Reflections
Sunny felt her mouth go dry as the silence settled on the vehicle bay in Canterlogic's bottom level.
"Where should we start looking? Should I talk to my mom about increasing security?" She heard Sprout ask.
The earth mare took a deep breath to try her best to calm herself.
"Don't bother, Sprout," Sunny answered. "Additional security wouldn't be able to stop her, and as for looking for her, where do you suggest we start? She could be absolutely anywhere."
"So... What do we do, Sunny?" Sprout asked.
Sunny took another deep breath.
"Let's start going through what we have left. And... Just hope that she sees reason. I... I don't know what else we can do."
Izzy stood at her stove waiting for her tea kettle to start whistling. Her headache was almost completely gone, but she still wasn't sure when she would resume practicing spells. But Alphabittle did have a point; if she hadn't been reading through that weather spell book, there would have been no telling how far that fire would have spread.
She heard the whistle of the tea kettle, but when she looked down, steam wasn't coming out of the tip. She then realized that the whistling wasn't coming from the kettle, but from over by the front door. She felt a sudden wave of heat pass over her an instant before there was a flash of light, and in the next instant, Sunset Shimmer was standing there.
"S-Sunset?" Izzy asked.
Without saying a word, Sunset looked around, spotted the stacks of books the other unicorns had brought in, then looked over to the corner of the kitchen counter, where Izzy had set her Class IV book, and had yet to move it. Her horn lit up, and pulled the book from the counter and levitated it over to the stack next to the door, setting it on top.
"I'm sorry, Izzy," Sunset said, glancing at her for only a moment.
"Sunset, what are you doi- Hey!"
The glow around Sunset's horn intensified, and after another flash of light and wave of heat, she vanished, along with the books Bridlewood had gathered, leaving Izzy alone in her kitchen, with the now-whistling kettle on the stove.
"Wha... When... How... WHAT?!"
Sunny was trying, and failing, to keep her mind off of Sunset and the magic books, as she was sorting through the far more numerous non-magical books that they had brought back from the Crystal Empire's library.
She felt her phone in her saddlebag go off, opened the flap, pulled it out, and saw Izzy calling.
That would be a nice distraction.
"Hey Izzy, how's it going?" She greeted after accepting the call and putting the phone to her ear.
"Honestly, a bit freaky at the moment. Sunny, did you know Sunset is a book snatcher?"
"About 15 minutes ago, yeah. She's afraid that advanced magic books are too dangerous to keep around."
"Well, to tell you the truth, Sunny, she might have half a point. More than half, probably."
"So yeah, keep them safe, but she said she was thinking about destroying them! That's history, Izzy! Do you have any idea where she went?"
"Nope. She just poofed into my house, grabbed the books she asked me to have the town collect, said 'sorry', then poofed right back out again. Then I called you to see if you knew what was going on."
"Unfortunately I do. She just took all of the magic books that we had gathered from the Crystal Empire. I have no idea where she is, but I really, really hope she comes to her senses..."
The colorful ambience of Izzy's cottage vanished in a flash of light and was replaced by near complete darkness as Sunset completed her teleportation spell.
"Lux," she whispered, and a mote of light left the top of her horn and floated up, gradually increasing in luminosity, revealing her surroundings:
The basement of Twilight's castle library, where the shattered mirror still remained, the shards in piles back against the wall. Sunset turned around, and looked at the stack of more than two hundred books between her and the mirror.
Her lips quivered as she stared at the pile of spell tomes. She took another deep breath, held it, closed her eyes for a moment, and raised her right hoof, pointing it directly at the books.
"Aestus!"
A stream of fire erupted from her outstretched hoof, and immediately surrounded and engulfed the collected magical works. Her horn glowed as she maintained her concentration for just a few more moments, just long enough for them to catch fire. A few seconds more, and the flames from her hoof ceased, as if a valve was shut off.
Sunset looked on with determination, and her eyes widened when the flames subsided, and the books were left untouched, not even so much as singed. With a twinge of frustration, she raised her right hoof again.
"Aestus!"
The flames once again burst forth from the bottom of her hoof, and spread across the books again. She held the fiery stream steady for just a few moments longer than she had last time, then lowered her hoof again. Once more, the flames burned out, and the books were undamaged.
"Telum!"
A white bolt of energy burst from her horn, and impacted against the stack of books, and they didn't so much as move, confirming Sunset's growing suspicions; there was something here, some sort of energy. At first she passed it off as leftover residual magical energy from the shattered mirror.
Feeling her frustration growing, she lashed out at the stack of books with her telekinesis, scattering them to every corner of the room, before she took several aggressive steps towards the mirror, taking hold of the piles of shards.
"Reparare!" She shouted, firing a trio of golden beams of light towards the mirror and both shard piles, lifting them up and bringing them to the bare mirror frame. Piece by piece, they were placed in the frame as Sunset's sparking horn continued to glow brightly. She felt the spell begin to falter, and dug her hooves into their places on the floor, and concentrated harder.
