//------------------------------// // Death // Story: Spirits // by Liaf112 //------------------------------// Twilight Sparkle is in the basement of her home, the Golden Oaks Library. She is working on a spell to make a continuous teleportation portal to and from Canterlot. She fully calculates how much magic it will take and sets up a gateway for the portal. "All ready, I can't wait to be able to see the princesses every day!" After she re-calculates the amount of magic it will take and making marks on her check list, she starts charging her magic. Suddenly there is a loud crash from upstairs causing her to release the teleportation spell plus an added offensive spell. The portal is created but what Twilight sees through it is definitely not Canterlot. What Twilight sees is a city with buildings that are taller than the palace in Canterlot but also that many of them are on fire. She also sees what seem to be creatures of unknown species that are fighting. Suddenly there is a loud explosion and many loud popping noises coming from the other side of the portal. There are bipedal creatures on the other side of the portal dieing in such horrible ways. She sees one explode for seemingly no reason. Another suddenly has hundreds of holes through it. Several others are on fire and running around trying to put it out. Twilight is too shocked by what she is seeing that she doesn't snap out of it until another explosion goes off sending what looks like a hurt one of the bipedal creatures through the portal. Twilight immediately closes the portal and hides behind one of her machines. She peeks out from behind the machine and looks at the creature on the floor in what looks like a growing pool of what looks like blood. She hears it start coughing, then speaking. "*Cough* H-help, p-p-please. I-I-I d-do-don't want to die." Says the creature in a voice similar to that of a young stallion. Twilight slowly moves over to it and notices 'he' has been coughing blood, and his eyes are glazed over. Twilight accidentally kicks something metallic while walking which moves it across the floor and makes a clanging noise. He hears it and turns his semi conscious attention to her. "Whose there? M-mom is that y-you? P-please help m-me I-I'm scared I don't want to die." He says again. Twilight notices he is crying. She does the only thing she feels she can do. She lies to him. "It's alright, everything will be alright." Says Twilight as calming as she can. He calms down some but soon starts shaking and coughing. Eventually he stops moving altogether. His coughing stopped. His shaking stopped and his labored breathing stopped. Twilight stares at him for a few minutes until she finally realizes what happened. This scared, hurt, sentient male creature...just died. Twilight turns around and slowly makes her way upstairs in a daze. She opens the door at the top of the stairs, not even noticing a pile of books that is on the floor. She slowly walks out and realizes right then what she needs to do. "Spike take an emergency letter!" Yells twilight through the library. Spike runs into the room with some black parchment paper and white ink. "What will it say Twi?" Spike asks in a very serious way. "I.Need.Help.Now." Replies Twilight very firmly. Spike writes it down and looks at Twilight. "Now, send it." Says Twilight who is trying to keep her composure. Spike rolls up the scroll and breathes fire on it. Five seconds later there is a bright flash and Princess Celestia is in the room with Twilight and Spike. Princess Celestia looks at Twilight with concern and asks. "What's wrong My faithful student?" "F-follow me please Princess, and Spike...I think you should have s-some time off." Says Twilight who is barely keeping herself calm. "Alright Twilight I will be at Rarity's." Says Spike. Spike looks at Twilight with worry but doesn't argue. He runs out the door and closes it. Twilight heads towards the basement with Princess Celestia right behind her. She led the Princess down the stairs and when the Princess the creature she gasps. Celestia slowly approaches his body and notices he is dead. "T-Twilight, what happened?" Princess Celestia asks weakly. Twilight swallows loudly "I-I was attempting a continuous teleportation spell between h-here and Canterlot. I a-accidentally cast an offensive spell as well at the same time. The portal opened but opened to his world there were explosions and popping and an explosion that was close, it sent him through, he was already hurt." Says Twilight quickly at the end. By the time Twilight was finished she was sobbing on the basement floor. Twilight calms down some so she can continue. "He sounded l-like a stallion j-just barely an adult, he was scared to die. I-I-I told him everything would be alright. He calmed down and-and-and he-he d-d-died." Says Twilight starring off into space. Princess Celestia notices the creatures eyes are still open. She slowly walks over to him, avoiding the pool of blood around him. She uses a hoof to close his eyes. As she closes his second eye she feels a jolt that feels like static electricity. The princess walks back over to Twilight. She lays down in front of her and gives her a hug. They both stay like that for a while until the Princess pulls back. Twilight opens her eyes and gasps looking behind Princess Celestia. The Princess turns her head and looks. Behind them floating above the dead body is an exact copy of the creature but not wounded. His eyes were still closed. He opened them and both the Princess and Twilight gasp. His eyes are a deep black where the white should be and his corneas were a glowing gold color. He tilted his head in an extremely confused way and spoke to them. "Where am I? What are you?" He asked sounding as if his voice were quiet but still strong. Both Princess Celestia and Twilight are shocked that he is there at all. The Princess regains her composure and steps towards him. She stops a few feet away. She clears her throat and speaks to him. "Hello, I am Princess Celestia. You are in Equestria, I rule this land with my sister Luna. This is my student Twilight Sparkle. We are Ponies. What I have to say to you is, what are you?" Celestia says to him in a regal and calming way. He looks at her and smiles revealing a few slightly sharp teeth. He then starts speaking. "T-thank you ma'am. And in response to your question, I'm Human and my name is Leroy buy you can just call me Le." He says to her. Le starts looking around at what is around him and eventually looks down. He sees his body and gasps noticing it. He also sees that he is floating. He moves around a bit and brings his face close to his old face. Le reaches a hand out to touch his body and upon touching it the body liquifies and starts flowing to the center of him. It passes right through him and stays on the inside of his new body. Le yelps and flinches back. After the rest of the liquid is inside of him he looks confused at himself and feels around himself finding no way the liquid should have been able to enter. He looks at Celestia and notices that she has a very shocked expression. "Um, I'm just going to guess and say that you don't know what just happened either?" Says Le.