//------------------------------// // Chapter 11: Destiny // Story: The Alicorn Theory: The Treachery // by Prince Aeon //------------------------------// I was slowly walking towards the gates, carrying Ruby on my back. They slowly opened, showing me a crowd of Unicorn carefully watching throught their windows and doors. I slowly walked like this, without making any eye contact to her room. I opened to see Wit... The white mare was standing there, looking outside. When I opened the door she turned around, I could hear her in my head. "Aera chose you? I trust his judgement, but do you trust it?" I responded without even trying, without knowing how... "I trust myself Wit." She smiled back and looked at Ruby, her grin slowly faded to a neutral state. "The baby is growing faster than usual..." I was wondering about this, but if it's a problem for Wit, then it is a big problem. "Yes... I noticed, what do you think Wit?" She looked at Ruby in the eyes. "I'll give it approximatively four weeks before the baby will be ready... honey, this will be a painful month..." She didn't looked scared, in fact she looked ready for anything. I watched over her, every single day, her belly was growing faster each day... But then I realised something... Amber told me "Take care of my daugthers." I felt it inside of Ruby, there was two mares... two... oh my... The day came faster than I could feel it... Over all the painful scream I gave her courage and power to reduce the pain. A blue filly came out... the doctor handle her to me... I held her in my hooves. She had her eyes closed... she had a small horn and wings... "Oh no..." I gave the flly to the nurser and I turned around to see Wit watching over Ruby. Her body was slowly becoming Black. "Wha... What's going on?" Wit looked at me. "Amber,she must've put some kind of curse on Ruby before leaving her. She will fall into darkness soon!" My mind went crazy! But Ruby took the commands. "Please... the second one!" I looked back at Wit. "Is there a chance that the filly might be affected?" "Maybe, I have no idea! I can delay it a bit but not for long..." I looked at Ruby. "I'm here Ruby, everything will be fine... But your daughter must be saved, I'll remove all the pain I can." A tear came out of her eye before a clench came out and changed her expression for pain. It lasted for five long minutes... The doctors gave me the yellow Aliorn filly, the nurse came for her. Wit sat down, exhausted to counter Amber's malediction. The darkness continued to cover her belly. I was scared... scared to lose her... "Wit! Can you save her?" She looked at me with a sad expression, almost like if she was at the edge of crying... I understood everything in the moment... but refused to believe it. "But Amber said that sometimes, We saved them who fell in darkness!!!" Wit looked on the ground. Ruby was stuggling in spasms, I was helping her to resist. "Ponies that falls into darkness are ponies that are supposed to be dead. But Amber hold their souls into darkness to prevent them from fully dying..." There was a big silence, all we could hear was Ruby's shaking... "... by releasing them, it fully kills them..." I swallowed reality but still couldn't handle to see Ruby suffering, darkness reached her legs. I held her as hard as I could... "I... I'm sorry I can't save you..." Under the pain she dragged me to give me a kiss... a kiss I will never possibly forget. "You already did." The darkness was going to reach her head. "It is time Aera..." I looked at Ruby one last time. "I love you..." She smiled, then Wit put her horn against her forehead. A bright light came out and I looked away for a moment. When I looked back, Wit was gone and Ruby was there, back to normal... but wasn't moving... she was gone... The door bursted open, it smelled like smoke... the doctor was in panic... "There's something in the nursery on fire!!!" I didn't even realised what was going on that I was already inside the nursery. There was smoke around me... but no fire. I went to see my daughters and saw that they were next to eachother. I picked up the yellow one, her eyes were opened and she was giggling. Suddently her head caught on fire. My head had a small back move but I didn't panic, I actually understood what was going on... So I knew what she was, so I found her name... "Flare..." I looked down at her sister to see that her head was covered around a bubble of water, I saw their connection... "...and Tide." I smiled, but then... I thought... "Aeon?" Aeon was behind me... "I felt like you'd need me..." The blue mare came closer behind me. "I need you to protect Flare and Tide from Corr and Amber." She had this look with a question mark. "And what exactly do you want me to do?" I looked at her with a serious look. She thought for a moment... "Well, I could stop them from existing in time, then remobilise them in place. For a filly their size, it's a big exception, I could send them around in 2000 years. For them it'll be around four seconds." "You'll take care of them in times?" "You have my word brother." I slowly gave her my two daughters. Her horn started to glow and the second after, the fillies were gone... "Don't worry, they are fine." Her smile reassured me. We made the funeral as discret as possible, there was only Me, Eclipse, Wit and Aeon. Her grave was beautiful, it was a rising sun and a flying alicorn in front of it. I wasn't sad, I wasn't happy, I wasn't... anything. "Aera, are you fine?" I looked at Wit. "My emotions died with her..." I slowly moved to drop a flower on her grave... A Morning Wonder.