"Okay, this is getting too complicated, even for us," Applejack muttered as she continued to pace back and forth, while ranting, "First we got ourselves Medusa, a cursed gorgon we all thought was dead.. surprise, she's alive and she's real."
"As real as a donut!" Pinkie Pie chirped, to which everyone looked at the pink girl with unamused glances.
Getting back on topic, Applejack continued, "Then out of the blue, we're under attack by monsters that came out of Greek fairy tales, andâ"
"Mythologies," Twilight corrected.
"Excuse me?" the country girl asked.
"Well, the correct term is Greek mythologies, not fairy tales." Twilight lectured. "There's actually a big difference between mythologies and fairy tales."
Annoyed, if not incredulous at their bookworm friend, Rainbow Dash angrily berated, "IS THAT ALL YOU CARE ABOUT?" Twilight flinched, with Spike jumping into her arms, taken aback by the athletic girl's angry outburst, "Or did you just forgot that we had to fight our way through a monster-infested street to arrive at a dock where we fought a giant crab, only to find our friend missing without a trace!? AND ALL YOU CARED ABOUT WAS FIXING SOMEONE'S LITERARY ERROR?"
Holding her book up like a shield, Twilight quivered in fright as she looked back into the blazing eyes of Rainbow Dash, "Force of habit?" she squeaked in her defense. "I'm sorry?"
"Rainbow Dash!" Fluttershy scolded. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself! You know better than to intimidate Twilight like that!"
Taking a slow deep breath, Rainbow Dash managed to calm herself, "You're right. I'm sorry," Rainbow Dash apologized to Twilight. "I'm just really worried about Sunset right now."
"We all are," Applejack spoke on behalf of herself and their friends in the room. "What with those monsters out there on the loose."
"And the Box of Grogar, let's not forget about that," Pinkie Pie reminded, holding up Sunset Shimmer's journal, with informations and a sketch of the said box written from Twilight on the designated page. "Apparently, the box will continue to create monsters as long as it remains opened. So all we gotta do is find it and close it. Tight shut. Lock it up like Fort Knox."
"Great," Rainbow Dash grumbled. "If we can find it first! It could be anywhere, along with Sunset!"
"Which raises another big question," Twilight began. "Why would those monsters want to take Sunset?"
"Or why didn't they come for me?" Medusa hissed under her breath, which went unheard.
"We could definitely use Sunset right about now," Applejack frowned. "Just one touch of those monsters, and she can trace their origins back to the box. I mean, she did once say she can trace the origins of a snowflake, just by touching one."
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While the girls continued to exchange their thoughts and worries, Spike turned his head to see Medusa pulling her hood over her snakes and head, as she proceeded to leave the room. With a kick of his leg, the little dog sprinted to chase after the saddened gorgon, out onto the balcony to see her perching her arms on the railings, while gazing longingly off into the distance.
Sensing the little dog's presence, the snakes beneath Medusa's hood all let out a hiss, "SSSSSSpike," she hissed, greeting the dog without having to turn around.
"Maddie," Spike barked, returning the greeting as he sat down beside the gorgon.
With her eyes closed solemnly, her snakes hissing quietly to match the mood of their mistress, "For ssssso long I've dreaded of bringing sssssuch missssery and chaosssss upon everyone in thisssss day and age," Medusa sighed. "But I never once thought it could be like thisssss."
"No one's blaming you for anything, Maddie," Spike assured.
"I know," the cursed gorgon hissed solemnly, looking down at Sunset's geode which she wore around her neck in remembrance of the girl. "And yet, it feelssss as if I am to blame," she clutched the amulet tightly. "Thissss awful feeling of heartbreak...it....it'ssss nothing compared to the yearssss of taking ssssso many livesssss unwillingly."
The rest of the Rainbooms soon made themselves known as they gathered around Medusa and Spike. They had just heard Medusa expressing her self-guilt, "Maddie, please, ya can't keep talking yourself down like that," the girl frowned sadly. "It's not getting us anywhere."
