Chapter 13: Secrets of the Night, Nature Training, lovely, sick, grumpy of a sudden?
Fluttershy´s Pov:
I woke up in the middle of the night, I don´t know what woke me , I know it werent the strange noises from our neighbors, obvisiously Floraya and Derpy going at it with their Fiancés, no, what keeped me awake was a voice inside my head asking me constantly to come to the lake, past the big Tree in the Middle of the Village, other than most trees this here wasn´t an house, it was an three which reached out of the walls surrounding us, I had already found out earlier in the evening by the leader that this was an empty hill, in which an forest has been born, no one knows from where it came, but alone the fact that something magically as this existed, unknow by anone but the villagers, here in Equestria, this was sure incredible, even the animals were friendly and like totally care free, the People here were nearer to the nature than everyone else I know, this was Zecora and Florayas Tribe, Chlorophelia, The Tribe and Folk of Nature, I always asked myself where my mother came from, I honestly don’t know, I was born thought in cloudsdale, I guess but I never really felt myself welcome and accepted up there, before I fall, that day of RD´s first Sonic Rainboom, litterally on the ground, I felt myself way more safer near the earth than in the air, I know I always was afraid of almost everything, but here I don´t know why but I just fell like I could live here forever.
“Good evening, Fluttershy!” I suddenly heard a voice, bringing me out of my daydream and making me realize that I run very far from the village, I looked forward to see a moonlit lake, I looked to my right, and I sat myself, next to my neighbor.
“Good evening, Grandmother Healleaf!” I said as I looked in the moonlit face of the elder of the tribe, I don’t know but she was very familiar for me, as if I knew her for ages but I was sure that I don´t know her since yesterday.
“It’s a beautiful night not, I always like this time of the day, in the Morning and in the flow of the daytime, nothing really interesting happens, but yesterday, but in the night , when everything sleeps and the forest is like totally quiet , you are able to hear, and see the animals of the night, and I am able to always see this wonderfull nightsky, I really must thank Princess Luna for this night, its as Beautifull as all the others, but each night held something new for you, may it the sound of an unknown creature, be it the new assortment of the stars, or the state of the moon, every night is magic, I guess you know that it exist flowers who only bloom in the night, who are closed in the day and open in the night?”
Grannny asked and I nodded I know this flowers and I know from what she speaks, I love the night too, even though I lived on the edge of the Everfree forest, but I actually never really was afraid of my area, and the animals of the Forest, sure the Forest was scary but not ugly like Rarity said, it had his own beauty in a way which only Flora knows.
“Yes I know them, and I wanted to say thanks to you, Flora said to me that it was your idea to use the Magic of Nature to cure my wings, they are better than ever before and I don´t know how I ever can pay it back to you!” I said to her , she had a warm smile and she took me in her arms, I felt totally comfortable with it and it was a feeling like I never felt but I knew this feeling , it was familiar too, I don´t know but I simply gonna ask her.
“Granny Healleaf, can it be that we meet each other earlier in our lives, excuse me but you are just soo familiar to me!” I asked and I saw how she cringed , she looked back and I knew I was right, she knows me from former in my life.
“To be honest my Dear, I know you since your birth, I know you so well, because your mother was my daughter!” She said and I was buff.
My eyes bulged out of my head , my yawn fell and little I knew that I had the most dumb face right now.
“Wha-a-wa—wa—wa—wa—WHAT!?!” I screamed, not loud enough to distract someones sleep, but loud enough to make her cringing.
“Wait, what do you mean, my mother was your daughter, that should mean that I am your granddaughter!?” I asked completely confused, is saw her nodding and I saw how tears felt.
“Its an long and ugly story , from my past , I tried to forget her but I never could manage to forget one single sharp word I said to your mother as she went away, leaving the tribe, that was to the time as you and Zecora had been born, that’s why she cant know something about, but all I know is that I regrett every single word of the heated conversation on that faithfull day, it hunted me for years, even in the war, I asked myself if I ever would be able to see her again, but I knew that I was foalish, my folk was in a war with itself and all I knew was that I was glad and gratefull for it, that your mother leaved our tribe, so she hadn´t to see and feel what I felt that time, as I saw our tribe going under by its own hatred!” Granny told and she lost a few tears, her elder face full of sorrow, guilt and regrett, I didn´t know what to say, here I sit, next to me, my Grandmother, crying over the past, I mean can this situation gets anymore arkward.
“But why, why has she leaved the tribe?” I asked.
