A Roegadyn in Equestria

A Roegadyn in Equestria.

Chapter 26: Weather Team? No Thanks!

*Point of View: Brex Mith*
*Location: Everfree Woods*
*Time: Early in the morning after dealing with Titan*

As Brex was heading through the forest on his way in the direction of Cloudsdale, he began to muse to himself as he Internally spoke to Rory, “Hey did you find any of that a little odd?” The girl then replied with an uncertain tone that was slightly laced with sarcasm and said, “Hmm... I'm not sure what you're talking about. Are you referring to Ryu, the assortment of monsters he has under his control, getting stuck in a pocket time zone or are you referring to how we coincidentally found a token and a quest just happened to pop up immediately after?”

The Roegadyn Immediately replied with a bit of playful sarcasm of his own and said, “OK, OK, I get it. There was a lot of things that didn't seem normal there for a while. But I'm referring to the Titan in general.” This got a confused sound from the girl in his head before he continued, “I'm talking about the whole incident in general. Didn't you find it odd that there was no altar or anyone praying to him? Also, I have this weird feeling deep down that there was not something quite right about that Primal. I know his level was lower than normal, but there was just something that screamed that something was missing.”

After waiting a few moments of silent contemplation, he snapped his fingers and then said, “Primals are usually summoned through prayer and offering of crystals and ether. Now if we follow that general rule, then that would mean the Pie family summoned Titan. But still, it makes no sense. I know that in the stories that Pinkie’s family may be a little strange, but I can't really see them going all crazy and summoning something like that. Also in the game, they’re only really called by the beast tribes when they're in danger.”

Brex had just jumped over a log and was walking aside a small river that was heading to the north. While keeping an eye on his surroundings he continued, “When the two of us got to the farm, nothing seemed out of the ordinary aside from the family being missing. Then there was the whole thing with it being timed out for the Pie family reunion That was to occur in a few days from what I remembered High Road saying back when I first met her. Now that just seems a little too convenient to me.”

Rory then chimed in with, “I see what you mean there. If you put it like that, then it's obvious that someone had set it up so that when Titan was summoned, he would have a flock of worshipers soon after being brought to this world. But who in the right minds would do such a thing? Not only that, they just up and left. This only set up the situation for Titan to be unsupervised. Well, I guess you can't really tell a god like that what to do huh. But wait, are you getting at something here?”

He then nodded to what she had just said and replied with, “Ah, I see you're starting to catch on there. Just think about it. first, I find the Tree of Harmony and I'm able to attune myself to it. Next was how it tried to stop me when I came back to life and gave me those Images of the girls. Last but not least, I have had to run into them randomly as it seems, only to end up saving them from one emergency or another.”

Immediately after, Rory continued on with that thought and said, “Then there's also how we're heading over to Cloudsdale. The tree did flash those colors when we got back from dealing with Titan. But hold up. Isn't that place like, I don't know...up in the sky? Just how are we going to get up there and help them? We can't really walk on clouds and going up there with an airship isn't really something we should even try. I’m pretty sure we would draw some eyes if a balloon was to be floating around for days at a time.”

The Roegadyn started to hum while tapping the chin of his mask. After a few moments he replied with, “That is true. I know that they have a cloud walking spell, but Twilight doesn't get to work quite right until later on in the show for Rarity. Also, I can't even cast their type of magic anyhow. Sure, I can sense it, feel it and see it. Although when it comes to using said magic, It's a no go. The best I can do is resist or break the spells that are being used on me thanks to my extensive studies on them. Honestly, I don't know why Little Light was so insistent on teaching me so much about their magic if I don’t have the capacity for it. I guess it was just so I could have the ability to resist or counter what the beings of this world might try to do to me. But it would be nice to be able to use some, they have spells that would be fun to use.” Afterwards he lets out a long, drawn-out sigh.

The rest of the trip was fairly uneventful from then on. The river that he was following led him through a section of the Everfree Forest and right up to Ponyville. He had avoided the outskirts of the town and continued on his way without gaining the attention of any of those that lived within the town.

Nearly five days passed by the time he had arrived to a spot that allowed them to have a good sight of Cloudsdale. It had taken a bit longer than he had anticipated with having to scale a mountain between Ponyville and his current destination. He was less than a few miles away while standing on a high hill. The Roegadyn’s eyes were transfixed on the large city in the sky with admiration. He quickly thought to himself, “Now that right there is a cloud city.”

( Here is a picture of Cloudsdale. )

As he drew closer, the sun was nearly in the middle of the sky and that made it easy to see everything all lit up. Even from that great distance, it was apparent that this city was a true masterpiece of both architecture and art. He couldn't help but think that Zeus himself would rent out a place here for a vacation home. From what he could tell from any of his memories, is that Cloudsdale was a stationary city even though it was technically a large cloud. The map for Equus had it marked to be in this territory, so it must imply that they were meant to keep it stationary as to not mess with the map makers.

It had taken Brex a couple of hours to make his way over with how he couldn't bring his gaze away from the city too long with how he would constantly find himself admiring its form. At this point he was practically underneath the city’s foundation, literally. He had started to ponder on a strategy to get up there when something caught his attention with his surroundings. There was a large open field like area with very few trees and vegetation in small clusters that were spread all about.

He began to go through his memories of what he knew when it came to the past of both Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Rory started noticing that her master was acting somewhat strangely, so she asked, “Is something the matter, you seem to be looking around quite a lot. Just what is it?” Without answering, the Roegadyn started to explore the area underneath the city in more detail while still glancing back up to it every now and then. All the while his body movements indicated that he was becoming a bit more stressed out as the time went on.

After a good half hour, Rory finally broke and asked again, “OK, you do know that I can't really read your mind, you know that right? Master, could you at least tell me what it is you're looking for?”

After a few moments of silence while still looking around he finally answered with, “It's not enough... No, no. It's not nearly enough. This isn't going to work... It's not supposed to be like this!” After another few more seconds he then asked Rory, “I need you to go into my head and find something and review it for me, just to make sure that I'm not mistaken. Could you do that for me?”

Sounding a little unsure, she then asked, “Um… sure. Just what is it you want me to look up?” To say that she was confused was an understatement. Sure, whenever they were in the dreamscape, they would look up his memories to watch things that he has seen from his old world while together, but this was the only time he had ever asked her to go in there on her own when he was awake. She then heard her master say, “You're going to have to go into my memories about the show. To be more specific, the one part concerning how the main six got their cutie marks. Look at the video of Fluttershy when she fell from flight camp during the big race. I know it's a cartoon in there, but compare the background to that of what we see now.”

Rory quickly said yes and began to work. For the next five minutes, there was not a single sound from the girl in his head and Brex was biting his lower lip in frustration while slowly glancing at his surroundings to help Rory with the comparison that he was having her do.

Soon he got word from Rory as she spoke, “Yeah, I just got done comparing both the show and this place and they really don't match all that much. The amount of plant life is far lower than it should be. There is also the way the ground doesn’t look so good. Now don’t get me started with how there is hardly much water and the air quality is rather poor. Also, how can butterflies even have the ability to hold up a pony anyway? It just doesn’t make any sense.”

Brex only retorted by saying, “We are on a world where magic is real and they can walk on clouds. Need I really say more?” Rory replied with, “Touché. But yeah... But what I really don’t understand is, why is that a bad thing?

The Roegadyn gestured towards the scattered vegetation and said, “It has everything to do with it. Tell me, do you think it's possible for there to be all those butterflies and animals around when Fluttershy falls off the clouds if there's no place for the animals to even live?”

