June 26th, 2012

Twilight got up from her bed and woke up Spike, much to his dismay, she got her bag of bits and got him to follow her to the nearest market place. The traversed the town and reached a plaza with various carts with different fruits, apples, oranges, lemons, if one could think of a fruit, someone was selling it there. Twilight went up to a cart run by an orange mare, her mane was yellow and tied up and she wore a hat.

“Howdy, how may I help ya two today?” The mare asked with a rather thick accent.

“We’d like a few apples,” Twilight requested, “How many can we have for 50 bits?” She asked.

“Each of these apples is 2 bits, so…” The orange mare said and thought for a second, “That’ll be 25 apples,” She said.

“I think that’s a bit too much, how about 10 for 20 bits?” Twilight changed her mind.

“Sure, sugar cube, comin’ right up” The mare said, she reached under the cart and got a paper bag to put the 10 apples into.

“Thank you very much, Miss…” Twilight paused to get the mare’s name.

“The name’s Applejack,” She said.

“Well, thanks, Ms. Applejack,” Twilight finally finished her sentence and handed the mare the 20 bits before taking the paper bag with the apples and heading off. On the way, Twilight and Spike almost tripped over a line of small animals, such a rabbits, tortoises and a few ducks, a yellow mare with a long pink mane and tail called out for the animals and almost bumped into Twilight on her way towards them.

“I’m sorry, miss, I need to get my animals back,” The mare said before continuing after the animals, Twilight looked down for a second and caught a glimpse of the clock on the yellow mare’s hoof, but could not really tell how many days were marked there. Twilight told Spike to take the apples back home while she headed to Sugar Cube Corner, Pinkie was there, resting at a table.

“Oh, hi there, Twilight!” Pinkie said, getting off her seat and trotting over to Twilight, “Do you want anything? I’m kind of on break right now,” She mentioned.

“Well, if you’re on break, maybe we could have some fun, go out and talk and such,” Twilight suggested.

“Wait, so you want to hang out? What if we get back too late and I can’t take the ponies’ orders and the place loses money and we go bankrupt and then-”

“Pinkie, stop, I just want to go somewhere with you, we can come back anytime,” Twilight said.

“Okay then!” Pinkie quickly changed from extremely worried to her usual extremely happy self, the two of them headed out into Ponyville and spent some time at a diner downtown. While they were there, Pinkie decided to start some conversation.

“So, what’ve you been doing between our super special missions?” Pinkie asked.

“You know, just staying at home and sleeping, mostly,” Twilight replied, “We’ve been doing this for two days and I’ve barely been here longer than that, maybe wait a while before asking something like that?”

“Oh, it’s fine, I thought you’d be practicing magic or reading and stuff like that,” Pinkie said.

“Oh, I’ve been doing that too,” Twilight said, “But my reading sessions have been taking longer because I either fall asleep from the previous night exploring Amenti or have to go there again,” Twilight joked, Pinkie giggled in response for a second.

“You know, I thought you’d be a bit of a scaredy cat or too much of a bookworm, but you’re actually really cool and nice,” Pinkie complimented Twilight. Twilight felt a slight headache and heard Seshat’s voice again.

“I am thou, thou art I,” It said, “You have established the Social Link of the Temperance Arcana, and have been blessed with the power to create stronger Temperance Personas” The voice added.

“Are you okay, Twilie?” Pinkie asked.

“Yep, just fine, stuff like this has been happening for a while now, I’ll hear some weird voice in my head and get a headache, that’s what happened when I freaked out in the tower a few days ago and got my Persona,” Twilight explained in response.

“Oh, anyways,” Pinkie said, she and Twilight continued to talk for a while and, when they finished their meals, they headed outside, Pinkie had to go back to her job and Twilight had nothing better to do, so she went to her house and read some books. She tucked Spike in and went to bed herself, not bothering with meeting up with the others that night.

June 27th, 2012

Twilight woke up the next day, not bothering to check her clock, she got off of bed and headed outside, she tripped on a white bunny and both of them fell on the ground, the yellow mare from the previous day showed up going after the rabbit, but she stopped to help Twilight up.

“Oh my goodness, I’m so sorry for bothering you with my animal problems two days in a row,” The yellow mare quietly apologized.

“It’s fine, can I help you with this?” Twilight offered to help the mare.

“I guess you could, we have to go catch Angel,” The mare replied, presumably talking about the white rabbit she was chasing down. The two of them followed the rabbit across Ponyville and almost lost it at the market place, but it stopped near Applejack’s cart, Twilight shouted at her to pick up the bunny and she did it, Applejack grabbed the rabbit by the ears and gave it to Twilight.

“Thanks for catching my little bunny, miss,” The mare said.

“Applejack is my acquaintance, I knew she could be of help,” Twilight told her companion, “Oh, I never got your name,” She remembered.

“Oh, it’s, uh, Fluttershy,” The mare said, her voice getting quieter when she mentioned her name.

“What now?” Twilight asked.

“Fluttershy, that’s my name,” Fluttershy said, Twilight understood her this time.

“Well, you’re welcome for my help, Fluttershy,” Twilight said.

“Thank you, in that case,” Fluttershy replied, she wanted to head off to her home, but Twilight stopped her with a loud ‘Wait’.

“Do you know anything about the tower that appears around midnight?” Twilight questioned Fluttershy.

