//------------------------------// // 3) fire, wind, ashes // Story: fear of lightning // by Layam //------------------------------// Twilight diary june 7 1004 afternoon. dear diary. when i woke up and done breakfast i went to my friends to tell them that princess Celestia wanted to see us. Most of them were a little bit tired to have to do a Canterlot trip so fast but they knew that when Celestia called them, something was in great, great danger. We took fortunately a special train who went 3x faster than the regular one, so we just arrived in 4 hours instead of the normal 12. It was a busy day in Canterlot and Rarity noticed an discount of diamond silk of 80% and we had to pull her to the castle when she was attracted by the glorious shining of a cheap and elegant one chance that it would’ve been wasted. We presented ourself to the castle and two guards accompanied us to the crystal rooms. There, princess Luna and princess Celestia were waiting on their thrones. “Greetings my friends!”said princess Luna as she was engaging a more friendly conversation to then go into the serious stuff. “Thanks for coming, this could be an enemy without predecessors”told us Celestia “Yeah but how did you one knew something was wrong if Him is clearly in the forest”I said confused, knowing that the Princesses are really powerful but not at the level to be able to see everywhere. “also how could be someone that doesn’t even have the guts to show himself be more powerful of a demonic magic sucking creature”was what Rainbow Dash skeptical even if she perfectly knew that Celestia would have gave an good enough explanation. “I will tell you what happened” replied Luna who started to be very, very serious. “It was yesterday. I was like normally sleeping throughout the day to then stay awake the night, when i started having this weird dream. This wasn’t a normal dream because i neither have control over it or knew i was in a dream. So it started normally, i was visiting with my sister Ponyville when we saw in the sky what it seemed a big but far bird. But it wasn’t a bird because it leaved a trail of clouds behind him and produce a really annoying and indescribable sound. Everypony started insulting him including me and my sister. The thing then dropped something and turn away, and the horror started when the object he dropped almost touched the ground. A fireball appeared, engulfing and destroying everything in fractions of a second. I saw everything burn and scream in pure agony. Many ponies were completely destroyed by the fire ball. I wanted to cry but i couldn’t because there was too heat that the tear evaporated, and i could not scream because it was too hot. Then a strong wind came and thrown everything away. I saw trees, ponies, mailboxes and even entire houses being thrown away into the far distance of the horizon. When i regain consciousness my sister was dead and i lost an wing. More specifically everypony i saw was dead, carbonized by the intense heat steal with their hoofs high when they were insulting the thing. I started wondering around what was once Ponyville. Everything was destroyed: the houses, the streets even the every free forest was burning. Everywhere i looked i could only see ashes and rocks. I began to see a hoard of alive ponies. The fire ball was so strong that it even melted their flesh and i was constantly seeing all this people walking blindly, someponies with eyes hanging over their face and someponies with missing limbs and body parts, revealing their extremely gory injuries and organs. Eventually someponies couldn’t handle the fatigue and just died while walking. I then started to follow the crowd until we arrived at a giant sign and stopped. It said never again. Then i finally woke up from the hellish nightmare, Celestia a few guards and two doctors where watching me. My sister said that while sleeping i was crying for pain and shouting never again, never again, never again. I told the story to my sister and then we received your letter.” “so what is ahh… the plan?” said Fluttershy who was really scared by the description of Luna. “What i would recommend is to make a trap. You will trick to think you are searching for him into the forest while i and Luna with an invisibility spell are going to watch over you”. “Sounds great to me!” said Pinkie Pie that was already enthusiastic for the false quest. We will start it tomorrow, hope this plans works. Shining Armor diary june 7 1004 night as Normal at 11:00 pm i went to bed with my wife to rest for the coming day, but this days i couldn’t sleep thinking about what happened to Twilight and Ponyville and in that thinking i notice something strange. By listening really really really with attention i could hear swifts and Hoofsteps. I knew they weren’t the guards because it was alternated at two and not at four. I had a lot of fear of checking that out so i picked up my sword without waking up Cadence and went investigating. With the attention that made me what i am now i followed where him went without getting too close or too far. It finally lead to the library. I raised my sword and continued to follow him throughout the library. I notice that he noticed that i notice that he was heard so the hoofsteps became more and more fast until they stopped. I knew