Chronicals of the Sacred Elements
Chapter 3: Unexpected Coldfront
Previous ChapterNext ChapterAfter leaving the hospital twilight decided to head back to the library to head back to the library to check on spike and make sure that he wasn't worrying about her after being gone for most of the day. While she was there she would also inform Princess Celestia about the events that had transpired in Ponyville today. As she trotted back to the the library her mind started to wander, her thoughts revolving around the stallion she had found just a few hours prior.
"Who is he?" she thought aloud, not worrying about anypony else hearing her as it was still raining out and nopony was outside. "How did he just appear out of nowhere? And why is he injured so badly? Was he attacked by something? Timberwolves? A manticore?"
"Who was attacked by what?" A voice asked from beside Twilight, effectively snapping her out of her trance.
She looked to her side and spotted spike beside her, making her wonder why he was out in the rain. "Spike why are you here?" she asked the baby dragon. "I thought that you were back at the library?"
"Um, Twilight, we are in the library." Spike replied looking at the lavender unicorn with a confused look.
"What?" she said looking around, and realized that she had entered the library without noticing. "Oh, "she blushed, "I didn't realize I was already here."
"Well now you do." Spike said, dismissing what the unicorn had said. It wasn't uncommon for her to zone everything else out and not notice what happened around her. "So where have you been? You were just supposed to go and by some ink and come right back. And you said something about somepony being attacked."
"I'm not sure if he was actually attacked, " she responded, placing her saddlebag and umbrella in there respective places "But Rarity and I found a badly injured stallion by her boutique."
"Really?" Spike asked, his expression turning to one of concern. "Is he okay?"
"The doctor said he would be fine." Twilight assured the baby dragon. "He's already regained consciousness once and, after a bit of difficulty, was able to tell us his name was Gigawatt before he passed back out."
"Well at least he's alright." Spike said, relived that the stallion was alright. "Did you remember to get some ink?" Spike asked."
Twilight blinked before slapping a hoof onto her face, slightly annoyed at the baby dragon's question and replied "No Spike, I didn't get any ink. I was a little preoccupied with what was going on, and getting ink wasn't on the top of my list of priority's."
"But what about the report on the Changelings that the princess asked you to write?" Spike asked
"That will have to wait for the time being spike." Twilight replied "But I do have to write a letter to the princess containing the details of what happened today. I'll ask Rarity if she has any when i go to check if she and Sweetie Belle are alright."
"What do you mean check if there alright?" Spike asked, his voice and face filled with worry. "Did something happen to Rarity?"
"No, nothing happened to her Spike." Twilight ensured Spike. "But she and Sweetie Belle did seem to be a bit shaken when i left for the hospital with the doctor and the stallion."
"Well if your going then I'm going too." the baby dragon stated as a matter-of-fact, pointing to himself with his thumb whilst saying so.
"I thought you might want to come along." Twilight said. Turning to the door Twilight scooped up her umbrella from where she had placed it and looked at Spike and beckoned him with a shake of her head. "Come on." With that the baby dragon hopped onto Twilight's back and the unicorn trotted out the door.
As Twilight and Spike made there way to Rarity's something caught the lavender mares attention. Looking up, Twilight saw that the pegasai that made up ponyvilles weather team seemed to be franticly flying around, there heads shooting around as if they were looking for something. Twilight started to ponder about what the pegasai could possibly be looking for when she and spike were suddenly hit by a wall of cold air. The duo started to look for the source of the unexpected cold front when spike seemed to notice something out of the normal.
"What the?" the baby dragon said holding out his claw to catch something white and fluffy. "Is it snowing?" Spike asked looking up at the sky.
"Snowing?" Twilight question looking up at the sky herself. sure enough, when she looked up a small flake of snow landed on her muzzle. "Why is it..." she started, lowering her umbrella as she looked to the sky in confusion. As soon as her umbrella was pointing straight out beside her, all the snow ceased to fall, instead being replaced by the rain that had been falling only moments before. A sheet of rain fell onto Twilight and her counterpart, her coat and mane being instantly drenched by the wall of water that hit her, causing her mane to fall flat against her head. Twilight put the umbrella back up to prevent them from being further assaulted by the falling water droplets, an unamused expression on her face.
"Well that was odd." spike said from twilight's back, the water on him seeming to just run off as he had scales instead of a fur coat, leaving the baby dragon relatively dry.
"You can say that again." Twilight replied irritably, glaring at the sky. She then noticed a familiar rainbow hued streak quickly fly overhead. "RAINBOW DASH!" Twilight called out at the high speed rainbow, catching its attention.
