The Aproaching Boarder.

(A day before the events in Manehatten, Ponyville)
Just as the first drops of rain started to fall, Rarity quickly knocked and made her way inside Twilight's house.
"Sorry I'm late darlings, Finishing that last order took longer than I thought, what with getting my supplies from Canterlot later than usual."
She apologized, announcing her arrival to the rest of her friends.

Twilight gave her a quick hug as she entered.
"It's fine Rarity, we've all been busy getting back into our normal routines, but I'm glad we were finally able to get together to discuss this."
She said, motioning her to take a seat behind her.

As Rarity went to sit, the rest of the mares, who have previously been chatting amongst themselves, welcomed her.
After a quick hello, Twilight cleared her throat to gain their attention.
"Okay girls, I'm assuming everyone remembers why we're here?" Twilight asked, getting a blank look from her friends.

Pinkie took it upon herself to try and answer.
"Oh! Oh! are we having a slumber party? I didn't have any time to prepare, I didn't bring a sleeping bag, an- Mmphf!" Pinkie started to rant before Rainbow closed her mouth.

Twilight rolled her eyes at her energetic friends outburst, but was glad to see her friend return to normal.
"While that sounds like fun Pinkie, the reason we're here is to talk about these weird dreams we've all been having." She reminded them, getting a collective 'ooohhhh' as a response.

"I don't see what the big deal is Twilight, I mean, they're just dreams." Rainbow said.

"Ah supposed the fact that we've all been having the same dream for the past week didn't tip you off to something's wrong did it?" Applejack replied, getting a glare from Rainbow.

"That's right, we've all been having the same dream ever since Nova reflected the elements back at us, thankfully it seems that the elements themselves were just rendered unusable for a short while, however the fact that we're all sharing the same dream must mean something more." Twilight said, pulling out a quill and paper.

"Now, for the sake of clarification, I want to go over the dream again, so we can get all the details down, who wants to go first?" Twilight asked.

Pinkie Pie immediately bounced up and down on the couch, flailing her hoof in the air. "Oh, pick me, pick me!" Pinked exclaimed loudly.

Twilight giggled at Pinkies enthusiasm and played along. "Hmm, yes you, the one with their hoof raised."

"Well.... it starts off like...."

You wake up in your bed, unsure of what woke you up, however, it doesn't take long for you to figure what it was, for a strange, indescribable sound comes from your door.
You slowly approach it, nervous to see what could be causing such an unholy sound, gathering any courage you have, you reach for the handle and pull the door open.

Instead of some simple monster, you are suddenly in a barren, muddy field, the sounds of metal meeting metal, screeches of pain and death suddenly fill the air around you, but for as much as you look around, there is nothing to see except the barren landscape, or at least you thought so.

As you finally turn all the way back around, you find yourself staring at a colossal being, made up of blinding light, the giant stares down into you, sees through you, see what you have, are and will be doing, you try to scream out, and just before you do......

"-I wake up, almost screaming." Fluttershy finished off.

Twilight sighed and nodded.
"Yep, all our dreams are the same, detail for detail, now that we have that solidified, we can go through and try to figure out what the dream means." Twilight explained.

"Well, one thing that's easy to guess is that giant.... thing is, most likely some sort of representation of Nova, given that it was made of the same kind of light, he gave off." Rarity deducted as Twilight nodded while taking notes.

"Hey, the giant thing always shows up after that invisible battle part, right?" Rainbow began to start. "Well, maybe that means there's going to be some sort of battle involving the giant, i.e. Involving Nova."

"Good point Rainbow, but there's the fact we don't actually see any battle....... maybe it means we aren't present for the fight, but it will still affect us somehow?" Twilight brainstormed, scribbling down more notes.

"Ah think ah actually know where that place is." Applejack nervously said, quickly gaining everyone's attention.
"When ah went to live with mah Aunt and Uncle Orange in Manehatten, they took me up north to the boarder." She started explaining.
"The further up you go, the more dead the grass started to get, most likely due to the fact that the area isn't patrolled by any weather teams."

