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I feel weightless, trapped in this dreamless sleep. How long has it been? How long?
The magical bubble I was in popped suddenly and I awoke realizing that I was falling. I flailed my hooves trying to grab hold of anything to break my fall. Hitting the ground, I grunted in pain, “Oof.” I glanced around while slowly getting up. The cellar looked like it hadn’t been used in years. The walls were cracked and slowly crumbling, the stairs were broken, and there was moss growing on the stone floor and walls. I stumbled towards the stairs and inspected them. “I hope they can hold my weight,” I said to myself. Placing a forehoof on the bottom step, I firmly pressed down. It held, but I did hear the distinct sounds of stone crumbling. I plucked up some courage and bolted to the top of the stairs and out the door before looking back down. The stairs fell into dust the moment I was off of them. I sighed in relief that I wasn’t stuck in my own cellar. Looking up, I was shocked by what I saw…
The room I found myself in looked like a kitchen. Well, most of a kitchen. The roof was partially caved in and one of the walls was knocked down. Grass was beginning to grow in from the missing wall, moss covered the cabinets, and everything just looked run down. I walked through the kitchen and noticed stains on the ground. I inspected the rest of the area and found two Unicorn skeletons, partially decaying to dust. I felt tears fall down my face. I didn’t know who these Unicorns were, but it was sad all the same. I walked to the stairs and looked up, noticing that they were relatively intact. I slowly made my way to the next story, gasping when a stair gave out. On the upper floor I noticed two bedrooms, a master bedroom and a guest bedroom. I went into the master bedroom to see if I could find out who had lived here. The bed was broken, blankets in tatters, and dust everywhere. The dust made me cough as I walked through the room. I noticed several broken and charred pictures on the ground. Picking one up in my magic, I saw a smiling family. On the left was a proud dark gray stallion with deep purple eyes looking at a blue mare with rich teal eyes holding a black foal in her forehoof. They were standing in front on what I was certain was the house I was in. Suddenly I dropped the photo in shock and bolted down the hall towards the other bedroom. ‘It couldn’t be true!’
The other bedroom was in ruins, but I still could picture the way it used to be. I saw the bed in the far corner with a black blanket with my own cutie mark, a full moon surrounded by stars, still clearly visible on the burned cloth. I stumbled through the debris, looking around the ruined room. The chest where I had stored my accessories was open and empty. ‘Must’ve been taken while I was asleep,’ I thought sadly. ‘I lost the necklace my mother made for me.’ My eyes blurred again as unshed tears built up in them. I continued to look around my room from the charred curtains, barely covering a hole in the wall, to some tattered clothes scattered about the area. I ran out of my room and down the stairs, not caring if they collapsed or not, and into the hall. ‘Please, no…’ I silently pleaded. Walking slowly into the living room/kitchen area, I saw the two Unicorns again. I looked more closely at them; one leaning up against a support beam and the other on the ground beside the cellar door. The one near the cellar was kind of hard to identify because the skull was flattened like it was crushed by something heavy. The other was missing a rear leg that I noticed a few feet away, with a thin hole sliced through it. Both of their horns were broken off, which must’ve caused them so much pain. I sat there with my head bowed, my tears starting to flow freely as I realized who they were. My father died pinned to the support beam, and my mother died trying to protect the cellar from whoever was trying to get in. I wept for my parents, not being able to tell them I loved them one more time. “Why? You promised me that you were going to be fine. WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?”
I don’t know how long I stayed there crying. It felt like hours, and eventually my tears ran dry. I encased their bodies in my magic and slowly walked out the back door of our home. I spent twenty minutes scraping at the ground, until I had a grave big enough for both of them. I gently laid them down into the hole. As I placed the dirt over them, I whispered, “Goodbye.”
I placed a large stone near the head of the grave and carved into it with my magic. It read:
HERE LIES BLACK NIGHT AND SAPPHIRE RADIANCE
BRAVE, LOYAL, KIND
LOVING PARENTS
Walking back to the house I noticed the village was in ruins, the town hall partially burned down, and most of the houses were nothing but piles of rubble. The worst part was the bodies of Unicorns scattered all over the ground in groups. It looked like a mass killing had taken place and these remains have been left here forgotten as they slowly rot away with the passage of time. “This is horrible!” I said, tears building in my eyes again. “How long was I asleep in that cellar?”
