//------------------------------// // Recollection // Story: Forgotten // by Mazamis //------------------------------// Chapter Two: Recollection Jace woke up with his head throbbing with pain. What. The. Fuck, he thought as he shook his head. He tried to stand up but he fell over and grabbed his chest, it hurt... a lot. He looked down and saw glass shards wedged inside his chest. Jace looked up and saw the trashed room, glass and blood was everywhere. Jace's eyes widened with shock, "Alex," he called out. There was no response. Oh the council will most likely do more than kill me for this, Jace thought while he dragged himself across the floor looking for his friend, a trail of blood following him. Jace stopped, and looked to his left. When he saw the remains of the broken sphere he cringed, there was a bluish liquid around the remains. Even more disturbing the liquid pulsed making seem almost... alive, Jace thought. He had the sudden urge to touch the stuff. Wincing as he stretched his arm out, Jace slowly put his fingers in the pulsing liquid. Jace was standing on a beach, looking at the sunset. He turned around to see a man that looked much like himself, except older and had black hair. A girl was leaning on his shoulder, she mumbled something. The girl was wearing a dress with a flower design on it. The two just sat there not taking notice of Jace. He tried to call out to them but no voice came out of his mouth. The man said something back to the women and put his hand in front of him, and with a quick flick of his wrist a flame appeared in his palm. The vision ended as Jace came back to reality. The people reminded him of his parents, although he never met his father. both died though when he was young. His mother became deathly ill when Jace was only 4 and his father died in a cave in before he was born, and his parents sure as hell never went to a beach. Jace still laid on the floor, blood seeping through his wounds as he thought about his parents, a tear came into his eye. He groaned and tried to stand up again. He managed to stand up slowly but ended up leaning against a wall that had debris all around it. He sat there for what seemed like hours, but his mind came back to the problem at hand. Alex. Jace left his support as he limped his was around the room. He knew she had to be in here, if she managed to survive she wouldn't leave him here to die, and he wouldn't either. Jace went next to a pile of rubble and used all his strength to push a huge piece of stone off the top of the pile. His hands hurt, blood was coming from fresh wounds. He looked at his hands, glass shards laid on the palms from dragging himself across the floor. Jace forced himself to ignore the all of his wounds and continued moving the debris. The strange thing was that Jace didn't feel any pain. His balance became more stable as he moved the last of the rocks aside. He let out a sigh when he saw Alex laying there banged up from the falling rubble but it looked like no serious damage was done. Jace sat down, he was tired. All he wanted to do was to go to sleep, but he couldn't. He knew that they were on their own until they went home. Jace didn't know how long he was unconscious but he thought it was enough time for the council to assume they were dead. In fact the council was probably celebrating. They wanted him dead, even tried to kill him a few times, purposely caving in one of the tunnels... twice, students he was sparing with had 'accidental' fatal blows, and forging ‘problems’. What was worse was that Alex was expendable to them, mainly because she fought with them about what they accused Jace of doing. Now that Jace thought about it, this was probably set up by the council, those old bastards, sitting in their damn circle. It's so cliché why don't they sit in a triangle or something. Jace almost drifted off into a deep sleep with his thoughts, but then he heard something that threw that feeling away and replaced it with shock and fear. He heard the sound of armor and horses. (<•>v<•>) 4 hours earlier "SPIKE, GET UP," Twilight yelled as she ran back into her house. "Give me five more minutes," the sleepy dragon replied. "No, we need to contact the princess now, there was some strange magical explosion and with what I observed it could cause a real quantum physic particle-" "What? Just tell me what to write already," the sleepy dragon said as he found a quill and paper still half asleep. "Dear princess Celestia, I was awoken tonight by a strange feeling a couple minutes ago when I observed a magical outburst, it seemed to happen deep in the Everfree forest, I don't know exactly what happened but if the magic that I observed is a serious problem I suggests we investigate now. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle," the unicorn finished staring out the window. It wasn't a few moments before they received a letter back. Spike grabbed it and proceeded to read it out loud. "To my faithful student, I too was awoken strangely not moments ago, as for seeing some magical explosion, I did not. However, what you have addressed seems serious and I will be dispatching a group of my sisters night guards to go with you and the elements to this area to see if there is any threat, we do not know what caused this so be careful. Oh, and this time bring spike, every time you go on an adventure you never take the one thing that we can use to keep in contact with each other," the dragon said squinting his eyes, "hey, how come you do always leave me behind on all your adventures, I want to go adventuring too." "No time Spike," Twilight said running out side, "Go find Pinkie and Rarity and tell them to meet us here." At the mention of Rarity, Spike was suddenly awake and running out the door. Shortly after the Ponies all met in the library, the night guards arrived. They looked like the sun guards but they were black and had purple armor with more jagged edges than smooth. The guards looked more intimidating than friendly. The one in front snapped to attention. "The princess sent us here ma'am, we are to accompany you into the Everfree forest to locate a magical disturbance, and we await your departure." she said. With a nod from Twilight they seemed to relax and waited outside chatting among themselves. After a few moments all ponies were ready to go, so they left with Twilight leading the group into the Everfree forest.