Chapter 9

“Oh yeah and what are you going to do about it?” The smug unicorn asked

Dave didn’t respond but swung the disk into the white unicorns head and knocked him flying over to the side, the rest of the gang watched as one of their members lay motionless on the floor.

“OH IT’S ON!” yelled a dark grey Pegasus and he flew at Dave.

Dave responded by side stepping quickly grabbing one of the Pegasus’s wings and bringing the disk into the join between the back and the wing, resulting in a loud crack and a howl of pain from the Pegasus as a result.

Dave then threw the silver disk like a frisbee at the other Pegasus knocking him out of the sky, Dave flipped over the earth pony and the other unicorn grabbing the disk in midair and ramming the edge into the falling Pegasus’ stomach, resulting in a spray of blood from his mouth which sprayed over Dave.

The other unicorn quickly fired a beam of magic from his horn aimed at Dave’s back but to his surprise Dave dropped to one hand, leaving the disk with the unconscious Pegasus and ducked under the beam, using the hand on the ground, he pushed his body, feet first into the black unicorns face.

The earth pony watched as all his friends were beaten down in a few seconds and as Dave slowly stood up and dropped the silver weight to the ground. “Wha… I…” the guard stammered. Dave looked at the brown pony as his face turned from shock to anger “Fine I’ll take you down”

The pony ran at him, Dave used his left hand to uppercut the guard in the chin sending his body upwards and as the pony’s chest levelled with Dave’s he punched him with his right arm, square in the ribs sending him crashing into the tree.

Rainbow Dash watched in a mix of horror and amazement as the human flowed through the gang defeating them all within seconds “what was that?” She asked in amazement “Dave?”

Dave walked over to the earth pony and grabbed him by the mane and lifted him off the ground “I warned you” he snarled as he brought him eye to eye “mess with me again and I will break every bone in your body, you worthless piece of shit” Dave then let him drop to the floor and turned to see a shocked group of guards and Rainbow Dash.

“Dave?” Dash whispered nervously as she saw the rage burning in Dave’s eyes

“What do you want you want?” He said angrily but as he saw the fear written across her face, he realised what he had just done, looking down at the ponies scattered around him. Only four words came to Dave’s mind ‘what have I done?’ he placed his hands on either side of his head as he gazed at the gang “oh no I-I tried to tell them” He looked back at Dash “Rainbow Dash please” He took a step towards her and she took a step back “Dash?” His voice was shaking as he saw her back away into the castle and run for the dining room.

Dave looked around again but then decided to run for his room, nopony tried to stop him. As he reached his room he ran in and locked the door behind him, he quickly ran to the bathroom and saw his face splashed with pegasi blood “WHAT THE HELL” He shouted as he washed the blood from himself.

A knock came from his door and he froze “um… Dave darling… are you in there?” it was Rarity and the others were probably with her. The door handle moved “It’s locked what should we do?” Dave heard her whisper as he walked quietly back into the bedroom and crept towards the balcony

“Lemmie try” Rainbow Dash said as she moved Rarity out the way “Hey Dave I’m sorry I ran earlier I just ah… forgot something”

“Move it I’ll get it open” Applejack shoved Dash out the way before knocking hard on the door “Now you let us all in now mister or you’re in big trouble, ya hear me?” she said angrily

Pinkie looked through a crack in the door and saw Dave walking out onto the balcony “Oh I see him!” She squealed in excitement “HI DAVE!” she screamed and he froze on the spot.

‘Damn it, now im am really screwed. Kissed most of the ponies I have met, one being a princess, said I would go into a relationship with one of them and now beaten up some royal guards’ he sat down on the edge of his bed ‘Celestia is going to punish me for sure’

As he thought her name, Dave heard Princess Celestia approach the ponies outside his door. “Is Dave inside?”

“He is, but he isn’t coming out” Twilight explained

“Wait out here, I will talk with him” Celestia teleported herself into Dave’s room “Care to explain what happened?”

Dave stared at the floor as the bright light dimmed to reveal Celestia standing with a blank expression “I don’t know… since I got here more and more weird stuff keeps happening to me” He placed his head in his palms “what is going to happen now?”

“Well I am going to have to send you away” Celestia stared at the human as he began to cry

“I understand” He fought back the tears, he enjoyed every moment since arriving, including some of the awkward moments “Do I get to say goodbye?”

