Chapter 5
Well the only thing I'm glad about right now is that I know what my name is. Everything else however I don't understand, 'a new body' I'm pretty sure that I was born once and that I'm in my teens, not thousands of years old. I decided to put my thoughts about what happened aside for now, I had to get to the city. There was a path that, I hope, leads me straight to my destination and I had a good feeling about it because the dirt was hard from the previous ponies who traveled, and it seems like its used quite often.
It started to rain. I kind of hated the fact that I didn't have any clothing for this weather nor did I know a spell for an umbrella or something. It was coming down hard, lightening going on all around me, hail the size of acorns pelting my face. "Ugh can't this possibly get any better!" Yes, yes it could. A bolt came out of the sky and struck a tree that was literally 30ft from me. I almost shit myself, I became temporarily blind from the light and I could feel the heat from the strike area. When my vision came back I looked at myself. My blue and white tail was now near black and singed half way up. Also a forest fire started from that bolt since there was fire all around me. I got up and sprinted on the trail from before, the fire has been spreading for a few hours I suppose. It was all around me and the fire had passed over that trail so I had to find a way around. Even though its raining, it's not enough to stop the blaze. I ran up a hill that was to the left of me and I looked out onto the valley. Most of it was on fire and was headed straight towards the city. There were weather ponies flying around dropping weather buckets over the fire to try to contain it. A pony on a chariot that was transporting two ponies who were helping with the containment of the fire saw me and asked if I wanted a ride. I gladly got in and we were headed to Manehatten.
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The city was very busy, taxi ponies all over the roads, hundreds of Pegasi flying around above the buildings, and the Unicorns and Earth ponies walking back and fourth on the streets. It's smelled of delicious food and flowers. We touched ground and they let me off and I waved good bye. I saw many stores and restaurants while walking around. Some of the clothing stores had some of Rarity's designs in the windows. Also Henny of the Hills was playing on Brideaway and I over heard that Coco Pommel is making the costumes this year, according to two ponies I was standing by waiting to cross the street. I didn't really know where to go or how to get back to Ponyville. I'd probably need to get some bits and get a flying chariot back to Ponyville, so I decided to get a job. I went around the city for about an hour and found a "help wanted" sign in a magic store window, I walked in and I asked if I could work.
"Yea sure, If you know anything about magic."
"Sadly I don't know much at all."
"Well I can't help you there sorry."
This happened about 5 more times, at a flower shop, a Library, a Food shop, a tool shop, and a repair shop. They didn't want me because I didn't have enough knowledge or the fact that I'm an Alicorn and don't know how to use magic, so I gave up. //You must head to apartment 748 on the third floor and meet me there in about 45 minutes\\ Ahh who's voice was that in my head, it wasn't Septimus' voice, so I don't really have anything to fear, unless I'm a complete dumbass and just assume its him and he is trying to kill me. But I had no idea of how I'm getting back to Ponyville and it was a female pony's voice so, I'm just going to have to wing it. I eventually found apartment 748 and rang the buzzer. "Come in". I walked up two sets of stairs and knocked on the front door. A purple Pegasus with bright yellow eyes, and a grayish blue mane opened the door, "please enter" and I did. The apartment was old looking . It seems to be built almost 70 years ago but is still in really good shape. Her decor was very modern, and had a science theme or magic, I couldn't tell. There were floating objects pretty much everywhere, the lights, TV, glasses, silverware, trinkets, you name it, it was all levitating. " how did you get your home like this?"
"Oh a friend of mine cast a spell. Anyway I need to talk to you about something important. My name is Mystic Dreams. I received letters from Princess Twilight asking anypony if they have seen you, because Flutterhy was concerned."
"Wait you know Twilight?"
"Yes, I had to help her before with something and we are good friends. Anyway I have a objective for you. I need you to help me find an ancient amulet from a dungeon. And apparently your the only one who can help me accomplish this."
"Dungeons really? The fuck is this Skryim?"
"Look do you want help me or not it's not like you have anything else better to fucking do!"
/Sadly he was right. I had no where to go. I don't know what to do. I can't go through the forest again to get to Ponyville so I had no options\
"Ok Mystic Dreams, I will help you if afterwards you help me get back to Ponville, deal?"
"Deal".
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We walked down a few alley ways to this old train station that was blocked off by a fence. We flew over the it and walked around a broken train. There was a deteriorated wooden trap door that was near one of the broken down buildings, and she opened it. The stench from it was baaaad. It smelt like rotten food, dead bodies, and shit.
