//------------------------------// // Alexstrasza: Part I // Story: Aspects in Equestria // by Disciple of Chrysalis //------------------------------// Alexstrasza sat and watched from a distant hill as a village of humans went about their lives, she watched them with envy, how did they go through their lives knowing they could easily be gone the next moment, it baffled her. Ever since the Dragon Aspects and a group of mortal heroes vanquished the fallen Earth Warder, Deathwing, she had tried to come to terms with her new mortality and how she could no longer preform amazing feats of life relation, it was close to impossible for her. "How do they do it, I desperately wish to know" she whispered, bringing her legs close to her body and resting her head on her knees. She couldn't take it anymore, she had been forced to kill two of her closest friends, dragons that were at the point of her life she considered brothers, Neltharian and Malygos, both had been lost to a terrible insanity and revealed through the time ways by Nozdormu, the once Aspect of Time, had learned that even Nozdormu would fall to insanity, creating the Infinite Dragonflight. She knew of only two others, to the best of her knowledge, that wouldn't fall to insanity and those two were Alexstrasza's sister, Ysera and the new Spell Weaver and Malygos's successor, Kalecgos and didn't Alexstasza didn't even consider him part of her family. Alexsrasza cried, her brothers were to die while the sisters were destined to survive, it just wasn't fair that all they had been through, just for it all to end so violently and cruelly. "Is this what my daughter has been reduced to, crying over her lost powers?" a female voice said from behind Alexstrasza, it was a voice that Alexstrasza hadn't heard in thousands of years, it was the one who had granted a portion of her power unto the red leviathan, the Titan known as Eonar. All of the Aspects, except Kalecgos because he wasn't alive when they became Aspects, considered their respective Titan who bestowed a portion of their power onto them, a parent. "Eonar, after so long, you finally decide to visit your daughter, should I tell Ysera to expect you?" Alexstrasza said, she was just plain unhappy to extents she had never thought possible "Alex, I know how accustomed to your powers you have grown and I can't allow that, just because their gone doesn't mean your responsibility is gone" Eonar said, her voice was beautiful, like a full orchestra in such perfect harmony, it could sway even the coldest and most stubborn of beings, but Alexstrasza was unaffected for she knew of the trick presented and she possessed similar abilities. "You wouldn't understand what this is like, you've never been forced to relinquish your powers besides, you and your kind could careless if the Hour of Twilight did come about, it would just present an opportunity for you to start again, A clean slate" Alexstrasza raged, standing and quickly turning to strike at the benevolent creature, but Alexstrasza faltered when she saw nothing was there. "You are wrong on that Daughter, I do care and I think you need to rediscover some sort of purpose" Eonar said, her voice coming from the air around the former Aspect "I wish you luck on your journey, my daughter". The air itself began to swirl around Alexstrasza when she let loose a roar in her surprise "Journey?, What jou-" she was cut off when the air pushed away and Alexstasza found herself in darkness. ~~~~~~ The Mane 6 and Spike were in a grove just behind Fluttershy's cottage, they were having a picnic and they were each eating one of Twilight's single dot of icing, cupcakes. "Wow Twilight, I think this is the most frosting i've ever gotten on one of your cupcakes" Rainbow Dash commented, the sarcasm painfully apparent, but that one comment set Twilight off "Are you sure?" Twilight asked, her voice was full of worry and before Rainbow Dash could react, the cupcake was magically taken from her and the icing scrapped off before being returned to Rainbow "Gee, thanks" Rainbow groaned as the others began to laugh. Fluttershy was giggling as she chewed her food, being careful to not let any food slip down the wrong pipe in her mad fit of laughter. Fluttershy noticed clouds begin to form overhead, "Well then" Rarity said, also noticing the clouds "Looks like our little party is over". Everypony began to place all their things in the picnic basket, everypony but Fluttershy who at some point gone away from the others and now stood on a hilltop, her stance somewhat dramatic and her mane flowed dramatically in the