Sweetie was exhausted. When she wasn’t trying to stay awake long enough to eat something, she was being woken up by an alarm spell she had put in place. Sweetie didn’t understand any of the science behind it, that was Twilight’s thing. What Sweetie did know was that if she put a thin circle of magic around her, she’d notice something passing through it.
“If I was better at magic, I’d know how to automate my horn blocking Twilight’s spell.” Sweetie’s eyes drooped as she sat in her tent, and shook her head rapidly. Gobbling down her cereal, she vaguely wondered if she should try cooking again. Eyelids drooping again, her thoughts scattered like the breeze.
“Wargh!” Sweetie jolted awake, pulling up her shield just before Twilight’s spell slammed into her own. Rubbing her weary eyes, she unzipped the tent, and walked over to her puddle of water, casting the spell to quickly check on Rarity. As she suspected, they were working hard to find a means of tracking her down.
Sweetie ended the spell, and dragged herself back to bed. Closing her eyes, she slowly drifted back into darkness. What seemed like minutes to Sweetie turned out to be an hour, and she quickly defended herself against Twilight again. Exhausted, she fell instantly back to sleep. Another hour passed, and once more she was woken.
By the time Friday rolled around, Sweetie could barely muster the energy to eat, let alone stop Twilight from finding her. Her horn reacted automatically whenever the spell happened, reactions built from a week of blocking it. Sweetie forced her horn to life, and spoon fed herself, unable to even open her eyes.
Sweetie was only vaguely aware of the sun setting, and forced herself to turn her eyes to her alarm clock. Watching time tick over to midnight, and then to 12:01, she laughed, and collapsed. Regardless of anything, Sweetie only understood she could now sleep. And her mind rejoiced in that fact.
Right before it lost all cohesion, and dreams consumed her.
“Sweetie Belle, wake up, it’s time for school!” Sweetie groaned, opening her eyes and rubbing her eyes. She was still exhausted, dizzy, and feeling slightly queasy too. Slowly sitting up, she blinked as she watched Opal, who had been sitting on her bed, hiss. Leaping off her bed, Opal slinked out of the room.
“Okay, I am way too tired for any actions right now, so all I have to do is walk down and tell Rarity I’m sick.” Sweetie gulped, and slowly dragged herself to the edge of the bed. Falling down with a thump, she dragged herself to the stairs, and called out to Rarity. Sweetie was fighting to keep her eyes open.
“Can...stay...home...sick...please…” Sweetie slumped, eyes closing, and Rarity gasped, levitating her sister back into the bed. Rubbing Sweetie’s forehead, she frowned, and went downstairs to get a wet rag to put on Sweetie’s head. The filly was heating up, maybe she had come down with something?
“Don’t worry my sister, I will nurse you through this trying time.”
Sweetie woke up, and felt refreshed and revitalised. Honestly, she felt like jumping up and running a marathon. Debating the wiseness of that, she opted to just sit up. Sweetie looked toward her saddlebags in one corner, and to her sister sleeping in a chair, and smiled softly. Rarity must have looked after her while she recovered.
‘So camping out for an entire Loop is possible, but not feasible with my current level of speciality. I lack the proper spells. Maybe I was too close as well. I’ll try deeper into the Everfree next time.’ Sweetie nodded to herself, standing up and biting her lip. Carefully, she levitated her heavy sister onto her bed, and pulled the covers over. Leaving a quick note, Sweetie put her saddlebags back on.
’Come to think of it, how did I get here?’ Sweetie frowned, looking toward her bed. Not to mention, her saddlebags had had the enchantment that made them bigger on the inside had been replaced, as it had to each Loop. Sweetie tilted her head, and shook it. Regardless of the who, she had no doubts that she would never know.
“Oh Blueblood, eat those blueberries. Slower…” Rarity drooled in her sleep, and Sweetie shuddered. Walking out of the room, she went downstairs. Using her spell, she quickly detected it was Wednesday.
“Two days of full sleep, wow I must have been tired.” Sweetie looked to the descending sun, and shook her head.
“Regardless, it does present the problem of-Oh no! Ditzy!” Sweetie quickly wrote a note and left it on the counter, and dashed out the door. If she was lucky, they weren’t too hurt.
Oh she hoped they were ok.
So Sweetie stays tired between loops. Well, she had better not suffer brain damage. That would be worse than simple SAN loss...
