//------------------------------// // The whistle // Story: Secret of the Silver Dragon // by The Psychopath //------------------------------// As of late, several mysterious dissappearances had been occuring all around Equestria, and nopony could figure out what was the cause. Several detectives and other researchers had been put on cases, but none of them returned with any clues whatsoever.. Princess Luna has also been having nightmares about the mare in the moon coming back to reclaim what was rightfully hers. Nopony is even capable of understanding this strange events that could be the definite call of ruination upon the world once and for all. However, as Celestia went down into the forbidden chambers to search for something that could be of use in explaining what these strange occurrences are, her eyes caught glimpse of a small glowing object in the corner of the chamber. She rummaged through the tight spaces to find a glowing , grey whistle. She felt in her gut that she shouldn't use it, yet something else told her to do so. Celestia preferred to know what this thing was, and why it was in the chambers. Apparently, it's arrival had preceded the birth of Luna by a few days. Certainly a coincidence. All Celestia's research uprooted nothing, especially with her limited window of free time. Her best chance was to send it to her faithful student, Twilight Sparkle, to have it examined. As for her, the princess would have to leave Canterlot for a special meeting with the gryphons and porevores. The porevores were a type of plant-like creatures that were elongated like a red caterpillar, but with only six legs. They could walk quite well on just the two hind legs, as all six actually turned out to be arms and legs. As for Twilight, well, her adventure was about to begin, and that adventure would lead to her to an incredibly frustrating situation. Twilight was busy in her lab. She had several hundred books pertaining to whistles and mystical objects opened up and scattered throughout the lab. Spike was busy just watching her panic and try and figure the contraption out. Several "computers", objects given to Twilight a long time ago, were on the fritz, and every result came out the same: It is a whistle. It is composed of an entirely unknown alloy. The object possesses no particular traits. This infuriated Twilight horribly. Why then, would the princess send her an object that is just a normal whistle? But if it truly was normal, then it wouldn't exactly be glowing, now would it? "Ugh! Why can't I figure this thing out?" "What's wrong Twilight?" "I just can't find anything on this whistle! I've looked up several books for something that could resemble it, but nothing! Not even the symbol is referenced in the oldest books of Equestria!" "Can I see it?" asked Spike. "Sure, just don't don't blow in it." Spike took a closer look at this "mysterious thing". It just looked like an ordinary whistle, but, etched upon it was what looked like a backwards "Z" that was stretched far to the left. Two dots adorned the "inner portion" of the corners. He didn't know what it meant. "Soooo...what does the princess want you to know about his thing?" "I don't know! She just put in her letter that she wanted me to figure out why this thing has only started to glow since the dissappearances started." Spike started to look scared. "You don't think the one whose responsible for those dissappearances is going to come here, do you?" "Spike. I wouldn't ever let anything happen to you. Besides, it's not like the culprit could just pop up without anyone noticing." "I hope you're right." "I'm going to Sugarcube Corner. Maybe Pinkie Pie knows something. She does seem to know alot about whistles and things that seem to be related to parties." "And other things too." Twilight levitated the whistle into the air and exited her home. Spike followed her. He wanted to taste some of those jewel pies that the Cakes had baked for him specifically. Twilight was seriously frustrated. However, today was the day that the pegasi were training for the storm that was planned for tomorrow, and Rainbow Dash was the one leading the flying party. As for Pinkie Pie, well, she was at the bakery and was taking care of the babies while the Cakes were dealing with their job. They had an order for a few dozen chocolate cakes and peach pies, and if the babies were left alone, they would never finish by the end of the week. Twilight opened the door to the bakery, a bell announcing her entry. The two bakers were busy with wrapping up the cakes that they already made. "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Cake." "Oh. Hello Twilight." said Mr. Cake. "Pinkie is upstairs with the babies in case you're wondering." "Thanks alot." Twilight continued her up the stairs and into the room of the babies, only to be assaulted by flower. Spike stayed downstairs to "sample" his new treats. Upon her welcoming, Twilight coughed up a white cloud. "Pah! Blagh! Pinkie Pie! What did you do that for?" "Woops! Sorry Twilight. I was just playing with the babies. They just LOVE it when I mess around with flower. Hey! We can color our manes purple now and look like Rarity!" "This isn't the time for playing Pinkie." "Sure it is! It's always the time for playing. Even