Entrance – How Did I Get Here?
I've had this dream every night...
In it, I see four fillies laughing and playing...
An Earth Pony...
A Unicorn...
And two Alicorns...
They built up a powerful bond, but they were separated, as friends usually are...
Why...?
Why am I seeing this...?
And who's Vale...?
That name...
It sounds...
Familiar...
"Come on Azure, she's descending over here!" the young hyper Earth Pony shouted. She had a yellow coat and a red mane and tail.
"I'm... coming..." her slightly older friend panted as she ran. She was a unicorn with a blue coat (matching her name) and a light blue mane and tail, "Honestly, you forget... I don't have as much stamina... as you..."
They galloped up to the top of a hill, where a bright light was seen shining from the sky. Out of the light they saw a white filly descending down onto the ground. She was about as old as they were, and she had a long, straight deep blue mane and tail. This filly was what they found out was an Alicorn, a special pony with the strength of an Earth Pony, the magic of a Unicorn, and the flying abilities of a Pegasus. She opened her eyes when she elegantly landed and looked around.
"Vale!" the Earth Pony shouted. Vale smiled brightly and turned to the Earth Pony and Unicorn.
"Bayonet! Azure!" she cried out happily running over to them. The three of them embraced and then galloped around laughing. Anyone who saw them could tell they were best friends.
After playing tag for a while, the three friends walked through the forest talking.
"Azure learned a new spell today!" Bayonet said happily.
"Really? What sort of spell?" Vale asked eagerly.
"I-It's nothing major," Azure said blushing, "It's a simple transfiguration spell. Anypony with a horn could do it."
"Aw, you're too modest, Azure," Vale said, "I bet it only took you a day to master it."
"Uh, duh, Azure is the greatest magic user in the village," Bayonet bragged, making poor Azure blush even more.
"Bayonet..."
"Could you show me?" Vale asked, "All I can do with my horn is shoot light out."
"Show her, Azure," Bayonet said, "Please."
It looked like Azure didn't want to. She hated putting herself in the limelight, but she didn't have much of a choice anymore. Not with both of her friends watching her. In the end, she sighed and walked over to a rock, both Vale and Bayonet cheering. She made her horn glow, and she was about to do turn it into a turtle or something, but she stopped when she heard something.
"What's up Azure?" Bayonet asked, but Azure shushed Bayonet and listened closely to the sound.
It was crying.
Vale walked into the bush a bit in front of Azure, and peeked inside, shocked by what she saw.
"Guys," she whispered, "it's a filly."
The two of them ran over to Vale and looked as well. In the bush, they saw an adorable little filly with a lavander coat, long dark purple mane and tail, both with the same pink highlight, and like Vale, she was apparently an Alicorn. She looked to be around their age. She was in the distance, surrounded by flowers, and she was crying.
"Who is she?" Bayonet asked, "Do you know her, Vale?"
"Nu uh," Vale shook her head, "She's not from Elysium."
"She's pretty, but she looks so sad," Bayonet said, "Azure, what should we do?" Azure was silent, "Azure?"
Before anyone knew it, Azure was trotting over to the filly. She knelt down in front of her and nudged her lightly, "Hey, what's wrong?"
"I'm... lost..." the purple filly sobbed, "I was... curious... about... the... outside... but when... I left... the... door... closed... and now... I... can't... go... home!" she continued to sob loudly, not even trying to hide how upset she was.
"That's horrible!" Bayonet said as she and Vale walked over to the crying filly, "I got locked out of the village once. I cried all night until Vale came. That was how I met her."
"What's your name?" Vale asked.
"M-M-Midnight..." the filly sobbed.
"You're not from Elysium like Vale," Bayonet said, "Are you from another village?"
Midnight shook her head, "Tar...tarus..."
"Vale..." Bayonet said turning to Vale, "What's Tartarus?"
"I don't really know. My mom tells me that it's a dangerous place, filled with monsters, but Midnight doesn't seem like a monster to me."
