The Journey of the Book

by jstar666444

A New Day Rises

A New Day Rises: Rohan

My quick late night shopping trip was simple. It turns out I had enough to by half of the available tea. I took all of them anyways, but I did pay for what I could. I doubt the store owners would be happy about a burglar whether or not he paid. I did find something discerning on my way back to the base of operation. It was a wanted poster. My wanted poster. They only have a sketch of what I look with my disguise on and the nickname they gave me, “Omega” . I ripped the poster off the wall and took it with me hoping no one has paid any attention to it. With a bounty like mine, you start to see certain faces. Face that make it clear how much the value of a life can be. I reach the room and unpacked my cargo. Placed the tea in the kitchen and stuffed the poster under the mattress. I fell asleep with my mind weighing heavy. I couldn’t let it affect me though as I had important business in the morning.

I awoke early. Night was still asleep so I tried my best to leave without disturbing him. The town seemed to be on alert today. Most likely because of the recent break-ins. I went to the location Ponka Ply told me. It was that carousel looking building that I borrowed material from. I knocked on the door. It opened to reveal a female pony who clearly spends too much time on her hair. I introduced myself and told her that her friend informed me that she was looking for help. She was clearly hesitant, but also desperate. I explained that I was in need of some money and was willing to do odd jobs for a low price. She paused for a moment and invited me inside.
The interior of the boutique matched its’ carnival style outer appearance. The room I was in was the main floor where all the clothing was made and displayed. There were scraps of materials scattered all over the floor. The fashionista pony introduced herself in great exuberance as “The most elegant and generous Rarity”. Apparently distress was no excuse of lackluster introduction. Rarity was apparently incredibly behind schedule after someone broke in and stole some of her high quality supplies. Though I felt guilty, I knew that it was a necessary evil.
She said that she needed an assistant to complete a few orders that were due by the end of a day. I told her that I had some experience sewing and could help with the delivery. Rarity seemed surprised by that fact, but was relieved. She asked if I was willing to start right away. I said yes. She told me to follower her so that we could get started. Rarity brought me to her work station where she had multiple dress designs placed on multiple different piles of cloth. I saw that she put removable labels on each cloth to indicate where they go in correlation to one another. I was thankful for that as my visual disability would have made this job a lot harder than it needed to be. Rarity told me which designs to work on and where the sewing tools were. Without any questions I went straight to work.
A few hours passed and most the work was completed. Rarity was a master of her craft and I did my best to keep up. We put all of our focus on completing the orders without sacrificing quality. Out of nowhere the front door of the store was slammed open. We both stopped to see what was happening. It was that alicorn Twilight. She ran up to Rarity and told her to come with her. Rarity said she was too busy at the moment to help her. Twilight looked around and saw me. She then whispered something to Rarity. The look on her face told me how serious the situation was. Rarity told Twilight that she understood and the approached me. She explained to me that she had to go, but asked if I could finish her work up and deliver them. I accepted. She thanked me and said she would have a big reward for me if I completed the task. The two magic ponies left together in a hurry. I resumed my work thought I began to ponder what was going to happen next.
Not to long after they left someone else entered the store.

Night:

It was now morning indicated by the rays of sunshine assaulting Nights eyelids. He slowly got up his body aching. After a small stretch he left his room. Making his way to the kitchen he took note that Rohan was gone. “I wonder where he went this early?” Night thought. He shook his head and focused his attention back on the kitchen. His eyes lit up when he saw the variety of teas that Rohan had got. With no hesitation he grabbed a random flavor, put the kettle on the stove and waited anxiously.

After a few minutes of waiting the time had come. He poured some water into a teacup and placed the bag of tea in it. Once it had cooled he took his first sip. It was bland, like, no flavor bland. He sighed. “Well not all of them are going to be delicious” he said. After the disappointing taste test he walked back to his room grabbed his spellbook and went back to the living room. Placing the spellbook on the table he then opens it. There it was on the first page a full spell and thankfully it was the one he needed.

After downing the rest of the tea Night was ready for the alteration spell. Well this spell specifically was a form of mimicking. When cast it gave the caster the abilities of a changeling. Well only the ability to change forms. First there were three things that must be done. Number One: he needed sufficient magic, which thanks to the nullifying now turned amplifying ring on his head, was a check. Two: he needed the spell itself which obviously was in front of him. Third: was a sheet or large covering object. He pondered for a moment about the third thing when he remembered the cloak Rohan had gotten him. He walked to the room and brought the cloak back to the room.

