//------------------------------// // Troisième Rêve // Story: Quete // by Comrade Bagel Muffin //------------------------------// Escutcheon looked down on the Griffon city in the mountain it looked just like it had before he had arrived. All around griffons were looking up at the night sky. His eyes looked through the crowd. It wasn't easy but soon he found them two griffons rushing out of the mountain Gilda and Gildan, he looked down at them. The two griffons smirked looking excited for a few minutes before rushing back into the mountain. In an instant he flashed away from the mountain. *** The next place that he flashed to was the city in the desert. Many parts of the city were still in ruins, and since he had left the unicorns had nearly razed the pyramid to the ground. He watched the city for several seconds. Hundreds of ponies were walking outside many of them seemed to be cheering, though he had no idea what for. He watched for a few more seconds before he flashed away. *** The next place he didn't recognize. It was a small little village high up on a snow capped mountain that he didn't know. He tilted his head not sure why he was looking over a mountain village. Almost as if on cue he suddenly stood in front of one of the houses in the village. Suddenly three unicorns rushed out of the house blankets wrapped around them, one stallion, one mare, and one filly. Two of them he noticed immediately, as Pythagorean and Quadratic. He recognized the mint green mare as the mare who was one of the unicorns that had helped him. No sooner had he recognized them he soon vanished again. *** This time he knew where he was. He looked down on the batpony village in the tree tops of the forest that had been his home for four months. He quickly picked out the tree that had been his home. Dusk and Nebula stood at the door. Dusk was crying, but smiling. She was happy and smiling. Then and there he resolved to go back. He was such an idiot he was so desperate to get home he didn't even realize that was already at home. *** Then he appeared in him old home, in his old room, and he felt a deep pang of regret at giving up on his quest. He could hear Mother sobbing from her room just down the hall from him. "He's still alive he's still coming home." He heard her sobbing. "He's our colt he'll make it." Father said. He wished that he could be there with them. "I'm sorry, Mother, Father. I can't. I can't. I can't." He started sobbing as his home faded away. "I'm sorry." *** He then stood in the middle of a dark void. He couldn't move as two red glowing eyes stared down at him. "You would come to try and take what is mine. All is mine, life, death, all is mine." He stepped back. "Come to me and join all things in my treasury, and be mine as you should." Escutcheon turned and ran. The eyes pursued. "You can not flee you belong to me, they all belong to me." Just before the eyes could catch him he faded away.