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[Lemon Slices 358]

The mural was lighting the entire room. It was very blurry in the beginning, and then he managed to see something familiar. "What?", he said, surprised with the change of images. The mural was animated, and comforting, so comforting that he subtly became hypnotized with the images, and even looking to another direction was unthinkable. And the images were all familiar to him. As the time passed, he remembered the faces of several people in the orphanage when he was a kid. And the other orphans, playing with him. The image of his adoptive father, Steel Slices, his adoptive mother, his sisters... "Is it... Me? Are they watching me?", he thought, a bit embarassed. However, somehow he didn't move a hoof to stop it.

 

And then the speed of the images being shown increased.

 

The speed of the animation became too fast for him to understand. It slowed down again, with him walking on the docks. The sound of the Almighty Sea formed itself, but it was so soft, and the images were so hypnotizing that nopony would realize. His steps, the sound of creaking planks... He wouldn't notice that the mural's size increased some centimeters.

 

A buzzing sound came at his ears. The buzzing was so strong he couldn't even hear his voice. Caught. Then the images became big as his vision field, as a holodeck, and shown the lastest scenes.

 

And then it started to hurt for him.

 

Like everyone, he was shocked. There wasn't recognizable images anymore. Darkness, screams.... A very loud "Help me"...

 

The darkness consumed his mind...

Edited September 27, 2015 by Lemon Slices

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

As Awilix thinked about the rest of her new 'team' she looked up at the strange mural on the wall of room they were in.

 

As Awilix looked in it she could see the night sky and the moon on it.It was similar night to the one when she broke her godess star thet fall from the night sky.True the night sky she seen one bright purple star hiting the ground.And one small pony coming near ift and with just a toch breaking it.Awilix eyes filled with tears as she wach the night thet changed her life going right in front of her eyes - and she could not do noting to stop her,and changeing her past...

 

And as litle pony jumped back her head filled wwith darknesss.

[Overlord0909 479]

Cuddle became confused with what she was seeing... The mural was changing! It was animating, she couldn't look away from it... 'Dang my curiosity!' She thought, but then saw some familiar images:

Her as a little filly, prettiest pony in class, all the ponies kept telling her that. But she hated it! Oh how much she loathed it... Then it showed her getting into sports, fighting, and every stallion thing she could possibly do. But when she went back to school, she was still just the pretty pony.

Always have been... 'Am I still just a pretty pony?' Tears welled up in her eyes, and she continued to stare.

Once the blurriness in her eyes were gone, she saw her leave Canterlot, writing her parents and loved ones a note goodbye. She owed them that. She went to a flat landscape, animation speeds up, fighting monsters, the dark figure! And the loss of her best friend... And perhaps, her first true love.

Animation then gets to the ship...

 

A scream "WHY!?" is heard... Then the darkness consumes her mind.

[Guest]

Unknowingly, Enzo found himself... entranced by the mural. There was just something about it that just drew him in. Leaning in for a closer look, he put a hoof to the mural, in attempt to touch it with a hoof, when suddenly, the mural moved.

 

The sudden change prompted the stag to jolt his hoof back and stagger a few steps. Enzo's eyes widened as the mural slowly began to change.

 

"Wha- What's this?"

 

"This mural...."

 

The mural continued to morph, forming discernible shapes, and to the stag's surprise-

 

"Is that...me?"

 

A silver stag was seen frolicking among the lush greenery, laughing as he played with others of his kind. Enzo smiled fondly at the memory. Things were so much simpler back in the grove. No adventures. No life and death situations. No damnable cursed boats.

 

As Enzo's thoughts darkened, so did the mural's vibe. The mural was constantly changing itself now, getting faster and faster, until the images were no longer a blur. The stag's mind raced as he struggled to discern each individual image. Forest. Darkness. Laser. Grief. Anger. Darkness once more. Fear. Happiness.

 

Hope?

 

Time seemed to slow down as the mural flashed a depiction of a stag pulling a sword out of the ground, the animated characters full of life in contrast to the cave's dark atmosphere.

 

"Khris..." The stag softly murmured.

 

"Enzo, snap out of it! There is a dark presence residing in the mural!"

