Chronicles of an Unknown World - The Awakening

{*Omniscient point of view, who knows where*}

Nothingness. That was all she could see.

Twilight was floating in a white limbo that was her mind. Since she had just collapsed unconscious, her mind was a blank, waiting for some kind of command to happen.

“Where… am I?” her voice echoed. “What… What is this place? I can’t… think straight… Am I home?”

An image of the Ponyville library flashed right in front of her. She winced, as the memory then became the dorms for Celestia’s school for gifted unicorns. That picture was quickly replaced by one that she held dear to herself: her birth home. She could see her mom and dad, waving, waiting for her to come and have a snack. Twilight couldn’t even begin to walk towards her parents until the scene around her changed again. This time, she was standing in the outskirts of Ponyville.

The confused unicorn’s eyes was continuously filled with various nostalgic images, each one she called her ‘home’ at some point in time. Next thing she knew, one thought quickly led to another. She looked back at her teacher, Princess Celestia and then unwillingly browsed through the quickly-changing memories of the princess and herself. Her thoughts of the princess led her to analyze her battle with her sister, Princess Luna, who at one point in her life was Nightmare Moon. Another bust of light led the purple pony to her photographic memory of her friends. Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack and Rarity were all flung into her consciousness at the same time. The number of picture that was related to her past started to grow. She started to witness ten recollections all at once!

“Stop it… Nggh, stop it…”

Twilight clutched her head in agony, twisting her body every time another piece of her history flew by her. There was just too much information and data for the poor unicorn to handle! Her head pounded and ached, feeling like it was threatening to explode from massive overexposure to information. The pressure against her temples was slowly edging its way to unbearable levels.

“No… Stop it… Stop, that’s too much… No… It hurts, that’s hurting me!... No, stop it! Stop it! STOP IT!”

Magical energy blasted from Twilight’s horn, dismissing the scenery around her back to its original white plain of oblivion. When her eyes opened, she sighed a breath of relief. Then, she continued to survey the area, trying her best not to think about anything at all just in case the previous event would repeat again For a reason that she was unaware of, Twilight had a deep hatred for the white dimension that she currently existed in.

Suddenly, a strange blue light caught the corner of her eye. The investigative pony turned her neck to find a small glowing ball of indigo light, slightly bobbing up and down a few feet away from her. Sparks of navy blue light was falling from the luminescent wonder. She stared at it, curiosity filling the corners of her brain. It started to glide towards her, as if attracted to Twilight’s thoughts about it. She continued to stare at its progression towards herself until it lightly touched the tip of her muzzle. She flung her head back, letting a little “Oh!” escape her lips while back flipping. Her nose felt strangely warm from coming into contact with the unidentified floating object. Her interest getting the better of her, she willed herself upright again and reached out with her right foreleg to touch it. As soon as it graced the aura of the light-emitting ball, it flung her backwards, filling her with thoughts of happiness, peace,  tranquility and several other positive emotions. She giggled, and then willed herself to move towards the blue orb. It seemed to acknowledge her thoughts, as it too began to move towards the smiling unicorn.

Next, both the pony and the ball of glowing energy began to play a game of tag. It was just a simple, fun game of tag. Nothing more, nothing less. There were no complicated rules, guidelines or strategies to follow. All Twilight had to do was pursue the orb until she touched it, which then she would fly away from it, trying to keep a good distance between it and herself until the aura came into contact with her. During this exciting event, Twilight was reminded of the more straightforward times of her past, when she didn’t have to fret about paying taxes or up keeping the library or even sending in a friendship report once in a while. No, all she had to do was play tag and enjoy it.

And enjoy it she did. Emotions of joy, carelessness and bliss ran through her mind while she flew around at the speed of light. The purple pony bore a smile that she has never truly re-experienced since she was a young filly. Giggling and laughing, there was nothing in the entire universe that could bring her feelings down. She felt like she stood tall at the top of the world! And she was proud of it.

Then, the blue circular object stopped moving.

“Huh?” Twilight said aloud as her momentum grinded to a halt. She stared at it once more, asking herself why the ball suddenly stopped like this. Then, all of a sudden, it started pulsing, glowing more harshly than before and emitted a strange bell like sound. It started growing in size, as well as its colour turning more towards a white than an indigo. The floating unicorn squinted her eyes, trying to keep contact with the energy that was morphing before her. Just as she was lifting her forelegs up to protect her vision, the now giant ball of energy exploded, filling Twilight with magical and physical energy she had never felt before. As her sub-conscious started awakening, she heard one single sentence shout out, one which had the voice of a teenaged colt.

“Take care now, ya hear?”

