Chapter 9

She gazed around the silver platter of rusted homes, feeling welcome once again. The hills were especially fresh today with a nice hue added to them as she noticed. Chaos triumphed throughout the distinctly inaccurate architecture of the land. Twilight took a gander at all there was to see, her eyes started to sparkle and grow large.

"Oh how I missed you so much!" She screamed psychotically, yet none of the ponies seemed to care. She tumbled down the hill as fast as she could, tackling the tiled ground and trying to give it a big hug.

"Come here you, hahaha" She started to roll over on her side and laugh. Twilight suddenly snapped back and remembered what she had to do.

"Discord! Right… can't get off topic" she said relieving a breath of stressed air. The sky began to grow cold and bitter from the black clouds blocking the sun. Shivers ran down Twilight's mane, with memories rushing back into her mind.

"*shivers* I… n..need to get.. b.b.b..back t…t..t..o Applejack!" She said struggling to keep herself warm. The breeze chilled more and more as the clouds stirred. They twisted and turned in an unpredictable dance of torture. Each waking moment of their movements toned the temperature to an unpleasant chill. Twilight got herself off the ground as fast as she could and started running to where she last remembered Applejack's home being. With a glance of her eye, she noticed Lyra and Berrypunch arguing over the last basket of apples left.

"H… how c…c..can you two arg…argue at a.. t…time like t…his" Twilight said desperately clinging to herself for warmth.

"Well I was happily enjoying my day when THIS little prick tripped over me. She should have known better than that!" Lyra said without a single stutter from the cold.

"Me? I was the one minding my own business; you're the one who should watch where you walk!" Berrypunch said with an angry tone. They both didn't seem to mind the cold, even if the droplets of warm air froze before them in a haze. Twilight quit her shivering momentarily noticing the 2 girl's cutie marks. Lyra's was a Baseball bat and a Baseball, while Berrypunch's was an open bottle of wine. The 2 kept fighting and bickering at each other while twilight starred with confusion.

"Right… yeah… well I… I'll J.. Just B..e going n…n… now." Twilight said as she started to run. While she got her footing on the freezing cold ground, Lyra decided she was done arguing with the drunk.

"Yah well maybe if you stopped drinking so much you could see where you tripped!" Lyra said as she trotted away. As Twilight was starting to run, she collided into Lyra and fell on the floor face first. Her head pounded from pain, but she got back up and started running again.

"You can't just trip over me then run! Get back here you little tramp!" Lyra said with an angry show of emotion. She started to become infuriated and raged at twilight, swinging her hoof around. She ran as fast as she could away from the raging Lyra towards applejack's place. She continued to run till her hooves became sore, her stomach churning, and her lungs in major pain. She stopped for a moment to catch her breath, only to notice the area of cold was gone.

"It's not cold anymore… what could have c-" Twilight said before she paused in shock. The entire farm was split into sections of floating matter. Each section from the barn to the home was completely separated from each other. They levitated at least 10 feet length wise from each other, varying on height greatly. She looked down the edge of the rock, but her expectations were proved wrong yet again.

"The bottom, it's filled with smog as well!" Twilight slightly shocked at the sight of entire land piece being one big floating rock in a bundle of smoke. She shook herself out of it and refocused herself again at the big picture.

"I have to get to Applejack; it's my only hope at finding the truth!" She said, standing proudly with an arrogant smirk reaching up to her twitchy eye. She took a look around every nook and corner of the floating rocks to find an open piece of feasible land. None seemed to be in her radius, until one of them mysteriously floated towards her in an offering gesture. The land piece held itself out in a kind and courteous manner, waiting for Twilight's response. It sat slightly underneath where she stood, about 3 feet away.

"It's only a couple feet away, I can still make it!" She said as she hopped in a complete circle with a slightly out of sync pace. The rock was there, the opportunity was there, Twilight had to make her move. If she didn't make this jump, all hope of finding her way to Discord would be forever lost. With a slow pacing backwards, she prepared herself for one of the riskiest moves she would have to make.

"Ok… on the count of 3, I move, got that? Good." She said with a nervous swiveling breath respiring from her lungs.

"Alright you lazy bum, let's go! 1… 2…. 3…GO!" She ran as fast as her hooves have ever gone before. The pure rush of adrenaline fueled her fury as she ran like a steroid pumped bull. Her life moved at a crawl with life flashing before her eyes. Everything came down to this one moment, where she would risk it all to find what she needs. Her hooves blurred past in a fury, her heart raced, it was time to jump! She made the Jump, letting the demonic clouds flow by her as she fell to the will of gravity.

"Applejack!" She roared as her vengeance showed no limits. The cruel hands of gravity got a hold of twilight and brought her down with an aggressive pull. She fell near the rock piece and grabbed onto the edge in a desperate attempt to resist the urges of gravity. Her life was almost over, just hanging on by the threads.

"I… will NOT…. GIVE IN!" She moved herself inch by inch slowly onto the piece of unearthly rock, grasping her back hooves to the tangible land beneath her. Her adrenaline was still kicked in, which kept her hanging onto dear life. Twilight made progress in climbing up the rock, but another problem was there. The rock began to tip, losing its core balance.

"no… NO!" Twilight screamed at the top of her lungs in a panic state desperately trying to get up. The rock tilted more and more, taking her down to another unoccupied grave with her name on it. Fate was out to get her; there was no turning back for the purple mare. She grasped and grasped, but the rock only tilted more and more. She slid off the rock into the dark and dusky fate that she was destined to meet. Gravity had finally grabbed a hold of her; she will now meet him personally.