//------------------------------// // Learning to see colours. (Major re-write) // Story: One Goal. // by Jaiden //------------------------------// Faith opened her eyes after around thirty seconds, she was laying face up on some kind of concrete building. She looked around, it looked exactly like the city she had been in. Everything was white. But there was something wrong about the city she was in. It was.. Different. After standing up and looking around, she recoiled from the edge as she saw tonnes of animals below her. This wasn't right. She looked around for a little bit and after around five minutes of looking at animals below her on the streets and not another human to be found, she turned and saw some kind of flying horse. Faith's eyes widened. She backed up against a air vent. "So. Uh. What are you exactly?" Apparently this thing could talk. And it didn't sound happy. Faith coughed a few times, un-able to speak in this state of shock. "Hello? Can you speak?" it landed and approached Faith, who didn't move. The horse started to look her over in a curious manner, then it prodded Faith and she didn't like being prodded. Still being un-able to speak to this thing, she pushed it back with her foot, then turned her head and saw several other of those things in some sort of golden armour fly over. The armoured ones landed and flared their wings, "Halt, state your business here." No time to talk, she had to get away. Faith started towards the horses, who looked like guards in that armour, sliding under their wings. They didn't expect this and collided their wings as they turned, tangling their feathers, allowing Faith some lead on them. She vaulted a air vent and ran off of the edge of the building. Landing on another one 8 metes below and rolling. She had to escape the guards who where now on her tail, catching up quickly. In front of her was a very big building. It had statues near it that resembled books, a library. Faith continued to jump from building to building, dodging dives from the two guards, vaulting fences and sliding under pipes. She eventually jumped onto the library's flat roof. There was a hatch about 15 meters to her front, however the guards landed ahead of her. She didn't slow down, but instead jumping over a kick the guard launched and doing a karate kick to his head, knocking him out cold, then launched a punch towards the guard's throat, stunning him. The stunned guard stood there, eventually shaking his head but Faith was already gone. Faith jumped though the hatch, landing in a storage room, she closed the hatch above her. She saw a open door and closed it, allowing her some breathing time, she started to think things over. What the hell where those things, and what the hell did that remote do, I need to get back to it and get myself home. Faith sighed a little, she didn't know what just happened. All she knew is that those armoured ones are hostile. I need to get a drink... Faith looked around the storage room, all it had was archived books in it, no sinks or taps. She headed towards the door, very slowly opening it and taking a peek outside. She saw two more horses, one of them had a horn sticking out of its head and the other had wings. "So, Twilight. I saw this thing as I was flying over to grab a bite to eat and it was just.. Weird." The winged one was talking about her! "We will discuss this later Rainbow, just help me find this book. Ah! Here we go, in here." They where heading towards Faith! Dammit, no rest for me then.. Faith hid behind a box. The two creatures entered the room. "Ok Rainbow, we are looking for a book on Foreign creatures. I think its called 'Far off and Foreign.' Look over there." The horned one pointed towards where Faith was hiding. Faith looked towards the hatch, it was a good five meters away. She couldn't get there without being heard or seen. So she waited, and as the winged one approached she started to feel un-easy. She looked to her right, there was a book. So she picked it up and looked behind her, just peeking over the edge of the box. She saw that they where both looking at something, so she tossed the book towards the doorway, and waited. The pair approached the book and Faith saw her chance. Faith took off the hatch silently and climbed through, replacing it and looking at the sky. No guards. She saw where she had woken up and started to make her way towards the building, she had to get that remote. However, before she got three steps away, hatch flew off with a white glow and Rainbow flew through. Damn, and that almost worked. Faith bolted it at full speed towards the building, it had a scaffold on the side of it that allowed her to ascend. She jumped a two meter gap and clung onto a pole, climbing up a bit, then jumping to her left towards the scaffolding. Dodging an attack by the winged one who face-planted the pipe. Seeing stars, Rainbow looked towards Faith who was already way above her, Faith was fast. She snapped out of her state and flew up, seeing Faith who was already on another building, she zoomed off towards her. Catching up easily with her wings, she made a dive. However, as she dived, Faith slid under a pipe, which Rainbow head-butted. That one hurt, Rainbow held her head, loosing sight of Faith. Faith had made it to where she woke up. And started looking - For anything that might take her back home. Then she remembered; The remote! That could have came through before I did! She looked around, she looked and looked - Nothing. After about five minutes looking, she turned around and came face to face with a - Well she didn't know what it was. Faith took a few steps back, she backed up into a air-vent. It spoke; "Why are you avoiding my student and her friends? And why did you assault two of my guards?" It had a serious tone to her. Faith was too stunned to answer. "You can either answer to me or be put in a dungeon for a week." Faith was afraid for her life, she looked to her right, a platform had turned red. She kicked off and sprung towards the platform, landed, then face-planted a invisible wall (ffs game designers, make it interesting.) She couldn't move. Something had got a hold of her and was pulling her back towards the massive angry thing. Faith noticed that because she couldn't move, her chest couldn't rise to accommodate oxygen filling her lungs, so she began to loose conciousness. At first she lost all colour in her sight, then she began to feel weak, then she couldn't think and had tunnel vision. Then she hit the floor as whatever had hold of her let go, Faith couldn't move, she had already lost too much oxygen and lost conciousness. Faith woke up in some sort of cell, it was enclosed, very enclosed. About five meters wide and long, and about seven tall. It was made out of cobblestone, had a small barred window, the jail door, a bed, a sink, a toilet and had various plants growing on the walls, Faith looked out of the window. She was quite high up, and was overlooking several hundred acres of land. Faith turned as she heard what sounded like footsteps. The same angry creature from before was in front of her cell. Faith backed up against the wall. It spoke once again; "Lets try this again, with introductions. I am Princess Celestia. And you?" Faith had calmed down because she had just woke up and replied this time. "Faith." She sat down on the bed. "Good. Now, I am going to let you out, If you attempt to run away you will end up in here again, also, sorry for knocking you out, I shall accommodate your chest next time I have to grab you with magic." "With what?" Faith didn't believe what she was hearing. "Magic, our horns allow us to preform telekinetic tasks and cast spells." Faith shook her head "Where I come from magic doesn't exist." The cell doors opened. "Come, we have much to talk about." Faith got up and exited the cell.