„Where is it?!“ Celestia shouted while searching through her saddle-bags at an amazing speed. Swords, daggers, and every kind of magical item flew out of it. The mountain of weapons beside her was already full three meter high. “I can’t find it!” She screamed in panic and threw her saddle-bags at the wall with black stone.
Celestia really changed in the last 1,500 years. Her body-form was still the same, but not its features. She had one long scar, halving her sun-cutie-mark on her right hip, and also one that went from her chest, up to her right cheek, going over her right neck. The scar on her neck wasn’t really visible without parting the fur, but it could be felt. The scar on her cutie-mark could be seen pretty clearly.
The scar parted the skin, and the hairs grew into different directions there, showing it to everyone. But the scar still couldn’t be seen by anyone, since she wore armor all the time. She wore a silver body armor that fitted her equine shape perfectly. It fully engulfed her body to the neck, except for the tail. On her head, she wore some kind of silver crown, which was fixed there. It looked a little like her old crown in Equestria, but instead of one big spike with a jewel and two small ones, she had five equally high one, every spike being higher than the big spike on her old crown.
Her horn was also protected by a terrifically hard type of glass. She once wanted to let her horn get removed by a professional since she didn’t need it anymore. She could control the multiversal magic, and the only purpose of her horn was to perform unicorn magic, which was not as advanced, but Aren told her that he liked her horn and that they couldn’t do certain stuff anymore, which they liked to do while being in private quarters. Sighing, she dismissed her idea of removing it. It’s funny that the puppy-dog eyes work on Celestia, even though Aren was approximately 50 times older than her.
Celestia also had six different mane colors now. The black one came to her some months before the fight with Oran, but about some weeks ago, she got another one. Her natural mane color was actually white. When she was a little filly, she learned to manipulate the four elements. Each giving her one mane color.
Green for earth. Light blue for air. Dark blue for water. Pink for fire. When she killed the black dragon, she got black as symbolism that she learned of death. That she killed something willingly. The newest one came to her some weeks ago. When she finally learned the travel-spell, which a traveler needed to learn. The streak was a dark purple.
The travel-spell allows beings of the multiverse, to navigate the worlds without the help of gates, and without needing any world coordinations. They can see the multiverse as it is, and can take a peek into a world. If they decide, they can then teleport to there without any outside help. This spell took her exactly 1,486 years to learn.
It is a spell that is, in itself, easy to perform. The hard part is building a connection with the different dimensions, and also being able to manipulate this connection in order to get access to the worlds. A normal traveler needs around 1,000 years to feel the connection of the dimensions. It would take another 1,000 to learn to manipulate it, and another 500 to manipulate it to this degree that teleportation was possible.
Celestia was exceptionally talented, and was able to learn it in only 1,500. Maybe it was her desire to finally go home, which gave her this motivation? This was finally the day. The day in which she got the permission of her master, to travel back to Equestria. 1,500 years. It’s been that long. She wondered what would have changed on Equestria.
She thought nearly every day about her sister, about her former student, about Equestria. She always had to sigh when she also remembered that her student wouldn’t be alive anymore. It always created such unpleasant pain, to know that she missed Twilight’s whole life. She wondered how far Twilight has gotten. Had she revolutionized magical theory? Did she have children? Who was her husband? Did Twilight hate Celestia for her selfish ways?
She didn’t know, and she would probably never know, but there were more urgent problems right now. “Where is it?!” Celestia shouted again and dove into the mountain of weapons. The room, in which she currently was, looked mostly black. The walls were black; The floors were black; The ceiling was black. Everything was made out of black volcano stone.
The red chandelier in the middle of the room had fiercely burning fires on it, and there was also a large black bed for two, and a fireplace with a blue fire in it. Aren put soul-fire in their rooms because it creates a warm and peaceful feeling. The life it radiated calmed the body and soul. It didn’t help Celestia one bit to calm down right now.