“Because of your father, his Father was an man from Canterlot, who managed a big firma, he one day came into this Forest to see if he could build some new manufacturings here, but he met defence in form of your mother and a few more of our tribe, she defended the tribe with all she had, and one day he brought a few workers with him, and with them he brought his son, at first both, your mother and your father hated each other, for we were from different classes and races, your mother was an earthpony and your father an pegasus, it looks like the kids would continue to hate each other,but one day changed all of it, the manufactury was build and set in motion, our elder council was still against it, and a few of us decided to make it stop by over-heating the generators, well you can imagine what happened, the generators catched fire and the whole manufactury, it burned down by an giant fire, in order to save our forest, your mother, with help of the tribe erased the fire, and also Your father and a few of the workers helped with water of the near lake, to save what still could be saved, the fire was way too strong , but your mother and your father had an idea, together with the tribe and the material of the workers of your grandfathers manufactury, they began to dig a line throught he forest to the lake, so the water could be flow through and filling an giant hole, creating another lake with the water nearer by the fire and so it was easier to erase the growing fire, after the fire was gone, your grand father saw what happened and apologized deeply by us elders, he promised to help with all his might to help building the forest up again, and so it happened , his workers had suddenly transformed to gardeners, using their digging skills to make holes and to bring away the ashes, we from our tribe began to plant and to set young trees back in the place, in the end the Forest had time to recover, while we did that, your mother and your father worked together and so they got closer, they became friends, and so me and your grandfather, it didn´t last long and your mother fall in love with your father, I did like him and his father but I don’t knew about the rest of his familly, his grand mother was strict against the love of both and tried with all might to break the relationship, even got so far to treat to disown his father from everything he had, so they needed to live on the street, it was nothing much for your father, but he didn´t wanted to do this to his father, so he explained to your mother what had happened and that he wanted to make an decision, and his decision was to break completely with his family and to run away with your mother, he asked if she wanted to come with him, that was the day when your mother told him that she was pregnant with you, this only strenghen his decision, and so the both of them made an plan to escaped the whole madness, I found out , by a few animalfriends talking to me, and I confronted your mother with it, she said that it were her only chance to be with him, I was against , wouldn´t I give up my only daughter, the fight got pretty ugly and then suddenly she fall in labor, we brought her to the hospitalstation and contacted your father, in this night you were born and the faith took his turn, your father knew that his grandmother would do everything to destroy the happy family, and my daughter knew that I don’t wanted her to go, but little I knew that I had to, it wasn’t my life but hers, but she still was my only daughter, so I throw all possible thing, that came in my head on her head, only with the result that she did the same, the fight began to get ugly and before I knew it I slapped her, I slapped her hard across the face, something I never had done before and I knew instincly that I just made the greatest mistake of my life, she looked at me in shock, I tried to tell her I were sorry, but she only packed her things, she grabbed you and run away through the forest, away from us all, I tried to follow her but I lost track of her, she was gone and all that left was sorrow and big guilt, I regrett this slap till the end of my day, and even when we had somehow been reborn from the death, through Floraya´s praying, i regrett all of it, I didn´t know where my one and only daughter where, I was alone and as I didn’t know if I could ever go over it, I saw you, you layed on the Hospitaltable, unable to move without pain, I saw your wings and that moment as you looked through pained teary eyes, you looked like your mother , I was in shock, I though I never would see her face again but she stand right before me, through you I saw my daughter, through the Mare which once was my one and all , through her daughter I saw her, I don´t know if it was her, but she asked me to help you, to save you for every reason and with all my might, she said that she don’t wanted to lose you like she losed me, and that was my reason why I decided to help you with all I got, I ripped open my library and I searched for an spell or an special cure about healing such injuries, and I found them, I found an article about Floraya sing Healing Nature to heal a hundred people in an great crisis once ago, and so I asked her to use this same magic for you!” And with his words Granny Healleaf, finished her story and I stand in a puddle of my own tears as well as her own, I looked in her elder face and I sudenly saw the face of her but younger, laughing at me , I remembered of when I was a baby, the first I saw when I opened my eyes were her laughing and happy face and the last time is saw her face was with unbearable sorrow.
I took her in my arms and I let her crying in my shoulders, same as I always do by my friends but this time it was not foreing and just friendly no it was familiar and it was with pure undemanded love.
“I know she had forgive you Grandmother, and I know she wanted to see you again, I saw her often sitting on the balcony looking down to the earth, always in the same direction, it was this direction, I still can hear her last words to me before she died, she said to me ,” tell her I am sorry, I never wanted to leave, tell her I still loved her all the time!”, I at first though she had talked with my father but she had talked to me, and she wanted to tell you, that is what I finally have understood after you told me this story, my mother never forgot you, she forgave you and she wanted to see you again Grandma!”
I saw how the face of the old Mare before me lighted up with pained joy.
