A New Adventure

The next morning, Luna began her usual ritual of reigning in the moon and setting it to slumber for the day. She passed where Fury still slept peacefully, not making a noise aside from the occasional light snoring. She continued on, checking in on the ponies of the castle, rising them from their slumber to begin their day. She made quick work of the stairs running down the hall and quickly knocking on Celestia's door with a couple quick raps.

“Sister, sister wake up, tis time to raise the sun!” Luna sang as she opened the door.

Behind the door was a completely different Celestia, from the one that had scorned her the night before. She was moving through the room, a royal grace about her as her horn glowed bright, bringing the sun out from its slumber, warming the day with its mighty face.

“Good morning sister!” Celestia said proudly as she finished her spell. “How does our brother fair?”

“He's sleeping contently, not a bad dream in sight,” Luna answered as she walked over to the balcony where Celestia stood. “He did something terrible last night, didn't he?” She asked, now as serious as could be.

“I've only seen that type of behavior in ponies that had tried to take their life and failed, then it seemed that nature took over and killed them..” She said, but began to hear her sister faulted, and so changed her answer. “But he has lasted through the night, and has drifted into a good dream, so I sense he will be alright in a couple days sister, so why don't you go to bed, I'll watch him today..”

Luna nodded before walking out of the room, making her way down the corridor, opening the door to her own room. Once she was clear, Celestia made her way down the opposite way to the stairwell that came down to the foyer by the medical wing.

She made her way into the wing, walking to the only pony in the wing, still sleeping, peacefully now, his eyes gently moving beneath his eyelids, dreaming. She sat beside him, her gaze resting upon his face, wondering what he dreamt of.

“If.. If you can hear me brother..” She started, “know that I didn't do this to save you in any way, I did this for Luna,” she whispered as she got close to Fury's muzzle. “And if when you wake, you break her heart again, I will destroy you..” She whispered with hardly any emotion before rising and slowly walking out of the wing.

“Send for me if his condition changes,” she said to the guard at the door, who nodded and saluted her on the way out.

“Where am I…” Fury said to himself as he looked at the white sands surrounding him. The beach appeared to be deserted, but he could feel through his magic that he wasn't alone. As if on cue, he could hear the footsteps of another walking up to him, but no physical being was there.

“...you are troubled… my son..” A voice spoke in front of him as a faded figure began to appear before him. The figure, was that of his mother, queen paramour.

“..m-mother, is that really you?” He asked, thinking his senses deceiving him, it couldn't be her… she had been dead for nearly eight hundred years, but yet it seemed she stood there.

“It is my son.. In spirit anyway, just as you are..” she answered as she gestured to Fury, who looked to his own body, and seen himself as an apparition.

“W-what is this place?” Fury asked, a little frightened by his body.

“This is neither the great beyond nor your reality, but a place in between… a purgatory of sorts, where the dead can reach the living,” she said as she laid a hoof on his shoulder.

Fury cherished the feeling of the hoof on his shoulder… it was far more help than any therapy could do. He looked to his mother as she pulled him into a hug, which he gladly accepted.

“How I have missed you… all of you.. But you're not here to see me, you are troubled beyond the help of the living my son… you wonder of your continued existence, when all of your companions have fallen..” She said as she began to walk the beach, gesturing for him to follow.

Fury followed, his mind racing, she could read his mind…

“Do you know why mother?..” He asked slowly as he kept her walking pace.

“I do my son… you live on because you made an oath.. Unbreakable by any means, even death… one your father took..”

“Then how did he.. Die if his oath was unbreakable?” Fury asked, looking to his mother, who then stared through him.

“Because of you.. The eye knew of your existence, and that you would take up his helm, and so it allowed his oath to be broken,” she said as she slowed her pace. “And now, there is only you, so it's magic protects you, until one is born who can take your place..”

Fury took in the information, though it still confused him as to why he was there… what he had to do…

“You still wonder of what it is you must do now, am I correct?” She asked, stopping and looking to him.

“Yes mother… I wonder what I can and must do, without the gems that were bestowed upon me and my friends..”

“Did you use the stones when you discovered the cave? Or when you used your power to stand against the draconiqui?” She asked as her eyes pierced through him. “Or maybe when you defied me and your father..”

“No mother… I didn't use the stones..”

“There is power in you my son, but you must find it on your own, then you shall find your purpose… only then will you know your true destiny…” she said as her body faded away into the nothingness where she had come from.

“Mother!.. Mother!!” He shouted, but she still disappeared. As his voice died out, he looked to see his body doing the same, the white sands swallowing him, eventually enveloping his sight. A slight noise brought his eyes into focus, seeing his new surroundings.

He could see the beds around him, empty, waiting for a pony to lay in them, his own a bit comfortable. As he blinked, he seen a nurse beside him, giving him a confused look.

“Y-you're awake… the princess said that you would be in a d-deep sleep for days…” she said as she began to back away.

Fury rolled off the bed, landing lightly on his hooves, standing clumsily for a second, his legs trying to catch up with his mind. “I guess her spell went through me quicker, that's all,” he said as he took a few shaky steps.

“I, I need you to lay back down, let the princess examine you,” the nurse begged as fury took a few more steps,

“She can examine me in the throne room,” Fury said as he made his way to the doorway. The guard began to take a stance toward him, but Fury only kept his pace toward the door.

“I'm sorry sir, but my orders are to let none in or out except the princesses and your nurse,” the guard said as he stood in the doorway, opening his wings.

“Move or be moved guard,” Fury said as he stopped in front of the guard.

“Sir, you will not pass..”

“Have it your way then,” Fury said as he called upon his magic.

His magic pulsed through his blood becoming all he was as it reached his horn, where it glowed a bright blue. He blew out a bit of air and amplified it with his magic, sending the unprepared Pegasus hurling through the wing until he came to a stop against a wall.

“Make sure he gets healed,” Fury said as he looked back to the nurse before making his way to the stairs and the throne, where his sisters waited.