"You're right," Medusa hissed. "And I'm ssssssorry, for not trussssting you all at the beginning," dipping her head, while pulling her hood even lower over her face, Medusa sighed. "If I had jussssst told you the truth, then maybe none of thisssss would happen. But now it'ssss too late," a small tear trickled down from Medusa's cheek, "SSSSSunsssset issss gone. And I never got to tell her."
Seeing the distress the cursed gorgon was in, noting how she was quivering in both fear and sorrow, Fluttershy gently walked up and puts a comforting hand to her shoulder, though she flinched a bit from the touch, "Shhhh, it's alright," Fluttershy cooed. "You don't have to talk about it, if you don't want to."
"Yeah, right now, Sunset is our main concern," Rainbow Dash said.
At the mention of Sunset, Maddie looked down at her hand clutching Sunset's geode, lifting the amulet up to look in her open palm.
'Friends until the end of time,' Medusa thought loudly, remembering Sunset's words. "SSSSunsssset," she hissed, turning to the Rainbooms and Spike. "Yessss. We musssst find her. SSSShe would've done the sssssame for me. For all of usssss." she nodded.
Rainbow Dash smiled, admiring the gorgon's loyalty, "Attagirl, Maddie!" she said, giving the cursed gorgon a thumbs up.
"Now we're talking!" Applejack joined in.
"Yeah! The story still lives!" Pinkie Pie chirped. "We can find Sunset! I just know we will! But first, we just need a clue."
"But before we begin ssssearching," Maddie began. "I should at leasssst tell you my sssstory." the Rainbooms and Spike all looked to the gorgon with surprise on their faces.
"Seriously?" Rainbow Dash frowned. "Now you want it to be story time?"
"RAINBOW DASH!!!" the Rainbooms and Spike berated the athletic girl, before they turned their attentions back towards Maddie.
"You were saying, darling?" Rarity insisted.
"I never told Sunset Shimmer my sssstory," Medusa explained. "Or any of you, becausssse I was afraid to relive the hurt. But sssshould anything happen to any of you, becausssse of me, then I ssshould at leasssst tell you all, while I ssssstill have you. All of you."
With that, the Rainbooms, and Spike, all got comfortable as they braced themselves for what Medusa had to say, "We're listening," Fluttershy insisted.
Taking a deep breath, Medusa hesitantly began, "I don't remember much of my childhood. But assss you all know, I wasn't alwaysss a monsssster. At leasssst, not like thissss. I remember I wassss jusssst like all of you...or at least, mosssst of you," she said, directly at Spike. "A normal human being, and like ssssome otherssss, I had a family. Sisssstersssss, that isssss."
"You mean, it's just you and your sisters?" Applejack asked for clarification. "No mom or dad?"
"I don't even know who they are," Medusa answered. "I don't even remember their faccessss. At that time, it wassss jusssst me and my sssssisssstersss, and that wassss all that mattered to me. Thosssse were happier dayssss, but they're all jusssst memoriessss now, and I've forgotten them. They were before....before..."
"Before what?" Fluttershy asked.
"Before...Athena."
"Before Athena cursed you?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"RAINBOW!" the friends berated.
"What? I was just asking."
Shaking her heads in disapproval of her friend's interruption, Applejack turned to Medusa and gestured, "Continue."
Resuming where she left off, Medusa continued her story, "I don't know why she picked me, of all humanssss. I...believe it or not, I wassssn't alwayssss so beautiful then. Even as a human, I was regarded as abnormal to everyone. My sssssisssterssss, however, were beautiful. They were welcomed by all, and they were courted by many admirerssss. And yet, I wasssss selected by Athena. I wasssss invited into her temple, to become her protégé. I remember how much my ssssissstersss had inssssisssted upon me to accept, ssssaying it was such a big honor to be accccc epted assss such by the godessss, hersssself. And ssssso I did."