“You can if you like” Celestia smiled at him “Luna is waiting at ‘the spot’ she said”

Dave nodded “And what of the other ponies and Spike?” He remembered promised Spike a day camping

“Why would you need to say goodbye to them?” Celestia asked in wonder

“Well aren’t you sending me home to my world?” Dave looked up at the princess as she started giggling “What?”

“I’m not sending you away to your world” She stopped giggling and smiled warmly at Dave “I’m sending you and the others back to Ponyville today”

Dave’s stomach did a flip “But what about the things I did to the guards today?”

“Obviously you were provoked and were sticking up for your friend. And don’t worry the guards aren’t seriously harmed” She placed a hoof on Dave’s shoulder “Now go see Luna”

Dave burst out into a smile and hugged the princess in a hug “OH thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!” He gave her a small kiss on the cheek before dashing out to the balcony and eagerly leapt up towards Luna’s garden

Celestia stood blushing with a bewildered look across her face and raised a hoof to the cheek Dave kissed “You’re very welcome” She whispered. She quickly regained her composure as she opened the door for the others “Dave is just saying farewell to Luna then I shall teleport you all back to Twilight’s home”

The ponies and Spike all walked in with their bags, Spike carrying most of Rarity’s luggage for her. “Thank you for letting us stay here at Canterlot Princess Celestia” Twilight said as she sat down on the bed “we have all enjoyed ourselves so much”

“I’m glad you all had fun, and I learned quite a lot from what you have all told me about Dave during our private conversations”

Luna’s garden…

Dave eagerly climbed up to see Luna sitting in the shadow of the tree facing him “Hi Luna” he said as he pushed himself up ‘crap I forgot about last night’ he walked over to her and sat opposite her “I’m going back to Ponyville in a bit”

“I know” Luna whispered as she looked at something she had hidden in a small cotton bag “I am sorry about last night, it’s just something that can’t happen”

Dave looked at her sadly “I understand… it’s because I’m human right?”

She shook her head “no it’s just…” She took a deep breath “Me and my sister have lived for thousands and thousands of years and a few centuries before I was sent to the moon me and her had something we couldn’t keep”

“What was it?” Dave watched as a tear ran down her face so he wiped it away “Actually no, you don’t have to tell me”

Luna looked up at him “No I owe you an explanation for last night” She took another deep breath “The thing me and my sister got were… stallions, stallions we fell in love with but had to keep secret from the public as not to draw attention to them”

“Oh… they weren’t special like you were they?” Dave already knew what she was talking about

“No… after a few years they started to get old and then they both died and we could do nothing but watch, it was devastating to both me and Tia” She looked at Dave “So we agreed to never have feelings for anypony else ever again so we don’t get hurt”

“Oh I’m… sorry Luna” Dave looked away from her “I’m sorry for last night, it was all my fault, if I had known…” He was cut off by Luna as she passed him the small bag

“A gift” She looked from the bag to Dave “I don’t know why I fixed it, I just thought I should”

Dave opened the bag and pulled out his old watch, the one he stuffed into his jumper when he landed in Equestria. It had new golden dials and the glass was fixed and clean, turning it over the back cover had been replaced with a golden symbol of the two sister’s cutie marks in a ying-yang formation.

“Luna… I-I” Dave strapped the watch onto his wrist, it felt a lot more comfortable than before

“I found it in your old clothes, it was very interesting seeing a clock so small” She smiled at the watch and then at Dave

“Its wonderful thank you Luna” Dave stroked the watch with a finger

“Something to remember me by” Luna leaned over to Dave and gave him a hug “I’m sorry I can’t make you live forever”

“Now is what is important” Dave said as he returned the hug “Will I see you again?”

