Being Lyra

"There is nothing we can do, however if there is anything that could shed some light on the matter, it would be that contract," Princess Celestia said.

"No, we came so close yet so far!" I shouted as I banged both of my fore-hooves onto the door.

My hooves overlapped with two hoof shaped imprints on the door and an aura started to glow around the door.

"Wh-What's going on?" Bon Bon stuttered.

"Impossible, there's no way she could provide that kind of energy to the door, unless Shane was an elite, but he wasn't a human from Earth that I turned into a pony, was he? No, even if he was, there is no way he could be an elite,"

The ground started to shake, the ceiling started to fall apart, and eventually I also became engulfed in the aura that still surrounds the door.

"Princess Celestia, open the door now! I do not know how much longer I can hold on for," I shouted over the loud shaking of the castle.

Princess Celestia nodded her head with a confident look on her face as she approached the door. Princess Celestia closed her eyes facing the door as her horn started to glow in her own aura. The door started to slide open as I tried to remove my hooves but they refused to retract back to me. With an annoyed look on my face, I allow myself to be pushed around like a two year old being told what to do, the door nearly slid all the way until it halted a couple feet away from the wall. The aura around me and the door stopped glowing and I started to try releasing myself from the wooden imprisonment of the door, unfortunately my fore-hooves were still stuck to the door leaving me at a rather uncomfortable position.

"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. Go in and find Lyra's contract while you still can," I shouted.

I could hear them give me a sound of approval and their hoof steps slowly fading away, leaving me trapped onto the door. I could only imagine how big the hallway leading to the archives just beyond this door considering how huge this room was. It might even go on for miles, I'm not even sure if Princess Celestia herself knows how big the entire castle is.

I could hear hoof steps fading in; it was getting closer and closer to me.

"Oh, I doubt that you'll be fine," A voice said approaching from the back of the room.

Suddenly, the door started to violently shut with me still stuck onto it.

*SLAM*

My flank swung up in reaction to the g-force and slammed against the door just above my head then resulting my back hooves in falling back continuing to dangle from in the air while my fore-hooves were still attached to the door. The door ended up being fully shut leaving Princess Celestia and Bon Bon trapped inside even if they knew they were trapped, they probably wouldn't be loud enough to speak through the thickness of the door between us.

"You know, you've put me through a lot of trouble catching you recently, but being presented with a perfectly good opportunity made my life a whole lot easier. In fact, you being trapped for some unknown reason is good enough for me to finally kill you," the voice behind me spoke.

Turning my head, I realized where the familiar voice had come from.

"You trapped the Princess into there until the next summer solstice, have you gone mad?" I rhetorically asked.

"It's a price we have to pay for our salvation from you," the crazed doctor replied.

"There is no salvation from killing the innocent; if there even was any damnation here it would be you!" I yelled.

"You've become impressively sentient since the last time we've met, haven't you?" he said as he approached me even closer with a gun similar to the one Gunslinger had.

"I'm only going to say this once, so listen well: 'Die you motherfucking disease'," he said pulling the trigger with my backside at gunpoint.

*POW*

"What was that?!" Bon Bon shrieked as she turned around.

"The door is locked shut, that doctor must have followed us here!" Bon Bon continued.

"We are trapped, we might as well continue on what we came for, no use in trying to escape a door I can't even open without the help of an elite or the summer solstice," Princess Celestia sighed.

Bon Bon couldn't resist and sighed as well.

After a long hour of trekking through the long enduring corridors that were surrounded by torches that were surprisingly lit for several thousands of years letting them carry the thought of what could of what could of possibly happened to me, Bon Bon and Princess Celestia finally made it to the archives. The room was just as big as the room that became my tomb, however only a single bookshelf was visible in the center of the room that had several scrolls on it. The porcelain tiles of the room mostly covered empty space. The stone walls surrounding them were barely visible. The size of the room seemed very redundant but the purpose of the room was what made the room itself important. The room surprisingly was bright and was plentiful of even more torches.

"Well this totally doesn't seem like a big waste of space," Bon Bon sarcastically stated.

Princess Celestia walked over to the bookshelf and started to browse through it.

"This... This can't be right," Princess Celestia stuttered in astonishment.

"What is it?" Bon Bon asked as she walked over to her.

"Lyra no longer owns a contract, however Shane does, but there are several things wrong with this: Shane wasn't one of the humans I turned into a pony and if Lyra no longer has a contract she is going to get teleported back to Earth," Princess Celestia said astonished.

"Well, even if Lyra is being teleported back to Earth, that wouldn't be considered a 'bad' thing would it?" Bon Bon asked.

"Lyra has been in Equestria for over two hundred years, if she was to be teleported back to Earth, that's how old she would age and I do not think a human can live that long," Princess Celestia replied.

"But what would make Lyra lose her contract and make Shane have one?" Bon Bon asked.

"I'm not sure, the only way a pony can lose his/her contract is by a fault happening in the contract swapping, as far as I'm aware of, I do not remember ever doing a contract swap for Lyra and another pony that used to be human," Princess Celestia said.

Keep in mind: Contract swapping did happen but Princess Celestia lost all her memory about Shane giving up his life for Lyra but instead delaying the inevitable making it so Shane simply takes the life of Lyra while also keeping Lyra's memory but sending what remains of the discarded mind of the real Lyra to Earth to be disintegrated. If you don't get it then ask. :P

Sentient - Able to perceive or feel things

Redundant - Able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function.

Browse - An act of casual looking or reading.