The Frozen Bolt

by The Real Darkness

Chapter 3:Epiphany

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"Lightning Shot..." A voice boomed behind me.

'Don't tell me that was a temporary spell'

All of my environment was white, I slowly turned around to confront this voice. I was met with the view of three alicorns.

'Whaaaaat...just happened?'

The first had a thick coat of fur colored the deep brown of dirt, with branches sprouting from his flank, head, and neck where his tail and mane should be. Upon those branches, rested bright green leaves that slightly waved and rustled as if there was some wind blowing.

The second had a crimson coat with orange wavy streaks in it, I could feel heat radiating from him. His mane and tail were obviously fire, with the exception that it was very dark and the flames waved slower than normal fire does. He looks like a blaze himself.

The final, third alicorn, was sporting a light blue and pure white mixture of color for her coat. Her mane and tail never mover once, never, and looked like many polygons attached by the edges to form a 3D object, to give it the perspective of being crystallized, it took on the color of teal with scratch mark shapes of white over it.

"Who are you ponies, and why am I here?" I asked in a stern voice.

"We are the..." The light blue alicorn started.

"Old Gods of Equestria, the first elements." The dirt-colored alicorn finished.

"I am Ifrit." The inferno of flames alicorn stated.

"I am Gaia." The tree like one followed.

"And I am Glacius." The icy alicorn finished the short introduction.

"Elementis was once a beautiful, prosperous city filled with many varieties and types of elements." Gaia spoke.

"After many repeating windigo attacks, it feel in numbers, each city was covered in snow and built on top of. Memory of what happened was repeatedly lost after each attack." Ifrit said.

"Because you broke the cruelness and resent in everyponies heart and got help from others. You saved Elementis and stopped the final attack of windigos." Glacius explained.

"Do you know your destiny?" The three asked in unison.

"Yes...to lead Elementis back to harmony and happiness." I answered with a determined face and confidence burning in my heart that shone in my sentence.

"Then it is time for you to return from this plane of barren white with us." They spoke together.

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I saw a great view of the windigos attacking and the ponies gathered at the pillar I was now floating above. Gaia flew behind me, Ifrit to my right, and Glacius to my left.

Lightning erratically strewn across the sky followed by fire, rocks, and ice. The elements were coming from me and the Old Gods. We were all exerting astonishing levels of magic energy.

The windigos were quickly being obstructed into oblivion by our magic, I felt a new appendage while observing the scene, one that I was using, absentmindedly and involuntarily. Wings, quite big for my size. I estimated them to be at Celestia's size or bigger.

As the last windigo fell I, along with Gaia, Glacius, and Ifrit, landed in the snow.

The Elementians were staring at me, me...Lightning Shot...an alicorn.

'Well, this is interesting. How did I master my wings so fast?'

"Lightning Shot, is that you?" I heard Twilight ask, skeptical as she trotted up to me.

"Yes, it is. I feel so many charges in the air. Everypony is giving some off." I said as Celestia followed Twilight.

"That is normal. You feel your element, your power, around you because you control it, rule it, and you are a part of it." Ifrit stated.

"Now, Twilight, we must return to our time, we don't belong..." Celestia was cut off.

"No need, we have already done so." Glacius interrupted. "Now we should attend to our people." she continued.

"I'll warm the city." Ifrit announced before flying high and soaring over the sky, dropping embers that slowly warmed the air and melted the snow.

"I'll create some new plants and land." Gaia spoke and charged his horn. He made dirt sprout over ice and spread rapidly, the dirt went at least two yards high and reached the houses after the snow melted. Seeds shot out of his mane and quickly grew to make trees, flora, and flowers, all in specific locations. Animals slowly started to arrive from his magic.

"I'll do my job..." Glacius sighed and charged her horn, the snow and ice that was piled up over the years became solid, hard, and warm without melting. The snow stopped its slow and steady descent, though the air around Glacius was a tad bit cold.

"I guess it's my turn." I said with uncertainty and a tad of nervous. I charged my horn up and lowered the electrical charge in the air while making a slow drizzle fall.

"So, is that it?" I asked.

"No." Ifrit responded quickly as he landed.

"We govern the main elements of Equestria." Gaia explained.

"I warm Equestria, monitor volcanoes, and keep fires in control. Gaia controls plant growth, land activity, and where animals travel. Glacius governs the ice and snow, the cold winds, as well as when the clouds release snow and the cold temperatures." Ifrit explained.

"Then, are we done for now?" I asked.

"Almost, we have yet to declare our return and our rule." Glacius said with a smile.

'What does she mean by that.'


Author's Note

And another one bites the dust...

I'd love to see this story spread around, so if you could, then please do so.

And I've got a good question for you all, unrelated to this matter.

Do you talk about my stories or me on other sites or off-screen? I've just always wondered.