Ethereal

by Kailoulou

Rating: teen
Tags: Alternate Universe, Princess Luna, Original Character, Science Fiction, Princess Celestia, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Length: 1146

The universe has many unpredictable factors. Many of which, meld us into who we truly are. But what if a factor transcends an understanding that we are not even capable of comprehending to begin with?

An entity awakens within an environment. Only to discover a barren wasteland and the unpredicted.

A surreal story by The Renaissance Griffin

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Published 2016-07-21 03:50:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-07-21 03:50:01 UTC

Ethereal

Ethereal

The eyes of The One closed.

It lays upon a barren wasteland with black stone

It's body still warm...

The wind endlessly howls

Yet no voice heard in the winds

The One opened its eyes...

It gasped for life and in return was met with it

It's eyes lucid with sudden realization

The eyes of an eagle awoken

The claw scratched upon the face

A paw rubbed the eyes...

Slowly, the body began to move

The muscles began to move within the body

The blood began to flow

The birth of The One's movement...

It rose from the black rock

It stretched its wings,

Wings that belonged to an angel

The wings the color of black

Yet not torn or damaged

Like an angel's...

Its tail just barely touching the ground

The black body of The One elongated itself

As if it were from a slumber...

The silver eyes closed once more

But opened again...

Only to see the world around itself

A barren wasteland

Not teeming with life

Only teeming with scorched earth...

The ears began to hear the howling wind

But it picked up something else

The wail of baby...

The One followed the sound

It looked through bones and skulls

Skulls and bones belonging to every creature

In the universe...

The One eventually found the source

Two young Equines

It immediately scooped them up

It began to comfort them or so try to...

One had the color of a white in its fur

The mane was as pink as the sun sets The One had seen

It's eyes closed brought out the yellow freckles on its snout and face

The wings were truly the color of an angel's, white as can be

The body was fragile and luckily not broken

One had the color of a blue on its fur

The mane was as blue as the seas The One had ventured to

It' eyes closed brought out the black freckles on its snout and face

The wings were the color of the night, as majestic as the night could be

The body was fragile and luckily not broken

The One cradled them until they were silenced

But it didn't know it could quell the wails

It never had children...

It looked at the bodies of these two young Equines

With eye's of hope and realized that no matter what

It will protect them, for they were young and abandoned

No fragile being should be treated this horrendously...

It swore that it would protect these two young equines

With all of its heart, for now, they were all he had...

He looked at them and smiled

The one planned to raise them to be great

But soon his thoughts were cut...

When he looked towards the sky and noticed something

Two levitating entities in the air...

Both had massive wings

Both of them were also levitating right next to each other

But both were completely different from each other

As if they were night and day...

One of them had wings completely made out of metal

The metal pieces were completely levitating and seemed bound by some mysterious force

The face of it though could not be seen, but it appeared to be only two-legged

Any creature could be two-legged in the universe...

One of them had wings that were completely organic

The feather's of the wings were real and were just like The One's

The face could not be seen, but it appeared to be only two-legged

Any creature could be two-legged in the universe...

The One held the young equines tightly to his chest

In fear of what these creatures are capable of

He suddenly felt different

He didn't feel the young Equines in is chest...

The One looked down and saw that his forelegs were completely made of metal

His back legs had also transformed into metal too

They were prosthetics, but they made it feel empowered

if felt as if it could change the world at its own whim

It felt empowered...

But it didn't feel right, it felt cold inside its soul

As if it were emptied of all it's emotions

It touched it's heart and felt it still beating

It then asked "Am I truly alive? But I feel so empowered"

It stood on his new legs, it was now a two-legged creature

It looked at itself, and then didn't want this

It didn't want to be indoctrinated by this

Other two-legged creature

It closed it's eyes and took a deep breath...

He suddenly collapsed to the ground and he was back to his previous form

No metal arms or legs, but he felt less powerful

He felt as if he could be easily changed

But he felt a fire in his soul, it was warm with the power of emotions

He looked at his chest and the two young Equines were still there in his chest

He looked and smiled at them...

When he raised his head once more he saw a planet in the gray sky

A planet that was lush in green, vast oceans and was beautiful

But this planet all seemed all too beautiful

Like it was Ethereal...

The two winged creatures levitating in front of his view parted

One went to the right

The other to the left

They then expanded their wings immensely...

All of the sudden the planet in view began to burn

The lush green began to turn to black

The seas began to turn to the color of blood

The atmosphere turned to black...

Then all of the sudden he realized that this was his planet

The one that he was born on

Raised upon

But now destroyed...

He began to weep and held the young equines close to his chest

He looked to the levitating creatures and began to damn them

He hoped that they would all burn in the pits of hell

He released all of his energy, damning them

And when he lost all of his energy he collapsed to the black ground...

There he began to weep and slammed his claw and paw against the ground

But the young equines began to wake up...

Slowly they opened their eyes and saw their caretaker

They saw that he was in pain, he was crying

They wiped away his tears and began to embrace him as best as they could...

He was still crying but he was eased by the young equines embracing him

He looked at them with hopeful eyes and then embraced both of them

He may have lost his home, but that doesn't mean he could create a new one

He realized that this new home may not be the same as his old one, but it will make do

He began caressing the young equines manes and smiled

"Don't worry young ones, I will take care of you, I promise"