Diary entry number 61

Back to the present .

I had to go to sleep due to exhaustion, ain't nobody going to be traveling all day and still be capable of staying up all night.

I was pushing it by the time I hit midnight, and when 1 o'clock rolled by I was going in and out of consciousness.

Still don't know where I got the small Fortune from. But I'll have to focus on remembering that after I am done… whatever it is I need to do today.

Forgot to mention what my new traveling companions looked like. I also forgot to mention that I had more than one new traveling companion.

I really need to get better at writing down all the details.

So the one that half scared the soul out of me Was a human female with blue hair flowing in ethereal Breeze that has a strong constant scent of ozone

The other two I didn't mention was a female cat person and another human that was half made out of ice.

From what I have learned today the cat person Is crazy fast and you just had the agility of a cat. What you wouldn't guess is That its magical claws are sharp enough to easily cut someone into a lot of tiny pieces.

Icicle Man is, as far as I know, sentient ice. And is capable of creating the blizzards with a thought of his mind

And the lady with the blue hair… Is a source of unbridled wild Magic. But today is over and I should get back to you remembering what happened 2 months ago when I died. Yes I know, big reveal.

Now be quiet a moment so I can recall what happened.

Diary entry number 62

I woke up with only the passing of time and the familiar feel of motion sickness... And a heavy weight on my chest.

Opening my eyes I was met with a large, like ridiculously large rat sitting on my chest and staring me in the face.

I had thought flash through my head about being hell as I examined this… thing

It was roughly 2 ft tall and weight about 25 lb if I had to guess. It had short yellow fur on the majority of its body and red fur on its cheeks. Now if that's all I had to say you would have thought it was a Pikachu. Too bad it still looks more like a realistic rat with steel teeth. Yes, its teeth were actually made out of steel.

It would look like Pikachu if a realist artist was given a poor description of what a Pikachu looks like.

That being said, the heaviest rat in the world turned and jumped off my chest and left the room I was resting in.

With only this room to go off of I assumed I was brought to a new ship where my wounds were treated and healed a unicorn mage.

Either that or I just was unconscious for long enough for all my wounds to heal completely.

I continued sitting there in my bed trying to make sense of what was going on for a few more minutes.

Before the girl with the magically flowing blue hair walk through the door I could smell the ozone emitting from her. of course the first thing she did was start asking me question without even bothering to let me know what was happening.

My memory of the time was very hazy so I will not be able to accurately describe what happened from that point on.

What I do remember was that they found my rotting corpse on a ship Surrounded by the lack of ambient magic in the world Her and her small party at the time were the only ones that had any idea that is what was happening everyone else just got that unnatural feeling but you usually get when you walk into a building that you know is haunted. It had apparently sustained heavy damage after I had died and pretty much did act like a ghost ship to any sailor that came across it.

The feeling of this is unnatural. something happens that stops them from going back to their own ship.

And then they stumble upon the rotting corpses inside the Captain's Quarters and bored themselves up in the same room like it's a zombie apocalypse or something and be too afraid to leave it before eventually dying one way or another.

The self-proclaimed goddess of chaos Told me that her party found my dead corpse locked in a jail cell on the bottom deck and after a quick investigation with her “ability to see Magic” Found out I was apparently the source of this anti-magic Zone.

The blue-haired self-proclaimed goddess of chaos also claimed that she resurrected me from the dead.

I find myself questioning her logic.

“You used magic to resurrect me from the dead?”

“And I'm admitting a anti-magic field that prevents Magic from being used on me?”

I would have written her off as a compulsive liar if everyone on the ship that was even willing to talk to me, didn't insist that a few days ago that I was a rotting corpse.

I just knew at the time as soon as we reached Whatever we were going that I was going to leave.

It's not like they were putting Shackles On Me. I was allowed to freely roam the ship as I pleased.

I also found out that we were going to Griffinstone.

As soon as the plank hit the dock I left them behind.

I still had to figure out where Sundrop and Amber went after my apparent death.

Diary entry number 63

And that is when the wizard Ice Wizard I was sharing a room with decided to start casting spells.

No seriously he spent the last 5 hours reading a book and then just all of a sudden he freaking encased himself in a Magic Shell and started letting off spells.

I guess he saw me with my cell phone and had a basic understanding of what it was and decided to recreate it with a spell.

What he got was something that looked like an interface in those isaki animes when a person gets trapped in a video game.

And then he started Copying the information from the spell books he had on his person. I don't think he realized I could see the back of his interface.

And seeing as he ruined my already fragile concentration. I'll suppose I'll introduce you to my new travel companions

Sokano, the Barely human cryomancer that just rudely broken my concentration

Katsuya, The blue-haired demigod of Chaos.

and Silken Claws, a cat person with magical claws.

After Sorkano was finished copying all the information from the books he had He left the building.

And woke me back up just before sunrise trying to sneak back in… I'm so tired. I don't even know what is going on.

How am I supposed to stay sane in this world of madness? Maybe I’v actually gone crazy at some point and I'm really just sitting in a padded room and everything I see is just a hallucination?

It would make more sense than being transported to a magical world of ponies just to find out I'm not capable of using the magic… actually now that I've said that out loud I think it's more possible that I'm in hell.

I've always wanted Magic. I've considered and tried everything except selling my own soul to obtain Magic.

