" so that little filly..." Said twilight. " that little filly right there... Resting on your back... That little filly is the lady of the dark who blinded you... And speaking of that, how are you able to see now anyway?" She asked as we ran up the staircase of the dungeon and burst through into the castle. I was expecting a crowd, but there was nopony here which was good.
" yeah, I figured that I've got something's to explain." I said.
" you got that right..." Said martukus who had thunder dropped over his back. Thunder was still out and beaten pretty badly, but he will be fine.
" well, that arrow I took to the neck knocked me out." I said leading my friends through the castle slowly. " I was woken up by an old mare named Alba Roza, who is the spirit healer we were talking about. Apparently she sensed me and was out looking for me. She healed me and now I'm all better." I said smiling. Just then we entered a large open room with large pillars and columns rushing down from the roof a ceiling. When we got in there there was a group of bandits all with bows and arrows holding them aimed and heady. They let off the first volley and we dodged out of the way. We each hid behind one of the collumns and we found ourself in a standoff.
" yeah that's great now what about the kid." Said martukus as arrows whirled by the columns. He placed thunder down behind a column to keep him safe and leaned over to fire a bolt of magic at the bandits. It whirled through the air and burst on impact killing at least three bandits.
" this is also Alba Roza." I said. " don't question me now, I'll explain it later. " basically we've got work to do before we head off to the mountain and find the portal."
" great..." Said twilight rolling her eyes. She peaked around the corner of the column and shot a magic bolt from her horn. She's been getting good because the bolt broke through one of the think marble collumns and the whole thing came down killing at least four bandits. I pearled over for a clear shot and fired a magical bolt from I front of me. It lined up perfectly with three bandits for a double collateral. I smiled and ducked back behind cover. I was a little close to the edge and an arrow whirled through the air and snared me on my upper part of my left arm. I let out a grunt of pain and just ignored it for the time being. Alba was hiding behind a large urn close to the column I was hiding behind. She looked at me and I just smiled.
" you know, this is going nowhere fast..." Said martukus.
" I agree..." I said. With that I leaned out from behind my cover and let out a fierce shout. Spikes of dark magic broke up form the ground and tore the room apart in front of us. I did over exceed myself for a second and the spikes tore past the room and into the next and then soon broke out of the castle and tore down the entire middle of the town. That probably shocked and killed a few bandits. " heh... A bit much." I said once the magic finally settled and all that was left was a crumbling building around us. The whole path that my shadows traveled down was torn and broken.
" rolling out the red carpet huh..." Siam martukus grabbing thunder again who was barely conscious. I grabbed alba and she sat down on my back and we went onward.
" more like throwing the black carpet at some ponies face." I said smiling. Martukus chuckled and twilight smiled. We ran down the large scar I just tore in the town. We finally got out of the castle and I saw that the blast tore through the entire town and cut it through in the middle leaving a trail of rubble and debris. We followed the broken trail and ran as fast as we could. Bandits were already at the sides with bows and arrows firing at us. " whatever you do, don't get shot..." I said.
" I'll try and remember that." Said twilight firing a blast of energy towards a few bandits and shoving them back. There was a blockade up ahead made up of carts and bandits. I drifted over next to twilight as we ran and dodged arrows.
" here twilight..." I said getting close. " take alba, I'm going for the blockade." I said.
" oh, uhm... Sure." Se said as I levitated alba onto twilights back. I drifted away and lined up with the center of the blockade which was being added onto as we ran. I started to run and sprint faster and faster. A dome of energy started to build up around me and it glowed bright white. I ran faster and the dome of energy grew brighter and brighter and soon my whole body glowed. Bolts of energy in the form of lightning fired off from me as a way to let the energy escape around me. The ground cracked under my hooves and I blazed a trail of glowing white cracked ground. Each hoofsteps I made was like a miniature earthquake. What I was planning to do might be a bit extreme for just this barricade, but hopefully it will help level is town in the process without hurting my friends. It was a trick I learned in training, I have yet to perfect it, but what I've got so far is pretty good.
As the barrier grew closer it soon became overwhelmed with guards and bandits holding up their swords to strike. From here I could see the look of fear and uncertainty in their eyes. I slowly started to let out a shout of anger as I grew brighter and brighter and ran faster. Now the barricade was only an inch away. One last step and I let out a deep terrifying shout. The dome of light around me burst like a sonic rainbow of pure white light and the halo of energy cut through the ground and the city making a barrier of light. The halo was so bright that it turned this dark night into day. The force of the blast pushed back every house and uprooted every tree. The great wooden fence around the city was blown away and the whole city was leveled.
I sprinted past to the end of the city and quickly hit the breaks destroying the ground under my hooves. I turned around and started sprinting back towards my friends who were unaffected by the blast. The halo remained acting as a wall between me and my friends. I sprinted back still glowing bright white all over with ,y armor now showing and white bolts of energy firing off my body. I sprinted towards the halo and ran faster and faster. This his the one part that I could get, but I have a good feeling. I ran faster and faster towards the halo and I could feel my energy maintaining critical mass, and I smiled.
