I am so, so sorry for you” she sounded like she was about to break down in tears.
“Thank you” I said, before hugging her back, I felt sad, but at the same time I felt good, after a few moments she let go, going back to all fours, I could see tears in her eyes.
“If ever you need somepony to talk to, or even a shoulder to cry on, I’m here for you” she said, I nodded and sighed before turning to Fantasia.
“I’m ready now” I said, she nodded, the door opened up and we walked out, she turned to us.
“Before you go, I have a request” she said.
“Anything” I replied
“When you see Celestia and Luna, tell them I love them, I miss them and I’m watching over them” she said.
“Is that all?” I asked in surprise, she smiled slightly and nodded.
“It is time for you to go now” she said, I saw her horn light up briefly before I was blinded by a white light, when I regained my vision we were walking through the tear towards the clearing, when we got to the clearing proper I stumble to the ground, my helmet clattering to the ground beside me, I looked up to see Celestia and Luna standing there, pensive looks on their faces.
“Vuur Koning, Autumn Skies, are you alright?” Twilight asked, running up to us, I slowly stood up, apparently she saw my tear stained cheeks “what happened, are you Ok” I wiped the tears from my eyes, chuckling slightly.
“Yes, I’m fine, in fact, I’m feeling better than I have in ages” I said, I picked up my helmet and put it on before walking over to the two princesses “Celestia, Luna, your mother wanted me to tell you that she loves you, misses you, and is watching over you.”
“How doth thou know of our mother?” Luna asked.
“When I went through the portal, instead of sending me back home, it sent me to the realm of the gods” I went to continue but I was interrupted by Scar pouncing on me and proceeding to lick my face “eurgh, easy boy, ha ha, stop it” a few moments later he stopped and looked at me, tongue hanging out and wagging his tail.
“How could anyone be scared of you?” I said, scratching him behind the ear “you’re just a big old puppy” I then stood back up.
“I need to go to Fluttershy’s house before we go back to the library” I said, I noticed that the Doctor was standing by the Tardis “if it’s ok, I think I’ll go with him” I then walked over to the Tardis.
“So, where to?” the Doctor asked.
“You ever seen where a yellow and pink pegasus lives? It’s got lots of animals” he nodded before walking into the Tardis, I turned around before walking inside “Hey Autumn, you coming with?”
“No, thank you!” she said, I laughed before walking inside and shutting the door behind me.
A few minutes later I stepped out of the Tardis to find myself outside Fluttershy’s cottage, I walked towards the cottage, a gust of wind blowing and the sound of the Tardis’ time rotor fading into into non-existence as I walked up the path towards the door, I knocked on the door and waited a few moments, admiring the rustic scenery, ‘this place would fit right in with a village in the west country during the 1920s’ I thought to myself, it certainly did have the rustic aesthetic of a village in the west country, the door opened slightly and I saw a pair of eyes looking through the gap before the door opened fully to reveal Fluttershy standing in the door-way.
“O-oh, hello Vuur Koning, are you here for the falcon?” she asked, hiding one side of her face behind her mane.
“Yeah, lead the way please” I said, she walked outside and shut the door behind her.
“This way please, if that’s alright with you” she said timidly, walking down the path that lead behind the cottage.
“This is a nice place that you’ve got” I said.
“T-Thank you, it belonged to one of my grandmothers” Fluttershy replied
“It’s very similar to houses from about 90 years ago on my world, there are still some left, if you know where to look” I added, we eventually came to an area filled with several pens and enclosures, Fluttershy stopped and turned to look at me.
“please wait here, some of the animals are very skittish around strangers” she said, before walking into one of the enclosures, she returned a few moments later “I’ve warned them, so you are okay to come in now”, I walked in to find many different types of birds of prey; falcons, eagles, Kites, buzzards, you name it, there was probably one there, Fluttershy stopped next to a particularly Falcon, except instead of it having the normal colouration of a peregrine, it was black with a pure white underside and red feather tips.