Just to find out that me and probably every other human being in my original home dimension repels it.

And to pour Salt in My Wounds I am forced to watch it every day. The thing I wanted most right in front of me where I can see it and know it to be real. but incapable of reaching out and touching it.

And it would only make more sense that I was in Hell seeing as I was supposed to be guaranteed dead twice over by now. and that's not even including the supposed countless close calls.

And probably because I won't remember even writing this down I'll have to elaborate the reason why the close calls are countless is because I can't remember all of them.

The magic I've always wanted is so thick here I can smell it sometimes and it will forever be out of my reach. and even if I who is the one of my remaining bullet to commit suicide I still wouldn't be able to Die.

And I believe I'm slowly losing my memory because I know the truth of this place.

I guess Satan knows that you can't torture a person forever he can remember if he's being tortured.

I bet him letting me keep my phone and even keeping it charged is going to be some form of torture that I haven't conceived yet.

Diary entry number 64

Had a bad and blah blah blah.

I came to a strange realization today after I woke up and everyone gathered around my table that nobody has a… clue what they're doing.

Sundrop and Amber been spending the entire time following me around like lost puppys

And the group number two has been spending this entire time just wandering around Doing whatever comes to their minds like bored extroverted teenagers if Someone gave those teenagers power beyond their own imagination.

*sigh*

What am I supposed to do?

I just want to go home.

Okay so I'm case you forget later we're supposed to be going to Celestia and Luna and seeing if they can send us home.

Do take note that there is apparently a large bounty on our heads likely placed on us by Running Gambit after we destroyed half his operation by accident.

Katsuya and Silken Claus have a big bounty on their heads after the destruction of Griffinstone.

Keeping that in mind we have to gather information and figure out what… in Tartarus is going on in this world.

Double check that Celestia wasn't the one that placed a bounty on my head, figure out exactly what happened to Griffin Stone, And find out why Katsuya is even more racist than everyone I've met.

Not only does she not like the ponies but she's paranoid and thinks all of them are against her.

I know this is probably a toxic environment that will probably get me killed… again.

But I can't let powerful magic users like this Wonder around with no Direction That would only make things worse for me down the line.

Now I just got to figure out where everyone wandered off to.

Diary entry number 65

It's okay they didn't do anything that drastic.

all they did was make a maid Cafe

So another quick recap in case you forget.

What group 2 has been doing, and because I know you have a short attention span I'm going to make it short.

They started off in a place called our town Only causing minor chaos Intel a wild magic Surge from lady chaos summoned a second moon into the sky.

a few more Misadventures before they made their way they Griffin Stone Found and apparently corrupted a flock of cuccos with a pit fiend that they found And after being attacked by mechanical ballistas with a Dragon theme I accidentally destroyed the front gates to Tartarus Which is what the wars that happened 20 years ago was. Or at least that's what the running theory is

Saying that they can't figure out what happened because they were in a chaos magic quarantine Zone where they met an ungodly powerful skeleton wearing a duster coat Started throwing them through time.

The reason why they were in a quarantine zone is because lady chaos decided to teleport to the most powerful force of chaotic Magic on the planet.

The skeleton teleported them to Canterlot as a massive horde of demons from the Tartarus was attacking it and that's when Twilight Sparkle died.

And for obvious reasons made Celestia and Luna go into a rage which is why the party now has the largest bounties of the world on their head as Luna and Celestia are reinstating the lunar knights and Celestial Berserkers in kind.

Silken Claus suspects that some of Celestia's greatest enemies have escaped from Tartarus when the gates were destroyed.

So now we have a Beholder, an Undead dragon and a mind flair and a few others on the chessboard.

In case you forgot.

A Beholder is a very intelligent floating ball of Flesh covered in eyestocks capable of casting powerful spells in any direction. What's their most known for is being able to petrify someone just by looking at them.

A mind flare is a small Cthulhu look alike With powerful psionic abilities.

And you already know what a dragon looks like.

It's just that this one is a Lich. So… yeah.

*sigh*

Have to go find out what Sundrop wants And why everyone in the other room won't go to sleep.

Update; Amber is asleep and I don't know where Katsuya and Silken Claus went.

Update; Amber's awake and told me to help.

Katsuya was drunk, naked, missing an arm, and screaming at a sack of potatoes. We had to tie her down to a bed and gag her. And before you go and say something along the lines of that's wrong or that's not right. you got to remember she's a powerful magic user chosen not to cast a spell to escape from her binding.

I still don't know where Silken Claus went.

Another update; I have just learned I am the oldest person here

Can't be guaranteed on specific next but I do believe I'm 26 years of age followed up by Sundrop at 20 Silky ”Silken claws” at 18. Sorcano and Amber at 16. And Katsuya the all powerful goddess of chaos Is roughly 6 months old

I think I'm going to develop a constant headache with all this stress.

Diary entry number 65

Silky just teleported back into her room at sunrise.

And trying to avoid a headache I decided to ignore it and get along with my life.

Gathering up all the girls of the group I noticed that Sorcano was also missing.

And at the time I was like yeah he's an all-powerful wizard, he'll be fine. And what happened next didn't really give me a chance to regret that.

Thinking better of it I did not let the chaos God handle buying resources like food and seasoning.