He allowed that a moment to sink in before he continued with, “Just think about it. There isn't a whole lot around here to support that many animals that are meant to show up in the show. He then pointed to a nearby patch of grass and plants and said, “Now that right there is something that attracts butterflies and there's hardly that much to attract the swarm as big as it was in a show. And over there there's hardly any place for the animals to stay with a lack of trees and cover. Now look over there, there should be some adequate water supply but that's pretty much almost all dried up. I can already see it now, if we don't do something about this. Fluttershy is going to die...”

This only got an even more confused, “Huh” From the girl as she asked, “I don't really get it. If she falls, we can just catch her, so no biggie.” This only got a slow headshake from Brex as he answered that question with, “The animals are the whole point. On that day there's goanna be a huge chain of events happening and it all starts with Rainbow Dash making that sonic Rainboom.”

Brex pointed upwards to an area that was hardly divided from the edge of the city that appeared to be in the shape of a stretched-out circle. He then said, “In that episode Rainbow Dash defends Fluttershy from some bullies and that leads into her getting into a race that will be the start of a domino effect for the other girls. But when it started, Rainbow Dash and the other participants end up knocking Fluttershy off the cloud and she went into a free fall. If it wasn't for those butterflies suddenly coming together and catching her just before hitting the ground, she would have gone splat.”

From behind his mask, the Roegadyn’s eyes went wide as he inadvertently imagined the situation playing out as things currently stood. Every detail was being superimposed on to the memory of that episode and it was nearly too much for him as he watched an anthro version of Fluttershy slowly falling to her doom. He attempted to stop but his imagination was running away and he was clearly able to make out her terrified expression as this was happening in his head.

Fluttershy’s arms and legs were flailing like mad as her wings tried flapping only to lose a few feathers in the erratic patterns of movement. Only mere feet away from the ground did time slowed down and his concentration was only broken from going any further when the image of Rory appeared in his imagination of the scene and grabbed his face and forced him to look straight at her as she screamed, “MASTER! LOOK AT ME! THIS IS ONLY IN YOUR HEAD! ITS NOT REALLY HAPPENING!” She then quickly wrapped herself around his head and pulled his face into her chest to block his vision completely. Strangely enough, Brex was fully capable of getting the sensation of his skin coming into contact with her clothing and there was even the faint heat that one would have if coming from another living being. This had an immediate effect on Brex.

There was a sudden loud gasp sound of air that filled the open area as Brex found himself on his hands and knees and he was positive that he felt from underneath his mask that he was sweating up a storm. With heavy and labored breathing, he spoke through all of it with a, “Huh, what.... What was I just...? Did I almost”

He was about to say more when he heard Rory speaking as if she was right next to his ear and whispering in a calming voice, “You were having another panic attack. You wouldn't stop thinking about what would happen to that girl, so I had to force my way through and into your imagination. I'm sorry, please forgive me Master... It's just that you weren't responding anymore to anything I said and I didn't know what to do.” While still breathing quite heavily, the Roegadyn had recovered considerably from moments ago and quickly sat down on the ground and leaned forward while resting his elbows onto his knees and said, “No, no. You did the right thing. I really wanted to stop but I couldn't. I had no idea you could do something like that. Why didn’t you tell me?”

He could have sworn that Rory’s tone had turned a little sheepish when she replied with, “Oh well, it's just I didn't know I could do that either. Honestly, I only thought that we could only interact while you were asleep. We should really look into this. It felt… different. Not like how it is in the dreams.”

Now finally fully calmed down, Brex replied with, “Maybe, but not right now. I think I have an idea what I might be able to do. But first we're going to need to search for a bit. I'm also going to have to use a magic class for once.

After checking to make sure that there weren’t any nearby that could see him from the air. The Roegadyn equipped is White Mage Soul Stone. Once This was done, he now had a large red staff that made a hook formation with the wood on the top. Kneeling down, Brex placed his right hand onto the ground and closed his eyes and tuned out the world of all distractions.

( Here is a picture of the White Mage Soul Stone. )

( Here is a picture of Brex's current gear with the staff. )

Thinking back to the game, there was a quest line for the White Mage where they had a lot to do with maintaining the balance and health of nature. So, it was a worthwhile attempt at seeing if this was something that he could do in real life. At first, he felt nothing new but as the seconds went on, there was this small tugging sensation that he felt that seemed to be coming from his very core. Then there was a subtle resonance that was coming from that sensation. Smiling from underneath his mask, he opened his eyes and communicated to Rory, “Looks like it might work after all. Now all I gotta do is listen to the sound of nature.”

Closing his eyes again he went back to putting all of his senses onto trying to grasp that feeling. That was when Rory asked in a whisper, “Master, just what are you listening for?” He only stayed quiet for a few seconds before Replying in a calm tone, “I'm listening to the voice of nature. And before you ask what I mean, In the story for the White Mage, we had to go and purify the land. This was for something a player got when they reached level 30. Right now, I'm trying to find out if there is a problem that I can fix to rejuvenate the land and hopefully lead to accelerating the growth of vegetation down here for the animals to have a place to call a home.”

He was about to say more but his body went rigid and the Roegadyn’s hand began to tremble while it was still making contact with the ground. Immediately after, he pulled his hand free and gasped for air. This was then immediately followed with him giving a few coughs before he quickly said in a panic, “Now that was intense. But I found out what's wrong. There's something corrupting this land and it needs to be stopped now.” While turning his head towards the Southwest, the Roegadyn got to his feet and pointed in that direction and said, “Over that way. I sense three of them. I wouldn't be surprised if this mirrored the quest line for taking out the corrupted energy of the land.”

Going in the previously indicated direction, Brex walked for nearly an hour before he had made it to the base of a mountain. Turning his head left to right in order to see what was around him, he let out a strong sigh before saying, “It's around here somewhere but I can't seem to feel just where it is. I just hope this is something I can do on my own. During that quest there was one or two other White Mages that came along as Non player characters. I got no other choice, do I? Too bad Zecora isn't here. I can really use that girl’s help for this nature stuff.” He had joked on that last part, knowing full well that right now she would just be a little girl, but still, it would have been reassuring to have some backup when it came to doing this sort of activity.

He was closing his eyes once more and was about to kneel down and do the same thing he had done back in the open field. But before he could have knelt down, he had already gone stiff and exclaimed in his head, “Oh shit!”

Dodging to the right and doing a roll on the ground, Brex had gone a few meters before getting back to his feet and immediately caught sight of a large boulder impacting into the ground right near where he used to be standing. This was roughly half the size of his upper half. Turning his focus towards the direction that it had originated from, he caught sight of another one coming straight for his head.

While side stepping and nearly getting clipped, he quickly asked Rory within his head, “Hey! What's going on here, why can't I sense this thing with my situational awareness? Also, its not showing up on my map either. I'm going purely off instinct thanks to my white mage class.” This got Rory to speak in a tone that was laced with both confusion and agitation, “I'm not sure. I think it has to do with it being purely nature. It could also have something to do with this energy that you're trying to locate. Whatever it is it's giving off the same feeling as everything else around you so it's hard to pinpoint. I'm so sorry master, I don't think I'm gonna be much help in this.”

A third rock came through a gap in a few of the trees and had nearly struck Brex in the left shoulder but he had managed to deflect it partially with his staff. He replied to Rory by saying, “Don't sweat it. It's not your fault. At least we learn that there's stuff that we can't sense using that ability. Better to know about that little weakness now and not in the middle of a real big fight. Now I just need to figure out where it is. Judging from the trajectory from those attacks that were thrown at me, the thing must be on the move. I guess it would be too much to ask for it to stay in place and let me strike it over and over again like they do in the game.”

