Running through the destroyed town was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Buildings were burning, braking down, and partially collapsed on themselves. Fire, lightning, storms, and horrible burst of magic flew across the sky. While the sky it self was sickly green, and horrifying nightmarish images of many creatures, pegasai, and all manners of freaky abortions.
As I ran through the streets ducking and diving to avoid random blasts of magic and other assorted items.
“TWILIGHT!”
Stopping dead in my tracks I turn to see Applejack. She had look of seriousness on her face that made her seem much older than she actually was. “This is all yer fault Twi!”
Biting my lip in agitation, I knew she was partly right. I had caused the destruction of Ponyville, and not only that, I hurt almost everyone who ever cared about me. My parents, my brother, Princess Cellestia, Princess Luna, Cadence, and even my best friends.
“Ya need ta set this right Twi!” Applejack yelled at me, “and you know what has ta be done in order to set it right!”
I felt my right ear twitch as, and before I knew what I was doing I ran at Applejack and tackled her just in time to avoid burning ball of fire just miss my ear. The ball of fire hit a near by house, I barely had enough time to put up a barrier to avoid the the blast before I felt the slight sting of a blade against my skin.
Thankfully my body reacted before I could and my telekinetic magic flung the blade away just as the shield was complete enough to block the explosion.
The shield fell and I backed away from Applejack, the noticeable feeling of blood dripping down the side of my coat made it clear what AJ's intentions were. She was out for my life, just like so many ponies were now. It hurt me so much, not just because of the physical wound, but also because I knew that our friendship was over and there was nothing I could about.
At least not yet anyway. I had a plan, it was going to take everything I had to pull off this plan. It may even kill me, but if this plan it would all be worth it, everything would return back to the way it had been before that one damn card showed up.
One month earlier . . .
I had just gotten back from Applejack's farm and was taking a more scenic route back to my knew castle home right were the ponyville library had been before Tirek's attack. A few monthes had passed since then, and nothing major had come up for a while.
Spike was laying on my back calm and collected as I walked down the path taking in all the beautiful scenery. The gravel road was interesting because it not only had the basic gravel but little bit of rounded gems were strewn along with the pebbles to make the ground sparkle almost all the time. Quite a few trees were freshly watered from a recent rain storm the pegasai had planned not to long ago, and that made them almost shine. And a cool evening breeze had also accompanied me, carrying with it an almost hypnotizing melody.
Well if it weren't for spikes snoring that is, but either way the walk was calming and nice. The sound of crunching stones being pushed into place as I stepped on them, and the cool breeze made me feel even more at home then being in Canterlot with Princess Celestia.
I could feel the heat of fire at my back as Spike snored and let out a breath of emerald fire. I turned to at least get one eye him, just to make sure he wasn't going to breath any fire on me. No need to have another accident with my mane getting lit on fire.
I heard the crunch of paper underneath my hoof, causing me to stop.
The sudden stop woke spike up, his sleep ridden eyes looked to me questioningly. “are we home yet?” he asked obviously to tired to even bother looking around.
“No Spike,” I dead pan as I lift my hoof up to inspect what I had just stepped on. “I just stepped on something.”
“Ew.” Spike said with a huge tone of disgust.
Rolling my eye I use my magic to lift up a card, it was slightly larger then a hoof, and rectangular in shape. “It's just a card spike.”
“Oh” he said now seeming fully awake. He leaned over to look at the card himself.
The card had a dark blue trim with a picture of three poines, each of which was from one of the three types unicorn, pegasai, and earth pony. The were each facing a a light that glowed in the center of the three.
“What is that?” Spike asks curiously.
“It looks like some sort of playing card.” I say, although I wasn't sure myself. “probably for some silly filly's card game.”
“I don't know.”
“Something wrong spike?” Spike rarely questions something after I try explain what I think it might be. For him to still be curious about something only served to make me further examine the card. Turning it over revealed a perfectly blank but shiny side.
“That's odd,” I say squinting to make sure that I wasn't just seeing the shine. “almost every card has two sides. One side to make them look similar and one to indicate some sort of status or type.”
“Hmmm.” Spike hummed as if he was trying to think of someplace he might have seen the card before. But it was obvious he was failing if you took just one look at his face.
“Well whatever game it's from, I should probably put turn it in to the lost and found.” I levitate the card to spike so that he could hold on to it for me. “hold on to this until then, okay?”
“Sure.” Spike says as he grips onto the card and studies the blank side ever closer.
Little did either of us know that that one card was going to change the course of our lives. In that one moment I was the oblivious innocent one, and spike might just have the knowledge to save all of Equestria.