 

Khris went unnoticed as the images sped up once more, too fast for Enzo to comprehend. And just as quickly as it accelerated, it slowed once more. This time, the images seemed to fade into one another, as if burning away to reveal what was hidden beneath. Enzo recognized the scene. He recognized the ship. He recognized the green stallion. He recognized the yellow mare. He recognized the kitchen.He recognized the... cave. And soon, he recognized....

 

"What the hell..."

 

Unlike the other scenes before it. This one didn't burn away. 4 ponies standing in a cave, looking at a mural. Enzo resisted the urge to turn around. Beads of sweat started to trickle down his face. Slowly, but surely, the black ink from the mural depicting the darkness of the cave seeped out of the painting in tendrils, writhing out of their prison and surrounding the stag. From all sides, black tentacles reached out for Enzo. He froze in fear, watching helplessly as the darkness consumed him. He shut his eyes, preparing for the inevitable.

 

"BEGONE, FOUL MAGICKS"

 

Enzo cracked open an eyelid, to see a black and gold unicorn... Cutting away at the tendrils with an etheral sword. Enzo felt that he knew his savior, but.. he was too tired to think. He was helpless. Darkness seeped into his vision, taking away his sight. 

 

His mind followed soon after, the sounds of battle echoing as he drifted off to unconciousness.

[Lemon Slices 358]

"What kind of hypnosis we were thrown at?", Lemon said, opening his eyes into seeing a place very different from the reality he saw a minute ago. Or more than a minute. He couldn't know. But at the same time, a feeling of deep shock and a strong fear of what was going on that blocked him from saying "Oh Celestia". And a word came from his past memories into his mind.

 

"...they"

 

"Did we got kidnapped?" Lemon thought, looking around to see a blank and empty room, with a white door slightly opened. His eyes went wide as he thought he saw a dark eye seeing him from behind the door, but he became too scared to go check it out. He rushed for Renatta.

 

"Renatta... Renatta... Please wake up... Please..."

"Ahn... Ah, hello, Mr. Slices. Wait." Her eyes also went wide as she noticed how different this room is from before. "Oh no. Oh Celestia, are our friends alright? ENZOO! CUUUUDL-"

"Shhh. Someponies might be watching us."

Edited September 30, 2015 by Lemon Slices

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Awilix awake in this room they were trowen at.She started to open her week eyes slow,they were still red from her tears earlyer.She did not even looked around to see thet she was not in same room as before.Her maind was full of imagses she seen about her past.And as she thinked about them she heard Lemon yelling and in just a moment her maind was empty but her eyes were still red."A-are you all right." Awilix said quaitly to others.

[Overlord0909 479]

Cuddle woke up in a start, firstly making sure everypony was alright. She heard her name quietly, to reassure her that at least one was okay. "Yeah?" She asked, calmly thinking about the events leading to now... She didn't like her day so far.

It was supposed to have been relaxing, and full of sleep! This is too confusing to be fun... She sighed before anypony replied.

Edited September 30, 2015 by Overlord0909

[Guest]

Enzo woke up with a start, breathing heavily. He jumped to his feet and scrambled into a fighting stance, only to realize that the black appendages were gone. Still shaking, the stag slumped back against a wall, Bringing out Khris, sheathed.

 

"Khris.... what happened?"

 

Silence.

 

Furrowing his brow, Enzo called out again, his thoughts laced with worry.

 

"Anypony home?"

 

Nothing.

 

Enzo was unable to keep the fear out of his voice, quivering, he called out once more, this time out loud.

 

"Khris. Answer me! Please! ANYTHING!"

 

Silence reigned.

 

"Khris..."

 

The stag hugged the sheathed sword, burying his face into the tassel and sobbing softly.

 

"You can't be gone.You just can't...Please, Khris, my dear friend. You will come back, right? i just know it...We promised... i promised..."

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Awilix looked at Enzo as she clean tears from corner of her eyes "To who are y-you calling?Who is thet Khris?" Awilix said as her voice got litle louder from previus question.'Did he hit his head?Or is this true him-crazy to the core' Awilix think as she looked at Enzo waiting for an answer.

[Lemon Slices 358]

Renatta looked around. Lemon was not looking at her. He was with his head down, for some reason.

