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// Standing at the grave *Rewrite 11/19/12* 
// Story: Repercussions of the past 
// by TheArcher20 
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Chapter 1; Standing at the grave


It was late in the day; clouds were obscuring most of the vibrant colors and made it hard to tell what was what, except for a small town out of the way near a dark forest. It was brightly lit and ponies were going about their business as usual.

Inside the town graveyard stood a blue unicorn. She was a very old one, the age of time being far less kind in its ever changing state to this one. She just stared at a slightly oversized gravestone with a smirk. Though whether this smirk was of joy, malice, or regret, it could not be discerned, maybe a bit of all three.

"So, now I can't have my rematch," she sighed. "The Great and Powerful Trixie is still greater than you, Sparkle. Trixie has even outlived you."

No response came. Everything was silent and Trixie was still smiling devilishly at the gravestone. "Sparkle thought she had ruined Trixie, but nothing had changed. Trixie is still the greatest."

"Trixie's only regret is that she could not show you that she is and always will be the greatest, Sparkle." The wind gently blew a few small leaves through the air, gingerly swaying it past the gravestone and out into the open sky.

Trixie felt her heart thump inside her chest more rapidly, her vision was dulling and waving around. She felt herself clutching at her chest as she began breathing heavily.

“W-what is happening...?” She heard herself say as she leaned on the gravestone for support. The weather decided to worsen and began raining a light drizzle. Things got brighter slightly but it had added a faint grey hue to everything. 

Trixie fell to the ground, blacking out.

**********Thirty years ago**********

"You may have vanquished an Ursa minor, but you shall never have the amazing, show stopping ability of the great and powerful Trixie!" Trixie proclaimed as she galloped off, away from town.

She kept her pace until she gained a decent amount of distance between her and the town. "Damn. That's one less town of followers who shall see my greatness."

She went to the left into the thicket where a large amount of bushes were covering something up. "Good thing Trixie is smart enough to keep anything of value in her backup stage trailer.” Trixie grumbled angrily about the 'insufferable' ponies of ponyville as she moved her stage trailer out into the open.

"Maybe Hoofington will be more understanding of Trixie's Greatness." Trixie huffed as she continued dragging her stage trailer through the dusty road. She was so busy talking to herself that she failed to notice sounds coming from the bushes. She continued on, unaware of a faint blue glow in the underbrush. At least, not until she heard it make a strange noise.

“What was that?” Trixie turned her head left and right nervously as she tried to contemplate what had made such a strange noise. She had never heard it before and it made her that much more antsy to be in that forest.

She continued on again, this time at a slightly faster pace. She didn’t want to know what that noise was and she didn’t want to know what else there could be waiting so very close by.

The blue glow started to follow her at a slightly faster, but constant speed. The creature jiggled a bit as it kept its brisk pace to stay in step with Trixie from the bushes. It tripped on a stick, causing a similar reaction to overcome Trixie again.

This time Trixie turned to where she thought she heard the noise and shot a bolt of magic from her horn. The creature stopped from getting to its feet as Trixie watched  the bolt of energy hit nothing but a tree with a now caved in trunk.

Thinking of this as a game, it giggled like a child having fun, or trying to get away from the tickle monster.

Trixie froze in place as soon as that giggle was uttered from the creature's throat. She started to look around confusedly. Her thoughts raced through her mind, ‘A baby?! What’s a foal doing in these dangerous woods?! What the heck is going on!’. She screamed questions like that in her head for a short while before she heard a cracking sound off in the same direction the laughter came from.

She turned just as the small blob jumped into her view, she screamed and fell onto her haunches in fear. The creature just ran up to her and hugged her foreleg tightly.

She had never seen a creature like this before and kept on screaming as she tried her hardest to remove the unsightly thing from her foreleg. She kept trying to cast spell after spell, but in her ludicrously over-reactive state, she failed to complete a single incantation. Her horn kept fizzling as each spell fell into nothingness. Eventually, she calmed down and realized that the creature was indeed not trying to kill her, but was just hugging her.

The creature uttered a word that stumped Trixie a great deal. The creature called out in a strange and echo-y voice: "Mama! Mama!"


A/N 11/19/12: so now that the rewrite is done, the ending in my head has changed drastically, this will be a bit more easier on me when the time comes.