Author's Notes:

Well now... here is the next chapter! I apologize for it taking so long to get this one out, the Writers Block Police Department got me and I had to spend some time not writing.

This is unedited, so there will be plenty of grammar issues.

Finally, the next chapter will not take this long to get out, but it wont be out anytime soon.

I look directly into the smiling eyes of Chaos with my destructive eyes of power. I was looking at him coldness and hate from all the shit he has put me through, but he was looking at me with glee. I eventually get sick of it and through him to the side, when I did he summoned a cushion for his hodgepodge body to fall on. “Change into you humanoid form please, I can’t take you seriously looking like that.” I say with a sigh. I take a look around the room. The carpet was a very lovely crimson with a Greek alpha symbol in the center in gold. I walk up to one of the walls and touched them, they were black with a chalkboard like texture. There was a few more doors around the room. the furniture was nice. The couch was black with silver trimmings, the style was mid eighteenth century Italian placed on the right hand side of the room. On the left was some objects from home. A custom gaming PC with a flat screen sony TV with surround sound speakers. My old setup. I walk over to the back of the TV and see a cross dimensional electromagnetic wave rune probably used to receive signals from my world. Finally the bed, it was king sized with white sheets with dream catcher runes sewn in with black silk. This was placed on the wall parallel to the door. There are no windows in this room, just how I like it.This room took time to make. Alot of time, even for a being as powerful as Chaos.
This was planned.

“You’ve figured it out already, haven’t you?” I looked back and see Chaos in his normal form lounging in the air slightly bobbing up and down.

I lift my legs up in the air and cross them in a meditative fashion. I'm sitting in the air looking at Chaos… and then I pinched the bridge of my nose and sigh heavily, “You planned all this didn't you? You knew I would not be able to resist that book.”

He chuckled slightly “Yes, and the look on your face proved it.”

I open my eyes and look at him in very slight shock “You were the old man,” *sigh “I should have known.”

After leaving my sister for the final time I decided to make one last stop in Germany. I’ve scoured this globe for artifacts and knowledge, and I thought I found them all. Hell I own Excalibur. But this one shop in the middle of nowhere in Germany always seems to have something new I don’t have. The shop was very simple looking. It was about the size of an average Gamestop but made entirely out of wood. The entire place looks rundown and the wood is rotting. the shingles are made of bark and falling off. The left window is broken and covered with a sheet while the left has half broken neon open sign. The entire place looked like it had less than a year left to stand, but… it looked like this for the past sixty years.

I walked inside, closed the door and saw the entire place was empty. I smile slightly, wondering how the owner ever got any business. I lifted my left hand up to my mouth and put my thumb in between my right canines and bite down. Yes, the sweet taste of iron, sodium, and the magic running through my veins. I used my magic to keep the bite open before it healed. I touched the tips of all the finger on my left hand and turned towards the door behind me. On it was a x in chalk with the words, ‘Put hand here’ written above it. I placed my hand on the x and then removed it to see the x was gone. Then I reopened the door.

Inside was a brand new place. It was still as small as before, but everything was of much higher quality. The wood was no longer rotting and was now brand new zebra wood. Shelves lined the walls with all kind of miscellaneous items and ingredients. The floor was like a chess board, it being black and white squares. the ceiling was an entire diagram of the world with certain points on them that were markers for where different types of magic originated or evolved. farthest away from me was the check out, but instead of there being a big desk with a cash register, there was a big chest and a old dusty rocking chair.

I take a big whiff of all the artifacts within. “Ohohohoho, hey geezer! I smell something new in here!” I announce I hear some rustling in the back and then a cane hitting the ground repeatedly.

“You bet your immortally young ass there is!” out of the wall came a old man who was cosplaying the old man from Zelda.

“Really Delveen, the old guy from Zelda?” I ask with a blank look.

“Hey I was thinking John De Lancie but my voice sucks.” he explains while he goes and sits down in the rocking chair. “So what has my best customer been up to? Haven’t seen you in years.”

“Exploring, dimension hopping, fucking around in other universes, etc.” I say as I start to browse.

“Heh heh, in more way than one I bet!” Delveen howled.

“Maybe… maybe not.” I smile slightly at him. I kept looking around while catching up with my favorite merchant. I stop at the book section and see the same stuff that was their before I left… except for one. The book was about the size of a school textbook and there was nothing unusual about it… well as unusual as a book bound in multiple types of skin could be. There was many types on here including human, dragon, unicorn, orc, elf, hell hound, demon, … even god skin was on this book. I touched it and felt the power simply leaking off of it. I pick it up and I activate my eyes and see the knowledge just surrounding the book to protect it. I need this book. I go to open it before I was promptly stopped.

