private Following the Dream

[Summer Breeze 2,528]

Suddenly summer spotted something moving around, something purple. Quickly she flew down and saw irra carrying Flearia. Summers eyes got wide "what happened" she asked, not expecting an answer. "Here, I'll help you" Summer helped Irra to lift Flearia and walked towards a place where she had spotted a cave to have some shelter. There she put her friend down and got out a blanket from her saddlebags and put it over Flearia to try and keep her warm.

[Flearia Dragondanser 918]

Not long after Irra started to carry her companion forward they where joined by Summer who asked what happend. Irra didn't know... and couldn't tell her that eather more then some strange bodylaunguage that would be unnoticible from carrying Flearia. Summer helped her carry Flearia into a nerby cave where Summer put a blanket around Flearia who was shivering from laying uncouncious in the snow.

 

Doing her best to try warm her companion. Irra layed down on Flearia, trying to heat her again with her body.

[Unicorncob 5,679]

Back inside the tavern, Indus found his way to cloaked pony's room. There was no one in the room, and the window was open. This cloaked pony probably escaped true it some were. It was safe to say, Inuds had all the time in the world to investigate and look for clues.

But there was not much he could find here, cloaked pony, by looks of it, tok this room not long ago so room was still clean. And onli strange thing he could find were lot of blank white paper scatered around the room. He probably left in a hury when he left so many of them.

But interstingly inaf, if he looked litle more, he would find an strange box of matches, with onli two matches. One black and one white one. Probably best thing to do with this strange matches would be to show them to Flearia and Summer before doing annything with mire with them.

 

Indus tutted at the sight of the clean room. Usually he'd appreciate such tidiness, but not when he was looking for evidence. Excluding the white paper, which he gathered in his magic and set neatly on the dresser before continuing.

 

He lifted the book of matches in his magic and inspected the two matches left. One black, one white. Strangely, they didn't smell used.

 

He tucked the box into his jacket pocket to show to the others later, and used the window to teleport himself outside without anypony noticing. He then shut the window, out of neatness.

 

Now, where have those two gotten to...

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Two of our adventurers entered an dark and empty cave thet was nearby. On the first glance, this cave looked like a good cover from snow and cold wind, but then again this cave was quait dark and our two litle lucky adventurers could not seen much deeper then light from the outside allowed em to. And there could be felt an strange fealing like something was watching them from this dark and empty cave, but they would not know if there was something there until they some how lighted up more of the cave.

 

 

 

 

If Indus was to look at the sky, he would notice an strange arrow thet Summer left not long ago. This probably ment something, as she would not boather making one with out a reason.

[Summer Breeze 2,528]

summer had tried to relax a little while she waited for flearia to regain conciousness but for some reason she couldn't, she had the uneasy feeling of being watched. "why don't I have some kind of fire wings or something, all I can do it make breezes" she mumbled as she started to gather some wood to make a little fire, for one it would help her friend warm up and reason number two was to shed some light on this situation.

 

soon she had gathered enough wood to get a small fire going and from her sadlebags she got a match, she had wanted to save them for absolute emergencies, but this looked like one to her. a few moments later, a happy little fire was burning and it lit up the cave a little more...

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Summer made an small fire in hope of warming up the unconcious friend. But it also help her see much deep inside the cave then before.

This small and warm light sourse allowed our two litle lucky adventurers an constant source of light and litle by litle dark inside the cave lost to the light of Summer's fire and got lit up. Litle by litle, inch by inch, millimeter by millimeter darkness shrinked until there was noting of it left. And then finaly our two litle tomb raiders from acrose the big blue sea could see an empty cave, it was filled with small probably un edible mushroms, some green moss on the walls of it and litle puddles of water, probably just melted snow. They were lucky it was just there imagination thet something watched them.

[Summer Breeze 2,528]

summer looked at the sight that reveiled itself in front of here eyes, she stared at it, blinked a few times and looked again to make sure it was not just an optical ilusion "wow..." she whispered, as she didn't really know how to react otherwise. a part of her wanted to take off and fly around but for now it seemed better to stay away from the cave and stay near her little fire, at least untill Proff was here.

[Unicorncob 5,679]

If Indus was to look at the sky, he would notice an strange arrow thet Summer left not long ago. This probably ment something, as she would not boather making one with out a reason.

 

Indus looked up at the strange arrow left by Summer. It looked somewhat fresh, so she had just left not long ago.He decided to follow the trail out of the town through the south gate, knowing that she wouldn't go that far without good reason.

 

Hopefully he would not run into anymore trouble.