“I thank you, thank you for these words!”.she said , and by the words, Words, I remembered on something.
“My Mother gave me this, the day she died, she said I shall give it too a special mare to her, I didn´t knew who she meant , but she told me that the content is only for that special, oldest friend and best mare , she ever knew, and I now know this one is for you!” And with this words I gave her the Letter, my mother gave me on her deathbed, asking me to keep it for this very day, I stood up to let her alone with the letter , because I wasn’t meant to know what stand in there, this was between my mother and my Grandmother.
“Good night Grandma, until tomorrow !” I said as I winked a hoof. She responded with an hug and a few gentle words.
“Good night,my dear granddaugther, I love you and I will promise you to go visit her gravestone!” It was the beautifullest words ever told to me, since my father died, I was the only one who ever visited my mother and my fathers gravestone, but to know that the visitors has been doubled, that now someone else comes to visit them was an gorgeous feeling.
“Thank you Grandma, I know she would have love it to visit you!” I siad to her and she smiled, I turned around and walked back to the shed, I passed an certain tree as I stopped, I didn´t looked in the direction but I knew that she was there.
“Good evening Floraya!” I said to her .
“Good evening Fluttershy, nice night for an Midnightwalk through the forest to the lake!” she said and I know she heard me, I looked in her direction and I saw her, her face had changed a bit since she got close to her full magical power, her eyerings has become much more darker, being now big black eyerings.
“Have you heard something nice and private!” I said through gritten teeths, who does she think she is, I know I should have respect for her but , this was private and she just listened and she,…
“Nothing that I don´t already know since long time!” She said to my total surprise.
“What, what do you mean, you already know since long time?!” I asked her confused.
“I knew who you are from the very start on, though havent I said something because it was not my part to do so, it was an family thing, the only part where I am involved in all of this is the part , where your mother asked me , better said requested me to take care of you, to show you someday what I means to step into the footprints of your family, of the femal bloodline of your Clan Fluttershy!” , Flora said and I was much more confused than before.
“What clan, what bloodline, im just a normal Pegasus, I have no clue what you talking about!” I said, I wasn´t outraged but a bit annoyed, I don’t know why but the old shyness was not there anymore, or at least not anymore to 100%, I had explored my impulsive and angry side, the side which helped me to jump over my own shadow and to tell people from time to time, what I really think and what I really think of them.
“Indeed, you may be a normal pegasus in your point of view but do I know about your bloodline vvery well, because I am the starter of this bloodline!” She said caught me in curiosity.
“How meaning?” I asked her, a bit more confused.
“I am your Ancestor Fluttershy, the one who brought the Femal bloodline of the forest priestess in the Tribe, I was the Source which brought out the Bloodline of the Shaman Familly of the tribe. You are one of my great granddaughters!” She said and I was buff, for the second time this evening.
“Before you try to object, let me explain, in every generation since the tribe has been formed, there has been a woman which has been my own flesh and blood, my daughter which I had born, in order to give the tribe stability and lead, this women has become the Miko, like we call it, a Highpristess of the Nature, containing part of my force and wisdom, she has the ability, like myself, to speak to the forest spirits, to speak to the nature and to the elements at all, as the miko you have the privilege, of being able to use magic, regardless of which race you are, Pegasus , Earth pony or Unicorn, the magic that this Pristess use is so called, Shinto magic, and rune magic, magic which is based on holy scripts, and there are spells from weak and daily over extremly difficult and to almost impossible to master whitout an century of practise, furthermore, a Miko is also a poison maker, being able to cure diseases or illness with help of herbs, herbalism is essential for a Miko, and the last thing to learn is Shamanismus, the ability to sumoon ghosts spirits and other creature of the Element nature only through prays or through runemagic, in this case the rune magic plus the Shamang magic is fusioned to ritualmagic, one of this spells, you already has experied itself!” Flora said to me and I needed to think about it.
You mean the Beast Modus, that time as you Transformed yourself into a giant wooden Gorilla!” I siad and she nodded.
Yes and there was a second spell you had experienced!” She said in an asking tone, I thought further about it, what has happen further, I saw the giant Forest guardian, he attacked me, I felt pain blacked out, was bearily alive, but still, and then I was healed from one moment to another, wait healing,…
“Healing nature, that was a ritualspell too!” I cried out and she nodded.
