Dream Time
Language check. Anything wrapped in [ ] in this chapter is spoken ?????, everything else is in Equish.
Misty had been walking through Stonecrop with Marble beside her. They had both known about the blasting (as did every student, indeed everyone in each town on both sides of the portal) and were waiting for it to be done and over so they could cross over to Earth.
Marble Pie stopped. She looked down at the ground as a rumble started to come from the direction of the mine, and tilted her head to one side. "It's unhappy."
The world sneezed. It was the only way Misty could describe what she felt. The world sneezed, and blew Stonecrop out with a rush of pressure. Her eyes widened for just a moment, then she closed them. Spreading her wings, Misty felt as the last of her feathers fled her increasingly bat-like wings. A pressure, pulsing, grew in each of her flanks, and Misty Rainfall knew with amazingly clarity, that she was getting her cutie mark.
"[HELLO]."
The word sounded, to Misty, both completely strange and very familiar at the same time. She opened her eyes, and while she was still in Stonecrop, she could see strange bands of energy in the air. Magic she had seen, but this was something different. "[Hello]?" She was startled at speaking back in the same language, but got the impression of hissing laughter. "[Who are you]?"
A sensation of light, water, and both mixed rushed through Misty's head. She couldn't follow it as a whole, but with focus she could pull back from the rush enough to see that the light/water was both huge, and long. "[A snake? You won't hurt me]."
"[YOU ARE SURE OF THAT]?"
The voice was heavy with import, not that Misty could really work out all of it, and she doubted anypony could. "[I think I am. If you wanted to hurt me, you would have. Do you need help]?" A sense of more hissing laughter came from every direction. Misty turned in place and saw the huge light/water coils all around her.
"[YOU WERE NOT OF THE PEOPLE. THOSE I CARED FOR AND MADE FOR]."
"[I don't think I am. I am from Equestria]." Completely unafraid of the voice, Misty flapped her large, leathery wings and took to the sky. Circling above Stonecrop, she could see exactly what had happened to the town. It was now two towns smooshed together in concentric rings. The first ring seemed to be a melding of both towns, but the next ring was Cowwarr, then Stonecrop, and so on until it reached her new friend.
Focusing on the coils, Misty flew in a circle. She had to flap a lot more than with feathery wings, but at the same time she felt she had more control of where she wanted the air to go. Circling, she followed the snake around and around for what felt like days. Her wings never tired, and she never needed sleep. "[Where's your head]?"
"[I DON'T NEED IT RIGHT NOW. YOU FLY WELL]."
The compliment had Misty blushing, and showing off. Looping and twirling, she pushed her changed body to the extreme. Just as she thought she might be in trouble, she froze in the air and could suddenly stand on nothingness. "[This isn't real]." Her revelation that she wasn't in the real world startled her. There was no insight involved, it wasn't a guess. Misty just knew it.
"[IT ISN'T THE ACTUAL WORLD, BUT IT IS VERY REAL. IF YOU DO SOMETHING HERE, IT HAPPENS THERE. THE OTHER IS ALSO TRUE]."
Misty blinked at the information, and then looked at where she wanted to be: the mine. She didn't have to flap her wings, or use some kind of spell (like a unicorn). One moment Misty was floating in the sky, the next she was standing beside the exit of the mine.
In whatever place she was in, Misty could feel a huge pressure come again and again. It was like there was a sea on the other side of the mine—even if the hole she was looking at looked like each end—and it was sloshing something out.
"[Magic]." Misty didn't turn her head, trusting that the great snake would be free to talk. "[The blast did something to the portal, and now Equestrian magic is sloshing into Earth a lot faster]."
"[YOU SHOULD TELL THE OTHERS. SOME OF THEM NEED TO KNOW. REMEMBER, DREAM THUNDER, YOU ARE ALWAYS SAFE IN MY COILS]."
"Dream Thunder?" Dream shook her head and looked up to see Marble looking down at her. "Marble! You aren't going to believe this! There was a giant snake, and it is doing something with the magic, and there is magic everywhere." All the information was pouring out at once. "And my name is now Dream Thunder!"
"You were asleep for a while. I tried to wake you up, but you looked so comfortable." Using an incredible amount of strength, Marble reached down and pulled Dream to her hooves. "I like your wings." Marble smiled and reached to Dream's side.
"My wings!" Dream dashed forward a few steps to be away from Marble, and then shoved downwards with her hooves. It was instinctual. She knew she couldn't take off from a standing start, but with a run and a jump she was in the air for her first downwards beat. "I have to tell mum!"
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That was not expected.
Is any of this chapter based on specific indigenous or Dreamtime lore, or is it only in the broadest strokes?
8481700 Broad strokes. There really wasn't magic on Earth until recently, and (seeking a pattern) the magic found the oldest, constantly revered figure in human existence.
I highly suspect a certain fox was involved with that friendship lesson...
so there is quite a pressure towards universal conflict resolution. We wonder if it will stabilize or if intervention will be needed...
To Joyce: were you prepared for this?
8482783 The central part of this, the reason for writing the story, is to establish a backstory for Lyra. The sex ratio (gender is another issue, and one I take seriously) is skewed to Equestrian norms, and this will continue to happen for all those TFed. The aim is that this story finishes, and a sequel picks up with Mike (as Lyra) going to Equestria. At this point in time we are about 7 years prior to S1E1 of the show, so the characters have a lot of growing to do (yes Pinkie, that includes you).
Rainbow Serpent!
8482982 Indeed. Magic flows more freely, and it seeks shapes to take it. The best shapes are living creatures, because there are so many of them, but belief can be a powerful thing. Magic loves power.
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And there are few things with a longer period of belief than Quetzlcoatl/Dambala/Rainbow-Serpent. Also you know, Australia.
8483012 Estimated to be around 65,000 years so far, and still going!
When I read the first chapter, I thought that it would be a cheap one off that would never go anywhere.
Sometimes its good to be wrong.
8483142 Oh, I write those too, but this one has a while to go before we are done with Mike, his family, and his friends.
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oh that makes me happy to read.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, a F>M gender ratio actually makes sense for a binary, sexually reproductive species. One male may produce a full batch (be it single birth, or litters) of offspring with numerous females in a single breeding cycle, but a single female will only produce a single batch per cycle regardless of how many males she mates with. This is why it is much easier to get buck deer hunting permits than does. A population can more easily absorb the loss of breeding males than breeding females.
And now to double-post because I don't want to tie my question to up/down votes to my comment on gender ratios...
Maud,
What are your thoughts on columnar basalt versus columnar phonolite? Do you have a preference?
well this blast defiantly tore something open between the two worlds wide open.
Happy ro have finally taken the time to read this, can't wait for more!
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for sequels im kinda less interested in lyra and more in addition of thestrals to equestria (i mean a new pony race that dosnt even themselves kown the detail about their race who bring with them a newly formed guardian god they also dont know the details of? That sounds interessting^^) especially once luna tries to make them her subjects which might cause a certain dream serpent to take offense.
why the name change i liked misty's name
9000572 There has been one or two examples in the show of ponies changing their name when their foalhood name didn't match their special talent. I imagine it comes down to how discordant their name is with their talent, and how attached to said name they are. In Misty Rainfall's case, she has a huge destiny ahead of her, and it needed a strong name to back it up.