• Published 15th May 2012
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Forgotten - Mazamis



What happens when humans have lived secretly in Equestria for the last 1000 years and then reappear.

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Chapter Five: Translation

Jace heard Alex scream as he was being pulled by what he assumed to be almost lethal speed. The vine wrapped around his ankle had a death grip on him. Jace was dragged through the hedges scraping the unexposed parts of his body against all the sticks and branches. He didn’t dare open his mouth because the fear that a stick would impale his throat. His arms flailed around wildly trying to grab onto anything. At one point Jace actually grabbed a hold of one of the killer plants head, but the force that the vine was using to pull him away ripped the head right off. Jace went through another hedge and felt the vine drag his foot over a concealed rock.

"MOTHER FU-" was all Jace could say before he hit his head against the rock and was out cold.

Jace was standing in the cave that he hated so much and called home. The man, Norik, if Jace recalled correctly was again next to him along with the one girl he saw in his first vision, she too was younger.

“They just don’t listen to me Chlöe,” Norik said pacing back and forth between the stone walls.

“Calm down, I’m sure they will listen to you sooner or later,” the girl named Chlöe said.

“No they won’t, my old man is too damn proud and ignorant to realize that we are dying down here. We need to move out of this old cave and live outside, Chlöe you have to believe me.”

“I do Norik; just sometimes I worry about you. Sometimes I think you may be taking this ‘going outside thing’ way too seriously,” Chlöe said a little bit worried.

“Chlöe, have you ever felt it? The wind in your hair, the warmth of the sunlight on your skin… just the feeling that the air has when it touches your body. It is truly amazing Chlöe,” he replied with a smile on his face.

“Listen to me Norik, if it really is that great then how are we going to go out there. The only way outside is right passed the Council and nobody can sneak past them, how do think you can manage to get out there without them noticing,” Chlöe said in a more serious tone. Norik just turned to her with an even bigger smile on his face.

“Simple,” he said, “We will dig our own way out of this damn cave.”

Jace heard a scream, very faint at first, but slowly growing to the point where it was it was deafening. Chlöe and Norik seemed to not notice the sound as Jace put his hands over his head, even though it didn’t quiet the noise. He felt like his ears were going to explode, or at least start to bleed. Then everything started to fade to white. He knew he was going to wake up soon because it was just like the previous two times when he had these “visions”. The only problem would be where he was this time and how to escape whatever waited for him.

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Alex was being dragged toward the castle much like Jace. The vines that were dragging them however, went in different directions, so if they did survive this predicament they would be lost and alone. Alex, taking the risk of getting a stick jabbed into her eyes, opened them. She reached for her sword but soon found out she dropped it when the vines yanked them off their feet. Alex tried to pry the vine off of her but it's grip was too strong. It simply tightened its grip around her ankle as she struggled to pull the thing off while being dragged across the ground. She hit a rotting stump of a tree and exploded into tiny pieces of wood. The impact of the wood knocked her into a daze, and as she continued to be pulled across the ground toward the castle she saw the dragon; who was circling the garden, turn toward the sudden explosion of wood. It saw Alex and flew toward the movement. Alex just gulped and prayed that the vine would take her wherever it was taking her, faster.

The dragon landed on the ground with such force that it cracked a bit under its claws. It landed on the vine that was carrying Alex and it was shredded into two. The vine wrapped around her ankle went limp as the other half flailed around like a chicken with its head cut of, green ooze coming from where it was amputated. The part around Alex's ankle vanished like the other plants into the air. After it was gone Alex started to see very dim colors of light around everything living, much like Jace described.

The dragon after catching it's pray, started burning all the other vines sprouting from the castle, which Alex realized how close it was. She stood up quickly while the dragon had its back turned and bolted toward the castle. The dragon however, saw the movement from the corner of its eye and moved to intercept her. With its sheer size and speed the dragon beat Alex to her destination and trapped her against a wall. It stood there staring at her making a low growing noise. Alex responded with a wimpier and shaking uncontrollably. It snorted its nose, black smoke coming from it and lingering in the air. Alex didn't even have the guts to cough as the black smoke filled her nostrils. She saw where the dragon burned all of the vines new ones sprouting up the holes and cracks in the wall. The dragon, if it did notice, didn't care; it's attention was focused on Alex.

What happened next shocked Alex so much she thought she would have literary jumped out of her skin. The dragon spoke. It was a booming voice but still a low grumble. It spoke in some unidentified langue.

"Aam, zu dahmaan jul ingrah vod," the dragon said.

"Wha- What?" Alex asked not sure if the dragon was a friend or foe and still afraid for her life. The dragon looked at her for a second before talking again.

"Krosis, I... did not expect there... to still be humans left… so it has been… a long tiid… since I have spoken… hin language," it said in a low and slow grumble.

Alex was confused and her head hurt. All the lights and colors that were being emitted by everything was almost unbearable. The auras around everything started to get brighter as more of the mutant plants were burned by the spreading fire and disappeared into a blue dust-like substance. Smoke started to fill the air and Alex had to close her eyes for the fear that she might go blind by the bright lights. Alex started to cough from the some that flooded the air. Although she didn’t see it, she felt the dragon begin to hover above the ground and clear out the smoke with gust of air from its wings. She would have to remind herself to thank it later.

Ales tried to open her eyes but when she did she was blinded with light. She could barely see her hands in front of here because of the burning white light that covered everything else. She started to feel it overcome her and she screamed, but Alex didn’t hear her voice even though she felt her lungs spewing the air out of them; instead all Alex heard was the sound one would hear if they were underwater with nothing to disturb the air. Alex tried to scream louder when she saw flames cover her body, how she had no idea because the fire was farther to the left of her and it couldn’t have spread quickly. The light around her quickly went vanished as the dragon covered her with its wing, it said something but like when one tries to talk underwater, it was drowned out and Alex couldn’t make out what it said. Then, although the lighting didn’t change, Alex felt that the world around her was going black.