Fallout Equestria: Forgotten Relics

Chapter Three: A Forgotten Memory

Somepony once told me that war never changes and boy did he prove me right, no matter what the era was there will always be war and it never changed even now after the world was destroyed, but there was still a glimmer of hope. I intend to make that hope grow, but I was no hero, I am no greater than any ponies or zebras that destroyed the world. If only I could change the world, but I can see that the one the world is waiting for is not me but it is another pony in another time, Solaris only knows how long that would take.

" Are you sure he's alright?" I heard somepony or a certain dragon pony whisper behind me.

" I think the wasteland is making him insane." a zebra mare whispered back. " Maybe it had something to do with being frozen, who knows the effects of being frozen for that long." the zebra whispered rather loudly, or it could be that I have the sense of hearing equal to that of a full grown dragon.

" Mala I am not insane." I replied calmly even though my mind is telling me to get mad, Mala was surprised that I heard her. " And being frozen has nothing to do with it." I said defensively.

" Are you sure?" Sapphyre asked. " You tend to daze off to Celestia knows where every now and then." Sapphyre stated.

" Yes I am fine, and who is Celestia anyway?" I asked.

" Don't you know?" Mala asked, I just shook my head since I obviously don't know." Well she was one of the rulers of this land." Mala stated.

" Ruler?" I mused. " The only ruler in my time was King Solaris." I replied.

" Did he have children?" Mala asked.

" No not before I was sealed away, but Queen Nox did announce that she was going to give birth in three months, she announced this two months before I was sealed in ice." I answered.

" Wow, sealed away one month before the royal heir was born, but there you go you now have your answer." Mala said in a way that was cheerful.

" Are we there yet?" Sapphyre asked.

" Not yet but in a few days or so we will be there." Zuri replied.

" Few days!?" Sapphyre shouted. " I can't last another minute." Sapphyre whined hanging her head down sulking.

" We have been walking for quite a while now I suppose," I said to Sapphyre and Zuri. " I suggest we find some shelter or a small non hostile town to rest at for now." I suggested.

We had been walking for one hour and thirty five minutes since we left Ashtown. We walked west like we were supposed to but we kept our eyes out for shelter or a small town to settle down at. After a long search we spotted a cave that seemed quite cozy, Mala and Sapphyre ran ahead of me towards the cave, but when I approached I noticed that something moved in the cave coming closer towards us.

" Get away from the cave!" I shouted to my friends, they just looked at me as if I were crazy. " What are you doing?" I asked. " There is something in there, so if you do not want to die then I suggest you get away!" I shouted again.

Mala and Sapphyre were looking back and forth at each other, eventually they turned away from the cave and slowly walked back to me, luckily Zuri was smart enough to heed my warning the first time.

" What's wrong with you Spectre?" Sapphyre asked. " This is a perfect shelter, if we don't go in then we'll drop dead from exhau-" but Sapphyre was interrupted as a large white drake or wingless dragon creature standing on it's hind legs with fresh blood covering some parts of the creature's body burst through the cave entrance like Santa had just kicked down my door shouting 'Happy hearth's warming eve motherfuckers!', hey my era was not old enough to not have a Santa Claus.

" What in Equestria is that!?" Mala shouted.

" I do not know but I think-" I paused talking as I saw the creature disappear right before my eyes, luckily I smelled the scent of fresh blood lingering in front of the cave. " Whatever it is it can turn invisible, I think only Sapphyre and I can fight this creature, so stand back Mala!" I shouted to my zebra companion.

" There is no way I will sit idle while my friend fights a creature alone!" Mala shouted back.

" Well I am not alone, I have Sapphyre and you." I replied. " Here, use this." I said handing her my rifle.

" But I-" Mala tried to speak but was silenced by my hoof covering her mouth.

" Like I said before, I am not alone." I said before giving her a smile, I now turned back to the invisible creature who was still standing at the cave entrance. " Alright you foul beast it is your time to die!" I said to the beast. "A LA VICTORIA!" I shouted as I charged towards the beast.

Fighting the beast was going to be hard since I could not see it, but I ran in the general direction of the faint smell of fresh blood. As I got closer I was able to hear the creature's breathing and movements due to all of the scales scraping on one another. As I dodged what I thought was it's claw I directed Sapphyre of the creatures position, she noticed where I was looking and snuck up behind the creature's back and jumped on it.

" What are you doing!?" I shouted to the dragon pony that was flailing around like a flag on the creature's back.

