The Story Of Sky Blue

As Sky touched down, she saw Rainbow still lying in her cloud hammock. She decided not to go for the direct approach, and strolled casually over to where Rainbow lay comfortably.

“Hey, Rainbow, mind if I lie with you?”

“Of course not! Finally someone else sees how much easier it is just to lay down and relax every once in a while. Or, lie down and relax for quite a while.” Sky climbed on to the hammock and hugged Rainbow. She leaned in and kissed Rainbow on her cheek, and in the same movement, brought her forehead forward. As it touched Rainbow’s, Sky put as much energy as possible into pushing into Rainbow’s mind. She shoved passed the defenses and found herself in the familiar cloud Sanctum at the middle of ‘Dash’s mind. There she saw Rainbow surrounded by clouds, occasionally firing off a rainbow coloured lightning bolt at Rainbow herself, as she tried to escape them. She saw Sky, and shouted;

“A little help would be nice!” Sky immediately charged forward and said something else in that strange language, and when she finished the spell, the clouds exploded with a kind of firework effect. Sky kept galloping towards Rainbow, who was watching in amazement. Sky tackled Rainbow and hugged her tightly.

“I was so scared that Discord would be in here.”

“Don’t worry, I could have driven him back in ten seconds flat!” With these encouraging words from 'Dash, Sky faded out of Rainbow’s mind, her fatigue coming back tenfold.

She opened her eyes and saw Rainbow looking at her in relief. Sky’s vision flickered violently and she yelled out. Rainbow suddenly looked worried. Sky just kissed her softly on her lips, and said two words.

“Love... You...” Then she blacked out, vaguely hearing someone screaming her name.

She opened her eyes, and found herself about a hundred feet in the air. She yelled out, and her wings unfolded, saving her from falling. Suddenly a blue streak flew past her, and she recognised herself flying past. She was shocked to see that it was her how she looked the day she had woken up in the forest outside Ponyville. She quickly gave chase to the-only-three-days-younger Sky, and landed with her on the dirt road leading into Ponyville. She saw Young Sky look around for a second, then she began to speak.

“Alright. This is a message for me... Or at least... Me when I am ready to recover my memory. If you are seeing this, then you must have found the other breadcrumbs I left. Or... Am going to leave... Never mind, I’ll just talk about this in past tense, to get rid of confusion as I talk. I made sure you would see the lesson about hypnosis, as I knew that Discord would try to hypnotise you when he inevitably escaped. And I knew that I would wonder if I was evil before I lost my memory, so I made sure to have a breadcrumb leading to that encounter. Now, I know you want to remember everything. I know I will, so you obviously must too. Just say this word--” She said a word in the strange language Sky had been using for her spells. “-- and make sure you put as much magical energy as possible behind it. Summoning spells aren’t easy. What you will get is a note. It is the one you saw me writing after Chrysalis-slash-Cadence left for Canterlot. It should explain everything. I hope it will answer all the questions I will inevitably have. I would tell you now, but I know you only have a limited time to see these memories. I just hope the breadcrumbs spell works. It only activates if you really truly want to remember something, or when you find yourself under intense mental stress. The memory spell I am using is so powerful, not even Celestia would be able to tell it was magical. It completely alters the psyche of the target, making it seem as if they have just chosen to forget everything. Part of me just can’t wait to forget my past. But I know it is necessary to get it back, just as it is necessary to lose it. If I don't then I will never be able to form relationships, because of my connection with Chrysalis. As you must know by now, that town is Ponyville, where the six elements of harmony reside. I just hope you have managed to befriend them. They will be invaluable in defeating Discord. That’s all I have to say. Except... Remember, that you aren’t evil. This is just circumstances screwing with your life. One day, maybe we will find someone to spend the rest of our lives with. I guess I’ll see. Maybe you already have. I can only hope. I just wish you could answer me. Anyway, I have to do the spell now, and I have nothing else to say, except remember that word!” With this, Young Sky knelt down and started chanting. Sky immediately recognised the memory spell, then the quickly phrased breadcrumbs spell, and then, finally, as Young Sky’s eyes went blank, and her memories faded into nothing, she whispered a knockout spell, and fell asleep on the side of the road. Sky just stood there for a moment, then felt consciousness pulling her back into the real world.

As she woke up, Sky felt someone hugging her tightly as she lay on a comfortable bed. She also felt something running down her shoulder. Tears? Then she heard a soft whispering.

“Please... Sky... Don’t be dead... Please don’t be dead... Sky... Please wake up... Please...”

“Rainbow...” Sky managed to croak.

The hug suddenly got tighter as Rainbow gasped.

“Sky! You’re alive! You just passed out twenty minutes ago, and I thought it was all too much, and the stress got to you... And...” Rainbow trailed off.

