//------------------------------// // Night // Story: Rays of Light // by Azalter //------------------------------// Chapter 1: Twice "Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself." - Lois McMaster Bujold Trixie was, again, in the black limbo, with her body shaped in white. She was confused again. She couldn't believe that she was having that experience again. However, she was expecting for something to happen, as the windy sound traveled from side to side of her head. "Thou are here again, dear." said the male voice of unknown origin. "What the... What are you doing? What is the great and powerful Trix-" "Calm down, magic one. I need thou to do something special today." "There's nothing that i would do for you! And I don't even know what are you! I command you, I push you to tell me who you are, or else -" "Else what! Do thou have any problem? That's not what I'm here to hear. I want thou to remember the most important step on your history!" "B-b-but why? What do you want from me? Why are you stalking the great and-" "Relax, my magic being. I'm not here to do any sort of damage to thou." "Then, what do you want?" "See this! This is the glorious moment of your beginning!" "No... not that, i don't want to see it again!" "Shh..." A warm wind covered the tense Trixie, and the relaxing sensation stunned with softness every muscle of her lightblue skinned body. She felt like laying on the invisible surface were she was standing over. "..." She didn't say anything. Her eyes closed and her feeling of nervousness dissapeared. "This is... like when she was here..." While Trixie was relaxing, she could hear a voice coming from the void of the darkness. Beautiful and sweet. A female voice which made her react in a way that she'd never expect to. Singing. this voice was singing. Singing in a way that only someone with pure heart would sing. singing with excesive love. Love, that she, Trixie, remembers. "You are my sweet candy. a beauty candy, a magic candy. Don't cry, my filly, Mommy's here, don't be silly" Yet calmed, she opened her eyes with gratefulness, she expelled a soft sob. "M-mom... are you here?" She said with evident nostalgia. The voice continued its chant. "What is making you affraid? Tell me, please, I wont reclaim. Come here, let me hug you tighty. trust in me, my only child" "Mom... come to me.." No answer. instead, the voice singed its last verse. "Let me take your sadness off So you play, with smiles and joy When the sun rises through the dawn, there will be no more frown." "..." Nothing more came, from that calm voice. The sounds of the other voice went to disrupt the peace. "So cute, wasn't it? Are thou quiet now?" "Where is she?" "Thou will know it later. Do thou remember when thou and she separated so unexpectly?" "Yes, but that's something that Trixie doesn't want to remember." "It's futile to avoid the reality... thou can remember it as if it was yesterday." "Well... Right..." "Then, let me see it" She rejected at first, but finally, she gave up to the voice's intentions. Trixie Blinked and all her space changed. A burning village, similar to the one seen in her last vision.. At the distance, a translucid being, giant and abominable, performing a sadistic spectacle of raze and ramapge. Trixie shocked at the signal of destruction stamped against that place. With her contracted pupils, she didn't do anything but just witness the incident. Away, covered and protected from the giant, bear-like monster within a house , where 2 mares. Filly Trixie and her mother. The Adult covering her offspring with her body. Both trembling, and Filly Trixie crying for fear and desperation. "Shhh.. Let's calm down. Nothing will happen to us, I promise.* "Are you sure? The monster is scary... Is... Scary!" "You'll be fine, dear. Now calm down." The bear monstruosity destroyed the house with a single hit, and the debbris rained with ferocity. The Adult mare put her children on her back and began to run out there. "Mom! I am scared! I Think... I am going to pee!" "Calm down, my baby. You'll be safe! I Swaer it, for i am your mother and i will nev-" The landshaking produced by the rampage of this Bear made the grown equine fall. As it happened, Little Trixie flew few meters away. Her skin was hurt as she fell. She tried to get up, but it was hard as every shake made for the transparent behemoth disturbed the attempt. Finally, Little Trixie got over it and ran to her mother, who was lying on the ground, paralyzed. "Trixie! You better be leaving now!" "B-But mom, I-I can't leave you!" "Do it!" The Mare used her energies to create a forcefield that grabbed Little Trixie and threw her away. "Mother, No! Please, You must-" A injuried Stallion, with white skin and silver armor arrived, and fastly, put her on his back.* "You can't stay here. I'm taking you to a safe zone.* "But my mother is still there!" "I can't hold you two. I am sorry..." The Adult Mare smiled from the distanc. She raised her left hoof and screamed to Little Trixie, as the monstruisity came closer. "Trixie! Live on! Promise me you'll be the Great And Powerful Unicorn you want to be!" "Mom! No!" And the vision dissipated, bringing Trixie back to her Limbo. "..." "I am sorry. I really am" "I wish i could see her again. I didn't dare to look when the monster reached her... But i am sure that something terrible happened..." She broke down. "I want to see her..." "Oh Trixie, my silly Trixie. You should be thankful thou are alive. For you will make something very important." "What could it be, you scum? Now i've revived those suffering-memories! I Want to see my mother again!" "Should this be unnecessary, I Shall not show you it. Thy memories are your motivation, Aren't them?" "What are you... You Monster, talking about?" "Don't you want to fulfill your promise? Make her proud, wherever she is, Being truly Great and Powerful." "But... how? How could i be that, if i am just a failure?" "I suggest thou to travel to the residence of thy purple friend, and ask for help" "Never! I will not low myself to her level!" "Go there, and thou will find your answer." "Wait, Stay here now, you pityf-" "Wake up." And everything dissipated as her slumber evaporated, to bring her back to herself, knowing it was not a simple dream, because it felt real. It felt real...