“Ember!? Ya in there?” It’s too fucking early for this. “Ember! Ah know you’re in there!” Why this? Why now? “Ember!” WHY NOW!?

“Fuck of!”

“Ember!?” A pause. “C’mon! Now ya have to come out.” I feel my anger quickly rising as I teleported from my bed to outside. The sun hasn’t thought coming out yet. Fucking farm pony. I look around blearily before spotting Aj a few feet behind me. “What in the sweet loving embrace of god do you want?” She jumped and spun around. A surprised, yet determined look on her face.

“Ember! Where'd ya come from?”

“Don’t fucking mind that, why are you here?” She took a step back at my tone, but pushed on.

“Well, Ah came by to apologize-”

“Oh for the love of jesus it’s too early for this.” I slump a little and walk back into my house with my eyes closed.

“Hold on there!” I felt something thin and coarse wrap around my waist. Oh she better of no done what I think she has done. “Now Ah came here to apologize and Ah won’t-”

“Did you just lasso me?” I ask in a dark tone that made her shut her trap. Since I didn’t get a responce I open my eyes and look down at the rope firmly locked around my waist. “Yes… yes you just did.” I chuckle. “Alright, you have five seconds before I tear this rope, hog-tie you, and leave you in the Everfree. Untie me, now.” There was a short pause before she spluttered a response.

“P-pardon?”

“Five,” Her eyes shrunk and her ears folded back. “four,” She started dancing in place. “three,” She bolted over to me and began loosening the rope. “two,” She’s fumbling with the knot, how fun it is to watch her panic. “one...” The knot was untied and the rope fell to the ground, just in time for Aj too. I take a look at her and she looks worse for wear, her hat’s tilted an askew sorta way, there’s sweat trickling down her face, and her legs are quivering. “Good girl, no go before I change my mind.”

“Now… hold on there...”

“You’ve already pissed me off enough yesterday, I don’t need any more reasons to be pissed off right now. So, please just go.” I lay it down as softly as I could, buuuuut the fucking girl didn’t get it. God she’s stubborn. I KNOW she’s like that but come. ON. I also may or may not have a short fuse so lay off.

“Ah came here to apologize, an’ Ah won’t leave ‘till we make up.” Really? She had to say it like that?

“As much as I would love to be the first human in history to fuck a talking pony, I’m gonna have to decline. Now if you will excuse me. I am going to go back to my house, back to my room, lie in my bed, and go back to the sweet, warm embrace that is sleep. No ‘if’s, ‘and’s, or ‘but’s about it. Ok?” I turn around and walk back into my house, doing what I just said.

“Hey! Git back her-!” At that point I kinda lost it. I hate losing sleep, and considering that I am a night person and that I absolutely HATE mornings. Hence why I made the basement my room. I get cranky when I don’t get enough sleep if it wasn’t apparent enough.

“I said,” I grab her in my magic and pull her close enough to touch muzzle-to-beak. “I don’t want to talk, I want to fucking SLEEP!” I practically scream in her face. I can feel my eyes straining, aaaand I’m getting a headache. Fuck me this is one of the worst morning I’ve had the misfortune to experience. The only thing that tops this was that slut I had a one-night stand with. Fucking bitch, literally.

Anyway, after I just screamed into this pony’s face, the color from said face turned from a deep orange to a light amber. And she basically looks like she was in the middle of turning into a ghost. I cut my magic, letting her flop to the ground and I just go back to my room to go back to fucking bed.

“I hate mornings.” I mutter as I make my way inside and flop onto my bed. At least it didn't take me long to get back to sleep. I probably woke up the others with my yelling, but I can care less.

“Didst thou has't to beest that way towards Applejack?” Luna Asked. I roll my eyes.

“Has anyone ever tried to wake you up in the middle of the day deliberately?” She clams up. “Thought so. Plus I really hate mornings.”

“You do?” Asked a dumbfounded Luna. I nod.