"For sssseveral yearssss, I sssstudied under Athena'ssss tutelage, learning all the knowledge sssshe wishesss to impart me with. But sssstill, I wasss never happy. While I remained sssshunned in the sssshadowssss of Athena, my sssssissstersss continued to grow more and more beautiful each day, while I wassss forgotten by the world. It wassss assss if I no longer exxxisssted and the world ssssseemed more joyful that way. I wassss...I..I..." taking a few deep breaths to calm herself, together with a few gentle strokes from Fluttershy across her long serpentine tail to calm her, Medusa composed herself enough to continue the story. "I felt alone. I....I thought I wassss forgotten, and no longer had any valuesss to the world. I felt worthlesssss. Even worsssse when Athena had tassssked me with making a friend."
"I tried sssssso hard to make a friend, but it wasssss a futile endeavor then. No one would ever be friendssss with an abnormal persssson, such assss myssself," Medusa looked down, with tears running down her cheeks as she recalled some of the hurtful words the people had said to discriminate her, to belittle, and talk down to her.
"That's awful!" Fluttershy gasped with the Rainbooms and Spike nodding their heads, sharing their shock and disgust with the kind girl.
"Awful?" Medusa muttered. "Awful doessssn't come closssse to the day when beauty had at lasssst found me, and I wassss loved by all. I thought I had found friendsssship, but it wassss all lie!" the pipes broke and tears poured excessively down Medusa's cheeks as she continued, "I thought I had found friendssss, companionssss, and love with the beauty I was gifted. But when Athena ssssaid otherwissse, I... I... I... I lossst everything...and everyone I oncccce knew...they were gone. They left me alone."
"Oh you poor thing," Fluttershy whimpered, sniffling a bit of tears in empathy for the gorgon.
"That's the saddest story ever!" Pinkie Pie bawled, blowing her nose.
"What did you expect? Sunshine and rainbows?" Spike asked in sarcasm.
"SSSSSo yessss," Medusa frowned. "In her own way, Athena did curssssed me, yessss. But not like thissss. SSSShe curssssed me with a clarity."
"Uh...elaborate on 'clarity,'" Twilight asked. "By that I mean, how exactly did Athena give you a clarity?"
"By taking away my beauty, the people I thought were my friendssss immediately rejected me!" Medusa hissed in disdain. "I wassss humiliated. I wasss deemed an abomination by thosssse who ssssaw me, disssgusssted by my appearancesss, and my uniquenesssss. And I couldn't hide away in Athena'ssss temple, ssssinccce she had forbidden me from ever returning, until I could find some real friendssss. Friendssss who would love me, for being me, assss she putsss it."
"Wow, sounds like you had it rough," Rainbow Dash frowned. "Oh, sorry. Go on."
The look of contempt turned to sorrow on Medusa's face as she continued, "I wassss all alone. I had nowhere elsssse to go. And I couldn't asssk my sisssstersss for help. Not when they were ssssso happy with their livessss, and with their loved onessss. I wassss angry. I wasss sad. I wasss.... I dessssperately prayed to the godssss to ressstore my beauty. But I misspoke, and I wassss so foolissssh and selfissssh to asssk for ssssuch a thing. Insssstead of granting my wisssh, I wassss curssssed by the godssss to be thissss way."
Tears trickled down even harder on Medusa's face, as she covered her eyes, struggling to hold her tears back, "I wassss already an outcassst as a normal human. But this cursssse had made me a freak of nature. And you all know the resssst."
"Maddie..." Rainbow uttered in shock, shedding a single tear as she looked solemnly at the gorgon.
For so long, the world and all the Greek Mythologies have described her to be a terrifying creature that haunted the nightmares of storytellers; a merciless demon sorceress; and a selfish, arrogant woman of beauty. But to actually hear it from Medusa herself, and to see her saddened, guilt-ridden, if not traumatized, it had completely changed everyone's perspective on the gorgon. The more they actually got to know her, the more they realized how human she really is.
"SSSSo you sssssee, it wassss my fault that I'm like thissss," Medusa hissed tearfully. "Becausssse I wasss so selfish and ssssso stupid to ever be beautiful for friendsssship. Huh?" Medusa looked to find herself embraced in a group hug by the Rainbooms and Spike.
