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| Hope is what moves us on...; Celestia pls. And maybe Discord after the ritual fails [28th Jan] | |
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| Tsukiko | Sep 17 2012, 12:07 AM Post #1 |
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Everything was ready. The living room became the ritual place, with every reagent prepared. Dream Reaper was uneasy, pacing back and forth while awaiting for their arrival. Meanwhile, of course, Sonic Wings and Dawn Shine would be arriving by the door at any moment now, after all it was a very short flight down there... "Well, here we are..." Sonic Wings knocked on the door. Not long after, Dream Reaper welcomed them and asked them in, closing the door behind them. Sonic Wings whistled when he saw the ritual setup. "Gonna be tough, I suppose?", he asked. "Yes, I... Never did this before. I'm very scared, but this is our only hope.. But first... Dawn Shine, will you trust me, regardless what?" |
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| Princess Celestia | Sep 17 2012, 01:06 AM Post #2 |
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Celestia, Dawn Shine, whatever you wanted to call her; she had alighted on the ground not long after Sonic Wings. It was shocking to her that had managed to make even that short flight without issue. Any exertion had been painful and draining for her thanks to how hungry she was; however, while she was still hungry, the edge was off it for the moment. Had she been operating at her normal mental state, she would have realized what the logical reason for this was, but she wasn't and it just got brushed aside. "I hate to be a little black rain cloud," she paused for a moment when she realized how fitting that was, "but this isn't going to work. You can't just magic away his power without something like the Elements of Harmony. No ritual that I know of is that powerful. I'm sorry, but this is just a waste of your time." |
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| Tsukiko | Sep 17 2012, 01:22 AM Post #3 |
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"Still, it is worth trying... C- Dawn Shine, please, tell me: Do you trust me as somepony worth your trust?" Dream Reaper asked. The moment she almost leaked Dawn Shine's true identity, Sonic Wings was already alert, but then wondered why his friend would hide Dawn Shine's true identity from him... "Well, I guess risking yourself over something with low probability of working is worth one's trust, isn't it, Dawn Shine?" Sonic Wings asked her "So, I bet she earned your trust, right?". Well, why not? After all Dream Reaper was gambling with her own life rather than Dawn Shine's... |
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| Princess Celestia | Sep 17 2012, 02:07 AM Post #4 |
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The changeling that didn't want to be a changeling sighed, looking between the two of them a few more times. It was pretty clear that she wasn't going to be one of those times when she needed to have blind faith in something that she was one hundred percent sure was not going to work. "Fine, very well. I'll trust you to cast the spell properly and do you best to help me. But I'm still convinced it's not going to work." She was aware that she started to say something that sounded like her name, but she really didn't want to get her hopes up over something that wasn't likely. She walked into the middle of the magic circle and just sat down and waited. "Let's just get this over with, shall we?" |
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| Tsukiko | Sep 17 2012, 10:48 AM Post #5 |
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Dream Reaper nodded and said "Please, never hate me...". With those words, she revealed her true form: Dream Reaper. Chanting magic in a language from far, as the magic circle began to glow. There were signs of manejinese magic all around them... The circle's glow covered the entire room for a while, but after it faded... Nothing has happened. The spell failed, clearly. Utopia lay exhausted next to the circle, panting. "S-Sorry... I failed you... Again... Sorry...." Utopia sounded very disappointed and sad. "So, it is as we all feared... That bastard's magic is too powerful to be undone... We cannot give up! There MUST be a way!" Sonic Wings said "Any clue, Dawn Shine?" |
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| Princess Celestia | Sep 19 2012, 12:42 AM Post #6 |
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Dawn Shine stood in the burned out spell-circle, staring at Utopia. Her changeling eyes were as wide as she could get them, but they lacked any other expressions due to their solid color. She hadn't been harmed, in fact she looked perfectly fine, but she still wasn't moving as she stared at the queenling. "You're a changeling?" She suddenly zoomed forward and outright tackled Utopia. "HOW LONG?!" She shrieked and hissed, the goo from her mouth dripping down as her wings buzzed like an angry wasp's. "How long have you been one?! Was there ever a Dream Reaper; or was it always just you, pretending to be a pony?!" |
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| Tsukiko | Sep 19 2012, 01:10 AM Post #7 |