" What does it look like to you!?" the dragon pony shouted back, looks like a flag, that's what it looked like to me, well time for plan B.

" Well, time to see what this sword can do." I said as I unsheathed the sword I got from the alicorn. " Alright, now to apply a frozen effect." I mused.

" What are you doing!?" Sapphyre asked while still flying around like a flag.

" Keep our friend busy!" I shouted to the dragon pony flag. Alright, it has been awhile but I think I can cast a frost enchantment on my sword. " Here goes nothing." I said to myself out loud.

* BUZZZTT *

" Oh sweet merciful Solaris, I don't want a lightning enchantment." I said to myself sounding very disappointed. " Well, it will have to do for now.

I charged at the general spot the creature was standing at, and I drove the sword through, and in a splash of blood my sword hit the invisible creature's side and applied electricity.

I had to admit that a lightning enchantment was not what I wanted, but it was enough to make the creature lose concentration and became visible again, with the creature distracted with Sapphyre and my lightning sword I looked over to a hill not too far away from here, and I saw a flash or shimmering light from what I believed was the scope on my rifle, I signaled in the direction of the flashing light by nodding my head, and I waited for something to happen. I waited a good minute and there was still no gunfire, and just as it seemed to look grim as Sapphyre was tossed off of the creature's back and she was about to be finished off, an object wisped past my face and hit the creature dead center between the eyes, and it exploded causing the creature's head to explode like a bloody firework.

" That was *pant pant* too close." Sapphyre panted.

" Yeah, way too close." I replied chuckling.

A few minutes later we regrouped at the entrance of the cave to discuss our encounter with the strange beast and why Mala did not pull the trigger.

" Mala, may I ask why you could not pull the trigger until Sapphyre was about to be killed?" I asked

" I did not fire a single bullet, your gun was jammed." Mala replied calmly.

" Wait, if you didn't pull the trigger, then who did?" Sapphyre asked.

" I did." a short hooded mare replied.

" AHH!" Sapphyre screamed. " Who the hell are you?" Sapphyre asked.

" Well duh, I'm the pony who just saved your flank." the hooded mare sassed.

" Well we thank you for your help." I thanked the hooded mare, " by the way, do you know if there is a town near by?" I asked. The hooded mare smirked and looked over to me.

" If I agree to bring you to my town you'll be my friends right?" the mare asked.

" Friendship and trust does not work that way." Zuri replied, " what do you have in gaining our trust?" she asked.

" Well I'm not allowed back into a certain bar if I don't come back with friends." the mare answered.

" A bar you say?" I mused, " alright let's get going, I could really go for a drink right now." I cheerfully told the mare, she looked at me with a wide smile with her maw hanging down.

" Wait, really!?" the mare asked, even with a hood on I saw her eyes glow bright, and noticed that she had heterochromia, her left eye was silver but her right eye was ice blue.

" Might as well, she needs a break anyways." I replied pointing at Sapphyre, Sapphyre just puffed up her cheeks and blushed, " are you not scared that I am a dragon pony?" I asked.

" Well if you're willing to be my friend then I don't really care if you're just a dragon." she answered merrily, " plus, I've got a familiar feeling about you." the mare added.

" Well then, lead the way my little friend." I replied smiling, on the other hoof I think the little mare who was approximately one to one and a half foot shorter than me puffed up her cheeks as well, I still had to be cautious since I did not know who she is, but something tells me that I could trust her.

We walked for about two hours and ten minutes following the hooded mare to where she claims a town was located.

" So how much longer?" Sapphyre asked the hooded mare.

" Not too long, just another twenty minutes to go." the hooded mare replied cheerfully.

" Well, I would like to know your name before we get to the town." I said to the mare.

" Why do you want to know? " the mare replied all stingy like.

" Because that is the first step in making friends." I answered, I am surprised that she had no idea of how to make friends, and I had none before I was sealed away.

" W-well m-my name is Silverlight." the hooded mare replied.

" Silverlight?" I said to myself. " I swear I have heard that name before." I mused, maybe in a dream or vision?

" Well I've never met you before, so what're your names?" Silverlight asked.

" My apologies, I am Dark Spectre or just Spectre for short." I replied.

" I'm Sapphyre with a Y instead of an I." Sapphyre introduced herself in a rather simple manner.

" My name is Mala and this is my mother Zuri." Mala replied introducing herself and her mother.

" I like you names." Silverlight said with a warm cheerful smile. " Anyway we're almost there." Silverlight said pointing at trees that had many hills leading up to it.

" Is this it?" I asked.

