Tales of Illumination, book 1: Awakening
Chapter 7
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Chapter 7
I have no idea how long I cried into Fluttershy’s shoulder, but when I was done, I felt better, more in control of my body.
I began to try to focus on solidifying the light again, as I had done before. This time however, I was working with both the light AND the darkness, simultaneously, to create a sword, its curved handle and the symbols carved into the blade were made from the cold of the darkness, whilst the blade and spike at the end of the handle were made with the burning heat of the sun (if you lived in Saudi Arabia, you would know what I mean), its blade was curved as well, roughly shaped as a scimitar, with the OFFICAL transmutation symbols for creation, light, and darkness embedded in the sides (the official ones are not the ones from full metal alchemist).
“Now that is a good blade, no weight at all!” I said whilst giving it a few test-swings, I slowed down before saying the next part, “now I just need to learn how to use a sword. You know, while I’m at it…” I then created a spear with a dark shaft and a lighted spearhead, a mace and morning star which the smashy bits and chains were light, and the handles were darkness, a dark bow and arrows with light arrowheads, and finally, a suit of semisolid dark armor which would technically be light armor, as it has no weight. After creating this arsenal, I noticed my tail was gone, and my wings were a little smaller in size. Ignoring this, I turned to Fluttershy.
“If you don’t mind, I would like to guess what’s happening, Discord has escaped yet again, right?” Fluttershy nodded. “Ok, do we have any idea where he is?” Fluttershy shook her head, “Well that’s a problem… Eh, I’m sure we will find him eventually if we just wander about.” Fluttershy’s eyes widened almost as much as when I explained the ‘untimely demise’ of my entire family.
“Wait,” Fluttershy said, “we're going to be l-looking for Discord?!” as I began putting on my armor and condensing my weapons.
“Not we, I.”
“Why?” a small amount of malice gleamed in my eye.
“I plan to put an end to this in a way that most wouldn’t wish on their worst enemy!” I said as I strapped on a belt of darkness with all of my weapons on it, now fully armored. She gulped.
“What do you mean ‘wouldn’t wish on their worst enemy’?”
“That’s obvious,” The air around me darkened as I created a portal to Ponyville center and said “Death” as I entered the pathway, closing it behind me as I heard “wha-” and then all sound stopped as my unnatural darkness exited that part of the world.
-_Ponyville Town Center roof spike_-
I exited the darkness with the utmost caution, if it weren’t night, my black armor would have stood out like a sore thumb. I quickly began my search for the rest of the main six, I found 2 of them almost immediately, first I found a semi grey Rainbow Dash looking very, very nervous atop a cloud, second was a pure grey Pinkie Pie beating the crap out of several ponies in the street, I decided to go after pinkie first.
I dropped from the roof on my dark board, which I added a small orb of light at the bottom of it, for propulsion purposes, and floated right above Pinkie, I then removed my board from the immediate area, and dropped on the currently grey pony, and focused on removing the darkness from her, I could feel my wings get smaller again, and Pinkie turned… well, pink, what other color would she become? She then turned, saw me in my “shade” armor, gave off a large gasp, and ran off. My shade armor is semisolid darkness wrapped around the entire body and is about as thin as a pair of jeans, and is shaped rather violently, with spikes coming out of a great many parts, so she probably didn’t know it was me inside.
I decided it would be easier to get Rainbow Dash if I had some help, so she is last. I had already “freed” Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, so that leaves Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight. Twilight has the strongest magic, but if she is discorded, then she will be magically weakened, so I decided to go after her next. I walked to the library to find a note on the door, it said the following:
To whoever read this,
We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to certain circumstances which shall not be named, the Ponyville library is closed until further notice.
‘Well damn’ I thought to myself as I removed my scimitar, which I dub “AngelBane”, ‘guess I have to “break” in.’ and began to cut through the wall, only for it to explode on contact with my blade, I managed to get a shield up fast enough that It stopped the majotity of the force from the blast, but I still got enough to launch me across the road. I got up and ran back to the semi-destroyed library, and looked inside, I could see that all the books in the room were safe, and there was a familiar orb of light in the center of the room; the wisp was floating there, calmly generating its warm light, which melted all my dark armor and items, I removed all my light items at will, and approached it.
“Well, it’s certainly been a while, hasn’t it?” I asked it. It has no emotion from what I could tell so far, as it had to face, or body, and its voice was void.
“Indeed, I thought I should let you know what you… may have caused to occur in this world.” This interested me greatly.
“Wait, what could I have caused here?” my voice was less of a confused and more of a ‘tell me what you know!’ tone.
“Well, you see, when a being crosses dimensions, they cause large disruptions in all things, light and dark, order and chaos, magic and mundanity, and so on. The point is, your arrival sent out rather large waves of chaos, which could have awoke something from its sleep.”
“Let me guess, Discord?”
“not directly, no”
“So then what DID I do?”
“You awoke a being which replicated the dimension-crossing waves, and that caused a couple other humans to be brought here, for some reason these ones also got powers from this, and their not knowing how to use them properly is causing… disruptions that may have caused Discord’s power to be slowly escaping, within a few weeks he will escape if this keeps up.” The wisp said in a ‘matter of fact’ tone.
“Well why don’t you do anything about it?” I responded in a worried tone
“Simple: I’m dead, that’s why”
“Fine, spirit, what do I have to do?”
“Ok, well first of all according some… friends of mine, these people are constantly moving around, I assume if you just were to go around in a flashy way, they will find you instead of the opposite.”
“So, I am to make my existence as obvious as I can, right?”
“Yes, glad to know we’re on the same page here.”
“Likewise, one last question; why did you contact me now?”
“I knew you would come here eventually, so I just waited here, and also, only the 3 of your kind that are here can see wisps. Just thought you should know”
“Ok, well, I guess I’d better go find these… people,” as soon as the words escaped my lips, the being disappeared, and all my dark items returned. I re-infused my light into every one of my items, and created a small design of light on my armor, which was basically lines that went along my bone structure, making me appear as a glowing skeleton, I pulled out my dark board, which I infused light into, but am still going to call a dark board as that sounds cool, the light was basically a disc in the bottom, which left a streak of light in the air wherever it flew, I decided this was flashy enough for now.
‘now, first things first, fixing up the mane six’ I thought to myself. And went up the stairs, to find an unconscious, grey twilight. I removed the darkness from my hand, and put said hand on her head, and then released the darkness from her as much as was possible, her color returned, and I defenestrated myself once more, landed on my board and flew off, looking for the mane six and the other four humans.
I think that was a decent place to leave this chapter, anyway, I have midterm break this entire week, so I can update this a bit more often for a week or so, to those who like this fanfic so far, thank you, to those who don’t like it, but are reading just cause, please tell me why you don’t like it, and I will consider changing it, and no saying “I don’t like it because he isn’t a pony,” because that is ridiculous, he has the powers of light, and, by connection, darkness. MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova Falling out!
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