There was an old wrinkled hand on mine, “Sorry not allowed before you buy it.” Delveen said with a serious tone.

I looked at him curiously “Why is that?”

“This book contains corrupting power in the form of endless knowledge of all magic, and scientific knowledge. It is said whoever reads it with go insane with power.”

I laugh “Me, the guy with absolute power be corrupted by absolute power in a different form? Really Delveen?”

He laughs himself “Sorry man rules are rules.” he said pointing at the center rune that lit up the floor of the establishment. The point of the rune is to enforce the rules he set.

*sigh* “Fine.” we walk over to the rocking chair and the chest. Delveen sat down while I put the book on the chest and it melted into it. On top of the chest molded into the word ‘zahlen’

“Well, for limitless knowledge I need something of equal or greater value. That’s why I haven't sold it yet, but you must have something after all your travels.”

I put my hand to my chin and thought hard, until I remembered my pride and joy invention. I reached into my pocket dimension and grabbed what I was looking for. My hand came out clenched softly, I then put its contents on top of the chest.

“What is this?” asks Delveen in confusion.

“My offer.” On the chest was a bird… made entirely of metal. it was silver with slight platinum trimming and was about the size of a marble. It was not active.

Delveen scratched his head when the chest molded around it slightly, which means it is adequate payment. “This bird is dubbed Clockwork, and it is a machine I specially designed to consume and adapt. This has the ability to consume and other machine, computer, etc, and copy it. But after it copies it, Clockwork enters stage two and improves upon it until it is perfect for its purpose. It is the ultimate complex computer and machine. It even has an AI.”

*whistle* “That is good… I’ll take it!” The chest completely consumes Clockwork and then in its place came the book. “Have fun.” Delveen smiled as I picked up the book.

“I will.” I say calmly, but on the inside was raging emotions between depression, regret, and excitement. I then walk out the door. On the other side was good old nature. I look behind me to see the shop was gone. I shake my head with a smile and glanced at what I bought. “Let’s see what secrets you hold, hehehe.” I opened the book, and everything went black.

Some time later I woke up in the middle of the woods… but I did not know where I was. I stood up and looked around, the book was gone. *sigh* “Time to start walking.”

I start rubbing my temples in pure irritation because of this bull shit Chaos keeps putting me thru. I look at him and see him poking at Clockwork in his hand, still deactivated. I ask again “So were you Delveen?”

He stops poking at Clockwork and looks at me like a deer in headlights, after a moment he spoke up “No, Oh no no no I was the chest!” he exclaims proudly.

I put my right hand on my forehead and bring it down with a groan, “Why am I not surprised… also where’s mein book?” I ask in annoyance.

He smiles in what looks like delight, “Oh big brothers got it in holding for you, but since you don’t have it, you can have little Clocky here back in consolation!” he tosses the mechanical piece of art towards me. I stop it mid air with my magic and gently levitate it into my hands, “I could never figure out how to get the little bugger to work.”

I reached on the back of Clockwork where there was a little indent, I reached into the indent with my fingernail and flipped up a wind up key and winded it several times until there was a click that racked the machines body making it twitch until it fully opened its glowing green eyes. He opened and closed his mechanical lens a few times and eventually stood up in my hands and acknowledged me with a small songbird screech, and a nuzzle. I go and scratch his head with my right pointer finger and he bends his head down in delight and acceptance. After I did that he put my pointer finger in his mouth and put light pressure on it and started poking the tip of it with his metal tongue playfully, “You're hungry, huh?” I reached into my pocket dimension and grabbed an old TI-82 calculator and a laser pointer. Clockwork perked up when he saw them and tensed up while crouching. He shaked his butt, his eyes turned from green to yellow and then he jumped into my other hand that was holding the two items. When he got on top of the calculater he sunked his talons into it. It started to spark and the slowly broke down until there was nothing left. He then grabbed the laser pointer and broke it down as well. After he was done his size changed slightly. He was no longer the size of a marble, and he was now the size of a cockatial. He screeched in happiness while I chuckled.

“... You could have included an instruction manual you know.” Says Chaos looking very jealous and crossing his arms. Then his demeanor changed quickly, he got very serious (Which is very unlike him.) and looked me straight in the eye, “Ok then Dust, time to get down to why I brought you here.”

My eyes harden with intrigue and slight confusion. Chaos, the one I know and deeply wish I could murder with a rusty spork, has a reason for doing something. “Chaos are you okay? I could have sworn I heard you say you had a reason for this?” I smile at him.