he was making a trap but i couldn’t stop so i continued. I was sweating and my eyes even if hurt were as much open as i could. It was a really tense moment, all my muscles were rigid and ready for everything until i heard a crack and i turned handing my sword and ready for a bloody battle. It was Cadence. I relaxed and lowered the sword before asking “what are you doing here” she replied “wouldn’t it be more appropriate if i asked you this question” “well uhh… i heard some light hoof steps so i followed them and they went here”. I said a little embarrassed “Shining Armor you worry too much, everything is fine, you need to relax and rest for the coming day, they will eventually found him”. Replied Cadence trying to calm me “Besides, who would be so crazy to enter the castle where lives the commander of all the guards” she said a little bit ironically “you are right, i probably need some sleep and not worry that much”. So i returned the bed and started sleeping. Sweetie belle diary june 7 1004 afternoon. i was starving for food, him said that the suplies were inside a box but we couldn’t open it because it was too heavy and tall. “why haven’t i seen you eat or drink anything? Afraid that i poisoned the food?” said the mysterious voice with a little bit of sarcasm. “no we just can’t open it, it’s too heavy” replied scootaloo with a weak voice, then we heard in the background something like “do i have to do everything?” and after half a minute the door finally opened and we could see him very well. I finally could comp rend why Twilight said Him was so scary looking. He was really tall but also thin with long legs and arms. In the face he wore a terrifying gas mask which gave him no emotions combined with a hood. He had a big belt where there were attached lot of things which we don’t know the nature of. He has dark grey heavy and long clothes that almost touched the floor. the clothes that covered the legs where all black, with also tall and big dark grey boots. He after closing the door went immediately to the box and lifted the cover up. Here we could see that he had hands like Spike but with much longer fingers, which were covered by a dark brown glove. We watched impressed his appearance and then we started asking him a ton of questions like “why you have a gas mask”or “what creature you are”or “why do you wear so many clothes?” not even one of this questions were answered as he ignored most of them completely and then he just headed to the door and after got inside it he closed it. “it is so boring here what can we do?”said Apple Bloom “what i tell you to do, now pick up the papers and start doing this test now.” responded him. It was so unexpected this message that it scared Scootaloo who jump scared off her seat. We began the test, it was a test about a good actions. It had several questions who were something like “you see an pony who his humiliating someone younger with insults and kicks do you intervene?” or “you find a stranger of an totally different race of ponies, do you welcome it?” During the test Scootaloo asked why did he need us to do many tests. He responded that even the smaller things about something could define an important mentality or culture that could be a lot useful for him if he knew it. When we finished we did the same as the other time. I still can’t figure out why him just can’t, peacefully, ask gently to the ponies if they want to be part of tests without kidnapping. Guess i will know another time. Shining Armor diary 8 june 1004 evening. “WHAT!!” was what i shouted when i knew that the library had been emptied and the message “so close…” was discovered “JUST WHY! WHY! WHYYYY!!?, I WAS SO CLOSE TO CATCH HIM! SO CLOSE!!!” i spoke furiously while obliterating the piece of paper with my hoofs. “don’t be angry, even if you would have found him it wouldn’t meant you would have caught him” tried to calm me down Cadence. I knew that if i needed to be angry i would be at Cadence but i wasn’t “It’s just that it could be all over, Him would have probably been imprisoned, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo would have been free. And i wouldn’t be so worried for the princesses.” “Well at least you can make a trap where you wait for him to give back the books”said Cadence trying to comfort me as i watched angrily outside wondering where the moon could he be. “wait a moment………….. this is a great idea! i’ll immediately going to project the ambush!”was what i said while jumping with joy for what i believed was a sure victory. So i went away and starting grouping all the guards. By 10:00 pm we were all hiding in the library ready to attack. Finally after half an hour of waiting we heard hoofsteps. It was Cadence, again. “Cadence what are you doing here? I told you to not go in the library” “well you wanna might see this” she responded as she handed me a paper.
It read “because you didn’t want my gentle offer of giving you back the books i leaved them there, have fun taking them back in the library >:)” (i honestly don’t have a clue what the final symbol was). “where did you get this?” I asked confused at the word, “i leaved them here”. “In the kitchen. It is full of books” I couldn’t hold myself so i screamed “DAMMMMMMMMMMMM HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!”