//------------------------------// // 13 - Until we Meet Again, Destroia. // Story: Dream Realm Destroia: Equestria // by RowanSkie //------------------------------// It was a blur as the group began to prepare for a fight. Twilight and the others, however, decided to take a quick trip towards the beach where they first landed, and Twilight realized they had left something as six shining objects called their attention. “That’s weird,” Fluttershy commented. “Didn’t we make sure everything was taken?” “Yes, we did, Fluttershy.” Rarity picked up one of it and gave it to Twilight. “This isn’t ours.” Twilight inspected the object and grinned at the realization. “It’s a Class 2 Magical Artifact with a self-sustaining energy spell and a…” Twilight looked closer. “Yup, a Mega stone. Odd.” “What is it anyway?” Rainbow Dash wondered as she took the one with a rainbow fleck. “It feels tingly holding these marbles.” Something clicked. Everyone stared at Twilight whose eyes seemed to be locked on the one located nearest to her with a white tint. Before anypony could react, she took the stone. At once, everything seemed to change except for their memories as they found themselves back at the time when they first landed, on the same beach where Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, and Fluttershy woke up in. Fluttershy gasped. “How the… why are we…?” Fluttershy mumbled as she scanned the skies. “Wait… where’s the beacons… what’s going…” Rarity looked over themselves and saw that their things had reset. Checking her bag, she still had her things that she brought, along with a small black notebook and a wooden wand clipped with it. Taking it with a tinge of light from her horn, she inspected the wand and the black notebook. To her surprise, all of what she remember were written in the notebook. Looking over, Rarity saw the others taking suit except for Twilight who was staring at Mt. Verley. Approaching her fellow unicorn, she was about to open her mouth went Twilight beat her to it. “I never saw the mountain so beautiful, even before all of this,” she stated as she looked over to Rarity, “now that it looks like we returned here before everything happened. What now? I can’t face the same things again.” “Honestly, I think we should head to Firea,” Rarity answered, setting her eyes on the mountain. “But, you are right, it does look ravishing.” “Girls! Girls! I found something!” Pinkie called from the forest line where the trees met the sands. Everypony went to look at what Pinkie saw and Twilight was the one who looked a bit disturbed at it because it was the gems of the Elements of Harmony and they were on the chests of six wooden ponies. Rainbow Dash tried to take the Loyalty one but ended up touching a convex barrier. The violet mare realized that they were shielded against the wooden ponies and frowned before walking back on the beach where she saw a very peculiar sight. She saw herself, Rarity, and Fluttershy just waking up from another side of the beach. Remembering what she had saw when they started, she looked over the sea and quickly drew back towards the trees. The others wondered why Twilight did it until they were carried back to the beach. Twilight had a new idea. “Girls, we’re going to build a boat!” “And we just made a functional speedboat out of wood,” Twilight finished, her left eye twitching. “How in Starswirl’s big beard did we got materials for a speedboat?” “No idea, must be the magic seeping around,” Fluttershy innocently answered, reminding herself that it was an accident which caused them to get the engine for a speedboat. “The ‘imaginative power,’ I suppose.” “And the boat has guns. Guns! Who gave the idea to give it guns?!” Twilight complained. Rainbow Dash sheepishly rose her hoof. “I thought they were cool.” “Oh, please, not this argument again,” Rarity pleaded. Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie had found a wet photograph and hid it on her mane. Afterwards, the rest of the conversation was drowned by the sound that was like pegasi flying very fast in circles. Everypony looked up. “What’s that?” Rainbow wondered. Twilight walked closer to the curious pegasus. “That, is the reason why I didn’t let you fly up that one time in Firea,” she explained. “It’s called an airplane. I got in one of them, and they’re… flying.” “Uh… girls… look.” Applejack pointed. “The flyin’ thing is headin’ our way.” Twilight’s eyes widened. “Sweet fiddlesticks, get in the boat!” Everypony momentarily gazed on their fuzzy bookworm friend before following her towards the wooden speedboat. “Huh, how did my fountain pen get in here?” It went unanswered as the plane crashed toward the sea, sending the boat outwards out of the beach momentarily. Picking up the pen, Twilight moved the boat back to shore. All of them looked over and saw the remains of the plane and its survivors, which were swimming to the beach. “Let’s help them,” Twilight decided. “Sure.” “If ya say so, sugar.” “Mhm.” “Yeah!” “I agree.” Twilight, oddly, started the engine and drove the speedboat closer to the survivors and stopped once one of them gently bumped the speedboat. Setting it on idle, she went to check on the survivors and a few words entered on her mind. “Have any bits?” she asked. The survivor nodded. “You got a violet fountain pen?” she asked back. Twilight blinked. “Yeah. Want to get on board? What’s your name?” The survivor did not answer but instead got into the boat. She smiled. “I suppose Princess Solaria Celestia sounds familiar?” she wondered to herself, seemingly affecting Twilight. “It seems so. My name is Solaria.” “Wait, I have read in the ruins of Firea one time that Solaria was the former ruler until Autumn overtook the place,” Fluttershy pointed out. “And don’t ask how I got to read it, please.” The woman didn’t answer because she drove the speedboat back to shore with a raft full of survivors being tugged. Rarity and Rainbow Dash could only wonder how they got to tie the raft to the wooden speedboat but shrugged it off. “So… I see.” Solaria looked over to Mt. Verley. “You wish to head to the mountain, but your original quest was to visit and remove the three ‘evils,’ you say?” Twilight nodded, “yes. We were then said that Autumn Ravenshi—” “Shush,” Solaria interrupted. “I see. It seems like the fabric of space is slowly trying to throw out what should not be here. Hmm. I need an opinion on this, dear Valcaronimasus.” She looked around and blinked. “Oh, off to swimming again? I am feeling a bit refreshed after all.” The ponies jumped when a snow leopard jumped out of the beach and walked into them. “Yes, I did. I suggest returning them without the memories temporarily,” it spoke with a silver voice. Fluttershy nearly fainted at the sight while Twilight began to protest. It was ignored as Solaria pulled something out and Twilight saw it as the letter Princess Celestia had sent her before she had learned the truth. The woman waved it in the air before looking at the others. “You six deserve a break, after all.” Solaria tore the parchment apart, leaving Twilight slack-jawed. “Don’t worry. The Dremi’s request of defeating the Shire of Raven has already been done, isn’t that right Pinkamena Diane Pie?” Pinkie was too busy to say something because she was reading the original “Universes of the Dream Realm” book and nodded. Before Twilight could take a look, all of them felt like something froze their hooves. Pinkie reacted first by starting to laugh. “Pinkie!” Rarity scolded, the frozen feeling reaching up to their shoulders. “This is no laughing matter!” Solaria chuckled. “So, Agent Pinks, I suppose the conditions are in favour?” she asked. Pinkie looked over. “For the Queen of Altaris, the Solar Princess of Equestria, and my best friend Twilight Sparkle, the conditions are in favour. Byee!” She tried to move her hoof. “Oh, right, from the ground up. Huh. I swear I thought it was from the tail to the head…” Afterwards… they were all gone except for their equipment. Pinkie’s bag had an alethiometer however, and it had joined her as well. Solaria muttered something about cotton candy before facing the sky as four beacons slowly lit up. Val, Solaria’s dæmon, smiled. “We are going to see them again, right? When the end approaches for their Equestria?” he asked. Solaria nodded. “I just hope that they don’t get too excited on returning.” She looked over the speedboat. “But I still wonder how they made a speedboat out of wood.” “Magic?” Val suggested. Solaria groaned.