The doors to her room opened, but she didn’t notice. She was too busy burying herself in her own weapons in order to find the thing she searched for. Silent steps came closer to Celestia, but she didn’t notice. The steps were drowned in the sounds of her rummaging through the mountain of weapons. Suddenly, a hand went into the pile of weapons and shortly after, a yelp was heard from the alicorn.
Not many seconds later, Celestia got lifted out of the pile of weapons by the hand, which grabbed her by the horn. “So, are we opening up some kind of scrap business or why are all your weapons just laying here in our room?” Aren asked her with a joking tone to his voice. It is easy to summarize how Aren looked now.
Exactly the same. Same old spiky black hair; Same old black jeans and black jeans vest; Same old 1.80 meter height; Same old black and red sword. Celestia looked at him with a blush, being embarrassed for her panic earlier. Laughing a little awkwardly, she stepped out of the pile. “Heh, sorry Ary. I kinda lost myself there, a little.” She explained while scratching the armor on her neck with one hoof.
Aren only raised an eyebrow. “What were you even looking for?” He asked with a curious voice while looking through some of the weapons. Celestia only sighed.
“I am looking for the star Luna gave me, before I left. I promised to give it back to her, and I can’t find it anywhere.” She explained with a worried tone. She couldn’t forgive herself if she lost it. Not after how they parted.
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“I feared that this day would come, but it came faster than I thought.” Luna said with a sad voice. It was the day, the day in which her sister would go on her long journey through the multiverse. The day that marked the beginning of over 2 millennia of separation. Aren told them that Celestia would probably need around 2,000 years to learn the spell, and that was a long time for the two sisters.
They wouldn’t be able to see each other for 2,000 years, so it was understandable that the goodbye was hard. Celestia only sighed, and her sister was in tears already. She already made her farewells with all the other ponies, and now only Luna remained. Her eternal sister. “Luna, you know that it isn’t forever. It’s only for 2,000 years. What are 2,000 years in comparison to an eternity?” She asked her with a forced warm smile.
Luna looked to the floor. “I know, but 2,000 years is still a long time.” She walked forward and embraced her sister in one last hug. “I will miss you, big sister.” Celestia gladly answered with her own hug. She also needed this last moment with her sister.
“I know, little sister. I will miss you too.” They stood like this for a long time. Celestia took in all the tears and sadness that her sister let out while standing intertwined with her. After several long moments, they slowly parted, and Luna opened up her pocket dimension. Using her alicorn-magic, she levitated out a shining little star. Where common stars were made out of huge amounts of gas and fire, this particular star, was made out of a little ball that shined brightly.
Celestia looked at it. It was the special star, she made her sister when they were in their first millennia. Luna treasured it like her own foal, and always had it in her room. “Here, I want you to take it.” Celestia looked hesitant.
“Luna, this is yours. I wouldn’t-“
“I’m not giving it to you forever!” Luna interrupted Celestia. “I want you to give it back to me when you are here again.” After a short time, Celestia smiled at her sister and put the star in her saddle-bag.
“Alright, little sister. I will do that.” Celestia slowly took some steps back. “Until we meet again, farewell, Lulu.” Celestia told her sister with a tear in her right eye. Luna also was back to tears.
“Farewell, Tia.” With this, Celestia vanished, and they haven’t seen each other since.
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Aren put a hand on his chin. “Hmm. Haven’t you said anything about a star in your secret section in your pocket dimension?” He exclaimed with a voice as if he tried to remember something. Celestia’s eyes instantly widened, and she conjured her pocket dimension. Opening up the secret part, only she and Aren knew about, she found it. Not a long time later, she levitated the star out to her. It looked exactly like she remembered it.
“Oh, thank you, Ary. I wouldn’t know what I would do without you.” She told him with relief and gave him a quick kiss on his cheek. Aren only waved a dismissive hand.
“No problem, Celly.” He turned around and walked out of the room again. “Wish you fun on your holiday.” He said while walking to the door, waving her with one hand.
