11-Aftermath
11-Aftermath
They had done it. Equestria was saved from the viney menace. The Elements of Harmony were returned to where they were created. The Tree of Harmony’s power was restored and the chaotic plunder vines were vanquished. When they began to wither and die, the mane 6 celebrated as the Princesses were released from their plant-based captivity. However, something was amiss. When Princess Luna was released she looked no worse for wear and instantly noticed the now-former elements of harmony standing there with smiles of success plastered across their faces, but when they looked towards Celestia’s former prison, said smiles were quickly replaced with expressions of shock and confusion.
The Princess did not seem to notice them as her attention was focused on something much more important. Her horn was glowing brightly as her golden aura encapsulated the remnants of a ring on the horn of the child lying in front of her. The child looked exhausted with a seemingly never-ending stream of tears running down their face. Seeing their plight, Princess Luna and Twilight rushed towards the duo as the child’s hair seemed to glow brighter and brighter with each passing second.
“Princess! What’s wrong!?” Twilight called out as she rushed towards Celestia, Princess Luna right beside her as several more worrying cries of confusion were heard from Twilight's friends. However, just as they arrived by Celestia’s side, she was enveloped in her golden aura and then… she was gone. Celestia had teleported to god knows where with probably highly injured Jolyne in tow. The pair were now standing before the empty space where Celestia was just moments ago. Small shards of metal and magic-saturated crystal debris littering the ground.
A cacophony of confused yells like: “What’s going on?”, “Where did the Princess go?” or “Is Jolyne okay?” were heard behind them as a low vibrating sound started to become more prominent. This in-turn grabbed the attention of Twilight as a certain pink earth pony’s voice had not yet been heard by the lavender Alicorn yet. The same pink earth pony that caused Twilight to spontaneously combust because of a certain pink vibraty/twitchy/itchy tail making her implicitly fear and trust any physical reaction appearing on her. Twilight's gaze was drawn to the quite vigorously vibrating earth pony who also drew the attention of the rest of her friends who’s calls quickly quieted down as they all stared in curiosity and a small amount of fear at the sight; violently vibrating Pinkie Pie.
“Pinkie? What’s going on?” Asked Twilight. Luna looked towards Twilight in confusion. “Twilight how does her vibrating take priority over the sudden disappearance of my sister in what should be a momentous occasion?!” Twilight, however, wasn’t listening as her attention was still solely focused on the vibrating Pinkie Pie who seemed like she was only seconds away from literally bouncing around the room.
“O-o-o-o-o, v-e-r-y t-w-i-t-c-h-y t-w-i-t-c-h-a t-w-i-t-c-h. T-h-i-s i-s a b-i-g d-o-o-z-y!” Pinkie said as she continued spasming. Meanwhile, the rest of the mane 6 took on varying expressions of pure dread at what the implications were of, quote-unquote, big doozy. Luna was still predominantly confused as to why this brought such dread to the former element bearers. But just as she was about to question the bearers until she felt the ground had begun to shake slightly. It was faint but very noticeable to the group. Twilight quickly enveloped everyone in her aura and teleported to one of the nearby hills overlooking Ponyville, the ground still shaking when they appeared above ground. As their eyes adjusted to the sudden increase in sunlight they noted nothing out of the ordinary at first. Well, the sun and moon were still seen in the sky since the princesses had yet to fix their position as well as the sunrise to the south.
‘Wait sunrise?’ Thought the group as they looked back at the southern horizon and did a double-take at what they were seeing. What they saw was equally beautiful as it was terrifying. On the horizon was what looked like a second sunrise but it was anything but that. Twilight quickly teleported her telescope to them to get a better view. And what she saw was no sunrise.
But a massive ball of fire.
Macintosh Hills;
Several seconds after Celestia’s teleport.
The relatively quiet atmosphere of the Macintosh Desert was broken by the sound of a large *crack* cutting through the air like butter, causing every critter within earshot to hide as bolts of golden magic began to strike the ground. Craters of molten glass left in their wake.
Then there was another and another with more bolts striking the ground creating even more craters. The temperature of air began to rise drastically as more and more terrain was turned to glass. Then it all went quiet; the bolts suddenly stopped. Carefully one critter, a small desert Gecko, left the safety of its hiding place to see what had caused the golden lightning. What he saw next was the last thing that small Geko would ever see as a large crash reverberated through the air deafening the poor creature before he was blinded and then…
The Gecko knew no more as a magical shockwave passed, completely evaporating him.
Celestia’s shield held as the magical shockwave blasted over her. The ring on Jolyne’s horn had just exploded with a powerful release of magic creating a shockwave that went on for miles scorching the ground. Thankfully, however, the explosion had knocked Jolyne unconscious as what came next would have been beyond agonizing to the alicorn, were she still conscious.