" No silly, the town is in the woods." Silverlight replied.

" Well what are we waiting for?" Mala asked. " I can not wait any longer." Mala said merrily jumping up and down, I guess she is very tired of walking.

Silverlight nodded and looked back to the woods with a small smile, and with that we disappeared into the woods. While walking around in the woods I saw many new species of mushrooms, I thought that I could use them to make them to make some potions so I grabbed a few of them for future potion making. Entering deeper into the woods we had to enter a strange cave that was like an underground maze, and walking through the cave maze was quite scary for the girls due to the massive amount of bones littering the ground, but they were very old by the looks of it so I did not worry about deadly creatures. The end of the cave maze was glowing a beautiful crystal blue light, and upon exiting the cave maze we found ourselves in an underground town.

" Alright everyone, welcome to Hollow Shades." Silverlight said with glee in her voice, the cheerful atmosphere around her felt somewhat familiar to me.

" So where is the bar?" I asked Silverlight, I was rather impatient about going to this bar since it was a good 10,000 years since I last had a drink.

" Sure thing buddy, just follow me." Silverlight replied with a smile.

" I think we'll go look for someplace to sleep in for the night." Sapphyre suggested.

" Alright, you guys go on ahead, I need to catch up on some drinks that are calling my name." I replied smiling at the thought of alcohol in my system again.

Walking with Silverlight gave me a strange feeling that was familiar yet unfamiliar to me, that feeling was warmth. I have never felt this way in a very long time, but the thing that confused me was that I felt this warmth somewhere before I was sealed and while I was still in the wizard temple.

" Alright we're finally here." Silverlight said cheerfully. " Umm... hey Spectre are you ok?" the hooded mare asked waving her hoof in my face.

" Y-yeah, I am fine." I replied shaking my head. " So what is there to drink?" I asked.

" Oh there are lots to choose from, do you like whiskey?" the cheerful mare asked. I couldn't say no to that, too bad the only drinks I could find in bars near the wizard temple were Rum and Ale.

" Alright then make that two whiskeys." I said to the bartender, and then I realized that the bartender was not a pony but a white bat pony with red eyes, I guess that means he is albino. To be honest I have never seen a bat pony before.

" Silverlight I told you not to come back here unless you-" the bartender was about to finish, but I quickly cut him off.

" Do not worry, I will pay for the drinks." I offered.

" Sorry about that, but it's not the payment I'm concerned about, it's about her making some friends for once." the bartender replied, " I'm her legal guardian." the bartender introduced.

" Do not worry, though it may not look like it, she will gain the trust from my friends in due time, but it takes time to build that strong bond." I lectured, I can not believe that I am lecturing somepony when I barely know anything about friendship, or do I?

" Well, I thank you for being her friend, so what'll be your payment?" the bartender asked. I never thought about it but I may still have a few Bits left in my dimensional storage.

" Will this suffice?" I asked making two bits appear out of thin air.

" Well holy shit, these two bits are worth two bottles of my best whiskey." the bartender replied.

" Then we shall get two bottles of your finest whiskey." I said with a smile as the bartender quickly stored away the bits.

" How did you get those?" Silverlight asked tilting her head.

" What if I told you that I was alive over 10,000 years ago?" I asked.

" Then holy shit you are an ancient relic." Silverlight answered chuckling. " Are you like 10,000 years old?" Silverlight asked.

" Technically I am 18 years old." I corrected, " You see, I was frozen for the 10,000 years so I never aged during that time." I explained.

" Wow, your like the same age as me." the hooded mare said tapping the tip of her hooves together.

" Alright here's my finest whiskeys, White Bat Whiskey." the bartender said cheerfully. " And I've told you many time Sliverlight, no hoods on in my bar." the bartender reminded the hooded mare.

" Oh come on, you know ponies don't like the way I look White Whiskey." Silverlight whined.

" I know how you feel, but you can't be your true self if you always wear that hood." White Whiskey replied.

" Alright, I'll pull the hood down." Silverlight responded, as she pulled her hood off I saw that she had a greyish white coat with a silver mane.

" Wow..." I said dazing off into her beauty. "...you look amazing Silverlight." I complimented, my compliment seemed to have made her blush a little.

" Y-you really mean it?" she asked while getting all shy, she did not even notice that her wings were slowly stretching out.

" Of course I do." I replied sincerely. " Well no time to waste, let us drink until the break of dawn!" I shouted cheerfully.