So I went out to do it myself and I assumed that Amber and Sundrop didn't want to be left alone with strangers so they decided to follow me. End the three of us walked out of the tavern Into a nice cloudy day that was easy on my eyes. Thinking back on it. The last time they left me alone was when I died so there's that.

And I can tell that sondrop has been mulling it over in her mind that I could possibly be a changeling.

Me “Wondering if I'm the real me?”

Amber Angrily “Of course we are! it's kind of hard to fake a rotting corpse! We waited on that ship trying to take care of your lifeless body for a week!”

Sundrop ”then again it is kind of hard to fake that unnatural presence of not belonging.”

Amber calming down “that's true I suppose. there's nothing else in this world that feels like you.”

Me “Feels like me?”

Sundrop “For me it feels like I'm standing in the presence of something for something that isn't from here. and not just your appearance the feeling hasn't stopped doing that since I first saw you up close”

Amber “For me it feels like I'm in the presence of something that isn't supposed to be. Just being near you makes me feel weaker.”

Me “And I've always felt like this to you?”

Amber “Why do you think I freaked out so much when we first met?”

After that the two of them just idly chatted to each other as I went about the business of gathering travel rations.

About 10 minutes later is when lightning started striking a portion of the city repeatedly.

Roughly 15 times in the same exact spot and I immediately knew the idiot goddess was being hunted for the bounty on her head.

Dropping what I was doing I beginning to Russian that direction before I felt a tingling sensation all over my body. We had made it halfway down the alley by the time that started and I told Sundrop 2 ram in the nearest door before we took cover. even as I was shoving my fingers in my ears to lessen the sound of lightning striking my position The sound drove me half deaf and I'm pretty sure if I was outside I'd be blind permanently.

But due to the combination of my sunglasses and being inside I got away with just having a big dark space in the center of my vision. Sundrop seem to have handled it a bit better than I did. Probably something to do with Dragons being loud and bright sometimes naturally. And Amber had the worst of it.

Her and her big ass eyes were looking straight out the door what her ears uncovered when It touched down. She was crying loudly and stumbling all over the place covering her bleeding ears and bumping into everything. 15 more bolts of lightning came down making the buildings surrounding us collapse because of the ground quaking. Luckily we were in the corner of the first floor at a stone building. Didn't stop the door we came through from collapsing but that didn't stop Sundrop’s draconic strength when we left. when it was over I got up and walked over to Amber like I just had a flashbang go off in my face and try to calm her down. Couple minutes later Sundrop finished clearing the door as I started leading the now blind Amber out of it.

I saw Sundrop trying to ask me a question about the only thing I could hear was a ringing in my ears.

I just just referred to fall on me as I half blindly stumble toward the source of the destruction just to stop myself 10 ft Later knowing something was wrong with the ground but not being able to see clearly.

Amber, who I let go of kept going and walked right onto the ground that had the wrong color.

She started flailing and backing up, tripping over something and landing on her backside and started screaming.

Sundrop quickly rushed over and pulled her back over to where I was standing.

And that's when I knew what was going on.

The ground in front of me was so hot that it slowly progressed into molten rock the further it went.

Only partially lucky for Amber she hadn't gotten that far and only burnt her hooves and set her plot on fire.

And Sundrop did what she could. I searched the area in front of me. I did eventually find what I was looking for but it wasn't made any easier dude to the black doorway in the center of my vision.

A little ways through a small Lake of molten lava there was a little rectangular Island of normal cobblestone That was slowly descending off the side of the bridge. I had to quickly get Sundrop's attention and point out the two small figures on the sinking Land.

After squinting and spotting what I was pointing out she starts walking across the melted cobblestone and I realize she intended to carry them through that heat that even my half-blind eyes can see.

I had to call her back and tell her to fly them over or around the Heat and that they weren't dragons.

Taking a quick break as Sundrop goes to fetch Katsuya and Silky I will now explain that even though I was deaf I could still feel the vibrations of my voice running through my jaw. and though it may not make a perfect speech should be able to get close enough for anyone listening to understand *Accuracy of speech May deteriorate with time*

Sundrop got back with silky with a few large gashes in her arms, chest and shoulders. The scales that were supposed to be protecting her cut clean through.

Double checking to make sure she was actually calm I pulled her onto my back knowing that Amber won't want to carry herself let alone anyone else.

Though I wasn't exactly expecting to be pet like a cat.

It seems like Silky's mind was still unstable being in the center of all that.

After Sundrop got back carrying Katsuya we quickly made our way away from the crime scene with Amber and Silky being carried. *I don't think I could put her down at this point if I tried*

And Katsuya holding onto Sundrop's tail trying not to trip.

We made our way back to the tavern.

I still had shopping that needed to be done though.

so leaving Sundrop behind to bandage her own wounds and watch over the three blind and deaf people I went out to finish the shopping.

After silky and Katsuya woke up the next day they cast healing spells on themselves before healing everyone else and we got ready to leave.

Didn't stop me thinking about some cheap-ass bulshit being able to reverse the damage they cause in a manner of moments.

The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

But hay, don't kick a gift horse.

At least I'm able to see normally.

Diary entry number 66

So yeah… as we were trying to leave the tavern, the goat that caused Katsuya to glass a block of the town yesterday walked in the front door and started slinging spells at us.

