Rainbow Blitz struggled to free himself from the thing's grasp. He squirmed to loosen himself, but only made the thing tighten its grasp around his neck. The oxygen in him was rapidly depleting, his vision was slowly becoming hazy. The thing slowly revealed itself from its dark hiding spot. Even though Blitz's vision was being impaired, he could not belive what stood before him.
A towering tall creature, its body just a skeleton with a thin, transparent outine of flesh. It wore nothing on its torso, but it wear military camouflage pants and boots. Blitz was utterly terrified, and confused, by this thing. It was a skeleton, so how did it maintain, or even have the support to wear clothing and strength to hold it? And it also shaped a creature or organism he had never seen before.
But the one thing that caught the stallion's attention was the wings made out of bone in the back of it. Seeing they were tiny, but forming large wings.
"Ack! How... Urgghh!" Blitz grunted in pain, as the walking skeletion strangled him more. "Let go of me!"
The demon walked down the hall, towards Aurora's room. Blitz noticed where they were going and began to thrash around to free himself. He kicked, punched and squirmed to set himself free, but nothing worked against the demon.
But then he suddenly thought of an idea; an idea that was probably insane to do if you're being held by a monstrous, walking winged-skeleton.
Blitz opened his mouth and... bit into the wrist of the skeleton.
He was stunned to feel that the creature actually had a solid surface, like if it actually had real skin and flesh in it. The demon stopped and menacingly gazed at him with those eyeless sockets it had. It placed a free left hand on his muzzle to silence him, then opened its wide jaws with rows of carnivorous teeth in front.
It slammed its jaws into Blitz's right shoulders, and bit down tight.
The stallion screamed in excruciating pain, but his screams could not be heard by his mouth being covered.
The sounds of bone and flesh being crushed under the demons jaws quietly cracked. Blitz rolled his eyes up in agony when the thing released its bite, and continued towards the Aurora's room. Blitz's shoulder was bleeding heavily and the bone was crushed. Blitz hyperventilated at the grave wound in him and the massive pain he felt.
The walking demon placed its skeletal hand on the door knob and quietly turned it. Blitz was shocked to see a monstrosity know how to open a door, or at least any other device. The door silently opened, the demon stepped inside without sound. Blitz eyes turned into wide plates when he saw his granddaughter peacefully sleeping, not knowing the dangerous threat.
It stopped next to the bed and leaned its skull close to Aurora. Coming face-to-face with the child. The thing opened up its jaws wide, Blitz suddenly reacted and kicked it in the ribs. The creature did back away, but only irritated.
The demon raised a skeletal fist, Blitz knew what it was going to do.
"Blitz? Blitzy?" Firefly's voice suddenly interrupted from the hallway. "Blitz are you there?" She called out to him.
The creature lowered its fist when it heard her voice. It made an annoyed grunt and lowered Blitz down. Then placed a hand on the stallion's wound. Blitz was about to scream in pain, but the pain suddenly went away, an icy blue aura waved around like water currents on the demon's skeletal hand; his shoulder was fully healed.
Blitz was shocked to see his shoulder miraculously healed, since he would've need immediate medical attention, but no. He was relieved to see it back to normal, but even though his shoulder was fine, he was still terrified by the abomination in front of him.
Uhmm..." Blitz's mouth was wordless. "Uhmmm... Than-"
He received a solid fist to the head. The transparent figure grabbed the unconcious body of the stallion and placed him next to the child on the bed. It proceeded towards the wide open window and faded away from sight.
"Blitz, are you in here?" Firefly peeked her head around the doorway. "Hello, Bli-" She saw her husband and granddaughter sleeping together. The mare warmly smiled and hovered over to them, resting herself next to the filly. Snuggling close to her and yawning. "Goodnight, Aurora..."
Although Firefly had fallen asleep in tranquility, she was unaware of the terror that ravaged her husband, and also close to her granddaughter.
********
"I'm so tired." Rainbow Dash let out a yawn and flying a bit hunched over. "Ughh... My wings are killing me."
