Equestrian Fanfiction

by Lise


Second Heartbeat

Hey...

Sorry for worrying you girls... :( I know it was stupid, I just thought I’d be able to resolve things, and then I did the heart spell and...

I’m so sorry for everything I said :( I didn’t mean it. I just saw things in terms of logic and... stars, I can imagine how many ponies I hurt :(((

DarkSparkle

You idiot! You had us worried like crazy! What were you thinking? You could have at least told us before going... and if you had we’d never have left you!

Heart spell? Even I didn’t use it and I brainwashed an entire village! You have no idea how messy those things are! No wonder you turned evil!

TrueSparkle

Yes, I was very very worried. Angel was as well. He’s been crying in secret for weeks... poor thing.

Brush

I’m so sorry :( It was the only way I could think of. When I faced the Windigo he made his demands. I knew I couldn’t meet them, so I offered him this trade. I just hoped that I’d be able to figure out what he was searching for before the time was out... :(

DarkSparkle

Say what, Sugarcube? O.o Mind telling us what’s going on?

JustAHuman

Twilight gave the Windigo her heart and promised she’d find out what happened to his tribe and family. However, she miscalculated a few things... including the effects of a missing heart :/

When you give your heart away you don’t just erase your emotions, you start looking at them as insignificant, even bothersome. Twilight stopped valuing life, including her own. At one point she even considered performing a spell that would certainly kill her if it would stop the Windigo. I had to spend hours talking her out of it.

InItForTheShipping

!!!

TrueSparkle

Poo! I bet that grumpy Windigo had an icky, rotten, frozen heart!

PPI

Actually... He didn’t have a heart, none at all. That was part of my gambit. I though offering my heart would change his mind.

DarkSparkle

That explains the weird speech he gave when we tried to capture him. I thought he was mocking us, but he must have dealt genuinely sorry for attacking us. Maybe that’s also the reason he didn’t harm us?

LightSparkle

It would also explain why it only froze half of Trottingham. Twilight heart couldn’t bear it freeze an entire city, so it stopped once it could bear it no more. I suppose that’s when it decided to return the heart to her.

Celestia

Oooh! Then everything is smiley happy again! :)

He found the magic of friendship thanks to Twilight and gave her heart back to her! @DarkSparkle, you sly mare, you. I always knew your heart would change Equestria :D

PPI

Unfortunately no, Pinkie... He indeed used the same spell to give back my heart, but that wasn’t the reason. Now that he has no heart he could freeze every last village in Equestria without feeling pain or regret. Even if some emotion lingers on, in a few days, weeks at most, he’ll be back to his usual self and if he hasn’t gotten what he wanted he’ll start freezing again.

DarkSparkle

Well, sis you manage to find anything that would help? Mom told me you’ve been reading Sombra’s diaries.

LightSparkle

That’s the problem, there was nothing there. We did find some references about Windigo magic, research into their powers, and a pact of some sort during the rise of the Crystal Empire, but nothing that would help us with the extinction.

Sombra seems to have burned a great many of his research scrolls. His use of the dark arts had driven him insane by that point. There’s also mention of the “dark rainbow” but I’m not sure it’s related. At this point we can’t be sure of anything... and neither his notes nor the Canterlot library provided any answers.

InItForTheShipping

We could always ask Starswirl. He was alive at the time, and there are indications he was unaffected by the amnesia spell.

I know he’s not always very open, but surely he’ll help when he sees what’s happening to Equestria.

DarkSparkle

Err... if you think I’m secretive and too slow to get involved, you have no idea what he’s like. And since Discord wouldn’t be of much use either, I fear we’ll have to rely on somepony else... like the sirens. PlayedPiece seems unusually eager to help.

Celestia

She’s told me everything she knows already. And she’s the last person I’d ask for practical help. One, without her gem she has no real power. Two, even if she did, I doubt it she’ll be able to focus for long enough to be of any real help. :/

LightSparkle

Yes, she did seem to be quite flirty with that dragon...

Brush

You’all, there must be something we could do. What about using the magic of friendship again?

JustAHuman

Darling, that didn’t work the last time and I doubt it would work this time as well.

@DarkSparkle: you are very much forgiven. I knew you weren’t yourself when you said all those things.

Are we sure that Hearth’s Warming won’t be enough to drive him away? Or joy and unity between ponies? Those had protected us from windigos before, after all.

Grace

I doubt that would affect this one :( He’s just so different and I cannot understand why.

DarkSparkle

I might have a way to get Starswirl to talk. It’s not something I’d enjoy, so I must be absolutely, one hundred percent certain that you can’t think of any other way.

Simile

You saw first hand there isn’t! If you have a way of getting him to listen, tell us!

LightSparkle

It’s not something I like to talk about. *sigh* I’ll get him to listen, but not today. There are too many ponies who need cheering up and I can’t deprive them of that.

I’ll try tomorrow.

Simile

Please do. Everypony in Equestria will be indented to you if you succeed. Meanwhile, the rest of us will continue to go through whatever sources we have to try and find an answer to his question.

Celestia

Sorry, had to do a few extra patrols. Did I miss anything?

AwesomePony