“Are you sure you don’t want to come with me?” She asked while looking at her star. Aren turned around with a crooked eyebrow.
“And get chewed out by Luna, because I disturb you both on your alone-time? No, thank you. I bet that even after 1,500 years, she still hates my guts. Maybe some other time. If they are still alive, say hello to Ravien and Chrysalis for me.” He suddenly began smirking. “That’s one of your quests.” Celestia instantly turned to him and sighed.
“Alright. Whatever you want.” Now she needed to talk to both of them and tell them hi from Aren. He made it a quest. Whenever he gave her quests, he expected them to be fulfilled perfectly. Once, she didn’t fulfill one of her quests, and she got punished. He rode on her for a full week, and told everyone she was his mount. This was so degrading that she never dared to refuse a quest again. He was her master after all.
“See ya” He shouted while he already was around the corner.
“Bye.” Celestia shouted back. She looked through her saddle-bags once more, checking if she had everything. Well, she didn’t need to take much since she was visiting Equestria, and not some dimension with assailants and thieves around every tree and corner. Luckily, she had everything. Finally, it was time. Finally, she could go and see her sister again.
Closing her eyes, she concentrated on the auras of the dimensions. After several minutes, she was able to feel the aura of her current world. Domania. The dimension of The Bearer. She currently was in her room in his castle. With a push, her body and her soul vanished from this dimension. Opening her eyes, she saw the blackness around her, with groups of shining stars all shining from everywhere.
Looking down, she saw some kind of chess-board with different dimensions everywhere. This was the A-Cluster, the cluster she was traveling in. Equestria wasn’t in this, so she closed her eyes again and concentrated on the unique feel of Equestria. The trees, the wild-life, the ponies, Canterlot, Luna, everything she knew about Equestria, she conjured and harnessed the feelings she had for. After a short while, all the feelings fused together to create the unique feel of Equestria.
Absorbing this feeling, she saw one star suddenly shining in a warm pink. Smiling, she flew to it, bending space around her. Not two seconds later, she stood before a single world. A world without any cluster or any group whatsoever. The typical look of a raw world. Equestria. Still smiling, she concentrated her essence on the world. Shortly after, her mind and her body vanished again. They were on their way to Equestria.
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It was night-time in Equestria. The green planes of one particular clearing in the Everfree Forest were peacefully dancing in the night-breeze. The round clearing was surrounded by countless trees in different shapes.
But the peaceful environment got disturbed by the appearance of a certain white alicorn. Celestia appeared in the middle of the clearing, without any kind of sound and light. This was the advantage of multiversal magic. It has no color, so it can’t be seen without aura-vision. One wouldn’t even notice her appearing on the clearing if they wouldn’t directly look at the position.
Celestia opened her eyes, and when she looked around, she couldn’t suppress a smile. She knew this clearing. This was the clearing where they fought against the timberwolves and Oran. Oran, the fight with him seemed to have ended just yesterday, even though it was 1,500 years ago. She still shuddered when she remembered his ungodly power. The feelings she had when she fought alone against him in that lava arena.
She attacked him mercilessly, but that only betrayed her real feelings. Deep down, she was in pure panic. If she hadn’t the magical reaction shield activated, she would have been killed countless times. Even without using his magic, he was able to battle against her when she had absorbed three kinds of different magic.
Shaking her head, she forced the depressive thoughts out of her mind. She was finally back at Equestria. She could finally see her sister again. Only thinking about this made her happy to an endless degree. She jumped on the spot while squealing a little fan girl squeal. It was just like a dream come true. Nearly every night, she dreamed of finally going home, and now it was time. She was home.
Seeing that it was night, she looked to the sky at Luna’s moon. Suddenly, her eyes widened, and she gasped. There was only a half-moon. But this cannot be. Equestria had regulated cycles of moon and sun. The moon was always full, and if she wouldn’t have visited the other dimensions she wouldn’t even know what a half moon is.