I realized that it must’ve been years, since most of the dead had little to no skin left. Sadly, I went about cleaning the village and laying all my friends and neighbors to rest. As I worked, I stumbled across a headless skeleton with its head a few hoofsteps away. I examined the body and discovered a cutie mark: two crossed blades. I didn’t think I had any tears left after so much crying already, but learning that my old foalsitter hadn’t escaped either made it seem so surreal. I let loose a few more tears as I picked up her body and carried it to where I was placing the others. Of the ones that still had enough left of them to be identified, I found the Mayor, a market cart pony, a couple soldiers that still had a few pieces of armor, and one of my friends from foalhood.
I began to think that nopony made it out of this village during the attack. So many lives ended. It was tragic. As I neared the end of my daunting task, I ran across a group of foals huddled together trying to hide from what was happening around them. I scooped up their remains and carried them to the others. It took me roughly half a day to bury the whole village, and I was exhausted and depressed when I had finished. The ruined town wasn’t comforting as I walked towards the park, which had relatively remained intact. As I reached the park, I remembered a similar time I came to the park with Flash when I was a filly.
I was walking beside Flash Saber on our way to the park, sometimes running off ahead. “Don’t wander too far, Moonlit,” Saber laughed. “Your father would be rather cross with me if I lost you.”
“Sorry, Saber,” I replied, returning to her side. I looked up at her with a grin on my face.
“And what’s with that face?” She asked.
“Race ya to the park!”
“Hey! Cheat!”
She was laughing as she ran after me, catching up to me just before we entered the park. We stopped next to a lone tree and lay down beside it. “You are one fast filly. I wish I still had a bit of that energy,” Saber said. She chuckled as she looked up at the sky, lost in thought as she watched the clouds swirl against the backdrop of brilliant purple and orange hues of twilight. “Hey, Moonlit,” she said.
“Yes?”
“Your birthday is in a few days, isn’t it?”
“Yes! I’ll be six!” I cried happily.
“Really? Well then I’ll have to get you something,” Saber told me, grinning. “Anything in specific you would want?”
“Hmm… A wagon!”
I was blinking back the tears in my eyes as I sat under the same tree we sat under all those years ago. I placed a hoof on the slightly blackened bark and asked myself, “Had it really been so long ago?”
I sat there looking out at the village trying to imagine what had happened after my parents had placed me under their spell. The last thing I saw of the village was just before the door closed behind my father. Fire. The village was burning and judging from the rest of the ruined town, the fire burned through most of it. The town hall was mostly gone, just a few rooms at the back survived.
‘Two hundred and thirty-five. That’s how many Unicorns lived peacefully here. Now… now there was only me,’ I thought bitterly to myself. A tear rolled down my cheek as I recalled what happened to my mother’s necklace. It was a beautiful gift that day…
“Moonlit, can you come in here, please?” My mom asked from downstairs. Then she whispered to the others in the living room, “Alright, everypony ready?”
I came down the stairs to see what she wanted and I was assaulted by a shout from everyone in the room. “SURPRISE!”
I jumped in shock at the number of ponies crammed into one room. I could barely get out a “Wha-?” before everypony was hugging me and telling me happy birthday. I noticed Flash with an easily recognizable wrapped package and mom and dad had a couple gifts to give me as well. My cousin Glittering Rubi was walking closer to me and grabbed me in a hug. Rubi was a couple years older than I was, with her brilliant red coat and stunning emerald eyes. Her light purple hair wasn’t too long and was held in place with a headband that matched the blue highlight in her tail. She had a gold heart-shaped locket hanging around her neck. I never asked what was in it though. “Don’t just stand there. It’s your birthday. Talk with everypony, and enjoy it.”
She floated over a present for me in her magic which was unsurprisingly a ruby color. I took the odd shaped gift and started to unwrap it. Sitting there in my hooves was a middle-sized fire ruby. I stared at it, shocked. I had never received a gift like this before and I loved it. I tackled my cousin to the floor, with tears in my eyes, saying, “Thank you, Rubi. I love it.”
