Sparkle No More
Chapter 2: (2) I Can Hear Heaven...
Previous Chapter Next ChapterTwilight opened her eyes to find herself in her bed as usual. She looked around to find that there was hoof prints to her left, or more specifically footprints heading into her room and stopping at her bed.
"Footprints?" Twilight asked herself, "That's just too weird."
Then Twilight got a nagging feeling that they looked just all too familiar. She then got out of bed to inspect them more and noticed that the last pair scrapped to a broken window.
"What happened?" Twilight said as she inspected the window, "Nothing a little analysis spell won't change."
She then charged up the spell and focused on the broken window, only to feel nothing.
"Huh?!" Twilight said in confusion
Twilight then tried to do it again only to be met with nothing again.
"W-what the?! My magic!" Twilight shouted
She then focused even harder on the spell and instead of getting nothing she actually used it.
"What the?!" Twilight said, "What's going on with my magic?!"
Keeping a mental note to write a letter to Princess Celestia about it Twilight then analyzed every bit of broken glass in her room and the broken window to find that the glass had been shattered from the inside with only a few bits of broken glass remaining inside. But during her investigation outside she found not just the other pieces of glass, but a single hair strip which was as white as snow. However a single dab of blue on it and the analyze sell made Twilight see that it had been removed of its color in order to draw her off track.
"This hair piece could belong to anypony, Rainbow Dash, Flash Sentry or even one of the royal guards." Twilight said to herself, "I better keep it anyways."
Twilight then teleported back to her room where she placed the hair piece inside a plastic bag. But then something started to bug her.
"But it's weird though." Twilight continued, "The analyze spell should have told me who it belonged to."
Twilight then placed the plastic bag into a desk drawer for safe keeping and headed off to the throne room to see if she could find Spike and send a message to Celestia asking if she knew what was going on. To her surprise she found him in the middle of the hallway talking to one of Celestia's pegasus guards.
"I've got a bad feeling about this." Twilight said as Spike and the guard came to her
"Your highness, you've been called to Canterlot for a meeting with Celestia." the guard said to Twilight
"Thank you sir, um, what's your name?" Twilight asked
"Sargent Quick Silver, or Roach as I'm called among the Night Guard." he said
"Well Roach be sure to tell Celestia that I am on my way." Twilight said
"Actually me and a night guard has been assigned to bring you there." Roach said
"Oh! Well, um, lead the way then." Twilight said
She then followed him outside where she saw a bat pony night guard wearing a mask with a skull on the front and sun glasses was ready to pull her out. Roach then got into position as Twilight took a seat in the chariot.
"Ready Ghost?" Roach asked his companion
"As ever Roach." Ghost said in a British accent as he readied himself
The two then pulled up and the chariot followed with them as they took to the skies. Twilight then took this time to ponder to herself as she constantly tried to use a levitation spell on a book she brought with her. Why was her magic failing? What was that weird dream she had? Why was her window broke and why was their human footprints leading to her bed? She also wondered how the window shattering didn't wake her up, but those thoughts came to a halt as soon as she saw that they had reached their destination.
She was then escorted to the princess's chambers, though she insisted she went alone, to find Celestia looking at a stain glass window showing the victory over Tirek. She stopped looking at it when she heard the door open and looked at her old student with an expression of worry. The guards escorting Twilight then left as Celestia went over to Twilight.
"Twilight, do you know why I called you here?" Celestia asked
"No." Twilight replied
"Do you remember the dream you had during your little nap? Luna told me about it." Celestia said
"Yes." Twilight replied
"I had the same dream not too long ago, only I didn't make it like you." Celestia said
Twilight gasped.
"You had the same dream as me?!" Twilight asked
"I believe that this is no ordinary coincidence Twilight, me and Luna had the same dream not too long before Nightmare Moon arisen, but the only difference was that Discord, Sombra and Tirek were the only ones there and we had the elements of harmony with us." Celestia explained, "We were able to defeat them, but this time I could do nothing because our enemy's have grown in strength and numbers."
"But what about Sunset?!" Twilight asked, "I reformed her, she shouldn't be after me!"
"She told me in the dream before I woke up that in three years time she will appear from another universe where she won and will gather the army of out past foes, even reviving the dead ones." Celestia said
"Why would she tell you that though?" Twilight asked
"My only guess is that she believes that we have no chance of winning the upcoming fight." Celestia said
"Not if me and my friends have anything to say about it!" Twilight said in defense, "The magic of friendship hasn't failed us yet."
Then a thought came to her to tell Celestia about her magic.
"Um Celestia?" Twilight said, "There's something I need to tell you."
"What is it?" Celestia asked
"It's about my magic, something's wrong with it." Twilight said
"How so?"
"When I tried to use the analyze spell on a broken window it didn't work the first two times I used it, and then when I was trying to use levitation on a book I brought with me it didn't work no matter how many times I used it." Twilight said
Celestia's face then grew pale.
"No." Celestia said
"P-princess?" Twilight asked in fear
"Oh no, oh no!" Celestia said in panic
"Are you okay?!" Twilight asked in a bit of panic
"Oh no, oh no, no, no, no! This, is bad!" Celestia shrieked
"What's going on?!" Twilight asked with paranoia
"It's happening again!" Celestia shouted in a mixture of fear and sadness Next Chapter: (3) I Am So High, I Can Hear Heaven... Estimated time remaining: 6 Minutes