Chapter 7: Aftermath and Plans

Luna re-appeared in Canterlot, surprising Celestia along with the Elements.

"Sister, your back already I had thought you would- Luna! Are you okay?!" Celestia interrupted herself, seeing blood dripping from Luna's neck and shoulder, the elements gasped in surprise and quickly surrounded her to make sure she wasn't hurt anywhere else.

"Every pony please, I will be fine, though I must admit, this wound stings like no other." Luna said, with a sigh of relief, everyone backed off a bit, not before Celestia gave her sister a quick hug.

"Sister, I can see why you retreated so quickly now, but how did it happen?" Before Luna could get a word it, the young mares quickly interrupted.

"Was it that wave of light from his arms?"

"Does he have some kind of weapon?"

"Um.... Are you.... s-sure you're going to be fine?"

"Ah reckon that wound at least needs some cleaning..."

"Do you know when his next birthday is?!"

"Girls please calm down!" Twilight shouted, silencing the other five, "I'm sorry, but I can barely hold my own questions in myself, but this isn't the time." The five girls each muttered out an apology.
"It's all right girls, I know this must be confusing for you, we will try and explain it as best we can for you." Celestia said, calming the girls down a bit.
"S-shouldn't we t-tend to Princess Luna?" Fluttershy suddenly squeaked out. Causing all the girls to quickly look over to Luna again, only to see the wound was slowly healing itself. Luna gave them all a small smile to comfort them.

"As I said girls, I'll be fine...though this wound is taking its time in closing."

Twilight let her curiosity boil over.

"What did Nova do to hurt you like that?" She asked, wondering what could have possibly happened to even come close to wounding her.
"Nothing actually, it would be fair to say all he did was defend himself." Luna answered, causing Rainbow to butt in.

"Then how the hay did that happen?" she pointed to the still closing cut.
"It was caused by a creation of his.... An actual golden shield that reflects all attacks right back at you, I attempted to slice him with my own weapon, for all the strength and power of my swing to be sent directly back at me." Luna replied. Celestia's eyes went wide, a realization coming to her.

"So that's why your wound takes so long to close....." Luna finished her sentence. "It was technically made with my own weapon."
With that mystery out of the way, Celestia cleared her voice and turned to her student and her five friends.

"Now, I know all of you have questions, however, I'm afraid there is little I can tell you about this 'Nova' character." All the girls suddenly got a look of disappointment on their face.

"That being said, I do have a few things that i can tell you." She stopped and took a deep breath, as if to prepare herself for what she was about to say.

"Nova is an unknown creature, though he calls himself a 'Human' this may not be true, however, he possesses a power that me and my sister, Luna, also have assess to, though it is not as powerful as his." Twilight interrupted.

"Are.... You are referring to your 'aura'?" she asks, Celestia nodded in response.

"Indeed, I am my student, we call it our 'Divine Pressure', it comes from the divine power we both possess inside ourselves and our magic, however, Nova is different from us by a great deal, my sister and I only hold a fraction of this 'Divine' power inside ourselves, most of our power still comes from our own magic, do you understand what I've said so far?" All of the girls nodded, Luna decided to continue the explanation.

"Like my sister said, we only have a certain amount of 'divine' power inside ourselves, although the small amount has the potential to make one incredibly powerful, Nova's entire being seems to be made divine power. This amount of power is usually only held by the gods of old themselves, beings that long since passed on from this world." This made sense to the six mares, in their own minds they had thought Nova was a wrathful god, Twilight decided to speak up.

"So what are we going to do about Nova?"

Celestia quickly answered, a serious look adorning her face.

"Nothing."

Twilight, along with her friends were shocked by this. Rainbow was confused.

"Nothing?! Did you see what he did? Who knows what he'll do?!" Luna, seemingly tired of this, answered harshly.

"It is for that reason we cannot do anything Rainbow Dash! We DID see what Nova is capable of! But the point of the matter is it isn't that we don't know what he might do, it's the problem that he CAN do anything he wishes!" Rainbow backed down instantly, causing Luna to sigh.
"I am sorry for my outburst, but this is a problem with no easy fix, there may not even be one."

Everyone was silent for a moment, before Celestia spoke up.

"For now, we will deal with problems we can fix, for instance, Canterlot now has a giant pool surrounding it, we need to fix the train tracks and also run them through our new location, and build proper bridges to connect us to the road, you girls will stay here tonight and rest, and in the morning you will return home, keep a watch on the Everfree, but please, do not attempt to seek out Nova." All six mares nodded, finally glad to have a plan to follow.

Nova was awake, he had been for a while now, he sat out the window on the now, even more destroyed, old Elements room, his legs constantly swinging in and out, he had long since calmed his mind, most of his sanity had returned, however, he could feel it deep inside himself, deep within his own mind something had snapped, he sighed and brushed back his newly extended hair.

"This is going to be a pain to deal with." He thought. "Washing hair this long will take ages, Oh, wait I can just keep it clean with a single thought, ha-ha" he laughed quietly to himself.

Nova sat there for hours, not doing a thing apart from thinking about trivial things, eventually though, he stood straight up, a suddenly feeling of needing to get something done entered his body.

"I can't sit here forever, I have all this power to play with, who knows what my limits are, I think the first thing I'll do is get a new look."

He looked over his old clothes, the washed out jeans and blue shirt didn't suit his new stature, he pondered for a second on what he wanted to look like.

He snapped his fingers, and idea forming in his head, bringing his hands in front of him and concentrating, a long, shimmering grey cloak formed in his hands, he looked over it, it had a hood just has he imagined, he wrapped it around his body, it almost covered him entirely.
Next he looked at his previous clothes, first he touched his blue shirt, it suddenly shone a brilliant white and formed into the shape he wanted, now he wore a dark green Jerkin, a belt going across where his jeans top was, a single, black coloured mail shoulder pad stuck out one side, and now covering his hands were a pair of black plated gloves, he laughed a bit he really was going for the typical anime adventure look right now.

He quickly touched the side of his jeans, they changed to a light brown pair of cloth leggings, going all the way down to his feet, which were now adorned with black plated boots, he looked over himself.

"Yeah, this is much for fitting considering. Now, what to do about those mares." He thought. Those six mares from earlier and their mind melting 'Elements of Harmony'. Although they made him furious, he wouldn't take any action against them, they couldn't hurt him any more, or at least he assumed so, the other two that appeared were a different story, they were both hiding their true power inside themselves, but he got a taste of each of theirs briefly, Celestia's when she created the shield, and Luna's when she went for that attack from behind, after both times they quickly hid their true strength away, however It didn't appear they were looking for a fight any more, so maybe he should just leave them alone for now. He looked past the castle ruins and to the massive forest surround it, and then even further. "A new land, with all the power I could even need." He thought to himself.

A powerful feeling slowly built up inside him, an overwhelming want to explore and see, 'wanderlust' as people called it, Nova nodded his head, his mind made up, he wanted to see what his new place offered, and with this thought, Nova reached into his pockets and placed his earphones in, Putting a certain song on before smiling, taking a few steps back, and diving out the window and the ground below.

Meanwhile, in the nearby town of Ponyville, three certain fillies were marching straight towards the one place they were constantly told not to go, two of them worried for their sisters and another for their personal hero, before they could take a single step in, however, the ground, it seemed to shake lightly, as if something a giant creature had just taken a single step, they all looked at each other and nodded, they all headed in together, their first stop was the home of a certain zebra.

Author's Note

Finally I can actually start doing what I wanted to do with Nova in the first place, go fucking everywhere and somehow cause problems for everyone along the way.