A Butlers Symphony
Chapter 17: 17) The flashbacks
Previous Chapter Next Chapter"Symbol, are you alright? What's going on back there?"
"I'm fine Doctor Gaster, I just cut myself on a shard of glass...wait...Doctor! Get over here!"
"What is it?"
"The blood from my cut, it fell into the symbiote material, it's moving on its own."
"Are you serious? Let me see! Yes...it appears we were lacking physical, living chemicals. I think it can hear us."
"Well, if it is alive now, we've succeeded, even if it was by mistake."
"This is a living creature now, should we give it a name? Also, should we inform 'her' about this?"
"I will tell her after we've confirmed its sentience. As for the name...perhaps...Symph would be appropriate."
Symph woke up in Twilights subconscious, gently floating in the back of her mind. Still not fully awake, he tried to ignore the dream he just had and fell back to sleep, only for the same memory to play in his head. To avoid having it okay in his mind a third time, he just remained floating there, his eyes feeling heavy. "I must still be collecting energy..." He muttered to himself as he rubbed his eyes. However, he couldn't feel any energy flowing into him. Curious, Symph tried to take some of Twilights spare energy, but there was none. "Great...I need to wait on her body producing more...I wonder if any of the others...would be willing to let me take...some spare energy."
He didn't want to try to take more from Twillight, as he'd be taking it directly from her life force, essentially shortening her life significantly. Deciding to ask someone else to help him regain his strength, Symph first looked through Twilights eyes to see what was happening before he just showed up out of the blue with no warning to those that haven't seen him yet. He found Twilight was sitting next to a bed where Zerlinda lay unconscious.
"Alright..." Slowly separating himself from Twilights body, he tries to form into his human body but failed, bit having enough strength to add details, so he settles with a fully black body with his eyes remaining the same, although half lidded as he was tired.
Twilight was about to greet her friend when she saw his plain body and noticed he was struggling to maintain it, his arm almost breaking down into liquid before he solidified it again. "Symph, are you ok?"
"I'm...fine. I'm just tired is all." He reassured with a weak smile, although it was invisible with his current body, no mouth to move.
"Then why don't you just stay in my body and get the energy you need?" Twilight questioned with confusion.
"Your body is currently void of any waste energy...I seem to have absorbed it all and it's still not enough. Fighting out in the tundra...and teleporting with extremely low energy...must have taken its toll...I used far too much energy, probably more than I actually had..."
Twilight nodded and looked around. "So...all you need is someone else to feed off of?"
"Yes, although in my state, it may have to be two."
"Alright, I'll ask you what happened in the tundra later, right now I want you well rested and healthy, with an actual stable body." She stated as she walked up and allowed him to lean on her side for support. "If you find it easier, why not just travel along as a puddle?"
"I may just do that..." Giving up on wasting energy maintaining a broken form, Symph collapsed into black liquid and followed Twilight out of the room, but not before separating a pice of himself and placing the separate piece up on a shelve. An eye formed on the blob of black goo and I could see through its eye, allowing me to keep an eye on Zerlinda.
As the two were traveling down the large crystal castle, Symph stopped as another flashback came into his mind.
"You may have been created by accident, but you're still a living thing, and I'll accept the responsibility of raising you."
"I don't think it can understand what we're saying, why are you talking to it like it's real?"
"He's as real as he needs to be."
He shook his head, not wanting to be reminded of his first few weeks in existence. While it wasn't unpleasant itself, he was happy with ow he was raised and he had accepted how he was created, didn't mean he was pleased about how he came into existence.
Soon, the two reached the dining area where everyone was gathered for breakfast. "Morning girls, good morning Shining and Spike." Twilight greeted as she moved over to the table.
"Uh...Twily? What is that black goo that's following you?" Shining asked cautiously.
"Oh, that's Symph, my new assistant after Spike moved out to be with Rarity. Speaking of Symph though, do any of you have an objection to temporarily sharing your body with a second soul that will feed off the energy you don't use through the day?" She asked.
Timidly, Fluttetshy raised her hoof. "Um, I'm ok with it, if it's helping someone."
"Thank you Miss Shy." Symph spoke before sliding over to Fluttershy and fusing into her body, suddenly feeling warmer.
Cadence and Shining just stared in shock, close analysis or confusion. "Ohhh, that's actually quite a nice feeling..." Fluttershy moaned when he went into her subconscious and gently sent pleasant energy pulses around the body to pull in the useless energy and feed off of it.
"So...what exactly is he?" Shining asked along with cadence."
"I'll let him explain it." Twilight stated before sighing. "He can better describe things for a moment as..."
Symph completely ignored everything and just relaxed for once. So he continued to gain energy, readying himself for the rest of the day.
Next Chapter: 18) Stating the obvious Estimated time remaining: 6 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Sorry for the wait, my bad, if you see any mistakes let me know and I'll fix them ASAP.
Also, if a few things seem random near the end due to tiredness. Hope you enjoyed anyway.