My little persona: Time Spinner 2

The letter read:

Celestia,

I have been having very weird dreams all of a sudden. I do not seem to understand what is happening with my life. It isn't just the nightmares though. Lately I have heard voices and other unusual things that I can't quite understand. This morning I was reading a book when it changed and showed me the brutal death of a familiar mare. I implore you to write to me about what is going on. Don't try to play dumb either. Luna told me that you would know. Celestia...I think I might be going insane. I don't know what this is but you really need to write back about this.

Your friend,

Time Spinner

Time put the letter into an envelope and put a stamp on it. He levitated it and walked outside. Time lived on the quiet side of town. Which was good as he enjoyed the quiet. The houses around his were either unoccupied or had very polite teenagers. Time had seen children and considering Time had only been alive for 7 years, he was still a kid too. So you could say that Time was still a kid himself. There was a treeline behind his house that lead to the ever free forest. In front of his house led to the marketplace of pony-ville. The right path would take you to the library but Time didn't need to go there yet, so he didn't know what was back there. The left path would lead you out of pony-ville. Time was correct about the mail mare. She had just gotten to his mail box.

"Hey Derpy!" Time greeted "I've got a letter for you."

"Hi Time." She said in her wacky voice "Okay, give it here."

Time handed her the letter "I need you to send it to the princess."

"Which of the four?" She asked

"Cele...Derpy there's only three."

"No there's four."

"Celestia, Luna, and Cadence are the only princesses I know about."

Derpy was really silent for a while "MUFFINS!!!"

"Um...Yeah. So anyway I need you to send it to Princess Celestia."

"You can count on me!" She said "I just hope I don't run into Ditzy Doo."

"Who's that?" Time asked

"She a Quirky mail carrier who is always being weird."

"What does she look like?"

"She's grey with a blonde mane. Her eyes are always crossed and her cutie mark is bubbles."

"Um Derpy you just described yourself."

"Now she's coping me too! That doppelganger, when i find her I'll...Ooh right your letter! I'll deliver it right away." She said speeding off like a bullet.

Time walked back into his house "Whatever goes on in that mare's head i don't want to know about. Then again it's probably just muffins." He said aloud with a chuckle

Time sat down in his chair staring at the book that he threw into the wall. He tried to levitate it over to him when the mare's screams once again echoed through his ears. The book dropped at that instant. Time stood up, goosebumps and chills covered his body.

"I...I need to get out here." He huffed

Time put on his bags and walked out into the marketplace. He needed to get some fruit and vegetables anyway. He  tried haggling for a bunch of carrots but ended up paying more than the original price. He bought all sorts of fruit and vegetables from apples to cabbages As he had finished he trotted back to his house. He saw Bon Bon pushing a cart full of carrots very slowly. Time rushed over "Here Bon Bon let me help you."

"Thanks Time." She said

Bon Bon stopped pushing and Time started Pushing. The cart didn't move an inch though.

"No offense Time but your pretty weak." She said

"Well I focused on magic more than muscles." Time said

Time than levitated the cart up. Suddenly he saw a flash happen.

This time it wasn't the Orange mare. It was a Dark blue Colt. His was covered in cuts and looked as if he had been beaten. If he had clothes they were no longer on him and he looked like he hadn't slept or ate for days. His cutie mark was a water droplet. There was a dragon and a Manticore standing next to the colt. Discord was also there he was holding what looked like a mace.

"Now tell me..." He said in his deep voice "Who and where are the Clarions." The room was very dim with only two candles in it but the colt was in a metal chair and the walls and floor were blood red. You could tell that the room had been recently used as there was still blood puddles all over it.

"I'll tell you..." The colt said "to Piss off. You'll never find them."

"Oh Pisce... you brought this onto yourself." Discord said drawing his hand back and bashing the mace into the colt's leg causing fresh cuts to appear on his leg. Discord swung again on his arm causing a cracking sound to be made and a grunt from the blue colt.

"You won't be able to break me that easily." The colt told Discord

Discord replied with a laugh "No? Then how about this."

Discord went to the other side of the room and pulled a curtain to reveal a mare. She was Dandelion Yellow with cuts and bruises all over her. Her left leg looked Broken.

"Wake up!" Discord called Bashing her head with the back off the mace. She awoke but didn't say anything.

"If I remember correctly than this lovely little mare is your fiance. She used to be so beautiful. Before I found her. You know what would be really terrible?" As he had taken a knife off his belt.

"No..." The blue colt said

"If my hand slipped and It suddenly was going to her neck...just like this..."

Time had dropped the cart right onto the spot where Bon Bon wanted but Time had stayed long enough to here a scream. He stood there frozen in what felt like fear.

"Time are you okay?" Bon Bon asked

Time didn't answer instead he ran to his house and shut the door. He put his bags down in the kitchen, Poured himself some orange juice and sat down in the living room. He sat there sipping at it trying to get everything in his head together. He suddenly heard a knock at the door. He opened to reveal a White stallion in gold armor.

