open Firestorm, the RP

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"How did you do this! What are you talking about! Fight me! FIGHT ME!" He screamed, but it was in vein. All but the oldest pony retreated into the bubble's walls. The old one kept floating in front of him and inspected him thoroughly. "Stop looking at me like that or I will kill you!" Ironhearted yelled at him. Suddendly, the metal his mouth consisted of morphed and shut it permanently. "Come now, you don't talk to the world's oldest soul like that... We're going to have some fun, you and I. Being dead was quite boring, but I've never felt this ALIVE in eons!" He giggled. Ironhearted had a look of despair on his face, but he couldn't talk, only listen...

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Runedawn steppe away from steel and turned back to Luna. "The combination of the three sun shards, and the essence of life that was in my soul after I seperated myself from Ironhearted, has somehow granted the core of the earth the power of life. All the earthstrikers have physical bodies again..." He said to Luna. "I am free from North Winds curse now, but Ironhearted is still alive in the core. If he gets too powerful he could take over again. I cannot kill him, for I would kill myself as well. I also think he deserves worse than death, so that is why I locker him up in the core." He continued. E then adressed Steel as well. "You could say I am immortal now. If I die, my soul goes to the core, and there I will be granted another body. This count's for all Earthstrikers now. Luna, even though the curse is lifted I am still the knight of the earth. I will serve you and you only now, and so will the core and the earthstrikers. You have a small invincible army at your service now my princess..." He said.

North Wind watched and listened through Princess Luna's eyes, and was aghast at what he heard. The Earthstrikers had created an undying army and his investment and power in Ironhearted was captured?!! "Never! I'll see it all destroyed before you humiliate my power!"

 

He reached out to his spell inside Ironhearted and spoke through it, "Ironhearted, my sweet gullible 'Brother' it seems you've out lived your usefulness. Yes I know it should be the princesses choice but she is my toy anyways. I'll just make sure she thinks it was her idea later... She'll be happy you're dead."

 

He grasped the spell and activated its failsafe to destroy the spell, Ironhearted and the Earthstrikers.

 

 

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If Ironhearted's mouth hadn't been sealed shut he would have screamed as the ice and cold in his veins push up his body driving to the single point on his neck and breaking out through his iron skin poured over his body. At the point of his neck where the ice broke through an icy claw formed then turn into a small mares head, and it spoke to the oldest Earthstriker in Cadences voice, "yes being dead is quite boring, let's have some fun." The head turn into a icy spear and stabbed out for the eldest Earthstrikers heart on a long frozen tendril.

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Embers tryed to get up, walks a few feet, and fell back down "Gahhh....Oh, Rune betrayed us? Huh...Well, Next time lets be a bit more careful" He batted his eyes, tears were welling up and them. He turned his face away from the rest of the ponys. He could still see the only pony he loved turn there back

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Austri, the eldest was keeping an eye on Ironhearted when disaster struck. The ice shard aiming for his heart hit, and through him all generations below him could feel it as well. He closed his eyes as he knew what was going to come. How had he not foreseen this. They had kept a direct path to the core for North Wind to exploit when they had decided to trap Ironhearted here. He prepared himself to fight the cold, but he knew his old body wouldn't last long. Therefore he did the only thing he could do at the moment. With his vast mind, trained over the eons of time, he drove North Wind's mind out of the core. The spell had been activated, but North Wind wouldn't be able to infiltrate their minds. Then the spear penetrated his skin, and his blood turned to ice in an instant.

 

Ironhearted could feel the spell that had kept him 'alive' flow away. He felt his soul, or at least whatever he had for a soul, rip off the iron body. His soul didn't stay in the core like the soul of an earthstriker would, but latched straight back on to Runedawn. Ironhearted felt nothing after that. He went unconscious, or at least he didn't react anymore, as if he were sleeping silently inside Runedawn.

 

Runedawn was about to tell Luna more about what happened, when he collapsed. He didn't feel pain, his legs just couldn't support him anymore all of the sudden. The earthstrikers around him collapsed as well, and suddendly went unconscious, and they all went extremely cold. Runedawn only had the time to think of North Wind before everything went black.

Edited February 11, 2014 by Scribblegroove

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Embers nuged rune with his foot "Ah...Is he suppose to do that? Dang, He is cold" He tryed to get up but fell over "Gahh...Guess I wont be going anywere soon" He said as he leaned him self up on the wall. There was still something there, he could still see the one pony he loved turn there back...