My parents laughed at the scene I caused and soon everyone was joining in. I got up, not even the slightest bit embarrassed, and was soon in the arms of my grandmother, Crystal Venatici. She had light purple fur and topaz eyes. Her mane was a pale blue that faded to white tips but her tail had full white strands. She had a red-orange bead necklace on as well. Completing her look were the blue glasses she wore. “Now where do you think you’re off to, missy? I haven’t seen you in such a long time.”
“Granny Crystal!” I embraced her as well, before looking around at all the smiling faces that were around me. “Can I open more presents, Grandma?” I pleaded with wide eyes.
“Well I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to. It is your special day after all,” she said, smiling at me. “Why don’t you open your mother’s gift next? I hear she made it especially for you.”
“Mother!” Radiance scolded playfully from across the room as a tightly wrapped parcel floated towards me. “Don’t spoil the surprises.”
I looked at the gift I was presented and started to open it. As I lifted the lid, I received a shock. The most beautiful necklace I ever saw was staring up at me from the bottom of the box. It had a silver chain, and rich teal sapphires cut into triangles and placed in an intricate design. I looked at my mom with tears in my eyes again, “It’s pretty. Thank you, mom.”
“You are very welcome, Moonlit,” she responded, smiling at my reaction.
“Oh oh open mine next, pleeease?” A voice pleaded from behind the other guests. The group was shoved aside as Saber pushed her way up to the front with her large gift. The others only laughed at her silliness as my dad just grumbled under his breath and sighed. “I just managed to snag this one last minute.” She winked at me while waiting for me to reveal what her gift was.
I unwrapped it to find a small wagon that was teal and had a green handle. I squeed and jumped at her knocking both of us to the ground and hugging her. “You remembered!”
“Well yeah. I can’t forget what my favorite little foal wanted for her birthday.”
We sat there giggling as the group slowly went to other activities and the snack table. I finally got up and was pulling Saber with me towards the wagon. “Come on. I want to ride in it.”
I was walking back through the burned village towards the makeshift cemetery I had made. I just wanted this nightmare to end, but I knew that nothing was going to change what happened. This was only one more thing I was going to have to live with. “Maybe I’ll rebuild my house. Or at least find a place that’s still closed to the elements.”
My ears swiveled forward as I suddenly heard a noise. I jumped through the door of a random house and listened. A group a four or five Pegasi flew overhead bringing a thunderstorm to the area. I shrunk away from the door I was hiding behind. ‘Why would there be Pegasi here? Isn’t their kingdom several miles to the south?’ A sudden thunderclap made me jump and cower in a corner as I recalled the last time I heard that sound. Then the rain started and the ground was soon soaked. I cautiously poked my head outside to see if the Pegasi were gone only to jump back in as a bolt of lightning snaked across the sky.
“Alright, Moonlit, get a grip. For all you know it’s just a normal storm. The war might even be over… right?” I told myself as I waited for the storm to pass me by. “Well this is going to get boring fast.”
I headed to one of the bedrooms and found that one of the beds was relatively usable, besides the slight burn marks and dust. At least it had a blanket. I climbed into it and drifted off to sleep…
I was walking through the village. The buildings were on fire and the ponies were running in every direction. I saw my father yelling to the Silver Timberwolves as they all charged out of the village towards the little hill just on the outskirts. I followed them and saw Pegasi waiting to meet their enemy, swords out and resting in their wings. I watched from a distance as the two groups met, their swords flashing and blood flying. I noticed Flash coming to stand alongside her Captain and hold off the Pegasi as the newer recruits were losing their lives, showing everypony how experienced they were on the field of battle.
As I stood looking down at the scene, I observed four strange Pegasi walking towards them. The fighting stopped instantly. I was beginning to wonder why, when three of our recruits rushed the newcomers. The smallest mare, about the size of Saber, unsheathed her two swords and slit all their throats by jumping and swirling in the air. I stood as mortified as the rest of the ponies when she stepped towards them and started to skin them alive. The thing that scared me the most was the fact that she never stopped smiling.
My father snapped out of his trance and sounded the retreat, forcing everyone to turn and flee from the four Pegasi before anything else could happen. I turned and saw that he and Saber went into a nearby alley and, I assumed, waited for the chance to attack. When I turned to look at the four Pegasi, I noticed that they had already killed thirty or forty of the villagers. I was shocked at their brutality and lack of morals, as I witnessed them cutting down their own army who failed to follow their orders. Suddenly, one of the Pegasi jumped into the air with a bag of Unicorn horns that they had recently snapped off, which caused me to feel nauseous, and flew towards the alley my father was hiding in. I saw one of the horns fall from the bag as he started laughing. Then he dumped the rest of the bag and my father and Saber ran from the alley and back towards my house.
