New Plantation

The Experiment

It was a beautiful day, Shine is back to the library and Celestia is fixing lunch, Nyx is still in town, looking for new friends, she may be shy but there wasn’t any one her age back in the castle, she is finally feeling the need for someone her age to talk to, and be friends with.

Dust is unpacking, we didn’t know how things were going to be, but none of us wanted to leave the other behind, so to keep it as it was we just built a door at the study room’s wall and moved the study area to the leaving room which was quiet big, the library was no longer a stay in place reading facility, you could just check out the books and read at your own place, the main room was divided in two large ones one for Nyx and the other for Celestia, Shine and I were going to sleep in the living room but we knew we three were going to end up in the same bed, locally this was big enough for all of us.

Kitchen was big, added a few places to make us all feel a little more comfortable, good for us the basement was filled with chemistry and alchemy equipment, Twilight may have being working hard on learning chemistry but she could only managed to make poor quality ink and there was lots of it, regarding alchemy she was pretty good at it and there was a different set of ink bottles made with alchemy, I am guessing she was trying to mimic them with conventional chemistry. All this is good for us; I was getting a personal lab in my new home that I could use to my experiments of how to bring the dead victims back to life.

Celestia was finally being a little more like herself, we haven’t yet spend a single night here but her expression is different from the first time we met at the beginning of our little student teacher trip, she smiles, and when Nyx was unpacking she even helped her, her tone is more kind and her facial expression was her natural one, the one she had when Twilight was alive.

“Hey Shadow… do you want anything special on your carrot soup” she asked with a nice kind tone, all the way from the kitchen “mmm sure what do you have in mind?” I answered from the lab as I was fixing the place for my new experiments “I could add a little bit of Cely’s juice” she said with a cheerful voice “ok what is that?” I asked skeptically “same stuff you were feeding me last morning but from my juicy spot” she said before giggling “ok that is just gross and remember we don’t live alone Cely at this moment I have Shine with me and Dust is fixing his room and we don’t even know when Nyx is going to be back”.

“I knew she was out, and Dust would like it I think… I was just trying to be funny, relax a little we are all still young, besides you will have me here until Hooves is dead and Twi is back… I am taking a break from sex till I need another spanking to, so relax… by the way regardless of sex and all we three are sleeping together from now on” she said with a nice kind voice.

“Sure, I don’t think that there are going to be any problems I don’t really care if you see or you join when I am showing my skill to Shadow, and it is also kind of kinky to just go nuts with someone watching, now out of jokes, where do I put all this samples” Shine said with a tone similar to Celestia’s.

“Just fix the soup however you consider it better… without any weird juices please Cely, take them to that holder in the wall and make sure we have every one… oh yeah regarding sex… I think given the fact that everyone has being so good at it yet everyone have being playing with my feelings since my biology class thing with Cely, I will be the once calling the shots regarding time and intensity of our little adventures, sorry gals but I think that would be even fair given all that I have put myself into for the both of you” I said trotting towards Shine to help her with her task.

No one said anything, I may have being out of line except that I saw a smile in Shine’s face, then I knew she was in, just as I reached Shine, Cely appeared with a glass of orange juice “you know… if you were less of a gentle course I would have said something bad about what you just said, but you have being nothing but kind even with your overpowering trusting, that was exactly what I needed at the time, I have nothing to hold from you… you can take all that you want” she said turning around and lifting her tail.

“Not now Cely… really I was just letting you know how I was going to act not asking for tail, thanks for the juice by the way, I haven’t have orange in a long time” I said to the princes who was begging to walk away “and I was just displaying to be honest I am not in the mood neither… I offer my self to you but give me some time to get used to be here before you take advantage of me”.

