//------------------------------// // chapter 8: From fire too ash // Story: the curse of stone and sight // by dragenfire68 //------------------------------// home is where the heart is The sun glinted over the horizon as celestia without opening her eyes set the sun in motion from her bed and got up, wondering what she should do with her shoes and other regalia, minus the chest piece, she had hid after changing her form the night before, but before she could come to a conclusion, her regalia and luna’s too, were floating in a purple haze as twilight came down the stairs. “It’s alright princess, i can put this with the element of magic,” she said as she put the regalia in a box that looks much bigger on the inside then it was on the outside “Oh thank you twilight.” celestia said, thankful that she wouldn’t have to move too many books about, and make more work for spike then was already there Luna soon came down the steps, looking like she couldn’t sleep, but had anyways. Spike soon came down into the basement, that twilight had set up the night before, and set out a thing of biscuits, bananas and blueberry waffles, he refrained from making anything to drink though, since it’s early, and no one knows what they want yet. “Alright, so let’s get to discussing what we want to do today,” twilight said once they were seated at the small table where twilight did most of her experiments, that she cleans very thoroughly of course. “We already know what we’re doing but we gotta figure out how we’re gonna fit a basilisk and a gargoyle into the castle,” Luna stated matter a factually, as she ate “Well, seeing as you and celestia are both earth ponies, you can’t use any magic, so that leaves me,” twilight bemused “Got it, you can use size magic to allow him to become small enough to ride his friends shoulder, shrink to about the size of an anaconda,” celestia said Twilight questioned, “Aren’t those snakes massive?” “Ventry is tall enough that the size and weight won’t hinder him as it would me or Luna, besides, they have know each other the longest so he would obviously ride with him” “Thats true, so when are we leaving?” "We will leave as soon as we get word that They have given the signal to fluttershy." "What signal is that, i dont think we really talked about a signal." As she said that, A loud uproar echoed from The middle of town, and suddenly all doors, windows, and welcome mats were pulled in and barricaded. "That would be the signal." Luna, Celestia and Twilight all walked into the center of town to figure out what had them all so riled up, they found out when they approached the town square and found Fluttershy sitting with a huge Anaconda, they seemed to be sitting comfortably when they approached. "hello, it seems that this is the signal, seems our friend out in the everfree has connections." Fluttershy explained after greeting them "Well, he is a Basilisk." Twilight stated. The girls wasted no time with talk as the anaconda hissed something into her ear, she nodded as she and the snake got up and started towards the forest, with Twilight and crew following, they reached the cave that Ventry and fang occupied. "is it safe in there?" Twilight called out, wanting to make sure that Fang was up so that he could stop himself from looking into their eyes. A great groaning came from with in, instead of actual words, before they looked at each other figuring that this was the best answer that they were going to get from Fang this early, they entered the cave, coming to a pair of massive nostrils that breathed out on them. "We got your signal, so when are we going to leave for the castle?" Luna stated with business like sharpness "as soon as I am fully awake, and not cramped, remember I'm cold blooded, so it might take some time for me to become fully functional, were gonna be on this mountain for a bit, unless her princess ship can angle some sun rays to speed up the process." Fang basically half grunted and hissed They turned towards Celestia, as she nodded and left, getting a spot ready so that Fang can heat up faster and they could be on their way, it didn't take long for soon Fang was coiled out in a patch of sun that glinted off his many green colored scales, Twilight couldn't help herself as she came up and began poking at them, seeing them not budge, then without thinking she started firing off magic shots at them and watched as they deflected off the shiny ones, but were simply absorbed by the dull ones. "I would appreciate it, if you didn't use me for target practice, I can feel when my scales absorb your magic and when they deflect, so please stop." Fang said, shifting that part of him away from Twilight as she blushed for being caught. "Sorry, but your scales are incredibly interesting, other then dragons and hydra's, there aren't too many reptile type creatures that can deflect and absorb spells with their bodies." she gushed. If he could do it without killing her, he would give her a very unamused expression, but while she couldn't see it, being friends with Rainbow dash and applejack, she certainly could feel his disapproval. "Twilight, I'm sure that we could learn much, but i pretty certain that firing off random spells at a living being is a little bit more then rude." Celestia gently chided "Tiss true, when we were fillies, sister kept changing my mane and coat to what ever she fancied, got pretty annoying after a while." Luna said. Twilight nodded as Fang rolled over so that he could get warm on his other side, while he was warming up, they gave him a run down on the plan, to their surprise he agreed, while assuring them that he'd let ventry know later that night, which is when they were set to leave.