Author's Notes:

100,000 words WHOO! at last i can say a milestone for me for this story, yes! and i know, only 5000 words for this chapter? well work has been a bit crazy and family stuff has been keeping me from writing as much as i want to...and mostly because I've been playing the new Taken King DLC for my PS4!

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I’m sure everyone at one point in their life, or many points in their life, heard the saying, ‘It felt like I was just hit by a bus!’ well, I can say for a fact, that being hit by a Alicorn, fully angry, at full force, well; that feeling of being thrown clear across the room, slammed into a wall so hard, that your body was no joking, dug inside of said wall, making a crater the size and shape of your body; that hurt much more then anything else in the world!

I don’t remember much of that night, all I could truly remember was the pain, webbing across my body, the feeling of blood seeping from my chest slowly, as well as the face of the iron taste of the red heavy water stuck in my mouth. Others things what I could remember, were when I wasn’t being pulled into the void of blackouts.

“You, damn, pony!” I heard Chrysalis screech in rage! “You…You could’ve killed him!”

“That magic was for you, Changeling!” I heard the voice of Luna, yell out as well, wanted to tell them to stop, to calm down; but I couldn’t even move my fingers, much less my lips. What was going to happen now, would Luna simply call the guards, make them lock up Chrysalis…? These things I didn’t know, and now that I was powerless to do anything about it; it felt like this was it, judgment day was here.

“What’s with all the…Brandon?!” Silver Arrow? Yes…that was him, that’s for sure. The sound of his hooves hitting the floor, rushing toward me nod doubt, but yelled when the sounds were no longer there.

“Stay away,” Luna ordered. “He is under the control of this, vile creature,” she hissed out as the Changeling Queen released her own louder hiss, her wings fluttering and buzzing in anger.

“What, no he isn’t! Why would he be when those two love each other?”

“What?” Luna demanded as she paused, no doubt looking at the small colt. “Are you saying…you knew who and what she was?!”

“He just found out today, princess.” Chrysalis hissed to her, I felt a hoof, cold and hard, her hoof, pressing along my neck. “He is still alive; I shall take him to make sure he is well cared for.”

“IF you think I will allow you to leave…”

“If he isn’t taken somewhere to be cared for he will surly die!” she screeched out. “And I tried to heal him, I am even trying to as we speak, but your magic, is countering it. You blasted him so hard, your magic lingers over his body like a shield, blocking any sort of magic to even harm, or save him!”

“We have to help him!” Silver yelled out, as there was a thud, and the rushing of hooves on the ground. I soon felt someone rocking me back and forth, and a small colt crying. “We can’t just let him die, we can’t! I won’t lose someone else I care…” I blacked out again, my body forcing me to go back into the void, leaving the pain I was feeling behind.

“I can’t believe, that you, out of anyone else…convinced me of doing this,” I woke up once more, eyes still closed. How long had it been, had they called for help? “And I still can’t believe you were able to counteract the spell enough that we could stop the bleeding.”

“Chaos magic is a wonderful thing isn’t it?” Discord…what was he doing here, when did he get here? “What I’m surprised, is how quickly you went for attacking your dare old friend.”

“It was meant for…her,” so much venom in her voice.

“Keep speaking like that and I will make sure you will feel the same pain you made him feel!”

“Mares, mares,” Discord child softly, as if this was normal for him. “Please, you do know this will not make things better. Now, as I said, I have slowed down the effect, haven’t stopped it fully, this giving us enough time to come up with a story of why he,” I felt a poke, as Chrysalis hissed. “Is like this, do we all have our stories straight?”

“I should just throw her in the deepest darkest cell…”

“Stop it now!” That was Silver…wow, the kid could yell. “Stop being mean to her, she is nice, and she changed!”

“This could all be a part of her plan, no one lien her can change!”

“You did, when you were once Nightmare Moon!” Blackness once more took me in, a small groan coming over my lips but that was it.

“He has lost a lot of blood,” I heard a soothing voice as I felt softness along my back, a pinching like feeling in my arm, and cloth along my chest area. “We are doing all we can, we cant use magic to heal him, as there is still too much of her highness magic still clinging about his body like a blanket.”