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Austri, the eldest was keeping an eye on Ironhearted when disaster struck. The ice shard aiming for his heart hit, and through him all generations below him could feel it as well. He closed his eyes as he knew what was going to come. How had he not foreseen this. They had kept a direct path to the core for North Wind to exploit when they had decided to trap Ironhearted here. He prepared himself to fight the cold, but he knew his old body wouldn't last long. Therefore he did the only thing he could do at the moment. With his vast mind, trained over the eons of time, he drove North Wind's mind out of the core. The spell had been activated, but North Wind wouldn't be able to infiltrate their minds. Then the spear penetrated his skin, and his blood turned to ice in an instant.

Ironhearted could feel the spell that had kept him 'alive' flow away. He felt his soul, or at least whatever he had for a soul, rip off the iron body. His soul didn't stay in the core like the soul of an earthstriker would, but latched straight back on to Runedawn. Ironhearted felt nothing after that. He went unconscious, or at least he didn't react anymore, as if he were sleeping silently inside Runedawn.

Runedawn was about to tell Luna more about what happened, when he collapsed. He didn't feel pain, his legs just couldn't support him anymore all of the sudden. The earthstrikers around him collapsed as well, and suddendly went unconscious, and they all went extremely cold. Runedawn only had the time to think of North Wind before everything went black.

Cadence's magic went to work as the ice pumped into the oldest of the Earthstriker's heart, it grasped the loved that the elder held for all his descendants and raced along it. It used him and his care for them to find their hearts and their souls and clutched them in an icy grip. It spread from Earthstriker to Earthstriker down the ages only growing stronger from the love they had for each other. It used their love against them, a weapon they could not fight as the cold hateful grip brought them to their knees. Finally it reached the end of the line, Runedawn, the final Earthstiker to have been alive, the stallion whose body was still alive though he had separated his soul from it. She gripped him icily and cruelly in the spells failsafe. She whispered in his ear, "you don't get immortality, time to come home."

 

With that her magic pulled hard, and yanked all the souls free of their false core made bodies, Runedawn's being the youngest was still the sturdiest, and he could feel the older frozen souls shatter and crack as his pushed against theirs, it being dragged down the line of his beloved order. The ice spear and tendril pulled from the ancient Earthstriker and back into Ironhearted who screamed as more than a hundred unwelcome souls were driven into his body.

 

Powers of life and death, fire and ice, went to war inside Ironhearted and the spell connecting the immense energies to the flesh and blood body snapped. Molten steel, iron and various metals oozed from Runedawn's true body, and briefly Shinning Armor's vestige appeared in the molten goo. He looked sorrowful as his aura activated circling the metal, creating a magic barrier to lock the power away. Inside this molten sphere were the souls of all the Earthstrikers except Runedawn's and the Elders along with Cadence, Shinning Armor and a piece of North Wind himself and they were all screaming.

 

The magics trapped inside tortured them relentlessly, the magic of death killed them only to have the life magic bring them back to die again and again. The ice frozen them then the fire warmed kindly only to become burning searing pain before the cold pulled their souls back to cool before biting freeze tortured them once again. It was an endless cycle of pain and battling hate of the opposing sides. There was no escape. This molten core within the core lay next to Runedawn's true unconscious body. It was greedy and reached out trying to snatch up both him and the ancient Earthstriker it had used. Seeking to draw them into it's never ending suffering as well.

 

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Wanderlust had gotten to the point where he couldn't hold back any longer, he was shy but he could let these pony keep going on think he knew them. He was also too curious about who he was as well. He coughed to get everyone's attention, "uh everyone... Since we aren't in life threatening danger and Luna's safe... Uh well, I guess... I've got..." He sighed stumbling over his words uncertain how to say it, so final he just blurted it out, "I don't remember who any of you are."