“Very good Fluttershy, yes Healing Nature is too an ritualspell, an Fusion of Shintoismus and Runemagic, the force os nature which the Forest Spirits has worked on you, has helped your body and your injury to overgo the normal time, the Rune magic was to fix the broken pieces of your wings, they foated and adjusted themselves back on your back, the shinto ghosts then began to overgo the time and healed the whole injury into a few minutes where the real nature normaly needed at least six months to do so. Anyway, i´m drifiting off track, well I had born this women, the miko and logically she also born a child, and so the tradition began its turn, Mothers teach their daughters in the magic, so that they someday will be able to take the place as the miko of the tribe, the Last Miko was your Mother, but did she leaved the tribe, for saving her love, so we took the one and only women who still had the skills, that was Granny Healleaf, but your mother never forgot her origins, but that made her sick, she didn´t wanted to leave her love but the sudden distance and the long times in the clouds had an worse side effect on her, as her time almost was ther, she sended an letterdove to me, asking me to come over, it was the first time I ever had leaved the Everfree forest since the day I got in. I then recieved the dove and imade my way to her up to cloudsdale, she wasn’t in the best condition, I offered to heal her, as much as I could , I was that time in the endphase of my teenage years and I hand´t my full forces back , so I only could do as much of magic as I could for the beginning, when we met, she said it were alright, she asked me to give you the heritage back, to forgive her sin of leaving the tribe, she know she loved her daughter but she saw plenty that you din´t liked it a bit up there, so she took the decision to bring her back to chlorophelia, and to teach her in the skills of a Miko, to make her the new genration of Highpristess of the Forest, this was her last request to me, and I accepted, so as Celestia, ;una and Mistress Equestria , will be my witnesses, I , Dear fluttershy offer you the position as my personal student, to study the Magic of Nature, the Skills of Shamanism, Shintoism and Rune Magic and the skills of the Ritual magic, like your mother asked of me?” Floraya said in an forcefull and bursting ,out of authority, voice., I asked myself if someone woke up, by all this noise.
I though this through, so my mother was supposed to be the next miko but because of a reason of love, she leaved the tribe and began a life up in cloudsdale with me and dad, than she got sick and even more sick on the verge of the death, she sended a letter to Floraya asking her to teach me into her own abilities, who accepted the request, and now I got asked, if I may be able tobecome Floraya´s personal student in Shamanism and all kind of Naturemagic, I know my Mom wanted me to do so, my Grandmother surely want me to do it too, and to be honest I was very curious about this kind of magic, so I say the only answer which came in my mind.
“Yes, iw will greetly take your offer, Mistress Floraya!” I said as I bowed before her, like a student would do to her mistress or Master.
“So shall it be, from this day on, Dear Fluttershy, I will take you in as my personal protegée, and I will teach you in all kind of magic I know about!” She said her voice booming through the forest, echooing from the trees and the holes.
I looked up to her and I saw a warm smile, looking at me.
“You know you are my first real student and I would love to have you as my personal protegée!” She said as she nuzzled my side like Celseti always did by Twilight, now I know how it feels.
“Yes and I promise to not dissapointing you and to be a good and attentive Student, I will make you proud, Great Granny!” Is said smirking, and she laughed a bit.
“I hope so, well then I think we should go sleeping, I want you to raise up a bit eariler than the others, so we can start with an little morning yoga, its good to clean the head and open your mind for the power of Nature, okay?” She asked and I nodded.
“I promise I will be there!” I said with eager to perform as best as I could, to make her proud.
“That’s what I want to hear, that´s the spirit!” We laughed as we went to our sheds, unaware of what will await us tommorrow.
The Next Morning:
Ditzy´s Pov:
It was morning and the first think I felt was, lightheaded, somewhat lightheaded, I sat up and tried to focused my eyes on something but they seemed to just want to roll around, I tried harder and I managed to get the object of my need in my view, as fast as I managed I leaped through the door and in the next monet you could hear noises I just do not gonna describe in the slightest, all I know was that I didn´t felt good at all this morning, I needed the bathroom for more than fifteen minutes, before I was done with what I had done, I walked out and I felt like a my body weight a ton , all of a sudden, I noticed sudenly hoofs which had been wrapped around me, and I felt a small nibble on my ear making me giggling.
“Heya honey, how was your sleep?” My Beloved one asked, and I needed to chuckle of his question, I hadn´t get much of Sleep because of our Happy Night Action.
I knew fully that he had heard my thoughts, because he chuckled and I could feel his hot breath on my neck giving me a chill, it was like last nigh, I honestly never were so much in mating, but he was a one of a kind, first he started slow, giving me a lovingly massage and then he began to enchant me with sweet nonsense while nibling on my ears , he stroke my tail and that’s where I loosed it , I got insane for him, it was insane, but I loved every minute, I will now not go to much in detail because I know that someday I will tell somepony this story and well, I think that this is more my private thing, only my Dairy knows about all the thing we did last night, and that’s how it shall be.
