Essence of Life

by ZeronicX

Preperations and Revelations

3:30, Celestia's Clock Time, Royal Hall
Octavia was preparing with her small orchestra, Tuning their various instruments and taking request from the first few early patrons, a burst came through the main door and 4 Royal Guards came in, followed by a tall white Alicorn, Celestia came walking towards the small orchestra

"I Hope everything is going right?" Her Majesty asked

Octavia, Now stopping her bow, "Yes, we just finished setting up, do you want us to play the same songs as last time?"

"No, Luna shall be taking care of the request, i have to take matters in Ponyville for awhile..." Celestia replied, starting to walk away

"Huh? I thought you had a archeology appointment with somepony" Octavia asked, Puzzled

"Archeology? There aren't any ruins in Canterlot....And i have nothing scheduled for the week other than visiting Ponyville and other towns..." Celestia replied, Now becoming the puzzled

"Huh.....Ok then......." Octavia said, Piecing something together in her mind

3:40 Celestia's Clock Time, Air Harbor of Canterlot

WhiteStar braced the cold rushing winds of the Air Harbor, hiding around boxes to stop some of the wind from hitting him, He occasionally looked up and saw blimps or Pegisai looping around, Finally He found the warehouse

The inside of the warehouse was horrible lit, you couldn't see anything passed 5 feet even if everything was painted bright white, He tried his best to navigate the maze and head to the main office(Which appeared to be the only thing noticeable in the sea of darkness)

Finally when He reached the Main Office he was a bright red Unicorn doing paperwork, too engross in his job to see another current sentient being there

WhiteStar cleared his throat and the red unicorn snapped out of his trance,

"Uggh... if you here about the shipment from Titan then your late, Like," The red unicorn checked the clock behind WhiteStar and narrowed his eyes "23 and a half hour late" He said, subtle anger in his voice

"No I'm here for the request" WhiteStar pulled out a piece of paper from his front pocket "form SF/FA/P/EDC" He slid the paper across the desk

"Oh that crate," He stopped and pressed a button to a two-way radio "Bring me..." He stopped and read the request once more "...Crate SF/FA/P/EDC"

Silence came across the radio before static, obviously the radio connected outside

"Alright, We'll.......there in about.....Minutes!" A voice said

"Repeat" The unicorn said, Angered by the old radios

"5 Minuets" The voice repeated crystal clear this time, He took a seat across from the unicorn

"As you can see, The builders weren't smart implanting a radio outside at the highest elevation in Equestria" He said, a sly grin took form, WhiteStar just nodded his head and sat in silence, Once the unicorn knew he wasn't going to talk his horn glowed red as well as a quill and started working

"Hey" WhiteStar said, Breaking the unicorn's concentration "How exactly do unicorns......you know levitate things and do spells?"

"Uh......Magic...." the unicorn replied, looking up

"I know magic but how do you guys do magic?"

"it's like learning a language, you see it all the time and you start to get a hang of it"

"It can't be that easy,"

"It actually is, i learned basic magic at 5"

"Basic Magic?"

"You know.....the things we do on a regular basis, Levitation, Conjuration, Alteration...."

"Ah.....Ok"

"How do.....Earth Ponies plant seeds and we can't?" The unicorn asked, Keeping the conversation going

"Some law during the 2nd age of Reclamation,when a unicorn made a magical law and allowed only Earth ponies access to the knowledge, Somehow that worked and ended the

"Huh? i don't remember that in school, Who was he?"

"Star Swirl the Bearded"

"Ah Ok....." The unicorn realized WhiteStar was done talking and return to his paperwork

The door opened and leaked light into the darkness, A small female Pegasis stood in a bright blue uniform and goggles

"I Take it this is his?" She asked the unicorn

"Yup, If i remember correctly it was 100 bits?"

WhiteStar grabbed a small bag near his Cutie Mark and tossed it on the Dark Oak desk, Splattering a small pile of golden coins across, The unicorn nodded his head at the pegasis and the pegasis handed the small parcel to He, Who then ripped open the package which revealed a small white orb with blue lines going all around it with a red button in it, and a light grey belt, with two parallel black lines going around and meeting in the light blue buckle in the front

WhiteStar then attached the orb to the belt and equipped the belt, Check One

4:00 Celestia's Clock Time, Entrance to Royal Hall

"Hello?" Vinyl Scratch waved a hand in front of one of the royal guards,

"Stop messing with them Scratch" Octavia said, Emerging behind the door, Holding a small box and then proceeded to walk out of Vinyl's view,

Vinyl then tried to walk into the door but was meet with two crossing spears nearly hitting Vinyl's nose

"You do not have the appropriate Approval to enter this wing" The Left guard said

"I do so!" Vinyl screamed She quickly poked her head above the spears, "Yo!......Octavia Tell them I'm with you!"

Octavia did so, "Shes......sadly is with me"

The guards lifted their spears and allowed the unicorn in,

She went to follow Octavia who was fixing boxes with important things in them "I learned something about Our friend Zero today" she said emotionless

Octavia thought about what Celestia said but pushed it back "What? Something about everything?" she said jokingly

"What...? No! He's a thief! He plans to steal something from Princess Celestia today!" Vinyl horn glowed white and pulled out a battered journal and opened it in front of Octavia

"31st.........bought ticket..... going to Canterlot and picking up some packages........" Octavia looked away "This doesn't prove he's a thief, Vinyl"

Vinyl bit her mouth and changed the pages to the 23nd Octavia began looking again "23rd........Essence of Life?, Whats that?" Octavia said looking up, Vinyl motioned with her hoof, "It is set in the StarSwirl the Bearded Wing, I will set to it in a week, When Princess Celestia will be tending to various towns and cites"

Vinyl used her levitation magic and lowered it down, Closed, Octavia was piecing this new information together

"We have to tell the princess" Octavia said, Worried visible in her voice

4:15, Celestia Clock Time, Progression Street, Inner city of Canterlot

WhiteStar walked through the streets of Canterlot, He would have enjoyed it if it wasn't under treasonous circumstances, He looked at the various high-class shops with legions of high-class ponies coming in and out of these stores, He turned a corner and walked down to the Castle Garden,

He saw plethora of people and objects, A well aged unicorn was giving a lecture of magic by levitating and changing the appearance of his surroundings, Many of the students were taking notes but some were lying down and looking at the sky, Those who did had apples appear on above their head and fell down on them

He shifted his attention to a Musician standing on a small round stand made of marble playing the lute to three well dressed mares,

WhiteStar's attention was interrupted by a mare, She wasn't well dress like the others, She was just wearing clothes ponies back at Ponyville would wear

"Hey you there, Take this!" She said,handing Him a small advertisement

The small colored paper looked like it was made in the span of five minutes, Font sizes ranged from barely readable to incredibly over sized, there was a new color every letter and paint was thrown in at the last second

"RealX?......thanks I'll be sure the check it out...." He lied, He wasn't really a fan of electronic music

"Oh thanks!"she said, Now shifting her attention to a small group of mares, he then stuffed the paper in his front pocket and took his leave

WhiteStar sat at a bench, waiting for Luna's Night Spell to take in

Author's Note:

There are two small references to obscure thing,one of them is not skyrim