I made impact with the halo of light and it shattered. There was another shock wave and shards of razor sharp light rained down along the whole city like spears. Spikes of light spouted up and broke through the ground ensuring that anything that survived the first blast, wouldn't be surviving much longer. I smiled and ran through the white spikes I created, passing through them like a ghost. My friends cringed at first to the sight of the spikes but when the spikes passed through them without causing damage they breathed a sigh of relief. Not even Alba was affected by the bright bright light. I ran up to my friends now, no longer glowing or shooting lighting form all inches of my body. I was breathing heavily and my legs were tired. I walked up to the, and smiled. Twilight gave me a smug look and martukus smiled.
" always have to make an appearance don't you..." Said martukus.
" to be honest, Ive been dying to try that for the past month." I said panting heavily with weak knees. I used what little energy I and left to levitate alba over to me and placed her on my back. She smiled and hugged onto me tight as not to slip off.
" well mister show off... I think we should get out of what's left of this city." Said twilight. I smiled and we started walking down what we assumed to be the center of the city towards the forest again. The spikes of light that had broken up from the ground had faded but the shards of the halo remained, those where actually solid masses of light. I looked over and saw a large piece of light sticking out of the ground. I smiled and walked over picking it up. I collected a few of them and held onto them using my magic to levitate them.
" too bad we don't have our bags..." I said.
" you mean these..." Said twilight smiling with her horn glowing. In a puff of smoke three burlap bags appeared out of nowhere seemingly full of materials and money.
" nice..." I said. She passed them out and I put mine on. Alba sat on top of the strap and rode on y, back the whole way. Twilight put hers on and so did martukus. Thunder was still unconscious and moaning slightly. " so you know what happened to him?" I asked gesturing to thunder.
" I think they tortured him..." Said twilight.
" they would have done the same to me if I wasn't still mostly unconscious from having an arrow shot into my neck." Said martukus.
" and I'm certain they were planning on raping me..." Said twilight. " so we really have to thank you for saving us... Though you took your sweet time with it." She said.
" hey... I had something to do." I said gesturing my head towards alba who was now resting peacefully on my back.
" yeah... I knew you wouldn't let anything bad happen." Said twilight. " well... Except for him." She said. " but I don't think they really tortured him, he doesn't have any sever wounds or cuts, and nothing's broken from what I can tell." She said.
" anyway, we should get going now, with the lady of the dark no longer trying to kill us, we can get in a good night of sleep, or at least for the rest of the night." I said.
" sure..." Said martukus.
" hey crimson... What are you doing with those glowing shards?" Asked twilight.
" huh... Oh, these are to refill my energy." I said. " I'm pretty tired after all of that, and concentrated light is actually pretty filling."
" your going to eat light..." Said martukus.
" well... Yeah." I said. " do you guys want some?" I asked.
" uhh... I don't think so." Replied martukus. I shrugged and gestured over to twilight who just looked at me. I held out a small shard of light for her and he just looked at it. She grabbed it with her magic and held it in front of her." how can you have concentrated light?" Asked martukus. " that's impossible."
" not if you know what your doing." I aid winking at him.
" you didn't just..." Stuttered martukus before I answered his question.
" I did." I said smiling. Twilight looked confused.
" so uh... What did you do?" She asked.
" I did something impossible." I said.
" alright... Explain." She said.
" well..." I explained. " there are something that ponies say is impossible because they are incredibly difficult to do. But for somepony like myself this e impossible things are possible with little effort. There are only a few impossible things attaining to certain elements and one of those impossible things is that light cannot be concentrated into solid form... Which I've just done."
" how can you do something that's impossible?" Asked twilight.
" that's a kind of question with no answer." Said martukus. " like trying to define a color without using its name, or explaining the difference between left and right." He said." It simply cannot be explained twilight... But it just happened." I said.
" I can explain this though..." I said.
" do I really want to hear this?" Said twilight nervously smiling.
" don't worry. It's not so complicated for somepony as smart as you." I said. " it works like this..." I said explaining. " time and space work in a sort of graph. Time is represented by the Y axis and Space is the X axis." I said. " time moves in seconds represented by the Y axis and each notch on the X axis is an alternate universe different but somewhat similar to the ones near it."
" alright... A graph... Go on." She said making the picture in her head.
" this one graph so far in only two dimensional. Yet existence is three dimensional. So the third line, the Z axis gives us thickness. Now time and space exist as a flat plane. But those planes are copied over and over again. They are laid down in a cube making existence. But these different copies of the universe are different because they have different REALITIES." I said with emphasis on realities. By now we were just getting out of the rubble reduced city and heading back into the woods.
" alright... Continue." She said.
" in these different realities things can happen that cannot be done here. So in this reality our physics works differently than others. I was able to create a link between this reality and a different one borrowing some of its properties for a short time making me be able to create solid light." I explained.
" okay... I guess that makes sense." Said twilight.
" don't worry about it too much... We should set up here and rest." I said stopping near a dirt circle close to the road.
" alright..." Said martukus placing down thunder near a tree and laying him down to rest. We walked over and placed our things down and we all relaxed. Twilight still had the shard of light floating next to her.
