//------------------------------// // The Sun misses the Moon // Story: The Adventures of Charm Feather, In Just Me, and possibly her Chronicles. // by R-A-B-G //------------------------------// Chapter ten Tink There was a sound of cracking stone, must be from the amulet around her neck. It made a snapping noise seeming to cut off all other sound in reality even the electricity that currently course threw her body. Even unconscious the pain seeped into her unconscious mind keeping her aware of the existence of her situation. Creek Tik Crack! A memory of her first week surfaced to the front of her mind. oOo flashback oOo “I am not sure what this amulet does, but when my friend given it to me she said it shall protect me. I do not fully understand it all, but it is a beautiful piece of spell work and so far I was only able to identify one enchantment in it.” I look down at my amulet the blue stone reminding me of home. Rarity looked back from her brewing potion she had been working on for the past few minutes; she had taken to alchemy pretty well after showing her how to do some basic potions she took to them quickly. Of course we were using ingredients from Skyrim, so we both would have to basically relearn everything when we tried to do the same stuff with Equestrian ingredients, but it keep her busy and at least she didn't complain much while doing that. It was sometime around her fourth day here, after the incident with the plant monster, she had took an interest in the alchemy and the enchantment tables, so I had showed her how they work and what was needed to make them work. Rarity walked over to me as I gazed at the amulet with a small smile as it was a one of the many kind gifts she had given to me. “So what enchantment is in it?” she asked softly still rather wary of the beasts of the forests now that the threat of being here was made perfectly clear to her by now as nightly attacks from either timber wolves or a manticore that wandered into camp. “Some kind of magic resistance enchantment it’s pretty powerful but not perfect, but then again I never saw a perfect protection against magic.” I said looking down at my amulet with a smile. oOo end flashback oOo ‘So that’s why I am still alive,’ I thought as the pain had ended now, as I could now feel a tugging sensation as well as something moving under me. ‘Wha-what... is... happening... now?’ my mind slowly starts to fade as finally true unconsciousness start to dull the pain. It is still there but it is now numb and I could finally fall into blissful sleep to fall upon me fully. 'Wrong' a familiar voice said. With a sound of breaking glass the stone broke and turns into dust leaving nothing but its silver casing to which the stone was held in. ***************** Leona was resting in her home in solitude reading her journal of her past adventures with fondness. But then she felt it, it was faint like an echo from far away. Her best friend was in danger. She stood up rather quickly grabbing her armour and weapons, potions and gems, books and scrolls she prepares for the journey ahead. To save her friend from danger, she only hopes she is not too late. ************** Celestia walks through the ashen road; the town hall was completely destroyed, an unconscious one head hydra was being dragged away to the Royal zoo by some royal pegasi guards and a few unicorns. Windows have been blown to pieces, a apple cart and its contents were scattered and threw out in the whole area. A group of ponies defeating a monster from the Everfree was not something that weird, especially not in Ponyville, a pony doing it solo was rarer, but not unheard out, said pony being a pegasus that triggered a magical trap that was made in very minutes? This was the first time it had happened, ever. She had heard of the monster attack on Ponyville and reacted right away by teleporting to the town, only to arrive when the lightning discharged and blown her out of the sky. After managing to get herself organize she flew to the origin of the blast, only to find the unconscious hydra, investigating the area she found several areas that marked the gathering points of the spell circle power source. But... it was acting weird. For starters it doesn’t acted like a normal thaumic field unicorn magic normally creates when they perform a spell. It did not resemble dragon, or pegasus magic, although it’s the first thing she could identify, the pegasus magic has a self sustaining thaumic field for their flight and cloud manipulation and leaves behind a background noise in the magic field in the air, and dragon magic is potent and violent which leaves noticeable ripples in the lay lines. But this magic is subtle, elegant, but potent and structured, it was for lack of a better word awe-inspiring, it closely resembles Alicorn magic the most, and it doesn’t resemble her or her sisters magic. It was on a class of its own, but even though it has all this, it feels newly discovered then honed, but it is strong regardless. This is frightening yet interesting for the Princess of the Sun, because in all her years there had been only a few ponies out there that could match her in regards to magic, so far only her current student has shown an adeptness to magic that could one day surpass her her own, but this pony is untrained and has the power to end up hurting those around them without knowing it. That or it had found an ancient magical artifact, those tended to appear once in a while, but to find one that used an unknown type of magic was very rare indeed. Worst of all there is that this pony could already summon a spell circle strong enough to stop a hydra in mere minutes, what could do it given enough time to prepare? This pegasus could become very dangerous, and without guidance there could be a repeat of Sombra, or... Luna. She would not let that happen, ever again. Granted in Sombra case that pony was evil and ambitious even before dark magic twisted him. She takes a sample of the spell casters signature so that she could track the pegasus later or whatever artifact it used, after doing so, she took her eyes off the spell circle so she could walk up to where she could follow the tracks left behind by the pony. After observing for a few moments she sees drag marks as well as blood leaving the area, following the drag marks she came to a heart Wrenching scene. A little yellow pony pegasus was at the hospital door trying to open them desperately banging on them all the while crying, next to the crying pegasus lays the broken form of a badly hurt pegasus. Celestia almost facehoofed, she had been so distracted by the strange magic and taking care of the hydra that she had forgot to make sure somepony took