"You have been summoned by Princess Celestia." He told Time.

Time walked out and saw that in front of his house was a chariot. He got on and rode to Canterlot.

As he arrived he rushed into the front doors. He continued to walk towards where he knew the throne room was. The Walls were still their normal pearl white. The First room was gigantic. It had a stair case that went up very high. Time had never gotten high enough to see what it led to but he was told that it was just a tower. The railings for it were gold and the ground a dark hue of purple. It was normally a welcome sight as the room in front of it was the throne but not with these...Visions Time was having.

"I have to see the Princess!" Time said as he approached the guard in front of the door.

"The princess is seeing some pony right now but you may speak with her afterwards. Go sit over there." The guard motioned towards a table and chairs. Time trotted over there and sat there with unease. He noticed that there was someone in front of him. It was red Pegasus. He had a brown mane and green eyes. His Cutie mark was a saxophone.

"Hi there." He said

"Hey..." Time said

"Um I have to ask what is your name?" He said

"It's Time Spinner. Why do you have to ask?"

"Because the princess told me to wait for some pony named Time Spinner. My name is Echo Forte."

"Echo huh? Wait why did the princess want to you to wait for me?"

"How the hay should I know? I'm just a simple Saxophone jammer."

"So your a musician?" Time asked

"No...I'm a saxophone jammer."

"Aren't they the same thing?"

"That's just what the people want you to think."

"Who is the people." Time asked

"I don't know yet."

"How can you go blaming people who you don't even know?"

"I just can okay. You really need to loosen up."

There was an awkward silence for awhile.

"So why are you here?" Echo asked

"Well i have been having nightmares and random visions of people dying and it is causing me to lose focus of everything I do."

"...Well" Echo started "That is definitely a problem. I still don't see how I could help though."

"Well maybe you cou-" Time started

"The princess will see you now." The guard interrupted.

Time got up and walked through the giant gold doors. Echo followed close behind. They entered a large circular room. The was a lavender carpet leading towards the Throne where a large white alicorn with a gold crown sat. Time recognized her as Princess Celestia. The room was mostly a white but there were a few windows and stained glass pieces that had a gold rim around it.

"Time...tell me everything." She said with a regal voice.

Time explained everything from nightmares of running from someone to Watching ponies getting killed. One of which looked very familiar. From Discord's torture, to the spell, to the book. Time explained everything that happened.

"Celestia I need a straight answer now. What is happening to me?"

Celestia sighed and walked towards a window in the room.

"Have you ever heard of a clarion?" She asked

"No..." Time said

"During the age of prace some Unicorns found a way to transfer power to one unicorn by using the ritual of thievery on another unicorn. Eventually they found a stone. This stone was said to hold major power. They used the ritual on this stone and eight Unicorns. The stone was destroyed but the unicorns survived and gained great power. They each had a special talent in a certain element of magic. This caused their cutie mark to change into the element they mastered. The eight elements were fire, water, nature, lightning, Ground, Shadow, Wind, and Time. When Discord took over he put a bounty onto every alicorn in existence but he never found any. He learned of Clarions and wanted them to be hunted down. Eventually they were all found and killed. Their power was transferred to discord. However only half of the last element wasn't transferred. The pony of time's name was Sesona, We know she is dead. Her body was found and buried. We don't know how you know her but you are half clarion. Even still you have very little Time magic."

"Wait!" Time objected "What about when I went forward 2000 years."

"Well remember when I said clarion's have elements of all magic. Well Alicorns are masters of all magic..."

"So you can use Time magic too?" Time asked

"Well yes...Due to the half element you have you can only speed up or slow down time for a little bit. Even when you were a foal a lot of the Time magic was my doing. However I did nothing but push Rapid down. We took you and trained you because the door to Discord was immune to an Alicorns touch or magic but not to Unicorns."

"What about when I sped Time up when I waited for nightmare moon." Time asked

"I was waiting there as well. I saw that you trying to skip forward in time so...I just helped you a bit. Back to the matter at hand though. Time you will need to go to the temple of the clarions. It was there that The ritual of thievery took place. It is there you will lose your visions and your nightmares...but as a result you may lose your Time magic. Due to that you could become an adult blank flank and you may never learn your talent. Time you need to go to that temple."

"Okay i have one last question for you though" Time said "Why the hell is he here?"

Celestia smiled "It's just a test. A test of...trust. I'm sure you can manage. Now once you get to the front doors there will be a pack filled with everything you need."

Time and Echo proceeded to walk out into the front room of the castle. Celestia was right their was a black pack on a table. Time levitated the pack onto his shoulders. The two walked out of the castle. Suddenly the castle doors flew open again and Celestia was there

"Time!" Celestia called. Time walked over to her "If this is done wrong..." She started "You may lose your element of harmony. You cannot fail."