“This is not a time for jokes Dust! I’m serious about this. I brought you here for my daughter's sake.” He put his hands behind his back and started to pace back a fourth, “She needs help Dust, serious help. Her powers are not something I can teach her! She is not pure chaos like me… she has a side to her i can’t help her with, hell I'm struggling enough to teach her about her chaotic side! I didn’t learn how to use my powers, I just knew how to use them!” He threw his hands up into the air and then plopped down onto the bed and put his hands in his face. “*sigh* Her other side though… her other side could only be taught by two others, her mother, and her mother's killer.” He looked up to me with a look of remembrance and regret.

I inhale sharply and exhale slowly out my nose “Chaos, I don’t want to talk about the death of Harmony right now. You know I killed her because she was going out of control. She was trying to get rid of almost all the other Entities of Existence, and also me. I don’t know why your wife changed so suddenly, but she did and she was a threat.” my eyes locked on to Chaos and his own eyes and I saw hate, acceptance, and some I didn’t expect to see, guilt.

“Brother was right, you are heartless.” Chaos stood up from the bed and walked up to me. Merly inches separating us. “I know why my wife changed.” My eyes widened, i was going to say something but before I could he spoke again, “If you also want to know, you must help my daughter first.”

We both stared at each other blankly, neither one of us faulting in any way, shape, or form. I know what he is trying to do, and most likely it will work. Hell it has worked already, I’ve been trying to figure this mystery out for years. Why Harmony changed. “You better not be lying to me Chaos… what do you want me to teach her?”

His mood changed drastically! He was back to his old self, most likely because of his madness. He jumped back a few feet and started clapping, “Good show boy! That’s the spirit! Now I want you to teach slash help her with a few things. First is her magic, it is very rare, so rare almost non of her kind exist!” he said with glee.

I looked at him curiously “What do you mean?”

“She has a Stigma!”

“...” I would be lying if I said I didn't think he was lying. I walk over to the couch and sat down. I’m not totally shocked, after all I have met other stigma users, but here is my problem… CHAOS HAS A DAUGHTER WITH A STIGMA!!!

I here Chaos chuckle, “I saw that! Don’t worry just because there is a Stigma in the family besides my older brother. Everything will be fine as long as she can learn to control it, and her mind… “ Chaos faltered slightly at that last part, he regained his composure but he could see that I caught him

“I saw that as well Chaos. What ales Pandora’s mind?”

He slowly puts his back to me and summoned his cane in his right hand, “That is something you will find out on your own, but I will give a hint!” he lifts his cane up a few inches off the ground, “You were right with your theory, the power within us decides what we are like.” he slammed the cane down and vanished in a flash of light.

I lie back in the couch and look up at the ceiling and recap what just happened. I bought a book from my favorite item shop and appeared in the middle of the woods, walked into a random hangout house, and met five new beings, four alicorn ponies and one draconequus, Stuff happened, went to a castle, met ‘Discord’, had dinner, learned about the kingdom of Equestria’s potential fall because of its leaders, ‘Discord’ actually turned out to be Chaos, no surprise there, got Clockwork back, can’t have the book back yet, and it turns out I was brought here by Chaos to teach his daughter how to use her power and be her shrink… pretty normal day.

I use my magic to float over my keyboard, headphones, and mouse, “Clockwork, can you turn on the computer? Also don’t eat it.” Clockwork nodded and flew over to the computer and landed on it, he leaned over and pecked the power button. The computer came to life with its red LED's. I grabbed the remote next to me and turned on the TV and then put it on HDMI2, the screen flashed on with my computer's browser, “Time to relax with a game of League.”

“DAMN IT!!!” I take off my headphones and throw them on the couch, “Fucking Satan worshiping Yordle!” I get up off the couch and walk over to the door and open it with my right hand, “Come on Clockwork I need to get a drink.” he flies over and lands on my shoulder.

The corridor was pitch black. But with a single flick of my fingers my sun glasses came off and everything looked fine. “Now where would i find the kitchen…” i shrug and go right. I look around and see that Chaos took inspiration from the Romans in terms of architecture. It is nice… but he most likely did this for me since I can only take so much ‘unique’ architecture.

*CRASH*

That sounded volent.

I speed up my pace, “Clockwork track that noise to its origin.” Clockwork nods and takes off. Follow him I start to prepare myself with a spell to let me see life form energy. Interesting spell by the way, it works by sending out my own personal mana into the environment around me, and enhancing my eyes to detect it. Everyone has a different mana, and two different manas don't like to mix well unless both lifeforms are in sink. So what ends up happening is a form of ‘magic echolocation’ where your own mana comes in contact with another lifeform it reacts and glows to counter it.

