Chronicles of an Unknown World - The Awakening

by Blue Blaze {COMET}

Chapter 3: Melancholy of the Sol Goddess, Part 2

Spike stood it he doorway of Twilight’s bedroom, holding a rolled up scroll in his claws. He had a wide-eyed look to him, yet still contained traces of sleep. Twilight guess that the sudden arrival of Princess Celestia’s letter probably woke up the napping young dragon. Both pony and dragon approached each other hastily from two opposite ends of the room. Spike’s stumpy legs leaped from one stair to the other while it only took a few Twilight a few hoofsteps to reach the bottom of the staircase.

“What does it say?” Twilight asked, interest reflecting from the look in her eyes.

“I don’t know, I haven’t opened it up yet. It’s a letter to you, not me.” Spike reasoned.

“Good point.” Twilight was glad that Spike respected things that were not his, or in this case, were not meant to be his. She telekinetically grabbed the letter from his hand and floated it towards herself. Once it was closer, she could clearly see the royal seal on the ribbon that kept the message shut. Carefully unraveling the ribbon, she flattened out the mail and began to read its contents.

Dear Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student:

I request to see you immediately. There is some important information that I need to address to you in person. Unfortunately, I am busy handling the storm and the catastrophes that occur from it, so I cannot teleport to the Ponyville library myself. Also, I cannot send you a carriage due to the bad weather you most likely have noticed by now.

Instead, you must use your own skills to get to Canterlot Castle. I believe you have read about the long distance teleportation spell in one of your textbooks, if I am correct. If not, then please review pages 156 to 160 in the book ‘Advanced Arcane Studies, Volume IX’. Once done, you can use rune formations Alpha-099-Orange and Pi-365-Blue to help increase your magical volume. Furthermore, I’ve binded my magical scent to this letter. Use it to lock on to my lodestone easier.

I know that this is a spell you have not tried out yet and may be a bit daunting to attempt. But I believe that you have the strength and knowledge to succeed without my help. In fact, I know, Twilight Sparkle that you have learned and have gained enough magical experience to cast this spell without any trouble. You can do it.

I’ll be waiting for you at the other side.

With love and care,
Princess Celestia

P.S.
Spike, if you read this letter and Twilight is not at home, you must find her as quickly as possible. Getting this letter
to her is of the utmost importance.

Twilight almost immediately recognized her teacher’s hoofwriting. She could also faintly smell a strange odor coming off of the paper. Realizing that that must have been her majesty’s magical scent, she began to think about what the princess had said in her message.

“So, what does it say?” Spike nosily inquired while trying to lean over Twilight’s back for a better look.

“It says that the princess needs to see me in person ASAP, meaning that I have to get everything prepared! Spike, could you go get me my rune sand, chalk and candles?”

“Sure.” Spike waddled off into a nearby closet, quickly coming out with a stack of brick-a-brack on his arms. “What are you preparing for anyways?”

“I need to cast an incredibly powerful teleportation spell to get to her since she has to deal with the chaos from the storm and since we can’t fly a carriage in this weather. I know what the spell she’s talking about, but I need to strengthen the altitude of it’s frequency in order for it to cast correctly.” Twilight explained while magically grabbing her supplies from Spike.

“Um… In Equish, please?”

“Gah, I have to make the spell stronger so it will work!” Twilight snapped back.

“Ok, ok! I was just asking a question. Do you know why she needs to talk to you all of the sudden?”

“I dunno, but it must be important seeing as she gave you a small note at the end of this letter saying to get her mail to me as fast as possible.” Twilight took several white chalks in her telekinetic grasp and started to draw circles, triangles, stars and other shape onto her library floor. After a few seconds of focus, she backed up to observe her handiwork. Satisfied, she put away the chalk and grabbed four tiny purple bags of pink sand.

“She did?” Spike inquired.

“Yes, she did.” Twilight opened one bag a smidge and began to lightly pour its contents all over the library floor. She did the same with three other bags. Once they were empty, Twilight examined the various pattern and markings she had drew with pink sand onto the wooden surface. Acknowledging her accomplishments, she floated three different coloured candles towards the patterns. She set them down onto three specific positions, creating a parallel perfect distance between them.

Even though the sets of magical runes were complete, she still double and triple checked to make sure nothing was wrong. She actually wanted to do a quadruple check, but thought that she wasted enough time already getting the spell prepared. The purple unicorn cautiously stepped over the chalk marks and sand to the center of the runes.

“I guess that means that I can’t come with you…” Spike hung his head down.

“No Spike. I’m sorry you can’t go with me, but I can create enough magical energy to teleport one life form, which will be me. Tell you what, next chance I get, we’ll go to Canterlot for a little vacation for a day or two. How does that sound?”

“Ok! Great!” The baby dragon perked up immediately.

“Great. So I’ll see you in a little bit.”

“Yeah. See yeah, Twilight.”

“Bye.”

Twilight sat down on her haunches, closed her eyes and started to focus her magic to herself. Even though performing magic was second nature to her, this spell was barely almost out of her league. It would take all her physical and mental focus to channel enough magic into the spell to make it work. She felt the magic in the air flow around her. Willing herself to gather it up, she began weaving it in a certain way that made the magic into a teleportation spell. She re-hashed the process of the spell one more time in her head while continuing to suck in more magic. The candles on the runes lit themselves from the sheer pressure of magic that Twilight had gathered around herself.

Her last step was to find the princess’s lodestone signature. Using the scent from the letter, Twilight cast half of her consciousness to the eternal abyss that were the plains of magic. Billions upon billions of magical streams could be seen with her mind’s eye floating around portals that could go to anywhere on the face of the planet. However, with the help of Celestia’s letter, it didn’t take long for Twilight to pinpoint the goddess's lodestone. When it was located, Twilight released the magic and hoped that it worked.

A gigantic sucking sound filled Twilight’s ears. There was a massive pressure all around her body before she felt back to normal. She opened her eyes to find herself in the sleeping quarters of the princess. There, sitting on the balcony of the room was the princess herself.

“Princess Celestia!”