"Oh god that's rancid"
"Yes it is, but its the only way to get the amulet so we have to deal with it."
The stairs leading down were very broken and sketchy. I almost rolled down the stairs when parts of it collapsed beneath me. We approached two doors. One was locked, one was half broken and wouldn't open. "So, which one leads to where we need to go?"
"I believe it's the one on the right but they key for it is through the left door then further down." I bucked the left door and it exploded open. We went down another set of stairs, but this time I actually tripped and nearly broke my back while somersaulting down the whole thing. "You know what. I'm just going to lie here for a bit" I scrunched my nose as I said this; when I speak, a throbbing pain goes up my spine. She approached a puzzled door. It had three shrines that were spin able. On each side were three cutie marks; one was mine, the other two I haven't ever seen before. One was a star with a flame behind it and the other was a lightening bolt with many spikes circling perfectly around it. She arranged them in order of mine, then flame, then bolt. There was a click behind the door and gears began to move and the door slowly opened. "How did you know what it was?"
"I study a lot of old things and I have books of things that "doesn't exist" I know a lot."
"Anything about me?"
"No, sadly not, your name is mentioned in one of them but the pages about you specifically are gone and so are a few others. Not many ponies know much about the Arcadians, they sort of disappeared long ago. Even Celestia herself has very little knowledge of them. That's why I have you, your mentioned in Arcadian books and I want that amulet to study and see what it does."
"Sorry but I know nothing of the Arcadians or myself, all I know is that I used to be one and that Im being hunted down by a Dukar named Septimus." She stopped right in her tracks and turned to me quickly and yelled "SEPTIMUS he's back! Oh lord, oh no no no no no no. This must be a lie." As she was saying this, she was hyperventilating and pacing quickly back and forth. "Do you know how bad things are going to get now that he is back! The world will be shrouded in darkness and every species on the planet will be either eradicated or put into slavery. We must get the amulet now!" She began to run and I followed suit. We went down long hallways and many sets of stairs and we came upon a chest. When the chest was opened a zombified griffon jumped out and pounced on me and started to use its claws and tear at my face and body. I used my hooves and punched it repeatedly but it was ineffective and then covered my face. Mystic Dreams's eyes glowed a bright white and a table flew across the room and hit the griffon on the side. It turned to her and jumped but was stopped and was frozen in mid-air. A purple glow was around it, it hissed and swung its arms violently. The griffon was thrown across the room, smashing into the walls, the sound of old bones breaking and limbs fell off after each hit. This happened repeatedly until the griffon consisted of only a few bones held by tendons and its remains were spread across the floor. I almost threw up. She picked up they key from within the chest and put it in her saddle bags. We trotted back to the two doors and she put the key into the right door and it opened. There was a blinding light that came through the crack of the door. We haven't seen day light for at least a few hours, but it wasn't the sun. It was an artificial light. I've never seen such a thing before, ponies mainly use candles or a spell to light up a room but nothing like this. We put a hoof in front to cover our eyes as we walked in. In the middle of the room there was a pedestal that had the amulet hanging on a rusted raw iron hoof. Obviously it was a trap at the same time. I kinda said fuck it and walked up and grabbed it, and...nothing happened. Literally nothing, no booby trap, no giant ball trying to kill me, nothing. It was odd because stories that are about stuff like this have the cliche Daring Do shit but I guess it's not always like that. As we turned around, about to walk through the door Septimus appears in front of us and he launches me across the room. I hit the wall with a force almost strong enough to break my spine and fell to the floor. Mystic eyes glowed and she started throwing any objects that she could see at him. One of those objects was a bolder and it hit Septimus hard across the face, knocking him out hopefully. She ran over to me and picked me up. "We need to leave now!" We went up the stairs and down the hallways as fast as we could. I looked back and I saw a black mist that was approaching us fast and a set of glowing red eyes was in the middle of it. "Mystic he is coming from behind us!" She looked over her shoulder an her eyes widened. She looked at me and yelled "don't you know how to teleport us out of here!"
"Uh no I don't, I don't know any magic but levitation"
"Please just try!" She had tears in her eyes, either from being scared that Septimus was in almost reaching distance and was going to kill us or that she has tried so hard to find that amulet and now she is going to lose it again. I thought very hard and imagined a place the best that I could, I touched Mystic and using all of my energy we teleported.