//------------------------------// // The sixth prophecy-uncovered // Story: Truths of a prophecy // by Cookiedash //------------------------------// The group had left the clearing about an hour ago. They had no clue where they were, nor did they have any idea on how to get back. It was beginning to get dark and they needed to stop and rest somewhere. Soon enough, they came to a fork in the little path they had been following. Twilight suggested they stop there, and in the morning they can follow one of the paths. So, they all set up their sleeping bags and settled down for the night. Paul volunteered to take the first watch, and everypony else went to sleep. When everypony woke up, they noticed that Paul had stayed on watch all night, deciding not to wake them up. "Twilight, which way do we go?" Rainbow Dash asked "Hmm, I don't know, what do you think? I mean, aren't pegasi supposed to have amazing navigation skills?" "Yeh, but you can't see the clearing from the sky and after going through the mist, neither me or Fluttershy can tell which way is north and which way is south." "I-I'm sorry Twilight." Fluttershy mumbled "Nono, it's ok. So, who thinks we should go left?" Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack put their hooves up, "And who thinks we should go right?" Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Paul put their hooves(and paw) up, "Right, ok, excluding me, it's fifty fifty. Ok, well, how about this, I'll take Fluttershy, Rarity and Applejack left, while you three go right. We'll go about, 700 yards, or until we reach the end of the path, then we'll come back. If we encounter any danger we will come back. Does that sound alright?" Everypony agreed, and they all went down their designated paths. About 500 yards into the trip, Twilight's group came to a cave. The cave was quite roomy and the floor was coated in soft red sand. It was dark in the cave and Twilight had to cast an illumination spell to see where they were going. Engraved into the cave wall(Twilight was getting sick of everything being engraved onto something), was, something. Presumably another prophecy. It was written in Pegalatin, and, unfortunately, it was one of the few pony languages Twilight couldn't understand. But twilight was sure that every pegasus, like every Unicorn learned Unirish and every earth pony learned ancient Equestrian, learned Pegalatin in school. And they happened to have a pegasus right with them. "Hey, Fluttershy. Can you read this?" "Oh, umm, I'm sorry Twilight. I can't. I never actually listened in languages class. I'm sorry, was I meant to? I'm sorry, me and Rainbow Dash would just talk throughout the lesson, it never interested us." Everypony else's jaws dropped to the ground. "A'm sorry Flutters, but, did ya jus' say that ya never listened in class?" Applejack asked "Y-yes, I'm sorry Applejack." Applejack looked faint, Rarity did faint. "Great, just great, we need to translate something from Pegalatin and the two ponies who are supposed to know it, don't!" "Umm, well, actually, Rainbow Dash does know Pegalatin." "But, you just said that neither of you listened in languages class." "Yes, but, umm, Rainbow Dash was, umm, like a sponge when she was a filly, she'd pick up stuff even if she wasn't paying attention in lesson, in fact, that was exactly how she learned, by not paying any attention. It was because of this odd way she learned, that she never got told off for sleeping in class. As well as her being the smartest pony in Flight camp." Applejack and Rarity had just recovered from their initial shock and now, their jaws dropped again. "WHAT!" Rarity fainted again "Rainbow wus th' smartest pony in Flight camp??!!" "Oh, umm yes. Please don't tell her I told you that. I promised her I would never tell anypony. She never did like being the 'biggest egghead in the camp', as she would say." When the group returned, they found that the others had already come back and were waiting for them. "Did you find anything?" Twilight asked Rainbow Dash "Yeh, we found the way back to the clearing. It's a different part though, can't see any buildings. Did you find anything?" "Yeh, we found a cave and we think we found another prophecy, we need you to translate it though." "Why?" "Because it's written in Pegalatin." "Oh. Well, ok, let's go then." When they got to the cave, Twilight prepared to use her illumination spell again, but, she found that she didn't need to, She was confused at first, the cave had lit up on it's own. Then she followed where the light had come from, what she found shocked her. Rainbow's mane was glowing! Everypony stared at her in confusion for a few seconds before Rainbow got uncomfortable. "Uhmm, why is everypony staring at me? I mean, I know I'm awesome, but..." "Your mane" Twilight almost whispered, "It's glowing." "What? That's not possible. Nopony's mane glows." "But yours is Dashie! Well, part of it anyway." Pinkie Pie said, bouncing up and down. Rainbow Dash looked at her confused, then put a hoof on her mane. She felt the little crystal feather and pulled it out. Instantly, the entire cave lit up brightly. "What's that? You didn't tell us you had an awesome crystal torch thingy, Dashie." "I didn't" Rainbow mumbled, half to herself, then, noticing that everypony else could see it, she hugged it to her chest. The light in the cave dimmed slightly. "Rainbow, Darling. Where did you get that beautiful crystal?" Rarity asked. Realizing that everypony had seen it, and there was no point in hiding it now, Rainbow Dash stopped hugging it to her chest and clipped it into her mane where everypony could see it. The lighting in the cave brightened again. "It was a gift from my parents." "It's simply gorgeous! Look at it! Why in Equestria did you never show this to us before?" Rainbow didn't answer, "Darling?" Rarity was about to say more when Twilight nudged her in the side gently and shook her head. "Rainbow, can you read the prophecy? It's on the wall just there." Twilight said, pointing to the wall on her left. Rainbow Dash looked at it and nodded. "Puer autem lux ablata incitati figuris incoepit. Translated to Equestrian, it reads, The child of the light shall disappear, shifting shapes to reappear" "The child of light?" Twilight asked, "Who's that? And how can anypony be a 'child of light'?" Everypony shrugged, not knowing either. "Hmm, whoever it is, they must be a shape shifter!" Pinkie said, merrily "A shape shifter?" Twilight asked "Yeh! The prophecy says that they will shift shapes. So they must be a shape shifter! "Of course! Why didn't I see that?" Twilight exclaimed "Do you have any other ideas Pinkie?" "Well, the next pony to disappear and then reappear must be them!" "Great! Well, we just need to find out who the child of light is." "C'n ya really be a child o' light? Ah mean, Ah didn't know that light could have a child." Applejack stated. Twilight mulled this over "I'm not sure, but we have to find out."