A New Adventure

He stood at the edge of the cliff, looking down to see the sea crash upon the sharp rocks nearly a mile down.. Far enough down that it could end all of his worries.. All of his pain, all the memories of his loss. He took in a deep breath, allowing the salty air to fill his lungs one last time, before taking a step off the ledge… falling down to what would certainly be his death, after fifteen hundred years of seeing death, he was ready for one of those deaths to be his own. As he fell faster and faster, he could feel his body trying to open his wings to break his fall, but he kept them close to his side, not allowing them to spread and soar. He could feel a burning sensation on the tip of his horn, his magic trying to protect himself, but he let his mind draw blank, remembering her face… those magenta eyes that could cut away all of Equestria’s lies and deceit. Her golden mane that fell around her, making her face glow with the faintest tint of gold, making her all the more beautiful.

As he plummeted faster towards his certain death, he could hear her voice calling to him… asking why…

“Fury… Fury why… don’t do this, don’t end your life here! Live for me! Live for the others! Keep Equestria safe, keep our names alive…”

The voice split through his pain, through his worries, through fear and anger, right to his heart and mind. As if on cue, his magic boiled forth in his blood, his horn beaming a bright blue as his body slowed. Next his wings opened, unfurling and stopping his descent with their brown and blue tipped feathers. His eyes burned with tears as he could see a bright manifestation of his love, Hurricane, flying before him.

“You cannot leave this world yet my love, there are many ponies who yet need you, both for your bravery and for your love… you must stay here and become the legend you always wanted to be…” the manifestation of Hurricane said as she slowly faded into the waves that reached up to the halfway point of his drop.

His eyes still burned as he rose back into the sky, his wings pushing him forth as he returned to the ledge that he had just thrown himself off of. As he set hoof back onto the land, his knees buckled as he collapsed on the ground, no longer able to keep standing, his sadness pulling him down. His heart pulled on its strings, making him feel the pain all over again… looking at her grave… placing the roses before her, trying to tell himself that he could have done more, could have saved her if he hadn't been so occupied with his hatred for Discord, his grief for his other friends, butchered in front of him. He remembered seeing the other ponies who had walked the path with him to her grave… his youngest sister, Luna, and one of his most trusted friends, Daywatch. The memories seared his brain, their pain burning deep, like the fires of Tartarus… hot enough to burn even the purest of souls.

His body drained of energy, he laid upon the cliff for what seemed like days, reliving a past he never wanted to see again. Each moment, reliving a moment he’d rather take back, the loss of his parents, the argument between his that turned into them splitting up for nearly five years, cleaning up after the Great Alicorn War… seeing the travesties that had been committed by both sides, and the latest… the separation brought about by the draconequus Discord, in which his friends payed the ultimate price… while he still lived. His mind punished him for the fact that he was letting himself be so vulnerable by attacking him with spouts of anger, pouring out of him like the screams of a mad pony. His magic began to sporadically create the very things he feared to see at the moment, seeing all manner of predator charging him only to see them disappear before him. Soldiers marched toward him, weapons drew and ready for the attack, ready to drive the mad pony into the oblivion that he so desperately sought.

He began to hear a voice that didn’t fit with the others, which belittled him and cursed his existence, this voice sounded caring and genuinely scared for him.

“Fury.. Fury!! Over here, I found him! Over here!...” the voice said as he heard more hoofbeats approaching. “Watch, lift him up, I’ll follow you out and keep watch,” the voice said again as he felt his body lifted and placed on the back of another pony and carried away from the cliff, to an unknown location to him.

As the two ponies arrived at the castle in the forest, the pony following revealed themself as Luna as she opened the door to the castle, ushering the guard inside, pointing him in the direction of the medical wing. The far off howls of Timberwolves could be heard, singing their song to her moon, now at its highest point of the night as she shut the door tightly. She ran for the stairwell as the guard galloped down the hall to the wing, she had to awaken her elder sister, even at this late hour. The finding of the lost prince had been on Celestia’s mind ever since they had found out that he had still been alive after Discords fall. She rushed to the door with her sisters sigil and pounded on the door, threatening to break it from its hinges.

“Celestia!! Celestia!! Wake up sister!!! Celestia!!!” she screamed as she brought her hooves thundering upon the door, each strike becoming louder than that of the last.

The door slowly opened to reveal her sister, baggy eyed and angry looking, the princess having only getting to sleep a couple hours before.

“Luna… what is so important that it could not wait until the morning?” she asked, trying to act calm, though the sun goddess thought of choking her younger sister for her behaviour.

“It’s Fury!! He’s here!! We have found him! But he is not in the best of shape sister, it seems as though his mind is destroying him,” she answered as she nearly lept into her sisters hooves in both excitement and panic. “We have to help him, we have to sister!! Tonight!!”

Celestia took a deep breath… yes, she had been worried for her elder brother after his disappearance and the rise of Discord, but only as worried as he had been when he had left them when their mother had left to fight in the war. He had never really cared for them, only saying a time or two that he even knew they existed, let alone cared for them. She could never figure out why her sister loved him so, even after all these facts had been placed before her, she refused to stop.