There were only three options to why there could be a half moon in Equestria. First, the Equestrians somehow managed to manipulate the solar system into moving itself, which is possible. Second, Luna wanted to make a half moon, for whatever reason. Third, over half of the moon was destroyed, but that was nonsense.
Deciding that she shouldn’t worry about this, she spread her wings and started into the night-sky. It was a one-hour-flight to Canterlot from here, but she didn’t mind. She was happy to finally see her homeworld again. Looking at the low clouds, the high mountains, the green trees, it was like she was on a memory lane.
Celestia was bored. The feeling of nostalgia held up for 20 minutes, but after this it all looked the same again. Trees under her, clouds over her, mountains here and there. Deciding that she wanted to get to Canterlot faster, she used her magic to create two flames on her hind legs. She made them burn with ferocity, and the opposing forces made her push forward. This was a trick she learned a long time ago. Aren called her one full month “Jetlestia”.
Always when she was close to breaking the sound barrier, she slowed down a little to let the mach cone disperse. She didn’t want to wake up the whole forest with a show of lights and booms. Also, she didn’t want to make herself visible to the town of Ponyville on the horizon. She wanted to surprise Luna, after all.
Flying to the horizon, she stopped when she was over Ponyville. Ponyville had changed, a lot. The town was over ten times the size, and the houses looked strange. The houses were made out of some kind of bending goo material. They looked like puddings that were carved out from the inside. The streets also were different. Instead of dirt, wood, or stone, they were made out of some kind of black sludge. The sludge looked similar to the one in the changeling’s hives.
Celestia visited many dimensions in her journey, and she saw how they made progress in science and magic. There were worlds with crazy ways of expansion. Some invented magical homes. Some used oil to fuel the power of their cities. Some lived forever in the old wooden buildings, even though they were way too advanced for this.
But black sludge and bending goo was new. How could equestrians possibly even think about building their houses with goo and sludge? Only insectoids and sludge-people were drawn to use mud, goo, and sludge to build their homes. It was absolutely illogical that the ponies would use this. It doesn’t even look good, and on top of that, sludge and goo heated itself way too much. Celestia knew this from personal experience, when she stayed a week in a hotel on the dimension Slarkbar.
The dimension was inhabited by sludge-people, and they built similar to Equestria here. The room’s temperatures were on a backing 40°C. After one night, she and Aren decided to sleep outside in Aren’s pocket castle. This was really strange.
First, the moon is a half moon. Second, the moon didn’t move one bit, even though she was already over an hour on this world. Third, sludge and goo everywhere. Fourth, she didn’t see any ponies yet, even though the city of Ponyville was this humongous. Something definitely was not right here.
Flying away from the center of Ponyville, back to the entrance from the Everfree Forest, she landed. “Better be careful.” She told herself, and made herself invisible. The invisibility spell is an intermediate spell, meaning that it needs between 100 – 500 years to be learnt. It basically creates a barrier around the caster that absorbs the light that lands on it and releases it on the other side, making her look like there wasn’t anything that interfered with the light.
Next was the sound hiding spell. This spell is also intermediate and creates a smaller barrier around the body that dissipates sound waves that come from inside of it. Outer sound waves pass through it without interference. On top of that, she used another spell. The smell-suppression-spell. This creates another barrier around her that filters the air that passes through it.
Three passive spells were her limit to control subconsciously. Her total limit were five, but then she would need to concentrate on the later two, but to be sure she also used the warmth illusion spell. This spell creates another barrier around the caster that shows an illusion that this spot of air had the same temperature than the air around it.
There were still a lot of ways to detect her. Sonar, aura-vision, touch, X-rays, but the major ones were blocked. Being happy with her ability to hide from other beings, she walked into town. On the way to the town, she found a sign that showed the town’s name.
“Welcome to Blocknarg.”
This was not equestrian. Equestria would never call a city Blocknarg. Something obviously was wrong here. She decided to continue her walk into town, not knowing what would await her. Walking through the empty streets, she wasn’t sure why there were no ponies. They had to be somewhere.
