Impressions
Twilight was still observing the curious staff, when she heard a footsteps slowly approaching from her right.
She quickly turned to look at what was coming.
Assuming it was a creature native to the forest, such as a timber wolf, or manticore, she readied a quick and easy sedation spell. While highly potent, It consumed very little of her strength.
She blindly casted it towards the sound of the noise, and in response, heard a light grunt. To her surprise, it was not one of the former, but something in-between. About twice as tall as her, it fell through the bushes, face first on to the ground.
"Umm Twilight? What IS that thing?"
Anubis was tired. Very tired. H was stumbling along when he felt the prescence of his staff.
His precious, precious staff.
Realizing this, he began to stumble in the direction form which the staff's energy was flaring.
"Finally... The first bit of good news since I have entered this reached realm.. He though to himself.
While delved in his thoughts, he nearly tripped on a tree root.
Noticing this as he was falling, he grunted, retaining his balance on to the tree that owned the aforementioned roots.
He then noticed a bright pink light near the supposed location of his staff. Then, the light started moving.
Right at him. He realized this bitter sweet fact too late, and was hit square in the chest by the ball of light.
He felt sleepy. So sleepy. "Must.. Sleep." Anubis whispered to himself as he began to collapse. When he impacted the ground, he heard a faint voice, not too old, yet not too young. all he could make out from the sentence before fading away, was, "Twilight.... thing..."
"Oh my.." Twilight whispered to herself, observing the creature. It was canine in appearance, but it had many traits not common of it's trademark species. She also noted the clothing it wore. Made of a shining gold metal, cleanly woven with red, and grey fibers to hold it together. It appeared old as well. Leading her to believe the gray was once something more bright.
Another connection revealed itself immediately. when the creature toppled over, the staff reacted the second it came in to view. The center of the energy massing on the orb grew ever so slightly, and the staff tilted towards it's now obvious owner.
"Spike, we should probably bring it back with us..." Twilight said gently to her scaled companion.
"Twilight, we don't even know what It Is!" Spike piped out in retort.
"Whatever it is, It is obviously intelligent, and we don't have any record of it anywhere! It could be a new species, it might have an entire city that it calls home. Do you think it would take well to me stunning it, and leaving it in the Everfree forest un-armed?"
Spike was taken back, but saw the logic in the mare's sudden outburst. "Okay Twilight..." He solemnly replied.
Twilight's magical aura covered the creature, and it began to levitate. As the two made their way home, spike felt as if he was being watched. Heavily watched..
Freya woke up with an acing pain. "Agh.. What the hell happened..?" She asked her self aloud. Finally out of a daze, she scoped her surroundings. There were leaves. Leaves EVERYWHERE. She simply ignored this and looked down.
That's when it hit her.
She was in a tree. After further examination, she concluded it was an apple tree. Looking through the mesh of leaves, she saw that she was, in fact, surrounded by apple trees. Freya was amazed. Since she was a valkyrie, she lived in the clouds most of her life. Being the queen of them as well didn't help one bit. She was always caring over her many sisters. All of the Valkyries were sisters, in a sense. They had to be as close as sisters, seeing-that the only people they new were each other. She simply didn't have time to visit the surface and experience such pleasures. Well, at least until she had to go to the surface to fight to the death. She STILL couldn't enjoy any of those pleasures. Snapping out of, "Memory lane," She realized she was obnoxiously hungry. " Man, apples have never looked better.." She though to herself. Reaching out to one, she picked it off of its branch. Snap. It delicious. She had heard from her sisters how succulent and juicy fruits were. She felt a slight bliss while enjoying the fruit. That is, until one hit her straight in the head.
"HEY! Get out of that tree ya varmint!"
How dare this insolence.. Someone had just hit her! The QUEEN of the VALKYRIES with a fruit!
This would not stand. She jumped down from the tree, ignoring her lack of weaponry, and was ready to confront the perpetrator.
That was, until she saw that it was a small, bright orange horse.
Anubis was regaining conscience, and hell was he confused. He appeared to be in a library of some sort. He was in a bed, much more comfortable than the kind he was used too. I mean, how comfortable could a stone slab be?
Continuing to observe his surroundings, he witnessed the sun shine. In his eyes.He quickly rose from his half-slumbering state to escape the sun's invasive rays. "This has to be a sign that Ra is here too." He thought to himself. He got out of his comfortable resting place, and noticed a door. As he made his way towards it, it began to open.
He readied himself for combat, but what he got was not one of the many things he thought it to be. In appearance, it looked like a small lizard. Large, green eyes, with a matching green spine. It's scales were a bright purple, with a tan underbelly. The creature simply looked at Anubis with horror. And in a split second, it was gone.
"It... ran?" Anubis said to himself. This was most curious. He hastily decided to follow the creature, but not too quickly. He might scare it even more. As he made his way out the door, he saw it went down some stairs, flailing it's arms and screaming in the process. He went down them too, noticing that the dragon was not alone. It was standing next to a small vivid purple horse. It had a horn, which perplexed Anubis. What happened next made Anubis question his immediate sanity.
"Hello? can you understand me?"
Author's note:
I'm shocked. Sandy hasn't taken my power out yet, but I managed to write a FULL CHAPTER in a few hours. :D
Enjoy, because I tried to put a little more effort in to this chapter. Point out any fails as usual. Thanks guys.
~R3R4LJ