Order, Harmony, And Chaos
Chapter 10: Lies That Obstruct Sight.
(Chapter 10! this is a freaking milestone! Thanks to everyone who has kept with this fanfiction! Now for tenth chapter party. *gets out bucket of candy and party hat* YAY! ONLY FIVE MORE TO GO UNTIL ANOTHER ANIVERSARRY! WHOO!
Oh.. and to Kowalister Fanatic... The reason I have a bunch of grammatical errors and stuff is the fact i'm writing this fic on word pad, Which doesn't have spell check. :c)
After Applejack accepted Order's challenge, she found herself standing in a long corridor, Completely gray. She surveyed to passage, looking up and down it. It stretched in either direction for as far as she could see. She spent some time standing there, and was about to take a step when Order's voice echoed up and down the halls eerily.
"The first of three challenges... This one is the most straight forward of them all...The other's do not utilize Order such as this... " he said. "There is almost a 0% chance that you will actually suceed at this...And if you do, then you and your friends will still not succeed...It is inevitable. But I always believe in a fair chance...Even if the chance is less than zero. Why do you think I scattered your pitiful elements so? But enough of my thoughts. The first challenge will now begin. My only hint is for you is that you need to get to the end of this corridor. There will be a door to the next challenge. We begin now."
A large grinding noise was heard, and the wall quickly backed up behind Applejack, pushing her forward. She scrapped her hooves along the ground, trying to slow her travel down the gray hall. The wall continued on like this for a few minutes, until Applejack was shoved into A circular room. She looked around herself.
"What the hay is this?" She asked aloud. Her voice echoed around the hallways. She looked behind her. Instead of seeing just a flat wall, she saw the passage still stretching into infinity in front of her.
"What the hay? There was a wall there a second ago!" She decided to try walking down it, but immediately crashed into a wall. "The hell?" she said this time, getting a bit angry at the wall. She tapped her hooves agaisnt it, seeing if she could push through. She was then about to charge into it, But before she could attempt it, But the ground of the room lit up with a dull light. Text began to carve itself into the middle of the room. Applejack ran up to it, following the text with the hooves as she read.
"To find the hall of truth to the door of truth, speak the truth." And then, as quickly as the text appeared, It dissapeared.
"The hay..." She thought yet again about the strange halls. Applejack looked at the halls that stemmed from the room. There were six, going into every direction. Applejack went to the one left to her. This one two looked like a clear empty hallway. But she didn't want to take any chances. Instead of going straight into it like the other one, She moved her hooves towards it slowly, to see if there was a block on it too. She touched her hooves against cold stone. She sighed. She tried the next, the next, the next one after that, until she had checked every passage. All of them were blocked. She thought about the words on the door.
"To find the hall of truth to the door of truth, speak the truth." Applejack realized what this meant now. She walked in front of one of the halls.
"My name is Applejack!" She said boldly. She cringed, waiting for something to happen. Something did. It morphed from a clear looking hallway, to stone. With a single word on it.
"The" It said very plainly in the script from the hall before. She moved from that one to the next.
"My name is Applejack!" she said again, louder. It did the same, turning into a wall, another word was etched onto it.
"Truth." Applejack became excited, going from entrance to entrance, Saying her name. She looked around the hallway.
"The truth is a dangerous thing."
"What does that mean?" She said. She then read the words out loud. "The truth is a dangerous thing?" She then heard a giant scrapping noise, as the stone walls of each hall receded. Each was plain like the ones from before. She walked around to see if there was a difference, or some sort of indication of which one she should go down. She closed her eyes, spun, and pointed at a hall. She walked up to it, and was about to step down it when she felt heat rising from the floor, as if it were on fire. She faltered and backed up quickly. It was time to tell another truth. She faced the hall.
"My name is Applejack.." She said. Nothing happened. "...And I come from Ponyville." The floor dissapeared and she saw lava under it, bubbling and shifting, burning the sides of the walls. She went to each one, Repeating it.
"My name is Applejack, and I come from Ponyville!" The hallways showed different horrors each. One had a spike trap, another had no bottom, just a pit going on and on and on. She reached the last hall, one that she hadn't checked yet.
"My name is Applejack, and I come from Ponyville!" She said with confidence. Instead of some sort of death trap beneath her, The hall turned to a smooth bed of gray colored grass. She walked across it, It crunching beneath her feet. It seemed to go on and on, Until she reached a field. When she saw the end, She ran excitedly, happy to finally see the end of the hall.
She reached the field, and stood there panting for a few moments. The field drew up to a large door, set in the stone of the wall.
"Yes! I did it!" Applejack said excitedly. But before she could move to open it, Order's voice rung around in her head.