After several minutes of walking invisible through the streets of Ponyville or Blocknarg, as it is called now, she had enough of the lonely alleys and looked around for a house. Seeing a small house made out of red goo, she walked to it. There were no windows. The house just looked like some kind of red gooey papaya. There was only one hole in the middle of it.
Flying up to it, she went through the hole. Inside the house, it was dark. Really dark. She couldn’t see a thing. Activating a passive night vision spell, she could finally see again. This was the fifth passive spell, and she wouldn’t be able to use any more , since this took up all her concentration. But it was worth it. She could see the room, but it couldn’t be called a room.
It was just a round room with nothing in it, except some outgrowths of the house itself. One could be a table if one had very much fantasy. On one side was a little round outgrowth that looked like a basket in which Spike always slept. Celestia chuckled a little. She totally forgot about Spike. There was a good chance that he was still alive, and also that he was as large as a castle now.
Shaking her head, she banished the thought out of her mind. There were more serious things going on right now. Seeing another one in another wall, Celestia walked over to it and went through it. She found herself in some kind of thin hallway. The hallway was only two meters wide and abruptly went down into a slide.
Seeing no other hole in the hallway, she reluctantly walked over to the steep slide. She looked down and didn’t see an end to it because it made a curve not five meters away. With a huge gulp, she went on it and began to slide down. The slide soon went into the curve, but it was not just a simple curve. It was a spiral.
The exceedingly flat surface allowed nearly no friction, and Celestia sped up to an unreal speed. Due to the centrifugal forces that were created by her speedy slide, she constantly leaned against the right side of the slide, happy that there was no friction, or else she would have a nasty graze.
She was already sliding for three minutes, and the thrill of speed stopped a long time ago. Now she only wondered how far this slide went. Suddenly, the slide went into a straight line again, and she could see the entrance to a bigger hall. Happy that she finally was on the end, she let out a sigh and closed her eyes for a second.
In this second, something walked into her path. When Celestia opened her eyes again, she saw something that was not even three meters in front of her, and she instantly had a shocked face. Bracing herself for the impact, she put her hooves to her body and turned to the side. Not a fraction of a second later, she slammed into the thing that stood in her path.
It felt like something terribly hard and heavy, and if it wouldn’t be for her high quality armor, she would surely have some broken bones. The heavy thing got thrown back, and they both stopped in some kind of bulky hall. Celestia groaned and rubbed herself on the head. Opening her eyes, she saw that she couldn’t see anything.
She lost her concentration when she smashed into the thing, and her warmth illusion spell and the night vision spell weren’t active anymore. Using her night vision again, she could finally look around. It was some kind of big gooey hall. It kind of reminded her of cathedrals that the arcadians built. In comparison to the dull house she went through, this one was much bigger, and it also had furniture.
All kinds of strange chairs, beds, and apparatuses were standing all around it. There also were shining colorful windows. Windows underground? This seemed to be nonsensical. All the furniture seemed to be made out of normal material. Wood, iron, and so on. Suddenly, she remembered that she crashed into something, and searched for the thing.
At the opposing wall of the entrance of the slide, something moved. It had a chitin shell, and it slowly got up. It had two extremely pronounced muscular legs. They looked a little like human feet, but instead of a long foot and five toes, they had some kind of stump with three long things coming out of it. They looked a little like bird talons.
Out of its torso grew four arms. If one would compare the anatomy of those things with humans, then one pair of arms came out of the same place where human arms came out, and one pair would come out of the side, a little below the rip-cage. It would be hard to find the rip-cage on this thing since it probably didn’t have any ribs.
She instantly knew that it was an insectoid by nature and that it wouldn’t have bones. Insectoids had exoskeletons and wouldn’t need any form of solid material inside of them. On its back were four insect like wings, reminding one of dragonflies. When the creature stood up, it rubbed on its head and turned around to Celestia. It was around the height of Aren.
