Turning the Glass Part 1: Shifting Sands
Chapter 18: New and Old Friends
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“Twilight!” violet eyes shot open as the youngest alicorn princess sat up and looked around for the source of the voice. At first nothing stood out until her eyes landed upon a large green eyed dragon in front of her. She let out a scream trying to get as far away from it as possible but it wouldn’t let her.
“Calm down Twilight.” she knew that voice, looking into the eyes of the dragon closely she asked. “Spike?”
“Twilight! Yeah, it’s me.” the dragon wasn’t moving his mouth to speak. “W-what’s going on?”
“I think you are a version of this world’s dragon.” replied Twilight as she got to her feet and feel the satchel that she had hidden under her dress at the Gala. “We were teleported to another world.”
“Why am I… bigger?” the Princess of Friendship knew he had many more questions. She waited patiently as the questions spilled forward. She did her best to answer the questions she knew the answers to. Though most of the time she had to respond with the fact that she didn’t know. The sun was dropping low when they finished with their freaking out and Twilight made up her mind to camp in a safer location. They headed into the woods nearby doing their best to stay close. Twilight frowned when she realize that she didn’t have access to her magic, again. Spike offered to help gathering the wood and even setting the fire to the logs. The night was quiet and Twilight ended up falling asleep on Spike feeling exhausted. Neither noticing someone approaching them grey eyes watching as another person approaching. This one had white hair and gold eyes.
“Don’t get cold feet now Solas.” the woman told him as she moved forward and pressed her hand against Spike’s head keeping him asleep. “She needs you now more than ever.”
Solas looked at her before looking down at Twilight and picked her up carefully. The woman smiled at him before lifting the young dragon up with magic. Both carried their charges deeper into the forest where a cabin awaited them.
Twilight let out a yawn as she opened her eyes seeing a ceiling above her. It registered quickly that she was not in the forest in her as her eyes darted around. Her hand shot out before finding scales right next to her. There was a familiar yawn and her shoulders dropped down relaxing slightly.
“You are awake.” a familiar voice spoke and the Princess of Friendship looked over to the side asking. “Mythal?”
“Perceptive as always.” joked the once voice in her head walking over and standing in front of her. “Your teacher will be here soon, he is outside hunting.”
Twilight Sparkle felt her brows furrow trying to figure out who she meant. That didn’t stop Mythal from speaking. “We arrived a few years ahead of you and learned about our species. Elves and how they have evolved here. Most knew right away we weren’t like them, yet they were willing to teach us. The only part they would not tell us was how their magic was used, I can tell a species scorned at one point.”
At first, she didn’t understand, then it dawned on her that she too was an elf. Sighing she moved to climb out of bed being careful of Spike. She did not want to wake him up just yet.
“He is worried about his child.” the white haired elf spoke causing her to look down. “He does not know where she is.”
Twilight pressed a hand against his head and a wave of images overtook her mind. It was of a vast plane, though she was staring down at it. There were lodgings of some sort made of leather. There were totem poles similar to the ones the buffalo used. There were people wandering around and when Twilight focused on them the image zoomed in showing they were like Minotaurs yet vastly different. Like a combination between the two. They varied in shapes and sizes, they even had different styled manes. Shaking her head she felt her vision shake as well before one looked up at her and waved. Moving forward she settled down as the creature spoke.
“A traveler through the realm of Spirits.” he spoke looking around. “We get many of those, though I am not sure what you are.”
The princess of Friendship tilted her head to the side before looking down and seeing her hoof. At first she tried to speak only to find that no words came past her lips.
“It will take sometime to find your voice, especially when you are just searching.” the Chief spoke looking at her. “Who are you searching for?”
Twilight looked to the side wondering how to communicate that she was looking for the daughter of a dragon. Her ears perked when she heard rustling from the mane of the creature and looked up seeing bright green eyes peer through. The Chief reached up and plucked a dragon from it chuckling. “This little one?”
Twilight nodded her head vigorously before tapping her hoof to her chin trying to figure out how to say father. Moonlight was already reaching out to touch her only to frown when her claw passed through. Her eyes got watery and the Chief’s voice pierced through her thoughts. “It is alright little one, she merely checking on you. Spirits must allow you to touch them, yet I think this one does not know how yet.”
The half dragon looked up at him and Twilight jumped the vision fading as the door opened up. Her eyes looked around and saw familiar grey eyes. She looked down at Spike who was resting a little more peacefully.
“I see that you are awake.” the male spoke there was kindness in his voice though he wasn’t looking at her. “How are you feeling?”
“Odd.” she replied before frowning. “You saved me when I was shot down. I never got to thank you for that.”
“It was the least I could do.” he told her nodding his head. “My name is Solas if there are to be any introductions. It is nice to speak to you at last. Now since Mythal will be taking over the training of Spike it is up to me to train you in your own abilities. As well as the magic of this world.”
“My abilities?” Twilight had already reasoned that each world had its own unique magic even if it wasn’t apparent. “You mean the ones that the Tree of Harmony gave me?”
“No, this ability of yours developed when you accepted the position as Princess of Friendship.” he explained as Mythal began to work on the animal. Twilight sat in front of him as he continued. “You have a strong connection with your friends. If you focus on them you can see them from an astral body. Yet if you touch those who are searching for others and focus on what they are focusing on you can see what they are looking for. Like you did with Spike and Moonlight Wisp. The second stage came when you passed Discord’s test.”
“So where are we?” Twilight asked as she processed the first part of the information. “I don’t recognize this world.”
“We are on Arda, in the land known as Middle Earth.” Solas answered as he pulled out a map and setting it down. “We reside in Fangorn forest and have requested of the trees to use their fallen to build our home. We do not take anymore than we need, so don’t go around destroying them or there will be consequences.”
Twilight nodded her head in understanding, wanting to learn more. Solas gave her a gentle smile as he began to talk about what he knew.
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