Forgotten

by Mazamis

Dedication

Adrenaline shot through Jace's body as he picked up Alex. He didn't have time to see if she was alive but she still felt warm. He ran up the stairs into the main chamber. The place was a mess, as the sun shone through the missing pieces of the walls it showed that what was falling apart was now on the ground in hundreds of pieces, and what seemed fine was now starting to fall apart. A mountain of rubble blocked the way they came in so Jace just ran into another room. Only one thought was flowing through his mind at the moment, get the fuck out of here before whatever was out there finds us in here. So Jace just ran, he didn't pay attention where he was going or what was around him. All he wanted to do was get back to safety, let Jacob handle this crazy shit. He was much stronger and better at fighting things than Jace.

Jace on the other hand was the type that ran when he knew he couldn't win. He observed his enemies and found their weakness, then used that to his advantage. Jace knew right now though that he couldn't win. Whatever was out there had armor and that meant they had weapons. Jace was wounded and had no weapon, except for Alex's short swords. He didn't bother looking for his sword and he saw that the bow they brought was broken when moving the rubble earlier.

Jace slowed his pace a bit, then stopping completely to rest for a moment so he could catch his breath. The blur at the edge of his vision cleared as he focused on his surroundings. First thing he noticed was that it was dark, there was no light coming through the cracked walls, there was one door however, that was open and provided the light. Jace walked to the door with a look of amazement in his eyes, not caring for anything else in the room. He held Alex tighter as he walked through the door and into the sunlight.

Jace stood in a garden, not those stupid rock gardens back at home but a real live garden, with flowers and trees that waved back and forth in the wind. He stood there with a smile on his face, the warmth of the sun made him forget the world. He just stood there, like a bump on a log not moving until something blocked the out the warm sunlight.

Who would dare rob Jace from that feeling he felt as he stood there, he was warm, relaxed, at peace, and more than anything else he was happy, yet something just stole those feelings away just like that. Everything Jace forgot came rushing back into his body. The soreness took place first, then the panic, and lastly, the anger he felt. He looked at the sky to see what had taken the sunlight away from him. When he saw what was circling in the sky; Jace gulped and stared at the creature.

Huge lizard with wings and spikes on its spine, yup totally a dragon, Jace thought as he turned around and ran inside. He laid Alex up against a wall hidden in the shadows as to not give her position away. Ok, dragon, weakness... How the hell am I supposed to kill a fucking dragon? Think Jace think... Ummm dragons fly and breathe fire, how to counter that... I'm so fucked. Shit shit shit, I am going to kick each and every one of those old bastards’ asses on the council if we make it through this, he thought.

"FUCK MY LIFE," Jace yelled as he paced back and forth. In some other part of the castle he heard some weird sounds of confusion.

"Fuck, I forgot about those... other things," Jace mumbled. He reached into his bag, which was pretty torn up, and pulled out some spare gears and tools he had brought with him and proceeded to fiddling with them. Jace always thought more clearly when he was messing with his inventions. He came to a conclusion while staring at the door. He needed to barricade it so nothing could get to him or Alex while he bought some time to think. He went over to one of the old rotting wooden desk and dragged it over to the door he came from and moved an old dusty couch to the door that led back into the castle of some sort. He found other small things like pieces of the wall and chairs to put around and on top of the desk and couch to make them more efficient. When Jace was done barricading the doors he sat down and decided that he needed treat his wounds before they became infected and most likely killed him. Jace started to slowly removed the shards of glass that were still in his chest, wincing as he plucked every once out, the skin around them healed quicker than normal and seemed to fuse with the glass. The wounds on his chest opened up again and started to bleed slowly. He took some bandages and wrapped all of the wounds in some sort of silk gauze that his people made from somehow harvesting this type of web from these silk spiders that were found at 'home.' After Jace was done he decided to check Alex for any wounds and heal the ones he found. Her armor blocked most of the glass and absorbed impacts, so she seemed pretty good beside that blow to the head. Now that he thought about it, he should have brought a set of iron armor instead of his leather one, but he was all about mobility instead of protection, you can't hit what isn't there. He sat down next to Alex when he was done thinking and needed a break. She was breathing slowly, which was a good sign.