“What hit me?” It asked itself with a deep voice that sounded like something buzzed in its throat. When it turned to Celestia, she let out a gasp, which was blocked by her sound barrier. Its mouth had an oval form, but in comparison to most beings, the oval stood. On top of its head, it had three long black horns. Two at the side like a bull, and one coming out of its forehead. Its eyes were a deep red, and they looked like they would belong to some kind of crazy machine.
Like out of reflex, Celestia instantly shot a highly concentrated beam of fire at the thing. The thing didn’t know what hit it until it was too late. It died in nearly no time. Celestia stopped the beam and breathed in a heavy and fast pattern. This was bad. This was really really bad. She knew those creatures. She fought against them countless times.
They are called nargians. If one of them was on Equestria, then Celestia and the whole of Equestria had tremendous problems. Really big problems. When a nargian queen gets born, she will leave the hive when she is fully grown. She takes an army of nargians with her and searchs for a new home. Nargians travel through the multiverse, searching for planets without any big allies.
When they find a suitable planet without any sorts of defense, they attack it. If they win, they enslave the entirety of the planet and begin living there. They build an empire and loot the whole planet of its resources. When she heard of them for the first time, she asked Aren why no one battled them.
“Nargians are a huge species with over 70 planets under their control. They never attack dimensions that are allied with a major cluster, and since they don’t do that, our cluster doesn’t do anything. As long as they don’t disturb us, we don’t disturb them. Well, I gladly level a planet with nargians on it, but officially, we can’t do a thing.” That’s what he told her.
But how could they be here? Nargians need dimensional gates to travel. They don’t have the travel-spell of the travelers. It would be impossible for them to attack a raw world, so how could they be here? This was just too strange, but if this planet actually got taken over by the nargians, then it would be exceedingly difficult to get it back.
Nargians are extraordinarily strong, and well trained. Trained mortals of their race were devilishly difficult to defeat. If they want, they can get immune to nearly every element. Celestia was lucky that she could surprise the nargian before because Celestia still hasn’t learned even one spell, to which nargians can’t get immune to. Her record was winning against 13 mortal nargians at once, and she only won due to a fatal mistake they did. If she would get spotted here, there would be nearly no chance to escape. Oh, if only Aren was here. He would clean this planet of every nargian in one day, but there was no way for her to contact him, and Celestia told him that she would take at least two weeks of vacation. Aren promised that he wouldn’t come in that time, fearing that he would anger Luna again into summoning an ancient hate spirit.
She also cursed that nargians were able to use aura-vision and sonar if they wanted to. She didn’t have enough concentration to hold up all the spells, she would need to block out everything. Walking through a hole, she was “outside”. She was still underground, but the insanely gargantuan cavern didn’t feel like a cavern. The cavern was large, being two kilometers high, over ten kilometers long, and about four kilometers wide.
She currently stood at a pretty high building that went into the ceiling. Many other buildings also went into the ceiling. On the bottom of the cave were many houses built with this strange goo, but this time they were decorated with different kinds of stuff. Different colors, different kinds of windows, different forms, different sizes. The whole cavern was dipped in darkness, and if it weren’t for Celestia’s night vision spell, she wouldn’t see a thing.
This was typical nargian. Building entrances on top of the world without any decorations, and building their whole city underground. The temperature was around 40°C again, and Celestia was already sweating like a human in an oven. Looking around, she saw many nargians running around the streets. They were busy working. Apparently, they wanted to expand the cave and nearly every nargian of the worker class had the task to dig and carry debris.
She continued looking around, but she never found it. There were no ponies. The main species of the planet were normally enslaved by the nargians. They don’t kill the old inhabitants, so why were there no ponies? For that matter, where were the ponies? Celestia spread her wings and flew into the air.
She had to find the ponies. In order to do anything against the nargians, she would need them. While flying through the air, she looked down and observed the city closer. There were no real outstanding buildings, except for one. It wasn’t really a building. It was more of a giant gate. Celestia remembered that the nargians separated their cities into three different parts, every part being located in a different cave. The parts are connected with gates.