“Ok cool… as soon as we get some lunch we need to talk about how to bring Twi and the others back, I will need every one’s help so we need to tell Dust to stick around for a bit after lunch, and we need to do it before Nyx gets back I don’t want her to know about what is going on unless we are sure that we can do it” I said as I was looking over the samples, I am having a hard time finding Scootaloo’s

Lunch was fine, Nyx didn’t come to eat with us, she was back at the apple family farm talking to Big Mack, Granny Smith wasn’t happy with Nyx since the Nightmare Moon thing, but at least now she was able to get to the farm without the old mare giving her a hard time, she was the only memory that they had of their loved ones caring for some pony at least.
I was sure that Big Mac was going to take care of Nyx and that she would be back home before it was dark, I was thinking that it was fine that she would go out and do normal filly things, trying her hardest to go back to normality. The meal was something interesting, without Nyx it could have being like a nice high class adult party, Celestia wasn’t the best at cooking but this time around she actually come up with something that could be only described as a royalty meal, we all eat shearing small talk, Dust was talking lively and so was Shine so I was feeling pretty good as well, Cely seating in front of me was looking around delighted by the fact that everyone was having such a nice time, she was finally cause for a good time for the group that was falling apart due to her own doing, perhaps this was the beginning of change and now she wasn’t going to pull us apart but instead bring us together.

Once the meal was done we all moved to the living room, Dust was almost done fixing his room, his was the only room with a private exit, everyone else had to share the front door, that gave him a little more privacy, us in the other hand were fine with the fact of shearing everything, Shine was my family, and apparently I became Celestia’s family… and we three cared for Nyx enough to take care of her as the little nice family that we were going to become.

So once in the living room our little time of rest from what was actually at task was gone and I stood before everyone ready to begin with our next topic “ok fellas we need to talk about the next thing in hoof, there are two possibilities, one would be to start working on bringing the dead back to life, I had a hard time finding Scotaloo’s sample, so is there a problem with that, Shine?” I asked as if directed to the entire group.

“Well there is a little problem, apparently Scotaloo is actually from Cloudsdale, according to the hospital her record Equestria wide are only found at the cloud city, and not only that but it is about three years old, would also be the first time that she started going to the school here in Ponyville records of her name are as blank as ours so I think that she may very well be an orphan or a runaway, yet they do have a record of her with picture, and I did a short test to determine if such a record matches any of the samples that we toke, and there is an eighty percent match with one of the samples from the theater, the one that we found under the stage if the structure would have still be there, I am waiting for the sample to arrive, I had it transferred here, it should be about five hours before it reaches our hooves” Shine said with a determined voice “ok our second thing to do would be going after Hooves, however the smart thing would be leaving that to after we work the experiments to bring the victims back” I said looking at Celestia who was showing her signature thinking face.

“So we do that, Cely tell me what you have in mind to bring them back” I decided before she could say anything “we use the original Spell Nexus ritual to bring Nightmare Moon back, but we use it with the samples of each of the victims to shape each pony, now as a soul we harvest every lingering bit of their personality that may still be out there from the moment they died, plus the added memories from each one of us, if my calculations are right ye should be able to gather enough information from the environment to bring the real one of them back from the other side” Celestia said studying my reaction.

“Mmm, ok problem here… I didn’t know them very well I don’t even remember the yellow one most of the time, so the only way I can see it happening is to bring one by one so that they can use their memories to help us bring the other one, we may need Nyx for this she and you are the only ones who could bring the exact Twilight back… mmm no you will have tendencies to change her personality, we need to bring them back from the very moment they died, meaning they will remember dying and how it happened, so here it is… it’s the moment itself what we need to bring back, and if it is still fresh, we can harvest the energy of the happening, locally all death were very intense and we can get it back with… witchcraft… I need magic, incantations and energy oils, this will be the biggest show of all sorts of magic display, I will need the alicorn amulet and a way that you all have to device to get it off me when I am done” I said with my hooves in some paper, my horn glowing and a pencil drawing all the possible forms I could think of to absorb an event from time.