There was then a strange feeling from inside that compelled him to raise his staff higher and to his left. It was then followed with him casting a number of spells, one immediately after the other in the direction his staff went towards. First, he started casting the spell called ‘Stone 2’.

Caster Skill: Stone 2. This is the upgraded version of Stone that is available when the caster reaches level 18. Deals earth damage with a potency of 190. The caster channels a spell and summons up from the ground a large rock and launches it at their target with great force.

This conjured up a large rock twice the size of his head that came jolting out of the ground and was hovering in place in front of him after a few seconds of him casting the spell. It was then launched straight at an oncoming rock that was coming from between the same trees as before. The two collided but it seemed that the one that Brex had used clearly had more force and did not break up so easily, so most of the debris shot away from him.

He then started to cast another spell called, Aero. This was normally a spell that a player would cast on a single target and would cause some damage to occur repeatedly over a set time period, also known to the players as a Dot or if one was to get technical, Damage over Time. However, with his training from back on the other side, Brex was able to figure out how to manipulate this spell in a different way. Seeing as there was nothing else in the immediate vicinity that could get hurt from collateral damage, The Roegadyn channel the spell longer than what was needed and sent it out in all directions when the right amount of magic was gathered.

Caster Skill: Aero. Deals wind damage with a potency of 50. Additional Effect: Wind damage over time. Duration: 18 seconds. This Spell incircles the target in wind that slashes away at it until the spell runs its course.

The wind picked up all around him and became visible with wisps of light green and a faint amount of white as it snaked its way out in a gust and slipped through any open gaps between the nearby trees and rocks until he felt the magic hitting and wrapping around some sort of object a distance away. In a sense, he had turned what would normally be considered as a damage over time spell, into a makeshift sonic ping like one would do underwater with a submarine. With the spell being significantly weaker by using it in this fashion, there was little time to spare as he rushed in the direction that it had made contact. After dodging and leaving through a couple trees for the next 20 or so meters, Brex came across a familiar sight.

( This is the picture of Earth Elemental. )

Just as he had originally thought, this was going to be similar to the White Mage quest. The elemental was currently using parts of its body to try and bat away the elusive wind that was slowly ticking away at its health as it slashed at the hard body and leaving small scratches on the surface. After a few more seconds the spell timer ran out and it had stopped taking damage as the wind faded.

Now with it no longer being distracted by the annoying spell, the Elemental turned its attention towards Brex. Even though it literally did not have a face he just knew that it was staring stone daggers at him.

The parts of its body that covered the large crystal in the center began to move and undulate. Brex could feel a surge of magic building up around the creature during this. Wanting to end this quickly, he used the skill afforded to the caster class called Swift Cast. With that skill used, The Roegadyn then went to cast his ‘Stone 2’ spell. The spell had ripped out of the ground a rock far bigger than previously used by the elemental and was easily the same size as it as well. It was then hurled at said elemental at tremendous speeds when Brex thrusted his open palm forward.

Caster Skill: Swiftcast. Next spell is cast immediately. For a short time, the caster can use a spell instantly that requires time to gather magic for its use.

Before his opponent’s spell was fully activated to counter, the large rock had collided with the elemental and threw it dozens of feet across the open area and into a tree, which then caused it to topple over due to the sheer strength of the impact alone. Now as for the condition of the elemental, all that remained after its rock body had been completely dispersed throughout the area was the crystal that was from its center, but this one had a massive crack running through it. After a few seconds the crack began to spread out in an alarming rate and shattered into tiny pieces to only vanish as if it never even existed.

However, something else remained in its place. There was a weird green and black miasma that was wafting through the air but it seemed to be staying in one localized spot and swirled to make a mini tornado. It was slowly descending to the ground but Brex was not going to have that happening. He prepared another set of spells, but this time they were not of the damaging variety.

He first used the skill called Lucid Dreaming. This would allow him to recover mana faster than he could use it for a short period of time. The next one he used, was the spell Esuna, as to remove any negative effects that would be on the miasma.

Caster Skill: Lucid Dreaming. Gradually restores own Mana points. This places the user in a state that allows them to recover Mana as if they were in a relaxed state, that would be the ideal mind set to recover the quickest.

The next set of spells were Regen and Cure. This would mean and that it would get a constant stream of low healing along with a spike from the second spell. After that Brex continued to cast the Cure spell over and over again until the miasma began to change its colors and turned into a swirl of light green and white. When he saw this, he backed off and stopped casting any more magic and just stood there and kept an eye on the mist as it began to slowly dropped to the ground and meld into it until there was nothing left.

Caster Skill: Regen. Grants healing over time effect to target. Cure Potency: 250. Duration: 18 seconds.

Caster Skill: Cure. Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 500.

As soon as that was done, the Roegadyn released a relieved sigh as he slumped towards the nearest tree and sat down for a rest. He then said to Rory, “So that's what it feels like to run low on magic. I didn't think he was gonna take that many healing spells for it to finally be cured. Well as soon as I recover a little, I'll head towards the other two spots. I'm guessing the other ones are water and air if things go on like this.”

Rory then asked in a confused tone, “Master, could you please explain to me what just happened?” This got a low chuckle from Brex before waving his arms in a nonchalant way as he answered with, “Oh well, wasn't it obvious? I just fought a corrupted Elemental for this area and as soon as I released its form, I cured its energy and sent It back into the world. Now I just need to repeat this again another two more times. Hopefully doing all of this, will start the process of rejuvenating the land.”

After humming to herself a little bit, Rory replied with, “Do you think that's why the tree was telling us to come this way? It could be with it being a tree and all even though it's made of crystals, it sensed that there was a problem with nature.”

The Roegadyn only shrugged his shoulders and said,” No use thinking about that too much right now. The next two are gonna be the tricky ones. Now what direction is the closest one?”

After that, Brex went through the same process as before to track down the next patch of corrupted elemental energy. This time it felt like it was a lot easier to zoom in on its location and it was pointing straight North. Brex left the mountain area and traversed over the land and along the way it was apparent that things were already improving. Unlike before he was capable of sensing life in the ground underneath his feet. He pondered to himself whether or not this was what the Earth ponies felt whenever they worked with the land.

After a couple of hours of running at high speed, he had arrived at a dried-up lake. It could have easily have been over 300 meters wide, but the only amount of water was at the very center and that was barely enough to fill up half. The ground that should have had water on top of it was so severely cracked that one could have stuck a stick that was over a foot long into one of the deeper crevices. When comparing the outer area to the one spot with water, it could have been thought of as if everything was being sucked into that very spot.

Just like before, there was no signs of it on his Mini map or situational awareness. To say he was unnerved was an understatement. He had always had the tactical advantage of knowing where his opponent would be, but relying only on his regular senses was nerve racking for the Roegadyn. At least this time they were in an open area and there was no place for it to hide.

He approached the single patch of water and after a minute of walking, he was now within several meters of it. Right as he took the next step his senses went wild and he had to take a step back from caution. He wasn't sure, but he was positive that feeling was not from a situational awareness, but more of a feeling coming that was from the Soul Stone in his possession.

Right then, the water began to bubble and then immediately Shot out from the water’s surface and began to coil around a center section as it floated in midair. After a second or two, it finished and was now one large orb of water that was surrounded by three smaller ones orbiting it in a clockwise motion. The center of each one which was supposed to be a brilliant blue color light, was a sickly green.