“Oh I imagine so” Luna giggled. Dave released her from the hug and started to head back to his bedroom where the others were waiting, leaving Luna alone “if only you could… live forever” she sighed to herself as she went back to bed

Dave landed back on his balcony still looking at his watch, he looked up to see all his friends sitting patiently for him “hey everypony” he said cheerfully as he was tackled by Spike

“Dave we were so worried about you after we heard about what happened with that gang of losers” Spike climbed onto his shoulder “you sure taught them a lesson”

“Yeah well I’m not about to make it a habit” Dave said as him and the ponies all stood in a group in front of Celestia “I’ve said my goodbyes”

“one more thing Dave” Celestia remembered something “You may now be seen by normal pony folk as I have seen what a nice um… human you are, just show that medallion on the back of your… small clock and everypony will understand that you are a friend of Equestria”

“Thank you princess… for everything” He smiled at her and she replied with one of her own

“It was my pleasure Dave” She felt her cheek grow warm “I will send Twilight Sparkle any messages regarding Dave should the need arise” She lowered her horn to the group “Ready?”

They all nodded their heads and the Princess Celestia’s horn glowed brightly before teleporting the group away in a flash of light.

Twilight’s home…

The ponies all opened their eyes to see themselves standing in Twilight’s main room. “Ah home sweet home” she sighed as she levitated her bags upstairs “So what does… wait where is Dave and Spike?”

The ponies all looked around and saw that the space Dave and Spike should be in was empty “What in tarnations?” Applejack gasped “what happened?”

“I don’t know, all I can say is that they must be somewhere near here” Twilight sighed “at least Dave is with Spike so he knows how to get back here”

Meanwhile with Dave and Spike….

“Uh oh this is really bad” Spike paced nervously around Dave who was pulling his head out of a bush

“Is it always like this?” Dave picked some of the leaves from his hair

“No the Princess never makes mistakes, there must be something else” Spike grabbed Dave’s leg “but first lets get out of here quickly”

“Why?” Dave looked around at the trees “it’s only a forest”

“Dave! It’s the Everfree forest! It is dangerous here” Spike looked around in nervousness

“Fine which way is out?” Dave lifted Spike onto his shoulder

“I don’t know, I don’t come in here alone” Spike looked at Dave

“Come on Spike we are going to be fine… What’s the worst that could happen?” Dave chuckled but his laughter was drowned out by a loud howl “Please tell me that was you or your stomach”

“Nope you?”

“Not me either” Dave heard a footstep behind him and turned to see a large wolf creature that was made of wood, it’s yellow eyes appeared to be made of amber ‘I seriously have to stop tempting fate’

“Oh no, it’s a timber wolf” Spike grabbed Dave’s head in fear

“a timber… wolf” Dave giggled a bit but then saw the rest of the pack appear “Oh um… ok” he took a couple of steps back “should we be running?”

“Very quickly” Spike agreed as he looked down at the hungry beasts “timber wolves are supposed to be fast”

“Good to know” Dave muttered under his breath as he tuned and ran from the pack

The leader of the pack let out a loud howl before giving chase after their meal. One of the pack ran ahead and lunged for Dave saliva dripping from it’s jaws.

Dave saw the wolf leap at him so he quickly changed direction to avoid it’s large jaws and ran between the trees. The pack kept up with him, almost toying with their prey, forcing him to change directions.

Spike noticed a light in the distance between the dense plant life “Dave I think I see a way out” He pointed with a finger to direct him to the source and Dave quickly headed for the dull light.

Dave ran out from between the trees and started running along a small dirt path towards a large tree that had windows and a hollow hole with smoke gently flowing from the top “What the hell?” Dave kept running towards it

“It’s Zecora’s house!” Spike cheered happily but looked back at the timber wolves as they were only a few feet behind “but we won’t be able to get inside in time”

Dave grabbed Spike and held him in his hands “I’ll distract them, don’t worry”

“What are you doing?” Spike asked as he saw Dave stare at the chimney “NO I am not leaving you alone with those things!”

“Too late” Dave smiled as he jumped up the trunk of the tree and dropped Spike down the smoking hole

In Zecora’s home…

The zebra stirred in some leaves into a pot which hung over some smoking hot coals and watched as the liquid within turned a dark brown.

“Ah my favourite herbal tea, a fresh pot just for me” She said as she carefully lifted the small teapot off the coals and set it down on a small table behind her.

She was distracted when she heard a couple of grunts come from her chimney and Spike tumbled out, covered in soot, bounced along the floor and crashed through some pots against the wall.

