//------------------------------// // Red flags // Story: Equestria Girls: Symbol Of Undying Love // by vortex123 //------------------------------// Canterlot High School 2nd POV "Ugh! This is so stupid! When I started learning Chaos magic, I pictured destroying things, to be a shining example of what chaos is meant to be. Instead I have to teach them how to do pranks and turn rain into chocolate milk.” A woman groaned, before slamming her head on a desk. She has pink skin. Her hair is purple, pink and pale yellow. She has grey eyes. She’s wearing pale yellow lipstick. She has on gloves, a shirt and jacket. The gloves are pale brown, and the shirt and jacket are both purple. She’s also wearing a long grayish blue skirt and pale brown shoes. On each of her wrists are two gray bracelets on each arm. She also has white curly earrings. “Well what did you expect, Eris?” Another, very tall, woman asked the first. “The whole point of this project is to get rid of the bad reputation magic has. At least your subject can easily keep the attention of your future students. I have to convince a bunch of hormonal teenagers why harmony is important. Do you have any idea how hard that’s gonna be? Especially with the limited time I have with them? Not to mention keeping the younger kids attention.” “Celestia’s right, Eris. The teens will be too busy ogling her, and the little kids will be too busy falling asleep.” A third woman snarked with a grin. “HA!” Eris laughed as Celestia struggles to form a proper sentence. “Luna’s got ya there, sun butt.” Hearing that, Celestia wips her head at Eris. “Who told you about that!?” Celestia sharply questioned, as her hair catches on fire. “I have my sources, doesn’t mean I have to say who they are.” Eris says with a smirk. As Celestia glares at her with the power and heat equal to the sun, Luna quietly breathes a sigh of relief. “I lost a bet ok!? I didn’t know that would be her choice if she won!” Celestia growled. “Relax, if you can’t handle a little jab like that, then this job will be a nightmare for you.” Eris says without a care in the world. “You…have a point.” Celestia reluctantly sighed. She then looked at Luna. “Any ideas on how to teach them? We can’t exactly be upfront with it yet.” “Just put them under a spell that makes them not question magic without forcing them to like magic, teach them at your own pace, and see if they’re willing to learn. It’s what I’m gonna do.” Luna says with a shrug. “Luna!” Celestia disapprovingly exclaims. “Why didn’t I think of that?” Eris asked with a face palm. Celestia glares at Eris. “Don’t encourage her!” Celestia says, only to groan as the other two high fived. “Look.” Luna says, catching Celestia off guard with her sudden serious tone. “Despite what you say, you have the easiest part in this. My part literally involves the scariest aspects of magic, both normal and taboo.” “And not only am I out of my element with the type chaos magic I, unfortunately, have to teach to put chaos magic in a positive light. But I have to add rules and restrictions to chaos magic. You know, possibility and choice in it’s purest form. My part literally flies in the face of how chaos magic actually works.” Eris added. “Your magic on the other hand, has aspects that parents are already teaching their kids. All you have to worry about is keeping their attention on magic, and trying to keep them calm about the fact that magic exists. Our magic on the other hand, would get us labeled as devil worshippers.” Luna says while putting a hand on Celestia’s shoulder. “I have it worse, thanks to everything Bill did awhile back. As awesome as it was, it’s not exactly a help at the moment. If it wasn't for the dude in charge, more people would have joined that extremist group.” Eris says with a shrug. “Speaking of which, I found this in the teachers lounge on my way here.” Luna says, before taking out several strange looking guns. The other two go wide eyed seeing them. “We have a security breach.” “Seriously!? Some of the teachers are with that group!?” Celestia asked in shock, Eris just glared at the guns. “On the off chance that they aren’t, then they better have a damn good reason to have these guns.” Eris seethed. “My thoughts exactly.” Luna says as Celestia takes out a phone. “Don’t bother, I already informed them. They said to act as if nothing happened, but to keep an eye on the other staff. Of course, that doesn’t mean we can’t tamper with them before putting them back.” Luna says with a malicious smile, the others gaining similar looks (not that Celestia would ever admit it), and got to work. Equestra Dream's POV Celestia may think I'm a gullible fool, but I'm most certainly not! She knows more then she's letting on. Unfortunately, despite our friendship, she's still the princess, there's only so much I can do, legally speaking that is. You don't raise a daughter like Sunset, without learning a few tricks. I just need to find Rose, then I can get started. Casting a tracking spell, I focus on Rose. The tracking spell is how I initially discovered something happened to Sunset. After all, as morbid as it is to