“How could a human survive such a blast…and just because he slightly scared her?” what…I didn’t scare her…or was this the back up story Discord was talking about…or was that Luna…I couldn’t even remember.

“It doesn’t matter how, all that matter is that he did. Now then, nurse, I am going need his blood sample to see if we can find a donor, as well as we will need to put him in a medical coma so that we can…” How many times would I black in and out of the world of the wake? I couldn’t even keep track, was it all a dream, or real? I couldn’t put the two as one, and that was what scared me the most. But, at last, I did wake, my eyes feeling heavy, but I did indeed open them, to see myself in a hospital room.

You’ve been in one, in Equestria, you’ve been to them all, and because this room looked just the same as the room I was in before, when we escaped from the Diamond Dogs.

I simply laid back in the bed, my eyes closing once more as I thought about what happened, the voices I heard, were they real, or just a thought of my own mind going overdrive, I mean, Princess Luna did blast me, (even though it was meant for Chrysalis and not me) into a freaking wall! Looking over and seeing a button, no doubt a calling one for someone to come in, I reached over, in great pain mind you, grunting as I placed my hand along the button and pressed it, just to flop back down along the bed, panting heavily. My body already coated in sweat just from this simple job. Before someone came in, hearing a gasp as well as her, hearing her voice calling out for a doctor, I noticed a vase of flowers and a few get well cards, I’ll have to read those later. “My, my…” I heard the voice of a male…in fact it sounded like the same doctor that treated me last time. “Ether you are the most unlucky being alive or one very lucky one indeed!”

Turning my head over a bit to the side, I was right, red unicorn, dirty blond mane, and that same knowing smile. “How does one make a princess zap you?” I could answer, ‘because my girlfriend is the changeling queen, but I knew that would be a bad idea. “Don’t answer that, we already know…her highness has been rather…worried about you, she wouldn’t even let your mare friend inside, anytime she would come close, the guards would stop her.”

“Guards?” I asked as he pointed out the room window, two night guards standing in place before the window, as he pointed to the one that led outside, two more, hovering in place.

“You must be very good friends with the princess if she is going all out to pay for your bills, and body guards, I swear it’s like she thinks a Changeling will try and take you away.” I’m sure Chrysalis would’ve done that…crap, what happened to her? I mean he even said Luna wouldn’t allow her to visit me, so does that mean she not imprisons yet? “Her Highness has spent many hours beside you, she told us she was scanning your body, or trying to dream dive as she called it, can you remember?”

“Any…no I can’t.”

“Understandable, you were in a coma…again, for a while, I mean it’s nearly five days before nightmare night; again, ether lucky, or not so lucky with you Mister Casey.”

“And…Silver?”

“Been staying with the Princesses as of late, poor child been coming here everyday, seems he was enrolled into Princess Celestia school of gifted unicorns…after what happened.”

“What do you mean?” I asked rather confused.

“Not much is said, but from what I gathered, and over heard from the two princesses, seems he was so mad at Luna…he latterly blasted her with his own magical aura, it was before the guards could come to gather you to bring you here, not sure why he attacked her, but the magic was so strong…well you don’t have a door, or use to not have a door.”

“Whoa…”

“Very…he hasn’t said one word to her, will speak to anyone but her, said it was her fault you were here, and also about…giving someone a second chance…not sure what that means though.”

I looked away, not sure what to say or what was going on, Silver attacked Luna…and blasted her clear through a door, and now he is going to school at one of the most grand schools for unicorns? Hell I knew a bit that Twilight went to such a school, but she was then taken under her mentor’s wings; Princess Celestia. Was it because he was related to them that he was there…or something else. I mean come on blasting an Alicorn could be one of the biggest reasons; you got to have a lot of balls or magic to do that! “Ether way…when we scanned your body…we found two interesting things, for one, a new scar because of the magic on your chest.” I looked down, seeing I was shirtless but wrapped out in the white cloth. “I would advised not taking that off, the magic was so strong it latterly burned your skin, Princess Luan with some of our best healers were able to repair much of the skin damage save for the one in the middle, where the magic hit the hardest. To put it blankly, much like Princess Luna’s Cutie mark, you have her moon shape on your chest.”

