//------------------------------// // The King Relaxes, The Servant Searches // Story: Cronus is King // by fanficlover 1 //------------------------------// Ch 19 “...us!” “...onus!” “Cronus!” My body jolted awake, eyes roving around spastically in fear of attack. Only seeing Twilight though, my body calmed and my breathing relaxed. Twilight had a look of worry on her face as she carefully helped me to sit upwards. Looking around, I found myself to be in Twilight’s home, laying on her couch. I made my way to stand up but Twilight’s hoof stopped me from doing so. “What do you think your doing?” Twilight sounded like a mother who was about to scold her child. “Getting up?” Her face told me that my answer was not the right choice to say. She quickly added more force, making me lay back. “When we woke up, you were passed out and surrounded by rubble. We had to carry your body through the forest. I may not know what have happened after I lost consciousness but I do know that you did something dangerous. So until I say so, you are staying there to rest and relax.” Twilight continued to sound like a scolding only it was even more intense now at the mention of danger.  I could only nod my head which earned a relieved smile and a relaxed Twilight. Not having to worry about me now, Twilight walked away for a moment and headed to some unseen corner of her library home. Leaving me to simply question how it had been able to grow back so soon. When we had gotten back to Equestria, I had questioned it but not even Twilight knew how to answer. Her only possible explanation was that after holding onto Elements of Harmony in its shelves, the tree had absorbed some magic which allowed it to grow back to its original state. When Twilight came back, she had a glass of water held with her magic before she handed it to me. “Drink this.” I complied with the command. Deactivating my transformation, all the fighting from seemed to catch up causing my body to be extremely sore. Ignoring it though, I slowly drank the cold refreshing water before handing the glass. Back. Taking it with her magic, she made the glass float away while she sat next to me. She said nothing as she simply stared and it began to make me uncomfortable. “So… what now?” “Now? Now we wait till tomorrow. After everything that happened, we are staying here until i’m sure everything is better.” “Heh, you sound like Celestia.” Twilight gave me a confused look which made me realize that she had been unconscious and unable to hear my conversation with Nightmare Moon. “Sorry, I forgot you weren’t awake to hear it. While you and the rest had been captured and knocked unconscious, I met someone who kept talking about Celestia and how she keeps trying to make everything perfect.” There’s no need to say it was Nightmare, after what I had heard from the rest about her, there was no need to make them even more worried, or rather make Twilight more worried. Speaking of the others. “So what happened to the rest of you guys, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and the family.” Twilight perked up at that. “They’re fine. Tired but fine. The family was really tired so we had to carry them back but otherwise we were fine.” That was good, it meant nothing bad happened after I had fallen unconscious. Feeling somewhat better now, I started to relax letting my sore muscles loosen on the couch. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Ed POV) The train slowed to a stop, giving the telltale sounds of clunking of metal and hisses of steam. Getting up from my seat, I exited my train car and made my way to the closest exit. Celestia had said that I needed to catch up with Twilight and her friends but I had no idea where they lived. If I even wanted to find them, I would either have to search randomly around broken town I had seen when I passed by or do the simpler option and ask the local townsfolk. Hopefully one of them wasn’t too busy to give directions. Exiting the train, I swiped my hand to clear away some of the still lingering steam. When my vision was no longer obscured, I quickly left the station, hoping to find Twilight before train left. Knowing my luck though, it was more likely that I would have to wait for the next one later in the evening. As I had expected, the ponies of Ponyville were still working but they seemed to be making good time on their reconstruction but it was a little chaotic as everyone seemed focused on their own buildings and not working all together. Sure more work was getting done but it wasn’t as effective as putting more ponies to one job instead of spreading out. Clearing my thoughts away from construction, I looked around to see if any pony was walking towards the station. None moved away from their work though. Sighing, I put my hands in my pockets and started walking around looking for somepony who didn’t look like they were to busy. The search was hard though as everyone seemed to be doing something. My patience paid off though as I found a group of kids pulling buckets from the well to fill cans of different shapes and sizes. “Hey kids.” They immediately stopped what they were doing to look at who had called to them, gaining wide eyes as they saw me. “Do any of you know where I can Find a pony named Twilight Sparkle?” None of them answered and I was tempted to ask again. I was stopped though when a familiar looking orange pony came up from behind. “I know where you can find her, but the question is; Why do you want to know.” her accent was very southern, almost like that of the cowboys in movies. “I was told by a friend that I need to find her. She might have something they want.” The orange southern pony narrowed her eyes. “Hard as it might be to believe, Twilight doesn’t have that many friends outside of Ponyville. So how about you explain it better but this time be a little more specific.” ‘I don’t think Celestia would appreciate me saying its her that want Twilight. Maybe I can dance around it?’ “Well considering how many friends she has, who do you think?” Her stare never left. “You’re another one of them displaced aren’t ya?” “Yes siree. Now about Twilight?” “Fine but answer me this. Do you plan on doing anything bad to her?” “Nope.” The orange pony sighed, whether it was in relief or defeat, I couldn’t tell. “Fine then, follow me and i’ll take you to her.” Doing as she told, A large tree with windows and a door could be seen in the distance and we seemed to be heading straight towards it.