breeze "Fluttershy, are you coming?" Twilight asked, approaching the pegasus, her new wings pressed tightly to her body to keep her warm. Fluttershy shook her head "No" she said, much to the shock of the other mares "No?" Applejack said, puzzled by the fact that the mare had just said no "Are you feelin' alright sugarcube?", Applejack placed a hoof against Fluttershy's forehead and pulled it away slowly "Nope, no temperature" Applejack said, her gaze questioning as it lay on Fluttershy. "Well then, I guess we'll leave you to, um, whatever" Rainbow said and once she had disappeared to her cloud home, the others had begun heading towards their respective homes. Fluttershy had no idea why she stood outside in this storm, sometimes one would stray outwards from the Everfree Forest and assault her cottage, but her cottage always survived. This storm though, it was different, as if it were magical in nature and it had surprised the mare pegasus when Twilight hadn't stayed, had she not sensed the magic of this storm?. Lightning began to shoot from the thick gray clouds and assaulting the ground below and all of it was painfully close to Fluttershy, but she didn't run, she waited for whatever kept her here and she didn't have to wait very long. A bolt of lightning struck extremely close to Fluttershy, but instead of hearing the boom of thunder or the fire of lighting in the grass, at the center of the lightning strike lay a mare. She was a light red color and her mane was a darker shade of red, it was fairly long and it lay on the ground with the unconscious mare. She wore elegant jewelery, four horse shoes of elegant design and a beautiful collar on her neck like what the Mile ponies (Egyptian ponies) would wear and a delicate tiara on her head, but all of these weren't enough to draw attention to some of the physical aspects of the mare. She was a pegasus but also an alicorn in a sense, her wings were not of the feathered variety, but more so of those who were members of Luna's night guard, leathery wings resembling those of a bat or dragon. Jutting from behind her ears were two horns, but not those of a unicorn or alicorn, instead they were curved and gray, once again reminiscent of a dragon and on those horns were two golden rings on each and on the one's nearest the tips hung gold tokens of an unknown origin, but among the strangest was her Cutie Mark, it was the red head of a dragon in front of orange flames and around those were three green dots, which Fluttershy immediately recognized as symbolizing seeds. Fluttershy trotted over to the mare and bent over "Um, ma'am are you oka- EEP!" she jumped as the mare moved and groaned, but she didn't awaken, at least Fluttershy knew the mare was alive. "Lets get you inside" Fluttershy said and with a great deal of effort, she lifted the mare onto her back and Fluttershy used her wings to keep the mare from falling off. Agonizingly slow, Fluttershy marched towards her cottage with the mare on her back when she suddenly felt the weight lift from her back and when Fluttershy looked back, she saw her friend, the bear she had given a massage to, lifting the mare and hoisting her over his shoulder. "Oh thank you" Fluttershy said "Can you carry her to my cottage?", the bear nodded and bean to lumber towards Fluttershy's cottage, the mare was meanwhile still unconscious. Fluttershy, the bear, and the mare entered the cottage, the bear looked at Fluttershy in a way that let her know that he wanted to know where to set the mare down, Fluttershy gestured towards the couch and the bear complied, setting the mare down and exited the cottage when a small white shape shot through the door and towards the couch and it was about to jump onto the couch when it saw that it was already occupied, it was Fluttershy's pet rabbit, Angel, but the little rabbit treated Fluttershy more like the pet then Fluttershy to him. He stomped his foot on the ground to get Fluttershy's attention. "Oh Angel, I hope you don't mind giving up the couch for a little bit" Fluttershy said, her voice was once again small and mild mannered, Angel just rolled his eyes and hopped off to where ever he was going. Fluttershy looked at the mare, she had been passed out for a while, maybe it was time to attempt to awaken her, she reached over and gently poked the mare, who groaned and rolled over onto her back in response. A sudden splash of water struck Fluttershy and when she looked back to see what had happened, she saw Angel had a bucket, a good amount of water had struck the sleeping mare and her glowing red eyes opened suddenly.