“Heh…” I coughed before saying. “As long as she says…that I belong to her now, I’m cool with that…I’m surprised how calm I am.”

“Drugs,” he went to a bag and tapped it. “Keeping your body numb with painkillers, no doubt without it you would be in much worst pain then what you are feeling.”

“Ah…and what was the second thing?”

“This is when it gets…a bit hard to explain, I’ll leave all the boring doctor words out and go simply to the chase after showing you some scans.” I nodded, somewhat thanking him for doing that for me. he went over toward my charts as I moved the bed a bit so I could sit up, as he placed a table beside me and placed one piece of paper on it, looking like one of those sale scales, you know the one that goes up, down, up, down, sometimes way up, and others really down? Yeah those ones. “This is the only chart I can show you where you can see what I mean, as you can see in this one, there part here,” he pointed to what looked like a steady, and sometime down and up line, it never went as high as it was, and it was classified as Zero. “What I am showing you, is a sort of magic level, you see, even though many races can not use magic, magic is in the air, remember the last talk we had, where your world had a small bit of magic?”

“Yeah…it was the reason why the Pegasus can fly somewhat and the unicorn able to use small magic and the earth pony somewhat weak.”

“Correct, see there was a study on why some humans could enter through the portal and why others can’t it’s simply, because your body like the others has this very small bit of magic, unusable, but that means the magic in this world affects you like a pony. You could latterly survive a Lighting Strike, from a Pegasus.” He took a moment to collect himself before going on. “What this means, it’s not that you were some rare breed of human, but nay human that is able to come to this world, latterly has this gift!”

I only blinked, as now that I think about it, it would make a bit of sense, I mean, if the theory was right, sometime in my world’s history, there was magic, huh…learn something new everyday. “Of course, we would never test such a theory, but you lived through an Alicorn Magical Blast! That has to count for something!”

“I guess it does…but what is that other piece of paper?”

“Ah this,” he said holding it up. “Mind you when I saw this…we just printed this out today, and made sure to keep the dates of when you came, and to today, seeing how Princess Luna wanted to see these charts, to see if this was true…just…look.”

As he placed the paper down on the table, I looked at it, everything seemed normal, I'm guessing heart beat, blood level or whatever…but one thing stood out…no that can’t be… “I know you see it, and this is true, we reprinted copies five times when we first saw this…you have a much higher magical build inside you, much like a normal unicorn would have!” he was right, I watched the way the lines move, it seemed the day I came in, it was at a higher level then what it was in the first page, but as the day went on, it went higher, and higher. Inch by inch, before coming to a steady level which it looked to be two days ago.

“What does this mean…that I can use magic?”

“No,” he flatly said as I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. “You see, dragons also have a high magical power, it’s there body, and they can easily flick off magic, save for many strong users, with ease. But you don’t see dragons going around blasting magic at will. This is what I think happed, and this is just a theory mind you, so please, deal with me on this.”

I could only nod, as I could understand such a thing would take a bit to explain, even if it was just a theory. “As we both know, your body was able expel offensive magic, to lessen the blow, much like when you were attacked by the unicorn before. However, Alicorn magic is in its own level on its own. What happened to you,” he said pointing to my chest as I looked down. “The magic that was used on you, powerful enough to pierce your body, in fact went to your heart, your blood stream…”

“Wait, what?!”

“Do not worry, your heart is fine,” he assured me before pressing on. “As you know, the heart pumps blood throughout the body, what I think happened is this. The magic that was inside your heart, drifted out into your blood stream, much like blood cells would, and should be able to do, however, like cells that copy, the magic that was in your blood stream…seemed to fuse with your cells. In a sense, giving you more magic that your body could have. Before, the magic that we would scan to see if you were able to come over would be tiny, but enough to walk through…with this, if no one knew you to be human; you could pass on being a unicorn…on paper of course!”