Thinking the worst was over, Celestia dropped her shield and teleported back, next to Jolyne. The ground beneath Jolyne was scorched black as Celestia looked her over. She looked relatively fine and even somewhat peaceful in Celestia’s eyes, after the hell she had just gone through. Her hair had even begun to glow once more. But that was just the beginning. A bright light drew Celestia’s attention back to Jolyne’s horn. A large crack was visible on the alabaster white horn as a bright golden light was emitting from it. The light began to grow and intensify, spreading across Jolyne’s horn, engulfing it in less than 30 seconds. Her hair once again began to glow brighter and brighter before transforming from a raging orange inferno into a deep purple plasma. Celestia had begun to back up. Constant ‘No no no!’ ran through Celestia’s mind.
“This was not meant to happen!” yelled Celestia. Her horn lit up to try and prevent what was about to probably be the most devastating events in recent Equestrian history.
Partial or complete cracking of the horn is one of the most devastating injuries a unicorn can experience in their lifetime. Not only is it extremely painful, with many considering it to be on par with having every pain receptor in their body set on fire, as the substantial majority of all nerve endings unicorn possesses are located in one's horn but badly healed crack will continuously irritate said nerve endings. And that's just the pain response, what comes afterwards, however, is what makes any type of horn injury so dangerous.
The major question is this: What happens when the focal point of stored mana is cracked, breaking its containment within the body? With its containment broken, the mana within one’s body will be expelled. Violently draining all the mana available in the ponies body. This in turn makes the body draw in more magic from the environment to compensate for the loss creating a feedback loop and prolonging the expulsion until the crack is sealed…
Or until all available magic in the body is expended... killing the pony.
You see, every unicorn’s magic is stored around the body but is, of course, mostly stored in and around the horn with only small minute quantities stored everywhere else. Normal unicorns naturally draw in from abundant magic found in the surrounding environment as a way to recharge their mana pools faster than normally generated by their body. However, when we come to the users of Lunar and Solar magic, mana is absorbed and generated in a very different way. Celestia, Luna, and now Jolyne all have an innate connection to the Sun and Moon respectively, hence instead of drawing their magic in from the surroundings like every other being on Equis they draw it from their respective celestial bodies and store it inside of themselves.
This relatively small difference greatly affects solar-linked alicorns because spells usually drain the surrounding area of its native magic causing a short-lived, vaccumesque area. Leaving explosions as somewhat manageable accidents as they are mostly influenced by unicorn's innate magic limits. For Jolyne unfortunately, mass release of her continuously absorbed solar magic meant that everything would be additionally influenced by now overabundant magic in the area.
Thus Celestia needed to act fast or this child would die and take the entire Macintosh Mountains with her. Solar magic already made Celestia one of the most powerful beings in Equestria so the expulsion of an entire alicorn child’s worth of solar magic…tainted solar magic on top of that...would be quite disastrous.
Celestia began to quickly weave a spell specifically designed for such an injury and wove it onto the crack, hopeful that it would seal it. It didn’t. The spell wasn't strong enough to contain the unrestrained magic as it began to escape outwards into the environment. The sudden pressure wave blew Celestia back, the escaping magic turning the surrounding air into a rapidly expanding wave of superheated plasma, turning what were small sizzling puddles of molten glass into one giant ocean in the blink of an eye. Celestia, however, was completely fine, thankfully millennia of combat reflexes kicked in putting up a shield before the plasma wave washed over her. Flapping her wings, Celestia stabilized herself as she began pushing against the wave of seemingly never-ending plasma. The force was strong but Celestia was stronger, she began to step forward, her mighty wings fighting to keep her stable as she started to push through.
Every second counted as the longer Jolyne’s magic was uncontained the further the plasma would reach destroying more and more and more. And if Celestia couldn’t reach her in time Jolyne’s life would be lost too. So Celestia pushed harder and harder, getting ever so closer back towards Jolyne as she began to weave a modified version of the containment spell, hopefully, this time capable of establishing magical containment and sealing the crack in Jolyne’s horn.
The closer she got the harder it was to keep on moving but Celestia couldn’t give up now. It was her fault that they were in such a situation in the first place. Had she just removed the ring earlier she could have just directed the surge into space leaving Jolyne completely unharmed.
But she didn’t. Celestia stubbornly kept Jolyne’s magic sealed and trapped her in a wheelchair because of some deeply ingrained fear of whether it was all a trick or not. No matter how much she tried to tell herself that it was irrational and that Jolyne wasn’t Daybreaker her mind kept on telling her she was.