About two hours later I was being carried by Silverlight all the way to the town's inn, I can not believe that the two of us entered a drinking contest to win caps, sadly Silverlight dropped out by the fourth mug of rum due to throwing up, I however drank over thirty four or thirty eight mugs of rum and won the contest, but I passed out immediately after receiving the reward of one thousand caps.

" What happened!?" I heard Mala asked frantically.

" Don't worry about it, he just passed out from drinking too much." Silverlight assured.

" Bring him over here." Zuri directed Silverlight to a couch. " I think it is good for him to catch some rest." Zuri suggested.

As I was laid down on a bed I closed my eyes to allow myself to rest easy. I never dreamed before since I always used dream blocking spell, but I was too tired to cast it.

" HAHAHA!" a demonic voice laughed. " DO YOU REALLY THINK I aM PERMANENTLY GONE?" the voice questioned.

" I thought you died off when you left my body before I was sealed." I questioned back.

" OH I DID DIE, BUT I AM NOW A PERMANENT PART OF YOU TOO." the voice answered.

" You have no power over me so you should just stay quiet." I suggested to the voice.

" FOR NOW, BUT WHEN THY ANGER RISES THE SHADOW WILL FOLLOW." the voice replied, riddles huh? Well it makes sense for the voice to give me riddles.

" WHY ARE YOU NOT ANSWERING ME!?" the voice yelled.

" Shush, I am too sleepy to deal with you, and as you can see I am drunk so just, shush." I replied, I think the voice facehoofed just now, whatever.

I opened my eyes to a familiar room, my room in the temple. Strangely enough I was watching myself practice runes magic, and what caught my eye was a grey and silver unicorn mare sitting on my bed watching me practice my magic.

" You have been trying for two days now Spectre, you should really take a break." the mare suggested.

" I can not do that Silver, I must perfect this rune spell." my dream self replied.

" If you do not rest you will pass out from over using your magic." the mare told my dream self in a worried tone.

" I have just about perfected my spell-" my dream self said before collapsing to the ground.

" Spectre!" the mare shouted before lunging forward to stop beside my body. " Somepony please, help!" she called out to the hallway outside of my room.

" What is going on!?" an azure-ish white unicorn asked the mare in worried tone.

" It's Spectre, he's-" the mare was interrupted by the azure-ish white unicorn putting his hoof in front of her, he was now standing next to my body.

" It's alright, my brother is stronger than that, he just needs to rest." the azure-ish white unicorn assured the mare, then he stood up and looked to the mare. " Come, Silverl-" the azure-ish white unicorn was cut off from the dream beginning to end.

I was rudely woken up from my dream from hearing somepony drop something right next to me. I looked over to see Silverlight standing over a food tray with the food scattered all over the place.

" Are you alright?" I asked the bat pony mare.

" Me?" the mare paused. " What about you?" the mare said before picking up her tray.

" What do you mean me-" I was cut off when Silverlight put the tray in front of me like a mirror, and what I saw in the mirror was my dragon pony self, but I had two large scars on the left side of my face and it went over my muzzle or snout. They did not look like wounds from a sword but from a fire, it was possibly a scar from being frozen or something.

" Do not worry, I can fix this." I assured her, I did not know how to fix it completely but I was able make most of the scars go away with a regeneration spell. " How do I look?" I ask Silverlight.

" Um..Better." she replied with a smile. I looked back at my reflection on the tray and saw that my scars were now skinnier than before making them look like cuts from a blade. Then I realized that everyone was gone, I wonder if they ditched me.

" Where are my friends?" I asked, I kind of feel weird for throwing around the word friend like that. " Also, where am I?" I added.

" They're downstairs eating breakfast and you're in the Hollow INN." Silverlight answered.

" Did I do anything while I was drunk?" I asked.

" No you just passed out." Silverlight replied snickering.

Walking down the stairs was a huge problem for me, I have forgotten how it feels to have a hangover. Back in my time when I got drunk my brother would always be the one to carry me back, now I'm beginning to feel like I have taken his kindness for granted since he was the only one who was always welcoming me with open hooves, or was there another? After I was close to the bottom of the stairs I accidentally tripped on my own dragon tail and fell down to the bottom, I looked up to see my friends run to my aid, I feel useless whenever I have a hangover.

" Are you alright Spectre?" Mala asked, daw she's worried about me.

" Yep." I wheezed, falling down the stairs seemed to have knocked the wind out of me.

" Come on up you go." Sapphyre huffed, hey I am not that heavy. Sapphyre brought me over to their table while Silverlight went to get me something to flush out my hangover. After a few minutes Silverlight came back with a cup of what I presumed was coffee.