( This is the Picture of the Water Elemental. )

Without so much as a warning, the orbs spun around quickly and released several small jets of highly pressurized water towards Brex at a high speed.

Seeing the motion that the creature was making, he had already started running to the right to incircle the elemental. His robes fluttered in the wind as he was holding his staff in his left hand in a guarding position. It was firing continuous streams of water, but most of which missed and impacted the dry ground to leave deep holes behind. The ones that hadn't missed were deflected with the staff in his hands. At that moment, he was very appreciative about the training he had gotten from Little Moon when it came to fighting with his equipped weapon even as a caster. There was no way he was going to follow the simple gaming mechanics of only relying on spells and not use a weapon that happens to be in his hand even if he played as a healer.

After dodging and weaving for several more volleys, The Roegadyn managed to close the distance and get within ten meters and at that moment the creature shot one of the large orbs that orbited it towards Brex. Narrowing his eyes from under his mask, he called out to it, “Oh no I'm good, but you on the other hand look a little thirsty!”

He had swung his staff and somehow the hook shaped end of it was able to literally grab the orb as if it was a solid object and he spun it around his body using centrifugal force that was added from the initial launching and release it to shoot straight back at the elemental. As it turns out, the split second before it had tried that trick, Brex had infused a good amount of magic into the staff before as a protective measure and that was what allowed it to grab onto the magickly infused water projectile. It also had the additional effect of adding his own magic energy into it, which more than doubled its initial damage output. As a result, the water elemental was flung back and had nearly hit the ground.

Not wanting to waste this opportunity between volleys, Brex channeled as much energy as he could and launched numerous Stone spells at it. Try as it might, the water elemental could not protect itself from the onslaught and its water supply was quickly dwindling as it was blocking the Incoming attacks with little success.

Brex thought that he had it, but wasn't prepared when its body began to split apart and had quickly rushed towards him and began to wrap itself around Brex like a snake. Seeing as it was restricting his form, the Roegadyn struggled as much as he could but was unable to throw it off. It had just wrapped around his neck and was slowly encompassing his head in an attempt to suffocate the Roegadyn when he had remembered what he had done with the Earth Elemental.

Channeling as much energy as he could as to surround his form with the Aero spell, Brex could feel it trying to force its way between him and the Water Elemental's body. After a few seconds of this it had managed to cover his head and a few bubbles of air were escaping the Roegadyn's mouth. But then a green light shined from his body and Elemental was quickly thrown off with an explosion of wind. Brex found himself clutching his neck while trying to get all the air he could while down on his right knees.

The Water Elemental had splattered everywhere and was slowly attempting to reform itself near the water's edge. There was a strange feeling he couldn't describe coming from his head but he contributed it to the lack of oxygen prior and focused on using his concentration on the next stone spell. During the channeling, he was wishing to himself that he could somehow contain this thing before it managed to get to the water and resupply its reservoirs. But what came next surprised the Roegadyn. Instead of pulling a large boulder out of the ground like normal and throw at the elemental, it had instead caused the earth around it to swallow it whole in a small dome of tightly packed rocks.

One could hear that the Water Elemental inside was attempting to blast its way through, but to the outside world, it sounded no more than someone using a weak water pistol toy on a window. After a few seconds the sounds ceased. Thinking that it was all over, Brex was about to lower his guard when he felt the ground under his feet beginning to shift and this caused him to step back quickly.

His opponent had dug its way under the ground and attempted a sneak attack on the Roegadyn. And the split moment that it was fully out of the ground, it had assumed the shape of a snake's body and head. Out of reflex, Brex threw his right fist into its body and channeled the wind magic directly into its form. It had suddenly expanded twice in size and was surging with a mixture of blue, green and white within its body. One could see the different types of energy colliding with one another as they danced and attack repeatedly over and over again countless times.

In the end, the Water Elemental lost as the green glow within died down and had quickly lost its ability to retain its shape and turn it to regular water. What was left, was the same as the last as a green and black type of miasma like before. Repeating the same procedure, Brex was able to purify the energy and a it was slowly returned back to the ground. At this point the Roegadyn was very tired after using so much mana to both attack and defend. But he was not allowed to rest as he had to make a mad dash out of the area because the water was beginning to gush forth from that one spot in the center at an astonishing rate.

Luckily, he had managed to make it all the way out before the water had caught up to him and sat near the edge of the lake. Seeing that her master was getting more tired with each fight, she asked, “Master, don't you think you should take a rest for now? it’s just that you really aren't used to using so much magic, right? Also, wouldn't things be a lot easier if you were to go and adjust your level up again? I noticed that you didn't lower it after going after Titan so your still at level 35.”

Brex only shook his head and replied with a somewhat tired tone, “No I don't want to have to raise it any higher than it is. I'm at a fair distance from Canterlot right now, but I don't want to take too many risks by going any higher. Besides I'll be fine, I just need a few minutes to rest and I’ll be ready to go again.”

The two of them sat near the lake's edge and watched as the water reflected the light. The surface was sitting still and hardly moved at all, but Brex contributed it to how they still needed to take out and purify the Wind Elemental that he had assumed to be the last he had to deal with. As the minutes went by, The Roegadyn's power was quickly replenishing.

After a few more minutes Rory spoke up again and asked, “Master... I understand that you're trying to save them, but isnt this an overly complicated way of doing it? Why not just wait for it to happen and catch her while she's in midair. Instead, you're going through all this hassle and almost killing yourself with how much work you’re putting yourself under. I know for a fact that if you were to go all out, you could have taken both of those elementals in one simple hit. Just what is it about these ponies that's got you working so hard?”

Brex leaned back and used his arms as support to look straight up into the sky and watched the clouds. Closing his eyes, the Roegadyn mused to himself about that question. Seconds turned into minutes until he finally had a response. While speaking in a relaxed tone he said, “You know I'm not entirely sure myself... Why do I do all this? Is it a sense of pride? Is it a sense of honor...? No, No I don't think that’s quite it.”

He had gone silent for a few seconds before going on, “Maybe it's got something to do with those memory fragments. Hmm, what did you call them, in printing? Maybe it's got to do with the whole, I'm in this place and this is basically what we as displaced beings do. Heck, I could try and take over this world, but what would be the point...” That last bit was said with a hint of sarcasm. Brex continued with, “Who knows, this could just simply be me trying to pass time. I already know that not everything is the same as in the show. I guess for right now... I'll see how things turn out and I'll make my judgments then. But my first goal is to make it to the pilot episode of the show and see that the outcome still happens like it should. There's usually a universal constant among the displaced where they are needed to save those six girls. As much as I don't like Celestia right now, I'm not about to let my petty grievances endanger innocent lives."

After that, he paused for a moment before continuing, “Now as for your question regarding me taking the complicated route. It's just me trying to keep things as close to the story as possible. I've done my best to stay away from the girls and they've only been able to seen me once when it came to Rarity. Even then I was covered and said very little around her. I'm sure with everything that happened that day, she will have forgotten about me by now. If anything, I’ll just be some guy and she will move on without another thought.

Rory then asked, “So it seems like we're supposed to save them all. Ok then, what's the plan for Rainbow Dash? You're only able to go for Fluttershy because she's coming down here, but I don't see how we can even get up there for the blue one."

