Eyes on The Horizon: Book Two, Rise Of An Empire.

9/16/97…

Manehatten Harbor…

0510 hours… (5:10am)

I continue to stare at the page with the griffin printed on it. This was the thing that attacked the Missouri, this thing killed the engine crew and the captain, this thing, was now my enemy. I grabbed the cover of the book and slammed it shut and closed my eyes trying to push out images of a conflict that was soon to come, flames, explosions, gunfire, and war cries flooded my ears as an image tried to show up. I opened my lids again just as the princess appeared back into the room, via teleport.
She held a book with her horn. I took a look at the hardcover.

“550 BCR” was on the title. I walked over closer to get a look at the book.

“What is this?” I asked pointing to the brown covered book. She looked at me; her pupils were smaller than before, along with being slightly blood shot. As if she had been crying.

“This is a history book, containing all of the events that have happened before the Time of Disharmony.” I go to reach for the book, until it begins to glow an even brighter yellow than celestias horn aurora.

The wind began to pick up as the pages of the book opened, the book shown brighter than I have ever seen anything glow, soon it had shown pure white. The wind grew stronger; I fell to onto my back as the book loomed over me. The room around me seemed to fade away as everything turned black, except for the wind and the book.

“Celestia! What the hell is going on!” I yell, yet get nothing in return. I see her face slowly appear over the light book, her wings fully erect; her front hooves, under the book, yet she wasn’t holding it anymore with her horn. It seemed to be floating by itself.

I couldn’t see her pupils anymore. They glowed pure white, looking at me, looking inside me.
“I’m showing you the past, in the greatest detail I can find. Hold still, this will not harm you.” I heard over the constant assault of the wind passing my ears, as if her voice echoed around me. The book began to tilt towards me, I tried to move, but I couldn’t I was frozen. I was terrified; I wasn’t sure what she meant by greatest detail.
The next thing I knew, everything went black.
I couldn’t see anything, I could feel anything, everything was too dark to see, and I seemed to be floating in mid air.

“H-hello? Anyone their?” I said into the darkness. My eyes darted left and right trying to find something. I quickly looked over my left shoulder, then my right one. Still nothing.

“John…” I heard a voice. It was Celestia. I continue to look around, franticly I shout out into the darkness.

“Yes! Yes I’m here, I can hear you!” I said waving my hands back and forth.

“Good, I wasn’t really sure what was going to happen when I activate the spell.”

“Uh-huh, right, anyway, where the heck am I.” I asked into the nothingness.

“Well technically, you are nowhere and everywhere at the same time. Right now every bit of your body is spread out amongst the nature of Equestrian history.” I repeated what I heard in my head a couple times then came back with an answer.

“So, what you’re saying is, I’m inside that book you had.”

“Exactly.” She said, a little step in her voice. I look around again in disapproval.

“Huh, then that book really sucked.” I say into the black.

“W-what do you mean?” I heard her say again as I cross my arms.

“Well, everything is black! Nothing is here! Which in this case, means the book, was a blank canvas…”

“Give it a moment.” I head the princess come back in a much calmer tone.

Suddenly I felt a ground under me. I feel five feet and hit the floor of the void. Picking myself up, I now start to look around again. Still nothing. Though something feels a little off. I look down, still not seeing anything. But from where the ground was, compared to where my head was, something seemed off. Then it struck me, I was shorter or smaller, wasn’t sure.

“Princess! I feel different! What did you do?” Suddenly for no reason a light appeared above me. I look up, and spot a hanging lamp. It rocks slowly back and forth.

“Ah there you are!” I hear the princess say. This time, she seems to be right in front of me. I turn to my right and sure enough, there she is. Her eyes no longer glowed pure white. But, my suspicions where correct, she was much taller than me. "Huh, I like the new look their captain."

"What do you mean?" I say a little annoyed.

"Take a look, but before I show you, I will remind you that, this is only temporary." She says before a mirror appears in front of me.

"Oh." I said with a speechless voice. I walk closer to the mirror and touch it, yep, it's real.
I look down and see my hand or hoof in this case. The new look of different colors the height difference, even walking in a strait line was different. I put a hoof up to my muzzle, gliding it across the hairs of what felt like a very prickly beard.

"Jeez, my mane is a mess along with my tail, even my fur feels dirty. God, I need a shower." The mirror disappears and the princess steps forward chuckling a bit under her breath.

"Well, like I said, this pony transformation is only temporary, once we leave this world, you'll have your own body back. Then you can take all the showers you want." I smile and sigh in relief.

"Oh thank god, I though I was going to remain like this, anyway, why am I pony anyway?"

"I said you're going to get the most detailed explanation possible, right?" She said as she closed in on me. I look around in what visible light there was to offer looking for an answer.

"Yeah, so in doing that you had to change me into a pony to, let me experience it from your subjects point of view?" I said back to her turning back to look at her head on, our muzzles inches from each other. I looked into her eyes, her lids closed a bit, a small smile on her face which quickly turning into a grin.

"Not from my subjects view, but from my view." Soon she lifted her head back up to it's normal height and her horn began glowing again.

"Oh god, now what is she doing?" I asked myself as I watched her do her magic. Soon I began to feel the magic radiating off of her and soon engulfing me in her heavenly yellow glow. The light above me began to brighten in light as soon the whole room was white.

"Our journey begins back before my time, a time that I wasn't given a good name. The disharmony period." I heard Celestia say as picture came back. As the light faded away, I look around the new area. I seemed to be in some sort of castle. I was at the end of a long middle room, with giant pillars on either side of me, mainly made out of marble, stone, and other brightly colored rocks. The pillars were bridged together with a arch at the top. Behind both sets of pillars on ether side of me, seemed to be a arrangement of stained glass windows that also had the same structure as the pillars with a arch at the top. Every time there was a window a wooden door was next to it, then another window. This pattern went on for a while, as I followed it down the hall, until it hit a white wall. I followed the wall on the left side of the room, till I was a stair case that lead up to two chairs, both empty.
I looked below me to find a wool red carpet that's boarded with gold lines running up the main strip pf the hall. It felt comfy under my hoofs. I look up to the ceiling to spot it all the way in the air, about 50 feet above me, which also came to a arch bridging both sides of the rooms walls together. In the center of the room, held a crystal lined lamp that hung. Showing all of the colors of the rainbow.

"My god, this place is beautiful!" I said out loud.

"Why thank you." Came a familiar voice behind me. I quickly turn around to spot the princess again. But this time she seamed different.

"Wait, Celestia, something is different again, what is it. I'm looking at you eyes to eye." I said as I trotted over to her.

"Well, I said, from my view, didn't I?" She said putting on a half grin and raising one eyebrow. Then again. That same mirror from before came up again. This time, I wasn't amused like before.

"So, you made me Alicorn sized then... fine! Fine fine fine fine... lets just get this history lesson over with so I can get my body back. Please?" She laughed a bit after banishing the mirror again.

"If you wish."