And now because of her own mistake, a child was going to die.
With renewed vigor, Celestia pushed forward. Jolyne was now almost fully visible through her shield and the plasma that was being shot out in all directions. As Celestia continued to slowly push through she felt the force against her shield become weaker by the second. Time was running out. The mana remaining inside Jolyne was beginning to run low. If Celestia couldn’t seal the crack soon Jolyne’s last moments of life would be filled with nothing but pain and suffering. She needed to get to her, NOW!
Panic reigned all across Equestria as southern skies, near Macintosh Hills, were encompassed by what can only be described as ‘second sunrise’ as a subtle earthquake persisted. To some ponies, it signaled the end times. The Sun and Moon were still high in the sky, now however, the sky looked like it was burning in the south. It was the perfect combination of disasters to cause a widespread panic. There were lootings in Baltimare as terror gripped the city. The local police force had tried to calm the local population down, but fear won out in the end as even the guard began to abandon their posts to make sure their family and loved ones were safe.
Canterlot had been relatively calm as the news of the Princesses' disappearance had been kept under wraps to avoid a panic, the population however was still on edge but with such a large garrison of royal guard present, peace was maintained. The guard and local administration, fortunately, had kept the population under control even when the light of the explosion became visible to the citizens.
Then came Appleloosa. It was the closest settlement to the Macintosh Hills and therefore the closest to the event itself. The first thing they experienced was the resulting shockwave drawing the attention of every citizen to the hills. The ground began to shake shortly afterward causing the local population to panic. Then came the light. It started off small but grew rapidly in size and intensity. Anypony unfortunate enough to be caught staring was temporarily blinded as the yellow sphere grew. And finally, all resemblance of order broke down as the local guard contingent tried to reassure them as much as they could, but the guard themselves didn’t even believe what they were preaching. Their attempts were doomed from the start as the ambient temperature began to steadily rise, increasing panic of the population even further.
Even as far north as the Crystal Empire, the event was visible but thankfully the only ponies to have noticed this were the ponies who lived in the highest building of the Empire; The Crystal Palace. More specifically, the current rulers of the Empire: Princess Mi Amore Cadenza (or just Cadence to her friends) and her husband; Prince Shining Armor. They had been observing Equestria from one of the many balconies of their palace when they saw it. It was faint but it was there… and it terrified them. They quickly sent letter after letter hoping for some sort of information about what was going on to their southern neighbors and friends.
And then, just as quickly as it began, it disappeared completely, like a candle thrown into a pond. The ground became calm once more with the southern horizon’s light going out. The panic that gripped Equestria beginning to slowly dissipate.
Pushing through the last barrier, Celestia was now close enough to put the modified spell into action. She started to feel the push against her shield weaken even further. The energy being released was no longer strong enough to turn the surrounding gases into plasma and there was almost no more resistance for Celestia to push through as the spell was weaved into the crack on Jolyne’s horn, her magic now contained and unable to escape. With her vision no longer hindered, she got a first-hand look at the destruction caused by her own mistake.
Glass.
An ocean of glass as far as the eye could see.
The only sound breaking the eerie silence was the cracking of the now rapidly cooling glass beneath their hooves as Celestia focused her attention back onto Jolyne.
She wasn’t breathing. Celestia was too slow. There wasn’t enough mana left in Jolyne’s body.
“No!” Yelled Celestia in defiance. She had not come this far to fail here, there was still time. The surrounding environment was saturated in the released solar magic and all Jolyne would need is enough to stay alive. But time was running out as the wild tainted solar magic began diffusing into the ambient magic. Celestia began channeling solar magic back into Jolyne before it was too intertwined for her body to absorb.
*Gasp*
A loud intake of air signaled Celestia’s success. And just in time too as the surrounding magic was now too intermixed to be reabsorbed back into Jolyne. Celestia released a breath she didn’t know she was holding as she collapsed next to Jolyne’s unconscious, but thankfully alive, body. Looking up into the sky, the moon was no longer visible as Celestia lay there recuperating herself. That whole ordeal had taken a lot more out of her than she thought. But because of her alicorn physiology, she would be right as rain in a minute or two. Jolyne however... Needless to say with the amount of magic she lost, bringing her to death's door. A hospital would be required for a full recovery.
As Celestia’s strength returned, she weaved some extra sealing spells onto Jolyne’s horn to guarantee that nothing short of the horn being healed would break magical containment. With that all set and done, Celestia began to charge a teleport spell back to Canterlot.
Nothing happened.
