Alicorn's Oath: Bound by Destiny, Bound by Love

I am Cypher Volcan. Originally I was an average human male from the year 2560, around 5'8", a little over 170lbs, a mechanical prostetic arm, nothing too far from the norm. I was studying for a masters in magitech and alchemy, but, one moment can change everything. One night I had decided to go with some of my friends for a bit of fun and drinking. Normally, I don't drink much, but, tonight I had a devil on my shoulder and I ended up blacking out.

I awoke the next morning to a massive migraine as the sun burned my vision and loud sounds blared in my ears. I opened my eyes and saw that, for some reason, I was in a forest. Thinking my friends had played a trick on me, I stood up slowly as I tried to figure out just where I was and how they had gotten me there in the first place. Hell, the nearest forest was nearly 200 miles away from where we were in the first place and there was a checkpoint in the middle. I shook my head and checked my pockets to see if I still had my magiplate. I found it quickly and chuckled a bit. "At least they left me with something," I said to myself.

Just as I pulled it out, I saw four female equine-like humanoids. I froze at first, as did they when they saw me. Things quickly changed as a large lion-like creature, I think it's a manticore, burst through the trees and let out a terrifying snarl. Its tail struck forth with great speed striking the larger of the equines while they were distracted by me. Without thinking I jumped forward and latched onto the manticore's tail ripping off the part that was dug into the purple female. The manticore shrieked loudly, growled in pain and ran off. I looked at the smaller ones and asked, "Can you understand me?" They quickly shook their heads up and down. "Who is the fastest of you?" I continued.

"Me," an orange one with small wings said quickly, obviously terrified.

"Ok, then get me..." I stopped myself for a short moment and changed my answer after seeing their cart. "I'm going to put her in this cart. Get her to someone who is good with detailed magic. Tell them that I am going to be coming soon and tell them what happened. Understood?" I continued. She shook her head yes and I looked to the other two and said, "Ok, now do not pull this out and keep pressure on it so that the wound doesn't bleed too much. Don't worry, I know this is terrifying, and that you don't know me, but, please trust me." I covered the wound up with a bandage that had pain relieving magic on it and poured a healing potion on the bandage.

"Sir... ahh... Thank you... ahh don't know what..." The yellow one started, her country accent coming through.

"Just go, we can get everything out later, know we need her to get healed and cleaned up. So, just go. I'll be there soon." I said cutting her off. They nodded once more and jumped in the cart as I lowered the larger one in the cart with their help. She twitched and groaned in pain, "Shh, it'll be fine," I said quietly. "Now, I have a tracker placed on her, so that I can find you all after I finish up here. Now off you go, as fast as you can ok?" I finished.

"Yes sir," the orange one stated. They rushed off and I looked around for some of the purple equine's blood that was still clean of toxins with my magiplate. It ended up beeping a few minutes later. I quickly collected the small amount and stored it in my magiplate.

'I really hope this is enough.' I thought to myself. I followed the tracker making my way through the forest quicker than I thought it would take. As I was seen by the equines their, I could see the confusion, but, I ignored it and followed the tracker to a very gaudy building. I walked in and immediately was bumrushed by the three I had seen before in the forest. They drug me to where the other one was being held. A white one that was slightly shorter than the purple one was keeping pressure on the wound as she was bawling her eyes out.

"Twilight, I know you can make it. Come on... I know this is like a paper cut for you.. Please come back..." The white one blubbered, makeup running down her face.

"Miss, I hope the girls told you that I'm here to help," I stated calmly as I took a step into the room.

"Get out! This is your fault!!" She screamed at me.

"I wish I could say that it wasn't... maybe if I hadn't have been there she wouldn't have been distracted." I answered quietly, "However, for Twilight to get through this I need to help her quickly." The younger ones looked at her and pleaded silently.

She nodded and backed off, gritting her teeth as she muttered, "You, had better make sure she gets through this." Her tone showing the unsaid threat. I nodded and got closer to Twilight. "Girls, you probably shouldn't see this," she said and got them out of the room. She closed the door and said cautiously as they left the building entirely, "this had better work, and I will be watching each step."

"I actually need your help with this," I answered her as I pulled out 2 obsidian shards and 5 amethyst gems from my magiplate. "Do you have a black diamond, roughly 5 carats? I asked."

She looked at me in confusion and answered slowly, "Yes?"

"Please get that while I keep pressure on the wound." I answer quickly. She darted off, still confused as to why I needed it. I pulled out 5 rose quartz gems, putting them right next to the other materials, and reapplied pressure.

She came out with the gem and said, "here now what?" I could feel the lack of trust in her tone.

