The Prophecy

The sun was rising the following morning on Alicorn Island and things just didn't seem right to LaurFa. While she did get an incredibly peaceful night's sleep, she couldn't help but wonder why as normally she is a light sleeper. Once she headed downstairs to the dining hall she was greeted by one of her guards, "LaurFa your majesty, something seems to be wrong, very wrong!"

Nothing seemed to be wrong and in Faustica, it was a nice sunny day. She gave the guard a curious look and asked, "White Wings, whatever could be wrong, everything seems perfectly fine?"

White Wings replied, "Time! We were frozen in place for a while last night, time was frozen for a while last night!"

LaurFa's head shot up when he said this as she knew that only one pony knew how to freeze time, Colgate. She gasped, "Wait a minute, Colgate cast one of her time spells? Why would she do that?"

White Wings replied, "I am not sure but I have a feeling that she may have been out around here. Why I'm not sure but whatever it was, it certainly couldn't have been good."

LaurFa remembered how they had been talking about retrieving Alicorn gems after Colgate had left but prior to Scootaloo's departure. She also remembered how close the two were and one thing initially came to her mind, that Scootaloo had to have told her mentor about her plans, assuming any of the gems still existed. After thinking for a minute though, she thought to herself, "Come on LaurFa, Scootaloo isn't going to betray numerous ponies more powerful than her!"

She said, "White Wings, after breakfast I am going to go into the library to do some research on whether there were any more gems or not."

White Wings nodded and while they were sitting down to breakfast, LaurFa could not help but wonder if Colgate went looking for Alicorn gems in the cave. While they waited, She buried her face into her hooves and sighed, "I just hope that I was right about there not being any more of them, if she came and found them, Eqqus 1 is doomed."

After eating, LaurFa and White Wings headed into the library. Her guard noticed her searching in the oldest books in the library and asked, "Your Majesty, what are you looking for?"

LaurFa replied, "I'm looking to see if there is anything in any of these books about the gems, whether it be a history book or even a book on prophecies." Eventually she found a book written by one of the earliest seers who had written many prophecies, all of which had come to pass in the history of Eqqus 1. She grabbed it and continued, "Here we go, let's see if anything is in here."

She knew that it would not be early on in the book, she knew that it would be towards the end. After searching through it for an hour she finally discovered what she was looking for. She began to read the prediction out loud,

"In the far future, many millennia after the death of the lavender evil, the black tower of the east will grow to distrust the others. The black tower shall travel to the western cave in almost no time. While many leaders wish to spy on the tower, she will see to it that will not come to pass.

Under the cover of darkness she will come to foil the plans of the others. In her quest, not only will the gems intended for the others be seized, a truly terrible one, a black one in the shape of the tower's cutie mark will also be found. With the black one, the black tower shall assault all of the planet. She will launch her terror upon the planet with many beasts, wicked necromancy and the resurrection and brainwashing of the lavender one.

With the lavender one, she will unleash terror upon the sun. Upon orders of the tower, she will devastate the city, her reign of terror will spread far and wide but the blue one shall transform into Evil herself, with the devastation she will bring, she will destroy all who oppose her. One final battle shall take place between the black tower and the Creator, the Creator shall fall love and light shall be destroyed and all of the world shall love the hourglass in despair."

LaurFa slammed her hoof into the floor, "Half of this isn't even legible! How are we supposed to know what this prophecy is all about. The only thing I'm getting out of this is that death and destruction will reign upon this world and a tower." Suddenly it hit her, a tower. She continued, "A tower, could this be referring to Colgate bringing destruction to our world?"

White Wings suggested, replied, "I'm not sure but I have a feeling that we should check that old cave where the Alicorn gems were found."

LaurFa was not completely sure about this, "But why? I don't think the idea of any more gems would cross her mind. She got that sapphire Alicorn and seemed perfectly happy with it." LaurFa paused for a moment and continued, "I don't think she would even bother wasting her time to come out looking for them unless....."

White Wings was in the room when she brought up further Alicorn gems that would be used to spy upon Colgate. He gasped, "Scootaloo! I know she is close with Colgate and she had to have told...."

LaurFa interrupted, "Look, I know that Scootaloo is close with Colgate but I think she knows what would happen if she betrayed us. I think she knows that her punishment would be swift and harsh."

White Wings sighed, "Very well but I am going to go take a look anyway."

LaurFa sighed in frustration as the guard headed towards the cave, "Why would he think Scootaloo betrayed us? I know she is close with her but I don't think even she would be dumb enough to betray all of us."

The Discovery

As White Wings headed towards the cave, he couldn't help but wonder why LaurFa would seem to have so little concern over it. He knew the prophecy didn't say a whole lot but the fact that it brought up a tower and the fact that Colgate has been more hostile as of late, that this was important.

Once he arrived at the cave, he lit up his horn and went inside. It would not be long until he saw holes blasted in the sides of the cave, revealing chambers. He had heard about how the sapphire Alicorn had been found so long ago, sitting in a golden plate on a pedestal. When he saw that was absent from the chamber, he knew that he had to go and notify LaurFa immediately.