"You seemed to have passed this challenge. Now on to the next. This one is very simple. Open this door." Applejack shrugged. It seemed simple enough, but order probably had a trick up his sleeve. She went up to the door.
It was large, ornate, and made entirely out of the same gray stone. She looked up at it in awe. And of course, it was as symmetrical as the other entrance was. She shrugged.
"Seems simple enough!" She said brightly. She carefully lifted a hoof to push the door. And the moment she did, It was almost as if all of Equestrian hell broke loose.
Shadowy shapes lunged from the door, along with monstorus birds, Applejack had barely any time to react to it. She ran back, almost going back into the hallway. The shapes flowed around her, screaming and making terrible noises. But somehow, even though they were on every side, She didn't feel anything, no pain, not even the brush of their bodies next to her.
"Hey...You're not real...Not real at all!" She yelled to the shapes that passed around her. Almost immediately they dissapeared from around her, Even the door dissapeared, leaving a blank and empty space. Order's voice came again.
"It seems as if you might make it. But no matter. You and your friends will never make it. Excuse me...But that is the truth..." Applejack looked around defiantly.
"I will get through this! just you watch!" She then ran into the door, not caring what happened next.
She free-falled through empty space, until she hit the ground. She lay in grass, green and healthy. Applejack looked around to see where she could be where the grass could still be green. She looked up, taking in the trees, the bountiful plant life.
"The Everfree forest! Why am I here?" She asked aloud. "Maybe my friends are here!" She said excitedly. "Oh, and I guess Discord too.." Apple jack ran over a hill, and saw the party standing around some columns, which Order stood atop of. The group stared at Order in reverance. Order caught AppleJack's eyes.
"Ah...So you've come. Yet another one to add to my collection of subjects." He said indifferently. Apple jack stared him down.
"I'm not another one of your subjects, and I never will be!" She said defiantly. Order laughed.
"How funny! the Element of Honesty telling a lie." He waved one of his hands at the group surrounding him. They turned around and their eyes bored straight into Applejack. Each one of them had terrible, evil red eyes.
"Attack! Attack the one who does not follow! Attack the one who resents Order!" They chanted in a creepy, hollow voice. Applejack backed up. She wasn't prepared to face her friends. Twilight sparkle dived for her first. Applejack was prepared, and her years of bucking apples were about to pay off. Just as Twilight sparkle looked like she was going to pierce her chest with her horn, Applejack twisted around and kicked Twilight sparkle in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her. She hoped that she wouldn't cause too much damage. Twilight Sparkle flew away, and crashed into Rainbow dash, who was about to prepare an aerial attack.
Discord and Flim attacked next. Flim was easy to shake off, and she didn't feel much remorse when he flew away, screaming in pain. Discord was harder to take care of. He made dives and snatches, and even cut her forehead with his claws, putting a rip into her hat. She held it tight to her head, as she kicked Discord in the jaw.
"Damn it..." She said. The wound began to bleed profusely, clouding up her vision. Hot blood flowed into her mouth as she tried to jump away from Discord's next attack. And not only the wound, but she had cut her favorite hat. She dueled with Discord for a bit, jumping and kicking as hard as she could, and was able to finally kick him away, Yet again she didn't have any problem with hitting him hard, But the others she still didn't want to hurt at all, still making the blows on the others softer... and softer... and softer, until it was little taps and slaps, as each time she worried for her friends more and more. After a bit of dueling, she realized something.
"None of this can be real! This is just another one of Order's projections!" This seemed to speak the truth. The forest backdrop dissapeared, and she found herself outside of the door from the beginning, her friends sitting around her completely unharmed. Even the cut on her head that was throbbing and bleeding earlier had healed up.
"No! Survived! NOOO!" Order's voice echoed in her ears again, but that was the last time that it would happen. She ran to her friends, happy to be reunited.
"What happened to you guys?" She asked excitedly, pulling Twilight sparkle and her friends to her feet. They all seemed a bit dazed.
"I don't know!" Said Twilight sparkle. "You were there one moment, and then gone the next! nothing happened after that. You just reappared, and we were out here." Celestia walked over.
"You were gone for a while. We explored the castle ruins for a bit..." she said. They all gathered around in a tight group.
"Where do we go next?" asked Rainbow dash impatiently. "What does it say next on the note?" Celestia used her magic and drew the note out of Pinkie pie's hair, which made a 'pop' sound after it exited. She read over it, then faced the group.
"It says that next that Kindness is in the sea." She looked out over the mountain tops. "That's a good 50 miles from here..." She said. Everyone's eyes widened.
"On hoof?" Pinkie pie asked. "That would take days!" Celestia nodded.
"IT's going to take a very long time...A very, very, long time.
(Ahaha! it ended. I really want some reviews and stuff, just to help me improve, I'm just 13 and need the help! please please please please! :3)