" Here drink this." Silverlight said placing the cup on the table, I picked it up to give it a sniff, then I took a sip and surprisingly enough it was really good.

" What kind of coffee is this, it is delicious." I asked the greyish white bat pony.

" It's espresso." the bat pony replied, I am guessing that since the town is deep underground the poison did not reach here and have the soil soft and damp it was perfect for farming, but how did they get a tree down here? Maybe they grew it since it has been 200 years since the poisoning of the world.

" Well I guess we should start getting ready to go, so you just sit here and enjoy your espresso while we go pack up." Mala suggested before going back up stairs.

" So what did you dream about, Spectre?" Silverlight asked.

" Why do you need to know?" I asked back.

" Well since it was my idea to enter that drinking contest the others made me keep an eye on you while you sleep, and while you slept you were tossing and turning like crazy." the greyish white bat pony answered.

" Alright let me think." I replied, wait a minute, why can I not remember." ACK! I can't remember!" I shouted to myself.

" What do you mean you can't remember!?" Silverlight shouted.

" It means I can not remember, my mind is blank!" I shouted back.

After a half hour of arguing about my dream Mala, Sapphyre and Zuri came back down with our bags. They heard us arguing so they were trying their best not to laugh, but Sapphyre couldn't hold it in.

" HAHAHAHA, you two argue like an old married couple!" Sapphyre said laughing like a maniac.

" We're not a couple!" Silverlight and I shouted simultaneously.

" Whatever, well I guess this is goodbye, Silverlight." I said to my small bat pony friend.

" No way, I'm coming with you." she objected. " I'm your friend right?" Silverlight asked, I just nodded my head to her question. " Well if I'm your friend then I can't just be left behind, you know!" she yelled.

" Alright, you can come along." I agreed. " Plus only you know the way out of here." I added. " But do not blame me if you hate it up there." I said defensively.

As we left the the town we headed towards the cave that we came in from, I guess it is too much trouble for the ponies living here to make a second cave that lead to the west. So after going through the maze of a cave we entered back into the woods. While leaving I picked up a few more mushrooms and a type of glowing herb, I think I will name them Glowshrooms and Crystal Clovers. After exiting the woods Silverlight looked back towards her home one last time before heading off on a quest with us.

" Well time to go around." I said with disappointment in my voice.

" Well if we could find a skywagon I could always fly us anywhere." Sapphyre offered.

" Where is the adventure in that my friend?" I replied smirking.

" Well we have you with us so I don't care where we go." Silverlight said fluttering her eyes at me, then Mala and Sapphyre looked over to Silverlight with death glares.

" He's mine!" Sapphyre said in a possessive tone.

" No, I met him first so he is mine!" Mala objected.

" No way, he drank with me so he's mine!" Silverlight objected as well, how does me drinking whiskey with you make me yours?

" Ladies ladies, there will be no squabbling over me." I interrupted.

" Well if one of us can't have you." Sapphyre said with a grin.

" And if there will not be any fighting over you." Mala added.

" Then we'll just have to share you." Silverlight finished, then she pulled out a knife. " Which part do you girls what?" she asked the other girls.

I quickly left them and followed closely behind Zuri, I swear they are gonna kill me in my sleep.

" Girls these days." Zuri said.

" Tell me about it." I replied. " If our next companion is another girl I am not gonna make it." I said over exaggerating it a little.

" Oh you will be fine." Zuri replied, I better be fine.

As we were heading off we went north to go around the mountains, and by the looks of it we might be at our destination later than expected. But the day was nice and cloudy like normal, mutant birds were singing, ash grass was growing, girls were arguing, and on days like these you just want to drink some whiskey and sleep wishing you could just fly away to a better place, but that is never gonna happen, luckily I bought twenty more bottles of whiskey for the road, one does not simply travel without whiskey as they walk off into the horizon.

* Elsewhere in the wastelands *

" I don't care how you do it!" a trapper shouted. " Just make sure that it doesn't get out, Ropes !" the trapper shouted.

" But this thing is hot as fuck, how will it not burn it's way out?" Ropes a trapper asked.

" That room is built to stabilize their level of heat you moron!" the lead trapper yelled smacking the back of Ropes head.

" Dust, you get to keep an eye on our prize." the lead Trapper told another trapper.

" Whatever you say, Cage." a short yellow mare replied before looking back into a dark room with a glowing blue light. " I'll come back for you." the mare whispered to the dark room when nopony was in sight.

* End of Chapter Three *