“Im so hungry,I think I can eat an Ursa minor , shall I go catch us one!” He asked playfully, and I wanted to laugh but alone by the word food , I got lightheaded again, I run to the bathroom and , well like I said, that’s nothing to know for little fillys, all I say from the smell , I needed to go over it just again.
“Hey are you alright?” It came from behind , all playfullness gone and only concern in his voice, I nodded.
“Just a bit of Morning sickness, and yes I am hungry as a black hole in the universe!” I said and I do not question right now from where I know about the science of Black Holes.
“Well I would be too, when I think of how many energy we lost last night!” He smirked and I shushed him with a kiss, after I logically cleaned my mouth before, with a lot of toothpaste, blueberry taste, mmmmmhhmmm.
He got carried away bt I stopped him, it was way too early in the mornign, for, well, that.
“Aww, and I thought you loved me!” He said playfully, I know he wasn not addicted to it , or just after me for it, he just like to play sometimes the love sick idiot.
“Uh, that was harsh!” He laughed, and I put on a mean face, at least this was what I wanted to let it be, but I think my own amusement ruinated it all.
“Outta my Head, Sir!” I said to him and he rolled over laughing.
“Sorry but was born with it, I can´t simply switch it off and on!” He said and I nuzzled my cheek on his, I love him so much, like I say people may say that it was completely stupid to fall in love with someone that you know less than a week, but I knew him all my life even then the fact was for this time hidden, but I love him and so does he, and I know , without him I would never be able again to live, he gave me so much , love, an father for Dinky, and an Husband for me.
“And you gave me everything , I ever wished for, Love, trust, hapiness, joy, the feeling of somepony awaiting you in the evening, and I wouldn’t´gave this feelings, you and your daughter, little Dinky , up for everything in the world” he said and I saw the honesty in his eyes.
I think its time to finally and fully wake up and make breakfast, what do you think about Hayfries and eggs, in bed !” He asked and I nedd to giggle , oh he was such an Prince charming.
“Only and Always for you My Lady!” He said kissing my hoof, making me blushing, I honestly cant imagine an sweeter guy than him.
“I do my very best!” He said and I laughed, he got up and reached an hoof out, I gently took it and together we made our way to the market place.
Applejack`s Pov:
“I must say this Market is awesome, and even the apples are like really good and I mean , I need to know, I come from an applefarm!” I siad as we all walked through this midagelike Market, instead of using E$, one use her the normal tradingsystem, as example, you want a kilo apples, but have only three big birds from your chase this morning, so your simply, change the Birds for an Pig, by the Birdsellmare, then you go to the farmerstallions with the pig, they gonna change it for some kitchen utensils, like spoons, pans and so on, well hen you go to the kitchen utensils sallesmare, she will change your marmits, with an kilo peanuts and they you finally go changing for the one kilo apples, its still an old but an way better system than in most towns.
“It is, but you need to change like everything just to finally get some fabrics, for making dresses, which you then go sell for finally gonna have something to eat for a week, that is a lot of changing according to our E$ System!” Rarity whined, she had desperately changed like hundred different things to get some of the finest fabrics she ever had seen ,made by special spiders which only live here in the whitetail forest, but the work of the fabric was fabulous and unreached by any other industry or handmade fabrication, this here was an unicat of natural won Fabric, according to Rarity.
“Well I cant get over the fact that I had beeing so dump to get this not working compass instead of the wonderboltsposter!” Rainbow dash whined, she found an Poster of her favourite flying group but found an compass of the same merchandise right next to it, well it was way more practic to buy a compass than an poster, as twilight said, while you traveling through the land, into unknown areas, but as she finally got the compass, she needed to known that the thing didn’t worked at all, the way it should , it just didn´t showed at north like it should.
“Well at least it does lokk trendy Dashie”! Pinkie said , before suddenly her eyes caughted interest in something, and she zapped over the market in a pink blur in less than five seconds.
“I really ask myself where actually Fluttershy is, I mean her letter which, said she were with Floraya, wasn’t really any helpful for my curiousity!” Twillight said, and I rolled my eyes.
“Twillight, not everypony like to always describe every single thing they are about to do, sometimes ponys just gonna make short letters, to describe something bigger, Ah don’t know what she´s doing but let us simply let her do her thing the way she want, okay, we will see her afterwards anyways, maybe she will tell maybe nod, that’s for her to know, for us to find out!” I said to Twillight, which sighed, I snickered , I know how much she hate when she don’t know something at all.
“Well since we are here we also can enjoy the atmosphere, hmm!” Suddenly Twilight walked over to a stand and her eyes sparkled, as she found a new book of something I do not understand in the slightest, but there was something even I understood but it was more something for her.
“Hey Dash , I found some Daring Do books!” I siad and she came in an azur-blue blur.