“Yeah, never liked waking up earlier than nine or ten. But seeing as how most of the ponies around here seem to wake up at fucking seven or eight I’m gonna have to adjust.” At that Luna put a hoof to her chin in thought, while I just looked at all the constellations and galaxies surrounding us. I grab a star that was close by and squish it, cause a small supernova. I look back to Luna and she has an expression that I really couldn’t make heads or tales on what she was thinking.

“Thee don't has't to do that.”

“I know, but here I miss half the day. And Especially since Aj had to wake me up at an ungodly hour. I have a feeling that that’s going to be a reoccurring thing with me.”

“You could always… come visit me.” Her voice lost itself in her throat.

“Say again?” Since when did she decide to speak normally?

“You, you could always… what is the word? Ah, yes. You could always ‘hang out’ with me.”

“Oh… Huh.”

“What is it?”

“Nothing, I just, never thought you’d want to hang out. You always looked happy to talk with me here. Plus I thought you’d be occupied with other things.” She looks down in an embarrassed way, and is she… blushing!? Fuck what did I do!?

“That much is true. But, it is… boring, in my chambers. I have my guards, but they are not much for conversation.” Oh… she meant that she gets lonely. As in, ‘I have no friends’ lonely.

“Wait, what about Celestia? And isn’t there usually something for you to do as Princess?” Her face takes on a melancholy expression.

“Tia is always busy with Day court.” She then sternly looks to me. “And our ‘subjects’ have yet to recognize me as Princess of the Night. Nopony, except my loyal guards and you, listens to me. Every morning I have to go to the Royal Cafeteria to get my breakfast.”

“Ouch… But you haven’t-?”

“Of course I have already tried to show my authority over our subjects, but, they always push me aside.” She stomps a hoof to the invisible floor. “They never listen to me, in fact, they avoid me at all costs! They still think I am that monster Nightmare Moon!” Cracks started to form in the dreamscape, emanating from her. “We apologize.” She stated and cracks quickly faded away. “It annoys us that we are not treated with as much respect as our sister.”

“I’m sure in time they’ll warm up to you. I mean, look at me, some ponies are still scared shitless of me, but most of them accept me for who I am.”

“But you have helped save Equestria from a terrible foe. We have done nothing of the sort.”

“Ah, but that’s where you’ll be wrong.” I counter.

“How so?”

“A friend told me that, at some point, you will be a great Princess. And ponies will love you.”

“Oh?” She gave me an imploring look.

“Nope,” I shake my head. “That’s all I can say.”

“Hmpf. You are no fun.”

“Hey! I can be as fun as I fucking want! I was being cryptic.” I pause. “And don’t think you can go through my memories.” At that exact moment she flinches as if something smacked her across her face.

“What was that!?”

“Magic.” I answer. Which she accepted with a glare. But then it turned to a coy smirk.

“You are beginning to impress us with your magic. A spell that blocks our ability to search your mind? Clever.” She pauses, then, with a questioning look. “Pray tell, where have you learned of such a spell?”

“Oh, well. To begin with, has Celestia ever told you how I have this magic?” She shakes her head. “Ok, well have you heard of the Alicorn Amulet?” When I mention the amulet her eyes widen.

“You have the Amulet!?” Her wings flare and she teleports close to me. “Why do you have that wretched item!?”

“Woah there, calm down Luna. Let me explain.” She huffs angrily, but takes a few steps back. “It’s not that I somehow got my hands on it. It’s more like ‘why is it part of me?’.” She quirks up a brow at my explanation.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean that when I, ‘discovered’ it, and touched it, that it quite literally became my heart.” She shot me a flat stair. “Go ask Celestia if you don’t believe, I’m not wasting my time starting more bullshit.”

“Fine! We will!” A white door appears behind Luna and she walks through it. “Stay there!” She slams it behind her. A few seconds go by and she returns with a very disgruntled looking Celestia trailing behind.

“Luna, what do you need?” She asked in an exasperated tone.