"I'm tired too, but we're almost home," Soarin' also yawned as he flew closely next to the mare. "That meeting took a long time to get through."
The time was three in the morning, Rainbow and Soarin' barely got off of work after a extended hours of meetings and office work. Both pegasi were completely exhausted and ready to call it a night. Soarin's eyes were slowly closing on him from the exhaustion but he managed to keep them open.
But unfortunately for Rainbow she was already staring to fall asleep. Soarin' noticed her having difficulty flying, he carefully flew under her and picked her up with his back.
"Don't give up yet, Rainbow."
"I'm not," Rainbow mumbled, making her self comfortable on the stallion back. She softly nuzzled his mane and smiled with a sigh.
Soarin' slightly smiled by how tired he was. He could feel the heavy iron weight of a long day pressing down on his wings. The soothing cold night air gently relaxed his tired wings, helping him cope with weight of Rainbow on his back and his exhausted body.
Their house came into view, all the lights were dark in the inside, they landed without much sound. Soarin' nudged Rainbow to wake up. Soarin' got the house key from a pocket in his uniform. He inserted the key and the door was unlocked.
Both of them quietly entered, and went directly towards their room. The thought of staying up more was utterly insane to them at this time.
Soarin' was the first to reach their bedroom, he plumped himself against the softness of their bed. Dash shortly entered and let herself collapse on the stallion.
"Soarin'?" Rainbow said drowsily. "Who picked up Aurora today?"
Soarin's felt a nerve shock him when he remembered who exactly was suppost to pick up their daughter. "Uhmmm... I told Spitfire if she could stay at her place, since she left early. We'll go get her tomorrow."
"Alright. I guess that'll do."
But both of them got back, remembering they still had their uniforms on. They promptly undressed themselves, then again rested on their bed. Soarin' yawned and closed his eyes, but opened them again when he felt something wrap around him. He glanced back and saw Rainbow hugging him, seeing her chest slowly go up and down as she softly slept.
"Sweet dreams, Dashie..."
*********
"Grmm...Mmm... Huh!?"
Rainbow Blitz shot up from the bed as he had a terrible nightmare. He panted as he slowly calmed himself down, but the images were vivid in his head. In his dream he dreamt about things or creatures were following him, easily concealing themselves themselves in their surroundings when Blitz turned around to check who it was.
The stallion glanced to the left and saw his granddaughter and wife sleeping, he smiled at seeing both of them, but then he frowned for a confusing certain reason... How did he end up in Aurora's bed? Blitz got off the bed and proceeded out of Aurora's room.
His mind struggled to puzzle the pieces of how he was in Aurora's room, and not downstairs on the couch. It was like his memory had been wiped out.
'Urgh, what happened to me- Ow!" Blitz came out of his thoughts when he felt a sudden pain on his right shoulder. He looked at it, and saw an outline of something. The marking was wide in size, but barely visible unless if someone got close. He studied it closely and saw the faint marking of a bite mark.
'Where in the heck did this come from?' Blitz thought to himself. 'Did Firefly do this to me? No, that can't be true. Since when did she grow carnivorous teeth?' He suddenly heard a strange noise from the other room. Which was Rainbow and Soarin's room.
Blitz quietly trotted over and peeked his head around the doorway.
"Dashie..." He softly smiled as he saw his daughter sleeping on the bed, with Soarin' right next to her. "Wow, Dash... You always denied anything that made you adorable, and here you are doing something adorable."
Blitz noticed Rainbow hugging Soarin', but everytime Soarin' would move away, Rainbow would scoot right next to him. Not leaving him at all. Blitz laughed inwardly, seeing his daughter chasing the Wonderbolt was already funny for him. Even when she was just child she would always want to be near her idols at their performances. Blitztrotted down the stairs and into the living room below.
Blitz rested on the couch and turned on the TV. He changed the channel and tuned into the sports channel like yesterday.
'Saved from them...' A voice whispered into his ears.