“Fine, I will place him into a healing sleep for the night, and we will discuss things further tomorrow sister, does this sound fair?” she asked. Luna shook her head vigorously up and down as she followed her back down the stairs and towards the hall.

When Celestia walked into the medical wing, she could hear the fevered grunts of the alicorn within. She looked through the wing to see her brother, looking wretched and grief stricken as he looked around blindly. As his gaze stopped on her, instead of seeing pupils looking back at her, his eyes had a creamy white glaze over them… as if he was blinded by his own magic, seeing only what it wanted him to see. His eyes widened as he began to scream, his horn erupting in a bright blue color as he fired a blast of energy towards her. Though caught off guard by the attack, Celestia was able to dodge, watching the blast connecting with the wall, and shaking the castle to its foundations.

“I won’t let you kill them!! You fiend!! I will protect my sisters until my dying breath!!” he yelled as another spell began to come to his horn.

Celestia quickly used her magic to bring forth her sleeping spell, effectively knocking the sickly alicorn unconscious for the next three days. As Fury slumped over in his forced sleep, she caught him with her magic and laid him in his bed correctly, before adding her next spell. This spell was for healing the mind, most ponies who came in like this had just tried to take their life, then being punished by nature for trying to end their own life by making them suffer their memories again. She had only seen two other such cases, both of them earth ponies, both were unable to be saved, even her magic was unable to reverse the ill effects of nature upon them. As her horn glowed a soft yellow, she could see the pony’s eyelids begin to squeeze, clearly in pain. She brought a hoof and ran it slowly across his forehead, aiding her magic and pushing it into his head. His eyelids relaxed as his breathing began to level out, finding sleep like a lost friend.

Celestia let out a breath she didn’t realise she had been holding in before turning to her sister, seeing the mare looking as if she would jump out of her skin from what she had seen.

“He’ll need somepony to look after him, in case he wakes up from this sleep,” she said to Luna, who nodded slowly before finding a place beside the bed. “If he does wake, get me right away, every minute he is awake will be pivotal for the spell can only work if he is completely submissive,” she said again, Luna again nodding. Celestia turned and walked out of the wing, making her way back to her bed for the night before laying down and letting sleep take her… falling into a deep sleep for the remainder of the night.

Luna turned her attention back to her brother lying in bed, listening to the steadied breaths he took as his body took a much needed rest, thought she could see by his facial expressions, that he was in pain. She laid her head down on the bed, letting a rest take her as she allowed her magic to take her into the dream world, where she would aid those lost in more ways than one.

While the others slept, Fury fought for his life against an old enemy as his mind stood on the edge of oblivion. He ran through a labyrinth of memories trying to escape his mind, while he could hear an abyssal voice following him closely behind, taunting him and promising his end if he failed. As he ran faster towards what appeared to be an exit, the path seemed to elongate, now going on forever… never allowing him to be free of his mind. As this happened, the voice caught up with him, now in his ear.

“Is it fear… or courage that compels you Young one?” came the disembodied voice as it began to orbit from one ear to the other, each word trying to finally break the alicorn. “There’s no shame in giving up young one… allow me your body… through you I will wield greater magic than has ever been seen, nor will ever be again… and allow you to slip through the cracks to the next world, unashamed and ready for peace…”

Fury stood motionless as he now stared at the owner of the voice, a shadow darker than any night, and blood red eyes that could pierce through any soul… and he knew this shadow, and knew him well. He then readied himself as he opened his mouth, speaking forth clearly and loud enough for the shadow to hear him.

“To let you my body is to place the world in peril that it would not survive! Your magic would finish what you started so many years ago, and that… I simply cannot allow, even now at my minds edge, i cannot allow you passage back into the world, but I can allow you this one thing,” Fury said as his horn burst forth in an array of white light, bright enough to burn away the evil in front of him. “I can allow you the light of the world, so that you may see clearly and have hope!”

“Noo!!!” the shadow of the former great alicorn Kaorn screamed as he was burned away, along with the labyrinth he had created to enslave and corrupt his enemy.

Fury now stood before an open door, seeing the world around him through it, as if he were in an out of body experience. He was back in the castle of the woods, in the medical wing where his body slept peacefully, and beside him was his younger sister Luna, sleeping silently beside him. He looked around as his mind floated silently, and invisible to those in the waking world, making his way to the main foyer, where he could see the moon at its peak. He gazed into the throne room to see it only occupied by a couple stray bats that had flown in by accident, now flying lost in the room. He began to move forward when he was pulled back by an unseen force. He grunted as he tried to pull back, but only gave the force pulling him little resistance as he was drug back into the medical wing. When his mind had been brought through the last wall, he was surprised to see Luna standing and looking straight at him, his mind anyway.

“You cannot do this brother, you will lose your mind and body, both lost in time and space if you leave it now. You must return now, finish your sleep, dream of happier days, let your body and mind heal,” she said as she began to force his mind back into his body.

Fury tried to scream out, telling his sister of his endeavor, but his mind had come without a mouth, and so the only words she heard were her own. As he entered his body once again, the door that had opened now slowly closed, revealing a paradise that wasn't there before. Fury took in a breath as he walked forward, taking his sisters advice and letting himself go in the new paradise for the next few days, allowing for both his mind and body to heal from the choice that nearly ended it all that night.