Confused, Celestia tried again with identical results. She used a scanning spell to determine what was hindering her efforts at teleportation. The results were...interesting to say the least. As this was the first instance of a nightmare entity suffering a cracked horn the effects of raw tainted mana had never been observed before. Turns out that the mixing of the solar magic and the surrounding natural magic had created a type of a dampener that prevented the use of any spells of a longer range.
As an example imagine, if you will, how radiation bounces off of different atom cores reflecting the energy in different directions. This new ambient magical field acts in exactly the same way. The further the target of your spell is the weaker it will be. Teleportation was out of the question now. And who knew what else could happen the longer this ‘magical fallout’ interacted with the ambient magic within this new ‘desert of glass’. The closest town was Appleloosa to the north but all Celestia needed to do was get out of this desert and hopefully, the magical interference would be weak enough for a long-range teleport back to Canterlot.
So with a plan in mind, Celestia carefully picked up the unconscious Jolyne. And as Jolyne lay droopily in her arms, she looked over at the horizon, with Canterlot visible in the distance, and spread her wings. Flapping them briefly she took flight, a sea of glass cooling and cracking underneath them. The Aftermath of Celestia’s actions were immense.
As where there once was a desert made of sand.
There was now a desert…
Made of Glass.
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Knew it..
Ooooh, it’s getting even better!
Poor Jolyne... I wouldn't be surprised if she starts to blame Celestia for what happened to her, too. I'm still going to cling to my little fantasy of Tia becoming her mother role, but... that's probably not going to happen :(
Hmmm... Interesting...
... looks at my own story...
... Coincidence? :D
So they can absorb magic, power from the moon and sun?
By that logic wouldn't Joylne just continuously absorb power from the sun and at the same time releasing it till the sun runs out of juice?
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Considering how much power a sun generally generates, I would say that 'burning' through all that would take quite a while.
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Yes I know but still, Jocelyne wouldn't run out of power, etc it doesn't make sense
It just tries to create a suspension where there isn't one, without a reason
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More like she is losing more magic than her small inexperienced body can draw in from the sun. She is still a child who has not had any magical training and has had her magic inhibited for quite a while at the time of containment breach
To use video game terms
Jolyne max mana 500
Passive mana regen by magic absorption +20 mana a second (with growth and training This will increase)
Containment breach Expells mana at a rate of -50 mana a second
Like do not take this as her power level it's just the best way in my mind to explain how Jolyne is losing more mana than she absorbs from the sun
Strange.... when I type that gibberish in, I get Shakespear.
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a boiler can still run out of water if the water going out if faster then the ammont going in so maby its like that but with magic it could be it requires magic for the magic to flow back in so if you run out completly like little daybreak almost did then it might not be able to be recoverd
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im hoping for the mother figure route as well but with all that has happend i think little daybreak just needs somone she can trust to help her and after she finds out what happend with this i think celestia will at least be on the list of ponys little daybreak can trust to look out for her
new landmark unlocked! The glass desert
who think discord is going to be at least a little remorsefull for what he just caused?
will little daybreak forgive him or (proberbly rightly so) not what anything to do with him?
There used to be a much better Fallout amv to this song several years ago, but I guess that video got deleted at some point. A shame, really.
CALLED IT!
There was a woman who was born with no arms and had a robot arm attached to her brain by scientists and she could control it no problem. Granted wings aren't arms but you underestimate how adaptable the brain is
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So in the future when she will be more experienced, theoretically she can do it like I said?
This will be a PR nightmare, they're gonna need to spin this with the best lie possible.
Unless Celestia takes blame, it's not gonna explain the alicorn child that the nation as a whole, will eventually notice existing. So far, Jolyne's existence has been under wraps, thanks to the professionalism and loyalty of the castle staff, but with the swarm of news personnel that will undoubtedly descend upon the castle for answers, someone is going to slip up or just outright snitch about Jolyne.
They could take the "Long lost daughter" route, and the disaster was the announcement of her release from some magical mcguffin, like all of the Princesses' problems or "Injured dimensional counterpart" who (Jolyne) was hurt by something in her dimension and a loss of magical control resulted in her dropping into this Equestria.
I dunno, it feels as if the truth would be less believable and should they mention the ring and it being the direct result to the catastrophe, it would horribly damage all three Princesses' reputation. The dangerous build up of magic in exchange for the crippling of a child and being rendered "harmless", would be appalling and horrifying for the average citizen to hear.
Oof, so the Glass Desert is gonna be a thing, poor mister lizard, I hope it actually died, the last thing we need is that all living things that died, had a tainted magical imprint of their instincts left behind for a sort of golem construct to take on and "live" in their place. That'd be horrifying if there was any desert monsters killed at the time.
