The Nameless Legend

"We can start?", Seeker asked the stone floating once more over Snowdrop's unconscious body.

A flash of light emphasised it's reluctant readiness. "I hope you know what you are doing."

Seeker pulled the snowflake out of his jacket pocket. His horn flared to life, engulfing Snowdrop, Ortus and the snowflake in a white aura. Information about the crystal heart filled his mind.

"The conditions are met, the knowledge is delivered, the vessel is prepared, the magical supplements are provided..."

Quick bursts of lightning flashed between the two objects and the white mare, as the salve on Snowdrops eyes began to ingest the emitted energy. Seeker added more of his magic to the spell and after waiting a few moments, Seeker directed the snowflake to Snowdrop's body.

"The vessel will be combined with the already imprinted link inside the salve"

The salve seperated from Snowdrops eyes and floated towards the snowflake, which began absorbing the magicfiled unguent. Seeker then removed both Ortus and Snowdrop from the spell and the connection only remained between him and the snowflake. He added durability and stability to the enchantments of the snowflake.

"The strengthened vessel is now ready to hold an enchantment."

As the snowflake shimmered weakly. Seeker cut his magic and a few drops of sweat gathered on his forehead. He wasn't finished yet. One last thing remained for him to do.

"So what spell do you want to put in there? I highly doubt any of the things Starswirl recorded inside me has the ability to create eyesight", Ortus preached audible and earned a strange look from Seeker.

"Is that so? Good thing I never intended using one of your spells in the first place."

He told the truth. The enchantment he was about to engrave inside the snowflake wasn't by far a normal spell and Seeker doubted the red stone had even the slightest knowledge about this branch of magic. Deep in thoughts Seeker fetched his bag and pulled out a golden locket, attached by a silvery string. It was round with a tree crown decorating the rear.

Hearing Ortus say something about 'cryptic as always', Seeker hung the medallion around Snowdrops neck and levitated the snowflake inside it.

Giving a friendly look to the motionless Snowdrop, Seeker inhaled and exhaled. His horn accumulated dark energy and the white in his blue eyes turned jet-black. He shot the collected negative energy directily inside the locket.

With a click the locket closed, hiding the snowflake inside it.

Dizziness came over Seeker, as the last 'spell' took it's tribute. Ignoring the feeling he levitated Snowdrop up in the air.

The stallion grabbed his bag and put over his neck, while Ortus floated inside one of his pockets. Seeker checked one final time if everything he needed was packed, before he left his room.

A chill run Seeker down his spine and his steps became dizzy. He almost knocked down a vase, while carrying Snowdrop to her room.

"Congratulations. The clock is ticking!", Ortus hissed from the pocket.

Inside her room he gently lowered Snowdrop down to her bed. The white mare twitched and Seeker took it as a sign of her soon awakening. Reaching into his bag, he placed an envelope with the royal seal on her nightstand.

"I'm... sorry for not beeing able to provide a proper conversation."

Seeker closed the door, as he left Snowdrop alone in her room.

"But Luna was a fool if she told you more than necessary."

The grey stallion stumbled through the corridor and he nearly knocked down the same vase again. A noise from downstairs made him flinch.

"Primrose is back?", he wondered.

Seeker looked outside and saw the sun nearing the edge of the horizon.

"Damn it!"

He originally wanted to leave before Primrose's return. Seeker considered teleporting, but dismissed the thought almost immediately. His vision already began blurring, so it would most likely drain the last bit of strength left in his body if he teleported a far distance. He decided to hide his horn by pulling the hood of his mantle over it and went down the stairs as silently as he could.

Seeker could see Primrose unpacking something in the kitchen. "She has not seen me yet." Seeing the opportunity he sneaked towards the front door and opened it quietly.

"Ahem"

The sound came from Primrose, who suddenly stood in the hallway. Seeker sighed and shifted his head so one of his still darkened eyes could met hers. Even with his clouded sight Seeker was able to see the confused look she gave to him - she was clearly displeased from his attemt to leave without saying a single word.

He said with a smile: "Your daughter will wake up soon, you should go to look after her."

"You are finished?", Primrose asked in a direct tone and she shifted to a more confronting attitude.

The smile Seeker gave changed to a big grin. His dizziness and exhaustion fed greatly on his patience, yet he tried to remain calm.

The lime green mare frowned. She opened her mouth to say something, but Seeker interrupted her as he declared: "There isn't a single reason left for my presence here. I played my role here. Farewell Primrose."

Seeker went through the door, while ignoring the calls Primrose shot after him. He hated what he just did, yet it was necessary. Everypony in the skytown would get in danger if he stayed longer.

His hooves sank in the clouds making his steps heavy, he was barely able to keep him on the surface with the bit of strengh he still had. After covering a considerable distance Seeker saw Luna's moon rising to the sky. He turned left into an empty alley and stopped.

The moment his movement came to a halt gravity started for him and Seeker immediately fell through the clouds.

Primrose was shocked as the stallion left her home. She hadn't expected such an abrupt turn of events and thought about following him.

She already had set a hoof outside, but stopped in track. Shaking her head she retuned inside her house.