With that sudden notice, Blitz remembered everything. The transparent demon that bit him, the voices, everything. It felt like it was lurking around him, waiting for another bite, or possibly to hurt the others. Blitz jumped off the couch, and frantically searched in every direction to check if the creature wasn't nearby.
He felt a chill up his spine when he felt something breathe on his back. Blitz slowly turned around with his heart racing to see what it was, and it turned out to be nothing. But suddenly, he heard footsteps coming down the stairs. He gazed at the source, and saw a shadow looming on the wall. The shadow transformed into the body appearance of the demon.
Blitz stared at it eyes wide, he could it hear growling and hissing. The stallion prepared for the worst.
"Bring it on, you abomination!" He grunted sternly under his breath. "I'm not afraid to take you on to protect my family!" The figure emerged from the staircase, Blitz tackled the creature. "Bring it on!"
"Whoa, wait! Blitz, it's me!" The thing shouted.
Blitz was about to punch the demon, but he quietly gasped when he realized it was Soarin', and not one of those things.
"Oh, heh... sorry Soarin." Blitz sheepishly smiled. "I thought you were one of them."
"That's fine," Soarin' got back up with the help of his father-in-law. "But what do you mean 'them'?"
Blitz gave Soarin' a frightened look. "Soarin', there is something in your house. I don't even know how to describe it!"
Soarin' had a perplexed look. "What do you mean something is in my house? Our family? They're the only ones here."
"No, you don't get what I'm saying. There is a thing, a creature! It attacked me for crying out loud!"
"Mr. Blitz, what are you talking about?"
Blitz pointed a hoof at the outline of the bite mark on his shoulder. "This is what I'm talking about. It bit me!" Soarin' put his face next to the marking, and squinted his eyes for a better image of it.
"Mr.Blitz, I don't even know if your playing a joke... Whoa." Soarin' noticed the bite mark was large and came from carnivourous teeth.
"This what I'm talking about! You have a monster in your home! Soarin', if you don't get help..."
Blitz vison suddenly went crimson red. Everything was in red: walls, floors, even Soarin'. A raging sound of wind blasted into his ears. But two tall figures behind him weren't covered in red. Blitz was mesmerized by the sudden infiltration of his vision, he felt frozen to the floor when voices whispered to him.
"Silence...."
He nodded his head in total compliance, and everything went back to normal. Soarin' cocked a suspicious eyebrow as he noticed Rainbow's dad was acting strange.
"Are you alright, sir?" He asked in a concerned voice. "Blitz? Are you okay?"
"Uhmm..." Rainbows's father shook his head to snap out of his trance. "Yeah. I'm fine, just... tired. I was just joking with you about the creature biting me and in your home." He flashed a nervous smile.
"I knew it!" Soarin' grinned and playfully nudged him in the ribs. "You were just playing with me."
"Don't do that again," Blitz shot a deathly stare at him while he got nudged.
Soarin' sheepishly smiled and backed away to the kitchen, before he could possibly get into any trouble. "Hehe... I'll be in the kitchen. I have to get ready for work. I hope you surprise Rainbow when she wakes up." Soarin' said before he disappeared into the kitchen.
Blitz laughed inwardly as he struck fear into Soarin', he was so easy to intimidate at times. Blitz made his way up the stairs and passed by Rainbow and Soarin's room. He entered Aurora's to check on his wife and granddaughter. Both of them were still sleeping.
"Lazy," Blitz quietly said to himself, seeing Firefly lightly snoring. "But time to get up." He came up to her side and began to nudge her, softly. "Honey, time to wake up."
Firefly grunted and turned away from him. "Give me a few minutes, dad. It's Saturday."
"I'm not your dad. But you still have to get up, and it's not Saturday. Sorry."
The mare yawned and slowly cracked open an eye. She saw her granddaughter in front of her, but felt the presence of something else behind her. She turned around and saw her husband staring at her with a smile.
"It would be you," Firefly shot a playful annoyed look. "Let me sleep because I need it."
