Chronicles of The Edge: The Eagle's Regalia

by Bloodfin Wulf

Chapter 2: Juggling Feelings

Previous ChapterNext Chapter

"Have you found it yet?" Bo was getting impatient, Twilight had been searching the library all morning and hadn't found the book about Bo's relic.

"No I haven't, don't you think this would go a little faster if you helped?" She was a little angry that Bo wasn't helping, he was the one who wanted the information.

"Help?" Bo laughed just a bit. "I'm a prince Twilight, I can't risk getting dirty." Twilight rolled her eyes as she kept looking for the book, she knew Bo was only joking, but the fact that he would even bring it up made her a little angry.

"Here it is," she said as she took it from the shelf and brought it over, blowing the dust from the cover. "Let's see what we can find." Anxiously she opened the book, flipping through pages quickly to find the one she was after.

The Eye of Horus

The Eye of Horus is a powerful support type relic which enhances The Eye of Ra. Support type relics similar to The Eye of Horus cause extreme side effects when paired with their proper Soul Glyph. Examples include the pairing of the Leo Pendant and Taboo Glove in which the effected becomes obsessed with math and takes on an extreme physical change known as a "Taboo Form" as shown below.
While pairing Balmung with Odinic Age Runes creates an excessive amount of strength as well as an uncontrollable rage. It is unknown what effects are caused by combining The Eye of Horus with The Eye of Ra as the two have never been used together in recent history. The Eye does, however, possess power of it's own much like other support type relics, but it's single effects are also unknown as it is believed to have been destroyed during the first crusade. Anthropologists and Egyptologists believe that looking through the center of the eye reveals the truth about ones surroundings, but as previously stated this is unknown.

"There, are you happy?" Twilight sounded content, as if just knowing what it might do would be enough to soothe Bo's appetite for knowledge.

"Happy?!" Bo couldn't believe what he heard, how could he be happy without trying it? "Just hold still, I want to see if you're hiding anything."

"NO!!!" Twilight forgot her setting as she shouted at Bo. "We don't know what that thing really does, there's a mirror over there if you really want to know but don't use it on me!"

The two just looked on for a second before Bo walked off on his own to the mirror. Slowly he raised the relic to his eye, focusing through it's clear glass at the image in the mirror, watching intently to see if anything would change. He was ready to lower it when the image in the mirror began to swirl, parts turned to smoke as Bo's figure grew shorter and shorter, it grew an extra set of legs and black fur all over it's body, brood lines marking it as a dragon, yet it's form was looking more like a pony. Bo glanced back briefly, expecting someone to be standing behind him, yet there was no one. Slowly he lowered the relic, not wanting to look forward any longer. Twilight looked over to see the pale look on his face as his knees began to buckle underneath him as he collapsed to the ground. Twilight rushed in behind quickly and used her magic to catch him, slowly lowering him to the floor, a blank stare on his face as he mumbled to himself. "I'm a dragon, that couldn't have been me. It couldn't have been me..."

"Bo snap out of it!" Twilight was back to shouting as she slapped him with her hoof, leaving an imprint on his cheek.

"Woah! I'm back...I'm good...stop hitting me." His sentence was broken, he was still in shock from what he saw, but he knew it couldn't be true. "On a side note I think we should lock this up, I don't want to use it anymore." Bo rubbed his face where Twilight had hit him, he sat there thinking not caring about his surroundings.

"Twiley! Were you just gonna come to Canterlot without visiting me again?"

Bo looked up in time to see a white stallion wearing a guards uniform approach. Twilight looked up as well, a face of elated surprise spread across her face.

"Shining!" Twilight quickly left Bo's side to run over to him, jumping up and down in circles in joyfully. "I didn't think we'd be in Canterlot this long, besides I figured you'd be busy being the captain of the royal guard and all."

The stallion just smiled, looking past Twilight at the friend she left lying on the ground. "And this must be that "special somepony" you keep telling me about in your letters, but to be honest I thought he'd be a stallion, not a human."

"No! Shut up!" Twilight jumped in his face, waving her hooves defensively.

"Special somepony?" A smirk shot across Bo's face as he began to stand up. "Why didn't you tell me you were interested in my Twilight, it would've made this moment a little less awkward for you."

Twilight started to laugh weakly, embarrassment seeping on to her face. "Okay so I may have exaggerated our relationship a little bit in my letters."

"Just a little bit." Bo walked over to Shining and stuck his hand out. "Bo, Dragon prince of Draconia, a pleasure to meet you."

Shining looked at Bo, checking him up and down before putting his hoof in Bo's hand. "Shining Armor, Twilight's brother and captain of the royal guard. So if you don't mind me asking, what is the prince of Dragons doing in Equestria without his own guards?"

"Well, truth be told, I've never actually been to my kingdom. You see the humans stole me before I hatched from my egg and tried to use me as military hardware. When I didn't cooperate they banished me here, I just can't seem to find a way home, of course why would I? This is such a beautiful land, no violence, everyone is friendly, I wish Earth had been more like Equestria, perhaps I would have been able to find a family there." A look of sorrow replaced his smile." But enough of pushing my issues off on you, captain of the guard must have it's fair share of issues itself."

Shining looked at Bo with a grin, he'd finally found someone who would likely understand. "Try an evil queen feeding off of your love to try and take over Equestria."

"That sounds rough, but I can sort of relate. The humans just wanted me to take over entire worlds, they didn't bother feeding off of me, they just fed me false information and said 'aim that way.' Never could stand the thought of killing someone that did nothing to me."

"Well I'm glad you two are getting along, but we probably should head back home to Ponyville." Twilight finally found a chance to chime in. "After all it's a long trip and I have to open the library in the morning. Besides Bo has to..." Twilight stopped as the entire building began to shake with a deafening roar, scrolls fell from the shelves, barely missing the group of three. "What's happening Bo? Is it another Drake?"

"No, there isn't any magic in this, it's something else entirely!" Even Bo was scared, he had no idea what was causing the sudden shaking. That's when they saw it, a large space cruiser with Eagle's painted on the side. It was flying really low, barely passing over the near by mountains. Once out of sight the rumbling quit, the trio looked at each other before Bo spoke. "Well that can't be anything good."

Next Chapter