“Spike my little dragon friend, why from my roof do you descend?” She walked over but Spike quickly rose to his feet and ran to the window,

“We have to help Dave! Have you got anything to get rid of timber wolves” He looked at her panicked

“Hmm I have an item that should, just remember that those wolves are just wood” She then walked over to a small chest that sat beneath the table

Meanwhile with the mane six…

“Hmm where do you think they ended up?” Rainbow Dash asked Twilight who rummaged through her notes

“Do you remember the day Dave arrived and I used a sleep spell on him?”

Dash nodded “Yeah but what has that got to do with anything?”

Twilight rolled her eyes “The first sleep spell was supposed to keep him asleep for hours but it only worked a few moments”

“But you used it again and he fell asleep for about an hour” Rarity added with a worried tone sounding obviously concerned about Dave

“The second spell was supposed to put him to sleep for at least a couple of years” Twilight explained as the others all looked at one another

“So what y’all saying is, is that Dave is somehow resistant to magic?” Applejack asked

“I think so, so when the Princess sent us all here him and Spike must have only been sent partway” Twilight tapped her chin “interesting” she muttered under her breath “I just hope they haven’t landed anywhere bad”

Everfree forest…

Dave held the dark brown wolf’s jaws away from his head but it bit down on his arm, he kicked another one that tried to bite his leg. “Get off, I’m not on the menu!” he punched the wolf that had it’s jaws on his arm in it’s teeth, breaking a few in the process.

He got up and then saw he was surrounded by seven more wolves, each one as hungry as the next, Dave readied himself for another attack.

But as one of the pack prepared to lunge, it was struck over the head by Spike who wielded a flaming torch “TAKE THAT!” He yelled as he swung it towards the other members of the pack “leave my friend alone”

The wolves all looked at the flame in fear and they all began to slowly retreat back into the forest.

“Heh thanks Spike” Dave sighed as he high-fived the dragon “I owe you one”

Zecora walked over to Dave and looked him “my, my what a curious creature” She looked at Dave’s watch and caught a glimpse of the symbol beneath “and it seems he met Twilights teacher”

Dave looked up at the zebra ‘wow an African stereotype pony?’ he shook his head as he collected his thoughts “hi I’m Dave and I’m an uh… human”

Zecora’s stomach rumbled “it is getting late, and it appears I haven’t ate”

Dave looked at her puzzled “why do you rhyme when you talk?”

“Another time is shall tell that tale, but for now you both must hit the trail” She pointed to the path that led her away from her house

“Oh yeah I forgot about Ponyville, the girls must be worried sick” Spike hopped onto Dave’s shoulder “Let’s get outta here”

Zecora waved the boys off as they hurried back home down the dark path.

After a few minutes run they emerged at the edge of the forest and were greeted by a bright sun that hung high in the sky.

They both shielded their eyes “AHH what the hell? Wasn’t it just night time?” Dave moaned as he slowly dropped his hand

“The forest is strange like that… it isn’t like everywhere else” Spike explained the differences between the forest and Equestria as they walked towards Ponyville.

As they reached the outskirts of the town Dave gulped as he headed for the large tree that was Twilight’s home “this is going to be awkward” he nervously whispered under his breath

“Tell me about it” Spike looked at the busy streets that lay ahead of them “You are going to be seen no doubt about that”

“thanks for the reassurance” Dave chuckled as he calmly walked down the road, looking at all the ponies as they all stopped to look at him and talked amongst themselves

“What is that?”

“Why is Twilight’s dragon with it?”

“What’s with the claw marks?”

As Dave increased his pace he looked down at his clothes, a large claw mark stretched down the front of his shirt and a large bite mark was carved into his arm “that doesn‘t look too good“. When him and Spike reached Twilight’s house, the door flung open revealing a leaping, white unicorn.

Spike barely managed to dive off Dave before Rarity crashed on top of him “DAVE! We have been frightened out of our wits when you didn’t appear with us” She hugged him

“Ow… ok Rarity, thanks for the concern, can you let me in please?” He struggled to say as he was being chocked by her tight hug

“Oh of course Dave how rude of me” She helped him up and let him and Spike inside. As she was about to follow she noticed the group of staring ponies “WHAT IS EVERYPONY STARING AT?!” She yelled at them as they all quickly looked away and continued with what they were doing, she raised her head in disgust and proudly trotted inside shutting the door behind her ‘nopony stares at MY Davey wavey’ She thought to herself.