He was now ready to begin. He closed his eyes and channeled a well of magic into his horn. This process would take about an hour sadly. Time slowly passed as the magic built up until he had the amount he needed. Next he levitated the cloak onto his body and focused his magic into the cloak. Slowly it started to warp and bend as it took in the magic. Now with half the magic released the cloak started to stretch and conform around his body and with all the magic released the cloak vanished as if it became a layer of skin. Night flexed his legs to make sure it worked and thankfully for him there was no problems. He smiled, closed the spellbook and put it into his pack. Next he needed to decide on a form to take. Then it hit him a childhood friend would be perfect. With the image of his friend in mind and a small amount of magic for activation his body shifted and change.

Walking to the mirror he took a look at his new form. He was a Brown female earth pony. His or rather Her mane was a long mane composed of 3 colors red, orange then yellow while her tail was 5 colors black, green, blue, purple, then white. She however never had a visible cutiemark even though she was a master fashion designer. With some imagination he add the symbol of a needle and thread running through the eye of it for a cutiemark. Regardless he was impressed by the detail of this spell. Of course this was the first time he used a spell from the book. So with a smile on her face she left the house and wandered into town.

She trotted down the streets with a smile on her face. It was soooo good to be out into the world once again. She wanted to see all the new features of this world. Looking around there was one place that stood out a gigantic crystalline tree with a sort of castle wedged in it. “Oh Twilight Sparkle it seems you live quite well” Night thought. He turned in the direction of the castle and sautered toward it. Upon reaching the entrance the door opened. Out walk a light purple unicorn with a quite unique mane. It was a deep purple with light blue streaks in it and was styled with floofy curves.

She noticed me staring at her but choose to ignore me and carry on her way. When she was out of view Night entered the castle. The inside was magnificent large sparse hallways and thousands of doors. Almost exactly the same as the sun princess. He continued to explore the castle when he found himself in a large open room. Inside was a large table surrounded by seven chairs. Each chair seemed to have a cutiemark on it except for the small one near the one with Twilight's cutiemark. Night walked over and placed a hoof on the table. In an instant he felt the magic energy it possessed. It was quite powerful with a mix of many different magic intertwined inside it.

He decided that this might be an important thing to him at some point so he pulled out a scroll and wrote some notes about the room and table. Once finished he left the room and continued to explore. With some stumbling around he managed to find a library. He was slightly impressed by its size but it was nothing compared to his library. He skimmed to spines of the books for a bit before writing some notes down. He then walked to an empty corner of the room and looked over the tile there. Focusing on the tile he imbue some of his magic into it the masked it. He might need to come back here in the future. With a smirk on his face he left the library and exited the castle. By this time the sun was on its way to setting.

“Hmm maybe I can get a cute outfit for my new form” Night thought. He asked around town where he can get some new clothes and almost everypony recommended a place called Carousel Boutique. So after a bit of stumbling around the city he arrived at the boutique. Once he arrived he saw Twilight dragging a white unicorn with an over styled purple mane behind her. He shrugged and head toward the entrance and entered the store.

Rohan and Night:

“Hellllllooooooo” Night called out after entering the store.

“SORRY BUT WE’RE CLOSED!”Rohan shouted from another room.

Night smiled because he knew that voice. “Oh don’t be so rude I’m just here to look for a new outfit, Honey.”

“WE’RE NOT TAKING ANY ORDERS RIGHT NOW! PLEASE LEAVE!”

“I’m not placing an order. I’m looking around.” Night headed toward the room where Rohan’s voice was coming from.

“Seriously, we’re closed for the day. You need to leave.”

Night walks into the room where Rohan was. He gives him a seductive look. “Oh come now don’t be like that. Maybe we can work something out?”

“Not interested. Too busy. Leave.”

“Alright alright i’ll be serious.” Night drops the guise currently cloaking him. “Yo.”

“Hey. This doesn’t change the fact I’m busy. What do you want?”

“I came by to get a cute outfit for my disguise.”

“Well to bad, the owner isn’t here and I have work to finish.”

“Is that so? Well I can wait and then you can make me something.” Night dawns his disguise again.

“Sure whatever, but this comes first. I promised I would have this done before the deadline.”

Two hours pass when the front door bell chimes. Rarity chimes to Rohan “Rohan darling in back.” She walks into the where Night and Rohan were located. “ I hope that...Oh who is this?”

