//------------------------------// // Téléporter // Story: Voyage // by Comrade Bagel Muffin //------------------------------// A Jolt woke Escutcheon up. He stood up becoming aware of the chains and shackles holding him to the iron floor. A small amount of moonlight filtered in through the bars of the prison wagon. Causing Dusk's golden eyes to glow in the soft silver light. "Dusk are you okay?" "Escutcheon, you're awake." She took a step forward. He heard the sound of chains going taunt. "Yeah I'm fine are you okay? Do you know what's going on?" "I'm fine, but I'm not sure what's going on. Professor do you have any idea why they attacked us during our dinner?" "I wish I knew." The Atlas spoke up from a corner of the prison cart. Escutcheon tried to us his horn to light up the cart to see what was going on. He felt his magic begin to ricochet, and was thrown against the wall of the iron prisoner wagon. He could have sworn that he heard somepony laughing outside as he tried to still the pain in his head. "Escutcheon? Are you okay?" Dusk asked in the darkness of the wagon. Her two yellow eyes seemed to glow in the small amount of moon light that filtered through the bars. There was a soft hum from the other side of the cell. With Dusk and the professor. "Ugh, yeah I'm fine." Escutcheon leaned against the wall, his head throbbing. "What happened? How did he get here?" he asked in the direction of the other three, and the pair of glowing yellow orbs. "I wish I had an answer for you this is an outrage." Professor Atlas' voice rose in the darkness of their cart. "This is a massive over step of anything that would be tolerated. We've been charged with espionage against Tivi in the service of Slo. The mere thought that the university would house spies is complete madness." "Careful professor these are the king's orders that you are calling madness." A voice from the outside called out. "That's completely ridiculous we're not spies!" Dusk screamed in frustration. "We've never even seen Slo! How could we be spies for them?" "Well if that's true then the two of you and your pet bird have nothing to fear, but if your lying. We'll be having chicken for dinner after we're done pinning the to of you two to crosses." Another voice this time from Escutcheon's side of the wagon spoke up with a laugh. The air around them began to glow with the tell tail signs of magic. Which allowed Escutcheon to get a good look at this three companions. To his relief Dusk was completely unharmed. Her leathery wings were, however, were held fast by two ropes that dug into her midsection. Her other other limbs were cuffed and connected with small chains to the prison wagon. The professor was more or less in the same condition. His limbs were chained with looser chains. He was also wearing a cancellation ring. Escutcheon assumed that he too was wearing a similar ring as well. These cancellation rings weren't like the ones back at home they seemed to do more than the canceling magic. Turkeylegs was chained next to Dusk a color keeping the large birds head low. "What's going-" was all that Dusk was able to say before there was a blinding flash, and the feeling of being teleported. There was a loud band. Escutcheon fell down to the floor feeling like he was half dead. The ring around his horn still glow as it finished siphoning away his magic.