//------------------------------// // A Warm Realization pt. 1 // Story: The Frozen Soul Chronicles // by Frozen Icewind //------------------------------// The Frozen Soul Chronicles         Ice spikes slowly began to form along the outside of the house, the weight of the growing ice spikes began to make parts of the house break off and shatter on the ground, “Why must I always be judged by how I look!” The pony shouted, his horn glowing even brighter. After a while, the ice stopped forming. The three fillies looked inside the house and were shocked, the entire inside of the rooms were filled with solid ice, trapping the stallion inside a frozen tomb.         “We’ve got to do something!” Sweetie Belle panicked, her voice squeaking in fear, “H-He could freeze to death if we don’t!”         “Yeah, you’re right Sweetie Belle, I’ll go and tell Applejack.” Applebloom said as she galloped back towards Sweet Apple Acres.         “I’ll go and find Rainbow Dash. Surely she can rescue him with her amazing speed!” Scootaloo exclaimed as she too dashed off to find the speedster pony.         “I-I guess I’ll go and find Rarity.” Sweetie Belle said to herself before running off to find her older sibling.         Applebloom ran through the acres and acres of trees, searching for her stetson wearing sister. Unable to do so she went and found Big Macintosh and asked him where she was, “Well... I think she’s over at Twilight’s for somethin’...” He told the little filly. She thanked her brother before running towards the Library. After arriving at the library, out of breath from her hurried running, she quickly began to tap a hoof on the door.         “Twilight, you in there?” Applebloom asked, listening for any sign of Twilight inside the library. After a few seconds of waiting the door opened, Twilight standing on the other side.         “Hi Applebloom, what can I do for you?” Twilight asked cheerfully, happy to see the filly at the library.         “Big Mac said my sister was here” Applebloom said as she tried to look behind Twilight for her sister, but couldn’t see her anywhere. Twilight smiled and let Applebloom go inside to look for Applejack, and when the got inside Applejack made her way up from the basement, covered in what looked like pieces of apples.         “Phew, Twi you really oughta-” Applejack started before noticing Applebloom, “Why are you here?”         “I need your help with something, can you come with me?” Applebloom asked quickly. Applejack quickly looked at Twilight, looking to see if it was okay for her to leave, and after a nod and a smile from Twilight the sisters were off. ~~~         Scootaloo dashed through town on her scooter, her small wings propelling her quickly along the ground, shouting for Rainbow Dash. She occasionally threw a small pebble at any lingering clouds to see if she was sleeping on one. Eventually a cloud let out a small yelp of pain when it was hit by one of the small stones.         “Hey, watch where you’re throwing things!” Rainbow shouted as she looked over the edge of the cloud, only to see Scootaloo looking up at her. Rainbow quickly jumped off the cloud and gently floated down to Scootaloo, scruffing up her mane as she landed.         “Hey Scoots, what’s up?” Rainbow asked, apparently forgiving Scootaloo for interrupting one of her naps.         “I need you to come with me, somepony is in danger!” Scootaloo said dramatically, knowing that Rainbow would come along if her heroics were going to be shown to everypony. ~~~         Sweetie Belle ran towards the Carousel Boutique, dodging ponies along the way. She barrelled into the door, tumbling on the ground a little, causing Opal to freak out a little.         “Ah!” Sweetie Belle shouted as Opal started to claw her face, trying to get back at Sweetie Belle for surprising her. Sweetie Belle fought Opal off until Rarity came downstairs to see what all the commotion was about, finding Sweetie Belle with Opal rolling around on the floor.         “Sweetie, what are you doing to Opal?!” Rarity exclaimed, running forwards to rescue her cat from Sweetie Belle.         “She attacked me, it’s not my fault!” Sweetie Belle whined angrily, flaring as Opal smirked at her.         “Oh well, what brings you home so early, should you be out crusading?” Rarity asked as she let Opal go, who quickly ran to her room.         “Well, yes, but we saw this strange pony, his head was all purple glowy, and then after we followed him we found out he can use Ice Magic” Sweetie Belle said quickly, nearly running out of breath by the end of it.         “What do you mean his head was ‘all purple glowy’?” Rarity asked, looking at Sweetie Belle in confusion.         “From under his old cloak he wore, his head glowed purple!” Sweetie Belle exclaimed, somewhat annoyed that Rarity had even asked that question.         “So why did you come to tell me this?” Rarity asked, still not sure what was so important.         “Before we left, his house started to freeze, and we think he might get stuck inside!” Sweetie Belle cried while yanking on Rarity’s leg. After a few minutes of Sweetie Belle begging Rarity to come and help she finally caved in after Sweetie Belle said, “He could use a new cloak anyways!”         “Well I am not one to leave somepony without proper attire,” Rarity said dramatically, “Let me get my things and we shall be off!” ~~~         The three fillies met back at the stallions house, notice a startling discovery, the house was completely covered in ice. The house began to groan and creak from the weight of the ice. Strain cracks could be seen on the wood of the house. A blue glow could be seen from the inside of the house. The ice on the house continued to grow and spread, causing more and more ice to form on the ground. An unpony-like wail came from inside the slowly crumbling house. The house cracked apart to reveal an opaque Ice creature, it let out another wail. A silhouette of a unicorn could be seen inside it’s body and seemed to feed the creature energy to act on it’s own, unwillingly powering the beast.         “What the hay is that thing!” Applejack said as she reared back, startled by the creatures sudden appearance.         “Whatever that thing is it’s got somepony inside it!” Rainbow Dash said as she flew towards the creature. Out of the corner of it’s sight, the beast saw the multi-colored mane of the Pegasus and raised one of it’s clawed arms at her, knocking her out of the sky.         “Woah!” Rainbow Dash said as she was tossed into a tree.         “Go... Away.... Let... Me... Be... ALONE!!!” It shouted, ice forming along the tree’s branches. The glow from the stallion’s horn intensified as a ball of ice began to form in the creatures mouth.         “Watch out!” Came a goofy voice from above as a large boulder landed on the creatures’ head, shattering it into a thousand pieces.         The six ponies looked up to see a grey Pegasus with her eyes crossed and a goofy grin on her muzzle, “Sorry~” She said, thinking she was in trouble.         “I can’t believe that I’m saying this... But thanks Ditzy!” Rainbow Dash said to her.         Their victory was short-lived as the sounds of ice cracking filled the air. Every pony looked back towards the fallen beast as it’s head slowly began to reform.         “Oh... COME ON! How can it survive that!” Rainbow Dash shouted in a mix of anger and despair.         “Help... me....” A voice softly said, almost drown out by the creature’s reforming.         “What was that?” Rarity said, looking over at Sweetie Belle.         A dark laughter began to ring throughout the area, causing everypony to stare at the beast’s head, “You really thought you could end me with such a pitiful trap...” it said, “The only way to kill me is to kill my source of energy...” It told them, pointing one of it’s clawed limbs at the stallion trapped inside.         The seven ponies gasped, kill a pony to save hundreds... or risk hundreds to save one... the ultimate delma. The creature began to laugh again, knowing that it’s victory was sealed.         “No... I won’t give into you...” A voice rang out inside each of their minds.         “Wha? How are you able to communicate!” The beast howled at the trapped stallion.         “Because, Eldrich... Even though you may have trapped my magic... you never trapped my body.” The stallion replied, “And since you didn’t do that... I can do this!”         A sharp sound reverberated inside the creatures body as the stallion forcefully broke his horn off his head. The beast let out a scream of pain as it fell to the ground, writhing in pain. As it writhed in pain, the stallion forced his way out of the beast’s body and limped over to the group.         “I wish we could’ve met under less grim conditions...” The stallion said as he looked at them, “My name is Frozen Icewind...” he said, coughing up a small amount of blood as he spoke, “... pardon me... It seems that was more lethal than I expected.” Frozen told them, placing a hoof over his false eye, “You may wish to look away...”         “Now why would we want to--” Applejack started to ask, her voice dying in her throat as Frozen ripped his false eye out. A sickening wet shlurp was heard as it slid out.         “What the Hey!” Rainbow Dash shouted at him, “Why’d you go and do that?!”         “Because... It’s my last resort....” He replied to her, placing the eye on the ground, “Obsecro magica glaciem animas... concede mihi forma deo... Obsecro magica glaciem animas... concede mihi forma deo!” He said as he brought his hoof down on top of the eye, shattering it into a hundred pieces. A white light erupted outward from Frozen’s body. Ancient runic circles could be seen beneath him as the runes imbued in the circles floated into the light. ~~~ Author Notes: Hello everypony, just to let you know this chapter is going to be split into two parts.... And in other news, I'm looking for an editor and a proof-reader for my stories. If you think you're up for the task, send me a message. Bonus points for whomever can tell me where I got the name Eldrich from.