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// Chapter 6 
// Story: The Magical Energy of Life: Sacred Energy 
// by Sacred Energy 
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Chapter 6

We both fell flat on our faces and tumbled a bit. Apparently motion continues as you teleport. I stayed on the ground and I was heavily breathing. I felt like I ran a marathon without stopping. Everything ached. 

"Why...am..I..so..tired"
"Well since your talent isn't magic, using a higher level spell will drain all of your energy. So basically you can only do that once every day or so."
"How do you know what my talent is?"
"Oh I never said that"

I found it kind of discerning that I'm an Alicorn, I can barely fly and I'm useless with magic. Usually Alicorns can do amazing things that no other pony can do...I guess I'm different.

"Yes definitely. The power that an Alicorn possess is indefinitely unmeasurable and very powerful. But yours...it's...very weak. It's unusual"

I looked around to try to figure out where we were. No grass was the first thing I noticed. It was just dirt and scattered rocks and large mountains surrounding us. It was also notably hotter than where we last were even though it was night time.
"It seems that we are near Las Pegasus." She pointed her hoof at distant lights flashing over the horizon. It will definitely take about a day to get there. The sun was about to come up so we found an overhanging rock for some shade when the it did come up and we slept. We wanted to travel by night so that we wouldn't die from intense heat and dehydration, continuing our journey to Las Pegasus. We were about a mile or so from the city when something caught my leg, it was a rope and it pulled tight and I was being dragged on the ground on my stomach at an increasing speed. Mystic tried to use her telekinesis to stop me but it wasn't able to surround me in time, her powers aren't as strong since it isn't her special talent. Finally the rope threw me up in the air and I was dangling upside down, three bandits were inspecting me, squinting their eyes and observing me intensely.
"Alright boys we got ourselves an Ali Wooo. We gonna make money today." They are slave traders. They still exist? They put tape over my mouth, put clips on my wings and poured some kind of potion on my horn.
"That will keep ya from runnin'."
They proceeded to spin me around and laugh vigorously, I almost threw up in my mouth from motion sickness. To stop my motion, one of them hit me with something, a bat I suppose since I heard a loud crack and it hit my ribs and a sharp pain traveled up my spine. Oh fuck! I stopped spinning and I could see what they were doing, they blindfolded each other and used the bat and hit me as if I was a piñata; Hitting my body on all parts. The beating continued for about a half hour but it felt like days. Finally it stopped, I was coated in bruises and blood was dripping from my face and I had a swollen eye. Their leader came trotting up. "Hey blind me I want to give it a whirl!" They put the bandana over his eyes and they gave him a bat with... SPIKES! Son of a bitch! I tried to use my energy to swing myself, hopefully hitting one of them or at least getting myself free. I thirsted myself back and forth and used my head to direct myself. He took a swing and missed, he tried once again and this time I wasn't lucky. The spikes penetrated into my back left hind leg and it got stuck in it. I screamed as he moved it in rapid motion trying to get it out and a loud pop occurred as he succeeded. The bat came around again and hit the ropes that held me and also hit my wing clips. I hit the dirt and rammed  my body into the leader and picked up his bat and cracked him on the head and killed him instantly. His two lackeys jumped me and beat me with their hooves. I thrusted my head up and stabbed my horn into one of their eyes and I bucked them off of me. I again put the spiked bat into my mouth and impaled the injured bandit in the head. Something hit me on the back of the head and I fell to my face and I turned over to face him. He jumped...I lifted my head up and as he came down on me, my horn punctured his chest and pierced his heart. Blood spewed from his mouth and poured onto my face, I pushed him off of me and wiped the blood off with my hoof; I laid there for a minute to breath and allowed the pain to come in. I passed out.
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"Hey! You alive?" I opened my eyes and saw an orange pony with gold locks of hair that were tied at the bottoms of them with a red string, she also had a cowboy hat and three freckles on each cheek. "Yea I'm good" I stated weakly.
"Well you definitely took a beatin' killed a few, but you're alive. I'm Applejack."
"I'm Sacred Energy, did you happen to see a light purple pony at all? Her name  is Mystic?" 
"No sorry I didn't. She may have headed into town, ill take you there and patch you up." Around the large rocks surrounding us was a Conestoga wagon. "My sis is sleepin' so if you could?" I nodded my head. I entered the wagon as Applejack was attaching the wagon's saddle to herself. There were a lot of apple products within it, containers of water, food supplies and her sleeping sister in the back on top of a bags of grain. "Y'all ready?" I nodded. Her sister was still a filly, she didn't have her cutie mark yet. She had a yellow coat and a red mane with a big red bow in the back of it. I dozed off to sleep.
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I woke up in a small motel room, it was one of the older cheap ones with at least a century old style decor; small flower curtains, flattened carpet and tiles on the ceiling. There was a champagne cabinet in the back, fake wood paneling on the walls and pull out beds. Applejack nor her sister were there, I got up to eat something, but nothing was in the fridge and I saw a note and some money on a coffee table. Me and Applebloom went out to visit our family a few blocks down, gave you some bits so that you may buy something to eat. Good luck lookin' for your friend -Applejack. I sighed kinda deeply and walked over to the drawer and opened it, there was a bit bag, the one that you hang around your neck, and I put that on and dropped the bits in it then walked out. Walking down the stairs was a lot easier than I thought. I looked down at my legs and my hind leg was wrapped in medical tape with blood stains and a medical band was wrapped around the side of my head. It seemed that I was taken to the hospital, but I have no recollection of going. I went to the front counter of the motel and asked if they've seen Mystic. "No, sorry I haven't but I can call the other hotels to see if she is listed at any of them." I said thank you and walked out. I was expecting it to be a large city like Manehattan, but it was more like a large town with old western style buildings and dirt roads. I walked up and the down the streets looking for her but I had no luck. I entered the Gentlecolt's Pub, sat down and asked for cider. For some reason the absence of Mystic depressed me, so I decided to drink, which is something I rarely ever do. I played poker with a few people and I talked to people and asked them about the town. I spent the whole day there and I left drunk and I fell over on the ground encumbered by dizziness.

"Hey" I heard a voice, but it was muffled. I tried to open my eyes and see who it was. I was still on the street, but now in a crack of an alley. "Sacred wake up" it was Mystic. She somehow found me, I don't know how but she didn't respond when I asked. "Listen we don't have much time, we need to head somewhere safe"
"Well I have a hotel room two blocks over,  we can go there." I stood up and she nodded.
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When we got to the room Applejack was laying on the bed listening to Applebloom talking about her ideas of how to get her cutie mark. Seeing this still makes me think of how I got mine, I just sort of got it. Either that or I just don't remember at all since the storm. I wonder how much of life I have missed. Every dream I have it always seems familiar, like I've been there before. I always see a dark shadow in everyone of them. "Well howdy Sacred, I see you found your lady friend." I look over at Mystic and she seems confused and raised an eyebrow as she look back at me. "Well.." Applejack stated awkwardly slow "...we should get goin'. My job here is done and we're heading back to Ponyville." Both of our ears perked up "Ponyville!"
"Why...yes it's where I live."
"Do you mind if we come with you Applejack?" "Of course you can sugar cube!". We headed outside and helped put things into her wagon. Applejack pulled it and her sister sat in the front. Me and Mystic were in the back. She pokes my arm, "yes?" 
"Listen we have a problem, Septimus is forming his old army and is planning to take over Equesrtia, and we are limited on time." She layed down and turned over and I did the same.