I followed them but when Flash was hit by that Pegasi mare, I watched as the other stallion was falling from the sky in slow motion. I tried screaming out but I couldn't make a sound. As the blade reached Flash’s neck, the scene vanished…
I jolted upright in the bed, covered in sweat and breathing heavily. "What was that?"
I was staring at the wall trying to figure out what the dream meant. After deciding that it was just a dream, I got up and stretched, feeling some of my stiff joints popping, and walked back to the front door and peeked out. I immediately noticed that the rain had stopped and the Pegasi were nowhere to be seen. After seeing that it was safe, I walked out and stood facing the sun as it started climbing into the sky. I headed down the road towards my house.
“Why were there Pegasi here, anyway?” I asked no one in particular. “I suppose if we lost the war then the Pegasi would start inhabiting the territory. But I didn’t expect them to do it so soon. Unless… I was asleep longer than I thought.”
Still wrapped up in my thoughts, I almost walked right into a statue that I hadn’t noticed from before the war. I was surprised to find it there, and wondered what it was. As I inspected the bronze statue, which depicted an Earth Pony, I noticed a plaque. The writing on it read:
TAKEN FROM PEGASI CONTROL BY THE EARTH PONIES OF GAIA
THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE QUEEN OF GAIA
THIS 14TH DAY OF THE 3RD MONTH IN THE YEAR 129
“129?” I stared at the date for several minutes. “But… it’s 127! This statue looks like it’s been here for a long time. HOW LONG WAS I ASLEEP?!”
A pony, wearing nothing but a traveler’s cloak and saddle bags filled with food and water, was walking up a hill, hardly straining from the climb and the long walk from the village. Finally at the top of the hill, the pony looked at the ruined village, its eyes shining from beneath its hood.
“I finally arrived. So these are the ‘The Ruins of Tanzanite.’”
The magical bubble I was in popped suddenly and I awoke realizing that I was falling. I flailed my hooves trying to grab hold of anything to break my fall. Hitting the ground, I grunted in pain, “Oof.” I glanced around while slowly getting up. The cellar looked like it hadn’t been used in years. The walls were cracked and slowly crumbling, the stairs were broken, and there was moss growing on the stone floor and walls. I stumbled towards the stairs and inspected them. “I hope they can hold my weight,” I said to myself. Placing a forehoof on the bottom step, I firmly pressed down. It held, but I did hear the distinct sounds of stone crumbling. I plucked up some courage and bolted to the top of the stairs and out the door before looking back down. The stairs fell into dust the moment I was off of them. I sighed in relief that I wasn’t stuck in my own cellar. Looking up, I was shocked by what I saw…
The room I found myself in looked like a kitchen. Well, most of a kitchen. The roof was partially caved in and one of the walls was knocked down. Grass was beginning to grow in from the missing wall, moss covered the cabinets, and everything just looked run down. I walked through the kitchen and noticed stains on the ground. I inspected the rest of the area and found two Unicorn skeletons, partially decaying to dust. I felt tears fall down my face. I didn’t know who these Unicorns were, but it was sad all the same. I walked to the stairs and looked up, noticing that they were relatively intact. I slowly made my way to the next story, gasping when a stair gave out. On the upper floor I noticed two bedrooms, a master bedroom and a guest bedroom. I went into the master bedroom to see if I could find out who had lived here. The bed was broken, blankets in tatters, and dust everywhere. The dust made me cough as I walked through the room. I noticed several broken and charred pictures on the ground. Picking one up in my magic, I saw a smiling family. On the left was a proud dark gray stallion with deep purple eyes looking at a blue mare with rich teal eyes holding a black foal in her forehoof. They were standing in front on what I was certain was the house I was in. Suddenly I dropped the photo in shock and bolted down the hall towards the other bedroom. ‘It couldn’t be true!’