think, even a corpse can be tracked. And the only pony who was both close enough to Sunset. And would have something that could send her out of the range of the tracking spell. Without alerting anypony with the shear amount of magic necessary to achieve that, in the span of one night, would be Celestia. She may not have been the one to do it herself, but it's entirely possible that she has something that could do it, something that Sunset could use on her own. I love that filly to death, but she's too ambitious for her own good sometimes… After a few moments, Rose entered my sights. She's in her room, surrounded by many different pieces of paper, muzzle deep in Sunset's journals and various books that we found left in her room. Bless her heart, the poor dear must have been at this for a while. I lay a hoof on her back. Without warning, her head whips around, and she lets out a deafening roar in my face. Her eyes glowed a menacing green, and her teeth became razor sharp. I go wided eyed as the roar lasted for a few seconds, then suddenly stopped as she realized who she was roaring at. "I'M SORRY!" Rose yelled in the most pitiful voice I've ever heard, as her eyes turned to their normal (non-glowing) blue, and her teeth turn back to normal. "It's quite alright dear…" I say, sweat dropping as I watch the most dangerous creature I know, act like a little filly who's been told they're gonna be grounded. I understand that she's upset with herself, but she doesn't need to be that upset. Thank goodness I decided to make it to where noises inside the house, can't be heard on the outside. "So…what did you need?" She asked in a quiet voice. "Well I have a hunch about where Sunset went." I say with a smile. "Mt.Ebott right? I've already gathered stuff we could use to fend off the Monsters. Earlier today I met this weird pony who kept trying to walk on her hind legs. Apparently she was researching some anomaly near a school, and accidentally fell into a portal a few days ago. I tried to talk to her, but when I made my presence known to her, she panicked. She quickly galloped away, still trying to do so on her hind legs. In her haste, she dropped some things." Rose said with a confused look. "I wouldn't exactly call that 'gathering', more like you just picked up something somepony dropped, but ok. And I wasn't referring to Mt.Ebott. But tell me about what you picked up." I say, now a little curious. "Well, some of it were unfinished blueprints, and others were strange devices along with some notes (which is how I found out what she was researching). The blueprints were for some kinda weapon, but I guess she must've still been working on it, considering it was a Unicorn who dropped it." She started. "Tell me about the weapon." I insisted. "It's something called a 'gun'. It utilizes some weird materials as an energy source. But I guess she's still working out some bugs, because with the way it is now, it's pretty dangerous. So far it has two settings and a special feature, one has it eat away at the target's magic system, not just the magic in the body, but the actual magical network in the entire body. The second setting does the exact opposite. It strengthens the magic in the body to a point where the magic network can't handle. The magic in the body would start to become volatile, to the point where the magic breaks through the network. The magic would then expand until the body explodes. The special feature is apparently a chaining affect, the blast would ricochet from the first target, to anypony close enough. I could understand some creature that doesn't have magic to make something like this, but not a unicorn, so it's pretty obvious that it was a mistake. Thankfully I've managed to tweak it to were it'll only make the targets exhausted, or temporarily paralyzed." Rose finished while rubbing her chin. I think throughout that entire spill, I experienced four minor heart attacks… "Rose, sweetheart, I don't think something that specific could be an accident. I'm gonna need you to track down that 'unicorn', and bring her here. And I don't mean you you, I mean the other you." I say in a serious tone. Her ears go down. "Did I do bad?" She asked with a guilty look. "No, no! Anyone could have made the same mistake. Now I need to talk with that unicorn as soon as possible." I say, "Did she have any friends?" She thinks for a moment. "Well…I wouldn't say friends, more like coworkers. At least, that's the impression I got from the notes." She answered. "Alright. Go find her, and bring her to me. I'll stay here and look over what you picked up. If I'm right, this could be bigger than a simple kidnapping." I say. Seeing her give me a confused look, I shake my head. "Never mind, as childish as it sounds, I was thinking about an old legend. Now hurry along dear." "Yes Ms. Dream." She says with a nod. As she trotted out, I huff. "I told you, you don't need to call me 'Ms.'!" I say with a groan. She laughed as she closed the door. With a shake of my head, I muse to myself. "Everypony knows Amaia is just a myth, an old mare's tale." I shake my head before looking at what Rose picked up.