“Please tell us that the Amulet is NOT inside him! Tis can’t be true!” Celestia looked at me for a second, her hair is all scraggly and not flowing like it normally does, heh. All I gave her was a ‘yeah, this is happening’ look with a shrug. She sighs and turns back to Luna.

“Luna, by means I cannot comprehend, nor do I wish to understand, the Alicorn Amulet is right where his heart should be.” At this revelation Luna turns to me with an aghast expression.

“Told you.”

“...” Luna’s expression turned dark. “We must free thee of this curse.”

“I don’t think so Princess Luna.” A new, yet familiar, voice chimes in. “If you do that, he will cease to exist.”

“Who is that?” Celestia asked, now on high alert.

“Oh that’s just Ruby.” Said entity appears next to me. “Hey, it’s been awhile.”

“Yes, it has.”

“Release thine grip on our Ember!” Luna shouted. Wait, what? “Or face our wrath!”

“Hold on Luna. Ruby doesn't have any kind of grip on me, as far as I know.” I look back to Ruby and, it -we never really came to what gender Ruby is- and Ruby shakes it’s head at me.

“I’ve never had this much fun with a user of the Amulet in ages. If I influenced you, you would most likely have lost your sanity some time ago.” I look back to Luna.

“See. Ruby is just here for the ride.”

“How do we know this… it, is not controlling you?”

“I would’ve known if I was being manipulated. Trust me.” She looked like she was going to retort, but I cut her off. “Listen, Luna. Ruby here is just a… what exactly are you?”

“Hmm… I suppose I would be the ‘spirit’ of the Amulet.”

“Cool, as I was saying, Ruby here is just a spirit that is more or less like you and me. And all it wants to do is have fun and experience new things.” I turn to Ruby. “Right?” Ruby nods.

“Of course! As I have said, I have never had so much fun with a user of the Amulet in ages!”

“See?” Celestia and Luna then started to whisper towards each other. And for once I couldn’t hear what they were saying. After what felt like five minutes they stop their whispering and turn back to me and Ruby, and Luna comes forward.

“We have decided that you and… Ruby, will not be separated.” She then gets very close to Ruby. “But if you take our friend from us we will not hesitate to exterminate you. Understood?” Ruby nods with batting an eye.

“Crystal clear.”

“Good.” She turns to me. “Meet us out our chambers in the evening.” I nod and everything is blurred until there’s nothing but black.

“Morning girls.”

“Good morning Ember.” I hear Celestia say before I wake up.

“Well, that was one hell of a dream.”

~Agreed.~

“What do you think Princess Luna told me to meet her later today meant?”

~I have no clue, perhaps to see for herself what we are?~

“Maybe, but she said she did want to hang out at some point. Could be that.”

~I suppose, but after what happened in that dream, I doubt she wants to ‘hang out’.~

“Don’t worry too much about it. I’m she just wants to hang out or somthin’.”

“Excuse me, could you please guide me to Princess Luna’s room?” I ask the night guard at the front gate. He flinched when he saw me, but remembered his job.

“Of course, right this way.” Heh, I love that I made an impression on these bat-ponies, or ‘thestrals’ as they like to call themselves. The one before me lead me through the maze of a castle. Which involved going up and down flights of stairs. Seriously, how the hell is that functional? Anyway, he eventually led me to Luna’s room. As indicated by the huge crescent moon on a pair of equally huge double doors. The guard knocked on the door.

“Yes?”

“Ember is here to see you.”

“Send him in.” I don’t like that tone. Even the guard seemed a little put off by that tone. But he let me as soon as the door opened either way. And what was on the other side of said door was a little bit of what anyone would expect from a room for a princess. The exception being the large bookcases that adorned some patches of wall. And the room itself was big. Reminds me of a high-end apartment. And of course, everything looked… nightly. Every piece of furniture had coloring similar to Luna’s coat, along with light blue outlines. And holy shit her bed looks awesome. “Good Evening, Ember.” I look to where her voice came from, she has a balcony? Nice. I like balconies, for obvious reasons.

