When the morning sun rose, I heard somepony singing. My eyes squinted as I gazed eastward, overwhelmed by a great dizziness. I tried to say something, but my mouth was dry. My hooves stretched into nothingness. The sky spun. I flung my limbs out to grab ahold of something, and I caught empty air. Something was lifting me up, pulling me towards the bright blue zenith. My muscles hurt and relaxed all at once. The air was freezing; I was breathless.
The singing continued. I looked up, only to realize that I was looking down. The world was spinning, twirling. Was I spinning upside down? Was I flipping? No—falling?
A scream escaped my lips; it was exultant. My coat shimmered with the glittering toastiness that only the morning could bring. Everything was weightless and wild, but the light on the horizon was my one anchor. I felt its warm waves washing over my body in multiple spins, as if I was being rotated before a heat lamp at the speed of sound.
The world stretched beneath me, rising up, blurring into my peripheral vision. I smelled wood and pollen. There was a great, waving, emerald sea of life beneath me, and I was sailing straight towards it. The air beat behind me. I glanced back with a twitching gaze.
Wings?
"Bellesmith, can you hear me?"
My body vibrated from the noise. I seethed and looked ahead. Treetops and treetops and treetops and—
"Your heart is racing. Try to calm down."
"Somepony tell me what's going on!" I exclaimed, and yet I didn't. I had no voice; I had every voice. A pony was singing, and I was flinging my way towards it. I saw birds darting up into the sky. I felt feathers and sweat and morning dew. "Blessed Spark! I'm dying!"
"You are not dying, Bellesmith. You've accessed a random sphere. Just take deep breaths and attempt to blend with the subject until your senses acclimate."
"I'm going someplace!" I shrieked. "I don't know where! The singing! It's deafening!"
"Just hold on. We're going to switch spheres. I promise you that we'll find something less stressful."
"Help me, Spark." I was crying, and yet I was smiling. My face and another were battling for the same mouth as a raspy scream came from a singular, cosmic throat. "I want to see my beloved again." My eyes twitched. An open clearing was directly in front of me. The singing intensified. There were shapes, colorful shapes, colorful manes. A picnic? A party? A grave? They looked at me. They waved at me. I was being sucked towards them in a laugh and a scream and a sob. "Nnnngh—Dalton! Please!"
"Switching now, Bellesmith!" The lights multiplied. The horizon exploded as the emerald around me stretched and blurred. "Hold on!"
I saw eyes. I saw smiles. I felt warm forelimbs, and in the center of it all...
Ash.
OC Rotisserie?
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Wat....I am totally confused all over again
Well what have we here?
Still not sure I'm clinically sane after the ending of Austraeoh, but you've already sucked me in.
A large portion of my life is now based around IC's work, but I'm not complaining.
Mandatory comment on the first chapter of what is undoubtedly going to be another epic adventure. Please, please, PLEASE continue the story of Austraeoh in some way.
Well with the ending (that I hope will never end) is the birth of a new saga.
Or is it a parralel to Austraeoh?
I must contunuie reading to know more.
Well, I'm hoping, and suspecting, that this is a continuation of Austraeoh, but it could stand on its own merit. Either way, I'm looking forwards to another epic adventure
Oh boy, here we go again.
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eeyup...
You just love to write and I love that you love to write. I really hope this is a sequal or continuation of AUSTRAEOH. Only one way to find out and as the Doctor would say allons-y!
AND SO IT CONTINUES...
Eljunbyro. That's.. that's a mouthful. I feel like it's going to tie into Austreaoh. No Rainbow tag, so i don't think it's a direct sequel, but mayhaps same world stuff?
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Blessed Spark was one of the exclamations from one of the civilizations Rainbow visited right?
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exellent
Just finished austreoh. Gonna read this now.
A Momentary Lapse of Reason to start this off. Perfect.
Welp, I'm starting this now. Hope to catch up and follow along.
It is time for me to begin as well. I think by now I've cooled down enough emotionally from Austraeoh to dive into this tale and hope we see more of our favorite pegasus in some fashion.
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
And so it was that, in true Imploding Colon style, we are greeted by information accompanied by no exposition whatsoever. <cracks knuckles> Here we go!