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{*Omniscient point of view, Ponyville Library*}

Meanwhile, in real time Equestria, Fluttershy was having a panic attack. Seeing one of her best friends suddenly collapse and fall unconscious onto the floor was definitely not one of the most calming things in the world. She tried to shake her violet friend awake while shouting meekly, but to no avail.

“Twilight, oh Twilight! Please wake up! Please! Wake up!”

After a few seconds, Fluttershy understood that she would have to take a different approach to resurrect her purple friend. She put her ear next to Twi’s face, listening carefully. She had a sudden gasp of fright, realizing that there were no sounds of breathing. She frantically placed her hoof on Twilight’s neck, feeling for a pulse. She waited for a few seconds. There was none.

“Oh no, Twilight, no… Are you… Are you?”

The shy Pegasus started to sob quietly. Her eyes started to leak even more as realization hit her.

“No, please, don’t be… Please don’t be… Twilight…”

She took one more look at Twilight’s sleeping face.

“NO! PLEASE! PLEASE DON’T BE DEAD TWILIGHT!”

“*GASP*”

Fluttershy broke out into a crying fit. She collapsed onto Twilight’s body, bawling onto her friend’s fine purple coat. She was murmuring unintelligible nonsense, except for “No”, “Please” and “Don’t be”. While all this was happening, Twilight opened her eyes and inhaled a large amount of moist library air. Her eyes focused and identified what was her library’s ceiling.  Revitalized, she looked down towards her stomach, feeling a heavy pressure on it lower abdomen. Shocked, she watched her yellow Pegasus friend cry all over her.

“Umm… Fluttershy? Are you alright?”

Fluttershy thought she was hearing her deceased friend’s voice, but when she sat up and saw Twilight awake and alive, a humongous grin broke onto her face.

“OH! TWI-TWILIGHT!” she said, wrapping the unicorn’s head into a death hug. “I’M S-S-SO HAPPY THA-THAT YO-YOU-UR ALIVE! THANK CEL-CELES-ESTIA!”

Twilight yelled a muffled voice while trying to push Fluttershy off of her suffocating muzzle. “Well, I will be dead, if you keep this up!” she thought to herself.

“Oh! I’m s-sorry!” Fluttershy quickly backed away. “I-I-I just thou-ght that-that you w-w-were dead, because you-ou were-weren’t breath-ing and you-you had no pul-lse…”

“I had no pulse?” Twilight asked.

“Yes! And-and I had no id-idea what to do-o, because I-I-I don’t have medi-medi-cal training with pon-ies, and I cou-couldn’t lea-leave you lying here be-cause I didn’t kn-ow what wou-ould hap-p-pen if I left to-to get help, an-and it was-s-s still rainin-ing outside, an-and…”

“Shh… It’s alright… I’m ok now…”

Fluttershy felt herself being hugged by a very caring Twilight Sparkle. The emotionally disturbed Pegasus allowed herself to cry into her friend’s shoulder for a few seconds before trying to get ahold of herself again. When she was ready, she backed away a few steps again and pitched her question at the librarian before her.

“So… You’re fine?”

“Yeah, I’m fine! In fact, now that I think about it, I’ve never felt better! I feel amazing!” Twilight did a small lap around the room, jumping over the bed to show her enthusiasm and good health. “It kinda makes me doubt that I WAS un-conscious and not breathing! Because wow! I just feel so… Energetic!”

Twilight practically bounced on spot when she said “Energetic”.

“This is what Pinkie Pie must feel every second of her life! Cuz’ I just feel great! Woo hoo!”

Fluttershy looked at Twilight strangely. Even though her unicorn friend WAS alive and NOT dead, it kind of made her wonder if anything happened to her while she was un-conscious.

“Umm… Are you sure that that alien did nothing to you after you preformed that test-spell thingy?”

Twilight frowned. (She’s right, I’ve never felt this high-spirited and enthusiastic before! Did something really happen to me while I blacked out? Maybe it had to do something about that dream I had with the blue ball…)

She looked towards the still un-conscious alien, slumped against the wall. Its expressing was nothing out of the ordinary, and it didn’t exactly pass the magical energy test, so what was Twilight’s next step in her plan? Then, for some strange reason, her vision blanked out for a second. This time, she could see the alien, except this time it was awake, standing up, smiling, and had the blue ball of energy floating inside of its body. When she came to, she smiled and turned around to Fluttershy to give her answer.

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure that the alien did nothing harmful to me. I’m…” Twi took a deep breath. “…I’m alright. Now, I’m going back downstairs to continue my research on this creature. Can you tuck it back into the bed?”

Fluttershy saw the old Twilight that she knew and loved back where it belonged.

“Ok.” She responded.

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