//------------------------------// // Strings of the lyre // Story: The Human // by -Twilight //------------------------------// [Authors Note: Well This is it.. The final chapter.. Please be warned, I put little thought into this second part however i already have the plot for this chapter all folded up. This chapter will cover EVERYTHING Yes This chapters called strings of the lyre and was originally Blood of the Alicorn, It took me a good three hours to think of that xD And you probably know why its called that. also i bet your dieing to know where Lyra has run off to and what is to happen of x and how will equestria run without their beloved princess... I guess you'll have to read to find out] ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------- The sky was Pink, Pinker than the pink pony who skipped out of the castle with five other ponies. Crystal Remains of the once unbreakable Magic barrier was raining down from the sky like snow. The streets were covered in pink. Ponies were in a unstoppable state of panic as mysterious black figures rained down like meteors. These "Changelings" Take the form of anypony you care for and feed from your love for said pony, at least, that's what the bride said. X galloped through the pink powder, tripping several times on his new tail. The watch tower in which x first encountered the princess of the night was now barren. screams of ponies echoed through the streets of Canterlot. Without their princess, without the elements, without... Lyra... what is to happen to Equestria. The City castle itself was large much less the city. Buildings Stood vigilantly over each other being a little bigger. The city suffered a major amount in a small time, Building set ablaze, Others. no longer standing. X encountered many of the changelings however, they seemed not to notice this dull green colt. X has been following the six "element bearers" for quite some time now. These Bearers are stronger than anypony he has encountered so far. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Canterlot tower {20 minutes in the changeling raid] Canterlot Tower stood over all other sections of castle. Its stain glass windows and gem encrusted door indicates this tower is very important. The blood and scratched walls also indicate this area is already contested. x watched as the 6 ponies gallop towards the large tower door, dozens of changelings on their tails. The ponies were so close up until the door opened and a dozen more changelings occupied the tower inside. They captured the ponies and dragged them back to the castle's main entrance. X was devastated, he wanted to fight, he couldn't... not with this body. X started to cry, this was the first time he has ever cried in a long time. He missed power, he missed everfree...he missed... Lyra. Just then, a burst of pure energy sent all the changelings flying back. The energy shook Canterlot ten seconds after the first. The blast was followed by another explosion, coming from the wedding hall. This power was so strong it knocked all the changelings into the air but seemed to leave all the normal ponies alone. The windows of Canterlot tower changed to all sorts of colors. Just as the glass turned green one of the windows broke and was followed by a larger changeling being thrown out of it. Canterlot, out of all odds, was free once again. "could that be the true power of the elements?" x asked himself he remembered he was alone and his green unicorn companion was still missing. X looked down from the tower, all the ponies were heading through the main entrance. X was about to join them when a familiar voice spoke to him in his head. "Please Help me" the weak voice whispered. "Lyra!.. Lyra is that you?.. oh Celesti-god where are you?" "I'm.. in the caves under Canterlot.... Cadance sent me down here... help me.. its so dark." the voice began to fade to a low hum, then.. silence. "where are the caves Lyra.. Lyra..." Nothing responded, instead the figure of Lyra appeared, no, this Lyra was a child, a filly. X watched as the frames repeated like a record "Lets go daddy, i wanna go play my lyre to the dead" a unseen voice then replied: "Slow down pumpkin" The filly Lyra would stop, then look in the direction of x and point towards canterlot graveyard. she would point in that direction until x looked that way, then the scene would start again. X had no idea what was going on but it was creeping him out. Its almost like a sort of paradox. X couldn't tell what was more creepy to him, Watching a loop in time occur right before his eyes, or the fact that a creepy filly Lyra was wanting him to go into this creepy graveyard.. on his own. ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------- The Dark trees loomed over the damp, shadowy graves. The soil was dry each step hurt the bottom of X's bare hoof. X was tired of being a pony he couldn't get used to it. He kept stumbling over his tail or his other hoof.; "How does Lyra pull this off, Once i find her she better turn me back." X mumbled trying to clench a non existing hand into a fist. The Graveyard went on for ages some graves were there for ages. X kept traveling until he stopped at a grave drastically larger than all the others, Its polished surface, its decorated soil. X, out of curiosity stepped up to the grave; Starswirl The Bearded, Father of the aniomorphic spell. "Hm i wonder what that-" X was cut off by the soothing sound of a lyre. The melody played Louder and louder. X had to figure out what was making that noise, he followed the sound deeper into the cemetery. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I... must... find Lyra".... X has been adventuring through this endless graveyard maze for what felt like hours. The endless looping music was starting to annoy him, these filly' Lyras directing him to different places like it did before he entered Each Piece of memory was different, but always ended in Lyra looking at X. For a while. X noticed the music coming from the lyre was becoming louder after each sighting of filly Lyra. was almost startled when a flash of light blinded him. When the light faded,Filly Lyra sat on one of the tombstones, lyre in hand. The filly Lyra was a clear and see through, like all the others, she was a recording of time, however, this one was different, this one said nothing. "Um Lyra... If you can hear this where are you taking me?" The filly unicorn said nothing, instead, she merely pointed further down the pass of gravestones and began to play her lyre, notes visibly coming from the Lyre and floating down the pass. X looked down the pass and back to Lyra who didn't disappear, instead, continued to play the lyre. "Um.. thank you?" No answer. The grave yard went on forever, it made x wonder if he was even in Canterlot anymore. The night sky covered the graveyard making it impossible to see if not for the floating musical notes. The Notes floated gracefully in the windless pass, changing colors constantly. X noticed how the graveyard's tombstones were starting to decrease until all remaining stones had become unreadable due to age and could be confused for rocks. A the tombstone finally stopped appearing the trees started to open, spread out, eventually disappear altogether. X stood in blackness, even his magical music note companions faded into nothing. X stood there, in the darkness. "So you wish to save me? He He You'll have to find me, so far you have been going in circles its getting boring" said a familiar yet.. different voice. "I bet you are going to ask who your speaking to.. well .. aren't you?" "Who are you" X asked "Why, I'm Lyra.. the one your looking for.. your love Just then a flicker of light appeared inside the light was a green unicorn, eyes orange as the promising sun, mane green as the grass after a summer's storm. all of these figures played in X's head like drums. X walked up to Lyra, his dignity holding him back from jumping on her. After a couple of steps, He heard .. music .. coming from Lyra the sound was the same as the sound that carried him through the forest. The song that x heard every time he saw Lyra's face.. but this time it was ruptured.. disturbed.. corrupted the notes felt so wrong.. felt so.. fake. X backed up slowly but at a constant pace. "Where are you going, aren't i what you came for? Don't leave me here!" Lyra started towards him "Your not Lyra, The real Lyra doesn't reek of lies and death" The Lyra fell back onto her back legs and began to cry. X turned from Lyra and walked away into the darkness, x turned around,, or at least what he thought was around, Lyra was gone. X continued to walk through the blackness smooth stringed music rang through his ears. He could see the darkness lighten his walk turned into a trot and then into a gallop, X felt used to his body now and was no longer tripping. X galloped. disregarding his aching Legs. As he got closer the darkness turned into a light grey and then into white and suddenly X found himself laying on open grass in a clearing. Forestry behind him meant he was out of the graveyard. further into the horizon,Canterlot castle, smoke floating out of one of the spires, could he really have came this far in such little time? Further ahead of him was the place he was looking for, The entrance to the canterlot mining caves. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cave let out a low intimidating groan. X shivered as a cold gust of wind tickled his under coat. The melody X was following was starting to dimmer. "Come on Lyra, hold out.. just a little bit more" It seem almost as if Lyra heard him as the music resumed its previous volume. For every step the cave was becoming darker and for every step X was starting to lose hope. Just as all hope has seem to evaporated, X spotted three mares in dresses; One with a mane that mixes with blue and baby blue to make a toothpaste resemblance, her eyes shaded with a gloomy green aura. Beside the toothpaste pony, another mare with a pink mane and white coat sat on the cave floor, also with a green eye glow, in the middle of the two ponies, a bouquet of flowers, crumpled and thirsty propped on its side. Further past the other two was a green unicorn with mint hair and a lyre above her head, It was Lyra. X galloped to her soft