He took one more breath before adding. “On a ending note, what this means, you can withstand much more stronger magic’s then before however, I’m not so sure if you will have the same healing facture when it came to healing spells, it took quite a while to heal the wounds we could, even Princess Luna herself said that your body healed much quicker when you were in the cave. You gain one, lose one so it seems.”

“So it seems,” I whispered back and leaned back fully along the bed, this was…a lot to take in, this much was for sure, I mean, what am I to say; that I have the magical level of a unicorn, but cant use it…seems a bit of a downer, but eh, at least I’m not dead…

“Excuse me, Doctor…?” …Yet…

Both I and the doctor turned over, as the door was wide open, as Princess Luna herself stood there. Her eyes looked to me, as I couldn’t even read what it was she was thinking, they were blank, were it from the sadness of me getting harmed, or who I was hiding? She gazed at me for a small bit more, before turning fully to the Doctor and asked. “How is he doing, I’ve heard that the nurses said he was up, and I needed to see for myself.”

“Well as you can see, he is up and looking fine, no side affects what we thought might…”

“If you are not needed, allow us the room to ourselves, I wish to speak to him alone.” He closed his mouth as she moved in the room more. “Please, and I am not to be disturbed by any means, my guards out there know that until I exit, no one is to enter, or leave; am I quite clear?”

“Uh…yes your Highness; but…”

“Leave then,” she spoke, without looking at him as he looked rather surprised and shock, hell even I was. But ether way, he did soon leave the room, the soft click of it closing, the lock turning, and the sound of her magic turning on as well. “A soundproof spell, to allow no one to hear us.”

“I see…”

“How are you?”

“Fine,” the small talk was bad, I didn’t know why she was here, as a friend; or as a princess?

“You must know…the magic attack was not meant for you,”

“So you were trying to kill my girlfriend?”

“No, kill, it was meant to only knock her out…though on a human body it seemed that well…”

“Yeah…Is she…?”

“She…” she looked away, hissing the word. “Is not in prison if that is what you are asking, Silver Arrow made it quite clear if she goes, he goes.”

“Silver…said that?”

“After he blasted me through your front door…I never felt such a small foal hold so much power, it was both amazing, and frightening.” She shook her head softly and added. “He won’t even speak to me; even more that I haven’t allowed him to see you.”

“And why is that?” I asked. “Are you so scared that the ‘deadly’ Changeling Queen is controlling me, that I can somehow place him under her spell as well?”

“Brandon, you must understand what she is…”

“I know what she is,” I spat softly as she flinched away. “Let me ask you this…have you been Dream Diving into my dreams like last time…or were you looking for something else?” when she averted her eyes I only frowned. “I thought as much…you don’t trust me do you?”

“I do trust you…it’s just…you don’t know the dangers of this world and it’s creatures!”

“Human world is much worst, you know. Many years back we had this thing, where a group of humans hated another simply off the color of their skin. You and your sister and the others leaders are asking for peace, but a Changeling, it’s ‘blast first, ask later’?”

“She invaded Canterlot!”

“To feed her subjects! Are you telling me you wouldn’t do the same? Because I heard from Chrysalis herself that your sister flat out refused to help her hundreds of years ago while you were stuck on the moon!”

“Tia would never do such a thing; she stopped the Gryphon and pony war and made peace!”

“But why wouldn’t she make peace with the Changelings then? Why would Chrysalis tell me that she tried to form a deal with her, and Celestia just ran her off because of what she was?”

“She could be using you, to turn you against us! That is why I needed to be sure…”

“What do you mean?” I demanded to know as she flinched back, but sighed ever so softly.

“I had to make sure, there were no changeling magic within your system, Shining Armor was controlled by her, and though we like to say that the power of love broke him from her, which was true, for many months even when she was gone, it still lingered, and at times he would black out and try to find her Brandon.” I didn’t say anything, waiting for her to fully be done before I asked any sort of questions. “I couldn’t find any, none at all, but then I thought…what if she mind wiped that one part, added something she wanted, to make you love her.”