"You're only bothering our child." Blitz said. "Leave her alone."
Firefly hugged the filly and went back to sleeping. "Nope... She's all mine to keep."
Blitz formed an unimpressed stare, but his mind suddenly thought of an idea to get her out of bed. "Soarin' s awake and downstairs in the kitchen," he announced with a smirk.
Firefly instantly got out of bed, and trotted out the room. "Well, what are you waiting for? We can't leave the boy by himself, you know?" She said.
Blitz rolled his eyes and followed her, but stopped and looked back at Aurora, seeing her fiddle a bit at their nonsense.
"Sorry..."
The two of them went downstairs and entered the kitchen. Soarin' was sipping a cup of coffee as he was about to exit.
"Well, hello there," Firefly announced in a sly tone.
Soarin' choked a bit at the surprising voice of Rainbow's mother.
"Oh, hi there Ms. Firefly."
"Getting ready for work I see."
"Yeah, gotta leave soon or else I'm in trouble at the HQ," Soarin replied.
"Better hurry! And go wake up our Dashie! She's had enough sleep." Firefly mischievously smiled.
"So, if you don't sleep, Dash doesn't sleep either?" Blitz asked.
"Yup," Firefly happily replied.
"Your an evil mother," Blitz said.
"You could say that too."
Soarin' chuckled and went up the stairs into his room. He opened up his closet and grabbed his captain uniform, buttoning himself quickly. Soarin' grabbed the tie next and tied it, then adjusted everything else on his uniform. 'Alright, everything looks good to go,' he thought to himself. 'Can't wait for Dashie to see her parents.'
Soarin' trotted to the doorway, he had planned out the surprise visit from Rainbow Dash's parents. It had been such a long time since her parents had seen or visited them, and Aurora always asked why they never see each other that much. But today, Soarin' would make sure that their families would reunite.
"Soarin'," Rainbow suddenly called him out..
Soarin' stopped at the voice of the mare. "Dash? You're awake?"
"Yeah, why else would I be talking with you. Anyway, who were you talking to downstairs?"
"I wasn't talking to anyone, you were probably dreaming," Soarin' lied, trying to hide the truth.
"Yeah you were. I heard you talking to someone," Rainbow suspiciously stared at him.
"No, I wasn't talking to anybody dow-" Soarin' was cutoff by a familiar voice.
"He was very much talking to somepony downstairs." A familiar voice entered the room.
Firefly had entered the room undetected. Rainbow's eyes turned large when she heard the warm voice of somepony, somepony she hadn't see in a long time. "Mom?" She raised her head up in disbelief.
"Yes, Dashie, it is me... Your one and only mother." Firefly said softly.
She hugged Rainbow and gently gave her a squeeze. Dash was completely shocked to see her mom at this time. She closed her eyes, enjoying the warm hug of her mom.
"Mom, it's been such a long time I've seen you."
"It has, Dashie. It has..."
"How did you even get inside the house, or actually what are you doing here?" Rainbow perked her head up with a confused stare.
Firefly turned her head at Soarin'. "You could thank your little coltfriend for that." She playfully smirked at him.
Soarin' rolled his eyes with a smile. "Yup, you could thank me for all of this, Rainbow. Since I am your 'coltfriend'."
"You always have to surprise me, Soar. But anyway..." Dash made a deeply concerned look. "Is... Dad here?"
"Of course I'm here!" Blitz entered with a wide grin. "Why else would w- Oofh!"
Blitz was cutoff when a rainbow blur tackled him. He saw Rainbow glued against him.
"Daddy..."
"Hi, sweety," Rainbow's dad softly giggled. "It's been awhile, hasn't it?"
"Forever," she mumbled.
Rainbow Blitz hugged her back, not wanting to let go of his only daughter. But then both of them felt a pair of hooves wrap around their necks; Firefly joined in on the family hug.
Soarin' warmly smiled at Dash's family. He saw how comfortable and happy they were together. He trotted passed them and went straight toward his daughter's room. Soarin' entered quietly, and saw Aurora asleep on her bed.