He threw a bunch of teeth on the ground and summoned the bunch of zombies. *five to be exact* And Sundrop Amber and I were already leaving by the time the white obviously poison mist started jetting from his outstretched hooves.

We followed the bartender, who was the only other person in the bar at the time out a back door.

I stopped and turned around to watch Katsuya use her magic to create a gust of wind that blasted the poison out the front door. Silky stood upon one of the tables and started cutting off heads.

Half the battle was already over by the time the goat Started casting spells again.

which were immediately made useless by the fact that he was apparently standing in an invisible box as the fireball spell went off in his face and the smoke of it showed everyone that the box was there.

After the smoke cleared And silky finished off the zombies. He stood there with a blank look on his face for a moment before the flash of a teleportation spell took him somewhere unknown

I'd say the whole battle lasted about 30 seconds

Diary entry number 67

A few days later I found a job that would take us further west toward Equestria.

something about a cave being infested by monsters nothing these powerhouses that I'm traveling with can't handle.

I just wish they were a bit more intelligent and stopped relying on me to lead.

Because I have no idea what I'm doing.

I mean seriously I feel like I was chosen to be the leader of a group of children just because I was the oldest.

Despite the fact that I am one of the children.

I don't even have beyond a third grade education.

Anyways…

it was going as well as I expected. The train we were supposed to protect past the point was stopped By a band of monsters just like I thought it was going to. I almost got my head chopped off by a 200 lb ax but Sundrop was there with me so I was fine. might have to do personal therapy sessions with Amber later.

After we sure we rested a while we continued on into what looks like a freshly built D&D dungeon Like the place smelled like it was brand new.

I don't know what a dungeon was supposed to smell like but I didn't think it was supposed to be pleasant. also the smell was as unique as the fresh car smell so good luck trying to describe it to anyone…

Actually I think I might be able to,

So unlike freshly cut wood like a normal construction site the place Smelled like freshly broken granite with a lingering after stent of an unoiled sharpening stone, soo Metallic dust.

Despite Being a dungeon there was a distinct lack of monsters.

I'm not saying they were non-existent but they were so far and few between you could almost call the place abandoned.

I told everyone that I didn't like it mostly because of the bad feeling I got about this place.

and as you always know whenever there's a bad feeling… especially if the bad feeling doesn't go away that bad times are to be had.

but then I figured it out.

If this was a construction site that means everyone's going to be where all the construction is. Everything here seems to be done so all the other people are probably further in the dungeon carving out the stone and building walls.

Take that paranoia. We may have been on the verge of death ever since we woke up in that field, but it's not without logic.

Either way we eventually found our way to someplace that looks like a break room. A large fire in the center of the room and various bits of furniture to rest upon scattered throughout the room. Large purple drapes used to hang from the ceiling But they were torn down and shoved into magic bags.

Multiple times in the past Sorkano and Katsuya both said that they don't sleep. But after everyone settled down they all fell asleep, even the weird ice zombie Sorkano made from that dead Griffin.

I guess I'll take the first watch same as we're in the middle of a dangerous dungeon and everyone else is apparently exhausted.

Diary entry number 68 please stop with that feces already. I can't even look at the number anymore without wondering what is wrong with Humanity.

I had a bad dream. the first real dream that actually made me afraid in a long time.

Before you ask, no I wasn't afraid the multiple times I was looking death in the face.

I was more afraid that this dream was actually my reality… again. I mean it's not the first time I fell asleep and woke up somewhere else.

I was afraid I wouldn't wake up.

I was alone again. there weren't even friendly-looking faces to pretend to be there with me this time.

It was just me and the dark I was in there for so long, I counted, I kept track of the time 1 second at a time. For the first ten years I wandered. For two hundred years I beat my fists and body against the only solid object that I could find which was the ground I stood upon. I thought even thoughThe stone was hard that I could eventually where through it. Though I couldn't see, I knew the smooth marble beneath my feet was black.

but even after all that time I failed to even Erode the surface even slightly. For The next 430 years I did everything I could think of to keep my mind in one piece and keep hope and stay determined.

Year 680 something The only thing left I could think of was to sit and wait.

Another 320 years past As I slowly…

And I don't remember what happened. The only thing I was aware of was slowly counting the seconds that they ticked by one… second… at… a… time. That and the feeling of pointlessness.

Like what was even the point of struggling if all it did was make me tired. But I was in years of struggling and for what? What exactly have I accomplished? absolutely nothing.

All those times I lost hope just to force myself to take it back. All the times I lay there getting ready to give up just remember one of the many Heroes that never gave up.

Every time my determination wavered, every time in the past I wondered what the point was.

And every time I shoved those thoughts aside and stood back up. every time I was pushed down I got back up again.

…

For a thousand years

All in all nothing really changed. not the floor I stood on. not the darkness that surrounded me. Not even my mind that constantly put me back together after I fell apart.

I stopped keeping track after a thousand years.

Sometimes I would think of something new to try. Sometimes those new things to try were just something that I forgot that I already did.

Diary entry number sixty… ugh please stop with that feces already. I can't even look at the number anymore without wondering what is wrong with Humanity.

When I finally woke up from that dream I was slowly being crushed by Amber who is slowly rocking back and forth Who is very clearly panicking.