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Embers looked at wander "Huh, Thought as much..strange...Anyways, If I havnt said it already, My name is embers, Im the stupid kinda pony that for some reason survives"

 

Sapphire smiled "My name is sapphire, Glad you now re-know are names" She chuckled and looked at him

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Grell smiled "that's okay wonder I'm grell the healer of the group" grell said "anyways if there is anything I can help you with let me known" ((i may be wrong but dosent wonder have a journal like embers does that has stuff about his life like notes from his adventures))

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(Yup but he doesn't remember that haha)

Wanderlust nodded at each of them, "well that's a good start but well it's more than just your names or do... I-I don't remember how I met you, what we've been doing... I mean what was going on back there?! How do I know Princess Luna and her daughters?! I don't remember anything about myself even!" Wanderlust was panting a little as this put him on edge, "AND HOW THE F-.." He caught himself looking at the fillies and stopping to watch his language and as he calmed down, "how did I lose my memory?"

Edited February 13, 2014 by Torrent505

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Grell thought "look in your bag I think you have a journal about your life because you're an adventurer and you know Luna's daughters because you saved them and oh yeah and the sun exploded and fire rained down killing most everypony" grell said "oh and there is also steel and runedawn"

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Wanderlust jumped in surprise and started to search through his bag for the journal, saying "wait I'm an adventure?... I guess that makes sense for the information I remember." He found some books which he pulled out with his mouth before he realized what else Grell had said. Wanderlust shook his head in confusion, before spitting out the books to yell, "What!? Killed most everypony?! The sun exploded? How did the sun explode!? T-that was the destruction outside..." His eyes had gone wide with the realization.

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(Get ready for a change! Crystal Flower's name is now Melody, and her mane is now silver. Is that okay?)

 

Willow was in shock that Wanderlust had forgotten everything. And they had so much fun together! That day when he gave her the monocle... Wait! She still had it in her pouch! She took it out and showed it to Wanderlust. "Look! This is the magic monocle that you gave me! I still have it! And I use it so much! You gave me it! Don't you remember?"

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Embers looked at the ground, he almost started crying. His body still felt like all the pain, but it was starting to go down. He looked up, wanting to see the stars, but there was only dirt.

 

Sapphire also sat down, she looked at wander "Uh....Any ideas WHY you lost all of your stuff?"

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(Get ready for a change! Crystal Flower's name is now Melody, and her mane is now silver. Is that okay?)

Willow was in shock that Wanderlust had forgotten everything. And they had so much fun together! That day when he gave her the monocle... Wait! She still had it in her pouch! She took it out and showed it to Wanderlust. "Look! This is the magic monocle that you gave me! I still have it! And I use it so much! You gave me it! Don't you remember?"

(That's fine with me, do you have a database entry for her? Post it if you do. I've always liked melody as a name)

 

"I know what that is!" He smiled and took it from her, he looked at it with a bit of awe, "this is a swirling glass! They're really rare, you can see what the magic of the world looks like through it!" He then noticed that the young mare was looking at him with a great deal of distress and sorrow on her face, "I-I'm sorry Willow, I don't remember giving it to you... I don't remember any of our time together... But it could come back, amnesia isn't supposed to last forever." He put a hoof on her shoulder smiling sadly, he didn't even realize he had recalled her name without anyone telling him it.

 

Embers looked at the ground, he almost started crying. His body still felt like all the pain, but it was starting to go down. He looked up, wanting to see the stars, but there was only dirt.

Sapphire also sat down, she looked at wander "Uh....Any ideas WHY you lost all of your stuff?"

He looked over to Sapphire, "I don't know, a lot of things can cause amnesia. It's weird though I remember some information but not my experiences. Especially anything recently. Did anything happen to me before I forgot everything? I kind of just woke up in that courtyard with Embers standing over me."

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Runedawn could feel the cold sting him slightly, and then spread terribly quickly to every inch of his body. He could feel that not only his body, but his soul freezed, and was quickly removed from his body. He could feel something terrible was about to happen. He tried to fight, but he was helpless once again. He screamed and yelled, terrified that he had been outplayed by North Wind. He could feel his soul near the core, and instantly felt that his body began to materialize, the core creating a new body for him. But it suddendly stopped. The force of life inside the core dissapeared, and he then saw what was happening. Somehow North Wind had connected with Ironhearted and used the magic inside him to trap the Earthstrikers. He could feel his mind get pulled into a void of endless screams, but something stopped him...

