My little persona: Time Spinner 2
Part 3
Previous ChapterNext ChapterTime walked over rocks that looked like they had been thrown across the room. They had left Canterlot on a chariot that stopped at the base of this mountain in the middle of nowhere. It was covered with snow and Time hated snow. The mountain was also literally in the middle of nowhere. If you look out onto the horizon you would see only dark stormy clouds. As Time climbed the giant rock he noticed that it was very warm. Too warm for snow to not melt. It was a bit odd but that wasn't the only thing. Time felt very relaxed. Normally this would be a okay but For three weeks he had been on edge. Why was it that being at this place that comforted him. It was an unusual thing that he noticed but for now Time would have to ignored this. He continued to climb up with Echo right behind.
"Hey Time!" He called "Want to hear a funny joke?"
"We are climbing a mountain, trying to get to an ancient building which is probably filled with things that will make me flash out and maybe kill you and you want to tell a joke." Time said very annoyed
"Yes?" Echo said
"Go ahead."
"Women's rights." Echo called out
"Echo that was terrible." Time said "You know the princess is a woman right?"
"Yeah."
"Echo your a horrible pony."
"I get that a lot." Echo said "Hey i have a question. Why don't we just fly up there?"
"Because...I don't know."
Echo's wings opened catching the wind blowing through the mountain. Time began to levitate and fly up to the Building on the side of the mountain. The touchdown was fine but with a surprise ending. As his hooves touched the ground he felt a burning sensation in his chest. Time put his hoof too where it was but it felt like there was something already there. Time felt it with his hoof but it cut his leg. Time froze right there. Their was a knife in his chest. He started screaming. He looked down at the blood stained snow all around him. The temple stood right in front of him but there was something different about it now. It looked as if it was laughing at him. Yes Time was sure the Temple was laughing now. In a deep gruff voice.
"Time!" Echo called from behind him "Time what is wrong."
"What do you mean what is wrong?!?" Time yelled "There is a knife in my chest and blood all around me!"
"Time I don't see anything."
Time looked down. Echo was right. The snow was bright white. Time felt for the spot that was still burning. There was nothing there though.
"Time? Are you okay?" Echo asked
"Yeah, just a little spooked I guess." Time said
"Was that a flash?" Echo asked intrigued
"I...don't know. The other flashes I had always had someone dying in them." Time said
"I guess if it was I was the one dying." Time thought to himself "In any case I need to stop worrying about it. If I don't then I could get distracted."
Time looked forward at the Temple. It was a lifeless gray. Moss was growing all over it. The was almost moss everywhere but there was a place that stood out.There was a letter written in red on the Side. It was D.
"What does D mean?" Echo said "Discord?"
"No..." Time said "If it was Discord then it would have been a bit more chaotic. This is something else."
"Clarion?"
"I don't think they would have used a D to represent themselves. In any case we should keep going."
The pair entered the dark entrance of the Temple. Time lit it up with his horn to see the walls were just as boring as the outside of it. The pair walked for an eternity.
"This is boring!" Echo said "Can't you just use some Time magic and speed us up."
"I guess i could try..." Time said his horn unlit and re-lit the hall while charging the Time magic.
"Wow." Time thought "Without Celestia this is really difficult." The spell was almost ready. It would just need a bit more charging. Suddenly Time heard a scream that he hadn't heard before that knocked him out of focus.
"Oh great not another Flash." Time said aloud
"I don't think that was a flash." Echo said "I heard it too."
"Help!" The same voice said
"Hurry." Time told Echo. The two found their way to an opening to another room. The walls looked like a giant tree line. The sky looked like a normal night until Time saw the second moon. It was blood red and haunted the sky. It felt like in any second it could just fall and destroy everything in its path.
"Over here." Echo said flying over a certain spot.
Time teleported to around where Echo was flying a circle around. It was at this moment he realized the floor was grass. Time moved forward and saw a lost earth pony. She was a light pink. Her mane was purple and white and they matched the swirls she had for eyes. Her Cutie mark was...a screw next to a ball.
"Thank you for finding me!" The mare said
"How did you get here?" Time asked
"I don't know...I was walking to my house when I blacked out. When I woke up I was here." She seemed to jump in the air for a second "Wait did you hear the other voice?"
"What other voice?" Time asked
"There was a voice coming from over there." She pointed to her left "We need to save her."
"Alright." Time said with echo landing behind him. "This is echo forte and my name is Time Spinner."
"Hi my name is Screwball. Now we need to hurry." She said
"Alright." Time said
The trio walked for a while to the left. They passed trees that seemed to cause Time to remember his dream that he had almost a day ago. Time looked to his left and saw Screwball. Something looked familiar about her but Time couldn't seem to recall it. Time thought he heard a deep and dark laugh. Finally the trio came to a hallway.
"I hope she's okay." Screwball said
The group walked into the hallway. It returned to it's normal grey lifeless color but the floors were stone bricks now. The group walked once again for what felt like an eternity. A scream could be heard from further in.
"Hurry!" Screwball said. She ran forward in front of the group.
"Screwball!" Echo called "Wait, we don't know what is down there."