There is always one colossal cave for the workers. Then there is a smaller cave for companies and state institutes, like prisons. At last, there is the smallest cave, which is the military basis. Celestia was in the workers cave, and if the ponies weren’t here, then they had to be in another one, or at a totally different city. She only hoped that she could find at least some ponies in the other caves.
After about two minutes of flight, she came to the gate. It was gigantic at a 300 meter height. There were smaller doors, but they also were heavily guarded. Anti-spell-barriers hindered anyone in teleporting or phasing through the gate. She had to open the gate somehow and slip through it. On top of that, there also were two guards at each gate, making it impossible to open it without anyone noticing.
If Celestia would open a gate or fight them, she would find herself surrounded by hundreds of soldiers. She wouldn’t even stand a little chance. If she would get found out, it would all be over. They had the powers to suppress multiversal magic, and material to keep her confined. This was risky. If she would even make a little uproar, they would activate their aura visions or their sonar and would instantly find her.
Celestia didn’t see any solution. How could she go through there? She would go to Aren and tell him what happened, but it needed at least two weeks for her to get the feel of the dimension again. She was stranded here. In a new Equestria without ponies. An Equestria ruled by evil insectoids. No, this was no time to give up. She needed to find the ponies, then they maybe would stand a chance.
Suddenly, one of the smaller gates opened. Some kind of powerful looking 2.20 big nargian came through it from the other side. He was clothed in a red shining armor and carried two red shining spears with his two right hands. The guards instantly saluted him. The seemingly high ranking officer looked around the cavern, his gaze passing over the invisible form of Celestia. After a while, he stepped out of the gate and began walking into the town.
Celestia saw that the gate was still open, and took that chance. She ran straight at the gate. She was nearly there, when her body suddenly told her to jump to the right. Celestia learned the hard way that she should listen to her body when it tells her to do something. With the jump to the right, she evaded a spear by a hair’s width. Landing on the floor, she turned her head to the direction the spear came from.
She looked into the eyes of the high ranking nargian. They watched deeply into each other’s eyes, and only one thought ran through Celestia’s mind. “He sees me!” The officer took his spear and pointed at Celestia, not a second later some kind of shrill and high screeching was heard from him. Instantly, every guard used their sonar to pick up the threat that their captain found. They all felt that something was beside the captain. Something that was not part of their military.
Celestia instantly put an insane amount of magic into her hooves and pushed herself of the floor, creating a little crater where she was before. Using everything she had, she boosted herself through the cavern. Her goal was one of the exits. She had to get out there, now! Every guard knew she was here and while using their sonars they could also see her.
She saw one exit and instantly bolted to it. Sadly, she was too late and already 20 guards covered that one. Every guard in the whole cavern suddenly started flying and searching for Celestia. Hundreds, if not thousands were buzzing through the air. Many of them came right at her, and Celestia didn’t know what to do now.
She was in total panic. This wasn’t one of Aren’s missions or quests, where she had a real chance to succeed or survive. Before the combined power of thousands of nargians, she was powerless, but she hasn’t given up yet. Charging at another exit, she evaded several thrown spears. She was nearly at the exit, but this also suddenly got blocked by many guards.
Cursing under her breath, she looked around again. Soldiers everywhere. There was absolutely no way to escape. She instantly bolted to the floor and impacted with it. She ran through some alleys in order to outrun the nargians. Sadly, she got caught off at every potential escape route. After a short while, she was surrounded by hundreds of guards.
She couldn’t move. It didn’t matter in what direction she looked. There was no escape. While Celestia looked for an escape route, the nargians stood around her, not allowing her to escape. Some seconds later, the same high ranking officers touched down beside her. He slowly walked up to the on the floor shivering concealed pile.
Taking his spear and enchanting it, he poked at the spells that Celestia used to hide herself. All the spells broke, and everyone could see the shivering pony that was on the floor, hiding herself with her hooves over her head.