care of the injured yet still alive pegasus. The chestnut brown pegasus filly had large chunks of burned hide, her right wing was burned and feathers were melted together, as her left has messing feathers and was broken, her mane was nearly burned off. Bruising could be seen through the fur she could as possibly have broken ribs. One part of her wanted to gasp in horror at the injured pegasus, she was just a filly, not even a teenger yet! Yet another part of her, the part she was forced to grow and nurture upon ruling Equestria alone for almost a thousand years alone, saw a chance, an opportunity. Healing spells was not something Celestia excelled at, it was part of her nature, she was the Princess of the Sun and the Sun was her, and fire was not known for healing injuries. Her sister Luna might not have her raw power, but the Moon was more associated with magic and healing than the Sun was, so when she got banished a whole branch of magic had been lost as Luna had not time to teach any students before she became Nightmare Moon. Yet there was a spell she could do in this case, not a healing spell, but a spell to give another pony power, and let said pony heal itself. The reason she was even thinking in using said spell was because of the first rule of magic, Magic has a price. While she honestly did not want this little pony to die, getting it indebted to her was her main reason. Plus, with the weak healing magic of the current age, healing the pegasus would take too long, and time was what the little pegasus did not have much of in her current situation. A small part of her, a part hidden under the Mask of the ruler, wept for the young soul; death to her is never an easy thing to accept especially one so young. But why was she thinking that? The pegasus would not die today, all she had to do was lend her power and… “Charming!” there was a shout as a young unicorn filly ran up to the broken form of the dying pegasus. Celestia was about to interrupt the unicorn filly who was wasting precious time when something stopped her. There was something in the unicorn aura, something familiar. While reluctant to do so, she decided to trust her instincts, the same instincts that lend her to finally find a wielder for the element of magic. “Oh no, no, no! Please don’t die on me!” her horn flares into being. Up first her magic aura was as blue as sapphire as it envelop around Charms body, then it turned into a blazing gold and in her desperation she had put all of her mana into the spell causing her eyes to blaze in gold as well. 'No, she is gonna kill herself, she is using too much magic in the spell!' The Princess of the Sun lights up her horn, sharing her power with the unicorn filly, and also saving the foolish filly life. Celestia watched as the air around the pegasus, Charm, had changed dramatically, wisps of golden light mixed with orange and small motes of flame, probably from Celestia own magic, seeming to form out of nowhere around the unicorn. Then the chestnut brown pegasus turned white, as wounds start to heal, bones out of place snapped back into place, wounds that would had left scars mended fully, even her wings had fully healed, although she would have to re-grow her feathers, small patches of fur where the charred flesh had fallen off leaving behind pink healthy skin also needing to grow back again. What Celestia had just witness was close to a miracle, as modern healing spells just weren't good enough to do such amount of healing in such a short time. The the math and mana requirements needed using modern magic was too extreme even for a dozen unicorn Archmages, much less or a little filly, even with the power she just lend her. 'Luna... could have somepony rediscovered the healing magic you keep so close to your heart, to the point you refused to share them with me?' The yellow pegasus from before watched with awe as this unicorn filly had fully healed Charm Feather, even if it needed Princess Celestia help to do it. The chestnut brown pegasus looked fully healed now but she is still unconscious but is now breathing smoothly unobstructed by her broken ribs. The white unicorn had then passed out next to Charm, this caused the two ponies to be startled, Celestia ran up to check the two little fillies for any injuries, much to her relief it would seem the unicorn had only over exerted herself and would need rest, while the pegasus filly is now fully healed and is in need of rest. Had she not lend the filly her power however, she would have a death unicorn filly in her hooves, such was the price of using magic beyond the limits the body could take. ‘I have got to get that little unicorn into my school, she would revolutionize the whole field of healing. And I also need to watch her so she doesn't try to kill herself by magic over use again.’ Celestia thought almost giddy with excitement, that is until she felt the unknown magic user signature near, she followed it down to the brown pegasus filly, and in shock she forgot her regal mask in front of the butter yellow pegasus who watched in worry as Celestia stared stupefied at the pegasus filly. 'Is not an artifact! she did the magic herself, with just some help from the magic circle and a few gems.' While she rarely used it herself, the princess was familiar enough with the use of Gems as magical batteries, to recognize the faint residual magic that left in somepony aura. This was so faint after the healing spell done to the pegasus, that nopony else save Celestia or her sister would have noticed it, and it would be actually gone in a few hours. End of Chapter… A Wayward hero feels the horror of possibly losing her closest friend, she readies to march off to the unknown. Princess Celestia saw the destructive force of lightning; she had followed a trail in hopes to find the culprit responsible. Only for the Unconquerable Sun to claim witness of two impossibilities. She had seen a small unicorn perform a healing spell only her lost sister was ever able to do. She then found a pegasus able to do unkown magic without the use of an ancient artifact. And poor Fluttershy with her emotions all fried from terror to dread, to despair and hope, to confusion and worry, she needs a break. "Hug pile on the shy pony!" Yelled Rarity and she, Celestia and Charm Feather hugged the yellow pegasus "Will you please stop breaking the fourth wall?" Asked Princess Celestia, once she finally was able to overcome the need to cheer up the shy pegasus. "Sorry, I kind of did it by accident because of how angry and worried I was with Charm, and now I dunno how to stop." "Ah well, since this part doesn't really count for the story, lets eat cake until we burst!" "Yay!" Said everypony else