“Shining, you look stressed. You need sleep,” I said as he stressed about trying to get the last things finished for the ceremony.
He paused for a second before he sighed, “…That would be nice. But I need to get this finished.”
I facehoofed, “I don’t mean now! Later!”
Shining Armor sighed, “Yeah. That won’t happen for a while.”
“I figure that come with a foal,” I said with a nod. Didn’t exactly talk me into wanting one to be honest.
Eventually maybe, but not yet.
But Luna loved foals.
Shaking that thought from my head, I walked up next to Shining Armor as Rarity held out a selection of identical crystals for him to pick from.
“I…I don’t know…” He said and looked between them, “Which one do I pick!?”
I thought for a second about telling him to simply pick one, they were identical, but then thought better of it and just left them to it, moving over to Sunset where she was looking at the spinning crystal heart.
She glanced at me before looking at the ancient artifact again, “Amazing, isn’t it?”
I looked at it as I sat down next to her, “It is. You can almost feel the power coming of it and I’m not even a changeling.”
Sunset nodded and hummed in agreement, “Yeah. I can’t even begin to guess how difficult it was to create.”
“Pretty amazing.”
There was literally an epic fuckton of power in that thing, it kept an entire city-state with farms included free of snow and nice and warm in a frozen landscape. I couldn’t even calculate how much energy that was.
Sunset turned to me, “You ever think you will do something like this?”
“Like what?”
“Like this,” she said and motioned at the castle, “Your own castle, your own land, ponies that rely on you…”
I shifted my wings and shook my head, “I hope not,” I said before I sighed, “At least I don’t want to. Not sure I CAN avoid it forever with what I am. I want to though if at all possible.”
Sunny nodded and bumped her side against mine, “I can see where you are coming from, for sure. That’s a lot of responsibility.”
“Yeah, I would be constantly terrified of messing up,” I agreed and then smiled at her, poking her side with my wing, “Luckily, if it ever come to that, I have ponies I can rely on.”
That got me a smile in turn and she was about to say something else but was interrupted as Princess Cadence, Luna and Celestia exited the castle.
Shining quickly looked over from where Rarity was fuzzing over his mane. Extracting himself from beneath her brush, he trotted over to Cadence, “Okay, I chose the honor guard, picked the purity crystal, and I know exactly who I want to be our crystaller. So, all we need is…”
He paused and frowned in though.
Cadence rolled her eyes, “The baby?”
Shining got a slightly panicked look in his eyes and I shook my head with a grinned and made my way over to them,
“Give him a break, Cadence. He hasn’t slept for days,” I said with a grin.
Cadence shot me a look at that instead but before she was able to say something, Twilights voice filled the area,
“We’re here!”
Looking over, I could see the Baby of Doom flying about in a giant pink bubble of Twilights magic, Pinkie Pie hanging from the babies legs, her wings easily keeping the earth pony in the air.
The little alicorn didn’t even look strained, laughing and giggling as she fluttered about in the bubble.
Am I the only one that feel like ducking and covering?
Nope, apparently not, Sunset put Celestia between her and the baby. Smart filly.
“She’s a reaaaaly strong flier!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed as she dangled in the air, moving back and forth as the little filly moved along in the bubble.
The BMD cooed and giggled.
I cringed and readied a shield spell just in case. If she was as strong as she seemed, I wasn’t even sure a shield would be enough, but it would be better than eating a beam face first.
Cadence lit up her horn and extracted her baby from the bubble and Pinkie Pies grasp, pulling her over towards her.
The baby didn’t like that.
She screamed. She screamed so the ground shook and the castle seemed to almost wobble.
Holy shit!
Scrambling to cover my ears, I quickly looked around for falling debris.
The sound suddenly stopped, and I sighed in relief. Nothing had fallen on us.
Bloody hell, that little menace will be the death of…
Crackle. Crackle.
What in the world is… I had just enough time to turn my head to see the Crystal Heart shatter into a billion little shards.
There was a gasp from everyone at the sight as the core of the Crystal Empire rained down on the ground.
Well…
Shit.
You'd think that they'd put some sound absorption enchantments on a bloody crystal.
Also Flurry OP. Plz Nerf.
8757915
Sound reflection more likely, absorption would probably put more stress on the material.
8757960
This
8757915
They should be in the superstructure around the hearts... Also a way to release the pressure upwards...
In unrelenting news.... Oh Princess Blanklestia you never disappoint...
making nod's to the title or possible forshadowing?
“Well....good game everyone...let’s pray she mellows out before puberty, in which case I will be on the moon. Bye!”
Well, let's hope Blank Page learns the lesson and gets the fuck away from civilization when their baby comes. At least until they can be sure it won't bring canterlot down. Maybe ponyville wood be a good place, they're already used to it.
i.imgur.com/uYyeRDU.jpg
Substitute "benevolent" for "evil" and "crystal palace" for "Mordor", but it still applies.
8757960
I think they meant like those foam pads that eat up sound in a sound proof room kind of absorption, not like having the crystal heart stuck it up like a sponge.
Perfectly summarised, "shit" indeed.
I enjoyed the small talk Page had between Sunset and Shining, as always looking forward to the chapter.
Responsibility is just a big word that means you're the one that gets blamed when something goes wrong.
The last line really sums it all up, doesn't it?
It is like I always say:
"Oh shit. Well, fuck"
Oh damn, wonder how Page will affect the outcome.
Sunset and Page getting on is the best thing. Too bad they're both taken.
Neat chappy. May I please have another?
8758821
Alicorns are legally allowed multiple partners, so they might not both be taken.
I really want to se alicorn Sunset from this arc. It would really be very amusing for her to get that power only after she really realizes how much she doesn’t want it. It’s also kind of sad to think Page out living her.
They really ought to just send Flurry and Sunset through the mirror for a few months until Flurry's matured a little.
8760714
Me too. With that particular magic surge coming up, I am sure that there's a way for her to get caught in it.
Shattering the Power Core of Doom is new, though...
Let's just hope that Flurry doesn't instead inherit her mother's power and cause something embarrassing.
8760714
Something tells me that not having desire for power is one of the requirements to become one.
8758314
I get what you're saying... but there's no Mordor in the words of the image.
8758783
Considering there's no Starlight and Sunburst? Most likely a lot...
Well, Page? What are you waiting for, she's a menace! An unpredictable danger to everyone around her! Blast her, turn her to stone! We're waiting.
10345165
I mean... I would, but I also detest kids.
Empire death by Alicorn foal... What a way to go...
Well, at least after this, page will have a new story to write.
"BMD, THE FIRST DESTRUCTION "
This is the generator from frostpunk but it doesn't need coal or oil to run
Winterhome. Vibes
Yup seems legit
10345165
He suggested a suppresser but that wasn't okay. Until they found a better way I think that it was a good idea considering she is very powerful and doesn't appear to have any limitations on her. It probably been until she got older and could control herself a little more.
11035863
Glad I’m not the only one with that feeling…
Didn't we need that? Pretty sure we needed that...
O well... Time to pack bags and move to less frozen hellscapes.
11642229
To be fair humans would have made a civilization in that frozen wasteland without magic macguffin to ward it away.
More like Baby Alicorn of Doom(BAD)
They need a anti magic PJ for Flurryheart or something.
Seriously dangerous business staying near Flurryheart.
11642229
11647117
Already did.
They named it "Russia".