Burn Brighter
A call for help.
Load Full StoryNext ChapterIt was Nighttime in the Equestrian world. Nighttime meant Princess Luna was doing Her Nightly, Dreamy, Roundabout. She always enjoyed seeing the limitless possibilities dreams could make up. Although, this night was a bit boring because nobody was having any nightmares. Luna had a bit of a Fixation for getting rid of Her subjects nightmares because She could get rid of them in anyway She wished. However, it was getting towards the end of Her rounds and She had to leave.
"Hey" a weak voice called out.
"Hey is anyone there please. I need help." The mysterious voice sounded like it was in pain. Luna walked around in search for the mysterious voice. She found a small little white light.
"Hey there, are you that voice I keep hearing?" Luna said with care. The white light seemed like it was fading. "What do you need help with?" The princess didn't expect this to be happening.
"I'm fading. Please I don't have much time. My body needs my soul back. But I don't remember where it is. This hurts a lot." Luna was surprisingly calm about this. But that didn't stop Her from wanting to help this apparent soul. Luna in cased the soul in a box of Her own real magic and ran out of the dream world. The amount of time She had was unknown but, Luna's feet moved as fast they could to Her Sister's room. Luckily Princess Celestia was awake and dressed when Luna suddenly showed up in Her room. Princess Celestia was a little concerned about the sudden entrance.
"Oh Luna what are you doing here? Is there danger?" The sun princess was in the middle of reading a really good book about magic. But she could always put anything aside to talk to Her Sister about anything.
"Yes. Come I don't have time to explain but we need to find someone." Luna walked over to Her sister's balcony. She prepared a very unknown spell for tracking people although, it requires a lot of concentration. "Tia I need you to be my eyes. We'll follow the trail to the body but we need to be quick about it." Celestia felt tingly, Her sight was now filled with a colorless stream of light. This stream of light was going somewhere. If Celestia had to bet she probably bet that this stream of light wasn't going to end up in a place she was comfortable with.
"All I have to do is follow this stream right?" Celestia obviously wondered what was happening here. This colorless light had no feelings behind it. Why did it seem like it was fading into nothingness? It was leading both of the sisters somewhere but where? Celestia looked at Her sister and above Her was a box with a little light inside it. “Is this the person we're helping?” she asked curiously. The light inside the box like the stream seemed to be fading.
"Yes. I found this hurting soul in the dreamscape and it asked for my help. I have to warn you sister I don't know what we're walking into. But, I'm pretty sure we're helping someone who really needs help.” Luna still had Her eyes closed but Celestia could feel Her sister looking at Her.
"Luna I trust you. If you truly believe we're helping someone I want to help. Now let's go." Celestia meant those words which made Luna even more sure about this. They both took off into the clam night. There's something special about flying above their beloved Canterlot at night. The view beautiful, the lights below clam, the reflections of the full moon's light amazing. While they were flying Celestia was wondering how did Her sister’s spell work but that's a question for another time. A few minutes later the stream leant both Princesses to the Everfree Forest. The stream of colorless light went Underground for some reason.
"Luna, we're above the Everfree Forest. The stream is going underground." Celestia started to get a bad feeling. The fading light she been following had only got harder to keep track of. Luna had to stop part of Her spell to pay attention to try not to hit anything on the way down.
"Alright let's land and see where it goes." They did just that. The Everfree was creepy this time of night giving off the worse feeling of creepy in the world. The stream ended in a small open space in the Forest. In the middle of this space was a red door with a seal on it. Luna stopped Her spell completely and became cautious around the door. "Why is a Tartarus seal door here in the middle of Everfree Forest!" Both Princesses looked at their surroundings and just felt creeped out. The creepy feeling was in every direction they looked it was disturbing. The darkness within the spaces between the trees didn't help either. As far they could tell they were in no serious danger but, they had to focus on what's important.
"My best guess is... we have to open the door. As much as I don't want to do that. Do you need a minute to recover, Luna?" Celestia was getting kinda nervous but she was still more worried about Luna.
"Not really. Lets gets this done." Luna said with confidence. She was determined to see this through.
"Ok." Celestia said. They positioned themselves on opposite sides of the door. Their horns glowed with magic, their hands moved in perfect harmony with each other. A magic circle was summoned above the door and it was slowly coming down upon it.
"Ok 1. 2. 3...break!" They both said at the same time. The circle they made crushed the original seal on the red door. It opened in front of Luna showing a flight of stairs into darkness. Celestia rushed to Her side. They looked inside and saw nothing but stairs leading downward. What could lay down there? There was only one way to find out.
"Please hurry!" The little light in Luna's box said. Both Princesses ventured down the stairs, taking one step at a time, while lighting the way with some magic. About fifty-five steps later the sound of snoring could be heard from three different places. Both Princesses knew who it was coming from. They both put more power into their lights to see the beast Cerberus sleeping. Even more thankfully Cerberus was a deep sleeper. The smell of smoke quickly filled the air and lungs of both Princesses but it didn't bother them too much. Cerberus was making his own orange light with the small amount of fire coming out of one his mouths. Of course behind Cerberus was a massive gate that lead deeper into Tartarus. Thankfully they only had to go this far.