"Reparare!!!" She screamed again, desperately, watching as the vibrating shards were unstably placed in the mirror's frame, and the cracks slowly began to disappear. Nearly an entire minute passed, and as the last of the damage faded away, she appeared to have a fully functional magical portal mirror standing before her, as her magical reserves began to run low.
She turned her attention to the books scattered all around the room, mentally preparing to get them out of Equestria. All in the next instant, the mirror immediately shattered again, and the shards exploded out towards the room, right towards Sunset. Having next to no time to react, her instincts alone lit her horn up and cast a forward shield as quickly as she possibly could. The golden glowing field appeared in front of her between her and the shards, which bounced off of the field.
Sunset's shield didn't last but a moment, and as she felt a wet warmth run down her left cheek, she quickly realized two things; one, she hadn't blocked all the shards in time, and two, she had just pushed herself past her limits as her head was hit with magical exhaustion, and a debilitating headache immediately set in as her hovering illumination spell faded to nothing and returned the room to darkness. Squeezing her tear-filled eyes shut in a futile effort to block out the throbbing, she fell to her knees and then to her side, collapsing among the scattered books and shattered mirror.
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The plot thickens...WHAT IS GONNA TAKE FOR PEOPLE TO SIMPLY TALK!!! IT!!! OUT!!!
Other than that, you're doing great👍
Oh Sunset...come here sweetie, you need a hug
Huh. The mirror doesn’t want to be repaired...
Yep, still being a dumbass. One would think a "smart" unicorn would check for protection spells on those books first. Even more so they would stop after the 2nd failure to ask WHY. Nope, not a student of Sunbutt. Charge ahead full stupid believing you alone can solve things.
This one is going to need a massive slap to the face
I do hope that Sunset is alright, I just wanna give her a big comforting hug.
Knowing Sunset, I don't think she will.
Wonder why she went there of all places?
Well I'll be damned!
https://m.So then, if the mirror now, will she return back to earth or stay in equestria?
Never mind, I spook to soon.
Oh Sunset...
good chapter
One would think Sunset would have quickly realized they are enchanted against fire damage. Likely water damage as well. Enchantments that work again since magic was restored.
Sunset, you really aren't thinking this through. Think of the world your are about to deny to everyone: A world where they can defend themselves from you.
Oh, but you would never strike out against your friends? I'm quite certain that Princess Luna felt the exact same way. And yet....
Hmmmmm.......Seems as if Book Horse
was prepared for something like this......she was just thinking "other alicorn".
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To be fair, that's classic Sunset Shimmer... Turns out she learned nothing all along.
YEEEEOOOW! Certainly did a great job on this latest chapter. The exchanges, characterizations and future chapter set-up are all well done. Definitely appreciated Sunny and Izzy talking about Sunset taking the higher numbered books (Izzy and Sunny both admitting that Sunset had a point about keeping the other unicorns safe, but Sunny also adding that Sunset is going about it the wrong way. And the stuff with Sunset's frustrations concerning the books being fire-proofed (which makes sense given that Twilight had both a fire-breathing dragon as an adopted little brother AND a sun goddess for a mentor) gives me an equal mix of relief (because it means destroying the books is going to be hard enough to buy the others more time to try to find Sunset so they can reason with her) and concern for Sunset pushing herself that hard and getting even more frustrated. Yes, she definitely needs a hug AND an explanation that and why, while she definitely has good intentions, she is going about it the wrong way.
Most assuredly looking forward to more of this.
Dang that was pretty intense so Sunny has no idea where could she be and Izzy told Sunny that she really got all the books that she gather up and then disappeared again and both of them have no idea where she could be but somewhere in the abandoned town Sunset tried to destroy the books with all those powerful spells but nothing is working and she tries to fix the mirror maybe sending them away but once again it's not working and she used up so much Magic she became very tired boy I really felt bad for sunset I just hope she will come to a census I wonder what's going to happen next guess we'll find out next time
Kinda glad she wasn't able to fully destroy the books. Yes they are dangerous and have powerful spells which can do immense damage. But that does not mean you destroy them, to erase the past.
The only true and correct path in this instance is to help teach them. Don't give them all to whatever students there are at once. Teach them to be better, teach them to be safer. This way you get what you wish for in there not being more damage as those whom use it know how to and how not to.
As it has been said before. Those whom forget their history are also doomed to repeat it.
Twilight was prepared. now lets hope Sunset starts to think about things.
Poor Sunset. Let's hope she hasn't burned any bridges with her rash decision.
Yeah... I don't think Twilight would let someone destroy here books that easily...
Good thing the story relies on cute pictures of Sunset at the end of each chapter. With as many cute pictures of her as there are, the story will keep running forever!