I took out a spiral of mythral thread and the small amount of blood that I had found. I dipped the mythral in the blood and it absorbed some of it. "Please pour this, its the only amount of blood that wasn't toxic, onto the black diamond," I directed. She hesitated, but, did so in the end. "Hold pressure on the wound, please," I told her, she simply nodded and put her hands over the bandages. I quickly arranged the gems with the diamond in the middle, "we're going to switch now, I need you to weave the mythral through every gem starting with the diamond," she nodded and we quickly switched with me. "Tell me exactly when you..." I started, but, just as I was about to finish my statement she interjected.

"I'm finished," her answer was swift.

"Ok, bring it over here, this needs to be done as quickly as possible," I answered, she nodded and brought it over. I took out some adamantine thread and quartz crystal and set them down next to Twilight. I slowly removed the stinger from her chest and with it came her heart. I put the crystal next to her heart to start the purification process "quickly so that she doesn't lose too much blood," she looked scared, but, did what I asked, placing the gems within her body. We got lucky and her heart was purified quickly and I put her heart in her chest cavity. It swiftly swallowed up the black diamond and now was connected to the rest of the gems. I quickly sowed up her chest with the thread I had set out. We cleaned up the area as best we could using the gems that I had and I looked at the white equine, "I didn't have any antidotes with me, I'm sorry. All we can do now, is wait," I stated.

"Who are you and how did you get here?" The white one asked.

"I don't know how I got here. Hell, I don't even know where here is. My name is Cypher Volcan. Just call me Cypher. I really hope that what I have done works. I know it sounds as if that would be for my sake, but, truthfully I just wish for Twilight's safety." I answered her.

"Forgive me for not believing you. I am Rarity. Now I guess all we do is wait." she stated.

"Unfortunately, yes," I answered as she just looked at Twilight.

_________[Rarity POV]_________

The strange male, Cypher, sat in the chair, a look of fear and hope on his face, and I just looked at my friend while I was covered in her blood. Pain seeped into me as I started bawling once more. I had heard what Sweetie Belle and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders had said. I still blamed him, though, logically this couldn't have been his fault. I was so scared that I was going to lose a friend that my anger flowed towards him. Still he tried to help, I don't know how this works, but, he tried. These thoughts were plaguing my mind for a while as I watched her silently and that's when Twilight's new heart started beating and she took her first breath once more.

Twilight slowly opened her eyes and I started bawling once more. "Oh Faust, Twilight you made it." Rarity looked from Twilight to Cypher and said slowly, "I'm sorry I screamed at you like I did. I..."

Cypher cut her off and said, "there is no apology needed you thought you were going to lose a friend. I can understand how hard that can be for someone. Not to mention seeing the looks on your face while we were getting this done you didn't know what was being done in the first place. Now, Twilight are you feeling alright?"

Twilight looked very dizzy and started coughing harshly, "dry... Water..." was all she could get out before the pain overtook her.

"Ok, I understand. We'll get you to a hospital now so you can heal and they can take a look at you." He said to Twilight.

After I heard that I took my phone from my bra and called the hospital telling them what had happened to the best of my ability. I hung up the phone and we just waited. "You can take a shower if you want to. It's upstairs first door to the right." He just nodded and walked up, I could still see the fear in his face. It took around fifteen minutes for the hospital's vehicle to finally make it to my boutique. They ponies took her in and set her up on the machines, then closed the door and left. I was so worried about her. Around five minutes later I started to realize how much blood was all over me and I was sad that one of my favorite outfits, probably, needed to be thrown out. "Well, that's one outfit down the drain," I said.

"Well, we could just use one of the pure quartz gems that I have in my plate if you need it. You'd get to keep the outfit," Cypher said as he came down in new clothing. I took the time to actually look at him this time and I realized that he was decently well built, his left arm was mechanical, he had dark brown eyes, long brown hair and lightly tanned skin. I nodded and said, "I was so afraid... so afraid... I've known twilight for a long time now. Hell... mind my language... Our friendship was basically foretold... Almost destiny for our little group... We are known as the Elements of Harmony and each one of us represents one of those elements..." I simply looked down.

"Wait... was there... an actual prophecy about you and your friends?' Cypher asked.

I stopped and thought, "several actually."

"Oh.... shit..." he started, "damn, fuck, shit, fuck.... Son of a bitch!" He cursed.

"What's so bad that it requires that kind of language?" I asked, put out by his words.

"This was an alchemic ritual that links her soul to the new heart created by the gems and the fusion of her old heart. A prophecy connects those on the level of the soul so, things might end up happening to all of you... I am so...." He said rushing through the words. Then he quickly added on, "....so fuckin' stupid!"