"You poor thing," Fluttershy sobbed.
"But whyâ"
"No one has to endure all that, just to go lookin' for a friend," Applejack frowned, while struggling not to cry, even though it shows.
"But why?" Medusa sobbed, finding it even harder to speak, from the overwhelming sensation of love than it was with sadness. "I'm a monsssster. And even if you could lift my cursssse, say that my true form issss even more repulsive thanâ"
"We don't care!" Spike barked. "Human, or not. We still want to be with you!"
"You....you sssstill want to be with me? After all the troublessss I've put you through?" Medusa asked, with a single tear trickling from her eyes. "But I don't undersssstand. I'm a terrible creature. I kill the livingssss. Men, women, children, animalssss, they were all doomed to sssssuffer the ssssame fate of my curssssse. I've tried sssso hard to hide mysssself. But ssssomehow, they sssstill died. I'm really sorry to you, for SSSSunssset, to everyone."
"I'm sssso sssssorry," Medusa continued to sob. "I'm so ssssorry for all the hurt that I've caused. I'm sssso ssssorry that everyday I wake up and I'm ssssscared that I'm going to hurt sssssomeone elsssse. Because I know I will. I know I will hurt more and more innocccccent beingssss. I know I alwayssss will, because every time I lay my head down to sssssleep, I'm always returning back to my garden of sssstatues, and just sssseeing them alwayssss givessss me a pit in my sssstomach. I caussssse that. It's my fault. It's my fault. Everything is my fault. Everyone dies because of me. I can't bring them back. It's my fault. It's my fault! I'm jusssst sssscared! I really am!"
"Shhhh, there, there," Fluttershy cried. "It will be all okay. You'll see."
"Darling, it's all over now," Rarity weeped. "So just let it go."
"The past is the past, Maddie," Twilight said tearfully. "I know that because Sunset told me that once. And if she were still here, she would say the same thing to you. Now please, you have to be strong for her."
Slowly catching her breath, the gorgon looked to the Rainbooms and Spike, "Again, why are you all doing thissss?" Medusa sobbed. "Why? I don't undersssstand. I've killed sssso many innocccccent creaturessss. I'm a monsssster. Why are you ssstill insistent on giving me your friendssship, even when I don't dessserve it?"
"Don't talk down on yourself, Maddie," Rainbow advised.
"How can I not?" Medusa whimpered. "I think that everyday becaussssse of what I do to the world. What I contribute. What my desssstiny issss. It'sss a terrible, terrible desssstiny. I have to live everyday. Kill people accidentally, hurt them in an indirect way. It'ssss the inevitable. How does that not make me a monsssster?"
"Just because you think you're a monster, doesn't exactly make you a monster," Applejack explained. "Because a real monster never regrets its actions to kill, right? But you regret, so that's definitely saying you still have a heart, right?" the rest of the Rainbooms and Spike all exchanged agreements with the country gal.
"Perhapsssss." Medusa hissed. "I ssssupposssse that'sss true. I don't know. Everyday, I regret my actions. I regret my choicesssss. I regret who I am. I feel terrible for any life I take. Any misssstakes I've made. Any sssstonesss I've created."
"Exactly that darling," Rarity smiled. "Like we did with Sunset Shimmer, we can forgive you for your past...boo-boos."
"Besides, if it weren't for you, I'd be lost in your garden, back on the island, and I might never see Twilight again," Spike added.
"And I was an outcast, just as much as you were," Twilight joined in. "In fact, after absorbing so much Equestrian magic that unintentionally turned me into a demon sorceress, I can understand how scared you were."
Medusa whimpered, taking in short breathes, as a smile formed on her face, "You....you all are very special....you have beautiful smiles..."
"And they're all for you, Maddie!" Pinkie chirped.
Medusa sobbed tears of joy as she smiled, "If it's not too late, could I be... still be... a part of your... friendship? I would like to be... loved again. I would like to be part of your world. And your hugs felt so warm... so alive..."
"What kind of a question is that?" Rainbow Dash smirked. "You are our friend!"