“Me? Why i’m Ivory Klis. Rohans marefriend.” Night said.

“Don’t listen to her, she’s just a friend who came looking for cloths. I finished the work so I’ll go deliver them while you help her out.” Rohan said to Rarity.

Rarity looked over Rohan’s work before speaking. “Hmmm what is it that you need dear?” she addressed to Ivory.

“I was just looking for an outfit to wear. Rohan sweetie here said he was going to hoof make one for me.” Ivory spoke.

“No I didn’t” Rohan said as he was leaving.

“Oh you're no fun.” Ivory called out to Rohan.
“Ahem well uhh what sort of outfit were you looking for?” Rarity asked.
“I’m not quite sure”
“Yes well let's have a look around shall we!” Rarity said in a perky manner.
The two of them looked through the different outfits but found nothing. However there was a pair of black and pink striped socks with a pink frill on the tops that caught Ivorys eyes. Ivory had asked how much they were but Rarity let her have them for free because of the work Rohan did. Ivory thank her and tried them on. They were quite soft to the touch and very pretty.
“They look nice on you however they might get dirty on the bottoms if you wear them constantly. I could look for a pair of shoes to go with them if you’d like?” Rarity inquired.
“No no that won’t be necessary I know a unicorn that can put a spell on them for that.”
“Alright then.”
“I would like to ask you one more favor Ms….?”
“Oh where are my manners i'm Rarity and what is the favor?”
“Well since I have to wait for Rohan to come back do you have any tea?”
“Why yes I do. Come with me.”
The two of them went to a kitchen. The sat around idly making conversation over tea whilst they wait for Rohan to return. That moment did arrive in time.
“Hey Rarity, I’m back. I gave the cloths to all the clients.”Rohan shouted as he entered.

“We’re in here sweetie” Ivory exclaimed from the kitchen.

“Don’t call me that.”Rohan sternly stated as he entered the room.

“So Rohan baby. How do you like my new socks?” Ivory extends one of her forelegs to show off.

“I don’t care, but seriously stop.” Rohan glared at Night.
“Oh when are you going to accept my love.” Ivory turns to Rarity at this point. “So I guess me and Rohan shall take our leave now. I bid you a goodnight Rarity.”

“You can go ahead, I still need to collect my pay.”Rohan said to Night
Ivory leaves the boutique without another word. Rarity thanks Rohan for his help and gives him half of the total commissions. She said it was fair as he had done half of the work. Rohan thank her for the pay and for the learning experience. They wished each other a goodnight and parted ways. Rohan went back to the base.

Night:
Night had gotten back to the inn without a hitch. He dropped his disguise after entering the house. After an eventful day he walked over to the couch and sat down. “I should probably put that spell on these socks. Oddly enough they actually are pretty cute” Night spoke aloud. After a minute or two magic hijinks the socks were now able to withstand natural wear and tear. It wasn't long before Rohan entered the room as well.
“Heya….’Sweetie’” he jokingly said
“No” Rohan said swiftly slapping Night.
“Ow. that hurt” Night forced tears in his eyes.
“I told you, but you didn’t listen.”
“Told me what?”
“I told you to not call me names.”
“What I have to get into a character when i'm out and about with you and I choose your marefriend.”
“You’re not my marefriend and I do not want you to pretend to be one. I don’t take that stuff lightly.”
“Okay okay….then what am I supposed to be to you?”
“A friend, just that.”
“Uhuh.” Night stood up “So what are the plans for tomorrow cause I think it might be best if we leave this town soon, like very soon.”
“I understand, but I have something I still need to do here. Let’s give it one more day and then we leave.”
“Alright but what am I supposed to do in the meantime cause I think Twilight's looking for me.”
“Keep an eye out around town and stay hidden. I’ll check out in the morning and try to get more information before I leave. I want you to meet me outside of town at night.”
“Alright. Well i’m off to bed goodnight…..’Honey’” Night sprints into his room whilst laughing.
The next day when Night got up Rohan was yet again missing. After getting himself a cup of tea he packed his bags and got ready for the day ahead. With everything packed he took a quick look around to make sure there was nothing left. “Alright that should be everything” Night said to himself and without wasting any more time, he changed his appearance and left to begin his surveillance. It took about a half hour to figure out that Twilight and her friends were having some sort of meeting in her castle. Apparently the other princesses were also involved. ‘Hmmm this is getting interesting’ thought Night. Looking up in the sky the sun was about halfway across. He had about half the day left.
Night searched around for a abandoned alley. Making sure no one was around he closed his eyes and focused on that magic tile in Twilight's library. Using the magic of the tile he sent out a pulse throughout the library to sense if anyone was there. Having found no signs of anyone he channeled his magic around his body and teleported into the room. He opened his eyes and looked around ‘No one, good’ he thought. Night proceeded in looking amongst the books for anything that would give him information to this town. He did find a book but it gave him only general information.
After looking for what seemed like hours he had gotten no where. He sighed and decided to leave for the time being. Back in the alley it was he noticed it was getting dark out. Exiting the alley he noticed a wanted poster on side of a store. It was of some hooded figure nicknamed ‘Omega’ with quite a high ransom. He turned from the poster wondering where he was supposed to meet Rohan. ‘Ah damn. He never mentioned a meeting spot’ Night thought. With a sigh he thought of only one easy spot to choose, his old home. Using the cover of the city and eventually forest he made off to the “meeting” place.