First off, we know that this story is told primarily from this pony Bellesmith's point of view. It appears that she is having a vision of sorts here in the first chapter. It is not that hard to see that she is seeing this vision through the eyes of Rainbow Dash. Here's how we know - first off, Bellesmith is facing east at the beginning of the vision. This is a reference to Austraeoh, in which Dash flew east. Second, the light on the east horizon comforts her in a way, also referencing Dash's eastward journey. Third, at one section in the vision, Bellesmith/Rainbow Dash is being greeted by a group of "colorful mane(d)" ponies, presumably the mane six minus Dash. First it shows a party,( the happiness of the mane six as friends together. ) then a grave(, signifying their death). Finally, at the end of the vision, Belle sees a pile of ash, referencing how Discord burned the mane six minus Dash before the events of Austraeoh. So Belle is somehow seeing through Dash's eyes here. Also, at one point, the story mentions both Belle and Dash (presumably) fighting for control of the same mouth. So I wonder if this encounter was not brought about by choice, but rather, by force. Also, there is somepony else - an unnamed friend of Belle's who tells her she has come across a sphere. I can only assume they mean another pony. They say for Belle to relax and blend with the subject (Dash) until her senses acclimate. They and Belle are going to switch spheres, whatever that means. Another thing that is actually pretty huge in the ways of plot - When Belle/Dash is falling and she doesn't realize she's just flying, Belle says what I believe to be a swear or exclamation of surprise in her culture - "blessed spark." This is huge because, during the events of Austraeoh, we learn that the Machine is missing its spark that powered the Hum of Purpose which kept the world alive. Perhaps Belle's society is closely related in some way to the Machine. If so, it may be just what Dash is looking for, and I can already see an encounter on the horizon. It would make sense if the society lived in the east, so pay attention to that in the next chapter. These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
P.S. And so it begins! I want to thank everyone who supported me back in Austraeoh, and as for all of you newbies out there, welcome! On the off chance that you are not familiar with Imploding Colon or myself, Imploding is one of my favorite writers of all time! (And not just in the realm of briny fanfiction!) He wrote the masterpiece Austraeoh, which I'm assuming precursors the events of Eljunbyro. So go and read that first! You won't be disappointed, I promise! (Except for the shipping. That pops up a few times.) As for me, upon reading Austraeoh, I realized that it was extremely confusing to all of us who were reading it. So I decided to start the evaluation time - basically, I post a comment on every chapter evaluating it and trying to make sense of the information given. It may seem kind of silly, but believe me, it was needed back in Austraeoh where they start telling you like sixty things at once without explaining anything. Not that I'm complaining.So now it's time to do it all over again. - This is gonna be sweet!
Hope to see you as I progress throughout the story!
This time, I will post in every chapter. I won't be naming my posts, I'll just be giving some words I think sums up what I understand.
East, mind-swap, falling, Spark, party, ash.
>Belle
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So this is what you've been working on...
And from the link in the description, I can tell this is going to be insane.
All units, stand by... PREPARE TO DIVE
1745833 how the hell did you get that much out of so little?
So here it is. I've been through all of Austraeoh and manage to keep my composure. Still gosh that ending. Anyway, here we are...Eljunbyro. While I know this is a definite sequel to Austraeoh I do see why people would be afraid here. Introducing a whole different pony in a whole different location. Even a different point of view....but that may only be this one chapter.
Hokay... memory readers or body switchers? Either way, it's definitely RD being focused on here. Would this Bellesmith need to have Rainbow with him/her to be able to pull this kind of trick? If not, then that's some insanely powerful magic.
Also, I'd known that this was a spiritual sequel of sorts, but I'm so happy to know it ties directly into Austraeoh. So many questions were left unanswered, and hopefully we'll get a bit more of an explaination here.
This is gunna be a wild ride. Thanks, IC.
Alright....day 2.Let's rock.
I conquered Austraeoh in less than 24 hours...Starting from my posting of this comment....I shall begin this story as well.
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24 hours?
HOLY SHI-
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Woah, someone else finished that one in 24 hours too?
I won't speed through this one tho... going on vacation tomorrow... Driving.
and im back, my older brother who was also my roommate moved out and took the internet so i had to speed read the end of Asteao(cant spell it) so i new how it ended but now after 2 months i can start eljunbyro
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Austraeoh and "knew". Not "new". Just some spelling help from your friendly neighborhood egghead!
Congratulations, this story has good enough grammar to be included in the Good Grammar Directory, a comprehensive list of gramatically-correct stories on Fimfiction.
IT BEGINS!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!!¡!¡!¡!¡!
ok gonna try and do this.
200 chapters? Pff. Challenge accpeted.
Time to start all over again.
And so it begins... Again.
Here we go... I've been slacking.
I took a break from reading awesome. Now, I need to read more.
Ok, take two, reading this one for real now.
Didn't i just see you people in another story? >.>
(sarcasm)
"looks around"
Pardon me, it appears i've accidentally stumbled into the middle of someone's self-insert story. Sorry, i was looking for something else.
"Backs out slowly."
...
"Re-enters"
ah crap.
Guess it's time to start #2.
Ok, this is confusing. As confusing as this first chapter. But no, that's good, I missed being confused.
Also I think that this Bellesmith pony is going to "posses" the body of Dash. I mean really, she was seeing with her eyes and and this sentence:
I don't know what else can happen. I mean everything can happen since it's IC who wrote this, but that's my guess.
Austraeoh mark two, engage.
Huh.
But what about Rainbow?! She got smooshed last time we saw her!
Comin' straight outta Austraeoh for this, prepared to do the comment-every-chapter tango with the best of 'em. Let's go, I'm ready.
First up: Bellesmith. At this point, it looks like her and this 'Dalton' person use 'spheres' to do...
Something.
Whatever that something is, it's an RD-related something, and I could not be more pumped.
Alrighty, I just finished Austraeoh a few minutes ago. Now I start this one. Interesting start, so I hope it all makes sense before too long.
~SolidFire
Finished Austaeoh yesterday. Gave myself the night to sleep on it (recover). Now I'm starting this, and I'm so excited.
6788416 Right there with ya. Race you to the end? Haha