Nyx was back home, news were that she was going back to school, she had talked to other young ones and was getting to know a little more of different families in Ponyville, our work was out of her reach and she had her hooves full getting back in track with school and finding friends that would risk talking to the former queen of the night, her life will never be normal but at least she is trying she will be busy so we can work without having to explain our work to her.

So it began, Celestia worked a finding spell to get the amulet, Dust started working with me using his knowledge of devising spells, Shine got up and went away, I am not sure what she will be doing but I am sure that it has some sort of importance to our needs.

Papers with drawing began to pile, the task seemed impossible, it was easy enough to get a hint of how to harvest the energy of each happening, but how to direct it to each pony… how could I direct the energy that belonged to each one of them, at least we determined that we didn’t need to use our own memories to bring them back.

Zekura made an appearance after hours of work over the subject, I know what Shine was doing now, she was finding everyone who could be useful to our task, Cely finally came back with the amulet and the plan to get it of me apparently was already designed with many ways to manage the task in case that it becomes some kind of problem.

Luna gave us a temporal permit to continue in the Everfree she was also making herself availed to help us with the project in case we needed her help, I think she was feeling guilty about all that happened.

A day has past, no sleep and very little food, our growing task force was now up to over twenty ponies and different creatures such as zebras and griffons who have being studying the properties of potions, oils and minerals. Our first trial was near, we found a way to direct the energies by using magic to drive them to the specific being that we wanted to bring back by using intricate drawing of circles, shapes and lines which would guide the unicorns when the event takes place, I am the designer so I will be in the center of everything shaping the flesh of the pony we are bringing back. This is going to be in deed the biggest show in equine history.

Documents of every one’s work were written and a new law was made out to be decreed at the very moment that everyone came back, it was a bunch of talk but in the end the important thing is that any information that at any point could leave this event would be considered a high offence with the possibility of the death penalty, if at any other time this even is duplicated or at the attempt of duplication everyone in the involved party would be executed, this even was going to be forgotten by history and all the practices to make it happen would be washed out and never spoken of again, this aberration against the laws of nature will take place this one time and never again.

And as everyone was ready to proceed, the lines carved in a stone bed, the circles and lines generated a beautiful design, and about three weeks or so after the death of several members of the Ponyville community they were about to set foot on existence once more, the question was… who are we going to test all this with?, we have limited samples and we aren’t sure how things will turn out at the end of this experiment. Decision came from logic, Scootaloo was the one that he have less samples of, and her sample was a eighty percent match to what we actually believe is the right Scootaloo, so in case that something goes wrong she would not come back but we would not waste any samples from other that we actually have full information of, besides as much as we try we didn’t find any one missing Scootaloo not even in Cloudsdale when we found loved once to all the other so is she didn’t come back only her two best friends would be upset about it in contrast to any other of the departed.

Scootaloo was going to be the experiment and we are finally ready to begin.
In a beautiful afternoon, blessed with beautiful twilight a group of ponies and other were all standing around a carefully drawn circles, horns began to glow, clouds were cleared, songs were sang, words spoken, oils poured and burned, and a little fillies’ scooter as her blood sample were placed in strategic spots to try to direct her energy, and after hours of preparation, chants and mixtures of smokes and magic a light began to shine over my head. At this point in the evening many have fallen out of exhaustion or hunger, not me, I was standing strong in the center, shaping life and flesh, the scooter attracted the energy and once inside the circle I began my work.

The sun was coming out, everyone was a sleep except for Luna, yet she had already deemed the experiment a failure. The light was now covering the entire circle and it had being like that for hours, I was finally done, it was time to finish, the amulet began to glow and the light became more intense and the in concentrated at the center of my work, it hold for a second or two and then exploded sending me several feet away from the circle, I crashed hard against a tree and began to feel the incoming darkness, I manage to remove the amulet and to take a little view of my work, in the center of the circle laid and orange shape, the darkness was moving in I was drifting, I could not hold myself from unconsciousness everything
was blurry and darkness toke over I was free now to rest.

Yet I think that before I lost track of reality that orange blur… did it move?