 

He could sense that Austri's soul was fighting the void with such tremendous power that he managed to not only avoid it himself, but keep Runedawn from getting sucked in as well. As soon as the metal orb appeared, Runedawns soul snapped into his origional body, and he could feel everything again. He could hear everything again. He could hear cries of agony and fear... again. He looked at the orb and felt his heart fall apart again. It had been his fault what happened. He should've killed Ironhearted and himself when he had the chance. He shouldn't have gone to the crystal empire on his own... He touched the orb and pain surged through him. He let it flow for a while, as if he was punishing himself what he had done. He was sharing the pain that he had caused the ancestors, and that felt as if it justified at least something.

 

Then he heard a voice in his head. "Mourn not Runedawn. Nothing can be done..." It was Austri's soul that spoke to him. It was such a strong connection that Austri made all of the sudden that Runedawn stumbled back... At least, he would've done that if he weren't floating in the air right now. He closed his eyes and tried to ignore the screaming and yelling, but at the same time tried to hear it as well to make himself realise what he had done. "Runedawn, you must surface... The other's need you..." Austri said again. Even though what Austri said was true, he didn't want to go. "They need me here as well!" He yelled at nothing in particular, and he then looked at the orb again. North Wind had truly outdone himself this time... This was not just torture, this was purely evil. It was so disgusting and terrifying that he could only think of strangling the icicle to death now.

 

After a while he managed to get himself together and spoke to Austri... or actually the air around him inside the core. "Right... How am I going to get back up there then?" He asked. He couldn't exactly morph anymore, since he had his normal body again. "I will aid you in that... Earthstrikers do not always need runes to call upon the core's power... However, this will take a while."

 

At the surface, Runedawns makeshift body had fallen apart into dirt, sand and bits of iron. So had the other earthstriker's bodies.

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"You remember my name! That must be good! Do you remember anything else? Like... do you know about Mom? Wait! Melody! You can use a memory spell! You are better than me at magic... so maybe that will work!" 《Um... I'm not sure. A memory spell is... kind of advanced. Are you sure?》

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Embers looked down the hall, wondering were rune and luna were. He slowly got up and leand on the wall. He walked down the hall and saw a small pile of dirt and sad. He looked around "Uh...Luna? Runedawn? If your still there, I would like you to make me a sword"

 

Sapphire smiled and sat next to the wall, he looked to rune

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"You remember my name! That must be good! Do you remember anything else? Like... do you know about Mom? Wait! Melody! You can use a memory spell! You are better than me at magic... so maybe that will work!" 《Um... I'm not sure. A memory spell is... kind of advanced. Are you sure?》

"Hmm? Oh I guess your right!" Wanderlust smiled, "I did remember your name, that's better than everyone else... Weird." He furrowed his brow as he tried to think, "I remember who Luna is and facts about her reign as a princess but I don't remember knowing her. How did I meet her? If I saved you two am I close to her?"

 

As they discussed the memory spell he was a little uncertain, "memory spells can be a bit tricky but it's not like I have any memory to lose or anything so I guess it's worth a try." He smiled at Melody, "I might not remember you but I've got a gut feeling I can trust you Melody. Go ahead and give it your best."

 

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Luna sensed the change as the Earthstrikers collapsed and then faded into sand, she had thought she had sensed Cadence's magic but something had been off about it, cold and disturbing. She didn't dare peer through Steel's eyes again, afraid she would see the monster behind her eyes and that he might somehow she her. Her voice was weak and still frightened, unsure about what had just occurred but certain that like her eyes it was nothing good, it trembled as she fought to keep it steady, "S-st-steel what just happened?"

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"Hmm? Oh I guess your right!" Wanderlust smiled, "I did remember your name, that's better than everyone else... Weird." He furrowed his brow as he tried to think, "I remember who Luna is and facts about her reign as a princess but I don't remember knowing her. How did I meet her? If I saved you two am I close to her?"

As they discussed the memory spell he was a little uncertain, "memory spells can be a bit tricky but it's not like I have any memory to lose or anything so I guess it's worth a try." He smiled at Melody, "I might not remember you but I've got a gut feeling I can trust you Melody. Go ahead and give it your best."

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Luna sensed the change as the Earthstrikers collapsed and then faded into sand, she had thought she had sensed Cadence's magic but something had been off about it, cold and disturbing. She didn't dare peer through Steel's eyes again, afraid she would see the monster behind her eyes and that he might somehow she her. Her voice was weak and still frightened, unsure about what had just occurred but certain that like her eyes it was nothing good, it trembled as she fought to keep it steady, "S-st-steel what just happened?"