"Definitely!" Fluttershy smiled.
"Affirmative!" Twilight added.
"Darn tootin'!" Applejack hollered.
"Here here!" Rarity joined.
"Don't I get a say in this?" Spike asked.
Pinkie Pie was sobbing and babbling nonsense, "My heart! It's too full!" she continued to weep.
Later that night, the friends were all in bed, getting their rests before they could start a new day tomorrow, with the search for Sunset Shimmer being their main agenda.
Back in her shared room with Fluttershy, Medusa was on the balcony, gazing across the horizon, while holding Sunset Shimmer's geode close to her chest.
"Are you alright, Maddie?" Fluttershy asked the gorgon. "Are you having trouble, falling asleep?"
"I...I'll be fine," Maddie sighed. "I hope SSSSunssset issss alright. Wherever she issss."
"Oh, I know. I'm worried about Sunset too," Fluttershy whimpered. "All alone out there, with those horrible monsters. Oh, I just hope we can find her in time."
"And thisss...thisss boxxxx of Grogar you sssspeak of," the gorgon continued. "I...for all we know...Sunssset might be one of those monsssstersss already. I hope we sssstill have the chancccce to save her."
"I'm sure we will," Fluttershy said, as she walked over to lovingly pet a few of Medusa's snakes. "Because we saved you, didn't we?"
Medusa reached her hand up for Fluttershy's hand, feeling the soft, gentle warmth of the girl's loving touch, "Yessss." she hissed. "SSSSSo you have."
Fluttershy let out a yawn, "It's getting late. Let's go to sleep. We've got a big day tomorrow."
"Yessss, of coursssse," Medusa followed, slithering back into the room, encircling her coil around the bed, before she crawled into bed with Fluttershy. "Fluttersssshy?" she hissed.
"Yes?"
"Thank you, for everything," as if the first time in a long time, Medusa's lips curled into a genuine loving smile.
Fluttershy couldn't help but smile back, seeing how happy her gorgon roomie looked for the first time, "Of course. Anytime."
Sometimes, I think I've been watching way too many anime, ASMR, WubcakeVA's role-plays, lamia related contents. I can't help it. Can anyone blame me? Okay, so Medusa's appearance in Clash of the Titans 1981 and the 2010 remake has been a heavy influence in the modern pop-culture, and granted, it may have sparked some snake fetishes for most of us who know our anime. But this is the biggest challenge for all of us, and it must've been a huge challenge for Lauren Faust herself since no one has ever attempted to make Medusa, or another gorgon, the hero of the story. Or has there been any past attempts? Anyway, I hope this revival of mine has been able to meet some expectations for bronies and Greek Mythology fans who were reading this.
But... what happened to Sunset One? Sunset Prime if you will...
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I'm pretty sure that was a typo. I'm certain the author meant to say "too".
Hey there. Not much I can say other that, once again, excellent job on the characterizations, exchanges and future chapter set-up in all the right places. I especially loved Medusa sharing her FULL backstory to the Rainbooms as well as the Rainbooms' reactions to that backstory. And, yes, I ALSO hope that the girls are able to find and reach Sunset in time.
At any rate, I'll very certainly be looking forward to more of this.
And, Happy Thanksgiving in advance.
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Yeah, I know but the me at 3am and really tired thought it was funny. Especially when the tangent became making the girls different Transformers. Think the only one that could match Pinkie for speed would be Blurr.
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Not entirely full. There are still a few details she either left out, forgot, or was discreet about.
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Fair enough. Thanks for the correction.
You picked the right time for Maddie to open up
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Fantastic!
Considering that the worst for the group still has yet to come and this may be Maddie's only chance to tell her side of the story, they deserve to know the truth from her own perspective. As if this chapter is to demonstrate that 'everything' we thought we already knew about Medusa is not entirely true. That she wasn't the monster who ruthlessly turned random people into stone, but that she was a victim of circumstance. That she was tasked to make a friend, even if she felt this 'pressure' for being a protégé of Athena when she only accepted the position because her sisters insisted this would be a big honor. The one time she asked Athena for a major favor if only to boost her self confidence, that ONE time she came to her for help, she gets turned into a monster.