Brex only chuckled after hearing that question and replied with, “Oh we're saving her too.” After saying that he was sure he could sense that she was tilting her head in confusion and quickly added, “By saving Fluttershy, we’re also saving Rainbow Dash in a way. You can save a person in more ways than simply stopping them from dying or something along those lines. Just imagine what would happen if she found out that she was somehow a part of the incident that caused Fluttershy to die from the fall. It would eat away at her over time. She would become a hollowed-out shell of herself that only thinks of what she had done and would lose her confidence. One is going to lose their life and the other is going to lose their will to go on. Just because nature had to go and get itself thrown out of whack. I don't know about you, but that's not fair for them and that really ticks me off...” During that last bit, Brex was visibly shaking from anger for a few seconds.

After a short pause Rory began to laugh but in a gentle tone before saying, “I believe my master is a good person. You could just say you don't want to see people getting hurt. Well, I guess in this case its Ponies is getting hurt.” This got a headshake from Brex as he talked in a somewhat emotionless tone, “No I don't think I'm a good person. This is simply me making sure that I survive. So, as long as they can stop Nightmare Moon, then I’m fine with the results.”

This only got a resigned sigh from the girl in his head before she said, “Master I believe all you need is some confidence. You say all this and do these things even though you feel like you can't trust them to even know about who and what you are. Maybe with time things will change. You seemed a lot better when you got to talk to somebody else besides me. I noticed this when you got to converse with Ryu without limiting your words. As much as I would love to have you all to myself, your mental state is my top priority. I only hope that one day you could go around without that mask on.”

When those words were exchanged, the both of them remain silent for a good 15 minutes until Brex felt he had recovered enough. This time however, he didn't need to close his eyes to tell where the final Elemental was. Thanks to the corrupted nature of the energy that was contaminating the land being purged to this point, He was capable of sensing exactly where the last one was. Looking off towards the East, he could feel that it was fairly close to Cloudsdale. Right now, the land was recovering and the water was coming back and filling the dried-up rivers. All that was needed now, was to clean up the air and everything would go back to normal.

After their little talk, Brex headed towards the last location. Along the way, it was apparent that what he said before about the land recovering was already showing signs of this happening. The ground started to grow more grass and the river was beginning to fill up gradually and was now flowing through the area. There were even a few fish here and there now that he could see near the surface.

He was close to a mile and a half away from the outskirts of Cloudsdale when he felt something shifting with the air. Going back to tracking the Elemental, The Roegadyn’s senses we're going all over the place. Brex was sure that he was able to zoom in on the exact location, but right now it was as if he was standing in a giant cloud of whatever the energy was being radiated off of the Elemental.

Feeling the hair standing on the back of his head, Brex quickly grabbed onto his staff and took a fighting position while trying to keep the senses out and wide as possible to sense any incoming threats. It didn't take long for the wind to begin picking up. Small debris were getting blown around and a wall of visible wind was being created to incircle his position. The air began to rush past him in almost every direction. The hood of his coat was nearly blown off his head and he had nearly lost his footing but managed to keep on his feet while guarding his head.

After several moments of this intense attack did the wind finally die down to reveal that he was now within a dome of wind that seemed to be fully able to block out the outside world from his vision. In a way it reminded him of the raid he fought in while going up against the wind Primal known as Garuda with how he was now in an enclosed environment.

From inside, there was nothing at all aside from the ground and what few traces of grass was left over after the strong wind had subsided. Every breath he made, had essentially made a loud echo with how there was no sound at all now. The dome itself could have easily reached 14 meters high, but with the way it looked, his estimations could have been off by all he knew. So going by that assumption then the outer radius must reach out to a full 20 or 30 Meters wide for the whole area.

Brex thought to himself, “Now this is gonna be tricky. I know it's here; I can feel it but I don't see it. This is not like the video game at all. At least on that one the target stayed in one place and you just had to pound it until it went down or avoid some attacks. Here they can dodge, hide and do sneak attacks. Also, this one seems a lot more powerful than the others.” His thoughts were cut off when he had an inexplicable urge to dodge to the right fast and did just that. By doing so, he had narrowly escaped an attack that caused the ground to have a large gash in it from an invisible strike. He wouldn't have known it happened if it wasn't for this weird vacuum like sound that appeared for a split second after getting out of the way.

Quickly trying to figure out the direction of the attack turned to be a fruitless endeavor as yet another came from a different angle that was from his blindside. This one managed to make a direct hit on his backside and had thrown him forward. Brex held up his right arm and had gone into a roll, he got back to his feet and turned to where he was attacked from only to hear another one coming from his left. With the staff being in his left hand he managed to block it but not without suffering some damage that came immediately after the first impact. It made no sense in the way it felt when he was struck, but after hearing the sound that came right afterwards it clicked. The Elemental wasn't using some simple type of wind blade technique and it was somehow using it in a way to get vacuum effect that would occur afterwards. This meant not only was a getting hit with one type of strike, but there was a secondary one that was pulling air inwards and this was catching him unprepared.

This reminded him of something he had seen in an anime called Rurouni Kenshin. There was a villain that would swing a sword and after cutting his opponent the air would get sucked out of the wound. This would in a sense, leave no blood left to be seen. It would also have the effect of making it harder for the victim to heal properly. That explained the gouges he saw on the ground and how there was hardly any debris from the attacks themselves. There was no health bar for himself but he could feel that a large chunk of his health had been taken away already. Even with his back taking a full-on hit, he could still feel the clothing there and was relieved that his armor held up. But out of a strange curiosity he pulled up his character information and looked at his currently equipped armor to find that it had a drop in durability and was now down to less than 70 Percent after just taking one strong hit.

Even after all that was done, he still couldn't get a fix on were his target was. He had considered the thought that it was in the worlds environment but thought otherwise when he felt something for a split second. That feeling was that of something moving around at high speeds all around him. Brex then employed the same wide area effect spell he had used to find the Earth Elemental.

Just as he was charging the spell halfway through, there was a loud screech and the magic in his hands exploded and threw him on his back with a heavy *THUD*. He thought to himself, “Ghaw! OK, well that obviously pissed it off. I guess it just didn't really like me using the wind for myself. Looks like that's out of the question as an ability to use. Doesn’t really help my situation if one of my own spells was to blow up in my face. The White Mage is primarily focused on healing and recovery. The only real offensive abilities I have is that wind spell for the damage over time effect and the rock throwing ability. So just how am I... Oh, wait the rocks!”

He had gone over his memory of the moment he fought the Water Elemental and how he had managed to enclose it in a type of rock trap by accident. Even if it was only able to hold the Elemental for a few moments before it managed to figure a way to get out, there still was a window of opportunity that was created from it. He then continued this in his head by thinking, “OK so I might have a way of trapping it, but I still need to get it to show itself. Come on! Think, think!”

During this time, he was avoiding yet another series of invisible attacks and only escaping by the skin of his teeth. Even though he wasn't taking any real damage his armor's durability was slowly being chipped away by the secondary effect that followed each of the attacks. All the constant jumping, rolling and blocking was covering his robes in dirt and grime. He had even resorted to casting a few healing spells on himself every now and then to fully recover whenever one managed to hit him in the arm or leg. His top priority was trying to figure out how to get this thing out into the open and protecting its vitals from taking any serious hits.

After a minute or two, Brex had a small idea but wasn't sure if it was going to work. Taking in a deep breath he readied himself to call out the loudest voice he could possibly make to be overheard through the attacks being made and yelled, “HEY! IS THAT ALL YOU GOT? GRANNY SMITH COULD PASS A STRONGER WIND THAN THIS!!” When those words left his mouth, the attacks suddenly came to a stop and there was no longer any sound aside from the wind barrier. He shifted his gaze to look around in all directions. He was beginning to wonder if it worked with how many seconds had passed by. There was no reaction so he didn’t know whether or not his ploy had worked.

