Essence of Life

by ZeronicX

Flesh and Dagger

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Celestia's Room, 8:00 Luna Clock Time

The light settled and showed a WhiteStar, standing there looking at a locked metal but colored wardrobe, he pulled out the Flesh and Faith, he pressed the button with the top half of his hoof, a spike went out, not stabbing him directly but graving the top half of his hoof, WhiteStar proceeded to use the blade to break the lock

Quickly WhiteStar was encased in a yellow aura and was shoved to the front door

"You!" Celestia said, Anger in her voice than can shake a world, WhiteStar quickly got up and reached for his Flesh and Faith but it wasn't there on his belt, it was across the room, on the ground, protected by two powerful Alicorns, WhiteStar quickly got into a standing position

"You know you won't leave here with it....you know?" Luna said, Getting up from her standing position and getting out of the bed

WhiteStar was silent, he stared at his two brick walls that stopped him, He tried to speak but muffled yelling and pounding were heard out the door, Suddenly the door forced open and revealed another two WhiteStar's, One with scratches and the other with the same scratches but also flickering

Both the Alicorns looked at the 3 ponies, Each Different, One Harmed, The other not, and a Hologram

Both Luna and Celestia extended their wings to create a blockade and their horns were encased in a aura, waiting to be released at the intruders, quickly the hologram WhiteStar rushed over and slammed against Celestia, knocking her back a few inches but enough to fold her wings and stop her spell, The scratched WhiteStar did the same to Luna, but this time knocking her back more

The unharmed WhiteStar ran to the other side of the room, Sliding down to grab Flesh and Faith and continued to try and break the lock on the wardrobe, Celestia quickly took noticed and encased him in a Aura and moved him back to the main door of the room, The hologram WhiteStar quickly tackled Celestia to try and stop her magic, At the same time the Harmed WhiteStar was stuck in a stalemate with Luna, Both not gaining any room in their struggle

The unharmed WhiteStar got up and noticed he still had his faithful tool in his hand, He pressed the button and stuck it into his front right hoof, two seconds later a new Hologram WhiteStar, Who immediately knew what to do and ran to help the other WhiteStars fighting the alicorns, Alternating between Luna and Celestia overpowering them every time he joined the fight

WhiteStar(The one who appeared here at the beginning of this chapter) Ran back to the lock and broke it with one swift hit of his blade, the door slowly opened and all the fighting stopped punches and spells stopped in mid air and looked up the the wardrobe

There WhiteStar starred at a Dazzling display of light and colors, Every favor he did, Every Blackmail he made, Every amount of money lead up to this moment,

WhiteStar slowly took the Essence of Life, it was much smaller than he predicted but it was now his, even if he got it in unorthodox methods, Then.... Light, WhiteStar vanished from the room, Celestia Yelled in frustration and anger

Star Swirl the Bearded Wing, Royal Canterlot Library, 7:30 Luna Clock Time

WhiteStar looked down at the ground, He saw an sleeping Berry Punch,Discarded Lunar Armour, and a Time Travel spell scroll inside a circled 120 pointed blue star, each 20 points making a line stretching a few feet outside to a new circled star, these new stars are five pointed, and each a different color, Purple, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Pink, And White,

WhiteStar knew what he had to do to keep time in check, Unless he likes having the fabrication of time and space being torn apart by a paradox he had to go back to Celestia's room, He quickly ran to out the door and on the way to her room

It didn't take long, He was at the hallway to the room but it was guarded by........at least 15 Lunar And Celestial GuardStallions, then a Idea popped! He took out Flesh And Faith and stabbed his front hoof, he sent the hologram to the door and then ordered him to come back, most of them followed the hologram, All of them wanting the glory, WhiteStar Watched from under a table as they ran to the nonexistent WhiteStar, he then stabbed him self again and summoned another hologram, this one to help deal with the remaining Guardstallions

There were 3 left, 2 Lunar and the other a Celestial guard, they watched as 2 figures approached from the darkness and into the light of the door, they looked at WhiteStar, and his mirror Hologram WhiteStar, they quickly charged at them and the WhiteStar's countered their attacks, he was no fighter but his hologram was able to take on all 3 with minimal damage, Regular WhiteStar just kicked the unconscious heads of downed fighters

After 2 minutes of fighting it was Just Hologram WhiteStar fighting the Celestial Guard, the Guard having many bruised and Scratches from his hologram foe and the Hologram WhiteStar just flickering with every hit, The Celestial Guard set up a punch, this time putting all his energy into it in hopes of diminishing the hologram, When he struck he went through the hologram and punched the real one instead

WhiteStar was taken back by this and punched the guard in the head, which hurt the him more than the guard because of his armor, the Guard then punch WhiteStar again and made WhiteStar stumble back into a table, The hologram took it from there, jumping on his back and repeated blows to the head