“Oh, you are a beauty” I said.
“Is he the one you want?” Fluttershy asked, I nodded and Fluttershy held out her hoof (which had a glove of some sort reaching up to her elbow) for the falcon to perch on, he hesitated for a few moments before hopping on with a few flaps of his wings, she then hobbled outside.
“Do you want to see him in flight?” she asked.
“Yes and if possible I would like to see him go into a dive” I said, she nodded before relaying the information to the falcon, who took off and started to fly at an amazing rate, did a couple of high speed aerobatics before climbing several thousand feet until he was just a speck in the sky, after a few moments I saw him start to dive, accelerating until he was just a blur in the sky, steadily getting closer, at around 100 feet he opened up his wings to slow down before landing on my shoulder.
“Yeah, he’s the one” I said, Fluttershy smiled so brightly see seemed to out shine the sun “OK, how much?” Fluttershy stopped smiling and looked confused.
“What do you mean?” she asked.
“You mean you just give pets away here? For free?” I asked, she nodded.
“Companionship cannot be bought” she said, looking a little stern, I rubbed the back of my neck and laughed nervously.
“Things work a little differently where I come from” I said, stroking the falcon on the back of his head “so, does he have a name?”
“No, most pets receive their name from their owner” Fluttershy said.
“In that case then, I think I’ll call you… Boris, yeah, Boris the falcon” I said, I swear at that moment the falcon smiled.
“He likes it” Fluttershy said, I thanked her and said goodbye before walking down the path towards the lane, I saw Autumn standing at the gate with Scar.
“Autumn, meet Boris, my new messenger for our travels around the world” I said, her eyes widened.
“First a Timberwolf, now a falcon?” she half stated, I nodded “What’s next? A dragon?”
“We’ll see” I said, before walking towards Ponyville, with Scar by my side and Boris on my shoulder, I have no shame in admitting I felt like a fucking badass at the time, most ponies that saw us actually waved greetings, rather than just staring, and I replied in kind.
“The friendliness of you ponies will never cease to amaze me” I said to Autumn, she went to respond but was interrupted by a loud boom, followed by laughter that could only belong to a certain blue Pegasus, I looked up to see Rainbow Dash rolling on top of a cloud, laughing her head off.
“Surprise motherbucker” she said in between laughs.
“son of a bitch, Rainbow Dash, I damn near fucking shat myself” I said, trying to get my heart rate under control, I started laughing, despite myself “good one, you really got me, I’ll give you that one” Boris then flew back on my shoulder, having flown to a roof when the thunder cloud went off, Rainbow Dash noticed him.
“Whoa, where did you get that?” she asked, gliding down and admiring the falcon, who was less than happy at the moment, he snapped his beak at her when she tried to pet him.
“I don’t think he’s too pleased with the stunt you just pulled” I said, smirking slightly whilst stroking him on the back of his head in an attempt to calm him “His name’s Boris, I got him from Fluttershy” she oh’ed understanding.
“He could probably keep up with you, on the level at least” I added, she scoffed.
“I would like to see him try” she said, rolling her eyes.
“He’s smaller, lighter, and he has larger wings in comparison to his body, he’ll be quicker setting off and quicker in the corners, the only place you’ll be quicker is in the straights and the dive, I would let him loose now, but I have places to be” I said.
“Sure thing, just remember to bring your pigeon next time” she said, before flying off.
“He’s a falcon” I called after her, I shook my head, before continuing to walk towards Rarity’s boutique, I stroked Boris on the head “ignore her, you’re not a pigeon, are you?” he chirped and leaned into my hand, Scar then ran up to me and walked along side me, Autumn looked at me.
“So where are we headed?” she asked.
“I need to go to Rarity’s boutique quickly, my cloaks should be done by now, then I need to go to a supermarket” I replied, Autumn looked at me, confused.
“Why?” she asked
“I plan to repay Twilight for her hospitality by making breakfast for us all tomorrow, full English style” I said.