Echo and Time followed her into a large room. It was a very horrifying sight for Time. It was blood red all over. The floor, the walls, even the roof. All were red. There was a light pink lump lying on the ground.
"Screwball!" Echo said running towards her. She looked at him and he was thrown into the wall.
Screwball turned around. Her eyes were red and there was a purple aura around her hooves.
"Screwball?" Time said
A bolt of energy was blasted at Time. He moved to the side and managed to dodge it.
"I have waited for you Time spinner."
"Who are you?" Time asked
"My name is Screwball and I am the daughter of Discord! You will pay for what you have done."
There were blasts being fired at Time from Screwball.
"Your an earth pony. How can you use magic?"
She smiled at this "My father gave me a few gifts before he turned to stone. I have all the powers of the clarions. Except of course one half of the last one. Now I will take your power as my father took the others."
Suddenly their was a red blast from Her and Time was thrown across the Room. Time looked up and saw Screwball standing above him She stomped her hoof on the ground and Time was out cold.
Time saw a Very familiar pony in front of him. She was a lavender unicorn with white and purple hair. She had a music note for a cutie mark. Time realized who he was looking at. He was looking at a grown up Melody beat.
"Now I know you have the whereabouts of where Your boyfriend is. Just tell me and everything will be dropped." A voice said.
"I can't speak to what I can't look at." Melody replied.
Out of the darkness came a short green minotaur. Time finally noticed the room. Their were skeletons and Bodies all over it. The walls looked like they were originally a light blue but now they looked brown. The roof was white.
"Your too late. Time is already long gone."
The minotaur answered this with a punch into her face.
"You know technically he doesn't exist right now."
The minotaur then pulled a knife out and put it to her throat
"Stop playing games with me and tell me where Time Spinner is!"
"Or what? You'll kill me. Go ahead. Life isn't worth living without love and mine is already gone."
There was a flash suddenly Every memory of Melody that Time had swam in his head. From the first time they played on the playground all the way to when Melody taught Time to focus on his magic when Celestia and Luna realized it was different for unicorns. There was another flash and Time was somewhere else.
He was in his house but there was not furniture. Instead two people were there. Melody and the orange mare who Time thought was familiar.
"Time!" Melody said embracing his friend "I have someone for you too meet." She pulled Time over to the Orange mare.
"Time, this is Blaze. She gave birth to a certain grey unicorn I know."
Time looked at her. He looked at this mare and saw her deep blue eyes and knew she was telling the truth.
"Mom..." He said "I don't understand why do i have Time magic instead of Fire Magic."
Blaze gave a warm smile "You see types of magic are not passed by family. We knew we had to give the magic too some one but we didn't learn until too late. The last clarion to get captured was Sesona. She must have learned how to do the spell and tried to use it on you. Now you have to do one thing. When you wake up you need to reverse the spell that Screwball is using. If you do you will forget almost all of your spells. You will also lose your ability to use Time magic. However you will stop Screwball from being as powerful as an alicorn."
Everything was fading very fast. "Time you have to do this." Blaze said
With that Time woke up
He was tied down on a white symbol. He was just in time too. Screwball had a knife in her hoof and was aiming for his chest. She thrust the knife down but Time rolled to the side. Time was too late the knife grazed him causing some blood to hit the ground. The purple whirl had encircled the two. Time could feel the essence flowing out of him. He knew he was losing Magic and quick. He had to think of a plan yet nothing came to mind. He had to find a way out of this.
Echo finally awoke from the blast that had hit him. He looked forward and saw a purple whirlwind on top of a white symbol. He had to do something. From what he had managed to learn from this adventure was purple whirlwinds were bad. He couldn't think of anything. He rushed towards the whirlwind only to be thrown back into the wall.
"Well that was a failure." Echo thought. "I can't interrupt it without magic...Unless."
Time knew he was going to fail. He wouldn't be able to stop Screwball. He would let every pony down. He wanted to stop her but his magic wouldn't work while in the whirlwind. It was hopeless. Time had lost all hope when a voice of hope had pierced his ears.
"Time grab Screwball!" He called
"I can't! My hands are bound." Time told him
"Okay try to stay still."
"I'm in a whirlwind. How do you expect me to-"
Time was interrupted by a blue ray of light that cut through his binds.
"Echo how did you do that?" Time asked
"Just Get out of there." Echo called
Time looked around and noticed the knife on the ground. It still had some of Time's blood on it. He took the knife and stabbed Screwball with it. The whirlwind stopped. 8 colors flood into a stone that was somehow thrown on top of the whirlwind. The stone broke and the colors fell. With no element left to take the whirlwind stopped and the Two ponies fell to the ground. Screwball got up first. There was a red flash then she disappeared.
Echo ran towards Time. There was a gold ring on his hoof. Time recognized it as an element of harmony. On it was a half a happy face and half a sad face. "Time are you okay?"
Time looked down and and saw parts of the rock melt into the ground. Each one glowed a different color. Time looked over and saw a the pack that Celestia told them to carry with them. Time's horn tried to lite up but failed. His mother was right. He would forget every type of magic he knew. Time walked over to the pack. It was empty.
Next Chapter