Once the hologram was done with his barbaric attacking they both opened the door

What they saw was the same as WhiteStar sighting a few minutes earlier(Or Ahead if your being technical) but from a different standpoint, His hologram was already halfway to Celestia, He looked to Luna and knew what he had to do, he charged at the Royal Princess in hopes of achieving his dream....or the other him in helps of achieving both dreams

Then.......Time slowed, he turned his head surprisingly fast, he saw a flickering of himself charging THE Royal Princess in a frame-by-frame look, the look of a disgruntled Celestia wrestling something not even she could take out, WhiteStar saw her fall on her back wrestling the hologram

He turned his head again, He saw his past self trying to break a metal lock with a ancient relic, He realized that it was a very stupid idea and could have resulted in the breaking of that valuable artifact, He turned to the Princess of the Night, she had a different look on her, Instead of being scared she looked like she could take on the world with a hint of sadness

A voice invaded WhiteStar's head "Balcony" it sounded like both a Stallion and a Mare, but also... alienated, Nothing like Pony-Kind but also exactly Like Pony-Kind

The voice distracted him and slowed his charge to a slow walk, once he regained everything at stake he looked up to the princess of the night and saw her black mane cover most of his vision, her eyes inches away with a bad menacing look and a even worse frown, like a foal trying to intimidate a biker stallion who just got out of prison

she quickly put her hooves up like a boxer, shaking on her hind legs, WhiteStar started to make himself gain speed and proceeded to ram Luna

This caused both of them to fall, Whitestar of top and Luna struggling on bottom, She quickly charged a blast of magic and hit him right between the eyes, this caused him to fall back on his back while Luna quickly got on top of him, shooting magic but missing while WhiteStar struggled and dodged

A loud click was heard, all heads, both real and not look at the metallic lock finally breaking, they saw him take hold of the aura and then......light

The light blast was so powerful the holograms vanished the entire room was a mess, books,pillows, everything was where it should not be

Once everyone recovered they all looked around at the mess

WhiteStar was stuck under a bookcase, he couldn't push it off because it was on his back, Celestia's horn glowed a bright yellow and so did the bookcase, it was thrown across the room, the normally nice, forgiving and happy Princess was replaced by a angry and killer aura,

"Where." Her voiced seem to shake the entire world

"Is." She took a few steps forward to WhiteStar, the earth trembling under her

"It." She was looking down at the petrified earth pony under her, like a executioner getting ready to use his halberd

WhiteStar took a moment to choose his words, even the most right answer could lead to......undesirable outcomes, his mind froze

"I'll ask again" She said taking one of her hooves and putting it on his, Nearly crushing his hoof "Where......Is.....It?"

"Why....."WhiteStar manage to say "Why......Does It Matter?"

Celestia though for a quick second, she looked at a horrified Luna Her thoughts were interrupted by WhiteStar trying to stand up, She just put more pressure stopping his advancements "You know right? You wouldn't try to take it if you didn't" Putting even more pressure on him and looking down at him

"Sister...." Luna said, Celestia sighed

"If we don't stop him now what will make him stop from doing it again?" Celestia said, turning away, he took this as his moment to grab something, Anything! he looked, and saw a book only inches away from his hoofs, he reached with his free hoof and only hit the corner, bringing it only a few centimeters, he tried again and got a good grip

Celestia looked down at her prisoner, or more so a book-to-the-face, this caused her to stumble back before falling and clutching her nose,Luna Stopped for a second and then lunged at WhiteStar, who rolled over, She hit the door with her horn, unable to break free

WhiteStar looked around, only window was blocked by a bleeding princess and even if it wasn't it was a 300 foot drop, the door was also blocked by a princess, he looked

The Balcony! he ran to the balcony and looked over the edge, a 100 foot drop onto

A)Stone floor, which, assuming he's still able to move his eyes, will have to deal with a every guard rushing into and out of the castle

B)The grass area of the Canterlot garden, it was around 25-75 feet drop and a hill he could roll on but then the jagged and rusty area of the garden's gate were at the bottom of the hill

He quickly heard a noise, both princesses got up from their daze and looked at WhiteStar, And to make thing worse the door opened and reveled around 10 guards,Not even with the help of Flesh and Faith could he be able to win this round

No stopped for a second and weighted his options as a small militia started running at him, Life In Prision or 99.999% chance of death?

the force was almost 3/4 of the way to him, once he saw the anger in all of their eyes he though the jump was better, he quickly rushed over the counter and fell,

Aura encased him, Neither Yellow or Blue, he turned around and faced the guards and the princess looking at him, none of them had horns glowing


Author's Note

Sorry for being REALLY LATE, promise i can release faster, Sorry

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