With how things are going, he was about to try and figure out something else to do when there was a strong burst of gale like winds directly in front of him that nearly pushed him off his feet. It was then followed by a loud howling roar that was accompanied by distant thunder. Hearing the thunder confused the Roegadyn. He was positive that this was not a Lightning Elemental so he contributed it to just being really pissed off.

The air around him began to pull towards the direction that he felt the gust of wind coming from. Thick wisps of green and black filled the air as they were being condensed into a single spot only a few meters off the ground on the far side of the dome.

( Here is the picture of Wind Elemental. )

What he saw were a bunch of glowing lines representing the patterns and flows of the winds that was circling a single point of light. In a center, what should have been an emerald green glow, was instead a dark purple that emanated a foul light. Something within Brex wanted to make him throw up at the sight and feeling of this Elemental Infront of him. Shaking off the feeling, he took another ready stance and held up his staff in a defensive position while having his hand behind his back witch was already channeling some earth magic to be used at a moment's notice.

At first the creature's movements were slow, but then the sections quickly began to spiral around the light and he was able to see a large column of wind being created around the Elemental before it was launched straight at him. The ground in front of the pillar of wind was being torn apart and when vegetation was within its path, they became uprooted and torn apart until there was absolutely nothing left in the wind. Brex tried to run to the side but the pillar was changing course and closing in rapidly. Casting a stone spell, he launched a large boulder at it… but it broke up instantly and was thrown off to the sides as if it was nothing but a pile of sand.

With only a second away, he braced himself and crossed his arms in front of his body. The pillar of wind crashed into his form and not only did he feel like something had hit him with the force of a charging elephant, but instead of being thrown back afterwards, he was sucked into the pillar and was then attacked from all sides by smaller versions of the wind blades from earlier. Every inch of his body was struck repeatedly by hundreds upon hundreds and this lasted for the next twenty seconds before the pillar dispersed and he was harshly slammed onto the ground from falling from near the top of the dome. All the while he was letting out grunts and cries of pain as they all felt to be piercing his very flesh.

Brex landed onto his right side to only bounce twice before coming to a stop on his stomach. Letting out another grown of agony after getting cut and bashed, Brex tries to get onto his hands and knees but a strong force of wind slams into his left side, sending him careening towards the edge of the dome. When making contact with it the strong force that it was made up of took hold and Brex was thrown to the far side yet again and he crashes into the ground one final time.

At this point the wind was quite literally knocked out of Brex several times over as he struggled to take in breaths. Rory quickly called out in a panic, “Master! I don't think your class is going to be able to handle this one! Quick, you need to switch out now!” Brex was going to take her advice and finally stop being stubborn to switch out his Soul Stone. It was about to switch over to something else that could do more damage at a distance, but found that it was not something he could do.

When he tried to switch, there was an error message appearing on the bottom left-hand side of his vision that said, ((Error unable to switch at this time. Cause unknown.)) This was followed by the iconic triangle shape with an explanation point in the middle. He slammed his left fist into the ground and screamed in his head, “Damn it all! I don't understand, this isn't a quest. There should be no reason for me to be locked!” He hung his head and lets out a long sigh before beginning to speak in a very tired and resigned tone, “Fine… I'll up my level. Hopefully I'm far enough away and I can get this done quickly enough that I can make a run for it before anyone comes to investigate...”

He brought up the options menu and selected the level sync. From there he attempted to bring his level up to 50 but the same error message occurred and everything regarding the level sync had somehow gotten frozen. His eyes went wide in disbelief and his mouth hung low from behind his mask. He was about to say a long list of curse words, unfortunately he was interrupted by getting hit in the face with another strong blast of wind when he was not ready. It sent him flying towards the dome's wall and repeated the last process when he had made contact, sending him over the elemental and on to the opposite side again with yet another heavy series of THUDS.

Brex felt his body going numb while his vision began to blur. This caused him to remember about his health and how he had no idea of how much he had without some kind of status bar over his own head for display. Before his opponent could do anything else, he used a pair of spells to recover. One of which was Regen to help recover over time and the next was ‘Cure 2’.

After the spells were cast, his vision returned to normal and he was able to now feel his extremities again. Sluggishly, he got back to his feet and gripped his staff tighter and got into another battle Stance. The Wind Elemental launched another one of its wind pillars to track down Brex. He tried to use his stone magic but in a different way. Instead of calling up a large stone to throw, he instead made the ground in front of him to build up in between himself and the pillar of wind. Right as it got to the point where it was taller than him, it was blasted apart by the wind pillar and it sent him back onto his back a few meters away after sliding for half of the distance. The force in which he was hit with was far less destructive than previously experienced. This was all thanks to the rock wall he had created to take the blunt of the hit.

Getting back onto his feet, Brex felt a sharp pain in his left leg just above the knee. Quickly glancing down he saw that there was a large rock shard that had stabbed into his flesh and was now bleeding profusely. The dark red liquid was quickly staining the pants and was already down and nearly to his boots. He reached down with his right hand to grip the foreign object and roughly pulls it out of his body and chucks it to the ground. This made a heavy thud as the large piece of rock landed on to the ground near his feet. Placing his hand over the wound he casts a Cure spell which quickly closes up the wound. Afterwards he felt himself staggering for a second before regaining his balance. Brex could feel himself getting lightheaded from the sudden blood loss.

He had not even caused any real damage to this opponent and yet he was already draining himself of mana trying to keep himself upright. Gritting his teeth, he thought to himself, “Just what am I supposed to do! I can't switch to a different class nor can I raise my level! Just what is it that I meant to do?”

Another wave of fatigue washed over him and this caused him to drop to his knees with his arms hanging down. The wind was beginning to howl even more fiercely than before. Hearing this, Brex lifted his head and caught the sight of the Wind Elemental doing something different.

The floating lines that represented its body we're now turning with the top going clockwise and the bottom going counter clockwise. It appeared that the energy within the air itself was being pulled towards it as if indicating a strong attack was just over the horizon.

Going into his item box, he accessed one of the mana potions and started to drink down and when he was finished, the bottle was tossed away. At the same time, he used the skill Lucid Dreaming to expedite the recovery process. After but a few seconds he was positive he had more than half of his magic back while it was still recovering more.

He thought to himself in a defeated tone, “Just why am I trying so hard. Maybe Rory is right. I could probably let this thing kill me and I could re-spawn. I’ll come back and just catch Fluttershy when she falls By myself when the time comes... So, what if it results in her not getting the cutie mark that she's supposed to have, at least she'll be alive...”

He was about to go on but was interrupted by a strange, sharp burning pain riddling his body. Letting out a hiss of pain, he looked towards the area of his vision that would normally display status buffs and found one that indicated a negative effect was currently on him. Quickly looking at what it said, Brex found that it indicated that he had somehow been poisoned by negative energy. With another hiss of pain, Brex used a spell to remove the negative buff.

He wondered just how he had gotten it. The only explanation he could come up with was during one of the attacks that struck him earlier. Turning his gaze back towards the Wind Elemental he could see that it was still gathering power. There were flowing trails of purple and green going towards the very center light of its body. The core was beginning to enlarge and was now pulsing a strong purple light that was now bathing the area in its sickening rays. There were even small sparks of what could have been electricity coursing around its entire form.