Twilight finished writing down the last part, then quickly scanned over it.
"Alright, from what I've got, our collective dreams seem to be about some sort of battle that will take place, involving Nova, near the borders to the Griffin Empire, however, although WE won't be involved in the actual battle, it will somehow affect us in some way."
Twilight pieced together.

"I... I think that, maybe, we should, probably, tell the Princesses this?" Fluttershy muttered out, slightly trembling from recounting the dream.

"She's right darling, if the dream has any significance to it, that means there's going to be a battle involving Nova, and we know how that would end for some unfortunate ponies." Rarity said, backing up Fluttershy.

Twilight and the rest of them nodded in agreement.

"Spike, I need you to take a letter....."

(Canterlot Castle, A short time after Nova left Manehatten)
Celestia couldn't think that her day could get any worse, not only were two of her sisters guards hurt quite badly, but they had managed to lose track of Nova once again after he fled from Manehatten.

However, there was one good thing, it was break time, and there, sitting in front of her, was the one thing that could improve her mood, a heavenly slice of...

Cake on the floor, with a scroll in it.

Meanwhile, two guards standing guard outside their princess's room could swear it just got about twenty degrees hotter all of a sudden.

After managing to calm down from her rather unseemly outburst, Celestia pick up the scroll, with cake still attached to it, and began to read through it.
It wasn't before long there was a knock at her door.
"Sister, are you in there?" Luna asked, having felt the sudden outburst from her sister from the other side of the castle.

"Yes, quickly come in Lulu." She answered.

Luna entered, quickly trotting up to her sister and seeing the cake on the floor.
"Sister, you must refrain from such outbursts about simple baked good, the kitchen staff can always..." Luna started to complain.

"This is hardly the time to be talking about this." Celestia said, cutting off her sister. "Here, read, I fear our day has managed to somehow become worse than before."

Luna quickly took the scroll and read over it, her eyes going wide.
"I.... can believe I didn't see this before, I am such a fool, I've been so obsessed with Nova I've failed in my duties to properly patrol the rest of the dream scape." She said, shame covering her face.

"Nova is our number one concern right now Lulu, and right now, if what Twilight says is true, he is about to cause harm to our little ponies once again, except this time, we know where he will be." Celestia comforted her sister.

Celestia slowly walked over to the nearby window, looking out to the north, her face hardening with resolve.

"We must fulfill our duties to our little ponies, and protect them from whatever wishes harm them, come sister, this time we will be prepared to face him, together this time.

(The Next day, the northern road out of Manehatten)

Nova sat there, unmoving, his faced scrunched up into something that could either be deep thought or great annoyance.
Trixie wasn't sure what to make of it, he was sitting there like that ever since she woke up.
"Nova, Trixie has noticed your unusual.... silence so far, would you mind informing your amazing companion what you are thinking?"
She asked, tired of the strange silence

Nova almost jumped when she talked, trapped in his thoughts.
"I... don't know, I'm just getting a weird feeling... I don't know it's like I just..... know something is about to happen...." he said, unsure of his own words.

Nova's face suddenly hardened to a rather stoic face.
"Trixie, if something bad happens, something you don't want to get involved in, I want you to make a dash over the boarder, okay?" Nova asked, but with his tone, it didn't really sound like she has much of a choice, she simply stared and eventually nodded in response.

Nova turned his head back towards the strangely empty road, the dead grass and muddy plains surrounding the area left the mood rather dull.

*This is it* is all Nova thought as they slowly continued down the road to the boarder.

Author's Note

Lol whats this thing? when did I start writing a story.
Sorry about being absent, plans have gone awry and I feel like I owed you guys something, so instead of giving you a satisfying chapter, I gave you a "Shit about to happen in the NEXT chapter."