He came up to her and planted a soft kiss on her forehead. "I'll see you later, Aurie." He whispered, forming a frown as he knew he wasn't probably going to see her the whole day or tommorow. "Don't get into any trouble, okay?" Soarin' left her room with his head slightly drooping down.
He couldn't get his daughter off of his mind, it always appeared to be forever every time he saw her. The long work hours of both night and day at the HQ only upset him by keeping him away from his family. But he knew he had to cope with it in order to support his small family. It was the best job he could ever have, but with a few sacrifices having to be made.
"Soar, you're leaving already?"
Soarin' picked his head up when he heard Rainbow's voice ask him.
"Yup," he sighed sadly. "Gotta get going, Spitfire wants me to train some of the cadets today."
"Oh, alright. Well I'll see you in a few hours."
Soarin' planted a kiss on her cheek, then trotted passed her and went downstairs. Rainbow had a concerned look on why Soarin' seemed a bit upset, she was about to go after him to make sure he was fine, until the sound of the door shutting broke her approach.
"I wonder what's up with Soarin'?" She asked herself.
The mare went back to her parents, she entered her bedroom and saw they had taken over her bed.
"Mom, Dad! What are you doing sleeping in my bed!?" Rainbow gave them a bewildered stare.
"It's so comfy," her mother said with a yawn. "Care to join us?"
"No!"
"Alright, but we'll probably be awake in a few hours." Blitz snuggled closer to his wife.
"Come on, Dad! You're joking right?" Rainbow asked with an uneasy smile, knowing her father wasn't that lazy.
"Nope."
Rainbow left her room mumbling a few words. Her parents were just so random and odd at times, but thats how she loved them. She went down to the kitchen and started to prepare herself a cup of coffee.
She stared out the window and saw the morning light slowly rising from the horizon.
"I hope Soarin' is alright..."
********
"Alright! Today you'll be going through the basic obstacles courses today!" Soarin' shouted at the cadets.
The morning had passed and it was now mid day. Soarin' kept a keen eye on all of the new Wonderbolt trainees. Each one of them had a vigil stance and a serious stare.
"Cadets! Get with your partner and prepare for the course!"
"Yes, Sir!" All of the cadets replied, standing next to their designated partner.
"Alright, I will tell when to go!" Soarin' got out a stopwatch, and pressed the timer to start. "Nightwind, Blue Star, go!"
The two cadets immediately took off, and proceeded toward the floating training course. Soarin' waitied for about ten seconds to let the next group go.
"Iron Storm, Daisy Rain, go!" He shouted.
Soarin' observed the two cadets go, then looked back at the watch. Ten seconds had already passed.
"Next group, go!"
"Yes, Sir!"
The last group of cadets took off, now Soarin' would only have to observe their performance. He built a few unimpressed stares at them as he saw some of them having difficulty going through areas of high winds and heavy rain. Yet, they managed to push on through. The next set was floating cloud rings positioned at random altitudes, to add some difficulty.
"Not bad," Soarin' said to himself, "they're actually doing pretty good." The cadets showed steady progress and swiftness in the training course. They were knocked back a few time by some of the hazards but the managed to recover quickly. Soarin' glanced at the stop watch in his forehoof, and saw at least five minutes had passed by.
"Wow, they're doing much better than the other newbies I've trained." He smirked at the watch.
Soarin' moved his attention bavk to the cadets to continue observation, he patiently waited for their return, but something caught the blue pegasus' attention; in the corner of his eye.
He turned his head to the left, and something standing at the edge of the airstrip. Just where one of the rivers of the plateau ran off the edge. Soarin' squinted his eyes to get better look of it, but he was a bit too far for full detail. He continued to gaze at it, it just standed there.
"What in the name of Celetsia is th-"
"Sir, we're back!" A cadet suddenly interrupted.
Soarin' snapped out of his trance and looked back at the waiting pegasi. "Oh, well done, newbies! You're free to hit the Mess Hall!"
