//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Questions // Story: A voice in the dark // by EmberLight //------------------------------// I ran quickly through the forest, dodging the numerous bushes and boulders that kept popping up. As I ran I noticed the shadows from the trees were outlined in a strange silver glow, making me confused The further I ran the closer I felt it was, I had no Idea what I was running to, or from. All I did know was that I was running. As I was thinking and I stumbled into a rock and fell out into a huge clearing, filled with beautiful flowers, turquoise coloured grass and a large shimmering pond. I got to my hooves and walked slowly to the edge of the pond, reflecting the image of the beautiful silvery moon, high in the sky. There were no clouds in the sky, and the stars shone as bright as they ever had. I only now had reached the huge pond, and as I looked into the reflection... I saw the pink pegasus I dragged in yesterday, standing where I should have been. I stood there staring at the reflection for ages afterwards, all the while having a confused expression on my face, and she stared back at me with the exact same expression on hers, I could tell she was more confused than me, because for the entire time I stood there she wouldn't have known who I was. Just as I opened my mouth to speak to her, the pond rippled and the earth shook, When I looked back at the pond it only reflected me. I was disappointed, I had wanted to say something, but I couldn't remember what It was... I was just turning away and was about to leave before a timberwolf leaped out the forest trees and struck me with it's claws. I jerked myself awake and hit my head off the side of my bed, I was slightly confused as to why I was on the floor, completely forgetting what had happened in that peculiar dream. Of course I quickly remembered exactly why I was on the floor after seeing the bright pink wing above me and hearing a huge yawn. I stood up on my hooves, moving over closer to the door so I didn't bump into her wing. She rolled over, her long blue mane falling over the side of my bed, her body following closely behind, landing in the space I had just stood up from. Her head slowly lifted itself up, seemingly not bothered that she fell off a bed onto the ground. “Um... Hi?" As soon as I spoke she stood up opened her eyes and knocked me off my hooves, I think I might have squeaked when she hit my twisted hoof. "NO, you will not capture me AGIAN!!" she yelled, her muzzle so close to my face, I could feel her breath. My fur shimmered and turned a dark grey. Her hair seemed to lose gravity for a second, maybe it was just my imagination, "You, really think you'll manage to take me back there?" she spoke, thankfully lowering her voice to a speaking level. "You honestly think you'll be able to drag me back to the hive, NO I will NOT go back there EVER AGAIN I'm not your stupid PRINCESS." oh well, never mind she's shouting again. Her voice seemed slightly shaky and she didn't even look like she had been talking to me. You could have said that she might even have been looking through me. Her eyes seemed to be glowing green with an odd mist hanging around her eyes. Her head just hung there for a while staring through me, and breathing heavily. After a few seconds of this the green mist vanished from her eyes and she collapsed onto the ground. I just sort of stared at her for while, then decided to put her back in my bed till she woke up. what happened just now? I thought. I walked away down the corridor, trying to heading for the library, intending to find out something about that greenish mist that had been hanging around her eyes. The library was at the other end of the everfree caves from where I was walking, and at the very heart of the cave system was a boarded up room, I had never dared to try and go past it, mainly because I wasn't bothered about it, but also because sometimes I had heard... odd noises coming from behind the boards. I carried on thinking about what might be behind that door, and due to my daydreaming I had accidentally walked right on past the library, out the western entrance to the cave system, and into the ravine that I had fallen down yesterday. I tripped over some stupid rock and got back up on my hooves, I was about to go back into the cave system but before I left I noticed a shiny object lying on the ground next to the place I had found the filly yesterday. At the necklace's center it had a crystal in the same shape as her cutie mark, a shiny blue tear-drop, while the rest of the necklace was a shiny silver colour. I figured she must have dropped it when she got to the ravine, so I picked it up and just because I had forgotten to bring my saddlebags with me, decided to wear it around my neck till I found a place to keep it or I'd just give it to her if she was awake. I walked back into the cave system and tried to keep myself focused while I was walking to the library, so that I wouldn't accidentally pass by it again. When I got to the library I walked over to the left wing which had a banner above it reading "Myths and Magic". I always loved reading stories from the myth section, they were always so full of creative novels and interesting books. I didn't really read much in the other side of the wing, after all, I was an earth pony. I didn't have a horn, so I didn't really find anything in that section interesting. Today, with the strange green eyes I was a little curious whether there could be anything in either side which could give me a hint to what was happening with the strange pegasus... "Uuuuurgh" I groaned to myself as I put another book back where it belonged. In the two hours I had been skipping through these books the most I could find on the subject of "green mist" was a book from the myths side telling the tale of a fearsome unicorn who would use green mist to place ponies under hypnosis. I picked up the next book that I thought might have some information, but after a quick scan through of the chapters I gave up. I placed the book back where it was meant to be, and walked back to my bedroom, I wanted to make sure that nothing had happened while I was away.