“Lots of ‘what ifs’ here you know?” I dryly commented. “I didn’t know the law system worked like that here…”

“I know your upset Brandon…” I snorted and looked away. “But…there is a way I can be sure for real…but it comes at a cost.”

“And what’s that?”

“Mine, and your pasts.”

I turned to her once more, as she offered me her hoof, I took it as she helped me sit up along the edge of the bed, as she pulled a chair over closer to me, and sat me down, I grunted and held my chest, still in pain. “I think a small explaining is in order here. Because I don’t know what the hell you mean…”

“It is a very old spell, Brandon, very old. So old that my sister and I parents leaned this spell from…somewhere, they wouldn’t explain how, or why they gotten their hooves on such a spell. What the spell does is this, allows the user, and the other to meld minds, such is the name of the spell, Mind Meld. It allows the two to see, witness, and feel, everything…that the others know of. Your past will be mine, and mine, will be yours. You will know everything of me, and I of you.” Before I could add anything she said. “The mind does not lie, Brandon, only we make the lie to cover the truth. This way, I can be sure that she isn’t using a new sort of spell on you that covers everything we know on them…please understand, I am only doing this as a last resort!”

I just looked at her, my eyes tracing along her face, trying to find something in her face to see if she was joking; she was not. She really wanted to know everything about me, just to see if Chrysalis was not controlling me? “Understand this then…Princess Luna,” she only looked at me, her eyes slightly closed as I never used her title before, save before we were such good friends. “We do this…I need time away from you, and when it proves that she is not controlling me, you are not to say a word, and are to leave her alone as well?”

“But…”

“That is my conditions, you don’t like it,” I held my wrists up. “Might as well put me to jail as well…who knows, maybe I am being controlled by her.” I knew it was hard on her, she said so many times, that I was one of her best friends, a person she could come to and be herself, and I was making her choose. She soon bowed her head, and whispered.

“I accept your terms, Brandon Casey. If it comes to pass that she s not controlling you, and has not done anything to you, I shall leave both you, and her alone, until you are ready to once more speak to me.” I only nodded as she raised her head once more, she sitting on her hind legs, both hoof along my face as her horn grew close to my forehead, her eyes closed; and I soon felt complied to do so as well.

“Empty your mind,” a whisper within my head echoed all about. “Empty, and be loose, do not fight what will happen, do not fight the feeling of being pulled away, and something entering.” The words felt more like something a witch or wizard would say for a spell, even though she was no longer saying it, I could feel it, echoing and whispering in my ears; in my mind. Id dint fight it, as I felt something, like a part of me was leaving, and something coming, before my eyes opened, but nothing but whiteness. I shuddered; I was cold, but hot at the same time. I couldn’t understand where I was, what this was! It was like I was standing in a hallway, with a night sky above me, and clouds around me, and that’s; when it happened.

Flashes quickly came by me, seeing Luna, when she was a foal, to a filly, watching her life flash before my eyes, many things I could make out and easily remember. One was with Luna, playing with her sister in a castle unlike Canterlot, but everything else around her was fuzzy, another was with Luna seeming upset by something…but what? More flashes, moving so fast I couldn’t even know what it was, I yelled, my head throbbing in pain but my eyes couldn’t close, nor move away!

I saw her yelling at her sister, saying something about no one loved her night, and only cared for her sister day, and how it was not fair! Another flash, the same fight, but with Celestia walking away, I hearing a whisper that, ‘it’s just the way the world is sister, deal with it.’ Noticing now, her mane was a pink like hue, not the colors that they were today. More flashes I couldn’t make out, as I fell to my knees, I even tried to look down, but the images were still there. This was of Luna, changing into what was known as Nightmare Moon, a battle between the sisters, and then…it stopped. And that’s when I felt it. Before, I felt anger, hate, all toward the ponies who didn’t like mine…Luna’s night, and Tia…no, Celestia, she seemed to not care, she seemed to care more about the love she got from the ponies…seeing her as a God! And then…there was nothing but a deep depression.

