//------------------------------// // Ominous winds. // Story: Into the Beginning: The Life of Writing Glory // by Chaos Phantasm //------------------------------// The Life of Writing Glory By Chaos Phantasm ===================================================================== Ominous winds ================ "You did what you had to, but the price you had to pay was too great. The elements of Harmony cannot be remade so easily, I fear we will be unable to repair them." Star Swirl the Bearded spoke to Writing Glory as they stood among the ruins of the Crystal Palace. The sky was covered by grey clouds with some light silvery patches here and there, thunder rumbled in the distance. The fausticorn was looking at what was once apart of Shadow Strike/Lords shoulder blade, she picked it up and levitated it in front of her face. "I know, if I had known what would happen I wouldn't have destroyed him in the first place," Star Swirl blows on his pipe for a moment before moving it away. "What's done is done, nopony can change the past, nor alter the flow of time" Writing Glory nods in agreement and looks upward as thunder rumbles again. she then turns around and walks over to the edge of the ruins that over looks the Crystal Empire. "These five months have been peaceful, I'm still adjusting it it again." "We all are your highness, though for some of us it seems the war is over or never happened, for others it still feels as though it hasn't ended and is still raging on." "My war is over, it ended the moment I shattered his prison." Writing Glory looked beyond the front gates of The Crystal Empire toward Mount Canter which could just be seen all those miles away. Lightning flashed just beyond Canterlot. The fausticorn thought the clouds were beautiful, though no sun shone, nor could the blue sky be seen, it was like one of those typically miserable rainy days in Skyrim. Star Swirl picks up and examines the same armor shard the fausticorn was holding moments earlier. "Shadow was an interesting one, he used an ancient armor whose creation went unnoticed by you to give himself power only to be consumed and twisted by it. You saw what the armor gave him, ability to regenerate even the most fatal wounds, and the power to do things even the alicorn amulet cannot." Star Swirl looks over it Writing Glory whom was looking at him in turn. "The Alicorn Amulet and the armor of Shadow aren't apart of the same things are they?" Star Swirl shakes his head. "No my dear, the alicorn amulet and the armor of Shadow though similar in creation and magical power are not apart of one another. I theories they were created by different things yet as I look at this piece of the armors shoulder blade i cannot see what created it... as though the armors creation was lost to time." The fausticorn thinks for a moment about many things, though her unborn foal is the first thing she thinks of; her thoughts quickly turn to the armor and all the things it did to Soul Amethyst. "There was no Alicorn armor, the armor adapted to the desires of the one it was attached to and made itself compatible with the amulet. Do you think there could be dark alchemy involved?" "A possibility, though one I hope not to explore." The queen nods in agreement and looks up at the clouds. Star Swirl moves some rubble off of a cluster of pictures and portraits of Sapphire and Soul before Shadow ever came into Equestria. The old unicorn places the pictures in his saddlebags and looks over to the queen as she walked over to where the palace entrance/exit once stood and stands in the door way, looking over the entirety of The Crystal Empire which was still in the process of rebuilding. "Star Swirl..." Star Swirl the Bearded stands straight looking toward the fausticorn, listening to what she has to say. "...Nopony is to know about what happened that night five months ago..." KRAA~KOW Thunder claps loudly above them and soon the rain begins to come down hard followed by strong winds. Writing Glory looks skyward her horn glowing cyan in color then stopping when she lowers her head and turns her head back in the direction of The Crystal Empire looking concerned. "Your highness? what's wrong?" Writing Glory continues walking. "Ominous winds are blowing, and dark days are coming." Star Swirl stood there for a moment, watching the fausticorn put her hooded raincoat on and continuing on her way. Lightning flashes and thunder claps once more, Star Swirl the Bearded gathers his things and samples of Shadows now shattered armor and follows Writing Glory back to the crystal Empire. unbeknownst to Star Swirl and the fausticorn a raindrop of chocolate trickles down the side of a broken pillar signalling that something is coming. =====================================================================