I looked out over the village below. Lights shining softly in the night.
A couple of thestrals and an earth pony herded a group of what had to be twenty foals along one of the bridges connecting the trees.
School excursion.
To the guard training grounds from the direction they were heading. Survival lesson.
“I can’t believe she…” Twilight said before she trailed off for the sixth time since we exited onto the balcony of the bedroom.
Sunset stroked her mane, “Twi, everything worked out alri-”
“That’s not the point!” Twilight said and looked at her, “I can’t believe ‘I’ would have done that in her place!”
“You can’t know what,” Sunset told her.
“I do know that!” Twilight said and pulled away from her, “She is me! If I had been in her place, I would have been her!”
I shook my head, “I’m not su-”
Twilight turned to me and apparently that had been the wrong thing to say from the glare she shot at me, “You know it is!”
I didn’t back down though, instead I stepped forward, “Sparks, take a deep breath. You need to calm down.”
“I do not ne-” Twilights started to answer angrily before she broke off and sighed, looking away, “...Sorry…”
Sunset put her side against Twilights, “Twi, I get why you’re upset, but you’re not the same pony.”
“Actually,” I said with a small sigh, “I think both may be right. You were the same pony, but ponies change all the time. I’m not the same pony I was two years ago. You may have started as the same pony, but you are both pretty different now.”
Sunset frowned, “Sure, but the core of you are doesn't really ch-”
I shot her a small look and she broke off,
“I mean,” Sunset quickly said, “Ponies do change all the time. Of course you and Midnight are different.”
Twilight sighed softly and gave Sunset a kiss on the cheek, “Thanks, and I know how you mean,” she said before she shook her head, “I know what you both mean. The thing is that… I’m not sure that I wouldn’t do the same thing. To get back to you two if I had been the one that had been…”
I moved around to her other side, slipping my wing across her back, “Admittedly, it was a really a worst case scenario the big rift thing, right? Much more likely if something went wrong, we’d just have ended up on the wrong world, right?”
Twilight nodded, “...Yeah…”
She still looked depressed though as she leaned her head against the side of my neck. Sunset leaned against her in turn before glancing at the door, “Think Luna will be back soon?”
Twilight sighed, “Whenever she’s done talking with Midnight. But she’s been away for hours now.”
“Should be anytime now,” I said, stroking her back softly, “Don’t worry, everything will be fine. After all, nothing did happen. We’re fine, everypony else is fine.”
Movement caught my eye and I smiled, “And there she is now,” I said as Luna flew across the village over towards us.
“How did it go?” Twilight asked nervously as Luna landed next to us.
Luna folded her wings with a small sigh, “We talked,” she said and then shook her head, “Midnight is upset and Tempest is angry with her, angrier than you were, Page. I’m going to talk with my sister about what to do, but… I’m not sure we will do anything. Not like it will ever happen again.”
Twilight nodded and then stepped up to hug her. Luna sat down and pulled her tight into a hug, slipping her wings around her in turn., giving her forehead a small kiss next to her horn.
Sunset watched with a small smile, shifting to touch her side to mine before glancing at me, “...I’m curious about what happened to you,” she said, “I know Twi’s mane get all wavey when she’s angry enough, but never seen it happen to you.”
“The ‘wavey’ as you put it,” Luna said as she stroked Twilight's back, “is a result of the high levels of ambient magic we put out. My sister and I intentionally do so with our manes and tails to focus that or it would be difficult to live among ponies even during normal levels of magic as keeping our domains contained would require constant concentration. My sister would be hot enough to melt gold and… pretty much any room I walked into would turn pitch black.”
Twilight nodded and let go of the hug, “It’s going to happen to each of us eventually,” she said quietly and looked at me and Sunset, “Cadance, Me, Midnight, Page, even Flurry. As we get older, we get stronger and more in sync with our domains.”
I looked at Luna, “You felt the dream realm around me?”
She nodded, “I did,” she agreed, “I think that eventually you may be able to overlay the dream realm and the real world. At least in a very local effect.”
“Huh.”
Wow.
“But there will be a while until then,” Sunset said and looked between us, “I mean, Cadance haven’t even started to do the mane thing yet.”
“No,” I said and sighed, “But it does mean I have to be careful not to get too angry.”
Luna smiled and stepped forward, giving me a small kiss, “Luckily, I never known you to be somepony with an anger problem.”
I kissed back and then sighed softly, “Well, not like I didn’t know it would happen eventually. I have seen Midnight angry.”
