Chapter 3: Void Spells and other tricks of the mind.
Wanderer's POV
A journey is always long no matter how you think about it, but when you walk that path with someone else, it then feels like a shorter one. We were still walking down our path before I noticed a person or pony was following (I could tell because they rustled the bush they were hiding behind.
"Come out, or I will attack," I said in a fierce tone. It was a pony, but not one that Ditzy or I would have expected. It was Dinky who followed us into the wasteland of Equestria, but she wasn't accompanied by any pony which surprised me, because even she should've known she was at risk of being captured again.
"WH-what are you doing here Dinky!? I thought I told you to stay with Cheerilee until I came back." It's so much fun to watch a mom scold her child.
"Well I just missed you and I didn't want to stay at the school because Miss Cheerilee is making us do our homework while this whole human thing is going on."
Before she could say anything else, wild humans appear for an ambush they planned for ponies and bronies. I looked at them sternly and said "Well, don't you have impeccable timing? Ditzy, cover Dinky's eyes!" I move the hair covering my left eye (which looks more like a snake's eye with a blood red iris) and stared each one of them down. The effect of my left eye is summoning Death to come over to someone I stare at and slice them in half, but it's taxing to my strength (meaning if I target a lot of people I lose a significant amount of energy). All the humans fell down in half the condition they were a few seconds ago (terrible joke, I know).
Ditzy's POV
I covered Dinky's eyes and my own in fear of what Wanderer was going to do to the humans. When I heard the last human go down, I uncovered my eyes, and couldn't believe what I saw. Every human was lying on the floor with guts and spines exposed, and Wanderer was moving all of their bodies using-some sort of magic-behind a bush so that neither Dinky nor I could see what happened, but I saw what happened and decided to question him.
When he was done, he looked back to me and Dinky and said, "That escalated quickly… you can uncover her eyes now Ditzy." He got this look of shock when I told what I knew about what he did. "Y-You saw that!? OH I DIDN'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!" He then leaned towards me and asked, "Your daughter didn't see it, right? I didn't want to make her innocence get lost, because of a void spell." He started hitting himself and calling himself an idiot.
"H-Hey, she didn't see any of it, alright?" I started to wonder if HIS innocence was being lost because of a little filly watching the horror he put the humans through. "What's wrong with you, I mean you were alright when I saw that, but not her…"
"Yeah, well what if YOU had to see all of this when you were but a simple child minding her own business!?" He really got hung up on this fact that he even stamped on the ground before I said anything else and stood against a tree and took deep breaths.
"Wanderer, let's stop talking about this and figure out what to do about this little filly," I said firmly while he just leaned against the tree.
He eventually got a grip on himself and said, "You're right… but I don't think she'll stay in Ponyville if we send her there, because of how stubborn she is to have followed us all this way, so…" I was figuring where he was getting with this, "I'm sorry, but we may have to take her with us to Canterlot if we want her to not try and follow us when we send her back to Ponyville." (Start music-AAI: ME~ Crisis of fate
Ditzy: OBJECTION!
"She'd be better off at home where some pony is capable of taking care of her," I said sternly, but Wanderer didn't flinch to my remark.
"She's more likely to follow her idol, and that idol is you." He was confident about his own remark and added, "My guess is that you don't want her near the heart of darkness, but she'll follow and help her mother as much she can
Ditzy: OBJECTION!
"But she can't follow her mother into a battle, because she could die with me!"
Dinky: OBJECTION! (Stop music here)
"Is that all you care about? I want to stay with you no matter what, like Wanderer said. I really just want to be with you, because I don't want to be all alone with someone else." She started to cry about this and angrily continued, (Author: start music- PW:AA:T&T~ Recollection-Scenery where the hazy bridge is seen) "You've played with that Doctor and are always out delivering letters, and I never get to see you enough at home."
Wanderer's POV
Seeing the daughter scold the mother is the reverse feeling of mother scolding daughter for me, but I had to say something to stop this dramatic tension between the family members. "We can't decide for her now Ditzy," I said in a sad tone. Before I continued I grabbed my backpack strap and glumly said, "So since she has decided to stay with mother forevermore, it's your choice now." She gave a confused look before I went on, "It's simple your choice; either go back to Ponyville and stay there with your daughter, or… keep following me in my attempt to save this world from destruction. The choice is yours now; decide the fate of you and your daughter in one fell swoop…"
She was shaken up from stress, so I bought time for her. "It seems that you need more time to decide what to do, though." I said with a more happy tone, "Let's set up camp and decide in the morning." She agreed and we both set up the tent, and I had to sit out in the rain while she thought all night. "What was her answer?" You suspicious people say.
That I can't reveal… yet.
TO BE CONTINUED…