Torah Ponies: A Tale of Exegesis, Magic, and The Moon

I don’t believe what I am seeing. My sister, who has literally ZERO combat experience, just flies over to Public Enemy #1 of the Jews, and HUGS her? I have no clue what she is trying to do, and frankly, I am worried sick for her. She could be killed!

“What in G-d’s name are you doing, Rivka?” I think to myself, before my sister STARTS GLOWING VIOLET.

This is new. I thought pegasi don’t have magic, or at least the ability to cast magic. This violet energy quickly alerts Twilight, who exclaims “I think your sister is using the Magic of Forgiveness! It’s older than Friendship by a few thousand years!”.

I look around me, seeing that all of Twilight’s friends were thrown around the field like vermin, but a buttery yellow pegasus seems to be waking up, with only minor injuries.

“NO! I won’t let this stupid filly defeat me with Friendship!” Daybreaker exclaims, trying to use magic to throw my sister off of her body. It doesn’t work. She is stuck to Daybreaker like glue.

The yellow pegasus slowly balances herself on her hooves and sees what this other pegasus is doing. She then flies over to Daybreaker and does the exact same thing. Embraces her with baseless love.

“I don’t know this filly, but she is absolutely right. Even if somepony does something horrible, and doesn’t deserve love, everypony should give it to them anyway.” She says, also becoming enveloped in magic, although of a yellow aura instead of a violet one. The two magical energy sources compound on each other, preventing Daybreaker from launching any attacks, but isn’t strong enough to neutralize her.

“N...Noah...I think your sister might be onto something. Celestia was my teacher, and as evil, as she is, we need to stop her the right way.” Twilight says, trying to stand up on her own four hooves. The problem is, she is also suffering the same injuries as me. She collapses onto the floor again, just as Applejack begins to wake up from her battle damage. Quickly realizing what is going on, Applejack reorients herself and makes a decision.

“I think that the Jewnicorn’s sister is right. Even if Daybreaker is an evil mare, we need to forgive her, and that’s the honest truth,” she says, galloping over to Daybreaker and embracing her with baseless love. Adding her orange aura to the mix, Daybreaker is further immobilized by forgiveness!

“NO!” Daybreaker says, being further immobilized by friendship and forgiveness. Her own teachings are being used against her. Oh, the irony! I see Daybreaker struggling with all of her might to try and throw off the ponies embracing her with baseless love, but nothing she does seems to work. A grey unicorn mare is the next to wake up, taking a bit longer than the rest of her friends to adjust to the current situation.

“Rarity! We need to forgive her! It’s the only way!” Fluttershy exclaims loudly. Rarity is not entirely sure what to do. Daybreaker burned down her entire boutique! How can that be forgiven? Regardless, she is the next to forgive Celestia, teleporting herself to the group and embracing her as well.

“Oh, Darling. I know you burned down my shop and upset these two humans, but I forgive you. I have to be generous with forgiveness, no?” She asks rhetorically, as her magic gets added to the forgiveness pile.

The next pony to wake up, a pink Earth Pony, is very quick to see this situation and was bouncing herself up and down with glee. I don’t get it. Does she break physics or something?

“OH! I SEE WE NEED TO HAVE A GROUP HUG!” The pink pony says, launching herself into the fray, embracing Daybreaker, and becoming enveloped in forgiveness.

“I...can’t...move!” Daybreaker says, starting to buckle under the weight of forgiveness.

The last pony to wake up was the cyan pegasus, who took a minute to compose herself and adjust to the situation.

“I don’t trust you, Daybreaker, but my friends have been loyal to me, so I might as well trust them now.” She says, reluctantly joining the hugging dogpile.

“THIS...IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!” Daybreaker says, using all her might to try and fight off these ponies’ forgiveness magic.

Once all five of Twilight’s friends were in the group, I noticed the strangest thing. The necklaces that they were wearing earlier with these magic artifacts began to magically reconstruct themselves, and I saw Twilight’s magic tiara come back, healing her injuries completely.

“Woah. Lucky you. I still am crippled from head to hoo-” and then my injuries heal, too! No magic necklace, though. Must be an alicorn thing?