Taking in my surroundings I saw Sundrop a couple dozen feet away fighting off armored figures by herself.

I assume the others or somewhere else in the dungeon doing whatever is making all that racket.

Wheezing a little bit I reach up and touch a face trying to get her attention ”Amber please let me go”

She didn't respond.

“Amber you're crushing me”

She still didn't respond.

“Amber if you don't take care of my fragile body your going to be holding a corpse”

That seemed to get her attention if only barely, and loosened her grip

Not loose enough to escape being held like the doll of a scared girl but at least my ribs weren't in danger of cracking.

So I just continued sitting there watching Sundrop fight.

Now I'm only assuming this but her scales are a lot harder than they were last time I updated You about them. I mean seriously one of these guys tried to chop off her arm with a great Ax and it glanced off her shoulder like he was trying to cut into a rock.

So I'm guessing that eating gemstones is what makes equestrian dragon's scale so impenetrable.

It was hard to tell at the time But later at closer Inspection her scales hadn't gone from being like a snake, smooth and relatively flat to what a dragon scales should ought to look like. Small but thick overlapping plates.

Maybe like a shark's skin when seen through a microscope.

If you're reading this thing you probably forgot that sharks are practically armored with their own microscopic teeth.

I suppose if you can make rows of overlapping predators teeth look good then that's what I was probably looking at. Now that I'm actually looking at it it seems that Sundrop has gotten really strong when I wasn't paying attention. Even as I'm sitting here doing my inner monologue she's clawing and biting through heavily Enchanted armor as if it was made out of aluminum cans.

After the battle was over and Sundrop told us it was time to go, Amber stood up and didn't let me go as she continued to walk on three legs and held me around the neck with her left foreleg. And dragged me across the ground as she walked forward.

The others showed up as we were exiting the room being chased down by a horde of goblins and I understood why Amber was having a panic attack.

I'm assuming by some sort of spell they had all Caught a fictional disease I heard about from a zombie game. The disease was called blood plague because those who were inflicted with it had all their blood slowly come out through the pores of their skin completely covering them and everything they touched with blood. And with how many goblins there were, it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that the lower portions of the dungeon had a slowly Rising Lake of blood.

Diary entry number 70.

Still being carried by the neck like an unconscious ragdoll we all headed for the exit With the entrance collapsing behind us.

I think everyone was still in a little bit of shock after that. Not that we were really given much time to recover mentally.

as we traveled to back to… the gigantic Bridge City to turn in our Quest.

And there was so much going on end these people's minds that I'm not going to bother trying to write it all down so I'm going to give you a summary.

Amber had enough adventure to last her a lifetime so she decided to stay here and try to make a normal life. And if her dad ever came to come get her she probably would just let him.

I didn't like hearing that but it's not like I could have done much to change her mental state at that point. at least you didn't seem like she was going end her own life.

As for our 3 powerhouses. sorkano decided to go traveling looking for Something that he called the power shards And before he left he told me that the planet I'm standing on and the little solar system around it are outside of the existing universe.

Silken claws Joined up to a caravan guard before disappearing completely, not that I was keeping track.

And Katsuya Feeling useless after not being able to accomplish something that she refuses to elaborate on went into obscurity. I still hear about her sometimes through the gossip Network of something that completely boggles the minds Of everyone who listens to it.

from what I got out of it she's just become a nuisance to any sort of authority figure. One of the latest rumors I heard was that she had summoned a cat God that could cleave through trees with her bear claws to obliterate a small army.

I've been here for a month and the only one that is still here is Sundrop. We've been living off of all the money we've earned just sitting around basically twiddling our thumbs. I would like to say that I was trying to recover my mental state but who knows definitely isn't me.

And every time I say we need to start moving again Sundrop gives some sort of excuse or objection to keep me here sitting on my ass. She seems to think that I'm not alright in the head

Diary entry number 71

I've stopped bothering trying to keep track of the days.

But predictably we started running out of money cuz we haven't exactly been working. After the first escape attempt Sundrop didn't really let me out of her sight and because of that hasn't exactly been looking for a job we still had About a weeks amount of cash and She went to go on a kill quest for somebody to make a bit more cash and told one of the tavern employees to watch me like she thought I was a mentally handicapped child.

When she got back she found me just wandering the streets snacking on some stall food that I bought. She was upset but didn't blame me for some reason and carrying me like a precious doll

She went back to the inn and I thought she was going to kill the person that was supposed to be watching over me.

I mean I couldn't really blame the guy he has a real job to do and got bored of sitting there watching me pretend to sleep all day and decided to start cleaning my room And when he was trying to clean a particularly stubborn corner between the wall and a bookshelf *Yeah I know normal taverns don't have a bookshelf so I guess I was staying in some sort of Luxury Inn* and that's when I decided to slip from underneath the covers and jump out the window onto the roof before carefully making my way down a poorly stacked pile of boxes.

I kind of had fun though stumbled into a small impromptu Festival in a back alley somewhere I think it was the anniversary of a shop or something.

I went in and browsed one of the shops for a little while before saying what else the Bridge City had to offer.

Got a little bit of a reality check when somebody tried to mug me though.

I pretended to be a zombie and it surprisingly worked.

around that time is when I realized I hadn't really showered in over a month.

I went and found some public bathhouse and after paying a small fee, I relaxed there for about half an hour.