Anyways, after casting the spell and scanning the area two things were discovered. One, there are a lot of plants here. Two, there is only one other, non plant, being in this corridor, and by the way my mana is reacting to theirs, they have two unique types, which means they never learned to fuse their mana together like mine. This fact tells me they are a rare case, and that peaks my interest.

*BUMP*

I grab my nose in slight pain, since I just ran into a fall full force while speed walking! Only bad thing about the spell I just casted is it makes almost all objects around you be the equivalent of clear glass plans!

I end the spell and look over to Clockwork and see him hovering in front of a door and cocking his head at me in what looks to be confusion. “Don’t look at me like that.” I walk up to the door he is in front of and, well, looked at it. Now you might be wondering why I am just looking at the door… it’s because of how chaotically perfect. The grain of the wood is all twisted and warped, but every board used in the glue up is exactly the same. Interesting.

I put my ear up to the door and listen… there is lots of movement, I can hear the sound of furniture being moved around, along with the sound of struggling… and crying. The crying doesn't sound panicked so I know there is no physical altercation taking place. It just sounds like the cries of an emotionally upset female. I should just leave it alone and find the kitchen… but curiosity kills the cat. “Clockwork, go back to the room, and try not to eat any of the machines, ok?” Clockwork nodded and landed on my shoulder, he gave me a few nuzzles and then took back off. “Alright lets do this already.”

I grab the doorknob with my left hand and slowly open it, to not alert whoever is inside. I quickly learn that my old mind is old since i forgot to put my glasses back on. After getting blinded by the fucking lights inside I quickly put my glasses back on to relieve the pain. My eyesight quickly restores and I see something, well, how do I put this into words? I’ll just describe it instead.

Inside was a room that seems to be in near perfect order. The carpet was grey, cut perfectly symmetrical, with wine stains evenly distributed on it. Each stain looks the same. The walls are soft blue with black stripes. The ceiling was the same as the floor. The furniture was punkish with a black sofa with a spider web pattern on the right side of the room, and the same thing but color swapped on the left. On the floor where two broken red vases, that explains the the noise. on the opposite side of the door was a bed with red silk sheets and dark pink pillows with skulls on them space evenly away from each other with two twisted wood nightstands on each side, presumably the ones the vases were on. Finally in the dead center of the room is an black and gold trimmed entertainment center, with one television on both sides, there are also many small doors that most likely have other electronics inside them. But the most interesting thing in the room was a female draconequus in a black babydoll chemise nightwear with dark pink lace. But no matter how attractive it was the tears, frazzled hair, and struggling to move the entertainment center was a turnoff.

“Pandora,” she jumps and turns around quickly, her eyes are puffy and red “ are you ok?” she quickly tries to straighten up her hair.

“I-I-I’m alright *sniff* just rearranging things, n-n-no worries!” she forced a smile and closed her eyes while cocking her head to the left to try and look cute… to bad everything else makes it hard to focus on the cuteness.

I walk up to her and put my right hand on her left shoulder, she flinched slightly at my touch, After that I spun her Around and placed my right hand on her right shoulder and my left hand grabbed hers. I then walked her over to the right sofa and sat her down on the right cushion, at this point she is looking at me with slight shock and confusion. “ *sigh* Pandora, don't lie to the Devil for he is the king. I rarely ask anyone if they are ok. I normally don't give two shits if you are depressed, dyeing, or even trying to commit suicide. One I will tell you to see your shrink, the other I will just make the process quicker, and the final I would ask you what do you want to kill yourself with. I am a heartless, cold wanderer, as some would call me, and I don't care about anything or anyone, unless they strike extreme interest with me, and I them. You are interesting to me Pandora, I'm sorry, but I wont be leaving you alone anytime soon because of that. I WANT to talk to you, I WANT to know you, and I WANT to help you. Now, you tell me what's wrong, and I will help you. I will be here for YOU.” I squeeze her hand and rub her back and give her a true, calm, smile. In all honesty, everything I said was true. Chaos went on about the book, and riddles, but all he had to say is she has a stigma, and that the stigma is affecting her personality. That alone was all I needed to help her.

Well she must have known I was being honest because the water works went into fifth gear, and the simple gentle gesture of reassurance I was providing got turned into a full blown hug and cry into my shirt deal. I wrap my arms around her and squeeze firmly. I found this… odd. I normally never have anyone react like this. I’m not used to this.

Can’t say I hate it.