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Because the gate Indus was hopeing to use was one Summer almost got caught and because of thet this gate was much havely guarded then others. There were no guards snoozing, like when Flearia was leaving this strange Deamon ponys town not long before Summer did.

But even with all this guards, Indus wont have hard time leaving if he was carefull inaf, it was because invisiblity potion he used not long ago, was still in efect. Hopefully it wont expaire until he left the town.

[Flearia Dragondanser 918]

A while with the heat from both Irra's big wolf form and the heat from the fireplace. Flearia begun to get her conciouness back. "Owww! My head..." She grunted and started to try move up. Wich was kind of impossible as she had Irra lay on her. "H-hey Irra... Guess the spell had a bigger backlash then I first tought..." She sighed hard, But still a smile on her mussle as she now had her companion there.

 

When she looked around a bit more she saw Summer by the fireplace. "Hi Summer... Um... How long have I'v been out?"

[Unicorncob 5,679]

Because the gate Indus was hopeing to use was one Summer almost got caught and because of thet this gate was much havely guarded then others. There were no guards snoozing, like when Flearia was leaving this strange Deamon ponys town not long before Summer did.

But even with all this guards, Indus wont have hard time leaving if he was carefull inaf, it was because invisiblity potion he used not long ago, was still in efect. Hopefully it wont expaire until he left the town.

 

Indus curled his upper lip at the sight of the heavily guarded gate, but with the invisibility potion still in effect, he should be okay as long as he didn't cause any noise or bump into anypony.

 

So he slowly walked toward the gate, keeping his hoofsteps light and silent as he crept.

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Nothing unusual happened, there were many guguardst not a single one of them noticed an invisible Unicorn passing by them. And just in moments Indus was outside of the town, and by looks of it safe from guards, for now at list.

And just as he left the town invisiblity potion lost it's efect. It was a shame thet this strong wepon expaired, but it was quait usefull.

And now Indus could contineu to folow Summers arrow in the sky until he find's rest of his team.

[Unicorncob 5,679]

Nothing unusual happened, there were many guguardst not a single one of them noticed an invisible Unicorn passing by them. And just in moments Indus was outside of the town, and by looks of it safe from guards, for now at list.

And just as he left the town invisiblity potion lost it's efect. It was a shame thet this strong wepon expaired, but it was quait usefull.

And now Indus could contineu to folow Summers arrow in the sky until he find's rest of his team.

 

Indus held his breath as he crept past the guards, and managed to pass the south gate undetected. He was out of the town.

 

Even more luckily, the invisibility potion had worn off just as he was yards away from the guards. They hadn't seemed to notice a thing.

 

Breathing a quiet sigh of relief, he walked on in his usual, calm speed, following the stream in the sky left behind by Summer.

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Our dear Indus walked true the cold, snowy white forest for a litle while before finding entrance to one strange cave.

If Indus was to look closer, he would notice an small fire iznaide the cave, and if he was to enter he would find rest of his team in here.

[Unicorncob 5,679]

Indus was glad he brought a jacket, due to the sudden snowstorm. He walked up to the large cave entrance, and could see the small glow of a fire.

 

He walked inside to investigate, and spotted Flearia and Summer sitting by it.

 

"I trust things didn't get too complicated in town for you?" he asked, taking a seat by the fire.

[Summer Breeze 2,528]

"Hey, proff!" summer said cheerfully when she saw proff comming. "No, everything went fine, I folowed that cloaked pony, he seems to have set up a camp in the forest on the other side of the town, and he had a strange silver fire which he talked to, I don't know what he said though." she said "so, I went back and found flearia and brought her to the cave, with irra of course" she realised she had started to ramble a bit and shut her mouth, but then opened it to say one last thing "oh, nd have you seen how cool this cave is?" she gestured with her hoof to the lake behind her. "So, how did things go for you?" she finally asked indus.

[Flearia Dragondanser 918]

Not getting a respons from Sunmer, Flearia layed down her head again, still feeling a great but dissy after her spell wore off.

 

Not to long after Indus walked into the cave, asking if it whent well in town.

 

Hearing Summers reply made her look auestioningly at her. "The pony talked to a fire? That's a kind of long distance communication."

[Unicorncob 5,679]

"A silver fire, you say?" Indus asked quietly, then tapped his hoof. He could have sworn he had heard of such a thing before...

 

But, he would have to worry about it later. They had a lead on the cloaked pony, so they could follow him in due time.

Though, he couldn't help but give Flearia a look. "Perhaps it is the same situation as with yourself and Irra?"

 

For the moment, he had his own evidence to produce. He told the girls about how he had found the cloaked pony's room at the inn, and how there were papers all over the place as well as the black and white matches he had found.

