Chapter Thirteen – Remembering the past

Pasta was thrown back in his cell after he heard those words from Skywing. He covered his face with his hooves and thought about what had happened to her.

"Did that Celestia princess brainwash her?" thought Pasta. "Or did she replace her DNA in some sort of way?"

He just didn't want to think about it. He was getting tired again and knew eventually he was going to be too sleepy to do anything.

He looked around with his hooves covered in magical cuffs. There was one direction which he hadn't looked at... up.

There was a small window with bars on the ceiling with a very small amount of skylight hitting the room and the dark and rotten clouds were also visible.

His wings were also cuffed with magic.

"I have to climb?" thought Pasta. "Great, this is so great."

Although he knew he couldn't do it, he realized too soon that his legs were left uncuffed.

"Alright, here we go." thought Pasta, putting his legs wall to wall, eagerly jumping while trying not to fall to his death from such height. There was one jump left before he was at the window now. He took a last leap of faith and jumped. His legs hit the final wall and he immediately broke the window using his magic.

He jumped through and looked around the world that was looking back at him.

"Oh my word." said Pasta silently. "I've gotta talk to these ponies.. once I'm rid of these cuffs."

He thought what he saw wasn't reality. He was seeing paradise, bontiful houses and ponies whom lived completely indepentently.

"Let me, try." said Pasta. He lit up his horn and aimed it at his hooves, he knew he would live more pain by doing this but it was the only way. He fired a blast and the cuffs broke. Although it was very loud that everypony was looking at that direction and the alarms went off.

"What was that?" asked a female unicorn.

"I don't know." said a male unicorn.

MEANWHILE AT THE CASTLE

"The outsider has escaped your highness!" said a guard to Celestia.

"Send a search party and find him at all costs." said Celestia. "I don't even care about anything you say, you will do it."

"Yes, your highness." said the guard.

A lot of guards went outside. Local ponies showed where the sound came from and they went to search over there.

Pasta was at a corner nearing the limits of the area.

"I think I'm safe." thought Pasta.

"Hey, you!" said a guard from a roof. "You're the outsider."

"Oh come on!" thought Pasta, he took a step and was shot by the guard.

He was now wounded from his hoof and couldn't walk without feeling intense pain.

"Guys!" shouted the guard. "I've caught him! He's over here!"

But when he turned around.. Pasta had long gone.

Pasta was near the castle now, he flought up to the window, doing his best to not attract the attention of the guards below and the guards on the towers.

He slowly made his way near Skywing's window and looked through. Skywing was sleeping.

"Oh." thought Pasta. "She's so cute."

He moved his hoof towards the window and a slight noise came out as he touched it. A guard looked, although he didn't see anything so he went back to overwatching the front.

"Close call." thought Pasta, standing below the window.

He used his magic and the only thing he had now was hope. The window moved higher, and higher, and it was now open enough for Pasta to fit through. Very slowly, he crawled through the window and closed it.

Skywing was moving in her bed and she looked scared.

"Is she having a dream?" thought Pasta.

Suddenly, she woke up, taking a big breath. Pasta looked terrified, he was caught.

"Uh, hi?" said Pasta.

Skywing looked frozen and Pasta did come to the sense of a hundred guards being near her door.

"Come on, Skywing." said Pasta. "Don't you remember me? Reisk, the dream. Any of it?"

"I know you still know me, I made you a promise that I would find you, all those years ago." said Pasta.

Pasta came closer and looked at her surprised face.

"What is up with her?" thought Pasta.

"Pasta, is it really, you?" asked Skywing.

"It's me." said Pasta. "Look, I'm sorry I took thousands of years to find you but.."

"Uhh, Skywing are you okay?" asked Pasta.

"You shouldn't be here." said Skywing. "It's not safe."

"What dream were you having?" asked Pasta.

"I, remembered my parents deaths." said Skywing. "Sorry, it was just so tragic."

"Look, I'm sorry." said Pasta. "But I'm here now, and it's different."

"The princess." said Skywing. "Celestia, you saw her right?"

"I did, looks like the boss of every guard around here?" said Pasta.

"Pasta, she won't let me go out of this room." said Skywing. "I don't know if I want to live anymore or not."

"Come on, Sky." said Pasta. "There's always hope in life. You just have to wait for it to happen. I promised I would come back to you and I did so."

"And I'm grateful." said Skywing. "Wait, we were running away together aren't we?"

"And we can do that right now!" said Pasta.

"But what if they notice?" said Skywing. "They won't rest until they find us."

"Just come Sky." said Pasta. "We can even live in burnt lands if we have to, let's just leave this place."

"Okay, let me get my things quick." said Skywing.