The other bedroom was in ruins, but I still could picture the way it used to be. I saw the bed in the far corner with a black blanket with my own cutie mark, a full moon surrounded by stars, still clearly visible on the burned cloth. I stumbled through the debris, looking around the ruined room. The chest where I had stored my accessories was open and empty. ‘Must’ve been taken while I was asleep,’ I thought sadly. ‘I lost the necklace my mother made for me.’ My eyes blurred again as unshed tears built up in them. I continued to look around my room from the charred curtains, barely covering a hole in the wall, to some tattered clothes scattered about the area. I ran out of my room and down the stairs, not caring if they collapsed or not, and into the hall. ‘Please, no…’ I silently pleaded. Walking slowly into the living room/kitchen area, I saw the two Unicorns again. I looked more closely at them; one leaning up against a support beam and the other on the ground beside the cellar door. The one near the cellar was kind of hard to identify because the skull was flattened like it was crushed by something heavy. The other was missing a rear leg that I noticed a few feet away, with a thin hole sliced through it. Both of their horns were broken off, which must’ve caused them so much pain. I sat there with my head bowed, my tears starting to flow freely as I realized who they were. My father died pinned to the support beam, and my mother died trying to protect the cellar from whoever was trying to get in. I wept for my parents, not being able to tell them I loved them one more time. “Why? You promised me that you were going to be fine. WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?”
I don’t know how long I stayed there crying. It felt like hours, and eventually my tears ran dry. I encased their bodies in my magic and slowly walked out the back door of our home. I spent twenty minutes scraping at the ground, until I had a grave big enough for both of them. I gently laid them down into the hole. As I placed the dirt over them, I whispered, “Goodbye.”
I placed a large stone near the head of the grave and carved into it with my magic. It read:
HERE LIES BLACK NIGHT AND SAPPHIRE RADIANCE
BRAVE, LOYAL, KIND
LOVING PARENTS
I’LL MISS YOU
-MOONLIT
Walking back to the house I noticed the village was in ruins, the town hall partially burned down, and most of the houses were nothing but piles of rubble. The worst part was the bodies of Unicorns scattered all over the ground in groups. It looked like a mass killing had taken place and these remains have been left here forgotten as they slowly rot away with the passage of time. “This is horrible!” I said, tears building in my eyes again. “How long was I asleep in that cellar?”
I realized that it must’ve been years, since most of the dead had little to no skin left. Sadly, I went about cleaning the village and laying all my friends and neighbors to rest. As I worked, I stumbled across a headless skeleton with its head a few hoofsteps away. I examined the body and discovered a cutie mark: two crossed blades. I didn’t think I had any tears left after so much crying already, but learning that my old foalsitter hadn’t escaped either made it seem so surreal. I let loose a few more tears as I picked up her body and carried it to where I was placing the others. Of the ones that still had enough left of them to be identified, I found the Mayor, a market cart pony, a couple soldiers that still had a few pieces of armor, and one of my friends from foalhood.
I began to think that nopony made it out of this village during the attack. So many lives ended. It was tragic. As I neared the end of my daunting task, I ran across a group of foals huddled together trying to hide from what was happening around them. I scooped up their remains and carried them to the others. It took me roughly half a day to bury the whole village, and I was exhausted and depressed when I had finished. The ruined town wasn’t comforting as I walked towards the park, which had relatively remained intact. As I reached the park, I remembered a similar time I came to the park with Flash when I was a filly.
I was walking beside Flash Saber on our way to the park, sometimes running off ahead. “Don’t wander too far, Moonlit,” Saber laughed. “Your father would be rather cross with me if I lost you.”
“Sorry, Saber,” I replied, returning to her side. I looked up at her with a grin on my face.
“And what’s with that face?” She asked.
“Race ya to the park!”
“Hey! Cheat!”
She was laughing as she ran after me, catching up to me just before we entered the park. We stopped next to a lone tree and lay down beside it. “You are one fast filly. I wish I still had a bit of that energy,” Saber said. She chuckled as she looked up at the sky, lost in thought as she watched the clouds swirl against the backdrop of brilliant purple and orange hues of twilight. “Hey, Moonlit,” she said.
“Yes?”
“Your birthday is in a few days, isn’t it?”
“Yes! I’ll be six!” I cried happily.
“Really? Well then I’ll have to get you something,” Saber told me, grinning. “Anything in specific you would want?”
“Hmm… A wagon!”
