The next day came like a bang, and still I was staring at her. So long as I kept my eyes closed, the train ride didn't end. It was something I could allow myself, a tiny little morsel of a weekend that contained both the best and worst nights ever.
Even in the blistering winds, that memory remained, filling my wings with energy as I rode the currents, twirling over the yawning landscape below. I was so lost in the moment that I barely registered the object soaring my way until it blurred past me.
My eyes opened to a flash of daylight, and an even brighter flash of pink blew over my head, throwing me off-balance. I spun several times above Ponyville town hall, coming out of the twirl with a dizzying lurch. My wings beat again, allowing me to hover as I looked every which way for the sign of the unidentified bogey.
Finally, I saw it: a pink cloud was surging skyward, moving on its own volition. I was too angry to be overwhelmed by the shock of the spectacle.
"Come back here, you!" I bolted after the fuschia cumulonimbus, my ears ringing from the wind splitting on either side of me. In no time at all, I caught up with the errant cloud, tackling it with a victorious shout. "Gotcha!"
As soon as I tangled with the fluffy bed, I wished that I hadn't. Instead of grasping a tangible body of vapors, I was struggling to get unstuck from a goopy, sticky mess.
"Ewwww!" I instinctually moaned. "What is this?!" my voice cracked, and I shook my body from mane to tail. I was only partially successful in shaking the pink globs off of me. I glanced at a clump of the stuff sticking to my hoof. Impulsively, I lapped my tongue against it. I felt the taste in my mouth, and my face twitched upon the realization. "C-cotton candy...?"
Several more pink shapes darted past my peripheral vision. I glanced around me, gasping as more and more candied clouds swarmed over the heights of Ponyville. My heart started beating heavily, and I didn't understand why...
"The wind," a voice said.
My eyes twitched. I looked up towards the heavens, and the azure sky coalesced into two pearl blue spheres. I had no breath to gasp with.
"It belongs under Austraeoh's wings, not yours."
I gawked towards the skies. Just then, I heard a rumbling noise. I glanced straight up to see a slightly darker cloud of pink hovering above me. A single dark drop hit my forehead, and I growled.
"Wait a second!" I snarled. "It's not supposed to rain until tomorrow! You can't just—"
A torrential downpour of dark brown rain covered me from above, obsuring my vision...
discord
it must be
Wait. Cotton candy clouds? But that episode had...
Oh no.
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The more it goes, the less I understand it...
This chapter confuses me.
I like this
And once again this story is featured. IC will never cease to amuse me.
haha so Discord had something to do with all of this. what was that part about Austreohs wind about? Does Discord control that or something before RD takes it over?
Welp. Now we get to see what exactly happened that makes this fic diverge from canon.
Uh oh...
Goddammit, I do nother feel good for the next chapter. I am so worried. This episode was bad enough as the episode on its own, but with all that it may result in, given the story...
Onwards?
It certainly seems like "the wind" that Whitemane has been referring to is the purple glow that Dash previously had, and Belle now has. I'm interested to see where this goes next.
Telling Bellesmith to get out of RD's memories and get her back up and flying?
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That's what it sounds like to me.
Explanation ahead, finally? Or just a tempting lead in that'll switch back to Belle before we find out exactly what happened with Discord and the other Mane 5? Onward!
Ooh! Ooh! Link
IIIIIt's Dashie's evaluation time!
So this is kind of a weird chapter. It describes a scene from the Discord episodes, but it also contains two spheres. However, I'm not sure what to make of the line "It belongs under Austraeoh's wings, not yours." I though it was confirmed that Dash was Austraeoh...they must be referring to Belle. But who is speaking...? These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
Does someone have a list of eyes to ponies with said eye color? I think this one is Whitemane, right?
So Austraeoh was a pony, or a being? I dunno...
It's at that moment that a curious bipedal brown creature came in, strolling around like a care-free animal. He look upon the cyan pegasus being drenched in what seems to be dark-brown liquid. He shook his head and glared at one random point to the other side. "Not today internet, not today." He said as he flee swiftly in a exaggerated fashion and stumble upon a white unicorn wearing a saddle-brella. "Pardon me miss." He excuse himself before resuming his silly running.
gah this is getting good!
So Discord is doing something. He doesn't seem to understand that Dash is Austraeoh.
I was almost looking forward to seeing how this whole story got started . . .
Oh no...it begins...
The beginning of the end for most of the mane 6.
Oh crap, time for Discord.
I knew it was too good to be true. Poor Belle/Dash. And Whitemane confirming that this is, in fact, just a dream sequence brought on by the runes and the words and the Animus. Great job, Shell. You broke Belle.
FMA reference, FMA reference... Ah! This is kinda like when Al regained his memories! Man, I was worried there...
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The alternate earth beyond the door!
OH FUCK
Before was the calm, now here comes the hurricane.
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Whiteman really knows how to rain on somebodys parade...
Party pooper
dark brown rain? I think we all know what this means...and I don't like it
The beginning of the end...
Theeeeeere it is! I was waiting for our "glitch in the Matrix" moment.