If I looked half as scary when I did it, I didn’t blame them for putting a shield up.
Luna nodded and smiled before she looked out over the village, “I need to lower the moon soon, I should meet my sister before she wakes up.”
Sunset smiled, “I’m a bit hungry actually, how about we all have a late dinner after the sun is up?”
My stomach strongly agreed. We never did eat anything because everything that happened.
great chapter
Nice
Let's hope he never gets too angry.
Page angi
Update?!
I would love to see art of angry Page, I feel it would be epic looking.
You moron, stop tempting Murphy like that. Now it's only a question of time till the next disaster strikes
Morals & Ethics aside, Dinner is a very good suggestion Page.
that the quandaries of what a pony is capable of or do in certain situations is always gonna be complicated. Yes things could have gone VERY WRONG, yet didn't. Sgt. Murphy knew not to touch something like that without setting off some serious consequences and getting most if not all alicorns pissed at him.
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Or he is jut waiting for the right moment to reveal the disaster falling upon Equestria.
Yeti attack and earn Page wrath. When he snaps this will happen in the Yeti Main City:
Page when he can overlap dream and reality:
*Page is surrounded by 20 clones of himself*
Page: "Time to grow the Herd ~♡"
(All Alicorns and Changeling hive females)》
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Yet they still would be illusions. And limited by his concentration. Lies, in other words, his speciality. If not, what prevents him from becoming A.Smith from Matrix? Why would he even need offsprings if he could clone himself indefinitely?
p.s. how often do you check your pm's?
Neat
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Have currently read 20. I go tomorrow trough all of them. I work currently 6 out of 7 weekdays...
Still less than Page
FLASH FORWARD IN THE NEAR FUTURE..
Sunburst: *bang* Ow. *bang* Ow. *bang* Ow. *bang* OW!
Shining: *bang* Ca- *bang* -dance! *bang* Wake! *bang* UP!
Cadance: Wha? I'm awake! What happened?!
Shining: Your hair was sleep-shipping again. It picked us up and was mashing our faces together!
Cadance: Oh no! I'm so sorry. I thought I had it fully under control.
Sunburst: At least you woke up before the hair started to--
Cadance: THAT WAS ONE TIME! And it was a week before our anniversary. It was not surprising my hair was brimming with...creative energy.
Shining: That was a good anniversary..the Mane-iac cosplay was top notch.
Sunburst: REGARDLESS you need to wear night braids with anti-magic hair ties again. I'm sorry.
Cadance:
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Yeah let's hope that no idiots decide let's threaten everyone he cares about. They will really sorry if he gets upset. Triek died because Luna was in danger.
A man cannot cross the same river twice; it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
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Seriously, your husband is an author. He should be chewing you out, and not in the fun way.
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Cadance hair is so hentai
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Good times... Good times... (The blowing up Tirek part)
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Dream Page will dream big vs big enemys to fight
Page is the Atlas taking care of the attacker that take down one of his Guard details.
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Personally equestria 8s sometimes a little too nice. Sometimes you have use the stick in life and really bring it down. Triek was determined not to change and if they had stopped him when he escaped then discord would have never been able to try to use him.
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man I never looked up trailers of MW5 but that looks way better than what we got with MW5 Mercs
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Nah Page has good taste, would be a Marauder or Awesome
That's some real Song of Horror shit
Full-on misspellings today, so going to drop the grammar segment at the top in case that helps somehow:
“I know Twi’s mane gets all wavy when she’s angry enough, but I've never seen it happen to you.”
“The ‘wavy’, as you put it,”
Cadance hasn’t even started
We never did eat anything because of everything that happened.
Interesting bit of world building. Not the most original, but sometimes a trend exists because it's good. Don't recall if this has been mentioned before specifically. Possibly way back in book one?
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Or mechanically speaking, the Marshes of the Dead from LotR. Ghosts of dead Elves who refuse to go to Mandos for whatever reason hanging about and causing hallucinations of things like bodies in the water. The lights Sam and co see is their presence slipping into the Seen world from the Unseen. Nasty stuff, and potentially very dangerous if one doesn't know mental self-defence.
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actually I think 'wavey' is actually a commonly accepted spelling for that one, but this language is a dumpster fire rolling down the side of the empire state building on rollerskates towards a schoolbus full of orphaned cats on a field trip so I've honestly given up at this point
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I imagine a lot of lovecraftion imagery in it and it makes wish I could draw that well so I could do it
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Yeah now imagine it times four with alicorn abilities I shudder to think of what would happen to the poor soul that dares try