//------------------------------// // Page 2 // Story: Celestial Bodies // by Shadowbane //------------------------------// With ease, your mind figured out a way to get past the guards - you simply balled up your fists and sprinted along the path at the stationary stallions, shouting a battlecry as you came nearer to them. Seeing and hearing you, both the pegasus and the unicorn guard turned your way with both sets of blue eyes staring at you, the blue mohawk on top of their golden helms waving in the wind. Sensing your hostility, the pegasus nods at the unicorn, who charges at you with his head lowered. Before you get much further, you feel the shlick of the horn sliding inside of your gut, then pulling back out with a wet pop, making you stumble backwards, holding the scarlet hole with one hand. Falling to your knees, the unicorn with a now-bloody horn watching you, you're pretty sure it's all over. I'm such an idiot, you thought, as you fell onto your stomach, I can't believe I just charged in like that...! And so, with a pool of your blood on the ground below you and a circle of ponies gathering around your now-pale body, you had to let go of something you had desired for so long - to be part of the world of Equestria. You have ruined your dream all for the sake of love and lust. You have died. Would you like to retry? Yes.