Torah Ponies: A Tale of Exegesis, Magic, and The Moon
Chapter 15: The Fall of Zion
Previous ChapterNext ChapterI spent the past ten millennia trying to picture the monstrosity that I would one day be forced to confront. I must be totally honest, she’s terrifying.
She is the same size and proportion as my boss, although she appears more sinister than her. Her mane is literally made out of pure solar energy, probably plasma.
“Umm, who the hay is that?” Applejack asks stoically. She is not afraid that a giant mare who breathes fire broke into her house and is throwing one of her neighbors across the floor like a ragdoll.
“Oh...you don’t know me? You might recognize me like this.”, quickly reverting to her more recognizable form.
“P… princess Celestia? What in the hay are you doing terrorizing everypony like that?! Aren’t you a princess with honor?!”
Daybreaker returns to her more powerful form, and looks at the earth pony dead in the eye.
“I have no quarrel with you, Earth Pony. If you value your life, you will flee this site like your flank depends on it. I have unfinished business to attend to that is 1,000 years old.”
Applejack, not being one to risk her life, runs away per the sun-diarch's demand, although she doesn’t flee. She goes to find her four other friends to assemble the Elements of Harmony!
“Tia. We don’t have to do this. I warned you then and I am warning you now. We are meant to rule TOGETHER, not with an iron hoof, but with the consent of our ponies.”, carefully eyeing her elder sister.
“Oh, you are really foalish. Not only did you break confinement two weeks early, but you brought your pet Jew with you. You know how much I find those people despicable! They worship you, not their “Elohim”. Can’t even follow their own rules! And it seems he has a sister?”
“That’s not true, Daybreaker! I read their Jew books. Only the most learned of them know of Nightmare.” Twilight nervously pipes in from the corner.
“You will speak when spoken to, foal!” , breaking into her Royal Canterlot voice.
“Y...yes Princess.”, as she cried in the corner.
“Noah... What should I do? I am scared!”
“Stay next to me. When I say fly, you fly out the window!”, embracing my sister tightly. Nothing bad will happen to her.
“Noah, it’s time.”
10,000 years in the making, time to fulfill my destiny.
“Daybreaker! My teacher showed me what you did to Efraim Narcyz and to everyone else in Europe in the 20th century. You didn’t have to do that! There were 1.5 million children. Little Jewish boys and girls who wanted to live. Did that not make it through your numb skull!”, my mane crackling with temporal magic, more than ever before.
“Silly Jewnicorn! Those children would have grown up to be scum like their parents. Killing them was an act of mercy on my part.”, she cackles with an evil grin.
“You… bastard! Daybreaker!”, taking a step closer to her.
“Oh? You're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming right to me? Even though your teacher, Nightmare Moon told you the secrets of the Sun like an exam student scrambling to finish the last problems on an exam until the last moments before the chime?”
“Well, it’s not like I can avenge my people without getting closer.” I retort like a smartass.
“Oh ho! Then come as close as you like, Jewnicorn.”, teleporting the five of us to an empty field.
“If we are to fight, let’s not destroy some stupid Earth Pony’s house. She did nothing to upset me, so why destroy her house?”, while Nightmare and I launched towards her with full force, sending a barrage of magical blasts at Daybreaker. None of them seem to connect.
“Too slow, too slow! Solar Magic exceeds all! Even without all of your training, its speed and power far exceed that of yours, Sister and Jewnicorn.”
“Wait a minute. The sun and moon are opposite, that means it’s the same kind of magic. Why is my boss holding back?”, I think to myself as Twilight summons her copy of the Zohar and summons a Shaid.
“Hm, what are you doing, Twilight? That demon from Earth won’t do anything against me!”, obliterating the Shaid with nothing more than a simple blast of her solar magic.
“I have no time for this. This Jewnicorn is useless. Sister, let our battle commence now!”, using her magic to launch my teacher into a cliff a few hundred metres away.
Nightmare quickly aligns herself in the air, and redirects a massive lunar blast towards Daybreaker, who absorbs it.
“Not bad, Lulu, you aren’t as weak as you were. Tell me, what is your secret?”
“Her secret is one so obvious that you yourself taught it to me!' Twilight pipes in, sending her own blast of magic towards the rouge alicorn.
'She befriended the Jewnicorn and cares for him. You care for nopony but yourself!”, as she puts more energy into her blast.
“I think Twilight is right.” My sister says, pitching in, trying to fly close to Nightmare for protection.