“Hey Luna. So we gonna hang out like you asked?”

“Yes, in time. We just want to take care of something before we leave.”

“And what might that be?” I’m not liking this.

“You just stay there. We want to see for ourselves what has become of you.” She turns to me and walks inside with a lit up horn. The same blue aura around her horn covers my body, and for a split-second, I feel violated. As if she was poking around in my body, but that was impossible, even with magic. She must be scanning me with some spell like Celestia when she first found out about the amulet. At least the feeling goes away as soon as it showed up. “We must ask,” she says while the spell is still active. “how long have you been like this?”

“Well, I found the amulet a few days after I first arrived here, so about a year? Yeah, I think it’s been that long.” She nods.

“We must apologize. The item doesn’t have a very... positive history behind its use.”

“Why?” I ask with sincere curiosity, Twilight didn’t really give a detailed history about it.

“Last time we saw one of our subjects,” she spat out subjects with venom behind it. “he tried to take our throne.”

“I see, so it makes ponies go mad with power?” She nodded. “Huh, makes sense.”

“What does?”

“The way you acted when I told you about the thing.”

“Yes… But why haven’t a thirst of magic?”

“I don’t know.” I shrug. “I think it has something to do with me being a human that comes from a world where there is no such thing as magic. You’ve seen how magic affects me when someone else uses it on me.” She giggles at that.

“Yes, we know. It strikes us as odd that our magic has such effects on you.” An odd and all too familiar glint formed in her eyes.

“Yeah, as much it amuses you. I currently have a ‘No casting spells on me.’ rule going at the moment.” She pouts cutely.

“Aw...”

“And don’t try that with me. Won’t work.” She promptly ups the ante by getting really close to my face and pouting more. It quickly became a battle of influence and will. And she was losing. Just as I was about to defeat her an idea bulb lit up. “You lose.” I say as I reach up and scratch Luna behind one of her ears.

“Wha- Oh! Oh… Mmm...” She lost the pout and her eyes lost focus and closed halfway. Her form lowers a bit and I spotted one of her hind legs twitching. She then let out a pleasured moan before she completely slumped to the floor. Becoming a mass of blissful pony. Even her hind leg was pawing the air like a dog. Jesus it’s adorable.

*I wonder if?* I reach over and start rubbing her belly. And what happened net, will make me laugh till tears for the rest of my life. Because her eyes bugged out of their sockets, her mane froze and fucking glitched like a corrupt video, and her horn shot out sparks. But that wasn’t the hilarious part, no, what happened next was unexpected. All four of her legs spasmed and thrashed, and her eyes rolled up. Christ this must be a really sensitive spot to her. But I couldn’t truly as tears were streaming down my face and blurring my vision from how hard I was laughing. I fell on my back and started rolling on the floor. It was that funny.

“Huh… Wha..?” I heard Luna splutter. “What just happened?” I then heard a gasp. “This is not funny!” That little outburst did nothing but make me laugh harder as it created this image in my head that Luna was angrily pouting at me, with her forelegs crossed over her chest and her cheeks a dark crimson. At some point my laughter eventually died down and I managed to stand back up.

“Hoo, hehehehe. Oh god that was hilarious. Hoo fuck.” A few chuckles leave my throat before I fully recompose myself. A small smirk curving my lips. “Aye no Luna, I haven’t laughed like that in years, fuck I needed that.”

“We are happy that you took pleasure in doing that to us.” She stated dryly. I just kept smirking at her until she realized something. “This was payback, wasn’t it?” I nodded.

“More or less. I just wanted to have some fun for a change. And boy did I find it!” I laugh.