[Summer Breeze 2,528]

Summer looked at flearia, happy to see her awake again. "Long distance comunication? So he could be talking to somepony? Should I maybe have stayed to listen?" she wondered

 

Then summers ears peeked up "matches? Maybe when you light those matches you make one of those talk fires?" she suggested since that seemed like a logical connection.

[Flearia Dragondanser 918]

"Eeh no, what Irra and I have is... special. I tought you would know what that is, being a history teacher at CSGU and all." Flearia smirked and took the matches that Indus had in her magic and inspected them. "If im not mistaken then yes, thease are communication matches." She looked at Summer. "It was a silver fire you said? Then we should light a fire with this one." Holding up the white match for the others to se. "We might be able to listen in on their call if they are still talking."

[Unicorncob 5,679]

Indus glared at Flearia for her smart remark, then looked down at the matches. "Communication matches... yes, I recall these. Some rather arcane communication magic. I wouldn't have thought anypony still used these nowadays."

 

He looked at the white match. "If we're going to listen in with this, it would be wise to keep completely silent. It will likely be a two-way system. A group call, if you will."

[Flearia Dragondanser 918]

Flearia only smirked back to Indus as he glared at her. "Ay, we might be able to hear what the retsiving one is saying but maybe not the cloaked pony you saw, it's worth a try attleast."

 

Flearia had finaly gotten enough strenght back to be able to sitt up. As she did, Irra moved pff her and satt beside her, giving a glance to her big companion.

 

"How long ya gonna be in that mode Irra? I'm fine now. No need to drain so much energy"

 

At the words. Irra shrunk down to her usual size. Laying down at Flearias hoofs.

 

"Thath's better. Don't want you sleeping all day cus of that." Flearia smiled and put a hoof scratching her companions ear.

 

"Let's not waste time then" Flearia exstinguished the fire with a spell before litting it up with the white match!

[Fallen Valkyrie 525]

Flearia lit up the white match in hopes of creating silver fire, but plan did not gone as anticipated.

Insted of the sliver fire, with this white match, Flearia created small white one. This fire was almost as whiteas snow outside, but unlike snow, it was much brighter.

 

And before our litle adventurers could do annything, this small fire growed fester then even pegasus could fly. And so, because of pore choise they made, this white fire frst blinded them, and moments later swallowed them.

 

But it was strange, they did not feel anny burning on there skin, or anny other pain for thet matter. Did this happen so fest, thetthey did not even have time to react before they crossed into the land of the dead?

 

 

If they are to open there eyes, they would noticed they are not in thet beautifull and empty cave anny more, they were now stending on stone bricks, the ceiling of the cave was replaced by long stertcher of pure darknes with litle lights here and there thet resembld the starts, but they were too few to look like night sky back in Equestria. And if they were to look closer they would noticed thet they were not even stensing on a planet, but on one realy small island of bricks, i was so small thet they would need maybie a minute to walk from one side of this island to the other. And unlike anny normal island, back on Equestria, there was no water around them, it was just nothingness in all in evry way. Up, down, left and right around this litle island was nothing but pure darkness with small light far, far in the distance.

 

 

They were litaraly no were, so now it was the tike to look at this small brick island they appered on. As they looked around, they would noticed mountains of books evry were, and if they would to pick up one they would see thet it they were in lauguage they never seen before.

On the other side of this island was one big telescope, it was so big thet it would probably not fit into the cave they were in moments ago.

Next to this telescope was table and a chair, thet compered to this teleskop looked like toys, and in the chair there was siting an small red, two leged creature. This creature was quait well dresed, but even so, his face was not what would one call beautifull. But thet aside, by looks of it he was writing something in one of the many books thet were owerflowing the table, and its suroundings, and by looks of it he did not noticed our litle adventurers appering on his island.

[Flearia Dragondanser 918]

"Ugh sorry you guys... I think it got messed up somehow.." Flearia said with a dissy voice. Maybe she hadn't recovered enough?

 

When she opened her eyes from the blinding light that had swallowed them she could se only void. "Wha? Where are we?"

 

Looking a bit more she saw the table where the red bidepal creature satt. Tough she didn't look to the creature. But the big table of books beside him.

[Unicorncob 5,679]

Indus grunted and shook his head, trying to get his wits about him. "Well, that was certainly a discovery..."

 

He looked around at the mountains of books, cocking his head. "Have we been transported to Princess Twilight's library?" He took one of the books and flicked through the pages, all written in some strange language that even he had never seen before.

 

"...curious..."

 

He noticed the small red creature, and walked up to it. "Pardon me, good sir."