Without even checking any of the other chambers that had been revealed, he rushed back to the palace. When he rushed into the throne room he shouted, "LaurFa, you need to come look at this. A chamber has been revealed and there is no golden plate or Alicorn gem in it!"

LaurFa's jaw dropped open, "Seriously?"

White Wings began to become more frantic, "Really, you need to come check this out."

LaurFa knew that none of her guards would lie like that, especially over something that serious. As LaurFa followed him to the cave, she hoped that perhaps it was just one chamber that had been revealed. Once they landed and headed in, both lit up their horns. It would not be long until they got to the first opening. LaurFa headed in and sure enough, just as what White Wings had told her, there was no golden plate or Alicorn gem on the pedestal.

LaurFa threw her hooves up in the air and shouted, "Great, just great."

White Wings pointed his hoof further back and continued, "I suppose we should see if any others have been revealed."

As they headed further back, they quickly discovered another chamber that had been revealed and like the previous one, the gem and golden plate had also been removed. With their discovery that two had been taken LaurFa sighed, "I don't like the looks of this."

White Wings added, "Nor do I."

Soon they would reach the back of the cave where there two blasted open chambers. One was where Colgate found the sapphire Alicorn but then they saw another one. LaurFa pointed towards it and ordered, "Follow me, here is another one."

They headed in and in the center, like the others, there was a pedestal but no plate or gem. LaurFa sighed in frustration and then she saw the same doorway Colgate did. She added, "That doorway, I bet it leads to more chambers. Maybe those have been untouched."

The two headed through the doorway and discovered a passage. One thing that worried LaurFa was that there were four more piles of rubble which lied in front of a hidden chambers. She and White Wings headed into each one and discovered the same. LaurFa screamed, "Great, just great! All the Alicorn gems are probably gone!"

The two headed out of the last side chamber and looked off to their left. There was another, much larger pile of rubble which brought out a great amount of concern from both of them. White Wings suggested, "Well we better go in there too."

LaurFa yelled, "Why, I have a feeling that all of them are gone! Why would anypony go in there?"

White Wings tried to calm LaurFa down, "Your Majesty, let's just take a look. Maybe they went in there, missed something and whatever would be in there would be important, very important."

LaurFa didn't want to spend any more time in the caves than necessary but decided to follow White Wings. As soon as they stepped hoof in the chamber, their horns went out. White Wings asked, "What? Why did our horns suddenly go out?"

LaurFa continued to walk further in and could sense one thing in the chamber, evil, pure evil. She tried powering her horn up again but only got a few sparks. She yelled, "White Wings, try powering up your horn."

The two tried to power up their horns. While normally both of them could power up their horns easily, all they continued to get were a few sparks and a great amount of pain. After five minutes of trying, LaurFa was finally able to get it powered up. "

She approached the center of the chamber and like it was with the others, it had a pedestal in it but no plate or gem. Her horn began to flicker a bit as she looked around the room. In the chamber she saw many blue banners with an hourglass on them and other banners of the same color with a collar on them, a collar that matched Colgate's perfectly. She shouted, "Is this meant for....."

Her horn went out and both of them began to experience excruciating headaches, headaches that were worse than any they had had before. LaurFa yelled, "White Wings, we have to get out of here! Something about this place is trying to kill us!"

The two began to head in the direction of where they thought the exit was but neither one could find it. They continued to bump into one another and into the walls. Again the two tried trying to power up their horns but with no success. The room began to shake and a large chunk of ceiling fell right on top of White Wings. When LaurFa heard a painful yell she headed in the direction of it.

Suddenly she was able to power up her horn but would be devastated by what she saw. There before her lied White Wings with a huge rock on top of him. She tried to levitate the rock off of him but all the more power she had was enough to create light. Despite using all of her strength, she was unable to move the rock off of him. She tried nudging him but got no response and when she felt for a pulse, there was none. LaurFa knelt down before him and began to cry in agony before the room began to shake again.

She knew that White Wings had passed and realized that if she did not get out of the chamber that she would likely join him. As she began to rush for the exit, her horn began to flicker again making it more difficult for her to see. Once she was out of the chamber, the shaking did not stop. It seemed as though the whole cave was in the process of collapsing. As she began rushing down the passage and into the other chamber, her horn continued to flicker and once she got out of the chamber, the whole ceiling collapsed.

She would not be out of danger there though, once she was into the main passage that led to the exit, the cave continued to shake and she began getting hit with small stones. Once she finally got to the exit, she could tell that not just the cave, but the whole mountainside was in the process of collapsing. As she exited the cave, the shaking had stopped but she was in no mood to care about it.

As LaurFa sped back to her palace, she had no desire to interact with anypony. She sped back as fast as she could and without even responding to her guards, she rushed to her sleeping chambers and slammed the door shut. She fell forward onto her bed and couldn't help but wonder, "what if?" She couldn't help but wonder what if they had not gone into the last chamber or what if she would have put her hoof down and ordered him not to go in there. As she laid on her bed crying, she couldn't help but blame herself over his death.

Author's Note

In the prophecy, all parts that are blacked out are not legible. For those of you who have not dealt with blacked out spoiler text, hover your mouse over it or highlight the whole prophecy and you'll be able to read it.