After that I visited a barber to get my beard trimmed and taking care of. I suppose I forgot to mention that during the course of all this adventure I've been having I haven't actually had access to a razor and have developed a thick red beard that's about 2 in Long.

Yeah I know I have brown hair on the top of my head and red hair on my face.

I tend not to think about it too much because it's genetics and it's always been that way

It was a little bit costly but I managed to get a replacement for my now very tattered clothes. they couldn't replicate the underwear and it was basically rendered a Biohazard by most people's standards and seeing as people don't normally wear underwear on the first place I guess I'm going commando underneath my new pair of pants.

All of it had to be custom made, depleting our money from about a week to a couple of days.

I then found some tasty snack that I can't really remember before Sundrop found me in the street around 5 by Earth Standard Time.

She just kind of landed right in front of me before staring disappointedly at me for a moment before getting angry and just scooping me up without a word and flying back to the tavern.

probably a good thing too because I wasn't exactly trying to remember where I was going and was likely already lost. another reason why not to like the city

But yeah this poor Ortho knee was cowering in a corner as this angry dragon was lecturing him so fiercely little bouts of flame were coming out of her mouth at times.

I did finally learn what a consort was though or whatever it is that Sundrop wanted to become or wasn't me I don't remember.

Either way I think I stopped becoming the main leader of our group of 2 and become more of the dragons favorite gem in her hoard of gold.

So I guess her treating me like a delicate gemstone is her way of coping with what ever happened a few months ago.

Kind of wish I had the psychological know how to have helped everyone though.

I heard Amber's dad… oh yeah okay I remember yeah running Gambit came to come visit me after tracking me down again and was going to kill me before realizing a wasn't here anymore.

there was a brief standoff between Sundrop and Gambit’s small army of lackeys.

Before I a managed to negotiate or just tell him not negotiate that Amber already figured out how dangerous being an adventurer was and was living peacefully somewhere else in the city so I'm just assuming that he went to go find her and bring her home because I never got any more news about the subject.

Diary entry number 72

I'm so tired all the time I think I've developed permanent dark circles under my eyes even though I've gotten more than enough sleep. It's been a few days since my last post.

and because of my idiotic actions the only reason why we're not sleeping in the streets is because Amber… is because Sundrop was taking those kill quests.

The quality of our in had gone down though, no more bookshelves full of books that I wasn't going to read.

and I thought books were supposed to be some sort of Rich commodity. Talking about reading them I couldn't have read them even if I wanted to. I never learned the equestrian alphabet.

Hell I can barely spell English at the time *A bit of an exaggeration but not exactly false*

I think I remember already telling you that I was using the voice to text just to be able to keep up with the writing speed so I don't have to spend all night trying to get it all… Onto the thing in front of me.

Yeah I know it's called a phone. My brain was just farting for a moment and I didn't feel like going back and editing it.

Diary entry number 73

Escaping the clutches of my temporary guardians has become a little bit of a game.

I already know that Sundrop won't hurt them so long as i'm unharmed by the time I'm found.

But I got to talk to Amber today.

After a long conversation turns out by the time our father had found her she was already working as a first mate on one of her father's trade ships going From here to Rosedale making stops along the way of course .

The ship I had died on has become sort of an Old Fisherman's tale at this point and has become some sort of bad omen for anyone who sees it.

According to some crate they found floating in the ocean full of research papers.

After being absent from Ambient background magic for so long. By the time whatever was keeping the magic away had worn out The magic had flooded into the thing had become Powerful magical artifact and because of all the Excess power it has all the wildlife and the immediate area are drawn to it .

End because this world is full of mythical creatures there are quite a few sea monsters around the thing.

And I guess the magic of the world was influenced by the constant rumors so it has become an actual ghost ship sometimes replaying the events that happened on it.

Tho I'm represented as a black massless shape.

Diary entry number 73

I woke up today.

like I actually woke up from this elaborate dream I've been having.

The first thing I saw was obviously some sort of medical facility of some kind.

Who am I kidding I woke up in a f****** padded cell with a restraining jacket on me.

Sitting here thinking logically about it, it was probably while I was living in this fantasy world where I had to defend my own life. My body in the real world was still moving about.

And I probably shot someone if they hadn't gotten to me 1st that is.

If it's anything like the media says then I'll have an opportunity to ask my questions and probably have them ignored by people who give me a sedative on a regular basis.

Though it's a miracle I'm inside of some sort of mental facility instead of laying in my grave somewhere.

For all I know I was running around the streets firing off my gun randomly.

And it would have taken an extremely observant officer not to have shot me on site.

But yeah questions similar to this are what's going through my head as I sit here against a wall that looks like a mattress was stapled to it with none of my belongings on my person.

But I was brown 10 Mi away from the nearest civilization “and that's in a straight line”

so likely they picked me up in the middle of the woods after I killed some poor Farmers cattle.

…Actually? thinking about it I think I know roughly when I arrived in the hospital and when I was transported to this facility.

There is a decent sized River not that far from the house I probably tripped and fell into it somewhere or had my boat turn over after I stole it from somebody and some kind soul saw me in the water probably unconscious and took me to the nearest hospital which would have been at a place called You don't need to know ville.

And as it was part of my dream I'd likely just got up and walked out when nobody was looking.

