The Quest For The Past (2024)

The ruins made it seem like the old castle wasn't very big. In fact, it was quite small compared to the Canterlot Castle. I pushed open its large wooden doors to reveal a large stone room. In its center there was a stone structure with five fake Elements of Harmony in the form of stone spheres on stone pedestals. This room rocks!

Suddenly, a cyclone of blueness surrounded the stone structure and me. It lifted up the fake Elements and collapsed in on itself, teleporting me and the fake Elements to a different room. I looked up and saw Nightmare levitating the fake Elements around her, still firing dramatic lightning. Her wings outstretched as she became even more dramatic.

"Uh... Hey!" I shouted over the lightning. "So... Nice night huh?" She laughed evilly.

"It shall be the last night anypony shall see!" She declared, rearing up and firing even more dramatic lightning.

"Oh. That's probably bad. So... Do you wanna destroy the world or rule with eternal night or what?"

"Did I not make myself clear, you dunce?! I shall rule alone with a night that never ends!" More laughing, more lightning.

"Could you please stop with the lightning? It's really annoying, I can barely hear you over it."

"Oh! You are scared by my incredible magic prowess?!"

"No, not really. Lightning's kinda easy. Look-" I fired a large bolt of lightning from my horn, hitting a wall and blowing it up. Nightmare looked shocked for a second before turning back to me looking angry.

"YOU DARE THREATEN ME?! GODDESS OF THE MOON?!"

"What? No I wasn't threatening you I-"

"YOU SHALL NOT STOP ME, FOR I AM NIGHTMARE MOON!" She yelled. She stomped hard and the fake Elements smashed to pieces. "You little foal! Thinking you could defeat me? Now you will never see your Princess, nor your sun! The night will last forever!"

"Now you're just making a mess!" I shouted, starting to get angry.

"I AM-"

"WOULD YOU SHUT UP?!" I yelled at the top of my voice. My horn starting to flare up as my rage grew greater. "Realta damn it, you're so bucking annoying! Just shut up and stop trying to be so dramatic!"

"NOPONY CAN STOP ME!"

"SHUT THE BUCK UP!" I screamed at her. I could feel my anger surging through my veins. I forced it into my horn and flung an enormous fireball at Nightmare. She turned to vapour and let the fireball pass through her. Still vapour, she flew towards me firing lightning in my direction. I threw up a basic magical barrier and absorbed every bolt.

She changed back into pony form, and, using the momentum she'd built up, tried to impale me with her horn. I rolled to the side and shot her in the torso with a magic bolt strong enough to crack her armour. She yelled in pain and turned back towards me, firing a beam of concentrated nightmares which I countered with my own red beam of electricity. The two exploded on impact and the room started to crumble. Nightmare flew up into the night sky.

A Support Circle erupted beneath me before quadrupling my magic. I flew up to Nightmare, who looked horrified when she saw what I was doing.

"W-WHAT?! HOW CAN A WHELP SUCH AS YOU HARNESS THE POWERS OF ARCANE?!" I ignored her and quickly fed magical energy into my hind legs, charging them up until they glowed. Then, I sped over to her with my Support Circle and energy bucked her in the face. She fell from the sky into the rubble of the tower we were previously inside and landed on one of her wings, producing a snapping sound. She screamed some more then looked up at me with tears in her reptilian-like eyes. "H-HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?! HOW CAN I BE DEFEATED BY A LOWLIFE SUCH AS YOURSELF?!"

"Magic," I said, cracking my neck. "Mother bucker." I threw a pulsating ball of pure magic at her. She screamed as it hit her, unable to move. The brightest of lights enveloped my eyes for what could have been eternity. Stop here.

I regained full control over myself. Oh good! I'm still blinded! Lower the brightness of the attack by eighty percent. The light faded greatly until I could see once more. I floated down to the Lunatic, not needing any Arcane Circles in the dream realm, and took a closer look. Her body was glowing a bright, light blue, similar to how objects looked during transmutation.

"Actually," corrected Luna as she floated next to me, "only like when you transmute things. The colour changes depending on the Unicorn's magic aura." Interesting... Can you describe what's happening to you here? "What is happening is a strange phenomenon in which an enormous amount of magical energy causes an object or being to become an odd state. The state is a mystery, as it is not liquid, gas or even solid. No scientists or arch mages have ever-"

"So it's plasma?" I interrupted.

"I... What?"

"Plasma."

"What is this 'plasma' you speak of?" I sighed.

"Yeah, magic and science have come a long way while you were gone. It's basically gas but with equal numbers of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons."

"This is all gibberish to me."

"It's gas but weird."

"I see."

"Plasma is what most magic is made of, so a pure magic attack like this," I gestured to the scene around us, "would be about eighty to ninety percent plasma."

"Interesting... Anyway, the magical energy forces the object or being to become a state of this 'plasma'."

"But how did you survive? Wouldn't you have broken apart?"

"If the object or being has enough of their own magic, they will be forced back together into their original form, as what happened here. The Elements of Harmony often use this, though Harmony attacks depend more on the life force of the user."

"'Life force'? The buck does that mean?"

"If Ms. Overcast used them, the target would be extremely set on fire. If my sister used them, the target would extremely banished based on their life force. If my sister and I used them simultaneously, the target would be extremely imprisoned in their own personal Tartarus. If you used them," which is impossible anyway, "I can only assume they would be put into some kind of extreme coma."

"I see... So that's why you stopped looking stupid?" Luna glared at me. "I'll take that as a yes."

"I changed form because things only reform into their original state with this phenomenon. Sadly, it made my mane look silly..."

"What was that last part?"

"That is... Unimportant."

"Well, whatever. I know everything I need to now."

"So? What is your theory?"

"Demons are made of magical energy. Getting crushed by a demon would overload you with magical energy. The phenomenon would occur and you would become a plasma state. Magic is mostly plasma. Demons automatically send magical energy down to Tartarus with advanced teleportation." Luna's eyes widened, finally understanding.

"You mean...?!"

"Vesper's alive.

"But it's gonna be a hell of a challenge to get her back."

"That pun was awful."

"Yeah..."

Dun, dun, dun.

Oh hey, I finished a chapter in a decent amount of time for once.

I'm going to regret trying to mix magic and psychics so much later, aren't I?