when you work!" Twilight hadn't noticed it, but the entire room was covered in a white powder. The only unaffected portion was the part holding the babies crib. Pinkie Pie even managed to created a snowpony out of it by who knows what means. The flour wasn't even wet. "Okay Pinkie. But I need you to check out this whistle for me." "A whistle? Cool! What kind of whistle?" "I don't know. That's the problem." "Alright then. Lemme have a looksee." Pinkie Pie grabbed the whstle and started to spin it around and seemed to analyze every portion of this metallic thing. She stopped and had a confused look on her face. "Well, besides the fact that it's glowing, I don't see what's so special about it." Twilight rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah. I thought that much. I'll take it back and-" "The best way to know what it does to whistle with it!" "PINKIE DON'T!" But it was too late. The whistle's sound was already screeching through the air. It made the babies cry, to which Pinkie stopped whistling and attended to. Twilight was holding her head under her forelegs, expecting a catastrophe, but nothing happenned. Pinkie Pie walked back up t her and asked: "What are you doing? Oh! Is it a new game?!" "Wha? Nothing happenned! I thought something would've happenned if we used that. Wait...why isn't it glowing anymore." "Huh?" Pinkie lift the fallen whistle back up and took a gander at the thing. Twilight was right, it shone no more. "I guess it was just to make it lou-" JIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" A massive roar echoed throughout the town, and it certainly echoed throughout all of Equestria. It was so loud that everypony's ears were ringing. "What was that?" asked Twilight, who was still suffering from the roar. "Let's go outside and see!" Pinkie Pie started to hop out of the bedroom and downstairs as the cakes ran up to check on their babies. Pinkie would be the investigator. It seemed that the roar did not go unnoticed, as everypony had left their homes and were looking around and gossiping at what the source of the sound was. Even Rainbow Dash and the other pegasi who were training had stopped in the air to investigate. Applejack had stopped right in front of the bakery. She was pulling a cart full of apples. "Hey Twi!" "Hey Applejack. Did you hear that roar?" "Are ya kiddin' me? I plum jumped outta mah boots! If I had any that is..." "I know! It scared me too. Pinkie just blew into this whistle that Celestia gave me and-" "Wait. Ya LET her blow into it?!" "No! She just took it and then-" "Hey everypony! Look in the sky!" yelled Pinkie Pie. She had somehow reached the roof of the bakery and was holding binoculars. Everypony looked upwards to see that there was some sort of distortion. A black swirl. "Oh no. This is bad." said Twilight, as she started to step back. "Quick Applejack! We've gotta get out of here!" "Why? It just looks like a hole in the sky. Maybe it's an...oh wait...that's because of the whistle?" Twilight nodded. "Horse apples." The hole burst open to show a swirling world of golden yellow lights with white beams traversing them. But the most bizarre was not the portal itself, it was the being coming out of it. It was too fast to get a clear look at, but it burst immediately out of the hole and jet down towards the far ground. "WATCH OUT!" yelled Rainbow Dash. The being missed her and the other pegasi by just a hair, and the wind tunnel it created dragged them downwards, causing a few to bump their heads against eachother. The bright creature continued to fall down like a meteor, and it wouldn't slow down. It plowed through a cloud formation a few other pegasi were making, and turned it into a white tunnel. Unfortunately for everypony in Ponyville, it was heading straight for their little town, and many started to panic and run away. Twilight calculated it's trajectory in her mind and realized that it was going to flatten Applejack if she didn't move. "Applejack, you've got to move! It's going to fall on you!" she yelled. "Ah can't abandon mah apples like that!" "You've got to. Otherwise it's not the only thing you'll lose!" Applejack looked upright to realize that Twilight was right. That thing was was about to fall right on top of her. She quickly got out of the harness and galopped out of the way. The creature seemed to rotate before landing. A loud "BOOM" followed by the launching of every nearby pony a few feet away from the impact was met, along with a huge cloud of dust and smashed apples being flung in all directions. The landing point even turned into a small crater. Everypony got up to see what the cause was. Even Applejack's pupils shrunk as a gigantic being rose from the dust. It wasn't discernible through the dust, but shadow could be seen. Itt seemed to be looking for something, but stopped immediately once it saw Twilight Sparkle. What was now certain to be the eyes seemed to have "ignited" through the dust cloud. It's right eye followed a different color combination than the right. Starting from the pupil, it went "black, white, black". The opposite of this scheme followed on the left. Twilight couldn't help but stare at this towering being as it stared at her through the cloud of dust. What was that thing? And what did it want?