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Utopia was going to have trouble to explain, because her strength was very low and she had been knocked down. "Dawn Shine, allow me to explain. She has told me her story once or twice... Dawn Shine, meet Utopia. She was born in the hive as an unicorn, but never ever forced as part of it. Rather, her mother, Chrysalis (I suppose), has treated her as a very special child. Upon her mother's death, barely with one year of life, she was left by an orphanage... Still unicorn and nameless, she was later assigned the name Dream Reaper, as soon as her cutie mark appeared.". Utopia confirmed his words with a nod. "Should Morpho never have toyed with her mind during Dusk Breeze's crowning party, Utopia's true self would have never been revealed... Dawn Shine, she is what everyone was waiting for: a good queen of a pure heart. She has seen bliss and horrors of both kinds, and her resolve was to unite us all in peaceful ways. Dream Reaper is because she makes ponies have good dreams... Utopia is because of what she wants to bring about...". Utopia didn't fight back. She just... Shed tears?! |
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| Princess Celestia | Sep 19 2012, 02:04 AM Post #8 |
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There might have been something in there to convince her, there honestly might have been. However, Celestia was just having an utterly HELL of a month; even longer than that even. Everything was just compiling on top of everything else: Discord was loose, she was a changeling, she was stuck unable to speak who she was, she couldn't help her sister or her precious little ponies, the sun hadn't risen in weeks and it was the same as winter now from it, she was surrounded by all these foals and brainwashed ponies who loved Changelings enough to damn their own race and, to top it all off, this 'therapist' was Chrysalis's daughter! It was TOO BUCKING MUCH!!! "SHUT UP! SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP! SHUT! UP!!!" She tried to harm the queenling with her hooves, but there was just not the strength of an earth pony behind them any more, they were the hooves of a tired and starved Changeling drone that couldn't even shape-shift to do something to help her attack. "CHANGELINGS ARE A RACE OF LIARS AND MONSTERS! THEY ONLY SUCK THE LIVES AND SOULS OUT OF EVERYTHING AROUND THEM; TO FEED, FOR FUN, BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY'RE BETTER THAN PONIES! THEY SWARM AND SWARM AND KILL ALL THAT OPPOSE THEM! THEY TEAR APART FAMILIES AND MAKE IT SO NO ONE CAN TRUST THEIR CLOSEST FRIENDS! THEY ARE A PLAGUE MADE BE DISCORD BECAUSE IT AMUSED HIM AND HE WAS BORED! STOP! TRYING! TO CONVINCE ME! THEY! ARE SOME TRAGIC! MISUNDERSTOOD! SAINTS!" And now she was crying, the stress having literally pushed her too much to hold all her anger and pain inside even a moment longer. |
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| Tsukiko | Sep 19 2012, 02:29 AM Post #9 |
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"Dawn Shine... ..." Sonic Wings tried to comfort her., hugging her. and caressing her head. There was intense sorrow in Utopia... Enough to plague the air for any changeling. This smell was like that of the decaying Earth. Deep inside, Utopia's hope was dead. But then, this one voice... One voice deep inside her head... Told her to let it out...Utopia stood up and took upon the form of a red unicorn. He was Bloody Tears. The mark of an outlined eye on his flank, and his burned right eye were impossible to be confused with that of any other. Specially because his burned white eye was that which got damaged by changeings during a previous war, but still remained functional, with a black sclera and red pupil, in contrast with his normal, violet one. "Boy, leave her alone." he said. "I won't! Who the hay are you!" Sonic Wings defied. He sighed and said "I said... Leave her alone!". In a flash, Sonic Wings was hurled against the wall, unconscious. His eyes locked onto Dawn Shine. "How many years has it been, Tia? Two thousand? More? I don't know... I've been struggling to 'be'... I suppose you need a refresh, correct? "Entry # 916, Subject Web, Fearling. On today's dissection the subject has endured great pain before dying away. However I succeeded into analyzing his digestive system, which matched ours in many aspects. A brief inspection confirmed me that they are extremely allergic to components used in bug spray. Signed, Bloody Tears." Does that sound familiar now?". He was the writer of Changeling Anatomy... But... How?! |
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| Princess Celestia | Sep 19 2012, 02:39 PM Post #10 |
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She... he... it... WHATEVER! Dream Reaper had suddenly turned into something else, a unicorn that was claiming he knew her; saying things, talking abut vivisection of Changelings and claiming that they done this nearly a thousand times, maybe even more. What was this, was this a changeling trick, had she finally gone mad, were they trying to demonize her, what was going on?! "SILENCE!!!" She bellowed out in the Royal Canterlot Voice. She would have none of this, she would not have this changeling trying to persecute her for something that she had never done. "I will not cotton to your lies! I know no pony named Bloody Tears, I have never seen this unicorn in all my eons of life, and I remember all the little ponies I've met in my life! You are a lie, a falsification! I never vivisected any changelings, nor did I have anypony or anyone else do it for me! I don't know what you're trying to do, and I don't care! I will not be made out to be the villain here just to fulfill your desire to build changelings up as something tragic and wonderful!" |