“Yes, well,” A yawn escaped my mouth. “that little stunt left us without energy.” Another yawn left her, did that much time pass with that tickle assault? Damn… “We shall retire to our bed. Good morning Ember.” And I stayed up the whole night!? How the fuck did I not notice the sun coming up!? Aw fuck me…

You know something you really shouldn't do when you didn’t get any sleep last night? Go on, take a guess. Did you guess? Was it flying? No? Well you’re an idiot then. ‘Cause I tried that and promptly fell to the ground, from about thirty feet in the air, after falling asleep while I was flying. And it. Fucking. HURT. Dammit at least nothing broke, just a few scratches. And it appears I somehow crash landed near my house. I can see it off in the distance. And I somehow managed to not hit any tree in this forest, which reminds me. I need to get the hell outa here. I cast a quick teleport spell and ended up laying in my bed. Almost instantly falling asleep, this time I wasn’t in the air.

I woke up, but not on my own. I know as fact that something woke me up. I can’t tell what it is. But something did. At least I got an adequate amount of sleep. And I can’t shake this feeling of dread.

*Eh… it’s go away.* I think to myself as I get up and stretch. Earning pops from my arms, legs, wings, and back. I decided to see what, if anything, is going on outside. In the house I mean. I make my way to the ground floor and see that everyone except Golden was in the living room. All watching a t.v. that hung just above the fireplace.

“Hey, uh… since when did we get a t.v.?” Corey, Brittany, and Chrysi jump and turn to me.

“Ember!? Where the hell have you been?” Corey asked.

“Taking care of business. Not tell me why there’s a working t.v. here.”

“Oh, right. Well, yesterday Princess Celestia came by. She said she discovered that she can create a connection between our world and this one so we can watch t.v. and shit like that. And we brought it with us.” My eyes widen in surprise.

“Ok, how and why did she do it for us?” He shrugged.

“She said something about being a princess and doing whatever she wants.” Figures.

“We got wifi then?”

“Yeah, she said it was the least she could do for you giving her and her sister the stuff you gave them.”

“Huh, makes sense. Guess I owe her a thank you.”

“You bet your sweet ass you do! I was all getting ready to get used to no more t.v. and internet.” Brittany giggle at that. Then my attention turned to Chrysi, who was just staring at the large t.v. with a lost expression.

“Chrysi, you alright?” She snapped out of her daze and turned to me.

“Yeah… I’m fine… I just… I...” The words died in her throat as her attention switched back to the episode of Cops it was on.

“Don’t worry about her, she’s been like that for the past few days whenever it turns on.”

“Ah, ok. So how was this place been treating you two, good I hope?” Both Corey and Brittany smiled brightly.

“Yeah,” Brit answered. “the ponies here have been really nice to us,especially this mint-green one. I think her name was Lyra or something.”

“Of course. Lyra is a friend of mine. Apparently she knew humans existed before anyone else here knew.”

“Really?” They both ask.

“Yeah. I don’t know how she knew, but she knew it. So imagine her surprise when she first saw me.”

“Oh?”

“She basically screamed to the point I had tears in my eyes.” Corey winces.

“Yikes. That must’ve hurt.”

“Of course it did ya dumb fuck.” He flips me off.

“Fuck you.” I smirk back at him.

“Love ya too fagot.” We chuckle at each other before my stomach decided to make itself known. “I’m gonna go eat.” They nod to me as I head to the kitchen and prepare a good-ol’ steak on the stove, after pulling one out the fridge. Once I put the right amount of seasoning and sauces on it I let it sit on the pan, flipping it every few minutes to not burn it. Just then I heard someone walk up behind me.

“Fuck that smells good...” I smirk.

“Ch, you want one?” I look behind me and see Corey nod enthusiastically, making me chuckle. “Alright, should I make one for Brittany too?”

“Yeah.” I nod.

“Alright.” He walks off to go get Brit while Grab two more raw steaks from the fridge and two more pans from the cupboard with my magic. I set up the other two pieces of meat and began cooking them, while keeping mine warm.

In no time I got the things done. I grab three plate and set them on the table and then go to the living room. Corey gives me a knowing look and a nod, so I head back and take my seat. I set their steaks so they sit next to each other. They come and take their respective chairs.

“I didn’t know you could cook.” Brit remarked.

“There's a lot you don’t know about me Brit.”