And for what? Because it was all just some big test for Athena to find the true beauty in herself, that she is capable of making friends no matter how she looks or just because she was 'abnormal' even before the curse? Some would even go as far to say that if Medusa's sisters had been there for her when she was feeling this way or maybe realize that she had these insecurities that maybe didn't make her feel right for this big task, maybe they could've done more to prevent what eventually became such a catastrophe. Now Medusa has to live with her current position, not only with her powers turning everyone she knew into 'stone' but the fact that one of the few best friends she made was taken from her because somebody opened that box. We may never know Medusa's family outside of her sisters, but just to hear her story at this point gives us this 'clarity' in a sense that Medusa has suffered so much that it's no wonder she's always so down on herself.
Yet despite all she's done... 'All' of it... The Rainbooms have every right to encourage her to see that she's not as much a monster as she makes herself out to be. Because 'real' monsters don't have any regrets for their actions, real monsters kill people if not for any reason other than the fact that they 'enjoy' delivering pain to people. But all Medusa ever truly wanted was to have friendship from someone who sees the important quality about her. That they see this girl not so much for her looks or what she's done, but to see within her soul and find that she is truly a good person who only wants to be loved and to have a reason to love others in return. I really hope things work out for Medusa, even if the curse is 'never' broken at this point.
After all, Medusa deserves all the happiness today than she never got years ago.
You know, Medusaâs Story here reminds me of disneyâs version of beauty and the beast somewhat
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Well this was the direction Lauren Faust had wanted the course of the story to move in. What Sony Pictures Animation currently have in mind for the project? I don't know. But it obviously isn't the kind Ms. Faust agreed on.
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Oh believe me, if you knew who her mother and father are, let alone who her brothers, sisters, or cousins are, then you would consider her abnormal, if not unique and one-of-a-kind, even when she was "human."
Right. And to add injury to the insult, the one time where all our Greek Mythology fanfic fantasies would become a cinematic reality, courtesy of Lauren Faust, Sony Pictures Animation had to off her featured presentation, along with Genndy Tartakovsky's Popeye the Sailor Man movie all in favor of the 2016 cinematic bomb, the Emoji Movie. Of course, thanks to Sony, we have SpiderâMan: Into the Spiderverse, which was the best movie and makes up for missing out on Medusa and Popeye, I suppose. But still, THEY OWE US BIG!
I couldn't have said it better myself.
I couldn't agree more. Given to this day and era where most of us are now smarter to see the beauty within the beast, and are more sympathetic towards someone misunderstood like Medusa.
Example(s): Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast, 2017 Wonder starring Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay, WubcakeVA, etc.
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And that's another lost opportunity Sony Pictures Animation had missed out on. The best part about Lauren Faust's Medusa was to make her less the monster we all knew and fear of from all the stories that described her and to make her more a person we can all relate to. Also to show that there are other monsters out there that are just as dangerous than a gorgon, including Medusa.
1. Iâd suppose I would have to know her family to better understand the severity of her situation. But then, who am I to judge based on someoneâs family life? If anything, there may have been THOUSANDS of âMedusaâ interpretations, most of them are portrayed as evil and animalistic. Sheâs indeed a one-of-a-kind lassie who has her desires and insecurities, in recent chapters has proven to be a very good friend for these girls. Any chap whoâd want to get to know her, provided sheâs into that sort of thing, would be rather lucky. I mean if the concern is that they could be turned to stone, hopefully the loophole on the terms of being blind could prevent that magic from working (At least comparing to several adaptations using that theory).
2. Why they thought a movie about talking âEmojisâ would make for home movie entertainment is beyond me? To me it felt like a rip off of âWreck-It Ralphâ. If youâre going to do a movie about how the Emojis themselves appear, at least make them more human instead of just their face with limbs. Even if that makes them look like âThe Simpsonsâ. I was definitely bummed out when âPopeyeâ was canned because it looked promising, but at least the dude got his âPrimalâ series running. Rumor has it that some additional episodes will be released next year.