The cadets casually trotted over to the large cloud structure. Soarin' watched each one of them leave until he was left alone. He dismmised them early on purpose, but the time of the traning session was near the end. Soarin' wasn't likely going to be in trouble for dismissing the recruits early since he was the second in command. He went back to watching the anomaly, but it was gone.
"Where did it go?" He asked himself.
"Looking for something?" A voice suddenly interrupted.
Soarin' looked back and saw it was Misty Fly and Fleetfloot, both wearing thier casual uniforms. "Who? Oh! It's you two! Nope, I wasn't looking for anything!" He smiled at them.
"Okay," Fleetfloot smiled back at him, "but how did the session go?"
"It was actually pretty good. The newbies didn't mess up that bad."
"Wow," Misty Fly had a surprised look, "that's wierd, they usually get into accidents."
"At least my newbies aren't terrible." Soarin' proud fully pouted a hoof again his chest.
Fleetfloot rolled her eyes, and said," Whatever! You're just trying to be a showoff!"
Soarin' began to laugh, then Misty also joined along the laughter. Fleetfloot just trotted away to the Mess Hall, with a glare. Misty slowly began to calm down and chase after her. "Someone's mad. Well, I'll see you later, Soarin! Fleetfloot wait up!"
Soarin' waved goodbye at her as she caught up to the mare. But he immediately went back to finding that thing. His eyes slowly widened when his sight caught on to it, but the figure disappearing into thin air.
Soarin' took off and flew straight for it.
"Now where did it go?" He asked himself again. Soarin' landed where he saw the figure vanished, not a single sign of it. It was just so random to him; how could something just vanish instantly without leaving any trails or any details of it behind? But suddenly, he heard a sound from below. Soarin' approached the edge of the plateau, and looked down.
He went agape when he saw a strange creature standing by a log. It was very tall in height, Soarin' noticed that it wore similiar clothing like the creature in that forest he saw days ago. But it was more of a light grey than woodland colored.
It just stood there, staring off into the Equestria below and beyond. The Wonderbolt could not interpret or believe what he was seeing, this thing just looked so smiliar to the creature he saw before. The creature turned back, and gazed up at Soarin' with a masked face. Soarin' felt his heart stop and legs tremble; feeling its concealed face piercing his soul.
The creature instantly vanished from sight by turning transparent. Soarin' heart was no longer frozen and began to beat against his chest. He frantically checked left and right for the thing, but not a single trace of where it went remained. A few minutes passed by, and everything remained quiet.
Soarin' assumed that it was long gone by now.
"What. The. Hell. Did. I. Just. Witness?"
********
A class of children stood at the steps of a massive and ominous structure. It was the proud and famous Canterlot Museum. The teacher motioned her students to go up the stairs, and wait for her at the top. Since the class was made up of all pegasi, they easily flew up the stairs instead of actually trotting up them.
Aurora landed above the flight of stairs, and patiently waited for the teacher. She stared in awe at the museum's design; the towering pure white columns at the front, different flags from around the world hanging off each column. A gigantic gold symbol of an alicorn staring at the sky placed above the main entrance.
"Woah..." Aurora couldn't take her eyes off the symbol.
"Come on, class." The teacher said.
Aurora followed the class into the museum, they stopped at the entrance, and the wide doors were opened by two Royal Guard earth ponies. The class entered, the guards smiled at the school children at seeing their awed and amazed looks.
"Whoa!" The class said unison, seeing two gigantic skeletal Manticore models in the center of the lobby. Posing as like if they battling each other. To the walls were giant silver statues of Guard unicorns, each one of them sporting a spear in their forehooves.
"Hello there!" A voice suddenly said. The class turned at the source and saw it was one of the staff that worked there. She wore a white collar shirt and black tie with a photo I.d. of her.. "I'll be your tour guide today."
"Oh, hello there!" The teacher came up to the guide and shook her hoof. "I'm Miss Aria Streak."
