Planetshine's Space Odyssey Book 2
First Contact
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All of us were tired after furnishing the spacecraft ruins, so we decided to sleep until the next day for some expeditions, as the night could be dangerous for us, or some other things, who knows. We all didn't sleep very well, the memories of the other creatures haunting us during it, and Princess Luna can't help us, we were too far away from Equestria. Speaking of Equestria, what could have happened to it in the 2 trillion years.
I woke up a bit tired for some reason, maybe I didn't have much muscle mass, but that can't be the case, maybe I had problems with sleeping, which would be the most suitable answer. The others were all sleeping, and being the prankster I am sometimes, I thought of doing something funny, but mostly just mean.
I cupped my hooves around the necklace I had, which I kept on because Silverstream died, and wished to be a unicorn for some pranks. There was only one real unicorn, and that was Lyra, now I would be a unicorn, just for pranking, I'd much rather fly then have magic unless I could self-levitate or I was an alicorn. Being a unicorn for me was weird, I had to learn magic or I would be an earth pony that has a horn, something that would be useless. There was only one thing for me to do, learn magic.
There were no books to learn magic with, and what would the others say about me if I went up to them having a horn instead of wings? There was only one way to learn magic, and that was to teach myself about it without any help or books. I taught myself a lot of things before, some with help and books while others not. Learning magic surely wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world, right?
I started off with a levitation spell, not hard, or hard, I don't know, I'm not a unicorn, usually, not now. Starting off, I started to concentrate on a little piece of paper I found on the floor, trying to levitate it. Despite not ever doing any of this before, I did it on my second try, realising that being calm and relaxed was better to learn things than to try extremely hard at it.
I levitated feathers to Flamerider, which on second thought, wasn't the best idea. The feather was from my pillow, yes, we still had pillows. I thought it would be funny to just make her sneeze, which is what I definitely did. She sneezed, waking everypony up, and I had to change back into a pegasus right away, and so I did.
Thank goodness nopony saw me, anyways, we were ready for today's expedition out to the Pandoran forest. I first did an atmospheric analysis and saw that the gases in the atmosphere were not very dangerous, except for one though. For the sake of safety, everypony put on their helmets instead of going without helmets to avoid getting poisoned because of the atmosphere.
The outside was not very bright, Polyphemus was blocking the star's rays a bit, but it was bright enough to see everything clearly. We all headed east, into the forest, but it was more like flying above the forest. I carried Lyra when I was flying, the others were all pegasi so that was no problem at all. Derpy stayed at our home for guarding, the Galaxy Diver's debris.
We looked down on the Pandoran forest, the view was gorgeous, mist covering the top of the forest, huge trees right in front of us. 'Is that a tree?' Lyra asked me, curious to see what that gigantic tree was.
'Yeah, looks like a tree, has to be a tree,' I replied, the others still flying. The tree was relatively far away, taking about 5 minutes to fly to, but we got there eventually. The tree from far away didn't seem as large as when you're close to it. The tree seemed enormous, about a hundred times larger than the other ones, to me, it seemed like it was impossible to have one that big unless it was made using magic, which I highly think wouldn't be the case.
We decided exploring it would be a great idea, even though a bit risky. We had no idea what would rest down there, there was life on the moon, so animals should exist right? We carefully descended down, being careful of our moves. It was strange how there were no other living things that were flying, it just doesn't make sense. Descending took a while, especially when safety was the number one priority.
Just in the middle of descending, we saw an arrow fire up from where the tree roots were, heading for Starry Night. Then, more arrows started to shoot us, all of us trying to dodge them, and I then went down, starting to investigate what was down there.
Going down was a bit risky, even though the arrows stopped. I went down the tree layer, not the large tree area, the normal tree layer. Underneath it, I saw strange things, one of them looking at me strangely, also me looking at it strangely. I sair to it, scared, 'Please don't hurt me.'
It replied to me, 'I won't, what are you anyways.'
'Phew, what about the arrows before?'
'The others are a bit aggressive, anyway, my name is Neytiri, the princess of this tribe.'
I bowed to her, just like I would with Princess Celestia and Luna, still a little nervous. She looked blue, strangely having tattoos and she was very tall, I looked very small compared to her. I didn't know exactly how to describe how she looked, but she had good looking hair.
'So,' I asked her. 'What is this place?'
She replied to me, 'I'm from the Omaticaya clan, this is our hometree, where we live.'
'Hmm, that's great, I'll tell the other ponies, hold on a while.'
I flew up, above the tree canopy layer, up into the sky. The other ponies were perching on the top of the trees, Lyra trying to balance herself. I told them, 'Come down, there are some new creatures down there, I want you guys to meet them.'
'You think it's safe?' Flamerider asked.
'If she says its safe, then it is,' Starry Night replied. 'Let's go.'
We all flew down, meeting Neytiri. We all greeted each other, some other creatures also greeting us. The others went with some of the other creatures to explore the place. Neytiri and I talked about things, such as what her life was like and mine. I later learned that they were called the Na'vi, one of the most intelligent life on Pandora, also speaks the same language as us.
The visit was done, we spent the whole day with them, all of them being very polite and welcoming to us. For the night, we stayed with them, going to a part of the tree that was for guests. The night was very, very beautiful, the life being bioluminescent. I thought about something, are we able to live on Pandora with our helmets off.
Author's Note
From here, you can definitely see why there is that alternate universe tag.
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