The multicolored blur stopped on a dime in midair revealing itself to be a cyan pegasus with a rainbow colored mane and tail. The pegasus then flew back the way it came and landed beside the unicorn. Up close the pegasai's cutie mark was now visible through the heavy rain. Her cutie mark was a cloud that had a lightning bolt that sported red, yellow, and blue stripes in it. The pegasai also wore a pair of goggles that were partially fogged up over her barely visible magenta eyes.
"Whats up Twilight?" the rainbow maned mare asked, brushing some of her soaked mane off one of her goggles lenses.
"The weather." Twilight answered plainly. "Rainbow Dash, did you notice it was snowing just a minute ago?"
"Not where i just came from." Rainbow Dash replied, seeming unfazed by twilight's statement. "The same things been happening all over other parts of Ponyville though. Not only that but nopony on my weather team seems to be able to do anything about it."
"No way!" Spike exclaimed "Do you know what's causing it?"
"Unfortunately no." Rainbow shook her head. "It seems to just come and go without warning, and with no visible source, not even a cloud."
"Hows that possible?" Twilight asked
"Don't know." Rainbow replied. "We think it might just be somepony playing some sort of prank. Most likely a pegasus, but it could be a unicorn as well. That's why I have the weather team flying around like that. We're searching to see if we can find any pony suspicious. Speaking of which i should probably get back to it. Can't have anypony messing around with weather in Ponyville while I'm in charge."
"Good luck Rainbow." Twilight said as she and spike gave the pegasai a small wave as rainbow spread her wings and took off.
"Thanks." Rainbow called back, already quite a distance from the purple unicorn and dragon.
"Who would mess with the weather?" Spike asked after Rainbow Dash had flown out of sight.
"I don't know Spike." Twilight answered, starting to trot off towards rarity's once again. "It doesn't seem like anything anypony in Ponyville would do."
Shortly after rainbow dash had left from her chat with Twilight and Spike, the cyan colored pegasus landed on one of the roofs of the many buildings on the outskirts of ponyville. Rainbow took off her goggles and started to wipe away at the condensation that had begun to build up on the inside of them as she took in her surroundings looking for anything out of the normal. As far as she could tell there was nothing abnormal about the area in front of her and started to put her goggles back on so she could continue looking for whatever was causing this strange weather. Just as she got the strap onto the back of her head she noticed that there was ice forming on her lenses. She squinted the lenses and drew them closer to her so she could get a better look at them. Suddenly a cold breeze came from behind Rainbow and she spun around on a dime, unintentionally letting her goggles to snap back onto her face and causing her to wince in pain and swear at the goggles.
"Wonderful weather we're having, isn't it?" a voice said. The voice was female, that much Rainbow Dash could tell as she fumbled with her goggles, ripping them off in frustration and throwing them down on the roof. She looked towards the source of the voice spotting a white pegasus mare. The pegasai's coat was snow white with no imperfections on it at all. Her manes bangs, which were flat along the top but spiked down at multiple intervals in a diagonal fashion until they covered her right eye, were white. The rest of her mane, which rolled down the back of her head like crescent waves with two little tufts of hair coming out from under her ears, was an ice blue along with her tail except for a few white tufts of hair. Her eyes matched her mane and tail perfectly and on her flank there was no cutiemark. She was wearing a pair of goggles similer to the ones that Rainbow had just thrown away around her neck, and a pair of black gloves with cuffs the same color as her mane on her front hooves.
"What are you talking abo..." Rainbow Dash started, only then realizing that it was no longer raining, but instaed a light snowfall had started. The cyan pegasus looked to the sky, and then back to the mare, at the sky again, and the finally rested her eyes back on the mare. "Are you causing this?" Rainbow glared at the white mare.
"Not on purpose." the white pegasus answered nonchalantly, looking up at the sky. "It just happens when I'm around rain." she explained looking back at Rainbow, studying the cyan pegasus carefully. "Listen, I'm looking for a unicorn. He has a light brown coat and a white mane and tail. He doesn't have a cutiemark and his horn is shaped like a lightning bolt. Goes by the name Gigawatt. Have you seen anyone like that?"
"No, I cant say I have." Rainbow Dash answered
The white mares face changed dramaticly, her ice blue eyes glaring daggers at the multicolored pony. "That's to bad." The mare said, sounding half sad half angry, flaring her wings. The pegasus gave one powerful flap and, without warning a small snowstorm enveloped Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash had not been expecting to be attacked in the slightest. Rainbow spread her wings ready to take flight but found that her strength was being quickly sapped away. Rainbow then started to feel her eyes become heavy as the edges of her vision started to go dark signaling unconsciousness was setting in. As the blizzard started to die down, Rainbow collapsed on the roof, patches of ice staring to form on her coat as she slipped into unconsciousness. The blizzard fully dissipated, leaving an unconscious Rainbow dash on the roof alone, the other pegasai having disappeared, the rain starting to fall again.
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