I was blinking back the tears in my eyes as I sat under the same tree we sat under all those years ago. I placed a hoof on the slightly blackened bark and asked myself, “Had it really been so long ago?”
I sat there looking out at the village trying to imagine what had happened after my parents had placed me under their spell. The last thing I saw of the village was just before the door closed behind my father. Fire. The village was burning and judging from the rest of the ruined town, the fire burned through most of it. The town hall was mostly gone, just a few rooms at the back survived.
‘Two hundred and thirty-five. That’s how many Unicorns lived peacefully here. Now… now there was only me,’ I thought bitterly to myself. A tear rolled down my cheek as I recalled what happened to my mother’s necklace. It was a beautiful gift that day…
“Moonlit, can you come in here, please?” My mom asked from downstairs. Then she whispered to the others in the living room, “Alright, everypony ready?”
I came down the stairs to see what she wanted and I was assaulted by a shout from everyone in the room. “SURPRISE!”
I jumped in shock at the number of ponies crammed into one room. I could barely get out a “Wha-?” before everypony was hugging me and telling me happy birthday. I noticed Flash with an easily recognizable wrapped package and mom and dad had a couple gifts to give me as well. My cousin Glittering Rubi was walking closer to me and grabbed me in a hug. Rubi was a couple years older than I was, with her brilliant red coat and stunning emerald eyes. Her light purple hair wasn’t too long and was held in place with a headband that matched the blue highlight in her tail. She had a gold heart-shaped locket hanging around her neck. I never asked what was in it though. “Don’t just stand there. It’s your birthday. Talk with everypony, and enjoy it.”
She floated over a present for me in her magic which was unsurprisingly a ruby color. I took the odd shaped gift and started to unwrap it. Sitting there in my hooves was a middle-sized fire ruby. I stared at it, shocked. I had never received a gift like this before and I loved it. I tackled my cousin to the floor, with tears in my eyes, saying, “Thank you, Rubi. I love it.”
My parents laughed at the scene I caused and soon everyone was joining in. I got up, not even the slightest bit embarrassed, and was soon in the arms of my grandmother, Crystal Venatici. She had light purple fur and topaz eyes. Her mane was a pale blue that faded to white tips but her tail had full white strands. She had a red-orange bead necklace on as well. Completing her look were the blue glasses she wore. “Now where do you think you’re off to, missy? I haven’t seen you in such a long time.”
“Granny Crystal!” I embraced her as well, before looking around at all the smiling faces that were around me. “Can I open more presents, Grandma?” I pleaded with wide eyes.
“Well I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to. It is your special day after all,” she said, smiling at me. “Why don’t you open your mother’s gift next? I hear she made it especially for you.”
“Mother!” Radiance scolded playfully from across the room as a tightly wrapped parcel floated towards me. “Don’t spoil the surprises.”
I looked at the gift I was presented and started to open it. As I lifted the lid, I received a shock. The most beautiful necklace I ever saw was staring up at me from the bottom of the box. It had a silver chain, and rich teal sapphires cut into triangles and placed in an intricate design. I looked at my mom with tears in my eyes again, “It’s pretty. Thank you, mom.”
“You are very welcome, Moonlit,” she responded, smiling at my reaction.
“Oh oh open mine next, pleeease?” A voice pleaded from behind the other guests. The group was shoved aside as Saber pushed her way up to the front with her large gift. The others only laughed at her silliness as my dad just grumbled under his breath and sighed. “I just managed to snag this one last minute.” She winked at me while waiting for me to reveal what her gift was.
I unwrapped it to find a small wagon that was teal and had a green handle. I squeed and jumped at her knocking both of us to the ground and hugging her. “You remembered!”
“Well yeah. I can’t forget what my favorite little foal wanted for her birthday.”
We sat there giggling as the group slowly went to other activities and the snack table. I finally got up and was pulling Saber with me towards the wagon. “Come on. I want to ride in it.”
I was walking back through the burned village towards the makeshift cemetery I had made. I just wanted this nightmare to end, but I knew that nothing was going to change what happened. This was only one more thing I was going to have to live with. “Maybe I’ll rebuild my house. Or at least find a place that’s still closed to the elements.”
