[My conscience Kill writes in the brackets and bolded]

    <  My conscience Joy writes in these and  Italics>

         { I respond in these}  

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" Wake up my child."

" Ugh, what?" Vinetion said trying to open her eyes but quickly covered her eyes blinded by a white light," Why is it so bright?" Opening her eyes, they slowly adjusted to whiteness around her," Where am I? Heaven?"

" Hahahaha, hardly likely," the voice chuckled," You are asleep my dear Vinetion."

" Who are you?" Vinetion said looking around confused, but yet, all there was to look at was white," Where are you? And how do you know my name!"

" I am right infront of you, please take a step," the voice kindly asked.

Without anything else to do but watch nothingness, all there was to do was walk. With one curious step, her hoof touched the white surface sending green ripples as it slowly painted the white canvas sparing no time to add details and shades of a forest.

Something other than the atmosphere was colored and coated, the voice before her had taken a pony form of a unicorn, a very familiar one as the ripple of green seemed to have passed over a solid object.

" Yo-You're, I can't believe it! You're--" Vine stuttered.

" Ivory, yes," the unicorn smiled. She seemed like she had not aged a bit from Charge's photo. Her coat was a vibrant green matching the lighter shade of Vinetion's mane, her horn was somewhat different from the average unicorn, it was if made of wood intertwined only to meet a point.

" Not to be rude, but why are you here?"

" I have come to thank you Vinetion, our last and proud member of our clan. I owe you my life even in death for protecting us, you are a brave warrior and a very smart one might I add." Ivory then watched Vinetion who couldn't even look her in the face. " What's wrong?"

" This place, it seems familiar, where are we?" Vinetion said with pauses.

Afraid to answer, Ivory hesitated," It's...EverFree," she said almost ashamed.

" This is not EverFree, I've just been there."

Ivory sighed," Believe it or not, this is EverFree before...before--"

" What? Before Extinction?" Vinetion finished her sentence," Why Ivory?"

The question needed not to be completed, as she knew exactly what Vine wanted to ask. " Because of me."

Vinetion bit her lip as she choked on her next words," Look at it." Ivory ignored and closed her eyes," Look at it!"

With her eyes shut, she flinched hearing Vine's sudden change of tone and soon opened them seeing the change of scenery. The once vibrant colors of EverFree had returned to its current ominous state, dark, bleak and unforgiving. " Why did you allow this?!"

" I did not allow this! It was the way of our ponies!" Ivory responded.

" Yes you did! You were the leader and you decided to keep with tradition? SCREW TRADITION! Did you not see the signs?"

" I couldn't allow our species to be tainted!"

" Oh! And look what we have now! ONE. LONE. VINE PONY!" Vinetion shouted," YOU HAD THE CHANCE!"

" You don't think I know that?! You don't think I carry the weight of that sin? I too watched our ponies suffer because of my foolish ways and it is a very heavy burden."

" THAT IS NOT THE POINT! LET OUR PONIES SUFFER FOR YOUR CAUSE! BUT NOT HIM! HE DID NOT DESERVE ANY OF THIS!" She pointed to a memory of Ivory's which appeared to be a younger Charge smiling," YOU MADE HIM SUFFER FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT PAINED HIM?!" The younger image of Charge then shifted into his current age. " He thought of you everyday!" Vine said in a more calming tone.

" And so have I, there was not a single day that has passed that I have not thought of him. But. We have both moved on and he is happy with his new lover." One faint tear rolled down Ivory's cheek," My time with him is long gone, I was foolish and I should have cherished it more. Please forgive me Vine." Ivory begged.

" No," Vinetion looked at Ivory in tears," Forgive me, the first time seeing my leader and I judge her too quickly."

Ivory smiled and chuckled at this comment," I am not your leader Vinetion, you have surpassed me, you are the leader of yourself. You've done more than I did in my entire lifetime, you've even a way to protect us in death and I shall forever be proud to call you a vine pony."

" Thank you Ivory," Vine smiled.

" No, thank you," Ivory responded but then noticed that her coat was fading," I am sorry to cut this off short, but maybe we shall meet on more pleasant terms?"

" Hahaha, yes of course."

" Oh! And Vine?" Ivory called out attracting her attention. " We heard you." She winked as her body slowly disappeared.

Not too soon after did Vine wake up promptly at six o' clock with a bright smile on her face. She rolled to the side of her bed watching as Rainbow slept comfortably taking up the most space. She chuckled at the sight and rolled off the bed landing on her four hooves.

' Today is the day we start our training and being the last of my tribe! I shall not back down! Shadow! GIVE ME YOUR WORST!' She thought to herself and quickly exited the door.

[ Okay, sorry for short chapter but I was way too engrossed with the new fic's ratings and what not. HELL! I wasn't even supposed to write today! But I did for you all. I hope I get onto the top five stories. Also why I did this was because you need to keep the feeling of the story, can't just change from this scene to that too fast.]

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