"Welcome, Miss Aria Streak, to the the Canterlot Museum! I am Brisk Finder ,"the guide said kindly. "You are the teacher of this class, I believe?"
"Yes I am." Aria responded.
"Well, then, let's get started."
The guide led the class to to a broad corridor on the left. This area contained artifacts and statues of ancient civilizations. The students were amazed to see the ominous statues of ancient warrior ponies, they looked so powerful and tall in their designs. Sporting weapon of the past and present.
"Here you see stone warriors from Saddle Arabia, they go back about 500 years," the guide announced.
"Wow, that's a long time," Aurora said to herself.
The class curiously observed glass containers that facilitated helmets, armor and weapons. They all appeared to be made out of gold. The students were led to the next area, which displayed stone slabs that had ancient writing carved into them. Aurora trotted up a container to get a better look of the writing.
"Hmm..." She had a perplexed look at the unknown letters. "What does this say?"
"Oh," the guide came up to her, "it says: 'They will arrive within time. They will watch with keen eyesight over our kingdom, and shall come down when they choose to. The heavens is their home, their endless land.' Brisk grinned happily at the filly.
"Woah! How did you know what it said?" Aurora was shocked to see the guide understood the writing perfectly.
"I took a class that taught about languages around the world, and ancient ones too."
"Miss Brisk," the teacher called out, "I'm sorry, but what does this tablet say?" She sheepishly smiled at the guide. Curiosity crept in her mind.
"This one says: 'The Master came up to me. He declared they will leave soon. I am saddened to hear about this, the heavenly figures we loved were going to leave us? He said they will return, but when will they? Are the tall ones speaking the truth?'
"Wow! You're really excellent at translating the Saddle Arabian writing!" Aria was surprised to see the guide's vast knowledge of the language.
"Why thank you!" The guide giggled and gave a small bow.
"But... Who do the Saddle Arabians refer to as 'them' or the 'Master'?" A colt asked from the group.
"The Saddle Arabians recorded that they were visited by figures from the heavens. Creating an alliance between them, but that is now... bleak. Different races from around who had heard about these things believe they were gods. The others who didn't believe this thought that it was nonsense or actually... aliens!"
"Is there any picture about the aliens?" A filly asked.
"Follow me." The guide motioned the class to another area of the museum. They came across a tall rock plate, surrounded by a glass container. Aurora was surprised to see what was marked on the rock. There was the figure of a pony caved on it, staring at another tall figure in front of it. The tall figure gazed down at the pony, with the image of a light behind it.
"The figure on the right is the 'god' or the 'aliens', that had supposedly visited the Saddle Arabians centuries ago," the guide said. "They were presumed as tall and mysterious creatures."
Aurora raised an eyebrow at the mystery of the carvings on the rock. But something in the back of her mind was bothering her about something. Something with the image of that 'god' or 'alien'. The nerves on her head tingled, seeing that it was resembling something very familiar.
'Why does the carving remind of me something?' She thought to herself. 'It looks like that...' Aurora realized what the figure resembled. It looks like that thing me and my dad saw in that forest!'
She was shocked that the creature was identical to the carving. Tall, mysterious to the world, somehow interfering with ponies. It was close to making sense. Aurora took a step closer, but became impeded when something whispered into her ear.
"You see the past, now you shall see the future..."
The filly glanced to the left and right to see if one of her classmates were playing a trick on her, but they were all too busy staring at the rock and its images. The voices that followed her were at the museum too. Aurora slowly backed away from the class, but unfortunately the class moved when the guide led them to a new area.
She followed with an uneasy smile; knowing that the anomalies were probably at her side. The next room had more artifacts behind glass barriers, standing on pedestals though. Four unicorn Guard ponies stood vigil on near each of these valuable items.
Brisk made her way to an artifact, unlocking it from its container and reaching for it. She had a piece of metal in her left forehoof. It had a marking of a dark blue vortex on it.
