This story is a sequel to Tomb of Magic
After the recent events, of Cadance is pretty sure that she doesn't want to go another adventure for a while. Except that you don't have to leave your castle to have an adventure. Especially if said castle is haunted... among other things that really, really should have been mentioned beforehoof.
Oh, and on top of all that now she has to find a pair of magical eyes – whatever those could be – if she ever wants the Crystal Heart to work again. After all, she's only just in a big empty castle, with a very mean ghost, magic coffee, secret passages, while trying to keep everything under wraps. What could go wrong?
Only everything.
Book Three of Sombra's Odyssey. With proofreading help from an anonymous user.
Takes place between season four's finale and the start of season five and ends before 'Princess Spike'. There are some spoilers in the comments, and many other comments containing excerpts may not be relevant any longer because of the changes made in the updated version. Cover art was designed by NorrisThePony. Contribute to the TVTropes page! Find the old version here!
This is getting interesting.
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Thanks! Have you read the stories that came before it? If so then you might have an idea of all the twists and turns that lie ahead.
7005114 Yeah, I'll get to reading them.
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Whoo! By the way, this Saturday I'll be able to edit your story.
7005128 Okay!
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So any certain part you like so far?
7005141 I liked everything in chapter four the best.
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Gotta love sandwiches.
If all else fails, she can always throw her uneaten snacks at the apparition.
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I haven't tried that one before.
I think ... the wraith she was pursuing inhabited her for a few moments, sharing some glimpses of the past? Either way it sounded like a thoroughly unpleasant experience for Cady
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Yup, she received a flashback.
Solid editing!
Fora few moments in that chapter, I could have sworn Sombra was talking to a particular Princess, but I was mistaken.
As for a different princess that is our protagonist ... Espresso Princess is best Princess?
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Moon Princess.
Sombra Inc is a company I would happily invest in.
Nice touch with the cipher, it was just the tiny dosage of Sombra that Cadance needed to deal with getting out of that annex. I would get trapped in places like that in certain video games and it always invited total rage when I realized I could not find a way out nor revert to a saved game prior to being trapped.
Such snarkiness as Sombra's could only be produced thanks in part to ominiscience of some degree
I don't know about the Reflector Star yet but the Ice Star is an impressive concept with enormous hypothetical power thanks to its ability to store and produce magic. Were I to acquire such a thing as an entity like Tirek, it'd be used to power weapons that could sunder entire mountains.
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*cough*Skyrim*cough*
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If Sombra is all-knowing is still up for questioning...
But it seems I am, as Cadance so wonderfully puts it 'a magical contact lens'. What?
That is ... a very very young Sombra ...
Excellent description of body language and appearance. Sombra is as animate as Cadance thanks to it, despite being in the form he is here in this scene of the story. Your editing is getting better, too! Soon I will be completely obsolete
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You edited that one.
And editing peasants mean I have more time to write.
No wonder this chapter seemed so familiar
This Sombra ... probably not him but rather ... Onyx.
Cadance has gumption! She'll find that which she seeks!
Sombra-construct-Seventeen was right, though, confronting the Poltergeist/Opal is just a bad idea, at least at the moment.
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Haha, nope. If you paid attention in Through The Snow you'd notice the difference.
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At this point, Sombra is always right. He's such a lunatic.
Opal = Sombra in power? Perhaps. I am skeptical.
Someone someone where in Equestria or beyond would be willing to remove her eye to get at the Ice Star, without a doubt.
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She's gone bonkers from being murdered, remember? She's sort of this AU's Princess Amore but without the Cadance relation.
And I'm so popular that somepony would gouge out their eye. Ha.
C'mon, Cady, turning into the Sombra you know and love wouldn't be bad at all! Destroy that collection of insolent ectoplasm!
I love it when the title appears in the text
Nice stream of consciousness with Sombra in this one. The stars might not be able to save him, but what of the things that walk in the light of those stars, or those things that may dwell in the shadows betwixt them?
The idea ... that immense expenditures of powerful energy can destroy one's very being ... impressive, isn't it?
Opal's remaining remnants seriously deserves destruction at this rate.
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Smug ghost is smug, what can I say?
Gods damn right Opal should be scared of her. Who did she think was in control?
Seriously though, Opal is a real leaking facet of words, isn't she? Not a bad thing at all, she was after all deranged from vengeance and being dead and all. Well-written dialogue, though.
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Thanks! I loved writing her. Also:
Don't hate the rocks, Cadance, hate the pebbles that get into your boots.
Well done in describing the atmosphere of that cavern.
Could it be said that she is making a "Sombran" Bargain? Hehe
Huzzah! The magic is restored!
7177867 For some reason, none of your comment responses appeared in my notifications so I just now found them ... that is really bizarre.
Is that Sombra brooding at the end? I'll be surprised if they can mend that link that was apparently severed in this chapter.
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That was Cadance realizing she screwed up.
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Yup. Internal monologue haunting her.
fak
What about peanut butter and apple butter?
7887940 Peanut butter is bad news.
7887957 fak
RIP peanut butter XD
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7887981 Gotta fix that i. Gah. Thanks for pointing that out!
Before I read this, what is the Horror and Dark tag for ?
And how bad does it get ?
8128518 Horror because there's ghosts, which are spooky.
Ah, you fucker, you drew me in with this chapter. Still 3 hours left in this drive, and your stories have given me terrible writer's block, so all i can do at this point is continue.
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My stories have given you writer's block? How so?
Waking up in a puddle of vomit covered in white powder. Cadance, was it a ghost, or did you crack open the royal stash of cocaine?
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Because even after reading them, they keep playing in my mind over and over, and it puts me in a totally different state of mind than if I were to be writing. I can't write effectively if I'm all excited and my mind is occupied with reveling in such a good tale.