"Please don't die on me," he whispered to her before falling asleep.

Jace was standing in the center of the Council; it was different than what it looked like to him tough. Some stones and designs that were falling apart and eroding seemed fresh and newly cut. The Council though, paid no attention to him. They all were looking at the person next to him. Jace turned to the person next to him; it was the man from his previous vision, except he was younger. He had a look of anger in his eyes, Jace chuckled himself, even this person hated the council. No noise came out of him however.

"You have to listen to me father, we are dying down here. We need to go to the surface, we can thrive up there."

"SILENCE," the head of the council yelled. Both Jace and the man next to him seemed to shrink.

"Ever since you went up there you have changed, Norik I don't know what went wrong with you. I tried to raise you the best I could, but you can't seem to understand WHY we are here. Our ancestors created this place so we wouldn't die, and I'm not about to destroy all their work and legacy because of your childish thoughts," the leader of the council said. The other members of the council started whispering between each other.

"Father we came down here by choice, we could go back up and-"

"Get out," the he slowly said.

"But we could-"

"I SAID GET OUT," Norilk's father yelled, slamming the staff he held against the ground. The world around him seemed to shake violently as everything started to fade white.

"Dear princess Celestia, we have found the site in which we believe the magical disturbance was at. It is ruined by time itself, not to mention the explosion destroyed most of the weakened walls. Currently, we are trapped inside as a dragon came to investigate as well. It seems to be hostile and will not listen to us. We haven't found the source of the explosion yet but we are looking. From what we have heard while in here, we believe we are not alone and are trying to locate anypony in here as well. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. Did you get all of that Spike," Twilight said while Spike simply nodded, "ok then send it to the princess."

Spike held the letter out and set it ablaze with his breath, sending it to the princess. Only it didn't vanish, it burned in front of them then fell as the letter was still surrounded with green flame.

“Umm, Twilight? Was it supposed to do that,” Spike asked.

“No Spike, the magic in this area must be interfering with your ability to send messages to Celestia, oh this is not good. How are we going to contact the princess now,” Twilight said starting to worry.

“We are stranded from royalty and our only way out of this filthy mess while we is covered in DUST, oh my fabulous mane, oh no, now it’s on my hooves. Get all this dirty dust off of me,” Rarity started to wine, “No, Fluttershy don’t shake and roll all around it. You’re getting your mane and coat all dirty… it’s just so un-lady like.”

“B-but… but… dragon,” Fluttershy said trembling in a corner.

“Don’t worry Fluttershy, that big meanie pants won’t get us in here,” Pinkie Pie said jumping around in a circle, dust flying everywhere where she landed.

“Just let me fight that dragon, I’ll take it down in ten seconds flat,” Rainbow Dash said, hovering in a fighting stance.

“Ah don’t recon you could Rainbow. Twi if we can’t get in contact with the princess than what do y’all recon we do,” Apple Jack asked.

“Well… if we are alone here and we can’t go outside than the only place we can go in farther into the castle. We have been hearing noises, so maybe we’ll find somepony else in here,” Twilight stated walking to the only door that led deeper into the ancient ruins…

“With all due respect Miss Sparkle, the safest and most strategic option would to wait here until further reinforcements arrive to take us back to safety,” the captain of the night guards said.

“That could take ages captain, it would be better if we could find an area not affected by the magical interference so we could get in contact with the princess, it would be much quicker than waiting this out,” Twilight said, “come on, it would be better if we all stick together while we are exploring this place, I have a bad feeling about it.”

The group of 11 ponies set off, going farther into the ruins, unaware of the stone eye in the rubble watching them. It blinked, and then the creature moved, following the unsuspecting ponies.