“And what would a full English include?” Autumn asked.
“Bacon, eggs, sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, and toast to top it all off” I said “although I’ll need to find vegetarian equivalents for the bacon and sausages.”
“Oh, we have those, we use hay to make the bacon, and various herbs and vegetables for the sausages” Autumn said “what do you use on your world?”
“Bacon is a cut of meat from the back of a pig, although other countries sometimes take it from the belly, and sausages are made from the bits of animals that are left behind after all the prime bits of meat are cut from the animal” I explained, I noticed Autumn going a little bit green “if at any point I make you feel uncomfortable fell free to tell me and I’ll change the topic.”
“It’s fine, I asked what you used and you told me, I can’t really complain, but I will tell you if I don’t like the subject of the conversation” she said.
“This isn’t gonna put you off of breakfast tomorrow, is it?” I asked, she shook her head.
“No, things like that don’t really phase me when it comes to eating food, unless you went into a detailed description of how they make your food” she said.
“Guess that’s one thing we have in common” I said, we eventually reached the boutique, just before I walked inside I turned to Autumn.
“Watch Scar for me, please” I said, she nodded, and I walked inside, the doorbell jingling as I opened the door.
“Just a moment” I heard Rarity call from another room, followed by hoofsteps walking into the room I was currently standing.
“Oh, it’s you” she said “I take it you are here for your cloaks” I nodded, she then beaconed me to follow her.
“I had plenty of time left over so I was also able to make you some spare undergarments to wear under your armour, they are only loose fitting as I couldn’t get proper measurements” she said as we walked into a room off to one side, on two separate stands were my new cloaks, they looked glorious.
“Unfortunately I did have to make a few compromises, I couldn’t include sleeves because of the complex shape of your shoulder armour” she said, I was awestruck at the craftsmanship and quality of the fabric, the summer cloak was an ‘all-round’ style of cloak, it was a rich black fleece with gold stitching and the inside of the hood was a deep red velvet, with a thick gold stitching separating the velvet from the fleece, the winter cloak was just as stunning, with wool that was as pure white as the snow, the inside of the hood was the same red as the summer cloak, with the rim of the hood lined with faux-fur, both cloaks had my name in fancy red letters running up both sides of the hood.
“They’re perfect” I said “I can’t thank you enough, Rarity, you’re a legend for doing this for free.”
“It’s quite alright” she said, levitating some clothes over to me “now go and change out of your dirty old clothes, try these on.”
I took them with a nod, the shirts were the same style as my old shirt, complete with the scale armour on the sleeves, on these shirt the string holding the scales together was slightly elastic, as was the fabric for the shirts, meaning they fit perfectly, ‘if this is what she can do without taking measurements, then gods know how good she is when she does take measurements’ I thought, I subconsciously noted that I used the term ‘gods know’ rather than ‘god knows’, the main difference in these shirts scales covering the entirety of their surface, and they actually had tinted edges to them, going from silver at their roots, to a metallic red at the tip of each scale.
“Gods above, these are amazing” I muttered, noticing that the trousers also had scales going down the length of each leg, with the same tinted design, ‘so I now have ‘under armour’, rather than undergarments’ I put the armour back on over my new clothes and walked back into the other room, Rarity saw me and gasped.
“You look absolutely stunning, darling” she said.
“I love the tinted scale-tips, if your clothes fit this well without you having to take measurements, that what are you like when you do take measurements?” I said.
“If I had taken measurements, I wouldn’t need to use elastic material” she said, smirking slightly, I then had an idea.
“Say, what would you say to making plating for my falcon, to the same style as my shirts and trousers” I said, petting Boris, who had once again perched himself on my shoulder, Rarity put a hoof to her chin in thought for a moment.
“It’s definitely not something that I’m used to, but, I love a challenge” she said, a determined glint in her eye
“Ok, just on his chest area though, like a vest, he still needs to be able to fly, also, do you think you could rework my old clothes to match my new ones?” I asked, she nodded.