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| Tsukiko | Sep 19 2012, 05:56 PM Post #11 |
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"Well, maybe you ignored all my reports and findings, but my books on changeling anatomy were good for curious ones... Well, anyways, this was just to try and refresh your memories on me. And I tell you: I'm lucky this is the first time I was absorbed into what they call 'hivemind'. My findings and my situation, as well as the body I'm borrowing doesn't come to the case... But rather, your attitude does. I mean: What in tarnation, Tia? The changeling queen is at your service and you throw this chance out of the window as if it didn't matter, as if you wanted to make things WORSE?! Tia, you are not the villain... But the true villain has been pulling your strings for long. He wants to make you become the bad one. Besides, you know me well, I hate changelings, I ALWAYS used them, whether as subjects of my researches or as spies." Bloody Tears pulled a pair of notebooks from the shelves and tossed in front of her. The first one dated a couple of years back, around 20 years, while the second one was current. "Dream diaries. Read pages 51 of the old one and page 191 to 192 of the recent one" Page 51 Page 191 is completely blank. There's a gap of two weeks, and the next entry covers the following: Page 192 "Tia, no one is pointing at you and blaming for anything... But you honestly got to listen sometimes. And that happy fool over there?" he nodded toward Sonic Wings "You pointed a dirty hoof at him before. Just because I'm dead doesn't mean I do not know what has happened lately. I watched it all and got sick of sitting and watching you suffer." |
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| Princess Celestia | Sep 19 2012, 06:56 PM Post #12 |
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"If you are what you say you are, and have done what you say you've done, then you are guilty of war crimes. I may hate these creatures, I may have looked the other way with certain practices regarding them and I may have taken some actions regarding them that were far from the lessons I preach to my little ponies, but I do not stoop to Discord's level!" Dawn Shine was now right up in the unicorn's face, glaring at him. "And if you know anything about me, you know how much I despise mental magic; which is basically what your doing right now. Get out of this body, that is a direct order, Bloody Tears!" She had seen the journal, but that was neither here or there for the moment. Even she would admit some of her decisions weren't exactly morally pure, but she still had some standards and this unicorn would not be exempt from them. |
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| Tsukiko | Sep 19 2012, 07:01 PM Post #13 |
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"Then... Listen to her." Were his last words to her, before Utopia was back to her true self, gasping for air. "W-What happened?! Why is it so dark?! Princess Celestia?! Sonic Wings?!" for a few seconds, she saw nothing, before it all came clear. "What had happened? I heard a voice and then... It is all a blank... " she said, clearly confused. She did not know what happened. Then she saw Sonic Wings was down and went to him in panic, but was relieved because he was not hurt at all. She looked back at Celestia, looking mildly sad. "Princess Celestia... I..." |
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| Princess Celestia | Sep 19 2012, 07:32 PM Post #14 |
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"I'm not even going to bother questioning how you know who I am." Discord's magic should have made it impossible, maybe it meant that the draconequus was growing lax or losing interest in her, but it was not important to the current situation. "There is an aberration in your hivemind; a unicorn calling himself 'Bloody Tears' managed to work his way into it and took possession of your body, he attacked Sonic Wings. Also, he claims to be working for Princess Celestia." She scowled at nothing since she still was forced to refer to herself in the third person, but continued on. "This is a lie, as I've never met him in my long life. I would find him so that he could stand trial for war crimes, though it seems you'll have to do that; since he was in your hivemind." |
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| Tsukiko | Sep 19 2012, 07:47 PM Post #15 |
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Utopia closed her eyes, searching the Hivemind. "His name is there... He's feared and hated by many... Was loved by a deceased changeling that was his wife, but she never told him... He died during one of the wars." she opened her eyes again and said "That's all I could find of him. As for how I figured who you are, it took time to list names the hivemind told me of those who hates changelings... And then I had to remove names of those who were irrelevant. And then, only yours was left. I still took long to believe you were this hateful... I still find hard to believe..." |
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