Chapter 1: A Book from the sky
I realized the moment I fell into the fissure, that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse, of which I had only a fleeting glimpse. I have tried to speculate where it might have landed, and I must admit however, such conjecture is futile. Still, questions about whose hooves might one day hold my Myst book are unsettling to me. I know my apprehensions might never be allayed... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written.
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MYST Little Pony
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Twilight sparkle had never seen this book in her library before.
It sat on the table, the cover worn and beaten. 4 simple letters rested in black upon the cover:
M Y S T
The Elements of Harmony stood around the table, staring at the tome in question. All except for the Element of laughter, who was rapidly talking to her purple coated friend and town librarian Twilight.
“ … And that's when it hit me, strait from the sky, like BAM, well more like THUMP, but still I almost hit gummy, but he's strong and I knew he'd be OK, but really who throws books at ponies from the sky? But I took one look and thought “”Twilight would like this book!”” well I didn't open it but I thought you like books so you'd like this one but then I wondered if you had a copy of this one already and I sat there for what felt like forever, but it was really like 3 minutes but anyway . ”
The bubblegum pink mare was cut short by a sudden orange hoof pressing her mouth closed. “Calm down there sugar. Books don't just fall from sky, yah hear. It's just not reasonable”
“But Applejack, I swear, it came from the sky! Like THUMP!” Sped Pinkie Pie, bouncing slightly. “I didn't even get a twitchy tail! I always get a twitchy tail when things fall!
The bright sky blue prismatic maned Pegasus of the group hopped up from the ground and lay back in the air over the group. “So Pinkie found an old book! So? Why's it so important Twi?”
Below her, a styled mane of Indigo bobbed slightly as it's owner coughed a muffled sentence involving “Care more”, “Daring Do”, and “all over it”, causing the rainbow maned pony over head to roll over and glare at Rarity down below. Regaining her composure, Rarity floated pair of red rimmed glassed over with her horn, focusing through them at the book in question sitting under the bust on the table in the center of the library. “But I must agree with Rainbow Dash here Twilight. You called us all over after Pinkie brought you this, but I still don't see what's so important about this book. I do enjoy a good novel now and then,” thinking about this, Rarity blushed slightly, but shaking it off she continued “but this doesn't seem that special dear, apart from it's described arrival.”
Twilight finally spoke up, gently trotting in front of her circled friends, and reaching a hoof to the front cover of the MYST book. Taking a deep breath, shaking in a mix of excitement and panic, she looked at her friend and in the calmest tone she could muster spoke. “Everypony: This is why I called you over. I've already sent a letter to the princess.”
Twilight flipped the beaten book open. It opened not to a page of text, but to a single small image, resting on the right hoof page. The gathered ponies gathered closer, even the still quiet yellow colored Fluttershy, who gasped loudly as as the group's collected eyes went wide.
The picture in the book showed an island. Small, but covered with things. With trees and buildings, Huge gears and a sunken ship, wires and what looked like a space ship. But the biggest thing about it: The picture was moving.
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Hi! This is PD2525 here. I know it's not much, but I plan to do this story in small chapters, slowly going through the puzzles and story of MYST. Please tell me what you think of it, and any suggestions are a big help! Thanks for reading!
MYST (c) Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Chapter 2: The Image
“What, what is it?” whispered Fluttershy after what felt to the group like hours of silence.
Rainbow floated a little closer to the image “It, kind of looks like when I fly over Ponyville, but I've never seen an island like that.”
Twilight was the first to break her gaze, zipping over to a large book of maps in the corner and rapidly flipping through the pages. “Your right rainbow. I've looked through all of my maps of Equestria since pinkie brought me this book, and there’s no island anywhere that matches the image in that book”. With each syllable Twilight spoke faster, getting more frantic as she spoke. “I mean, there's not an island anywhere that matches it. And I looked through all my spell books too! There's nothing about making books with moving pictures. There's things about making books move but nothing of making the pictures move, there's just not a spell for it!”
With that Rarity stepped over to Twilight, and with a tentative hoof, patted the panting Twilight on the back. “We understand darling. We're as bewildered as you.”
At that same moment, Spike ran down the stairs, waving a scroll in his claw. “I got a letter back from the Princess!”
The next moments were a blur
As Twilight ran and skidded over to spike to retrieve the letter, she startled Fluttershy, who fell backwards, knocking over the center table. The MYST book went flying, into the air. With a loud shout of “I got it!” Rainbow Dash swooped at the falling book. The group watched, twilight turning around, letter floating in front of her, as Dash's hoof hit the image, and her friends watched as Dash glowed with a bizarre light, before vanishing like a piece of burnt paper. The book fell, landing on the ground in front of the amazed ponies.
The group was silent. Then, all at once, they all started.
“What the hay!”
“Dashie? Dashie!”
“EEEP!”
“Wh- What?!”
“Twilight? Twilight what was that?”
The only quiet one was the stunned Twilight Sparkle. She looked at the book now sitting on the floor, then down at the note floating before her. The note said only 4 things:
“To my Faithful Student Twilight:
Whatever you do: DO NOT TOUCH THAT IMAGE.
If someone does, I can't help you.
Princess Celestia.”
Twilight looked up from the scroll, to see her four friends staring at her.
“The... the Princess says she can't help us, she says not to touch the image, she... !”
Rarity gently placed her hoof on twilight's shoulder, calming her panic. Mustering all her ladylike dignity, she started to calmly speak. “Dear. Rainbow Dash just Vanished into a book. Pardon the language, but as Celestia as my witness I don't care what Celestia has to say.
With that Applejack stepped forward too, planting her hoof firmly on the ground. “I ain't about to let some old book steal a friend of mine like that!”
Pinkie Pie growled at the MYST tome on the floor. “First it hits me in the noggin, then it steals Dashie! I'm not gonna let this book do that to my friends!”
Fluttershy nodded vigorously.
With a tear in her eye, Twilight tossed the scroll to Spike She took a deep breath, and with renewed determination set to work. “Your right girls! Spike, watch the library for me, and if we're not back in 3 days, send the Princess a letter.”
Floating the table back to the center of the room, and placing the book back on it's pedestal with her horn's magic, Twilight stepped up to the book, flipping it open again to the swirling, flying image. She slowly raised her hoof. “Let's do this!”
And with that, Twilight slammed her hoof into the book.