"Alright." said Pasta.

"Okay, let's go." said Skywing. "But wait, how do we go?"

"Window." said Pasta.

"I'm.. I'm kind of afraid of heights such as this." said Skywing.

"Don't worry, I'll help you." said Pasta.

"Okay.." said Skywing, taking a deep leap of faith.

"Come, take my hoof." said Pasta.

"It's so high." said Skywing.

"It's fine." said Pasta. "Fly like you normally do and follow me, I'll hold you if you fall."

"Okay.." said Skywing, trying her best.

Skywing looked down and was going to scream but her mouth was covered by Pasta's hoof.

"Shush." whispered Pasta.

"Okay." Skywing whispered back.

Pasta took Skywing in his hooves and helped her fly to the forest.

"Look, that sign." said Pasta.

The sign said

DANGER!

YOU'RE ENTERING THE EVERFREE FOREST!

"What can be so dangerous?" said Pasta and looked back. "Oh no, Sky. I see guards flying to your window, we need to move!"

"Pasta, I must go back, I can't let you get caught again." said Skywing.

"Sky, no!" said Pasta as Skywing flought back, surprising the guards.

"Hello guards, I was just flying around the castle, I wanted to practice." said Skywing.

"I can't be brave for any longer, I'm gonna sweat!" thought Skywing.

"Oh, okay." said one of the guards. "We still have to inform your mother though."

"That's fine." said Skywing and flought back into her room.

"Sky, no!" thought Pasta. "She'll punish you!"

Without wanting to attract the attention of any more guards, Pasta flew directly into the forest.

"This place is dark." thought Pasta. "Although I still wonder why it's so dangerous."

A growling noise came from somewhere. And more noises followed it.

"What the?" thought Pasta. "What's going on?"

Just then, a timberwolf showed up from the darkness, and two more followed the first one from behind.

"Uh oh!" thought Pasta. "What'll I do now?"

He knew it would make a noise and wake up the entirety of citizens once more, but he lit his horn and fired a huge wave of beams, all of the timberwolves got destroyed at once.

"I need to hide!" thought Pasta, he quickly dug some dirt and grabbed the grass, then he layered them back on top of himself. "Oh, it smells so stinky in here."

Guards immediately looked around everywhere in the forest, including trees and the only thing they saw was the wood left from the timberwolves' corpses.

"Good luck guards." thought Pasta.

THAT NIGHT

Celestia was walking to Skywing's door, and right as she arrived, she lit up her horn and broke down Skywing's door.

"Skywing, did you go outside?" asked Celestia with an enraged tone.

"Yes." said Skywing.

"Have I given you any permission to do so?" said Celestia. "I haven't. And tell me, why did you go outside?!"

"I wanted to practice flying." said Skywing.

"Stop lying!" said Celestia. "I saw what happened! Guards were sneaking into your window while you were escaping with the outsider, then you came back to not attract attention."

"But mom.." said Skywing, getting interrupted of her sentence.

"I don't wanna hear it!" shouted Celestia. "If you go out of this castle once more, I'll make sure the outsider dies. Mark my words."

"Oh no, Pasta." thought Skywing.

Pasta was sleeping, inside dirt.. meanwhile Skywing was trying to remember the spell she used to interact with his dreams.

Pasta saw darkness in his dream. He again, couldn't move and all he could really do was look at the darkness.

"The forest." thought Pasta. "No."

"Pasta, help me!" shouted Skywing, running to him. Growls followed her.

"I can't!" said Pasta. "I can't move!"

"Help me, Pasta!" Skywing was screaming with thousands of timberwolves following her. One of them, opened his mouth and placed Skywing on his tongue.

"Don't!" shouted Pasta.

The timberwolf closed his mouth, chewed and swallowed.

"No!" shouted Pasta, trying to free himself. Then lights appeared around him, he thought he was being warped between space and time but then, he landed on stars and galaxies were visible. He could move again, and a hoof touched him from behind.

"Pasta." said a voice.

Pasta turned back, and saw her, Skywing was standing right there, he hugged her so hard.

"Ow, Pasta I can't breathe!" said Skywing.

"Sorry!" said Pasta.

"I found the spell Pasta!" said Skywing. "I'm in your dream!"

"Really?" said Pasta. "You did?"

"Yes!" said Skywing. "I wanted to tell you something."

Skywing's happy face turned sad.

"Celestia punished me." said Skywing. "She said that, if I go out again, she will make sure you're dead, and also she saw us."

"That's not good." said Pasta.

"Pasta, my mom's coming into my room, I have to go, I'll have to wake you up!" said Skywing and cancelled the dream.

Pasta opened up his eyes and saw the dirt on top of him.

To be continued...