Celestia's violet eyes locked onto her former sister. As she started to slip into her sister's mind through the blue cat like eye.
Celestia found herself in a place of darkness and gray. It was an enormous structure that seemed to house all sorts of knick knack and curiosities, things she had never seen before. Rows and rows, shelves and shelves endless and on going or so it seemed to her. Celestia looked around trying to examine the twisted world as best she could.
“This can’t be my sister’s world, I’ve never see any of these things either...” A sound reached the royal Alicorn’s ears.
It was light. “Thump”
It was muffled. “Thump”
It was repetitive. “Thump”
It was familiar. “Thump”
Celestia found it’s source, but it surprised her. The creature she saw was bipedal and hairless except for a short main on it’s head, no tail. It’s cover in cloths from hove tip to head top. It must have to because it has now hair on it’s body. Celestia thought.
It’s cloths were in matching colors with strange writing on it she couldn’t make it out she had never see that alphabet before.
It had digits like a monkey in the upper limbs, Celestia could see that because it was dropping a white ball into a brown mitt of some kind. It was smaller than her, it might be younger too.
Yes, yes this wasn’t her sisters mind. The creature looked up at her, it seemed to acknowledge her. “Hello, hello, who are you?” The creature asked, looking around for it’s sours.
Celestia approached the creature. “Hello there,” She started trying to make herself seem smaller so he would not be afraid. “I’m Celestia you can call me Tia.”
The creature seemed to look at her with wonder and amazement. “Wow, your a unicorns with wings... I’m Wally.” The creature said with a smile on his face.
“Yes I am, hello Wally, do you know what this place is?”
“No” Wally answered, lowering his head.
“Then how did you get here?”
“HE brought me here after I couldn’t walk any more.” Wally started to drop the ball in the mitt again.
“What are you doing?”
“Just messing around with my baseball and mitt.” He looked back up at her and he could see that she was confused. “It’s a game, I use to play it all the time but then I couldn’t walk any more then HE came and bad things followed.”
Celestia started to think. So what ever happened to my sister happened to this young creature first. She knelt down to the small creature “If you help me find my sister I’ll help you get away from whoever did this to you. I believe the same HE your are talking about took her too.”
Wally looked down. “It’s too late for me Tie, I can’t go back there’s no place for me HE took it away.”
Celestia look to the floor as well and breathed a sigh. Wally smiled and lifted her head. “But we can help your sister there’s still time for her.”
“I wish I could help you too.” Celestia told him still with a sorrowful look on her face.
“I appreciate it, but like I said there is no help for me now. So just follow me to your sister.” She did.
Wally led her through the strange maze of shelves and objects. She was most certainly worried and wondered what was the HE her young companion was talking about.
“Wally what happened before...”
The child looked down. “I use to play baseball, then one day it got hard to moving my legs. That’s when my grandfather gave me bracelet and I could move again.”
“So what happened what about the HE you mentioned?”
“A woman came by my house one day and said it was really important artifact and they needed to keep it safe. So she took it away and I started having problem moving my legs again. I couldn’t play baseball anymore so I got really mad. That’s when I first heard HE and HE promised all sorts of things if I did what he told me to do...” Celestia looked at the child's saddened expression.
“You did some very bad things I take it. Things you did not want to do, thing that hurt others and in the end you received no reward for follow the advice?”
“Yah,” Wally said. “Now I’m stuck here.”
“You realize, if you help me you will be gone?" Celestia side to him. "But this will stop the one that caused your pain”
Wally looked up and into Celestia’s eyes, she could only smile warmly at him. “Yah, HE deserves it!”
The ground begin to shake and rumble as Celestia and Wally looked around for the sources of the noise. That is when Celestia and Wally saw a black mass rolling towards them, it a shadowy, black, nightmarish creature on an enormous black battle-clad rolling throne. The black phantasmic mist swirled around the throne and seemed to bleed from the body. A twisted claws jutted out towards them pointing at them. The reptilian head was covered with jutting horns and curved teeth roared at them.
“Go Tia! I’ll slow him down, your sister is ahead!” He pushed her forward.
“But Wally!” She shouted trying to turn back.
“This isn’t exactly my mind it’s your sisters and he has no more control than I do. Please, just got your sister needs you!”
Celestia nodded and took flight straight to her sister. I will not let you sacrifice go in vain Wally, I will stop this creature! Celestia shoulder to herself.
She made her way through the maze of shelves until she found her sister, the midnight blue Alicorn she was meant to be, she was bound by black tendrils she was bound tightly.
"Lulu!" Celestia shouted. "I'm coming to get you!" She charged towards her beloved sister.
"No, good sister. come not further, you must leave! Get the Elements, you must use them to destroy us!"
"I can't!" Celestia cried.
"You must!" Luna cried back.
"It's my fault that this all happened, I have to make it right!"
"You can't there is no way." Celestia could see tears on her face.
The ground shook, a horrible crack, echoed through the place. Before it she could react a blinding light reverberated through the area.
"Go now, sister!" Luna cried.
With a tears in her eyes she left her sister's mind.
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Fear of loss, Fear of death are they the same thing?
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