“Hm? Ah, Jewnicorn’s sister, “Rivka”. I sent sleeper ponies to your world to kill you and your mother. It failed. Might as well kill you now, though. Would lighten my mood.”
No… no way in hell is this BITCH going to hurt my baby sister, whether she is a pegasus or a human.
I snap: “!!!זאוואדו! עצור את הזמן" Using my most powerful spell, I send all of Equestria into frozen time, so at least I have a chance of getting my shot in.
“עברה שנייה אחת" (one second has passed). I am a bit surprised that Daybreaker is still frozen. I conjure a massive boulder and launch it at her.
"חלפו שתי שניות" (two seconds have passed). Just as the boulder was about to hit Daybreaker, she blew it up in frozen time.
“Oh, you are a fool, Jewnicorn! I absorbed energy from Grogar’s Bell before coming here. I didn’t know you could pause time, but it prepared me for any eventuality. Might as well freeze you in place now.”, she says with glee.
I can’t feel my body. Everything is slowing down. That shouldn’t be possible, right? And then, it hit me. I am frozen in time, and Daybreak can move.
“I paused time at the two second mark, just as I escaped from tha boulder. You never trained your magic to withstand somepony else freezing time, so you are a sitting duck!”, teleporting in front of me and breaking my hooves.
“Time will flow once again.”, letting time resume, as my now broken bloody hooves cause my body to collapse on the floor.
“One down, three to go.”, before a massive rainbow blast paralyzes her in place.
“Gotcha, crazy sun mare!” A cyan blue pegasus says, leading four other ponies with her into battle. They are all wearing necklaces with gems. I assume those are the Elements of Harmony?
Twilight’s body starts reacting, and soon she gets a gemstone, but it's a tiara.
“Guess we have a sixth now. Twi, get yer’ flank over here. We need a hoof to defeat her!”, running towards Twilight and dragging her over to the rest of the group.
“You ponies are valiant. I must concede that, but I can pause time now. None of you stand a chance!” In a blink of an eye, I see all of the six gemstones get shattered. I must be too weak to perceive frozen time, and Daybreaker must have disarmed those poor ponies, and thrown them around the field like ragdolls!
“Now, all that remains is you, sister. I should have finished the job 1,000 years ago!”
“NOAH! I… I’m sorry. I don’t think I am strong enough to beat her. She is… too strong. If I don’t make it, I wanted to let you know that I loved you like my own foal. Yes, I kidnapped you, but I had no choice! I am sorry, my little Jewnicorn.”, she sobs, tears streaming down her cheeks. She sends an extremely powerful attack at Daybreaker, stronger than anything she ever launched at me during training. Seconds before it connects, Daybreaker teleports behind her and stabs my teacher with her horn through the heart, killing her instantly.
I want to cry.
I am too weak to cry.
“Baruch Dayan HaEmet.” (blessed is the true judge). I want to do something. I want to do anything.
“Noah… I’m scared! Don’t let her hurt me!”, flying over to me and hugging me tightly.
This is the end. I was given immortality, but it must be a-mortality. I can still be killed.
“Yisgadal Veyiskadash shmey raba.”
Why am I saying Kaddish for myself? I know I am going to die any minute. Nobody will be able to say it for me, so I have to say it for myself.
“V’almah divra cherusay v’yamlich malchusay.”
I am trying not to cry as Daybreaker approaches the two of us, solar magic in hoof, ready to kill us.
“I am not even going to give you the option of last words. You are both worthless in my eyes. Given that you are both children, I will grant you a painless death. My sister did not have that luxury.
“V’chayachon u’vyomachon u’vchayyei kol beis yisrael.”
It's over. I hug my sister tightly. I hear her say “Shema Yisroel Adonai Elohenu Adonai Echad” Even when facing death, my sister still remembers our Creator with unwavering faith.
Everything went black.
Author's Note
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
GLOSSARY:
Kaddish: Jewish memorial prayer for the dead. Recited for 11 months upon a parent’s death, and 30 days for a close relative. During the Holocaust, some recited this prayer for themselves, because they knew nobody would be alive to say it for them.
Baruch Dayan HaEmet: Blessing said upon hearing tragic news, usually a death. At a Jewish funeral, one tears their garments upon reciting this blessing.
Shema: Arguably the most important prayer in Judaism, it affirms the belief in One G-d. The first prayer taught to Jewish children, and the last prayer said before death.
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