‘Where am I? Hello? Is anyone there?’
Twilight looked around her for the source of the soft voice, “Hello? Is somepony there?”
‘Um hello, who are you?’
Twilight stopped turning around looking for the voice. “My name is Twilight Sparkle. What is your name?”
The voice was hesitant at first. ‘I.... don’t remember.’
Twilight’s face turned to one of bewilderment. “Okay then, where are you?”
The voice hummed to itself, obviously thinking and Twilight thought to herself that sounds beautiful just as fast as the humming began it stopped and the voice spoke again.
‘I can’t move my legs.... In fact I can’t FEEL my legs.... I think I might be stuck.’
Twilight looked around again before taking a cautious step forward. “Can you see anything around you?”
Again the voice spoke up in a melodic tone ‘There are walls and an open window with shards on the ground, I appear to be on a pedestal’
Twilight looked towards the pedestal were the elements of harmony once rested, only to see the sword from before with only a part of the blade and the hilt showing.
“Are you sure that’s where you are? All I see on the pedestal is a sword.”
The voice gasped, clearly distraught with finding something out. ‘A-are you s-sure about that, No weird hairless ape like thing?’
“No, no weird hairless ape like thing, just a sword.”
The voice sounded nervous now, after a few minutes it gasped. ‘Oh no.... the transformation rune.... Oh God... I don’t believe it...’
Twilight still looking at the sword in the pedestal, thought for a moment. What in the name of Celestia is a hairless ape like thing? What did it mean by a transformation rune? She gasped as the realisation hit her.
“I don’t believe it, are you saying that the sword. IS you?”
‘Look I know that might be hard to believe, I know I’m having a swell time trying to comprehend it myself. But now is NOT the time to be freaking out!’
“I’m not freaking out; you are the one that’s yelling at me!”
‘Look are you going to help me or not?’
Twilight sighed as she moved toward the embedded sword. “You realise I don’t even know what to do to help you?”
The voice sighed ‘Look we can either argue about this all day-‘
“It’s night right now”
There was a smacking sound and a shuddering sigh as Twilight finished speaking to the voice.
‘All NIGHT’ the voice said ‘Or you can help me get out of this fix’
Twilight placed a hoof to her chin and thought to herself for a minute. “I have only one condition to me helping you.”
The voice sighed ‘What is this condition?’
Twilight smiled to herself and raised her foreleg while saying “It’s simple really; just answer any question I ask you once we get you out of there.”
The voice thought about his chances of any other person, or whatever this thing was. That would stroll by and rescue him. The chances came up slim to none and NOT in his favour.
Begrudgingly he agreed to this mare’s deal. ‘Fine, but after I’m out I want to speak to whoever is in charge here.’
“Do we have a deal?”
‘We have a deal; now can you please help me out of here?’
“Well since you said please....”
Twilight moved over to the pedestal, and gripped the swords hilt in her magic. She tugged at the hilt and slowly but surely the sword moved out of the pedestal, revealing the blade with the gems in it. She stopped as she inspected the gems.
The voice seemed confused as to why this ‘Twilight Sparkle’ had stopped pulling him out of the pedestal. He voiced his concerns with audible confusion.
‘Err, Twilight? Why did you stop pulling?’
She stuttered “T-that’s I-impossible!” The voice was confused by what Twilight had said he had no idea what she was talking about, so he said what he was thinking.
‘What are you talking about, what is impossible?’
Twilight looked toward the glowing white gem at the hilt of the sword before saying “These are the elements of harmony; they are supposed to be in the Canterlot castle vault. How do you have them?”
‘How am I supposed to know? You have to remember that I have no idea what’s going on here. As for the Elements of whatever you called them. I have no idea what they are, now can you please help me and after that I will answer any questions you may have about my situation.’
Twilight nodded and continued to tug at the weapon until a noise was made; it was metal scraping against stone. Twilight redoubled her efforts to free the sword from the stone, going so far as to grip the sword with her hooves for better leverage. As soon as Twilight touched the blade, it changed from its multicoloured hues to a dense purple. Like paper stuck together with glue the sword, inch by inch, came out of the stone pedestal. Neither the voice nor Twilight heard what was happening around them, for a sound was being produced. A low hum just like the one that had sent the voice here, was being heard by the animals nearby.
Finally the sword came loose from the stone, and a frightening crack was heard as a bolt of purple lightning was flung from the sky to impact at the tip of the blade. Energy coursed through the dense metal making the purple glow along the length of the blade all the more brighter. Each gem that represented the elements glowed with a new found brightness, but only one was shinning more than the rest. The gem for the element of magic started to glow an all too bright purple.
At the hilt of the blade where the bright white gem was located, the wooden hilt started to shift. Instead of the plain wooden hilt, it shifted to look more like a star itself with the bottom of the star being where the new grip was. The gem had moved from the bottom of the hilt to the centre of the star hilt, the vines that were previously on the hilt started to meld into the wood itself leaving runes engraved into the wood. Twilight recognised some of them, one was a barrier rune, another was a booster rune, and the last one she could tell of was a healing rune. Finally the gem itself changed colour and shape. Instead of the brilliant white glow that it had before, it now had the same purple glow that Twilights coat was. Instead of a rounded gem it melded into the design of the hilt making a small purple star in the centre.
After the blade had changed something new pressed against Twilights mind. At first she tried pushing whatever it was away, but that only caused her discomfort. Finally against her common sense she allowed whatever was pressing against her mind entrance. Two voices gasped as one and Twilight fell to the floor as new images and sensations assaulted her mind. The voice also felt the changes to his sword, and the assault of new information on his mind was staggering. Finally after many minutes the blade started to lose its brightness and became lighter in Twilights hooves.
After lying on the floor for more time than either could count the voice spoke. ‘Well.... that was interesting to say the least.’
Twilight sucked in air greedily, trying to calm her racing heart. After she had done so, she looked to the sword in her hooves. “What in the name of Celestia was THAT?”
She could feel as if the voice shrugged at her and ‘he’ because she had felt that too said ‘I have no idea what just happened to us Twilight, but I might suggest that we move out of the Everfree forest while we have the chance.’
Twilight was confused by his newfound knowledge but before she could say anything he cut her off. ‘And before you ask me how I know of this, I think it was when our minds melded together. I gained all of what you know and you gained all of what I know. Almost like an information swap. Now I suggest we get moving before a Manticore comes and rips us a new one.’
Twilight nodded and prepared her spell to teleport to the edge of the Everfree forest, it surprisingly took less time than normal for her to cast said spell. ‘It must be because of the runes on the hilt, look into it later Twilight’ she silently agreed with him and launched her spell. In a blinding flash of purple she disappeared from the old castle and reappeared at the edge of the Everfree forest.
Twilight walked past many places as she walked into Ponyville, she passed Fluttershy’s cottage, Applejack’s Farm, Rainbow Dash’s cloud house, Rarity’s Boutique and Sugercube Corner where Pinkie Pie worked and lived. After the walk they ended up at their destination, Twilight Sparkle’s tree house. It being the local library was an added bonus that Twilight liked about the tree house.
As they walked in the door Twilight was greeted with a familiar ‘who’ from Owlowicious and Twilight too tired to say anything to the Owl, smiled weakly before putting him down on the couch.
‘I take it you are too tired to ask me any questions tonight Twilight?’ the only response he got from her was a weak nod. ‘Well you might want to put me out of reach of spike, or anypony for that matter’ again another weak nod and a purple field of energy gripped the sword and slotted it away at the top of one of the shelves. He smiled to himself as she placed him in the top corner of an empty bookshelf.
‘Goodnight Twilight’