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// Chapter 5 
// Story: The Meaning of Time/An Hour of Judgment 
// by TimeRarity64 
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Chapter 5




The princess of the moon was covered in scratches as she struggled through the blistering cold winds that angrily blew against her. She had been flying since she pulled up the moon into the night sky and had no success in making it to Déjà vu’s castle in time than she had predicted. The wind was not normal, for she knew that the anomalous of the strong squall was a mere simple spell casted from a unicorn skilled with Aero-magic. She had to not use any type of magic, sadly, for she knew her brother would sense it. The best she could manage was to continue on flying in order to remain under the radar.

Luna felt a strange pulse, however, disrupting the magical flow of invisible energy within the planet’s spatial field that not even she could see. The source of all magic felt off and sent an ominous feeling down the mare’s back as the fur of her coat pointed up. When she gained a clear view of the forest where her brother’s castle resided, she decided to find a landing spot. The wind continued to blow still, even when she landed on the grassy round near the stagnant water of a malodorous swamp. This displeased the mare as well as appalled her as she began walking through the grass, heading straight.

Fog began to swarm around the swamp, clouding Luna’s vision, causing everything ahead of her to become obscure, but the mare continued straight ahead. She was glad, however, when the wind suddenly ceased, but disturbed and irritated by the fog that came out of the nowhere. Clearly, she could feel the magical energy off the illusion-type spell created off of Aqua-magic. The mare still had her strong knowledge off of the four elements and the effects each elemental magic had on an individual.

She remembered spending some quality time with Twilight, studying together in magical lessons that were exciting and thrilling. She could not forget such cherishing moments. The mare was her first friend and granted a sense of courage and completeness to her heart. Just thinking about the purple mare, Luna shivered at the thought of her best friend being endangered, but then came that pulse again, sending another chill down her back. It distracted her from what was up ahead and caused her to look around in a state of panic.

The pulse was unsettling, inducing fear into the mare as she started to tremble. Her body was unable to process the need of movement as her motor-skills remained nonfunctional. All she was capable of doing at the state of petrification now, was stare up into the foggy sky. The fog began to swirl around her before taking the form of an alicorn larger than her. Its size was that of a titan, staring down at her as she stared at it.

“Nifilheim,” The mare muttered through her trembling lips.

Nihilheim was not an ordinary alicorn or a living thing in fact. It had no gender or specific appearance able to be correctly categorized. Instead, it was a massive Fog conjured by a forbidden spell that swallowed up its victims, causing them to be lost in a realm of nothingness. Though the swamp was still there and the mare was fully aware of the illusion being cast upon her, she could not escape it. In order to escape, one must be a unicorn or of her race in general and cast a release spell to dispel the illusion away, but she could afford being spotted by her brother. This was a defensive spell that her brother had staged for any trespassers.

The dangers of the spell were all too serious since one could easily die of starvation if they did not escape its foggy world. Nihilheim was a fog. It was the realm of nothingness.

Luna continued to stare at the giant fog-formed indescribable thing, starting to gain back her movement and back away, but there was nowhere left for her to back away to since she was trapped in the illusion.

“This sorcery is nothing but deceiving, there must be a way out of it,” She said, shutting her eyes, daring not to look at the eyes of nothingness. “There are four elements in magic; Aqua, Aero, Terra, and Pyro; Pyro is strong against Aero while Aero is strong against Pyro, Terra is strong against Aqua while Aqua is strong against Terra. Illusion-type magic is made from Aqua-magic while Remedy and Ailment-type magic is made from Terra-magic. Aero and Pyro are more violent types of magic since they stick together as destructive types.” She muttered to herself, stating what she remembered reading in a book about the concepts of magic.

“Each four elements have a large variety addition to it, making them the cycles of magic. Unicorns born into the world can only learn one at a time and it will take years for them to master. Alicorns can only learn two at a time and it will take months for them to master a type of magic.” She soon paused and opened her eyes staring up at the foggy titan. “Gravity spells and Time spells, however, are not in either category of the four elements.”

She soon frowned, glancing around. “How are we going to escape this swallowing fog without using magic?” She wondered. After a few minutes of thinking, the mare decided to gather around her thoughts and ways to solve her case in escaping the illusion. Her expression became stern as her horn started glowing bright. “I guess we have no choice, but to use magic.”



Celestia’s fur stood on its ends as she paused on the green grass in the middle of the forest after feeling the strong pulse of disturbance within the magical flow of energy. She knew all too well who was responsible for this and made haste through the path that further into the forest.

“Something does not feel right, this strange disturbance hasn’t happened since Discord was loose causing havoc in Equestria. If I use a spell, who knows what might happen.” She said, shaking her head in disapproval to using magic at a time like this. “If there is a disturbance in the magical flow of energy then that means using magic will come at a tough price and not be what you would expect. I hope Twilight is aware of this, since she will most likely use her magic at any time she gets a chance.”

The pulse came back again, causing the mare of the sun to freeze in place staring up ahead in terror. Her wings opened wide and her expression became stern as she began steeling herself for whatever horrors were up ahead. Celestia began trotting and soon she began running. When she gained enough speed, she took off into the forest, getting closer to the source of this disturbance.



Déjà vu scoffed as he walked to his throne chair and sat down. Sand was behind him in a form of a snake and within the mouth of the sand serpent was Luna, bruised, and unconscious. The princess mouth was opened slightly wide while signs of struggle was shown on her body, hence the bruises. The alicorn of time stared at his sister with disappointment before making his sand set her down on the ground. The sand snake soon sank into his body, fusing with him.

“Sad, you fell for my trap. I knew you were approaching sister since you entered into my magical field of vision. You are not the only one I sensed, your subjects and our sister are in the forest and eventually they will be here shortly.” He said, resting his right hoof on his chin. “For now, I will be taking your power.” He said, giving her a soft grin.

From the floor below Luna, cable wires broke loose, piercing the ceiling until they swayed around in the throne room. Eventually, six sprouted needles and soon pierced into the mare’s back and wings as well as the core of her neck. Luna cried out in pain, waking up from the painful puncture. Tears had streamed down her face as electricity flowed through them, beginning to drain her energy.

“I must see if you are a perfect host for the Elements of Harmony, if your energy is suitable, then I will see to it that they are embedded into you and that my final plans will come to life. The world will face judgment.” He said, resting his left hoof against his chest.

“B-brother, you don’t have to do this!”

“Oh, but I do, nothing is going to stop me from casting judgment upon all.” He stated.

“But why, why couldn’t you s-simply came to u-us and speak of your absence?!” She cried out painfully.

Déjà vu remained silent before his horn began glowing while he sighed softly. “You can never understand why I decided doing this, if I had the opportunity, I would have done what you suggested.”

“What?” 

“Enough.” Déjà vu said in a grim tone causing the draining cables to increase their power of voltage, making Luna cry out in pain.

‘I…I will see to it that my mission succeeds. I will cast judgment upon the world and bring her back!’




-To Be Continued-