March Schedule / Spring Preview for Journey To Hearth's Warming / Contest Winner Announcement / Updates / New Tidbits · 8:41pm Mar 1st, 2019
Yes, Journey To Hearth's Warming is back with new chapters and new tidbits. All kinds of awesome stuff are on the way, get ready for some fun. Also, don't forget that this month will also have an incredible art piece to celebrate, Treacherous Rescue Mission: featuring Caramel, Thorax, Ember and to build up more hype this blog itself contains a preview to Spring half of the season. The preview shall be under this month's schedule...
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Wed - March 6th - Hearth's Warming Tidbits 6: Reason For Meat
Wed - March 13th - Journey To Hearth's Warming - Episode 6: For A Friend
Wed - March 20th - Hearth's Warming Tidbits 6.5: Winter Solstice
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Now the Spring Preview. Taken from the first scene of the final chapter of this season... Yes... That kind of preview...
Explosions tore through the darkness and lite the sky up with a flurry of lights. Starlight struggled at the brightness, unable to stand the burning she slowly awoke. She looked around but couldn't figure out what was going on.
“Why?!”A loud shout echoed above her. “Why would you attack this place out of any other?” It was a male voice but the owner's face couldn't be seen anywhere.
“Because this is the center of everything." Another male voice echoed outward. "All my joy and all my hatred are in this single place. THIS. IS. WHERE. IT. ALL. BEGINS!!”
The final roars carried through the swirling of the ruins of the older buildings and new buildings as they fell to the ground. Finally, the booms reached the Clocktower and the altar that stood before it.
Starlight found herself standing in a crowd of many different creatures that seemed to have been gathered into one spot. She tried to find the voices' owners but no matter how hard she looked she couldn't see them. Their voices were dampening by the second and yet a new sound was replacing them.
Drops... Sounds of drops echoed louder and louder. Starlight span back and forth curious about the noise. Finally, it became clear.
Tears... Tears fell from the face of a lavender mare as she shivered in place just a few meters away from Starlight. The mare wasn’t cold, despite the snow all around. Yet the shivers refused to leave her no matter what.
This lone mare seemed to give little care to the echoes nor to the ponies, griffins, and sirens that coward from it.
Starlight tried to approach her but found her feet stuck in place. Her mind replayed over the events that led to this yet even though she could feel that the events had only happened minutes ago everything about them was a complete blur. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t remember any details nor who the lavender mare or the corpse was that the mare watched so closely. She wanted to remember so badly but something deep inside her chest kept stopping her, it was as if her own heart didn’t want to know, or at at least it didn't want to give into what her mind was demanding.
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Starlight stopped her questioning at the sight of the lavender mare moving forward. Starlight attempted to follow her. However, despite her knees jolting back and forth her feet refused to move from her spot. She tried again and her legs nearly fell out from under her. Pushing harder she finally got one step out. Her legs were screaming in pain yet she pushed onward. Each step she took echoed through her head louder and louder.
Starlight fell a few inches from the lavender mare just as the mare reached the corpse. She picked herself back up and knocked snow out of her face and looked at the corpse then back to the mare.
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Again no answer came, she couldn't figure out who the corpse was nor who the lavender mare no matter how hard she tried.
“Oh by the gods, it’s an alicorn.” A voice, so small yet was loud enough to break through Starlight's confusion.
Starlight turned to see a small dark blue colt pointing to the wings on the lavender mare's back. She gasped at this as he walked over to consoled the lavender mare, “Oh lovely goddess don’t weep!” The colt walked closer. “The good lord said when we die we go to a better place?”
The words made Starlight’s lips tremble and her face shake. She didn’t know what was going on but she certainly didn’t want this to be true. But she couldn’t deny it anymore. All the facts were now clear, the lavender mare could only be her teacher, Twilight.
Then the only question now was, who was the corpse? However, before any more answers could found the unexpected happened.
The colt attempts to calm Twilight’s pain was abruptly stopped by another voice, this one far older. “It’s an alicorn, a famed immortal!”
Starlight turned too late to see a stone fly through the air. It landed on the ground barely missing Twilight’s face.
“Just like the immortal who brought this war to us!” Another voice screamed out in rage.
Starlight’s mouth drop, “No, it’s not like that. It wasn’t her fau--” she attempted to stand in the way of another stone, but this one went right through her. Her eyes widened at this. Finally, everything was clear, she wasn’t really here.
Was this a dream? A vision? Some twisted nightmare or hallucination?
“Get away from that colt!” Another stone flew. This time it finally made contact, tearing into the left side of Twilight’s face. “You don’t deserve to be near him, you practically are the one who killed them all.”
The eyepatch fell to the ground.
Starlight was at a complete loss for words. Why was she being shown this? She couldn’t watch this any longer. Closing her eyes she demanded that this whatever it was ended now. “Stop it!”
“Get away from him!” More voices shouted.
“You are responsible for all of this!!”
“Don’t you dare mutilate him, you selfish witch!!”
“You are as evil as that ghost!!”
“Stop it!” Starlight kneeled down hoping this would end soon.
Yet as quickly as it began it ended. The shouting stopped and echoes of the stones ended. Starlight slowly let go of the grip around her ears and lifted her head up. She half assumed this vision was over, but she was regrettably wrong.
All the ponies had stopped. Despite them still having stones in hand they were still. A slash of fear covered each one of their faces. Starlight was in utter confusion… until she turned to see where Twilight was.
Her teacher was nowhere in sight. However, standing in Twilight’s spot was a brown donkey in tattered clothing. This was clearly not Twilight, in fact, everything inside Starlight’s whole being told her this was certainly not her teacher.
“Did you like what you saw?” The brown donkey questioned.
Starlight was caught completely off guard by these words. She felt deep inside herself that the brown donkey was talking to her. She had to know for sure so she pointed at the ponies around the area before pointing to herself.
“No, not them. I’m talking to you. Only you can see me.” The brown donkey walked right up to her. “This is the first time we have met in this form, isn’t it?” His voice was filled with a thick amount of familiarity, yet Starlight couldn't place where she had heard it before. It was like a voice she always knew, but could never pin onto somepony at all, even now she was confused as to whom this was.
“I tried warning Twilight. She wouldn’t listen, so despite my lord's priorities about you, you are the only one I can ask now.” He leaned down and grabbed her hand gently. "Stop them."
“Stop who?”
“Frost! He wants to use Twilight for something truly special.”
"What do you mean?" Starlight reached out to him but without warning, the vision finally began to fade. "Wait... who are you?!"
"You already know who I am. I've always watched over you two from the moment you entered this timeline and now the strings of fate are making their move. Lord Frost and his allies must be stopped no matter the cost!!"
With those final words, the vision fully faded to darkness. Starlight reached out in vain demanding answers, "Please, just tell me what going on?"
"I would... but you have to wake up... "
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Wow, true chills. Hopefully, Starlight can fix this.