Chapter 1: The Experiment Gone Wrong
"Glacies, what did you bring me out here for again?" Aqua said, brushing her aqua blue hair out her green eyes.
"We are here to preform an experiment, nothing more, older sister." Glacies replied to her older twin as she used her white spear as a walking stick, going through her cold castle of Xarzith.
Aqua was human or at least a humanoid at the least and stood about five foot and an inch. She was at least sixteen years old and her voice was like a rather shy and quiet but resonant crystal glass vibrating with water inside it, making a delightful tone. She wore a white tunic and a pair of dark blue-green pants with a pair of brown leather boots over them. Around her waist was a belt with a clear jug of water and a simple two-edged sword on her left side. Her long aqua blue hair reached down to her waist as her mess of bangs partially covered her eyes. Her caucasian skin wasn't flawless, due to all the wars that the nations endured against the demonic nations of Shira-mu and Tetha-tra. She was imprisoned for a short amount of time before escaping but not without many injuries due to torture. She, however, gave the sense of beauty that many admirers from other nations and within her own tremble at their knees at the sight of her.
Glacies was almost an exact copy for Aqua but also not almost an exact copy. She looked like Aqua but her hair was a dark blue and her eyes a dull, dark purple. Her skin was a flawless white and she gave off an aura of strict order whereby Aqua gave an aura of flowing and passive order. She wore dark grey robes with purple trims that covered her entire body and it also came with a shawl to add another layer, though she was used to the cold by now, since she works in it while on her computers and many servers.
"But why use me, couldn't you get Solum or Tenebrae in this?" Aqua complained, "I could be making juicy steaks and mouth watering ramen right now."
"Because I trust you, just like old times," Glacies said with a smile, which she didn't do often expect when she is alone with Aqua. "Besides, you still owe me for that experimental fruit cocktail."
"Hey, you liked it," Aqua retorted as they giggled together, wallowing in their memories of the past. "Well, let's get this over with , I need to get back to Teremana. Father wants my voice for a song."
"I'll get you back before he calls," Glacies said as she opened up the large oak doors into her laboratory. "Myvish (sister), please stand at the platform."
Aqua nodded and went over to the platform in the middle of the room. She looked at the runic circles and symbols around her as she stood at the middle of it. She recognized some of them but not all of them. "Sis, what do these say?"
"If I can remember right, it said 'Within the formation of space, create a fold between the other reality, then tear to create a hole and tunnel into another.' " Glacies recited from her memory.
"Wouldn't it be easy to just fly to where ever we need to go or is this an application for our citizens?" Aqua asked, twirling around to get a full view of the circle. "So how do I play in this?"
"Draw water from your jug and split it into eight parts and put it into the circles on the platform, keep them in ball form. Then split those parts into another eight and put it into a circle then spin them around in the circle. That should create a lot of energy which I will then use my ice and my cold lightning to open up a portal behind you." Glacies instructed as she looked at her hands, which white lightning came out of it, sending chills down Aqua's spine. She hadn't seen Glacies use that since the Third Great War on the Battle of Hestergia Hill.
"Is that it," Aqua asked as she began to draw water out of her jug with her own magic. She began to twirl around as the water from her jug split into eight parts and went to their respective places, which then also split into eight parts and which twirled into the circle. There was light coming from those circles, raw energy emanating from the speed and friction of the water and the air colliding in molecular levels.
Glacies sent her white lightning into the platform, which completed the circuit of energy and caused a portal to open up behind Aqua. Glacies sent in enough to allow her to stop and observe the portal. "Brilliant," was all she said to herself with a huge smile on her face as she began to think to herself about all the innovations that she could do with this new found magic.
Aqua smiled and looked at her younger sister, momentarily losing focus with one of the water circles, causing it to slow down a sliver of a fraction. But an explosion came from it, since alchemy and magic are precision and delicate work that a loss of focus could lose you an eye. Aqua stumbled forward as Glacies covered herself with a thick ice shield as the castle began to shake underneath them.
Aqua began to lose her footing as she began to stumble her way to the portal behind her. "Glacies!" Aqua managed to shout as another one of the circles exploded, drowning out most of her shouting.
"Aqua!" Glacies shouted as she took a step forward, only to be knocked back across the lab and with a hard impact, fell unconscious with debris around her.
Aqua focused for a bit as she created a force field around Glacies to protect her as the portal began to suck her in, along with other things in the lab. Aqua sighed as she got sucked into the portal, alongside with some of her younger sister's laptops. "Might as well see where this will take me." Aqua said to herself as she grabbed the laptops and toppled into the portal backwards. The portal closed, leaving Glacies momentarily unconscious and a wrecked lab.
A few moments later, Glacies opened her eyes and looked around, seeing no Aqua, no portal and her wrecked lab. She sighed and said "I shouldn't get anymore ideas after drinking a Solum Spritzer."
Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were slowly flying above the trees of the Sweet Apple Acres, talking about their day as Celestia's sun began to fall beneath the horizon and Luna's moon began to rise.
"Man, if you only knew what you could do Fluttershy. You saved that baby bird from hitting the ground, calmed a manticore and scared a cocktrice out of its wits." Rainbow Dash stated with a huge grin on her face.
"Oh please...." Fluttershy replied as she began to blush. "Your flattering me too much...."
Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy landed underneath Dash's cloud home. "Well, you should get home, Fluttershy. You don't want to be out here in the dark."
"Thanks, I will." Fluttershy replied as she hugged Dash and began her way home.
Dash smiled and flew up to her home and took only one clop of her hoof as she began to feel something. Fluttershy noticed it too as they both looked up at the sky above the reservoir where it provided Ponyville water for the seasons.
Dash came back onto the ground and looked at Fluttershy. "You feel it too?" Dash asked, trotting next to her.
"Yeah....its almost like a very...." Fluttershy began to say as they saw something falling from the sky. It was glowing with magic and it was about the hit the reservoir's surface. "Oh....my."
"Quick, we have to do something." Dash said as she began to take flight, only to hear a boom. She saw a rainboom but it wasn't like hers, it had the look of just a dark cloud ring and it began to rain on them instantly but it left quickly. The water was hit by this strange object and it met with a great splash.
Fluttershy and Dash went to the banks of the reservoir to see something swimming towards them. It was something that wasn't a pony and it was clutching something on its chest. This thing was Aqua, who just entered the world through a mach 5 entry.
Aqua swam to the shore as Fluttershy and Dash took a step back and she got out of the water. She looked at the dry laptops and giggled to herself. "There, told you I can take them underwater...." Aqua said before she slumped forward and fell to the ground, exhausted with the entry.
Fluttershy and Dash, amazed at this strange creature, began to observe it. "What do you think it is?" Fluttershy asked as she kept her distance as Dash flew around the unconscious Aqua, looking at her.
"Looks like a human, like in one of Daring Doo's stories. But normal humans can't survive an impact like that." Dash stated as she looked at Aqua. She began to move Aqua to her back and with a strained huff, she stated "Man, this thing needs to cut off a few pounds. Fluttershy, help me, let's take it to Twilight, maybe she knows why its here."
Fluttershy nodded and took up Aqua's legs and they both began to trot their way back into Ponyville and to the Library.