“Where?” She asked, I nodded over to the same stand at which twillight stand.
Her eyes sparkled the same way as Twilights, I guess this will be a funny morning I guess.
Mean While by Floraya and Fluttershy:
Floraya´s Pov:
“ Okay, Fluttershy, as we had yesterday decided,today I will start to teach you in our Magic and I want you to pay much attention to everything I say, okay?” I asked little Fluttershy, which nodded , looking like a little filly in the school .
“So today we have not much time before we continue our travel, that why we are here in the wood, today we gonna practice tracking!” I said and first et it sincking into her.
“Its no normal tracking, am I right!” She said, she do has an wake mind.
“Yes indeed dear Fluttershy, very good, what you will learn today will be another kind of tracking, it is called Aura Tracking, I want you to find me , when I hide myself, but I want you to do this with blindfolded eyes, your only chance to find me is to relay on your other sense, and on finding my Aura, with your sense. To that we will do a little exercise right now, so sit down next to me, and close your eyes and do what I say, you can follow me so far?” I asked again and she nodded again, she sat herself next to me.
“Alright, now close your eyes and do the same as we have learned by the Yoga, focus your senses, in your head, every single one of them, I want you to taste the air around you, I want you to feel every single disturbing in the air stream around you, I want you to hear past beyond the normal hearing, try to hear what lies beyond the normal Audio okay, I want you to pull your senses to an maximum of sensitivity, and then I want you to go past it, and begin to search for my Aura, can you follow so far?” I asked again, she raised a hoof, now its going about to get interessting.
“Yes my Dear?” I asked and she cleared her throat.
“Well I have a question, how shall I strenghen my senses over the limit of it, without losing myself into them?” She asked and it was an very good question for an beginner.
“Very Good, well to know where your limits lies, and to overgo them safely is the hardest part of the Apprentice of an shaman, to focus your senses, all of them , to an maximum is really hard and I wouldn´t be surprise if you need a few tries to get the hang of it, I do not be mad if you fail for a few time!” I said , looking at her with an warm smile, its an good feeling to finally be able to raise someone up with teaching my magic, the last time was by my daughter, Roselake Dryade, but that was millenias ago.
“Well then , let´s start okay, hear on what I say to you, alright?” I asked her she nodded and closed her eyes.
“Okay, now begin with the audio, focus your Hearing on everything you hear around you!” I said , I saw that she nodded.
“Alright, now I want you to filter the sound and to focus on my voice, I will sing a tune and you say it when you are ready for the next step!” I said to her.
“Sin, ma, tu , ma ten ti ga un, te wo , kin sa ten nigu unde, ja min na to , sin ga kureta!“ I sang, an old tune in my native language, so i were able to help her a bit, by concentrating on my voice, this tune helps to visualize the same and every noise arround you in your head, its almost the same art which shockwave use for tracking someone down, just in a limited version, the art of using the echo-vision is for each user an other way.
“I can see your sillhouette, but rather unclean, its more like I can see you only then , when you make some kind of noise!” Fluttershy said, and I knew she used her own art of echo-vision.
“Very good, this kind of hearing and visiualizing, is called echo-vision, its essentiel and very necessary when you fight with someone in an forest, or forest like area. Well then off to the next step, now that you know how to use echo-vision I want you to focuse your hearing very good at me, and I want you to tell me what you hear , and I will then walk around you, I want you to tell me where I am, you can follow so far?” I asked her, having already a plan if she fail this time.
“Yes Mistress Floraya!” I heard her saying and I needed to chuckle.
“Fluttershy dear,Floraya is all you need to call me, or even Flora, I don´t want the situation of me having you as my protegée, will change everything about both of us, I am still the same, just with a second mission now!” I said to her.
“Right, you going right from me, in a circle mode, I can see how your hooves slaying on the ground making their own noise!” She said and I needded to giggle.
“Very good, and what am I doing now?” I asked as I danced around her , then jumped in the air and landed light as a feather back on theground by using my wings, to bring me a bit further.
“You walked around me, suddenly began to dance a bit , then you jumped high in the air and floated back to the ground!” She said.
“Very good, what have you heard and seen, while I was doing that?” I asked, curious of her answer.
“I suddenly heard how your hoof tapping accelerate and began to get faster , then suddenly I heard something ripping through the air, I heard and kind of saw how your wings began to unfold, and then I heard the wind being ripped in a gentlier way then before, giving me the idea of you floating, as I heard and saw the waves of the thud your hooves made as they got back in contact with the ground, I asumed you to be landed again!” She said to me and I was proud of her early progress.
“You made a good progress in here Fluttershy, but now I will show you step three, tell me where am I now!” I said as I speaked from her right said, creating , without making an sound, an wood-double out of me.