" so what do I do with this?" She asked.
" well you can eat it..." I said. " it's a good source of vitamin D and pure energy that we can't get from any other food source."
" I can... Eat it?" She said.
" it's not going to cut your insides up, it dissolves when you consume it, but solid light is also the most compact material ever known to exist. Which is why I grabbed a lot of it, because only I can work with it." I said.
" is that what your and our is made of?" Asked martukus.
" no... It's just metal that glows." I said. " having armor out of concentrated light would force me to do something impossible every time I need my armor which would literally drain me of all my energy. I don't get tired often, but after doing that I'm exhausted."
" so what exactly does light taste like?" Asked twilight.
" eat it and find out..." I said smiling.
" uhh... Okay." She said. She slowly brought the small shard of glowing energy to her mouth. She opened up and bit her teeth down slowly on the shard of light and her teeth just passed right through it. She chewed it for a bit and soon her eyes grew wide and she smiled. " that's amazing..." She said.
" what's it like?" Asked martukus.
" it's like eating cotton candy, but it taste how sunlight feels on your skin, its literally warming up my insides and its great... Plus, I feel perfectly well rested."
" you should still sleep though." I said. " you can't be perfectly well rested without sleeping."
" yeah... But I feel great." She said.
" here let me try..." Said martukus. Twilight tossed the other half of the light shard to martukus who caught it in one hoof. He looked at it questionably and then opened up wide. He dropped the little shard of light into his mouth and chewed it a little. His eyes too widened and he smiled. " my god... That's amazing." He said.
" you said only you could work with it... What do you mean?" Asked twilight.
" well..." I said grabbing a size able piece of the light that I had floating next to me since it wouldn't fit in the bags. " since the solid light is already in this world I can work with it and change its shape without having to waste all of my energy breaking physics again." I held up the large piece of light and used ,y magic to levitate it in front of all of us. Alba who was sleeping quietly turned over and nuzzled herself into my back and smiled. The shard of light started spinning and twisting until it started to change shape. It became thinner and more condensed and i started to mold it into the shape of a sword. I created the hilt from the light and it started taking shape. I transmuted some of the light into a leather grip around the handle and made the blade long and sharp. Once I was done I hovered the sword over to me and held it and smiled.
" not a bad looking sword." Said martukus.
" thanks..." I said. Placed the sword down next to me and let out a big yawn. Martukus yawned too. " we should get some sleep." I said.
" yeah..." Said twilight. We all agreed and started to get some rest. I laid my head down on my hooves and closed my eyes. I slowly started to drift away in my sleep and found myself in a white world. I looked around, semi conscious wondering where I am. I wasn't sure if I was dreaming, but it didn't feel like it. I walked around for a moment but I never went anywhere. Then suddenly I felt a presence with me in this never ending sea of light. I looked behind me only to see, to my surprise, Roza, the mare who healed me. She looked at me and smiled and when I saw her too I have to admit that I smiled too. I blinked my eyes for a second and when I saw her after, she was different. She was a little filly now, looked just like Alba but with Different colors and blue eyes.
" hello crimson..." She said.
" hello alba." I said.
" no... It's just Roza, Alba is my other half." She said. " I'm proud of you, it takes courage to give somepony such as myself a second chance, and I admire that."
" are you talking about alba?" It asked.
" yes..." She replied. " you didn't strike her down. You've helped ease our suffering... But to put us both to rest there is one thing I must ask of you." She said.
" whatever you need... I will help." I said.
" you must take her to the mirror pool in the ruins of her hometown." She said. " I will be waiting there for you, and when you get there you must throw the both of us in..." She said.
" and then you will become whole again..." I said finishing the story.
" yes... And once we are together we can rest." She said.
" where is your hometown?" I asked.
" you'll find it on the map..." She said backing away into the light and slowly fading. " just remember... X marks the spot." She said until she was gone now and the white around me faded to black. I slowly began to slip away and fell asleep and landed in a world of dreams. That thought still followed me through my dreams. I though about Alba and Roza and knew that even though its out of the way, I still need to help.
I promised to help anypony who needs it...
-Authors Note: Okay, i know this chapter was very short... but it originally wasn't originally supposed to happen. let me explain. during my spare time i created a few events/ more information on Crimsons 1000 years of training. and one of those explained the impossibilities that i mentioned in the chapter... but i ended up scrapping the idea. plus... it, kinda was lost forever when my computer crashed. but i figured to introduce it in slowly. so this chapter is just a leading chapter for whats next.
ALSO... the journey to Alba Roza's destroyed home and the mirror pool is not going to take forever, im going to do that up quickly and then get the gang the FUCK out of there. this world is taking too long and I'm very anxious to go to the new dimensions because i have such deliciously evil ideas for those worlds. so i can give you the layout. the next to chapters are going to be big... but by the end of the second chapter the journeys in this dimension are over. next chapter will be about Alba Roza the chapter after that will end with the four hero's entering the portal, or whatever i decide it should be. so sorry if i spoiled anything for you guys, but i tried not to and i dont think i really did... but sorry. anyway, stay shady bro's.-End of Note-