Moon's Blade and the Crystals of Chaos

Chapter 7:
Storm

I opened my eyes. It was deep in the morning, but it was a brand new day. However, there was an odd atmosphere. I could see the light from the sun fall through the curtains, but as I opened them I saw a dark cloud in the distance.

I ran out of my room, toward the main room of the library, where Twilight was studying already as usual.

"What's the matter?" She asked, "You look like something is troubling you."

"Do you know the weather forecast for today?" I asked.

"Yes, it should stay sunny today, and a little bit cloudy in the midday. It might drizzle in the afternoon."

"Does drizzle come from black clouds?"

"No, as far as I know it doesn't."

I told her to take a look outside.

"That's odd," she said surprised, "It isn't supposed to storm until next week." She looked worried. "Maybe Rainbow Dash might know something. If you search for her, I'll do some research on the crystals."

I nodded and went outside.

I arrived at Rainbow Dash's cloud and knocked on the door. A tired Dashy came out and asked me what's the matter.

"Did you come just to see me?" She asked, whereas I responded with a no. I asked her about the odd weather.

"A storm? Heading this way?" She said surprised. It was clear that this was not planned and something else had to do with it. "It isn't supposed to storm until next monday!" she said angrily, "What do those other weather ponies think they're doing?"

"Maybe it isn't their fault," I said, "I suspect something else might be going on. We should ask Twilight."

Dash agreed and we went back to the library.

"Ah, I've been waiting for you," Twilight said, "You see..."

She could not finish her sentence, because Rarity and Pinkie came in loudly. "Have you seen that black monstrosity in the sky?" Rarity asked Twilight.

"I've heard from other ponies something is wrong at Cloudsdale!" Pinkie shouted out loudly.

"Yes," Twilight rephrased herself, "As I wanted to say, o-" But she was abruptly interrupted again by Fluttershy and Applejack who entered.

Fluttershy looked like she had hurried over here. "Listen!" She shouted out loud, then started to speak fast and incomprehensibly.

"Calm down, sugarcube," Applejack said to her, "If you're going to speak that fast, nopony is going to understand."

Fluttershy took a breath, and rephrased what she had said. "I were feeding the chickens when I suddenly saw Morgana running toward a suspicious storm, I think she's up to no good!"

"That," Twilight said, "Was exactly what I wanted to say. Cloudsdale has a museum that claims to have a piece of the chaos crystal. Comparing the description from the museum to that of the book about the crystals, we're dealing with the disaster crystal."

She took a breathe and started talking again. "The disaster crystal is a crystal that can cause natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and even volcanoes. If we don't do anything, Equestria may be destroyed! We must go to Cloudsdale as soon as possible."

Twilight decided to cast a spell upon the non-pegasi that would allow them to walk on clouds.

"Now, listen," Rainbow said, "These kind of storms are no jokes, they must be approached with care. One fatal mistake and you'll get electrified by a thunderbolt from that storm." She sounded like a drill sergeant.

"Whatever happens, do NOT come to close near the storm. After all, only pegasi are meant to deal with them." After saying that she went to her usual enthusiastic self. "Are we ready?"

"Yeah!" everyone answered.

"Let's go!" Dash said as we went off for Cloudsdale.

As we neared it, the storm only seemed to get bigger. It was no ordinary storm, it was, in fact, a hurricane of some kind. Lightning bolts were flashing through the skies and regularly struck the earth beneath it. The pegasi were flying with their wings, the others were following us in a hot-air balloon.

At last, we arrived at Cloudsdale. Rainbow Dash has described it to me before, and certain things she mentioned were there, but the peace there used to be was no more there.

Pegasi were flying around in panic and lightning struck in several clouds, causing them to tear apart.

"No... This can't be..." Dash said, "Cloudsdale... It crumbles apart..." She was struck with fear.

"I guess we'll have to do something about it, then." I said, "But I doubt that simply removing the crystal won't stop the disaster. We'll have to deal with that first."

"Ain't ya afraid Morgana will come in and take the crystal away in front of us?" Applejack asked doubtfully.

"Yeah, we need to make sure that doesn't happen." Twilight said. I smiled.

"Why are you smiling like that?" Rarity asked uneasily.

"Isn't it obvious?" I said, "Morgana is an unicorn, not a pegasus. She'll be having a lot of trouble getting up here, and if she does, we'll most likely be able to see it."

The others understood that and started to concur.

"First of all, we have to find out how to stop this hurricane," I said, "Does anypony have an idea how?"

Dash walked forward and came up with a plan. "We pegasi are the only ones who can take care of it," she said, "First of all, the storm is moving counter clockwise, so we have to fly as fast as we can clockwise. The others should gather more pegasi to help us stop the hurricane. Understood?"

The others nodded.

Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and I went up in the sky as the other split up and started gathering pegasi. We started to build up speed and went to the eye of the storm and started flying against it's direction.

"Come on, I know you can go faster than that!" Dash shouted at Fluttershy and me, and I tried to fly faster, but it was hard. It was scary, since a thunderbolt could strike me or my friends at any moment.

Our flying seemed to have no influence at all, but slowly more pegasi started flying against the storm. After a while it looked like the entire city was helping us. I never felt so great before. The storm started to weaken and eventually dissolved into thin air. The damage to the city was minimal.

We went down on a cloud and Dash suddenly hugged me.

"We did it! We stopped the hurricane!" She said with tears of joy in her eyes. Then she quickly let go of me.

"Let's pretend we didn't do that." She said while blushing.

The others came to us.

"Now that we've dealt with that, how about we claim our prize?" Rarity said, and we all agreed.

"The museum is this way." Twilight said, and we started following her.

We almost arrived at the museum until we saw another hot-air balloon flying up. In it was a familiar face. Morgana.

"Quick, we have to hurry!" Twilight said.

"Leave it to me!" Dash responded and she flew with top speed towards the museum.

A few seconds later she came back with a cyan crystal in her hooves. "I guess that makes it 2-2." She said as we cheered.

I saw Morgana running into the museum. "Maybe we should head home now..." I said, feeling uncomfortable for what would happen if Morgana returned with empty hooves, knowing that it would probably us who took the crystal.

The others nodded and decided to go back to the library.

Back at the library Twilight came up with the results of further research.

"There are still four crystals left, of which Morgana possesses one," she said, "Our best bet would be to search for more clues."

"But what clues should we look for?" Rarity asked.

"Things such as somepony having terrible nightmares, distortion in time, illusions and distortion in space," Twilight answered, "Those are the abilities of the remaining four crystals, but I have no idea where they might be."

"We'll do anything to find them!" Pinkie said enthusiastically as she jumped up and down.

"Someone should keep an eye on Morgana, though." I suggested, whereas Fluttershy quickly accepted the job.

"I'll do that, to make it good that I ran away when you entered the tomb."

"Oh, you honestly don't have to do that," Applejack said, "It's not your fault you chickened out."

"No," Fluttershy responded, "I'll make you proud of me. I'll follow every single step she takes, even if it's the last thing I do! And there's nopony who's going to stop me!"

She was so sure of her case that we decided to leave that job to her. For now, everyone decided to go home. To ready themselves for what might come next.