"You are still right of me!
“But what if I am right next to your left!” I let the wood double say to her, her voice sounding exact the same as mine, I created two others.
“No I saw the waves of your speaking you were right of me.
“But I am still Left of you!” I let the double saying.
“Or maybe , in front of you!” I let the other one continue in the next instant after the last spoke.
“Or what if I am right behind you!” I let the last saying, I saw how Fluttershy jerked her head in each direction, poor thing but I have to do that, or it will get like real ugly in an fight.
“Okay Fluttershy I want you to open your eyes!” I said to her, she opened and jerked away.
“What the, what´s going on here!” She shouted as she saw what I did, I surrounded her with wood-clones, each one having the desing of me, same weight and height, and all of them the same voice, but one complete difference to the original me.
“Your next step is to find me, finding me and you have overcome the first obstacle on your way to being able to feel and see aura, to do the aura-tracking., show me that you are strong , show me that you are intelligent and interested in this kind of magic, show me that you are worth to be my student, tell me wich one of us is wrong!” I siad my voice strenghen from fifty wood-clones, doing the exact same as me.
“This unfair!” She shouted and I needed to chuckle.
“The World, the life and the Fights are unfair Fluttershy, this hear is only the basics of your apprentice, to be able to find out the original out of hundred doubles, I want you to find me, we have now 10:30, I want you to find me until 11:50!” I said and before she knew how it happens to her, my little game began.
“Fluttershy!” I let a few saying her name from the right side, on different levels.
“Fluttershy” it came from behind her.
“Fluttershy!” it came from her front, poor Fluttershy twisted her body around as if she way a bey, I know people will thing this were a cruel training but to be honest this is only the spareflame training, this is not only for an Shaman essentiel but for each real warrior, according to Jacky´s wish, we should teach each of the Elements of Harmony on how to real fight against dark magicians , dark forces or simply villains who are magic and kindness resistent, like Battalion, the Element of Destruction, Zero Brain, Zero Mercy but an Hell of Muscles, Big armors and especially big guns and attilleries on the back, or as other example, Skeletion, the Element of death, who is able to ressurect skeletons and to use kind of necromanty, to be able to find him in an pile of walking bones is really helpfull.
“Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy!” I let it singin from every direction, she jerked her head to each side, screaming to stop, from my hideout I could clearly see how suddenly tears flooded out of her eyes, do I push her too hard, no, do not show how weak you are, she needs to learn it, the hard way or else she will one day learn it the very ugly way, and I want her to avoid this as long as she can, so its better to prepare her for that day.
“C´mon, c´mon Fluttershy, I know you can do it!” I muttered under my breath in this chaos of voices definitely not audable.
Fluttershy´s pov:
“Please Floraya, I beg you, this is not funny anymore!” I screamed, still surrounded by those woodclones, how will I be able to ever find her, these things looks all the same and just like her, sound like her, have same statur like her and the weight is the same too, all those things I already have checked off the list, but what can I still look out for, there must be a difference, some kind of difference between all of them, let me begin the list from new, when one of them Opens its wings they all do the same, and it always sounds the same, when they speak they speak in unison or by groups but still sounding always the same, when they go around they put the exact same pressure on the earth , argh, all in all these clones are all the same and all act the same way, but what is there a difference between them and Floraya and, …, wait, oh how dumb could I be, it was so easy and like todaly in front of my snout and I didn’t see it, I always just look for the outer sounds but I didn´t looked for the inner sounds, the body sounds, like, the , the, …, the heart , of course, wood has no heart , or better said no pulse.
“I have the solution for this!” I screamed, I closed my eyes and began to focus on the clones before me, I began to block out the outter sounds they made, like calling my name, which got kind of creepy by time, then I began to focus on their body, I began to strenghedn and to focus more, until I was able to make out a constant, “badoong, badoong”, I looked around and I knew somehow that the sound wasn´t in front of me, I began to focus more, I began to use echo-vision, to see what was infront of me, I saww all of them standing in front of me, but they all looked other than before they all looked more like only the bodylines have been drawn on a black paper, I began to step forward, my own hooves formed waves as I stepped through the mass, I blocked them out too , I focus so strong on this constant “Badoong”, so that I suddenly saw it before me, I saw an leaf infront me, but there was something other, I saw that the leaf had something inside of it, I focused more and I began to make out an ball , or , wait not it was an ying yang symbol, the sign of balance, I began to go after it but it began to go out of reach, I began to run as it speeded up, the next moment I knew I began to chase it, I began to see the bodylines, it was like the leave began to get roots, later than I think about it I think what I saw were nerves, anyway as I chased it is saw something before me, I crashed full in it, but I didn’t cared I was so focused on the moving leaf that I completely forgot all around me, I wanted that leaf, why wasn´t in any question but I was so focused on that leave that I forgot everything around me, until I suddenly,…
“Gotcha!” I screamed as I managed to bring the leave to stopping, holding it under my hooves, the structure I saw before, the nerves , spreades out and around the leave like roots, I saw that I was a bit over the leaf but I had catched it, suddenly a pony body began to build up in my inner eyes, I blinked what was that.