“I understand if you don’t want to forgive Daybreaker, but I am going to.” Twilight says, flying over to Daybreaker and hugging her, tears streaming down her cheeks.”

“Celestia. You might be crazy, but I have so many positive memories with you. I want those to be your legacy, not what you did to Noah’s race. I...I forgive you, Princess!” Twilight says, becoming completely enveloped with both the Magic of Friendship and Forgiveness. Slowly, but surely, Daybreaker’s body began turning to stone.

“You fools! If you do this, who will raise the sun?” Daybreaker says, with a smirk.

Oh, crud. She does have a point. Luna told me that the sun and moon are raised by these alicorns daily, not controlled by natural phenomena.

And then, just as I thought Daybreaker was about to be defeated, she did the unthinkable. She paused time! At least I was able to move this time, but Twilight, my sister, and her friends are all frozen in place, as Daybreaker managed to teleport herself out, reverting to her natural form.

“You really are stupid, Jewnicorn! I must concede that I didn’t expect Twilight’s friends to fully become the Element Bearers this quickly, let alone master the Magic of Forgiveness AND Friendship. In a good scenario, I would be very proud of them, and to some extent, I am, but I don’t harbor friendship towards traitors! I am glad Luna is dead, but with YOU in the picture, well, it’s like she’s still here. Why don’t we make a deal?”

A deal? What the buck would Daybreaker want from me? I can’t give her anything.

“Go on, before I use my new alicorn magic to accelerate time to a singularity. Luna taught me a few things!” I say, quickly letting some magic flow out of me to intimidate the sun alicorn.

“I want nothing to do with you anymore, Weinstein. You are a pain in my flank! Frankly, now that Luna is dead, I harbor no resentment towards your people anymore. I am giving you a ticket out. In exchange for me removing your alicorn power and reverting you back to a human, I will permanently sever the connection between our two worlds. You can follow your stupid archaic Jewish customs, and I can wipe the memories of everypony here so they remember me as the benevolent Princess Celestia. Wouldn’t you like that, Jewnicorn? To go back to your old life?”

Horseapples! She is playing with my emotions! Won’t stand for that!

“I am strongly considering your offer, but Luna permanently altered my DNA. Are you really able to undo that? Luna told me it’s impossible.”

Daybreaker lunges forward towards me in frozen time and pins me down on the floor, trapping my wings underneath her hooves.

“Why did you make me do this?! We’re fighting, so you can watch everypony around you DIE! Think, Noah! If I don’t remove your immortality, you’ll outlast literally everyone back on Earth. What would you have after five hundred years?! A millennium?!”

Damn! That monologue is scary!

“And what would happen if I said no?” I asked, just to see if she was really going where I thought she was.

“Well, if you say no, then you will have to live for eternity knowing that I will kill your sister and mother out of spite. Don’t do it for yourself, human, do it for them.” Daybreaker says, teleporting next to my sister in frozen time, horn at the ready to fire.

If I don’t do anything, I’ll have blood on my hands! I love my baby sister, and I don’t want anything to happen to her.

“F...fine. I accept your offer, on one condition. Wipe my sister’s memory of these events. She is too pure and good for this world to know what you did.”

“IT IS DONE!” Daybreaker says, moving my sister in frozen time next to me.

“Although, you made a horrible mistake. I am not wiping YOUR memory, and you will live for the rest of your life knowing what I did to your people, only for everyone to call you a madman!” Daybreaker says, charging a massive blast of magic at the both of us.

Everything went black.

***

March 13th, 2020 CE

I wake up in my bed, in my regular pajamas, with regular human hands.

“Damn that son of a mare! I had no choice. I needed to protect Rivka!” I think to myself, before noticing that all my belongings are exactly where I left them. Just to be sure, I try using magic to summon a random volume on my shelf, and I looked like an idiot. Nothing happened.

“Well, back to normalcy, I guess?” I think to myself, before seeing the strangest thing on my desk.
It’s the G’ra’s commentary that I used with Luna to try and defeat Daybreaker, and it has a message attached to it, written on a papyrus scroll.

I quickly get out of my bed and tear the scroll off the book, only to break down into tears.

“TO MY LITTLE JEWNICORN”