“Can’t...breathe...” The pressure was released and Sky breathed in deeply.

“Oh... Sorry...”

“Don’t be.”

“What happened to you?”

“I saw the last memory that I needed to. Oh yeah! That reminds me.” Sky sat up, and remembered the word her memory self had told her. “Cnawan.” And as Sky said this, she put the last of her magical strength into the three short syllables. There was a bright flash of light and a scroll, not unlike one of the friendship reports that Twilight had shown her the previous day, appeared and fell onto the bed. Sky used some of the little magic she had left to open it and flatten it out. It was written in an untidy scrawl. Sky read it through, and after about three or four lines, Rainbow couldn’t tell, she clutched her head.

“No, no, no, no, how could I have been so blind.” She kept reading, and Rainbow sat and watched her for about five minutes. By the time she had finished, she leaned back against the soft headboard of the bed.

“Sky, what is it?” Rainbow enquired.

“I can’t right now, just read it.” Rainbow leaned forward and look at the untidy lines, and started to read out loud;

“Sky,

Obviously by now you must have seen the last memory you needed to be shown. You must have used that spell that I told you to use. That spell, while bringing this letter back from the place we banished it too, also acted as the last breadcrumb. By the time you finish reading this you should be starting to remember things. The first and foremost thing you should remember;

about six months ago, you were curious about the elements of harmony, and searched Chrysalis’ library for information regarding it. You came across a small black book. It had a picture that you had seen before, with the six elements of harmony on the cover. But this one was different. It had seven elements on the cover. Intrigued, you took it and started to read. You should remember this by now, but I want to get this on paper so you won’t have to explain anything to the other elements, with whom I hope you have met and befriended. Alright. In this book, you read about how there had once been a seventh element. Probably one of the most powerful, and most dangerous elements in existence. It was so powerful, that whenever one of the three races; Pegasi, Earth Pony, or Unicorn, had one of them receive it, the other two were jealous. So, hundreds of thousands of years ago, the original creators destroyed the seventh element, and changed the spell. But it wasn’t strong enough to last this long, and the spell is wearing off. As I wrote, the seventh element was the most dangerous. It is the one thing that not enough ponies are born with and not enough search for.

Knowledge.

The reason this element was so powerful, is because it granted the wielder knowledge of a language millions of years old. According to history books, it was originally used by a bipedal race, with no knowledge of magic. They instead used it to argue, to converse. It was so powerful, even in the mouths of these bipeds, it was able to start wars, and in some cases, end them. Then we came along, and the elements were created. This language allowed the race that used it to use the talents they weren’t born with. If, say a Unicorn wielded it, they were able to fly, and Pegasi were able to use magic. Earth Ponies could do both.

Sound familiar?

That’s right. Twenty three years ago, the spell finally wore out. The day it wore out, a small blue Pegasus was born on the outskirts of Equestria. She lived for seven years peacefully, when her parents were killed in a Changeling raid. She was so skilled with these abilities she was born with, that she even managed to impress the Changeling Queen. This blue pegasus spent sixteen years with her, until she finally gathered up the courage to leave what had been her prison, school, and home all at once for most of her life. She traveled to a forest outside a small town called Ponyville, where she cast a spell that completely wiped her memory. Now, I have no idea what happened from there. I can only hope that she managed to befriend the other elements of harmony. Okay, time to stop talking in third-person, which I hoped you had figured out by now. That’s right Sky, you are the seventh element.

You are Knowledge personified.

You are the last hope for defeating Discord. Obviously you remember now that Chrysalis had been using dark magic to increase Discord’s power. Now only the other six elements together can repair the seventh element, and bring it back into the original seven. Complete the cycle! You have to remember the spell! We must have read it thousands of times, in order for this moment! Please... Just defeat the three that wish to take over this beautiful land. You should know that Discord has hidden them again. But you should know where Sky.

Now, go out there and defeat them once and for all!

Hoping this finds you,

Sky.”

Rainbow put the letter down, and lay next to Sky.

“Wow. You are the last element? The one that Twilight read about recently? That is awesome!” Rainbow hugged Sky. “So you have your memory back? You remember everything?”

“More or less. It is definitely coming back, but it’s more like a leaky pipe than a dam breaking.”

“Well, do you remember that spell that... You wrote about?”

“Yes... I think it was...reviviere.” Sky put the last little bit of her energy into this word, and she felt the fragments in the pouch Fluttershy had given her rattle a bit.

“Did you hear that? They moved! They responded to the spell! But, I don’t have enough energy. I might need the others’ help with it.”

“Well then why are we sitting here talking about it? Let’s go!”

And with that, Rainbow pulled Sky off of the bed and they shot towards Twilight’s Library.