music until he was not more than a couple feet away. "Lyra!.. Lyra thank god i found you, are you alright?" Lyra looked up, green, glass like aura cover her eyes. Lyra opened her mouth to speak: "Lonnnng live queen Chrysalissss!" X could not believe what he was hearing, Lyra is a unicorn of Canterlot, she is much closer to the crown than most ponies of other cities, why would she be honoring chrysalis. "Long live chrysalis" the other ponies repeated. X couldn't believe it but it made sense. The voice, the words, the missing bridesmaids. They are hypnotized. "Don't worry Lyra i will save yo-" a large rock collapsed the throat of the cave leaving X in a small pocket with the three ponies. X trotted up to the rubble to investigate. "Lyra could probably lift this if she wasn't hypnotized" "Long live Chrysa-" "Yea yea i know" X clapped his two hoofs together. He turned to see the ponies were now no more than 5 feet away, evil grins shed across their faces. "What the hell.. Lyra.. what are you doing.. Lyra!" X felt a large stinging in his head, he blacked out. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- X opened his eyes to see himself rapped up in "Dresses?" X looked around, two of the ponies were gone and only one remained, Lyra. Eyes greener than her mane. "Lyra.. If you can hear me.. You need to wake up.. I'm here... just fight it.." Lyra was silent, the lyre playing two notes frequently. "You don't know how to play that do you?" Lyra looked up at X "The real Lyra's music can make even the princess bow, Lyra's music can move clouds and soften manticores. That's the Lyra i have come to know and love, That's the Lyra i want back. Those words brought a tear to Lyra's eyes, green liquid rolled down her cheeks and onto the stone caves floor. Lyra's eyes started to change back to its original orange. Lyra put her hoof to her head "Ugh what happened? X?, Oh sweet Celestia! you came!" "Um yea, i came to rescue you." X's face was now redder than the setting sun. "You came to rescue me? Then why are you tied up... in dresses?" Lyra's horn lit up and the dresses untied them selves. "So.. did you hear anything that i just said?.. you know.. about the lyre?" "no, what did you say?" "You know what forget it" x gave a sigh in Relief. "So how did you find me?" Lyra said. "First, don't you want to hear about my revenge mission?" X said. He has so much to tell her he didn't even know where to start, "Well.shoot." Lyra said with a exited grin engraved on her face" "Well for one. the princess is dead..." X watched as Lyra faced dropped to fear and disappointment. X noticed this and corrected himself "no.. No.. i actually didn't kill her. But the weird thing is when she was dieing, she told me she knew what i was.." Lyra's face turned to one of shock "wha.. what? how?" " I don't know" X continued with a large spanning story of what happened in the wedding to his journey through the grave yard, They shared laughs and fears knowing that neither of them had to admit their love for each other, Lyra's horn began to glow as the rubble crumbled to nothing more than dust. The walk out of the cave was shorter when beside Lyra. X stumbled on his tail and Lyra laughed. "Don't worry i will remove the spell and you'll be human again," X started to frown. "Actually , Lyra, i was wondering if there was a way you could pull off a Permanent version of this spell. X attempted to avoid Lyra's face and hide the blush of Embarrassment but X knew that Lyra was giving him the "I told you you'll like it look." X let out a large sigh. Lyra gave a little squeal and started talking about all the cool thing she want to show him in "Ponyville" X attempted to avoid most of it until the bright light of the moon blinded both of them. Luna's work is truly amazin- X's words were cut off by a kiss under moonlight. X was more prepared this time and decided to go with it, he loved Lyra and Lyra felt the same way for him. Lyra then took her lips away from X's.by now both of them were blushing like setting suns. Lyra, holding back the blush came out and said: "For the record, i did hear you back in the cave, and you'll always be.. my very special somepony... The End. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors Note: Well.. that's.. something.. I know i know that was a really terrible ending some would say but honestly i thought it was a really good place to land this fic. Do remember this is my first fimfic and to start of with a adventure Fanfic takes a lot of patience i know i know. Im just need to get ready for other project and this one is done i can assure you I hope you enjoyed it as much as i did making it once again yea thank you for the helpful pointers also i do apologize if i added any shipping that you don't like i didn't title it a romance because.. well ... its not a romance. Im telling you from now, this is the last time im doing a fimfic this long.. no more adventure.. perhaps i will make a short story.. like a Conversion Bureau story.. those are quite easy.. maybe I'll work on that right now.... Im Proud to say my first fimfic is complete Till next time Cinnamon r sparks signing out