 

《Um... okay. If you want me too.》Her horn lit up and she concentrated. She thought about Twilight's lessons... 《Do it for her. Do it for Rarity and Applejack and Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy and Princess Celestia and Luna...》She said quietly to herself. The light light touched Wanderlust forehead...

 

(Its up to you what happens next.)

Edited February 14, 2014 by Starbound

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The light exploded in Wanderlust's mind, he suddenly saw flashes of his past. It wasn't all there but he saw the most important memories of his life before his eyes: His family, loving but distant; his departure from home at age 13; a festival were he met Galena; loving moments between them; their capture by diamond dogs; her death in a cave in and the dogs mocking laughter; the choking gasps of the entire pack that had captured him as they died from the poison drinks he had brewed them; breif personal moments from his lost wanderings after, the firestorm; finding life and other ponies again; meeting and caring for willow; facing another diamond dog alpha who he wished had died; meeting Melody, willow and melody almost dying; and then using caribou magic to try and keep the group together.

 

He remembered all of this in an instant, and hundreds of emotions tore through him. He was weeping as he reached and hugged both Willow and Melody, "how could I possibly forget you two?" He tried to calm down his raging emotions, "how could I have been so stupid to use caribou magic? I, I almost died. It almost erased my mind." He was hushed at the end of the sentence, realizing how close to death he had been.

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《I- I'm...》Willow and Melody hugged him back. "I know... but now you are fine, and that is all that counts." 《I did it, Twilight, Fluttershy, and everypony else.... and Mom... I did it... but I wish you were here with me. All of you. Its the only thing in the world that would make me happy.》 Melody thought. She thought to herself, hoping that everypony would hear. She cryed to and hugged Wanderlust tighter.

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Embers layed on the ground, he stared ahead, and wonderd what had happend. He sighed and pulled out his book, it had somehow survived him going through the fire, he had no idea. The edges of each page were burned. He was glad he was alone, and looked around him

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"Some freaky stuff luna thats all I know rune dawn and the others just dropped I'm sorry I don't know" steel said

Grell was happy that runedawn remembered "it's okay you done what had to be done selflessly like a true hero I'm just glad you remember" grell said

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"Some freaky stuff luna thats all I know rune dawn and the others just dropped I'm sorry I don't know" steel said

Grell was happy that runedawn remembered "it's okay you done what had to be done selflessly like a true hero I'm just glad you remember" grell said

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Luna wasn't sure how to respond to Runedawn's and the Earthstrikers sudden reversion to sand and dirt. They had been offering their loyalty and service to her and she wished that she had been able to accept before whatever had happened took them away. She was positive that whatever that cold evil thing in her eyes was it was linked to what had just happened and if she had ever needed an army to defend her she felt she needed it now. She swallowed nervously though she was happy at least she still had Steel here to protect her. "Steel, I can't see. Something is wrong with my eyes, it was the cold and the fear and sorrow I felt while battling that iron monster that took them. Could you lead me back to my daughters? I want to be sure that they are okay and they must be worried about me."

 

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Wanderlust stroked Melody's mane, he looked at Grell and responded, "I still don't remember everything, just the important things. But..." He looked down at Melody in admiration, "... I shouldn't remember anything. Caribou magic isn't supposed to be used by ponies, we're too in tune with magic. We get overwhelmed by it, nature flows into a pony and if we're in it too long we lose ourselves in it. Nature is all life in the world and a pony is just a speck. The pony that uses it is usually wiped away, and there is no individual spirit left they just become a part of nature. It's amazing that you got me to remember anything. You're amazing you know that?" He squeezed Melody tighter. He could tell that she was still upset and that the spell had a lot of her own memories tied to it. He could only comfort her as best he could and let her know how well she had done.

Edited February 15, 2014 by Torrent505

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Embers started to cry, He didnt want to, but he had to. To much stuff had happend, to many ponys died...And now he was stuck here, reviewing his worst moment over and over. He took out his book and started to write, but that just made him much sadder and much madder

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Steel nodded "it'd be faster if you laid on my back that way you won't have to worry about tripping" steel said "I don't know where they are but I assume you can feel their magic so you can tell me which way to go"

Grell nodded "it's a start and like I said you're a hero" grell said