I think it's funny that I read this while sleep deprived.
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I like the whole campout scenario. I would like to see more of this, perhaps later, when she has the experience.
The story feels like it is progressing a bit slowly. However, I am still planning on sticking with it. It is well told.
Is there an end in sight? I love this story but I'm starting to get fatigue ...
what's the blueberries......if its bad please don't tell me
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I think wares said there were 100 loops. Or was that 100 chapters. Either way, I think there is still a bit to go.
Mirror pond!!!!! Make it happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
she could visit the moon with luna or celestia help it a habitable place with sentient creatures with secrets I bet she get the idea to try it by listening to twilight adventures.
Everyone here is either giving suggestions or complaining about 'no end in sight', and I'm just sitting here wondering how the fuck she expects to get away for a loop if she always resets into her bed.
Processing...
*le gasp* FimFic Authors are in Your Bed! that's the solution! She just needs to utterly obliterate her bed!
5619538 Couldn't she just blow her brains out?
5620439 Since her mental state seems to carry over, I'm worried that brain damage would too
This has just become one more side plot after another.
I'm okay with this... for now.
But if these chapters ever stop being entertaining, hear my words, I will stop reading this!
And if I ever start to read this again after is finished , I will just skip to the final loops becouse the trend this last few chapters show is of no progress regarding either character development or insight on finding the solution out of this loops.
Sweetie Belle does have in fact some leads at the moment but she is for some reason not following any of them!
Look I realized I'm being harsh with the author; but I just want to make sure that doesn't happen. It would be far too easy to let this fic become dull, it already has to an extent and I feel that it could do better in the future.
Regards,
~Leonzilla
5620453 Well, considering she has died before, no, the brain's just another organ. If she were to lose a part of the brain, I think either the loop would consider her dead or her mentality lost from losing the brain would be restored like magic to the horn in the reset.
If it's Wednesday, she can't have slept for two days without worrying Rarity. The loop didn't bring her back to Monday. The time period is decreasing.
Sinking the ever-pained enshrouding
darkness, and pondering the cause.
Soon the ever-night shall reach,
and soon might you linger,
soon might you rest a wanton rest
without bliss.
Awaiting further releases.
I like the "experiments" every-so-often. I loved the song that you put in there; it really drove home just how this is waring down Sweetie Belle.
Maybe sweetie starts the loop in her room if she resets the loop in a place that isn't Equestria territory.
I am noticing something that no one does... Not even Sweetie questions it too much. She said to Twilight at the beginning of the Loop, that a tent counts as 'inside'. Meaning when the loop ended in her room, inside the tent, the items in the tent looped with her, but those in her room outside of the tent didn't. It's basically a portable Room for her to loop in. She COULD travel then, and see the world while looping from the Mobile room.
However, here comes the 'glitch'. At the end of this loop she was in her Tent, she even celebrates when it hits 12:01 meaning the loop has already reset, so she finally passes out and sleeps. However, she wakes up, not out in the Tent, but to her sister telling her to wake up... aka the beginning of the Loop back in her home, in her bed. She didn't die, because then she wouldn't be tired and wouldn't have slept for 2 days. Also she mentions her Saddleback, if she had died she would have lost that too and everything she had gathered.
So what happened? It wasn't a reset as she was awake for that. Something happened after the reset, and after she fell asleep, that wasn't her dieing. Think on that everyone. There might be another rule too the loop we don't know about.
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My theory:
Rarity woke up Monday.
Found that sweetie was missing.
Asked her friends to help (including twilight)
Twilight used the locating spell, found sweetie quick due to sweetie still sleeping.
They brought sweetie home.
Sweetie woke up Tuesday, thinking its Monday.
Sweetie walked down to greet her sister, but STILL tired as hell.
Sweetie woke up again Wednesday.
Problem solved.
Were people really that discontent with the song you put in the last chapter? I think it was an excellent idea and tied into the story well.
I didn't hate that you made a song.
Sorry you're getting trouble for it.
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One hundred loops. We're not even at the fiftieth loop yet.
5621270 that or she died from exastion and faod posinin
That AN's funny:
The author's note looks cool in Celestia format.
6230406 jesus, you cant spell food?
7880314 nope! Still can't. Actually, looking back on my old comments I cring at how badly written they were.
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agreed