Rohan:
I woke up early again to get a quick start on packing. I travel light so it didn’t take long. Night was still asleep, but I choose not to wake him. I paid for the room and left the inn. Before I can leave this town I wanted to pay back some of the places I borrowed from. The supplies I took from Rarity were returned, the rest of the tea was paid off, and I paid for the amount of apples I took. Since I know I would get in trouble if anyone saw me, I had so do it all discretely and left an apology note at each location.
It was a little past noon when I discovered I was being followed. It was that hyperactive pony Panky Pike again. I was confused to why she was trying to be secretive this time and not just approach me like before. As I continued around town I noticed the she had someone with her. It was that apple peddler Applejack. I began to piece together what was happening. Keeping an eye out for other possible followers. There were two pegasi hiding in between clouds, most likely thinking I wouldn’t notice a stalking cloud with four eyes. To do away with the possibility of coincidence, I began to run. Just as I assumed, they followed. Only two caught up to me, Applejack and one of the pegasi. The flyer tried to tackle me, but here movement was predictable. I dodged, which caused her to ram right into a rock stand. As I ran one thought went through my head. Who the hell is buying rocks and who the hell is selling them? Trying to push that concept out of my head, Applejack somehow got a lasso which I assumed was under her hat. Her skill where quite remarkable, but my determination to not get captured out matched her. I stalled for the perfect moment to trip her up. She went for my head and there was my opening. I quickly swapped places with a passerby. They took the hit for me. Applejack noticed her mistake but couldn’t react in time. She ran straight into the innocent bystander and ended up getting tangled in her rope. I got away clean.

Curiosity demanded that I figure out what they wanted so I decided to give them a lesson in stealth. I ran to nearby alley and snuck around back to where I left them. The two ponies that were chasing me where with the other two that I left behind. The chasers were arguing over whose fault it was that I got away. While they argued they were approached by two more ponies. It was Rarity and Twilight. Twilight asked what had happened. Applejack and the Pegasis shamefully explained their failure to properly follow me and caused me to run away. Twilight was visibly upset, but told her companions to not be hard on themselves. She desperately wanted to talk to me about something. Before she ordered them to resume the search I took the initiative and made myself appear behind them. They were more then startled to say the least.

After one of the pegasi was revived from fainting, their attention was placed on me. It was a back and forth of questions that I answered with half-truths, lies, and sarcasm. They were the basic interrogation question. The “Who are you, Why are you here, What were you doing on day X between the times of Y and Z” and other such things. A few hours of questioning later, they left.
I decided that now was the best time to go. I learned all I needed to know from them and there questions. As I left the town I realized I never specified a meet up location. After cursing at myself a few times, I came to the conclusion that Night would most likely go somewhere familiar. To the invisible bubble prison in the forest I went.

Night and Rohan:

Night was busy pacing around the outside of the bubble when Rohan showed up. “Where the hell have you been? I've been sitting here more than an hour.” He addressed to Rohan.

“Looking for loose mares that were willing to give me a good time” Rohan said flatly with a straight face

“Oh hardy harr harr. I’m sorry but you're not the one with a bounty on his head. Can we get going now I know of a place to go.”

“Alright but first I want to get rid of this pathetic barrier.” Rohan said with a grin.
Rohan’s eyes began to glow and a red essence surrounded his body. A flash shot out from his body quickly blinding Night. When Night’s vision returned he saw a needle in Rohan’s mouth.