"So he was able to heal Snowdrop? In this amount of time?"

Hope began spaking inside Primrose and she shifted her thoughts to her daughter. She promptly went upstairs.

When she arrived at the room of her daugher she came to a halt and the little hope she had was shattered as she heard sobbing through the door.

Primrose's body stiffed a little and she opened the door. Her daughter was standing at the window with tears flowed from her eyes, making a little puddle on the floor.

The ground was approaching in rapid speed. Seeker was barely able to keep himself awake during his fall, he shifted the direction towards a small forest.

"Reinforce!", he shouted. His voice echoed through the empty night.

Moments before he would have hit the ground Seeker gave up his horn and curled up around his bag. Shielding the egg inside from most of the impact. He crashed on a glade, whirling up dust an leaves. "Hah. One of my better landings", Seeker quipped and tried getting up to his hooves again, which immediately gave in.

He had officially reached his limit. If he neglected his symptoms any longer, it would only end up with more pain for him.

Ortus insulted him with a short "Idiot" and floated once again out of his pocket, illuminating the area around with it's light.

"I warned you about your horn! And what did you do? USING IT ANYWAY!", it thundered to Seeker, who was barely awake at this point. "Now be honest, since when made you the decision to use it?"

The edges of Seeker's vision darkened. He spoke: "Since I got this at the boarder of course". With shaking hooves he fetched Luna's letter out of his bag.

"You know you are effectively destroying your own body right now? Our contract can only mitigate some of the recoil your own magic is giving you. Havn't you learned from your failure back in the crystal empire?"

Seeker was clearly feeling the mentioned effects. It wasn't something new to him, but he wasn't in a position to complain. Not anymore. He declared softly: "My purpose is and will always be to help others, no matter how much... ."

He couldn't finish his sentence. The exhaustion finally triumphed and Seeker fell asleep, still holding the letter in his hooves. A light breeze blew across the clearing and a few autumn leaves fell to the ground, some covering the sleeping stallion.

"Liar", Ortus sighed.

"Why am I in my bed?"

Snowdrops head was spinning as she woke up. Her hoof wandered to the presumed source of the feeling. She opened her eyes and the familiar darkness was still omnipresent. Nearly slipping as her hooves touched the floor, Snowdrops jumped out of the bed.

"Seeker?", she called out to the stallion. Getting no response Snowdrop realized she was alone in her room.

The white mare shook her head, the motion finally drawing her attention to the medallion dangling from her neck.

"A necklace?"

Touching the engraving she triggered the opening mechanism and the medaillion sprung open with a sharp click. Snowdrop winced when she heard the the noise and reflexively closed her eyes.

The air felt like the tempterature had dropped a few degrees after she opened them again.

Shaking her head again Snowdrop couldn't belive what she was seeing. Not the familiar endless black world. While only faint she made out the outlinings of her surroundings. Walking to the window the emotions overwhelmed her to the point of breaking down in tears.

The door behind her opened and Snowdrop heard her mother entering her room.

Whispering just loud enough for Primrose to hear, Snowdrop said:" The moon Luna showed me in my dreams wasn't so beautiful."

Snowdrop turned around and stormed towards her mother, which wrapped her front hooves around her daughter and pulled her in a tight hug.

Snowdrop wasn't blind anymore. The fact let Primrose herself shed tears as she embraced her daughter.

"Where is Seeker? I want to thank him.", Snowdrop suddenly asked her mother with a big grin as she looked around the room.

The moment Snowdrop mentioned his name Primrose squeezed her daughter a bit harder until the previously blind mare made a little squeal of protest. After ending the hug she sighed morosely:" He left."

Snowdrop blinked her eyes in confusion. "Why?"

Her mother stayed silent, she obviously wasn't what exactly to say. He simply left without a real explanation after all.

"Why?", Snowdrop repeated her question calmy. Her mind drifted towards the stallion. She wanted to know more about him ever since the the first time she heard about him. She recalled the things Luna told her.

Stories about a selfless stallion who aids ponies the princesses couldn't possible reach, stories about him intervening in wars and ending them and stories about the things he learned and brought back to Equestria.

Snowdrop also recalled the one sentence about him that perplexed her in her dream.

"He always distances himself and closes his heart afterwards", she repeated the words inwardly. At first they didn't added up with the picture she had of the pegasus and she wondered why a pony like him would want to avoid bonding with others. She had hoped for a lasting friendship with him even if he would have failed to help her.

Now he was gone and all the questions she had came back to her mind.

"Why?", she repeated one final time.

"I think he is expected somewhere else, he seemed in a hurry", Primrose said with a modest smile. Pointing at the medaillon she continued:" What a beautiful necklace. Can I see it?"

Snowdrop looked down to the mentioned necklace and noticed that it somehow had closed itself again. With her wings she pulled it over her head and gave it to Primrose.

The moment the medaillion left her touch the world turned black againand she instantly grabbing with her hoof after it again. It took a few moments for Snowdrops eyesight to return to her. Shocked she stared in the eyes of her mother and redirected her attention down to the medaillion between their hooves.