 

She looked at the door. She felt like being watched by the door. But as she tried to look behind the opening of the door, it instantly went pitch black. She, curious, sneaked to it.

[Overlord0909 479]

Cuddle noticed Renatta first, "What are you doing?" She asked casually. Cuddle was starting to realize that this wasn't just a curse or summoning, it was something that was being triggered... Like a trap... Too little of evidence to go on, but this all seems so set up to her, that it couldn't be much else... If else, then it'd have to be extreme.

[Guest]

Enzo slowly turned his head: just barely, enough for him to see Awilix at the corner of his eye.

 

"Khris... He's..."

 

Becoming aware that he was hugging his sword and crying, the stag shakily got to his feet with the support of the wall and waved a dismissive hoof at Awilix, his head down all the time, refusing to look the pony in the eye.

 

"...It's nothing. Don't worry yourself over it"

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

'This one is crazy' Awilix thinkes as she moved couple hoove steps away from Enzo,she had small fake smaile as she said "O-ok?" Then moved one more hoove step back and turned to others asking one simple question "What now?" Awilix looked at dore and contineued "Do we go true it?"

Edited October 5, 2015 by Primordus

[Lemon Slices 358]

Lemon stared at the door. And then caught the attention of everypony.

"Well, we can't be afraid of... A place that we don't know and that might have evil enemies... Ahn... Well, wait," he looked around, looking for Renatta, and found the door more open than before. "Oh no, she went alone! She might get hurt!"

 

As he followed her steps, he could get a vision of the corridor outside.

 

Everything was dark. But suddenly, four rectangles of light formed themselves, each one of a color. Renatta was staring at the first rectangle, what could be assumed it was a portal, dazzled. The rectangle had a bright blue color, and she gave a step forward.

 

"Wait!"

But when she noticed that Lemon was there, she ran into this portal and disappeared.

"Let's enter! Fast!"

[Overlord0909 479]

Cuddle heard Lemon gathering everypony's attention, and she listened to what he had to say. Awilix brought up a question she was going to answer, and so she wanted to hear Lemon's answer. When he spoke, he gave his best leader ponification, but it was laughable to her... Than he noticed that his little friend was missing; Renatta. Turning his head around quickly, he found the door to be open, calling all the ponies over to watch a weird scene. "What is that..." Cuddle whispered quietly to herself. She saw Renatta run into it as soon as she saw us. Lemon soon intersects:

 

"Let's go! Fast!"

 

Why should I argue now? Cuddle thinks, and runs before the rest thought of it.

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Awilix gone after Lemon and Cuddle,she was not happye to run around.As she walk to the portal Awilix thinked 'Is thet pony an idiot....no one know were we are and her frst though is to run away....oh godess whay do you always send all the idiot to my,whay cant you send strong smart stalion...' And with this though in her head Awilix passed true the portal.

[Guest]

Enzo eyed the portal warily. He looked around him, only to see bare white walls with no other exits in the room. 

 

"Only 1 way to go, then"

 

Cautiously, Enzo trotted into the portal, his body seemingly merging into the swirling oval of energy.

 

"Heh, maybe i'll find you there"

[Guest]

Though the Portal, all the ponies found themselves in a Dark, gloomy grove. Flying out of the portal, Enzo skidded slightly, kicking up a fair amount of dust. Fanning away the irritating fumes from his nostrils, the stag surveyed the area.

 

He did not like what he saw.

 

In the grove, towering trees surrounded the group, small bushes dotting the sidelines. Small patches sharp grass were strewn across the area while avoiding the portal like the plague.

 

All made of concrete.

 

"This place..."

 

Lips quivering, Enzo squeezed his eyes shut. He didn't want to turn around. He didn't want to see what awaited him. But there was small nagging voice, calling out to him from behind. A tiny, barely audible whisper, beckoning him. He tried to resist it, but it was futile. Yelling out a battle cry, he whipped his head around back to the portal, and Stared in disbelief.

 

The portal was set in a humongous Tree, towering over the trees surrounding the grove, It's gnarled woods spreading far and wide, big enough for a pony to pass through them.

 

"No, it can't be. Nature is strong!"

 

The tree, too, was completely made of concrete. Enzo was speechless, motionless, in shock.