A desert of glass huh?
Factoring in the light and heat reflection, attempting to cross that would be like a convection oven.
If its like a second sun i wouldnt recommend looking at it with a telescope, its just gonna concentrate the light into her eye like a magnifying glass on dry grass
Vault of glass
THE HYPE IS REAL!
But seriously I think Discord is going to feel at least some regret over what happened. He just wants to have fun and spread chaos while doing it. How was he supposed to know Jolyne would hit her head and break the ring. Now both princesses are emotionally drained/blaming themselves over what has happened and main 6 + Spike are going to be extra worried about her.
Honestly Jolyne should blackmail Discord into healing her or at least helping some way if he doesn't do it willingly. I don't think nobody is going to be happy hearing that Discord knew about the vines and all of this could have been avoided.
Well - shit...
Lets make a list:
-Luna tried to kill Jolyne, crippeld her.
-Celestia is responsible for her crippeld body to stay that way & torture pain endured in the chapter.
-The filly is feard in general.
Anyone can see why littel Sunbreaker would not come to be?
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What exacly?
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Dont you mean worse? A Desert of glass will ruin the environment/eco-system...
Global warming, deadly no fly zone, corrupted magic zone...
Fluttershy better not know the deathcoubt of all the animals
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Pretty sure they couldnt make it worse if they tried...
They literally force her to become Daybreaker...
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Nice explaining. Good logic. Might want to add it in the chapter or one that follows
A weapon of Glass Construction.
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Celestia being able to glass a dessert. I always knew she could do that
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This story reminds me of a Necromancer story in work. Celestia is responsible for making a Foal into a 'villain' or at least let him look like it. Same here... with poor little Jolyne become Daybreaker.
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Probably on a smaller scale. Burning the Evil Sisters to ash so no foal will ever suffer trough torment ever again... Down with the tyrants...
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We cant learn from mistakes if they are not admited and recorded. If Luna & Celestia really care... They will be honest
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Pretty mutch. Only far worse. We have that kind of problem in 2 places on earth.
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Nice...
Hm...
Ok, I feel a little bit uneasy about those lines.
the gibberish mean: And so the ball has finally dropped
Why you gotta throw me off a cliff like this? :(
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[1] The term is nucleus, and the nucleus doesn't really interact much with other particles (other than electrons), as it is extremely small. Rather what causes atoms to interact with radiation is the electron cloud as it is much bigger.
In short, don't go into specifics unless you need to i. e. just say atoms
Pretty cool story though
So jolyne became a Halo Super-Corvete glassing laser, And is once again in the hospital. Can she get a break? Especially with Tirek around the corner?
God dammit Celestia
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That is exactly what I thought!
WAT?
You never look at the bucking sun, not even what you think might be a mysterious second sun, with a telescope!!!!
That's a good way to flash-fry your eyeball. Think burning things with a magnifying glass, only with several times the light gathering aperture, and vastly superior focusing ability.
Can you say, "*POP!* ~Sizzle~ YEYAAARARRGHGHH!!!?"
Because you will if you do this.
GREAT CHAPTER!!!
As the days go by, the weaklings mind becomes more and more easy to control. Nothing can stop me.
Did you hear anything?
continue ?
10361691
bruh XD I not that fast
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but ... but you left us super anxious, to see what is the reaction of twinlight and her friends, spike, the two guards who are her friends (I forgot the name, I know one of them has silver involved), luna who recently she regretted it after seeing the dayday memories, her own celestia, the repercussions of the glass desert and the dayday's reaction to it all.
10361718
what can i say.
I am simply one hell of a sadist MUAHAHAQHAHAHA_8*Cough*-*hack*-*cough*
uch- no with how the next 2 chapters are structured ill just quote Hebogin when we decided to spilt it into 3 seperate chapters
Te-he
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link ?
10361783
wut u mean?
10361792
the electronic address to which it was published?
10361855
its from muh discord if thats what u mean
I want a picture of this sea of glass
10362415
Me too man... me too
But hey the human imagination is better than any picture or artwork ever conceived. So just imagine it...
For as far as the eye could see glass everywhere. Jagged spires of what once were trees and hills now nothing but razor sharp spikes poking out of the ground. You look up at the horizon... a glare forces you to squint as the sun sets. And as the light passes through the glass. A Rainbow of colors is what meets your vision as the sun finally sets on this desert...of glass.
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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FOqHt0d5XUs/TsJhCWHsyrI/AAAAAAAAAvY/c7n8O5nhpXM/s1600/MMM_09.JPG something like this i think
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Y E S T H A T E X A C T L Y T H A T
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ah ...
ok
Ah, best pony! There you are.