Right now, she actually seemed quite harmless. Azure was looking at Midnight intently as she cried. It looked like it hurt her to see her cry. She then looked at the flowers around them as if she had an idea.
"Midnight, watch this," Azure said getting up. She then made her horn glow, and the flowers instantly turned into butterflies. Bayonet jumped up and down in excitement laughing. Vale gasped in amazement. Midnight stopped crying and looked up at the butterflies with mesmerized expression.
"I told you she was amazing!" Bayonet said.
"Wow... that was cool!" Vale said, now smiling. Midnight walked over to Azure and stood next to her.
"That was beautiful..." Midnight stated. Azure looked over at Midnight with a smile.
"I don't ever want you to cry again," Azure said, shocking Midnight a bit, "If you ever feel like crying, I'll use my magic to make you smile."
"Y-you will?" Midnight asked. Azure nodded.
"My name is Azure Sky," Azure said.
"I'm Bayonet, and she's Vale. She's from Elysium," Bayonet said.
"Azure, why don't you take Midnight back to the orphanage with you? I don't think I can bring other ponies with me to Elysium," Vale stated.
"Yeah, and we don't have any room in my house," Bayonet said, "But there's plenty of room there, right?"
"Yeah. Okay Midnight, until we can get you back to Tartarus, you can stay with me."
"You'll... really... let me stay with... you?" Midnight asked slowly, looking like she was ready to cry again. When Azure nodded, Midnight did cry again, but she was smiling, "Thank you so much!"
"Aw.. it's nothing... really..." Azure looked away blushing. Midnight then embraced Azure in a tight hug, making Azure blush even more, "I-I-I-I said no more crying!"
"But I'm so happy right now! Can we... be friends...?" Midnight asked, still hugging Azure. Azure looked at Bayonet and Vale, hoping for support, but both of them were giggling looking at the scene.
"Ugh... sure. If you'll let go of me, then fine. We can be friends," Azure said. Of course, hearing that made Midnight cry even more. Azure shook her head, wondering how somepony from Tartarus could be such a crybaby.
"Mmm..." Rarity stirred a bit before she sat up. She didn't recognize her surroundings. She was standing on a ledge outside of a large golden tower, the skies around her were bright blue with white clouds, and it was really windy. As she got up she noticed that she was wearing the Element of Generosity around her neck.
"This isn't an ideal place for a nap," Rarity scolded herself, "All of this wind will mess up my beautiful mane." She turned around and was about to walk off, but stopped when she saw how high up she was. She couldn't even see the ground below. Rarity wasn't afraid of heights, but being up this high would unnerve anypony.
But how did she even get here?
"Now think, Rarity," she began pacing around, "You were on your way to the spa. You got the full treatment, and then you were on your way back home, when..."
That life doesn't belong to you...
"That's right!" Rarity said suddenly remembering, "That ruffian in the white cloak! I was ambushed, surrounded, and," overly dramatic gasp, "Ponynapped!" she looked around suddenly in fear, "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, HELP ME!" she called out, "HELLO?!" she felt hopeless looking around. Her heart was racing. The thought of being ponynapped, actually ponynapped, it was by far the WORST. POSSIBLE. THING!
"O-o-o-oh dear, I have no way of reaching anyone," she said to herself, "And I'm so high up that I can't get down. The only thing I can do is..." she looked back at the tower. The door was open, but something was telling her that if she went inside there she wasn't going to get out. Perhaps she could get some answers as to what the hell was going on though.
She looked at the necklace around her neck. At least she wasn't defenseless. Rarity closed her eyes, and allowed the power of the Element of Generosity to fill her. A second later, there was a bright glow and the necklace was replaced with sapphire blue and white armor. She then ran into the tower, the door closing behind her as expected. Well, at least she knew she was going in the right direction.
But with no way out, was that such a good thing to in the "right" direction?
Short, but this is just the prologue.
AND SO IT BEGINS
1311926 Woot for beginningness!
YAY!!!!
Plus, Midnight is adorable.
AAHH! inner demons continues!
