As Risen opened the door to the castle she was left speechless at the grand design of the entrance hall. The marble, while clearly over a thousand years old, still held strong. A grand staircase stood in front of her as she looked around. She wondered who it may have belonged to, or who it does belong to.

She was caught off guard as the door closed almost by itself. Risen ran back to the door, knowing something was wrong. As she reached, an eerie fog suddenly fell over certain areas of the field around her. It blocked her from opening the door, as well as going into any of the rooms around her. Even the stairs were closed off by the strange fog.

She heard the slight sound of hooves hitting the ground above her, and look to the top of the stairs. While at first she only heard the noise, a pony soon showed itself at the top of the stairs. She wasn’t a Pegasus like her, but she wasn’t a Unicorn either. She was both at the same time, having both the wings of a Pegasi and the horn of a Unicorn. This must have been the Alicorn that grave digger had mentioned.

The Alicorn’s mane and tail seemed to flow by itself, being a dark shade of blue, the edges of her mane were purple. It sparkled like the night sky as it flowed almost hypnotically in front of Risen. Her face showed the look of royalty and an unknown element to it. Her coat was an even darker shade of blue then her mane. Around her neck her coat formed what Risen could only describe as a bib with a moon like pattern on it.

“So thou has awakened,” The Alicorn said, her voice showing signs of elegance, but was yet just as haunting as the night around her. “Does thou wish to bring peace to Equestria,”

“What?” Risen asked not entirely sure what the Alicorn meant. “What do you mean by bring peace?”

The Alicorn let out a small sigh, she had not expected this response. “If the Risen standing in front of me doesn’t know what I mean,” The Alicorn jumped over the fog before continuing. “Then show me you have the understanding to fight,”

Without a warning the Alicorn summoned a spear from out of thin air, holding it as it formed in her magical grasp. Risen had no idea what was going on before the Alicorn launched toward her, causing her to hurryingly dodge out of the way. Her single dodge wasn’t enough though as the Alicorn seemed to predict her movement, swing the spear in the direction Risen had dodged. Risen found herself on the wrong end of the spear, dealing a nasty blow to her shoulder and grazing her neck slightly.

“Does thou wish to live?” The Alicorn said. “If so grab your weapon and face me in combat.”

Suddenly Risen realized why the grave keeper had given her the sword. This was a test to see how strong she was. She was suppose to prove herself to this nameless Alicorn that she could fight and survive. Knowing this she once again tightened the grip on the sword in her mouth and held what she thought was a battle position.

The Alicorn smiled as she saw this, but soon changed the expression to a more suitable one as she launched herself into the air. Risen waited to see where the Alicorn planned to land, which she knew would be right on top of her, and waited for the Alicorn to come down to the ground. After a second the Alicorn pointed the spear at the ground and made her way downward, the blow aiming straight for her stomach.

Knowing that the Alicorn couldn’t change her movement at the time (she was a Pegasus after all) Risen rolled to the side just a moment before her opponent reached the ground. The spear managed to going into a hole in the century old marble, causing it to get stuck as she landed on the ground.

Risen saw the chance to attack, and took it. Dashing back towards where the Alicorn was she swung her spear into the alicorns skin, but for some reason no blood was coming out of the Alicorn. Not only that, it didn’t seem like she was even flinching from the attacks she was causing. After about six swings she found that she might have gotten a little to greedy, she was out of breath and the weight of her weapon was slowing her down.

Only a few seconds after Risen had finished attacking did the Alicorn manage to remove her sword from the crack in the marble. Seeing the tired Pegasi she swung her spear at Risen who caught the full force of the blow. She fell to the ground a few feet away from where she once stood, a trail of blood leading to her current location. The blow was a fierce one, and it had definitely made her think before using all her energy to attack. It was obvious she was going to have to play defense, wait for an opening and then attack.

Getting back up Risen saw her opponent quickly closing the gap between themselves. The Alicorn was once again charging her with her spear, Risen knew what was coming this time. As the spear came within an inch of her face she side stepped it, watching as the Alicorn played the same motion as last time. The spear once again came from the direction she dodged to, but this time managed to roll under it.

Seeing that the spear was now a good distance away from her, she went in for a few more strikes. She got two slashes in, one to the leg and one across the chest, before stepping back. She was just in time as the spear was actually ready to strike her from the back. It just missed Risens ears, her eyes wide in terror at how close it had come to piercing her skull.

For a test, this felt all too real. It was like this Alicorn was trying to kill her, and while in most cases that wouldn’t be that bad. The fact that she was bleeding told her otherwise. The Alicorn was testing her yet was also killing her at the same time. What kind of a test was this?

Risen was so deep in thought she didn’t realize that the Alicorn was preparing another attack. She watched as the ponies spear pierced through her belly, staring in utter disbelief at what just happened. Blood continued to drip onto the ground as the Alicorn rose the spear high into the air and flung her straight across the room.

The pain was close to unbearable as she hit the floor holding her hooves over over her stomach. She knew she was going to die, she could clearly tell from the blood she was spilling. Risen closed her eyes as she realized something, she had only woken up over an hour ago and was already going to die again.

Then something dropped on the floor from in front of her. Chained to the end of her sword she noticed a bottle of pink liquid lying on the ground. A word popped into Risens head as she looked at it: Love Elixir. She had no idea what it meant, but something in her head told her to drink it.

She fumbled the bottle around in her hooves as she tried to get it towards her with one hoof, the other still holding onto her wound. After a little bit she managed to get it close enough to drink. Taking a risk she removed her hoof from wound in an attempt to open it. She watch as Alicorn watched her, she knew she wasn’t dead, but she was going to any second. If she was going to die again, might as well go out with something to drink.

A couple of seconds later and she managed to undo the top, quickly afterward drinking up the bottle in a single gulp. Whatever this Love Elixir stuff is was really sweet, something she found that she liked. It wasn’t just that, she felt strength returning to her and found herself able to stand up. She staggeringly got back up to her feet and gripped the sword once again in her mouth. While she hadn’t fully realized it, the wound across her stomach had been healed.

“So the Risen still has fight in it,” the Alicorn said out loud to herself.

Risen didn’t respond, taking an offensive with her new vigor and stamina. She charged forward at the Alicorn who seemed to realize she wouldn’t be getting a response. The Alicorn took a defensive stance as Risen charged at her, seeing the flaw of her charge. She blocked the sword as it was thrusted at her, Risen quickly realizing the position she had gotten into.

Risen quickly dodge to the left, and not a moment too soon as the Alicorn’s spear slammed into the ground. She took two quickly slashes at her opponent before quickly jumping back out of the spears reach. She didn’t know how she was suppose to take her opponent down when they weren’t even bleeding. What was going on.

She watched as the Alicorn once again jumped into the air. She knew what to expect and waited for her opponent to drop down. She cautiously stepped around in a circle as she waited for her opponent to make her move. After a few seconds the Alicorn made her way down only for Risen to dodge out of the way. The fierce blow ended up piercing the ground and she once again was stuck.

Hoping to end it here, Risen made her way to the back of the Alicorn preparing to jump. As her hooves left the ground she dropped the sword out of her mouth and clinched it in her fore hooves. With precision accuracy she drop the sword straight through the skin of the Alicorn and watched as her fell to the ground under her before turning into mist.

Soul Rested

Author's Note

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