Brex was just about to give in to his last thoughts and resign himself to being taken out when the image of a small Fluttershy without her animals came to the forefront of his mind. Brex felt another new type of pain through his chest when that happened. He remembers that in the show, all she's really had was her animals and aside from that she could hardly speak to others without being terrified. So, if she didn't get that mark, then she would most likely be all alone. The very idea that such a sweet person who wouldn’t hesitate to help those in need, to be made to suffer because he gave up was enough to make him nearly throw up in his own mask at how disgusted he felt towards himself right now.

Gritting his teeth once more, he got back to his feet and stared down the Wind Elemental. With eyes filled with an unbridled rage, he was about to try and put everything he had into launching an endless stream of earth attacks, but quickly halted in that thought when he could have sworn that there was some new sound flowing on the wind that he could just barely make out over the crackling of energy that the Elemental was producing.

Whatever it was caused a new lump to form in his throat as he felt that he was on the verge of crying out of sorrow. Deeply confused, he looked around to try and find the source. It wasn't until he heard it a second later that he turned his head in its direction and found it to be emanating from the Elemental itself.

He thought to himself while still trying to fight off this new feeling of sorrow, “Is this some new skill? It reminds me of what that spider did to me a while back… This must be a new defense it has to prevent me from attacking while it’s charging up.”

Letting out a grunt of exertion, he raises his right hand towards the Elemental in another attempt to try and channel his ‘Stone 2’ spell. Just as it was nearly finished with its cast time, he hears the voice again, but much more clearly. What the Wind Elemental had just said caused him to throw his arm to the ground and this disrupted the spell only a fraction of a second before it was fired. From behind his mask Brex was contorting his face in pain, not out of something physical. No, this was something on a deep emotional level. His eyes were on the verge of crying rivers as he continued listening to the wind.

What he heard was not in a tongue that could be expressed by any normal creature. It was more along the lines of it speaking to the soul. The best he could do to describe it, would be comparing it to what someone would feel when hearing a tiny child crying in pain, alone and frightened.

Because of this, Brex could no longer bring himself to even use a single one of his attack spells. Now beginning to show signs of hyperventilating, the Roegadyn found that his right hand was clutching the fabric of his robe right over his chest, while at the same time he was using the staff to help him in keeping his balance by leaning into it.

Being filled with an unspeakable amount of desire to help the one who is in pain before him was nearly enough to break his spirit. Now rapidly breathing through his clutched teeth, Brex regained his stance while still holding onto his chest. He thought to himself, “Needs... my help. In so much pain...”

The Wind Elemental was apparently near the end of its charging process and the energy was being further condensed, but a majority of it was towards the front and aimed directly at Brex by the looks of it. It began to form a funnel and that the energy was now taking on the form of strange runes. It began to glow from within in the same fashion as a cannon would be charging up in an anime.

Time literally started to grind to halt for Brex. A strange sensation was being felt on his forehead during this and a distant memory came to mind. Going back to when he was on the other side, Brex was currently walking next to Daddy as they were strolling across the endless sea of gold. He had just finished one of his many lessons with Little Light and the pair was discussing what he had learned that day.

He had just finished giving a short explanation on what he had gone through that day with the older man that seemed to draw another one of those smiles from the guy. Daddy gave out another one of his amused laughs before speaking, “Ho hooo~, Well that's my girl for you. She's been that serious from the very day she came into existence. Don't worry, you'll get it soon enough. But you know, it wouldn't hurt to have some other source of material you know, just look at me. I can do things just fine with my energy. I could do the same kind of magic as my girl Little Light. But unlike her, I don’t follow the same method.

This only got a confused tilt of the head from Brex before he replied with, “I'm not quite sure what you're going on about when you say that. According to her, I need to go by the preset path for the magic to even work. Just what could you be doing that’s not the same?”

This only got another one of those amused chuckles from him before he answered with, “Literally everything my boy! It's not all about the rules and getting things precise. Now yes, this would be very important, but me on the other hand. I do things a little differently. That was when he gave him a grin and lowered his sunglasses to give him a sly wink. He then placed them back on and said in a confident tone while taking a stance with his fists on his hips, “Listen to me, this is how I do things! To me, doing magic is all about the following.”

Daddy cleared his throat for just a moment before continuing, “40 percent calculations, 20 percent hard work, 40 percent imagination, 60 percent Believe and 40 percent luck. That's how I do, EVERYTHING! Hoohooo hooo!”

when hearing this, Brex scrunches up his face in complete confusion before scratching the back of his head with his right hand and reluctantly replies with, “I don't need to be picky but, I'm pretty sure that's 200 percent.” Daddy only grinned and much enthusiasm, replied with, “Yup I know that, and you know that.” Daddy then paused and turned his head to look around a bit and started the whisper, “But the magic doesn't know that!” All that came out of the Roegadyn's mouth was a very confused, “Eh!!”

After going through that memory, Brex had blinked and brought himself back to the present. Inside he was screaming to himself, “I have to do something. If only I can get close enough. Maybe I could use one of my healing spells on it. Using an offensive one isnt doing the trick.” That was when he felt another one of those strange feelings again and it was resonated within his core. To the Roegadyn it translated over to the Wind Elemental saying something along the lines of, “Make it stop. Please make it stop, I don't want to hurt anymore! I don't want to hurt others anymore please...”

Hearing this only brought tears and they were now dripping from the bottom of his mask. But these were not tears of sorrow, no these were those of a man that had just been pushed over the edge. His teeth were grinding to the point that they could have started to crack at any time and his eyes burned with an unrestrained fury.

He began screaming in his head once more out of pure frustration and righteous fury while still looking straight at the Elemental that was mere seconds from launching its final attack. Inside he just kept chanting, “COME ON! COME ON! COME ON! I NEED TO DO SOMETHING, COME ON, THINK, THINK. I’M NOT GOING TO GIVE UP. I HAVE TO-“

Brex’s mind went blank when he had heard a distant, echoing chuckle. No, to him this was a haunting laugh filled with malice and a sense of someone that delighted in the joy and misery of others. The way it resonated made it difficult to tell whether it was from a male or female. When his vision came back to normal, all he knew was that he was now pissed off more than ever.

Throwing his arms out to the sides, he lifts his head at a slight angle towards the sky right above that was being obstructed by the dome. He then finally screamed out loud to the world to hear. “HWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

( Play this for the effect. )

After screaming out loud, the screen that always displayed whatever he saw, along with his Mini map and everything else glitched for a second and suddenly started to display two large highlighted icons side-by-side on opposite ends of his vision. They were those of his Cure spell and his Esuna spell. Quickly they started towards to center and with every passing inch that the icons approached, there was a connecting line of overlapping lightning bolts. The closer they got the more connecting threads appeared along with becoming more violent as if trying to prevent them from making contact.

Taking in a quick breath, Brex screams to the heaven's while concentrating on the pair of images. At the same time, he was chanting this in his head repeatedly as loud as he could, “Come on! I don't care what this does, just make it happen, give me anything.”

As if hearing his thoughts, the two images rapidly collided and overlapped one another. The images themselves could no longer be made out until they were burning away at one another to reveal something underneath that was completely different.

This new image was partially glitched as were the texts surrounding it. But a few of the words made it through while others either had question marks or were just completely unreadable. But he was able to make out a figure clad in white, red and blue that was holding up a single hand and it was giving off a dazzling light. Even though Brex had no idea just what this move was called or if it even had one, he somehow knew just how to utilize it right then and there.