“Very good!” I heard it suddenly coming and the surprise about this long unheard voice ripped me out of my concentration.
I jerked my head up and pushed my eyes open, I was blinded by light, I stand on a clearing in the forest, and something furry under me, I looked down to see that I almost lied on Floraya.
“Oh, uhm, hey, ehehehhe!” I stammered a bit embarassed, I steped off of her, and she stood up and dusted herself of.
“Very , Very good, you have learned on how to track down an aura, thought each ones aura is unique, I can say it was a crazy feeling of being chased by you, but it was better than I hoped, I am sorry about earlier, with all the clones but I can´t say I regrett it!” Flora said and I chuckled, I still rememeber on how afraid I was a few minutes ago.
“Yeah it was rather creepy, but it was worth in the and, I thank you so much for this lesson and for being a great teacher, but can you tell me how long I needed?” I asked I was curious about my time.
“Not more than twenty minutes, to figure out what I wanted from you and then it lasted only five minutes, before you chased and catched me!” She said and I dropped my ears, I needed so long to find the answer.
“I´m sorry Floraya, I lasted so long to find the answer and,…!” I wanted to go further but she silecned me with a hoof on my mouth.
“Stop apologizing and listen, it´s no shame at all that you neede a bit longer than others to get the hang out of what I wanted from you, the other tribe-members are doing this kind of things for since they were born, but you lived half of your life up in cloudsdale, how would you be able to do it, up their anyways, no what you did was good enough!” I heard her say as she towered over me.
“Yaay!” I squeled as she suddenly nuzzled my side, I felt loved and remembered at the times when my mother did this.
“Well I gues its about time, we should now meet up with the others, while we walk I will tell you abit about the Shinto, and nature-ghosts okay!” Floraya said and I nodded, we began to walk and soon we were in an heated conversation about the Nature ghosts.
Meanwhile with Ditzy and Jacky:
Jacky´s Pov:
It was strange , since the morning, something was different with Ditzy, she didn´t spoke musch and she seemed to lost herself from time to time in thoughts, from the breakfast I had to do at least three plates for her until she was full, and just the moment she was done she suddenly got up and runned to the toilett I could hear some nasty sounds and some curses I do not explicit discribe here, but let me tell you, it was definitely not the way ,she normaly act.
“Ditzy, do you really are sure that you are alright!” I asked with concern.
“For the hopefully last time today , yes I am Jacky!” She snapped and I was more concerned than before, since then does my kitty get so snappy .
“Okaaaay, because you begin to confuse me a bit, did I do something wrong?” I asked quiet confused of why she seems to be anry about something.
“No , not yet, but better beware!” She said , giving me headaches of all this confusion.
“please, I, uhmm, what, what shall I do to probalby make you mad?” I asked dumbfounded.
“As example, endlessly rambling about nonsense, can you please shut your mouth for a second!”She shouted and I was abit taken aback.
“I´m just concerned.” I muttered under the breath.
“What was that?” She asked me, scaring the holy shit out of me, as she suddenly towered over me.
“No-, nothing honey!” I quickly responded.
“I hope so for your own safety!” she threated ,me, seriously what was wrong with her.
“Guess I should ask Floraya about it!” I thought about it.
This was not normal, Ditzy never snapped before on me, nor did she yelled with me, all in all when I am with her she´s more like an sweet little cute kitty, less an angry tigress, I do not really like to be the mouse , but what do I know, one does not simply understand women.
“Well I gues we shall begin to pack everything, we continue or travel at 12:00, so we reachthe cost at 13:00 then we need to find a boat or so, to get over the ocean!” I said and she only nodded.
“Where are the others!” She suddenly asked taking me off guard.
“uhmm, I guess they are shopping on the market, maybe buying some proviant, I wanted to go later too for buying some heal herbs and some vital poison and medics or so!” I said.
“I hope you have planned to bring me along!” She snapped and I was again taken aback.
“Sure when you like, you can go with me!” I said as shortcut as I could, hey I love her , really, but constantly being snapped on I don’t need too.
“I think so too!” She said with an huff, making me wanna facehoof, only the knowledge that this here is my soon to be bride , keeped me away from exactly doing just that.