“The tower that appears around midnight?” Fluttershy asked herself, “Oh, the big one that I entered and got this clock thing on me?” She said.

“Exactly,” Twilight said, “I wanted to know if you wanted to join my little group, we go in there every once in a while,” She asked.

“Well, I guess I’ll think about it,” Fluttershy said, heading back home. Twilight, with nothing better to do, asked Applejack if she wanted to let Twilight take care of the apple cart for a moment.

“I could use a break, thanks,” Applejack said. She headed back to her farm and Twilight took over the apple cart, she took care of orders and transactions for the day, Applejack came back about 2 hours later and thanked Twilight for her help.

Night fell and Twilight headed to Sugar Cube Corner to see if the others were there, they were, Twilight greeted the team and sat down with them.

“So, Twilight, do you want to head to Amenti tonight?” Time Turner asked her.

“Sure, could be fun,” Twilight said.

“Alright, we’ll head off at around midnight,” Time said. They headed outside a while later and their clocks stopped, the massive tower of Amenti appeared from the ground underneath the town hall, they tried to go inside but Twilight caught sight of a blue door with an odd light coming throw from the other side of it.

“Twilight, what are you looking at?” Rainbow asked.

“Can’t you guys see this door right here?” Twilight asked back.

“What are you talking about, silly?” Pinkie was also confused. Twilight ignored them and opened the door, the light shined out completely and she headed inside, at the other side of the door was the Velvet Room, Discord and Lyra sat at the other end of the room.

“Why, hello, Twilight,” Lyra greeted her, “For once, I didn’t expect you to show up now,” She joked.

“Yes, I believe you have found the door out in the real world, am I correct?” Discord asked.

“Yep, I sure did,” Twilight replied.

“Well, now you know where you may find us at any night you want,” Discord said, “Anyways, if you have any business with us right now, go ahead, if not, you know exactly where the exit is,” He added.

“Well, goodbye for now,” Twilight said, she waved at Discord and Lyra and they waved back before she got back out of the Velvet Room.

“Twi, where did you go?” Time Turner asked.

“I went through this door that apparently nopony else can see and ended up in this room that I always saw in my dreams,” Twilight replied, “Don’t ask,” She requested.

“Well, okay then,” Time Turner said, “The rest of the group is ready to go into the tower, are you?” He asked.

“Yep,” Twilight cheerfully responded.

“Then lead the way,” Time said. Twilight, Rainbow, Pinkie and Rose headed into the tower, they climbed and fought their way back to the second block of Amenti. They made it a few floors past where they had stopped after beating the knight Shadow. They continued to fight different Shadows until they got a message from Time Turner.

“Girls, something big is up ahead, must be a Guardian,” He told them.

“We’ve fought Guardians before, we’ll be just fine,” Rainbow said.

“Yeah, I sure do hope so,” Roseluck sarcastically replied. The got to the next floor and it was shrouded in a dense, black fog.

“Persona!” Twilight shouted, Seshat appeared and spun its spear around like a fan, blowing the fog away before being called back. The fog revealed several red dots, showing that it was a massive Shadow, it condensed into a single being in a white cloak with a blue, surprised mask and a large scythe.

“I sure told you a Guardian was nearby,” Time Turner said.

“Shut the hell up!” Rose shouted at him. She summoned Bastet and attacked the Shadow with an ice spell, but it had little to no effect.

“If you need me to try and analyze the Shadow, I could do it for you,” Time Turner told the four mares.

“Okay, do it now!” Rainbow said, barely dodging the monster’s attacks. An odd floating being with no legs and a temporal motif appeared in the room and floated around the Guardian, shining a green beam at it.

“Okay, this is a Vengeful Fog, a powerful Guardian Shadow, it is weak to wind spells,” Time Turner finished the analysis of the large foe.

“Crap, does anyone’s Persona know something wind related?” Roseluck asked. Twilight felt something within herself, and spoke up without really thinking.

“Sir Lancelot, awaken!” Twilight shouted, the knight Persona she got appeared behind her and swung its lance, firing gusts of wind at the Vengeful Fog, it was almost defeated, Rainbow Dash’s Persona, Shu, used a fire spell and heavily damaged the Guardian.

“Twilight, I’m not sure how you did that, but try it again!” Pinkie said.

“Okay,” Twilight said, she concentrated and shouted once more, “Seshat, attack!” She said, and her initial Persona was summoned and it finished off the Vengeful Fog with its spear.

“Wow,” Roseluck said, “I’m honestly impressed right now, how did you do that?”

“I don’t know, but this guy in my dreams told me about this ability I have to use multiple Personas,” Twilight said, “Guess he was right after all,” She added. The group decided to go back out of the tower for the night, they met back up with Time Turner and Ditzy and they headed their own ways.

Author's Note

As you have seen, I'll start doing some chapters with multiple days, because if each chapter was a day, some of them would be under my personal quota of 1000 words and the story would end at about 300 chapters, and that would not be very good. I have another tactic to avoid having way too many chapters, which you shall see soon enough.
Anyways, the chapter itself, this is the second instance of an original Guardian Shadow, the first being the first masked thing back in the second chapter, which I've decided to call the "Weeping Mask", a bit of unused stuff: There would've been a dream sequence with Discord explaining the full moon Arcana Shadows to Twilight, but it was pointless. Almost as pointless as the Velvet Room sequence that got into the final version.
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