//------------------------------// // Dreaming With The Dawn // Story: The Legend of Brave Rick // by Exelion //------------------------------// “I believe… I believe I hit one, Accelerate,” said one of the invaders, “we must reach them!” “Roger that.” The noise of the motorcycles was pointed out with the speedup, but they were surprised when they saw Applejack carrying Twilight, even when she could continue with the escape. Suddenly, they saw a ray coming out of Twilight. “They have made a spell, cover.” They stopped their vehicles and hide behind them. After waiting for a minute, they noticed it was just to distract them. “They deceived us!” One of the soldiers shouted angrily. “Prepare the vehicles, we can still get them.” “Wait,” said the captain, “there’s something else ahead, I’ll handle with it.” “We’ll cover you.” A half-sized man, caucasian, approximately forty years, descended from the motorcycle, had shaved dark brown hair little grown up, dark coffee-colored eyes that looked serious, and a body that showed he was a soldier. He wore the typical army uniform in various shades of green, and a black helmet. Slowly, the captain was reaching the bright point, nervous, thinking it was likely a trap. He knew that ponies would make anything to protect themselves, even more, if they knew their time was never. Getting close enough, he noticed a bright rolled up bit of paper. “It surely contains important information,” he thought. “Captain?” asked one of the soldiers. “What’ve you found?” “Probably some information,” he answered. He crouched to take the strange paper. When he got it, a violet aura wrapped him quickly, covering him from head to toe. “Captain!” exclaimed one of the soldiers. “Come on, we’ve got to help him!” They jumped off their motorbikes and ran to succor him, but before even touching him, a great explosion occurred, and a beam covered the area. The captain slowly opened his eyes, searching his mind to figure out what had happened. This means he could not hear his partners, who were trying to wake him. He could only see their worried faces shouting his name over and over again, while his subconscious was immersed in a kind of dream. The man was floating in the highest part of the sky, but he knew something strange was happening. The stars, the earth, the trees, the buildings that could be a little distinct by that height, everything was grey, without life, sad, and discouraged. But he didn’t have enough time to observe the demotivating background. He started falling, taking a nosedive and quickly reaching top speed. In front of him an arc was formed with the high speed, and when the floor was far enough, a Sonic Rainboom was formed and behind him an enormous quantity of multicolored rings followed by a Rainbow trail. It expanded quickly, replacing that boring landscape, painting every single corner with it’s respective color, finishing them with a bright tone. Just before hitting the floor, he changed his course and continued travelling by a dirt road, he could see how that rainbow still kept painting everything in it’s path, showing the night sky that was over him. He was pleased with the starry sky, although he never remained in the same place for long time. Never stopping to contemplate the marvels around him. “This starry sky…” He said to himself. “It has something special, I can feel it… I remember… I had this sensation long time ago, when I was nine, in my grandfather's farm. I had awakened from a nightmare. The dark of my room was surrounding me. I couldn’t see anything except a little point of light, but… it was different, it was of a color that I can´t discover even now, It was different to the lights of my city. I get close with curiosity, and I wanted to touch waiting don't feel nothing, but I had a big surprise when I felt something unexplained. I wish to know the origin of that sensation. I put my hand on the curtain and ran to the side, allowing the point to get into a mantle that enveloped me while also hypnotizing me. Taking away my window lock, letting in this natural spectacle, feeling its glow light not just my room, all my grandfather´s camp and maybe more… Although I got a sermon because I left the window open, I will never forget that night, who can imagine that I reunited with that landscape after all that years…” Closely he can see a forest that has all the trees with autumn leaves; deep reds, light browns, soft yellows, all in the same view. Even with the light of the moon, he can enjoy the beauty. The dirt road made him walk along forest, and as he traveled that path, the leaves fell of the branches. Some of them flew by his side; others went away to find their place on the cold floor. The forest was immense. It didn't take more than a few minutes find the way out, leaving all the leaves behind. While he watched them fall, he could also see a new landscape that had nothing to envy over his homeland, the falling petals made a sea of autumnal colors, it was almost as if he had made it ​​on purpose, without mentioning the bare trees that not subtract beauty to that spectacle. For once, he felt that the speed reduced. “It looks like it ends,” he thought. The truth is that was far from be over. His feet floated to centimeters from the floor. In this way he involuntarily toured the streets of Ponyville, waiting to see the desolation of that early morning hours where transited. But all the town was more than awoken. They commented something related to ‘Summer Sun Celebration,’ and ‘It’s good that it be in Ponyville this year.’ But his dream left him unable to walk or gossip.   He got close to a house that was illuminated by a candle. In that house, could see a paternal act. In it, father, mother and their little colt share a pony-tale to make their son go to the dreamland, he was so concentrated that he could listen the final words of the tale.   “... And so fairies and ponies manage to lock the evil wizard Dark Magic,” recounted the father. “Making the golden glow come back to the center of the fairy world,” mother continued. “Which would fill in joy…” The father was continuing. “Magic…” Advanced the mother. “And happiness,” said the both at the same time with a smile, “to the citizens of Equestria. The end.”   Finishing together and closing the book, they see their son give a last yawn before closing his eyes.   “Look, he’s sleeping. Isn’t it adorable?” The mother asked. “Yes…Rest my little Wild Adventure, sure the rising sun will bless you.” “Dear, Princess Celestia is here, I think we have to go.” “It´s okay, let´s go.”   Both let the house and quietly flew up who knows where.   “Wait a minute, how can I understand what are they saying?”  he asked himself, surprised. “Although… I would have liked to have listened the whole history, perhaps, also feel the same as the child,” he thought. “But how can I even think that?!  Of course I’ve felt that before… but … How long did I feel it?”  He wondered while clutching his chest, he felt a slight sensation of heat. In fact, he did not know if it was the training in the military stays, the charging a cold rifle for a long time, or being away from their loved ones, which prevented him from remembering what made ​​him feel like that.   He kept going, this time, in direction where the ponies went. A big crowd of them crushed forward in front of a wood stage, a big red curtain covered what would be a show that, even if a tradition has long, kept to dazzle anyone who watch it.   The frame was deployed, and Princesses smiled and waved to all present.   “Princesses?!” He shouted surprised, but quickly covered her mouth as he realized he said it out loud.   He expected a violent reaction from them, but it turned out quite the contrary, he seemed to be invisible to them. Behind them came the mayor, predisposed to give a speech about the event that was about to happen and, of course, praise to the Princesses. “It seemed a wise mare,” he thought to himself. “A good leader….doesn’t seem to represent a major threat to us... then... Why sacrifice in front of the whole village? Was it really necessary? Our superiority was already imposed, it was not necessary to reach this end ....We didn't need to kill so many innocent creatures,” a tear of guilt crossed his face and he dropped to the ground. Princess Luna shone her horn and bowed before her sister Celestia while this raised his horn and made it glow. Again his body began to feel lighter, but this time accompanied a golden glow. Slowly his body off from the ground and began to take flight. When the first rays of sun did see, his speed increased dramatically, crossed the stage and headed toward the horizon, but this time was much faster than when he made the sonic rainboom and felt different. He went through the mountains, forests, plains, at the end he reached the sea, and for him, the surprises did not seem finished yet.   “Looks like a blue sea ....a mirror, I can see the fish swimming, dolphins jumping next to me, the only time I saw so special beaches, was on a family holiday brochure, but surely our beaches do not compare with this” Suddenly he turned ninety degrees upward. The brightness that accompanied it became stronger and before him, the greatest show. Dawn. The sun seemed giant before him and was surrounded by a scorching warm, which merged with the natural glow emanating and seemed to be one. That little heat felt when he heard that story became insignificant compared to that, without fear he opened his arms and let all that heat into him body. Without warning the sun began to make brighter every second, glimpsing everything in its path, until it was completely blank, in that, one last thought crossed his mind. “What does it all mean?”