“Yes, if you would come this way, please” she said walking into the room where I had my measurements taken the first time, she then levitated a measuring tape over and I beckoned Boris onto my arm, she took measurements of things like his body width and length, whenever she needed to take a measurement under his wing I simply needed to tap a shoulder for him to open up his wings.
“Wow, he is magnificent” I thought out loud.
“His feather patterns are simply stunning, aren’t they?” Rarity mused in agreement “I think I’ll tone the scales to a similar tint, black on the top, and white on the bottom, and red tips throughout perhaps.”
“How exactly do you colour the scales, Rarity?” I asked.
“I use a simple spell, that’s all, I also enchanted the scales for durability, meaning that if you get attacked similarly to when you were attacked by Timberwolves, they won’t even scratch” she said nonchalantly.
“Is there nothing that magic can’t do? I asked in amazement.
“Well, we can’t travel through time” she said with a laugh, I chuckled slightly at that.
“OK, I’m done” she said, levitating the measuring tape away, Boris hopped back on to my shoulder “I should have your old clothes and the armour for your falcon done by tomorrow.”
“that’s fine” I said, I walked over to the cloaks, putting the winter cloak and the rest of my new clothes in my rucksack before putting the rucksack on my back, I beckoned for Boris to perch on the one of the cloak stands, with him out of the way, I swung the cloak onto my back with a flourish and tied it up at the neck, it was draped over my shoulders with the front parted allowing me to move my arms with ease, I tried to pull my sword off of my back and it came off with ease, I sheathed it before beckoning Boris onto my shoulder with a snap of the fingers.
“Thank you, Rarity” I said, before walking outside, Autumn heard me walk out and turned to look at me.
“Whoa, I like the cloak” she said “so, where to next?”
“First, the shop, and then we head back to Twilight’s” I said, before walking in the direction of the shopping district.
We walked back to the library, having bought everything I needed for tomorrow, I walked inside to find Twilight and the princesses discussing something, they noticed us walk in.
“It would seem that our foreign friend has returned” Princess Luna said, I froze at the mention of the word friend, she noticed the look on my face “is thee alright?”
“Yes, I’m just not used to anyone calling me friend and I’ve never considered anyone outside of my family a friend, I’ve had ‘close acquaintances’, but never friends, until just now it seems” I said, then it hit me “Holy hell, I’m friends with royalty!” they were amused at my reaction, Celestia suddenly looked at me, a serious expression on her face.
“Vuur Koning, me and Luna wish to know what actually happened to you and Autumn Skies when you traveled through the portal” she said, I sighed.
“O.k., Twilight, would you mind making a pot of tea, please, I’ll tell you anything you’ve missed later” I said, she nodded before walking into the kitchen, I gestured to some seats “shall we?” we all sat down and I rubbed the back of my neck nervously.
“I’m guessing Twilight told you what happened when I touched the portal” Celestia nodded, so I started to recount what happened, Twilight walked in about half way through, they were saddened when I told them about saying goodbye to my dad.
“I’m sorry for your loss” Celestia said.
“Thank you” I replied, I took a sip of my tea before continuing, there were confused when I told them what my dad had said to me.
“What did he mean by ‘don’t go dying in a crash’?” Luna asked.
“He rode a motorbike, imagine a self-propelled scooter if you will, he was riding on an unfamiliar road, hit an awkward part of the road that was a blind hill followed immediately by a left-hand turn, he got flung off the bike into a crash barrier, killed him stone dead on impact, so at least he didn’t suffer” I said with a shrug.
“You’re handling it rather well” Twilight said.
“He wouldn’t want me to mope about it, don’t get me wrong, I was absolutely devastated when I found out, but talking about it never really bothered me after the first couple months, he would want me to remember the good times we had” I said, I then started laughing.
“What’s so funny?” Luna asked.