A thousand years, a thousand years of memories on the moon, that is what we the most clear, what she did, how she felt, how she howled and cursed her own sister name over and over again. How she plotted her revenge. Some hundreds years she seemed to calm down, but then a fresh wave of hate filled her once more! I saw a castle, a castle on the moon, a likeness of what she wanted he kingdom to be paintings that made of how Equestria and the world would be governed under her beautiful night…

Her return, her time back with Celestia, and even meeting me, the time where she felt happy to have a true friend once more, and then watching as I was shot, by her own magic, watching as Silver shot her with his own…and then, it was done.

I jerked back into the chair, gasping loudly as I then slumped forward, my face in my hands, as a sob escaped my lips, as I even felt tears run down my cheek. I was shaking, everything that just happened, and everything I saw…it was just so…overwhelming. I could still remember many of the things I saw, but she told me I would’ve seen her whole life…why couldn’t I remember all of it, just a lot of bits and pieces of it? “Shhh…” I felt a soft embrace of wings wrapping about me, even her own cries as well. I looked up seeing her cry as well. “It’s okay…I…I understand this can be overwhelming. Your body is going through the emotions, give it time…it will past.” How many times had she done this? I didn’t know, nor did I want to…right now, I was just…content to sit there, in her warm embrace, trying to make sense of everything I just saw.

“I don’t understand…” I whispered, after the aftershock of what happened, ended. “You said…I would see everything of you, right…but I can only…”

“Remember bits and pieces?” she asked as I nodded. “Yeah…that’s the thing, you did see everything of my life, only things I can easily remember, you can’t remember your babyhood, but you could with the right…sort of things. Think of our brains likes computers Brandon…the memories we forgot are there, we just need to find them. You saw all of my life, everything I know; everything that makes me…me, but you can only remember right now, what I remember the most.”

“What do you mean?”

“You could start to remember more things base off my life, an old book, an old place, my sister, and these things will unlock more of my past, that are safely in your head, just like with yours memories.”

“It was just so…overwhelming…so…I couldn’t understand what you went through, I mean, to fight Tia…uh…Celestia as such…wait why did I call her Tia?”

“A small side effect as well,” she pointed out. “Man this just sucks you know…”

“Sounds like something I would say.” We looked to each other and shared a soft laugh at this before. The Princess of the Night then sighed and looked down.

“She is not controlling you…you are, and have been free of her control since the first moment you saw her…I am sorry I doubted you…”

“I understand why you wanted to do this now,” I spoke. “But it doesn’t change the fact that I will still need some space…” she could only nod as I then held her hoof as she looked back at me. “This doesn’t mean we are not friends anymore, Luna.” I made her know as she looked deep into my eyes. “A friendship is about trust, and I need you to trust me on this. Chrysalis is not a bad person, she is a wonderful pony, and is great around Silver…the reason I’m asking for space now is because…I need you to think of our friendship, will you keep on doubting me because of this, or will you trust me that she has changed…even you yourself were Nightmare Moon.”

“I wish I could say that this was different…but mine was a bit…self centered wasn’t it?”

“Just a tiny bit,” I teased as she smiled. “Still friends?”

“No,” she shook her head as I blinked. “Best friends…but I think its best ether way I stay away from you three…Silver hates me, Chrysalis no doubt wishes to kill me in my sleep.”

“Ironic way to go don’t you think?”

“Very…”

“So…what now?”

“I shall leave and informed the guards to allow visitors to visit you, no doubt you will be here for the next few days, luckily and I hope you will be out before Nightmare Night…I shall stay my distance and I will trust you to watch her…but know this Brandon…if this comes to be a ruse, that she is doing this simply to take over Canterlot…I am sorry to say that…you too will face the crimes as well.”

“It won’t come to that,”

“I am simply listing what could happen…and one more thing,” she looks to me and adds. “I will tell the guard that if you say no one is to enter unless you say so, I will keep the soundproof spell on in this room, and so if she wishes to…be in her true form, I will not stop you. I may not like it, but I trust your judgment.” I nodded as I pulled her into another soft hug, before whispering.

“Thank you…Luna…Thank you…”