Everything after that is up to interpretation though.

Diary entry number 74

as predicted at some point A few medical personnel came in to give me my daily dose of sedatives.

Seems I must have been quite the stubborn patient I acknowledged when they went to ready to wrestle somebody to the ground to relaxed when they saw me just sitting there.

They didn't let their guard down and were still wary of me but were shocked and maybe a little pleasantly surprised to find out I was conscious.

I like to personally think that for a brief moment they wondered if they were in the right room or if I had somehow escaped and replaced myself with some innocent staff member.

Not likely though there aren't very many people in their twenties with dark circles under their eyes and just so happen to have a hairline similar to someone in their 50s with brown hair and a very red beard similar to a Viking.

I guess I've been here for a while.

I think it must have been the drugs they've been giving me cuz I can't clearly remember what happened between them approaching my side and them leaving my room.

I don't know if they used the drugs that I brought with them or if they let me sit here and remained conscious as they went to go fetch the doctor. Who came to visit me in my cell.

Diary entry number 75

I feel bad for that doctor that had his hopes come up just to find out his patient had gone back into the dream world as I woke up in that Tavern again as I waited for his slow ass.

I woke up in the tavern with a Brown unicorn. With a short black curly mane wearing what looks like to be Silk bathrobes shaking me awake.

As soon as I had woken he started peppering me with questions about what I am and how I had such a unique energy signature etc etc.

I ain't about to answer the questions of a crazy pony.

Me ”Who the f*** are you and what are you going on about?”

Crazy pony “Oh yes of course I need to introduce myself. I am archwizard Hawthorne. And I graduated Celestia's School for gifted unicorns with flying colors and I just need to know. What are you?”

Me “...I'm an anti-magic interdimensional extraterrestrial. Is that good enough for you?”

Crazy Pony “Fascinating.”

He looked like he was going to say more before his ears raised up and he rushed out of the open window before Sundrop kicked the door in. She saw the back end of Hawthorne jumping out of the Second Story window before rushing toward the window and yelling.

Sundrop “AND IF YOU COME BACK I'M GOING TO BITE OFF YOUR HEAD AND EAT IT!!!”

She looked at me for a brief moment before speaking in a softer voice.

Sundrop “Yeah we're going to leave town and go somewhere where people won't bother you anymore”

Me “how long have I been asleep”

Sundrop “about 4 and a half days”

Me “and here I thought I was just a few hours”

Sundrop “either way I'm going to get you out of this place, I finally finally found a good place to stay safe from prying eyes.”

Me “Okay.”

Come to find out Mr Hawthorne has been Trying to get to me for the last half of week and this is the first time he braved the dragon's maw to get to me.

I did find out that Sundrop has been looking for a more secluded place for us to stay even before Hawthorne decided to start his escapades.

And his persistence only made her double down on her efforts.

I have a distinct feeling that this is not the last time I'm going to be seeing him.

Diary entry number 76

Okay it's been another few weeks and yes I know it's been awhile.

Don't worry I'll fill you in.

It only took a few hours to fly out of the city and to the spot that Sundrop found.

And what do you know? It's a cave in the side of a mountain.

Me as I walk into the k for the first time: very homey.

Sundrop: I only just found this place and don't even get me started on the territory disputes.

Me: territory disputes? out here in the middle of the wilderness?

Sundrop: The top races aren't the only ones who own land. The tribal folk and the more intelligent animals around here fight over land all the time out here.

Me thinking out loud to myself: I wonder if that's why the creatures of the everfree keep attacking Ponyville.

Sundrop ignores my last comment and puts the last of our stuff down.

Most of its food that she spent the last of our Bits on.

Me: so what do we do now *peering deeper into the cave* This Place obviously isn't a mineshaft. I can see the back wall.

Sundrop: You stay here and recover from whatever that black goo that is in your head and I'll stay here and protect you.

Me: Wait what? What black goo?

Sundrop: Okay so it wasn't a black goo more of a mist but after all of we fell asleep in that place full of bleeding monstrosities Before we were all attacked you wouldn't wake up and those magic users had to dive into your mind or something to snap you out of it.

and when they did some black shapeless mass came out of your head and body the ice boy tried to suck it up and do some sort of gym but I guess it wasn't strong enough because it didn't work.

Me: …Well s***. perhaps I've been possessed by the nightmare of Miss moon but.

Sundrop: who?

Me: don't worry about it.

Sundrop: I really think I should because I don't think that black mist is in any way healthy.

Me: do you think it's because I don't eat my vegetables?

Sundrop: what?

At this point I'm trying very hard to make a straight face and I'm not doing very well.

Me: Maybe it's those beans I've eaten last week.

Sundrop: what do beans have anything to do with this?

me: you know… beans beans The Musical Fruit the more you eat the more you toot (no I'm not that old but you can blame my parents)

You said you saw some black gas coming out of me so maybe it was just a really bad fart.

Sundrop: you really do need to take this seriously you're possessed by a demon or something.

Nightmare Moon: yeah you should really listen to her.

me out loud: oh what do you know moon butt. Far as I know you're just going to try to turn me into some comic super villain or something.

oh look at me I'm going to poison some Lake somewhere or something. or how about this I'll go block out the Sun. maybe I'll just steal all the nails in the world with a giant magnet.

this is the point in time where I realize Sundrop was just staring at me talking to myself.

me: oh right I'm guessing that Sundrop can't hear you?