Looking back down towards the Elemental that had just released the spell that had been charging. Brex had noticed that the time which was slowed down dramatically was began to speed back up again. Taking a heavy breath, the Roegadyn could feel something burning from deep within that was now traveling through his arm and right up towards his hand. The dark glove which was covering it was blown off and had torn up the very end of his sleeve several inches up his arm. What was revealed was his appendage and it was now glowing with a faint green light that had a brilliant blue outline. The light radiating from it was nearly strong enough to blind any who was looking directly at it. Small particles of white light were flowing into the air in all directions beyond that.

The attack from the Wind Elemental had traveled across the fighting area they were in and had nearly made contact with Brex when he threw that very arm forward to intercept the attack. When they collided, the black, purple and green's swirls of electric energy that was fired did not push back the Roegadyn. In fact, it was being parted and as it flowed over his body. This was followed by it turning into the very same color that his hand was discharging.

The Roegadyn then charged the Elemental while still outstretching his right hand and traveled along the constantly fired beam. All the while his heavy footsteps made the ground quake under his feet. Barely even feeling what his opponent was using, he began roaring into the air, “HEYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” When the Roegadyn was within a few meters from his target he screamed out, “IT’S MY TURN!”

After saying those words, his hand made contact with the barrel of energy created that the beam was launched from. It only slowed him down for a fraction of a second before it too began to shatter as his hand passed through. His palm traveled even further until it made contact with the large orb at center of his opponent and he grasped it tightly with the hand of light. At that moment Inside his head, he couldn't help the following words to be said, “TAKE THIS, TAKE MY LOVE, MY ANGER AND ALL OF MY SORROW! SHINING FINGER!!”

The core attempted to fight back by expanding to a size that made it nearly impossible for the Roegadyn to hold on to it completely. Arcs of dark purple lightning coursed around its outer surface and made its way towards his fingers. When the energy made contact with the hand, it began to change colors and imitated that which he was creating, only to bounce back the way it came and disrupting the defenses completely.

Clenching his fingers more tightly onto the orb. The combination of strength and the power behind it caused the orb to slowly shrink back to its original size. The rays of light that were being emanated grew in intensity. Before long the orb had shrunk even further to the point that it was enough for his fingers to wrap-around completely, but it did not stop there. It only grew even smaller and smaller until it was completely hidden within his hand.

There was then an explosion of pure white that expanded from that very spot that engulfed all within his vision. In that brief instant the strong emotions that had flooded his very being had vanished, all but a sense of relief and joy. From within his core, he felt the words ‘Thank you’ Before the light grew even more blinding and he felt himself getting pushed away at high speeds. Brex's vision was severely blurred and he felt his consciousness beginning to leave his body. Before passing out he saw the following.

The dome that was encompassing him during the fight had been disrupted so violently, that it was blasted apart and there was a ring of pure energy radiating over the land and into the sky until dispersing after a long distance. Any could tell that he was traveling at a stounding speed as he rocketed through the air away as he saw that Cloudsdale was slowly shrinking in the distance. His form had been covered in white light and he was leaving a very long trail behind in his wake. But before his mind completely left him, he could have sworn that he had passed something in white, but he couldn't make out what it was with it being nothing but a blur.

( Stop the Music here. )

*Point of View: Rainbow Dash*
*Location: Cloudsdale*
*Time: Earlier that very day*

Rainbow Dash was a young filly That had yet to learn how to fully fly just yet. Sure, she had the energy along with the drive, but she just didn't have the focus. Her flying attempts often ended up with her crashing into one thing or another. This of course was how she got her old nickname in the show known as Rainbow Crash.

This day she was attempting to learn how to fly all on her own before the summer camp for young flyers started. For the past couple of months, she had been teased by the others of her age about her tendency to lose control and she wanted to be ready before class started in order to show those bullies a lesson that they wouldn’t forget any time soon.

She had woken up early that day and had nearly finished her self-imposed training and was now taking a break on a cloud near the outskirts of the city that was only a short distance from where the camp was to be held later in only another seven weeks. Just like in so many other displaced stories, she was also sporting a blue T-shirt with the logo of the wonder bolts on the front and a pair of black shorts.

Laying on the cloud on her back she was gazing up at the clear sky above and wondered to herself. “Oh, come on! I know how to fly but I can't seem to do it too well. Just what am I missing?! Hey, I'm awesome so I'll figure it out. Just need to recharge after a power nap and I’ll show them all how great I am!” She then rolls over onto her stomach, laying her head over her crossed arms and kicks her legs into the air behind her while gazing down at the ground below.

From that height it was very hard for the filly to see everything there was but she had never actually gone down to the ground before. In fact, most Pegasus who were born in that town never really left until they were able to fly on their own. She had let out a long sigh of frustration as she placed her chin onto the cloud itself and had a very dull and bored expression. In a low, almost imperceivable volume she muttered to herself, “It would be great if I could go really fast, Like I don't know, Super-fast like faster than sound fast. *Sigh* Like that's even possible. Mom and Dad told me all about that legend about that thing called the Sonic Rainboom. But that's just an old mare's tale.”

She had led out another sigh and was in the middle of turning over as to get ready to head back home. Rainbow Dash froze in place while half way onto her hoofs when she heard a distant boom. The sound had originated from deep below the city. She quickly rushed over to get a peek off of the edge to see what could have caused such a thing. A wave of light quickly passed over and pushed her onto her tail, but thankfully it didn't cause any harm. With eyes going wide she couldn't believe what she was just seeing in the sky.

Off in the distance, she saw a trail of white light shooting across the sky at a speed that she thought was unattainable. Rainbow could barely make out a faint outline of some pony within the light in the front. She clasped her hands over her mouth to hold back what she knew was going to be a girly shriek and quickly mumbled to herself, “Oh my gosh! oh my gosh! my gosh! oh my gosh! oh my gosh! That pony must be going at almost the speed of sound! T-Then, then that could only mean that... The Sonic Rainboom Is Real!” When those words left her lips, the one she was watching was beginning to form a cone of wind. Shortly after, the wind barrier was broken and the one in the sky had gone even faster and was lost going over the mountains and out of sight.

After seeing that display of speed, Rainbow Dash’s life was forever changed and she knew what she wanted to do. If there was one out there that could do the impossible like that, then she had a new goal. And that new goal was to be the fastest pony in Equestria.

Time passed after that and the following events went just as they did in the show. Rainbow Dash was eventually picked on. Then Fluttershy was made fun of by some bullies, but in this version of Equestria the bullies were a pair of females. Then that led to the race to defend Fluttershy’s honor.

Rainbow Dash ended up knocking Fluttershy off the cloud just as planned and won the race, thereby creating the Sonic Rainboom and cause the chain reaction among all the Element Bearers. However, there was one tiny thing that was different when it came to Fluttershy. She was in fact saved by a flock of butterflies and had made friends with the animals just as she was meant to do in the show. But she had met something new that also became one of her friends. That being a very small creature that seemed to be a tiny light made of pure white and green that always stayed around Fluttershy, but kept out of sight of everything else.

Now and then if someone was very cautious and was on high alert and they knew what to look for, then they would see a very tiny swirl of white and green that constantly made a small amount of wind in places where there shouldn't have been any. From the very day that she got her cutie mark she had an unknown guardian watching her back and making sure that she came to no harm. All the while, it would make its way over to a window at least once a day in the very same direction that the unknown flyer had disappeared to all those weeks back when a strange rumor started about an unknown flyer that broke the flying speed record.