3. Iâm glad you agree.
4. I understand the bit about âBeauty and the Beastâ and âWonderâ considering I have seen those movies. I never imagine anything about that Wubcake lass, which I suppose only those who know her well would understand. What reason is there not be to sympathize with Medusa just on this story alone? In many ways, she deserved better than the life she ultimately received but it seems as if fate was always stacked against her. And if there is truly more to whatâs going on with her story than what sheâs already given out, perhaps the full answer to her past may be the solution to her future.
5. Lauren Faust truly tried to find the human side of the fiercest of creatures in Mythology. And as we have seen thus far, all the other monsters who caused havoc around the city and kidnapped Sunset proved more dangerous than Medusa. Whomever opened the chest in the first place must be trying to draw out Medusa in some way, but the question is: Who?
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Do you think that the next chapter could show what is happening to sunset shimmer?
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That is a valid point. It's one thing to see the perspective of the story not just from Medusa or Twilight and her friends, but at some point we'll need to know what's happening with Sunset. We may not see who's responsible for her kidnapping right away and chances are, we need to know she's not another 'damsel in distress'. Until her friends arrives to come get her, the least she can do is try to investigate her surroundings, find out what's going on, and even if she can't escape from her confinement, she can keep an eye out in case the place she's imprisoned in has weaknesses. Like the routine of the patrols (If these creatures are that smart) or where they would be instructed to keep an eye on if she tries to find the likely exits or at least try to overhear what exactly these monsters are planning.
And even if the unknown antagonist does not tell Sunset directly, she does have the power to read into their memories and let their thoughts do all the talking.
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I wonder if the ending could be where everyone's friendship, even Medusa's, could get tested.
The result of course could be the lifting of the curse after Medusa finally reveals how much she has learned about friendship from the girls
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There is a strong possibility. Most of Medusa's stories have often ended in tragedy, yet this project Faust proposed to that studio could've offered something far different. Even if the ending is slightly bittersweet, I believe any protagonist deserves a moment of happiness, a sense of clarity once they discover just what it is that they want. Even if Medusa is never to have her curse lifted, that she assumes this form forever, what she wanted more than 'anything' she could ever wished for is to be loved for 'who' she is and not 'what' she is. As long as she can love others in return, so much in fact that she would do anything for them as they unto her. Even sacrificing her one and only chance to be lifted of such a fearful curse.
Good chapter.
First, sorry for writing until today.
Second. I found it fun for everyone to reprimand Rainbow Dash
And third. You made an excellent argument for Medusa. Now we have another way of seeing her and Athena.
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No need for apologies. I'm running a little late myself.
Well, obviously, for someone who would outright and give herself and friends away with a Sonic Rainboom during the whole Storm King fiasco, AND for always rushing blindly and headfirst into danger, she obviously needs a good reprimanding.
Thank you for your insightful feedback. Or as you say in Español : "Gracias por sus valiosos comentarios."
Wow, that was beautiful.
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I know right? I can only wonder how the next upcoming chapters will follow-up after this one. Hopefully things work out for Medusa when all this is over.
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Me too.
Forgive me for asking this, but how is the next chapter coming?
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I'm trying not to spoil like Tom Holland, okay?
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Old Tom always slips his tongue
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Yes he does. But he's a young man, what can you do? I'm sure when he grows older, he'll eventually learn to be mindful of what he says without giving things away. Sometimes, to avoid talking about something you planned for one thing, it's sometimes easiest to change the subject with something that could really get folks talking.
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That's sony for you not giving a heck about their animated moves
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Nope... But they are just lucky that 'Spider-Man' movie managed to make up for that God awful 'Emoji Movie' so much that it helped them receive the Oscar for 'Best Animated Movie' that year. Does it excuse the fact that they cancelled this project along with 'Popeye' just to make movies for a modern audience?
Let me think... No!
Such a great story, I usually love to read short stories before going to bed but sometimes when story have some moral value then I read that no matter if it is as long as a thesis paper.