Truths of a prophecy

by Cookiedash

Chapter 9

"Rainbow! Get out of here!" Twilight shouted, pointing upwards. She watched as Rainbow followed her command and shot upwards before realizing what had happened and tried to turn back. The next thing Twilight knew, she was at the edge of the Everfree forest surrounded by beasts and everypony else. Her horn, along with every other unicorns horn was still coated in a black aura, preventing her from using magic. The pegasi now had a faint black aura around their wings, presumably to prevent flight. The beasts started to push them forward into the Everfree forest. Spike sat on top of Twilight's back, worried. He glanced around not really sure what to do. The beasts ears were pricked, listening intently for anypony stepping out of line or anything else that may come looking for them. A few ponies protested and a few foals wailed. They were quickly silenced though, either by the beasts scaring them or the beasts beating them up slightly. Applejack was one of the ponies who got beaten. Along the walk Twilight was desperately trying to think what Rainbow Dash was doing. 'I hope she thinks things through and doesn't just dive headfirst into a battle.' Was Twilight's first thought. 'Oh, what if she has no-clue where to look for us! What if Nightmare moon finds her before she finds us!' Twilight started to panic now, lots of thoughts came swirling into her head. She still wasn't really friends with Rainbow Dash, they had barley known each other for a few hours, but she didn't want the pegasus to get hurt, plus, Rainbow Dash was currently, the only pony who could save them. After about an hours walk, Twilight noticed that one beast was glowing slightly, she watched in horror as the beast got bigger. Then she noticed that the other beasts were doing the same, glowing and getting bigger. Two beasts, above them flew along, not changing at all. Everypony was worried now, more ponies began to protest and more ponies got hurt.

A little bit later Twilight found herself extremely exhausted and in pain. She had been beaten several times whilst trying to escape, or protesting. Most ponies had been beaten now, either for talking, protesting or trying to escape. 'Come on Rainbow, come and save us before it's too late! Please!' Twilight was beginning to hyperventilate now and Spike attempted to calm her by making her take deep breaths and stop thinking about what it was she was stressing over. Getting Twilight to calm down, though, involved Spike talking, which he was beaten for. Twilight watched as one of the beasts grabbed Spike and started to claw at him and hit him before dumping him at Twilight's feet. Luckily for Spike, his thick scales prevented any real damage.

It was dark in the forest and Twilight could barely see. It had been a few hours since they had been captured and every so often the beasts would get slightly bigger. A few hours ago a cry was heard through the forest. The cry was quiet and quite distant, it was also ahead of them. Twilight had no clue what it was, they were too far away to tell. The group stopped when they heard the cry, but carried on when the noise stopped. Two hours later, the group stopped again and the lead beast sniffed the air, then it stepped over to the left slightly and sniffed again. Spike shifted his gaze to something in the direction of what the beast had thought it smelled. He was still looking that way when the group carried on, Twilight looked where Spike was looking, she saw nothing but mud, some bushes and, was that a mud pony??? Twilight blinked several times in quick succession, when she looked again, nothing was there. 'Must've been my imagination' thought Twilight as she shook her head. spike shifted his gaze again slightly before looking forward to where they were going.

Twilight began to think that they had been walking in circles after another hour when they came to a tunnel in the ground. They stopped and the beasts re-positioned themselves, The two smaller, flying beasts took the lead and back whilst the three larger beasts stopped outside and guarded the entrance. Then they carried on moving down into the tunnel. One beast took the branch that hung on the wall like a torch and lit it. The flame glowed brightly and it lit up the way. After a few minutes of walking Twilight thought she heard shouting coming from outside the entrance, she strained her ears but she wasn't sure whether she had heard anything at all. All she made out, if she heard anything, was "IS AWESOME!"

Another few minutes passed and the group came to a fork in the tunnels. They took the left turn and settled down about two meters away from the fork. Everypony was exhausted and tired. Most were hurt from the beatings they got during the journey. As they all slumped down, Pinkie Pie and Applejack fell asleep either side of her, Spike jumped off her back and went to see Rarity, and Fluttershy sat behind Twilight quietly. The next few minutes that passed were long and agonizing. Not a sound could be heard, except for the shuffling of everypony around them. Suddenly, something caught Twilight's eye she wasn't sure what it was, but it looked like a pony. A pony with a rainbow mane. 'I must be delusional, there is no way that Rainbow is down here unless she was caught.' Twilight thought. Just to be sure, she rubbed her eyes, when she looked again, nopony was there. *Sigh* 'I hope we move soon, to a spot that can be more easily reached by Rainbow.' Just then, she heard a sound, the guards heard it too. It was a soft clacking. 'Oh no. Rainbow Is down here! Oh, she's being so careless, the beasts can hear her!!!' Another clack was heard, from down the tunnel they had came, and the beasts pelted after the sound. "Rainbow no!" Twilight whispered. She felt tears falling down her cheeks, 'That stupid pegasus will get caught and then no-pony will be able to save us!' Twilight buried her head in her hooves and cried quietly.

"Hey, Egghead, you awake?"

Author's Note:

Yeh, I'm terrible at Rainbow Dash, sorry.