~Chapter 4
~Meeting Blue~
"My name's Blue," he said.
"Blue. You were really brave, fighting that creature," Night said, whispering.
"Thanks."
Night looked at the pony, Blue, with interest. Was he the same pony she had just seen in her dream? Did he really not have magic? Was he alone like she? She didn't know what to think about him. When she had watched him fight the beast, dragon, as called it, it seemed like he had magic.
"Hello?"
Night snapped out of her daze. "Huh? What?"
Blue rolled his eyes. "I said, you know my name, but I do not know yours."
"Oh. My name is... is..." Night couldn't think of what her name was.
"Well?" he asked, a little irritated.
"My name is... Night," she whispered slowly.
"Night?" he asked.
She nodded.
"Well, Night, what are you doing in this part of the Everfree Forest?" Blue asked.
"The Everfree Forest?" Night said, confused.
"Yeah. That is where we are," Blue told her.
"Oh," she said, looking around.
"Yeah. So, why are you here?" he asked again.
"I... I do not know," she whispered.
"What do you mean you do not know?" he asked.
"I don't know why I am here, or how I even got here," Night told him.
Blue looked at her, confused. He didn't understand what was going on. How does some pony just end up in the Everfree Forest and not remember why or how they even got there.
"Why are you here?" Night asked.
Blue looked at her. Shock was clearly on his face.
"Oh, um, well..." He didn't know what to say.
Night wanted to say, you're here because where you come from, there was a terrible fire that killed your family, and you wanted to get away from there and try to follow your dream of becoming a hero. But Night knew she couldn't say that. She'd just scare away the only other pony she remembers.
"Never mind why I am here. Do you know where you come from?" Blue asked her, trying to change the subject.
"I... I do not know where I come from, or even who I am, or who my parents are," Night whispered.
"Y-you don't remember anything?" he asked.
Night nodded.
"I.. I'll be right back. Stay here. Do not leave!" Blue yelled, before running out of the cave.
Night watched as he ran. What he was doing, was what she kept asking herself. Why did he just run and leave, telling her to stay here. Is he leaving her, because she doesn't remember anything?
Night followed what he said and stayed in the cave. She walked around, trying to find something besides the moldy grey stone that surrounds her, but sadly, for her, there was no other color that she could see. Only the depressing colors of the grey stone walls, and the mucky green of the growing mold.
She walked around, aimlessly, trying to remember something, anything, from her past, but her mind always came back blank. All she could remember was that her name had the word Night in it. She knew there was more, but she only knew one word. Everything else seemed to be darkened in her mind.
When she decided to go back to the rock where she and Blue first talked at, she started to wonder if he was coming back. It had to have been a while, but Blue was still gone. Night kept wishing she knew where he went, but it was too late to even ask him that. When, or if, he comes back, she'll know. But what if he doesn't come back?
Maybe he had left?
Night shook that thought from her mind, and layed down. The ground felt so cold as she gently layed her body on the stone floor of the cave, but she didn't care. She kept hoping she'd remember something in her dreams. She remembered how she had dreamed of Blue's past, if it even was his past. It had to have been, he was the pony in her dream.
But why had she dreamt of his past?
She pushed the thought aside. Thinking of why kept her mind racing. She was tired, and it was becoming impossible to hold her eyes open. She let them close, and she fell right into the darkness called sleep.
Fire.
Fire was surrounding a palace, only it didn't seem to be burning it. Looking closer at it, it seemed to be trying to protect it. But from what?
I watched as ponies scattered, yelling something incoherent, but I knew it was something important. There was one pony that stood out from the others, though.
Instead of a look of fear and panic, she held a look of sadness. I could feel her sadness like it was my own. The pony I saw had a coat of a dark shade of blue, and a mane that was partially translucent, that rippled and sparkled, but as I watched, the pony's mane started to slowly stop rippling and sparkling, and was becoming less translucent. One thing I knew; she was losing her power.
But why?
That's what I kept wondering. Why was this pony losing her power?
When I took my gaze off of the pony, I could see the fire that surrounded the castle was slowly burning out. Whatever the fire was put there to protect the castle from was going to get through.
But when, I did not know.
I watched the ponies, fear clearly present. The fire was now a very light blue, and it was becoming transparent. Through the flames, I saw a pony. She was using her magic, combined with another pony's. I could tell that she had to have been holding up the wall of fire for a while now.
As I watched the pony of white, I saw the pony of dark, stand next to her. Both were using their magic to hold up the fire. I guessed the two were sisters, as they seemed to understand what they needed to do together, and their magic seemed to be opposites. And that type of magic usually only comes from the Sisters of Harmony.
But what were they trying to protect the ponies from? What were the ponies trying to hide from? When the dark one came to help, the fire seemed to grow stronger, but why was the fire burning out?
Then a question came to mind.
Was this happening now?
Or is this the future or past?