“What are you going to do with that?” Night asked with confusion.
Moving the needle to the side of this mouth, “Pop a bubble” said Rohan.
He walked up to the barrier that had kept Night a prisoner. Rohan placed the needle in the front of his mouth and thrusted his head forward.The barrier made a loud pop that could be heard for miles and sent a powerful shockwave all around. Rohan and Night were blown back and landed on one another.

“That had a bigger kick than I thought it would.” Rohan said with a soft groan.

“Well that hurt” Night looked down noticing he was on top of Rohan. He pushed a hoof into his chest. “My you're quite muscular.” Night got off of him.

“Sorry, but I don’t swing that way.” Rohan said while standing up.

“What? I was merely stating a fact. You actually thought I might be interested in my quote on quote savior.” Night chuckled after say that. “Alright I thinks its best we head out.”

“I suppose you’re right and about that interested thing, I already have someone I promised myself to so i’m a bit touchy on the subject.”

WIth that the two set off to their new destination. “So Rohan I might as well tell you where we are heading. It's a place call Zvenstrian, I had a manor there back in my day and if all is still well I should still own it.”

“Well i’m out of options right now so sure.”

“Alright then trust me you’re going to love it.” Night and Rohan continued on their way for an hour or so when it dawned on Night that they had no supplies “Uh hey Rohan.”

“What?”
“Did you manage to get any supplies for the journey?”
“I have what I need”
“That doesn't really answer the question, but whatever I guess we'll manage somehow.”
It was now fairly late into the night when the two started to get tired. They set up a small camp and went to sleep. In the morning they packed up any necessities and trashed the rest of the makeshift camp to hide the fact they were there. After a couple more hours of trotting along they were nearing their destination.

The Pursuers Catch a Break: Twilight

The day after Night and Rohan left town.

“What do you mean they got away!?” Celestia says in an annoyed tone to Twilight Sparkle.

“I'm sorry princess, the pony we questioned the day before seemed of no importance but it seems like he was the prime suspect.” She said in a meek tone

“Alright Twilight give me a full oral report on all the events that transpired up until now.”

“4 Days ago I was supposed to have a normal meeting with Night. Getting there was no problem. Upon entry of the T.S.S or Time and Space Stasis I went and entered the abode of Night Constant. The conversation went normally, however Night mention something about removing his magic sealing ring. Once the conversation came to a close I left.

“Shortly after exiting the T.S.S I was assaulted from behind by an unknown assailant and knock unconscious. When I regained consciousness I found that all my notes were stolen and a note left on my head that read ‘I know your secret.’ Quickly I hurried back to the castle to find spike. Once I found him I had him send a letter to you with the information. Rarity’s Boutique was robbed not long after Night’s escape however the supplies were returned in the end. The day before yesterday the pony in question that helped with Night’s escape, whom we now know was Omega, got a minor job under Rarity's guidance. At the time i was gathering up all of us to set up this meeting so i ended up pulling Rarity away from Omega.

“Once all the details were settled with us we went back to our homes for the night. When morning broke all six of us went out on high alert in search for Night and his accomplice. Pinkie and Applejack had managed to catch tail of Omega but he managed to get away. And that's all we know at the moment.”

Celestia sat there quietly for a few moments. “Okay I will be heading back to Canterlot tomorrow. When i arrive there i will mobilize a task force of the top guards we have. I need you to get in touch with your brother about the situation. We are going to need to cover a large amount of territory. Do you understand Twilight?”

“Yes princess I do but is there anything else we can do?”

“If there is anyway you all can help in the capture of Night Constant and Omega please do so. Contact anypony who you think will help.” Celestia directed to the seven other ponies in the room. Each of the other ponies mumbled about different relatives and friends that will help. Celestia turned back to Twilight. “Twilight i'm going to need you and Starlight to come with me.” She turned and headed off to the library.

Twilight motioned to Starlight to follow her. The two ponies walked behind celestia in silence. When the entered the library Celestia spoke “I going to teach you a spell. This spell will be crucial in the capture of Night but it requires a lot of magical energy. Do you think you two will be able to handle it?” The two nodded in unison. “Okay then let us begin.”

The three of them studied and worked for hours on end in the library. Meanwhile the other five had gone to their respective homes. Each with their own idea on how to help in the situation. Tomorrow was going to be the start of a full scale pony hunt.