"This here is a metallic object that was discovered in a temple in the Griffon Kingdom. No one has a clue what the symbol represents, and the metal is actually said to be... not from this planet all."
She handed the piece to a colt, so the students could pass it around and see it up close.
"Hey, this doesn't look like the metal that's in the armor that guards use," acolt said.
"It kind of does... In some way," a filly tilted her head in curiosity at the metal object.
While the class carefully studied the mysterious metal piece, Aurora strayed a bit off and saw a single object planted on a pedestal. She made her way to it, and stopped when she was directly in front of it. 'I wonder what this is?' She curiously stared at the dome shaped object.
"Is there something you need, child?" a guard asked coyly, noticing the filly's intriguing gaze at the object.
"Uhmm... No, not at all. But... What is this thing?" She could see her reflection on the object's glass areas.
"This is actually a helmet of some sort," the guard explained.
Aurora started to notice it was a helmet. "It is, but... It looks too big for one."
The helmet was indeed a tad over larged. Its visor was like a dome but curved slightly forward and covered some of the top. The rest of it was covered in a plastic and metal-like material. The visor was like a mirror and the metal and plastic were in a greyish woodland scheme.
The filly closely eyed at the artifact, seeing how strange and complex the structure it had. Aurora felt her vision drawing in closer to the helmet, it also felt like it was stretching to the sides. A beaming light shined from behind the artifact, Aurora felt herself being left with awe and wonder in its presence.
Her heart pounded against her small chest and her adrenaline raced when images of a tall figure wearing the helmet flashed before her eyes. Then, another image appeared; this one displaying just the head of the figure wearing the helmet, when suddenly another image flashed. Aurora saw tall figures standing in front of a bright source of light.
"This belongs to them..." She mumbled, her eye pupils shrinking.
"Did you say something?" the guard asked.
"Huh?" the filly shook her head to escape her overwhelming trance. "Oh, I'm fine! Yeah, just carefully studying the helmet." She flashed a nervous smile at the stallion.
The guard shrugged and went back to observing his surroundings. But hidden in the shadows, watching every move of all who visited the musuem, a Pegasus in a black suit and sunglasses scanned everypony with his keen eyesight. But he had certain eyes on a filly that belonged to two famous Wonderbolts.
He raised a suspicious eyebrow when he noticed the child started appearing to be in some trance, or just acting strange when she stared at the artifact. But a small surge of electricity slither toward the back of the artifact made both his eyebrows raise upward in shock.
He knew something was wrong.
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"Yes?" A unicorn with a black military beret answered the radio.
He listened closely to the speaker on the otherside of the line. The speaker that is the pegasus in the black suit. The unicorn with the beret made a confused and suspicious look at the words he heard.
"What do you mean you're detecting strange energy readings?" He asked sternly. "Oh, so now you're saying radiation than energy signals? Look, if that things is coming back to life, then make sure no one is near it!"
"Sir, I don't know if it's reactivating!" The pegsus replied.
"If it is, then evacuate anyone near it! Yes I know it's at the museum, but make it look like if there's an emergency, like a fire or an accident. I know, I know, you're by yourself!" The unicorn acknowledged the pegasus was by himself. "I'll send help, but do it right now if that artifact is coming to life!"
"Sir, I'm starting to see some of the other artifacts acting strange!" The pegasus said in a frightened tone.
"Well, evacuate everyone from there!" The unicorn yelled at him. "Do you have any idea if one of those artifacts reactivate or send an energy signal across the globe! Then, get to it!"
The unicorn disconnected the communication between him and the pegasus in the black suit. He adjusted his beret and trotted over to the window in his office. He stared up at a murky, cloudy sky with open patches of light beaming down from above. He greatly feared the consequences if the artifacts were either used or activated.
"You were here once, you left us for centuries... Now you're starting to appear once again on our world. But perhaps you're too dangerous and powerful to be exposed to the eyes of millions this time. May Celestia help us all if you return... Because I know your mad... Tall Ones."
The unicorn could hear a demonic laugh mock him in his mind... They were mocking him.