Nightmare Moon: that is correct.

Me: what? no ye oldies speak?

Nightmare Moon. or should I just call them nightmare?: that accent was all Luna and being stuck in seclusion for over a thousand years.

me: then why do you still sound like Luna? if you're supposed to be Shadow me or something aren't you supposed to sound like me?

Nightmare: old habits die hard.

Me: what do you mean by that?

nightmare: use somebody else's voice for over a thousand years and then try speaking in somebody else's voice.

Me: Well if that's the case then you should also have the accent.

Nightmare: I've been in your head long enough to develop your accent.

Me: I have an accent?

Nightmare: you know better than that

Sundrop: who the f*** are you talking to?

Me: the black mist in my head.

Sundrop: Wait, it's talking to you?

Me: yeah and lucky for me it's not some random demon from who knows where I actually know this one.

Sundrop: *visible confusion*

Me: Everybody knows the story of Nightmare Moon right?

With a barely visible nod. or maybe she just didn't not at all and I'm imagining things. she acknowledged.

Me: So I don't know if she was possessed or if she's straight up made it but after that whole debacle she left behind a demon that was stripped from her body by The Elements of Harmony. you think something like The Elements of Harmony would kill the demon or erase it from existence or something like that. but there has to be a balance between Good and Evil. and of demons didn't exist to persuade people to be evil then the word evil wouldn't even exist and every negative act that did exist would be nothing more than misunderstandings and accidents.

Demons like the nightmare are the invisible forces that whisper in the people's ears… well not literally their ears more like poke and prod their mind and convince people those evil thoughts belong to them as well as convince people that they are not evil thoughts.

Nightmare: I'm starting to think you are trap designed specifically for me

Me: Oh be quiet you big mass magical dark energy

Nightmare: No I'm being serious that entire dungeon was a mass of magical arrays and circles designed to Force me to Celestia's head.

You ruin the last 20 years of careful planning Just by sitting in the wrong spot.

why did you choose that spot anyway? you could have stat anywhere else And all it would have been was a minor setback for me but nOo You and this anti-magic bulshit aura that you have about yourself had to sit in the very specific spot that caused a chain reaction that yanked me from my meeting and activated the incomplete spell Matrix and forced me inside of your head.

and now I'm stuck in here.

And if you didn't have so many freaking mental problems then I would have just bounced off of you but nOo you had to be so f***** up in the skull that it practically opened up and sucked me in.

And now your anti-magic bones are keeping me from escaping.

Sundrop: are you even paying attention to me!

Me: oh sorry Miss Moony had a lot to say.

Sundrop: go figure. to summarize what I just said I was wondering how the f*** do we deal with a demon.

Me: the f*** if I know demons are a myth back on Earth.

Sundrop: oh that's great if… wait… if there are a mess then how do you know so much about them?

me: compromised history and a lot of fantasy

Sundrop: How in the world did your history get compromised?

Me: have you ever had anything equivalent to the Dark Ages?

Sundrop: what are the Dark Ages?

me: basically a time when Humanity collectively went into a dark mental headspace and decided to burn most of the books in the world.

I sat there and thought about that for a moment and apparently nightmare could see into my mind as we both burst out laughing at the thought of how Twilight would react

Sundrop: What are you laughing at?

I'm still laughing too hard at this point to give her a response and even sit down before I fall down onto the hard Cavern floor. ( if I'm going to be staying here I'm probably going to have to get a carpet or something… and a broom)

Diary entry number 77

Has been a few weeks and with how busy I've been I kind of forgot to keep my diary updated.

But yeah for the most part I'm not really allowed to leave the proximity of the cave.

I mean I tried a few times and gave Sundrop a heart attack.

I guess it didn't help the last two times that she didn't keep a close eye on me that I got to see the hand of the Grim Reaper.

When I fell down that waterfall and then when I died on that ship. yeah she blames herself for that one.

But yeah I went out for a stroll and 1 time I found a small village.

she kind of burned it down looking for me though and that's why I decided to stop worrying her.

I did get a few rugs and some furniture for the cave though.

Which is good because I'm not even really allowed outside of 1000 ft from the cave entrance.

The place still needs better ventilation though.

Every time we set up a campfire smoke covers the ceiling, “maybe I can get a wood stove and some sort of Chimney to pipe the smoke out”

Nightmare still constantly tries to take over even after she learned but I have years of experience of dealing with intrusive dark thoughts.

At this point I'm pretty sure it's just routine for her while she waits for a perfect opportunity and that I doubt will ever come.

Or maybe she's just waiting for me to die so she can possess Sundrop.

I don't think that plan will work very well either, seeing as last time I died the anti-magic energy she keeps complaining about never went away.

I remember seeing a video of the idea of people dying but never actually leaving their body.

And the poor soul inside screaming as the mortician closed their eyes one last time.

Either way I don't think I'm going anywhere anytime soon. maybe I'll just live the rest of my days in this cave as Sundrop watches me grow old before her very eyes as my inevitable death consumes me

Or at least until I somehow recover from whatever mental disease is trapping me in this Fantasy Land.

Until then goodbye diary I will not be writing any more because nothing will be worth writing about

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