“My dad was amazing” I said “I wish you could have known him, it was about a year before he died, he said to my brother; ‘I’ll soon be 60 years old, maybe I should start taking it easy…nah, I’d rather have fun’, he was the sort of person that was always a kid at heart, at the funeral we were expecting them to drop his coffin, only to have my dad fall out in a clown suit, get up and then start dancing to AC/DC’s ‘Big Balls’”
“Sounds like he was rather amusing to be around” Celestia said.
“He was, to the point where he was restricted to no jokes on Sundays” I said, Autumn chuckled slightly.
“Really?” she asked.
“Yes, I’ll give you an example, but first, I need to explain something, my Mum and Dad were divorced when this happened,
my Dad was in a relationship with someone else now, they both went for a walk along a seaside cliff, long story short, he fell off the cliff and got airlifted to hospital, later, he said these exact words to his partner; ‘I guess I really fell for you this time’” we all had a chuckle at that, Celestia and Luna then stood up.
“I’m afraid we must get back to Canterlot now, we hope to see you soon, Vuur Koning” Celestia said.
“Tot ziens” I said, giving a two fingered salute, they nodded before teleporting out of the library, we spent the rest of the day making small talk, eventually I managed to show Spike the different genres of music, using various songs from different bands to ‘represent’ each genre, for those that are wondering what I showed him, the sequence was as follows:
• Alestorm:
o Heavy Metal Pirates
o Wolves of the Sea
o The Quest
• Disturbed:
o 10’000 Fists
o Indestructible
o The Night
o Remnants & Asylum
• Sabaton:
o Primo Victoria
o Union
o Price of a Mile
o Midway
o Screaming Eagles
o Lion from the North (he recognised this as the song that I sang yesterday)
o To Hell and Back
o Resist and bite
o Night Witches
• Amon Amarth:
o Twilight of the Thunder God
o Guardians of Asgaard
o No fear for the setting sun
• DragonForce:
o Where Dragons Rule
o Through the fire and Flames
o Fury of the Storm
• Metallica:
o Enter Sandman
o Master Of Puppets
o The Unforgiven II
• Slipknot:
o Psychosocial
o Sulphur
• Van Canto:
o The Other Ones
o Badaboom
“Whoa” was all Spike could say when the last song finished.
“What do you all think?” I asked, their reactions were mixed.
“I think it’s safe to say that, what was it called again? Oh yeah, Sabaton, is starting to grow on me” Autumn said.
“Well, I don’t have much planned tomorrow, apart from let Boris out to fly and pick something up from Rarity’s, so you can use the laptop then, give a couple of albums a try, I have headphones so you don’t have to worry about volume, and if you are wondering what any of the songs are about, just ask”
“I’ll keep that in mind” she said.
“I’ve said it once before, it’s not my sort of music” Twilight said, I chuckled slightly.
“Well, I’m hooked on your music” Spike said.
“I’ll get several packs of C.D.s and a disk reader tomorrow, so you’ll have some albums soon” I said.
“Sweet” he said, giving me a thumbs up, I suddenly remembered something.
“Oh, Twilight, Spike, tomorrow I thought might repay you both for your hospitality, so allow me to cook everyone a traditional breakfast from my country” I said, they were surprised.
“Oh, thank you, Vuur Koning” Twilight said, blushing slightly.
“Hey, as long as I don’t have to cook, I’m cool with it” Spike said, sticking out his fist, I reciprocated the gesture before quickly taking the food into the kitchen, when I walked back into the main room I looked at the clock; 11:43pm.
“Bloody hell! Is that the time” I exclaimed, I then put on my best Yorkshire accent “and on that bombshell…it’s time for bed” I said, picking up my laptop and walking towards my rucksack, I beckoned for Scar and Boris to go into the rucksack, I turned to the mares and drake.
“I’ll see you tomorrow, and remember, I’m cooking breakfast” I said, pointing at the dragon in mock threat, he rolled his eyes.
“I’ll be heading to bed soon” Autumn said, I nodded before jumping in my rucksack.