Spark

Chapter 10

I found myself floating in a black void… again… I fought to remember the previous incidents. Images of Changelings attacking me and sounds heartbreaking shrieks came to my mind… but there was something else… my coat… my coat was covered with blood… blood coming from a severe wound in my chest…

All my hope disappeared… I felt I have failed Luna… Dawn… Celestia… and Equestria itself… I was alone inside of that black space full of nothing… with nothing but my thoughts to make me company… since I had nothing to do… why not exploring my life?

I saw my marriage with Dark Warrior... which wasn’t too fancy… after all, it couldn’t catch too much the attention; we were being chased far and wide by my father.

I also saw how I gained my cutie mark… though it was a peculiar way to earn one… It suddenly appeared while I was under a tree and it was raining… I seemed very depressed… my coat was covered in mud and dead leaves and branches were stuck between the strands of my dark red hair.

And the evenings I spent with Luna in our club house while I was in Equestria… she would make the moon brighter and create new constellations just for me… I also remember flying with her in the night sky… and when we fell asleep in any nearby cloud we found and awoke in very awkward positions…

I also remembered when I used to risk my life to enter the castle and visit my sister when she had the curse... She would start crying and begging for forgiveness… and then she would slowly fall asleep under my wing…

As I witnessed these moments of my life… tears ran down freely through my cheeks… but each time they hit the ground… I heard a grassy sound…

“Hm… I don’t know you for giving up so fast…” I heard a familiar deep male voice. The place lit up as The Spark’s light kept growing, revealing that I was inside of the place he called ‘my heart’.

“…What can I do about it? That wound… wait, I’m dead or not?”

“If you were dead we would not be here…”

“…Another one?” I spoke my thoughts aloud as I saw another silhouette in the mist of the destroyed area. It also looked like an alicorn, in fact, it was even familiar…

“…Hm… her…” he sighted “…however… I am here to discuss something with you…”

“…What is it?” I said with curiosity

“I can heal the wound in your chest… and I can also protect Luna… but you will have to sacrifice your alicorn powers, just like your sister had to… but it will be temporal… I can grant you enough time for you to get to Nicardia… once you enter the territory I will return to you, of course, if you make it in time…”

“…How much time do you think you can give me?”

“…five months… that is all I can do without you…”

I thought about this opportunity… I thought very, very deeply… I couldn’t teleport there, Origin had conjured a magic shield around the kingdom; no one from the outside could teleport inside and vice versa… nor would it be easy to enter by feet… but it would be more possible and less risky...

“I agree…”

“Very well…”

Everything turned black again… I open my eyes, a terrible shriek came out of my mouth as I felt an intolerable pain overcome my body… all I could see was the night sky… it was empty…

“W-who’s there?” said a very delicate voice. I could sense fear and nervousness coming from it “oh no… w-who did this to you?” I saw a pony’s silhouette over me… I distinguished its aqua eye, the other one being covered by its pink long hair…

That’s the last thing I saw before my vision blurred again…

…I won’t take long, Luna…

Chapter 10

Hope

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Author's Note

Change of plans. Will be explained in the next chapter's notes (though I'm not sure if there's anything to explain).