My ears swiveled forward as I suddenly heard a noise. I jumped through the door of a random house and listened. A group a four or five Pegasi flew overhead bringing a thunderstorm to the area. I shrunk away from the door I was hiding behind. ‘Why would there be Pegasi here? Isn’t their kingdom several miles to the south?’ A sudden thunderclap made me jump and cower in a corner as I recalled the last time I heard that sound. Then the rain started and the ground was soon soaked. I cautiously poked my head outside to see if the Pegasi were gone only to jump back in as a bolt of lightning snaked across the sky.
“Alright, Moonlit, get a grip. For all you know it’s just a normal storm. The war might even be over… right?” I told myself as I waited for the storm to pass me by. “Well this is going to get boring fast.”
I headed to one of the bedrooms and found that one of the beds was relatively usable, besides the slight burn marks and dust. At least it had a blanket. I climbed into it and drifted off to sleep…
I was walking through the village. The buildings were on fire and the ponies were running in every direction. I saw my father yelling to the Silver Timberwolves as they all charged out of the village towards the little hill just on the outskirts. I followed them and saw Pegasi waiting to meet their enemy, swords out and resting in their wings. I watched from a distance as the two groups met, their swords flashing and blood flying. I noticed Flash coming to stand alongside her Captain and hold off the Pegasi as the newer recruits were losing their lives, showing everypony how experienced they were on the field of battle.
As I stood looking down at the scene, I observed four strange Pegasi walking towards them. The fighting stopped instantly. I was beginning to wonder why, when three of our recruits rushed the newcomers. The smallest mare, about the size of Saber, unsheathed her two swords and slit all their throats by jumping and swirling in the air. I stood as mortified as the rest of the ponies when she stepped towards them and started to skin them alive. The thing that scared me the most was the fact that she never stopped smiling.
My father snapped out of his trance and sounded the retreat, forcing everyone to turn and flee from the four Pegasi before anything else could happen. I turned and saw that he and Saber went into a nearby alley and, I assumed, waited for the chance to attack. When I turned to look at the four Pegasi, I noticed that they had already killed thirty or forty of the villagers. I was shocked at their brutality and lack of morals, as I witnessed them cutting down their own army who failed to follow their orders. Suddenly, one of the Pegasi jumped into the air with a bag of Unicorn horns that they had recently snapped off, which caused me to feel nauseous, and flew towards the alley my father was hiding in. I saw one of the horns fall from the bag as he started laughing. Then he dumped the rest of the bag and my father and Saber ran from the alley and back towards my house.
I followed them but when Flash was hit by that Pegasi mare, I watched as the other stallion was falling from the sky in slow motion. I tried screaming out but I couldn't make a sound. As the blade reached Flash’s neck, the scene vanished…
I jolted upright in the bed, covered in sweat and breathing heavily. "What was that?"
I was staring at the wall trying to figure out what the dream meant. After deciding that it was just a dream, I got up and stretched, feeling some of my stiff joints popping, and walked back to the front door and peeked out. I immediately noticed that the rain had stopped and the Pegasi were nowhere to be seen. After seeing that it was safe, I walked out and stood facing the sun as it started climbing into the sky. I headed down the road towards my house.
“Why were there Pegasi here, anyway?” I asked no one in particular. “I suppose if we lost the war then the Pegasi would start inhabiting the territory. But I didn’t expect them to do it so soon. Unless… I was asleep longer than I thought.”
Still wrapped up in my thoughts, I almost walked right into a statue that I hadn’t noticed from before the war. I was surprised to find it there, and wondered what it was. As I inspected the bronze statue, which depicted an Earth Pony, I noticed a plaque. The writing on it read:
TAKEN FROM PEGASI CONTROL BY THE EARTH PONIES OF GAIA
THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE QUEEN OF GAIA
THIS 14TH DAY OF THE 3RD MONTH IN THE YEAR 129
“129?” I stared at the date for several minutes. “But… it’s 127! This statue looks like it’s been here for a long time. HOW LONG WAS I ASLEEP?!”
A pony, wearing nothing but a traveler’s cloak and saddle bags filled with food and water, was walking up a hill, hardly straining from the climb and the long walk from the village. Finally at the top of the hill, the pony looked at the ruined village, its eyes shining from beneath its hood.
“I finally arrived. So these are the ‘The Ruins of Tanzanite.’”
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Thought I would upload another chapter in case anyone wants to read my story. Please let me know how it was in the comments.
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