1312012 Indeed. such a cute little destroy of worlds!
Oh, also noticed this. "Guys," she whispered, "it's a filly." Since they are all females, wouldn't it be Girls and not Guys?
AAHH! inner demons continues!
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1312027 No, I think you should be able to use "Guys" as a group of people instead of a group of a certain gender.
Wonderful is a understatment if used but i will use it anyway I am happy to say a expansion and more epicness!
keep being awesome!
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I approve of this sequel... or prequel... or, uh whatever. I'm so tired, I'll have to read it tomorrow.
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1312372 Think of it as a sequel with a prequel in it.
When does she find out that she died?
Been looking forward to this!
1312692 Did she die? Apple Bloom came to Elysium once while alive after all.
HINT HINT
oh I get it, can't believe I didn't get it beforehand
Well, this was a pleasent surprise. I wasn't expecting any followup to appear yet to be honest, but I'm glad to have been caught by surprise by this "Sequel Prequel", hehehe. I'm sure it'll take some time to see anymore, but thats fine as patience is a virtue. That, and I would hate for haste to stiffle your skill and creativity. Good things come to those who wait , as they say.
More from SapphireLibra? Guess I won't be doing homework for a while... Well, not really, but you get the idea: I am EXCITED!
How DARE you?
I thought I was gonna get to see Ten Years get finished before this, but no.dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Vinyl_shock.png Instead, all I see is some spin-off, that I barely want to read. WHAT THE H*** HAPPENS WITH LEZARD!?dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Twilight_crazy.png
A beautiful start to what I see as an amazing sequel to one of the best works of literature I've ever seen.
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I would love to see Inner demons become a big series
1354520 Worry not, I will finish 10 Years, but I'm stuck on where to take that one (I know how it ends, it's just getting that's hard). This is just as important as 10 Years, you'll see.
1357498 It better be... Grumble grumble...
1358271 It's all to build up to something amazing. Think of how awesome Kingdom Hearts 2 is.
1373008 Never played. I'm a Final Fantasy kind of guy
1373940 Well to clear things up, Chain of Memories was a build up game to fill in the gap between Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2. If you went straight to KH 2, then you would be extremely confused as new enemies are introduced, and new characters. Also, the beginning makes more sense if you play the end of Chain of Memories.
That's basically what I'm doing here with 10 Years and Fragments of Truth.
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So I shouldn't expect a 10 years update soon?
1386778 Like I said, I'm sort of stuck on how to proceed with 10 Years. It'll get updated once I figure out exactly what happens next.
1386904 PM me if you'd like some ideas. I can probably help you out, with a bit of explanation.
1386985 Hm... I might take you up on that offer. Thanks. If I do need help, I'll let you know.
Description reminds me of Bayonetta. Ill keep and eye on this
I have no words only feels
At least I can follow this one from the beginning.
I joined Inner Demons at, like, Chapter 26.
I know it was one of the stories I memorized the title and author of, because back then. I didn't have an account!
I should've seen this months ago... Where have I been? This is the sequel to one of my favorite stories!
In all its beauty, I still see some of the descriptive issues that were present in Inner Demons, telling instead of showing and whatnot.
Maybe instead of throwing the description all in one place, spread subtle details about a character's appearance throughout the chapter? I dunno.
Either way, I'm looking very, VERY forward to this story, and am more than excited to see where it will go
Before I go, random question. Do you happen to have an editor?
I had only read Inner Demons and wanted to read more of your stories. This sounds good. Can't wait for more.
PS: Are still getting called a guy? Also I like how you kept the evolved armour for the elements
Well i have finally gotten to reading this and i must say that i am already intrigued, Rarity's dream's seems to be of the past events that would eventually lead to what happened in "Inner Demons", this dream seemed to be how Twilight's, Apple Bloom's, and i am guessing Trixie's past selves met each other, i hope we get to see more of these dreams as we find out were Rarity is and why.
Welcome to Castle Oblivion....
Where to find is to lose....
And to lose is to find....
Hold on to the Chain of Memories that shackle your heart....
Lest you find yourself falling into darkness....