"That's it, I remember this is where my body is!” The soul said quietly but with excitement. Both Princesses reached the end of the stairs and walked around the sleeping dog. They found the soul’s body on cerberus’s left side. The body had brown skin, it's short black hair was obviously dirty, it's nails were either gone or cut deep and it was naked. Luna could tell this body could use some serious healing because it's hands, arms, legs, and feet were cut up everywhere. The little light was in Luna's box somehow broke free and went back into its body. She wasn't surprised by this at all in fact She was happy for this person.
"Luna we should go." Celestia said trying not to wake up the three headed dog.
"Yea let's go. I'll pick this body up. You watch him." They started to go back up the stairs and got hallway there until cerberus woke up. They turned around to see the dog not happy with them walking out with his sack.
"GRRRRRRRRR!!!!" the beast was pissed. He looked at the Princesses with extreme anger. Flames were coming out of all his three heads. He jumped off the ground, and came running at the Princesses. Celestia saw this as a opportunity to relieve some stress.
"Luna get that body to the Hospital. I'll deal with this for a few minutes." Celestia was dead serious but Luna was worried.
"Tia don't..." Celestia looked back at Her sister, Her eyes were glowing, Her fist were burning with magic, and She had a sadistic smile on Her face. Whatever Celestia was about to do, She's was going to enjoy doing it.
"I'll meet you back at your room, Lulu. Now go!" Luna wings flapped hard carrying both Her and the stranger to the Hospital. They got outside safely and made a beeline for the Hospital.
"Thank you, Luna." The stanger weakly said. After some time a kinda tired Princess Luna was standing next to a doctor looking at the person Luna rushed in. They both were quite just looking on in wonder.
"Well, Princess it's a good thing you came in when you did or this stranger wouldn't be breathing. As you can imagine I do have some questions." Luna grabbed a chair and sat down to the left of the Stranger's bed. From Her face Luna could tell the stranger was female. It was strange to see the stranger sleeping peacefully despite what happened. “I wonder what's your story stranger.” Luna thought to Herself.
"I don't have many answers for you, Doctor Lily." The machines in the room made up the rest of the noise in the room. The doctor walked to the other side of the patient's bed and saw something interesting.
"Hmmm let's see... can you tell me anything about Her cutie mark and why it's colorless?" Luna looked at the doctor in confusion. She got up.
"What? What cutie mark?" Doctor Lily pointed at the stranger's right hand.
"That one." It was a flame cutie mark.
"That wasn't there before I'm sure of it." She thought to Herself.
"Why does it look like a piece of Tia’s cutie mark?"
"Excuse me Princess?"
"Uh, oh sorry just thinking out loud."
"Oh ok. But now that you mention it I can see the resemblance. But what does that mean?"
"Your best guess is as good as my worst guess, doc. With that I have to go. When She wakes up notify me or my sister ok?"
"Well my best guess is that, this person a fighter because the amount of scars She has is insane. Of course, Princess Luna I shall do that." The doctor bowed. Luna took Her leave and went towards the Castle for some deserved time to think. She flew to Her room in the Castle.
"That cutie mark." She thought to Herself. Luna reached Her room and flopped onto Her bed just happy to see it again. That's when She heard a voice that's She all to familiar with.
"Rough night sister?" Celestia giggled at Her sister's expense. Luna looked at Her sister and just felt happy.
"Oh shut up and come over here so I can hug you." Celestia came over, sat down, next to Her sister and got pulled down to Luna's level on the bed. Their faces meant, and both of them were just happy to see the other safe. "You know I was extremely worried about you right?”
"Yes I know. I did say I'll be right here right?"
"Yes you did. Doesn't stop me from worrying about you though. If you don't mind me asking, what did you do to cerberus?" Celestia gave a sadistic smile.
"Let's just say that, He obeyed like a good dog." Celestia couldn't help have that same sadistic smile from before. She was proud of what she did to cerberus whatever that was.
"Well ok. Sounds like you had a little too much fun." Luna gave Her sister a smirk.
"Hey don't be blame me, I needed protect my little sister and relieve some stress. I gotta say I have to do that more often.” Celestia cracked a bones while stretching. Luna nodded and sat up on Her bed. She rubbed Her hands together trying figure out what to do next.
"The person we saved is safe in the Hospital. Not sure when She'll wake up. Tia, She had a outer part of your cutie mark and it was colorless." Luna felt Her sister's hand run and down Her back in order to relax Her. It worked. Celestia always knew how to calm Her sister down.
"Luna, let's just relax for now, we can figure it out later." The white alicorn laid back and fell asleep without any problems. Some thoughts ran through Luna's mind but that didn't stop Her from finishing a few things for the night.
Author's Note
I know this is short but i hope you enjoyed it and i hope you stick around for more. As always if anyone has any real feedback I'll gladly take it.
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